Morning Lesson February 02, 2021 Transcription is made from simultaneous translation which leaves possibility for differences from audio
Hitkalelut” (Mingling/Inclusion) - Selected Excerpts from the Sources. #15
1. Rav’s Introduction: The more we learn about building the Kli, how to collect the shattered parts of Adam to unify them into a single soul and accordingly be closer and closer as in an increasing connection to the form of the Creator that appears in both quantity and quality within us to the extent that we can unify all of our shattered pieces. Then we recognize this is the actual work and there is nothing else. The upper light is indeed in complete rest, the whole problem is in the Kli between us and the Kli is the formation of the vessel is in trying to connect all of the pieces between us in a way that will be as close as possible to the shape of the Creator. Our work is all about connection between us and the result of this action of connection with a prayer and with the Creator's help and Him doing all of these actions, the result is that we begin to see, in our own eyes, how by that all of the broken pieces are established between us. This is called the revival of the dead, how they all rise and come to a single body, they come together to organs and parts and qualities that are spiritual and it all happens only through the Hitkalelut, integration between us, that we are doing that and how we assemble the image of the Creator, the qualities of the Creator as it says you have made me. Then we further and further realize that there is no quality in anyone, no intention, no desire that we can use as something good, correct, usable, understandable.
Meaning we can't use any thoughts, desire, quality in anyone because in none of us is there something complete, it is all broken, we are all results from a complete and final shattering. The Creator made it so that only through connection and integration between us as we discussed yesterday what is the difference between connection and integration, that integration is a deeper, more inner connection between us and only through this inner Hitkalelut between us can we find vessels that are ready for correction, that if we try to connect ourselves with all of our qualities, thoughts and desires through integration and we see that we cannot achieve that then we discover that only the Creator, in connection with us, in participation with us that He becomes as our partner. Then He will do this work, we bring the vessels, we want them to come together and we can't, then we need Him, truly and we don't just cry about it in advance. As it says the Creator shall finish the job for me, meaning after the efforts we make we discover where our work, where His work is and this work of Hitkalelut is not something we can do on our own. Only He can do this and then we feel the deficiency, the lack for Him and then we turn to Him and He unifies our shattered pieces according to the quality and quantity, shape and qualities, properties as much as they seem unwilling, not prepared but the Creator works from the final correction.
He guides us and directs us towards unity through integration and we thus become one vessel and accordingly He becomes revealed both as the operator who is doing that work of unity and also showing us the essence of this unity which is He, Himself. This is how we advance towards the final correction. Don't be ashamed or sorry for not having any correct quality, even though not having any broken quality because even the broken qualities we need to collect them from our connection where we realize that we can't connect anyone to anyone all the more so to include everyone in everyone. It is all the work of the Creator, connecting the pieces to a single Kli that is the work of the Creator and our work here is to be as the MAN, to be needy of that, to demand it, ask and pray for it, to pray for Him to do this work. In these states, in these actions where we shape the right desire on our part and we anticipate His work, we pray to Him that is our partnership, this is the peak of our partnership where we recognize that only the Creator can unify us.
Therefore, all of our integration that we do even though we can say that we will certainly not reach him, but we have the lack for integration that is what we attain and with it we turn to the Creator. He needs nothing more than that just the lock for integration, to become as one so as to reveal Him as a single force that works between us, that works to integrate us, that is our work, that is our prayer and that is the final state. The fact that each one comes to the wisdom of Kabbalah and starts with the ten not discovering the right qualities or the exact place to work, he can't detect it, it is all true and it is the same with everyone. Rather we only have to search for the opportunity to be in this integration between us and the Creator will make this integration happen. We don't actually understand the shape of this integration, but we try to do all of the work of preparation and the Creator will finish for me. We will then receive from Him a complete Kli so the light that needs to dress into that vessel will then do the correction, as it is said I am first and I am last, it is all done by the Creator.
We have to try to take the same part that we have to do which is to reveal the deficiency and to ask like a little child, to cry and demand. So all is done by the Creator, the Creator will finish it for me. This is essentially the process that we will discuss today a little bit basically more or less we discussed it quite enough, all of the rest we have to obtain emotionally, concretely from our efforts and let us hope that we will be ready for the convention to bring such shapes of integration between us that we will actually feel the need to reveal the Creator between us, that He needs to flow through our connection in such a way that He fulfills us, fulfills the vessel in both levels of correction and fulfillment. This way we will reveal the effort that He is expecting from us.
2. S. (12:13) Before the lesson I also had a complete ability to do any spiritual actions, whatsoever of connection but at that moment you understand that you have to invest more efforts that maybe we'll succeed in a better way, the request for the Creator to complete what is missing in the right way, that it's not enough on your behalf?
R. We need to do all the actions we think we need to do, I am just saying in advance that by these actions that we are asking, demanding, doing together we just have to see that all of our work gradually comes to such a design that all that is required of us is the request. Just like with children they also try to do something perhaps, but we recognize ultimately, we need to show them the right way to do things, to do their tiny actions. All they do, all they work on is to discover that they are incapable and then come to us and ask, we want them to ask because when children ask they already bring us a deficiency for actions that we need to do and the more the deficiency of a child towards a father will be correct, the child himself, shows the father that I want you to connect this and that and do this with that because I am lacking this and that. With this deficiency where you work and the Creator needs this deficiency, He can't correct the vessel without it because otherwise the Kli will lack our effort, our recognition of evil. Then the vessel will not be whole, which is 125 times greater or 620 times greater in the intensity of connection if we don't join in the cry and the prayer to see that everything is given from above besides this deficiency for correction that needs to come from us, from below which is called MAN, this is the true work. We are talking about the Creator and the created being, beginning to connect in a way that they truly support and complement each other then they are considered partners.
S. With the example of the child, the child looks at you and you look at him and you're sitting in the empty room crying?
R. If the child sees, it doesn't mean that he understands. It is not more than that, our address to the Creator through the friends, ultimately comes to the stage where we further discover how our demands, are aimed correctly, establish correctly by man, Mayin Nukvin, the child that starts his life, he cries, he doesn't know who he's crying for, what he's crying for, so pay attention where the baby begins from. It is all results from spirituality what we have in corporeality, there is nothing that is detached in corporeality from spirituality and so look at the state of a newborn baby to the actions and see how they are similar to the actions that we need to do.
3. S. (17:03) How do we overcome the separation between us? How do I cry so that we come to the integration?
R. We need to see the despair as despair from our own strength that we thought, that we ourselves can reveal the need for connection, the place where connection needs to happen and connect these vessels on our own. To even fulfill them with the upper light so all of our work is not a request that the Creator will do each and every action, in each and every step but rather that we make the correction and by that we attain the Creator. The Creator is like a passive force that needs to appear but we are actually doing the analysis and connections, completions, searching for what to connect and how and in what way are we actually doing the actions of correction. It is not that way, we actually have to discover in each and every step that it is the work of the Creator and we are only asking and raising MAN is our whole work and so overcoming is to overcome and raise man, in a request and to position ourselves correctly as the parts that are willing, that the Creator will do with us whatever He thinks and wants to do and we are just willing for that to happen.
We are as clay in the hands of the potter and everything He does is what He does, that is basically our work, that we have no way to overcome on our own, we can't do anything correct on our own. Only the devotion that the upper one will do with me what He understands and what He thinks is needed for correction and I as much as I can, will only prepare myself for these things in advance by the friends, by the group that we are more and more willing to be as clay in the hands of the maker. This is a lot of work, it is not passive work where we do nothing and wait for actions to happen from above. We are working on finding how broken we are, how much we want to discover the deficiencies, the true MAN which is great work, it is a lot of work. I will say this, the Creator who does the action then by the force of light, the force of connection He does that, however we have a lot of work, a lot of work to do it is not sitting idly, no.
On the contrary, we are going to have to examine and correct our state here, that we are willing to connect, we are willing to try to connect and to see how incapable we are, then like a little child that it doesn't work out for him that he wants to put his Lego together and he cries to his father to do it. So we can't come to Daddy right away and ask him to do it, it's not going to help, we have to recognize that the glue between those pieces, those bricks that we want to put together to build the house, the glue is our own deficiency, it is our tears, our pain and torment so we go through, that is what we come with and we just cry and ask because it is not connecting, or it is connecting and it falls apart right away so what is going on, what are we lacking, what we are lacking in our cry is the upper force so that the MAN on our part and the MAD on His part becomes such a force that glues all of the broken pieces together, puts them together in the true eternal shape and there we find our adhesion in the Creator.
3. S. (22:54) Like you say, all of our work is the necessity of raising man in the ten?
R. That is not all, that is a small part of our work, that is the work of preparation and then we also have the work throughout the world, to be as the servants and supporters, helpers, designers of the shape of connection, that is our main work. What we do between us is just the preparation, to be the conduit that brings the upper force to all of the people of the world. So there we take part in the different way, in understanding, attaining somewhat where we are, we feel pain about the lack of connection and we begin to see the results of our work and them because truly we exist in such a state with our deficiencies and attainments, everything that we are, it is only in order to help them come together into a single humanity, that is more work for us.
4. S. (24:36) My question is about the preparation, we are trying to create between us in the ten the form of the Creator, we spoke between us and made a summary that the Creator is love, bestowal, we raise the importance of the Creator doing exercises according Rabash Articles, we wrote a common prayer and we try to see it as a common prayer but at what moment eventually is the correct man born in the ten?
R. It is not that we are working and working and then we kind of give birth to the MAN, we always shape MAN from differences we go through and certainly shaping the right MAN requires a lot of effort, mistakes that we make and such deficiencies that are not the right deficiencies. Well like babies, we have to learn how these things happen to them because it's really the same kind of actions, same kind of states that happened between us and the Creator. So you can't say that MAN is something that is 100% there, 100% prepared coming from us, to the Creator, it is mutual work between us and Him in a way that just like we are with babies, we teach them even how to cry, how to ask, how to show us things, how they need to understand what they want and that we can understand what they want from us. It is mutual work from the moment that we accept this work until we reach the final correction where a connection between us is already clear, complete and we hold onto it from beginning to end.
5. S. (27:00) In the beginning you told us the integration is more deeper, more inner form of connection how can we understand or feel what you mean with this more inner, more deeper form of connection between us and what does that mean for our request, to ask for connection, or you can ask for Hitkalelut, so where is this deeper feeling?
R. I don't know how to explain this in our words. Let us say what is it similar to, when I want your desire to appear in me and I will work according to your desire, on my part I will understand that realizing my desire is only possible by you taking my desire and fulfilling it. This will lead us to the right connection and to the connection between everyone, that what I will have ultimately is qualities, forces, intentions, deficiencies from all of the broken vessel of Adam and I will feel it and will be able to use the integration of all of the individual souls in me to raise them through my deficiency to the Creator. The same for each and every one, I'm still not really finding the words here but think about it. No one corrects himself but only the others. So what am I doing? I turn to the Creator for the others and in this way when I do these actions in order to bestow contentment to Him and in order to bring correction to the others, I am a conduit in between and I don't see anything in me besides turning to the Creator, let's say in the lower part of my Partzuf, my request, and I am included in others in my lower part of Partzuf and in between there is a cut, and incision and that is where the middle third Tiferet is, that special place which is me. The area that doesn't belong to the created beings or the Creator but to me and this part the middle third Tiferet I dedicate it to being the connector between the two and that is exactly where I see myself, that there is nothing in me besides connecting the Creator to the created beings. This is what each and everyone becomes, we will talk about it, this is also what Baal HaSulam explains TES.
6. S. (31:06) If the Creator is doing actions from the start to the end, where does my involvement begin?
R. I would say this, our involvement starts from zero but just like with babies where we start from that the baby is not even there, there's a drop from the mother and a drop from the father and these drops connect and they start developing, evolving. Same thing with us there is no such thing that something just happens by itself, we nevertheless activate creation even though we are unaware of it, I do all sorts of things, or sorts of tasks in life and we are all this way, as it says we all seemed as beasts. But by doing this we already begin to be a partner with the Creator, we are destined to be that and our work as it says, and Rabash said it as well that everyone is the worker of the Creator, everyone works for the Creator, the only question is whether they are doing it with their awareness or not but there is no action, no movement of any particle of creation that has any moment of existence that doesn't serve the correction. What we are talking about is participation whether it is without understanding or with consciousness and more active conscious participation. It is everything, all of it is corrections, there are maybe not articles, but mentions about it here or there.
7. S. (33:53) The Creator is giving an opportunity to touch the commandment of love your friend is yourself?
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8. S. (34:15) The middle third Tiferet, does this have some connection to the middle line between left and right?
R. We will learn that, it is not right now.
9. S. (34:34) Can you please say for short periods of time, every once in awhile there are these brilliant moments where there is a feeling in between what we feel now and what we want to receive, you get some horrible sensation of an abyss and it is a sensation like someone is joking or playing a game on us, what does the state point to and what is the right action on our behalf?
R. Certainly, a person who is going to correct his participation in creation then he sees himself as being so, the creation doesn't start with him and probably won't end with him and this is how it is with each and everyone. Because we are talking about the shape of creation as some sort of a circle, there is no first and no last just the actions of the Creator that we refer to as the first and last and there is nothing in this creation that is someone who is higher or lower, it is only during the phases of correction that there are tens and heads of tens, a group called Israel and a conduit to the whole of humanity. It is only in the process of correction, everything ends as a complete, perfect sphere where each and everyone is completely and totally equal to everyone else.
All of the differences are only in the order of correction, which results from the shattering, the moment that we correct the broken vessel more and more. Then through the integration as we learn, through the integration they become more whole and there are no great differences in them, only the Creator rules over all of creation as it says I am first and I am last and they all together become as one. Each one includes everyone else and this future shape should also determine our present correct attitude to each other and to everyone. This is how we should certainly see reality, that there is no one higher or lower in no way, and no quality and the little one will be the great one. In the end of correction it is all becoming a unity, where all of the differences disappear, yet, I have to say, yes, that each one will be ashamed of his friends canopy. What does that mean?
It means that there are things that as if humanity from what everyone did and what you see that your friend did more than you and you as opposed to them did nothing, but it is not shame but more of an appreciation of each one toward everyone else and that gives us a greater inspiration of each one from all the others. Like Rabash writes, one feels 0towards the 10 and how is connected to them, as a drop of semen on the one hand and they are all like the womb and on the other hand, he complements them with that final shape of adhesion. We will have to see that, the wholeness appears in each aspect but what I want to say here is that our deficiencies don't go away, they don't disappear because we need them, that provides us with the power of the Kli and also the appreciation towards what the upper force did, how He created these things and took us through all of those shattering and connections.
S. (39.48) What is the right action because when that state comes, I don't see a zero, I just see some scared zero, how do I participate?
R. Along the way we go through all sorts of states of envy, fear, many states and the other way around, all of a sudden you're prideful for some reason and we have to go through the states. It is not a good idea to play from any state, God forbid you don't want to be sorry for any state and think that it is better to not have that state at all, there is no such thing, there is no such state that we can say is redundant. That is like you are telling the Creator that He didn't create creation in a complete and perfect way, everything that needs to appear will appear, we just have to do each and every moment to add our level of participation, our Arvut in the most loyal way possible.
10. S. (41:18) What does it mean to position oneself as the relationship between the created beings and the Creator?
R. That is one of the states that we are required to be in each and everyone but the moment that I detect such a desire in me to be the connector, the adapter between the Creator and the created beings then how I do this is in the ten, in my ten. So there I have to make it happen and so if I try to build the ten and dissemination on behalf of the ten towards all of the people of the world, all of humanity, if I try to do that, to be this way then that essentially is the right implementation of my whole correction. I want to connect to the Creator and for that I have to be connected to the ten. The ten in order to realize itself, must be connected to all the other tens as well, more or less with all of the other tens. We then go out to disseminate externally to all of humanity, meaning according to their deficiency, that is what external dissemination means, to the extent as much as we can we reveal to them the plan of creation, the purpose of creation and make certain we are not going into conflicts with all kinds of methods and religions, belief systems that they already have, but more focused, and precise connection the wisdom of Kabbalah, then advance this way. This is called serving the Creator.
S. Everything that's going on in the world today, doesn't it show that it's pretty much ready for this now?
R. The world is moving toward it and it is gradually falling into despair from everything that is happening, the world is in a very special state, in finding despair and everything that we went through throughout history, this is a conclusion that begins to shape up in humanity and besides despair of the past, also the despair from what may be. We see that we are going into future states that are similar to what we already went through and already saw, that we don't get any benefit out of whether it is in America, Russia, Middle East, Europe and in each and every aspect, I truly hope that the solutions will not be happening through wars or horrible problems and eruptions. That everything will be more clarified through thought and that we have the major and primary part of correction so that humanity will begin to recognize its state through this inspection, scrutiny and that means in thought. Everything happens in thought and this is where we need to add and to show people the general picture, to help them see it. We need to not be despaired and understand that each and every one, every person can truly be a great sage with great attainment and it doesn't matter if he feels far from it's today, we don't understand the distance, closeness and how it actually works. We have examples such as Rabbi Akiva who came from afar and wasn't even a part of the Jewish group and wasn't related to the sages but the desire appeared in him and then he became the greatest sage of all the generations and our whole Torah all comes from him, Rabbi Shimon was his student. This is what we need to publicize, I think we are coming close to this and we are talking about this daily, being guided from above and also looking at your questions and your thoughts. I see that this is increasingly more suitable for us to advance towards the general correction.
11. S. (47:29) What is correction, correction of a mistake?
R. The correction is the correction of creation, that by the shattering that happened from above and what becomes revealed is more and more the gap between us, that gap between us appears in more quality and quantity between the shattered pieces. In quantity it appears in the connection between us, meaning that we feel farther and farther away from each other, to the point that in the past we used to even live in clans, big families, more connected to our nations. Today people feel less and less connected, even to the nation that they are a part of and many people go and live in other places, other countries, other nations they don't really care about where they are, they leave their parents, leave their countries, move away from their previous cultures. There is a sort of universal culture, unisex culture, some sort of a similar kind of education in a sense, we see this process happening. On the other hand, we also recognize that we are very similar to each other, all of humanity and so this gives us more of an opportunity to be closer and to understand each other. What was the question?
S. I asked about the correction, you said it was of the shattering. If so then what is the thought of the shattering, why did it need to happen if there was perfection why did it need to be broken?
R. Okay, these things we should read about that, what article is this in? What do we benefit from the shattering? From the shattering the gap between, the delta between the Creator and the created being becomes revealed, the Creator created a small Kli and in it we are similar to Him, we are connected in some way, we exist between us in some mutual connection, inner connection as a single complete, small soul called Adam HaRishon. However on behalf of that soul it does not appear that it is similar or different from the Creator, it is just that the Creator created it and it exists with those forces that the Creator created it with. It is considered a complete Adam but not in sensing this wholeness and experiencing, it is just a structure, it is called a part of God above. In order to give it an individual, independent status then it needs to be pushed away completely from the Creator. It is like how we describe a person becoming independent in our world. He has to leave his mom and his dad and build his own life, his own house and profession, wife, children and so on to build his own world. In that he becomes similar to his mother and father, where in our case we're becoming similar to the Creator. We bring together, we compose the force of reception and the force of giving within us according to how we understand that the correct emerging between these two forces the force of Bina and Hochma, that we can build reality this way and this is how we discover the shattered reality that the Creator created before us as a preparation. That is where the creation of the world begins, it begins with a shattering which makes room for the creature to do his own work and by that become a partner with the Creator and feel that he is building the world together with the Creator.
12. S. (53:19) You said that we are integrating in the Creator, the question is it turns out that we turn to the Creator before we get to the ten?
R. We are always connected to the Creator. The question is when do we turn to Him? If it is not consciously then it is like a baby who is connected to his mother with his navel, his umbilical cord connected in such a way that he is unconsciously connected that way. Maybe later even though he knows that she is called Mommy and he cries out Mommy and this is how he turns to her. Meaning it all depends on our connection with the Creator whether it is a connection that is done on behalf of nature from the upper force, the Creator then we have no matter there, meaning we here are not renewing this connection that exists because it is the source of life or that we ourselves want to create a connection on our behalf which is called by raising MAN where we want to ask Mommy from Bina for special care for us because we want to grow and resemble, be like the upper. To receive from Mommy, the qualities of bestowal because Bina is bestowal, that is how, what was the question?
S. If we create this connection with the Creator, then first, what do we have, a thought to find what is it?
R. We need to arrange a connection between us and the ten and only from that connection of ours, between us to that extent we can be connected to the Creator. Meanwhile when there isn't quite that much of a connection between us or even a need for connection between us, then we turn to him but it is all at the expense of the upper and as we will come to our connection between us in the ten, then by that we will have the possibility to truly raise MAN as it is the result of a connection or lack of connection between us and we raised that to Him, this is the true MAN and from there the true connections begin. We are still on the way there.
S. The sense of uniqueness remains?
R. I don't care about that and you shouldn't be asking about it, you shouldn't worry about that, consider what you need to do and not whether you will remain, personally that way or not, those are not questions that are proper to ask.
13. S. (56:51) Prayer, before prayer I ask for the friend to open his heart and from his heart to raise a prayer, how do you ask about the general prayer?
R. Why don't you pray for your heart to open up, that you will feel the heart of the friend? That's what you should ask for and you will feel that your heart will open and that everyone is already in it and they are waiting for you until you open their hearts.
14. S. (57:46) A technical question about the Partzuf, you said in the lower part there is the group in the middle and the Creator is above and we have to bring the Creator to the ten, on the other hand, we build the Creator between us, so what does it mean the Creator is above where I feel the ten or that above is the united ten and below is the world?
R. All of these forms and drawings of yours that you are going to do have a personal correct observation of sorts and everyone has a place in depicting them that way, continue and you will see how much it gives to you. In our intellect, just as you know in the drawings, you can't discover those corrections, you need to move the diagrams to the feelings and from there you do the corrections. To remain in a drawing is a very big mistake that many people want to remain in because it is convenient and good, you are sitting there, drawing it on a piece of paper not on the tablet of the heart, it is written, “write it on the tablet of your heart”. So if you are writing it on the piece of paper, it is a problem that is why I stopped using the diagrams. Whoever wants to nevertheless see the diagrams, one can enter the archive and find thousands, I'm not exaggerating there are thousands of diagrams in all kinds of forms, they are. Actually our advancement today is more subject matter advancements, emotional advancement where we are working on our hearts and not on the paper. To draw a desire on a piece of paper on one hand is very convenient and good, very visually easy. Because I'm writing above down and I'm drawing what is above and what is below, but go depict that in the inner feeling of the soul, that that is above and that is below that is different. Here we need to depict it, in an emotional way. This is why to write concretely something small in order to later work on it, in your heart, then the diagram is fine, but later we have to transfer it to the heart, otherwise it will remain external and you won't advance. That is a problem with all of the people who have an intellect and they want to study TES in their intellects, they want to study the wisdom of Kabbalah with their intelligence, that's how they think they understand. But the correction does not come from understanding, it comes from arranging the relations between the desires, the qualities.
15. S. (01:01:16) The middle third of Tiferet you said is us and it's not connected to the created beings, but don't we start from the creative beings. Is this what we're trying to reach or we're already there?
R. Later we will understand where is there and where are we. That question is still theoretical, we are connected between us in the group in order to connect to everything that we learn.
16. S. (01:02:01) Please say what is corrected in the work to maintain our connection?
R. After we read about this, hundreds of verses, articles you're asking what is correct to do in the work, what is correct to do is to come close to the Creator through the friends, that is it.
17. S. (01:02:40) What are we lacking in the ten to bring the method of connection that we learn to an emotional form?
R. We miss the feeling, meaning desires that will participate with us, less intellect, more feeling. Where everything will be clarified in the thought, in the thought that operates the desires and in that way we will advance. We need to simply continue more and more, what we go through in the lesson every day, so simply everyday repeat this lesson that we have today even two more times and then it won't just enter the mind but also inside the feelings, in the heart, it will settle on the heart.
S. Is there something we can do out of the ten if we hear the lesson again, this will open our hearts?
R. Yes, that is for certain. It is written that there is a big difference between what happens to the matter when it goes to a hundred times or 101 times.
18. S. (01:04:12) Following that, exactly how should the ten respond correctly to a state where we feel there is no emotion, there is coarseness in the entire ten, how do we work correctly in the ten?
R. In connection between them, even formal connection, connection through the mind until the feeling comes. That is how the ten needs to act.
S. Actually in the formal structure we have everything we need to have and everyone is there, everyone is talking about the lesson but it feels like there are no more words to use. There's a heaviness, not so much smiling.
R. That is considered that the source has been dried up, meaning that the study is dry, you don't put into the words feelings.
S. This is the problem, how do you respond to this correctly in the ten? You also see that the individual response doesn't work, it needs to be a global collective response.
R. There is no ten, no one is demanding from himself to feel that he is missing the ten. Meaning that he is still learning in the form of intellectually about the correction of the world, not in an emotional way, feeling that he is missing from within something to correct.
S. So how do you find this correctly, this common deficiency and how to respond to this?
R. We start, at last, to relate correctly to what Rabash is writing, to go over his articles and to try from each and every article to take something out of it so that the heart will feel that it's received something. It is written to write it on the tablets of your heart and advance in that way. I won't reveal any new word to you that you haven't heard before, you don't just need to put it on your heart but to make certain that it will enter into the heart. As long as you don't discover that all of your friends are more important for advancement than yourself, it won't happen. They are standing between you and the Creator and you can't jump above them in order to reach the Creator, you must connect with them to be as much as you and them are one, to that extent you will see the Creator before you. That is considered that you are taking the friend as a friend, as a connector.
19. S. (01:07:46) In the ten we continue to read the Rabash articles and you answered a big part of the question right now but still there are many points for spiritual work in what we read, as we do this personally in our ten and not the whole Kli is working on these points together so it is not always the same work that we talked about in the lesson. There are different nuances and every article of Rabash, so how much should we be drawn to to implement what we read in the articles versus what we go through in the lesson?
R. I can't say to what extent yes or to what extent no, but try all together to come closer to the friends and through them to the Creator, or to the contrary come closer to the Creator through the friends, that I need to measure. That is the main tendency I need to have constantly. As much as I realize the verses, going over these points is hard to count.
20. S. (01:09:25) The Kabbalists speak often of the sufferance of the Shekina. What is this sufferance?
R. The sufferance of the Divinity is the extent to which the vessel, our vessel, our world Kli, the whole of the created beings and all of those that are ready to attain the Creator and are not in a physical form with us, but are with us in the same soul, yes all of the great Kabbalists, all of the generations of people who suffered from all of the nations, from all of the degrees, all of the states, all of that great suffering that humanity has been through and is going through now, all of those things are very important to me. I think about this and I am sorry for them and feel responsible for them, that is how it truly is even though it doesn't seem to me like who am I or what am I, that I decide their state. This is how it is as far as the uniqueness of the integral Kli this is how it happens, where each is worthy to be as Moses who seemingly connected everyone to the Creator and we need to yearn for that. That is how we come to the correct attitude towards the general world Kli and carry out our action in which each of us is the connector of everyone to the Creator. By that each expresses himself, implements himself correctly reaching correction.
21. S. (01.11.38) Where we talked about the importance of the goal, adhesion the Hitkalelut with the friends and at the same time we need to hold on to that egoistic part within us, so when I demand the connection of the ten and I still have to hold on to the left line, there is a sense of detachment that I am not completely integrated or included and there is even a sense of indifference does this even fit what we're doing?
R. We go through all kinds of feelings of connection and disconnection, identification and distancing, understanding and misunderstanding, each thing and it's opposite, but this is why we need to not remain in any state, the main thing is to constantly yearn for more advancement and not to the current state and I want to stay. There are those that is like a fool who sits with his arms folded over, eating his flesh not wanting to advance towards the goal and there are those that are in a seemingly good state enjoying it but that moment, every moment I feel a situation, a state that I don't want to go with it further, that already becomes a Klipa at that moment. Therefore, we need to be cautious as much as possible to change our states to more advanced states, meaning more connected states between us and the Creator each time. This is called endless raising of MAN
22. S. (01:13:44) We have learned that I have to correct myself and this is the only thing I need to engage in end. In the beginning of the lesson at least I heard that it is impossible that I can't correct myself, I can only correct the others and that I include their desire in me and I raised it as man and it looks like a contradiction that is built into this. On the other hand, I feel it's correct but it feels like a contradiction.
R. There is no resistance or clash in that but rather because you are all of creation, in all of creation. Here there is no one but you and everyone is a part of you, therefore a person, each person is called Adam, even though the whole structure is called Adam. But we don't understand or feel that. The integral form will become closer to us soon then we will have no problem with that. The fact that I am correcting others, I'm correcting myself and what's the difference between me and the others? The same ego that separates between us in order to give me the possibility to erase it, to rise above it and to be connected with others just like we are connected as one body. There is no difference between us. Don't climb on some verse that will keep you from advancing until you solve it, it doesn't work in a scientific way like in this world.
S. If I can continue the question, if I understood correctly, what you said in the beginning of the lesson if I have a desire that appears in me and I can't realize it, I have to do it in a way, I have to make it so that my desire will appear in the friends and only then I can raise MAN which is essentially the friends desire to where the Creator is that correct?
R. You don't have the correct desire unless when you come to the desire to raise the friends to correct them, then in such a way when you support them and help them to be corrected then you are correcting yourself. This correction is called to correct in order to bestow as by you having friends and you are seemingly correcting them you're actually correcting yourself. This helps you, the friends help you see that it is them that you are correcting and not yourself and then in this manner you are protected from dealing with your ego.
S. How to make it so that my desire for my correction will appear in my friends?
R. You don't worry about your specific desire will be revealed in the friends, you just be concerned with your desire becoming incorporated, integrated from all of the friends. As you have no desire of your own but that which the friends want, for that to become your desire. Your word is no good, I need to be a result of society.
23. S. (01:18:01) When we share with the ten, what we feel I am afraid of hurting the friends if they don't achieve the same level of emotion, feeling.
R. That is right, but you advance simply with what you are right now, you advance and you will see the changes, the correct changes that are occurring in you.
24. S.(01.18.48) What does it mean to feel or demand through friends?
R. Through the friends you demand means that you are receiving their deficiencies, you are incorporated in their deficiencies and you turn to the Creator for him to correct and fill their deficiencies that way, that is called raising MAN.
25. S. ( 01:19:36) What do you do if on the one hand there is a demand to open the heart and on the other hand there is a fear that you won't be understood?
R. Who are you opening the heart to? Who are you opening the heart to that you are afraid that they will make fun of you? You don't need to open your heart to the whole world, you just need to open your heart to the Creator, to receive from the friends their lack to incorporate with them giving them a feeling of confidence as much as possible. But actually the heart you open up only to the Creator, slowly you are coming closer, incorporating and then you start to feel that you have a common heart. That is for the time being that you have these questions that are a result of the confusion which is not quite clarified yet, and mostly not clarified emotionally.
26. S. (01.21.02) What are the friends' lacks that I come to the Creator with? Is it that they don't have the power to bestow so I am asking the Creator for the friends to have the power to bestow, is that the only lack?
R. The deficiency of ours is to connect between us in order to connect to the Creator and to give him the possibility through us to bestow to all of humanity, to the whole Kli of Adam HaRishon. That is our work and then by this the Creator will have a place to work and the pleasure. By this we come to the Creator's work.
27. S. (01:22:10) If there is a state that I feel is pushing me backwards how do I sell it to myself emotionally not intellectually that it is perfect for my correction?
R. You will feel it, it is a matter of feeling you can't express it in words because our words are not capable of expressing all of the states.
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28. R. Just like we talked about in the beginning of the lesson, one should not be sorry that he has certain qualities or forces of the intellect as it appears to me like I should have. Whatever I need I will receive from the society, from the fact that I try to be connected with them I will receive all of those qualities and discernments and everything that I have might not be suitable to connect with others to one soul, all that I need in order to connect with everyone and become one soul I will receive. Therefore no one should be sorry that I am lacking certain qualities and others do have them and I don't yet or maybe I don't have them at all, whether I'm suitable or not, I need to come closer to the society according to what Rabash writes to us, to incorporate in the 10 and then with those efforts of being integrated with them I will receive the mind, the heart and the feeling and the new spiritual qualities in order to be an integral part of the Kli of Adam HaRishon. There is nothing to be sorrowful about, this is how it is as no one should be worried about not having enough mindfulness, not enough intellect, I'm not fast, not wise, you will receive exactly what you need. This is not in our lifetime as this stems from the root you have in the general soul.
29. S. (01:29:42) Again, it doesn't work out for me about the envy. Envy in our world, as we learned a couple of days ago in the lesson, I understood that we connect, that we don’t acquire qualities of the friends we feel as great, we adhere to them, also we said that we get forces and qualities from our friends, what does that mean ?
R. To the extent that you want to be connected to your friends in the 10 and complement them with all kinds of activities of connection, to that extent you will receive not from them but from above, from the upper light which comes according to your efforts to connect. So the upper light will come to you and build in you all of the qualities that you need in order to come to the correction of the soul. That is it, so don't worry if you are doing the right efforts to be connected to friends in order to be as one in the 10 as Rabash writes, by this you will receive everything you need. Don't chase anything personal other than the general connection in the ten.
30. S. (01:31.33) What is the root of the envy?
R. The evil inclination. When II look at the other it looks like he has something I don't have it simple
S. When does it start developing for the first time?
R. Envy develops the first time when I am in a society, a group and some connection with people and I began to feel that they are more successful than I in something that is important to me.
S. If we are speaking about a system altogether from above downward in the four phases of direct light, when does that start developing for the first time?
R. Only after the breaking of the vessels.
31. S. (01.32.42) In This exact moment how can we put awakening into this?
R. There is always room for that.
32. R. I would like to add one more thing, and none of us there isn't what is required in order to achieve adhesion with the society and adhesion with the Creator, no one has it, none. In all of those things we are opposite in the breaking of the vessel of Adam Ha Rishon, only by exerting to connect we began to receive the qualities and discernments and feelings from above, from the upper light. So the efforts should be in the connection between us, in the incorporation between us, in the group and on top of these efforts to be incorporated, included in the group we received from above what each one needs.
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33. S. (01:35:30) How can we help the friends in the 10 to overcome individual pride?
R. Pride doesn't interfere, it directs you correctly, we have to use all of the qualities in order to come to the right connection and pride is one of the qualities that also helps us. Keep going with all of the qualities, don't erase anything, there is nothing redundant in anyone and in this way through the right connection between all of the qualities you will come to the right connection.
34. S. (01:36:33) How do you interpret the term of one on behalf of the connection between us, the work something close in relevant to us?
R. This is something you have to talk about and understand, one is like we say on Passover, there is one God in heaven and Heaven on Earth.
S. One desire in the 10 where do we aim toward? What is that?
R. The desire in the 10, without it there is no 10, we call it a 10 after the future to the extent that we connect, what does it mean that we connect? We unite our intentions in the 10’s desires, the same intention to all ten desires, by this we become one. Within it we discover more and more desires, with increasingly more intentions and we work on the intentions we don't work on their desires. We want to use in practice all of those desires which are all aimed at the same goal, meaning the intentions become one intention, the desires are different, we can't control the desires. Our work is only on the intentions until we connect all of the intentions, meaning the use of each and every desire will be toward the same goal. This is how we come to the right conclusion, the right implementation.
S. If I heard you correctly, all of our efforts to aim ourselves, to yearn, to aim ourselves into the 10, towards the Congress and towards everybody is the same thing?
R. Yes.
35. S. (01:38:59) How to use the feeling of an ascent in the 10 as it's felt before the Congress?
R. This is something you should speak about amongst yourselves, how you can use this awakening that you find that is in you, first of all I am happy to hear you have an awakening, now how you use it, all of those moments and states it is good if you find answers to this, you can also talk about it with other tens.
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36. S. (01:41:27) I have a question about the previous excerpt, he writes that we are all included in one desire and by that included in the upper desire how does this happen?
R. The more we unite among us and have one desire, one intention to come to bestowal upon the Creator through all of the friends, according to this we realize the correction, what else is there to do? We have a person who felt alone because of the breaking. We have a 10 in which there is also some impression from the breaking, some Reshimot from the Creator and we have the Creator. So we have the person, the 10, the Creator and we have to unite them, that is it. We shouldn't run away from this state, otherwise we lose our direction.
S. I have a friend and now he is sitting here in the lesson. I feel his desires, intentions as they show them to me, we connect them together but how am I included, incorporated in the upper’s desire?
R. Perhaps the upper one hasn't been revealed to you so you have to understand that the upper one is a result of the connection between you, you can't see the Creator but it is rather come and see, BoReh, if you haven't come to the state of Bo (come) you have no Re’eh (see) You have to somehow depict it, imagine it to yourselves,
S. How is the best way to depict it to myself when we connect those desires, then what happens?
R. You have to attain the same root for all of you in the connection between you when you connect you will begin to attain it.
S. That's interesting. What does one root for everybody mean?
R. The Creator is the root from which all of creation emerges, that is obvious, this is why all of creation has to, through connection of all of its broken pieces that were broken deliberately, it has to attain the Creator as the source, as the goal, because he is the first and he is the last.
S. In every desire of my friend there is a root to the Creator, is that right that I have to connect with that, not with a friend but the root?
R. Try to cling to the friend with his disposition with his inkling toward spirituality and with that you will get to the Creator, I have nothing more to say, it is only words now. All those who are listening will be confused by it and I don't like this form of talk. Scrutinize it among yourselves, ask, cry, pray, do whatever you want but I won't be able to explain it any more accurately it will be only room for confusion.
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37. R. We have to come to a state where we have no demand from anyone much less from the nations of the world. They should come to connection, to incorporate mutual responsibility. These demands exist with respect to us from those who have a desire to the Creator, those who are called Yashar Kel, straight to the Creator. But the general public we can't have any demand from them, we only need to awaken in them some form of inclination towards us so we would take the deficiencies and desires from them, what is called MAN that we will raise them together with us, with our prayers to the Creator and through our work through the connection through us to the Creator they also will receive an incorporation. As a result, the Creator will be revealed to them, this is why it is written I dwell among my own people. The Creator is revealed in those vessels, in the vessels have reception, very heavy vessels, very big ones. They don't seem that way to us right now, because it isn't the time for them to be revealed this time has not come. But in them is the big coarseness and the greatness of the Creator is revealed in them in the connection of Galgata vEynaim and the general AHP.
38. S. (01:48:31) You answered one of the friends that the problem is that we grasp the studies in a dry way, but there's no feeling. How do you put the feeling in the study and how do you let the words enter the heart?
R. I understand what is happening, I went through all of those stages myself. For years I studied the study of the Ten Sefirot, TES, PTICHA and the Preface and also taught it, but today it is impossible to do it, because we have no time. This is why we have to work more on softening our hearts and connecting the hearts through our unity and we have no time. It is not working out for us to delve deeper into the study of TES and those dry diagrams from which we attain nothing, not even one concept spiritually that is written there can we detect correctly. So first of all we have to attain the vessel and then in order to advance the vessel we will have to also learn discernments through the study of the Ten Sefirot TES and that way advance. We will do as much as we can.
S. You were saying that we should extract at least one thing from the articles that will be carved on my heart, how can a person or the 10 plan or prepare towards the article throughout the day in order for it to be carved on the heart?
R. Those who listen to the article have to have a deficiency. I hope to hear from the article something very important for the correction of my soul. It is impossible that I don't hear in the article some message that Rabash writes specifically to me personally, now it is important for me to hear specifically this.
39. S. (01:51:50) What is the difference between Arvut mutual guarantee and Hitkalelut?
R. You have to go to yesterday's lesson and there we talked about it, Arvut and Hitkalelut, we spoke about it. I don't want to explain it on purpose, listen to yesterday's lesson.