Morning Lesson February 9 2021 Transcription is made from simultaneous translation which leaves possibility for differences from audio

Convention "World Kabbalah L'Am" - "Discovering Life in the Ten" - Lesson No. 6. Ascents and Descents

1. Rav’s Introduction: Ascent and descent that gives us our whole sense of life when we feel no changes in life we say it's just like death that there is nothing. we also see with this pandemic that we are being put to sleep kind of like being put into this sleepy life where we are without that many changes happening in the sense that we are being fixated to our apartments, to our homes, not moving so much. Probably because we need to identify new kinds of states in life, not ups and downs in the stock market, not ups and downs and some daily relationships that we might have that fill up our whole lives but rather ascents and descents of a different kind all together and that is why we have some sort of a lockdown upon us, we are being closed, locked. Out of that we need to start feeling a different kind of essence of life, a different kind of meaning of life that we will actually call life. Therefore, let's try to identify what are the two ups and downs, ascents and descents in life? 

What do we call an ascent and what do we call it descend since before It cannot be an ascent unless we detect a descent before it. Also what is it about and respect the descent, because out of the descents we can find the ascent and build those. We also need to recognize there are no ascents, Creator arranged these huge descents for all of us in the beginning of creation by shattering the vessel. We by our participation we need to raise this vessel to a state that it was in but because we add to it, our participation, our search, our sense of emptiness, our prayer, our request, our difficulty by that we add into our feelings 620 times more than what we had, before the shattering of Adam we were in a stage where we didn't feel what it is, we existed but we had such Reshimot we had no business with. Only now after all of this preparations we can now feel descent and ascent, we try to rise by ourselves and then I go through descents to ascents and so on, this happens on level of still, vegetative and animate until it happens in the human who begins to feel what it means to be human and why am I alive, what for. You start scrutinizing these states by himself and sees how closer or farther he is from the meaning of being human. 

So ups and downs build our whole sense of life and meaning of life, that is how we develop our vessels and senses of perception. We clarify what it means to be alive, to be dead, to fall, to rise and one cannot be without the other. Everything begins from the descent, the Creator shattered the vessel and made a preparation for all of our states. He determined that only by the darkness, the nights, the sense of detachment separation from him, from the goal, from the means, the friends and only from there, we can begin to regroup ourselves, collect the shattered pieces and reach this great ascent. This final ascent, so we need to recognize there's no ascent without descents that precedes it and the Creator prepared it for us and for us there's no ascent without detecting the descent and determining that it is for us to rise above It. Meaning the Creator prepares our descent so we have something to rise above, to feel that we want to transform our states from disconnection, to connection, from hate to love. In this way we will identify correctly what is descent and what is ascent. It's not according to our ego but it is according to the data that we need to put together towards connection, towards a complete vessel that we need to discover. This is what leads us to the general correction, so ups and downs I would say differently, I would say downs and ups. This is the process, the desired process we go through where according to the number and pace and intensity of ups and downs, the bigger, the faster the better and accordingly we advance towards the final correction. Each one of us has a set quota of ups and downs that he needs to go through in order to connect to the general vessel and same with the 10 and several tens and everyone. Meaning in these ups and downs we need to be counting both the intensity of the ascent and descent which is afterwards as we build Partzuf, the pace is also important for us, the frequency.

So that we don't go through a process where each state of ascent or descent is stretched out or takes a long time, in spirituality there is no time. Every state has a moment of appearance and right after that the next state needs to appear so let's try to work with the same intensity frequency between us so that between us so that we don't leave room between ascents and descents, even during the descent ordering the ascents, everything is done to just quickly identify what is this state and how can it benefit the next state. Try to relate correctly to the ascents and descents that they all come from above and the pace depends upon us. Everything was set up by the upper Force and we have to go through both ascents and descents but it is all up to our preparation, always. If we relate these ascents and descents not to the state that I feel but to what belongs to the general process of the whole of humanity and the Creator who is the goal. 

Then to me each moment, each state becomes a good state on the way, on the path and so each and every moment I just need to be more attuned and longing and approaching the final state. That all of the ascents and descents will all be included together and out of them, those two states as a single state, this is called darkness shines as light. What else, don't forget that both the sense that both descents and ascents, designed by the Creator and we have to try to cling to him in this ascents as well but mostly in the descents. If I cling to him each and every moment in both the descent and the ascent and by that I transform the descents to an ascent. By this I realize this whole process that he set up for me and I become bonded with him, adhered to him and all of those states that he prepared for me. The main thing for me is the adhesion, is the sense of adhesion with him and it doesn't matter in what states. I don't count, I don't weigh, I don't measure the states according to my feelings, but rather according to how much I can cling to him and then it turns out that the descents help me more to bond with the Creator and so they themselves become ascents. 

What else do I have to say here, how do of the states that we detect build and build the ups and downs in our emotions, the ups and downs and adhesion with the Creator, by that we turn darkness to light. So for me the descents, the separation, the disconnection, is more beneficial for adhering to the Creator than the ascent. So I want to feel how far I am, which to me is an opportunity. To show the Creator how I yearn for him, how I want to be closer to him and bonded with him, so by that I turn darkness to light. The emotional darkness to a light of adhesion, the darkness shines this light. I don't cancel the darkness in the negative states and descents but rather on top of them I bring my relation to the Creator as I justify these states and I am thankful for him. But thankful for them and by that I show my attitude of adhesion to him, in the worst states that my will to receive goes through and then I see that my will to receive his helpmate against me. 

Meaning that it gives me an opportunity to specifically from seeing how much it is against me, I can show that I am in favor, what else can we say about ascents and descents we should also say here that there is a quality and quantity aspect and also the frequency of ascents and descents, all of that we will have to examine and see how beneficial they are for us. as we increase them, we can bring ourselves to the required corrections and also which is the main thing.  How can we help each other in the ascent and descent as one shall help his friend, this is the main thing. Even though the exit from the descents to the ascent happens by the upper Force, meaning the Creator takes us out of the darkness into the light, yet we can be very much assisted by the friends here. And it is not sufficient that we learn what is darkness and light and we rise above our feeling of good or bad to a discernment that is closer to us and the Creator or farther and more separation between us. Meaning we change our measurements, changing our measurements of light and darkness to advance. Finding what is day and what is night, darkness and light in the eyes of the Creator meaning that night is separation and shattering and day means connection and love. 

So, similarly we to determine this in our feelings of the relationship between us and Him, not the feelings that we have in our bodies, in our will to receive whether it feels good or bad, but that I raised myself to a discernment of am I close to the Creator or the ten, or God-forbid the opposite am I far from Him. When I transform myself from a beastly bodily feeling to a spiritual goal oriented feeling, I see myself advancing towards the goal and accordingly I can count my degrees of ascent. The more we give an example to each other, one shall help his friend how to exit the bodily discernment to spiritual discernment in both the descent and the ascent and also the means to convert the descent to an ascent in that there's no way to transform it besides determining a different kind of feeling, a different kind of assessment. It could be that I'm in complete darkness when it comes to my body but with it I can feel that I am in a bright light, ascents in ascent, on the feeling of my soul. This is called faith above reason, that as much as Malchut is in darkness Bina above it and then Keter can actually be filled with light, what else can we say this is our whole life, our whole work. 

We can also say that by envy less than honor how can we quickly give the right shape to every descent and every ascent when I look at the friends and see that they are working on it specifically in order to create the right portrait, the right picture, the right discernment of the sense and ascents what are descents exactly and accordingly what should the ascents be, so when I see them try and make efforts in trying to determine everything by the power of faith above reason, meaning it's not about whether I feel good or bad but how much I am getting closer to the friends and the Creator. By looking at them in this condition, it gives me strength and by one shall help his friend so we can build the vessel of the soul. We need to further and further show each other awakening, inspiration. With regards to the ascent and descent, how much we want to identify them correctly, purposefully, and the more I understand that the descent means to be far from the friends and far from the Creator, far from bestowal and the ascent is specifically when I try through my work with the friends one shall help his friend as I see that there are all trying and they themselves not so not in states of strength, but they show me above their strength that they are drawn to bestowal and connection and that I see that my look at them and I am ashamed of how I am and I immediately correct myself. Then I'm also drawn to connection with them and then they look at me and see that I am trying and making real efforts and they learn from me. They increase their efforts and this way we each help each other. 

This is how we quickly come out of these states of shattering that the Creator prepared for us to begin with and this way in our connection between us and with Him, we take ourselves out of separation into connection between us and with Him. So ultimately, I would say that all of the descents and the ascents depend on the frequency that we can go through because we mustn't be in any state for more than a moment. There is no more than just one moment in life, he writes about this in a few places, Baal HaSulam and so we have to try to be stingy in this respect. We have come to a certain state, good or bad it doesn't matter, we have to immediately use it in order to reach the next state. The next state is on our part greater adhesion even though on the way there we fall in order to develop a desire for greater adhesion, a broken desire and then our direction is always towards greater adhesion. With the friends in the group, we can find more qualities, states, discernment for correction, what else can we add to each other.

This is how we advance, if so we can prepare for ourselves all of the descents, the falls, the detachments and always advance in our inclination and tendency to come out of our ego, to escape our ego. Then most importantly in all of these states whatever they are, we always have to be working together and with the Creator. That we hold each other and all of us are holding onto the Creator and then when He puts us through all of these states, these ups and downs like in a roller coaster. This way we quickly come to the goal and on all of this roller coaster ride up and down becomes joyful to us, like kids going on a roller coaster, they laugh and it's frightening on one hand but on the other hand it is exciting, it is thrilling and they want to be in that so we need to do the same. We need to be developing in this like children, this is the way to go through descents and ascents in a way that we ultimately appreciate the descents as we do the ascents. This takes us to a complete Zivug, coupling between us and the Creator. Amen.

2. S. (25:51) How during the time of darkness can we hold on to None Else Beside Him?

R. You can't hold onto the Creator if you don't hold on to the friends and only with the friends if you hold onto them, then it is clear to you whether you are in a state where you hold onto each other just like a gang on the street, or you are advancing in the right direction of finding the connection between you, above the ego, where you want to find the force that connects you, that builds you, that gives birth to you and nurtures you. Most important is the connection between you and that this connection will become purposeful. That is what we need to talk about and this is what we need to discuss. We are gradually coming to it. We will soon be talking about it increasingly more, you will see that it is just a result of all of our preparations so far.

3. S. (27:20) In the beginning you spoke about this feeling that you feel like 620 times greater pleasure, I didn't understand if we could do this in our nature or if we could enter some other nature, I can't even imagine what it is to feel 620 times more.

R. This clearly is all in our nature; it is in everyone's nature and ultimately we find that we are pieces of a single body and when we join each other we feel more of the life in this collective body where we begin to feel its vitality and our life in it. The more we connect between us the more we feel this whole body is similar to a baby, that he doesn't feel his legs and his hands, he doesn't know how to activate them. But as he grows, he starts grabbing some things in his hands, starts walking a little bit, starts doing other things. Same with us, gradually in the connection between us, we will start finding different movements, different qualities in us and this is how we will advance, don't worry we won't forget about you you are with us. Most important is the connection, our tendencies to connect us just like we are trying to put together the broken pieces and establish our body as one single body for all, to make it alive as soon as possible and conscious of being one. Accordingly we will see that all of humanity is beginning to awaken towards that and without that it feels that it is falling apart and losing the livelihood that it had and it doesn't find any new kind of life. This is a very dangerous state first of all because typically it leads to crisis and wars, but we need to help them find what life really is, otherwise we don't find why and what for, we should be living, soon they will have a sigh as to why are we living, what for and not finding any reason for any purpose and we need to really take part in sorrow that gradually appears in them and as the messengers of the Creator, we need to explain to them that it is like Baal HaSulam writes that there is a beautiful goal to all the people of this world.

3. S. (30:47) What is adhesion with the Creator during the descent can you explain better, the transition that you described?

R. During the descents, when I lose the purpose of life, the light of Life, the goal of life it is not so on fire in me, not so dominant, I even feel like there are forces pushing me away from the path. It is like a baby who is in his mother's hands and then he feels like he may fall so he grabs her more tightly, this is the state of descent that I should have, that I feel a strong need and obligation to hold on to the group. Why do we need a descent? So that we can grab a hold of the group stronger because otherwise I will fall, my egoistic desire rises and out of my ego I have to understand that if I don't grab a hold of the friends, if I'm not with them, I am lost. Everything depends upon my preparation and theirs, that we are looking at each one and saying is he going to fall from the body of the ten like a baby that may God forbid fall off of his mother's hand and like that mother, we need to create this collective force that holds the friends. The individual force that he feels as a fear that he might fall will become an even stronger holding, grip on the group.

4. S. (32:47) What ups and downs are we experiencing when relating to the general correction when working in the ten how do they relate to each other?

R. That in every descent I need to find how I am different from others. What does this descent add to me and how much I can now add strength to be more connected to them. I am talking about things that a person already feels, already is aware of, what the descent needs to be, what the ascent needs to be. But we are also going to states where we can't identify anything and we are confused and are just thrown out between these days. But through the group and by going back to the lesson, back to the articles and back to the discussions with the friends I need to receive from them a strengthening, it is like a rope thrown at me and then I can see how I can be more deeply connected to them internally with that rope. Then each descent gives me a revelation of how much I am not yet properly connected and then I can further advance into connecting with them, that is why and what the descents are for to show us the disconnections between us, the general shattering.

5. S. (35:10) How not to harm those closest to our family during a descent, how to help each other?

R. If I am connected with the group then we, in our ten, we need to be in such relationships between us, that any state that is a descent will be immediately felt in the ten and the ten will help the person come out of it and the other way around. Every time I am in a descent I am adding to my ten, I am trying to give additional strength, find an additional strength, all of us, some are going through an ascent since some are going through a descent but all together we advance. Some are going up and some are going down like a wheel where part of it is always going up and part is going down. Or like the Wheatstone Bridge in electricity where the plus and minus work together we're ultimately in the ten we straightened everything in a sense that we are moving forward towards the goal and you can't even say about our ten that it is going up or down, because it is both, but all together it is forward and it is not because we are not working, we are working hard but these compensate for those. Those complement those and that is how we have this direct current, so to speak. This movement forward for that we have to be more tightly connected in the group. The ups and downs, we can use them correctly only if we are connected in the ten otherwise it is individual ascents and descents that almost advance the person but only to or the need to finally realize them correctly in the ten. 

6. S. (37:42) During the ascent and descent in the ten is this when we are building the middle line of the ten?

R. Yes of course, if we do that these people and those people these in ascents and those in descent switch time, try to connect between us and move forward to detect the Creator between us more and more and by that we create the middle line that we always advance towards this is exactly the whole method. I really hope that we will study this less theoretically but more out of the action, out of connection out of finding this between us and then you during the day will try to realize this. Then we will understand what they are writing even without reading it and learning about it in the lessons, we will learn it from life. Just like a person who grows from getting into life and not reading about it. Imagine how many books you have to read in order to get an impression of your current daily life. There is no such thing, it all comes to us through practical learning as it is a practical method. 

7. S. (39:40) Should we accept the middle line or as faith above reason?

R. If you are connected in the ten you need to be advancing in the middle line where all of this ascents and the descents that you feel, each one individually or together that you all feel that it joins the movement forward. It is like you are in a boat and everyone is paddling with his paddle, so each one moves it towards himself or towards the other direction but altogether you feel both moving forward. You feel the general movement in addition to each and everyone's individual movements, just like in the boat, try it. Try to work this way in the ten and you will see how it also inspires you, giving you strength that you feel that we need the Creator. Because we are making the movements but who is directing our movements, our general direction. Someone has to sit there and tell us where to go, what to do and then we start seeing that it gives us a tempo, a collective rhythm for all of us and then we become a Partzuf that works with both direct light and reflected light and advances. We will talk about this more later. It is a wonderful thing that the person is going through and the group is going through, with the group becoming this part of creation that manifests the Creator's desire. He gives us the rhythm, He gives us the direction and we just have to do this mutual action between us under His direction.

8. S. (42:30) How does the ten working with both the negative and the positive states give us the space to be above them both?

R. I don't see negative states, I see them all as positive like the Wheatstone Bridge, that's a minus becomes plus, meaning it becomes direct current, the minus becomes the AC and the direct current and the AC, alternative current, is also direct current. Then there is no difference between plus and minus. So we have to use it correctly, artistically, creatively to treat both the plus and the minus. If you talk to painters, sculptors, people who are filmmakers, people who create anything, writes, they will tell you you can't have plus without my minus, you have to have drama with joy. Our descents are in order to show our connection, our willingness, how much we justify the Creator, what He prepared for us. God forbid we don't want to give up the darkness and the resistance. You remember the example of the old man who looks down, looking for what other deficiencies he can find because without it he can advance, this is called an old man who acquires because he knows that this is how to advance.

S. What is it that actually, when we're working with what is given, how does it pull us above it that we start to be able to work with everything and then it seems like something is pulling us above it so we start to have ....

R. The group doesn't pull you sir, that is why you're alone, alone you are drowning and that is it, you have no recourse for advancing because if it is not in the group, you can't move forward. If you're not in the group, your ascents and descents are beastly like a cow, like any person who feels ups and downs, you feel it in your relative to your ego. Only when you detect them through the connection in the ten, only then are they called spiritual ascents and descents that you advance by caring about the ascent in the group, the ascent of the group itself that you are serving it. For the time being when you are asking me you are asking me only individually so you will get nothing out of it. You will continue another ten years like that and nothing will come out of it. You must begin to look between you with the ascent and descent in the connection between you because the true descent is revealed as a shattering in the vessel that the Creator had broken and accordingly the ascent when you arrange yourself to connect the parts, the fragment of the broken vessel. Then on top of the shattering you discover the connection, from that you discover the Creator who did both the shattering and the connection. Otherwise it will not happen, it would then be speaking about two different things, I'm speaking about a spiritual state and you're speaking about your beastly individual state.

9. S. (47:31) It happens that you see in the ten states where the ten is very active, everyone is connecting, everyone participating actively in the zoom calls, that they are investing, and then there are times when you see they're not too active. How do you raise the intensity of the work here?

R. You have to use the ascent that the Creator is giving you to awaken them, that is it don't look into what they do or how they do it, or the way that they appear to you is what the Creator is showing you, where should you work and where should you contribute in the current state and how to improve it. Everything has to be examined according to what can I do about it. And facing you is always the Creator, either He is concealed behind the friends or some other form but it is always the Creator. As each and every state that you see is a state of work.

S. On the other hand, you say that we don't need to be looking at our state but the state of the ten?

R. Yes, you're looking at it as the state of the ten seeing how you can benefit them.

S. You said there's a difference between the rhythm and the depth of the descent. What can we influence?

R. We can't determine the depth but we can influence the pace, that's the most important thing is the pace that is up to us, the connection between us, the frequency between depends on the pace of the work between us. The connection determines the pace between us and the pace of advancement and the depth is different matter altogether. That's according to how much we work with the states that are revealed, that we don't determine only the pace that is more important to us. But it's more important for us to go through the descent not the ascent and not to remain in them any more than an instant.

S. You said we shouldn't be in a state any more than a moment.

R. A moment when you touch it, that is it you conclude the state and you must go to another state. There is no more than a moment, an instant.

10. S. (50:45) Does a change of mood during the day show a descent or ascent?

R. Change in one's mood should not affect us that much although it adds some influence, and there is no other choice as long as we are in this process called this world and the connection between us, between our bodies as we also have moods that belong to this world which were given to us so that we would be connected to the world and influence the world in this way. We have to try and rise above the mood and it all depends upon the degree of our connection with the ten.

11. S. (51:55) It's clear that everything starts from the shattering and the descent and it's understandable that we have to go through ups and downs with this process. What are the actions we have to take to discover the complete Kli, how can we put the pieces back together?

R. I'm going to have to give you the entire wisdom of Kabbalah according to the question of how to connect all the parts of the vessel you will have to read all of the articles written by Baal HaSulam and Rabash, but at least those who speak of connection in the group.

12. S. (52:57) If specific friends, who are regularly not participating in the ten because they are always in some descents too, we need to keep them in the ten or take them out?

R. That has to do with the organization and I am not speaking about that right now, if you distinguish these questions that you are asking, we don't know what to do with those friends, what kind of friend is he? I am in attack against the evil inclination, every day in a daily struggle, I come to reach an attack every day on the citadel where the Creator is building, in what are they friends? But you have to show them just how much you are together and how in truth you are going daily to attack the barrier and you wish to break through it and break it by attacking the Creator to help you do it in the connection between you, because the barrier exists between you which surrounds the heart of each and every friend. Then in this way you advance and show it to them and it is clear that they are not friends, they are like people who come into a theater and are with us every once in a while. I feel through the questions I'm getting sometimes that this person is just asking not out of real knowledge or feeling or participation but it is just like that. Of course, I am going to answer and I don't want him to leave entirely because there is hope that he is going to grow stronger. But this is not the correct way to participate, what can we do? We can wait, he's going to get hit over his head by his life, his destiny in his fate and he will see that he has no other choice but to connect stronger.

13. S. (55:44) From Malchut to Keter a person rises step after step, so in a descent a person falls strongly. What is the mutuality here, the reciprocity between the descent and the ascent because the descent is harder than the ascent.

R. You are saying something, the ascent is performing an act on top of the will to receive, on top of the difficulty to connect, meaning the coarseness that is the ascent which is why we need to connect between us in a new coarseness connecting us as one to perform an act of unification on top of this unification to begin to work with the Creator, one against the other and in that we are performing the action of the Partzuf. Of course, it is a difficult act of connection but ultimately it is done by the upper force who is arranging those things. In the study of the ten Sefirot, they discuss the prayers we have to raise the connections we have to make between us which is already speaking of a group who knows how to do this, to realize it and implement it. But in truth the ascent is more difficult, we fall not by ourselves but rather the Creator drops us to a deeper degree of coarseness, a new degree and from it we will climb to a higher ascent and of course in that sense, ascents are more difficult and descents are happening absent-mindedly. We receive additional ego where we have no ability to connect, no screen, no force of connection with fall and that's it. In each and every Partzuf we have the revelation of evil that we have to detect and we have to ask for correction over it, correct the screen, reflected light and then to build the degree of connection called the Partzuf.

14. S. (58:42) You said not to be stuck in the ascents or descents for more than a moment, that is clear coming out of the descent but what about coming out of the ascent?

R. The fact that I said that it is enough for us to be just a moment in the ascent, we realize it and that is it means that we are ready for the final goal, we are ready for additional connections, when we realize it is enough for us, we don't want to remain in it, that we want to add more and more. If you don't add, you fall. Then that feeling of yours, the state, the feeling of seemingly remaining in the same state you locate it as a descent, as a fall and this is how it is in the connection, in love. If you don't add it means that you are following and this is how it feels actually.

15. S. (01:00:04) Should I be active in the group in the ascent or in the fall as well?

R. In the feeling of descent we have to detect together as quickly as possible because in the descent we lose the connection between us, a descent means a new desire has entered between us, an egoistic broken desire that we have to detect ourselves as belonging to a ten, nevertheless. Since during the descent when the new will to receive comes in I don't feel my connection with the ten, so it turns out that I didn't even think about them throughout the day, why? Because a new will to receive, a broken will to receive has entered between us and I haven't done anything to locate it, to detect it, to work above it connecting above it. That is how we detect it and this is called a descent, I have to perform various acts to remain above it. What actually helps us is when we scheduled our actions according to the clock and not according to the desire because then our egoistic desire is broken and if it is according to the clock, we know we meet at this time, here we need to read an article, there we need to speak about something here. we need to do something else and in this way we advance mechanically until we are able to assemble more and more feeling that we are beginning to awaken emotionally, spiritually. The Creator sees that according to our efforts that we deserve to recuperate, revive ourselves and then He helps. Is that clear?

16. S. (01:02:48) For a week we've had two deaths of friends, one because of the virus and the other one left the ten, so how do we add that in our work towards the goal?

R. First of all you have to say that it is all up to you, that if you would be okay then those things wouldn't have happened, meaning that this has to encourage greater connection compared to what you had before, so think and speak about that. Because after all the difficult states that we are going through, are showing us how we are failing in what is passed over us because if everything had been good, we would feel even the current state that we feel ourselves in a descent for the sake of an ascent. So talk about it, you need to identify this state as a state of descent for a state of ascent and what to do with it. There are such articles Baal HaSulam and Rabash, ask Beni Baruch to help you, there are people here in the center that you can turn to and they will send you material and you can read it together.

17. S. (01:05:06) Please say how to use friends distancing for the progress of the ten, if he's not asking for help and he's not joining the meetings of the ten?

R. First of all you have to pray for him, to talk about how you wish to help him, to add his broken desire to you as if you are in one boat and he is there but he doesn't have the strength, not knowing what to do with his oar. That is how you have to help him and also ask him to show up, to tell him that you need him, to do you a favor, to show up, that gradually you have to try to draw him closer to participate.

18. S. (01:06:08) Is it a sign of indifference or moving away if a person doesn't respond?

R. It doesn't matter if he becomes distant or indifferent, it is the same phenomena.

19. S. (01:06:40) How do you maintain balance between mind and heart in the ten?

R. Try to put them together, don't distinguish between them, as much as possible let there be a head, the heart, the brain and that both of them to be together aimed at the Creator through the center of the ten.

20. S. (01:07:24) If it is possible to make it more sharp, what characterizes the depth of an ascent or descent?

R. If I know what I have to come to and I talk to the friends about what we need to process each and every state, digest each and every state correctly in order to grow through it and that we will use both the ascent and the descent with the same intensity and the same direction towards the same goal that we won't distinguish between the two but they will be as two lines, two legs where I am walking on the left and on the right. So is there such a great difference between the legs, between the left and the right? Typically, one leg is stronger than the other, when I'm jumping, I'm jumping on that leg, the stronger leg. Ultimately if I'm walking normally, I'm using both of my legs and I have to think that there is good and bad, darkness or light. Rather we need to use the two of them where we are, what the Creator is dropping on us toward the goal. I don't consider my feelings so much, I don't consider my state so much, whatever I feel, whatever my state is, I directed towards the goal and I use it purposefully. Other than the goal, nothing remains with each step, what was there disappears but the goal becomes clearer and closer.

S. What mistakes in preparation lead to getting stuck in his state?

R. Lack of preparation.

21. S. (01:09:44) When a person realizes he is in a descent, what is the first step to rise up?

R. Only connection to the group, investing in the group. It is possible to dissolve in them, that is the surest and safest, most correct step. Just like a baby who clings to his mother, he feels her that this is his source of security in life, that is the way we need to be with the ten.

22. S. (01:10:42)  Discovering, the descent in the ten are given to hold onto the ten, how do you treat someone who fell, as he made his choice and left, or a disconnection which happens in the ten?

R.I don't want to get into your philosophies, you are a philosopher, a scientist but there is nothing spiritual behind your science. Only one thing that I have to hold of each and every friend in the group, in the most active way possible. I don't want to talk about all the other things, I just want to try to do it, so sit together and talk about it, how you are bringing him back to the ten, don't philosophize like this, that he is like this or like that. It is not important what he feels and what it does, what is important is how do I attract and pull him back in. Once we do this at least twice, we put in great effort and then we leave him and what can you do, the Creator for the time being is disconnecting him from the path.

23. S. (01:12:44) The ascent is a movement towards the right and the descent is a movement towards the left?

R. I'm not answering that question, it's still not part of our work.

S. May I refine the question, if we want to aim ourselves towards the middle line?

R. We have to aim ourselves towards connection between us and towards the Creator including all of the qualities, desires, questions, all the conundrums, all together with all of it we need to reach the Creator in the connection between us and there the Creator. That is the right left, I don't know what it is, I still don't understand what it's talking about, then I also recommend to you to not to be too smart, but just to be in what we are.

24. S. (01:13:51) You spoke earlier about the mutual efforts reviving the connection and this is clear when we are in our tens gatherings, how do we maintain efforts while we aren't in our gatherings for the time between these gatherings that the friends can still feel our efforts?

R. If you are connected, it doesn't matter to you whether you are physically together or not, you have to reach a state where you constantly feel yourself in connection. Rabash writes the outstretched land in many miles between us will not separate us.

25. S. (01:14:53) We make these mechanical actions, repetition, we know what time, we read articles and talk about them, what should the actions be in the ten when we don't make these mechanical actions?

R. Have to try to reach a common feeling, it is not mechanical, it has to be a common feeling of one man and one heart. This means that the ten is going to build itself, if you don't have it that you don't have such an inclination from everyone together to be as one man and one heart as much as you can, there are those who are distant and there are those who are closer to it. Those who can whom you feel that are so close to it, that the burning for the connection and there are those who seemingly don't move, you don't know what is happening in his heart but according to his external nature, this is how he is showing himself. So we have to try to draw everything in to participate. There are those who are more insolent, there are those who are more humble and those things are felt, you feel them in the ten. In general we have to establish such an atmosphere where we are all drawn towards the center of our connection each one according to his pace, according to his character and this is how we connect.

26. S. (01:17:06) Still wanted to ask about the pace, the frequency, each friend in the ten has his own pace, some people go through those states quickly and others not so much and besides that there is the general pace of Bnei Baruch, how important is it to be in the same pace to rely on?

R. Of your question, it is to try and locate it as these are different from the other, both in the degree of the coarseness, the power and the nature of the connection, simply participate as much as possible, the connection.  Inside this connection you reveal the Creator and it doesn’t matter how the shades of connection happens, but in the connection the Creator is revealed.

S. Can we say in general we need to reach such a pace that we always have to accelerate?

R. Ascents and descents cannot be without difference, each must try to participate.

26A. S. (01:18:54) How to not stretch out the times of the descent?

R. Only through greater connection in the ten.

26B. S. (01:19:18) How to come to a spiritual connection right now in the ten?

R. Talk about it, everything is written, have to see the different parameters it is all the same for everyone, to see what is missing to reveal the Creator.

27. S. (01:19:57) What is the right way to take responsibility for what happens to not be the one who sits and eats his own flesh and not deny Ein Od Milvado?

R. You need to see yourself nevertheless, ask how you can help the friends, not to think of yourself but of the friends. Then you will do exactly what is required.

28. S. (01:20:40) Is it worthwhile during the day if you think if you have a bad mood or a problem during the day is it worthwhile to stop and think whether it's due to lack of connection with the ten that this is happening?

R. Of course, you should think about it because all of our states are a result of the way that we connect in the ten, we will identify it better in the future, it all depends upon that, not what's happening at home or in the world, only the state of the ten determines everything that I feel in other forms in life.

29. S. (01:21:40) We know the best way to come out of a descent is to participate in a group activity. What to do when it stops working?

R. To shake you up, that it is designed to shake you up, there is nothing to do either you prepare a certain action for you, let's say you write something, you do something, you give lessons on Kabbalah to the external audience, then that is holding you up and if it is not enough then the society has to come to you and put you into such activities that will bring you back to the right path.

30. S. (01:22:47) Sometimes the descent is on such a level that it detaches a person for a very long time and other times it is easier, how do you and what is the meaning of these different kinds of descents that a person gets?

R. Lack of connection in the ten, that is it.

31. S. (01:23:20) The question is whether in the perfect state in the ten that everyone should be feeling the states that everyone else is feeling or you need to feel the general state in the ten?

R. The general state. The ascent and descent is such a topic that it is our pulse it is like breathing, like the beat of the heart, our entire life is measured according to ascents and descents and if we don't have them we won't be able to feel life, if not for the changes we wouldn't be able to feel anything around us, to exist because if there are no changes there is only the Creator. There are no created beings, the created being, a creature is one who is constantly going through changes, ascents and descents, this is the creature in the still, vegetative and animate and on the human speaking degree, the creature is the one who wants to use the ascent and descent that he is feeling to make himself similar to the Creator.

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32. R. That's why there has to be a good environment that aims each and every one of us through all of the states, especially during the states of despair and this is the Creator who is pushing us, especially through those states it's called the despair of man's own strength. As then he needs to discover that only the Creator can save him and when he turns to him through the group he is performing the correct spiritual action, an ascent and this is how we bring some stuff closer to the goal until he receives from all of those influences from the Creator, a screen and then he begins to work with his ego, with his desires. To push themselves away from others, bring himself closer to each other and build the Partzuf discovering the Creator and a new world. Our entire work is only to see ourselves correctly, specifically during the descent where we need to find the descent for the upper force through the society and for him to do whatever he wants to do with us, we are willing to be as clay in the hands of the maker.

33. S. (01:28:58) Why can't we be in constant pleasure?

R. Difficult question, why we can't be in constant ascent? We are in a steady state, why do you always have to go through descents and have to rise above them to a state of an ascent? On that I have a question, I don't know either and let's have a workshop about it. 

33A. WSQ: Why can't we reach a state, that we just get revelation of the Creator, we get filled by it, why can't it be without the ascents and descents, in a simple way just like that? We feel we have a lot of the upper force we want him to be revealed and to fill us, just let him fill us and be revealed, why is it not like that? This is what he's asking, so let us answer him, please workshop. Why can't we live in such a way?

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34. R. Meaning that the descent is the vessel that is filled, this vessel is filled with the fulfillment of the light in the ascent and then the descent and ascent hold each other and together they build like in heart beats. There is expansion and contraction and without that we cannot feel life and advance in our existence, it is not only in the heart, it is in every cell, in every sense, in every life. The life is felt through the two opposite states and he feels himself between one or the other, he feels himself alive if it's only one thing it's the Creator. How can you be like a created being and as much as it is opposite the Creator and resembles the opposite, and resembles the opposite until the Gmar Tikkun. In the end of correction, we have all the contradicting forces and all the forces that resemble the Creator there altogether. On our behalf that is called Gmar Tikkun, the end of correction. How can we reach such a state that the darkness will shine as lights? And that is how we live, as the darkness will shine as light it is only from relating through all of the actions that happened to us that there is an equal force and equal weights and equal source which is the Creator for the descents and the ascents and in such a way and through the right connection between them he establishes us and that is called Gmar Tikkun (the end of correction) on his behalf.

34. S. (01:40:32) There's a feeling that the ascents and descents are becoming more connected to connection in the 10 and less connected to my personal feeling.

R. That is great that the ascents and descents are not in your personal feeling as much as you are gaining or losing in your private life, but your ascents and descents in spirituality is only in the 10 to the extent of the connection between you in the 10 and in the Creator where the shattering was.

S. It is a little strange because when there is a descent we feel that there is a lack of connection between us and this in itself helps us advance towards connection.

R. Where else would you get a descent from, but to show you that you're not in connection?

S. Should we be sad in the descent but it turns out you're happy in the ascent as well.

R. Happiness of course in ascents and descents, in any state that I am in is right in that the existence is aimed towards the goal, so I am happy about it that the darkness will shine his light.

S. So if we work correctly in the 10 we are constantly in joy because if there is a deficiency and lack of connection we are happy already.

R. You want to cry all the time?

S. On the contrary I'm asking if it's the right direction.

R. The purpose of life is happiness. The ascents and descents, darkness and light, disconnection and connection all connect together and then you reach the day that is all happiness and you are happy, that is how it is.

35. S. (01:42:35)  What do we call a descent and what do we call an ascent?

R. According to the purpose of life.

S. What characterizes a descent?

R. It's characterized by the descent that you discover as much as you have a possibility to work now in order to attain the desire. The ascent is that you attain your desired state on the path.

S. What should give me more joy, the descent for the ascent ?

R. Equal, even the descents more because I discovered in them the ability to realize myself. How can I come to a meal with the host if I am not hungry? So, I am happy as much as I am hungry because there is a host and there is a meal and there is everything. All that I am lacking, I am invited, all I'm lacking is the appetite. I can't come before him if I don't have an appetite. I can't give him contentment if I come without an appetite, if I come without a deficiency. The deficiency that I have, the will to receive from him and through the reception from him I want to bestow contentment. Two deficiencies, one with the other that is what I have to prepare. By being in it that is called the work of the creator that I am preparing it and this is how I reach the coupling, the connection.

36. S. (01:44:39) If I constantly grip to the 10 does it mean I'm aiming toward the middle line between the bad in the good and the 10 balance is me all the time on the middle line?

R. Yes.

37. S. (01:45:06) Is the 10 the society for life or can people change your 10? What's the ideal state?

R. The ideal state is that if I'm with the friends that are always drawn to the goal with me and we have the same goal and between us there is an understanding between us there is connection, between us there is a teacher, one teacher for all. One method for all and this is how we implemented upon ourselves this method in order to reach adhesion to the Creator through the adhesion between us and I don't want any change except for the changes in the connection between us and the Creator. The rest I used all of these changes only to increasingly strengthen myself between us and the Creator.

38. S. (01:46:24) What is the prayer that is missing that Baal HaSulam talks about in the excerpt?

R. I don't know what is lacking. Maybe just a cry, you need to locate what you are lacking or lacking that the creator will connect between us to such an extent that he will be able to be revealed between us to enjoy us. 

S. Where does the complementation come for the words that are missing in the prayer? Does it come from each friend and we gather it all?

R. Try to speak about it so that every friend will add a few words, just a few words all in all you want to feel that you have one deficiency for connection between you and order that according to this kind of connection between you, that one force will be revealed and you will be in adhesion with him.

S. You will gather these words into one bundle, one prayer?

R. He will do everything needed.

39. S. (01:28:06) How can you see the ascent and descent as a gift from the friends?

R. We feel it and we see it even from our life. If there aren't any changes between us in our life, let us say each one has a family, if everything in the family is today like yesterday and yesterday like the day before and there aren't any changes so you don't feel a state, still we feel ourselves a bit in lack of change. They say about a guy and a girl that when they connect between them when they love but they sometimes go through all kinds of arguments, disconnections, changes that they themselves even want to insert things like that. That is called a flirt, what do you mean a flirt? A dance, also our attitude with the Creator, the relation is called a dance, there are jumps there is a closeness in distance, closeness and distance, one is turning one around the other one is turning the other one around, that is the whole matter of the feeling of connection. If you don't feel the differences in the connection between us and between us and the Creator's so everything disappears. We exist only in motion, endless constant motion that we constantly want to be in changes which is why it happens, even in this world if we want to hold on to a certain state we also need to see as much as we change these states. We have to stimulate each one, you poked everyone a bit, to feel as much as above it that we build a new connection, a new relation. The best thing has to have also like a bitter drop, that has to be in there always, the evil will remain as the foundation for the good. You can ask people who work in bakeries as they prepare cakes with all of the toppings and all of the very sweet stuff, so in there they put a drop of cognac, the whiskey, something like that. Why do you put an alcoholic drink, without that spiciness you can't emphasize the sweetness of it. That is how it is in everything, just like that. That is called that on every offering you add salt, there is also an article about it. There is no offering as the offering comes from the Hebrew word to come closer to the Creator, without putting salt on it the salt doesn't taste good what is in it. You won't feel the taste of closeness without it. This is why we need to take it for the path and to advance in such a healthy way, that there is this and that and we just have to organize the relations between them. The middle line.

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40. S. (01:54:37) Everything comes from the Creator for a purpose and in this I condition I cannot be happy so what must I do?

R. Why can't you be happy, if the state came from the Creator it came for a correction, the Creator doesn't awaken a state unless it is for the correction, so I need to relate to each and every state as the Creator created it. So, what do I have to do? How can I reach closeness to the Creator upon my current state that He established for me and then from that I am in happiness.

41. S. (01:55:50) The question is the ascents and descents are they regarded from the perspective of the individual, the 10 or both?

R. The true ascents and descents are between the 10 and the Creator. As much as they come close to them, to him from the closest between us and the opposite.

42. S. (01:56:34) What is not clear to me he says all of the overcoming in the work is before we start working in the work of the Creator, the overcoming of what? 

R. To overcome each and every current state that you're in in each and every moment.

S. Give me an example of what I have to overcome in the 10?

R. The lack of connection between you.

S. Lack of connection between us?

R. Yes.

S. What is this type of action?

R. Each man shall help his friend, you have to awaken them, that everyone will be drawn to one another until the Creator it will be revealed again and again.

S. This is regarded as walking in the work of the Creator?

R. It is called unity to reach connection and we have to reach that to the extent of the unity between us the Creator that is the one, the unique and unified is revealed.

S. I have been sitting for several months now with my group and I feel that nothing is to overcome, all is nice, we speak high and low what do I overcome? I can’t come to such a state of overcoming me. What do I have to overcome?

R. Try to awaken each one of the friends that you need to be in a closer connection than you are now, a tighter connection.

S. So we have a tight connection, but there's no action. It's like we are dead.

R. So activate a prayer to the Creator, that he will awaken you, that you will feel the deficiency in the hearts, that you won't be able to sit still or that you won't want to breathe the air unless you are truly attaining the connection between the friends and the Creator. Otherwise, you don't want to take air, not one moment do you want to exist without it. Start awakening each other to these things, it all depends on a man will help his friend, how will you awaken in one another?

S. That is a thing, we still don't know how to awaken one another.

R. The reason is your pride, that you are a proud person, you think that you are better than them and this is how each one in the 10 is. That is the problem, and if you want to reach a higher degree, envy, lust, and honor take a person out of the world into a higher world. Envy and you don't want to play with that envy.

S. According to what you're saying, if you will lower your ego you will get some action with the friends, is that what you're telling me?

R. Let's say so.

S. I diminish myself?

R. I think you have to rise, if you lower it you become a plant. I want to rise more and more, but aimed and directed correctly, that with my ego I am willing to concede on all kinds of things just in order to implement the exalted goal. I want to be a big egoist, but a right one.

S. It is frightening to come to such states, how do I not become scared of it?

R. So leave, go be a plant somewhere, start flowing in your life as you did yesterday.

S. In other words, you mustn't be afraid to get into action with the friends.

R. You need to do everything possible in order to not agree to be a plant. Just like that everything, just not to be as you were yesterday. You really have to be afraid of that.

S. I understand thank you.

43. S. (02:01:46) When I hear him saying that the 10 is stuck and not advancing, in my 10 there's a lot of action and activities towards the Congress, so is there a way that my 10 can help his 10 so that they will be envious and advance with our help?

R. Make such connections between you throughout the day or by your organizers or you yourself in order to really awaken one another. That in the convention we will come to a state where we are all burning and from the connection between us we can already attain the spiritual, the first spiritual degree.

S. So we should ask the organizers to arrange it because it's through the managers.

R. If you will count on anybody then you will never get there.

S. Can I decide that the tens will meet?

R. First, take everything out of yourself possible, squeeze yourself into the right action in the right direction and you will see there is a benefit.

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44. S. (02:04:47) How do we work in the 10, together correctly because on one hand, we keep speaking about greatness and importance, and it doesn't really influence the friends, on the other hand, how do we bring in the ascents and descents in the 10 effectively?

R. Pray for the friends, pray for the friends that is what you are left with.

S. Pray for one another?

R. I'm telling you, pray for your friends or I have nothing else to offer you. But I am serious.

45. S. (02:05:51) How do I use each state so the 10 benefits from it?

R. Invest yourself in the 10 and according to what you see that is the best thing for everybody, do that. Simply be in the center of the 10, draw them, push them ahead or if you feel you have the forces, if you don't have the forces, try just to melt in them and flow with them, go with them anywhere that they are going and don't disconnect from them. The whole problem is that people leave or weaken, that they don't feel as much as they have an opportunity to advance from here, how they can jump on a car or on a train, something that goes towards the goal that is what they have before them.

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46. R. In that if you prepare these conditions, these external conditions correctly a person right away feels what he is supposed to do in each and every state that he falls into. It all depends on the preparation in the environment because without the environment he will go to all kinds of places instinctively to somehow ease his state, with the environment he will go in the right direction and the environment will support him and he can advance correctly.

47. S. (02:09:08) What is a strong desire to attain a desire to bestow? 

R. A strong desire to succeed that is the attraction towards the goal will be greater than the attraction to realize the desire itself. Because the goal always contradicts the desire, that is why we need the help of the environment to increase the importance of the goal, more than the importance of the desire itself, the egoistic one that is in man. Meaning, that we will always be able to aim ourselves above our egoistic desire to the goal, that it will be clear for us, the gap between them, the opposite is between them and in that way we can advance.

48. S. (02:10:39) After we go through all the states of ascents and descents, what other states do we have in front of us afterwards?

R. After that there is the end of correction, there is nothing more because our ascent and descent are scrutinies of the broken Kli, if we have nothing more than the broken vessel and we corrected all of the ascent and descent into one state been through this we discover the Creator 620 times more than he appeared previously in Adam HaRishon. By this we achieved the end of correction, the end of correction of our vessel, the end of our way and the revelation of the Creator completely in us.

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49. S. (02:13:31) I wanted to ask how to develop such an attitude toward the ascent and descent that it would all be towards the 10 and the Creator, not just what is happening to me?

R. This is what you have to do, thank you with your efforts.

50. S. (02:14:00) You were asked this already and I didn't understand about the form of work during an ascent?

R. During the ascent you have to connect to the whole vessel, to the Creator, to the whole world to embrace everyone and feel like you are holding them and you want them only to advance increasingly more to the revelation of the Creator, that he will be revealed in everyone, this is the work, in an ascent.

S. Coming out of a state, what does a person look for?

R. Why should he come out of that state, he should constantly increase it?

S. How?

R. By constantly looking with what more connection with the 10 that he can ascend?

51. S. (02:15:12) Can we compare voluntarily going into a descent and in a sense like physical exile and also with dissemination as being an example going into a descent with the purpose of bringing back?
R. We need to talk about it, we need to discuss it.

52. S (02:16:09) Coming out of a descent while keeping the schedules is that success or failure?

R. What schedule?

S. That I adhere to something I decided for myself going with it and by this I come out of a descent.

R. Yes, that is very important, through the schedule you determine in advance that we perform actions, this helps us shift between the ascents and descents more quickly. It is written about it, what the intellect doesn't do, time does.

S. There is another way that you yourself have asked and turn to the Creator?

R. That is something else, that is you, it is not the blackboard or an alarm clock.

S. So having a board is not good?

R. It is also good, it is called setting times for the Torah, that is also good, the important thing is to constantly be in changes.

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53. R. If he is in a 10 among the friends of course he can strengthen himself to such an extent that he will have no fear, he will look at others and envy them, connect to them and them to him and that way they will help each other. Going from strength to strength forward, the important thing is to latch onto this format, this form to the right connection between us, to grab it. Then we begin to feel that everything is in us so much so that we will begin to see that the world is governed according to our force of connection, the world and that is how we will advance.

54. S. (02:19:46) How are our efforts for connection? How does the upper system see that our actions here of the friends in the 10 that are not just any connection of all of our friends, how does this get organize and work out that the connection will be between me and the friends that I'm within the 10?

R. With your inclination to be in one heart with them and to discover the Creator between you in order to please him, in order to delight him, so you want to show the friend how drawn you are to connection with them how you learn with them, scrutinized with them, the types of connection until on top of this material. Say like the article Rabash that you discover the network of connection between you that the Creator will be willing to be revealed in them.

S. What is the mutual place between me and the friends that are with me, because when we are exerting in connection it's not like it is aimed directly towards these specific friends, that we are reading Rabash together, trying to pray together but what does it mean that it is with these friends and not something that is aimed towards something outside my 10? Because I don't know how to aim my efforts for a request specifically on these friends.

R. You meet, you speak, you learn together this is the most important and you want a network of connection between you to happen, the work that is called a soul, a group, a 10. You want to understand the spiritual essence that is revealed in the connection between you. You still relate to yourselves as a group, or not and then the Creator accepts it this way.

S. So what is the point that I aim that this is my group, this is the group I want to be in, that it is this 10, because that's what I'm lacking. I want to be in connection but it seems like I just want to be in connection and not specifically with this 10. How does the Creator see me that I am with these friends, that this is my 10?

R. He brought them to you somehow you think you did or somebody else set it up, it's the Creator.

S. So the fact that I am written down on 10/25 and I'm sitting with his friends in the same room and we're meeting at a certain hour, that to me is enough for the Creator to know that I want to be in connection with these friends?

R. Yes, but it is not enough, afterwards it depends on how much you want to immerse yourself between them, to dip yourself, immerse yourself in them. According to your desire, you have to determine with what friends you can connect, from your side and from their side in order to reveal the common connection to the point of the force of love. It happens gradually, we have 10s that are already advancing toward that state and some don't know how to direct themselves towards this, there are all kinds.

S. I have to relate to each one of the friends as an individual to connect to and not just to think of a general 10?

R. It is enough to think about the 10 in general, you want to connect to them so that in the connection between you, not in any one specific one from them but in the connection between you, you want to discover the general force of bestowal called the Creator.

S. Thank you.

R. It will be clarified, I understand the questions. There still aren't enough discernments.

55. R. (02:24:38) From an ascent to a descent who changes me or the 10?

R. I can't say anything about this because all who faults in their own faults, what a person sees is himself, it seems like he sees something in front of him, so I don't know at what level you're asking.

S. Where should I search for the change?

R. Pay attention to emotional heart to heart level of connection between you and the friends, this is the problem to bring to the complete form, so it will be both the great deficiency and great connection, one will be on top of the other. 

Excerpt 9 Reader (02:25:46 - 02:27:25)

56. R. We hear there are people who leave, they can't continue, of course they can't continue, no one can but as it is written in the Torah about the children of Israel who came out of Egypt, Pharaoh was chasing them from behind, ahead of them was the Red Sea with waves up to the sky and there was nothing that they could do. So what did they do? One of them came, his name was Nachshon, and he jumped forward, ahead of everyone and then everyone entered after him. The sea suddenly retreated and they were walking and dry land instead of the sea, what does that mean we have to pay attention to the very important transition between Egypt and the Sinai, the land of Israel, that there is nothing natural so to speak, you have a sea in front of you, waves, you can't get in there, how will you cross, I want to cross, I want to go back to Egypt. No, from Egypt Pharaohs’ horsemen are coming, people who want to beat you up and kill you with your ego and then you are between the two, between the waves on one side and Pharaohs forces on the other side. What happens then, you still feel within you this force which is called Nachshon and with this force you jump into the water and whatever happens happens. The water becomes dry land and they cross through the sea as if it is dry land, this is the only way and this is why in the first sentence, he says it's only those people who say that they want to run away from the work but have nowhere to go, since nothing satisfies them. Those people do not walk out from the work and in the end those are the ones who achieve spirituality. So there is nothing special about this. It is not as frightening as it is shown right here as we might imagine, like little kids who feel this way. But still that situation is very special, the Torah tells us about all of the steps that a person experiences on the way from being a wild egoistic person until he equalizes himself with the Creator.

57. S. (02:30:48) I want to ask you about what is scaring us, you started the lesson by giving us an example that everything that is happening around us is like a roller-coaster, that it is scary but also gives inspiration and you have to experience this fear but in the same roller coaster there is a feeling that you don't want to fall off the roller coaster. But when you look at life around you, let's say what is happening with a friend, with your life, you see so much suffering, so many sick people, dead people, you ask yourself where to get the confidence from, where to get the confidence that you won't fly off of that train, the roller coaster and that all you're left with is the fear?

R. You have to try to connect yourselves to that cart, or wagon that you are riding on, do all those mountains, even though you come to states that frighten you, suddenly something is revealed to you. Suddenly you fall, suddenly you rise, your head is twisted in such a way, I remember being in such places. It is built in such a way that a person becomes afraid of what is going to happen, I don't want this. Some people really like it and some people are terrified by it regarding our matter, we understand that first of all you have to be connected to a place that when you go into that roller coaster and you are tied, as there is this lock that is placed on you and it ties you to the chair, you can't get away. You can't get out only at the final point when it is all over and it stops, then you can get up from the chair that is the only way. It is a relevant example, we have to tie ourselves to this place in such a way then we won't be able to get off midway, to run away. If we can open the bar midway and run away, by this we end our lives. This is what we have to build in each and every 10, it is the main thing that is before each and every act that we have to check if we have the strength to hold on to the 10 in whatever state comes to us. Did we set times for reading articles, for speaking among us, for all of the efforts that we will do in the lesson, well the lessons are mandatory. You see that from lesson 2 we are now going over the Congress lessons, we are advancing more toward practicing, doing it in practice oh, you have to do in your 10 what we learn in each and every lesson and then you will succeed. I am certain of the success but it depends in what 10s it will happen and which 10’s it won't, that depends on the 10’s themselves. But you are getting the material, you are getting the guidance, everything that is needed in order to succeed.

Excerpt 10 Reader (02:35:29 - 02:36:48)

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