Morning Lesson April 15, 2022 Transcription
Transcription is made from simultaneous translation which leaves a possibility for differences in the audio
Passover - Selected Excerpts from the Sources. (Moses struck the Egyptian #177)
1.Rav’s Introduction: Yes, we are precisely now in the study of a transition from physical life to spiritual life and what conditions we need to emerge from physical life and in what way we can enter spirituality and settle in it. This is something which is not simple, certainly according to the story it all happens in a single flow but inside of us or over us, it goes in a way that it is very precise, consistent and partial, more and more in slices, this is how we go through these states. Therefore we have to learn this, also need to think about how we in general accept this, how we agree to this, accept this and how we try to emerge from the thoughts and desires and the outlook on life that we had before and try to clothe into a new person who already has a new perception. Not like it was before and not to be so stubborn that we want to go to be those who get into Egypt and start to get to know the desire to receive and start to work with it and what to understand through this, all kinds of things.
This is considered the seven years of satiation that we do understand this world more, the seven and then the study the spiritual world and everything is good and nice and all is ahead of us and then later starts the seven years of hunger. When we understand that something is not working for us, where do we rise out of ourselves, where do we dress this new thought and perception into, we do not have this and then it becomes the seven years of hunger. That we want to feel, we want to understand we want to live already in a new dimension but we are not capable, we do not get the feeling of the higher world and then we have all kinds of complaints and grievances against the Creator and his providence. Maybe we are not in the right place, maybe we need to do things differently somehow, it is good that we have a desire for something that is higher, above this physical life.
How can we implement this, how can we realize this and here the person is truly in a state where he is in trouble he feels himself being pressed, he has nothing, he has nothing from this world, from the other world, he is empty from both ends and from that the person starts to progress. Why, because nevertheless he does scrutinize things until he reaches a state when he truly feels himself that he is inside his desire to receive, inside his ego and this actually determines his state. This is what determines his state and what comes next, what should we do and then that person keeps going some more time and some more time, one time he invests more into the study of materials, another time into the work in the ten and each according to his inclination. In the end the person sees that he stands no chance of progressing in a way he imagined it before, but his progress he starts to understand that it is in a different approach that he has to change his nature, his thoughts and desires that this desire would take on a new perception and you approach that only by realizing that he must change.
That his whole perception has to change as it is his perception that is mistaken, it is not correct, it is not established correctly and then the person is ready to replace his nature. Certainly it will be replaced for him from above just like he replaced the nature that he had so far, also this way he will receive a new nature but on the condition that he has to perform certain actions towards that and this is considered that he is progressing towards the exodus from Egypt. To get out of in order to receive, from his own egoistic nature and enter a second nature of course it is not happened in one inversion, it happens inside the person and the person has to agree to this and has to feel this and digest it and he has to be the boss of these changes even though he does not determine anything. When these changes go through him the person needs to accept them, to detect them and locate them and still want them.
Only after that, when the person starts to want these changes, then these changes settle in him and organize him. This is how we progress towards the exodus from Egypt. It is not yet the exodus, it is the preparation, this exodus is not a physical or intellectual one but the whole process, like the whole spiritual progress, is about internal qualities, changing our qualities from in order to receive to in order to bestow, from reception to bestowal, from thinking about oneself thinking about others. What does it even mean to exit, to have the exodus from Egypt? It is an exit from the desire to receive for oneself, thinking about oneself, desire for oneself, this is considered that we come out of Egypt.
Seemingly I leave myself there of each and everybody in Egypt, seemingly it stays there, all the personal egoistic thoughts, the selfish discernments and the decisions, they all remain inside Egypt. We come out of all of these and we continue as it is called, to become a free nation, free people and we continue like that, it is like a new birth as if we are reborn anew. Just like coming out of the mother into a new enlightened world, this is the exodus from Egypt. Before that we were inside the desire to receive in order to receive for ourselves and now we get rid of the in order to receive for ourselves and we truly come out naked. As we do not have the right desire or the right intention we do not have anything, seemingly we are going through the point of zero and this is very interesting how it happens, it is very unique and interesting how it happens, we are under the control of the upper one ruling us.
We are even in order to receive but the higher one was developing us in such a way so it was not considered at all that it is us, it is coming from nature, “go to the master who created me.” Now after we are born we already begin to try to perform some actions on our own, intellectual actions as well as emotional ones, in our mind and in our emotions and here we truly need to understand who we are and what it is that we have to do in order to resemble the Creator. From the birth, from the first moment when we disconnect from our desire to receive and then continue on from there, there are many things here that we need to understand and we need to accept them and to take them upon ourselves to implement them.
This is already work that we need to feel this is us, the new version of ourselves and then we leave in Egypt all our previous relations that we had in our mind and heart that belonged to us, instead outside of Egypt it is no longer mine, it is the ten and the Creator that determines everything. Because the Creator exists in the ten, a ten could be my small group, that ten the whole Bnei Baruch, thousands of people all around the globe. The ten can be in general the whole of reality, the whole of mankind with all the still, vegetative and animate levels and all of it is also the ten, it all depends on how much are they are capable of holding on to this in our feelings, in our attitude, this is it. So we are continuing to study the matter of the exodus of Egypt and first we answer a few questions.
2. S. (13:23) So there is a feeling that we are learning the wisdom of Kabbalah like some upper science but how practically can we implement this, it is just like you said that our teacher is telling us that I want to understand correctly, practically how to exit Egypt but for me it is a theoretical feeling at the moment, how do I practically achieve this?
R. I am in the ten, I have to nullify to the ten, practically to nullify myself so that my mind and my heart will be together with the friends, together with the friends. I feel that I cannot be like them, I cannot be together with them, this is considered that I am in exile disconnected from the friends, disconnected from the mutual guarantee, from the connection between us. This is already the first sign that I am under the control of the king of Egypt and I must therefore truly try to bring myself to disconnection from myself, from the self, to give myself to the view of the society to the rule of my small society.
Later it will become greater and by this I will feel how much I am not in it or maybe I am in it, what I have to do so with my brain and with my heart I ascribe myself to them. This is how I rise from this world which is my ego to the next world which is the designer of the environment and the environment each time will be revealed to me as greater and the higher values and I have to try each and every time to disconnect from myself and ascribe myself to the society, to the environment and in this way through the person and the environment, person and the environment, I will be able to, I will try and I will be rewarded from rising from one state to the next. This is what we are studying and I do not see in this anything theoretical, disconnected from life but in our physical life rather our corporeal life is actually disconnected from reality, this is called the imaginary world, this world, whatever is depicted in our desire to receive. So it is worthwhile for us to think about this more and more and to understand and try to implement practically.
S. I try to be more precise, I have a feeling that I'm investing into the ten, I'm kind of smart and good but I do not get any feedback?
R. Don't look at them with your egoistic “I”, everybody who is disqualifying is disqualifying through his own flaws. You have to relate to them as they were already in the final correction, at the end of correction and to connect yourself to them as much as you are capable of nullifying before them, in such a way you can progress only in that you nullify before the ten. See what Rabash writes to us in his Social Articles, there is no other choice, only in that way and that you'll see it this way, you see that, throw away everything that you see and think, it is all incorrect. Just accept it this way, in advance, that your whole outlook is your ego, so how should I look, how should I zero myself, reset myself, how should I calibrate myself in a way that I will become a zero.
My whole outlook at the world, everything that I look at and see. First of all I have to put it on zero so I can start working correctly, this is self-calibration, balancing, how can we do that. I disqualify my own outlook and I accept them as whole, I accept them as correct and just and this is how I start. I have no other possibility to start an action above reason. Reason means what I think and above that is only such a way, I reset myself, I put zero on all of my thoughts and emotions. What is zero, that I am a zero as Rabash writes that the person has to reset himself to the environment.
S. If in the ten there is still no common reason that one thinks like this and the other thinks a different way so we do not have something common?
R. It does not matter, it is you who sees it this way, you have eyes but you do not see, you have to accept this, that you do not see things correctly. You have some squinting or some problem with your eyes and you cannot see correctly, a crooked eye. That you seem to think that it is this way or that way but you have to accept them above whatever you see, look at what Rabash writes in his Social Articles above what you see, the fact that you see that they are not correct, that they are crooked, they themselves are with all kinds of problems, it does not matter. Above that you accept them as if they were together connected between them in an ideal way, otherwise it cannot happen, otherwise it does not work, I know you for twenty years at least.
3. S. (20:39) You just talked about how what I think and feel is not important when I listen to you with my intellect I agree with this, that all together this is the only solution. Because what does it matter what I feel and understand but what can help if you can't do that? That some dead end comes that we have not seen before and you cannot carry this burden but you also cannot escape, you cannot do anything, you cannot continue, you cannot go back, so how can we rise above this to this state where it doesn't matter what I feel or think?
R. Rabash writes about it, we have to give examples about it, we have to talk about it, we have to help each other and continue and continue and then it will happen. It will not happen now but if it'll happen in a month or two but it really happens on the condition that as much as you truly are going in a single direction, to be helping each other. Where is the Arvut, there are a few conditions here that we have to start keeping because we want to come out of the work inside of our ego, we want to rise above it so here there is no choice and we have to understand this.
S. If the solution is Arvut and you have to have some form of Arvut with a new quality?
R. We have to give examples to each other how it works, how we need to appear that even though I am not in it, I make myself as if I was in it, as if I was corrected, this is what I want to show to the friends. Not that I speak before them in a way that is on a lower degree. I do not make them less powerful saying it is not going to happen, this is too difficult and I'm very tired of that. We cannot say this to each other.
S. If I would operate as if we were already connected does it help to hasten and go through the states?
R. This is right. That is what Rabash says, that we have to show to each other how much we are already righteous and corrected, already connected. Like children who are playing something that they want to be a grown up in certain games, as if he had a car even though it is a car made of wood or plastic or something else, we need to play in the games of the grownups.
S. When we play this game as if we are already a single soul. What result does this lead us to?
R. By this we invite, we draw the reforming light and it will affect us and truly elevate us.
S. That through this yearning when we do things through our actions, do we wake up the light, does it raise them, does it elevate above them?
R. Yes, it will elevate us according to our inclination which we call a prayer. The light influences us and elevates us to the state that we can be in.
S. That this force of the light is so powerful it raises us from the darkness?
R. It is the force of the Creator. There is no other force, all the other forces are revealed only that we want the force of the light, because besides that light nothing else operates and whatever is happening, it is only because of the lack of light which we call darkness, the egoistic will to receive, it does not exist, it does not exist. The ego does not exist, this is what is considered I have created the evil inclination, it is a creation outside of reality, it is only in order for us to depict from ourselves this state which is artificial so from this stage we have to imagine what spirituality is.
S. We get accustomed to this, does it become a second nature that we are in such a duality that it happens all life long, so we have to be in this duality every day?
R. All the time, constantly we have to be in this, that we exist between two worlds, between the desire to receive and the desire to bestow, intention to receive and intention to bestow. We have to constantly rise from where we are and where we want to be and where we want to be, we do not know yet but we always want to be more connected to the ten, this is for us as the main and most certain scrutiny.
4. S. (26:54) What are the things we have to examine if we are annulling correctly in the ten?
R. This is that, I along with the fact that I do criticize and I am not pleased and I have all kinds of state that are contradictory to my friends, together with this, I feel that they are precious to me and I have to be attached to them, to embrace them, to hold them and to invest into them. This is it and that to keep examining things because if we see such things in a family that there is a bad child but nevertheless we love that child, so whatever evil I see in the friends it is because I am in that evil and that the friend and the Creator clothes into the friend and deliberately shows me the evil in the friend so I can correct myself and agree with everything I see and I would try to see inside the friend the Creator instead of all the evil that I see in him. I have to see a good image.
5. S. (28:47) Who should we listen to more, to the mind or to the feelings?
R. It has to be together but the main thing it the most important is the point of holding, that each time I want to rise above myself and cling to a higher state.
6. S. (29:24) We are playing and acting for the friends the greatness of the Creator, the importance of the goal and we are doing this work all the time and the light is operating on us and raised us above our nature. With that we are learning the Exodus from Egypt is a miracle and the miracle is, I think that we need to do a miracle, and if he doesn't think so, he won’t do it. How to work correctly between what we are doing in the ten and that which the Creator can or can’t do?
R. I do not wait for or I don’t expect any miracles, I do whatever I can do. Even though at each and every moment I need to expect it, that the Creator will be revealed and the will to bestow will be revealed in me and that I will try to be in order to bestow above my nature even though I don’t really know what it is. It’s called an opposite world but along with that I need to be seemingly in two worlds. I need to see where I am right now, I don’t run away from that, I constantly want to depict to myself in which state of bestowal and love and connection I want to be. We will learn more about it.
7. S. (31:21) My nature always brings me to fill myself during the day but when I am with friends and I am in the lesson I need to feel the desire of the friends. For me this is very difficult because I am also demanding the filling from the friends. How can I invert this action and what do I need to do more?
R. You need to try to connect to the ten and together with them to find a common language regarding your situation, the existing one and your desire about the situation.
8. S. (31:18) We need to work in annulment in the ten towards the friend or towards the ten? Like a friend that says something?
R. You need to scrutinize this. I am not sure what you are talking about. Usually the annulment is towards the ten.
S. Can I continue?
R. I do not think we can continue with this because we really need to get into this and explain what it is about, why and how and these are things that relate to you. You should read what Rabash writes and then you will see what you need to do.
9. S. (31:16) What remains of a person after the Exodus from Egypt?
R. Actually it is only a point that begins to acquire a new will to receive and correct it, to update it, to upgrade it upon oneself. One has a deficiency when he comes out but it is like a new birth, you see that something is born but out of what was there before. This foundation is not a foundation we can continue with, it is only in order to install on top of the will to receive that they had before that they came out with to install a new form which is called Adam. Because before they came out of Egypt they were not humans, they were animals.
S. All that I know today, my ‘I’ will disappear and I get a completely new perception or is it added to what exists?
R. It will start to change, these are actions that do not occur at once in one time, in one night as it says in the story but eventually we begin to feel how we leave the old discernments and instead install new discernments.
S. What exactly does give birth to this new approach?
R. That I do not want to be in slavery for my egoistic desire that determines for me how do I think, how do I relate, what do I do? I don’t want to be under its control, this is called under Pharaoh’s rule, that I want to come out of it as much as possible. This is considered that I am trying to run away from Egypt.
S. The feeling of that vice that is on me, that I'm feeling pressure from this side and that side, there is this fear that I am going to kick everything on this whole path?
R. Here I need to still continue the scrutiny that the most important thing for me is what is it that I want to get rid of, what am I trying to run away from? Until I scrutinize that the most important thing for me is to run away from the ‘in order to receive,’ this is what he calls the first trouble. The second trouble is to be ready to receive in order to bestow, so this is how I need to determine these two stages for myself.
S. As far as the work in the ten, on one hand I see everyone as perfect which is my work but on the other hand where is the Arvut?
R. The Arvut is that I see them as whole and I enter between them with the complete looking at them as complete as whole. Then I am truly together with them in Arvut as a loyal friend who is in the same boat together with them helping everyone to advance and I have no possibility to run away here and I do not want to. I just want to be more and more devoted.
S. Is the work in the ten my personal work, is this my personal work in that ten?
R. Working in the ten is my individual work, yes.
S. Rabash writes in his social writings that the person's individual work of a person, is this the work in the ten?
R. With the ten, towards what else.
S. There is no work of the ten, there is my work with the ten?
R. Maybe I do not understand you but all of our work is to become incorporated in the ten and to see them as whole and that the Creator is inside of them.
10. S. (38:03) What does it mean to see the state of the ten in the existing state and the desired state?
R. I first need to try to see everyone as complete, successful, righteous and then I can also allow to be able see them in some form of flaws under the condition that I can correct those deviations and critique in order to correct myself more and more. To be adhered to them even though here and there, some blemishes revealed.
S. In continuation with what you said before, actually inside of the actions that we perform with each other we feel my new ‘I’ each and every moment I feel my new self, my new ‘I’?
R. Of course it is like that, like it or not each moment the person is new .
11. S. (39:31) How do I calibrate mind and heart? how can we draw this upper light into our lesson and leave happily the Egypt condition?
12. R. Each and every moment I want to adhere myself to the society in order for me in every possibility to advance them towards connection.
Excerpt 177 (40:38) twice
13. R. (42:41) Meaning the Egyptian in him, yes inside of a person. That’s called that he stuck the Egyptian, he deletes him, he erases him.
Reader continues: (42:58)
R. (44:41) Yes, it’s difficult, this is hard. There are many discernments here in this excerpt and mainly we need to go through them in our feelings and our intellect on ourselves and therefore it is something that we must stand upon and scrutinize.
14. S. (45:18) It speaks here about the fact that a person advances in above reason. in a certain stage when such an opportunity appears, how in that state what in the mind equalizes what is in the heart?
R. That is something we have to learn on ourselves, what we agree with in our hearts and what we agree with in our minds and there is the influence of the heart upon the mind and the mind upon the heart, this is something we still need to learn. Besides the two we have nothing, there is no other point of discernment. Only the mind and the heart, the feeling and the intellect.
15. S. (46:24) What comes first, the annulment or the restriction of the mind and heart ?
R. Annulment, annulment and then gradually the restriction is when we already start to use somewhat in a specific way to annul as if he doesn’t exist.
16. S. (46:59) We get a special kind of joy from the lesson and all the friends are in an ocean of light, is this something I imagine?
R. This is good.
17. S. (47:28) Can you explain the sentence, when a person goes above the mind, then he will be given the mind that approves of all of his work, then he will be able to say that he is receiving all this for in order to bestow for his mind, for his heart, then he can relinquish the mind?
R. If a person receives the forces from above to be able to nullify in his mind and intellect, then the more he gets in his mind he is happy to nullify more and more, and be able rise to the degree of spirituality which is above the intellect.
S. What does it mean that he will be given a mind, that he will be given a spiritual mind?
R. No, the mind and intellect is the regular intellect, the desire to receive. If it can go above the desire to receive, as much as he goes above the will to receive, he feels joy and pleasure because this helps him to rise to spirituality.
18. S. (48:33) As long as we are not connected, how can we go against the reason, it is not clear which way to go because there are many options ?
R. No, a person also has some work with himself, he has work with the group and because of the work in the group he once again returns to the work with himself and this is how he has both this and that, so mostly it is the work in the group which compels him to do internal changes in him.
S. What's to choose? How do we know what we choose when we want to go against the reason, the mind?
R. Whatever bothers the group.
19. S. (49:29) Can we ascribe these texts that we read about the Exodus from Egypt and Moses, to the sentence that the whole world was created for me? Can you explain?
R. Yes of course we can ascribe this, certainly yes.
20. S. (50:06) The criticism that we have about everything, is this from the mind or from the heart?
R. Usually from the heart.
S. Canceling the criticism does that come from the mind?
R. Yes, the cancellation of the critique is from the mind.
S. How does our heart change eventually if the mind performs all of these actions?
R. The heart changes not by the mind but by the reforming light.
21. S. (50:44) There is a complete process here when we make preparations including striking the Egyptian and other actions and only then we come out of Egypt. It is not clear to me, why do we even come out of Egypt, why cannot I start to correct myself inside of Egypt? What is this ritual that we have to go this long way and only then we take all the things which we have to correct them?
R. In all our Commandments that we are correcting, it is written ‘In Remembrance of the Exodus from Egypt’. As all the corrections take place after the disconnection from the ego, that’s called to exit from Egypt, all of spirituality begins from the Exodus from Egypt, it’s the ladder of degrees. You have degrees in which a person is in this person, and rises with those egoistic small desires.
Then a person attains that there is something else, the point in the heart, his will to receive he is not satisfied from, this ascent in this world, and he wants to rise further. This is where we start to learn, how to do this, how do we prepare ourselves from the previous ladder and continue with the next ladder, and that’s how we advance. In this world we can’t feel any more than what we are living in our ego. We just live a certain amount of years and we die and rot in the ground. Just like we are biological creatures, that's how we remain. If I want to exit into the spiritual life then we have now an opportunity and we learn how to do this. This is called the Exodus from Egypt.
22. S. (52:52) What is the difference between the work in the mind and the work with the heart? Can you give a practical example?
R. Practically the work in the heart is desire and the above reason is where we are working with the mind. It’s best if you do not give the precise definitions, we need to know how to adhere them to us as well and to implement them right now.
23. S. (53:39) What exactly does it mean that he struck the Egyptian in the ten? If I recognize an Egyptian in the ten, how can I put him to death?
R. The Egyptian is called the intentions in order to receive. If you want to erase the Egyptian that you have then you have to identify the desires to receive of yours with the intention in order to receive, and in such a way you erase him. We need to see the extent in which it causes bad for you, that doesn’t let you advance, and with your hatred for it, it is considered that you are erasing the Egyptian in you.
24. S. (54:31) Sometimes the ten reaches a decision and a common feeling that the Exodus from Egypt can only be done together, otherwise I stay in Egypt. It is very subtle, so how can we strengthen this point of this momentary decision so that we don’t lose it and we will invest in it and cultivate it?
R. You continue together with everyone and do everything we learn. Don’t think that it is only you who needs to watch over this. We all need to watch over and the ten helps the other tens’ and that’s how we advance.
25. S. (55:21) How can we imagine the complete life when we emerge from Egypt, all of the Bnei Baruch, the entire group of the Bnei Baruch without being confused?
R. That is through the connection between us, to the extent in which we try to be connected, the Creator is revealed in us in greater intensity and draws us all together. The more people, the more different they are, the more they want together to become connected, the Creator belongs to everyone. By this we collect ourselves under His force and then He draws us. Therefore it is to the multitude of the people is the glory of the King and the more we want to gather together then it gives the Creator more force and reason to raise us up.
26. S. (56:35) We cannot implement this right now. What is stopping us?
R. You.
S. What does that mean?
R. There is no ‘what does that mean’. You are the one that is preventing. A person himself is what’s preventing me from connecting to others.
27. S. (57:06) When we say that we come out of Egypt I am not talking about myself personally, I only come out with my ten out of Egypt. Together with this feeling, when I look at other tens in the world Kli, I see how much in relation to my ten, I see how strong they are and how huge they are but in my ten, I cannot see that.
R. You cannot see your ten as successful because you are there, because you are there .
S. I didn’t really understand that. I see the other groups and I see how strong they are. I know these friends and we were together with them in a meeting, and inside my ten I cannot reach that feeling?
R. It is because they are yours and this is how it seems to you, this is how it appears to you. You need to come to a state in which you relate to your ten as another ten to a successful ten. You have an example.
Excerpt #177 again (58:50) “He struck the Egyption…”
28. S. (01:00:43) Why is it written that we need to leave the mind but isn’t it the mind that allows me to choose the reason of faith, the reason of bestowal?
R. Yes and no, certainly we work with our intellect but we always want to raise the mind upwards above the corporeal intellect to the spiritual one. That’s why it sounds like that, as if we are disconnecting from the reason, but when we disconnect we are moving to a higher reason. We will repeat this many times still.
Reading excerpt #178 (01:01:46) “The Creator promised Moses that …”
29. R. (01:03:13) These are actually very simple things seemingly. What is he trying to tell us? He’s telling us two things, one is that you are freeing yourself from any pleasures that you can receive regularly in your will to receive. What enters the will to receive is prohibited. It is disconnects you from the Creator so this is why it is not right and then you have to work in order to bestow and work with the will to receive but in order to bestow, meaning to add here the intention of in order to, and this is seemingly opposite since you are working with your desires and you ascribe them to the Creator where all that you can benefit from you attribute to the Creator and that’s called the second. I’ll read it.
Rav reading excerpt #178 again: “The Creator promised Moses that …”
30. R. (01:04:17) The Creator promised Moses that he will deliver them from both the first and second troubles however we must know that emerging from the first trouble is mainly the emergence from the corporeal lusts and without it, without exiting himself, without that it is impossible to achieve spiritual pleasures. First there needs to be a restriction, a Masach, the reforming light, and then we can work with spiritual pleasures. This is the allegory of the Midrash, an Egyptian man saved us from the hands of the shepherd's, that is that the fact that he killed the Egyptian the first reason we also must remember even afterward when he comes to the second state which is the exile over spiritual pleasures that we must receive in order to bestowal but the body disagrees.
That is he killed the Egyptian which refers to the corporeal lusts called Egyptian, whereas later the second trouble is the quality of Israel meaning that he has spiritual pleasures and yet he is in trouble because he must overcome in order to bestow and we need the Creator to reveal to him also from this problem, meaning that even the spiritual pleasures of in order to bestow that he receives he gets pleasures from this, from doing this in order to bestow and these pleasure's also he needs to arrange such that they will not be for himself.
31.S. (01:06:36) I did not understand, what is the first trouble, what does it mean to come out of corporeal lusts, what are these corporeal lusts?
R. I enjoy something, yes? I need to come to a state which I don’t want to enjoy unless I raise my desire to a state in which I have no pleasure from getting pleasure. I have pleasure since I am delivering or giving the pleasure.
S. What does it mean to come out of the corporeal lusts, to use those lusts in the right way?
R. Yes, yes.
S. And the second trouble?
R. And the second trouble is that even the corporeal pleasures where I had spiritual pleasures that are in order to bestow, they too, those pleasures that I receive need to be accepted in order to bestow.
32. S. (01:07:44) There is this state when a friend leaves the Wisdom of Kabbalah for a certain period of time and in corporeality everything is fine, there are those who are truly ready to do a lot of work and they leave the Wisdom of Kabbalah under both of these cases, so what is preferable?
R. This is not possible to say. It is impossible to say. Disconnecting from the study, the group is the worst possible thing and it does not matter what the reason, the reason does not matter. Of course if it is arranged in such a way that a person cannot do anything, meaning God forbid he is sick and he has to leave because of some serious health problem, some reason and it does not depend on him but the Creator arranged it for him, but in truth if the person leaves because of a problems at work and with his health or whatever ,these are all reasons, these are all causes .
33. S. (01:09:45) The spiritual pleasures, what is a spiritual pleasure? Is it that I enjoy the fact that I disconnected from my ego, I enjoy the fact that I am doing something for the friends, what exactly are these pleasures?
R. There is no difference between corporeal and spiritual pleasures. The spiritual is where you are willing to enjoy from filling others and here comes the question whether you enjoy from filling the other, are you filling the other in order to enjoy, or you are delighting to the other and by that you are enjoying, or as a result of that you are enjoying where inevitably it comes to you and you nevertheless raise and fill him, or that you do want to receive pleasures from filling the other and the pleasures that you received from just filling others you receive them in order to bestow, perform a restriction, reflected light and so on because by that you are truly resembling the Creator who certainly enjoys from delighting the created beings.
34. S. (01:11:28) How do you give the pleasure, to whom do I give the pleasure?
R. To the Creator, to the source.
S. What does it mean to the Creator?
R. To the Creator it is considered that I perform the action, I enjoyed it in order to delight him.
S. What does it mean to delight Him?
R. That if I did not want to answer him I would not do the action.
S. To be connected with him or to say here I’m enjoying to delight you, or what?
R. Yes, yes, start to talk to Him, don't be afraid. Start talking to Him and you will see the extent to which it is beneficial.
35. S. (01:12:39) What is the best protection, defense, because we do perform acts of bestowal, personally after the lesson I sit for two hours and I cut clips and I send it to the friends and I get satisfaction from the fact that the friends hear these pearls from the morning lessons that I send them, but the best protection and I tried to do it is to ascribe it to the Creator, that he gave me this desire and I do not disconnect from him in any way. What is the best way to protect ourselves so we do not remain with these Egyptians?
R. Connection with the friends. Constantly keep the connection.
S. In thoughts? Because I do it truly because I want them to hear it.
R. From that you will get both mind and heart in the right way.
S. Along with that, I also see the friends, I have this image, I imagine to myself that they don’t really need it because they are in adhesion and wholeness, so it is kind of ambivalent. Should I see them as you say it in the whole state also, right? Does that also help?
R. Yes, of course where you constantly need to justify them. Yes.
36. S. (01:14:20) We come out of Egypt as if we let go of the will to receive but we cannot bestow without receiving first, this is our spiritual work to turn our deed into intentions?
R. We exit Egypt and go to work in bestowing in order to bestow and then after we complete that work we come to receive in order to bestow. That we will learn the main thing for us is to exit.
S. My intention if I may that also during the transition where I build that new me we actually start working only with intentions, there are no deeds?
R. What actions?
S. If I went into spirituality so it is not corporeality anymore it should only be about intentions?
R. Yes, yes only spiritual actions, only with intentions.
37. S. (01:15:43) In the article it writes that an Egyptian man rescued us from the shepherds. What are the shepherds here?
R. The forces that are caring for us.
38. S. (01:16:09) The matter of agreeing and deciding, we all agree we agree on everything but decisions always come with a delay and sometimes we don't even get to a decision because everyone has their own calculations and excuses and everybody is right. How can we build a decision? If we take a decision it has to be accepted by all of us because inside supposedly we can decide and have a lot of calculations?
R. There is a problem that now we are starting to be more connected to one another because outside of Egypt, it is like when we weave when we are connected with each other in weaving, so that's why our work seems different to us. We will talk about it more, how we need to organize ourselves in a way that everybody is like a loom, that we are all connected, interconnected and only by this work, we advance.
S. The decisions that we are succeeding in that we supposedly reach it, like you said it is against our will, we have no choice that we decide on something and we do succeed somehow to come out of it, but how to get to that right decision that we are not in Egypt that we are not forced because we always have calculations each one inside?
R. I don't understand what you are trying to say. Without that excitement can you tell me in one sentence that we can understand what you want.
S. How to agree and to decide together?
R. It could be that it’s worthwhile for you to read the article from Rabash, Save Us from the Hands of the Shepherds. I don't know how to answer you.
Excerpt # 179 (01:19:43) “The Burning Bush “Moses contemplated and said….” twice
39. R. (01:21:46) This means that all the thoughts or desires whatever relates to the connection to the purpose of connection remain and they are accumulated and this is how we advance all of all the other desires vanish, they die, they are corrected. That is what the burning bush explains to us that even though the burning bush is burning but it's not it doesn't burn, it doesn't get eaten, it doesn't end. Meaning, the will to receive gives and gives more of its material, of its fuel, of its figure so we can keep doing the work.
Excerpt # 180 (01:22:51) “From here we see that the Creator's mercy …”
40. R. (01:23:43) Yes, also according with the same things.
Excerpt 181 “Why was it said about Moses taking his shoes out his feet…”
41. R. (01:24:41) We'll talk about that. These are things that we will have in the future.
42. S. (01:24:54) How can we not burn in our work?
R. I think first of all, the Creator cares about us and he gave us such life that we don't have a lot to search in it, and he's always shaking us and every year more and more in all kinds of events that it doesn't let us fall asleep and rest. Look what's going on every day with us, from day to day with the whole world, and around the earth all of us, we are being shaken by the upper forces, so everything is on fire, everything is on fire. What's going on with us? What we should do is just carry out actions of connection, according to the conditions we get in corporeality and spirituality and also corporeality and spirituality are getting very close to each other. Soon, we will see how much the spiritual actions will clothe in the corporeal actions and we will see in this world more and more revelation of these actions. We just need to try between us to be tighter and we will start feeling these vibrations of the upper force in us. Then we will understand more about what is going on in the world.
S. Could it be that the secret about that fire the bush in something working above our nature, so, by that we won't get burned by working above the will to receive?
R. Yes, your line of thought is correct.
43. S. (01:27:36) We see this in corporeality, however, in the ten, what could help us to exit from these thoughts that nothing in the previous form will help us and we will not have the chance to advance?
R. You should talk about it and you should decide that you are going to try to be above your egoistic earthly thoughts but rather to be above them in thoughts of bestow and connection and by that you want to hold each other. If you can reach Arvut, even minimal Arvut between you, you will feel in this Arvut, you will feel the Creator. It is so simple, Arvut is the vessel.
44. S. (01:28:44) You spoke about this stage where we are connected in the ten. What is this?
R. The Arvut we are talking about is the connection, the right connection, the complete connection, of course there are degrees but that's the connection. Each one is responsible for the other one and then we are connected, and we are adhered to, we are mingling with each other, we are complimenting each other and that's how we advance.
45. S. (01:29:28) You were speaking about the vibrations of the upper light in us. How can we recognize them?
R. By changing all the time.
46. S. (01:29:53) Can we say that the first trouble is overcoming the fulfillment and the desire and the second is the fulfillment from the intention?
R. In the meantime, we can go this way.
S. In our state now, what should we concentrate on? What can we try, and do, and enjoy?
R. You should try to enjoy being connected together and between you and the Creator that takes care of you and brings you out of your ego in order to bestow. That is a call from Egypt to the land of Israel.
47. S. (01:30:50) We learned that it is useless to confront our ego but we have to pray to the help of theCreator. What does it mean to resist our mind?
R. That your mind will not determine to me what I have to do. Because what I have in my mind is the degree I am in. If I want to rise, it means that I have to rise above my mind, above my reason.
48. S. (01:31:26) Does the Creator decide that someone is righteous or wicked or do we determine that?
R. Wicked or righteous is with respect to the Creator. To the extent that the person convicts the Creator or not. That is called wicked or righteous.
49. S. (01:31:51) Again and again basic questions awaken from very advanced friends. I'd expect them to ask more advanced questions, it makes me feel frustrated, what should I do?
R. You simply don't see in their questions something high and big and each one understands it according to his level. That's what it seems to you this way. Anyone who judges does it by his own flaws..
50. S. (01:32:28) What is the fire in a man's work who works the path?
R. The fire is called Gevurot, the forces of Din of judgment that are revealed within Rachamin, within Bina.
51. S. (01:32:49) What is the bush and what does it mean that it is burning?
R. The bush, the bush of leaves? It means that to the extent that you want to connect and be together and rise to the Creator you start being a vessel of reception to the Upper light and that means that the bush is on fire and is burning.
52. S. (01:33:18) How to get the forces to hurt the Egyptian?
R. That’s from the hatred to the will to receive, from it pulling me from the spiritual path leaving me in this world without any hope of coming out of being a beast.
53. S. (01:33:42) What is to be rewarded with the light of faith. How is it expressed?
R. To be rewarded with the light of faith means to be rewarded with Bina, with Hassadim. It is expressed in me rising above my will to receive.
54. S. (01:34:05) Do you need to get rid of all your desires of receptions in order to come out of Egypt or is it enough only part of them?
R. We are not getting rid of the will to receive, ever. The will to receive does not purify, it doesn't disappear, we just rise above it and the way we use it. We don't want to use it.
55. S. (01:34:39) Where is easier to annul, in my ten or towards the entire ten of Bnei Baruch?
R. This is something I cannot say. Any way you think.
Excerpt #182 (01:35:15) “A new king arose over Egypt…” twice
56. R. (01:36:38) Meaning previously there was provision by the Creator to man in one way now it is a different kind of provision, more hard, more difficult, harsh.
Reader Continues: Excerpt # 182 (01:36:54) “Upon their descent into matter…”
57. R. (01:37:00) Meaning they don't seem to have something to pass them in a nice short safe way.
Reader Continues: “So how was it possible for Moses to redeem them..”
58. R. (01:37:17) If they stop seeing in the one that it is passing them he's the leader, he's the head of the group, they don't see anymore how can they advance?
Reader continues: “Therefore the Creator gave Moses…”
59. R. (01:38:17) Meaning, they are in a certain small spiritual degree but it's not enough for them to connect to Moses and Moses can bring them out of Egypt. Rather, there is a certain action here that they feel themselves, they discover themselves in a Klipa, in a bad Klipa in order to receive to such an extent they cannot leave they cannot come out of it, and then the Creator, Moses has to organize some kind of sign, token, and the Creator teaches Moses that if Moses will show them these tokens they will understand that they have to follow Moses. That's the meaning of the children of Israel accept these signs from him and they will come to listen to Moses.
Before that they didn’t want to hear, they didn’t hear him because we’re talking about spiritual hearing, there's no one to see here, then they will be able to redeem them from that bitter exile. Meaning, there's some kind of movement, sometimes this way sometimes that way with respect to the spiritual principles. It doesn't seem to them they can advance and they want to leave the path, they want to leave the group, they want to leave the leader etc, and here there are all kinds of actions on their behalf and on behalf of the Creator and he organizes them. Ultimately, it passes, the worse, and then they follow Moses, they follow his leadership.
60. S. (01:40:21) About those signs?
R. No no no no no no no, that's not true. You think that you have some arguments or questions then you will reach a state that you’re banging on the table and demanding to be brought some proof to see, to understand, to feel then you’ll advance, no no no it doesn't work that way. Because, all the advancement is above reason, not in your intellect. On the contrary, to be given forces to go above your intellect, it is not about being given a bigger intellect to go against the previous intellect, that's not how our spirituality is built. That's how reality is built. Do you understand?
S. That is a question. What does it mean signs or tokens?
R. When you can annul before the Creator and do everything without any intellectual proof. Because with your intellect you cannot enter the next spiritual degree.
S. Never count on your mind?
R. No, just tell me, a nice little child, a smart child, but a child, how can you advance in spirituality with your corporeal mind, intellect? You can’t, it is a different reality, it's a different world there is no choice. Here you have to acquire a new intellect, a new mind, a new approach and to advance accordingly. To learn how to enter a new world not with what you have but rather to ask the Creator to give you new vessels, new perception, new foundations with which you can advance.
S. How to check that I am not cheating myself that I'd really got vessels from the Creator?
R. This is very simple, this is very simple, look what's going on, you have a group, you have a teacher, you have the written material, go according to that compared with your intellect. On the one hand you have your intellect with your experience in life and all that, on the other hand you have the mind and emotion, the intellect you are supposed to receive now out of your study, to organize it.
S. Meaning signs from the Creator if I understood you completely, it’s my opportunity to be in more contact with the Creator?
R. Yes, through that you’re advancing. This way you’re advancing.
61. S. (01:43:53) I wanted to scrutinize the essence of our work on our spiritual path, meaning, we should always excite or remember the slavery in Egypt so we can use the prayer to raise even more above our ego and by that we are actually correcting the will to receive with the intention for bestowal.
R. Yes.
S. By that we need to feel a necessity for the upper light?
R. We can say this is right.
62. S. (01:44:54) A person reading Kabbalistic text he can’t understand the essence because every word has an inner meaning. In the future will these texts be more understood to each and every one?
R. I don't know what to tell you about the future. This will be pretty foolish on my side if I say yes or no. I think that maybe meaning either humanity will come closer to these texts or these texts will be re-written in a way that they’ll come closer to corporeality. It seems to me that both will happen. Because on the one hand, all of humanity will have to somehow touch them, on the one hand. On the other hand, to the extent that we understand, these texts need not be understood by everyone, they just need to incorporate with us in some simple actions, external, if we can say it this way, and we will have to be more immersed in these texts in a more internal way. That's why our work is not that in order to bring these texts closer to humanity themselves, that's not possible.
But rather we are going to have to explain to them in a simple way, like children writing children's books, this is how we will have to explain to them what we need to do in order to be together and to receive bestowal from the Creator, and it will be good for everyone all in all, and when they will do these actions then they will feel there is a change in it for the better because their life will be much more difficult corporeally and the shift to spirituality will come much easier. That's how it will happen. It is happening now already, I really hope that after all these changes that the world is going through, through this pandemic, the coronavirus, and this war between Russia and Ukraine, I think that through these events, there are more with less noise being made we are going to see the changes and big changes in all of reality. New forces will be revealed and people will start understanding what Kabbalah is trying to explain to them but in a practical way. Why do we need to teach theoretically all humanity the forces of nature, the measures, the changes, what for? They’ll see how it’s clothing one in the other, that’s it. We will be more practical, simple.
Reading Excerpt # 184 (01:49:42) The Staff and the Serpent. “And Moses answered and said…”
63. R. (01:50:26) And if we grab the serpent in the right way and we lift it and it becomes a staff. Meaning, the will to receive if we go with it in the right way, that’s called a serpent to begging wit in order to receive, if you walk with it correctly it becomes a staff. By that I will know what is below in importance and what’s above in importance and this will lead me in a straight way to adhesion with the Creator, to the final correction. But without it, as Moses says, they won't believe me, meaning my qualities, my intentions, my mind, my heart I don't know how to manage with them. Where is this criteria, where is this principle by which I can reach correction, the truth, to do something with my life, how can I penetrate in the right direction?
So what does the Creator say? What is in your hand? A serpent. You have to lift it. What is before you? A serpent and you have to lift it in the right way it will become a staff and if you throw the staff, cast it on the ground it becomes a serpent, it all depends how much you appreciate what you have in your hand. If you throw it it’s a serpent, if you lift it, if you take it, if you want to walk with it, you have no choice you have to strengthen, it becomes a staff. This is how we should see what we have in our hands. There is the material, there’s the studies, there are lessons, there are the groups, there is a system, there is everything. The rest is for us to get organized.
Excerpt 184 (01:52:36) “The Staff and the Serpent” Second time
64. S. (01:53:19) When we learned about the staff and the serpent we said that we are negligent in love with friends. I took it hard and I asked the ten to scrutinize it. Do you still think that we are negligent in love of friends?
R. Of course because our success depends only on that, only on that.
65. S. (01:53:59) What does it mean to catch the serpent correctly, to aim to bestow?
R. A serpent can be caught either on its head or in its tail. That is something we still need to scrutinize. So, it depends on the one who is grabbing, now the way the person wants to advance determines the way he will grab the serpent, and if the serpent advances. The serpent is all our creation, which is corrupt, and the staff is all creation which is in the corrected form. In creation, there are these two states: either staff or serpent, if you catch it correctly it is a stuff, if you catch it incorrectly it is the serpent. That's why we have to scrutinize that, and to be concerned about how we approach this something called either serpent or staff. What there is between before we grab it, we catch it there is none. It is a matter of creation.
66. S. (01:55:30) To hold the staff correctly is the intention, to be in the right intention?
R. Yes.
Excerpt # 185 (01:55:45) “The Creator said to Moses …”
67. R. (01:56:10) Meaning, the Creator himself teaches Moses, that if you throw a staff on the ground it becomes a serpent, you have to teach that.
Reader continues: (01:56:22) ”He said that Moses’ hands are….”
68. R. (01:57:34) It is not simple. Let's hear it again.
Reader reads # 185 again (01:57:38)
69. S. (01:58:52) This is basically what the serpent tells us, despair, you've invested enough that is it, finish with it.
Reader continues: (01:59:05) “so get off this path…”
70. R. (01:59:19) Meaning that you should throw this staff, what we call a staff, to throw it on the ground and to give him importance that there are no more, this is what is written in the Torah, that a person should recall the day of his death, that he is about to die and then he is in the ground, then this way he can annul and enter spirituality.
71. S. (01:59:53) Where do we obtain the importance of the Creator, the importance of the goal of creation?
R. In your group. You could never attain the Creator by getting somewhere and looking around, wow, how great, it is so beautiful, so smart and strong, nothing. Only in the group.
S. Does it come from the Creator all the way down to the group and then to me, is this the process?
R. No. It comes from you and not from the Creator towards the group and then in the group there is an addition of the upper force, probably we won't see it and that bestows back upon us. That is why it is written “you have made me”. Only in that way, that is work, it is difficult work but it is all upon us. I am very happy at the lesson today that you feel yourself a bit embarrassed, perplexed, it is very right for coming out of Egypt, that no one knows where he is, what he should do, what is happening in the world. The world is before such big shaking and all of this is very good because it is finally helping us to let go of our ego and think in what way we can be confident, secure to reach something strong, a stable foundation, nothing. There is nothing that we can hold onto but only the ten and in the ten and the Creator the more tens then we'll be able to reveal the Creator in more intensity. He will only be in the connection between us in our annulment and connection between us above the annulment, that is how we will reveal him and give a place to be revealed. That is our future and the whole world will have no choice but in this way to discover the right depiction of all of reality.
72. S. (02:03:08) In the state that we are all in in the world Kli, it is felt as you are describing it, what should we do with this apathy, to just flow?
R. Yes, it is very nice, this apathy isn’t an empathy but because we are used to, let us say, to lean on our will to receive by perception, understanding, feeling reality that is here before us, that we are in it. It is like everything is okay, everything is there, I cannot count on one thing, I will count on something else, a third thing. I hvrd a family, I have a job, I have this world, I have forces. We gradually reach a state that we empty out of all these foundations, that we have nothing to lean on, anything to promise for ourselves but only our Father in the heavens.
S. At this stage of being empty, what is the work, the intermediate work when we do not have yet what to lean on here or in heaven, we have none of them?
R. If we connect and cry to Him, we run away from Egypt. That is exactly what we need to do so it is great that we have no choice. It is great that he prepared us for such a state, it is a salvation, what could be better than that.
S. It is missing.
R. You still are not happy, why?
S. I feel the emptiness, but not what to lean on?
R. Something secure here.
S. To lead on what?
R. You can't lean on anything, there is no rest if you lift it up from below, it'll be a staff only in that way, that thing you can lean on is the staff. That with it you can go ahead confidently. How? When you make all of your corporeality, all of your desires you take them below, Matte, from the word staff and all faith above reason, perception in the Creator, to you raising that importance that is the extent in which you can go. The Creator brought us to this let us take it. At least let's scrutinize how to take it and enter that is already entering the upper world. So we will strengthen one another, we will read more, we will scrutinize more things and as much as possible to advance even if we go and come back, go and come back, in such entrances and exits we still come closer to the exit. You know what is waiting for you? No. So believe me that is the true reality and today we are buried so come on. It is something very exciting, something very important, it is everything in short. Okay?
73. S. (02:07:28) According to what you said what's going on in the world with the wars and also basically this whole state should bring people to also learn how to rise above corporeality and not to build on corporeality but to search for a higher thing to lean on?
R. Correct, the whole world, all the reality that we see is all for us to advance towards more and more spiritual discernments that we understand in this way we cannot live, that we must come closer to the connection between us and not the separation that we need to move away from our ego and not to determine each one on the other in his ego was something. That we obligate for peace, we obligate, for war, we obligate for this and not know there is no such thing. We only want one thing in the connection between us in the annulment of each and every one, each one for the connection will discover in the middle of the connection between us the Creator. That is the center of creation.
S. In our work what does it mean that we acquire this confidence above our nature?
R. The staff, that we uplift above the will to receive and calculate only in order to bestow for everyone, through everyone that is will be good to everyone equally, not that I determine what will be good for everyone is. Only in that way and that can only be done with the light of Mercy that expands between everyone, spreads between everyone, it equalizes between everyone, it feels everyone. Everyone becomes completely equal and feels themselves that there is no more and no less than anything and no discernment between people, black, white, red, yellow, it does not matter between who or what and we are all equal. All equal. That is what we need to see as the future of the world and it is not distant and then we all connect in such a way that no one sees the others as less than him but only the connection between us, between everyone that is above us, that is as the highest value. I hope we will see it soon. It started clothing in our world and will come closer to it. We will not let our world just go into the third world war, we will not let it happen. As much as we can, we will pray that it will not happen, it will really give our world another thousands of, I don't know, at least hundreds of years of existence in a horrible world in a horrible existence there is nothing worse than our fake reality here. I really hope we will overcome it and overcoming is only in connection and closeness.
74. S. (02:11:37) The serpent has a tail and when I get hold of it it becomes a staff and I use it the right way, I use it for bestowal, does it still have a tail?
R. Yes, the tail and the head is always there and the choice is always in my hand, how to grab it and hold it. Until we reach the final correction the serpent is all the evil inclination, all the intention to receive that with him until I scrutinize then I reach the Gmar Tikkun.
75. S. (02:12:34) I just want to express the joy, that I feel the joy, that we feel that we went through this lesson between groups with peace. We are the ones that are in charge of the weekly exercise, we thank society for giving us this opportunity. Thank you.
R. Thank you.
76. S. (02:13:15) We talked about the serpent being so bad but it is also the remedy as you said in many other lessons so how can we use the serpent as a serpent, being careful of it but also as a remedy?
R. You use it the same way, you have to be careful and hold it near the head or near the tail. That we will have to see how we grab the serpent correctly.
77. S. (02:13:54) What does it mean to think about a friend in a practical manner?
R. How me and him connect our thoughts and desires as if we are in one man.
78. S. (02:14:19) I just heard you say that it is good that we feel this cloud of happiness and apathy when we're empty from the support of the will to receive. On the other hand this evening the Seder on the eve of Pesach, we have to come out of Egypt. We also read an article of Shamati that only in an outburst can a person come out. So what is this work, this effort, the burst that we should have today, this evening?
R. It is not us specifically today it is the first day of Passover and tomorrow we are done and out of Egypt. It is a symbol, no more that is why I wouldn't really connect corporeality to spirituality more than the symbolism in it. We are going to keep studying and we will learn our work onward what it really means about the Exodus and what does it mean going away from Egypt and all the other stages of development. The main thing is for us to understand the exit point because that is the spiritual birth and in this I do not see we have so many excerpts about the spiritual birth, the actual Exodus, we are lacking a few points here still.
S. Can you be precise about spiritual birth?
R. Exodus is called the spiritual birth, what is the spiritual birth.
S. If we are born what are our efforts?
R. We do not know what comes after birth we have to scrutinize. That is what I told him, we are lacking here the right excerpts for it.
S. Not after birth but how does the baby take part in the process?
R. That we have a lot in TES about conception, birth. We do not need to study it that deeply but we have to take Rabash articles about it and see things from there. That is still…., or we can also take a few excerpts from TES.
S. I meant to ask because you said it is a process of a spiritual birth. What practically can we do, what is our emotional effort?
R. Practically we need all to restrict ourselves to the drop of seed that exists in the group which is the womb and the force in the group that works then on man, that is how he restricted himself that is called the Creator. That is how we develop in the womb until we go through all of the months of pregnancy and we are born. Then we already exist outside of the upper one, outside of the womb and so on. That is already speaking about the soul, the birth of the soul. Not the will to receive as it was before but the soul that we give birth to it. We obligate the Creator to give it birth.
79. S. (02:18:37) How can we hold a decision about restriction in reality that your desires are always being changed for you?
R. You will try and see no more wise than the experienced.
80. S. (02:19:04) Can we ask a general question that is not about coming out of Egypt?
R. Ask.
S. It has been a long time that I have wanted to ask but now you yourself talk about it, so I want to ask. In the past you have changed or made a revolution, instead of reading a whole article we read excerpts and it is much more beneficial for our study. I think that we are missing the Preface and TES that we weren't able to learn, maybe we can do the same with TES when according to the articles we learn, that we can take excerpts from TES that show us how it is built from the side of the system just excerpts that are about what we are learning. Can we do that?
R. It is possible. I'm not striking out what you are saying, we just really need to look through tasks and see what suits us and study it that way, it is possible.
S. I understand that you have a strong group that knows the material.
R. Could be, we have to think who could do this. We have many people there that gather the materials and check them, see if they are right, so maybe there are some that can organize the excerpts from TES for us.
S. Yes, if we have friends that know TES and can bring excerpts not to say a whole volume but they know the excerpts they are all invited to join us.
R. Good, because in TES it repeats itself a lot, he wrote it in a way that it just spilled out of him so that is why even I heard from people who used to work with Baal HaSulam, that he used to come to the print and in the print he saw that there was like a whole part from the print, that was like an empty place. He just sat on the spot and wrote it and right away they gathered the letters, back then when they used to put letters together, and that is how he added, there are a lot of stories that are true. We can take from TES all kinds of parts from there and learn them of course. We, sometimes, very weird things used to happen, like we used to study a part in TES and right away we remembered that we were read about that over there. Then we took a different volume, we started reading what was written there and then we forgot that we are in the first volume and we only came here for scrutinizing something and we just kept going to the next volume. It doesn't matter, it's just a sea of materials that you can travel in whichever way you want, that is why let us hope that we will also go for it.
81. S. (02:23:15) Tomorrow we have the Seder meal for Passover, can you tell us how to go through this evening, how do we pass it on to our families?
R. Look, I do not know how to answer that we will take a five minute break.
82. S. (02:26:13) About excerpt 182, it is written about the children of Israel get the signs from him, they will listen to Moses and then they will be able to redeem them from this bitter exile, what does it mean to get tokens and what does it mean to hear Moses' voice?
R. Until a person does not have a deficiency to advance spiritually he will not, the Creator has to awaken it in him that is why he sends all kinds of questions, disappointments, everything possible and only then after a person is disappointed and doesn't know what to do then the Creator starts taking care of them already in the degree of the exodus of Egypt.
83. S. (02:27:10) What does it mean to get the signs from Moses in the ten?
R. That is when they understand that the way they advance belongs to everyone the whole ten.
84. S. (02:27:29) Is the role of the ten to turn the serpent into a staff?
R. The role of the ten is to turn the serpent into a staff, it all belongs to the ten.
85 S. (02:27:45) What actions do we perform in the ten to discover the force of Rachamim, Mercy?
R. We need to treat each other in mercy towards one another and then by that we awaken the force of the general force of mercy and that already takes us out. We built the Creator, if we want him to save us we need to make him our savior, that is called “you have made me”. I do not need to wait until the Creator gets some force, some thought, some action and then he will pull us. I have to make him in such a way that he will pull us. Do you hear this? That must be clear. Men and women.
86. S. (02:28:52) We are about to end, what should we do?
R. They asked about Passover.
S. Yes, what to say to the family?
R. We are around the earth in so many different customs and cultures, some religions and faiths and so on that I cannot really say what we should do here and what yes and what not. Just as we gather in all kinds of events, in family, the kids' birthdays. Let's say so, we do something, we have a meal, a bottle of wine, same thing I think, whoever wants today is also coming close to the day of tomorrow so they can all do something. I am not dictating what to do. That is it. We at Bnei Baruch have all kinds of probably kinds of videos on our events, all kinds you can go in there and watch it. It is not a must for everyone, each one according to their own customs what they have from their home as we say they can just keep doing it. Let us hope that we come out of the Corona and we have the opportunity to have big meals together, all kinds of events, Congresses, big ones.
We will do it in such a way and sit, eat and drink and sing together and it'll really be a holiday of the Exodus that we come out. I am happy that we still touched this holiday a bit, that we still understand so what is this Exodus of Egypt, that it happened once to a small group that was the representatives of all of humanity that came out of Babylon. That's what they did and to let us hope that also today we will gather all of our friends from all over the world, from all ends and we will come also close to the state that we do come out of Egypt. It does not have to be on this date, it can be two or three weeks from now. It completely has no connection between the corporeal date and the spiritual date and let us hope it happens to us and soon, according to all of these signs we are getting close. We will learn even more, we will implement the connection between us more and this is how we will come close to the exit, still the exit can be that according to all of our state we are ready to get rid of our ego, that's called exiting Egypt and then we will go to a higher reality which is called coming out of Egypt. Let us hope this will happen soon. As usual we will end the lesson.
87. S. (02:3:55) I just wanted to ask this one thing about all of us coming out of Egypt being friends who are weaker, and maybe now is the time….?
R. That is your work, whoever fell for the path invite him to join in and that is it. What do you want to do, you want to, yes, you want to, no. We are not forcing anyone and there is nothing to ask for this, you have to know the answer and not just take our time. Let us say goodbye to everyone as usual until tomorrow. All the best.