Morning Lesson April 29, 2023 

Transcription is made from simultaneous translation, which leaves a possibility for differences in the audio. 

Part 1:
Lishma is called “truth”, Lo Lishma is called “a lie” - Selected Excerpts from the sources. #7

1. Rav’s Introduction: Lishma is called truth and Lo Lishma is called a lie. Why is that? because it pertains to the single force that manages reality and so whatever it does we determine it to be the truth because there is none else besides him and the lie is the opposite; what could be the lie?, all kinds of deviations, mistakes, thoughts and desires and acts that we do, specifically people, not the still, vegetative or animate, but rather people can do things that are against the Creator, the opposite of the Creator. This is called a lie because it does not go along with the true laws that are hidden within nature and we have to discover them and try to adhere to them, to keep them, this is our correction. The person should depict to himself how much the fact that he is in Lo Lishma, means that he is in his own world which he depicts to himself, he portrays it for himself and it is not truly that he exist but rather we depict to ourselves a certain reality, in our will to receive and we exist in it and we need to go through a difficult study, to go through difficult efforts in order to discover the true reality which is completely not understood by us. This is why it is not only truth and falsehood but this is rather two perceptions of reality it’s what we do need to discover at the end of our development, at the end of all of our incarnations and now as Baal HaSulam says we are already in the last generation and this is why here and now we can already discover the true state. Let's hope that this will indeed happen to us, let's try and the most important in that is the correct connection among all of us. Because this is the difference between this world and the next world, that all of us will connect as one man with one heart with one approach, with one desire, with the same goal, then by that we will reach such a connection that it will be called the end of correction, the final correction of the system of Adam HaRishon, so let's read.

Reading 7. (05:15) “There should be a medium between truth and falsehood…” 

2. R. (06:35) He is describing our path to us here, let's say half of the path we walk and don’t know that we are in a lie, we think and speak and study but it’s not that we are aware of it that it is a lie where, where is it?, only after we try to work a little bit to some extent through the incorporation in the Ten, then inside of that we get a certain response that indeed we are in a false perception of the world and then we try to be more close to each other more solidified more adhere to each other like in The First Man more and more and more and then through the efforts we reach a state where we see that we are in the opposite form of the system of Adam HaRishon and then we discovered the lie, and to the extent that we discover the lie we already begin to distance ourselves from this false perception and rise to the state of Truth, the state of connection. Let's read it again. 

Reading 7 again (08:55) “There should be a medium between truth and falsehood…”

3. S. (10:17) I still do not understand what is the medium between truths and false? 

R. The medium between the truth and the lie is that we discover the lie, we discovered our state and we see that it is an absolute lie. It’s easier this way to grasp this. 

S. So complete lie is the medium? 

R. It is not a lie, it’s not false so then we can make a leap from that to the state of truth. 

S. We learn that the medium has part of the lower degree and the upper degree so complete false, where is the part of truth in it? 

R. In that that it is lie. 

S. I need to think about? 

R. I mean if you know that you are now here and think and you exist in equality that is completely false then you reach the truth you have a correct perception of where you are. 

4. S. (11:46) For the time being this fall is what the Kabbalists call the will to receive in order to receive? 

R. Let's say but the person doesn't yet know that it is a lie.

S. Right, so what turned reality? Right now it seems that everything I calculate is for myself, it is clear, now we call this false. How can I come from that state where I really believe that it is false and not used to take it as a definition? 

R. This is only through the group, you cannot do it on your own. When you look at the others and you identify that they have a different approach, different than yours and it puts you for perception that, look they think differently, they speak differently, they see everything differently so who is right and who is not, where am I and where are they? That’s on one hand on the other hand I have to take upon myself certain qualities, certain rules that belong to the spiritual world that the Kabbalists tell me that I have to help them, that I have to become like them, that I cannot distance myself from them and so on. So all of these things turn me to a state where I accept their views bit by bit. 

S. But at the moment in the meantime in the vessels that I have on a day-to-day basis I do not see that this is false. I eat, I feel satiated. I care for myself and I don't feel that this is falsehood? 

R. It is not about that. It is not about these things that are not to be praised or condemned instead you have to do that in order tor sustain yourself, this is on the animal level. They are talking about corrections on the speaking level. The fact that I need a certain number of calories a day and I have to sleep for a certain hours, that is necessary, that is simply nature like for every other animal but the fact that I need to relate to the still, vegetative, animate and speaking as a human, as Adam who is above the still, vegetative and animate, this is already my work.

S. I didn't mean I'm at the animal level but let's say that in the day to day actions even on the speaking level how to feel falsehood because for now I see that I get a lot of feedback from reality which seems like the truth. Let's say I want to see a movie instead of connecting with the Zoom meeting with the friends so I know that this is a selfish decision but when I do it I receive fulfillment so what makes it false?

R. It is not in the direction of the purpose of creation. It is not in the direction of the purpose of creation, that is we have a way and we have a point at the end of the way so that we were once or we are even are obligated to reach. That we really are obligated to reach, that this is our life and destiny and there is nothing we can do about this so I check myself: am I directed to this final point or not. This for me is called true or false so even though I do not keep myself in order to approach towards this final point, to the end of correction it doesn't matter how we call this, even if I'm not coming closer to that however I do know where I am and I know what to do. 

5. S. (16:40) What exactly is called false on the speaking level? 

R. False, a lie on the speaking degree is according to the degree because each one has their own stage or qualities and conditions but a lie means whatever deflects the person from the way to the end of correction. 

S. And what is actually is the springboard between falsehood and what brings us to the truth?

R. When the person understands where he is now, that this is false and from that he has to jump into the opposite form. 

S. The awareness itself is the jumping? 

R. Yes, the awareness itself is helping the jump.

6. S. (17:44) They also have to feel that the lie is harmful, not the simply it is an untrue? 

R. Yes, because otherwise yes it is correct.

S. So it is two things, one is to feel that there is a goal we have to achieve and to that we see the false, that we are not in truth but it is also not that sweet? 

R. I am inside the group and through the friends I can reach a feeling a state there whatever is happening to me is true, correct or incorrect, it is truth or a lie, it is bitter or sweet. I can determine all of these things according to my state inside of the friends. Whereas if I am come out of them then I have no one in respect to I can check. I need to arrange inside of the group which I feel as if with a compass, where exactly am I directed because without the group I do not have any such direction, I do not have the right direction. I must be directed to the truth and the truth is that we are all connected together with as much mutual support as possible and then we are drawn towards connection more and more. All-in-all, for the time being, this is what we should have before us. 

7. S. (20:05) To continue this scrutiny there is a state that two friends are in their own sense of truth, they are in the general stream but each with his own sense of truth but they cannot agree with each other. What to do in that state? Meaning there is a framework, there are like metals as we say and seemingly there is annulment but there is a sense of disagreement with each other?

R. Where does this feeling come from? Where is it coming from? If they are in parallel towards the same goal, even though each one has his own individual thought, then they have to progress through the connection between them towards the truth. So what is it here that is a question. What is the question here? 

S. Lack of agreement, where is it coming from?

R. This lack of agreement remains.

S. Which disagreement?

R. One with the other, two friends. What do they disagree about?

S. Each one thinks that the truth is his. Now there is a routine we separate between them, okay, they nullify to each other seemingly but the state that one is right or the other is right, they remain in their own truth, that remains and then there is tension, there is tension and the feeling of I don't know, I hate the other that that much they are not even willing to nullify, there is something that keeps the framework but inside there is a fire?

R. How can I hate the person who is on the way to the same goal as me, it is just that he sees it differently. He is in a different point in his walk to the goal but nevertheless how can I hate him? 

S. How can I as a friend, between these two polarities, that each one is in his own truth, how can I help them? 

R. Only by showing them an example only to show them an example of how you think we should advance, that's it. 

8. S. (23:23) The truth and false is it about the intentions or actions? 

R. It is about intentions. The actions are according to that. We don’t yet distinguish between intentions and action. 

S. When we make an action of connection of coming together between us something between us it is still not considered truth, if the intention is wrong? 

R. Gathering does not mean anything yet. The connection in the gathering as much as that exists. 

S. Let’s say we gathered here today and there is a lesson: can I relate to this action as truth? 

R. This is not true or false. Who measures it, who checks it, who weighs it?

S. Every person checks? 

R. What does it mean the truth in the gathering? 

S. This is what I am trying to understand, how to turn this action to truth or at least brings me closer to truth? 

R. When you all gather with the opinion that this will help you advance to a single source, a single goal and there you all connect together in one heart, this is called the purpose of the gathering. 

S. So if my intentions are not in this direction then even though I gather it still means I am in falsehood? 

R. Relatively, yes. 

S. What determines my attitude to the actions that I do? 

R. Your scrutinies, what do you mean? It is the way in which I relate to whatever I do. As much as I scrutinize that, according to what I understand, according to what I see in others and I compare them this is how I relate to it. 

S. If I want to have an attitude that this gathering would bring us closer to the purpose of creation to adhesion with the Creator, how do you come back to such an attitude, such an intention with the actions that you do? 

R. I do not hear you. 

S. Okay, maybe I ask here differently. I just want to use correctly every opportunity that the Creator is bringing me back. So how to use correctly all the opportunities so it brings us closer to the truth? 

R. I check it only in the connection between us. We have no other possibility to see what he is doing but only to the extent that in every new state I try to connect with the friends and in that new state I see what the Creator is doing with us. 

S. What determines my ability to be focused on every new state, to examine everything towards the connection between us? 

R. It has to become a habit. We have to get accustomed to it, that you determine that this is how you check each and every state, how will this influence the connection between every friend. 

S. To be connected is a habit? 

R. You can call it a habit. 

S. So how do you turn this habit to say basically your nature? 

R. I keep repeating it again and again and again and we exist in such a nature where the habit becomes second nature. 

S. And what does it mean that when there is an action that you already connected to the others in your action, so what is the expression of your connection to the gathering that is taking place? 

R. That I feel them, that it becomes from actions into a feeling. I feel that they are changing they are changing to me or I change to them and here there is some kind of a very special connection that exists above what we had before. Earlier we were connected with each other, well through all kinds of words and corporeal relations and earthly relations and now we suddenly feel that we have between us a certain force that connects us and works on us and it is moving us together in a very special way in respect to each other each one towards the others. And I feel how it is happening that it is that we already begin to feel that we exist in a certain new reality that is the governance of, a force that like wind it works on us and it moves us towards each other. If you feel that already to a certain extent that is already good this is already the entrance. 

9. S. (30:28) Any person that comes here and stays says that he feels here that there is something that does not exist anywhere else and really the inner truth, the inner feeling here is truth, I think that I can speak in the name of everybody who is sitting here, on the other hand when you come you come in order to fulfill your ego in the beginning, you’re coming to fulfill lies here, so what are these two places in the heart?

R. That is what exist in the person, this is what there is in the person that on the one hand he wants to fill his ego on the other hand he also has the point in the heart, an inclination towards the truth. 

S. That’s the question, the more we advance you keep scrutinizing the ego and clarifying it so the goal is to make these two points, two emotions meet? 

R. On the one hand you want to fill your ego and acquire in this world all kinds of things that are precious to your ego, on the other hand you have the point in the heart and it corrupts for you this straight way towards being rich, well known, strong, etc. and it is pulls you to something else. To get to know the upper force, to get to know the general reality so you want to understand where do you live, why is it that you live, etc.

S. But in that goal too the ego comes to celebrate in the beginning; so from that moment now I do not really know how to ask it; this ego is not somehow asking for the truth? 

R. I do not understand. 

S. I need to clarify what I want to ask. 

10. S. (32:54) The spring board to truth is it not prayer?, why is it some recognition of some complete false? 

R. There are few degrees in the prayer. There is a degree were the person just feels in his heart something that he wants to feel, we wants to fill it with some fulfillment this is called repentance and there are all kinds of other questions. Not every pain is a prayer, it has to be directed as precisely as possible towards the source of the prayer meaning The Creator which all the causes come to us, the reasons for the prayer and advance in such a way.. 

S. Between the complete recognition that I am in falsehood and the truth I need to pray or the recognition itself already means and move to truth? 

R. I don't understand what does it means to just to pray for the person, he exist inside of his own belly and there he is searching for what to ask for and what to do, the best way to do it is by reading materials. 

S. Not to pour out his heart and soul? 

R. Do read the articles of the Sages and out of that during the reading the person can feel how much he’s actually turning to the Creator, that’s the safest way to do it. 

11. S. (35:09) That mother who wishes to grow her child she speaks to the child like a child with a false face for the child to grow, but the child plays in a serious way in truth and he grows, what is it there inside? 

R. She comes to him as much as possible through equivalence of form; the story that she tells him and in her movements and everything and through that the child understands her better, feels her better, he’s close to her.

S. And the child, that place how can he be most effective in this game? What is the most important point to pay attention to in order to grow fast? 

R. For him there is no difference yet between what he does and what he wants, for him it’s all without any planning it’s just a direct response. 

12. S. (36:22) When you came to Rabash you had a very strong point in the heart? 

R. Let's say. 

S. You discovered a person who could really open the spiritual world to you and he is there? 

R. Yes. 

S. I assume if you can accompany us in the process; first you came to study from him and gained something from him; Where in the process was the change where you said I do not want to benefit here anymore, be smarter, stronger, greater, attain the whole great reality, all the pleasures in reality, I want to attain that. When did you have this transition this inversion from the false to suddenly entering the world of Truth, what caused that change? 

R. It happened by chance when he went into the hospital and also I moved to the same hospital as I came with him to take care of him and we spent a month together that's it. I simply helped him in whichever way I could, there is nothing special about that. He was given very strong antibiotics for 32 days and he was like that, because of it it really confused him very much he was sleeping almost all the time, they thought that he had cancer in his ear and later on they saw according to the test that it was not cancer and they let him go home and that was it. 

S. What happened, you mentioned the hospital incident. Why did you give this example, what happened there that made an inversion in your intentions of truth and false?

R. Just that I came with him to the doctors and the doctors determined that he immediately has to be admitted, this was the evening of the holiday of Shavuot and the doctor said no, it has to be done immediately, meaning don’t wait two more days after the holiday but rather today he has to be admitted, so he came in and he listened to them, he came to the hospital and I came with him and that was it, we came in for 32 days and each and everyday he was given antibiotics and other very strong medications and he was half asleep. What do you want to hear? 

S. So, what did you go through, you came to Rabash in order to attain for yourself at the beginning, that’s called lie? 

R. Why lie? I came to Rabash in order to learn from him the system of creation, the upper force, how to reveal him. 

S. For yourself, you had an intention for yourself? 

R. Of course for myself.

S. That’s called a lie right?, according to what we’re learning now it’s the definition of a lie, and we’re trying to find the springboard from the lie to falsehood to the truth; so in that process that you went through can we learn anything from that?

R. You always begin from Lo Lishma and even before that were we don’t know that we are in Lo Lishma, then you later know that you are in Lo Lishma and then you try to move closer to Lishma.

S. When did this switch happen for you when you said I no longer want to gain, to profit for myself from Rabash, from the study but rather I want to bestow, this switch, when did it occur? 

R. It gradually grows within when you take care of the person you also glued to him and adhered to him and you want to do more and more for his benefit and that’s how it was. 

S. For us, is it the ten that we have to take care of it? 

R. Yes, your patient is the ten. Each one has to invest in it as much as possible in order to revive it and by that you find the result. 

13. S. (42:42) Could it be that the direction is that the self-examination begins in me in every action, am I bestowing or not bestowing, is this the direction that we should take every moment all the time check my actions am I bestowing or not bestowing; is this the seed that will lead us to? 

R. Yes. 

14. S. (43:30) What is special about the reforming light that it corrects for us the perception of reality and it also reforms?

R. I don’t know, it’s the upper light that that’s how it works on us.

S. What does it mean to be Adam, human? 

R. I don’t know. 

15. S. (44:15) I just want to understand that in terms of the stages he is describing in the text, he says that at first there is a state where you work and feel that he is in the truth, even though he is in a lie and then the next stage as he advances, bit by bit, the recognition for him is that he is truly in a lie and if I understand correctly, here I have a question. So in each degree we have to discover the entire falsehood in that degree?

R. Yes. 

S. So the question is: how a person who is discovering the entire lie in the degree, how can he hold on to those things that he is holding on each and every day and he's not running away from the work or God forbid quit the path? How not to leave and let go in that state? 

R. He is in a group that does the same thing as well and everybody is relatively in the same battle, in the same attack and therefore, he can also learn from others. This is how it happens.

S. What does it mean to learn from others in the state where he has a complete recognition that he's working incorrectly, that he's not in the right direction?

R. He is looking at others, at his friends, what they are doing, how they are going through the states. 

16. S. (46:10) I want to check, let's say that if I am in truth or I am in a lie, so I had a question, that say about after 40 minutes ago and is it true that the priority is to start a discussion, it is a very interesting discussion on the whole that we participate in it is very difficult for us through the system. Is it a truth or is it a lie? 

R. I don't understand the question. 

S. So there has been an interesting discussion for the last 40 minutes and it's very difficult to take part in it from the system, so is this a truth or is this a lie, this feeling? 

R. We have to make our discussion a global discussion around the planet. It doesn't matter where the person is, when I hear questions, I want to hear everybody and I want to answer everybody. 

S. Is it very difficult, let's say to wait 40 minutes and you have a question and you can't ask a question all the time to really participate. What should be the attitude there, to be in the truth and not a lie? 

R. That too needs to be fixed, in waiting patiently until the friends receive their answers. 

17. S. (48:18) You talked about the medium, the intermediate state between the false and the truth and that is the recognition that I am in falsehood out of the understanding that I'm in complete reception. How then do I reach the point where between us something appears, this spirit of connection? In short, how do I shift from one to the other? 

R. I don't understand, please stop translating to me from Russian to Hebrew which I at least in Russian I understand what he's saying but not what the translators say. 

S. I’m lying, I feel like I’m totally in the middle of something. How do I go from that to a situation where the power of giving, the power of the Creator, is revealed between us in the top ten?

R. This is by the influence of the light that reforms, if you are in falsehood and then by your actions the light is influencing you, the light that reforms, and then bit by bit you feel qualities of truth inside the falsehood and bit by bit you begin to get closer to the truth. 

S. And what does it mean to feel the property of truth within a lie?

R. That I am in falsehood and with that I understand that it is false that a lie of truth, the truth of falsehood and so forth. There are such degrees again, four degrees between this and that. 

S. Is it possible to feel a little true in the sense of giving, in the sense of lying, being in such a low state, to feel a little bit of giving? Or is that impossible?
R. Now when I hear him in Russian you hear everything in Russian too. So that is not good. Why is that not properly organized then, I thought that used to be different?

Technical: We can make it that only you do not hear the Hebrew, that we hear Hebrew but you do not hear it. Is this okay? Okay then we are going to organize it. 

R. Sometimes I hear translation and it disturbs me. 

18. S. (51:53) What is a clear, certain lie and a clear certain truth? How do I know what is a lie and what is the truth? 

R. I do not have an answer to that. What is a truth and what is false if we are talking about true scrutinies. Only from being together with the group, connecting with them and discussing and scrutinizing. That’s it. When we connect we draw upon us the Upper Light and that’s how we advance.

19. S. (53:21) In the intermediate state when the person reaches the recognition of evil before that there is a state where we lack the recognition of evil. What can we do in such a state? Is a person even capable of doing anything in such a state because when the person already recognises the evil we can ask for correction but when a person doesn’t recognise the evil, what can we ask for?

R. Only to get closer to the friends. Ask the Creator to let him adhere to the friends and then he will hear the truth. 

20. S. (54:33) To see a true lie do I have to be dissatisfied with my current life? 

R. It’s irrelevant to the corporeal life; it is a completely different vessel. The point in the heart does not belong to the ordinary ego. The person could be rich, famous and anything and have no point of contact with the Creator and therefore he does not suffer from it, so that means that he has a point of contact but the contact is not there. 

21. S. (55:35) On the path of truth the person discovers that every desire of his is coming from the outside, that he himself has nothing, he's an empty sack. So he begins to choose the environment, does he begin to choose the environment at the moment he has this understanding?

R. Basically, yes. 

22. S. (56:15) The topic of truth and false, it is very relative. Is it correct to relate to this discernment, to this examination in relation to the person and the purpose of society: we have gathered here  to establish a society in order to rise on the degrees of man and all the discernments should be examined through the purpose of society or is there another way?

R. The goal of society is to open up the whole of reality, that we reveal it and get closer to the Creator and make him happy. I do not understand why you are dividing it into a few things, it is all the same. 

S. Because in fact, according to that we can make the discernment: should I get up for the morning lesson or not? 

R. You will not be able to make any discernments if you throw half of the data away. 

23. S. (57:25) I’m an actress and an acting instructor. Everyday I teach my students to transform the reality that they feel at a certain moment into a completely different reality, so in that moment when they are exercising this change in their desire, every moment, the reality also changes as a result of this acting. Is this method of acting also relevant for Kabbalah students here in order to change their will to receive in the reality that they feel?

R. No, it’s completely, completely unrelated to each other because there you know that you are in falsehood and you are imagining some imaginary state you are in. Here you want to move from your present falsehood to truth. 

24. S. (58:47) Today we have a lot of fake news and many people believe that, so is this the lie inside the lie in which we exist?

R. No, what is being discussed outside by media so forth It's not the lie; of course it's a lie, but we don't relate to that as a lie. We’re treating the falsehood that comes from our senses, that passes through our senses and paints a picture as if it's real even though it is false, that is what its about.

25. S. (59:46) Today we simply drown in an ocean of lies, like you said before these lies sit on the heart and we can distinguish between true and false, really there's no discernment, no distinction there. What kind of point can we hold on to so that throughout the day we can distance ourselves away from the false and the lie and get a bit closer to the truth?

R. Only if we connect to the ten, we don't have any other ability to hold on to anything outside our ego.

S. But in a situation which is seemingly unrelated to the ten, even in ordinary life even thinking about the ten feels as a lie because the ten is not with me right now. I don't feel connected to them and also it feels like a lie?

R. If you don't connect to the ten then what truth can you talk about? You have no way to touch it.

S. How do I transform this thought about the ten where at that moment I'm not connected to them at all to something that is not some false imagination to be true?

R. Start building this connection so that you have it all the time.

26. S. (01:01:21) Does the coarseness in the ten increase as we get closer to the truth?

R. The Aviut [coarseness] increases the more we see the truth? Yes, correct.

27. S. (01:02:00) Can we say that the prayer directs us towards the truth and if it is so, when the prayer appears in our heart is it an opportunity for us to discover that we are in falsehood before?

R. Yes.

28. S. (01:02:31) There is like an oxymoron here, something and its opposite, about this lie but I'm interested a bit more in what the friends were asking about, the connection between them in the group. I live in my street which is a completely different kind of place from where my group lives, we all live in different places, different times. Could it be, is it possible that I have a connection with them even though I can’t be with them in the times of the meetings other than the lesson. I don’t miss that but at least whenever I can do it, is it correct with the prayers and all these things even. I know I'm a liar and a thief and all these things, I understand that but even about that, I ask the Creator to open up, replace my head. So can we have a connection with the group even if I don't participate in all these events?

R. I basically never understand what he's asking, never. They say he is wise but how he speaks [..]

S. Maybe ask in English, will it be better?

R. Not going to help English, Hebrew, Russian or anything. It will help only, what will help only is the cleanliness of the language of your question. Write it and send it here to someone who will read it. In writing you are going to have to analyze and scrutinize it.

29. S. (01:05:21) In truth I never felt that I am in the truth in the group so what should I do in the end?

R. Keep thinking all the time how do you go between them and enter them, connect to them in all your thoughts, desires, actions. How do you find yourself in their midst?

S. I feel that all the time I'm trying to do things, I'm in the group, I try to relate to them but I feel I'm receiving, I'm not giving anything even when I perform actions in order to bestow. That is the truth isn't it?

R. Correct, so what? In the meantime you're like a baby between them, that you're only sitting between them and receiving from them.

S. But I feel shame, I don't feel that..

R. So to the extent of shame you will start growing.

S. Grow towards what?

R. Towards the group, that you will give them something, join with them participate with them.

Reading Item #8 (01:07:35)

30. S. (01:11:12) To detect the lie, if it’s through the 10 we can detect it immediately, either you’re inside of the connection operating towards it or not, that's immediate. But how do we develop the truth, what truth should we reach? We’re talking about needing to resemble the Creator, we need to discover the Creator. So what is this range in which we exist? If I think about the Creator and His operations and that I need to be similar to Him it's huge, He does everything. So what is the range in which we exist that will be called the truth and there we need to develop ourselves?

R. I don't really understand. Truth means connection, love, as much as we can depict it.

S. For what? Connection in order to what, resemble the Creator? 

R. Yes of course.

S. What’s the difference between resembling the Creator and discovering the Creator?

R. Resembling the Creator means that we all together want to be in such a form where we bestow to each other and from the connection between us we bestow to the Creator and we discover him according to the equivalence of form.

S. When you say to bestow to each other I try to think about this action I see it's very limited with respect to others to feel them. If I look at what the Creator does towards others, He does everything, what can I do towards the others? I can only connect with the others and feel through the others a certain force, a certain spirit that exists between us but I don’t see how can I can develop further this point of feeling the other and bestowing to the other. The maximum I can do is through the connection feel a certain force that exists between us. How can we develop it, how can we expand this feeling?

R. You don't understand what your friends want? You can even ask them.

S. Everybody here wants to discover the Creator.

R. Okay, what can you do for them to discover the Creator?

S. That’s just me, I don't feel them beyond that, I can't reach how the Creator operates towards them.

R. Are you coming with a complaint or are you coming to help?

S. I try to think about how can I expand this action which is called resemble the Creator. What can we do?

R. To bestow. To bestow means to help them reveal the Creator.

S. Can we reach being really like the Creator?

R. That’s a different question now.

S. That’s what I’m asking about.

R. I don't know. It is said the children of Israel should return all the way to the Creator.

31. S. (01:14:44) As long as we haven’t acquired a second nature we can’t see the truth. I can see the friend moving away from the truth, moving away from bestowal to the ten but maybe it’s I who do not see the truth? Maybe my ten is sick so I have to pray for them. What is the better way, what is the most correct way to see it?

R. We need to be connected, we need to be aimed at connection, the complete connection as much as possible. When we reach as one man in one heart we’ll feel in it the feeling of the Creator, then we’ll discover the feeling of the Creator. Before that we don't know what it is because it doesn't exist outside of the created being. That's how we need to approach the revelation of the Creator.

32. S. (01:16:30) What is the difference between…

R. Purim is the revelation of truth, when we discover how much the bad forces operate relative to the good forces and how we operate in the two.

33. S. (01:17:48) It is written that the created beings, we can actually blemish. What can we blemish?

R. We can harm ourselves if we see how much we advance. It will give us pride, it will give us weakness. So we receive from our path only a portion that will be right for us, just to identify the next step, the next stage but not how much we’re going through and how much we excel. We need to understand that the Creator calculates everything and that includes our attributes, our qualities that we don't even know yet.

34. S. (01:19:00) The only thing that prevents us from seeing truth is because we're not connected, is that correct? But when we are connected, when we accept the friends into our heart and be one with them then we are automatically in the state of truth?

R. Yes, try it.

35. S. (01:19:43) When we reach the truth does the feeling of joy change?

R. Of course the feeling of joy changes because now there is reason to be in joy, much greater reason, much broader than before.

S. But is it possible to measure our state by a change in our feeling of joy?

R. Well yes, it’s not right away but yes.

36. S. (01:21:12) We read now that before we're in Lishma we won't feel the abundance. What is that abundance he's talking about. is that the truth?

R. It’s the same abundance that fulfills the vessel of Adam HaRishon, all of it individual vessels and all of them together.

S. What is it, what is this feeling of abundance? Do I see it in my personal life, suddenly I have abundance?

R. You feel it in the spiritual vessel that you’ve established, that you’ve acquired.

S. How can we define it with our words to understand it?

R. I can't explain it.

S. What is the truth? Is there a truth in the abundance?

R. Yes, when a person receives the abundance then he feels that it is truth.

S. So according to what you're saying as long as we're not in Lishma we live in a lie?

R. Of course.

S. So everything we sees a lie?

R. What's the question?

S. Everything I see now it’s a lie, it’s an illusion?

R. Of course it's a lie. It's an imaginary world, it does not exist.

S. And how do you get out of this thing that it’s an imaginary world, like in the ten?

R. You rise to the upper world. 

S. How, through what? How do I centralize, how do I focus on the most important point?

R. The important thing is to feel the Creator.

S. So through the friends, to annul to them and all of that? 

R. Yes, all the best.

37. S. (01:23:19) Is the lie concealed and the truth revelation?

R. Yes, that’s how we need to gradually climb through the stairs of degrees and reveal them. In each degree a lie disappears and the truth becomes more and more revealed.

38. S. (01:24:15) Spirit is felt through the heart, when we come closer it's like a warm spirit and when we distance it becomes cold?

R. Yes, yes.

39. S. (01:24:54) The closer we get to the truth the lie becomes more deceiving, is that right?

R. Yes of course, they are equal

40. S. (01:25:09) If each one of the members in the ten understands that we are in a lie how can we be an example to one another?

R. We need to nevertheless use that to advance.

41. S. (01:25:26) What does it mean to invest in the ten, that it’s our sick patient?

R. We need to invest in the ten in order to make it strong, true and spiritual, that’s it. The fact that it’s still going through remission, recuperation even initial stages of that, we agree with it. We need to go through all those stages.

42. S. (01:26:01) How to incorporate in the questions of the friends as if they’re my own, that I won't be adhered to my question for a long time?

R. There’s a saying I've learned most from all of my students. There is the matter of studying together and incorporating into one another. We need to try and be a bit more connected and try to understand one another and respect. As much as I can turn my head and my heart towards understanding them more by that I may not understand them for the time being but I am approaching the goal in the best possible way because we're all connected in the goal. I have no other choice. Even if I am a repulsed by the friends and they reject me and we are all like a criminal gang, nevertheless the goal is for us to connect and reveal our common heart in it. There is nothing else.

43. S. (01:28:02) The Creator can give us blows. Can the blows be felt when we're in a lie and the truth we don't feel it?

R. The purpose of the Creator is to bring us to be like Him. To be like Him means to be in both forces of nature, to receive and to bestow and to position them one against the other, to connect one with the other. And that’s how we need to see His work.

S. I have no problem with the blows or the studies I'm just asking where it’s aimed to?

R. Everything is designed to connect you to everyone and in that you reveal the form of the world, the picture of the world like in a big mosaic. You discover the system of creation and the actions of the Creator.

S.I'm asking about a specific blow not all the actions. If a person feels a blow is that only if he's in the state of a lie? In a state of a lie that's where the Creator can activate violence or whatever you want to call it?

R. If I understand you correctly, I don't know. You’re a good guy, you've gone through some big changes from the moment you came to us. Now we need to go together. Soon you will feel it that this is coming true.

44. S. (01:31:06) What state can we direct a certain blow towards? The matter of truth and false, I want to make it more tangible. The matter of the blow where it says that the Creator gives you a blow, what is that state?

R. There is still no stick and there is no blow and the Creator doesn't reveal himself as the one who is dealing the blows. He is gradually giving us exercises in the development of our tolerance so we will arrange the correct view of him and of creation. For us to recognize everything He’s done in such a way, that we will suffer from it, we’ll feel inadequate and then in this way we’ll advance. That’s the time we’re in, soon it will change.

45. S. (01:32:46) The topic of the lesson is scrutinizing truth and false. I wanted to hear your opinion on a few things. We are in the end of the second week of you giving lessons here in the study hall and we see that many friends joined and came to the study hall and there's a feeling of happiness and excitement that is very special. But still when I look around I see that there are tables where there's a bit of friends like three friends sitting and the rest are connected through the Arvut system. What do you think of such a state, what do you recommend?

R. I recommend having lessons where anyone who lives in Petah Tikva and the surrounding area will come here. In such times it's not a problem to come here from Tel Aviv and from all suburbs of Petah Tikva. That’s one thing. The other thing is it’s possible, I heard that many tens are having small meals after the morning lessons. Many tens? Maybe raise your hands so we can see. Oh, it's a big number, maybe we will have a common meal downstairs after the lesson. I think we should try it. I don't understand too much about flavors but I grew up on eating Cholent on Saturday morning. I see a friend already longing for it. 

S. I heard last week from a friend in PT 32 that in the ten there’s a scrutiny, it’s just an example, it happens to a lot of tens. We are after three or more years of Corona. During that time we were distanced socially and we developed all kinds of virtual events like a virtual meal and the tens had a ten meeting, a ten meal and throughout the years it became virtual. Then the ability to meet physically opened up and now sometimes in the ten there are disagreements whether there is a need to have a physical meal or if virtual is enough and sometimes in a ten there’s a really rough disagreement. Some tens reach an agreement and some tens don't, it really splits a ten up. What do you think about a physical meal? Is it something that’s back from the Rabash days or is it still relevant in our days and if you can meet physically it’s better than a virtue meal, yes or no?

R. I’m for a meal, a physical meal. A virtual meal it’s not.. Try. 

46. S. (01:37:35) During these years of the Corona we were introduced to this wonderful virtual system that kept us connected even we couldn't meet. There are rooms and there are tens and each one can put up a question mark. You have morning lessons and noon lessons. In every lesson you conduct the lesson in the way you think is right. Let's say during the Corona you decided you're not going to let Petah Tikva ask at all, they will be last. There were whole lessons that Petah Tikva weren't even seen suddenly. Two weeks ago we came back here, Petah Tikva are asking endlessly and people online are waiting for 40 minutes. Then there’s a noon lesson, Rav gives it to the women then he gives it to the men. Every lesson you're like conducting the Philharmonic in the way you think is right and to me, the student I have all kinds of thoughts. Maybe now it's not right, maybe now he has to change his ways. What is the truth and false about these scrutinies I as a student see, how you the teacher are conducting the lessons?

R. In truth I would love to see everyone sitting together in one place with air conditioning, with a sound system, an excellent sound system and everything as if we're sitting next to each other from all corners of the world. What to do? I don't know. In what way to relate to it? I don't know. Sometimes I give permission to ask women, sometimes more to men. I try to balance these two parts in Bnei Baruch. I don't know what to do. It's not that I don't know but I'm going a little bit according to my senses. We have a 60/40 ratio, women to men? We need to relate to the audience accordingly, nothing more to say.

S. I'm asking about my attitude as a student to the way that the teacher decides how to conduct the lesson. It doesn't matter how, once it’s this way once it’s that way. You choose a way to conduct. Now you decide we have to read the preface a long time, the text without stopping and asking questions. Now you decide I want to ask questions with no end. You do something in the lesson no matter what and I have an opinion that it would be better to conduct the lesson in a different way. What do I do with this opinion? Is it the truth? What should my attitude be between your opinion and my opinion about how to conduct lessons?

R. You swallow what you think should be and incorporate with the friends who listening to the teacher. It's like everywhere else, there’s nothing new about it. Just understand that I'm also limited, I’m between many possibilities and pressures and opinions. I hear all the criticism and in the end what can I do? I accept that each one has his own opinion and each one would have liked perhaps to have a private tutor, a private teacher. Why not?

47. S. (01:42:20) Revealing the truth depends on the connection between us and there’s a difficulty to discover the truth because there is a difficulty to connect. There are a lot of tens, there are a lot of people around the world, the world Kli. How can we be connected to everything that’s happening here? Also the scrutinies, it’s like revolving here around and around the friends. How do we do it in a better way?

R. It all depends on you. The books, the articles it’s all before you. We need to understand that we need to come to the place of connection between all of us where the Creator’s revealed. That is our goal, nothing besides that. It’s important to reveal the Creator and the Creator is revealed in the connection between us. So come to the connection between us and insure that it fits the Creator. Come and see, Boreh.

48. S. (01:44:25) In the lesson, in the workshop I remembered the roots and branches and that the branches are actually a projection of the roots of the spiritual world and the spiritual world is the truth. So if the branches are like a mirror it turns out that we don't see the truth because we feel the corporeal world according to our egoistic senses. In order to see the truth we need to have more spiritual senses that we develop in the ten through coming closer to one another. Is that the concealment in our world?

R. No it's not, concealment goes much deeper. We will talk about it. Concealment is what we create inside of us.

S. Concealment is what we build inside us so we are ourselves are concealing the truth?

R. Yes, certainly. 

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