Morning Lesson July 19, 2021 Transcription
1. Rav’s Introduction: Our whole development starts with us developing on the levels of the still, vegetative, and animate, and later on, of course, the speaking level. The development on all of these degrees is that we feel a deficiency in each and every degree and then through this deficiency, when we actualize it, when we process it correctly, when we fulfill it, then we rise to the next degree. This is how the cells develop on the levels of the still, from the elementary particles, and then on the degree of vegetative, which already has an inner software, and later on the animate level, when it already feels itself more, to the extent that it is lacking, to the extent that it wants to have, and then the degree of the speaking.
The speaking is a special degree where not only does it lack what it wants to have but also what it wants to obtain and achieve from outside of itself, which is the upper force, the Creator. Towards this his desire develops. Therefore, the entire development, that's what I'd like to say, that the entire development comes only out of us beginning to feel a deficiency. Following that, the next two degrees develop and become revealed in our awareness, our understanding, and our ability, etc., and this is on all the degrees. However, on the degree of the speaking, our development is through a very special deficiency, and accordingly a very special feeling. That we begin to feel how much all of our forces are where the laws in which we exist on the level of the still, vegetative, and animate, which are the degrees that exist in this world, in this world we have no more than those three degrees the still, vegetative, and animate.
If we want to develop further than we already have, to discover distancing and growing farther and growing closer to the spiritual quality, that is, to the quality that exists and controls and rules the spiritual degree the next world, the spiritual world, and this is why, here, we begin this development with feeling that we want something, but we don't know what it is. We want to do something between us, for ourselves, etc. But we do not understand, we do not feel, we have no orientation. We can't find that thing towards which our yearning is developing. And we exist in a state of hopelessness. And we also especially feel here, the delays, the rejection, the preventions, and that we don't understand what is going on.
For the first time in our life we cannot see in a healthy way with our vision, with understanding, with our feelings, meaning with our mind and our emotion, we don't understand what is happening to us. Why are we distancing ourselves from what we want to achieve? Why are we despairing and we disregard and reject what we want to get closer to? Therefore here we need help and we need an explanation and support from the wisdom of Kabbalah, from various forces that earlier we did not discover. For now we are now able to discover them.
So the most important thing for us is to first understand that we are no longer operating in the zone of this world. Because with our own forces we can no longer use them; not our mind nor our emotion. Or whatever we can detect and see and feel and understand. But rather here we have to acquire new qualities; a new emotion, a new mind, above whatever we had in this world. It is a new degree. And in order to acquire what we call a mind and a heart from the new level, we need to start to feel how much we lack that.
Therefore development is arranged in such a way that we begin to see how much we have no orientation in those new states. This is actually a new world that is opening up before us and we feel that we cannot grasp it, we cannot understand it, we cannot influence it and get some response that we can understand in our feeling, in our understanding, that it can be received. And this is the whole difficulty. But specifically, in such a way, we have to grow in order to be free and independent. And later on we will see why did the Creator precisely arrange these things for us. And we will even say ‘thank you very much’ to Him for the fact that he arranged our whole development and the whole reality in such a way, and not in a different way.
So the way we develop is that we are developing a new will to receive that pertains to the spiritual degree, which we do not have right now. And our development is arranged in such a way that we begin to feel that we lack something. Along with that, and this is in our feeling, along with that we also discover that we don't have the mind to understand and to get to know and to somehow manage and aim that new state, that you'd agree. That is we are truly entirely helpless.
It is a nice state, it is a sign that we are truly entering a true place. A new reality, as we operate in our world with our brain and heart. The heart is the desire and the brain is the thought of how to process the desire. I have to arrange it correctly so it can be filled. Really our whole reality is about that. And here we need to understand that the desires are arranged for us from above. The fact that we have preventions and helplessness and we want something but we don't quite know what it is, this is in our heart, in our desire. However, in order to arrange this desire and to fulfill it, we cannot do it.
Here we already need to start to be concerned about assembling the right vessel that is if we connect as Baal HaSulam explains to us in The Arvut article, also in The Matan Torah, then we can perform actions that draw and invite the upper light. Then we arrange our desires that become revealed as deficiencies for what we don't quite know, it is a deficiency and we lack something and this lack is revealed as darkness, feeling fogginess in our life, dissatisfaction, and when we take actions, as Rabash explains to us in The Social Articles, then we draw the force of the reforming light and then we begin a bit more and more and more to understand what is happening to us in our new desire that is revealed as darkness, as fog, as lack of feeling, lack of spirit and this is how we will advance.
That is, upon all of the desires that are revealed, as darkness, fog, helplessness, seemingly some delays, we should immediately continue with one thing, connection in the group, as much as these things are seemingly different, unrelated. However, specifically by us connecting, trying to connect we draw the reforming light and it already takes care of our mood, our spirit and all the questions that we have that have appeared in us earlier. So let's read what it says in all of these excerpts. It is very important. According to that we will know how to do this quickly as possible to advance towards the new spiritual state.
Excerpt 1 (12:23)
2. R. (13:47) That is these are two lines or two legs left and right, as much as we if one leg or in one line we feel ourselves as farther from the Creator, to the same extent through the other line we can advance towards him. Therefore to come closer means to make oneself greater through distancing, in the desire, in the yearning, and to grow closer in the sense that in spite of it we are ready to be in bestowal. Then these two lines actually come together, they join. I have a greater will to receive and I accept it and I understand that this is how it should be. In my emotion, I cannot agree with it but I rise above my empty will to receive, that I have nothing, and I am happy that I am getting such a treatment. That I have been given an empty will to receive and I am able to rise above it, above my own nature, above this world that is. Then I begin to get closer to the Creator and the force of bestowal. Even though I don't feel myself as full, but rather I feel myself as empty, I feel myself with deficiencies. I am happy that I feel myself in deficiencies, I don't understand, I don't feel that it does not matter what is important for me to be in bestowal.
Even though for me, I personally lack everything but I make a restriction over it and above it I try to build my attitude to the world and to the Creator. Here I begin to understand what does it mean righteous, what does it mean restriction, what does it mean bestowal which is above the force of reception. What does it mean? Well, the whole matter of this new attitude like that in my vessels of reception I begin to feel greater and greater emptiness and I live it this way. I overcome and I accustom myself to be above it. I just want to answer one thing, to what extent above it, I want to connect with the friends. Here I begin to feel that this is how it is built, how a new vessel is built-in me, a new desire, a new attitude to spirituality. It seems odd it seems to go against our logic, but if we will think about how is it possible to build the upper world which is built not on the vessels of reception but on vessels of bestowal, where we don't have what shows up, bestowal, but rather we build them out of the vessels of reception in the opposite form and then we will see that it is possible.
That is, I have a will to receive, I can make a restriction on it and I can make of it the opposite, specifically, the will to bestow, even though if I am although in the will to receive although I want to bestow and by that I match myself, adapt myself to the Creator and become like Him. To that extent I understand Him and I feel him. I discover Him and I am adhered to Him. Of course there are many questions about that, however we simply, in such a way we'll go forward in this way, as the subtitle is growing further in order to get closer. That the egoistic desires notice more and more, and it demands fulfillment and above it specifically I can take a step forward towards bestowal because I take this desire in order to work above it. And this is how I advance.
Excerpt 2 (19:06) Twice
3. R. (20:27) This means that the Creator uses the will to receive that He created so that specifically by it, He can bring the person to the will to bestow, as much as He shows the person that he is not capable that person is incapable, within his will to receive to receive anything. Rather, specifically by rising above the will to receive, and using the opposite force to the will to receive, then in such a way, He eventually teaches the person and obligates the person to work above the will to receive, meaning in the force of bestowal. Of course, the person does not have the force of bestowal but using its opposite which he does by doing it above the will to receive, this is how he reaches the force of bestowal. So the person receives a rejection from adhesion and specifically out of that,
he rises and starts to build through the force of the society and through the force that he gets from above from the Creator, he starts to build within himself the correct attitude to bestowal.
Reads Again (21:58)
4. R. (23:14) We accordingly need to arrange such relations in our 10 so that a person will not be able to stay in that state of lowliness because through envy, lust and honor, he will want to advance onward and want to get examples from the friends and to advance in this way.
Excerpt 3 (23:41) Twice
5. R. (25:51) Yes, and this is why specifically, when we are in falls and declines, feeling of emptiness, helplessness, in states where it is impossible for us to be able to get out of it, and why, what for, there is nothing but just a feeling. Nevertheless that we are disconnected but disconnected nevertheless still there remains a small thread of the spiritual state so we need to understand that this specifically is a preparation in order to create and attain a high spiritual degree. We need to try to reach that. Everything is ahead of us so never despair, build in the 10 and in the general vessel that feeling that the worse it is it is a sign that it will be even better. That nothing good is revealed and fulfillment attainment without having before it specifically the opposite state, lack of understanding, lack of them attainment, lack of forces, lack of a desire. From that we go forward and advance.
Excerpt 4 (27:30)
6. R. (29:14) Yes, this means that the most important thing is that I need to see my connection with the group that this thread, it is thin but it remains, so then in each and every state that I am in, the lowest one, nevertheless there remains for me some threat of connection with spirituality through the group so then I can get back to it. If I don't have a 10 then I simply come out of the spiritual state, the feeling of spirituality, the importance of spirituality and then I have no guarantee, I have no strength that can support me, attach me to the good correct future. Because I lose out of myself any relation and any connection to spirituality and therefore my work is to the extent that I still feel and understand or at least hear what is most important in spirituality is that spirituality is revealed in the group in the connection between us which is entirely in order to bestow. This is how we create it between us. So if I try between us to create this connection, this network to make it in order to bestow even in states where I don't feel that, I have any desire and any need for it, however I can still take part in it to some extent. I always try to participate in it in order to determine for myself, in a state when I will fall from it, when I will come out of it, at least that connection with the 10, I have one end of the thread with me but the other end of the thread is with the 10. So then they will hold me and carry me and as for me, even though I fell, I will be able to get up an advance towards them and together with them onward.
So the most important thing that we have to care for this, that we will have such a connection with it then so that any time of trouble that may come they will be able to and they will feel their obligation to carry me forward and how do I guarantee that to myself by the fact that I also connect to them in such a way. Inside I want to promise and to guarantee to each and everyone that I am willing to drag and carry them and to care to be the guarantor that each one of them will reach the goal. If we develop, specifically this commitment, this mutual guarantee, then we begin to understand that Arvut, it is not just that each one should help his friend but rather the Arvut is that I begin to care for them and not for myself. More and more in such a way I invest my forces and I am concerned about them, in my concern. Just like towards my small children or my beloved friends anything that is very precious to me because they are parts of my soul so when I begin to care in such a way that they will advance and they will hold and they will not fall and I am concerned about their mood and their spirit they're feeling of mutual guarantee their feeling of confidence in the attainment of the goal that they will have that. In such a way, I actually establish my spiritual vessel which exists entirely in them in the first nine Sefirot and I exist as a supporter, as an organizer of that connection between these first nine Sefirot between my friends and in that way I establish my spiritual vessel in which I later discovered the Creator.
Specifically these states where we fall and we distance, those states are the ones that awaken me, that stimulate me to build a stronger connection to care about states where we will grow closer and grow stronger and this way we will build more and more that network, that skeleton of our soul. The difference between the soul of each one and the others is in that extent that he operates, to the extent that he works for the connection of all of his friends together and to that extent we thus establish our common shared vessel where each one according to his style, according to his records, he's establishing the connection among everyone until we all become the complete 10 Sefirot of the single vessel.
7. S. (35:32) Before you talked about the right and left lines, as much as you come near and move away, how do these two lines relate to each other?
R. The right line and the left line, through them we advance in such a way that on the left line we are seemingly distancing, the will to receive becomes greater and greater. The right line, it's as if we are coming closer. It becomes more and more in order to bestow and all together we are operating with both of them, what ties between them is that Tzimtzum, restriction, and the Creator that is revealed before us as the goal. Then on the left and on the right, this is how we advance towards him. It is an opposite work on the left and the right but along with that it is a common work because this is how we see the Creator from which both the darkness and the light emerges, the maker of light and the Creator of darkness then this is how we also advanced towards Him on both of our legs. Later on, we learn out of that, we later develop all of our correct relations between parents and children, husband and wife, all of the contradictory things we learn how to arrange them, connect them out of this relation, this relation between the left and the right.
8. S. (37:26) How do we approach the work when the ego begins to make the calculation that it is better to be in connection than to remain in a state of exile like it is calculating for itself?
R. Whatever the ego does, the Creator does it and we need to accept these things as the correct inputs for our advancement. It is not that we agree with it but we have to accept them for the foundation. Of course my will to receive will never be satisfied until we correct it and to the extent that we correct it and this is how we need to accept it and understand it, that it is help made against one, and to see that it is possible to advance, it is possible to work with it. However we just have to know how and this art, this mastery of how to work with our will to receive so that it will be even an order to bestow how to invert it, this is considered that we make out of the evil inclination the good inclination. It is an art, it is a mastery that we need to learn, however if we relate to these things in a balanced correct way and we ask the Creator and we ask of the friends and this is how we balance these things between us.
Then it becomes possible and specifically in this way we assemble the network from the bad and the good together so that the bad also works as good and then we reach the corrections. It is a very beautiful work, very special one there is none other like it in nature and all of the worlds that we invert the bad into good and specifically in that bad we attain the Creator, right. According to the oppositeness of form between Him and the will to receive that He created here is all of our fulfillment out of the fact that these two opposite forms compliment or complete one another. As it says that there is no greater joy than the untangling of the doubts. When two opposite things come together specifically and they reach complementation, it is an eruption of joy that there is none greater than that in the whole of nature. And this actually is what the Creator is waiting for. This is what He enjoys, He says “I created the evil inclination” and they invert it into such a form where we see that only good comes out of it.
9. S. (41:02) When we work to the 10, we build the Partzuf of each one with the qualities of the friends, and then when these 10 Partzufim unite, the single Partzuf he turns to the anterior of the Creator, or is it not so?
R. When we correct ourselves then the correction which is called the extent of bestowal that we build upon the extent of reception that is always with facing the Creator and by that we don't only face the Creator we also enter connection until adhesion. The extent of connection, a hug and kiss there remain such degrees until we reach adhesion. Adhesion is the connection in all qualities between the Creator and all of the qualities of the created being. That is the state we reach.
S. So at the time that until we reach this adhesion we will feel the posterior of the Creator or will that be replaced between the posterior and the anterior in our feeling?
R. Of course, it will change in many, many states, many manners from anterior to posterior in order for us to know exactly where we are. We can't see and feel how one state to its oppositeness and that's how we are. We are alternating from one state to the next from minus to plus and from bad to good, from hatred to love in all different manners, until we determine or we decide how we can use the both of them in the middle line towards connection. So here we begin to see that also we can ignore distance and disconnection and hatred and that also that it has a role which is not less important but even more important than connection in love. That which He has created cannot feel love, adhesion, etc., without having the oppositeness there. That is the advantage of light out of darkness that that's where it is revealed.
10. S. (44:36) How should we in the 10 create the conditions in that work in order to receive in order to invert it?
R. I don't know what you mean. We must slowly, slowly advance according to what we study that love covers all crimes. That we need to reveal love that we yearn for connection. This hug, this completion and if we don't discover it we discover its opposite next we are then joyful for identifying where our evil inclination is and how we can grab it and work on it until we turn it into goodness. We can do ourselves, fine, if we do, if we find that we can't then we are even happier because by that we can turn to the Creator. Here there is a question: what do we need on the first hand in the first place to reach out to the Creator for Him to correct. The question is will we have a strong enough deficiency if we didn't first check that we are not able to do so and need it. So here we need to work in order to, well eventually, the action needs to end by us crying out to the Creator for help by not being able to overcome this disturbance. That you have to help us, you have to. You build us this way you made us this way, and you stabilize the will to receive in such a way and we are not able to cope with it and we shouldn't because you created the will to receive in order for us to be able to adhere to you and the will to receive is then a disturbance through which we can come to you like little kids and we will cry out that we are not able to do so. Then you will do it. That is called the Creator completes me. So to the extent we aim to build a relationship in the group that from that relationship, together we reach out to the Creator, together. Together, try. So by that we get ourselves used to advancing correctly from now until the end of correction.
S. There is our common appeal to the Creator and there is the will to receive that is revealed inside of each friend in the form of a disturbance but what does it mean that in the will to receive we discover the Creator?
R. Didn't understand.
S. You said five minutes ago that specifically inside the will to receive we discover the opposite and it's between us and our connection with the Creator so how do we do it in our common appeal in the 10?
R. We asked for the connection between us because through that connection we enable the Creator the opportunity to be revealed. That is His entire joy to be revealed among the lower ones. It is considered that the Creator wants to dwell among the lower ones and that's what we need to do, we need to build the vessel. So this comes from us asking him, but to ask Him we can only do that and we see that we are not capable of doing so we don't want to do it we are rejected from connection in a way that it's not really clear and then we are not even having any care or concern for this connection. We forget about it, we become indifferent to it and no one speaks about it. It's as if this problem doesn't exist before our eyes, our ego concealed from us the problem of connection so that we won't work on it with full force and that's the problem and we can continue another year, another 10 years, 20 years no problem. You hear that there are many people that have been with us for twenty years already why? Because they don't emphasize the main problem which is the connection between us and from within that connection to reveal the Creator. So that isn't completely clear to them and they are not helping one another to say and to point out that exactly here's the problem. Then continue another lesson and another one. What can I do? I talk and continue because we, at some point, we'll ask ourselves how long will this last when we come to a lesson without a result. There are results but the results are not in the main area but around it, in our understanding and our feeling to an extent, slightly we are advancing, we can't say we're not we don't disregard that we are doing actions. But such actions that the group comes and gives a true strike, like with a hammer, that we don't yet feel that there are such 10s.
S. And in order for us to become such a 10, this is what we want in our 10. What should we do so that we don't wait these twenty years but rather that we will finish this and feel that indeed we made this knocking with the hammer? How do we do it?
R. I don't know how to talk about it among yourselves. I talk about it all the time so talk about it among yourselves.
S. But the question is what is the criteria of a correct result out of the lesson in the 10?
R. Revelation of the deficiency for such a connection in which the Creator will be revealed. Revelation of the deficiency we don't need to reach anything else. I don't need to reveal the Creator I need to reveal the vessel in which the Creator is revealed and he will be joyful from our work.
S. So as a result of the lesson we should reach such a deficiency that we lack that. That this is what we want but we don't have it is that the right result?
R. Yes, that it's not that there you end it, that you discover this deficiency, know this deficiency needs to turn into a prayer. In that prayer you demand of the Creator to respond to the prayer and to answer that prayer on his behalf. This isn't in words really, it's more in the sensation of the heart but it's possible that you also need to discuss this
S. Should we reach such a deficiency together in the lesson because we exist in a passive form?
R. Why, why, why? Why passive one towards the other? It all depends on what you want to be behind the words. I don't understand why passive? If you talk then that is active, so maybe we'll have such a lesson that I talk for five minutes and then I leave, I disconnect and you among each other can bring yourselves through connections, singing or I don't know what. You'll bring yourselves to such a state that it raises you to such a connection that the Creator is revealed that you truly feel that you are building that you're in the process of building a Kli.
S. No, I think that, the form of the lesson. The lesson format is unrelated to this. I simply think that, how in the lesson can we reach such an incorporation that we will have a common deficiency should it be a prayer or?
R. We are not feeling the heart of the friend. I know that most likely he is aiming towards connection like myself a little more or a little less it doesn't matter. I still am not feeling his heart and here the question rises of how can we reach a state that we will feel this yearning together? That in fact, it does awaken one another so we need to work here on the connection of the hearts and this comes only through the Creator. If our heart is such an ego it won't really let us connect. We can sometimes be inspired through some emotion but it is not from the heart, it is from the impression of the heart. But from the heart we need to ask from the Creator that the Creator he connects the hearts, he broke them into pieces, he broke them into pieces. Imagine that there was a single heart called Adam, the Creator took this knife called ego, and he cut it all in one go, this single heart, this collective heart into 613 pieces, let's say that's what he did. These pieces are all wrapped around this shell of the ego and no matter how he tries to find a way to connect to others, he can't, he cannot help and that is in spite of the fact that we each and every one feels themselves in an egoistic wrapping. Like a piece of meat that you are given in the store that is wrapped in plastic. So we asked from the Creator to reconnect us. So the Creator reveals to what extent we are distant from one another to the extent we are incapable. Through this plastic to be connected to one another and we still yearn and ask as much as possible more and more. Then this plastic, He helps us that through Him we will connect between us, intellectually and emotionally to understand that each and every piece of this piece of the heart of the soul of Adam HaRishon it receives a Rosh, it receives the understanding why it works this way, how it works, what needs to be done. Every piece of the 600,000 pieces and more and more. Then it turns out that we start to understand this heart, the heart understands how do we need to connect in what way and how we can complete our feelings and from that to the extent that we begin to join through the Rosh, that we build for every single piece then from that we begin to understand the Creator and his work, and his work on us and from your actions I will know you and by that we feel and we sense him. Maybe such an example can be clear.
11. S. (59:07) The example is a very nice one but how do we build this Rosh?
R. The fact that each of us is in a 10 and every 10 makes an effort to reach a single prayer to the Creator.
S. You said before a person can sit for 20 years, go around, a bit more understanding, a bit more emotion but he doesn't come out of the lesson with a good outcome?
R. That too is good because he is not leaving, he is under some care, but he is not on the degree that he once thought, that he will jump forward and he will be like a hero, like Nachshon that jumps into the sea, no. He sees that he does not have enough strength, also towards the will to receive of course, he finds out how weak he is and also towards the prayer that he is weak. Also towards the group that he is weak in connection and that is why he... but still he is in the general flow of the same people who are coming closer to the Creator. Still the incarnation doesn't just go by without a purpose.
S. The fact that he's holding on to fine, good I'm not siding with it but he is weak in relation to connection and that's the most important that is our goal.
R. He is weak, yes, so.
S. So you fight with that state?
R. If he can't fight, what will he do? During the lesson he is united, he is on fire. I see people that are and who want and he leaves the lesson and he feels that life is pulling him back towards the corporeality and he continues like the day before.
S. Yes, it feels like some sort of decoration even if you want to connect there is no way for it to happen unless the Creator wants it.
R. That's on the condition that the group doesn't connect in order to eradicate their will to receive together the group can invite the Creator and the Creator will do the work.
S. So what is the person able to do in such a state?
R. Only to awaken the friends, alone of course not, but if he does it alone, that is the shortest path to failure he won't succeed if he is alone and he's not capable until he leaves.
S. But his attempts through the year?
R. All these years he didn't do it correctly and then he finally hears what he needs to do.
S. What guarantees the person that he'll get out of this loop that he's been in all these years?
R. That the person fits in creation is ready for all and we're all in that corrected state, in our connection with the Creator, in the end of correction. It exists in the first place but we only need to experience these things on ourselves, in order to understand and to attain the state as it should be.
S. So my whole work is to awaken the friends that is my point that is my narrow place?
R. Eventually, yes, if I work on awakening the friends and not myself that is the safest way to advance. They're still also our egoistic desire that is involved in that, that I work on them, yes. I am activated by the ego, on the one hand. On the other hand, when I awaken them then they also in return awaken me and that's how we advance.
S. To what exactly do I awaken in them?
R. To the lesson, to connection, to understanding, to feeling, I'm constantly trying to bring them to a state that we are connected. That we need to reach the connection that the Creator becomes revealed in what else is there to do. Our work is simple only how to execute but itself is simple.
12. S. (01:04:01) I was listening to the questions and answers and it's very close to my question. How can we let our friends feel that there is no time and there is no place in spirituality?
R. We need to read about it together and it will be enough, try it. Take our material about time-space whatever Baal HaSulam writes about it whatever is written in the Zohar and also in the introductions to it and that will be enough that will suffice.
13. S. (01:04:52) You said that we jump from one state to another state until we reach a point in which we start to use both states. What is that moment when we manage to use both states in the group? Is that some special stage in our development?
R. That we can use two states, that is already good, meaning that as a person blesses about the evil as he does about the goodness because he understands that all these states come to take him forward then he's already advancing with two feet, with two legs he is not standing anymore. Even one that is standing that's also not easy and also very respectable that a person stands even though in the different states they're trying to move him but he is standing he has the emotion, he has the understanding, he has the ability to stand in his place and not fall. That, too, is good and if he finds to the extent that he holds onto the friends that he will not fall and he stands together with them and they advance together. We just need to develop all these things that we are saying, that here exactly in the understanding of the work in the group, we're building a system of the last generation every 10, every single 10. That's clear right?
14. S. (01:06:58) In one of the recent meetings we tried to scrutinize, how do we truly create such a network in which we hold each and every friend? How do we awaken the friends and create such an atmosphere which is only for advancement but we couldn't find a way we were thinking about roles and we tried to make it practical but we weren't really successful in finding a way to do it. Can you give us some advice?
R. Advice to advance you need to imagine what advancement is, how it should be expressed and how everyone does towards that a certain action in order to reach that state. To the extent he helps the others that they will advance towards this mutual state that you have decided on. It has to be like a work diary of the group. Try and do that. You remember that we once had the role of connection duty officers, we still have it. You still have it. It's called connection officers good, so you need to understand that these people there you are only on duty for one day. Right but, everyone needs not to support them but to work together with them.
15. S. (01:09:20) Please define what it means to be connection duty officers with these friends should do throughout the day?
R. To be on connection duty is to awaken the group towards connection that we need to feel ourselves as together like cogwheels in a single system. That this system is moving in one direction and it is compelled to move in that direction and that direction and motivates the others and moves the others and in the right direction in the right goal, with the right spirit you reach the right prayer to the Creator. That's how this mechanism works. Then from that the Creator starts facing you and he starts changing you and advancing you.
16. S. (01:10:40) If so then we should be very happy about the ruin of the temple. Is that correct?
R. That is right, that's why Rabbi Akiva laughed and was joyful. That's why on the 9th of Av that we went through yesterday, that to start with all of these things were already in the plan of the general structure of the vessel of Adam HaRishon. That all of the exile in the first destruction and the second destruction and the entire process until our very day. All of that needed to take place in order for us to reach today the end of correction.
S. So indeed there is no bad its all mechanisms meant to advance us?
R. Yes, that's how we need to position ourselves in the middle line and we need to write. Like from bad to good, from left to right in order to advance in the middle line. Our work is only to arrange good and bad and to direct it towards attaining the Creator. That there is no good or bad, everything is perfect.
17. S. (01:12:14) It is unclear if our work is to awaken the 10 and this needs to awaken a deficiency so what happens in the 10 is the difference, once again we bring the Creator into our work but then seemingly we don't manage to awaken enough of a deficiency every time we get closer but we don't stay?
R. I don't understand, we need to reach the true deficiency that from the connection between us in mutual bestowal, that we ask the Creator to give us bestowal, that we will be in this mutual bestowal and from this state of mutual bestowal that we will connect ourselves to the system in mutual bestowal which is considered like the cogwheels that are turning together with mutual agreement and we by that will turn to the Creator. From our connection when we arrive to Him, we will have a suitable vessel that He will be revealed to us and be joyful for us.
S. If the true deficiency is not revealed that we are not able and don't want it like you said before?
R. You will try and it will be revealed.
S. I am saying every time we try we also turn to the Creator a little bit. But we don't get to that state where we truly have a completely full deficiency that we need His help?
R. You still have not developed the deficiency, you have not tried to connect and have not encountered it that you don't want to connect and that there is no choice on the other hand. We must reach connection then we turn to the Creator out of lack of choice.
S. What is that point where on one hand we don't want and on the other hand there's no choice, where does that exist where we don't want and there is no choice?
R. That we make an effort to perform what the Kabbalists write to us that we reveal that we don't want to perform the actions of connection on the one hand, on the other hand, we always learned in the group enough to you understand the connection is the correction of the vessel of the broken vessel of Adam HaRishon and we must perform this. Then we turn to the Creator because the desires are in his hands. By his light he reveals the desires and then we request Him to reveal in us the desire for connection, the desire for correction, the desire for mutual bestowing, desire for Him. That we turn to Him and request everything as it is written on a person I wish he prayed all day.
18.
S.
(01:16:00)
Just
like
now
as
we
are
engaged
in
the
scrutiny
is
on
the
degree
of
speaking,
why
is
someone
who
already
has
a
deficiency
to
awaken
the
friends
and
care
for
them
and
for
connection
with
the
Creator
still
need
the
pressures
of
the
degree
of
still,
vegetative
and
animal?
R.
Because
everything
comes
from
the
inanimate
and
we
need
to
awaken
more
desires
of
ours
that
each
one
comes
from
the
degree
of
the
inanimate
of
his.
19. S. (01:16:38) Does the personal correction which can influence us up to 20 years for some people like you said and the connection and correction of the 10. Are they in parallel, is this work done in parallel?
R. Yes and no, I cannot say any more than that otherwise you'll start to make calculations and there's no room for that here.
20. S. (01:17:17) I heard that more than likely I am one of those people who have been sitting here for over 20 years not emphasizing the main problem which is connection. Where throughout the day and altogether in our life, do I need to emphasize the connection and help one another, meaning if we're not doing this where is the point that we are missing, can you help us not make this mistake again?
R. I advise you to read the same excerpts that we are learning now over the course of the day if you times until it will enter more and more into your heart and mind and to do every day what we learned and then you will see how much it changes you as these are very unique and very nice excerpts which will influence you. To send you to go read the articles is too much, in our days everything has become more concentrated. Do it in such a manner, go over those same, except that we have learned, not what we learned a few months ago as those are also good, but so we don't confuse topics it is worthwhile to begin with what we are learning now.
S. Where does the emphasizing of connection take place?
R. Where it is expressed.
S. You said we are sitting here for many years because we don't emphasize the connection between us?
R. Because you don't talk about it enough, it all needs to be within the group between discussions within the group.