Morning Lesson July 17, 2021 Transcription
1. Rav’s Introduction: Yes, at the end of the ruin already all kinds of special phenomena began to be revealed such that we can identify them as the beginning of the correction. How can we rise from the ruin, the ruin does not exist on its own, it does not exist for its own sake, but rather it exist in order for us to learn from the shattering for the decline from everything that we had and was broken that which became the opposite instead of us holding some connection between us which is considered the temple and that it was something good, suddenly we reach a bad state. What is that bad state? That we begin to discover between us all kinds of bad states, lack of quality, lack of equivalence, lack of connection, lack of adhesion, lack of understanding that we are missing and all of these different manners of connection between us. This is truly the revelation of the ruin, that the entire system that once appeared as a system of connection, of an embrace, a single system working in mutual understanding and mutual support. Suddenly it falls apart and it no longer shows within it any forces for unity, any forces for connection.
If we look at human society, the social degree on the degree of the still, then we see the same that this is what is happening in human society from one generation to the next. That all of the flaws that exist in that generation appear and in the next generation and the next generation looks down on them, corrects them by building something new upon the ruins that remain from the previous generation. We always have a construction on top of the previous ruin so that out of lack of choice we try or we understand, we feel or we are happy but this is how we build the new degree. That new degree will be successful on the condition that we will accept all of the states that we had in the previous generation that were broken, we take the shattering in those states and we rise above them. We use them in order to learn what will be higher and more successful than what we had before. This is how we develop in the human society because the natural force of nature works within us and this is why every generation becomes smarter, understanding and feeling more and when we research the previous generations we see that they had a certain measure of success but even their success we can no longer use it as they were using it, because it is that each generation and its teachers, meaning each generation has its solutions. When we are in our generation we need to learn from this entire process and understand in which form we should relate to what is happening.
In the previous generations they were developing, connection between them and they fell. There were many and they fell in all kinds of different nations and especially in the people of Israel. We had such declines, such falls that we learn from our history in a more conspicuous manner even than the others. So what should we do? How do we begin to rise from the fall, from the dust, from the darkness, from our lack of desire? How do we elevate ourselves from weakness and despair into overcoming, to a force. This is actually what we need to learn, how to do this. Certainly if we are talking about walking and advancing towards the end of correction, then each new state is a higher state as it says they always elevate in sanctity they never lower in sanctity. We need to understand that each and every time the shattering, despair and disappointment, mistakes, seemingly are greater than the previous ones and therefore we cannot learn from what was there before but each time we need to learn from what is happening right now. Then we will understand and we will feel, we will have a new mind and emotion that we have in our state, that we will understand that we have no choice but only the connection between us and turning to the Creator. If indeed we want to rise to a higher degree than it is like a little child who cannot rise, but rather you give him a hand, you lend him the hand and he grabs his hand and then he can rise with difficulty, with his little legs from one degree to the next degree.
This is how we need to learn to rise until we grow up and we can do this work of ours on our own. Also that we will ask of the Creator but that we will be with him no longer his little ones next to him but already as partners next to him. So those shattering which the 9th of Av indicates, that we are in such states of root and branch that we need to accept as something that is necessary that we have to go through. Because one who doesn't fall does not rise and we just have to understand the manner of our falling and against that the manner of our rising. This is why we do not lack the forces as we will get them from above, but rather what we lack is to understand in what do we exist, in which state and what is this state pushing us to, how does it build within us the spiritual degree. Let us go to the excerpts and we will learn from them. If there are any questions we need to scrutinize these things to complete this matter of the descent, of the general ruin and from here on we will already start to learn not about the ruin but how do we raise ourselves in practice more and more towards the general correction, towards Gmar Tikkun, the end of correction.
2. S. (12:12) In our new generation what is unique about it? If you could make a comparison when you say to not take an example from other generations?
R. This question is really not simple. First of all if we were able to scrutinize these things we should already have been on a very high degree, it is as if we are discussing about all of the previous states that you might have been through and we can already say that this was good, this was bad and that we can discuss it and we can understand our own generation, that we can say what is good and in what is it bad. Maybe also even the future generations to such an extent. You're asking such things that we are not yet capable of understanding. Even now, what are we studying? We are studying what we are going through and a part of it maybe we feel it a little bit and we are able to raise our sensitivity to it, to feel it more and a part of it we don't feel it. We don't feel the ruin that we were once all together in one body called the temple and the upper light was filling the connection between us and now we are not capable of that and we don't even feel a need for that. That is we are far from it, a few steps, from establishing the connection between us as we were and we are in a state of unconsciousness, of lack of forces and lack of sensitivity for it and if there's some desire to connect awakens within us than this desire is for us to profit, succeed, achieve something that we will open up something and rise and see something. Meaning it is not because out of that that we want to raise the Shechina, that is the revelation of the Creator to everyone. We are still far away from scrutinizing the problem itself that we have before us and this is what we can actually implement so we are still far away. However, being far away in spirituality doesn't necessarily mean in many years but rather it is two or three states that we can just go through and together we can go through them in a short time.
3. S. (15:32) If every state that we go through is a new state and more advanced towards the goal, why do we not feel joy and excitement about the new degree?
R. If you truly advanced correctly towards the goal then you would see in each and every state joy, you would discover joy. However you are not depicting the final state to which we need to reach as the correct state as you want to profit, succeed, to know, to see, to receive these things in your vessels of reception. This is why it is not exactly how it needs to be revealed.
4. S. (16:27) When we sacrifice in our work what should we sacrifice and how does this bring us closer?
R. We need to sacrifice all of the states that distance us. We need to annul all of our desires and thoughts that distance us from each other and to honor and to tie together all of our thoughts and desires that connect us between us and connect us to the Creator, that is all of our work. The work of sorting and the work of correction.
5. S. (17:29) You said that at the end of the ruin all kinds of phenomena begin to appear which you can identify as the beginning of the correction, what are these?
R. We see that even from Chanukah with the end of the ruin they find a can of oil from which it is possible to ignite the lights for the future and to raise spirituality from the ruin. Any previous ruin is the beginning and the birth of a new state and it cannot be in any other way. We also see that from the emergence of Partzufim from one another. How is a next Partzuf born from the previous Partzuf that has developed and exhausted itself to be refined and a part of it as Reshimot records which awakened the next state and from the records of the shattering or of the refinement of the previous Partzuf emerges the next present one, which is higher and greater specifically because the previous Partzuf has refined and it discovered is helplessness, it's lack of forces.
S. (19:09) What is the beginning of the correction expressed in our time?
R. A beginning of a correction is first of all because the Kabbalists' write about it, if they didn't write about it this is why we are called the last generation so that otherwise we wouldn't speak in such a way. How come and who am I to say where we are, that is one thing, second that as Baal HaSulam writes that I’m happy that I was created in this generation where I can publish the wisdom of Kabbalah and I can say the same thing that I am happy that I was born in such a generation where I came from so far away and the opposite of it to the wisdom of Kabbalah and I nevertheless to some extent can do something with it. I translate books to my students, to many languages and spread them all over the world and maybe establish a certain society which is teaching everyone, each and every one who can come and read and to study these things. It is a great joy that we are able to some extent to give contentment to the Creator that we are coming closer and we want to bring closer to him more and more people that we are trying to work according to what the Kabbalists recommend to us, what they tell us to do. Maybe we are mistaken and for certain we are very weak, however this is nevertheless great joy that we are able to do something.
S. (21:20) When you look at the state of the world today, what beginning of correction do we see?
R. First of all this doesn't tell me anything about my work as I have to do whatever I am able to do, what I am capable of doing that is on the one hand and whatever comes, comes. I live today and I will die tomorrow, that doesn't matter as much as I am able to do, I do it and this is what I do. Because in this way I am working for the benefit of humanity which means for the benefit of the Creator. Then I am explaining to everyone how we can connect between us and draw upon ourselves the good force of nature, how we can establish between us the good force of nature. Following all of the experiments that humanity has tried to the extreme left and to the extreme right and all of the different states, now we are talking only about connection and love. Not in any other direction or form.
S. (22:43) You say we learn from the emergence of the Partzufim, to learn about the next process. But internally in a person who feels the ruin at what stage in that state does he begin to feel the redemption, the correction out of the current state of destruction?
R. From the fact that we have gathered here, as Rabash writes in his very first article, I remember how he wrote it on his knees sitting on the bench in the park in order to lay a foundation for society that will all be as a mold for the whole of humanity. I am certain nevertheless, I don't know if I'll be rewarded with seeing it from this world but I am certain that humanity will eventually discover its mistakes and it will reach a state where there is no choice and connection to that system of Adam HaRishon is our obligation not only to survive but to reach a state called Adam. That we will see ourselves as not existing in a limited form in this world, in between life and death but that we will truly attain all of these worlds and spaces and dimensions not physically as this is one thing but internally. That we will open up the spiritual universe. There we exist and exist with a new force with attainments which is entirely above our present ability to depict it. It will come and it will come rather quickly.
6. S. (25:09) Is there such a thing as joy without feeling pleasure as it feels that the joy is attached to pleasure but you said a few moments ago if we are going forward in a nice correct way we should feel joy but not necessarily pleasure. Is there such a thing to feel joy without pleasure?
R. There is joy that brings pleasure and there is joy that doesn't quite bring pleasure it depends on what you were happy about, if you are criticizing and monitoring your own qualities and you see that you are happy however your joy is out of a state that is not Kosher, that it is not aimed towards the goal, than even though your body is happy, let's say you're taking some drug that you have very much wanted and that you are suffering because you didn't have it and now you get it. Or let's say a cigarette that you wanted so badly to smoke or some other thing that you wanted to taste so much, on the one hand you are happy because your body is enjoying it, it is pacifying the deficiency that he had. On the other hand you know this state is within you, or begets within you additional negative deficiencies and you more and more will need to fill these negative desires. That is the potion or the drug of life and the drug of death so you are asking about the potion of death and this is something that I very much want but it is killing me. This is what we have to discover in our ego.
It says that at the end of the days of a person, the angel of death comes to him with a sword and a knife and on the edge of the knife there is poison and the person very much wants this poison because it is sweet and he opens up his mouth out of lack of choice because he wants this sweet even though he knows that this will cause him to death. He swallows that drop and he does. This is how throughout our lives how we are in the corporeal life. In the spiritual life I am connecting with others, I hinge on the connection between us that the force will come to me and it will help me to cope against the sweetness of that drop of death. That the friends will help me because each one of us will think correctly about what we are doing, that we very much want this poison in our desire to receive and we very much have to get out of it in order to bestow and to begin to attain the pleasure in bestowing and not in reception.
If we work between us in the correct form then we are able to cope against the sweet drop of poison which is very attractive to us and weakens us greatly, that we are simply as slaves, truly. As it says that we are slaves to Pharaoh, however we are able through the connection between us and the mutual form that we had between us when we connect in such a way and we want more and more to strengthen each other, then in the connection between us we begin to receive from the Creator the force that helps us to rise above the sweet drop of death. We won't then take this potion, this drug that our ego wants to give us and it all depends on the extent to which we establish this state clearly, emotionally between us.
7. S. (30:29) Is part of the joy that we experience a sensation that we as a group can start to make actions without actually feeling something in the vessels of reception, is this part of the joy?
R. I didn't quite understand.
S. (31:34) He is asking if part of the expression that we begin to feel is when we begin to act without looking for a result?
R. I don't think it's true to say that we don't demand a result but what results do we not demand and what result do we demand? We should try to not demand any egoistic result but rather that the entire connection between us will be similar to the Creator. That is to the force of bestowal that I come out of myself toward the friends and I exist in them. Somehow, that we have an inclination towards that. According to our disposition towards this to come out of ourselves into the friends, to live in them, to truly fall in their hands, to help and to support them as much as I come out of myself in that I add this prayer, this position to the path of the others and this is how we reach a state that the Creator is establishing and arranging for us.
8. S. (33:04) I don't understand the lessons and I can't hear them. I want to dive deeper into the lessons, how do I ask for my friends and not for myself?
R. It says that first it is by coercion and then it is willingly, that we simply have to perform such exercises that I, now, in a certain moment, in a certain time, ordering a certain time frame that I only think about the friends. How do I help them, how do I exist in them, how can I annul myself in them so that I seemingly do not exist, that I only add my strength as much as I can to their desires and thoughts in order for them to succeed. That is that I do not come with my desires and thoughts to them but rather only with my forces, with my strength in order for them to succeed with whatever they have in them. I add to them my forces, without thinking or understanding or feeling, but rather what they want is what I want also to simply amplify and increase and in this way to help them, to incorporate in them as we call it. Because I depict myself as a little one who wants to incorporate in them as the greater one, as they grow up this is the best exercise possible because it is the closest to the annulment of our ego so I recommend you do it in this way to, again and again incorporating the 10 in this way that you will see that the 10 exists specifically for this purpose.
9. S. (35:30) If knowing the Creator has to go through the destruction of every position that we acquire, how do we establish a constant connection with the Creator?
R. We don't need to be concerned about our constant connection with the Creator but rather if we are concerned about our constant connection between us in the 10, by this we build a place for the Creator where he will be revealed. From the side of the Creator there is always the readiness for connection with us. From our side, the willingness and the readiness for the connection with the Creator is out of the connection between us. So to the extent we connect between us we will discover that in that we are building our connection with the Creator.
10. S (36:47) During the preparation we heard a clip from Rabash and it ended by saying if one comes with the goal that’s good but if it comes without a goal that’s also good. How can we come to a state without a goal and why is it all so good?
R. Because he still can't clarify, but it pains him. Why did he come to the meeting? He's hurting, he wants to be in it, he doesn't have a choice, this is the present state. We also will be in such states where we come and we have no chance and no reason and no desire to be in the meeting with others, and we come out of shame of how can I stop. What will they say about me, they’ll call me and then I’ll come, I’ll get up. There are states when we lie and say we are busy and that we can't come. There are states when we do come and pretend to be happy about the meeting with the friends but in truth we have no joy. There are states when we come without any high spirits, but once we are with the friends we get from them the high spirits and advance. We go through all kinds of states. The disciples of Rabbi Shimon wanted to kill each other when they came to the meeting until they rose above it and came to such a connection where they discovered in it all of the secrets of the Book of Zohar.
S. Should we let the 10 work on us and we just have to annul and that's all we have to do?
R. No, what we should do. We learn from the writings of Rabash about the society. Besides the society, its general bestowal upon the rest of the world because that also pertains to us. As we learned at the end of the introduction to the Book of Zohar, we should study it, maybe they will find this excerpt for us. That we belong only to the correction of all of humanity and we have no consideration of ourselves. When we unite among us and want to unite with the Creator it should be clear that we are doing it in order to convey from the Creator through us the reforming light, the light of the correction and the light of the filling, because without it all of humanity is disconnected from the Creator and that’s basically the feeling of wars and problems and hatred and other forms of disconnection that is happening among everyone. And in all of this we will be at fault. It will be our fault because we’re not acting in time. We’re not working each day to strengthen the connection on our part from us to the Creator and also from us to humanity.
11. S. (41:19) How can I see my deficiency through the group, can I see it from that angle?
R. In what am I lacking corrections towards the group? I just have to see where the group is still not connected and attribute that state only to me, only to me. Mainly I need to attain this during our meeting which is called the morning lesson, or for some people it's the afternoon lesson. But at this time when we meet here together each one must yearn for connection with the whole world Kli through his 10 and try to feel the whole system of Adam HaRishon and how much it needs correction. How much the Creator needs for us to make the connection, the conduit, the pipeline as Baal HaSulam writes, that we are the conduit between the Creator and human society.
12. S. (43:02) Is all happiness being included in the Creator’s plan, should we want this?
R. Do we look forward to this joy? Of course. We have to come to joy, because joy is a sign of good deeds as Rabash tells us and therefore we have to come to it, yes. The main thing for us now is to strengthen the connection between us in such a way that we will pray that no despair comes in, no weakness to any friend. Because now is a period that is very important for us, this feeling that we’re all connected, we’re all walking on the right path and we’re advancing towards the right goal and we want each and every friend to feel it, and to get stronger and go together so we don't fall along the way. We have to think about how to attach ourselves to one another more and more. This is the most important spiritual work because by this we are realizing, reconstructing The Vessel of Adam HaRishon.
13. S. (44:58) Should the next state always begin from a state of greater separation, that it’s worse. Is that the normal way?
R. Yes, it is normal and correct and it can't be otherwise. When you move from grade 1 to grade 2 in school, I hope you went to school, you are given problems to solve that are bigger problems than in first grade. They tell you what to do, but in and of themselves these things are more difficult and then you move to 3rd grade, 4th grade, etc. In the spiritual life we rise 125 degrees and each degree is divided into another 5 and another 5. So that’s how we have to step on them and it will get more difficult each time. But by this you need to understand that it gives you the chance to establish new vessels, new light from above, new deficiencies from below, and that’s how you advance. Basically you have no problem. You get the deficiency from what is revealed now. That you don't know what to do. Great, you don't know what to do? It could be good, except now how do I search, in that state how do I solve it, how do I understand it, how do I decipher it, how do I find my way in it? No problem, you’ve got a society, get a little closer to one another, everyone together, and then you by this obtain a greater upper light which shines on the state that was previously revealed as broken, the new state, and then you understand where you are. And the upper light from the new broken state, the new upper light, the new broken state, they become organized and then you see you’re entering a new degree. What is up to you here? First of all not to become hysterical, not to lose your mind. You are like in this escalator and then the negative state is revealed and opposite that, a positive state. The breaking and the light opposite from it. In this way we rise, you only need to have this disposition to connect one with the other.
14. S. (48:29) Now when I hear your answer to friends I feel a huge distance between me and the friends just like I can't incorporate with them, that I don't feel their deficiencies from this state. How can I reach the center of connection with my 10?
R. You will find the connection but you haven't come to a state where you want to kill them yet. Answer me.
S. Sorry Rav I couldn’t hear you.
R. You haven't reached the state as written in the Book of Zohar that the Disciples of Rabbi Shimon wanted to kill one another, you still don't want to kill your friends.
S. No. Not that much.
R. Okay so it's not that bad yet, when you come to it then you’ll be great, then you’ll be great. We don't have a revelation of the light without revealing the vessel. You always have darkness opposite from the light. That’s why we need to be connected among us, go through a period of darkness and then we enter the period of the light and we feel it more, understand it better, we feel that it is the Creator. And then again comes a period of even greater darkness than before. The greatest light appears after the greatest darkness. It is like, towards the sunrise. Right before the sunrise it is the darkest point in the night. That most important for us is for all the friends to hang on the path, and you’ll see, you’re advancing very quickly. When I started learning the wisdom of Kabbalah 40 years ago, what you are achieving now in a week, took me a month, even more, a year. Really. Time is flying.
S. I understand you but sometimes there's a state where I feel lost inside my 10 and I feel that I don't exist so it is like you are lost, that you are in the darkness. I don't know what to do.
R. Let's do a survey, all of the friends all over the world, who haven't felt lost in the middle of the way so far, who hasn’t felt it? Well, there's no point asking, everyone, every single one. This is how, the most important is to, above everything, hold on to each other so we don't fall, because in such times some people run away. This is why Rabash writes that we have to strengthen our friends in the group in advance, to establish my duties in the group so I will have to serve them in some way even though we are all in virtual connections. So we need to do all kinds of things together and everyone must gather. I have to prepare for our meetings some material that will belong to everyone and other things. In other words, create such connections between us as close as possible to our material world, so people won’t run away because they know they exist, that they have to do this, and then we will advance for certain. You will see along the way the obstacles that will come, but everyone will have to go through these obstacles, and that’s a work that pleases the Creator.
15. S. (53:26) How do I reach to be as ashamed towards my friends as I am ashamed towards the Rav?
R. I don't know. Don’t you appreciate them, do you feel them close to you because of your residence, because of family relations or other things? We need to remove this from between us as much as possible, remove it. Let's say I feel Moshe, my son-in-law. On the one hand he is married to my oldest daughter and he is also the manager of the association. On the other hand he is a friend, so how do I relate to him in my eyes? I don't think of him as a son-in-law. I don't think of him as a manager of the association, I take into consideration only that he is a friend in the 10, that’s it. Everything else pertains to his worldly corporeal functions. We are here for the time being in this world, but with respect to spirituality only one thing matters, that he is in the 10, and the same goes for those guys in Vienna, they have to not look at themselves at all as relatives, but that they are close only because of the closeness of the connection in the 10, that’s it. We have to sort out our relationships and see ourselves only in this way.
16. S. (56:12) If you are embarrassed by some person then you begin to respect him?
R. What are you ashamed about, what’s to be ashamed about?
S. The friends, there are things that I am ashamed about that I can't open my heart to tell him that I love him.
R. They need to know this anyway.
S. Well we talked about it but, well I talked a lot already. Where is this point that we are making efforts and doing everything with everyone? They came here, they gave us an impression, an inspiration, we drove to this town, I forgot its name. We had a picnic, our group really received such an impression, quite something, and when we got back from there each one again is sitting before his camera, we don't have such meetings where we embrace and connect. We couldn’t do it during the pandemic, we only once had such a meeting. Those who were studying with us didn't come. It hurt us a lot and now when we met we felt pain for those who didn’t come. This is what I'm talking about.
R. I don't regret people who left. This is all calculations of the Creator, although I do everything I can, as much as I can. I can't speak more than these hours in the morning, I have several hours additional where I speak to writers, but that’s it. I don't have the power to do more. There is also no opportunities to assemble and gather physically around the world as we did before. So I don't regret it. I act in the framework that I was given from above and I do what is permitted and what is possible. Everything else I am just happy about it and I praise the Creator for giving me the opportunity to be in it another day and another day. Although inside of me I have all kinds of questions and doubts, such discernments of these and those. Until the end of correction each of us will have them.
S. I don’t mean big congresses, I mean in the tens that are in their places, that we will have meetings at least once a month. It really connects us very strongly.
R. Good so try to do it, try, who is stopping you?
S. How should we explain this matter of a man's wife is like his body? In spirituality, what does it mean?
R. That means that the will to receive of a person should be in connection, adhered, attached to the human in him, to the desire in him to resemble the Creator. So the will to receive has to cling as much as possible to the desire to be like the Creator and that’s how a person grows. This is called the inner woman of a man, that’s the wife. The external physical wife we don't talk about it in the Wisdom of Kabbalah, we talk only about what is within a person himself, only. Relax about this. Don't start philosophizing about this.
S. We’re hugging you, the entire group of Vienna.
R. If you are relaxed, I’m happy. Regards all of Vienna.
17. S. (01:01:08) Besides dissemination, what other actions can we do in order to strengthen our connection with humanity?
R. What activity besides connection? There is nothing more to do besides dissemination. I don't know. You need to tell all of humanity that’s where the connection begins. When you want to explain to all of humanity what is the problem that we need to solve in order to have a good life. Everyone wants to live better. The world is deteriorating. What was built over many, many years is falling apart. Part of the world grows poor, a very small part is growing richer, and that wealth is also going to collapse, soon you’ll see it. And we’re all approaching greater hatred, a danger of war, etc. This is what we need to tell the world. We have a lot of material. Choose from that material what suits you, meaning the audience you want to disseminate to. Don't be proud, arrogant as if you know everything, approach them like a loving mother, close to them, soft, like one who is close to her children. In this way try to prepare for them the good material, the right material. Humanity needs more and more encouragement and confidence. It needs some good approach about the future so don’t start scaring them off about what will happen, frightening them. If you are telling them about something bad that might happen, you should do it in such a way that you are immediately giving them the medicine, how to make this bad into better than they’ve ever had. You need to learn it. We have people who understand about writing, advertising and publicizing it. Approach them.
18. S. (01:04:10) Why degree after degree the Creator is erasing from me the importance of the society?
R. In order for you to rise to the next degree. If you lose every moment, every single moment, if you lose the importance of the society it’s a sign that I am changing and descending. A bigger will to receive appears in me every time and then what I attained before in the importance of the society, now is not suitable, it’s too small. So I have to increase the importance of society more and more each time. That’s why we are saying that each time we should worry only about this.
S. You said that we need to take on roles and responsibilities in order for us to continue onward but I see that in the group I get no support. Seemingly I am the only one pulling the rope and I feel that all of the others are in a state of indifference. Does it happen because I am the only one who is singing it, do I see it through my desire, what is happening inside of me, I don’t understand what’s going on here?
R. You need to come to a state where you will see them in your desire, as corrected, correct, tight to one another, going toward the Creator and are at a level as Rabash writes in the social articles. You just want to chase them and attach yourself to them. And then it is certain that you will reach the goal. You don't need to poke into are really like that or not. And you don't want to hear any criticism about it because what’s important for you is to depict them in the right spiritual way that you are following them, you are chasing them. This is for your sake, for your benefit.
19. S. (01:06:50) You said to pray that none of our friends will feel weakness or helplessness and at the same time you say the best condition for us is when we are in despair. How do we balance these two?
R. Connect the two. If you come to the Creator you will need big coarseness and big refinement and all of the things that connect in Him and if you grip to the Creator you will have no problem with whatever is revealed. Because in the upper, all those contradictions and opposites unite together. It is impossible that the light will be revealed unless it is on top of great darkness.
20. S. (01:07:57) For more than a year we have been connected on the virtual level, to which direction do we aim this special power?
R. You want to connect among you and come to a state where the form of your connection will be like the Creator, with a mutual bestowal between you. So you will come to such a form of connection of internal bestowal, that according to the equivalence of form, the Creator will be revealed in you, this is what we need. Imagine that you are now connected in your 10 and you are looking for what kind of connection we need to have between us, in which the Creator is revealed more and more: another concession, another impression from others towards connection between us, for whom are we creating this connection? Do these exercises.
21. S. (01:09:30) Is it necessary to reach hatred in order to see my friends as corrected in the 10?
R. Yes of course, why? Because we are discovering, or revealing broken vessels each time and the sign of the feelings of the broken vessels is, the contradiction between them and the real contradiction is hatred and rejection. We have to reveal this in order to later, on top of it, position and establish the state of connection and love. Hatred is a revelation of the real disconnection, the real shattering; and love, is a revelation of the real connection.
22. S. (01:11:00) The recent days are characterized, on one hand by a very hard-work in the 10, we are fighting for the connection. On the other hand there is some feeling of exhaustion, fatigue, heaviness and I wanted to ask if it is because of the days of the month of Av?
R. These days are not simple days. Because it is the root of the ruin that we are going through, although we are above the physical times, to some extent, not so much yet. This is why this specific period in the year influences us. We have to go through this gradually, How? Like Rabbi Akiva, he would just lower his head until the wave passed and another one and so on until he reached the shore.
23. S. (01:12:18) Are there states in which it is justified that the friend decides to distance himself from the 10 in order to take care of his health or to grow stronger, to organize his life?
R. Look, we can't tie everyone with cuffs to the 10. We have to somehow influence him to try to keep him in the 10, twice, so he doesn't fall off the 10. But at the end he makes the final decision. We need to understand that, everyone will have these states, everyone will have weaknesses, treating it should be that we each of us have a duty in the 10, a duty in dissemination, a duty in the learning, in the lesson. Each one will be obligated to do this every day and then the person will have more and more connections, let's put it this way, which keep him in a spiritual life. Everyone is certain to have more than once or twice a desire, thoughts, about living the society, walking out, and to see a different way of life, he has given this from above and he is tested. Of course that everything that's happening with a person, comes from above. In any case we have to help him, so he doesn't run away, we see that this life passes and after that there is nothing from this whole existence in this life, he will be left with nothing; his body will die and in his soul he didn't attain nothing spiritual, like he didn't exist.
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24. R. (01:18:04) This means, if we receive everything from the Creator I have to feel myself that I am happy in each and every moment, I'm not in unbalanced state rather I am included in the force of the Creator who organizes all of my inclinations, my desires, circumstances, opportunities and I'm happy that He accompanies me. Whatever happens to me, I'm trying to release myself from my ‘I’ and just flow in that force, as much as possible. I want to feel the Creator fulfills me and guides me and I don't need to overcome anything. My overcoming becomes that I always describe myself being in the upper force.
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25. R. (01:21:12) When we approach the wisdom of Kabbalah specifically in our time when we all, after we had school and the information on the internet and so on we are already included in all the wisdoms of the world, it's difficult for us, extremely difficult even to understand that the wisdom we acquire in spirituality is not wisdom that comes through the mind. We don't mean to make an effort internally in the way that we try to grab hold of some piece of wisdom in this life, rather we have to always, always exerting the connection between us, to the extent in the connection we discover the wisdom of the connection. From the wisdom of the connection we understand all of reality, if we bring together the pieces of reality then as a result of their connection and we ourselves don't connect them, we just want them to connect, we don't know how to connect the friends together, we just want them to be connected. Then as a result when they begin to connect by the upper force and then we begin to attain the wisdom of connection, the upper wisdom. Besides that there's no wisdom in all the world, the general wisdom of the world is a wisdom of connection. Whatever wisdom, whatever else we are dealing with, there is nothing else to know besides how to bring together opposite things through harmony and mutual complementation and connection and that is the wisdom. So we don't need to make efforts intellectually, but only with our desire in our hearts we need the mind and so we don't need to make efforts intellectually but only with our desire in our hearts we need the mind only to direct the heart. Then one of works in the heart becomes wiser because he attains the connection between the opposite and then you understand the creation from inside, not through external wisdom where we attain the material on the outside, we're trying to do something with it. But on the inside we see how the matter is going to connect and that takes us to the achievement of the inner wisdom, the Torah. That's basically the major difference of, the principal difference between the wisdom of Kabbalah and the wisdom of the rest of the world. Therefore we need to try to not follow our habit of putting things together intellectually and understanding, no the intellect is needed only a little bit in order to activate the emotion towards connection and from there we will understand everything. We'll basically do it just like the still, vegetative and animate like the forces of nature and not that we imagine with external minds
26. S. (01:25:24) He repeats it again how can you help and then he says the advice is to raise your importance to make it like a crown on your head. When I read this I'm asking so how can you, if you're down on the ground, how can you uplift?
R. I don't understand the problem at all. Yes, we are in our will to receive but we are given a spark and that spark will help us to begin organizing things, everything. If we appreciate the spark, if we connect our sparks together, it's already a great force that helps us, orients us in the darkness. We don't look at the darkness, we only look at the connection the more we increase it.
S. What does it mean to connect the sparks together?
R. To bring ourselves closer together, we will have one goal, to discover the Creator, the force of bestowal that will dwell among us.
S. That's what I'm saying I can't see this, how do I come out of this?
R. You need to pray for the friends to come out of it and be included with the friends and they will help you get there.
27. S. (01:27:31) You said the person should be happy at whatever comes from above but if I feel pressure, disturbance and fear from forces of nature how can I relate this to the Creator and be happy?
R. Actually the opposite, when you are so far from relating everything to the Creator when you relate to the Creator and nature to such an extent you should feel better and that you don't have to correct it and you don't have to go back and correct it again.
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28. R. (01:29:20) This is the existing state when I want to work on bestowal towards the friend or towards the Creator. I don't feel any taste in that or I have a thought and I read about it, but what can I do about it? I've got no flavors there, what do I do?
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29. R. (01:30:18) Meaning the Creator deliberately brings us such states, such feelings that we're not capable of anything and yet He lets us feel that we are not capable of anything that comes from Him. I need to look at all the states that come to me as coming from Him 'There is None Else Besides Him', why does He send to me such desires thoughts that I feel that I really don't want to do anything, I don't want anything in my life, I am in despaired, all spirituality to me is nothing and I just reject it all. Why does the Creator do that to me? Meaning if I don't relate it to the Creator it's truly difficult and I can't go on but if I feel, if I remember, if I'm being reminded that it comes from the Creator, it's already it's a question, it's an incident, there is a case already. Why? The Creator reminds me He wants me to feel like this. He actually is giving me this sensation that I have nothing, I am not going to have anything, and I just let it go, leave me alone, go wherever you go, that's what the Creator is doing to me. It all comes from Him. We think that such thought desires come from ourselves, how come, it all comes from Him. He is playing with us in that way and so when I don't forget about it when I don't forget about Him then I think ok, what am I supposed to do and it's very simple what I need to do. The Creator wants me to turn back to Him and ask Him for help. That's what He wants. Meaning, most important for me is not to forget that it comes from the Creator and that's what the group should add to me that There is None Else Besides Him and then my response is simple help me, don't let me go and this is how we will advance. This is actually a very powerful means of the Creator who tells me go you get nothing to do here and I say no. I say I need strength from you to keep on going, to run forward, to rise to a higher degree. This is called "my sons have defeated me". I take them down from the state that they were in, I give them a feeling that they are going to get nothing and they say to me no, we will stay and advance and don't tell us what to do, Like little children who want to do something and what their parents want doesn't matter to me meaning the kid wins. That’s what we need to do. This is called My Sons Have Defeated Me" and the Creator likes it a lot.
30. S. (01:34:28) We are asking the Creator for the force of faith. What does it mean?
R. Force of bestowal even though I don't want to do anything because I see no benefit. I ask Him for the power to do it even though I see no benefit. That's already a spiritual force because my body can only do actions where I see that I give and I receive, I give and I receive, meaning I benefit from giving but I asked the Creator I'm in such a state I don't want. So I ask the Creator to give me an opportunity to give me a force of giving which is already a spirituality force. We are in despair, helpless, weakness, in order to ask Him for the power to do something above our inability.
S. We can do it only if we give each other confidence in the group?
R. Yes, correct, very good.
31. S. (01:36:12) On one hand on this degree of existence there are no forces, you are saying that the despair that can awaken in a person but on the other hand we reach connection, we’re incorporated in the friends and there supposedly we do have the forces, what is the next degree of existence where a person gets the forces?
R. That is already the presence of the Creator between us, it's not that your friends provide you with that, it's that the Creator is between them and He provides you through connection with friends you connect to the Creator and you receive the strength from Him.
S. It is interesting because we're saying that we have to give each other the forces the friends, mutual support and so on and now you are saying it's not the friends it's the Creator who gives it, who is that Creator that gives these forces?
R. Who are the friends who have such forces? Of course everything comes from the Creator, only by turning to the friends, wanting to bestow to them I am actually turning to the Creator. Without turning to the Creator there is on spirituality. Without turning to the Creator you have no action to do. All of your actions are only about turning to the Creator and what awakens you is your environment because you have to gather them to the vessel of Adam HaRishon.
S. What is that force between us, between the friends that can really awaken everybody, to fill everybody. How can we reach that force?
R. By feeling that you are not connected and you are trying to connect, even though it's artificial it’s not true but you're like little kids you're asking the Creator to connect you even though you don't want it your nagging Him please give us, like kids.
32. S. (01:38:55) In the book you wrote “always with me” about Rabash. Rabash recommended that the if you want to come out of the darkness you need to start being concerned about the others, the sensation of darkness in my vessels is that a preparation on behalf of the Creator to work in the group and if so, it turns out that this internal state is like a fuel or are there more forms that with them man can always advance towards the group in a search for a fulfillment in them or something?
R. We need to discuss between us, how the Creator appears between us only in the right connection between us. This is called within my people I dwell, within the people meaning within the group I become revealed. Therefore, our whole direction should be towards connecting the 10, that’s where we need to receive the revelation of the Creator, specifically from annulling ourselves and all of us appreciating the friends as greater than us and this is how we want to connect between us and the Creator to be revealed. The Creator is revealed when we first annul ourselves towards the others and two that we want to connect between us as one man in one heart, meaning that all our forces will connect as one and then inside that connection we find the essence of the connection, who made this, What for, what does He want from us, that's number 3. So in these three states, three components that's what we want, that will be revealed in us.
33. S. (01:41:34) Are the ‘Nekudot’ and ‘Otiot’ is what’s working in the vessel to push us to build the screen?
R. I didn't understand the question.
S. He Is asking, are the ‘Nekudot’ and ‘Otiot’ working in such a way in the vessel to push us to build a screen?
R. Yes of course that is the goal.
34. S. (01:42:19) The connection in the 10 is that the answer to the prayer because we ourselves cannot do it?
R. Of course each and every action we want to do is ultimately happening through our prayer to the Creator that He will do it. We ourselves can't do anything, we are within the will to receive, imprisoned and if we ask from prison, we ask Him to do something then He does it and this is what will happen again and again. Each time you receive into our prison new knowledge, desire, changes, corrections but we still feel ourselves as being imprisoned with respect to the next action and I always ask together with a 10. Ask the Creator and the Creator does the action from outside our prison and then the boundaries, the walls of our prison expand until we completely cancel them.
35. S. (01:43:57) Why ascribing any action to the Creator is a correction?
R. Because His light already affects us, moves us from state to state and therefore, it's towards correction. All actions of the Creator are towards correction.
S. When we see the tens and imagine that it's whole is that the same thing? Is that the same correction?
R. That's because we raise Man, wanting this to happen and the Creator somewhat advances us towards it. Not to the state that we imagine to ourselves, as it's a broken state that we imagine it, through our present flaws. So it can't be the final correction but something in our thoughts is still corrected and by that we are already raising MAN and the Creator responds to it.
S. So where does the light that reforms come from? From the plea to the Creator or to the 10 or is it the same?
R. No, the Creator. The light that reforms comes directly from the Creator. Comes to that state from that state that is supposed to happen in the future and it stabilizes us, positions us in a new way.
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36. R. Difficult, this is kind of a big heavy paragraph we also need to think that we already have to start from two days ago we have to start moving to a new topic of study and here I would like to run some survey what people prefer, where should we go, doesn't necessarily mean we will do accordingly but still it's good that people think about it. What kind of materials do you think we should study together because on your own everyone can do whatever they want but when we study together what is the most effective towards advancing to the final correction as in the last generation? So people should think
S. Yesterday you said that you have a yearly plan.
R. The plan I have is what I have, that is not it. I want to know what people are thinking about our study, what they are expecting, what they are considering as the means to attain the goal, this must be clear to us. How different and separate we are and suddenly we find that we want maybe a specific source.
37. S. (01:50:02) In the beginning of the excerpt, it says that prayer refines the body more than suffering and in the next sentence it also says that man is made to pray for the suffering. What does that mean?
R. It is not from what he feels it's that he needs to see, describe himself as having suffering, from being far from the Creator.
38. S. (01:53:31) First of all we invite everybody to send what Rav suggested to boardworldkli@gmail.com anything that you want to study about what you want to read. Rav, do you want to add something more about that?
39. R. We are in our present learning process which began more or less maybe 2 years ago. In the fall of two years ago we entered the pandemic and it reorganized us and accordingly it changed a little bit the order of our study. We started delving deeper into the quotes and we have a wonderful team that's doing that and I'm thankful for them because they also have their own thinking and direction. I don't know if they're working with more people but it's a big team and I see that in terms of the results it's happening in the right way. We have done many things in terms of material. We went through a lot of material from different sources and now there is a question and I want everyone who can connect around this question to think how we should continue studying and advancing. Each and everyone has their own observation, their own time that they study. No one is similar to the other one. It's like in this world everyone has their own profession, everyone chooses a different profession, one goes towards physics, one goes to mathematics, one goes into science, others go to cultural, education, philosophy. We are all different. There are many paths that lead to the goal and we want it to be for the benefit of everyone because we want to be connected. Obviously in the end the material of Baal HaSulam, Rabash brings us together but even though this material is multifaceted there are different shapes of it. That's why it's good for us to know what each one is drawn to and how we choose some path that is general that is satisfactory for everyone.
S. (01:57:30) If you are happy with the study materials why should we change it? You are leading us
R. Right. Up until now it was sufficient for me to direct you and we cover the foundation of the wisdom of Kabbalah but now it's important for us to add to it more new aspects and how to continue and there is a stage where I want you to be more involved in that. It's not a totally new thing now and we are going to turn ourselves upside down or anything. Our desire is to participate in the study material, the lesson plan, the lesson flow. How do we make and so that each and every one knows and participates in that and grows as a result.
S. What is lacking in the current form?
R. First each and everyone's involvement. That he knows what he is studying and what for, how he can be beneficial to everyone, how he can feel a part of the same group that leads the lesson even though maybe he's not adding something directly but he needs to have the feeling that is participating and that's why we truly discuss about the treasure of the material that we have from Baal HaSulam and Rabash including TES and Zohar and other books, so that we advance another direction that will have more direction that we will have broader material aimed at the final correction.
S. In what ways can everyone participate?
R. In what he thinks he can participate.