Morning Lesson January 23, 2024

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

Part 3:

Preparation to "Life in the Ten" Convention - Selected Excerpts from the sources

Reading #1 (00:34) “Maor VaShemesh, VaYechi - The essence of the assembly is for everyone to be in one unity and for all...”

1. S. (02:11) He writes in the beginning that they need to be in unity, in what respect do they need to be in unity?

R. In what they can, in their degree.

S. Yes but?

R. But their intention is to rise to the next degree and be there from unity to unity.

S. What unites them in the beginning between them when they build it? What should they look forward to uniting them?

R. To begin with?

S. Yes.

R. It is that they have the same goal.

S. They have to look for the goal of any friend, to see if they have a single goal?

R. Yes.

S. From this it stems that the upper one will see them as one?

R. To the extent that they want to unite, and they are looking for how to unite, the upper one takes care of them, tends to them.

2. S. (03:28) He writes here that each one should assemble with his friend and come to him to hear from him at the word of the Creator and have to find the Creator. What does it mean to assemble with his friend and come near to Him?

R. That he wants to be incorporated with everything that the friend passes to him and likewise each one from everyone.

3. S. (04:04) Do I come to the Congress to hear about the Creator from the friends or to talk about the Creator?

R. Mainly to listen.

S. Is that the inclination to hear from the friends not that I come to talk?

R. If you can, if you want to, then you need to also speak in the same direction.

S. To awaken the friends to give them greatness and importance?

R. Yes, this is now before the congress.

4. S. (04:44) One of the unique properties of the Congress is that we are going to be in our Tens all the time and we will work from that place. What does it mean that each Ten the Shechina dwells?

R. In every Ten there is the Shechina that means that there is a Ten and a complete connection and there's no need for more than a Ten but for the purpose of elevating the Ten we need other things around it.

S. How do the Ten come to a state where the Shechina dwells, what should they do so that Shechina dwells among them?

R. They will need to be connected, all together, for the same goal and the better they understand their work in the connection, and their goal as a result of that connection to that extent they will also become closer to each other and also closer to the goal.

S. What is that addition of the Shechina in the Ten? What is the difference when the Ten is connected with Shechina and without Shechina? What is the addition of the Shechina?

R. Ten that are connected in the Shechina guarantee for themselves that the Creator, the Shechina will tend to them, elevate them, and fill them.

S. He writes here that if there are more than ten there's more revelation of the Shechina? So this Shechina is it something that happens to everyone only in the Ten or what is it?

R. The Shechina is the revelation of the Creator to the created beings. 

S. The Ten expect it to happen in it? What do you need to be aimed at to have revelation of the Shechina in the created beings, revelation of the Creator?

R. I have to be connected to my Ten.

S. If there is in your Ten it influences the other or everything has its content?

R. Each Ten influences the rest of the Tens.

5. S. (07:36) Each Ten and inside of it needs to reach a state, let's say in the Congress, that the Shechina will dwell among them?

R. Yes.

S. Where is the assembly of all the Shechinot or in each Ten there's a common feeling? Where is the connection of all the Tens together?

R. A connection of all the Tens together is done on a higher level.

S. How does this happen?

R. By everyone wanting to connect and scrutinize their Ten it causes all of them to connect and reveal the general, the common Shechina.

S. We in the Ten come to feel to a common feeling, that the Ten next to us also gets to share attainment. When does it happen that we will begin to feel something common between the Tens?

R. It is not in our hands we can be drawn to it, we can want it, we can hope for it, but when it happens it's already the Upper force.

S. In the congress we aspire to a connection inside our Ten?

R. A connection within the Ten and also a connection between and among the Tens.

S. He writes here that one should assemble with his friend and come to him to hear from him a word about the work of the Creator. In the Congress we will have a long time for workshops, social time, we will connect around it. How will we enter the friend and hear the word about the work of the Creator from him?

R. Each friend according to his order, his circle should express his opinion in obtaining unity within the society.

S. How will I hear a word about the work from the Creator from the friends?

R. The fact that we have to unite together this is already called the work of the Creator.

S. What does it mean to assemble with his friends to come near to them in the work of the Creator?

R. They are coming to the Congress, sitting down, connecting externally and more and more internally until we come to a state where it is clear to us that between us in our common vessel there should be the revelation of the Creator.

6. S. (10:53) If I am doing a role that I was asked to do during the Congress and I'm not physically with the friends. And I cannot hear the greatness and importance they give me, what can I do?

R. You will try to be with them heart and soul.

S. I need to do what the society asked me to do, in any case.

R. Yes.

7. S. (11:20) Since everyone wants to connect to a single goal in the Ten then the Shechina becomes revealed. How does the Ten clarify its shared goal because if you ask the Ten, you will get several different answers?

R. It is clear that we will get different answers, but we have to incorporate in one another. Precisely because each one is a different feeling and a different goal through our efforts, we bring ourselves closer to the system called Shechina. 

S. What needs to be the common goal of the ten, to reveal the Shechina? 

R. To be as one man with one heart.

S. There?

R. In that one heart we will feel the Creator who is in our hearts.

S. This is called what you said before? To scrutinize the ten? That each Ten should scrutinize its Ten?

R. Yes.

8. S. (12:38) There is excitement and the life in the Ten is really inspiring.

R. Do you have a question about what we read?

S. Yes, the young groups, their incorporation in the general Kli. How do they do it in the best way? 

R. As it is written.

9. S. (13:22) In the Congress, can we reveal the Shechina in the Ten?

R. Yes, yes.

S. What will be the sign that we have revealed Divinity, Shechina, in the Ten?

R. It is that we are incorporated in one desire that is directed towards the Creator.

S. Let's say we gather in the Congress all the friends in the Ten. Some connected via Zoom, some are with us physically on the table. How to hold ourselves, calibrate ourselves, so that we get to it. So that we discovered this one desire, the Shechina?

R. We want to direct ourselves to connection with everyone. And to feel this connection, that it is truly revealed between us and within each one. By this, we will come to one desire, or to some illumination between the desires. And in it, we revealed the Creator's relation to us.

S. What does it mean, a single desire in the Ten, that we all want one thing?

R. We all want one thing. To direct ourselves to the Creator, to unite between us and to reach the Creator, to be incorporated in him.

10. S. (15:19) We are thankful for the Congress in Petah Tikva! Typically, I buy tickets and prepare my Visa and documents. And clear my work so I can be in the Congress. This time it happened differently for security reasons. The question is how do you assess this? How important is it to be physically in this Congress? And how can the world Kli help the Israeli Kli?

R. I think we should do the Congress, although it's not physical, I do not know, wireless? I am not sure how to put it, virtual. We nevertheless have to do the Congress in such a way as if our hearts are connected. And we all want to be as one man in one heart.

11. S. (16:35) In the Congress before each lesson, we have a social time. An hour for us before the lesson, we are going to work with the article of the lesson.

R. A complete, one complete full hour?

S. I want to make sure that our Ten is responsible for one of these slots. I want to make sure that we are preparing ourselves correctly. That we are not, basically the question is, what should be the right result, outcome, of working with the articles? So that we can come to the lessons correctly, and not just chew something until it is tasteless?

R. It is truly work. First of all I think you, by that time, have read the article at home, not once. You speak before you come to the Convention. And what we need to find in each article is those points where we can all of us unite with one another.

S. So you see this preparation as something more didactic or cordial?

R. It is in the heart, of course.

S. The idea is to prepare the Tens to find a deeper deficiency towards the article, not necessarily to analyze it?

R. Analyze it? Not so much in a didactic way. Mainly, it's about feeling what Rabash wants to convey to us by this.

S. How should the Ten come out of the social time and then get into the lesson? Because it’s a time when it's supposed to be in order for the Ten to need the Ten together in order to be prepared for the lesson. How do the Ten know that we are prepared for the lesson, what does it mean that we are prepared for the lesson?

R. Well, it is a full hour. 

S. Yes.

R. When you are close, and you speak it is a lot of time. You can extract from it a heart and connect to all the hearts around you.

S. Is there also an importance of trying to, maybe, connect between the Tens, too, in that time or not?

R. No, between the Tens we don't connect that because that might confuse us. After we become trained in connecting in the Ten, we will do it, maybe. But not in this Congress.

S. Okay so the working hours are that the Ten is going deeper and deeper. Trying to find a common deficiency, shared desire with which it is coming to the lesson. We want to come out of this hour with a prayer, is that correct or is it too early?

R. Actually, all the scrutinies are a prayer as well. So, you mean that then all of us at once, what, are standing in prayer?

S. I want to understand there are other Tens working in this preparation, preparing this block. And we want to know what's the indication that we prepared ourselves correctly for the lesson. That we didn't tire the friends, that we didn't take them to incorrect places. That they come to you and the article, and the light in the best way. Because it's a long time, we don't want to waste it, on the one hand. We don't want to tire the friends, on the other hand, to move in the right direction. So I’m trying to understand what is the right outcome? How do we know in the Ten that we are now ready to receive the light with open mouths?

R. In the feeling in the heart. In the feeling in the heart, all my friends, my whole Ten is in my heart.

S. It is a feeling of each one or all the Ten together?

R. Of each one, and afterward, the whole Ten together.

12. S. (21:45) A friend asked before about a situation where he is doing a role where he cannot see with the Ten. For us, too, many friends throughout the Congress, we will be doing many roles. As it is not even certain that it will be different from how it is now, where a small part is around the table and many others are doing other things. Can a Ten tell itself, in that case, we are serving the group we will benefit? Or a train will run for us?

R. The train will not run away from you. You are on a train, you just need to dedicate more intentions, and more force within each intention.

S. Should the Ten try to find a point in the Congress where we make sure we sit together?

R. It is not considered sitting together. We need to connect in one heart, and in this way, go throughout the Congress.

13. S. (22:51) When we are talking about this one heart, what flows through it?

R. Connection and love.

S. From each of us, do we need to transmit this love to this one heart? What do we get from this one heart?

R. Connection and love. 

S. What about the deficiency?

R. Not deficiencies, everyone is in wholeness. We come to the Congress, to present, to display the wholeness. That we have an opportunity to be together and between us. And in the connection between us, to come to a connection with the Creator. It is all in rising to wholeness.

14. S. (23:57) We have an update about the Congress from a friend. 

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