Morning Lesson September 08, 2022, Transcription
Transcription is made from simultaneous translation which leaves a possibility for differences in the audio
Part 1:
Speaking with the Creator - Selected Excerpts from the Sources. #9
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1. Rav’s Introduction: As usual we are beginning our lesson our day, our meeting between us and with the Creator by awakening are hard to the connection between us and the Creator so that he will feel our hearts as much as we are capable to connect by that giving Him a place and buy even more than that asking him also to assist us to connect our hearts and then filling our hearts everything depends on our yearning for its soul.
Excerpt #9 (01:09) “I heard from Baal HaSulam, that in the place one thinks…”
2. R. This is how we are apparently succeed in depicting or should depict to ourselves that our yearning should be that we all connect between us and that we are in the same place as the Creator, and in truth this is what Kabbalists said many times that the Creator is as it is written ‘I dwell among my own people.’ Meaning that if we connect, then in the connection between us in the center of the connection in the connection between us in this common heart is where the Creator is. We have to exert more and more in order for us to build such which is connected from all of our hearts, of our yearnings and then we will discover that the Creator is already there. Because He to begin with, He is there He is making and building this place and then we will discover that we also come to that place. That place is called the land of Zion, Jerusalem, or Temple, all kinds of such designations depending on the degree of the internality of this place that we are talking about.
Reading excerpt #10 (03:16) “One should imagine what mood he would be in if the greatest..” twice
3. S. (07:10) During the request to the Creator also when our request is the prayer of many, how to reach that prayer that the request itself will not be the most important but the contact with the Creator?
R. We have to think about more, everything is clarified by the thought. The more the person thinks about it, speaks about it with the friends then this thing becomes more important for him, more conspicuous to him and he discovers in it all kinds of internal matters and in that way he comes closer to understanding its true character.
4. S. (08:03) How can we have the conversation in the ten?
R. Only by making an effort in that you want to come closer to the Friends and this topic of coming closer will we be in building a place for the revelation for the Creator in order to give Him contentment by that, by this everyone will advance.
S. Where do we get the opportunity to speak to the Creator?
R. We get the opportunity from our connection. If in the group we come together then we establish a place where we can discover the Creator. The Creator is revealed not to one but as it is written the minimum is at least two and then He can be revealed because he is not revealed to a person but to the connection between people where there was the shattering. Now we want to connect once again between us in order to build the connection between us, so in that place where we want to connect once more, there we discover the Creator.
5. S (10:04) In the preparation we spoke about the greatness of the Creator. It is very challenging of how to speak with the friends about the greatness of the Creator?
R. You can talk to them about the fact that we have to subjugate ourselves to the Creator, to bow down to the Creator because He created us, he gave us the possibility to come closer to Him, so to the extent that did we come closer to each other, each one on annuls towards the friends. As Rabash writes in his articles, one relative to one or zero compared to one and one compared to zero etcetera, to that extent we give room to the Creator to be revealed between us. All of the principles of the connection are only in order to build a place for the revelation of the Creator which is considered that we are building a temple for Him. A place for the revelation of Holiness because Holiness means the force of bestowal and love.
S. It turns out that we do not speak about the Creator but about the vessels through which we have to reveal the Creator?
R. Of course we can never speak about Him, we are speaking about the vessels and the impression in the vessels. We cannot say a word about the Creator Himself, even though we seemingly speak about Him, we are speaking about those impressions that we have from Him and He Himself. We absolutely have no contact with that.
6. S. (12:12) In relation to the speech to the Creator, it doesn't matter what we say. When will it count that the connection with the friends is the first step to communicate to speak to the Creator, in the connection itself is the form of speech even in the smallest form?
R. Very nice, so when do we know when we are connected? When the Creator is revealed in our connection.
7. S. (13:10) What is in practice, the pleasure in the wholeness?
R. The pleasure in the wholeness or complete pleasure and all of these things, they already relate to the revelation of the Creator in all the five vessels of the person. When we connect between us and in the connection between us we can build such a system of connection where all ten Sefirot will be revealed or the five phases and this is how we come closer to a state where we can discover the Creator in a complete manner. This depends on the measure of our desire, the measure of our kli, how much we connect and what is it that we want to discover. This is what I can say.
8. S. (14:31) How is one able to keep the connection, intention when he cannot think about anything but their pleasure, if he can keep the correct intention but he cannot think about anything but the pleasure?
R. Until we cross the barrier, until we receive from above the force of giving for her sake in order to bestow, the force of Lishma, for her sake in order to bestow, the force of Bina of course we cannot think clearly about bestowal, but nevertheless there are times that are this way and that way. We need to try, even though we understand that we are still in in the order to receive, we should depict to ourselves what does it mean to in order to bestow? What does it mean a true connection where I do not feel myself but rather I feel the friends and I do not feel my ego but rather I feel the Creator instead of it. In this way bit by bit and in this game by playing and acting we advance towards the transition; everything depends on us. The Creator is the general law of nature and this is why we have to study Him and try to come closer to Him and to keep this law.
9. S. (16:21) Usually we say we build the Creator between us in actions in the ten, what does that mean, work in thought?
R. There is a thought and there is a desire, so we need to try to build relations between us that resemble the nature of the Creator, bestowal, love, connection, support etcetera both in thought and also in action. In our world which is the world of action for the time being, we cannot quite activate actions of bestowal other than a little bit that will help the other and also dissemination is included in that, this is in action and in thought. We can also open up places for study and explain and bring humanity closer to this and this is how we expand following Baal HaSulam and bring to the world his method.
S. The thought, for example if I'm doing an action and I know I am doing an action and probably it will have some influence but the thought, it is as if it comes as if from nowhere?
R. I do not understand.
S. How do we aim the thought?
R. You are given the thought from above, otherwise you would simply not exist as a human being. Now you are given a thought and you have to develop it and turn it to different directions to see how you can take this thought to a good direction towards connection between people. Let’s say first of all, how can you implement it in the world, this is our work in our dissemination and we have to explain to people that connection between us is necessary and not only in order to exist on the corporeal level in a good nice way which that too we are already lacking. But also for us to see how much the connection between us elevates us to the spiritual level. Meaning we shift to another dimension and we can truly reach a different dimensions, the upper world. While we are living here we are also included, incorporated in the higher degree and it all depends how much we change the relations between us from egoistic to altruistic relations.
S. How do we do the work of scrutinizing the good thoughts?
R. Through the group, you can't do it any other way but only by each one supporting everyone and this force of our general force of support and general connection influences us. Not because it is the sum total of our efforts, but because in the sum total of our efforts is the force of the Creator. Where there are more than two people who think together, there already the Creator is connected with them.
S. The more we have connection and the revelation of the Creator the more there are good thoughts?
R. Yes, yes.
10. S. (20:52) When we want to build the Creator between us in mutual actions, there is a resistance from some of the friends and if I understand the situation correctly there is a force that says first let us do the existing actions as they are, and then we will act?
R. Are you talking about physical actions?
S. Physical meetings.
R. There are people for whom this is very difficult to do, but it is easy for them to perform actions of scrutiny between them, each one has his area.
S. Those that say first, everybody come to the lesson and then we will do the connection action. Some say let's do a connection action and then it will help us in the morning lessons, this is the type of conflict?
R. Look I will tell you, we had very hard work with Rabash because we had to bring all of our friends to the lesson and there were such that they were dead and could not get up. Good, devoted friends that later could do each and everything, but to get up at night and to reach the lesson, they were not capable of it. We truly forcefully, we received permission to come to their bedroom and pull them out of their bed. And he was not aware and did not know, he would not wake up until we brought him to the place where we would study and put a cup of coffee in front of him and then bit by bit he would listen to us and recover. It was as if it was the revival of the dead, there were such friends. I did not have such patience to work on them and I still regret how much I was not able to truly invest myself in that, what can you do. We have to do that first of all, you are at home, you have computers, you have communication between you, it is not such a big problem, anyone can sit with his pajamas. All in all, to get up out of bed and prepare a cup of coffee and to sit before the computer, that is the whole problem. For us we would come, and it would take 30 or 45 minutes until we reached the place of the study. So make an effort, please make an effort friends.
S. From what I have seen from the way you lead you always lead actions of connection in unity. Whether it is to build a Sukkot together, every time you recommend to do things together. The question is from the scrutinization of ours, do we focus on these actions of unity of togetherness like picnics or let's first focus on getting everybody to the lesson and then we will get to the unity actions?
R. You have all kinds, you have people who like picnics, and you have people who like to study, you have some who like meals etcetera, so you have all kinds of different connections between us, so you have to give every person his place. You should think about this, how to keep the group, the society together and how each one is different from the others but still he would feel he has a place in the society. Otherwise if you do not keep yourselves you will scatter, and nothing will remain.
S. We need to try to make an effort in if someone wants to have a picnic and I don't want the picnic, then we have to try to make a picnic, and if someone has an importance for the morning lessons?
R. What everyone does is a must for me also and to show up and do it with them. And as much as I do not want to do that I have a greater gain from that, if I do connect with them. Then my effort, the greater it is to perform a correct action with them gives me a greater vessel and then out of that I come closer to the Creator more than any one of them.
11. S. (26:38) I have a question about these two excerpts, in each one of them at the beginning, it is written that a person needs to think and depict to himself that he is speaking to the Creator and in the end it is written that a person needs to believe that he is speaking to the Creator. How do we in the ten go from speaking about the greatness and importance of the Creator to really believing that we are speaking to the Creator?
R. When we will truly shift from faith to speaking and speaking to faith and we will feel how much we are on those two levels of connections then we will understand that. The Wisdom of Kabbalah does not transfer through the intellect but rather we have to perform actions until we start feeling them. It's like a baby that's grows, truly so. We are entering a world that is truly hidden and there's nothing that I can do here but only by me awakening the upper force.
S. Can I clarify more, what you just said and what we learned earlier, that there is a sort of danger to believe that we speak to the Creator and is the correct act. But the moment we begin to feel the Creator we can stand in it and begin to grasp the sensation in the vessels of the reception. The difference between faith and feeling are those two different degrees?
R. Faith means that whatever I am doing I'm doing it only in order to bestow to the Creator and I do not think about myself but only how to bestow to Him and this is what we should aspire to.
S. The faith and the sensation?
R. We are not talking about the feeling but how much a person directs himself, to where he is directing himself.
12. S. (29:25) It says in the article, you only need to speak to Him and when you speak to the Creator you lose the feeling, the deficiency of one thing, anything. What is that and why do you not have any deficiency anymore but just by talking to the Creator, what is this?
R. Because you become incorporated in the wholeness and then you lack nothing. You become incorporated in the wholeness of the Creator and then you no longer lack anything.
S. Is this the mechanism of speaking to the Creator by not having any need anymore, just by speaking to Him, I don’t understand?
R. Only to be connected with Him, yes.
13. S. (30:36) When you were speaking about dissemination you said that we have to explain to people through the dissemination that they have the possibility to go into different dimensions, how can we explain that without coming across as fantastical?
R. We do not have to talk about us talking with the Creator. When I talk with my lips and my tongue I am actually speaking with my emotion, in that I open up my emotions. It is my desire, it should be directed towards Him this is what we need to explain. Okay?
14. S. (31:34) From the inclusion with the ten in the preparation that we are doing something awakens when we read these excerpts, that the will to receive disappears and the address to the Creator turns into something transparent, something that is able to be received so how should the address to the Creator be?
R. As much as possible try to be incorporated in the society, there you can always check yourself. Are you relating correctly or maybe there's something that you still need to correct? This is called from the love of the people to the love of the Creator. This law, this condition must always be used.
15. S. (32:38) In the preparation for the lesson they asked to raise the greatness of the Creator, what can a person say about something like that, what words does a person have?
R. Maybe he should not even speak but maybe just show it with his actions in whatever he is doing in the group and the wisdom of Kabbalah that these things, for him, are very precious for him but if he also has a few words to say, that too. He can bring some excerpts from our teachers and read that before everyone, that is very beneficial.
S. There is a matter, we can say of sort of high things, the Creator, nature, all sorts of things, is it connected?
R. You can say that. It has to be measured to the point but you can say that if you are impressed by that then the most important thing is that your impression, your inspiration will pass on to them.
Reading excerpt 11 (33:59): “When a person introspects and feels his poor state…”
Reading excerpt 12 (36:44): “Baal HaSulam said about it, It is written, and it shall come..”
16. R. (38:28) This means that the Creator always comes first. He does everything and then only after, following Him we start to rise to move, to respond and we usually think that we were the first ones but it is written simply I'm the first and I'm the last, this is what the Creator says.
17. S. (38:58) You just answered the question I wanted to ask exactly about that. We can raise a prayer to the Creator it’s because the He comes closer to us?
R. Yes, yes, if we would see everything that is happening in all of reality and then we would only be grateful for what He is doing every single moment.
18. S. (39:32) What does it depend on that He brings us closer?
R. As much as we are able to align ourselves to Him and then we are able in that to find every single action that He's doing for us, we need to, like a radar, always be aligned towards Him and then we will see how in every single moment He changes within us the desire and brings us closer to correction.
S. This effort to search for Him isn't that a prayer actually? Is there a difference between the effort to come close to Him versus praying to Him?
R. Yes there is and there isn't.
S. Because he says that you have to reach Me through the prayer so the effort to come closer to Him isn't that a prayer already?
R. The effort is not yet the prayer that is action but after that comes a prayer from our side.
19. S. (41:03) It turns out that if the Creator gave me an opportunity to ask then I should already feel joy and that should already fill me up and then I no longer care, in principle, if He will answer my request or not, I'm not waiting for it anymore, I have been filled already, I don’t even need an answer to the question, yes?
R. Yes and no, that’s states, different states.
20. S. (41:39) From these excerpts it seems that actually the Creator gives us both the deficiency and the filling. Is there some room for this concept of hastening and in its time ……… if He determines everything?
R. Yes, so what is the question?
S. So why do we have two ways, two paths, to advance then, a good way and a bad way, a long way and a short way?
R. To the degree that I bring myself sooner to the Creator it’s called ……… hastening and if it's slower then I feel that it’s in its time.
S. In my response I’m late?
R. In the preparation.
21. S. (42:41) In this exercise that we’ve been doing for a few days now of speaking with the Creator what I discover is that I alone, when I'm disconnected from the friends, I cannot turn to the Creator and only when we have some kind of a connection, it doesn't matter which kind, there there could be an appeal to the Creator. These two excerpts that we've read now explain it in that actually the Creator is there and so only when I connect there there is an opportunity to return to Him, is that what it is all about?
R. Within the society within my people I dwell.
S. This means that all the time when you tell us that the Creator is there in the center of our connection it means that the very fact that it is possible to pray it’s only when we’re together, that’s the explanation for it, that’s the proof of it.
R. That is also correct, yes.
S. These are very special excerpts.
R. Yes. Now that we have to be in one place for this, in some sort of gathering or something, but still we have to depict before ourselves that we are in one heart in one heart this is the obligation for us to depict before ourselves and to feel this way and gradually we reveal, discover, that we have mutual vessel which is our common heart.
S. When we speak about the hastening this means that when we connect and turn to the Creator this is called hastening and in its time it’s when the Creator wakes me up out of, I’m thrown somewhere and I don’t think of anything.
R. Let's say for now this is correct. There are more in various levels there are more acute but if I awaken the Creator it is [missing translation] hastening if the Creator awakens meet it is [missing translation] in its time.
22. S. (45:11) How to be guarded from, how to watch out so that even the smallest feeling of the greatness of the Creator will not fill me up egotistically and to truly be certain that we are inspired by His greatness and it’s for His sake?
R. I did not understand the question, maybe you can ask through the translation.
S. When I am impressed inspired by the greatness of the Creator how to guard myself so that it won’t fill me up egotistically?
R. Through the connection. That will guard you, that will guard you, just that and then you will feel what is Arvut.
23. S. (46:13) You answered to a friend that is hastening is when I give awakening to the Creator and in time is that the Creator gives awakening, but I don't understand one thing, you always say that Creator says [missing translation] …So how can I, you awakening the Creator it’s impossible, how can I have a thought and my thought does not include the Creator? I don’t understand.
R. You have to make effort to always to be first and awaken the Creator as much as possible along with this after all you have to say that me and my strength I did not do this effort because the Creator in advance thought about me and gave me the desire and the yearning and the thought and then I awaken and for a moment in my stupidity in my foolishness I feel that I do this but when I settle in my mindset then I realize that the Creator has designed everything like that in advance and give me an opportunity to awaken.
24. R. (47:59) It comes that the Creator works always, He acts always only we need to run ahead of Him.
Excerpt 13 (48:15) “While they speak, I listen…” twice
25. S. (51:58) If I have an experience of an ascent, something that is actually pleasant, it doesn't bother me, how can I see that as an invitation to start communication with the friends and as a result of that, like he said in the last excerpt that spirit draws spirit and brings spirit, is this our way? How do we turn this emotion into a calling?
R. It will come on its own. We will continue and you will see how it arranges itself.
26. S. (53:13) It says here that during the action, when he knows this, that the Creator is listening to him attentively. What does it mean the Creator is listening to him attentively?
R. It is to reveal that after all the awakenings of the person, what he feels, what he thinks, in all the forms of the awakening of the person, of a man, we have the work of the Creator. The Creator does everything and only after the person feels that he feels something, he thinks something, that he has a spark, that he has something of his own. This is how a person thinks but he needs to realize that beforehand there was the hand of the Creator that he prepared everything for him and there is nothing that a person is the first at, in speech, in thought, in action, nothing.
S. What is this feeling that the Creator is listening to your prayer?
R. I cannot communicate feelings to you. Feelings you have to feel.
S. What does it depend on? It says on a great longing, a great desire.
R. It depends on the sensitivity of the soul.
S. What is the subtlety or sensitivity of the soul?
R. That a person yearns from his heart to cleave to the Creator.
27. S. (55:12) Can you maybe clarify the words where it says here that first they speak then I listen? I didn’t understand. It says he listens to the words of our prayers, what does it mean?
R. The Creator knows what you feel, what you think, how you feel about the friends, what you want to raise before Him, what you raise before Him. In practice he has no concept of time that is why for Him past, present and future are the same and he is not in giving away of the actions through time like we are so the more we come together between us towards the Creator we give Him an opportunity to bestow to us in such a force that also in us we will be above time and space in every degree and degree, in all the degrees of coarseness. We will rise above it, above time, movement, and action. Clear?
28. S. (57:11) Based on the fact that the Creator took us to work for Him and based on the fact that he cannot be mistaken, it means that He is certain that we will certainly do this work?
R. Of course we will be able to finish and complete this work and bring it to the good state.
S. Maybe the right prayer is actually in that we should ask the Creator to give us this confidence, in us, that He has.
R. There is no problem please address to Him and ask of Him anything you want, always ask
29. S. (58:19) Egoistic desires constantly confuse my thoughts and hinder my dialogue with the Creator. How do I make it so that the greatest the Creator will be above all of my desires?
R. Only through, think about it more and more, all forms of the Creator’s actions towards you as much as you have in your thoughts and speech and action is arranged by Him and you are only the outcome of it and through all of these things you will have the correct arrangement to address Him.
S. And if they are stronger than me and I do not have the power to resist?
R. Ask about that as well because that comes from the Creator as well, lack of strength comes from the creator also. Turn to Him, address Him, and ask for strength. You are dividing yourself from the Creator, that in this I turn to Him and in this I cannot. No, if you realize that everything that you have comes from the Creator you can turn to Him for everything, don't hide anything.
30. S. (59:45) What I understood is that we need to turn to the Creator in one heart, we don’t need to be in a single place, like a in a Synagogue or something like that but to imagine that we are together in one heart and out of that, from that, to turn to Him.
R. You are now, each in your own home but if you mean to connect between you and through your connection come to the Creator then through that same place, where you want to be as one, it is not a physical space but that very space is called the house of gathering. Where people gather that want to connect their desires and address these desires to the Creator.
S. This is clear but how do I do it when I'm not in the lesson or in the meeting with the ten, virtual or physical, with the friends.
R. You can make it above time, not necessarily during the time but along all other times. You are able to depict before yourself that we are together, that you are with all of us and you want in these things to do it for the Creator and do it for everyone, that’s no problem.
S. In practice we see that there is a big difference between when I do it when I’m not in a meeting with the ten relative to when I am in a meeting with the ten when we are all together in the same action.
R. This is because we are small and impressionable from being together we can awaken one another but certainly Kabbalists lived each in his own corner, in his own cave and they did not need any of the large gatherings rather we, like in the kindergarten, we come to a large gathering and we are impressed but it never used to be like that. There was no collective prayer, we did not have large meals, nothing; rather, it existed in some place in Jerusalem 2000 years ago. There were maybe a few other places but it was very rare, people lived in various places in the field, all sorts of places and nobody had anything they didn’t have more people to sit with, study with, pray with, this is a matter that relates more to our time.
S. So what is the importance or the need for actions that nevertheless, in order to depict this internal picture outside of the external circumstances, what is the need for us to actually get together?
R. There is a need because we're small. That is why there is a need for the gatherings and connections of all sorts. Everyone helps his friend, we see that now that we are done with all of that and begin to gather everyone again in the center, we want for people to connect more and more physically in all the various places in the world of our friends but again will come some sort of a plague and again we will have each sit in his own corner, on his computer and be connected in this way. We have to more and more reach the feeling of what it means to have this collective vessel, this connection between us so that it will be in each and every one and it is not the physical space. It is, for the people, for the regular people they made a few hundred years ago so that they will have a place to connect and to speak and that is it.
S. So how should each friend use the meeting, the lesson, the meeting of the ten, the meal in order to strengthen the inner picture so that later on he can work with it also when he is not synchronized with the friends simultaneously in the same action.
R. Just read in Rabash, what is the gathering of friends, how you need to conduct yourself there and draw closer to one another. Read, there are entire articles about it. It is clear that if we do not do that we will not break the walls between us.
S. How not to fall into something which is not realistic when I seemingly am with myself and I imagine to myself that I am with the ten and with the world Kli and I am turning to the Creator, how can I remain in something which is in matter and not abstract.
R. I do not think that we need to feel that you disconnect from the matter or a little bit more out there because you are still in the connection with the friends and now we are in the connection between us and we create a field in which we are all together. It all depends on how much I want to be included in that field. When you have, now, a few thousand that are here with you together, connect to them, with all of them. It does not matter on what degree they're on and you will see how much force, how much strength there is in it, how much you can rise through it and you are rising and uplift them as well.
31. S. (01:06:57) What is the relation between a person constantly having to ask the Creator and discovering his inability in his actions, how is that related to the fact that we reach equivalence of form with the Creator and become partners with Him, how does it bring us there?
R. Out of this I discover that everything that exists in me the Creator created. There is None Else Besides Him, and He made in me so that I will see, so that I will reveal all of these qualities that are opposite from me and will ask Him to correct me and I do not relate to me, attribute to myself any attribute, go to the Artist that made me.
S. In the beginning of the action a request is already entered in me, or do I have to reach a certain point?
R. There is no answer to this. However you want, however you are arranged, do it this way. One day like this, one day like that.
32. S. (01:08:40) There is a very thin line between what we feel and what the Creator wants for us so how can we know that the Creator agrees with what we are asking or maybe He is causing us to ask for this thing, or if we make an even greater effort to connect will the conversation with the Creator not stop?
R. The conversation with the Creator does not stop; rather it becomes more and more as much as we progress towards the corrections, the final correction.
33. S. (01:09:28) It says in the excerpt 11: seek the Lord when he there means when the Creator provides Himself to you for seeking, necessarily you should seek him as well. The question is: what does it mean that he presents Himself when He is there and what does it mean that you have to seek the Creator?
R. When we find Him, when we reveal Him, when we have a connection with Him, that is the time when we have to develop, as much as possible, the connection with the Creator and in this leave the connection and make sure that it does not disappear. That connection is our anchor and it is in the center of the ten which is why the Creator connects our connection with the ten and the ten exists to connect everyone with the Creator.
34. S. (01:10:44) What does it mean, as the water of the face is to the face so is man’s heart to man.
R. That we have to make an effort to be face-to-face with one another, meaning in mutual bestow. As much as we are able to bestow to one another, to that degree, we reveal that the Creator is among us and is willing to connect us
35. S. (01:11:22) It says in excerpt twelve since he was favored by the Creator and the Creator wants to bring him closer; therefore, the Creator sends them the feeling of his deficiency and makes him pray for Him. We receive the feeling of the deficiency that the Creator is suffering, how can we learn to always feel the Creator’s calling for us in joy and does that mean that we exist in two worlds?
R. It will come to you. I cannot depict the entire process that you will go through but you can.
36. S. (01:12:12) What does it mean to pour out our heart, what do we tell the Creator when we want to pour out our heart to Him?
R. As much as we want for Him to fill our heart.
37. S. (01:12:25) These excerpts are wonderful; they truly awaken a burst of emotion. How can we balance this in terms of reading vs. caring for the group?
R. I read excerpts like this a few times and connect them to myself and to the group and to the Creator and turn them this way and that way, each and every excerpt and after some time I read it again. That is why I say that we need to make a special file from this and to use it for everyone to have it convenient for his use.
38. S. (01:13:20) When the communication with a friend is very difficult and full of negative responses and we imagine that we are talking to the Creator, does it help us to change the communication in the response of the friends towards me?
R. Give him a good example if you can. Even if he treats you and he does not have an urge for it, show him still that you are treating him well. Try it, it helps a lot.
39. S. (01:14:00) We see that performing actions for the friends, in realizing the connection between us is possible and we also lack that but when we reach the thought of doing it for the Creator then we discover that we are lacking in our vessel, so how should we direct ourselves correctly in that state?
R. If we ask of the Creator for connection and try to connect between us then the same feeling that we reveal in the connection is the same feeling that communicates to the Creator and certainly He is happy with it because it is coming from the connection between us.
40. S. (01:14:47) What is more important and beneficial every day to scrutinize a new prayer in the ten or to focus each and every day on a constant prayer for connection between us and with the Creator?
R. We need both, there are times for this and times for that.