Morning Lesson September 05, 2021, Transcription
The Creator Is Revealed in the Connection between Us - Selected Excerpts from the Sources, #12
1. Rav’s Introduction: Yes, ultimately, we need to reach a state, a feeling that there is no difference between feeling the vessel which is the connection between us and the light which appears in this vessel. So even though we come to this only at the final correction of the vessel of our relationships, we should already make steps towards it consistently and demand every day to make a connection, to make a step closer each one to the others. We also must each care for everyone at least inside their ten. Meaning what are we doing today, what are we doing next, what else are we doing towards such a connection that can raise us above our personal sensation to a collective sensation and from the collective sensation to the sensation of the Creator. All of it will appear only inside the vessel, meaning in connection between us. That is what we must determine, in the meantime perhaps just mechanically, by necessity in a Corporeal way. But afterwards in a more emotional way and then in a spiritual way. Ultimately, we need to reach a state where we live inside the connection between us and everything else is just something from the outside that we must just do by necessity because we exist in the corporeal world. We do this because we have no other choice and that this is something we have to re-establish every day and with greater clarity and sharpness between us.
This is the only way to reveal the Creator through our connection, through our vessel and correct it step by step. Correct all of creation which is a direct result from our connection. We can also discover how as we come closer to each other and establish the connection between us in a more wholesome way, then the world is changing as well and we will see this changing world in a new way. And the Creator will appear more and more inside that connection that we established and this is essentially our work until we discover all of us as connected and the Creator fulfills us. So, the connection between us is called the field that has been blessed by the Creator and we should also be blessed for the work that we were given in this field and this work is blessed so this is what we need to take care of each and every day. Each person and each ten must determine another step forward each time and everybody must strengthen the friends because nobody can rise to connection and revelation of the Creator which is the force of bestowal and love, unless the person awakens the others and the others awakens him. Thus, we come to this mutual feeling, this is what we should do. Desirably, each 10 will determine some daily tasks of some sort and do it. Then we can discover in these little daily steps how we advance, even without success but with recognition of evil, this is also success, this is how we advance. I really hope that with all the writings that I think everybody should also read on his own when the person is alone, read them more and more. Until you start suddenly to sense the connections that are not immediately obvious, between the words and the lines and between the quotes, because this is like the sewing thread that threads our connection where the Creator is revealed.
2. S. (06:56) You spoke about the light and vessel in the question as small lights and the bigger lights that are small vessels and bigger vessels, what is common to the soul of the ten and the vessels?
R. My soul is the individual vessel, part of the collective vessel, which is the collective soul we have to bring together all our individual vessels into one big collective vessel. According to how we connect these apart even though they are in mutual rejection to each other which is called the ego and then as we try to rise above ourselves, above our ego that is between us, that gives us the ability to discover the quality of bestowal above the quality of reception and find the light in the vessel. The vessel needs to be prepped with restriction, screen and reflected light in the connection between us and ultimately when we do all these corrections then it turns out that we reveal the Creator, the inner light that appears in the corrected vessel according to its measure of correction. That inner light is called the light of the soul, the vessel that is corrected in order to bestow this is called the soul and the general light that is standing by to enter the whole vessel that we are destined to ultimately build from all the broken vessels, this is called the Creator, BoReh, or come and see, this is how we progress.
S. What do we have to crave for to work with the vessel or with the lights?
R. We cannot connect to the light, this is an illusion we only have to work with the vessels to cancel the internal distance between us and come closer to each other as one man with one heart. Meaning with desires that are all aimed at the Creator and the Creator is the connection between us so this way we have to help each other give examples and support to each other and this way we progress.
3. S. (10:04) What is the common feeling that we come to in the ten and can we check if it is common?
R. The feeling we arrive at in the ten, it is the Arvut, that mutual support that I support all the friends with all my strength and accept what I do with them outside of what I do in them, it is just the beast that lives in order to make my connection with the friends. This is what I have to crave for when we begin connecting between us in such an internal fashion, we start to discover what is the upper light that these feelings that the awakens in us, in this longing to support and connect and help each other, this feeling will not be just a simple feeling but it will become the sense of the upper force, the purpose of creation. It will open up for us, this is difficult as there are no words to describe it but it will open up.
S. You gave advice to make small exercises daily to come to this, how can we have such exercises, what exercises?
R. Try to think about what you are missing for connection, of course there are many things and each thing could be big and global, but something that is as a portion for the actual day, something that is a lesson for that day, this could be sufficient for us, let's not try to grasp more than that. If we focus together on a specific thing, we will find something new, it needs to provide us with internal warmth, inner connection and also attainment of how we advance. We will start to discover that our bodies don't exist here, they are only desires and they are also nullifying to the common goal and thus becoming one desire.
4. S. (13:03) The more we delve deeper and deeper into the writings from Rabash, the more we go deeper into these writings, we are constantly bombarded with too much philosophy, imagination. So how should we interpret correctly the readings of these beautiful writings without going too far into imagination or philosophy?
R. If you try each one of you, if you try to extract something practical out of what you read for today and you determine for this day that this is what I should do then you later will see that of course you did not do what you thought. It was done in a different way or even in an opposite way but this is how you learn; this is how we can learn. As we try with our mind and heart to go forward, the main thing for us is to nullify before our ten and this is where we try to make a step forward specifically through nullification and submission to the connection and this is the safest way to take a step forward.
5. S. (15:09) About those small exercises you describe, is it important for the whole ten to decide on it or it should be the responsible people deciding?
R. It is better here it is not the responsible people but each ten has to make a decision it is a different thing the people on duty can offer they can recommend the tens to engage in this and that on the day but it could be in some rotation or someone from the ten, in his turn, can come up with an idea or think about it in advance but what is important is that that has to be some tasks for the day for the whole ten, for each ten and the ten has to be concerned about this, has to try to take care of this.
6. S. (16:24) So it is best if the ten decides instead of people on duty if it is very difficult for the ten to come to decisions as a ten, so what does it do we continue and flows with the lessons?
R. No, the ten has to decide and not just to let go of this. This is a daily task that has to happen in the tens as something that is a clear task that everybody accepts and everybody tries to do as much as possible because of this determines you are making a step for it.
S. So we should not stop until we come to a common decision?
R. Yes, this because ultimately this will determine how we enter into impregnation when we nullify ourselves to each other at that first point and then we enter the impregnation, conception. The first true connection between us meaning to the extent friends nullify to each other in this initial level of coarseness, which is the phase root of root of root of root, this is where we can nullify and we actually move to the Creator and then we become this drop of seed. Is this clear? If it is clear then from here, we need to include how important this task is for us to achieve the connection between us in a daily increasing fashion and everybody who tries, everybody who praises and all of us doing this together working on it until we come to this single drop of seed.
7. S. (18:37) There are moments when we can connect in the ten, how can we notice that this connection that we connected that Creator into it. It doesn't remain a connection like a military unit. How to bring the Creator into this like a drop of semen?
R. If I want to be connected with the friends by nullifying before them then I already make myself a part of this drop of seed, so it is with everybody else our first line of work throughout the whole stage of conception is in self-annulment which we do not understand and we do not know. Only this nullification and then we can come to the time of suckling which means that we have to nullify ourselves on a higher degree when I receive from the upper force the lights that are against my ego in practice. I accept them by nullifying myself before them in a much greater way, much more tangible annulment than what I do now in the initial stage of Ibur (impregnation). This is where the Yenika, suckling is much more difficult this is something that happens gradually and then there is the Mochin which is the adult state after we are born after we go through a time of suckling and we reach infancy then we come to the time of Gadlut, adulthood when we work with our whole great ego that rises up against us as a monster and we have to nullify it completely and even transform it in order to bestow. Now of course we do this all with the help of the upper force that assists us but our work is always in overcoming if we want to replace our nature with the nature of the upper eternal world with from the nature of the created being to the nature of the Creator, there is no other way. The main thing here is perseverance, certainly none of us has the strength or the mind or agreement to this even though you might think that you are a hero and you want it, but you don't really want it, nobody in the world wants it. But everybody will want it because they will suffer such blows, that they will want and this is how we advance. We replace the will to receive with the desire to bestow and this is a very great work. If we do this together in the ten and return to the Creator and we always try to be in contact with Him through our request because we don't stop making this prayer, this request, asking from Him all the time.
If we do this between us and ask from Him then there is no problem, just must not forget about these two means, we connect together and we raise a request to the Creator, this is essentially our whole work. Try not to be distracted, don't do unnecessary, when seemingly I am doing something Baal HaSulam writes about it and the person to do something on his own it is like that son who wants to show to his father that he can fight with the wooden sword and shield maybe we can read that sometime. This is what we need to do, meaning as much as our work is exactly in the direction of the connection between us this is the work and from there we pray to the Creator and then we will always be engaged in how to make a correction, how to direct ourselves to connection between us and from this connection to connect with the Creator. If we only think about these three points: me, the group and the Creator then this is where we can go through the whole path much faster than what we are going through so far.
S. You said persistence, why persistence?
R. Persistence in these actions, specifically persistence in these actions: the connection between us and the connection between us and the Creator and pay attention how much during the day we are not aimed at the connection with the friends but directly to the Creator or directly to your troubles and this is the wrong direction, by this you can only extend your way and make it more suffering.
8. S. (24:57) What can we do during the day when the Creator wakes up in us such desires that throw us out from the direction of moving to the ten and the Creator?
R. If I feel that it is the Creator who is rejecting me then I have to thank Him for that and be happy that He gives me an opportunity to turn to Him and that He wants me to turn to Him because otherwise He would not give me this troubles these exits, these projections and then He is preparing everything for us it is said that the Torah is coming out of Zion from the exit from there we can come to the Torah to the light of connection that fulfills the Kli.
9. S. (26:19) What can I ask personally from the Creator to help the ten?
R. To know how I can help the friends connect, this is what I want to ask of the Creator.
Reading from letter 6 Baal HaSulam (26:58)
10. R. (27:38) Rav adds during reading: Enemies means the will to receive our ego...Meaning he is going and correcting his ego step-by-step from light to heavy...Meaning the Creator goes up and tells the people below now you will start to doing my work, I’ve prepared everything for you and by that you also reach higher... Meaning there is a force of defense against the ego that attacks the person... Meaning the sword with which to kill the evil inclination also has to do with the shield, how to defend ourselves from the evil inclination ...Because they are connected to each other it’s just that man does not think that he needs to make sure that he does not get hurt by his ego and wage war with it ...Until he falls completely from his spiritual level and he is already in captivity, in corporeality, in the will to receive ...Meaning then a person completely replaces his longing for spirituality with corporeality and all kinds of garbage and he just falls and succumbs to corporeal matters... This is what the Creator does to the person deliberately, giving him that feeling that he fell and detached from something lofty and eternal and then a person nevertheless awakens by the shame ...This is the matter of the great mistake that a person makes, that he thinks that me and my own strength are making it happen, that I can actually fight against my own egoistic nature and this is up to me to do. There is always such a point where we get confused because by entering in order to receive, we think we now have risen to the point where we can cope with our ego, instead of turning immediately to the Creator ...Then he begins to think, by what tactics, by what actions by what thoughts, intentions what kinds of Torah he needs to build for himself in order to succeed. And by that humanity goes through all kinds of mistakes we can see through history. ..Meaning he thinks that in his mind and emotions he can build a system where he awakens to the degree of the Creator with what he feels and understands ...and as much as he has disturbances he thinks that he is supposed to work against these disturbances and try to eliminate and eradicate them in a way that he determines that it should be done ...Meaning the fact that the person thinks that he understands how and what to do next to make a step forward, how to fight the disturbances and how to rise above them, that is the main mistake of the person, instead of subduing himself and letting the Creator fight ...This is what the Creator does, there is no other choice but to teach the person against his mistake and ignorance and audacity, to show him that he can’t do any correction because any correction has to come from the upper force, through the light that reforms, and only by a request and submission on the behalf of the person ...Here in this war the person thinks that he builds himself like the Creator, meaning instead of surrendering to the Creator he is trying to be like Him in fighting against the shells and disturbances ...Meaning there is an aspect here of just raising his pride by doing so, and as much as he thinks he is capable and destined for it, that’s the problem. Instead of surrendering and subduing himself he’s trying to build his false heroism ...That we are like a monkey we cannot be humans, we become humans when we ask of the Creator when we receive from Him the shield and sword. We receive through the light that reforms and only then we can build ourselves as humans.
11. S. (37:12) I wanted to ask about conception, suckling and adulthood. Conception when I’m a baby, sucking when I’m an older child and adulthood when I’m even older in the spiritual work. What stage are we in?
R. We are not yet in Ibur, impregnation, in order to be in Ibur we have to become a single drop and then the Creator who is Bina, Ima, mother takes us in and then begins to develop this drop of semen. So, each one must see himself as wanting to assimilate, to incorporate into the friends in such a way that he has no mind and no emotion and only to be connected with all the others above all corporeal calculations.
12. S. (38:35) What are the sword and the shield the men received?
R. The shield we understand is the screen and the sword is already the reflected light with which I enter spirituality. So, I think that I have these two things the restriction, screen, and reflected light and then I can fight, but the truth is that I do not have any of this and I do not make it, but the upper light to the extent I connect to this, it does it for me, the Creator will finish the job for me. So, I just have to nullify, to connect to His work and succeed.
S. Where is the transition where I start waging the war instead of the Creator?
R. That is rooted in our pride, in our ego. Our ego always says I shall rule, I want to understand, to feel, to do. It is all our ego.
S. Where is the boundary saying that until this it is me and from here it is the Creator and I shouldn't continue with my pride?
R. Where is the boundary? The annulment toward the ten, in practice that’s where it is. It’s one and the same to nullify to the ten and nullify to the Creator. Because the Creator resides in the group and if I behave and act towards the ten in a way, that it is not the ten that I see but the actual ten. I relate to them this way then I relate to the Creator who resides in the ten. The Creator cannot appear without clothing in a vessel and to me that’s the vessel. That’s what it means that the Creator puts your hand on the good faith and says take it. I have no other way to be in contact with the Creator if not through the ten, the Kli.
13. (41:09) Can we say that annulment is the shield and the prayer is the sword?
R. We can say the annulment is the shield but it is not enough, there are different forms of defense through the levels of root 1 2 3 4, levels of coarseness, but the reflected light is already in the sword. OK, let's read.
Reading 12 (41:50)
14. R. (43:24) Meaning to the extent the person let's go of himself and thinks only about what is outside of himself, what is truly outside of himself, it is actually his and him, but he does not think that way because of the ego that reverses his perception from truth to false. And if he looks at what is outside of him as his spiritual self and what exists inside of him as his egoistic corporeal self, if he tries to come closer to what is outside of him and the main thing is the ten, because without the others he cannot maintain being in such a connection and mutual assistance. So, if one builds his connection with the ten in such a way that he helps them and they help him and through this way one shall help his friend, they begin to each take themselves out of their ego and into the ten. It is like how a man is being thrown rope to be dragged out of the water and so they are all feeling that they are on a boat and are saved.
Reading 13 (45:14)
15. R. (46:02) It turns out that even though we do not feel this as so, but if we pray for the ten, for the whole world it’s too big, too broad and it scatters our focus, our vision, and we cannot think that way. But if we are talking about the ten, that we make sure that inside the ten even though I do not have the mind, the tendency to it, but if I forcefully push myself towards connection to bestow to the others and to connect, by this I raise myself to the right progress towards the Creator.
16. S. (47:07) Let's say I want to solve certain problems independently, some obstacles, I guess it has to do with the sword and shield and the question is why can't I, for example, why can't I find that sword and shield in the 10, why do I build it myself?
R. Because your ego pushes you to all kinds of actions by which you think you will reach spirituality, because the ego is built this way. It exists and pushes us to do this and that, do all kinds of things. I have seen people who come to discover the Creator and all of a sudden, they start to engage in all kinds of things besides the point, besides what is needed. Because it is also how the ego manipulates them and it’s true, it is correct. That it’s so because only through mistakes can one find the right path. But the sooner we find it the sooner we succeed so don't think that we ourselves can succeed, but only through helping each other and helping all of us together to turn to the Creator, the one force that can help and shape us and design us correctly. And then each and every step we make will be with the Creator just like when we take the baby's leg and put it forward then we take the other leg and put it forward and this is how we show to the baby what he needs to do with his legs, and then he starts to do it. And in this regard, you can see how the human as opposed to all other animals is so weak and ignorant and this is only for us to then grow by help from above, by being connected to the Creator. And then with His help when He shows us all of the steps, we can follow Him. The more we nullify before the Creator the more we go after Him in all of the steps further and further until the final correction. It all depends on our annulment. What is my annulment? I annul my ego to this force of bestowal and then I acquire the force of bestowal above the ego. This is faith above reason, the force of Bina above Malchut, and this is how I advance how I acquire a second nature.
17. S. (50:20) I wanted to ask about this change when the Creator begins to wage the war instead of me. When does it begin to take stage at what stage on the path?
R. The truth is that the Creator always does this. The question is when can we discover this? First of all, when I want this to happen then because I work out of my ego, I have to be discouraged with my ego and give myself a way to the Creator. Meaning I have to nullify my will to receive and cling to Him. To the extent I raise myself from Malchut to Bina then the force that is in Keter which is the Creator starts working on the connection between Bina and Malchut, and then I see how my qualities take on an intention to bestow.
S. Ok, but I see that I am actually disturbing this war of the Creator by trying to solve what is happening?
R. This is natural.
S. So how to move aside?
R. You see how much you do not succeed and fail until I see what’s written. This way I make room from my ego to the Creator, so He would march ahead, He would manage everything, He will run this war against my ego which I cannot do by myself.
S. So what is the means we have to make room from the self and let the Creator in?
R. Connection and prayer.
S. Is this something that happens gradually?
R. It does not matter how we do this, but the system we are in organizes, arranges this in such a way that it works gradually. It is like a baby who does not quite know how he is growing up but he does so through these impulses, these internal and external impulses. This is how it is; we cannot feel how many forces are actually taking care of us from the outside, we cannot feel it but that is what is actually happening. There are many helpers as we progress. It is like a baby that is a newborn, that the mother brings him whatever he needs: the bottles and the milk and diapers and the cradle, thousands of things around the baby being prepared. How does the baby know about this? The baby does not know anything about, the important thing is to be connected to his mother. This is all we need, everything else will be clear later on and when we grow up, we can grow up to a state that we will have spiritual results, that will be called children or offspring. This is later, this is not for now completely.
18. S. (54:42) It is written that outside of him it is already considered the holy Shechina. Does it mean that my friends are also the holy Shechina?
R. Yes, if I incorporate into my friends and I want to help them, I want to be incorporated in them then you can say that I am incorporated into the holy Shechina. This is where I meet the Creator, and the entire spiritual world is revealed to me there.
19. S. (55:41) How do we advance quickly to the shield and sword?
R. By connection. I do not know what a shield and sword is for the time being. I do not have those instruments. For the time being I have a will to receive in order to receive and as much as I want to incorporate into the friends and receive from above in the connection between us the reforming light, the upper light, then I am making progress and likely on the way I will find out what are the shield and sword.
20. S. (56:29) What is this point that you mentioned in the previous question when we all nullify and then we can then produce a prayer to the Creator to fight for us?
R. I do not know exactly what you are talking about. What is the point towards which we are annulling? Towards the connection in the group which already exists and where the group exists in a complete form, and the Creator exists there, is revealed towards it. That is the complete state that exists in reality just like in the end of correction in reality. All of the degrees leading to the final correction exist except I do not see it; I am under concealment. Concealment of what? Concealment of the degrees until the end of correction and the end of correction itself.
S. How can we do a common action of annulment that everybody succeeds in this and not just one person?
R. Read together these writings, talk about them together and decide that you have to do it. And work on each other and help each other so that nobody is left behind. The friends who are not here today - tomorrow they are unable to incorporate with us, and in the day after tomorrow even less. And there are those who come to a lesson once a week. They are not friends, they are included, they belong to us to some extent, but they are not friends Chaverim. Chaver from the Hebrew word Chibur - connection, and those who will also think during the day how to come to one body, one spiritual desire.
21. S. (58:57) When we pray for one another in the ten or even individually for our ten I get the sensation that the Creator is proud of us and if he is, do we need to be very careful of that pride that it might have a double blade four our ego?
R. I recommend for you not to get confused, and engage only in what we are discussing, do not make calculations for the Creator.
22. S. (01:00:00) You said friends are those whose daily work is to incorporate and connect?
R. That is truly the correct definition.
S. The rest are those who are trying in their state, but we are one body that’s composed of many different parts and components that we could just incorporate together without calculations?
R. You can do things without calculations but you don't know where you are, what kind of actions to do, how to move forward, rather you just advance without any plans or any pre-specified actions. It is possible but we want to see ourselves advancing, and we want our advancement to be in our feeling, in our intellect and how we criticize things. We understand a person who is not incorporated with us, at least in the morning lesson as we discussed today, throughout the entire day, he is simply not with us. What can you do. He is somewhere in the second or third row. I'm not looking down at those friends but we simply have to take care that these people will be more connected to the group.
S. You said our ego pushes us to do all kinds of actions saying that people are starting to engage in all kinds of things besides what is needed, that the ego is manipulating us, how to be saved by that?
R. Where are the friends? I need to constantly think that I am looking after all the friends so that they will not run away, in their thoughts and their desires, in all directions, and each and every one should do this.
S. I see friends who are in a 10 and veterans and then there is a little bug of this world that grabs a hold of them.
R. It will always be like that and they won't be little bugs, they will be elephants. Just hang on, it is certain to happen and the Creator will arrange for those things to happen and we will try, nevertheless, to have this mutual concern. The Creator is sending thoughts and desires and disturbances and we have to work against them.
Excerpt 14 (01:06:04)
23. R. (01:07:31) Meaning it doesn't matter what desires exists in each and everyone but when we are incorporated in connection, though it's different for every one of the friends, but we desire the connection and we want to reveal the Creator in that connection, in the force of our unity. So, it turns out that even though everyone is different, everyone is equal and as one. In this tendency and inclination for connection we erase all the disturbances and differences between us and it turns out that we are incorporated in the desire of the upper one.
24. S. (01:08:21) How can I feel my friends inside of me inside my heart?
R. Try, try to do this, meaning your heart is your desires and in which of the desires do you wish to feel them? You need to think and to search for the desire that can be one for everyone. It turns out this is how you will find the Creator. He is one for all, there is no other one. By looking for ways to incorporate and connect with each other and for all of us to be together, that concept of being one in one desire and one intention in one place -desire is place, you will understand that you are establishing the concept called the Creator. That's why it's written you have made me. Before that it does not exist until those people who wish to connect, they build between them this concept called one, the one that is common to all of them and that is the Creator, come and see. This is how you come to his revelation and he cannot be revealed in any other way.
Excerpt 15 (01:10:17) Twice
25. R. (01:11:58) Spirituality it is a system that is entirely interconnected in such a way that you cannot take out or add anything as it is a complete connection between all of the parts, and the more that these parts reveal their egos then above that they need to connect between them, and by that they reveal more of the one force that exists between them. It turns out that in this way they can reveal the Creator. This is why the Creator is revealed specifically when the vessel that was broken intentionally begins to connect with all of its parts. From the connection they attain that concept of the creator, Boreh, that is what we have to come to, and there is no other way for anyone else in the world in all of reality to reveal the Creator unless it is from within the connection. That is the law and there is nothing you can do about it, and the fact that we are ready to do anything but to keep the love connection should also be clear to us that this is our nature, as it is built like that on purpose, and we will need to gradually see, through a form of social agreement, to begin to change ourselves. This is the meaning of the influence of the environment on a person. If I enter an environment where it influences me, I will necessarily change relative to that environment. The main thing that we need is to build our general environment as big and great as possible. As it is written in the multitude of the people the glory of the King. By that we will acquire a desire for connection and it will be easy for us to do those things because it all depends on the environment. We know from our world that when we enter a certain environment, after a while we begin to think like them and to acquire similar qualities, tastes. We see things the way they do. So let us reinforce ourselves and publicize, advertise to everyone how much connection is really the only means for attaining the Creator.
26. S. (01:15:08) What is sanctity in the work between us?
R. The sanctity is what is revealed in the connection in this is called Kedusha, holiness, what is revealed in a separate Klipa, shell.
Excerpt 16 (01:15:31)
27. R. (01:16:26) In other words we don't see it now but in truth from the perspective of our ego there is no difference if I develop love for the friend or I develop a love for the Creator this is the same thing. As it says, it is really the same, all the operations that we do in all the directions, thoughts, the more that we advance the less we see differences between relating to the 10 and relating to the Creator. The Creator is the sum total that is why he is called the inclusive, the over all of our operations and there is no difference in how we relate to the friends and how we relate to the Creator, except with the friends we can check where we are and with the Creator we can't, there we can fool ourselves. But with the friends we cannot, we can test ourselves and demand progress. In other words, if I want to advance to the revelation of the Creator, I have to try to get closer to the friends and ask the Creator to help me to be connected to them. To the extent that I am connected to them, I will be connected to the Creator except it is not revealed immediately as with the friends, but it really turned out to be the same. So, we need to attribute great importance to the 10 and in this way manage ourselves in the shortest way toward correction, to worry specifically about the friends. This is why we go from the love of people to the love of the Creator specifically in this order.
28. S. (01:18:53) Along the years we learned there's great importance to the morning lesson, later a new layer has developed which is the meetings during the day that we hear from you are also very important. The question is why are those meetings so important, isn't it important to listen to the morning lesson again?
R. You can meet and hear the morning lesson, meet and listen to some article of Rabash,
S. Why to meet, why not just listen?
R. You can listen to lessons or articles on your own for a thousand years and it will not help you one bit, only when you connect to the friends and you are asking why and what for, that I don't want this, why don't I do something else and that will be more beneficial. There's nothing more beneficial than connecting to the friends online as usual, as people do today and read something that you choose to read. From the morning lesson and from the articles of Rabash, that is it, go ahead and do it and the best thing is together not that you will be a wise guy and read some articles on your own. Together, the difference is the difference between knowledge in Torah, through knowledge you will know what is written superficially but through connection with the friends who are drawing the reforming light and then it brings you the sensation of Torah gradually and not the knowledge. This is the difference between this world and the next world.
29. S. (01:21:20) What is the addition in the friend called adhering to the Creator?
R. That way we feel the connection between us as common to all that connects us governing us. At first, we make the connection between us but when it becomes more solidified, we begin to feel how this connection turns to us and builds us back as if it runs us. This is how we gradually come to get to know the Creator, that we build this connection between us and we see that it is more solid and strong and we feel that the connection that we do exist, that it has a life of its own and it bestows back influencing us that we build this and feel it and this is how we built the Creator.
S. This component of the common you said we feel this as a common mutual feeling can we discuss how they feel this in the 10?
R. You can try a little bit so it doesn't interfere with one another, what is common to all of you? Speak about it
30. S. (01:23:18) How can I convince my friends to love them more than me?
R. Impossible, you first want to convince the desire to love the friends and then to love them and this is impossible. We can't change our desires. We can only perform operations even though we don't want to and these operations draw the reforming light and the reforming might help us rise above our desire to receive and to work in this way.
S. How to overcome hatred that is revealed to one or two friends in the 10?
R. You understand that I have to love. This is the Creator positioning me before the whole world before all of Bnei Baruch and especially before my 10 and so before my 10 I have no choice; I have to turn everything of rejection into a feeling of connection.
31. S. (01:24:46) What change do we notice when the Creator and the love of his friends unite, what is the impression?
R. That the Creator is in everyone, afterwards we discover that he is in all of the world in all of the created beings, this is called the revelation of Divinity.
32. S. (01:25:29) Where can I search for the true deficiency to the Creator?
R. Where can I find the true deficiency? By this I see you how much I am not in it and I ask from above, from the Creator to help me to acquire the real deficiency instead of these false ones that I have. Then I look at the 10 and I see how much they are in a good, advanced desire, a spiritual one. Because of the envy I wake up and ask for changes because I want this also to have such deficiencies as my friends have. Each one of them advances and when I look at them, I see that I have nothing of what they have, I envy them.
33. S. (01:26:57) What is the difference between correcting our values and the….?
R. It is the same.
Excerpt 17 (01:27:23) Twice
34. R. (01:30:04) We can never approach the Creator directly but only through the connection between us. This is why He prepared broken vessels so that we can reach him and only by uniting among us, to that extent we progress in our connection to the Creator as this is a one-to-one ratio. If we turn to the Creator, we immediately stop and not pray to him but first of all to picture ourselves in connection with the 10 as if we are turning to the Creator with the 10, to raise the deficiencies from the 10 to the Creator. This helps because I seemingly awaken them but praying to the Creator for myself without the 10 is not in the direction of the Creator at all. It is in the direction of my own ego. So, if we want our prayer, our request, our thoughts, and our desires to reach the upper force, it can only be on the condition that these thoughts and desires go through the group.
35. S. (01:31:35) We are having a Unity Day for the group as preparation for the Congress. Can you give us advice on what to do on this day?
R. Exactly what we are learning now, a congress is a gathering, a convenient, a gathering so try to connect as much as possible and come to a state where you feel the center of the connection between you. From within the connection between you, which is called the common heart, you will raise the prayer to the Creator and it is certain to reveal good results.
36. S. (01:32:39) How do we turn our rejections into connection in practice?
R. We rise and overcome the rejection. We actually thank the Creator for the rejection because by this He is directing us in an inverse way towards connection and this is how we overcome it. We actually love these rejections, because they show us where we should make an effort and in what direction we should exert and where to turn to succeed. The rejection from spirituality is the correct direction for a directive from how we advance to spirituality.
37. S. (01:33:55) You said before we turn to the Creator, we have to depict the 10 to ourselves, how do I depict it to myself?
R. Certainly not faces or bodies or character is what the inclination, the tendency of leaning to the Creator of existing in each one otherwise you wouldn't be in the 10. The Creator himself assembled us as we learn in the article the Arvut bringing us to the group and saying take this so that they will take the force of connection and start implementing it among them and this is how we have to see ourselves.
38. S. (01:34:50) I am the veteran studying in the 10 but when I look at the friends in the 10, I feel more shattered and lower than them, it's like they're studying and connecting with themselves and I am too far from them, how do I get closer to them?
R. Pray more, but what you are feeling is the correct feeling but don't settle for it. Pray that you would help them and they you, just be incorporated as much as possible.
39. S. (01:35:48) Can I say that love of others is Lo Lishma and love of Creator is Lishma?
R. No, you don't need to make that distinction. Love for the friends is a means for love of the Creator. Yes, that is true but in love for the friends and in love for the Creator, and both of them there is Lishma and Lo Lishma.
40. S. (01:36:7) In excerpt 16 the last sentence was the love of the Creator and the love of the friends to unite and be as one, can you explain how this is felt?
R. When a person discovers that the Creator feels all of reality, that is it, he discovers it behind every friend stands the Creator and he sees everyone as Divinity, a field that is filled with the upper force and the force of bestowing.
41. S. (01:37:28) About the prayer that has to come from the center of the 10, man who has the burden and the disturbances of work, family, and health that really don't let him go, what does he do if it is not through the 10, can you pray about this?
R. The 10 must help each one those who have the least amount of burden and this will be an asset for the whole 10. Also, the person who feels this heaviness on themselves should understand what was given to him was also given to the whole 10. It's like he tosses himself from these things to the 10 but he should also give the 10 a possibility to participate in solving these problems if possible.
Excerpt 18 (01:38:50) Twice
42. R. (01:40:04) In other words it is not that straightforward when we talk about love of friends or connecting, from this we learn how to relate to the Creator and we have no other approach to the Creator except through love of friends.
Reader continues: (01:40:22) “In other words if he has no other desire….”
43. R. (01:40:57) In other words you can't emerge from self-love unless you go into love of friends, from one to the other.
“Reader continues: When you complete the love of friends….”
44. R. (01:41:15) We see that from the love of friends to the love of the Creator, meaning me, the group and the Creator and you cannot go around it. Is that clear? If anyone wants to ask about that please.
45. S. (01:41:35) He says when he's done with the work of love our friends he will be in the work of the Creator?
R. Yes because it is two degrees, it is not parallel. I have to. with my work. With the friends, I have to acquire all kinds of qualities and feelings that if I create them in me, and then specifically I can begin to feel the Creator and determine my relation to him accordingly.
S. What does it mean to finish the work in love of friends?
R. When I come to understand what it is to love someone outside of me and in this way, I begin to somehow learn how to relate to the Creator because you cannot relate to the Creator in any other way other than to bring the opposite, from his love, our love for him. So, if I learn this through love of friends, I can somehow come to love the Creator.
S. What is the love of the Creator?
R. The friends are there as the foundation and in anything with which I come to the Creator I will determine more connections between us and more levels of degrees of love between us. Where do I discover the Creator? In the vessel of love between us as the Creator are the lights and it is revealed in the vessel that we build in the relationships between us. This is the meaning of the king being glorified in the multitude of people.
46. S. (01:43:40) What do you have to love in the friends that brings me to the Creator? What is the love to search in there?
R. You love in the friends the fact that the Creator set them up for me so that by developing love for them I come to love him.
S. That there are things that I need to love and things that I don't need to love?
R. No, I have to come to love the friends, nothing else. I have to see them as actual messengers coming from the Creator and that the Creator places them in front of me. Those that I love and those that I don't, those that I feel far or close to, it is all according to my ego. I have to understand that with love I can reach them in this general way and to embrace and love them, all of them and each of them individually as there is no difference. As compared to the egoistic way I see now.
S. I love their deeds or something general?
R. Not completely in general but in particular and in general, start working on it and you will find the answers.
47. S. (01:45:14) We heard the 10 must help in every burden and that will be an asset for the 10, we have tried to do this action many times and we always find difficulties.
R. Of course, because you need to be as one man with one heart for better or for worse and these are the obstacles.
S. So it doesn't have to do with the technical organization it's in our intention?
R. Yes of course, all of the disturbances in the 10 our spiritual disturbances.
48. S. (01:45:58) When the friends become precious and close and I'm trying to feel them, where is the transition point to the Creator?
R. By desiring to come close to the friends you've developed the feeling of love and connection for them and by this you will feel we're inside their usual source which is the Creator you don't need to artificially develop yourself towards the Creator but when is it revealed inside the other.
S. I feel that I love the friends but then something is missing.
R. Of course, you can draw the Creator into the connection so you will have Israel, Torah and the Creator are one but the emphasis is that I reach the Creator only from within the love of friends to the extent that I am connected to them and out of this, I can describe and imagine to myself where is the connection to the Creator.
49. S. (01:47:35) Is it possible to say the love of friends is the correction of creation and love of friends is the purpose of creation?
R. Yes, you can put it this way because with love of friends we correct our general vessel and from this become to love the Creator.
50. S. (01:47:59) When the light enters the mutual vessel of the friends does each one feels it differently or is there a combined feeling?
R. We have to try to come to a common feeling, the fact that we come to a connection between us means that their Sefirot, desires, are connected together as the Creator connects them and it is revealed in them. This is the common feeling; our common feeling is already a spiritual feeling. This is already the Creator.
51. S. (01:48:58) When I think of exertion and effort in love with friends there's a small voice that says the Creator is hiding after the exertion so the work is not pure. How to come to it in a pure way?
R. Why is this not clean?
S. Because I am going to gain something big because of the work.
R. I want to come to love the friends because through this I come to love the Creator.
S. It’s worth making efforts because there’s a big prize hiding behind it.
R. Correct. So what?
S. So what is the benefit?
R. The benefit is that through love of friends I come to love the Creator that I come to the end of correction, from whom do you want to hide? What theft is there here and from whom?
S. That is the question, is that called pure work and not for the benefit of myself?
R. That’s the main thing, not for my own sake but it’s directed towards the friends, toward the Creator, toward humanity, as long as it’s from me outwards.
S. So in the end I will gain something great, that’s my fuel?
R. In the end you will benefit, but in what vessels you will benefit, you will see in the end.
Excerpt 19 (01:50:40)
52. S. (01:52:47) Concerning the types of actions we need to do in the 10 in order to come to the ideal relationships, how can we establish our relationships during the day, because often we meet before the lesson. We read something together and we meet again after the lesson. Is this enough to focus our efforts on connection on this part of the day around the lesson or do we have to work on connection throughout the day?
R. To work on the connection you need to work on this throughout the whole day and the whole night. The question is how do we get used to being constantly on the same thought? Behind the head is the place in the brain that I am constantly thinking about it, because it is the most precious thing in my life and I don't want to disconnect from it. It's like if there is a mother that has to go to work but she leaves the baby at home and she is constantly thinking how he is doing there without her. That is how we need to be also, in constant concern on the connection between us and how on the connection and in the connection, we discover the Creator.
S. I think he meant technically are the meetings during the day important or is it enough just to meet during the lesson?
R. The meetings other than this lesson are also important and it is desired to have at least two meetings as much as you have time for it.10 minutes, 20 minutes or half an hour and according to that you can check what you're going to talk about and what you're going to read, not just asking each other what’s up. But you read some important excerpts that will awaken you.
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54. S. (01:56:27) We read in the excerpt only; does “only” mean I am obliged to love of friends and I have to engage in this? Is it one's personal responsibility? Because you don't always feel love of friends, so what does it mean only?
R. Each one must awaken the others. This is called "one will help his friends".
S. Not each one can open his heart.
R. OK, so he doesn't need to open his feelings. He should read a small excerpt from Baal HaSulam or Rabash and gradually he will get used to it.
Excerpt 20 (01:57:30)
55. S. (01:58:50) What are the points that we as a 10 or as individuals should push the friends and what are the points where we should annul ourselves to advance correctly?
R. It is according to advancement to the goal, our mutual common goal. We have to awaken the forces that awaken us towards the goal and move away the ones that disturb us from attaining the goal. That’s it, what can I add? I can't tell you what forces, yes or what no. Love you need to raise and rejection you have to expel and so on.
56. S. (01:59:50) How do I justify such phenomena as the friends using their phones or using their computers during the lesson, how do you justify, how do you work with this?
R. It is written don't judge a friend until you reach his place. I guess they have such great disturbances that all of their protective force is also very small and this is why they run from the unpleasant feeling to some kind of other business. I understand. I see that problem in myself. I guess the lesson I'm giving doesn't grab them enough and then instead of listening to the lesson they play with other screens, I don't know. All I can do is feel sorry for that and pray.
57. S. (02:01:24) Depicting the inner 10 as flaccid organs devoid of faces, desires are something very amorphous.
R. It’s not amorphic, it’s spiritual.
S. So is there a connection, are there two levels I have to maintain, how do you work with it?
R. You don't have to maintain anything, you constantly need to be adhered through the friends to the Creator and the tendency has to be constant. Sometimes I fall from it but when I fall, I feel sorry about it and this is already a correction.
S. So I come to the lesson and I see that some of the friends didn’t come. I keep the inner picture that was described, to keep them all as one body, and at the same time there's a different reality that is happening, a material reality where a friend didn't come to the lesson or he's playing with his phone. Is this, okay?
R. I don't know all of those depictions and I don't understand them. I understand we have to make certain that all the friends are in the lesson and they all go into the matter, the topic of the lesson, and that also depends on as much as you speak about it afterwards. You have to awaken the envy, honor and lust later on in the day that when you speak about the lesson, they will feel that they are not on the path and connected with what is going on.
S. While we do these practical things, I have to increase the importance of the lesson but at the same time I don't leave the inner picture that my 10 is complete and see them in their complete and corrected state?
R. Try, I don't want to say yes or no but try. I can't teach you those things. It’s all in your hands.
Excerpt 21 (02:03:48)
58. R. (01:04:22) Everything depends on the measure of connection between us even though the Creator is revealed as the internality of the connection between us which is called a soul. And in this way, we will discover all of reality that exists in an internal way, that we are included in it, and it is included in us. And we are in the height of all of reality. He says that the sign of the body’s complete correction is when one feels that his soul exists in all of Israel, meaning in all people all together, in each one, and he doesn't feel himself as an individual, as one depends on each other. At that time, he is complete and flawless and the soul shines on him and is full of power as it appeared in Adam HaRishon in this way in each and every one because man has reached general love.
59. S. (02:05:32) What does bless mean?
R. The Creator blesses the connection between people and gives it a special force, a special filling. This is why the connection between people is called the field that the creator has blessed. If we want to awaken the nice, good connection between people this is called that we are in the field that was blessed by the Creator.
60. S. (02:06:30) Concerning exit number 20, if we should work without expecting a reward, why do Kabbalists write to us about pleasures?
R. That you will know what you don't have to wait for. That upon some kind of pleasures you need to overcome and appreciate the Creator, the connection with the friends more than those egoistic pleasures. To what can you measure yourself, where you are.
61. R. (02:07:34) WSQ: How can we reach a state that the connection between us reaches the term of Arvut (mutual guarantee) between us, that each one is responsible for the other? What does that mean? That if one person in the 10, and I'm constantly hearing your complaints, if one person in the 10 is lazy about it, then the whole10 is guilty. Each one in the 10 feels guilty about it, meaning he takes it upon himself as if he does it. It is like the one drilling the hole in the side of the boat so everybody drowns. So, in this way we need between us to determine the relationships, each one is responsible for everybody. You want to reach revelation of the Creator entering spirituality, you need to be in mutual guarantee in a certain measure, not general, but you need to be in it according to the mutual guarantee between you meaning according to the measure of the correction of the sin of the tree of knowledge of the system called Adam. According to this correction when you enter it you advance spiritually. All our advancement and spirituality from our state until final correction is as much as we supposedly correct the shattered system of Adam HaRishon, of the soul that the Creator created and shattered. Then to the extent that we can correct it like children that collect some blocks or something, so to that measure we grow in spirituality until the Creator starts revealing himself, until we start discovering all of creation and so on. So, here's the question, how can we establish things in such a way that it will be clear to us, clear before us, that only to the extent of the connection between us we can ascend on the ladder until final correction?
62. S. (02:10:12) How do we position these things so that it’s clear that we rise on the ladder only to the extent of our connection, the ladder that Kabbalists have built for us?
R. The ladder wasn't prepared by Kabbalists. The ladder as we learn in the wisdom of Kabbalah happened by the cascading of the light and the vessel from the world of infinity to our world, our days. We don’t build the ladder; we just ask to ascend on it. According to the extent that the upper light shines on us and corrects the connection between us, from degree to degree, that's how we acquire the desire to bestow, and in accordance with that we rise from one degree to the next on the rungs of the ladder. Speak as much as we can or by what can we connect between us even more, but also by making sure we don't force our friends because we can press on them to such an extent that they will just run away from the system. No. It's written, what the mind doesn't do, time will do. Let them remain in our system but on the other hand we need as much as possible to work on them and influence them to reach even more connection. That’s accepted in each and every group. How can we do it? Please.
63. R. (02:17:41) What exercise can we give to the friends to do throughout the day?
S. We got a task from you in the first part of the lesson this morning for each 10 to determine for himself the task, the exercise, what it's going to do during the day, an exercise before which the whole 10 is annulled. And it must come to a resolution and work with it throughout the day, during the meetings and the people on connection duty will see to it.
R. For example?
S. I have my own ideas but each 10 has its own character so each 10 should decide for itself.
64. S. (02:23:05) If we divided the hour into minutes, divide the 60 minutes by the number of friends, and in the meeting, we will discuss during those minutes we succeeded in thinking about the ten.
65. S. (02:23:34) We have already discussed the common prayer which is crucial but the effort is also given by the Creator so there's nothing we can do about our service.
66. S. (02:24:14) You once suggested a game where I am the guest and the 10 is the host and vice versa. Maybe we should play at that.
R. That's interesting, it's worth going back to that.
67. S. (02:24:38) We should today, every 10, think about the 19 days left before the Congress. Every one of us today can have a single intention that, we all, every single one of us in the 10 will go and register for the Congress. And then will be able to prepare our love for the Congress, for Ibur. Let's do it together, friends, all of us in every 10.
68. R. (02:25:25) So more or less we see that the friends understand what is before us. Let's hope that today we will advance in a more serious way inward.
69. S. (02:25:57) Is there a common task?
R. No, I don't want to drop something on everybody. They themselves have to check their tasks that they want to do the same day. They can advise and consult with other tens, no problem. I don't want to determine it, let them think about it, let them speak about it, let them understand. Actually, what is the question? In what style of thought and desire will we aim ourselves together, how can we advance in the most beneficial way?