Morning Lesson June 24, 2021 Transcription
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1.Rav’s Introduction: Yes, I'm happy we are back to the usual framework, we will continue with the same topic today, we will finish it and move on to the next one. In the first part of the lesson and in the second part we will continue with the study of the ten Sefirot.
Excerpt 28 (00:50)
2. R. We see here at least two phases, phase one is when a person looks, takes interest, Checks how he can get closer to the Creator and in what ways of where he can overcome and reach him. That is the beginning of the work. Here he comes in contact with the friends and with the study and he learns and he checks and he absorbs, and grasps all those operations and instruments, the means to adhere to the Creator. Then begins a different work and he begins to feel as if the Creator is rejecting him. He doesn't even understand or feel that it is the Creator but gradually through such rejections when he is rejected and still advances in rejection and advances again through such actions, he begins to understand that it is probably the Creator himself who rejects him. So now he has to develop a relationship with the Creator accordingly, he asks, he demands, he cries, he looks for possibilities to force the Creator not only to reject him but also to bring him closer. Afterwards he begins to see that this is really his work, that there is a reason why the Creator pushes him away, it is in order for a person to actively of his own accord, see that he gets the rejection from the Creator in order for him to ask, from the Creator to get closer. This is called using the rejecting and the mighty hand and the fury poured out on him. He feels really unwanted and that there will never be an end.
Then to these steps and attempts that he makes but in the end when he discovers that the Creator seemingly doesn't want him he can't justify his providence, whatsoever that it is, not already in order to awake and all kinds of stimuli in him to really reveal he really feels it intense rejection on the part of the Creator so then he is already in a very special state. This is called ‘Fury poured out on him,’ because the mighty hand is operating on him. Here it is all done in order to erupt and demand and ask in every way he can so that with this eruption, he convinces the Creator to help him. Then instead of rejection and darkness and that it is all closed, he discovers that the heavens are opening and he has contact with the Creator. This is called ‘will rule over them, will be king over them. This is how it happens. But again this cannot happen before a person tries in everything he does and all the states he goes through, if he thinks only about how to achieve faith, that it is only coming from the Creator because there is none else besides Him and that he must ask of the Creator for the prayer our of connection, power of correction and to see in practice this that it works.
Until all the rejections and nearing connect into and accumulate into a great number which is called ‘quota’, then he enters the king's palace, this is how it works. We need to constantly strengthen the connection between us because they will help one another. Clearly what I do, I do for the rest of the friends and whatever he also does for the rest of the friends. It is not a question of how veteran or knew the person is, because if he does even small actions of a small child it still joins the effort that the whole group does. It is not a question of how much knowledge, or understanding, or experience a person has in the work and this is how we advance.
3. S. (08:39) The Creator shows you an amplitude of various feelings and sensations how to reach this eruption so he would truly feel it?
R. If we attribute all our states good, bad, near, far to the Creator because there is none else besides Him and everything comes from Him so in the end we come to this outcry and that's how it's built. From the internality of the degrees in the states that they lead us to such a state. If you want to accelerate things by all means you have all the material in front of you, and you can use it and advance.
4. S. (09:37) What is and how do you come to absolute connection with the Creator?
R. It is according to how you work in all your states, your personal ups and downs that you feel now and to what extent you relate to the Creator, what extent you attribute everything you feel to the Creator, that you are constantly in the Creator, in the Creator's world, so you can address everything to Him, the bad things, the good things as one. Gradually by this a person begins to receive both the habit of turning to the Creator in every single situation because everything comes from him. Now he believes more and more even if he doesn't feel, but it is all coming from the Creator and that's how we work and then we help each other. That's how it should be, otherwise one person alone cannot use all of these states correctly, all the ups and downs.
5. S. (11:11) You described two stages you said a person first tries all the time to burst and convince the Creator to help him and you also said we have to strengthen the connection between us, and that contributes to the general effort in the group, what is the connection between the general effort in the group and the person bursting?
R. The connection is that we all belong to the same system, some systems are more closed around the center of the 10 and some are farther, some barely touch in the changes in them and then barely touch the center of the general human10. There are all kinds of, it depends on the root of the soul, it depends on the connection on how a person the Creator brings a person and tells him takes this and puts his hand on the good fortune, good fate there are all kinds here, all kinds of things here. We just have to work according to the rules and then each of us will discover his own personal soul, in the vessels of their soul, and the lights of their soul. In this way we will advance, these things happen according to the order of the degrees. There is nothing special here that we learned it all, we just have to implement it and implement. We also learned all the rules we have to implement, we just have to go over them again and add them to the prayer.
6. S. (12:57) When darkness comes to a person but he cannot directly relate it to his friends or in relations in the 10, how then should he work with it?
R. Why can't he relate to the friends in the 10, to humanity?
S. Well to humanity, yes, it is in relations outside of the 10 but it is absolutely related to pain in which he cannot justify the Creator and when and he cannot justify the Creator he cannot justify anything in the world but it appears in his perception.
R. It is incorrect that there is anything outside of the 10, it is incorrect, sometimes we say it this way in order to point out something but really there is nothing outside of the 10. Adam HaRishon is only the 10, sometimes I see the system completely and sometimes I don't see this system in this way but nevertheless there is still not more than 10. Now I am still not perceiving it yet I don't have this perception of reality where I can really say that is it that is all there is but at the same time this is how I have to relate to reality.
S. We also read this article about corporeal fear and how he should relate the fear to Kedusha, if there are other emotions that evoke pain which are above mental understanding, is it also wise to relate this to the pain of Kedusha?
R. I can't tell you right now, I don't recommend playing with it or engaging with this because you will get confused. You’ll start solving your problems in life through some spiritual intentions and still incorrect.
S. Is it then anyhow appropriate to because we're talking about faith above reason to ask the Creator for correction then?
R. I'm telling you we are still too weak to talk about it and to turn to the Creator with this, we are still not asking of Him with the strength to go with faith above reason because we hardly know what it is and we didn't learn it in such a way in which you can say that we know it even theoretically, much less practically. So we don't yet have it in our senses so we have to play with it very carefully.
7. S. (16:33) The more we advance in the group, states of confusion and rejection will become more difficult, is it correct?
R. I don't think so. There are such periods as well but basically the closer you get to sanctity, to Holiness, the states become more decisive and I would say clear. Along with periods of darkness that appear but when it shines, a great light shines, and in it we can see the system more and more, because basically we just need to know the system and function in it with wisdom and understanding and in this way advance.
8. S. (17:45) What does it mean not to move from our place? What should we insist on daily without any calculations?
R. Again?
S. He writes that a person doesn't move from his place, doesn't budge, what should we insist on every day without any calculation?
R. On what you want and ask for. Let's say a child wants a candy and he sees that his mother is holding a candy and he has to insist that he wants it and she says, no, first you have to eat and after that you will get your candy, no, but he insists, and then she insists and that's it.
S. She rejects seems more and more, should he see or actually increase his persistence?
R. In our case, we want to be as close as possible to the Creator in order to know by what we ask of him, the connection to him, and not to want what we receive from Him and that's how it works. We have to turn our feelings from quantitative and qualitative, what I want, what for, why do I get this. I need to scrutinize these things.
9. S. (19:37) This state you could describe that I have to come to where there's nothing other than the 10 in the whole world. How do I accelerate and arrive at this state by acting as if everything is in the 10?
R. Yes, try it try it and see if we have to relate to it as to every other game really so.
10. S. (20:07) The excerpt speaks of the rejections a person has, what forces does a person have against rejections sent by the Creator?
R. Precisely the strength to cope with the Creator, to go against the Creator. A person has the power to do this. Learn from babies, look at the powers that they have. They may be in the mother's hand and the baby is still governing her, managing her. Who is more dependent? The baby on the mother or the mother on the baby, you tell me? We think that the baby is dependent on the mother, but if the mother stops taking care of it, that's it, it's over. That's true but can she stop, no, so what happens, what happens if the baby determines he is the one who decides or she.
11. S. (21:29) How to relate to a positive situation in the 10 where the friends empower me end or a positive state in corporeality where there is a risk of me cooling down?
R. You need to decide on this together in the 10 and don't get smart here on your own, this is why our work should always be by measuring that the 10, that we are in, it has to be more precious and more important than everyone's personal life. It is a must that we will speak this way and think this way and even measure it.
12. S. (22:35) When a person checks his desire, truly does what you said, he discovers that he has many desires that move him and shift in from the goal and he fights them, tries to fight them but he always fails here. These tiny desires always take the better of him. How not to fail here, how not to burst forward and cancel those desires that trip you and hinder you on the way?
R. I didn't understand your question.
S. You said a person has to check his actions, what brings him closer to the goal and a person does it, he discovers that there are desires in him that shift him from this goal?
R. As if it interferes, yes, so?
S. Now he's doing all the actions he prays and here he fails in those tiny actions against those tiny desires?
R. Why is he failing?
S. It's against the goal, it deviates him from the goal from the 10.
R. Well alright, so as if these are disturbances?
S. They are seeming disturbances of course but you try to overcome them and you try to do the actions that Rav is discussing all week long.
R. Maybe your approach to it is wrong. They want you to become a craftsman in this. You relate to the Creator and you relate to the disturbances in a friendly manner. In a way that you hate them for disturbing you and interfering with you reaching the Creator, at the same time you love them because they help you make contact through the Creator. It is called ‘help made against him’. That's why your relation to them should be likewise. As if you thank them for being there on the way because without it you would not have the ability to connect to the Creator. You would not come into the same spot, same kind of cogs in the wheels where you have to connect with something because a tiny unit out of this whole big computer called Adam HaRishon.
13. S. (25:29) You said that the 10 has to be more important than a person, than the individual life of each friend and you have to measure it, how to measure?
R. We have no problem saying that this is more than that. It is a matter of the importance that you can weigh and attribute to everything.
S. Is it a system of degrees?
R. It's a system of degrees you don't need to get into it so much it will be revealed later each soul has its own provision of how much it needs to work but the Creator and other things. We don't know that this is providence. It plans these things and it is in this general way. So we shouldn't get into it because we will not understand our intellect and cannot grasp the work of the giant computer called creation.
S. Can I measure throughout the day everything that happens in my life according to what its importance relative to the friends in the town?
R. You don't have the instruments to measure how you will do it, you tell me show me on your hand what have you got? You have weights one kilo, two kilos, ten kilos, liters, tons, something tell me? With what do you weigh, measure this? Our forces, simple forces just like in mechanics, you don't need to get into chemistry physics, it's simple mechanics. A force that operates in the operated being, so what is so problematic? You don't need anything else
S. For example, a corporeal desire came to me and I asked what's important to me, this or the friends in the 10’s connection? Can you do it, relative to everything he feels?
R. Of course you can, no problem, and you see on the spot if it's possible or not from your perspective.
14. S. (28:21) It seems that in both phase one and phase two, one should come closer to the Creator. What is the main difference here is that the quality of the effort or the state the person feels himself in?
R. I didn't understand, ask properly.
S. In phase one and phase two, you said once you try to come closer to the Creator, what is the main difference between these two phases? Is it the quality of the effort or is it the state that the person is in?
R. The quality of the effort in working with the disturbances. Either a person doesn't feel that he is working against disturbances or he thinks that the disturbances are in the world. In phase two he begins to attribute the disturbances to the Creator that there is none else besides Him, it is all coming from Him.
Excerpt 29 (29:44) twice
15. R. (30:54) In other words, disconnecting from corporate reality to spirituality when you come to spirituality, it comes in small portions when you are disconnected a little more each time from corporate reality to the work of the Creator. They all join and connect and come to your help when there is a need.
R. Wait a minute, a time of need and a time of pressure has to be, it is not a coincidence. If there is such, I think there is stress in a time of need and troubles and out of these states a person still takes the right step forward, meaning towards the Creator clear to uniting with the Creator being contentment to the Creator and not running away from trouble in the opposite direction.
Reader continues (32:04)
16. R. (33:13) First of all, from this, it is clear to us that when a person enters these states a narrow place, pressures, problems, they come to a person on the condition that they want to promote him. Yes we're talking about only those who study the wisdom of Kabbalah. A person is placed in a place of darkness suffering problems, a state where he has nowhere to run, he has nothing, does not know what to do and it's really a time of distress. When these states, these pressures on him increase and lead him further and further he has to imagine himself not just being faced with the trouble. But he is on a very narrow bridge that he has to cross and he doesn't see I had he doesn't see how long it is, when it will be over, end the bridge shakes and moves. Everything is arranged in such a way that a person will be terrified about himself, about the states, about his life, about his spirituality and about everything, and then he will have to give an answer, a prayer to all of the elements of all the parts of the state.
Reader continues (34:55)
17. S. (35:42) In our work from below up upwards will we begin to feel more acutely, the MAD from above and exactly where our corrections reside?
R. You will feel these corrections precisely where you felt the malfunction, because when a malfunction is revealed and it's already part of the correction, you don't need to add anything but your approach with faith above reason and then the malfunction out of this there immediately rises the state of correction.
18. S. (36:46) These shifts, movements, come as help, as result of our investment in the connection in the 10? Because I feel it all of the time?
R. That's true, we awaken the Creator not individually but in a way that the 10 are connected. I have to perhaps depict the situation in this way. There is a mechanism in front of me, and I operate or activate this mechanism with my deficiency, the general deficiency to the extent to which I can activate the 10, it activates the Creator and the Creator relates to the 10 within which there is also me. That's the only way it works. (Rav starts drawing, see diagram) There is a 10 over here, within the 10 there is only me, and here are my friends. When I act, I have to act through all my friends and the Creator who is inside. The Creator who is inside our 10, inside our 10 that is the Creator. In other words, to the extent that I activate the friends, the sum of this activation operates on the Creator. Then we come to a state where the Creator answers us.
S. Sometimes this activation of the friends, it happens in a way that seems of course sometimes it is not voluntary. It’s that also because, inactivation of the friends, even if it is rejection in them and things that come up and happen, that I caused to happen in the 10?
R. Look, these are states they are called preparatory states but once we already connect among us and achieve some sort of result, demand from the man. Then here begins the prayer. We demand of him. We are already demanding. Accordingly the Creator relates to us. The Creator doesn't relate to a single person he relates to the total to the collective, for him a person and individual, his 10, or the group less than that he does not feel. He doesn't feel, so there's nothing we can do here but only arrange ourselves to be as much as possible as one man with one heart.
S. This narrow bridge we have to cross. Where is it in this diagram?
R. The connection between us, connection or bridge?
S. Bridge.
R. We are ready and connection between us that is the structure that exists to begin with so the Creator who awakened us brings us to the group and he operates with the upper light and in the upper light different people awaken who were never in a corporeal connection and suddenly they come and assemble in some place and there they get some spiritual connection and that is because that is how the upper light awakens them. So that they feel that they belong to some place in the place that they come from and they suddenly get to know each other. There is a lot of work here, some people leave and return and some can't find connection among them but still nevertheless this is how it works every moment that's it. These are the records from the breaking that come and connect and assemble in this way. It is called soul sentences.
18. S. (43:45) You describe the state and it's clear what is that mechanism by which all of the calculations of our exertions and our shifts, our movements are added and it works towards the 10?
R. That mechanism is called the 10, within the 10 you have this whole mechanism in but we don't still feel it or understand it or feel it and are not in any contact with it. We are like a baby who doesn't know what it operates, what it activates but there are factories that work just to bring it things, they create food and everything, it doesn't know anything, it is just living but the world works for the baby. So what are we? We are in a mechanism that is around us and operates for us the Creator built it and we advance the more we advance the more we will get into that mechanism more clearly. We will be more and more influential and drawing humanity to connection with the help of our dissemination that I talked about so much. You're not really I think already active in this so this is what will happen, the mechanism exists, we just have to activate it as quickly as possible.
S. That mechanism should be activated by the Creator so does the 10 become a representative of the Creator towards that person?
R. I don't want to get into all those scrutinies, it is still far from the truth, I am just saying that we need to try and be in it the Creator serving as much as possible according to what Kabbalist tell us. Try to connect between us and from our connection raise the deficiency to the Creator to correct it and that's true for now, later we will start with the philosophies and work on the next stages but we will figure out what we have to do.
19. S. (46:30) When a person approaches the Creator, he approaches through the 10 but there are many states when the person and the Creator approaches a person and it seems very personal all kinds of states of pressure and stress, how can we remember that we should reply to him through the 10 because it seems very personal?
R. You should not disconnect from the 10 no matter what the state, you belong to the 10, that's it, if not for the 10 you are a beast and there are no sentences on you. Rather you have to always see how my actions, my states, to what extent they influence the group. With the group you have to get up and live the full day and go to bed and get up for the lesson, everything for the group. Otherwise you do not belong to the Creator you hear that.
S. I understand but problems like money, the wife or at home. It seems very personal the Creator presses you very personally?
R. What for?
S. So we will get closer to him.
R. How to get closer to him?
S. I understand it's through the 10, so I have to remember it. I have to remind myself?
R. Not to remember it but to work this way despite all the personal problems we get, the health problems, the family problems, various problems, you don't necessarily share them with anyone, maybe you do share with someone. But not the friend specifically or not the group or the doctor I have a doctor, I have other problems. I have a lawyer, I have police, a person has plenty of systems that's around him and pressure him, he doesn't have to share everything with the 10. He doesn't have to bother the friends with it but in total all of it belongs to the spiritual development. However some things he scrutinizes personally and some things he brings to the group, there are those things that through the personal and group scrutinies he brings those to the Creator that's how it works. So try to sort it out with what should I turn to the Creator? What should I do, meaning the important thing is to see by which requests I can bring about more unity between us since according to the level of unity the Creator is revealed the compression of the connection between us and the reinforcement of the relationship between us there the Creator is revealed that's it.
20. S. (50:05) I see in the diagram that to turn to the Creator I have to go through each and every friend. When I do it during the day do I have to also picture each and every friend and then turn to the Creator with a request?
R. In truth, yes, but it's not too bad if you do it partially. Try not to disregard anyone but to see how each and every one can be beneficial and has a place here and there is no room for disregard or and later you will feel how each and every one is essential for the 10.
21. S. (51:03) In the excerpt he writes that our work at the end of the day is to gather and bond and connect at the time of need and distress. he writes also that you should know that a person has to cross a very narrow bridge what is the narrow bridge if I have this mutual responsibility in the 10, so what is the narrow bridge I have to cross without being afraid?
R. You have to look after the 10, that it will remain connected and that all of you are walking on this path. You know like when you build a ladder from roads, ropes and pieces of wood and you use it to cross from one peak to another one, one cliff to another and we are all the rungs of the ladder. Who are the rungs of the ladder, we are ourselves and then each one is stepping over the others and imagine that each one is a guarantor for the others in this way we cross the abyss of the Sitra Achra, other side and that's how we advance.
S. Why am I asking because it is written that a person should open a door like the eye of the needle and the Creator will open up for him gates or carts and carriages that we can go through, so what is the narrow bridge, you need the smallest contact with the Creator.
R. I don't understand you, sir, completely taking a line that explains one principle and you want to add it to something that is a different principle. Where did you see here, wagons and things of that nature here? You see only a very narrow bridge so relate only to that, try to scrutinize what he is talking about, how can you speak here about something else?
S. I just want to bring an example of this matter that you don't need to be afraid, I'm not bringing something else, it's just that you don't need to be afraid, you need the initial contact with the Creator and then everything is okay?
R. Okay I got nothing to do, I am about to finish this argument with you because you don't want to grasp it as Kabbalists write and follow their style but you feel like adding what is in your head to it, okay do it.
S. Sorry I want to go according to the Kabbalists.
R. So try to read what they write several times and only within the framework of these two and a half lines, try to follow that know that all the movements and shifts, this is where that is written that all the movements and shifts when you are disconnected and shifted each time a little bit from corporeality to his work everyone gathers, bonds, connects and comes to your help when needed. Meaning there is nothing redundant in our life, whatever was, you'll need everything and it will be revealed to you as necessary for correction. When there is distress and time of need and know that a man must cross a very narrow bridge and the most important is to never fear at all, do not fear anything, you should put your trust in the mercy, you should be confident that the Creator is holding you. To the extent that you wish to hold on to Him and to do that, you have to do it through the group, through the friends. If you wish to hold onto the Creator and it is guaranteed that He is holding you and lifting you, what state it doesn't matter, the state, let it be the most scary state and you are hanging between Heaven and earth, above the abyss. But the Creator is holding you can be certain. That's how they check your confidence. It is, let's say, you have somewhere a place full of crocodiles and gators, and they are all coming to get you and the Creator has got you and you must make a calculation here that you are completely calm and confident and the alligators will be even bigger. Now you know there are snakes down there and they are all an inch from you, but the Creator is holding me and he's got me, I am happy, I am confident and I need nothing more. When is it over when I am near these crocodiles and the feeling is the same I enter complete faith.
22. S. (57:59) When he writes meaning that when God forbid there is some trouble in the streets, are there measures of stress and troubles in our work?
S. He writes that “God forbid when there is some trouble and stress.” He says ‘God forbid’, what does it mean when he says God forbid?
R. That it is recommended that you will not feel such things, God forbid.
S. Can you or is there a way that you can go through these troubles with less difficulty?
R. I don't pay attention to it, whether it is easy or hard, bitter or sweet. I know that I wish to go over all those things that appear to me from the shattering of my soul and to be constantly connected with the Creator to help me do it and not just to do it but because without these problems I won't be able to connect to the Creator and I won't have any need for him. That's why all of those troubles, may they be revealed as long as I find connection with the Creator through them.
S. So if we are connected more tightly is there a chance to go through it with less difficulty?
R. I don't care, do you hear what I'm saying?
S. You're saying you go through it anyhow?
R. Of course we're going to go through at the end of correction is guaranteed for all, I'm saying we have to advance not in such a way where we have to avoid or escape the problem, rather kiss the stick since going through these problems we connect with the Creator.
S. Is that the way it is until the end of correction and all the degrees?
R. After the end of correction, it's even worse.
S. What do you mean?
R. I mean you should stop asking nonsense questions. If you want to ask what is faith, don't ask yourself when will it be over, say it differently, when will my actions reach the actions of my forefathers.
S. So basically we shouldn't relate to what a person goes through?
R. He needs to relation to it in such a way where he doesn't matter what a seeing that is coming from the Creator and that's why it is good to who does well.
23. S. (01:01:25) How do we practically compress the connection among us? Is it through improving the quality of intention or what I mean what would be a good approach so that I don't overdo it or don't over press the friends?
R. Each and every moment you need to try and strengthen the friends and set an example for them how because you are in their environment, you are certain about each step you are taking, certain about the future you are drawn to the connection with the Creator and you advance from moment to moment. You need to give them and set such an example for them. That is called each shall help his friend.
24. S. (01:02:35) You said before, at least I heard it, that we are in a certain degree in the ladder. How do we go through that?
R. It depends only on the connection between us when we all understand what is the goal and how do we reach it, what are the steps we have to take. Go over the lesson twice, it is recommended, once when we learn it now and another time in the middle of the day and that's how we advance and to clarify and scrutinize the questions asked more, no problem. We must learn those things and the world will come to a place where it's has no other choice and there is no way out of these difficult states and that anyone who was attracted to the good life and suddenly they will see that they can't even make ends meet and not even have a clue why are they alive what for. That is the precious question a person asks himself and will have no answer for, why is he alive, meaning what is the price rather what am I getting in return for my suffering. This is a problem. So we will advance together and we'll be fine.
25. S. (01:04:35) Does asking from the friends, is this more connection to the Creator? I often feel that I am afraid and what I am really afraid of is to lose my control and throw myself into the friends the Creator brings me states and then he wants me to ask of the friends because I cannot do it alone. Is this my real connection to the Creator?
R. Yes. If you feel friends and you want to incorporate in them in their center, you discover the incidence of their connection which is the Creator this is correct because the Creator, Himself, doesn't exist, rather if you can call it this way it is the upper reality that appears when you try to connect all the friends, through your efforts. BoReh, from that you build the Creator, come and see.
S. I don't need to make any calculations about this because previously I had a feeling maybe I misunderstood. I understand that you don't need to bring everything to the friends but if my confidence in the friends I don't need to be afraid of turning to them?
R. Yes.
26. S. (01:06:15) What can we truly measure between us in the 10, when we don't have the screen are we able to make a certain calculation between us?
R. We need to make calculations like a baby. He can't measure himself, he can't measure his strength and the distance he has to cover or something, he lacks those senses. That work, in this way; inside his body. So that is how he works, that is how he is impressed. So to try to measure things in this way now, it is not good because it is not the truth, that's why we're not doing it, that's why we say we should do as much as possible or do less. We don't measure and we don't assign a specific values, soon it will pass and we will begin to acquire in each state the feeling of for end against and then from these two opposing forces, those various ways they appear. Then we'll be able to measure those forces and the relation between us and it will be clear to us in what world, do we exist in. But for the time being we don't have it I don't have the force of overcoming by which I can measure anything and then I can't measure through the force of overcoming the forces of resistance, the force of attraction, the force live connection, I can't do anything neither for nor against rather it works out that for the time being we are working like babies who flail with their arms and legs in every which way.
27. S. (01:08:40) Bridges are built for transportation, we say it is an engineering marvel, is the connection between us a perfect act of the Creator in our work?
R. Yes, but our connections, you know, how ants build their bridges they themselves connect one to the other and then you have this thread made of many ants and the rest of the ants walk over them and that's how they cross from one place to the other. It is a very correct example for our work, very apt example.
28. S. (01:09:47) A friend who lives in a dictatorship says he is learning Kabbalah every day and he is asking, should he feel this life in the general situation in his country?
R. No, for the time being he needs to study quietly the wisdom of Kabbalah without ascribing it to any religion or any nation of this world, but only to study it as we say theoretically. Later we will speak more. First of all he should learn it in this way and then he does nothing to fear he is learning it like any other thing anyone else can study. There is nothing political about it, nothing economical has nothing to do with policy, nothing and that's how he should learn it. He shouldn't talk about it and he shouldn't write about it, nothing. He connects and he studies. He's not thinking about any application of what he is studying, don't advertise it to anyone, don't talk about it to anyone, just study. We have many people like that around the world, we regrettably have to study this way.
29. S. (01:12:18) In the diagram, we said that I have to incorporate each of the friends in turning to the Creator. What do I do towards each of the friends I guess internally? That is regarded as including the friend in turning to the Creator?
R. It is very difficult to define. But try to be connected with each and every friend, around what mutual help on the way to attain the Creator.
S. Should I feel that the friend helps me turn to the Creator, is this what I need to feel? It says that we really want to turn to the Creator and we want to do it the way Kabbalah explains but we don't understand how to include the friends. What does it mean that we include them and connect with them and then you can turn to the Creator?
R. We spoke about it, it is recommended that the group write a short prayer, 5 lines and everyone agrees on those 5 lines, and then throughout the day each one or all of you together, repeat those lines the following day. A few days later, you compile different sentences and lines and let it be like that.
S. Yes, we have been doing it for several months but how does it come together, each one gives a certain sentence from his heart. We do it every day, there's a lot of benefit in this but still we can't say that it becomes incorporation between us in a common plea to the Creator. Each one speaks from the heart and we try to listen to each other and we feel each other's deficiency but does that mean we are turning to him together?
R. No, but it is getting closer, there is a certain degree of incorporation there and later there will be more of it.
S. So for the sake of those friends who are going through difficult situations in corporeality I have been hearing in the last few lessons how should that friend now implement this giving back to the Creator the bad that he is feeling right now. How can you do this because a person isn't given a situation that he can't handle, so how is he supposed to give this common plea to the Creator now?
R. Above all the difficulties he has existence he has to connect to the 10 and through the 10 to the Creator and each one in the ten that knows his state the state of that specific friend, he has to be connected with the rest of the 10 on his part and also raise his request for that friend, the struggling one, and raise it to the Creator and there is nothing to say here you thought there was some trick here. Only the deficiencies, the prayers that we raised all of us together, that helps. Let's activate the power we have and do it with a strong desire and you will see you will try to see how it has to work and we have such states perhaps. I receive each day such letters from abroad especially on all the difficult states are friends are going through, they themselves and their families from death and all of different things especially now with the pandemic with the second wave that is now developing, I think that we have no other way but to do it specifically this way and we have what to do there.
30. S. (01:17:45) The troubles that they talk about in the excerpt, in what way does the Creator want to awaken stronger prayer with confidence or to be in contact with the Creator or confidence from the connection?
R. Of course from all the problems that we have to raise a prayer to the Creator.
S. With confidence or without confidence in the reason for the trouble?
R. I don't understand the question, I'm not certain how to answer things, you always want to ask but, something pains you that you always want to ask but this time it's completely not clear.
31. S. (01:10:17) When we want to be in contact during the day do we build this according to the diagram and connect to the friends?
R. This is already a good and beautiful form that is acceptable in spirituality where you connect to the Creator through the friends, through the whole group. The Creator certainly answers that because He dwells in the center of the connection of the whole ten.
S. How do we go over the spiral through all the friends to the Creator correctly?
R. To start scrutinizing what do you want to turn to the Creator with, around which problem and how do you get connected between you to raise that deficiency to Him and to start raising the deficiency to Him to hope for an answer. Start to work on this to see what it says about the Kabbalists like Baal HaSulam, Rabash but speak a lot about the prayer, prayer Malchut, the force in the group is called prayer because from Malchut it rises all the way to Keter.
S. What is Malchut? Is this the sum of all the deficiency?
R. Yes, it is our mutual deficiency.
S. What does it mean, as I feel the friend has a request in the heart. When does this become a common deficiency?
R. You have to reconnect it with a certain light from above, connect to the deficiencies to scrutinize it and feel the common deficiency and this is already the form of connection that comes from everyone from above.
S. What is that light, how do we draw this to connect to the deficiencies?
R. By raising the prayer. I'm not going to tell you anything new, but only when you behave meticulously about raising all of these deficiencies to the Creator in each and every detail as much as possible then you receive suddenly from above a reaction and you begin to scrutinize how to build this pipeline of connection to the Creator in a clear and wide way.
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32. R. (01:24:11) “Only the mighty ones among them, whose patience endured, defeated the guards and opened the gate. And they were instantly awarded seeing the king’s face, who appointed each of them in his right place. Of course, from that moment on, they had no further dealings with those guards, who diverted and misled them and made their lives bitter for several days and years, running back and forth around the gate. This is because they have been rewarded with working and serving before the glory of the king’s face inside his palace.” There is a reaction from above for all of our efforts. Gradually, slowly, as much as we knock on the gate, it opens and we are accepted by the Creator and each understands his place and role. What does he need to do towards the others? What do we need to do individually towards the Creator? We have been knocking on the King’s gate for years and have been rejected again and again. When we enter His palace in our personal end of correction and are working the true work, we understand why He did it this way. We are not yet working the true work, we are working on corrections. When we reach the end of correction and are included in the upper system, the Creator arranges our true work. Let’s hope we come to it quickly.
33. S. (01:26:57) How can our efforts achieve this completeness as quickly as possible?
R. The end of correction is guaranteed. We can attain the spiritual state called the end of correction or continue in our current state. These degrees do not depend on time, place or motion. In spirituality there is no time, we can remain in our state for an infinite number of years or we can come to a state that, in a few years, we are at the end of correction, drawing all of humanity to the end of correction.
S. Most of the time we feel rejections, but continue to work with what the Creator has arranged rather than in an attack on the goal.
R. Why is it not an attack on the goal?
S. We want to continue our path, to help the friends stay on the path, but it is not clear where we want to go or what we want to achieve.
R. If your work is not aimed at a goal, it is not purposeful. How can you perform actions with no beginning, middle, or end? If we want to be corrected through our actions, we must check and measure how to reach those corrections through serious introspection. Otherwise my life is without purpose. The difference between us and other people is that we advance spiritually on the way to resembling the Creator.
34. S. (01:31:09) How do we organize our work between us during the day to feel the urgency and attack the goal?
R. Tell me what you are doing throughout the day and then I can give you my opinion.
35. S. (01:32:30) What is the effort that enables us to continue despite our feelings?
R. When we are children we do things we are told without understanding what we are doing or why we are doing them until we are older. How many people in the world know why they are alive, what their purpose is? Perhaps a few thousand know why they exist and the goal they should reach. We should scrutinize these questions and advance in our understanding. Usually very young children ask the question ‘why am I alive?’ Later, hormones confuse us and as adults in the turmoil of life, we stop asking this question.
36. S. (01:35:16) What patience must be demonstrated in the ten?
R. We have to determine that we are in the developmental process of ‘do anything but leave’, which is a law in spirituality. This must be permanent. Anything can happen, but you do not leave. There may be ups and downs, months of seemingly disconnection, of not doing things the way you used to. Most experience these times but know there is a reason they are alive and understand ordinary life to be like any other beast and won’t agree or return to it.
37. S. (01:36:50) How do we reach the middle point between becoming emotional and adhering to a framework?
R. You can become balanced by reading more. Reading the first part of TES will give you more tranquility and calmness, even if not understood. Sometimes articles by Rabash or Baal HaSulam, such as Shamati work on the nerves, and in order to balance that, you should read TES or other of his short articles.
38. S. (01:39:06) How do we increase the importance of dissemination so we execute the action?
R. We should write short--no more than five, six, seven lines, in different languages and disperse them all over the Internet. This may not be interesting to big media, but we can do this work on our own platforms. The second wave of the pandemic will appear in the next few months, along with a third wave in the winter. We will not be heard, as the public disconnects from hearing what we are talking about. We won’t be able to prove to anyone in our world that we understand and know the truth about the future, even though we speak logically and have spoken about this before. Baal HaSulam spoke to Israel ben Gurion, our first prime minister, but no one wanted to hear, just as no one wanted to hear in medieval times or even two or three thousand years ago. No one listens to the Kabbalists. Hopefully we can disperse our knowledge to all the world on the Internet. We must not let go of this and not disregard this. The Creator will not let us be famous or bestow from above downwards, as he did not let other Kabbalists. What we can do and what we must do is disseminate widely. We have people who organize our dissemination system well, who explain in small bits of information, what we think about everything. All of us simply disperse this information everywhere on the internet. This way will work. We should enter and use the same systems ordinary people write for, systems like CNN, YNet. No one can stop anyone from writing on them. We simply must write what will be suitable, in the style of ordinary people. We need to write short passages so the world will understand the essence of what is going on in the world and what is awaiting us. Three or four months, or even a year ago, I started talking about the second wave of the pandemic following the first wave. If people see that a group understands what is going on, they would be more interested in our materials. We are not trying to pull them in our direction, but we are explaining the connection between people
S. How does a friend who wants to disseminate ask the boardworldkli?
R. Maybe he needs guidance on what subject to write about, how to write and disseminate. Examples of how to write and where to disseminate should be available for all of us. I don’t determine any of this, but people in charge of dissemination work and organize us properly so each one of us will be part of the correction of the world. This is very important. A third wave of this pandemic will appear and other problems for humanity that are worse. People will understand that there is something in nature that is against us, meaning the Creator is against us, and we must learn how to organize ourselves with it.
S. Is there any benefit for a person who does what you said to do on his own?
R. Maybe there is a benefit but still he should see, read, look and listen to what everyone else is doing. Being part of a joint action of dissemination has a spiritual force in it.
38. S. (01:48:36) How do we reach a person's heart in our dissemination?
R. We should awaken the heart of a person towards his future. How does he see success in his life? All of us want to achieve something, to be successful in some way. We must explain what the upper nature that governs us through our thoughts and desires is demanding of us. We are all together in this system and we begin to feel where we are and how nature is forming us. Maybe we are in a state we don’t understand or feel, but maybe we can stop and do something better. Look at humanity, the heat wave and other blows we will get with the pandemic. There are many other things on the way. Maybe we can affect them somehow, to calm nature down, to prepare ourselves for other things. It is possible, so explain that to people. There were years with no changes occurring, but today there are changes every day. We have the opportunity to explain that we can avoid these big blows by bringing the system into balance. As we advance in the study of the wisdom of Kabbalah, we begin to feel these forces of nature, not immediately because without correct preparation you can go crazy feeling these forces in action. We can reach a state where we see where there is pressure and can calm these forces and bring them into balance, to make a good life for all of us. All the thoughts of everyone in the system, including politicians and financial systems will go crazy. We cannot balance the system alone, but it depends on us, so let’s do something and bestow upon the world. You will see what is being prepared for us and how we can avoid things like heat waves, cold waves, tsunamis or anything else nature is preparing for us. Everything is dependent upon us. We are the ones who can affect and balance all these forces. All of earth is beginning to reach an understanding of how this darkness can disappear. This is how we will see life.
30. S. (01:54:13) We are performing a unified action as a ten by liking and retweeting BB posts in different languages.
R. Great, this is a good example. American groups can do a lot by emulating this group action.
31. S. (01:55:16) What does it mean to activate our friends?
R. There are people here in Petah Tikva whose job is to disseminate the wisdom of Kabbalah in all the different languages to all the people in the world. Write to boardworldkli@gmail.com in any language to receive an answer to each and every question. If you don’t receive an answer you can write to me and I will take care of it.
32. S. (01:57:07) What intention should we have between us throughout the day?
R. What is the difference between being similar to the Creator or to reach adhesion with the Creator? There is none. There is the desire to receive, which is us, and we have to come closer to the Creator by performing actions in order to bestow. I remain an egoistic desire to receive but I make corrections so that my actions will be for others.
33. S. (01:58:32) What is the most effective thing we can do to dispel the inner apathy of a friend towards dissemination?
R. Every ten has people in favor of dissemination, who know how to disseminate and do so every day while others are lazy. Every ten has a bit of this, but is still obligated to disseminate materials every day. It is detrimental for a ten not to take part in dissemination because the light cannot flow where there is a dead end. Every ten, every group, every person must disseminate a flow of information about the correction of the world or become a spiritual dead-end. The system of the general soul of Adam HaRishon is a closed system with no beginning or end. If I become a spiritually dead vessel, the flow ends with me and the entire branch I am part of will die. Just as in this world it is important to have children to continue one’s legacy, each of us must disseminate to the world to continue his spiritual path. I am very serious. Each must disseminate every day as much as he is capable of whether it is a few hours, or a few minutes. Anyone can use a Twitter, Facebook or other account to spread short video clips. Again, there are people here who receive a salary by organizing and aiming dissemination in different directions. Try to also do this, as it is very effective. Don’t forget that it affects your own spiritual advancement. Kabbalists from the past tell us they ‘learn from all of my students.’ What does it mean that they learned from their students? They tell us they learned much from their ancestors, more from their teachers, and even more from their students. What does this mean? It is not from the students we learn, but by disseminating all we know to others, they are receiving it and continuing with it. This is what gives you wisdom, especially this integral wisdom in this last generation
34. S. (02:04:16) How will our ability to remain in the right mood and focus be affected when everyone around us will be hopeless with the next wave of the virus and lockdown?
R. We know where the coronavirus comes from, how it spreads, and how we can overcome it. We can stop the spread of the virus only by the connection between us. There is nothing that can withstand this method of connection. The Corona came to awaken the correct connection between us instead of how human beings are currently connected. We must explain this every way in all languages. Prepare questions. I am willing to talk about this in other lessons. Ask about anything. Don’t think that the study of the wisdom of Kabbalah itself is more important. In our time, dissemination is most important.
35. S. (02:06:20) Many people who disseminate do not create content but rather make clips or extract parts of the articles written by you and organize them in different languages. Can we create continuity by dissemination rather than creating it ourselves?
R. Not everyone can write, but all must have a role in dissemination. I am talking to those who are not disseminating. I feel most of the friends in the morning lesson are not disseminating.
S. Many have yet to find their place in dissemination. I want to point out that not everyone needs to write their own content.
R. They should still try to write as much as they understand and submit it to boardworldkli@gmail.com for review. Send it so ‘one doesn't lose more than he gains.’ When he receives a response he can then disseminate it. There is a verse that says ‘send your bread on the water’. Each one should ensure for himself a virtual path.
36. S. (02:09:28) Is the coming of the third wave a sign that we are closer to Creator or is it the insistence of the light that cannot enter our vessel?
R. The light insists on entering our vessel and the vessel is not ready to receive it. The difference between the desire to receive and the light is creating negative responses, calamities, and diseases. There will be more outbursts of volcanoes, hurricanes, and floods. Sadly, we are coming closer to problems we have never had before, such as plagues like this coronavirus affecting the entire world population. It could become much worse, so we must not wait. We are the ones who have the method and it is our rule to publicize it as much as possible so everyone begins to understand that this is how we will heal the entire earth. How to give contentment to the Creator? By acting for humanity.
37. S. (02:12:47) What is the matter that is called connection between us?
R. The matter of connection between us is the intention in order to bestow, between one desire and another desire. This is the material matter of connection. In this matter there is also desire to bestow. There is a force in it arising out of the desire to receive and when it reaches another it acts as a desire to bestow. Then our relation to each other will be like the light.
38. S. (02:14:08) There are true giant friends that know how to write or how to make clips. You can truly be amazed by it. I just know how to press play and show what they did. Is there any value in that?
R. If you take what they do and you spread it on the web, then of course your work is very respectable. This is how it is in every profession, each one does his share but in general everyone enjoys it, that is what I told everyone. There is not one person who cannot use it. Most people can tell you they don't know how to write, who told you have to write? I don't know how to disseminate? How do you know that you don't know how to disseminate? Can you share a passage with thousands of people? Even though there are personal systems and not global systems that won't let you go into the bigger systems, they are not interested in our material.
S. So I shouldn't feel my actions are small?
R. No not at all as the Creator measures each one according to his ability. The Creator gives every person his ability and according to this ability you get, you act, you activate yourself so there is no complaint for a person, why didn't you do. But if a person does what the Creator gave him in the framework that the Creator developed these qualities in him then everything is okay and you can be very big. Even if you don't know how to write and maybe you don't know how to disseminate that much. But you did your job loyally. Then you are successful, you are righteous.
39. S. (02:16:29) Just like you said it is starting again after it is seemingly all past, we are seeing this Indian variant which is rising in countries and here as well, can you explain what is the spiritual benefit from having a blow and a break, a blow and a break, as if it's over and then it happens again?
R. This stems first of all from the will to receive, being very stupid desire to receive and it helps it. Why does it help it? Because if it starts feeling a blow, that doesn't stop, if it is only one nonstop blow then it will not feel it anymore, it will stop feeling it. If something puts pressure on it then it as if it is gone and he won't feel it. That is how it is with each and everything. People are put into very difficult situations, in the beginning they think how can I live and survive this way, later they get used to it and you can see how they are happy and they have their own life there in such a heavy framework. Meaning our will to receive can find rest or a good situation in the worst states because it has a protective force in it to survive and it won't let it be in constant suffering if there is no benefit in the harm, if there is no result, if you cannot run away. This is why the Creator does and will never bring us into a situation where we will suffer and get used to it, no. You suffer from the situation, there is a time for that. If you are wise and you can hear what you are being told by Kabbalists or sages you will hear, now it doesn't hurt you anymore? You have your time to hear it and think about it. If you don't do it another blow will come back and another one, this is how it works.
S. So this stop start is to develop our hearing specifically?
R. Yes, this is something to explain to everyone and specifically in this case where there is a recess where you have to understand then what for, why, not to let go of these things as they will certainly come back and even worse states, if we don't respond properly.
40. S. (02:20:03) I think I heard you say, send your bread over the water. Can you explain please?
R. There is a verse in Torah that you should send your bread on the water because in the end of days you will find it, meaning the more that you send what you have in your heart to others, your knowledge, your feelings and all kinds of good things, we call this bread, the food of life. If you send this on the waters, waters meaning Hessed mercy, because you want to do good to everyone then you can be certain that you will get out of that even though it is as if it is gone. You can be certain that it will come back and it will be for your own good.
41. S. (02:21:23) A few months ago you said that TES and Zohar are not dissemination materials. What is the correct form to connect through the mind or through our emotions?
R. I don't think TES or Zohar our materials to disseminate that is true. This is only for the advanced people as we also don't really learn these books because we don't have the time for it as well, soon we are going to start. What I think is a good material for dissemination? We have many excerpts, short articles about relevant news and about life in general. There are such things, just ask and turn to boardworldkli@gmail.com and demand in every language and if they don't reply then turn to me. In a way that you will work with our system by connecting with this system, we establish a mechanism that will take care of the world that will have a bigger spiritual force in it, that we will feel how it works because we are a big organization with thousands and thousands of people, if we work around this you will see how much it will help us to advance and speed up the correction and dissemination and correction of our own vessel.
42. S. (02:24:03) To ask about the excerpts that we study, we ourselves repeat them throughout the day in our 10 meetings. What is the result we are hoping to receive as a result of this?
R. Both when we read the excerpt in the morning and when we review them during the day we want the words that are written in them to enter our heart and by that our hearts will be corrected and that will carry out these actions that are written down in these excerpts.
43. S. (02:24:55) We do dissemination and there are many tens also and in the current situation in the world that people experience, is this date that the world is living through right now, will it not change until every member of Bnei Baruch disseminates and will devote himself to such dissemination?
R. I don't know about every friend but I know one thing, if a ten is not taking care of dissemination then you can be certain that there is a flaw, that it will stop the advancement towards the connection because it is a must just as we receive we also have to give and that is a well-known thing.
S. In our ten several friends have different roles in dissemination teams so can we consider that the general work of the ten by each friend having the different roles and teams, even though it's not dissemination of a ten working on one project?
R. Yes, this is possible you may think this way. We will end for now, organize yourselves in the direction of dissemination and you will see how quickly the world is changing that we will very quickly have to attach ourselves to the world by that also to have a better connection with you working together with the correction for the world in a way that we will feel that everything is dynamic and coming closer.