Morning Lesson May 1, 2021 Transcription

Transcription is made from simultaneous translation which leaves a possibility for differences from audio

1. Rav’s Introduction: The preparation for learning the wisdom of Kabbalah is more important than the learning because everything depends upon the intention, the preparation. Therefore, we have to pay attention in what way we come to the study, what we want from the study. The study itself, the learning itself is only a means but it is a means to attain what has been decided upon in the intention to the learning, in the approach to it. This is why a Kabbalist would always pay attention besides to paying attention to what they are learning. They don't just study any book, because in the wisdom of Kabbalah you have thousands of books. Anyone who wants can write them and call them Kabbalah and a beginner can become confused in them and remain as if you walked into the woods and disappeared there in the forest.

The same can happen easily in the wisdom of Kabbalah because no one knows what it is, what to obtain and how to walk through it as there is no way clear to everyone or that everyone agrees that this is how it should be. Therefore, Kabbalists were concerned only with the direction. How to direct a person correctly as much as he understands according to the willingness of his heart according to how much he has internal preparations in his own nature, how ready he is to discover the truth and nothing but the truth.

That he doesn't fall into all kinds of belief systems or faiths or actions but only to attain the upper force. Everything else, ceremonies, rituals and other superficial forms of this world, nothing, in short, not even knowledge. How much to know, how much he is advancing and knowing the sources and the excerpts, knowing by heart, knowing information he doesn't understand or attain, but they remain abstract for him. All of that is not acceptable to a person's real heart, if it becomes revealed to a person and truly demands the attainment of the Creator's. Everything depends upon the intention of the study, on the prayer in one's heart to know the Creator, to reveal him. This is why today we are actually concluding the excerpts of the right preparation for the learning of the wisdom of Kabbalah and let's hope we will be able to clarify so it is clear to everyone.

Excerpt 28 (04:23 - 5:39)

2. R. What is Rabash trying to explain to us here. A person needs to understand that there is a goal in front of him which is the upper force, and a person needs to make of himself a clothing, a covering. It is as if there was something and we want to put on that something, some sort of piece of cloth or maybe some piece of cloth or plastic, so we glue it onto it. This is what a person wants, he wants with his desire to make his desire into something that he can rap, that can attach itself to their creator, the means by which he attaches himself to the Creator is called Torah. It is the lights that come to a person and help him become a clothing over the Creator. The Creator himself is the Creator. It is what we attain to the extent that we clothe it, and the person is the desire, which is not just a person, it is Israel straight to the Creator, Yashar Kel, by this clothing he wants to attain the same form and qualities as the Creator. In the end what we get is the Creator in the clothing and the lights that help a person to be as the clothing over the Creator all become one, Israel, Torah and the Creator are one. This is what we have to come to and in this we will have knowledge of the Creator, the qualities of the Creator, the state of the Creator. This is the purpose of our development.

Excerpt 28 again (08:09 - 09:24)

3. R. In the end they have to be as one, Israel being the yearning person to achieve adhesion with the Creator, the Torah the qualities, the laws, the conditions by which a person who wants to adapt himself to the Creator and the Creator is the root to which a person wants to adhere and who’s form he wants to acquire. Therefore Yashar Kel, straight to the Creator those who yearn for it, receive the form of the Creator. This is called the name of the Lord will be upon you. Let us begin.

4. S. (10:09) What does it mean that a person has to be the clothing for the Creator?

R. To clothes with all of your qualities on the qualities of the Creator, to adapt yourself. This is called the return of the children of Israel unto the Lord your God.

5. S. (10:39) What does it mean to cloth on the Creator and what is the right way to adhere to the Creator?

R. to adhere to the Creator means I want to cancel myself because I'm opposite from the Creator in all kinds of ways. I have to cancel myself, annul myself, that is first of all. Then I have to try to acquire all kinds of qualities of the Creator and then I become adhered to him. It is as I said that you have a certain physical shape and you take some elastic material, some Thin nylon or plastic and you glue it to that shape, to that material so it acquires the shape of the shape to which you glued it. This is what we need to do to replace our qualities with the qualities of the Creator. This is called adhering to him even though we are made up of the opposite material, we are at the desire to receive and he is the desire to bestow. This work is called adhesion.

6. S. (12:15) How to sync so perfectly like the Torah or the Creator to contain the third thing which is his desire to adhere to his form because no matter how many efforts we make to this condition, the Creator is still Utopia. So why is it?

R. It is incorrect that you can't attain him, it is the purpose of our development and there we already exist, in the corrected complete and final state. We have to go through this whole path in order to feel, understand and study the Creator himself because without going through all the stages of Dvekut until you adapt yourself completely to the Creator, you need to gradually attain it and distinguish between your will to receive and his will to bestow and adapt yourself to him. Precisely through all of those forms that exist in the Creator with your will to receive, which is opposite of his. By this you attain him, you study him, it is like a little child who studies life, who learns about life because he exerts, and it is hard for him, yet you see what power and how forcefully and what necessity a child has to achieve everything. He crawls on the floor he wants to get everything, and nature compels him to be this way. This is how we need to be in terms of attaining the Creator. How do we adhere to him like that plastic? So that with all of the will to receive that is opposite of his, that we are rejected from him, and nevertheless we look for a way to do this. Look about this process and you will see that out of this process from one thing to its opposite through the Creator, the will to bestow from its opposite, from us, the will to receive, precisely when we learn from these two opposites of form, we come to know the Creator, to attain him, to really become like him. Even though we are created beings, this is what he wants to make of creation. A person who comes to be adhered to the Creator, raises to this adhesion all of the levels of coarseness from 4 to the root, all of creation comes with him and by this he attaches and brings all of creation, dedicates it to adhesion with the Creator.

7. S. (16:00) What is being with complete faith, what is this desire we need to have for complete faith?

R. We will learn this. The main thing we need is to yearn to come to a state where we do everything that the Creator reveals to us of him, all of these laws and qualities that he reveals to us of himself are qualities of bestowal and love.

8. S. (16:55) What kind of a deficiency should we feel so we can form such an internal desire?

R. The initial deficiency exists in all of us, otherwise we wouldn't become such an organization as Bnei Baruch, who engages only in adhesion with the Creator. Besides, we have to do what we learned not just theoretically but to do and carry-out, perform these activities in practice. Among Us. To feel, to do this work together we have to help each other, this is how we achieve it.

9. S. (18:09) We have so many books to read in so little time in the day between the morning lesson, is it better to stick only with what we learn everyday with you?

R. This is exactly the answer, if you repeat the morning lesson later during the day it is enough for you to advance a little more each day. I would say to read as less as possible and to study the lesson as much as possible.

10. S. (19:05) What is the right way to learn Torah and what intention should we have when we study it?

R. This is exactly what we will soon come to learn. On our next subtitle is the intention during the learning.

11. S. (19:46) You said we should wrap or cloth on the Creator like plastic, the Creator has to be something stiff or tangible?

R. When you discover his qualities, you will see that they are as steel, nothing less than that. Why did I give this example? Because I need to give something that will be clear to everyone and will somehow be palpable as this is why I said you have something that we want to cling to, glued to. It means that all I have is not important and all I want is this form, to attach myself to this is what is important. All of my thoughts and desires that are opposite, according to the root of my soul, all I want is to adhere to the Creator, I want to discover him by gluing myself to him. Gluing myself to him means I cancel myself, maybe in different ways each time, but I cancel myself and I acquire his form and his qualities of bestowal upon me. This is called achieving Dvekut, adhesion with him.

S. (21:24) You're saying he is strong as steel what does it mean?

R. He doesn't change, the creator doesn't change. I have to change each time and adapt myself to him each time, just like a little baby who clings to the mother. She holds it and he just wants to be glued to her, to go back in and acquire her form. This is how we need to glue ourselves to the Creator.

S. (21:56) He writes here that the first point in the beginning is the Creator that clothed in the Torah?

R. The Torah are the instruments, the means by which we adhere to the Creator, the Creator is in these, dressed that we attain, and we are the ones who want to attain. Three things, on one side you have the Creator, the other side is me and in the middle is Torah. Those lights that come to me and change me. I will be able to work in order to bestow and by that to adapt myself to the Creator. It means between me and the Creator is the Torah, meaning the upper light that comes to me according to my actions which is our connection with the friends, learning, these activities of bestowal and then I adapt myself to the Creator. The means to adapt myself to adhesion with the Creator, this means are called Torah. It doesn't matter what means they are because there is some reforming light in them, some force that makes of us precisely the form that makes us adjusted to the Creator inside we are still the same will to receive but on the outside our activities seem as bestowal.

12. S. (23:41) If there is no initial intention, does the study and the light build this intention?

R. Of course the people that come to the wisdom of the Kabbalah you can't ask anything of them as they don't have any preparation. They begin where they begin but bit by bit from the group, from the teacher, from the Creator, from the learning, they begin to receive some inspiration and influence and begin to change and understand. Nevertheless, it is good to pass this on to them, which is the Creator, and we are the opposite. Adjusting ourselves to the Creator meaning through the lights that we receive from the Creator we make of ourselves the same shape as the Creator and then we are like that plastic. Being able to attach ourselves to that shape which is called the Creator.

S. (25:02) You said we should replace our qualities with the qualities of the Creator. What does this mean?

R. It means that all of us are working in order to receive and in all of our states we have to change them to be in order to bestow. I exit myself in everything that I have so it will have the same form as the Creator so all the desires and thoughts and actions I will be able to make of them a shape that is suitable for being attached to the Creator.

13. S. (25:49) When we connect, we start to fill each other and in the background is the realization we lacked the intensity in our connection. So how do we use this lack of intensity to clothe on the Creator so we will get a stronger desire?

R. During the day you need to remind each other that this inclination, the disposition of coming to adhere to the Creator. This picture will constantly be in front of you. So that internally with my internal excitement and feeling I will constantly want to be attached to the Creator like a baby with his mother, with all of my qualities and thoughts and desires and everything I do, I will see my tendency to be attached to Him more and more.

14. S. (27:11) Should I scrutinize the Creator's effect upon me so I can learn from him?

R. You can't do this before you achieve the revelation. Through all of the activities that the Kabbalists tell you to do, that we learn, you have to make of yourself someone who wants to be attached to the Creator, to join him, really to cling to him as much as possible. There is nothing that separates you from him.

15. S. (27:57) It is not yet clear if we are so opposite like two magnets pushing each other away. How can we cling to him? Is there some miracle or law that we can understand?

R. There is a law here, through the study and the activities that the Kabbalist recommends for us to do, we achieve this adaptation, suitability. Internally we don't change, we remain different, opposite from the Creator. But externally when we put on ourselves the restriction, screen, and the reflected light we turn our will to receive into a desire to bestow and from this we get the glue, and we achieve adhesion with the Creator. Look at the words and how correctly they describe the essence of the actions, the operations.

16. S. (29:08) What is the difference between the internal work we should do during the day and the internal work we should do during the lesson?

R. I don't think there is a difference in the inner work, there is a difference in the execution, that's true. But not in the inner work as we should constantly try to imagine ourselves becoming more and more suitable, adapted to the Creator. And no force or incident in this world which also comes from the Creator, of course as there's None Else Besides Him, none of that separates between us and the Creator. In order to adhere to the Creator even more, we have to become more adhered amongst us which is called from the love of others to the love of the Creator.

S. Shouldn't we divide it this way so that during the day I'm thinking about every action I do as a preparation for the lesson?

R. This will be preparation for the lesson, what we are saying now. The active work in connecting among us and from us to the Creator is the preparation for the lesson. Don't get into all kinds of philosophies that are disconnected from reality but on top of all of reality that we have to be connected among us and to the Creator.

17. S. (31:02) If the Creator is like the rock and my material always changes, how do I make my material more stable?

R. Every time we attain some form of adhesion with the Creator, this form sometime later disappears and instead of it we feel some opposite form that is farther, weaker, that we have no inclination or desire, it will always be like that until the end of creation. The biggest corrections to the world where there will be such a weakness and terrible disconnection, and this is how we will feel it along the way. Because more and more opposite forms are being revealed but accordingly, we have the preparations within us to turn them into adhesion so there is not a righteous man who does good and did not sin. This is how we walk, and, in every place, we fall and rise and fall and rise and we imagine the Creator is in front of us and we want to adhere and cling to him. As we said about the nylon that becomes attached to some shape.

18. S. (32:54) Yesterday in our 10 there was a very strong impression for a question, we have friends who are doing what they can you are praying multiple times a day for a long time and yesterday there was an impression that we are lagging behind that we are not in the pace of the acceleration of the light, of the program and it created discomfort and fear and we are struggling to find out where we can improve and add qualitatively because quantitatively we are with our back against the wall, how do we accelerate?

R. Search. I have nothing more to say as there's plenty of material on that. The main thing is to help each other and also, we will learn the intention during the study, let us finish the questions quickly.

19. S. (34:19) Where should we look in order to identify the qualities that we should adhere to?

R. It doesn't matter what qualities I have to attach myself to. Which means I lose myself and acquire the form and shape of the Creator, I want to turn my will to receive into the intention to bestow so just as I am with my character I want to work only to bestow, to reverse it and invert it.

20. S. (35:15) What would you recommend us to increase our faith?

R. Soon we will learn this, friends we will learn this soon just let me finish the questions.

21. S. (35:43) What is adhesion and why does it feel so far away and opposite from me?

R. Adhesion means I make of myself the same shape as the Creator whose shape is bestowal and I find that I am the opposite from it, that I am the receiver and every time more and more shape and forms of my receiver through the coming of more light that shines upon me makes me feel more and more opposite of the Creator. I don't have the strength or the desire and qualities, none of them. Then I fall into despair, I get disappointed and here is all of our work. Despite this feeling that we have. Along with this feeling we have to say I don't mind, I don't mind what I am feeling now, I don't care what's being revealed. I still want to be similar to the Creator, to cancel myself, as if it doesn't exist. I'm very simple. Because any form that begins in spirituality, begins in the form of impregnation and Ibur, means complete annulment before the upper one. It's not that you are small like an embryo in its mother's womb that begins to develop, it means that you turn yourself into a zero. Just like the Creator when he created me as Reshimo, the drop of sperm, this is what I have of it and nothing more. Each time we begin with the same form, the same shape and then we begin to develop more and more. By what? By wanting more and more to be adhered to him, I don't care what state, or to what shape as long as I am attached to him like a baby holding onto his mother, this is what is important. This is how we will advance. All of the states that we go through suddenly, only from the Creator because there's none else besides him and on top of all of those things, we have to feel ourselves in adhesion into him.

22. S. (38:36) You always ask us to connect but it still seems weak, what are we lacking?

R. You are still lacking the knowing, the feeling, the impression that without connection you cannot achieve similarity with the Creator, according to what will you be similar to, according to what example and by what rule or what anything. How can you say that this form is similar to the Creator? This is why the Creator broke the vessel and gave it a chance to reconnect and we grew the connection between us that is growing more we can say by this we achieve the form of the Creator, so that we come to some similarity between us and coarseness of root 1,2, 3 and 4 that these are degrees of adaptation to the Creator this is why it is called from the love of people to the love of Creator. This is the example for us, the 10 is the example where we come to a stage where if we unite then it is certain that we achieved the form of the Creator, that we come to it. Perhaps not with enough power to reveal him but along the way we have to perform some operations of adhesion among the friends and then you come to a state where you discover the Creator through the connection between you.

23. S. (41:00) You were just explaining that the Torah is in the middle between the Creator and the person and clearly the 10 is also in this line maybe between the person and the Torah but where is it more precisely?

R. The 10 is the shape through which you adhere to the Creator, in the 10 you should reveal the Creator and yourself together this is the means, the instrument. Where if you want to discover the Creator, by all means come to the 10, adhere to it and get into it, here you can connect and participate with the friends. If you participate with them, with as much power as you have, it turns out that through this operation you begin to discover the Creator. because the 10 becomes 10 Sefirot and in them you begin to discover the force in the 10 Sefirot, which is Keter and you discover the Creator, this is called from love of others to the love of the Creator. That the 10 becomes the vessel in which the Creator is revealed.

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24. S. (42:52) We are coming closer to the Creator by dissolving in the 10, in the center?

R. I don't know about your definitions, what I said, I said and what you said I disagree with it. Agree with the words I am saying.

Excerpt 29 (43:24 - 44:25)

25. S. This means that the main thing for us is that we will always aim ourselves to advance, to come closer, to adhere, to clothe on the Creator and this is all attained by the connection between us. This is why all of our prayers, the prayers in the 10, the prayers in the quorum.

Excerpt 29 reads again.

26. R. Meaning before they studied this is how they prepared themselves.

Reader continues: “the word aim means the directness of the heart....”

27. S. (45:44) If the first Hassidut prepared for 1 hour it seems we need more?

R. We have no way, do it for 4 to 5 minutes and you'll see how your thoughts are going in all different directions.

S. Exactly, so what do we do?

R. We try as everything depends upon the intention. We are having some preparation before the lesson that I am happy to see. I am in it. I come also and I see at least in the preparation with everyone at least 20 minutes I am also with you. It takes time, it will change.

Excerpt 30 (46:49 - 47:32) twice

Excerpt 31 (47:33 - 49:28) twice

28. R. This is how we reach gladness as a result of Torah. Torah makes you happy and joyful.

29. S. (49:39) What does it mean to feel a taste of serving the Creator?
R. I can't explain to you what the taste is because first there is ‘taste and see that the Lord is good’, when someone reaches some contact, adhesion, connection to the Creator, to adapt yourself to the Creator, the glue is Torah. When you adapt your qualities thoughts and desires together, when everything is adapted, similar to Him by canceling yourself this is called the action of restriction and then you adapt yourself to Him, these are forms of adaptation of making your desire as his and by this you start feeling the qualities of the Creator, as your own in yourself and this is called attainment. That you attain the qualities of the Creator that fill you. What enters into you and by this you attain him and then you feel and see in your senses how good he is, the good that does good, that you feel this feeling, you attain this feeling and the knowledge. The feeling of the world. What the Creator has to the extent that you adhere to him you also start feeling yourself in the same height and qualities, this is why it is written ‘return oh children of Israel to the Lord your God’. Whoever is attracted to the Creator is called straight to the Creator and all the way to the Creator means whatever he has you attain; this is called complete adhesion.

30. S. (51:57) What is mercy?

R. We didn't learn this now.

S. Maybe he means the first Hassidim?

R. There were people who yearn for bestowal because mercy are the lights in the degree of Bina and a person who performs actions of bestowal is Hesed. The action itself of bestowal is Hesed, mercy, everything belongs to the degree Bina, Hafetz Hesed, desires mercy.

S. What are Hassidim?

R. Hassidim as lights or people, the light that spreads in the vessel that only wants to bestow that spreads the restriction over his will to receive becomes a vessel end its foundation is always a will to receive, opposite of the Creator so when this vessel performs are restriction over its will to receive then wanting to be in bestowal this is called being in Hassadim. Also, the people who wish to reach this degree are called Hassadim. We have to examine if these people are truly what they call themselves, as usual with human beings some are this way and some are not. If we are the study itself this is how the study is, the will to receive the vessel, when it reaches the quality of bestowal is Hassadim, the degree of Bina and from there it can grow by even receiving in order to bestow. This is the degree Hochma and Keter under the condition that above the degree Hassadim he has more forces, whoever reaches Bina, the degree is called Hassid and righteous even though not a complete righteous, but it is right this.

31. S. (55:20) He says that in the equivalence of form the concealment is removed, what is that?

R. Concealment of me feeling darkness, wanting to adhere to the Creator but I don't feel his qualities, they become for me darkness as the darkness is already help from above, from the Creator that shines to me in the darkness. Where the darkness is the posterior side of the light, many people of the world say there is no darkness, everything is okay. So, if a person comes to the Creator but doesn't attain the light, the qualities of the Creator he is considered to be in darkness this is how he feels.

S. What does it mean that the restriction is removed?

R. That if he is willing to work in order to bestow, he is ready to work in order to bestow to that extent the restriction is removed, this is light or not for now.

32. S. (56:44) How do we overcome the disturbances of this world to be directed correctly?

R. To never leave the Creator and to pray all the time, we learned that everything is only attained by the force of the prayer. To always be aimed at the Creator and to pray to ask, I'm not even to ask but to always talk to him all the time, even if you don't hear and you don't understand the way He is answering and in what way. You should always turn yourself to Him.

S. What is important to ask from the Creator?

R. That is something you have to scrutinize about what we should ask the Creator, only one thing do want to bestow like Him, to want to be like Him, to want to grow.

33. S. (57:59) What is the difference between the intention before the study and during the study?

R. The intention before the study is the intention of what I want, the purpose of the study, during the study my intention is when I concretely and specifically want to be adhered with my friends and with everyone according to the Creator and the subject we are learning.

S. What is the difference between them?

R. It is not the same, it's the same direction but not the same, before the study I want to reach in general adhesion with my friends and to the Creator and during the study I want to reach adhesion in the Creator according to the subject of the excerpt we are studying.

34. S. (59:05) Speaking with the Creator all the time, is it in important to talk to him with the content?

R. The most important thing is to always be talking to the Creator.

S. So if the content doesn't matter, the fact that, I mean a dialogue on connection with Him regardless of the content?

R. Yes.

S. So this is psychological work?

R. You can call it that, but it becomes the truth, when you constantly turn to Him you don't really know what you are saying, you don't identify what he is answering, but you are always directed to Him and what could be more important.

Excerpt 32 (01:01:13 - 01:02:50)

35. R. Everything depends upon a person's desire, what does he want? If I come to the lesson and I don't basically want anything, okay, besides that with everyone I hear and I get some information, some knowledge. But if I come to the lesson and I understand that I have to get some help, to get some remedy otherwise I'm in a dark, bad state that I don't attain what I want, that life is just passing by all of these things. Even my egoistic desires tell me what you are alive for, what are you learning, scrutinize that, I didn't reach a stage where I have to obtain, I have to find the answers to that. This is why there are two things here, while studying Torah, for the sake of studying Torah he wants to know, we should understand what is the intention with which he is studying. We read the articles, we're soon going to TES, what for? It's not just the study itself, I won't know more than a computer and a computer remembers everything, it is to observe the commandments of the Creator as it is written, you shall reflect upon Him day and night. Either I feel myself and I do this day and night. Some people just study this, that is all they do, and it doesn't matter what they study, but the main thing is they study, they performed the study or is he learning in order to receive the light of Torah, this is something else. There are two states, two approaches to the study either to study because this is how it is written, so that I will read, and this is considered studying Torah so I don't demand anything from this study except for the fact that I invested such time to do this, and I hope that I will get some reward.

Usually, it is in the next world or it is in order to get the light of the Torah because he needs life of Torah in order to cancel the evil within him, as I say just said we have created the evil inclination to increase, it turns out he is learning in order to attain the spice as the light in it reforms him. There are two approaches to studying Torah, some study because that's what the book says, as smart people have said let's learn what they wrote and what is important for me is what they wrote. I even studied to remember what they wrote and to learn it by heart I memorize it and by that I become wise. Why am I wise because I know what the books say? What you do get is a change of nature and column to happen, no matter what they study but what matters is the result, the outcome of the study, this is why they learn of a page and another page but don't count the pages, I count the changes in me that I have received by going over these pages. If I haven't gone over these pages in the right way, I won't get any changes, what changes should occur? Seeing how much I am in order to receive, how much is, nonetheless yearn to be in order to bestow. I have to criticize myself, to examine myself and to see what I am yearning for, Kabbalist don't pray to no but rather to attain adhesion with the Creator. That is, it is written it is not the wise who learns, why is this not someone who remembers everything that is written somewhere like the wise of this world. The wise person in Kabbalah is someone who obtains the light of Hochma, this happens by him correcting his will to receive in order to bestow.

36. S. (01:08:29) You said before, that during the lesson during the day is more important than reading the writings and I say when I listen to the lesson there's a different feeling that something happens, there is an acceleration, can you explain this?

R. Of course it does and if you do it a few more times you'll see each time you discover new things there in the text itself and besides that, the way you understand the text you will see within the text new discernments, different discernments appear to you. It is written even more that one who goes over the study 100 times is not like someone who did it 101 times, even in these degrees.

37. S. (01:10:08) You said we come to the lesson to get medicine. We get the prescription from where?

R. From the light that reforms, the light that reforms should give you the deficiency, it gives you the fulfillment, everything depends upon it.

S. That is already the medicine itself, how do we come to understand that we need to be healed, first we need the prescription before coming to the pharmacy?

R. That too is by the study, by learning as you have nothing else, you should reach a state that everything depends upon the study in the group when you are in the group that you have to reach a connection with the friends and connection with the text ask yourself and the friends and with them together to the Creator and by that you give contentment by clothing upon him.

38. S. (01:11:52) When you say counters envy increases wisdom when you count the corrections and have not corrected enough?

R. Yes, of course you are correct.

S. So how do we continue with the corrections because I envy myself that I didn't do enough, how do I increase the desire to correct?

R. To increase or to restrict?

S. To increase, to add corrections?

R. Keep learning and you will see, the main thing is whatever you see about being attached to the friend and to the study and by that you discover the Creator and are attached to him, there are only three things, Israel, the Creator, and the light. That is all. Israel is you, yearning to reach the Creator, the light is by the group when you retain all of the conditions to attach to the Creator and the Creator is the one that you reveal by the addition to the friends from the friends to him to the Creator.

S. How do I awaken this more in the 10 so it will happen?

R. All of these verses, if we discuss them, it will bring you an understanding, a feeling, an impression, and I don't have anything more to say, everything is written here.

39. S. (01:13:53) You explain the learning should be with gladness because without joy we can't advance. During the day we had a workshop and we talked about the learning of TES and the friends shared how they felt, out of the conversation with friends, concern and maybe fear came up about learning TES will not be intellectual, how does it bring something new as you expect of us?

R. To me I am also afraid that when we start TES and we will suddenly discover that we are learning physics or psychology, rather than by wanting to be adhered to the Creator and wanting to learn how to adhere more and more. The restriction, the screen, and the reflected light, these are things that we have to locate inside more and more, develop them. We will start and see; a different study is going to make us go further away from the goal. We have to see the study as a means to attain the Creator, that every time He will increase our will to receive at the time, we will want more to be in order to bestow and we will see how much more compressed and connected in 10s we need to be. That finally the Creator will start being revealed between us.

S. It sounds as if the learning is dependent upon an internal change because when we spoke int the ten, we thought that we weren't there yet. So how do we get there, what can promote us to reaching there?

R. Only the thought in the heart for each one, what should I do in order to keep what I am required to do and reach adhesion and the revelation of the Creator. The light that reform, that we awaken in the study, it should be awakened by all of us in the 10 and that we out of the 10 demand the Creator to be revealed as the light that reforms will connect us and that is how it will be revealed.

S. I feel we are advancing through the world Kli now that we are going to start TES. How do we see the Kli get into studying TES, as it seems that the Israeli speaking vessel is closer because of speaking Hebrew?

R. We will have to help everyone so that the whole world will come to these stages and that at least part of TES, the first part and some of part two and other parts, we will have to learn them in a way that everyone will understand that the lessons will be in hands reach for everyone in the world. Otherwise, why are we here if we are not the same passageway and all the created beings?

40. S. (01:19:11) How do we build the common intention in the 10?

R. Talk about it between yourselves and read what is relevant, read the articles of Rabash about the 10, how each should annul himself to the 10, to the extent you annul yourselves you will have one intention in one Creator, the steps you take are one, you will see because you can't take one step forward if you're not connecting more. Advancement is by us connecting inwardly, in the common center. It is as if we are the most external circle and we have to advance, coming closer between us with the most inner circle, the most inner point, inner point is where we are attached to the Creator.

41. S. (01:21:03) We felt that the method and analysis of the text it's essential to our advancements. The question is, how do you use that same method to teach us?

R. I don't know, let's do it together, we will learn, we will try to interpret each and every word by its internal characteristics and then accordingly we will see what is written in TES and we will also understand the introduction to TES, which is not simple, where Baal HaSulam writes concealed method of how we should come to the Creator. He wrote this study for people to know what it says, it's not the wise that learns, but only according to the degrees of adhesion do you retain this. Let us hope that we will understand this principle and implement it throughout our whole study without letting our corporeal mind and emotion draw us to study superficially. Let us hope you understand these things, we will study them together and explain them, all of us, to all of the world so that the other people that will come after us more and more to study correctly, that they won't have the intention to do something immediately. It's rather to use all of the elements of creation in order to attain the Creator in the form of the light that reforms and then as an upper light that fills the entire reality.

42. S. (01:24:15) If we can go over the introduction to the study of TES without the lesson?

R. When you are in the 10 certainly, when you are in the 10 you can review what subjects, we have learned are in the morning lesson and should you do the same with TES as we study it, we will think how it will go as it doesn't seem so simple to start studying TES the same way. I have this fear about this, we will see how to do it together.

43. S. (01:25:37) What are the vessels that are called equivalence of form?

R. The vessels that are in equivalence of form are vessels that are aimed to bestow, there are no other vessels but the vessels of our will to receive that the Creator created to bestow to others outside of it or to the Creator is called the correction of the vessels.

44. S. (01:26:26) Isn’t observing the commandments of the Creator bringing the light?

R. There's only one commandment to be in order to bestow, if you know what your desire is or what the desire of the other is, if you are acting for the other, it comes as the opposite of your desire and if this is all true you're in the desire to bestow and by that you are like the Creator and if you do that correctly you will feel what the Creator feels and by that used to discover the Creator.

Excerpt 33 (01:27:52 - 01:28:33)

45. R. This means a man has to put himself so that the study would bring him closer rather than distance him. One gets further away from the Creator as a result of the study but that's when you don't learn in a 10 it's not from a group it's one thing. The other thing is when you study from the wrong sources. Studying from the wrong sources, that's what he says that while when learning, one should discern in front of whom he is learning, he distances himself from the Creator because sometimes if he doesn't do it, he distances himself with learning from the Creator, that's why in each time an hour he needs to be in front of the Creator.

Excerpt 34 (01:30:09 - 01:33:16)

46. S. What does it mean that our study tires the power of the evil inclination?

R. If we are drawn to receive the power of the Creator from the study, then the study becomes just a means for the main thing it is how much do I replace my intentions to receive with intentions to bestow if I am for that then my study is a correct study and it doesn't mean how much I know, rather how much I want to be the bestower and accordingly I become closer, more bonded with the Creator, that's it.

S. If I relate to what we are studying now, in this moment, we need all our thoughts and desires to exchange for concern of the friends?

R. No, not that much but as a means to care for the friends I need to aim myself to care to the Creator.

S. What does it mean?

R. That their intentions to receive, that I don't want to have in me, I don't want to have any intention to receive and if it awakens and I'm happy, it was already there and now it appears finally and now I start working in order to transform it in order to bestow so it's like Baal HaSulam writes I'm happy with the wicked that become revealed and I will put my eyes on them and they will become a heap of bones.

47. S. (01:35:39) The Baal HaSulam gives special attention to the qualities of the efforts to the need to aim the heart and the mind to extend the lights. What are these actions?

R. Connection between us, there's nothing besides that, you could do whatever you want, it's not going to help you at all except you might discover that you're not on the right track but if you are working in connection with the friends in order to reach a connection with the Creator, then it turns out that you start feeling how much you've changed, you've become worse and better and worse and better, ups and downs you go through various states.

S. We're engaged in this all the time connection in the 10, does it mean there are forces of the desire to connect?

R. The quality of the connection of the force is not the intensity but the quality, what for, how to go forward, that's more important.

S. The quality in the efforts of connecting does that mean as much am I doing more is the friends are getting better and we advance as much as I'm giving pleasure to the Creator above all the disturbances of the Creator gives me and I approve myself more and more and that's how I scrutinize all my details?

R. Yes, correct.

48. S. (01:37:44) What does it mean that the mind wasn't set on the study?

R. What does it mean that we, our minds are distracted from the study, it means to bring faith of the force of bestowal into our hearts, into our desire, heart means desire so we want our desire to be filled with the intention in order to bestow, the intention to bestow. This goal on the study that I desire will be filled with the intention to bestow then we can work with his desires in order to connect with others in order to bestow and then connect with the Creator through that and will be raised ourselves and all the levels and the rungs of the ladder and so on.

S. In states exit and entrance, is that also not called do not have a mindset?

R. The fact that we go in and out back and forth with spirituality, it's actually how we acquire new degrees, new states, new qualities therefore it's impossible to make an ascent in spirituality without starts and stops like these changes in states where we feel the will to receive that is new and heavy. Once again, I'm darkness not understanding far away, this means a new desire that has appeared in me that that become revealed more and more and that's a sign that I can overcome it and come to understand that I'm in connection with the Creator in adhesion with the Creator and get to a higher form, the deeper the fall, the higher ascent and so how do that's how we advance.

S. If during the lesson I hold onto the intention and I discover that I'm in a completely different place, so what do I do?

R. This means that you have grown far from the friends and therefore you've lost your connection, that's all it is.

49. S. (01:41:18) What is the meaning of being negligent in these qualities?

R. Negligent is that I'm not looking for new connection in each and every state with each and every friend and through them to the Creator, that I am typically forgetting that this is an adaptor that exists between me and the Creator which is the group and I think that I, myself, can be in connection with the Creator without them and that's typically, usually, the failure of the people who live and go and fall into despair because it doesn't work out for them, that's because they are losing the right connection. Israel, the light in the Creator is one, is the real meaning for the yearning of the Creator, the light is the Torah, and the Creator is the interior of the 10 that appears if that part of Israel, connect with the 10 and draw the light that reforms, it reveals the Creator there, then all these three components are together Israel, the light in the Creator are one.

50. S. (01:43:17) Why does the effort feel harder to achieve than the quality?

R I don't know, work both on this and that and we will see, I don't think it's like that, but we will have to clarify that, explore it in quality, it's a lot more difficult.

51. S. (01:44:00) How can we not deviate from the intention during the study because we studied you with thousands of thoughts come in that deviate me?

R. Now, now, you understand why for such a long time I waited until we get to the right intention of the study so all the previous things and matters will settle in between us and that we will recognize that the intention determines how we advanced; otherwise, we study not just what's written in the book and this becomes just count pages or we learn how to reach the Creator and we reached the Creator so that He appears through the study, that's the whole difference. The difference between Kabbalist and all the rest of the sages and the religions and different teachings and whether they are the factions in Israel, Kabbalists are a unique group that study in order to attain the Creator and through the study to adhere to the Creator, to be in adhesion with the Creator and through that to discover Him.

52. S. (01:45:59) How to be in happiness with the feeling of fear that you don't exert enough and because of the confusion you can't really aim yourself towards the goal, that's a concern in the state that I wasn't negligent in the quality.

R. Keep going together, with us each time, try to direct yourself better and better, more accurately towards the purpose of the study and you will see how it gradually becomes more and more corrected until you come to a state where it happens.

53. S. (01:46:47) Does it mean that everything we need to correct until the end of correction is already in me and the correct Creator reveals to me one at a time?

R. Yes and the main thing is connection, we see those who try to connect to others and don't separate from the whole, the group, the 10, they keep going and they, those who isolate themselves from the 10 to some extent, making themself higher and greater understand better, can turn the 10 around and other things like that they typically for and lead us and so in that case. I'm not so sorry that they left, because they weren't connected anyhow, and they didn't really have an inclination to connect.

54. S. (01:48:23) Why do you say that the main part of the intention is a man helps his friend?

R. Because by that we come to a body that the Creator can bestow to, if we connect and by each one thing to help the other than this intention that everyone wants to help the other, this intention ties us together and then in the connection between us the center of connection, that's where the Creator can bestow and can appear.

S. How do I convince my selfish ego and I'm in the 10?

R. Persistence, persistence, persistence every time I have to make an effort and all these efforts accumulate into the correction, it will become clearer and through ups and downs but the center of connection between everyone is that place where the Creator will be revealed and there is no one higher, no one lower or anything less, everyone joins in the same way at the center, you can't even say who joins, more or less, each one with their quality is perhaps, it doesn't seem like that each one is adding qualities but according to the qualities they are already there and the Creator direct us in the way that we should be connected, still we just have to be in a state that we are all drawn into the common center.

55. S. (01:50:33) When we read the text and we have to hold on to the deficiency in the 10 with the desire to connect between us and the desire to understand the text between us?

R. We by aiming ourselves to each other, by that we build a quality where we are able to reveal the Creator between us until I exit myself I can't feel the Creator, I can only feel my ego when I want to exit myself and connect to the friends in this shared center between us, by this I build a place where I can reveal the Creator, He doesn't appear in me, He appears in our common heart and that's how we come to feel the whole of reality, the whole universe, the whole world, everything is built on this feeling because this is when we come out of ourselves come out of ego, instead of always connecting my ego, I go out by the 10, I connect and I begin to feel what is inside of me, without any disturbances for myself and I start to decide what the reality truly is.

56. S. (01:52:25) If I'm from my beloved means me for the friends in the 10?

R. Through Him.

S. What? How does Arvut take place?

R. By being drawn to this connection, Rabash writes about the working of the 10 within this equally, we then design the place for the revelation of the Creator.

S. So there's no Arvut, there's no love?

R. Of course, there is no love.

S. So our task is mutual love towards the other?

R. Depends on each one, relative to each one's qualities and soul.

S. Each one is different?

R. Each one is different; it depends on each one’s soul.

S. So how can it be Arvut if we are different?

R. We also can’t compare between us.

S. How does it balance?

R. By each one working on the connection between us based on what you say, I feel like I have a lack in some fundamental understanding so try and go over the material.

57. S. (01:54:28) In the inner work when I bring myself back in the 10 every time, does that mean quantity what does it mean to work in quality internally?

R. The more I can, in my effort against the disturbances the more I can yearn for and demand connection between us and direct the connection between us to the Creator, this is called working on the quality because it doesn't and with our connection that I can action to begin with needs to be aimed at the Creator.

Excerpt 35 (01:55:30 - 01:58:04) Twice

58. S. How do we still affect each other's hearts?

R. We can't influence ourselves unless some illumination comes from above and influences, directs us towards each and everything and that happens either by influence that comes from above or in a way that is part of the process and then each and everyone in the world wakes up and does things whether it's still, vegetative, or animate or human. Each one awakens to do all kinds of actions, any molecule or any atom doesn't matter, it all happens by the upper light that causes changes and advances all of creation to the final correction, to the complete match between the light and the desire that's it. In this process you have still vegetative, animate, human, Adam and among humans you have the still, vegetative and animate and the levels of humanity until you reach the resemblance of the Creator when you want to be like the Creator and so on. This is where we have to make our efforts, we can hasten our development and we can hasten a general development not just ours, but all of humanity, and the whole universe as one system. We are capable of doing that, we are actually capable of doing that, we are in the center of all of reality and through that we can draw that light that reforms which will induce that development, it will be speeding up development.

This is why it said that the children of Israel hasten the time, they accelerate the times and so that's us, if we don't want to do that then the lights keep shining from above more and more. Thus, we feel are self-suffering more and more and this suffering forces us to advance nevertheless, until this time that we've developed by corporeal development. Where we felt like we need to develop our science and technology and culture and all kinds of things and now we're going into a state which is called the last generation, we will there will be no more corporeal development, we'll see how people would not want to work so much in order to earn a lot. They would want to know why I am doing this, what's the point of all this of life, you will see certainly the younger generation but not just the younger generation also the older generation that after the pandemic when they stopped working so much, they would not want to go back to work in so much. There we will be able to do nothing about this because this comes from above because people are losing the connection between how much they invest in life and how much they get from life as well as their level of their lives, the standard of lives, they would not understand what's going on like children, what's the connection. Why do I have to work more for more money; however, I will become more available to hear that if we connect with each other more, we can benefit our lives and that is the actual struggle that's now taking place in the world it is just at the world is not understanding what is happening to it right now. It's going to be a very special time, people will not want to work and rightly so because there is no connection between the amount of labor, the quality of labor and what we feel we get from life, we will reach a state from which we discover that the essence of life has nothing to do with this labor, that's going to happen soon.

S. Is it a natural process that is in our development that we can bestow on our thoughts that we don't need to?

R. No, no, we need to participate in the events that take place, the thoughts the desires of the upper light awakening in us, we need to respond to it purposefully, meaning we have to better, understand what we are working for, what's the purpose, how do we need to work. We need to work more qualitatively, it's a very special time, it's a time where we can change things around from minus to plus, from world wards to the wars of the Messiah where each and every person feels that they must cope with the evil inclination.

S. You said that we say we hasten the times.

R. We received or go through a change, each and every moment we're going this direction that direction, when we understand that and help each other by disseminating the method of correction which is about why and what for everything is happening by that we hate in the times I will bet that we feel convenient and pleasant about our advancement.

59. S. (02:05:32) How can a person correct himself and the desire for spirituality? How much place for envy is there?

R. It is good that we have envy. It said that envy, lust, and honor take a person out of this world and takes them out of corporeality and into spirituality so it's very good if somebody is envious if you want to be resembling someone.

60. S. (02:06:20) If I understood correctly from this part when the heart is corrected so the desires are corrected as well?

R. Yes, that's the main thing correcting the heart, even as we are working all the comments of the Torah were given in order to correct the heart.

61. S. (02:06:47) Quality and quantity, how do we divide that in the work in the 10?

R. The main thing is quality, what does that mean, quality means that I think about, how do I advance, by what do I advance, what do I want to attain, that's the quality of the intention and the amount is also important but less than quality, think about what we are discussing.

62. S. (02:07:34) During the day it is easier to keep the prayer and to ask for connection but when I come to morning lessons it is much harder and I'm getting too much rejection. Why is it so?

R. Because you are, you still don't come to a state where you are but then soon a state will come that when you specifically come to the lesson then your intentions are right, your thoughts are right, even though you're a bit confused but you can use this confusion to reach a higher-level of connection.

63. S. (02:08:32) How does one determine the meaning of revealing the intention to receive and how does it transform into the intention to bestow?

R. It is transformed by the light that reforms. If a person has their own intentions by that he invites the light to act upon him and that invert the intention from to receive to in order to bestow

S. How to reject the desire to receive?

R. Not to be rejected but to correct it and not the desire itself but only the intention that's all he needs to come.

S. What do we do with the resistance to changing my form to keep my individual form?

R. It is great that he has an inner resistance now we have something to resist. To resist the inner resistance, you need to ask the Creator for help only by having a mutual enemy, a person can turn to the Creator only in such a way.

64. S. (02:10:12) We talked about the difference between heart and desire. What is that difference?

R. It is hard to say, it depends where it is written exactly, usually, the heart contains the desires and specifically the light shines on a specific desire and that desire awakens in a person.

Excerpt 36 (02:10:49 - 01:13:10) Twice

65. S. This line that the earth shall be filled with the knowledge of the Lord and the Lord shall be King of all the earth, why do we need this? What does the Creator want from us by that? What does it mean that the earth will be filled by the Lord?

R. The Creator wants to be revealed in the created beings, by this he raises them to his degree. That's called to do good to His created beings. It's not like you believe in your ego, that wants to gain something, to be proud, to be higher by this he wants to raise us to His degree which is a complete degree and eternal which is the highest exalted degree.

S. In this sentence Lord shall be king of all the land, that means He will be king of all that is?

R. Obviously will be controlling of all the desires because he created the will to receive, and he controls everything he created the desires like what's written in TES.

S. Is there a free choice?

R. When the Creator wants His creations, the human beings, to be independent from Him and then He created Himself in the concealment and He created free will in them, everything they needed from a drop of seed, that they will grow to a baby who will be born, and he will grow, and he will reach the state of an adult.

S. When I have free choice, I'll be independent of the Creator both connected and independent of him at the same time?

R. No, independent of course.

S. What does it mean?

R. He doesn't exist, and you are there instead of Him.

S. What does it mean to take on the control of Him?

R. That means that you have acquired an intention to bestow like Him and by that you influence others?
R. You're not making efforts to be heard correctly.

66. S. (02:17:05 In this last excerpt we read as in singular not plural, you've answered that what is the personal responsibility towards the 10.

R. Each and every one has to be responsible for the whole world as it's written. The whole world was created only for me, so I need to be concerned and correct everyone.

S. Meaning sitting and waiting as a ten is not enough?

R. Correct.

67 S. (02:18:10) What does it mean to have highways in their heart?

R. That when you study in order to correct your heart, you're going on a one-way track towards bestowal, and you get to bestow more and more and it's already established and becomes permanent inside your heart.

68. S. (02:18:49) How can we raise the acceleration of our own intention to what it was during the day?

R. I don't know, we have to see as much as we can get together, what can we do, maybe we have to do some work, let's say in the 10 but not specifically when we are connected the same time, all of us together like in our meetings, that each one gets some kind of part of work, I don't know we have to think. The main thing is to as much as I keep busy in connection with others, let's do this everyone writes a story like in school, how he thinks that by the connection we reach a state where we are all connected and through this connection, we reached the revelation of the Creator as one man and one heart. The more we connect, the more the Creator is rebuilding us an in this way we need to understand our whole path, and, on this path, we will discover all the degrees of advancement, what we will learn soon in TES, what will discover in all the states of correction that's it. Let's try and depict to ourselves what it means to connect between us and to connect between us the degrees of revelation of the Creator called special days or holidays and we want to discover these levels on the path, these stages.

69. S. (02:21:53) How do we raise the sensitivity to have one highway?

R. The Creator is giving us exercises for us to learn how to advance independently that's why we need to understand that there is nothing that comes to break us down, it is all in order to teach us more and more correctly how to connect more towards the 10 and that's where it says where the Creator strikes, He heals.

70. S. (02:22:54) We have to share this story with each other?

R. By us writing about the connection between us as I was just saying, by that we will also have to read between us these things and then we can discern between us what it means and discuss between us, there is no problem to do it inside the 10. Because we need to reach one heart so what is it that we have to hide here? We want to know one another, as much as I can't open my heart and I don't understand where I am, my friend opens his heart and then completes what is in my heart with his heart and that's called that we reach one heart between the friends. There is no problem to hide anything, we don't need to hide anything really, just because we all understand that there is no difference between us.

71. S. (02:24:24) About the progression of the lessons, it is very possible that if you miss one lesson fall back, how can you afford to miss me?

R. First of all you have to make him listen to the lesson again, we have to talk about the lesson that there is a time and place for it because there is no sooner than later what we went through in the last six months we can understand it today in a close way, clearer way, that's what we have to do.

S. Still your recommendation applies that if a person has an obligation that prevents him from being in the whole lesson, he should at least try make an effort to attend the first part.

R. I don't know how to say it, I can't say it like that first part, second part, third part, I don't know, I don't know, I can't differentiate the first and second part meaning the first and second hours are the main parts, sometimes the third hour means that we're coming to the end and you feel that a lot of people go out of the lesson because they've got already things to do on in the day and so on. There are those that are at the opposite, they come a bit later, it depends on what place they are in the world, what can we do.

72. S. (02:26:34) You said in the lesson that people will have the place to work on the quality.

R. I have answered this long time ago, at least at the beginning of the pandemic I've said it that even though people are crying that they can't work, that they been shut down, but they won't want to go to work, they won't want to go out of the quarantine though just feel good to stay-at-home.

S. My desire for corporeal work is being lost and only is to do dissemination, can that replace my corporal world?

R. But of course that if you're a big expert in dissemination maybe we can add you as not as responsible for Bnei Baruch, maybe Bnei Baruch can pay for his actions for dissemination if he has such special dissemination, we have people that write articles, I don't know what exactly there is there to do we have a dissemination department and that people will that work officially, salary, it's not high salary but it's regular, we do have those. If between you there are people who can do that, then it's worth a try, I don't know, I'm not part of the management or this system I, myself, am as every worker here.

73. S. (02:29:14) If I'm the worst of everyone then how would I be able to correct everyone?

R. By wanting to take care of yourself, by that you take care of everyone, by this you're doing everyone a favor that you're not pulling them downwards.

S. How should we relate to what happened at the disaster in Mount Meron?

R. We have to be sorry about the disaster. We are not pro such events. We are more towards internal actions and not external. This is the path of a Kabbalist. That's why I don't think that it's worth doing these things onwards. I understand that people want to come and connect and celebrate these things, but it seems that we are already in a more internal process and it's worth aiming ourselves to connect the hearts and not the corporeal bodies that are crammed there. But I'm truly sorry about what happened there, let's hope that it doesn't happen again, and that people understand the true reason for this. That it is a lack of connection, that's what brings us all the tragedies and the inner connections are in our hands and it will correct the world. Let's do this, the result of this is so that it will connect us closer, from heart to heart.

R. Repeat this excerpts we read today, the most important for studying the wisdom of Kabbalah and the studying is to correct our heart to make our hearts into one heart and let the Creator come in and fill our heart and we can then climb from one spiritual degree to the next, until we reach the end of correction and this way we can understand how the spiritual worlds act, it is the same in this world, the distance and closeness, expansion and contraction, warming and cooling. We have to understand by that, what is happening in the world and we have to come closer by that to the group, so let's use this and learn this.

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