Morning Lesson July 23, 2022, Transcription
Transcription is made from simultaneous translation which leaves a possibility for differences in the audio
Part 1:
The Ruin as an Opportunity for Correction - Selected Excerpts from the Sources. #30
1. Rav’s Introduction: This is something truly great if we can discover the sorrow of the Shechina, the sorrow of the Shechina is our desire to connect which we are unable to implement. The Shechina is the connection of our desires that we want to reach so in that place we will discover a place for the Creator to be revealed. The sorrow of the Shechina is the feeling we are trying to connect. We cannot reach the realization of it; we are not getting the result. The result is not revealed in us that we are connected together in the eternality of our desires, that in this desire the Creator is revealed. The Creator is called the one who dwells, he exists and fills the common desire which is called the Shechina, This is how we establish the Malchut, the desire, and by changing the desires to make them greater and aiming them even more to the revelation of the Creator in the desire, this is how we advance until our desire which has grown up too it's possible limit through 125 steps forward, I discovered in it the filling of the Creator through 125 degrees of attainment. This is how we reach the end of correction; we are already in the spiritual work of the Creator.
We just have to work in such a way the Creator will be revealed on the smallest degree, in his smallest power, it is a connection between us. This is the state we are yearning to reach; this state is not a simple one. We also hear and know that in our world even though it is natural but to get into pregnancy where the male and female cell will join together, sometimes it doesn’t work easily and has a hard time with how to help. Here too, we see that it is not easily possible to restore the crown as Baal HaSulam and Rabash write about it, that is not with a single moment a person is reward with his high Zivug, high very exalted coupling, but only good and mercy shall chase after me. Again and again he tries to reach a connection with deficiencies of the friends so that his deficiency and the friend’s deficiency to connect between them will reach such a connection and intensity that the Creator can be revealed there in the first degree. Hat all of us are giving our common deficiency and the Creator gives his desire and it becomes a unification between Blessed be He, the Creator and the Shechina, this is us, our common desire and it is considered his seed shall be blessed.
Then the Creator's seed shall be blessed to develop, grow, and be revealed in our common desire which we more and more put together and increase the common desire and the Creator is revealed and is apply in coming revealed in this desire and this is how we grow more with the Creator. This is how we are already on the way to corrections. I am very happy we are reaching such connections, congresses where you connect between you and are trying to reach such internal forms, no physical ones, so that it would match the Creator who is called the totality. So if we connect in such a way that each one wants to be incorporated in everyone we are assembling the Shechina, the place for revelation of the Creator. That opportunity we have in Balta, all over the world and earth, we are all incorporated there and are happy that this action of connecting the individual deficiency into a single deficiency. It can reach a state where this single deficiency will receive the deficiency of the Creator as we say one receives one. So let’s start our special meeting.
2. R. (07:44) Do you want to say something? You are looking for something in the book?
S. No, just Letter 19, that you spoke from Letter 19. I will wait so the translators have it.
R. Meantime he writes the following but not at once is one rewarded with this high coupling but only good and mercy shall chase after me all the days of my life and then he chases after that connection with Divinity with sweat and this is how he reaches that stage where ultimately he discovers the Creator, in which the Creator can and is willing and dresses in it and then one of them reaches the unification with the Creator and the Divinity.
Reading Excerpt (09:04)
3. R. (10:10) Yes, such words that you can’t find something else. Okay well nevertheless, we should understand and in such forms, specifically through such sorrow, yearning, chasing after the point, the first point of connection between us which we have to search for actually what form of connection, what intensity of connection has to be between us where we can discover the Creator. This is what we should yearn for and once we get there, we see that indeed everything was dependent only on us, our deficiency and the Creator was waiting and expecting and indeed the state that he was in was called the sorrow of Divinity. That he was waiting for us to be able to connect between us and this is the only thing that was missing in order to discover him. I see that there are many questions, well let's ask in a way that is very close to our topic.
4. S. (11:47) The first coupling with the Creator is that a coupling between what and what?
R. The coupling is between our deficiency to connect and the filling of our deficiency which is the Creator. Also to connect on his side we want to discover a deficiency for the Creator, as a result from the connection between us, that we can act and in this way we raise our deficiency to him from the vessel and he has been revealed on his side, inside of this deficiency, is the drop of semen as a drop of light inside the deficiency and then we reached the revelation of the Creator, to the created being and we both hold each other. Okay?
5. S. (13:03) What does it mean to pass on our deficiency to the friends, how is that expressed?
R. No, it is just to awaken that deficiency as much as possible in all the friends, but it is not that I pass my deficiency. I am just searching for how to connect all of the deficiencies together and to pass the deficiency from one to the other, we are not capable of that.
6. S. (13:44) We see now, this wonderful gathering of the friends in Balta and Moscow. I see how they are physically connecting the deficiency that developed from a physical connection, it seems as if we cannot replace that, with everything we do many times we see that this is the strongest thing.
R. Well for the time being, yes, we are in this world for a reason, and we connect between us on such a degree which is considered outside of spirituality because this is how we prepare ourselves for the spiritual degree of connection. Therefore for the time being, for us, there is nothing that is greater and more important than having Yeshivat Haverim between the friends, the ten, the group. But you can see that in our generation the Creator has already invented for us the virtual connection, not the way it was in previous generations so that we can be connected in our senses and thus nevertheless to develop inner spiritual deficiency out of the virtual deficiency. Okay?
R. The sorrow of Shechina meaning nevertheless, to connect we must discover how much we have a deficiency there, going to be a connection but only to the measure of the deficiency that is revealed. Yes.
Excerpt 30 (15:55)
7. R. (17:20) So all in all, we have two states, the Shechina in Exile, and the corrected state where the end of correction of there is already the connection of the parts of the Shechina and the light shine and the Creator is revealed in it and as much as he has corrected and connected. Okay? There is nothing to ask, it is all clear? Great. Read again.
Excerpt 30 Again (17:59)
8. R. (19:20) The Shechina is an exile, meaning not in the corrected state where all of its broken parts to begin with connect and they reach and reach, gradually a state where they are all connected there, for this is called the state of the end of correction and the light shines in them in wholeness.
9. S. (19:50) What is the difference between a Shechina in exile and Shechina and the dust?
R. There is no difference rather than the Shechina in Exile is a state and the Shechina and the dust is the degree. We will see that.
10. S. (20:18) Regarding the Shechina, how should we connect in a way that our common desire will become the Shechina where are we lacking?
R. We lack connection between us. We only lack connection between us so that we will understand that connection is our goal, our salvation, connection is that corrected state that we need to reach and that is it. Now in the state of Shechina so until as Baal HaSulam explains to us here very beautifully, very simply, that until we connect these parts that are broken to begin with they are disconnected from each other and therefore they are called, in that state, that they are considered to be in exile. Which means that besides the state, outside of the state where the Creator, the upper light can be revealed in them. To bring ourselves back to a state of connection that is the process that we have to go through, and we therefore have to bring ourselves back to it and we see how much in the world today the state is truly beginning to be more and more active, relevant. So that indeed from one day to the next we are coming closer and closer to a clear form of the Shechina in Exile. That the Creator is in Exile, and we are not able to connect between us, but our efforts should be to connect and discover the Creator that our world does not lack, and humanity does not have any other work. So as much as we want to reach that, in all kinds of different forms, through all kinds of different efforts, by this we are doing the work of the Creator preparing ourselves as the servants of the Lord.
S. We have so many friends that have gathered and every day we have zoom meetings and lessons, if I look at it from the side, it seems like we are always working on the connection between us but here he is not probably talking about that alone but rather a certain inner focus, with all of these friends gathering what are we missing in the connection of desire, persistence maybe?
R. Everything you said is correct, everything you said is true but nevertheless we are still missing the feeling, the inclination, inner deficiency in the heart in each and every one, that he is willing to give up everything only in order to reach connection. Meaning that the deficiency for connection will be the primary thing for him, the most internal thing in the heart and around this deficiency he needs to see his life, his social life, the life of the world, that it is all around a single point, it all revolves around a single point, the deficiency for connection with the friends. Then as Rabash writes then he discovers that there is nothing more precious in the whole of reality but only the friends.
S. About what you just said that is something new that we need, how to put the emphasis on that exactly? Maybe realize it in a special way?
R. I do not like talking about it so much because these words can put away the new friends, that they will be thinking what they are thinking about, I'm not ready for that. We have to gently use such words that besides adhesion with the friends and the Creator, I do not want anything else in life and therefore we have to, this is why this work should be done in concealment between us, like Rabash would say like if one wants to go to the Balta Congress and he tells his wife he is going there, that this is the most important thing for me. He'll miss out on a few days of work but that's not too bad, we will somehow manage, and she tells him well why you are going and for what, and he says okay, what do you mean what for? I'm going to love the friends even more, so that I can think about you and the homeless and about my corporeal work and about this life, this world I want spirituality. Only spirituality. So of course she does not let him go, she holds him, and puts pressure on him and this is why we have to realize that a woman here means the will to receive in a person, so we need to be cautious about how we even speak with ourselves even to ourselves the Creator reveals to us the correct desire in a gentle gradual manner.
11. S. (27:10) You partially answered my question, but my question is what is the work and what is the effort we have to unite all of our emotions into the center of the ten, is this a personal work or is that something we attain through a common prayer, how is this effort done in the ten?
R. Besides the effort that we need to discover, to reveal, all the rest the Creator arranges it. He reveals to us all kinds of deficiency, all kinds of manners of our desire and every moment, in a different way, both from within that we do not understand, that how our mind is working and also from the outside that we see seemingly that are friends. I need to learn from them and connect with them and I hear something from them, meaning that these things they develop in all kinds of different forms, corporeal forms and also internal form, intellectual and emotional and even spiritual form, this is the form of our development This is how it flows, we just need to pay attention to how much we are drawn to this and all the rest the Creator will take care of it. We are always in a state where the Lord, He will finish it for me.
Excerpt 31 (28:59)
12. R. (31:50) Let us to depict to ourselves that we have a broom in our hand and we are entering into our heart, each one enters his own heart and with the broom you start cleaning up, to sweep all of the corners in the heart where there is lots of filth, desires, thoughts, and plan so that nothing will remain there except for the desire to connect between us and with the Creator those desires will lead them and besides that we will clean up everything we clean up everything from the heart. Workshop: Let us hear from the friends how we are going to do that.
You take a broom in your hand, and you start to sweep and clean your heart and you leave there only desires and thoughts that are beneficial for connection until it will be a vacant place for the revelation of the Divinity, the revelation of the Creator as we call it. Until we truly feel that the heart has become clean, that we are cleaning all the corners, everything inside of it, we try to see everywhere where some foreign thoughts remain, some corrupted desire, all kinds of things, so that nothing remains. It is all empty besides the connection with the friends in order for us to be ready for the revelation of the Creator within us, go ahead please. Each and every one cleans his heart this way and leaves an empty place, truly empty, sterile, where the Creator can be revealed in our desires, in each and every desire, so the desire is so clean that the Creator can enter this desire and fill it. Workshop: Let us hear from the friends how we are going to do that.
13. R. (35:18) Tell us what did you find there in the corner of your heart?
S. Actually I am troubled, and I just realized how small and ridiculous and unnecessary things I have in my heart and how much I'm trying to replace the deficiency for the Creator with some small and ridiculous, unnecessary things and the only thing is that we need the Creator and bestowal and nothing else. I do not need anything else. I have you, I have my teacher, I have my ten, I have the world Kli.
R. When you speak like that about all kinds of things that you have in your heart, this means that the Creator also created, the Creator created them as well, how could you speak about them with such disregard?
S. I have a reason why the Creator created such confusion, so tell us?
R. That these things are very, very important because specifically by them I will be ready for the revelation of the Creator and any obstruction, any egoistic desire gives me the possibility, instead of it, to bring the Creator an inverted form. This is why the Creator is called BoReh, come and see that in Him the same form that was egoistic before this form remains and it is just that the intention in order to bestow comes there. That is that we do not change anything, the will to receive is like the will to bestow, the difference in them is only in the intention for what purpose am I using the desire, the desire remains. So it turns out that the Creator did not create anything redundant, and this is why everything is okay, we are close to that, and the Creator will change our intention and we will advance.
14. S. (38:11) What does it mean to clean if the Creator gives the intention?
R. From the will to receive that I do not want to associate with myself the use of the desire, that the desire itself stays, only its intention is not for myself, that is for others. Then everything is fine.
S. How can we do this process so that the desire, there will not be all these nonsensical things which are considered for oneself, what does it mean to make this change so that the Creator can be revealed?
R. Only through the connection between the friends, that we are impressed at how much everyone is looking and bringing out in something, but we connect our desires. How can we reach such a desire that we obligate the Creator to help, to fill the place, to clean it in order to bestow? That is what we are looking for and this search is the main thing, it is the deficiency that then the Creator finishes the work for us.
S. This search happens while the desire is filled with all of this trash and filth?
R. Yes, of course. I'm not ashamed of all these things, I'm not going into it, I do not scrutinize these flawed desires, that would be as a verse goes, “a fool sitting with his arms crossed eating his own flesh”. I will not go through that; I will not let myself go through that corrupt desire for even a moment. I want to immediately rise above it to a corrected desire.
15. S. (40:19) In this process what you said on the one hand we have to bring out everything from the heart so it will remain clean, on the other hand, nevertheless, to leave there everything that is good for connection?
R. I did not understand. Repeat please.
S. On the one hand you said we need to bring out of our heart everything so it will remain clean, and we need to live, everything that is beneficial with connection so how do we find the truth here? On the other hand we need to leave everything except for that which is beneficial for connection so how do we find the truth here?
R. We have to clean our heart from everything, of all our intentions for ourselves, nothing besides that. We cannot change our desires, we cannot get rid of our desires, all we can correct is our intentions, how to use our desire that is all.
16. S. (41:37) Actually this action of cleaning is done through prayer?
R. Yes, everything is through the prayer, you do not have any other connection with the Creator. You are either asking or thinking. That is all you have one thread towards the Creator In which you have to understand that you are only dependent on it. That is all.
17. S. (42:15) The broom is this a ten or is this the Creator?
R. The broom is the means by which I relate to the Creator through the friends to myself and to everyone. The broom is the vessel at my hands.
S. Who was operating the broom?
R. I do not want to go into that anymore. It is better if you think then to ask.
18. S. (42:46) How to obligate the Creator to clean my heart?
R. By revealing the dirt. By that we will have a reason to complain, to pray, to ask. I have to discover what is not clean, how we discover that when we start connecting to the friends and we see that we do not want it and we want to do anything but that and then there is already a reason to turn to the Creator to help me.
S. So it's not an operation where I come, and I start sweeping and cleaning?
R. No, I do that by the order of the Kabbalists. That is where I start. I do not yet have any desire for my correction or anything, but the Kabbalists tell me that you are in a state that after the shattering, all you have is desires and thoughts in order to receive for you, to feel good and others nothing, you do not relate to them. The most you all this relates to them is as our minds to improve your state. Now what should I do? I should try with all kinds of in the beginning, artificial ways to come closer to the friends. Why am I doing it? For what? Why and in what way am I relating to them.
I don't want to but if I want to stay like a beast, well I could just let go of this situation, not take care of it but if I want to rise to the state of Adam, human, resembling the Creator. I have to go into everyone. Meaning I need to connect it with everyone, go inside everyone and then I will you know the entire creation because the highest degree of creation is still, vegetative, animate, and speaking. Among the speaking there a difference in degrees, my society is the highest one, because it does not deal with anything corporeal, it wants to be in spirituality and in spirituality the highest form is connection between different people. We yearn for spirituality, it is not about philosophy, or psychology, it is about people who want to discover a new desire. It doesn't exist in our world, it is a desire to bestow, the desire to bestow belongs to the Creator but I want it to clothe in us, to be in us, that is called a part of God from above, to be in us, accordingly we work.
S. How do we take advantage of all the gatherings that we have in the world Kli, the small and big congresses that are happening right now, to increase the internal connection with the friends right now?
R. I'm impressed by your deficiency, you activate me, you do not let me stop. I am really impressed today by the connection that Balta and Moscow, what we see before our eyes, Kyiv, such great groups connect and certainly it makes me so happy that we, from all over the world, the group that is capable of connecting above the boundaries. Because we have one because we have one force that sustains us, so this is how it will be revealed in a connection between us. We will connect to him and reveal him inside of us.
S. It seems like physical connection nevertheless, is irreplaceable nevertheless it seems to involve some sort of new force from us?
R. During these years during the pandemic, we could stay 3 years, so I said immediately if you don't remember you can hear it in the archives. I immediately said it will be years, no one thought then this thought is a week lor two or three, they thought it was a small virus, but I said for a few years. In truth I did not have a feeling it would be so long. I thought it would be two years but now I already see that it is taking time and other viruses are coming from the holes of the broken will to receive and they are taking charge on us. During these years more than once I've been told let us sell our building, we have a building that we have invested in for years and it is big and special. So I said no, we are not selling it. In the future we will have meetings from all over the world and everyone will come, everyone will sit and fill this whole building with joy. I really hope that we are coming close to this, and the truth is, it all depends on us, it does not depend on some new remedy against the virus that some smart people will find. It all depends on how much we in our connection will replace this virus that the whole world has, with connection. It really goes one against the other, so let us hope that will, nonetheless, have at least such conversations but I'm afraid still that it will cause an outbreak of our disease between us and again to the extent that we connect with the right intentions, with the right deficiency, there is no place for the virus, you will see that yourself. We will discover that soon. Okay?
19. S. (50:27) This act of cleaning, what do we do with all kinds of foreign desires that surfaced seemingly are not related to connection in the ten and it is not so clear how to clothe on them in intention for the friends?
R. We have to make an effort to, time and again, going to the connection between us, in a multitude of people is the King's glory, so the greater the connection the easier it is for us to incorporate and discover the Creator. This is how we need to try to do such exercises more and more. I'm really happy that soon we will have another Congress in Germany. Right? Even though today it is not simple, and it is expensive and everywhere you cannot come but we are going to try to do that. The benefit here is still great, but we will hope that soon we will also be connected in the spiritual dimension and then we will feel ourselves that we really exist in the spiritual dimension but still, the corporeal world does not disappear until the last moment of connection because without it we cannot center that correction. The correction has to appear ultimately in the final correction of the lowest degree to the highest degree. In all the degrees, in all the worlds, in all the NRNHY.
20. S. (52:36) We have this full feeling of connection between us of presence and readiness for the lesson, how come YH cleans our heart more than the lesson?
R. Yes it is. That during YH, the Gathering of Friends, you only have the friends, and you feel that they are more or less equal to you. The main thing is equality because connection can only be among equals. That is why they are called friends. This is why it is very good that you were connecting, that is the most important thing.
21. S. (53:35) Maybe we have an opportunity now, in light of all the physical Congresses to also have the afternoon lesson together. We have a few hundred people that live 5 minutes away from the center, we can go there and support them together.
R. Are you in favor of us gathering for the new lesson together? I do not know. You have to ask management and ask our doctors and then we will do it. You know I go by the law, and I try to also examine the law where it comes from. Is it from political matters there in the government or some places? So we will examine that, and we will do, in short, check it out, check it and tell me.
S. In terms of the law, there is no law that prohibits this.
R. I know you, whatever you can say, I know it. Maybe I agree with that but besides that there are other things. What happens to us after we gather, are we, by that, are we discovering more disease, do we bring these viruses home and to other friends. I do not know. You act as if nothing can touch you. I cannot allow that for myself. That is it. That is why there is a problem here. You cannot always put pressure with your opinions, you are not responsible enough. What should I do? You are looking at yourself thinking we can do that with everyone and that is the wrong approach.
22. S. (55:56) I want to say thanks to all the friends who gathered for these congresses, we can say that we are all willing to open our hearts and clean our hearts. I wanted to ask, I feel that the dirt that is me, so how do we clean that me, that I from the heart when we…?
R. Exactly to clean this me from each and every one. So you found the dirt yet? So each one should go within himself and clean his “I” and turn this “I” to nothing, none, it is called cleaning his soul.
Excerpt 32 (57:00)
23. S. (58:28) That is clear right? Meaning that the Creator has sorrow, and he feels it much more than what we feel, first of all, we feel an egoistic sorrow, each one by his state, his degree and each one individually. Whereas the Creator feels the sorrow for not being able to increase and fill this deficiency he created to correct it and increase it to his degree. That he sees that he cannot do and that is why his sorrow is greater than our sorrow. A few times more. We have to understand this sorrow, to depict it correctly to ourselves, to incorporate in it, and to live in the sorrow that we are seemingly by our sick relative and with all of our strength we want to help him become healthy. We see the goal of our whole life there, so when we take care of ourselves in order to give the Creator an ability to correct ourselves to clothe in us, that is how we have to be all the time with relation to him. That is called to incorporate in the sorrow of the Divinity, of the Shechina.
24. S. (01:00:19) Many times we say that, here it says that if we don't have equivalence of form then the Shechina cannot give the light, there is a feeling that if you retain something you lose something else or what should we yearn for?
R. We should yearn for our intention to be in order to bestow for the friends and the Creator, for the friends that we support them help them, give an example draw them forward to connection and for the Creator that we relate all of us each one, as much as he's corrected, as much as he can turn to the Creator and present the place for correction, for revelation for him. That's how we turn but in truth in the meantime we understand more and more what we should do, ask and ask and we will scrutinize and scrutinize and this time, in this Congress I see that more than ever the connection is being attained, the deficiency, that desire to reveal the Creator, the connection itself, you take all kinds of forms but the main thing is the deficiency to reveal the Creator.
25. S. (01:01:57) When does lack of success in connection become sorrow?
R. When you acknowledge it. It depends on you; everything depends on your work in the group. I'm certain that if you will be connected to your ten in the right way, in an equal way, then you'll discover what else you are lacking, so that your deficiency will be correct.
26. S. (01:02:40) What does it mean adhesion with the Creator, if there is nothing which is not whole, exactly?
R. Repeat please.
S. What is a lack or lack of wholeness in the Shechina if there is always wholeness in the Creator?
R. In the Shechina there is wholeness so when it is starting to fill us with everything, all the way, a hundred percent, it's like a mother that wants to feed her baby 100% as much as she can with all the best things but the baby is incapable of receiving from her and he's crying, he is feeling bad but still he can't, maybe he doesn't know how to suckle from his mother for instance. She gives and gives and gives but he can't. So what should be done? That's why she's suffering so much. That's called the sorrow of the Shechina, and the baby is also suffering. He doesn't know how to connect to the mother, to be filled by her so that both can enjoy each other. This is how it happens until this day, and we are in this adaptation between the nipple and the mouth of the baby. We can adapt these things so that the baby can suckle, and the mother will gladly fulfill him and that's how it works.
S. How will the created being help his mother to nourish her back spiritually speaking?
R. He has to first understand that the deficiency is not in the mother, it's in the baby, she's capable, she's giving, she's ready for anything only for it to be for the baby and the baby can’t, he's born preterm he doesn't have the ability, he can't, he has to make all kinds of adaptations between him and the mother and that's us between. We have to adapt the Creator to the created beings, we are in between. Bnei Baruch, this group is exactly that connector between the Creator and humanity. That's why we have to also engage in ourselves, to organize ourselves to be adopted to the nipple of the Creator. Right, that's on the one hand. On the other hand we have to be also close, as much as we can, to the entire humanity and to try to be in the right kind of giving towards them when we want to pass on to them all the abundance from above, understanding, feeling, to bring the upper providence closer to them. That's how we should work.
S. No translation.
R......only to the connection between them, to the extent we connect more and more will authentically start out of our efforts we discover our connection with the group, our connection with the Creator, our connection with all the created beings advances which is the Shechina because we are like in the middle, like the nipple of the Creator and the mouth of the created being, that is where we are. We are that transition between the Creator and the created beings, that's how we will discover ourselves.
27. S. (01:08:19) No translation.
R. I don't know, that's something you'll discover on your own.
28. S. (01:08:48) Reading this excerpt there's a feeling that the Creator is not whole because he can't give us something directly?
R. That's correct, he cannot give us a deficiency for a connection to him, that deficiency is something we should develop, that's what we are missing for the Creator and the created beings to be in connection that the baby will grab on the mother's nipple.
29. S. (01:09:53) How should I analyze, so that all the deficiencies....
R. Simply keep on, keep on and keep on and don't forget about dissemination, a little bit, gently but also don't forget about dissemination because otherwise why are we here if all we want is to connect in the group to the Creator and we have no connection here for a broader public, it's called in order to receive and this is why in the meantime we're on standby, clear?
30. S. (01:11:04) By what can we focus on our intention?
R. Our intention is something simple, it's what do I want all in all. I want to be connected to the friends together so that we will have one thought, a connection to the Creator that is common with us to receive the force of bestowal until we really become like a deficiency to the Creator so that we can receive everything from him, give him pleasure. That's the final correction, we don't need everything else. If we want to increase our desire so that the Creator will fill it and enjoy it. That's called to receive an order to bestow that's all, there's nothing beyond that. We don't have many actions here on the way we can divide them to all kinds of parts or sub degrees but that's basically what's before us.
31. S. (01:12:34) Is there a chance that we will truly be in one intention because right now it's clear that we have the same goal but it's still that we're not operating towards a single point. It's like a two-meter circle and we want to truly reach this focus, this concentration on a single point.
R. That's until we discover that we are in one desire and one intention, it will take some time because we need, we still need to connect more. We need to think more about the place where the Creator can be revealed. That may be only when we work more together. We also need during the day from time to time to go back to that intention of connection that will be revealed soon.
S. Nevertheless, we need to reach a single point?
R. That's how it's called but when we will come closer we will see what one point means.
32. S. (01:13:50) From experience we saw that discovering the loneliness, the sorrow that we caused the systems, sometimes it's alarming and sometimes it pushes the person away and I can also imagine to myself that situations that we experienced intensive situations like the gatherings we are seeing now a person goes through such states of the revelation of his lowliness very quickly, what does he do in those situations? In what kind of preparation, with what kind of preparation should he come in order to discover his loneliness and his ignobility so it will actually motivate him instead of pushing him away?
R. To the extent that he bows down his head before the group to that extent he gets true correct vessels for spiritual advancement, that's it.
33. S. (01:15:05) What does it mean together or to connect a friend's deficiencies?
R. That each and every one is included in that point of connection that we can envision to ourselves until we begin through this point which is as if spiritual and not so sensible to us, but we begin to sense each one, sense the others, each one senses the others.
34. S. (01:15:43) I can't cleanse my heart from all the lower desires, how do you do it?
R. Only by connection. By connection we somehow build the connection between us, and that connection is called Mikvah which is the place where we cleanse ourselves and there's light in the form of water there that cleanses us and accordingly we are getting ready and more and more ready for the coupling.
35. S. (01:16:19) Is the tendency to cleanse our intention, does that just mean to aim us to the friends and pray for them?
R. Yes, but it's not just that. We have to connect between us so it's to connect with the Creator. There are two points here beyond the person; Israel and the Creator, Israel, Yashar El, straight to the Creator, that is me and my aim. Ohr, the light is the means that brings me back to the Creator directs me to the Creator and I connect to the Creator with the means called Torah the upper light. How do I activate the upper light? Only by becoming more and more connected so every day we have to be accountable how much I am more connected today to the whole Bnei Baruch Kli, how much do I support them, get closer to them, help them and they help me. That's something I have to be responsible for every day and that's how we advance.
36. S. (01:17:36) Does the cleansing of the intention in the ten happen in concealment or can we reveal these attempts to everybody?
R. It's possible, it's possible to reveal it in a gradual way.
37. S. (01:17:57) In excerpt 31 it's written that instead of the heart becoming a place for the Creator it becomes a place of filth, what is that filth?
R. All kinds of thoughts, desires, intentions that are not for the sake of the general correction or on the way there. That I don't actually need these as a necessity in order to advance and move towards the purpose of creation.
38. S. (01:18:32) How can we reach a state that we really only want the Creator?
R. How to get closer to that we have to get closer to the friends and through the friends I'll receive such thoughts and desires. I can't receive them directly from the Creator but to the extent that I invest in connecting with the friends I receive the right thoughts and desires from the Creator. So three things are at work here, me, the group, and the Creator, so the more I want to incorporate with the group the more correct thoughts I receive from the correct connection from the Creator.
39. S. (01:19:24) What is that nipple to suck on?
R. That nipple is the place of connection between the Creator and the created being. It is Malchut of Bina. Malchut that rises to Bina makes a lack in Bina and by that also showing itself it is ready to receive from Bina, and that place is called the nipple.
S. For us, what is that? The ten? To suckle from the friends?
R. It's our collective lack even not the entire ten but a few of people from the ten when they connect they become worthy of connecting with the Creator's quality of bestowal because in their connection they also achieve mutual bestowal and so their mutual bestowal achieves a form of bestowal of the Creator this is called Malchut rises to Bina and thus ten receive from Bina.
S. What do we get from that nipple?
R. The light of Hassadim for the correction of the vessels and then on a higher level the light of Hochma.
40. S. (01:21:19) If I understand correctly we are also a nipple for humanity?
R. No we're not the nipple, humanity doesn't receive through the nipple we will still have to work on this, but we also later receive for the sake of humanity too.
41. S. (01:21:42) Why should we show our fears to the friends? Can these fears help us in our work?
R. We have to reveal to the friends only what's good for their progress so first just like we see from how you treat a baby, you only give a baby good things, sweet things, we don't scare the baby, we don't give him something too spicy or too hard, only what's easy for him to digest. It makes them happy and good in many ways, that's how we need to hold our state towards the friends in the meantime in our initial stages for correction.
S. So that means that only inside, internal work?
R. The best thing is not to pay attention to all the corruptions, the flaws that arise just put them aside and work with the good things and then with the good things you will see how the bad things gradually become corrected until we discover that there is actually nothing bad in reality and it just seems to us that way that all of the bad appears as in lack in our relation to it.
42. S. (01:24:04) In our group and corporeality as we know a man goes inside a woman many, many times in order to put his seed in her womb so can we also say that the Creator also makes the light also many attempts to make a vessel in order to for imprint a seed inside?
R. Yes, that's what it writes, that not all at once one achieves the highest coupling as it says that mercy will as good will chase me all my life or until one sperm reaches a blessing meaning that it comes to the womb and then there's a coupling that can create a new soul.
S. How is the process of realization because it seems that we realize it after the birth, not during but after can we say it this way?
R. I don't know exactly what you're referring to, we will get to all of these things in a tangible way and then you'll see how it matches and corresponds and to what extent all the spiritual actions correspond to the corporeal actions but still it's not going to give us anything, just think about the spiritual.
Continues reading excerpt #33: (01:25:56) “The sorrow of the Shechina is that she must ...” Twice.
Workshop Question: The question is this: how do we shift all of the troubles, fights, questions we have to that we actually want to turn to the Creator with all kinds of claims and complaints. How do we begin to understand the sorrow of the Shechina from that, the sorrow of the Shechina? Imagine that there's a baby and there's a mother, the mother is willing to give everything to her baby, everything but as Baal HaSulam writes that he is born and he cannot receive anything as much as she tries to give everything, he can't or it's completely forbidden for him, he has to, he starts crying and screaming and the mother doesn't know what to do she's willing to do everything but there's nothing she can do, the baby doesn't want to receive anything because it's not ready in order to bestow and she can only give in order to bestow, and then there's no contact between them, he is not opening his mouth to what she can give and that's the way we can see our situation. Our entire work is to reach a state where between us and in the connection between us there's a desire that's ready to receive something from the Creator according to equivalence of form.
Just as the Creator wants to give to us we are ready to receive, and this means that he gives us a drop of milk and we are ready to receive a drop of milk and not something else and then he gives it to us and that's the whole outcome of our connection. So how do we come to that state of a healthy baby who can receive from the mother what she gives to him? She knows exactly what she needs to give, and she can't give something that is against nature and against his health and not for his own good so please how do we bring ourselves to a state of a healthy baby who is ready to receive from the mother what she has prepared and wants to give to him? How do we become that healthy baby?