Morning Lesson May 26, 2022 Transcription
Transcription is made from simultaneous translation which leaves a possibility for differences in the audio
Baal HaSulam. The Arvut (Mutual Guarantee)
1. R. (00:15) We continued the Matan Torah article, this is the next part of it, the article The Arvut, mutual guarantee, because we are all really responsible for one another Israel means each and every person who yearns to be Yashar El, straight to the Creator and in this way by aiming straight to the Creator and being called Israel,Yashar El, then we he enters into connection with the others who also yearn for the same goal or you could say the other way around. The more they are connected between them they are guarantors responsible to one another, they approach the Creator which is the same, in other words, the degree of closeness between people measures their closeness to the Creator and the other way around and vice versa rather the closeness to the Creator is an indication of the closeness between them one depends on the other.
Reading: (01:28)
2. R. (02:05) What does that mean we wish to approach the revelation of the Creator, to be like him, it is not like we sitting in a car and we drive somewhere and we don’t change actually. In the spiritual realm to the extent that I change like the one I wish to reach, to resemble, that's how close I get to him. So when I acquire certain qualities from the object that I move towards, I actually move away from it, so that distance in the spiritual realm works only according to the law of equivalence of form. Hence this is how we need to see it that in each and every moment if we wish to approach the Creator, we don't know what it is, but if we come closer between us, that to us is the indication, certain indication that we are also closer to the Creator. This is directly proportional, in other words to get closer between us, get closer to the Creator, if we do it in such a way that we annul our individual ego and we wish to be close to one another by that we come close to the Creator.
Continues reading: (03:46) “This means that each and everyone in Israel…”
3. R. (04:08) Meaning how do I measure if I'm approaching the Creator, only to the extent that I am approaching the other. How do I measure if I approach or I move away from the other, to the extent that I can feel his needs, his desires up close to me or that I am more removed from them, in other words to the extent that I wish to feel the desires of the friend, I am close to him. To that extent I might also be close to the Creator, if he's a friend on the path ,and that's how we measure ourselves. There's no other way for us to measure how to approach or move away from the Creator but only to the extent that we approach or move away from the friends, who are with us on the path.
4. S. (05:07) I try to connect with the friends, with the desires of the friends like you are saying to feel them, to become incorporated in them but how in this emotion can you aim yourself even deeper, deeper towards the Creator?
R. If I wish to approach the Creator, which is my goal, then I approach the friends and I wish to be an inseparable part ,an integral part of them and it's clear to me that by that, I am approaching the Creator. I wish to reveal the Creator in the connection between us if we get closer between us by that the Creator is revealed. I have nothing to add. This is simply how it works according to law. if I give up my ego in order to connect with a friend and I do everything according to my abilities in order to connect with a friend then by that I annul my ego and I approach him. the friend and through the friends to the Creator. This is called from love of the created beings to love of the Creator. That's how it works.
5. S. (07:04) What is that quality in the ten which is considered to agree to take on love your friend as yourself completely? I sometimes feel that I do agree but it's not exactly what the article speaks about.
R. I don't know, if you agree or disagree with accepting love your friend as yourself. I can only check it seemingly, I recommend you check it according to the results, if you connect to the friends to such an extent that you wish to help them attain the purpose of creation then you are connected. You are to them and they are to you and then in the connection between them if you built such a connection, you need to begin to reveal the Creator or perhaps you feel that you cannot reach such a connection, in that case you pray to the Creator, you turn to him, you ask to connect you to form this connection between you and then the Creator forms or makes that connection and in that connection you reveal him.
S. The disagreement? It testifies to the point that I don't need anything beside my friend to reach the Creator?
R. We need to reach a state where we are all connected, all of us are connected and in the connection between them, the point of contact between them, the point of connection between us, we reveal the source of connection between us called the Creator.
6. S. (09:05) You said a minute ago that if I want to help the friends get closer to the Creator then I am connected with them and they're connected to me. It is clear I am connected to them but what here shows that they're connected to me when I want to help them?
R. That means you accept their desire, you accept their desire and you're about to fill it, to fulfill it, it's as we're going to learn about it in our Arvut article that we are sitting in one boat and each one is responsible for the other for better or for worse. Soon we'll get to that part.
S. So from the side of the friend there has to be some action, some response or is it enough that I want to help them in order for them to be connected with me?
R. You'll begin to do what depends on you, by that you'll awaken the heart, don't wait for them to turn to you with a nice invitation, rather begin to work with everyone in the connection with everyone, one that is aimed at the Creator.
S. Just to be precise, if it seems to me that the friends completely reject and negate but I want to help them does that create a connection between us?
R. That's a problem, if the friends don't want to talk about the connection between you, it means that their will to receive is so great that they can't even, they aren't even capable of defining that the purpose of creation can be obtained between the connection between you above that desire. I know about those things about myself as well, it was very difficult for me to connect to this idea of the Arvut. That's because a person's ego is big and cannot hear about it, cannot accept it, cannot understand and agree with it and time passes, sometimes a long time, before he begins to hear that the purpose of creation can only be in connection. Such people that are unable to agree with the Arvut, with the connection in practice especially, I mean we can learn about it but in practice they cannot agree with that, such people belong to high souls. That's on the condition that they have a desire to get to know the system, the Creator, the system of creation and they can't advance so easily like the rest of the people, they have a deeper desire to advance. We have to continue, there's no other way.
Continues reading: (13:00) “Once the whole nation unanimously agrees…”
7. R. (13:24) Meaning if they agree to advance towards the Creator's nature then there's the system before them, that they need to accept it, they need to clothe in that system, which means we shall do and we shall hear, what does it mean? They have to do and then to hear until you begin to accept these things in practice even if you don't understand it. Then they cannot reach a point where they understand and they hear, meaning there's the matter here of first doing and then hearing. We have to build a system of Arvut, connection between us and to the extent that each one is helping the other, to that extent they're going, they're approaching the nature of the Creator.
Continues reading: (14:41) “With this collective responsibility each member…”
8. R. (15:25) Yes, this is a feeling of Arvut that exists in a person, that neutralizes his entire ego, all of his concerns about himself and what's happening is that only on this condition he becomes a free man who can work in bestowal towards everyone.
Continues reading: (15:51) “For this reason they were not at all ready …”
9. R. (16:47) Meaning if there are still people in the group who are not aimed at the goal, who are simple egoists, earthly egoists then we cannot draw them into the Arvut because they have no interest in it. They don't feel that they belong to it or that there's something that can meet the answer that the Arvut is giving to a person so we have to ensure that ultimately we're not dropping the matter of Arvut on people who are not able to hear it. Since with us, gradually those people will remain for whom the matter of Arvut is clear as something we have to reach because the spiritual world, a spiritual system, the upper world exists, they all exist to the law of Arvut. Where all of us are connected into one system, it's hard for us to understand, hard for us to agree with it but that's how it is and there's room for everyone. We are in the time of the end of correction so in this process we are in fact ready for it but we simply have to agree, understand and carry out this correction.
Continues reading: (19:28) “For this reason they were not ready …” Twice
10. R. (20:10) So the matter if we have such a problem seeing the group we need to try and cleanse them, correct them by working on the friends and for everyone to be concerned with the effort to understand for everyone to come close to Arvut. It is all inside is not about money or distributing what you have between everyone, no. It is an inner feeling, a spiritual sensation that we need to understand that only in the connection between us we can feel the Creator. No one reveals the Creator by himself, only to the extent that he can come out of himself to the friends, so between us that's where we discover him.
Reading continues: (21:17) “For this reason they were not ready…”
11. R. (21:58) Meaning, it is one of the other either a person cares about himself or he cares about the connection between everyone. It cannot be in both, he has to ensure that he has all the basic needs that he needs to survive, to exist but outside of that he cares only about the connection with the friends.
Reading (22:30) “Thus you evidently find that the giving of the Torah….”
12. R. (22:45) Meaning when they are outside of the control of the ego called Pharoah, that's why the Exodus of the ego is the necessary thing for them in order to keep the mutual connection between them called Torah.
Reading (23:04) “Meaning when all their needs....”
13. R. (23:12) Not in the hands of the ego that dwells upon them that rules over them.
Reading (23:18) “Independently of others....”
14. S. (23:32) The measure of the desire, we nevertheless live in the external world this way, that way, so I don't understand how it's possible to disconnect this measure of this portion so it won’t hinder us?
R. There's a law about it, neither condemned nor to praised, to the extent that I need to live, sustain myself and my family and exist in this society among other people and not in the group among everyone. Then I use my will to receive in order to sustain myself, maintain myself in this way but above that I have also the Light of the group in which I have to reach a state that I am between them in the connection, in the upper laws. These are a few people, with whom I'm connected in this world and between us that is such a connection in which we can feel the upper force, the force of the stall, the force of bestowal, the force of love.
This is called the Creator. That's how he is revealed between us, we'll reveal him and then gradually we also begin to connect this upper force in our world. To the extent that this upper force is working on us the force of bestowal, the force of love, the force of connection, although in our lives we see that everything is upside down, it is not the force of love but the force of separation, of rejection, the force of connection is the force of separation and so on and so forth. So we discovered these two worlds and we live in these two worlds and we try to gradually influence our lower world, our corporeal war from the upper world and that's how we bring all humanity closer to the connection.
15. S. (26:09) If I understand correctly Arvut is personal work, if I see that it is difficult for the friends to be in Arvut, they are high souls, how can I help them?
R. Gradually, we build this thing slowly, it takes a long time typically, these are the first corrections in the soul, they take a long time and demand a great deal of attention. But later on it will become easier and quicker, the first steps are very difficult, very slow, the main thing is to learn about what's written and gradually it will settle people are rushing ahead to learn what's next, to more advanced stages and later they begin to understand the matter of mutual guarantee, what they learned in the beginning of their path, that's how it works.
Reading (27:41) “It turns out that even after the reception....”
16. R. (29:06) Meaning, he's on the path to the Creator, called Israel, Yashar El, this person has to be connected and eventually with others on this path to create such conditions between in which they can reveal the Creator and feel him more and more and more.
Reading (29:28) “On the positive side if they keep the Arvut.…”
17. R. (29:52) Specifically in the connection between them on the condition that they have, they can keep various laws of connection between people such that, in that they give contentment to the Creator. It is like a mother who tells their children to stop fighting, connect, take care of each other, that you are brothers, you are my children. That's how we need to understand what theyCreator is demanding from us. To rise above the ego of each one and to feel to approach them, to give them contentment. It is all expressed in the connection between us, that's why from the love of the created beings to the love of the Creator, that's the rule.
Reading (30:51) “On the negative side, if a part of the nation…”
18. R. (31:20) Yes, therefore, after I accept the connection of the mutual guarantee and each one is incorporated with the others and everyone, everyone is seemingly responsible for one another, therefore no one can make any mistakes. Rather everyone cares about everyone else and everyone is keeping those coming laws between them, that is why we have this general force that keeps everyone together and they receive the upper light and it clothes in them.
19. S. (32:20) It is written” that their needs, the nation want to give the Arvut and wallow in self love” what does this mean?
R. Let's say, there's a ten and part of the ten can enter into mutual guarantee and the other part cannot. So, the part that cannot keep it because the group does not agree on it. That part disturbs the whole.
20. S. (33:21) You find the matter of the Matan Torah, this is a matter that needs to be delayed until the exodus from Egypt until they become a nation. What does it mean they became a whole nation to themselves?
R. That they have no foriegn thoughts in approaching the Creator and revealing the Creator.
21. S. (33:52) What does it mean to turn into an Inseparable part of the friends?
R. That we have to be connected in such a way that all of our intentions and thoughts will come together and all be directed to the Creator.
22. S. (34:23) Why is everything in a fog, that the words we feel nothing comes inside is that my incorrect intention?
R. When I hear a language that I don't understand, all the words to me don't mean anything. I cannot respond to each word, I can get emotional from the words. The same thing happens here, we do not understand the language of bestowal, only the language of reception. Therefore, all those words about connection and bestowal between us, that each one is responsible for each other, for bestowal to the Creator. We are learning the central law of the upper world, there's two worlds, the lower world and the upper world and now we are learning together the law of the upper world. In our world there's the egoistic law, the will to receive and each and everyone examines itself to see how much we can receive from each and everyone else.
According to a sense of shame, how much it can receive and cannot, how much we won’t suffer any blows and there are all kinds of calculations but the will to receive for each and every one is what positions us in this world. However in the spiritual world it is the opposite, as it is said I saw an opposite world, there it is bestowal and therefore we have to get to know this force, this law of bestowal in order to approach, in order to tap into it and that's what the wisdom of Kabbalah does for us. It tells us what is the law of the upper world, what does it mean, heaven and hell, reception and bestowal, upper and lower, Creator and created being.
That's what it explains to us, we want to receive it and detect it and sort it out within our laws, within our habits it doesn't work out. We have to try to turn ourselves around towards the laws of the upper world which is bestowal first, assistance, mutual support, it is an opposite world and upside down world like you not that's how it works. So, learn to know what the spiritual world means, those who can bear it will advance those who do not, it is still desirable for them to stay and listen and those who can will have to go and they'll have other opportunities in the next life cycle. That's how it works.
23. S. (38:02) You said that also when we give we do it out of will to receive. So, what does it mean to help the others? What does it include?
R. For us both reception and bestowal rides the will to enjoy, the desire to enjoy, maybe the desire to receive is not that accurate here but the desire to enjoy. Meaning that if I both give and receive I do that because it gives me pleasure, and that's the main thing, that is the fuel, and we can not work without receiving pleasure. What happens in the spiritual world, in the spiritual world we also receive pleasure but out of bestowing by working above my ego, opposite to my ego then by that I derive pleasure and then I can bestow. Then my pleasure becomes unlimited, I can receive, this is what it's called 620 times more than what I could receive in my egoistic will to receive. That's where we are moving towards. Those who want to achieve the pleasures of the upper world, it is all open, prepare big desires to enjoy but all these desires need to be in order to enjoy bestowing rather than receiving. When we receive a correction from above called in order to bestow, we begin to enjoy bestowal.
24. S. (40:29) Here is a sensation that the nearest between us and our annulment are not really dependent on us but rather that we are the matter in the hands of the Creator. Is this the result of a previous prayer to draw us to connection?
R. It attracts us to connection with the Creator and we don't know how exactly we advance but the more we perform action of bestowal between us we make it clearer and clearer to us and as much as we start turning to Him from these actions of bestowal with a demand that he will show us what is happenings, that he fill these actions with his presence by that we come to a state where we discover the Creator in the connection between us.
25. S. (41:35) As we will do we will hear, is this like the matter of carrying a heavy sack that is going to fall and then I need help and then I get that help? That's like Lishma?
R. This is called Mutual guarantee that I look at each and every friend then I see who can I help and then it happens.
S. (42:00) On the other hand if that heavy sack is on the floor and I haven’t lifted it and I ask for help no one is going to come to help. Just like if we don’t do it we won’t hear, is that the meaning here?
R. We should do and we should hear. We should do means that we have to make action of bestowal between us and in the actions of bestowal that we prepared between us we hear from the Creator his address to us. We will discover Him why is that called we shall hear? Because we make actions on part of Malchut and then we receive a response on part of Bina which is hearing.
26. S. (42:51) You said that it was also difficult for you to agree with this idea of connection and nonetheless you succeeded in doing it in less years than us and became a great Kabbalist. What are we missing? We also have a big ego and we try to do it we shall do and we shall hear but the years are going by, why?
R. Perseverance, that's one. Do not forget that we are under the control of the upper force and He controls us and we just have to continue on the path as much as possible in everything we can and always begin from changes between us and then addressing the Creator. When I turn to the Creator what have I done in changing the relationship between us that I am now turning to Him? I can only turn to the Creator on the condition that I have prepared a worthy change between us and I turn to the Creator for help so he helps me to install the system where I can later identify His response.
27. S. (44:25) I have heard that if we have this problem with Arvut in the group that it has to be cleaned up and corrected, how can we do this?
R. We have to try to speak between us about how we are connecting and mutually supporting each other. Let's say 10 minutes a day turn to that maybe not even every day to discover how much you are in mutual support, Mutual aid or how much you like that support and assistance and that's how you will get closer and of course there will be those who are willing to accept these conditions and some who aren't but we still have to continue and overtime you will see how you change and become more and more patient with each other. We have to love each other, the Creator gives each one the assertive ego, He knows how to sort out all the people so we rely on Him and continue and He will put everything in the right place.
28. S. (46:15) What if I want to be in Arvut but the ten doesn’t want to? Are their corporeal needs also holding me back?
R. No, I have to continue in the same ten for now and work in such a way that we all have to discuss the Mutual guarantee, how much we depend on each other. This example of us sitting in a boat in the middle of the ocean and we can truly drown in our ego and just finish our life this way, that is the correct form and if we still want to reach the shore then we have to be together. Only in a way that one helps the other. We have no one to help us from outside until we help each other and therefore we have to feel ourselves that we are in a single boat and under the risk of dying and only if we help each other to come out of this general sea of the ego then you can do it. Imagine to yourself you are in a boat in the raging egoistic ocean and only if you each hold on to each other then the sea, from within its inner force which is actually the Creator will take you to the shore.
29. S. (48:50) What is considered a lack of Arvut in the ten? Is it too little participation from the side of the friends, is that lack of mutual guarantee?
R. The lack of mutual guarantee means the lack of willingness to reciprocate whether it is in favor of against, it doesn't matter what kind of argument but as long as we understand that we are moving towards increasing the mutual guarantee between us.
30. S. (49:39) What caused the nation of Israel to lose the mutual guarantee if they already had such a big connection? How did it happen that they didn't hold them what were they missing? If you are getting farther it becomes harder?
R. No, don't take examples from the history of the people of Israel. The people of Israel is a group that came from ancient Babylon thousand of years ago and that group is like a kernel from which this idea needs to become revealed in the entire world and in that group there were representatives from all the nations that existed in Babylon, what we refer to as 70 nations of the world and then they all came together connected and they reach a stage where they are going for the mutual guarantee love thy friends as themselves all the way.
They said we have to achieve the degree of the next world which means from the egoistic world to the altruistic world and they gave an example for that, they set an example for it, they came together, they connected and made efforts in that but all in all that group was like a seed, a small seed within the whole of humanity and all of the history of humanity and that group ultimately leads them to a point where they have to scatter across all humanity they have to pass on everything they had to the rest of humanity and that passing happens through all kinds of tendencies towards philosophy and science and wisdom and mostly religion, throughout all those things. It was scattered, disseminated, we will discover that this is everything that works at the center of reality and now we are coming to this conclusion and that depends on us how much it'll go easy or by a path of great troubles and wars and problems but all Humanity has reached a state where it is now ready to hear, in favor or against the matter of mutual guarantee.
That everyone begins to feel from day-to-day how interconnected we are, how we exist in such a way that we are inseparable. You see what's happening in the world right now, how all the nations all their countries, all the governments as much as they discuss things look at what's going on and how each one would like to disconnect from the others and be against or determine something on their own, some government here and there. None of that will work, it will cause suffering and by that suffering ultimately we will come to a better understanding that we are interconnected and that what we can do it is only mutual guarantee an other than that there is nothing we can do and the world will not come down and it will spiral into other wars and troubles, scrutinies and who knows another thousand or two thousand years, it's not going to happen but let's say.
The suffering of all the more troubles and wars and problems but ultimately we have to come to a stage where we are all interdependent and other than the force of Arvut there can’t be any other force that will govern us. We are all, all of humanity is in a small single boat in a big raging sea, all of humanity is in that state now and if we won't discover this Mutual responsibility between us we will only go into deeper and deeper troubles. Ultimately, certainly we will inevitably determine that we have to be in mutual guarantee but in the meantime we are gradually clarifying that, that what the world is discovering is that we cannot separate from each other, that our development leads us to a point where we find deeper and deeper that we are intertwined with each other, that no one can exist today in today's world without being connected to the rest of the world in a mutual connection and a desirable positive connection.
Bad connections only cause troubles and the more trouble you cause others the more it comes back to you and all those things gradually teach us that specifically now with this war that is happening between Russia and Ukraine especially, the world is learning from this example that we are all connected and dependant and we have no choice but to try to reach some sort of human agreements and not in this direct egoistic way where each one only tries to care for their own interests. It is impossible and that's how we will learn. We'll have to learn that only reciprocity and mutual guarantee can sustain us and direct us to the correct mode of life but in that life we will start to feel that we actually have a deeper goal to acknowledge the general force that governs the world and we can't govern the world if we don't understand this total law and that is the law of love thy friends as yourself, not just to be considerate of each other but to come out of the order of the egoists.
Meaning that we won't be managed by the foreign ministry of each country that each one cares for itself but we will need such ministries that will take care of connecting everyone and making that connection as mutual as possible because otherwise we won't be able to exist and the world will discover that that's another stage, but that's how there will be no other choice and we will reach this stage where we will learn the laws of Arvut meaning the laws of the true reality. We are together in a time where the world feels for the first time how integrated it is, how interconnected it is and therefore mutually obligated to each other and there is no choice, there is no other choice, no one can just blow the whistle on everyone else and say I'm going to do whatever I feel like.
Someone wanted to do what he feels like and force everyone else and now we see what it brings us to that everyone will learn from this act that no one can just do what they feel like doing you have to take the whole world into account and not determine your view and your desire before everyone else and disregard everyone else. That's how we gradually advance towards the truth, the truth is not in any one or in any country, in any government, in any person, the truth is above all of us. It appears in the mutual connection between each and every human who will begin to gradually attain that truth and carry it out within our hearts and things will be better for sure they will be better and only we can bring that better state to happen faster and soon.
31. S. (59:26) So, what do people and countries need to understand from this Arvut? In the framework of each and every country people need to reach Arvut within it or between the countries as one system?
R. All the peoples of the world are gradually moving to an unknowing, feeling this fact that we are all interdependent. This mutual dependence brings people closer because you have to care for the other as you care for yourself because you depend on the other, so what can you do? That's how we gradually advance egotistically in the meantime coming closer to the understanding that we are in one system across the planet and then out of the single system that we stop determining that we don't care about the others but on the contrary that I don't fight that I don't pressure others but I need to care for the well-being of all the countries and that they will advance and live better and that means that I'll be better off as well. Out of that bit by bit we transition to the laws of mutual bestowal for lack of any other choice and that is how we will advance that is in regards with the ordinary people in our world. Those who want to acknowledge this upper force, this upper law, they have to achieve mutual guarantee in higher degrees, we will get there. I don't want to jump ahead and talk about all the processes that we are going to go through but we will learn such things that you will be able to be the managers of the whole process.
S. Nonetheless, if we are talking about between countries you say that we are learning from this war how are we supposed to behave but do you think it really needs to be like one global system where everyone is connected?
R. Of course no doubt. Ultimately, eventually it will appear that all nations of the world will turn to let's say to Bnei Baruch and in Bnei Baruch there will be people who feel and understand this matter from within and all the nations of the world will tell that group manage our lives because you will understand that you are connected to the laws of the upper world and the upper nature and you know what to do. You will be such people who know how the forces of nature are working and in what way you can begin to bring these laws down, first of all to ourselves and then to people, gradually and Humanity will be able to educate themselves towards the new life, a global general Arvut. Accordingly the upper light will influence the whole system both in a corporeal way, and in a spiritual way and everyone will come to a state of love the friends as themselves throughout the world and by that the Creator will appear between everyone, that is the final correction. It is not that far, we can truly do that on the condition that we make efforts in our state to determine in our groups this mutual system of Arvut, we will learn it on ourselves and ultimately there is ten Sefirot, ten parts whether it is a small group or the entire world so let's start learning how to design these relationships where everyone transcends his ego, connects with others and thus we connect to the Creator.
32. S. (01:04:43) It seems like after the Congress we got a huge force of assistance, help from above as you were talking about earlier, so there is a tendency to just let that feeling wash over us without doing anything with it. What is our responsibility as a ten with those forces that the Creator has given us both internally and externally?
R. The responsibilities of each ten is to find an increasing connection inside the ten and also spread as much as possible outside of the ten into the other tens connecting with them and also as much as possible to spread through all of humanity, open different classes, circles, lessons as much as possible. We must not neglect that. That is a must for us to do and by that we will succeed, our work is as much as we advance humanity towards the Creator, to the extent that they are capable for now, to that extent we too will advance and not before because our role is to pull all of humanity to the Creator.
33. S. (01:06:37) Before you said that we need to tie between this world and the upper world, how do we do this from lesson to lesson over the course of the day?
R. That we are learning the laws of the upper world and we want to carry them out in the connection between us.
S. What you did now, tying between current events and you described it as a system that too we also need to see our life over the course of the day that way?
R. During the day I do not know what you are doing exactly. I recommend during the day to go back to our lessons in order to really connect stronger to them. I am afraid that from all of the discussions between you that are not exactly according to the study material, it will just be empty discussions.
34. S. (01:07:49) This huge desire is in order to enjoy from bestowal?
R. Connection between us and then between us to the Creator.
S. Let us say in the ten it happens that one friend is caring for himself and the others are in connection between them.
R. Start taking care of him like a baby.
35. S. (01:08:35) After I heard you talk about this, that the whole world is influenced from what is happening between Russia and Ukraine, I just want to get the right impression because in my country it is like half shut down because of the matter. There is also some group here that is controlling the government related to Russia and such here in Costa Rica, cause I understand what is happening here.
R. Look, I do not know what is going on in Costa Rica. I was never there, hopefully we will meet there, but all I can say is that we will all feel it through food supplies, our pockets each and everything, that is simple and egoistic, everyone will feel it that way. Besides that we will feel the interdependence through international relations and in that regard those who are more connected to the world will hear about it and see it and that is how we are all connected. If not through positive connection then through bad connection and then out of that we will have no choice but to achieve positive connection but there will be more problems, more troubles from, you see when one force wants to take control over the others look what it does to the whole world.
36. S. (01:10:30) What is the difference between the connection between my ten and the dissemination project that I'm connecting with other friends in that project. How do we in dissemination overcome what is easier in the ten?
R. I did not understand anything besides one thing, you still have what to clarify in your whole work and be more concrete.
37. S. (01:11:17) I am in my individual Reshimot of the giving of the Torah in Arvut and Shavuot is coming closer, so how can we check that we are ready for Arvut in our ten and with the whole world?
R. Only to strengthen the connection.
38. S. (01:11:45) Let's go back to the foundation of the article where he writes that each one of Israel will take upon themselves to work in care of each one in the nation for all their needs and once the whole nation unanimously agrees and then they will become Arvut, it always seems to be a contradiction here?
R. It is not a contradiction because we contain the levels of still, vegetative animate and speaking it all connects in the human because the speaking degree includes all the previous degrees still, vegetative and animate levels therefore we cannot sustain the speaking degree which is about the connection between the people to a single network. We cannot demand that from people if they are not satisfied on the lower level of still, vegetative and animate. You have to provide them with health care, normal healthcare so they do not feel that they are suffering horrible pains or in great concern, anxious for their survival that is their animal level. You also have to provide them with the necessities that they need for their sustenance, which means food, if there is no flour then there is no Torah as it says, so we have to take care of that. If we see that people are satisfied with things like medicine and food then we can talk about higher things, if they are missing that then we first have to make sure that they have the supply. All right?
S. It is all very interesting and I would like to hear more about that but I would like to hear, go back to what I started with, how can a person give Arvut before he feels that he receives Arvut?
R. He has to invite everyone to the Arvut and each one describes the Arvut according to his vessels. No one is similar to someone else so each one gives a hand to the other in that he does care about the mutual guarantee with everyone.
S. Well what does it mean to accept it upon themselves just like that?
R. He wants to be in Arvut with others and invites them into mutual guarantee because he sees everyone as being with him in a boat in a raging sea and he sees that he has no choice but to do that. That without Arvut they will not be able to keep the walls of the boat whole in order to come out of the raging sea. That is what the Upper Providence advances us to that soon humanity will feel that it is getting lost, that it is just going to oblivion, it is going into such troubles that there is nowhere to escape it and only the connection between them will build the boat. Otherwise they are all in the raging sea without a boat just drowning in the sea.
Reading item 18 (01:16:16)
39. R. (01:16:35) Meaning in the connection they built between them or they already had naturally so one wanted to break that connection that exists in the group in their connection. What did the friends tell them?
Reading Continues: (01:16:57) “His friend said why…”
40. S. (01:17:03) Why are you trying to break the connection between us? Even a connection we have now, it is, we are still in some assembly, some ten between us. Why are you trying to break that?
Reading Continues: (01:17:16) “He replied why should you mind…”
41. R. (01:17:24) Meaning that the person does not feel, he says it's seriously I do not see that I am harming others here. I have my own interest here in drilling a specific hole under myself,I might find something there I might strengthen myself by that.
Reader Continues: (01:17:48) “He replied fool we will both drown together…”
42. R. (01:17:54) This is the matter of both of us because the other sees that the influence of the friend in this negative way will do them harm and the first one does not feel at all like he harms the other that there is a connection between them meaning that everything depends on discovering the connection between them. Meaning everything depends on discovering the connection between them how each and every one discovers that they are interconnected and interdependent
Reader Continues: (01:18:25) “Meaning as we said since those rebels…”
43. R. (01:18:34) They are not rebels they are unaware of it. They do not see anything they are just following what they see as correct in their ego.
Reader continues: (01:18:50) “And by their actions…”
44. R. (01:19:26) Meaning that there are always those who are more and those who are less immersed in self-love. We have to guard everyone together and awaken everyone. I'm talking about what we need to do now, not when we feel ourselves in the raging sea and see that someone is drilling a hole in our boat and wants to break it in some way. Rather now we have to make sure that no one harms but everyone strengthens the connection between us in the ten. In such a way that from day to day we will feel how much we are increasingly concerned about connection, care about the connection and besides that we do not lack a thing. As we discussed that we have medicine and health care more or less what we need to survive but other than that only Mutual guarantee, mutual concern. That is the remedy that is the spiritual nourishment that brings us for certain to the purpose of life.
Reading item 19 (01:20:57)
45. R. (01:12:12) Meaning this entire small group that is directed towards the purpose of creation and this is called direct to the Creator.
Reader continues: (01:21:22) “But the whole world is…”
46. R. (01:21:26) Meaning that whether they have a desire for it or not, they understand, or not, each and every person that goes on two legs.
Reader continues: (01:21:40) “Indeed there is no dispute…”
47. R. (01:22:08) Meaning, why is there a group that is incorporated of all the groups, of all the nations of the world even from ancient Babylon that there was a connection of all the nations of the world for a short time in order that this group will be established there and exit to its own development in order that it will return to all of humanity and bring the method, the result of their development, their personal development.
Reader continues: (01:22:47) “As they said that…”
48. R. (01:22:59) It is written like this poetically.
Reader continues: (01:23:03) “and they would not receive it.”
49. R. (01:23:06) No one wants according to their ego to accept this method of love thy neighbor as themselves. Nobody.
Reader continues: (01:23:16) “In other words they…”
50. R. (01:23:22) We can understand it, we are also the same.
Reader continues: (01:23:25) “Some in adultery some in Murder…”
51. R. (01:24:01) Meaning that there are some unique souls that all the souls are broken from the general soul of Adam HaRishon but these souls are especially uniquely high from all the souls after the shattering, they have a high sensitivity to connection in return and they are called the souls of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob
Reader continues: (01:24:32) “as our sages said…”
52. R. (01:24:40) That even after there is this influence of the force from above they have an awakening from below because they're remind in them still from after the shattering something from the force of connection that was between everyone from before the shattering.
Reader Continues: (01:25:00) “This means that because of the exaltedness…”
53. R. (01:25:28) Meaning that such a small group that disconnected in the shattering of the general vessel that there were such souls, yes, parts of the general desire that in them remained very strong records from before the shattering and thus from within these records they felt, understood the great tendency towards connection and the necessity, the truth that they attained in the connection between them that there specifically is their connection with the Creator.
Reader Continues: (01:26:12) “Undoubtedly both the physical…”
54. R. (01:26:53) Meaning this nation of remedy what is this called yesterday remained at these a broken desires in them a very very strong records from before the shattering raised from the Reshimot and thus even from within the shattering there they will be drawn to connection and thus according to this being drawn to connection this pull they are called Yashar Kel they formed in Babylon as call Abraham called them, they formed and established around them and they went down to the exit of Babylon to the land of Canaan and they disconnected from all of the nations of Babylon and became a nation unto themselves. According to their tendency it is called Yashar Kel ,Israel and there we have representatives of all of the nations of the world that everyone everywhere present as such. We see also according to a search the the story of Torah how much they were still connections there with the rest of the nation tribes and what not over history that entirely does not belong to the nation rather only two the desire of each and every one.
Reader continues: (01:28:37) “Hence only the members of the Israel Nation…”
55. R. (01:28:59) He says that the entire world and the entire humanity is obligated to achieve the Arvut being that they do not have that same preparation being that they are in the same group. Right?
56. (01:32:28) To clarify item 18 I wrote from the lesson today that a new desire is born in me I still do not know but I disconnect from the group and then I recognized it on the other hand we red and item 18 that if I disconnect I drill a hole in the boat so how do we work it? It is as if I have to break the Arvut because every desire deattaches the connection.
R. There's a lot of words and not much use of it. Continue as is and make the effort to not disconnect and then you will understand where you are going.
S. From item 18 at that the Arvut ultimately comes for my egistic place where everyone understands that you talked about the world discovering that it has no choice so it doesn't come from love?
R. Of course from the egoistic place that we reached the general connection in Arvut and afterwards from what is within this already we can reach other things. Of course, egoistic. How do we reach between us this spirituality from within this that we want to reach the Creator, we want to attain spirituality, eternal life,all sorts of things but of course these desires are revealed first then generally egoistic desires from Lo Lishma to Lishma from not for her sake to for her sake.
57. S. (01:34:23) How to see and feel clearly that the friends depend on me so I do not drill a hole in the boat?
R. That depends on how much you open up your heart to the friends then you will feel that they are dependent on you.
58. S. (01:34:47) The Arvut that we see through the still, vegative and animate parts of nature,can it serve as an example for us and we use it in the ten?
R. We see that the entire nature is connected one to the other all to the other and only in such a manner its parts can provide a foundation for one another existence for one another in such a way between.
59. S. (01:35:24) If I heard correctly you told the women that the part that cannot carry out the Arvut hinders the others how to clarify that? Maybe it seems to me because I'm not corrected about what to do about it?
R. We need to reach connection that is it it doesn't matter in what form and also those that still cannot participate with us in the Arvut but they are with us in every group there are those who are still not familiar with the Arvut they are not capable of according to their development. We need to still put up with them and make an effort to bring them to connection and thus we will project to them our force and advance them as well.
60. S. (01:36:11) How to practice the Arvut?
R. By this we exercise it. We return to it each time or more remind of it, we push for it, we give example to one another, the usual things.
61. S. (01:36:35) It says that the children of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob whose ancestral merit stood up for them. Who are they and how are we connected to them?
R. Those that have a tendency to Arvut, towards connection for the spiritual world, to bestow, to adhesion with the Creator. Even such that have a curiosity for spirituality and are willing to advance. It does not matter in what manner it appears to a person.
62. S. (01:37:18) From the explanation it is clear how in a corporeal way how is there is a problem with the land and the soil in the Ukraine it influences other countries and it is clear for me if I don't come to the lesson it hurts the ten but how do these actions that I do in my the ten hurt a friend from Costa Rica let's say?
R. We do not understand so much what can we do? But it occurs and it will be revealed more and more. It is not just because you lack food in your Ukraine and then you will feel how much you are joined the Ukraine. We can receive such signs, many such you do not understand yet just how much the world will reach corporeal connection,which hasn't reached connection and in accordance it has not cared for the spiritual connection. Now with the methodical connection it needs to reach the spiritual connection to such an extent that if you don't think for the benefit of others, you won't be able to provide for yourself the necessary things. nature will teach us to be in force of bestowal through lack of choice.
S. Am I actively responsible for the spirituality of the friends in the world Kli with my little action?
R. Yes of course you're together with them in one system why are you even asking.
63. S. (01:38:56) What does it mean to open the heart in the ten?
R. To open up the heart to the ten means that I want to be connected in all of my desires to the ten. To truly be an integral part opened up to the ten and reception and giving not to be some cork, some blockage in the connection between them.
64. S. (01:39:32) On the one hand I depend on the friends. On the other hand they depend on me. So how to settle this mutual work? What do I demand from them, what do I provide to them and how does it work?
R. If you're familiar with some systems, some technical ones and nature, we are all connected mutually and as much as it shuts you up, it shuts you up too and with this you are determining your state towards them you can only say one thing they're all operating in bestowal absolutely and only you are actually making the cork, blockage.
S. The rule you just mentioned that the ten is in wholeness as if sounds to meet in contradiction with the idea that some friends are not yet in Arvut?
R. That is in the meantime that we want to make connections but on the way we also have to think about them.
S. I have to expect the friends in the ten to awaken me or I have to awaken them only?
R. Make sure for now that you are waking everyone.
S. What if I feel that I lack awakening from the ten what do I do?
R. Ask for them, pray.
S. You said there are different levels of commitment in each ten. Who do you do Arvut with the ten with all the ten or only those who seem committed to it to me?
R. Arvut with everyone ,bestow as you can with everyone and receive from everyone, whether you receive negative or positive you are connected to the entire ten.
S. But if there are friends in the ten and you see that they do not awaken to the Arvut, what do you do?
R. Then you connect with them nevertheless, you take them into account, you operate together with them, whether they you want it or not not by force but rather by passive participation.
65. S. (01:42:06) When I feel the desire of a friend am I feeling the Creator?
R. Yes we can say such that actually what I feel from the friend is what the Creator presents to me and I need to respond accordingly.
66. S. (01:42:35) Why is it so difficult to hear about the Arvut you as a Kabbalist you give us the direction, we all follow you but there are students who learn for decades how hard is it to hear?
R. The matter of Arvut is hard to hear even after thousands of years, not just tens of years. Lets just understand just how much this condition, that the law of Arvut is such an essential fundamental law and the reality of Adam HaRishon and that we are going to correct.
67. S. (01:42:23) How to work on the disputes in the ten from the point of Arvut?
R. Whether we want it or not we are all in mutual Arvut as much as we are capable of fulfilling this law, this mutual responsibility, then it is good and how much we cannot then it is not for our benefit in the meantime. We need to understand that the entire world is more and more de facto entering this law of mutual responsibility of Arvut and especially in his present state with the war there in Ukraine and all sorts of other states, it is very much bringing us closer to understanding that the whole world is in mutual Arvut.
68. S. (01:44:20) Is mutual guarantee a result of love for our friends or vice versa?
R. No the law of Arvut exists on all the layers of still, vegatative, animate and speaking and the entire spiritual world. That is a law and as much as we can fulfill this law accordingly we can measure our degrees on the ladder of degrees. In the fulfillment of this law.
69. S. (01:44:58) Are the rebels or those who keep theTorah different kinds of people or desires within me?
R. These are desires that are within a person that in them he can identify the external desires as well but actually in what a person is composed of and what is revealed to him inside so he also reveals things outside of him.
70. S. (01:45:40) I feel guilty for a friend who left the ten but on the other hand I feel there is None Else Besides Him, On the other hand, I have to speak to her and bring her back, what should we do as a ten?
R. We need to operate in a manner that everything is dependent on us and not say that everything is dependent on the Creator. If everything is dependent on the Creator then we have nothing to do, we have to act.
71. S. ( 01:46:13) Are we obligated to speak if it seems like a friend breaks the Arvut and in what way?
R. We have to worry about the friend who was breaking the Arvut in order that he will understand that this is how it is written and we have no choice but rather to fulfill it. We have to continue with this with great patience. This is the general rule and it is upon us to bring each and everyone to return to fulfilling this law.
72. S. (01:46:446) Why if a friend sees that his friend drilled a hole in the boat isn't he the one himself that does the damage? If my friend drills a hole is it not because I didn't give him Arvut?
R. You can say this as well but nonetheless we take care of it because we are taking care of our friend. What I need to do in order that the friend won't make a hole in the boat by this I am also checking myself. Am I causing this that he will cause the hole? Did I give them the correct example to be in connection with us? And so on. The mutual Arvut covers everything.
73. S. (01:47:33) Can a ten decide to take out one who is drilling a hole?
R. That is a problem I would not do it. If a person really has a big desire for spirituality and he is not just present in the ten but willing to participate in the ten as much as possible but It could be sometimes he doesn't go to Yeshivat Haverim and he cannot be in connection and mutual Arvut between them but nonetheless he remains in something, then let him remain in the meantime as belonging to the ten, to divide and give him the opportunity to nevertheless belong to our spiritual work. We will carry him on the condition that he is not really harming. Yes?
74. S. (01:48:4 ) How to convince our desire to bestow?
R. Giving good examples of bestowal.
75. S. (01:49:01) What is the eye that lives in the will to receive that follows my intention is that the Creator?
R. No, I cannot answer that it is not a direct question,it's too roundabout.
76. S. (01:49:23) Can we ask for the force of the bestowal outside of the ten as well?
R. No.
77. S. (01:49:37) What should be the smallest request to the Creator?
R. Towards the Creator there is no smaller big request and towards a person or request to advance to love our friends and from love our friends to love of the Creator.
78. S. (01:50:10) How is the spiritual Kli built? How is how do you build it?
R. The spiritual vessel we bring from love of friends, the spiritual vessel is based on bestowal we actively…From this we build our spiritual force our spiritual Kli.
79. S. (01:57:63) We want to ask such a thing because we went through such a powerful connection. How do we help each other come to a deep decision and request to the Creator?
R…. Shavuot is called the holiday of the giving of the Torah. That the Creator is lowering this idea of what is called bestowal the system of bestowal that humanity must reach it what is it how does it close between human beings how do human beings contain it? All of this is called to a … from the light or… how it reaches human beings and how it open they open themselves up and receive the influence of the Creator and then in this become like him eternal and whole. That is the holiday of …. to be giving from the Creator to the human beings in this world and we celebrate that we have this method and we can realize it and in some how get close to it that there is no greater gift than what the Creator did for us in order that we will will be able to gradually realize this … meaning to reach his degree. To connect to him, to adhere to him, to be like him. For this we are coming to the evening of unity and we will learn and be enjoy and receiving of the Torah.
S. How will we prepare the right to vessel for the reception of the Torah?
R. Only by Mutual guarantee this is how we see how Baal HaSulam Rabash… is the first half of the article and mutual guarantee is a second half of the article… that he needs to perform from the upper there is the giving of Torah and from the lower one the reception of the Torah and the vessel called mutual guarantees so we hope that we will realize it and this evening.
S. How will we truly have a lot of people coming, thousands of people connected in the Arvut system? How do we take advantage of this great power that will be in this event to really realize it to finally realize it.
R. It all depends on the intention of each and every one. How much we want to spread, to pass on to one another our impressions. How each one was inspired and is in the heart of his friend and this matter. In this matter we will hold and strengthen one another and reach in sum total such an upliftment that the upper force the upper light will be able to clothe in our upliftment called MAD. Man from us will receive MAN from above. This will make our desires as the desires from the Creator and connection with all of us together. So I am also in the name of inviting everyone to come and connect with everyone from the whole world this evening by us here in the center of Bnei Baruch.
Info: Reminding everyone that tomorrow after the lesson we will have a global meal we want to feel that we are with the whole world Kli and so we are inviting all of the friends to prepare in the tens prepare a little drink something to eat if you know that you are going to be just a few people in the rooms of mutual guarantee you are invited to connect to other rooms that speak the same language from 10 to 11 we have the Jewish thought course and we will have a song.