Morning Lesson September 15, 2022, Transcription
Transcription is made from simultaneous translation which leaves a possibility for differences in the audio
Part 1:
Purifying the Heart - Selected Excerpts from the sources. #14
1. Rav’s Introduction: Yes, purifying the heart is our work. Besides the heart we have nothing to do only to purify it and that's all we need to do. The heart is called all of our desires, all of man is the heart, hence purifying a person from intentions in order to receive from the Sitra Achra, the other side, the evil inclination no matter what you call it, that's our goal. It is for that we live in this world and these conditions especially those who have an inclination towards purifying the heart to come closer to the Creator, by their heart resembling the Creator. Hence those who feel that they must clean their heart and purify it are called “men of heart”, and it's them specifically who are drawn to the Wisdom of Kabbalah and the correction of the world. That's what a person has to do in this world, to purify the heart.
Excerpt 14 (02:03) “He who comes to purify is aided...”
2. R. (03:08) Yes, meaning a person needs to see the extent in which if he really wants to purify himself he needs to put forth great efforts an investment which is not simple, devote much time to it and only then he can hope for success; success in nearing to the Creator according to bestowal he will be able to understand and feel Him in his senses, and come closer that way until he enters connection and embrace until he comes to equivalence.
3. S. (04:04) What does it mean to come to defile?
R. To come to defile, the thing is that a person who studies the wisdom of Kabbalah and wants to come close to Kabbalah has the fear of entering thoughts and desires of the Klipa, the shell, and that's called that he is coming to be defiled. It's not like a person on the street who has no interest this way or that way he's simply in the degree of animal, in the degree of the beast; that's not a derogatory name it's just a degree whereas one who begins to come closer to the Creator he’s in danger of being both in order to receive an order to bestow, he's in multiple states and he can remain in one of those states and therefore in order to shake him and to help him emerge from that, he receives each time of assistance from above where once it seemed that he is defiled and once he seems that he can rise and be pure, and this is how we advance.
4. S. (05:51) How do I choose? It's written here about the choice: how do I choose whether I need to defile or…?
R. Once again by the means, the means are the group, other than the group we don't have any more beneficial and big means or opportunity. If in the group I start everyday by thinking that I need to come closer to the Creator and come closer to the Creator I need by annulling myself before the friends just as Rabash writes in his social writings, then I in such a way try to erect myself and each time come closer. I have no choice; the means are a very simple means “from the love of the created beings to the love of the Creator”.
5. S. (07:03) He says that whoever comes to defile it is open for him and he doesn't need assistance, what does it mean open?
R. That he has the possibility. He has the possibility to invest forces in the connection with the group and then with the Creator, that’s called “that is open up for him”. He is not pushed towards it but rather he is given a condition; that if you want then please it's to your service whereas one who comes to defile has the whole world.
6. S. (07:51) How does a person make a choice? What does it mean to make a choice? I am constantly in order to receive everything that I do, and we talked about that, so what does it mean that we make a choice? What do I choose?
R. You choose and it's true that according to your desires in your nature you feel like only doing something in order to receive, so what am I trying to say, that we need to understand that a person is given an opportunity; the opportunities that are given, are opportunities that repeat themselves each time. As it’s written “each time a person needs to see himself half as a righteous and half as a wicked”, and then accordingly he is constantly seemingly in choice. In this way we need to try each time to be adhered more and more to the group because we don't have a diagnosis, ability, or possibility how to correctly choose the good, but only in the ten. No matter what you say you're uncertain and you also don't have anything spiritual in your hands by which you can catch him and be connected to him. Whereas if you want to constantly be closer to the ten, as much as they appear to you as simple people or friends and you do not do any calculations with them, this is actually given to you so that you will choose this and lower yourself even lower then you see them, and integrate in them; we're not on the degree where Rabbi Yosi Ben Kisma who could do it towards his little students, but at least towards our friends we can, and we must do it this way, this is actually the most important help the Creator gave us and for this He shattered the vessel of Adam HaRishon: Where there was a corrected whole Soul and the Creator shattered it in order for us back from our point, our soul, to erect back this Soul and connect to it and in this way to perform acts of correction of the Creator.
7. S. (11:24) Sometimes we can't see the help from above when we perform a mutual effort in the ten, do we need to continue, just to continue?
R. Yes. Usually we don't have many possibilities. The most simple possibility, not so simple but it's real and straight is to see the group before us as a goal towards which we need to adhere; to nullify ourselves to adhere to the group and truly and close our eyes and in such a way to cancel ourselves. This is actually the first action and the obligatory one, after that there are other questions and corrections which we also do in the group, but the actions are already much more complex.
Excerpt 15 (13:00) “He who comes to purify…” Twice
8. R. (14:23) Meaning, we need to try in any given state to try and reach the deficiency, the one in which we need an assistance, and we're asking the Creator through the group as we turn to Him to give us the assistance and what will He give us assistance by connecting between us and then we'll be able to, in one whole Kli of ours, the connect to ten; in this way we will be able to be connected with Him, receive His qualities and resemble Him. That's called “one who comes to purify is aided”, in which we need to constantly demand each of the friends on his behalf and everyone understands that we are in this work together, each from his soul. And then it turns out that we are helping one another and in this way also “one will help his friend”. The main thing is the common force which we establish between us and then the Creator answers us; only in such a state He is capable of putting together if we can call it that, the vessel of the soul.
9. S. (16:13) We heard you saying: keeping your thoughts on your friend inside it's not good, it's better that it comes out and be scrutinized and corrected. How to understand this and especially the part of correcting it?
R. We need to understand that our thoughts operate like words or movements, bodily movements. We need to give them that validity. Where we need to help one another, meaning is that we give the possibility to show the friend what I think, so in my external actions he will see what I am thinking. After we move to higher up degrees; we will then work in concealment, as it is written about the students of Rabbi Kotz that they specifically did such actions in order to conceal themselves. We are not yet in that; we are impressed by the externality of each and every one therefore it's worthwhile for us to give a good example to one another to the extent which I invest, I learn, I ask, in direct examples. That is how we learn to be impressed by one another.
10. S. (18:38) It says if a person wants to defile the whole world is open to him, what is the Tumaa in the spiritual work?
R. Tumaa in spiritual work is where the person’s intention is to use what he's about to invest is to attain for his own benefit, that's it. Simple things, to observe it is not so simple but…
S. …what is Tumaa in spiritual work?
R. Tumaa, impurity in spiritual work is when a person thinks that the result of his work will help him and not the others.
11. S. (20:08) “He who comes to purify is aided” contains within it a request or are there several degrees that he comes to ask…?
R. All the coming to correction must end in a clear request of, what do I want? Of course it's not easy to get there where a person knows what he wants and how to ask? But nevertheless he needs to know that the request should be clear: he needs to open his heart, he needs to try and connect his heart with the heart of the friends, he needs to scrutinize what their desired goals are and the one that can be actualized. It is not synced with one another; the desirable and how to get to it, and he needs to scrutinize it and many more along the way. So, if a person connects himself to his friends and tries to build from everyone; one question, one desire, one inclination, one appeal, then it's called that “they are building a force that knocks on the Kings Gates” and that's how they will advance. They will see that the king is actually helping them, with all kinds of hints and actions. That's how it needs to be.
12. S. (22:11) How to correctly understand the word ‘demand’, demand from one another and together demand from the Creator?
R. It means that I am showing the friends and the Creator that without participation, without closing the connection between us, we won't succeed. I show this to them and then I ask for the correct response, that we will connect even more between us; and when we will enter between us into all kinds of states and cases, where we close all our circles in a complete way, then in such a way we will be able to, from this happening to us to turn to the creator also in a complete manner, so He won't be able to refuse.
S. To demand through example, yes?
R. You continue to listen.
S. In the excerpt it says that a person cannot purify but on the other hand he wants to purify, so what to do if I discover that at the most crucial moment I do not want to purify nor ask?
R. If in the case which you really thought that you could ask for the corrections and then you're not asking, but you feel like running away; that's the Creator specifically showing you where you are in “one who comes to purify” but are you coming to purify or not? and here you need to really examine whether you come to purify or you come to defile? And you are on a seam, between the two, and how can you aim it to the side of good and receive assistance that the difference between the good and bad side, not successful: By you once more connecting to the group and through it you ask and you have some kind of backing and some kind of justification of why you're asking. That you're asking for them, for the whole group and there in the group you can say, “in the group my heart is”, meaning “I dwell amongst my people”. If you try to feel it that way and to ask for that then you receive assistance. Then, you feel that you are in the center of the group at least somewhat and there you have some kind of closeness to the Creator.
13. S. (26:10) “The one who comes to purify is aided” how can we better understand the difference between come and go and to walk?
R. Look, It's safest if we are in the group. And if we come closer to one another even if we don't want, specifically because we don't want and we're coming closer, we have the correct discernment of what we're doing and where we are? And, here a person should not despair but rather they should all be new in your eyes every day; and every day he’ll start a new degree and sees himself as if he didn't begin yesterday and didn't finish anything but if he continues in it seemingly it's like a new day, he was just born. In this way he's truly examining himself, how he is included in the group and how much he thinks of the friends and how much the friends understand him, and how much they come closer to one another despite the fact that it appears to him that it's going in an opposite direction; If he connects all those discernments and then see that eventually in all of them they are filled, it’s not that he scrutinizing the situation.
14. S. (28:17) I feel that most of my actions in the ten and what awakens me is that I want to receive something from the ten, so my question is the same question on the way is corrected or is it always stays in the intention to receive?
R. Once they show you're in an ascent or descent but as long as you're scrutinizing through the states, this is what is important.
15. S. (29:19) Sometimes when you demand something from the friend it comes that the friend is not willing and not ready to give. How do you find the line that you don't push too much?
R. Me seeing before me a friend , I need to explain to myself that I see before me the behavior of the Creator. One of the forms of his behavior towards me, and then if I will.
16. S. (30:50) Can we measure the increase in the progress of purification, as an increased sense of connection and increased the intensity of connection to the ten?
R. No, there's a connection and certainly it's possible to be measured but not when you're at a certain spiritual degree, a higher spiritual degree than you will be able to measure what's happening with you in a relative manner. That’s possible. It's like little children don't know where they are, but the more mature we are, the more learned we become the more we can measure what our state is. and so forth. It demands a general observation and an individual observation.
Excerpt 16 (32:12) “The Kedusha is only present in…”
17. R. (33:22) Yes this is really a very special thing. Even in the worst possible state which also needs to be said that the Creator puts a person into these states of impurity, the Creator is with him and goes with him and cares for him, and only in such a way in which He dwells in them in the midst of their Tuma’a, He teaches them how to exit it and gradually a person emerges it takes a long time, a lot of suffering and strength, and from this impurity he really feels how he wakes up and emerges and this is truly how the greatest Kabbalist talked about this a lot. About their not being a possibility of existing, of being pure prior to you revealing that you are impure and that's how we see this in everything. Therefore it's the advantage of light from darkness and that's how we see this and everything, it takes a long time, a lot of nerves, fears, and anxiety and then until a person defeats his ego, his evil inclination it's all by the reforming light. Then he advances this way through the path of Lord left right ,left right, there's no possibility to lighten in the steps because when he's in the right he has to enter the left and feel the extent which he is emerged in self-love and bad and truly this state is disgusting and he cannot do anything with it and gradually by the friends, the study, he recovers and raises himself and corrects. Thus again, he has ascents, descents and left right. left right. That’s how we advance.
18. S. (36:02) When the work becomes easy in all the states that we go through and the choice becomes challenging and difficult, how can we choose the benefit of others over our own benefit?
R. Only through more connection with friends. You have no other possibility, from oneself you cannot attain a thing additional, anything other than is spiritual, love, bestowal, not anything. Only in connection with others with there's a connection each time is revealed more and more powerfully by it you can defeat the force of evil which each time grows, and this is how you go round after round. The evil grows more, and you discover more connection with the friends and overcome the evil. Then, more evil is revealed, and more connection is revealed. In this way, only in such a way can you defeat evil. These are the exact actions against the shattering that the Creator made against the sin of Adam Ha Rishon and then we correct this sin with all the evil that's been revealed during the time of the shattering, where the whole ego which entered into the desire to receive in order to receive and now this light as seemingly under the authority of the Klipot. We need to give 620 more times forces to revive these forces and raise them to sanctity. to order to bestow.
19. S. (38:23) What can we do in the Ten other than a prayer to support a friend who regularly says that he wants to leave the Ten and every time he participates less and less in the Ten activity and in the lesson and we feel his suffering from this?
R. Of course you need to try and hold him as much as possible, I didn't always have enough strength and patience and even if the teacher says it's worthwhile for you to care for him I couldn't hold it and I ran away from this role because I don't have the nerves for it I didn't have the power I admit, for I needed to take that this friend out of the house before the lesson and bring him to the lesson and truly with coercively with my own force. I couldn't day after day I was truly like half an hour before the lesson, what a struggle to get him out of bed, and so I let go of it and I left it in a not nice way. I admit it, I admit it. It's hard but believe me it's worth it. Those actions are what causes the good correction for your soul to make an effort to carry the friend and you'll understand that it's not the friend it's the Creator who's doing an exercise for you.
20. S. (40:48) The annulment in the Ten is that already a purification process? Or is purification an annulment between two different states?
R. Annulment in the group is already the process of purification and don't think it's an easy thing and why do I have it? It will come gradually and slowly, slowly through many years. You will see how connected you are to these friends and you have a sense and descendants and this and these friends become closer to you and it comes and you start to feel and it's coming not like we usually know the guy's, the groups, the gang, but rather it comes from within where you are starting feel in you that these friends are already starting to be in some internal concept internal force. One that without which if you lose it you won’t know what to do in life, and it's not necessarily apparent on the outside but this is how you will feel it.
This way we are dependent on one another and cannot perform any action if it's not together then to that extent, we will feel that we are coming closer to the implementation of the spiritual degrees. The Creator is then revealed sometimes, as sometimes as one of the friends and sometimes He is revealed as the result of us all and sometimes He awakens us from above and sometimes awakens us and raises us from below. Then when we will begin to see in Him the force, once as a result of our cooperation. This force that draws the group forward there many discernment here. We will continue and discover it; it's all ahead of us now. It's a blessing.
21. S. (43:49) You share in such an emotional way to help a friend that this is the creator that purifies my heart when I help the friend, how do we do this together and how to relate together to a friend that dropped out?
R. It is not immediate, it is not simple but because it depends on changes in each of the members of the group. That is why I cannot say that it comes fast. At least we will start to feel how dependent we are on each other, and we are in some kind of internal connection and connected in these connections. Then slowly from this we will discover that each of us is not only dependent on one another but connected in the necessary matter on one another so I should have between man and Creator there is the friend. A friend connects so it turns out that the friend becomes with force, with a measure a matter in which a Creator is in the less and not an even more. Sometimes we see I am dependent on the friend and the friend is giving me contact with the Creator and without the friend I do not reach the Creator. What is more important, a friend or the Creator? For me, the friend because if I'm not connected to him I will not be able to connect to the Creator, he is the connection point the most important point the closest point to me. Therefore just like it is written it is either friendship or death where I have no choice I must invest all of my effort in the connection with a friend.
22. S. (46:30) You explained that on the path we cannot be impressed from the internality with your friends but only from their externality. from their clothes. I know that there was previously a dress code in Petah Tikva that people were not allowed to come to the listening shorts because it's not serious but now we see a lot of friends sitting in the listening shorts, how do you relate to that?
R. Let's hope we will see let's hear friends from Africa who is sitting almost naked and our study with us this study the wisdom of Kabbalah, it all depends on the dress code like you are saying, of the people that are connected if it is European then dancing with pants are and if it is Indian in this specific attire and friends who are Arabs and so on. I've no problem wearing whatever they have for each and every one in their cultural society. Therefore if your modern European you should be at least with shorts and pants.
23. S. (28:38) When a person feels in the state of impurity how does he understand how he understands that he is in that state and needs to correct it.
R. This is what we're talking about all the time. I don't even know how to answer it, it's a question, a statement that is so broad. A person feels that feel himself of being incapable of being in bestowal in being in connection with a friends of being in the internal body of the lesson to rise above his ego, to be a bit above the friends. It's a problem, we need to work on it. I have nothing to answer here. The main thing is to read our sources. You can even read several times the sources that we are learning, and you will feel that each time you enter you will have more and more scrutiny and your desires and thoughts as much as they respond more to what you are reading.
Excerpt 17 (50:10) “If his own body agrees to the work, it is a sign that he is not walking...”
24. R. (51:03) Try as much as possible to join the forces towards connection. All together after the shattering of the vessel of Adam HaRishon that the Creator did, which is called 'I have created the evil inclination', that is creation which is being revealed, creation Bria comes from the word bar which is outside of sanctity, outside of bestowal and love, attached. Then after that we only have work in connection. The working connection begins from the little desires just like a in our world still vegetative, animal in speaking this is how these the work in these connections takes place where everything comes from the animate then the vegetative than the animals and then the people or the Adam in the person and in this way we are corrected. Therefore we also need in such a way to do our dissemination, where we try to come all the levels but of course we only come to those that have a point in the heart. Those who have a burning heart, and this is how we will care for it we will continue and care, continue and care. Even though we are seeing only the beginning of the results of our work from our dissemination, believe me it is already great and immense work. We will merit seeing our true results from work and we will merit seeing our true results from our efforts. We are the first group that is operating in the framework of the last generation which operates and disseminates the wisdom of Kabbalah to everyone. Therefore anyone who can connect to this, who can be involved in this let them do it.
25. S. (53:41) Is our demand only to the Creator or can we demand something from the teacher or their friends?
R. Of course yes. Of course yes. If you need additional explanations, something is not OK, not clear, just like now we are learning. Always through questions and answers. All our inclination to spirituality and to the revelation to the Creator is all dependent on questions and answers. Therefore there is no problem in this. Ask Scrutinize you can take the friend and clarify it with him demanded together with him and assist one another.
26. S. (54:45) The helplessness that I feel comes from the corporeal state and the steps that you are describing are very far for me. I want to be in those degrees, but I cannot move under the conditions where I am. How do I bridge the gap?
R. Rabash told me about his life where in the evening there was nothing to feed his children. He said my little daughter came to me and said, “Daddy I want to eat.” She was four or 5 years old. She said something, even something we didn't have. He asked her what you want, just to confuse her a little, because there was nothing at home. and she said something and even though it's something we do not have. She said go to sleep and tomorrow we will have. Do you understand the extent to understand how somewhat understand, how that state is horrible. He then worked paving roads; he worked all his life in construction. He would carry to the third, fourth, floors of the building sacks of cement . He had a very difficult life. What am I trying to say? Life is not always easy. The Creator sends each and every one according to the correction of the soul. That is what I can say for sure. Therefore, there are those whose lives are easier and those that have lives that are more difficult and those whose blows are in the financial manner, and those who have a mental level and third one god forbid his relatives are sick and dying and more and more. Meaning that what we have here has many possibilities. The main thing for us to understand is just one thing, that after all the scrutiny you have immersed as you will be in them, there is only one thing that will help you. to adhere again to the group and here with the Creator to the Creator, which in such a manner, in such a blind way you advance towards the goal.
Excerpt 18 (57:58) “Man has no control over his heart, to be able to change the feeling...”
27. R. (58:32) This is actually the only request that we need to eventually turn to the Creator with: you created the evil inclination now purify it. This evil that we attain, in as much as we attain it give us purity, correction. This is what we need to demand and therefore we do not need to say that a person is not to blame that he thinks this way or does this way, you do not need to ask for forgiveness for what a person does because with certainly it is not his actions that he does, he can ask for forgiveness for why he did not ask. This is what Rabash would say to me when I would turn to him and ask him, why didn't you ask? This was his only answer, why didn’t you ask? You have who to turn to, to ask from, ask from the Creator for correction. That is it. Of course as much as you can feel this correction in depth and as much as you feel it in a broad way and as much as you can feel it in the friends that you cannot connect with right now, then certainly your correction, your request for connection will be more powerful and you will merit correction.
Excerpt 19 (1:00:22) “Normally a person has no concern for lack of Dvekut with the Creator…”
28. S. (1:02:00) When Rabash was in that state where he had no food to feed his family, what did he do, what did he ask for in that state, how does a Kabbalist respond correctly in that state?
R. Think and depict yourself in such a state and that will be the answer for you, it will be the answer for you, I have nothing to answer.
29. S. (1:02:47) I'm thinking about the purity of the heart but I'm afraid of the darkness that will come until then. How do I overcome it?
R. Only together, when you look at the friends at first you do not want to see them because they may be showing you a successful example and you yourself see that you are unsuccessful. You hate them, you repulse them, you don't want to accept them, you are fed up and so on and it is truly disgusting, where you see that they are successful, how they are connected and how they are behaving and you are truly in the opposite way but some time passes and you learn a little bit and eventually we feel that we can come closer to them and be connected with them and continue this way. I think we already have the preparation for this in us and to understand that our connection to friends is to the end of all the corrections because the end of correction comes from us at that state where we connected with the friends, at that point, we stop feeling because we truly come to connection therefore the point of connection, isn't, what point of connection? We're not connected, we're now one, that is what awaits us.
30. S. (1:05:09) Now it is a different era, a different period, now everyone has enough to eat and cover the necessity for their family so what can we learn from the example of Rabash?
R. The example of Rabash shows us that the Kabbalists always receive the burdening of the heart or the burdening of the head or the goal or the life and there is something that they have a problem, it is always like that therefore I cannot give such an example because our world even now is before big events, big negative events. We are even already talking about it, all kinds of politicians and economists, we need to be corrected where our life too will become more difficult and this way, each time diminish our demand and this way we will go through everything in peace and the main thing is through corrections, in corrections.
31. S. (1:06:47) In the excerpt we are brought to such a question. what to do to be in dissemination by the resistance and how can the ten help us?
R. Me having to disseminate it’s clear because by that I'm disseminating to the world the method of connection and I bring closer all the people to the Creator. I'm actually not in this in resistance with anything because no one is doing it, no one’s doing it, therefore I do not have here additional people that are doing the same and I against them and we are in some kind of competition with them, no, whoever wants each can aim himself and others into a form that one takes, in that way no one will bother the other, that’s it. We have a special method the most ancient of methods which is connection between human beings which brings them to the upper force from which we emerge and where we need to return to, therefore we'll continue in our dissemination, it’s really a very important part that helps us reach help from above whoever performs stronger dissemination will receive stronger assistance.
S. We have courses of tutors, speakers, we have people who help not just in dissemination but in the ten.
R. Give him another job. It could be that he will be in a different way very successful and in this he cannot. A person will not study where his desire does not desire so if he doesn’t desire deficiency then the others will also fail for him. Give him different work if he really can't.
32. S. (1:09:30) Lately I'm immensely disgusted from human, not only one human not only myself not only others but all of them, and all of the qualities inside the human and all the connections between humans, I am terribly disgusted just looking at this disgusting creepy and lonely creature, I cannot come to a demand for correction for connection for clarification, how can I awaken this? How can I have mercy for human? How can I overcome this hate for human?
R. But that’s what the Creator did He created people in such a way I created the evil inclination and therefore we don’t see the evil inclination in its full capacity, when you will see what it is where it gradually opens up how are worst inclinations it won’t appear as bad as what we will discover because the desire to receive to such an extent is bad that it opens to a person where he begins to discover all his depth, that’s an immense matter, it’s opposite sanctity. Therefore we need to try to the equipped with a system of correct response, it is capable of receiving it and performs this damper, brakes like dampers, and performs an act of damping and also there is in the whole of wisdom Kabbalah like the ten Sefirot of blocking, well it’s written about this. We are yet to get there.
33. S. (01:12:30) A ……. dramatic events in the life of a Kabbalist like with the example of Rabash and we understand it’s different eras, it depends on the speed of development of a person or regardless in the life of a person who is advancing spiritually it’s necessary to go through such dramatic states like an example you mentioned about yourself where you had skin disease and the Rabash told you, you don't understand with correction you are going through. Is there a necessary point or a necessary demand for a person to go through such extreme states, that this is the correction that he's going through.
R. There is no reason why a person has to suffer throughout his life, he must think of course about the most meaningful correction that's possible performing and it’s not through a certain number or depth of pain that are passing through him, but we need to understand that the will to receive, which is suffering, is his correction, that’s his correction, as much as the will to receive suffers, but it’s not that we need to put ourselves into some form of pain or suffering, no it’ not good, it’s best if a person performs this through connection with friends and prayer. We do not need any more than that. We need to bring ourselves back to the corrected ten in which the Creator is revealed, that’s it. Whoever sees before him such a system that when he goes and comes closer to it he’s under a blessing.
S. (01:15:02) Sometimes you hear with the friends in the ten that there's this pressure, sometimes we speak between ourselves that it’s the pressure of the light that it simply presses on your life to such an extent that you see that it’s, you see such situations that where you're lacking food. I just want to ask when this happens how should a person see this as a shortcoming of his development, that he’s not moving, that he's not developing fast enough, that this is why it’s happening to him?
R. No, no we cannot say that because of this this comes because of that that comes, we cannot say that. We are not capable of linking the reason with the results because it passes through the upper world, the general vessel of all of the souls as we cannot say that, that’s not worthwhile for us to tie these things together and to search for answers for our situations no, especially where we are now today in a state where we are coming close to the end of correction. You will see how in the upcoming years the whole world will enter such confusion such connections through illnesses through problems and also through revelations. We cannot discover in that the truth; we don’t yet have the vessels for it
S. We are always emphasizing the connection regardless of what’s happening.
R. Yes, yes because this is the right solution for everything. Connection is the solution for everything opposite the shattering of Adam HaRishon, the Creator broke it and we have to bring it to correction. When we discover how broken we are, and we ask of the Creator that He will establish this vessel once again this is considered that He will establish for us the fallen [translation missing]…
34. S. (01:18:16) How can a person always measure if he is distant or close to the Creator and how can he develop the importance?
R. He doesn't know if he's close or far he cannot measure he has to try all the time to be as close as possible to the friends then as close as possible to the from the center of the friends to the Creator, that he can measure somehow, and that will be correct.
35. S. (01:19:12) It says in excerpt nineteen that when the person cannot tolerate his dirty state, is such a state necessary in order to correct the desire to cleanse it. Do I need to reach such a state that I cannot tolerate it?
R. No you can pray for it that you want to be free to be cleansed of all of your dirt before you reach some certain degrees of impurity. The degrees of impurity and the Ari also explains this to us in the “The of Life” how there are complete worlds of impurity to truly great ones, and we have no necessity to go in there but rather as much as possible to ask correctly even in advance so long as you not to get in there but to be in Kedusha, that is all.
36. S. (01:20:30) Is joy or sadness that comes to a person different from the joy and sadness he gets from the family or things like that, is it the ego that is ultimately suffering, is the difference?
R. You might say so, the difference is certainly with ego on which level is the ego suffering.
37. S. (01:21:23) Out of your example if it’s possible I can ask about it, before we started the work of correction can you call a dramatic state?
R. It’s all very personal individual I can’t say a person checks this according to his own state.
38. S. (01:27:12) What is the constant state when it says one who comes to be purified is aided? What does it mean to come to be purified?
R. Who comes to purify means that I demand that my heart will expand and I will be able to perceive in it to absorb all my friends, this is called he who comes to purify. Purify our hearts means that my will to receive, which is my whole heart, will be able to receive all the friends, we actually receive them we feel them that they’re in my heart and actually in my heart there's nothing besides the friends, and this is how we expand and expand our hearts more and more until all of the souls of all people will be able to be incorporated within my heart. This is what I think should be the end of correction to be as one man in one heart.
39. S. (01:28:30) How can we check if we came to be purified or to defile?
R. That too is again through the connection between the friends. If I want that all of us will become incorporated together then all of us together that is already Kedusha, holiness.
40. S. (01:28:56) What is impurity?
R. Impurity is the will to receive in which I only feel myself and I want to continue feeling only myself and all the rest, the others, I feel them that they do not exist, or they exist in order to serve me.
41. S. (01:29:16) How can I discern between the help that comes from the friend if it comes from their ego or from the Creator?
R. Try to connect with her and you will see. Actually we never see the friends we see ourselves and therefore try to connect with her and you will see how much you're willing to connect or not and under what conditions you are ready.
42. S. (01:29:51) What can we do every moment in order to prevent us from defiling our work in the ten?
R. I need to see the ten that it exists within me that my heart incorporates all of the friends and I don't want anything more besides us growing stronger and connecting so that we are so tight that we all become, I need to depict all of these things all the time together, you will see how much this specifically helps us in our spiritual advancement, nothing besides that, and it takes years and years sometimes dozens of years until we hear it and believe it.
43. S. (01:31:07) What does it mean to clarify the states, can you give an example?
R. To scrutinize the states, that I take each and every state and I try to see it, how much it is for or against, far or close to a state of connection between all of us, and this is how I measure it how I weigh it. I have no other possibility to do anything besides that, it’s simple things so it sounds but they are very hard to implement.
44. S. (01:31:50) If a friend is in a descent can I ask of the Creator to correct in me, this part of me, and this part of the friend that’s in me?
R. That’s not a simple question. When I asked the Creator to correct within me the part of the friend this actually could be a very egoistic question. I don’t want the correction of the friend I want my own correction, and here we have more to scrutinize, it pertains to the incorporation of the souls, we will learn more about. To give it a simple answer I can, try to nevertheless be connected as much as possible with the friend.
45. S. (01:32:57) Why is the Creator not allowed the friend to feel the deficiency of the lack of adhesion with the Creator but only the Creator Himself awakens the person. Why does the Creator want to accustom a person in this approach?
R. A person can never feel lack of adhesion or any lack, the person doesn’t feel anything whatever he feels is the Creator awakening it within him. The Creator really fills him with all these discernments, good ones and bad ones, it all depends only on the Creator as much as He awakens the person and as much as a person is ready to respond correctly to it.
46. S. (01:33:52) Why does the Creator want to accustom a person in this approach? Everything comes from the Creator, why is this important?
R. Because it’s the truth, through that we feel that we depend only on the Creator and that we have no other possibility to be connected with Him. We have to advance towards Him, what do you mean? We have besides this upper force that created us and then broke us and by that He gave us the beginning of our existence that each one feels himself relative to the others for us to cancel this negative connection between us and reach such a positive connection that we will assemble that system called Boreh Creator, come and see, this is our work this is how we reach the correct recognition of reality.
47. S. (01:35:05) Why everyday do we start anew as if we didn't do anything?
R. Because indeed we have nothing to do more, each and every day we have to scrutinize more and more points of connection between us, they always begin seemingly anew, it is as if anew, in each one it starts anew for him, and we cannot compare how a baby gets out of his little bed and how grown-up person gets out from his sleep, the difference is great but we all awaken and get up from sleep from disconnection and this is our work every day we start anew, because I would say that each and every day we are assembling ten new Sefirot in the Partzuf.
48. S. (01:36:24) When a person is immersed in self-love he continues the framework but how can he add to the connection when he feels that every action that he’s doing in the ten it will be in order to receive, this just paralyzes him.
R. I do not know how to answer. I think that it is simply a lack of the right organization of our work. How do we reach the correct organization? How do we establish it, arrange it? This is what we have to do. It’s just like in their own life. I just don't understand. If a person has decided and he as realized that he has to establish his spirituality his connection with others then that’s what he has before him, that’s what he has before him, our life explains this to us better than any teacher, that our life simply has no content, no benefit, and no purpose unless we take the connection between us as a goal and by that we reach our root, the one unique and unified root which is the Creator otherwise our whole life is just a waste.