Morning Lesson December 29, 2021, Transcription
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Part 1: Preparation for convention “Raising Above Ourselves”
Lesson No. 1: Approaching the Creator Through the Network of Connections Between Us. #2
1. Rav’s Introduction: Yes, our way is actually entirely built on the connection between us. It’s not that we have direction for each one towards the goal but rather the goal exists inside of us, inside the connection between us in the center of the connection between us. Towards that the Kabbalists intended that we should be going in a straight path. It's not outside of us but rather specifically inside, inside, inside of us as much as we try to come closer and help each other than to that extent we also come closer to the goal. Until we gather back into this body into this system called Adam. In truth the correction out of that becomes easier. Because out of the fact that we have become separated from each other from one desire and each one feels the part of the desire in him individually that this is me and this is the others. By that we were actually given the ability to integrate facilitation to achieve the general desire. By the fact that I feel myself and I feel the others outside of me, by that I am far away from them according to my feeling. Here actually, on the one hand the Creator seemingly broke the vessel, he broke the desire but by that he gave us an opportunity to work only on a small desire.
That by reaching connection between us this also determines how much we develop. It's like little children that when they grow up, they don't feel each other until they reach the age of 2 years, 3 years 4 years and then we can see accordingly how much that little person becomes needy also of society of friends, of playing together when he looks at them and he finds himself not just closed in within himself like the toddler's, but rather here already wants to work with them mutually and it's the same with us. The more we grow in spirituality the more we begin to feel how much our correction is not inside of us but outside of us. In the connection between us. It is so much so in the connection between us that we will start to care for others as we care for ourselves. The concern for the others in the general form that is not related to our desire it is actually considered our attitude to the Creator. Because the Creator is all in all this general concept of everything that exists outside of me.
Therefore it turns out that as much as I connect and come closer to others, I'm coming closer to the Creator to this concept of Creator as it says, 'I dwell within my own people'. Also in such mutual concern for each other, as we come closer and closer to the concept of the Creator, Boreh come and see. When this general force is revealed to us in the connection between us as much as we are able to establish this connection, as much as we ask of Him because He is there, concealed between us but we have to ask Him to be revealed. In such a concern of each one for the others that they will not fall from our boat. That they will also take part in such a way we come closer to the general correction. By this we invite the force of the general correction which is called the surrounding light and it takes care of us and brings us closer. This is why our work becomes easier and not more difficult. Because I need to care for others that they will come closer to the Creator, and by me being among them, I too come closer to the Creator. The Creator is the opposite of us, we don't want to change in order to be closer to Him but when I care for the friends, I am seemingly caring outside of myself and through this action outside of myself I also bring myself closer.
This is why the shattering of the Kli has many discernments in it and all of them in the end operate to our benefit in order to bring us closer to the goal. Especially its this thing that is much as I care for the friends, to push them forward to bring them closer to the Creator, I by that operate not precisely out of my will to bestow, there is in it also something of my corrupted desire of my will to receive however by that I also advance and bring myself closer to it. Just like let's say we sit in a boat and I awaken and push them forward to advance and everyone advances and I with them. Even though I myself would be on that boat alone I would not be able to change myself, so much so, and take even one small step towards the Creator. There are such systems here in the connection between us that in all kinds of different forms of connection when we awaken and each other, even though we are still operating for sure egoistically, we haven't yet come out to Lishma, for her sake. The construction of these relations nevertheless brings us closer to the Creator. The fact that I shift my efforts and I pass my efforts through the environment, and the environment is still not me but rather it is the environment and I can therefore seemingly pressure them, pass through them, my actions of bestowal of which out of myself, I cannot demand it of myself, but nevertheless because we are together, I advanced along with them.
This is why the shattering of Adam HaRishon includes within it many such discernments that they facilitate for us, they make the way of our correction easier. By that I push the others ahead towards correction, I do whatever I can do, buy that I correct myself. Then it turns out that even egoistically when I push them forward however, I am necessarily also inside of them because we are in one system, so I also carry myself with them. In this way through the friends I correct myself and otherwise I would not be able to correct myself, I would not have the strength to work against my ego. Look how much inside there are all kinds of such means, opportunities, in the shattering of the vessels that the Creator has prepared for us, so that we can truly use it, still egoistically in our present egoistic manner, but if remote just towards corrections. Also the prayer. I can pray for myself or I can pray for others and praying for others carries within it my ego whether I want to or not, if I am not corrected to the extent, I'm not corrected I pray for them that they will be corrected, right?
As much as I can make this effort that they will be corrected and in that request my ego is present on the one hand. On the other hand because this prayer nevertheless is for them, it helps them and it also carries me behind them. There are many things in that, you shouldn't think that it's just psychology, it is truly Kabbalah because it all stems from the structure of the one vessel, the broken vessel, that tries with certain egoistic forces that we have in this for the time being. We will somehow nevertheless push each other and push ourselves towards connection. Therefore to rise above ourselves is considered all means to connect. There is everything, the degrees of connection between us are the degrees in which we need to ascend and in each and every degree according to the intensity of the connection according to the character of the connection it will be revealed we discover the force that is organizing us and connecting us and filling us called Boreh, the Creator.
Excerpt 2. (13:27) continuing...
2. R. (14:26) One who truly wants to serve the Creator, meaning to keep the laws of nature. It's not the upper nature or the lower nature, it doesn't matter the laws of nature, all and all its one nature. However it is revealed to us in the opposite manner in order for us to distinguish ourselves so that we're able to work seemingly outside of the system of nature, we can work on that system. So one who truly wants to serve the Creator must include himself and incorporate himself with all the created beings, meaning so much so that he doesn't feel any difference in what he is and what they are, that everyone is working in a uniform manner. Entirely integrally and he should connect himself also with all of the souls that's even deeper. A deeper connection with all the created beings because it includes both, also the final state where they're all incorporated together until you cannot even distinguish between them. The upper force fills them also without distinguishing between them at all. He should include himself, incorporate himself with them and they with him. Here it is even more, we need to reach a state where it is not only that I am incorporated in some souls, some foreign different desires, and I change in order to adapt myself to them, but I should also make them make such movements also towards me. So include himself with them and they with him. That is also upon me to influence them in part, bestow to them in such a way that it's not only me, well it's the way we take care of little children, and also, I make to make these children grow up, become like me and become attached to me as I am attached to them.
We need to care for all of the souls, that they will grow up and will be like each one grows, at least to that same extent we can cause other souls also to be grown up, developed to the same extent. Not in the same manner but to the same extent that's what it says here to incorporate himself with them and they with him. That is you should leave for yourself only what is needed for connecting the Divinity so to speak. Meaning, I don't need anything besides whatever is required in order to help me to connect with the other souls, to restrict myself in my individual ego that does not become refined, the coarseness, the Aviut does not become refined and I need screens and reflected light. By it I will connect with all of these foreign desires and become incorporated with them and I will make them be incorporated with me and in this mutual manner, we reach a state where “I to my beloved and my beloved to me.” Meaning, each one to the others and the others towards me, this is what I need to cause so that there will be an integral system. This requires closeness and many people. We need many people so that each one will take a little bit of his burden, his work and will do it. Specifically we need many because then the general egoistic desires, divided among everyone, and I, in that mosaic, we can see more and more the uniqueness in nature.
It is revealed specifically out of the integrality because we connect those small parts together and they become one but it's because they are many parts, they give us the depth of this oneness, singular nature. We can't see that if we look at the picture but when we do a scrutiny of how much the parts are different, far away, opposite to each other, there in hatred and rejection, and how much above that they nevertheless, connect. Each and every part has its own ego, but at the same time it works on connection with the others in order to understand the others, to connect with them, to incorporate with them, to absorb them and on its own to be dissolved in them. By that each and everyone starts to get the conditions for the full revelation of the Creator. This requires closeness and many people, for the more people who serve the Creator the more of the light of the Shechina, Divinity appears to them. Because this depends, well if we had just one desire, it would be the light of Nefesh of Nefesh of Nefesh. That's the maximum we would be able to attain but when we work with that same desire but it's a broken desire, then specifically because the desire, because the Creator specifically broke it in advance and before us and we emerged out of that shattering, by that he prepared for a place the ability to attain him. This is how we can therefore discover him in full, in all kinds of different manners.
We just think that we can well, let's say like in a family we can have a good life without quarreling without fighting, no, if we begin our life from a young age in a normal manner and we get married let's say at the age of 25 or 30, that's it. We nevertheless have to go through feuds and conflicts and disagreements, all kinds of difficult things, collisions, why is that? In order to achieve, attain the good thing, first of all we have to prepare ourselves with the bad thing, just like the whole of creation. The evil is revealed only out of the good when from the bad we can reach the good, then we can keep it, that good that we have achieved. So in that way when each one has this ability, this desire then we can keep the corrections, otherwise we don't keep them. Rabash also writes about how we should keep our corrections. Because the more people serve the Creator meaning the more there is shattering that shattering is revealed today and let's say, the size of the population of the world in different forms where each one is incorporated in many such opposite forms. Two thousand years ago, 1000 years ago, people were simple, it was more like animals.
Well, you have your character, you have this, you have that and accordingly the society was like that, these work in the field, these work in construction and building, those work in something else. Each one had something the way he was born, this is how he went through life, followed his father and this is how everything was conducted. It's impossible for it to exist like that because each one has to be incorporated with everyone so throughout history we started to include, to be incorporated with many people, many different forms each one of us and this is why we also change places and we cannot just sit in one place. We even change forms throughout life and our professions are becoming like that, not natural, there is no such profession in nature, computers let's say or all kinds of things, there's nothing like that. It all comes already from the form of connection between us because we find a need for it there. The more people serve the Creator it causes it, because then the more the light of the Shechina appears to them. So it's not just that there's some power in a single action, but rather when the single action, even a small action, when it is caused by millions of people, then in that action we see spiritual power because spirituality is revealed out of the multitude of parts that connect between them against their desire, in opposition to their mind but when they, nevertheless, gather this collection gives us the intensity of the attainment of the Creator. On the one hand we are different, and this difference becomes revealed first, and then we connect and the connection is revealed through our work.
When we pray to the Creator, he helps us, he connects us and, in this way, we attain from something and its opposite, from the great difference between us, and the connection that we achieve between us. So the gap between this and that gives us the degrees of coarseness and the degrees of refinement and between the two, we discover the Creator who seemingly includes both this and that even though he is not related exactly to connection or disconnection. It's only in order for us to discover him, that we have to discover these two ends, the plus and the minus and what's discovered between the plus in the minus that source, this is the Creator and then He becomes revealed. So according to the multitude of people who are revealing the Creator more actively or less actively, there's room for each and every one, a person should not try to be like others, he should discover himself. He should discover his spiritual root, the root of his soul, and to advance towards that and to implement that. We should look at others, we should be jealous of their friends, it's good if we see them as successful, God forbid, I should not cancel anyone, actually I should learn from each and everyone how much each and every one has the work that he does, and in this way, I will also advance together with them in the same boat.
In order to discover the Creator completely, fully, we need all the broken parts from the system of Adam HaRishon to try to connect them in entirely to bring them to the sublime, final unity. Then according to that we discover the intensity the power of the divinity is called the light of Shechina and Rabash, it says here in Degel Machaneh Ephraim, the banner of the camp of Ephraim, that for this reason one should include himself incorporate himself with all the people and all the creations and raise everything to the root, the correction of the Shechina. Sure, we're on the way and our role is truly great because we are an international group that is pushing everyone to correction. Even though now for the time being, we have with us only those who have a desire for it, a deficiency a lack for it, but we will discover yet how much there are many people in whom a deficiency awakens for the end of correction, for the revelation of the Creator, the revelation of divinity and it is all in the connection between us. This world is now going through labor pains, in all the different states that it is going through. It is coming to the birth, the birth of the last generation with the labor pains and with all kinds of problems that are characteristic of it.
3. S. (30:10) What does it mean not to leave for yourself anything in order to incorporate with the souls?
R. From my whole life I should always sort and correct so that I live for myself only whatever I need for correction. Only what I need for correction. It is so much so that each and everything that is extra and you don't really need it in order to reach connection with the friends, connection with humanity, and the end of correction, connection with the Creator, so you should realize that if you have it next to you, it forces you to care for it. So by obliging, it should obligate you to care about connecting with the friends and with the Creator, that's the most important and all the rest is secondary. So don't hold next to you any additional things that do not have that role.
S. When we speak of the many people, is it speaking of people who study, or the world in general?
R. We will talk about that also, but it's with respect to us right now, here it talks only about those people who are in their will to receive which is already aimed towards the revelation of the Creator.
4. S. (32:40) What should we preserve in terms of our necessity in order to connect because if we talk about our physical life, the work, what principle do we need to work with in order to understand what's necessary and what's luxury?
R. You scrutinize all of that through your thoughts, I cannot say but with everything you do you need to see in it necessary things and secondary things. They help you keep that necessity and things that are not quite needed but rather they actually hide from you the most important things. Therefore there's room for everything but you have to sort it out, you have to sort things according to their importance in the attainment of the goal and according to their importance in your eyes you can see what state you are in, ascent or descent and in this way you can advance.
S. But does it apply to work where I am making money in order to relatively just live or I can take a job or I can make two or three times more do I need to consider it a redundant or unnecessary thing?
R. I don't know it depends on you, I cannot determine it. You see, it used to be that a person would have one coat so he would put a nail in the wall and he would hang that garment on it and that's it, he didn't have more. There are even such clothes in which one would go to sleep and he would wear the same clothes in the middle of the day. People didn't have many clothes, it was very expensive. They would pass it on from the grandmother to the granddaughter and nowadays when you go into an apartment, you go into a separate room just for clothes. The clothes become so important that they have their own room and there you have a museum. So this is how we are living today.
S. I've been with you more than 10 years and for me you are an important guy that I saw as you're going through your path, you changed your life, you had a successful business, at some point that change came. Was that about cutting off what is not necessary?
R. I don't want to talk about it because I don't want to give you an example that you will copy like monkeys and what I did is unrelated. I don't want to cause you to make such actions. Until the study itself will arrange our lives we cannot make any changes in our corporeal life, is that clear? It's even better if you ask your wife. You decide on your study in the wisdom of Kabbalah and let her determine your family life, your ordinary life and one should not interfere with the other, that's the best, that's it.
5. S. (37:15) You said one should try to piece together all the shattering in the Adam HaRishon system, is it action or prayer that we need to do more to unite the pieces?
R. That's exactly our entire work to piece together the pieces of Adam HaRishon that are in all of nature still, vegetative and speaking. Most of the work I need to do in the speaking degree and across all of humanity because we are in the stages of the last generation, that's what's becoming apparent. Hence, this process which started, I think about two hundred years ago, and is now becoming more and more practical, more active, we need to be especially concerned with the connection between people and between us most of all. It is certain that all of humanity, through various good actions and less than good actions, will advance towards that, we will see it and we'll see it shortly even now. All the actions, everything that's happening to humanity is in order to bring them closer to one another, pleasantly or unpleasantly nevertheless, it's about connection and coming closer.
6. S. (39:16) When we from the multitude of people will be incorporated into a single root, will we feel it in our heart inside of us or will we discover it outside of us?
R. Inside of us, look what's the difference between a small baby let's say a 1-year-old baby toddler and a grown up? The difference is that a toddler is not integrated with his environment. He was inside of his mother, he was born, he came out of his mother, and now he is gradually starting to get to know his environment. The 30- or 40-year-old grown-up knows the environment connects with the environment, he is in the give-and-take relationship with it, that's a big difference. Also in our world we don't have any difference between people except for how they are connected with their society according to their inner nature and according to the society they are in. We have to see the same in spirituality, it is the same. Even in spirituality, we come closer according to our recognition of the environment, our connection with the environment. There's no other way when we develop and when we grow up according to our height, our weight, our development is according to how much we understand the environment and we get to know it and how much we are able to work with it mutually.
7. S. (41:40) When we have a strong physical desire for something that we don't want to let go of and we feel the pleasure, even in the thought of it, does it help to raise this for a correction as part of our work in the general direction of the vessel?
R. We need to perform a different action, I need to see what I want to attain, the end of the act is in the initial thought, the thought should be in the beginning and then accordingly I check myself, is it worthwhile to do this action or not. Otherwise it's better to sit and do nothing.
8. S. (42:37) When we talk to you about coming closer and incorporating mutually, what is the connection if there is one with empathy? Maybe here we can use different words if that won't confuse us especially when we talk with other people?
R. We do not treat the world with any special feelings or emotions and we shouldn't also present them those feelings but only inside the group and towards the world we should treat the world, we should relate to it in a normal way. They should see in us good people who don't want to cause any harm to the world but neutral, neither good nor bad, we don't want to stand out in any way. They should let us do the work that we need to do. Our work for the time being is internal in each and every one and external work is only in the group. With the general public we are only disseminating the method of correction, why we are going through such states in humanity, and where is it pushing us, where is it pulling us? How are we able to make our development a little easier as we go above our desire?
9. S. (44:36) He writes here in this excerpt that I have to bring myself, include myself with them, incorporate myself with them and they with him and to connect with the entire soul, so what does it mean that we all incorporate in the Creator?
R. But how will I connect with them if I'm not incorporated in them, I need to know who they are, what are their qualities, desires, expectations. I want to be incorporated in them as if I am entering Ibur like they are in me. This power that I acquire, that they are in me, their desires, their thoughts, work in me. Then I'll be able to connect with them, otherwise with what can I connect with them, my ego? I need to clothe myself inside of their nature, their goals, and then I'm able to connect with them otherwise it will be coercion. We need to connect with each and every one according to the desires, according to the expectations of a person. So he would feel that I want to help him, I'm not speaking about it but he should feel that we are in this together, this is the meaning of a friend, a connection.
10. S. (46:29) According to what, can I know what is primary and secondary in the connection between us in our work?
R. It's a question. It's hard for us to scrutinize all of those things because we cannot weigh those things relative to the goal. What's more important, what's less important? But for that we were given a vessel which is not merely me and a friend but many friends. If towards these many friends with whom we share a common goal and we constantly scrutinize it, if in general I subjugate before them, I am already in the correct place of subjugation, and in the correct direction that they set for me. So I am in a boat and I'm willing to take this boat wherever it is going. I annul towards the friends in my eyes it means to annul before the Creator because there is nothing in my world that is closer to the Creator other than the friends. The way they are connected is the place from which I can acquire the Creator and connect to him and advance.
S. How can I calibrate myself towards the right annulment before the friends?
R. Try it and then we'll talk, first try, I'm tired of just the same words.
11. S. (48:21) What is the correction of Divinity, Shechina?
R. The correction of Shechina is the correction between the shattered parts into one integral part called the corrected soul of Adam HaRishon and each one of us is one of the cells in that soul. But when they connect together each one needs to be incorporated with everyone else, meaning everyone comes to a state where he feels what is happening inside of this connected heart, and in this way, we reveal the inner force of the heart which is the Creator. There's the heart and there's the inner force that enlivens it, that gives it the power to contract and to expand. That's our work. That's what we should do and that's how it will be and there are many things there. We will learn later how even in our heart there are degrees of activating the heart. Even the matter of the heart, it has a quality of contracting and carrying electricity, it's very interesting.
12. S. (50:16) It turns out that there are two kinds of work, on the one hand I should be under the influence of the environment, in order to take upon myself their desires, on the other hand those same desires that belong to me. I need to seemingly cleanse them off myself and make room for the foreign desires?
R. It all depends on the importance to incorporate in the group means to take the authority of the group only. That's it. It's happening slowly. I see it in the groups that gradually the more people are in contact between each other, they learn together, this is happening gradually, we're starting to see that I do not exist by myself alone. None of us. An individual has no place in spirituality only to the extent that he has connection with the group, even the smallest degree, accordingly he can exist. Meaning, it turns out that he enters spirituality according to that degree otherwise, no. Spirituality is a system of the connection between us, very simple.
S. You bring such an example like a mother who relates to her baby, somebody tells her about the problems of some other child, who cares about those problems of the other child. We also, with our desires, should perform such a process so that whatever my desires, I need to leave them aside?
R. If we will perform the correct actions in coming between us all the other things will take place in us naturally. Where did Rabash and Baal HaSulam find out about those things, from doing and then bringing to the world everything that's going on, that has been happening, no one told them about those things rather, from your actions we shall know you.
13. S. (52:51) What does it mean to include myself in others, what does it mean to incorporate others in you, how to do it, how is it done through thought?
R. It's done through thought and it's done in the heart. We must feel all my friends, and together we all go up to the system of Adam HaRishon and it's not for nothing that the upper force has brought us closer together, because we belong according to our structure of our soul, we belong to one another. We belong. There's nothing you can do about it. That's why I like it or not we must connect and we shouldn't belittle this or otherwise we will not realize the opportunity the Creator is giving us. The fact that we are in contact, there's no coincidence in nature but rather everything is coming about through the inner force that arranges us, connects us and gives us opportunities to come consciously, in our participation, to the connection between us, the end of connection between us. So we should do it, it's worthwhile. When we feel that we are not so suitable or we don't fit, it's not important, that's exactly how it needs to be. The system is made up of opposite parts, plus and minus, that's how it is, otherwise there is no creature unless it includes all the other two opposing parts, what part? You can say one part on its own without an opposition is the Creator, meaning, in order to reveal his actions He had to create the evil inclination. Then between him and the evil inclination all of creation exists.
14. S. (55:10) You mentioned that we need to keep the good that we achieved up on the bad and by that we keep the corrections. What does it mean to keep the good that we have achieved and what does it mean to keep the corrections?
R. The same measure that we have the same knowledge, the same closeness, we reach and we have to maintain, we have to try to protect it and not fall from it. That's the one thing and the other thing is we have to constantly ensure that our connection is more and more powerful, wide, multifaceted.
15. S. (55:59) How can we calculate correctly in terms of are bestowal in the ten?
R. We need to imagine a good state that we have to reach as one man and one heart. How can we imagine one heart for everyone? That heart is not our physical heart but a spiritual heart in which the Creator dwells, and he feels it and desires the organs of the heart, our desires to bestow to him. Then our spiritual heart, which we discuss, includes our desires to bestow which connect together and the Creator who enlivens our actions from within, He is the result of our efforts on the outside.
16. S. (57:05) On what depends on the correction, from the ten or the multitude of people?
R. The correction depends on the ten. That can be in one ten the only ten that exists in the world but if it is a ten, the correction depends on the ten. But as it is written, “In the multitude of people is the glory of the King.” It's much easier for us to perform corrections if there are many, many tens and everyone wants the same goal, they can connect and awaken one another. In this way we wish to advance. So although the corrections can take place in one ten, we see that from the onset we have the seemingly Adam and Chavah, Adam and Eve, plus and minus. It's revealed between two people and then between more and more people and ultimately, we come to 6, 7, 8 billion people. I don't know exactly how many because we're getting confused. Let's say a billion people and we need to try and see ourselves as belonging to one upper force where we connect, where we come to correction in this world.
17. S. (59:01) What does each one of us in the soul give to the general system?
R. Each one of us can’t add to themself and to others anything but awakening. An awakening, yearning, an awakening towards connection which is where our correction is. To return to the system of Adam HaRishon, the corrected system.
Excerpt 3 (01:00:20)
18. R. (01:01:34) Look what he writes Maor VaShemesh, He says, the essence of the assembly, and not only the assembly in general, is for everyone to try to unite with the friend and hear from him about his spiritual work, not about his own spiritual personal work. We typically don't speak about those things, a person should not disclose the inner workings of his heart but nevertheless what it is written, I read something there I heard something else, that's okay. For that we are incorporated in one another we begin to appreciate one another more and more. We develop envy towards one another. Envy, lust and honor take a person out of this world and raise us to a higher degree so in this way we advance.
19. S. (01:02:48) By which power can one incorporate with the others?
R. In what does a person see he's dependent on others?
S. No, by what force is one rewarded to see he's actually incorporated with others?
R. If he is in a group and as a result of envy, lust and honor he doesn't want to move away from the group because it harms his ego, this will advance him a bit more towards connection with the group. When he is with them, he begins to be incorporated in them, and to listen to them. It's possible that he belongs to them and it's also possible that he doesn't belong to them completely, that they develop in different ways. He is moving in one direction and they're moving in another direction, so then it turns out that after a while the person leaves the group but if he surrenders, he tries to listen, then he advances. We have no other way to advance towards the purpose of creation but to incorporate ourselves, connect with and surrender to the group. Ultimately, before the entire vessel of Adam HaRishon, all the souls really, we have to enter that and be a part of that. In spirituality, to be in them doesn't mean to be above them or that I determine, that I apply pressure or I conquer them, rather how much I can care for their development, how much I become a conduit of the Upper Light to them, to the connection to the Creator through me to them, and I try to do it with everything I’ve got. This is my correction, this is my true state.
20. S. (01:05:18) According to what is a person measured on the path, in order to be favored by the Creator?
R. According to his connection with others because by that he is building a place for the revelation of the Creator, and this means that he hopes to give contentment to the Creator. Contentment to the Creator, delighting the Creator is according to how capable he is or how much he’s received permission to reveal himself to the lower one. So a person that connects the others, this person delights the Creator the most. He himself does not care about his state about his degree, he might even have nothing, no spiritual degree whatsoever, but from his state he is able to connect the other so the Creator will truly be delighted in them and their connection, and it's enough for him. This is the true tendency of a person, for him to be a zero and to raise his friends in connection to the Creator.
21. S. (01:06:46) A person is not allowed to reveal the secrets of his heart. What are the secrets of his heart? How do I know that this is something that I should not disclose, reveal?
R. Simply put, if we are talking amongst ourselves, we should speak about spirituality using the words we read in the articles. And not for a person to speak from within his heart, because we are still corrupt and we could easily confuse the friends and deviate them from the path. God forbid this will harm us and in return as well. So if we connect, we connect, we talk about what we have read, what we have heard about spiritual work from the sources
S. And if I don't feel what he says, is it better to simply not to talk?
R. You can talk using very general words, how important it is to connect, to yearn, when do we study, what do we study, but not that you are like in the speech from yourself. This you can do only with people that are beginners on this path, they forget quickly, and they are impressed with all these general words.
22. S. (01:08:38) Is the right state the one where I don’t think about myself at all but pray for everyone, do whatever I can do to serve my friends, even though sometimes it becomes mechanical and my heart does not fluctuate emotionally? Is my right state one where I don't think about myself at all but to pray for everyone and to do what I can to serve my friends, even if sometimes this work becomes mechanical and my heart does not fluctuate emotionally?
R. Yes, it is correct work, because many actions we need to do in the group, we do them mechanically. Also, in our studies I come to the lesson, I don't have a desire but I'm accustomed to coming, I'm used to doing it, and if I miss it, I will feel bad throughout the day; that's why I come to the lesson. I call the friends and I am with them, because I am ashamed for them to see me this way. I don't feel comfortable for them to talk about me in this way. We have all kinds of states that we do not want to go through but we must and it's not too bad, this is our nature after all. Let's try to keep it as it is written, first by coercion and then by desire.
23. S. (01:11:11) Regarding not disclosing the secrets of one’s heart, if we say, let's put a prayer together and we should somehow bring the words to the outside so that the friends can hear us. How does the prohibition, how does we relate to the prohibition when we compose a common prayer?
R. In our prayer, let's say we wish to write a common prayer, we nevertheless use general words there, not personal words from each individual. Everyone wants to reach a correction, everyone understands that we have to do it through the connection, everyone understands their work. They're unable to do it, only the Creator can bring us together. Everyone understands that if we don't ask, we won't receive the correct form of connection, and then the Creator will not be able to reveal himself, and we will remain disconnected from the world of truth, and so on and so forth. Meaning, these general things we all know, and there are many other things we can write and it's accepted by us, we heard it many times. We talked about it, so this doesn't really disclose the thoughts, the desires, the expectations, the goals of each and every friend. In truth, in spirituality we all share the same desires and expectations and goals. There is not so much to hide here but we're talking about the state a person is in, at this moment in time. So this, I have to conceal, I have to keep this from the friends; not that I am erupting in some anger or that I don't know what to do with myself that I am about to surrender, those things I have to keep to myself, but general things it's good to be incorporated in them and to turn to the Creator. So there is a general prayer from the ten, and there is an individual personal prayer, and a personal prayer comes from within the heart. A person cannot hold himself. The general prayer is there and it comes out within the group and it shows itself through these words.
24. S. (01:14:23) What should everyone make efforts to do so their TEN will for the first time give containment to the Creator?
R. The Creator doesn't have a greater contentment than when the created beings correct the vessels of Adam HaRishon, there is nothing greater. This is after all everything there is, except that in this doing of reconnecting the vessel of Adam HaRishon, there are many proceeding actions. They have to study, they have to reach the Tens, they need to know how to advance in the structure of the tens, what exactly they are correcting through their intentions or through deeds and so on and so forth but this comes along the way.
25. S. (01:15:33) How to prepare every day more and more for the Congress, so that each one of us will be in such a yearning and a feeling that this is the most important congress ever?
R. The next convention is always the most important relative to the previous convention. First, because we are growing constantly, and also out of us growing, we choose the name of the convention, the topic of the convention, the lessons, the most important things that are most relevant to us now. Therefore, the convention is important, there is no question about it. The convention is also important because it talks solely about connection. This is what is important to the world and also what is important to the Creator. According to all the resources there's nothing more than this. This is the correction of the vessel of Adam HaRishon. What we attain, we only attain out of us bringing ourselves back to connection and the degrees of connection are the degrees of advancement, of spiritual advancement of ours, so this is what we need to actually scrutinize, think and understand that here we really need in our effort to enter connection in a way that we need to feel the essence of the connection. It is like in every device you have a way to operate it, and to add more and more and then you start to feel that it is responding and in truth it is responding right from the first moment that you started working with it. But we do not feel it, rather we feel it after a certain degree in which begins to show its actions according to our sensations, and we are not that sensitive. Therefore, to feel the group operating as one man, that is already advancement. Let’s hope that we will start to feel. Each group, every person in his group, and all of us together in the impression that takes place between the groups. There is great power in this, in that it defines and amplifies the power of each and every group. I really hope that during this convention, I will come to some very special degree that I did not succeed with prior to that. I'm telling you seriously, it is important for me, this convention is very important for me, as I intend to come in it to a greater intensity of connection through all the means of the Creator.
S. (01:18:41) I heard that there will be a lot of new people in the Congress. How should we relate to them? We're not sitting together, we are all in windows?
R. Everyone is physically in one group, everyone, each behind his screen, so there is no problem here. How do we relate the way to the new ones? I do not relate to the new ones or to the veterans, I relate to my students because in our World Kli, in this big vessel, our attitude should be equal to everyone. There is no special relation to those who are entering or to those who have been here for longer. It is just like you see now, simple and even more than that.
S. (01:19:36) Yes, but they don't understand the material so well?
R. No, there is no such thing as they do not understand the subject matter. The material is very simple, it is that each one of us can't understand it with his heart so it is hard to understand, because we're talking about the connection so this depends on the effort that a person puts forth. Certainly, you cannot compare someone who's been engaging in this for ten or twenty years already to those who have been coming for just a few months. There's nothing you can do about that, you cannot explain it with words the way he needs to feel. Feeling comes after many actions where the heart is in all kinds of stages and from that the heart begins to discover its sensitivity, that is the whole point. How do we build devices, instruments that are more and more sensitive to microscopes or telescopes or electronics? It is only by us working more and more with the material, and the material can differentiate between slighter differences and changes that takes place in it. Also, we are now in the light of Ein Sof, but we do not feel it yet.
S. (01:21:11) Can we make a preparation for those new ones especially? Can we do something for them? Can we prepare them? Can we do such a thing?
R. I don't think that there's much to work with, because the thing is that there is also an emotional thing, and the emotional thing cannot be developed in the intellect but rather what the intellect doesn't do, time does. Why time in place of intellect? Because our desires change with time and are incorporated in. This is how we begin to be more complex and from that complexity we feel what is it in us. There is nothing to do but to advance in the general way with everyone. Don't worry everything will be okay.
26. S. (01:22:21) If the intensity of the prayer depends on the connection, is the most important stage, the prayer before the prayer, the prayer before the beginning of the connection?
R. Do whatever you want and you will see from the experience it doesn't go by commands.
27. S. (01:22:52) Why do we need many people and it is not one person to work with?
R. One person would not feel anything.
S. I mean before one person, why do we need that 10 and not one friend?
R. How can he make up things that are opposite him, there needs to be a certain form, a mold in him. I and someone, against that mold of Creator and creature.
S. Why not one person to work with but instead a whole ten?
R. That we learn from the expansion of the upper light upon us that in order to reach from the bestowal of the Creator to the reception of the creature, the upper light which operates on the desire, it itself builds the desire, which is made up of all these the discernments, these degrees from Keter to Malchut. It is impossible to do it any other way. It is not that someone wants and it is done, it's just like in nature everything develops out of necessity. There is but one thing, there is one and the Creator meaning bestowal and something that is different that is differentiated from bestowal that he wants to be something outside of him and this is how everything is made up of. Just like I once said, there is a certain approach in mathematics. I think it's from a scientist called Lando, a German scientist and he wrote it in such a way that all of his mathematics came out of the fact that there's a zero and something that’s besides the zero and then from that, he begins to extrapolate how these things work out.
S. The ten is like something very diverse. It's a zero, a two, a seven and there are a lot of things and it's not only just a zero?
R. All in all it is the force of the reception and the force of bestowal all together. To receive the force of reception and the force of bestowal to be connected to one another in a direct and indirect way, we need for there to be eight Sefirot in between them. Bestowal is Keter, reception is Malchut and between them are eight additional Sefirot. Why? Learn and you will see that’s how it needs to be. It’s not that it’s done because someone wanted to, there's no such thing in nature in science. Everything develops only from the desire to receive, the one desire to receive as the Creator wanted for there to be something besides Him, the created being, the creature. What does the creature's quality need to be? To receive, and that micro measure, I don't know any other way to express it, but this thing that he did is called existence from absence, this absence that began the existence, then from that everything developed.
28. S. (01:26:32) I do not have a question I just wanted to say I think this is going to be a very special Congress and God bless Bnei Baruch.
R. L’chaim.
29. S. (01:27:05) We are talking a lot about pushing the friends to their advancement. On the other hand we cannot put pressure, where is the border between them, how do you truly scrutinize it if it is from an egoistic desire to control?
R. The answer is simple, to push the friends towards advancement is only by example, example. By the way, also in regard to the children and regards to the whole world. Don't push, don’t do anything. Give an example, whoever receives it will receive it. As much as they received, they will receive and there is nothing you can do about that. We just need to give an example, each towards the friends and also to be responsible, that all that I do, I want it or I don't want it, that is already an example for everyone. Then I need to be responsible for how I appear to how I am observed and received by the environment.
30. S. (01:28:24) What does it mean a person should not open the consciousness of his heart, is this only spiritually or psychology?
R. That I do not know and I don't want anything to do with psychology and I don't want to hear about that. We are only talking about it in the spiritual manner. All the psychology and all the psychiatry and what else you are going to give me, that has nothing to do with us. We are engaging in the wisdom of Kabbalah, I'm not disregarding anything, let them be in what they are. I belong to the wisdom of Kabbalah only. Not psychologists, not psychiatrists and not philosophers. I don't accept it or receive it and I have no connection with them and also when it comes to discussions or anything else.
31. S. (01:29:14) What does it mean that a person should not open the inner parts of his heart, is it the same thing with men and women?
R. Yes, both for men and for women, that which is inside in the inner of the heart, as much as one yearns for the Creator he should not share. Because in that there could be the grip of the external ones and that would be harmful. It’s best to do what the Kabbalists write for us, just like Rabash recommends.
Reading excerpt #4 (01:30:15) RABASH, Article No. 8 (1985), "Make for Yourself a Rav and Buy Yourself a Friend – 2" - “Those people agreed to unite into a single group.”
32. R. (01:31:39) What’s important here is we understand the necessity of work in love of others. Therefore each will be willing to give great concessions for the benefit of others. The most important thing is to be together and then to the extent that in which I can nullify myself towards connection and rejoice in that and I do it with joy. This becomes a law for me to the extent in which I can nullify myself towards connection. By that in which I advanced in spirituality until I become a zero and then in that I already compare myself with the Creator .
Reading excerpt #5 (01:32:43) Rabash Article 6 “Love of Friends - 2” - “By each joining the society and annulling…”
33. S. (01:33:56) Could you explain the difference between annulment incorporation concession?
R. You do not feel that? Concession is that which I do not nullify myself, I simply cancel my opinion in a certain state relative to the opinion of the friend that is a concession. Who is more and who is less, who is before and it was after, that is prior to annulment. I do not cancel or annul my opinion, I just put my opinion less than the opinion of the friend, that’s concession. Annulment is where I annul my reason, my opinion and it could be that I don’t have any more and it could be that, besides that, I could accept the opinion of the friend or the reason of the friend.
S. Incorporation?
R. Incorporation is a completely different thing. We're not talking about who nullifies himself towards the other but rather we examine ourselves to the extent in which we need to work and can work together. Together not by canceling one another but rather ascribing one to the other in adding one to the other. There are such states where we see there's room for all these three.
S. Connection?
R. Connection is the highest degree as by both, by annulment concession and incorporation we reach connection and above connection there is Dvekut adhesion, the highest degree of connection.