February 24, 2023 Transcription
Transcription is made from simultaneous translation which leaves a possibility for differences in the audio
Lesson 2. “Convening in One Home.”
1. S. (00:02) We are here in our home, thousands of people. There's a feeling that all of the friends came together to open the heart in such a natural way just like one big family. Everyone came out of their little screens in the Arvut system and here they want to really attain this one house. After three years we didn’t gather together because of the virus. I wanted to ask you: how do you feel this state right now?
R. I am very excited. I walked around in the building and it was empty during Covid and all of the levels from the roof to this level there were no people and it was so so weird. How is this building that we expected to fill up with people and women and children to have the noise and laughter and lectures and meals and everything remained empty and it was months and months that is just what the building looked like but everything passes, everything passes. Today we are in our first convention after this period and I see that the hall is filled to full capacity and we are going back to the state as it was before and much more than that because we now have a clear goal, people that are more stable, our strength is stronger. We are in the next generation in comparison to what we had before and we will continue. We will continue with this. We are coming closer to the revelation of the Creator. We are coming closer to connection between us so that it will all be revealed between us and correct and quick manner. So please.
S. We are in the lesson on the topic that in our home we cover everything with love. Please do you want to say a few words on the topic?
R. In the last lesson we spoke about that we are connecting and now in order to reach that correct form of connection we need to connect with love. The matter of love, we don't know we don't know exactly what it is but the end of our correction is the end of our path. The matter of love means that I feel the desires of the others and I live in that desire and I want to connect to it, I want to live in it, to fulfill it and other than that I have no thought of myself of my own desire but only how I can fulfill the friend, how I can make it so that he will feel my heart that my heart will be a fulfillment for his heart and in such a way that we all connect and it is not simple and it doesn't happen quickly, this state doesn't just happen and become immediately revealed but we are on the way to that. Whether we like it or not the upper light is influencing us in such a way that it is connecting us. It is above us.
That even if I don't expect it I suddenly feel that I'm closer to the others. Why am I closer? How can this be? It is as if I didn't do anything because time does its thing, the Creator does His thing and by that he brings us closer and we will reveal ourselves as being truly in one system. That is why we will feel ourselves as being in one home and all of us together and most important is that we will try and give each other examples even without words and we will succeed, will succeed, you'll see. Even within one lesson we will advance to such a state that our hearts are tied and connected and then the law of mutual guarantee will take place between us, the law of connection and we will feel the place where the Creator will already fulfill us.
Reading Excerpt # 1 (06:52): “Behold, how good and how pleasant it Is...”
2. R. (08:00) We start from being naturally in mutual resistance, as they start they sit together in the beginning at first they seem like people at war because that is in fact the evil inclination that awakens and acts within them and then they return to being in love. That is what the upper force does with them, it works on them, it brings them closer to one another and we begin to feel the closeness between us and finally we reach a state that the Creator is joyful with us that we are together, that we have some kind of closeness that he can fulfill that closeness between us and he has contentment and joy from us. We need to help this process to participate in it as much as possible in all kinds of means, it all depends on us. We will forcefully come closer to one another to each other's hearts in talk, in action and we will feel that from moment to moment we are becoming closer and closer and we are giving room for the Creator to fulfill our mutual Kli. That is what the Zohar is telling us. Well let's hope that we will reach it and that we will feel this one Kli. Okay?
3. S. (10:35) The question is, how do we see the friends in complete love because sometimes I am incapable of seeing the efforts towards me and I differentiate one from the other. How to overcome this state?
R. To overcome this state it takes place through a few stages. First of all we need to imagine to ourselves that with respect to The Creator there is no difference between us. We are all together and we are not divided among ourselves but it is all I single desire that the Creator wants this desire to raise it more and more closer to Him so that we will be able to fulfill it. So first of all imagine that state. Then after we come to be in that one desire, we need to see ourselves how each and everyone is making an effort to be in that single desire. How each and everyone is pulling his friend, hugging him, bringing him closer and trying to erase all the gaps there are between them, and alongside with that he sets an example constantly towards the friends of how we can be together. Behold how good and how pleasant it is for the brothers to also sit together.
That also means for one to give an example towards the other. So together means that each one shows the other what he is doing in order to be together with him. That's on the one hand. On the other hand in such a way he is inviting the Shechina divinity to revelation of the Creator the influence of the Creator upon them, that the Creator will influence them that way, that He will connect the, adhere them to one another, and by that they will be connected they will be a single Kli for revelation of the Creator that will be considered a home. That there is its borders, its walls there are all kinds of conditions for the Creator to be able to cover up all of their connections and fulfill them.
4. S. (14:50) What is your expectation from this congress and are we close to it?
R. I expect us to connect to such an extent that the Creator will start being revealed in practice between us and each one will feel that the Creator has come closer that he is being revealed that he fulfills us and I am certain that it can happen and today I'm more certain of this than I was yesterday. This act of coming closer needs to be practical, in practice, so that we will feel that the Creator is being revealed between us, that we will feel it in our senses that is what I expect, and you each and everyone of you needs to also see this as something that must happen.
5. S. (16:40) What is the condition for opening up the hearts? Is this great force that we are seeing in the gathering of friends? Is this the condition that can help us to open our hearts?
R. The condition for opening the hearts is open in the hearts. It is very simple that we will try to open our hearts. I want my heart to be open to the friend to all the friends to everyone and I have no limit here it just opens, from this effort, from this intention, from this inclination, from this I will feel that it opens up more and more and the Creator fulfills this place between my heart and the heart of the friend. That's how it works.
S. Shouldn't love, they come one after the other proportionally all the time they come together connected. When will we become as one with His Godly desire?
R. This happens in the following stages: At first we are in great efforts to somehow try and open our hearts. We don't know how it works. It's like children that are trying to do something but it is not happening because they don't know how to move these things with their hands, with their legs, or something, so they have all these actions that aren't very precise, and we are the same, to open our hearts and little more and a little more – in what way, how, to whom – we try we make an effort and then later on it happens more and more and more. Just like when we look at kids and we say I'll look he did this he succeeded in doing something. We are the same, the same stages. That is why we should constantly make an effort to come closer to the friends and to open their hearts to open our hearts for them and then we will feel how it works from our efforts with which the Creator participates in and He helps us feel what it means to open the heart and He penetrates our heart and He opens it up and then we feel that truly within our heart all of the group, all of humanity, and the Creator itself exists. So these efforts that we need to make each and everyone towards the friends.
6. S. (21:32) I really wanted to ask, today we're learning that this spiritual root of a song is a prayer and today during the meal there was something very special thanks to the Italian and Turkish groups. When they started to sing we all, if we had something closed in our hearts it simply flew out, it was something extraordinary, and it seems like we hear the voices and hearts of each other. I wanted to ask how we become as one voice, one prayer, and how can songs help us in this?
R. Anything we want to do has to go through our desire and in that desire we expect for the help of the Creator that He will join our desire and thanks to that, specifically with Him, we will make these changes within us. Just like He created all the qualities in us and now He will arrange them in such a way that through these corrected qualities we will be able to feel Him, to attain Him, and to connect between us and to Him. It all depends entirely on our efforts, a heartly effort, an emotional effort.
7. S. (23:38) We're sitting together now and just like these words of the Zohar we try between us to feel this feeling of the Shechina, and I noticed that the second lesson in the row we are in a very special circle of friends friends from Kiev of surrounding them and it feels between us that the feeling of Love is really felt between us this atmosphere of love and it's seen that each one is trying to overcome himself and to melt these divisions in the heart and what point does Shechina get revealed between us nonetheless what point does the Creator help us to remove those separations in the heart?
R. We can't say in advance how it happens, it happens in a way that it comes and goes comes and goes just like a jumping cat. The cat doesn't jump immediately it first examines himself if it can or it can't, how many trips it has to make and only then it takes the leap, so that's how we need to see our state and come closer and further away, closer and further as he writes, that is how we arrive at this new state, that is how the Kli is built. In the beginning the surrounding lights come and there are more and they come out and more surrounding lights, and it becomes work on the inner vessel Inner Light.
8. S. (26:33) I don't know how to ask this question but there's something I have to say. Thank you, you are my spiritual Father. I want everybody to know I grew up not knowing what love is but you taught me what love is and today you said the expectation is for us to connect so much that we can reveal The Creator. I feel as though the Creator has already been revealed, every corner I walk I felt love in this place and I believe that is because you love you show love to us. My question is, is it possible for the Creator to love us more than we can love the Creator, and if you feel the Creator loves you more than you love the Creator what can I do, because that is how I feel. I feel as though I can never love the Creator more than the Creator loves me and I wonder what can I do?
R. To try and love Him more as much as you can and still the Creator will love more. That is like a mother towards her child, however much the child would want, he won't be able to love his mother more than she loves Him. It is the same between us and the Creator that it doesn't awaken in us any unpleasant response; we know this is how it needs to be because He is the Creator. He gives birth to us He stabilizes us and that is why everything that lies in us from here until the Ein Sof above time above everything, we will always feel that He is the first. Well, let's get used to it like that. I am very happy that you arrived.
9. S. (29:37) Five years ago I took the obligation not to ask questions because whoever knows does not, but today I am breaking this rule because it seems to me that very same day we can change history. The Creator sent the friend to sit at this table next to me and what do we need to do now to stop this craziness that is happening between our nations? It is a special moment today, the most unique moment to stop this and if we don't show this to the world today, we must.
R. I understand you and this state that is happening but we need to understand that what is happening isn't just some war or some coincidence or some conflict on some border between Russia and Ukraine but it is a very deep conflict going to the full depth of creation. And in this war, seemingly this external war, the forces of nature are being balanced in a new way. that by that they are completing the process that was before thousands of years and that is why we are entering a new period of time that is required and it's going to come to an end. In this war we are finishing up this forcefulness of people upon each other, of human beings of nations and the world will be different. That is why I let us try and see this ending and we will see how everything will fall into place and will be good and there will not be anymore wars. It is a battle between two kinds of approaches of human existence and let's hope that with that all of the wars will end.
10. S. (33:44) What does it mean that I connect with the friends in the current moment? Is there a material expression to this?
R. Connection with the friends we can add it every time for now to whatever needs to happen now. In the state that you're in or your friends that is how we can identify, is there a connection is their not connection and to what level this connection can reach. That is why we need to measure to the extent there was separation to the extent that we form unity and to try and constantly be above the separation but constantly to maintain this non-stop and then you will see how you can measure yourselves in this and advance, but it is only in a way as long as we are working on this non-stop.
11. S. (35:30) There's a lot of love here, we're full of love and I feel I could hate but I'm incapable because yesterday you said we need to obtain a deficiency and we need to just descend to hatred. But here I am incapable because there is just love here, what to do?
R. It is a problem, it is truly a problem, but people would suffer, Kabbalists they would suffer throughout the times, how can they attain the deficiency towards connection, deficiency towards love rejection from all kinds of things. Meaning it is not being revealed, we have to understand the revelation of evil is not less easy than the revelation of good both of them. Both the bad and the good are in the hands of the Creator and this is why it is a problem, just like I am here now and I feel good pleasant waves towards me, what will I overcome? What will I press, what should I give up on in order to what I should achieve, it is a problem. There are many people here and we need to try to think about how do we fill up the place between us with love between us, and this is how we will advance and later on it will become more and more clear what is the sense of love. That I truly fill up the other with the feelings of my heart.
Reading excerpt #2 (38:42) “The Essence of peace is to connect two opposites...”
12. R. (39:36) Therefore this is what we're now saying: how can it be we don't feel that there's any room here where love is lacking and a nice good attitude towards each other, it is truly a problem, it is truly a problem. That when we try to go for connection we feel where else is connection missing? and in our ordinary lives we of course find plenty of such opportunities. But when we connect like this in a Congress it seems to us that everything is arranged, everything is good and beautiful and love covers all crimes so what else will I do? Where am I demanded to show a good attitude, it is here anyway and it fills up this entire hall from corner to corner. We need to try to also keep all of the negative states so that each time we can be happy that I have had an opportunity to compliment them.
13. S. (41:08) In the previous excerpt you said that you open before us what is the concept, the phrase where it says more meaning we invite Shechina, giving to one another the example of care of the single intention. In essence we help unite these contradictions, these opposites. Later in the excerpt it says it's not enough the Creator hears the words. What does it mean that he hears, how can we feel that maybe that can be of help for us?
R. We are inside of the Creator and there is Nothing Besides Him. Everything that we may imagine it all exists inside of Him in the Creator. Therefore all of our relations, our speaking, everything that happens between us and inside each one of us it is all registered and it occurs inside this great Shechina or you can say the Creator. This is how we exist and therefore the whole purpose is that we will be registered there in a good way, in the clear revealed purposeful way and so this is actually the way of correction.
S. Can this be possible thanks to fear?
R. Well fear, a person feels some kind of anxiety because he very much wants to be registered in the Creator in a way that is as clear and correct as possible, eternal.
14. S. (44:04) How can I open my heart without getting hurt from the friends or in general because when I open the heart I'm exposed to others to hurt me?
R. This is true, you are right but if you do it in a group then I think that in the end you have nothing to be afraid of. Like according to what we study we all go through all kinds of changes and we learn how to relate correctly to the friends and therefore you will not be hurt by the friends and even if sometimes such mishaps happen they already occur also through the Providence of the Creator and to your benefit. In a group you can speak according to what we learn according to the rules that we learn you can speak without any fear.
15. S. (45:31) You said before when you open the heart, it is opening the heart. I just want to clarify what it means that opening the heart is the inclination to see myself that I invite a friend and I just want to open myself so that she can enter and I need to be drawn to that? Or do I need to just put myself in the opening of the heart and just keep the door open?
R. Certainly to constantly keep the door open that my heart is open towards this friend and the door to be open through my effort all the time so I would not let the door be shut. I want the friend to enter into my heart as if coming into my apartment and that he will see what is there and how much I am with an open heart towards him. This is how I will constantly keep my relation to him, this is called to accept to receive the friend.
16. S. (48:20) It feels that this is a very special environment where everything is possible. It is really filled with love but still he feels that there is a national pride that he's Italian and he's Russian and he's Ukrainian. What are we missing to break this nationalist barrier?
R. It is a big problem for the time being. First of all I hope very much that as a result of the war that is taking place now, that the large national pride of each and every nation will decline and will disappear and there will never be one nation rising against the other, as it's written in Isaiah the Prophet. It seems to me that we need to work on it, to work on it, that it is impossible that there is one person who is higher than the other, that there is one nation that is somehow higher than another. Rather all of us, we all come from a single vessel from a single system, and in an integral system you have no part, even the smallest one possible in quantity or quality that is lesser than the others it cannot be. Therefore we just have to realize that as much as it may seem to us that someone is less than another it is as Baal HaSulam writes in the social articles, it only indicates how much I am less than them and I see myself relative to them and this is how we need to determine our state, if I understood the question correctly, yes?
17. S. (51:57) We prepared for this Congress and opened the hearts, opened the fire in the heart and home. How to keep this fire alive so it can spread?
R. How to make it so that the fire will expand and will spread from us onward? This is through such gatherings such Congresses where after each and every Congress I feel how much this knowledge about the purpose of creation, about the correction of creation suddenly fills the world more and more and it becomes closer and more understood for many people. We have no choice but to have such Congresses and from them we will also move on to the general correction of the world.
Reading excerpt #3 (53:51) “There is a famous maxim by our sages...”
18. R. (54:44) This means that our unity between us can only be to the extent and style where we can consider ourselves in the favor of the others and favor of the friends. Meaning as much as I make room within me so the friend can enter into me and by that we will have connection between us. This is what I have to think about all the time and to understand it and to tell myself, move away and make room for the friends so that he will enter into you and by this you will connect, the reason of the connection. Only in the place of concession and conceding yourself.
19. S. (55:57) I'm very nervous because we are very young ten, we are only one year old but we are very active, very united and we support one another. In my ten I have friends from all over the world, Europe, Ukraine, Russia. We are never judging one another whether you're Russian or Ukrainian because we came here to learn how to love. We have never asked a question to Rav because we are so young. Please support us and I want to ask this first question now to our dear teacher. I'm very nervous. How is the joy of the Creator expressed from our unity and from bestowal? Is it expressed in our world or only in spirituality can this be felt?
R. It is revealed in our world as well in a certain limited manner, sometimes we can feel it, sometimes we can't, I will tell you why. When we need to advance we need to advance towards the purpose of creation and the advancement because we are still egoists, can only be through a negative sensation and this is why we always feel stings, pushes that are unpleasant and according to this we advance. To advance from a good state to even better state, it is very difficult and it has to be a very strong group, a big solidified group so it can correctly develop and decipher the Creator's attitude towards them. As much as you will be connected together you will understand correctly the correct attitude of the Creator towards you, and you will be able to advance from good states to even better states. This is what will happen.
20. S. (59:53) I'm genuinely feeling how every friend is exerting efforts above reason, during the preparation I really felt the world Kli and the Creator instantly disconnected me from this work. I experienced extreme guilt as if I betrayed my friends. Tell me how can we not wait for these blows and constantly constantly turn to the Creator?
R. It is only through each one should help his friend, when each one tries to help the other in that to push the other forward and then all of us will feel through this mutual pushing that we are all advancing, it is only by that. Meaning a gathering in the group and agree on how do we help each other, how do we push each other forward and all of us together and each one of us and then keep that state that we agreed on.
21. S. (01:02:32) We were speaking in this lesson of the Shechina. What is Shechina? I have an image of a queen, are we all the Shechina? Why is the presence of Shechina feminine?
R. Our desires when they are connected together, they form a single desire called the Shechina. We need to discover our desires in such a way that we're all connected and we're all directed towards receiving the Creator, like a woman who wants to receive her husband such that the Creator will fill her. That state is called the redemption of the Shechina and if this desire is not yet capable of receiving the Creator into it then it's called the Shechina in exile. We, all of us together when we connect our desires and we can be in a connection between us we build the Shechina. Without connection between us the Shechina does not exist, then she's called the Shechina in exile.
S. If so, can we say all of us in essence are the Shechina?
R. Yes, each one of us is part of Shechina so let us connect in such a way that we will give life and an identity to the Shechina.
22. S. (01:04:56) A person is a world, to see in the world the two opposites is to see the wholeness. What happens when two opposite people hug one another, what is the power of a hug, an embrace?
R. This is a very broad topic and with all the different levels of height that are possible, I don't know what exactly you mean. When two people embrace it is considered that each one of them wants to strengthen the other, to pass to the other his measure of confidence, his incorporation. The question is very broad if I understood you correctly.
23. S. (01:06:20) In the previous excerpt it was written that the Creator hears us and he rejoices in how connected we are but it is not written how we are practically connected and that He is rejoiced by that. Does it not mean that it is more important to speak about love than to act in the direction of love and bestowal?
R. No. Bit by bit by us speaking about it nevertheless we do get closer to the realisation of it and so we have nothing to be scared about in speaking with empty words, nevertheless they will bring us to the action.
24. S. (01:07:43) To come to absolute bestowal we need to burn all the bridges behind us. What does it mean to burn all the bridges behind us, what do we need to start with?
R. From small desires all the way to greater and more general desires that I am willing to do anything so long as I’m connected to our whole group in order to discover the Creator in the group and by this to give Him contentment.
25. S. (01:08:38) This preparation to the lesson that we just had, it was the most emotional that we’ve had this whole time. You taught us that tears are when the Creator fills us and the Kli is insufficient. As we sit in the lesson the Creator closes our hearts back up. How do we continue to ask the Creator that He help us move our hearts closer to one another so that it doesn't close all the way?
R. We need to accept each and every state that we feel as it comes directly from the Creator and each and every state is a correct state and it needs to exist in such a way. And therefore there is nothing for us to do here but only to continue consistently, to go for connection, for connection more and more and more and it will happen. As it is written the palate will taste.
26. S. (01:11:05) This is absolutely amazing to go back home and I'm extremely grateful. I have a question from my ten. We see that in our relationship between us outside of the ten there are two opposites revealed in the form of problems. How can we connect and bridge between the opposites in order to help the correction of our soul so that it impacts, influences the entire humanity?
R. Through the connection between us we reach a general inclusive force such that it already influences the whole of humanity because we build a kind of mini-humanity. And because we are all somehow connected by this we form the corrected part of the world, corrected not completely, not with the power it should be but nevertheless all over the world it's a rare thing. And when we built this state we manage to influence the whole world, the whole of reality. Let us not belittle the opportunity that we have here in the congress and advance in this way and by that the whole world will come closer to correction. There will be great changes in the world out of this Congress, also each time that we have some Congress afterwards if you already begin to feel it you will feel what changes will occur in the world, essential changes in the relations between nations, between people, even in the ecology as well as the weather; in each and every thing there will be changes for the better. And let us hope that this is how we will change everything.
27. S. (01:14:30) Dear teacher, it's surprising but I am always nervous and I always want to ask a question in every lesson whenever I hear you, a million questions. But my friends always ask it for me so I always only enjoy but now I want to ask you a personal question. First of all I want to thank you that you taught me how to love, and these friends that I see and I love they love me too. And these things fulfill me, flood over me. Do I need to put a screen over love or does it need to be endless and let it overflow?
R. There's no forbearance to love, you can love anyone and everyone and as much as possible. Love is the purpose of life, the purpose of creation, the purpose of correction. So please continue and be successful.
S. Thank you I am grateful to you but that feeling is so huge I can't control it.
R. You have a group, try to realize it there, your love. You'll see that it's not enough, that you will need to ask to have more love so that you are able to love the friends.
S. I am grateful to you.
28. S. (01:16:52) I am so grateful to the Creator for this gathering and for this special environment. We feel the greatness of friends and we feel the connection of love. According to this, how can we take advantage of these wonderful feelings to make our hearts even bigger?
R. It all depends on the way in the mutual work. I can't increase my love if I am not in a group where everyone is working on that, I can't. I can't connect to them if they don't want to be connected to me in return, which is why we always need to work on the connection between us. Love covers all things. We always need to check where we can add more and we will find where to add and we will advance in this way. And believe me that these things demand endless work, unending. As much as we may be tired to hear all of that, especially the new people who may not understand the depth of love and connection that needs to be between us, let us come and work on that necessarily and we will be successful.
29. S. (01:19:20) It's a question about what is connection, what does connection actually mean?
R. Connection is the meaning that we are connecting as it was apparently before the breakage of the vessel of Adam HaRishon; we are connecting again into one vessel, one Kli, gluing the broken parts of the vessel together. This is in essence the meaning of the correction of the Kli.
S. I don't understand what connection means.
R. Connection means like you have a broken vessel. For example I break a glass and I glue it back so it is as it was before, a correction.
S. It is a broken heart but what is the substance that makes the heart be back together?
R. Desire, the heart is the desire and we need to connect all of our desires into one desire so that it is aimed at the Creator. And to bring Him this vessel that we have glued together to have Him fill it, because we glue it, we put in our labor and this vessel will be able to contain 620 times more than it was able to in the beginning of creation.
30. S. (01:22:25) I try to have the ten here in my heart as much as possible and together with me I would like them to feel the love that exists here. We are a virtual ten, we are used to virtual congresses but I feel here that there is something extra. Is this additional thing, is it a spiritual feeling or a physical corporeal feeling?
R. No, there is nothing corporeal here. We are here today in such a state that we were never in a Congress before. Maybe it's those years that we couldn’t have a Congress because of the pandemic, I don't want to determine but certainly the connection that there is now never happened to us before. And there are many new people here and people who are very new but the connection is very special. I think that this intensity, this power of connection that we are attaining today, we will feel how it advances us and pushes us forward towards the goal. It is a miracle, a wonder, I am very excited from this.
31. S. (01:24:56) I just want to say thank you. I think I speak for a lot of people for this lesson. With the sensation of love that we have been talking about we’re getting swept up, we’re feeling this togetherness but it also can feel overwhelming. And the experience that we just had with a meal before the lesson there was a lot happening. We’re going to go into another meal to end the day, it’s our last moment that we can work together. How do we take this lesson into the meal and have that preparation for tomorrow?
R. This is very simple. We are all working only on revealing the love between us, for it to connect between us and to fill us in our mutual vessel. More than that we don't need anything, this is all. The wisdom of Kabbalah is divided into two parts: the Wisdom of Kabbalah that speaks about connection, love, all of the scrutinies that are connected to relationships between people, and the wisdom of Kabbalah that is explaining it in a technical way, worlds, Sefirot, Partzufim and so on. In essence it’s two languages that speak of the action of connection that we have to go through. Which is why what we are to do, what we are to perform is as quickly as possible to go through emotional actions where we understand the language a little more and then when we begin to attain the connection between us in a practical way. Then we will be able to know how to transition it to a scientific form. It is like in wisdom and science and engineering, all of these things, we will also be able to perform it and do it in such a way. That's it.
32. S. (01:28:04) A question from a friend: she believes very strongly that love is the strongest emotion that allows us to fight all the differences. She feels sorrow because it seems like the force of love is not sufficient to fight the hatred and savageness of man.
R. This is because of the lack of the right participation at our end, only because of that. If we participate correctly in the force of love what the human development demands, that we add to it the love between us, then in it this group is enough. That it’s here, right here. To add love of its own to the human development we arrive at the last generation, at the state where there is no more evil in the world, very simple. Which is why we are doing these congresses and are working and want to connect more and more friends, and hopefully this will happen soon. As I said before I am certain that after the congress the state in the world will improve for the better.
33. S. (01:30:29) I think that I am not asking the question personally really. Why am I afraid to open my heart towards the friends, towards myself, towards the Creator, what is hindering me? Clearly all of us except for the Creator are in a process of correction?
R. Yes but still along with this you’re afraid to open your heart to others because you have a matter of pride, shame and you don't want to get hurt.
S. Both this and that, even the word shame. Again, I’m coming home it's really an opportunity. Why am I fighting myself, why are we fighting ourselves?
R. Because shame doesn't give you the opportunity to open yourself to the friends, that's it.
S. And the way to overcome it is?
R. The way to overcome it is only connection in the ten.
S. I will do it.
R. Well, good luck.
34. S. (01:32:08) I have two questions but before that I want to say something else. I always shake when I ask a question. I mean you talked about pride now and I can admit that I’m trembling. I don't have to pretend that I'm cool even if I would have liked to be different. The question by a friend in the ten: it says in the text, that they recognise the necessity to work in love of others. Where do you think we stand in terms of the implementation of love?
R. We are in the beginning of the road but the opening has happened. We don't need to make efforts to open the door, the door has been opened and all we need to do is enter.
S. I think that you already confirmed it once but nevertheless just to be certain I would like to ask again. Do you think that it’s worthwhile to work creatively and with joy with the friction that we have between us, can you elaborate on how to do it?
R. No, we will have to learn this thing. We will study it together, soon after the congress.
35. S. (01:35:35) There is a great gathering in our group, 20 men and 40 women. Following the pandemic we broke up and this is the first year when we started talking to each other again so the question is as follows: many times there is shame and then we have tears in our eyes and it's not a usual thing and you are ashamed about it but you you have gotten used to the fact that the only thing that matters is that the friends will benefit from it. What else can we do with shame, how else can we use it?
R. In essence all we are is what the Creator has created. Which is why shame has to be only in a place that a person sees that he can do something but doesn't. Only in such a case he can feel shame. And in a situation where he cannot, he should be ashamed, there doesn't need to be any shame because he did not do it. On this it is written go to the artist who made me, the Creator made me, you have complaints or claims towards me, go to Him go to the Creator. Other than one thing, I need to constantly work on the connection and love with the friends. If I work on this, in this I will cover or what is up to me in the correction of creation.
36. S. (01:38:03) This is my first time in Israel and I always have this longing to come here and I am truly impressed from the warmth and the opening of the hearts of so many friends that there is no nationality and color and we all create a single heart. And I was so surprised by the friends from the Ukraine and Russia that in spite of all the conditions that they have and the conditions of the war, they mentioned that they feel great love between them and this shows an example of unconditional Love in spite of the situation. Now you just said that love breaks all the barriers and really that's great gratitude that I can speak with you. I don't have a question but it fills my heart to know that I am coming out of here with a great blessing that I can share this warmth with you and this humility and to create this spiritual home which you are proposing to us with all of your love. Thank you dear Rav.
37. S. (01:40:18) Specifically in Congress there is such a feeling all the time that you feel you are being filled and I think of all the friends who are here. I wanted to ask you what is the secret to constantly increase the spiritual appetite so that we will always want more, even more than what we receive?
R. To increase the Creator in our eyes that we forget Him. Even now while we are speaking we forget who is above us, who is opening our hearts, fills them, connects them, guides them to the purpose of creation. The lack of connection and the lack of renewal of connection with the Creator each and every moment is what we are missing.
S. How do I renew it?
R. Just try in a group every time and try each help his friends.
38. S. (01:41:33) The question is this feeling of love of this amazing connection that we have never felt before in this congress, how is it possible to pass it onto others? Is it important for us to have this desire to pass it onto others who haven't received it yet who haven't yet felt what it is like?
R. Yes, we need to first of all connect between us and be and see us as one group that is developing to reveal the Creator within it and this is the first thing that we need. The second thing that we need is to open the method of correction, the method of connection to the entire humanity in order to reveal the presence and the greatness of The Creator to all. This is the second part in a message to the world. We will try to do that as well.
39. S. (01:43:55) It is very interesting about love you say dear Rav eventually the evil inclination will disappear. We also learn from you that to sense something you need the opposite of love and is based on let's say hatred or light and darkness, sour and sweet but we can't sense it. If we are talking of love, what is sensing the love, how do we feel eventually the love if there's no counterpart. What is sensing it then?
R. Of course we are unable to reveal love without hate as it says love covers all crimes. That there has to be crimes for us to cover them with love and in the contradiction between the crimes and love, in the opposite between them we will feel the purpose of creation. As we study in the Partzuf that it has Aviut, restriction, Masach, a screen and returning light and then we feel it and in such a way we can advance to recognize the state that we are in.
S. What is this love if the evil inclination disappears?
R. The evil inclination doesn't disappear, it has to be as it is written in the end of the Partzuf and this is why all of these things they don't disappear, what the Creator has created He has created only to reveal the opposite, that in the opposite between one thing and the other we exist. Sometimes it isn't quite precise according to the language but it is correct.
40. S. (01:46:46) I have two questions from my ten, the first question: what to do when you open your heart to the friend but you don't get any response from him?
R. So what. So the Creator wants to give you such an answer, that you see a friend that doesn't want to relate to you. Behind each friend is the Creator and you then need to receive it as if you have received it from The Creator and now turn to The Creator and clarify and scrutinize why is it so, how do you need to respond.
S. With love.
R. Maybe this is what you need in order to advance.
41. S. (01:48:13) The ego is always searching for the best excuse to resist connection and we always have to find the right work in order to overcome. If this work as I understand it, with this work we will be able to make the right of corrections for us, is this true or can we do even more?
R. Through the society we have to constantly in parallel with the society to be always in bestowal and connection in closeness, proximity to the group. This is to be always from the force of the group not from the own force of a person, and if we do it consistently in a short time you will feel how the Creator is acting inside and that it is Him that brings you closer between you.
S. Should I enter bestowal each time without listening to myself, but who will help me to always enter this effort to get into bestowal without forgetting that I am not allowed to receive?
R. You are writing to yourself all sorts of notes and you are sticking them and gluing them in or various places where you are for them to remind you what you have to do.
42. S. (01:50:52) I have been studying with you for more than 10-years. I see that at this moment we are really in a state of Prayer For Peace. How to keep this pillar of peace extending internally in the connection of humanity, is this possible?
R. I think that we have to see a state that we are in transition between wars and peace. And I am very hopeful that this is how it is going to be in a short time and that we are going to finish with the wars, with all of the chaos and the disorder in the world. Hopefully with all of the war that is happening in Europe we will put an end to all of the wars. With all of the wars all over the world and organize and arrange the world for the better. I'm really hopeful for this is what it is going to be like. This is the perfect time for this, so we will live and see how it happens, it has to happen.
43. S. (01:53:15) When I feel the deficiency from my friend I see I can't do anything for him because I have no vessel for it, so is it a message from The Creator that I should investigate, that I should think about it?
R. Yes this is the best thing that I can do. If I say that I can help a friend and instead of turning to all sorts of things, I pray for him to The Creator that the Creator helps him, then this is the best thing that I can do both for humanity and for the whole of reality and The Creator and for the friend and myself as well.
44. S. (01:54:55) I have a difficult question: what to do if I feel tremendous love from the friend towards me, and in me hatred awakens towards myself because I don't manage to respond to him in the same way?
R. All of the feelings we receive, we receive from the Creator and the Creator gives me such feelings. It means that I have to turn to Him and ask to correct. Then I cannot respond to him in this, the Creator will help. We need to more and more hang myself, depend ourselves on the Creator, this is the biggest obstacle in front of us. With all the questions, with all the requests, with all the prayers, turn constantly to Him, always be in prayer to Him and then you will see how He arranges everything for us, all of the forces of correction are in Him. This is why all we have to do is turn to the Creator to help us to do this to explain to us every single thing like a little baby, that's always nagging to their parents that without them he knows he's incapable of anything. Is this clear? And we want ourselves to correct the world, it is impossible it cannot be. We have to only turn to the Creator and the Creator, let Him arrange everything, He is ready for this, He is for this, He has all of the tools for this and this upper force certainly is doing all the correct things. If you turn to Him you cannot be wrong in anything, you are turning to the upper force who is the cause of everything who corrects everything and is the purpose of everything.
45. S. (01:57:43) In the body there are systems to get rid of poisons; is revelation of evil, is that like getting rid of the poisons?
R. Yes.
S. Is this the essence of our work on the way to correction?
R. Yes.
46. S. (01:58:18) You said that the door is open, in what is that effort to reveal the Creator?
R. All about effort is in order to not forget about the Creator that He is the cause of everything that happens and to only turn to Him. He is the special and only force that can correct each and every state and bring it in the right way to the right correction.
47. S. (01:59:04) The Creator rejoices in our efforts but like little children we are waiting for our children's approval, a proof of his love towards us. How do we steer away from these expectations and be certain of the love of the Creator? How to mature in this?
R. Only through the environment we can all learn from each other in the group how to behave correctly and then we will learn quickly and we will be wise. Look, we want to bring our children into kindergarten and schools and then as a society which is more and more advanced because in such a way we learn more and quicker, so let's do the same with us. As much as our groups will be more complex, intricate, more special, more united as much as we will share all of our experiences about what is happening in each and every group, what is going on we will advance more, we will advance more. Let us do this kind of work between us and it will be good for us. I see that you are already tired, me too.
48. S. (02:01:20) The Congress that is happening now is a Congress that has never happened before. And we want if you can give us a summary of the day and with which intention we need to continue until the lesson tomorrow?
R. I think that we went through a very special day in our special state and in the state of the world around us which is also very special. We could have God forbid during these days go through several tragic states, but we didn't go through them all over the world. And I think that there is merit to our Congress. We will continue tomorrow, we have another full day, if you want we can have even expanded lessons, I have no problem with it, I am ready to give everything. And that's it and this is what I wanted to say. Have a good tasty dinner, a pleasant one and a meal which is like a Yeshivat Haverim and we will succeed in our connection. The most important is the connection of the heart.