Morning Lesson January 4, 2022, Transcription
Transcription is made from simultaneous translation which leaves a possibility for differences in the audio
Part 1:
Preparing to Attack at the Congress - Selected Excerpts from the Sources
1.Rav’s Introduction: I think it's worthwhile for us to put an emphasis today on this lesson, the participation between friends in each and every group and for this to be the main thing. That is as we are reading these excerpts and they don't await to hear some sort of innovations for me because certainly we have talked about everything. The preparation for the convention needs to be that people are coming closer to one another, understanding one another, talking to one another, feeling one another. So therefore let's make a lesson, let's have an exercise during this lesson about the extent in which we can be close to understanding, feeling one another. Because all together the result needs to come from the nearing that takes place between us and not some wisdom, that we talk some nice words or even if each is inspired by the other. The main thing a person should be inspired by is there is a coming closer between us and the ten and therefore we need to be more active today in disclosing and revealing feelings, feeling closer and interest in one another and each friend. So let's try to work on this today, we will read and we will hear, talk truly within the tens for 5 minutes. No one is an introvert, each has to add something in short and from the heart, from the internality of the heart. Each examines himself from within his heart, takes out a few words to the others and the main thing is that he should check himself whether it is from the heart, whether he wants to touch the other's hearts, so that they will feel it in their hearts and like that we will do it. The preparation needs to be that way to bring our hearts closer.
Excerpt #1 (03:23)
2. R. (04:40) Meaning to the extent in which we can awaken the friends to that extent we will also be able to awaken the Creator. You need to always stand guard all day and all night, meaning that is our true work not just during the lesson or during the gathering or meaning when you feel a state of day or when you feel a state of night in all kinds of our internal states. Because they all come from the Creator also the night comes from the Creator and the work that is for the benefit of man comes in man's favor so we will have the ability to come closer and innovate our work towards the Creator. Because by us feeling the indifference, even the despair in all kinds of states in which our will to receive does not draw us forward so here is the time of the work in which the desire to bestow where we will try to somehow receive from the friends, from the Creator to awaken and have him pull us forward. That is actually our true advancement therefore we later claim that we have many years that we are not advancing, did you give it advancement? So therefore there is group work here where we need to awaken the hearts of the friends, one will help his friend as it's hard for a friend to awaken his own heart that if for a moment he jumps, a moment he could be jumping forward and be doing something and a moment later it disappears and he realizes he has nowhere to go. When each wants to awaken the other then by that they ignite the general fire which burns and draws them all towards connection between them and towards connection with the Creator. That is why here is where our work is especially, in times where we don't feel that we have some attraction forward, so try to awaken the friends and that way each will help his friend and this will draw us forward. That is why he writes, you need to awaken the heart of the friends until the flame rises by itself, until it ignites, burns and will define all our states on the way. Now is the discussion between us and the tens, how do we perform these actions? This is actually, all the hours except for the morning lesson throughout the day and some meeting that we have, some small meetings that we have in the middle of the day, how do we all the rest of the hours need to think about the flame, the fire that we have to ignite between us and each in his ten has it so that it will pull us forward as it will turn on then in it the upper force will be revealed and the upper reality will be revealed.
Workshop (08:48) “In all the hours, except for the morning lesson, how do we think about the fire that we light between us?”
Excerpt #2 (16:13)
3. R. (17:40) How do we distinguish the surplus, these bits of additions that we can add in effort to connect between us and between us to the Creator to bring him contentment, to prepare the vessels for his revelation which is physically what brings him contentment? How do we feel in that more and more in our servitude, that we devote ourselves to this work and truly become closer to the Creator, preparing his revelation for the whole of creation? How do we distinguish, how to receive that the main thing is as the last, that we reach the very end of our labor and a bit more than what we can. That's the main thing for us to feel this effort, that specifically in this effort the Creator is revealed and that is where he rejoices and that is where we make connection with him. How in our life do we make the effort and the effort is beyond our strength and desire. How do we find in that effort, in that labor the very last effort had we dedicate it to the Creator and specifically there we realize that we bring him contentment? Let's clarify this between us.
Workshop (19:42) “How do we make this effort that is beyond our strength and find in that last bit of effort that we dedicate it to the Creator?”
Excerpt #3 (26:17)
4. R. (27:27) Meaning at any given moment a person needs to see himself as ready for the awakening and to the extent to which it looks to him that maybe as a moment that is less suitable and maybe he should wait because later, maybe tomorrow, meaning in tomorrow there will be a better state, but no that is not right. Rather specifically in the moment that he sees that he is not ready, that is the best possible state because to the extent in which we perform acts of overcoming, seeking, accordingly we have the results and the reward from our exertion. To really say if it is not for me then who and if not now than when and so on meaning we really need to, at every given moment, I should see this as a suitable moment to add exertion as much as possible. Even though the egoistic desire throws him do all kinds of work, in all kinds of states, to the feeling of being sick, being sickly and being in a feeling that someone is busy doing something, I must take care of something else and later he will get to it, no. It is, we understand already that it is, as we know from our experience to the extent all these things come in an endless way from our ego and this is sent to us from the Creator in order to give us an opportunity in nearing, to get to know our nature and deal with it. Since the quantity of effort and especially the quality of effort is within these states in which we can seemingly delay things, so-called justifiably and we overcome in effort and exert to give more, another crumb of exertion and this is very important. We need to have this group awakening so a person can examine himself many times throughout the day to the extent and which he is lazy and meanwhile time is passing and he complains that he isn't feeling good results and that one is not feeling advancement. That it's probably something that he maybe doesn't deserve and he's not giving it a break that's not true, it all depends on the person and the extent in which he tries every moment in life to pay attention to bring forth exertions. Specifically in the times when we are distant from spirituality when one is lazy when one can't and rejects, so whoever rejects advancement truly causes stuff to himself, causes to receive rejection from above as well, why? Because one rejection he needs to receive from above in order to recognize that he gave that rejection as an opportunity to advance and the second rejection, he needs an order to perform the previous action and repeat it. Otherwise without that, we cannot advance if he did not go through us with the step that he was given along the way. Therefore if you leave me a day I will leave you for two days, meaning if a person leaves a certain form of exertion in a certain moment, he will then have to perform double the exertion. Both for not putting forth the exertion and also for that what you didn't do truly. That is why we need to be concerned with spirit to the group that no one will be able to remain calm, that I will later in another hour and another day at some point and somehow. This is the problem we do not want to drag the time we have to always feel that we are always late and we are working in a state of not having enough time, it is very hard to sustain such a state but if we help one another create such an atmosphere and then we feel ourselves in an attack, then it is not difficult. It all depends on the general spirit of the society, a person on his own cannot operate this way, cannot act that way. Only if you are connected to the group and you have the spirit one will help his friend, we awaken one another even though none of us on our own none of us have the forces but towards the other we can awaken and we can shake everyone up I am not capable of doing so to myself but if I give the spirit, the forces, awakening to the others than they awaken and I myself awaken from them and this is how one helps his friend. It is a must specifically in this to feel that the attack does not need to be a person to himself but rather all of us, upon all of us as none of us has the forces to deal with ourselves. Therefore the group, the ten is that which can advance and a person on his own is never capable, never. To awaken in another ten in 20 years and to understand that he didn't advance whatsoever.
5. S. (34:51) You said you actually gave the answer to the question that I wanted to ask but I will ask still, he says here that a person should believe in reward and punishment, what state is he talking about here or egoistic state or advanced state?
R. Reward and punishment is in that we are advancing in spiritual work and seeing what the reward is and what the punishment is and how it changes from one state to another. Where I check, measure, weigh and see that the reward and my punishment each time rises in their essence, in their quality from one state to another. We're if previously, let say, yesterday it was satisfied with something that's not sufficient for me today, if the punishments were for me in a more physical way in the past, now it is in a more spiritual way and more.
6. S. (36:24) In the situation where a friend might have a deficiency for connection and he wants to exert more in the group and the Bnei Baruch organization and he finds himself disturbances where he is sick or ill or unable to put out more, is this a case of paranoia with a friend or is this a case of the mighty hand of the Creator, what is he doing with that?
R. In every place in which we receive comes from the Creator even though there are thoughts seemingly and our desires, they come to us from the Creator and only later when I decide what I do upon that from here onwards my work begins. Then we will also see the extent to which my work, the decisions from previous feelings I felt from the Creator before, all that too I will feel how much that is from the Creator, these are just additional discernments that with time we will scrutinize.
7. S. (37:38) In order to be able to add in efforts, to add that effort that we need a deficiency, how is this deficiency, if we take into account sometimes a person is in descent, doesn't have a deficiency, how do you turn the deficiency into a state in the ten that enables the additional effort?
R. I try to work with, not with my deficiency which is a deficiency of a beast but rather with a deficiency of Adam. Adam is already called a deficiency of the ten of the group because that is the part of Adam HaRishon, of the system of Adam HaRishon, the big system. Therefore with that deficiency we need to work, meaning to move from the personal desire to the group desire that is first of all and to scrutinize this desire and to continue with it onwards.
8. S. (38:55) How to start looking at the world through the friends' eyes faster?
R. The safest way to look at the world through the group is when I come to despair from my forces, I come to a state in which I understand that I myself, I'm not in spirituality, I don't belong to spirituality. I am a zero, I'm not even a zero, I don't even exist. Zero is nevertheless some state, some reality but from that I understand and from within my ego that even as a zero I don't exist in spirituality. Then I seek in what way I can so the only way I could be in spirituality is where I disappear, connect, dissolve, dilute myself within the friends, try to fill them and through them reality. Then I come to a certain impression from what is really happening here in the middle of the connection, in the middle of the group where I begin to discover that this is probably what the Creator is preparing for people and through this group even though we are connected in such a way, a weak way we begin to feel him. To at least come to a state in which somehow, we grip onto something that is called general but general has already called Creator although it is distanced from him but to the extent and which we need to nullify ourselves in that and hold on to the common connection between us. Then from that common and mutual connection in order to come close to the Creator and to feel him, to prepare ourselves for him, that is actually all of our work. This is the whole purpose of the convention, be in a convening and one feeling to feel the Creator in one sense.
9. S. (41:46) Is a spiritual deficiency when I don't just come to be warm by the fire but I only engage in awakening the friends?
R. Yes.
10. S. (42:10) My entire ten will attend the Congress virtually but there will also be those who join physically with other tens, should I attend the congress virtually with my own group or physically with the other tens?
R. We see that the world is advancing towards the virtual connection more and more and if there will not be any flaws in the virtual connection then certainly humanity will move more and more towards a virtual connection. I think that the result of this pandemic, of these viruses, also accustomed us to being connected in a virtual connection between us more and more. So that we will pay attention to the emotional, spiritual, mental connection between us and not the physical. Where I see the friend even the fact that we see each other as if we have a connection with a face with the faces that's for the time being. We will see we are yet to see that we will move to a more internal identification with one another and when I see all kinds of different faces that's not according to that that I will locate people but rather according to their inner qualities, thoughts, desires, measures of connections, tendency for connection accordingly I will reveal and get to know all the people according to the essence of each and every one from within the general vessel of Adam HaRishon. That is why I don't know what to say about how to be more connected. We are going with this whole process that the upper providence is cascading upon us that's really hope we will come to a state in which each of us will come closer to a more internal connection between people and not external. We will not have to close ourselves up with these masks but all together, it is not important to be the face of the person black, white, yellow, red and also who is nothing external that comes out of our corporeal bodies will not influence me but rather what will influence me is just that inner point in his heart to the extent that we will advance to that we will advance to the truth.
11. S. (45:24) In the relationships in the ten we use the word going above reason everyone is using it to possibly conquer with his own reason so how was it possible in the ten to only warm the hearts?
R. That is the main thing that if not the wise learn but rather to the extension which I deliver my warmth, my yearning for connection that is what we need. Our goal and all of our work is altogether about the power connection and the unification of our connection. That defines our vessel and according to our vessel we discover in it the Creator. Therefore the ascent from degree to another spiritual degree is the extent in which we can next between us more in a more qualitative way and quantitative way and in the equality, there is a lot. We don't have more than ten but in quality we have many degrees. What are those degrees of connection between these, those there are all kinds of ways and all kinds of manners that are revealed and each and every cell and in all the cells in the connection between them. From this we have the essence of life. All together we have a certain amount of foundations of elements in nature. Let's say there are 100 elements in nature but from this composition of theirs look what happens. Until the decomposition of these qualities of these matters of physical biological chemical and even in lively cells that create life where all the connections between them truly come to all kinds of forms, also diseases and healthy ones. Look what happens here. It all depends on the composition of the molecular connections between all of them. This is where the whole wisdom is. Where's the science? What does science engage in also on how to put together the materials and the elements in such a way that they will be ready for all kinds of actions, labor, states that is the main thing. Meaning altogether our wisdom is the wisdom of connection and to the extent and which we connect more, not in force and not in quantities, not in the bodies, not in our materialistic work but when we begin to connect with our desires that is already a spiritual degree. That's where we already merge beyond the barrier where we connect and spirituality is incorporated in spirituality that we can operate together between us. we can beget from the connections between us more exalted and superior states more and more and this is how we reach the state of 'you made me. you built me." Where we come to such degrees in the connection between us even though we are matter, desires. In the collections of the desires which are about the desires that we need to perform this because each and every egoistic desire is egotistical but to the extent to which I can rise above itself and connect with the connections to the others than by that beget the essence of the Creator not in each of us but in the form of connection in each of us what we call in the intention and then you made me. This is what we need to do in the connections between us also in the convention. To try to understand that in my attitude towards the friend I have to reveal the essence of the Creator between us by that we were real him.
12. S. ( 50:57) How in this addition of effort do I switch from my deficiency to the group's deficiency?
R. The main thing I need is to feel the deficiency of the group and to join the group in the deficiency and work together with them in whatever way I can. Altogether, we have to bring ourselves to each bringing his desire and his nature with the intention for connection and in the connection that we connect to the group with. I don't want you to define anything except for my participation in order to stop establishing before us the image of the Creator. The image of the Creator is the quality of love and common bestowal. The more we connect the more we can stabilize this image before us more and that which I come to the group with is not important to me as long as what I come with, I don't throw away. I am Incorporated there to stabilize this image, this character of a bestowal and love the connection between us.
S. It sounds like my work from what you say that I become included and so on but what is the general work?
R. Certainly but the general work is felt in you as well. There is no one that feels the general work nevertheless that which a person feels he feels his own but to the extent that he was sure that he wants to integrate and that which is outside of him.
13. S. (53:26) It's as if you try to awaken the ten and set an example and it looks like the heart is working in but the feeling is that you are saving a bit. But it is as if you are saving a bit, not doing enough. There is like this hidden box I keep to myself so what am I not doing enough of?
R. We need to continue eventually there's so much to talk about but the bottom line , meaning to summarize this, you need to simply continue, and get less confused with all kinds of psychology and philosophy but rather more and more to be immersed in that which the Kabbalists tell us and to try to see in their words what to do. To the extent and which I go over thousands of times the same excerpts and versus I see that there is no more to do or rather to enter more deeper into them. As little as possible join all kinds of things that you learned in life through everything that you had before then you'll be able to understand what's written here.
14. S. (55:07) How to create in the ten, in the group the deficiency? How to switch from a personal deficiency to a group deficiency?
R. I think that we need to simply talk together. How we come to one deficiency that will be aimed toward the Creator from us all together how we, each and every one, can discover this deficiency and we will all connect to that lack as this is a deficiency for bestowing contentment to the Creator to prepare a vessel for him to be revealed. That his revelation in us will not be for our benefit but for his benefit, and for us to come to that state in which if we do it for his benefit that too will be for our benefit but already and in order to bestow. This is how we need to talk about this but we need to think about it everything is clarified in thought. The more a person invests in it it's better. We also need to understand that time passes and time does its own. We are operating under the group force of a big group that is arranging us all and bringing us to corrections to new states. That is why with each state that comes that we are not satisfied with, nevertheless we advance and day after day feel ourselves closer to the feeling of understanding, to the mutuality, even though this happens gradually slowly, slowly but it's stage after stage, happening to us in this way. We need to feel more gratitude, grateful and giving thanks to the Creator for doing this to us, the way he cares for us day after day. A few hours ago I thought I don't belong to anything, I was thrown to the corner and nothing belongs to me and why now and now all of a sudden, I see that everything is to the contrary it is all working out and advancing from those bad states that I had that I went through and now it is better and this is how it goes. Day and night, night and day, and the main thing is patience and not to jump, not to leave. Don't believe in yourself and don't talk with oneself, don't talk with oneself of who I am, what I am and what's with me those personal and private things. Let go of them. Leave them in this world. They remain in this world and later we bury them in a grave. Think only about the fact that you are in some big mass of people which altogether yearn for upliftment towards the Creator remain in it, even if you are like a passive passenger, you are nevertheless on that same train.
S. How to use correctly envy, lust and honor so as to be in constant attack?
R. It doesn't turn out to be too simple for us to use envy, lust and honor to advance because on the other hand it also has written you have to be humble and lowly and the smallest of all the friends. How can you be like this and like that? we always advance to a thing and it's the opposite. Therefore be in this and in that, there is none as wise as the one with experience. I cannot explain to you all the details of the spiritual states. Each will have to learn nevertheless out of one’s experience in this. The main thing is together, that is the secret, together. As much as the person constantly sustains himself together with the others, he makes a step forward and each time feels himself thrown from the connection with others and returns, thrown and returns and then from those approaches from in and out he advances.
15. S (01:10:35) You said that it's necessary to connect to the group's deficiency. On the second day of the new Congress we are going to have a physical meeting and the Congress itself is a very big vessel. There's this very deep effort to connect and incorporate and when we are closer physically it is more difficult, the effort is greater, how to bear that and what to do?
R. When we meet physically, we need to do all kinds of actions of physical connection so it will not turn off our internal connection. Physically it is very easy for me to hug the friends, to raise a L’Chaims, to laugh together, to talk together. I am physically together but where am I with them together spiritually, in the spiritual connection between us. Here we need to prepare ourselves so that in the physical meeting we will not blur our spiritual state. That our spiritual nearing is the main thing and will not be turned off. That is why Kabbalists really respect the assembly, the meal, the lesson and all kinds of actions in the ten. We need to first of all, think about the preparation for it. That physical connection is only going to intensify our internal spiritual connection so it will express our spiritual connection that we cannot express with words. There are no words in spirituality, in truth there are none. For us to express them in all kinds of ways between us where we talk, where we relate, where we observe and look. Let's express in a corporeal manner our heartfelt inclination in each and every one of us.
S. How does it happen, if say from the disturbance how do you go from that to help?
R. That it depends on the exertion, I cannot answer all the questions, think first and ask only about what is really important.
16. S. (01:03:40) The attack that each one should do in the ten, it’s in order to awaken them to get closer to the Creator and not to their ego?
R. Yes certainly and coming closer to the Creator, we talk as little as possible of that which has to do with ego because where one’s thoughts are that’s where He is. That is why I constantly think about connection to the extent to which I can be deeper in the connection.
17. S. (01:04:43) How do we speak between us, how do we find the words, what the heart feels because it seems like every time, we utter a word it is hard to understand. What does it mean to speak between us so that it is from the heart?
R. Try to perform all kinds of physical actions that either disclose your intendancy of your heart towards connection with the friends or that will push you towards connection with the friends.
18. S. (01:05:47) You said that in spirituality there are no words, so the question is whether we are expressing our prayer and words, or the words do not matter here. It’s important to approach it emotionally, or you need to have a thought of the prayer. Can you explain that?
R. Prayer is called the work in the heart. Therefore you cannot talk at all or perform any bodily action or movement. The main thing is what the heart feels.
19. S. (01:06:47) There is this quality, this desire to postpone things, how from that state can you each time attack with the deficiency of the group full force and not postpone it?
R. That depends on the group and how much it presses each of the friends and puts pressure on returning each other to the internal connection. That depends on the group to the extent to which they try to define for themselves the times, what we call the times for the Torah, times for the connection. Try to do this as much as possible. I know this on my own, that many times, I am kind of dealing with things that have no great importance, that’s how it is. When I think about it, then it’s too bad that there is not someone pressuring me, that’s pressing me, that’s obligating me. Rabash was busy doing something all the time. He was either eating or sleeping or doing a little bit of physical exercises, other than that he was only in study, he had nothing but that. Those four things; he had to sleep, food, physical activity, a sport of some kind. A person at the age of 80, it's clear what kind of sport he had to do but he always did some kind of exercise several times a day and study and certainly most of the day was study, most of the day. When I was next to him, I was truly... I didn't know what to say. I got up from the chair just to bring a cup of coffee for me and him, to put together the table or to bring the plates, to sort the table and then sit down with the books again. Now we're going for a stroll that was according to time, everything was by the schedule on his clock. Now we're going for a stroll, we are doing a stroll around and we're coming back, sitting down and we are studying. We're coming back, where's the cup of coffee? He gets a cup of coffee, okay where are we studying? He pages through the book and then we go back. There was no time that he was lazily wasting time, like what are we going to do now? He would ask what we're studying now? But what we will do now, he was never idle, he never had that kind of a question. Everything was very defined.
20. S. (01:10:11) When you make an effort and you feel the quality of the effort is not great, that you are still stealing from the friends to an extent where is that quality of labor?
R. I don’t understand what exertion you are talking about, what does it mean that I'm stealing from the friend? There is no such thing as such thing as stealing with the friend. The fact that I'm taking from him and I'm moving forward and continuing, that is not stealing, that’s not that. We're all connected, we all want to be as one and then to the extent which one takes for the other and uses it for the attainment of the goal, our common goal, it’s not theft. On the contrary, I'm willing, I am satisfied to help in such a way towards the friends. This is how we do with our children or to the extent that they take from us and use it correctly we are just happy.
S. How can I increase the quality of efforts?
R. Think about it, only through thought, think of how you can do this.
21. S. (01:11:58) How to receive from the friend this inspiration this impression because my ego is built in the way that if the friend is weak, it annoys me, if the friend is inspired and wants to inspire me, it annoys me even more?
R. The fact that the Creator gave you a society, a group with which you come to him with. He does not want you to come in some other way, moreover not alone but rather for you to take these friends and try to connect with them heart and soul with love. To the extent in which you replace your rejection from them to connection love and towards an inclination towards them, to that extent you become closer to the Creator.
22. S. (01:13:12) How is it possible to help the friends or awaken the friends so that they will always... they're always silent in workshops?
R. You need to obligate them to talk each has to say some kind of word. In every group there are those that are ready to talk and there are those that are talking normally and they're those that are less than normal. That don't have anything to say and it is also hard for them to talk. That is how it is, what can you do? We need to awaken them to warm them up. According to my nature and truth I'm willing to be silent and to be closed up in my room and never leave. According to my nature I'm willing to read, to receive everything through my eyes and not even through my ears. It doesn't matter, there's no choice and I do it, as you can see. I'm several hours a day with you and several additional hours with filming’s and all kinds of programs where I'm talking. Although according to my nature, give me a book and let me go, leave me alone but the goal obligates us.
23. S (01:15:06) How to direct yourself during the Congress to adhere with the world KIi , do I do it through the world Kli or through my ten?
R. If you understand that the connection is by us incorporating to such an extent that we do not feel ourselves and only us together we will feel as one body and then in that one body we will feel a force that is organizing us and connecting between us and then we will discover Him as one. That is the purpose of creation already. That in this we will all reach an adhesion with the Creator. Everything only in order to go deeper in the connection between us and our inner source, our inner root.
24. S. (01:16:18) How to really penetrate and feel the desires of the friends in the ten and live in them?
R. I need to try and come closer to the thoughts and desires of my friends because by this I am coming closer to the Creator. I'm coming closer to the Creator. What is in this? It's simple, that is our means, there is no other. I disregarded it, so I don't want to get closer to the Creator. Let's wait. Maybe later I will be able to do it. My annulment towards the connection with the friends is actually the only action that I annul my ego and connect to them in connecting to the Creator. Not just annulling my ego in connecting to them, but in order to come closer to the Creator. First of all, maybe I do an opposite action. I look at it this way. My goal is to come closer to the Creator,
to do it. I can only do it in the ten so I need to perform actions in the ten. Even with my eyes shut that I don’t want to look at them I don't want to see it, nothing, but I have to do it. Because otherwise I cannot come closer to Him. That’s the condition, that is the condition, what can you do, so I'm going for it.
25. S. (01:18:09 ) Can the ten compensate for the effort that the individual friend does not do?
R. Yes, they can add, that is called two in the boat. That if a person does not drill a hole, does not drill, so even if one performs the actions and advances in the boat in such a way with his oar, that is enough for the two to advance. The boat always has weaker ones, sick ones, women, children and still the boat keeps going.
26. S. (01:19:03) How to point out the spiritual connection between the desires and not confuse it with any kind of physical connection or gathering?
R. It comes later on gradually I can’t say how. A person will see it as much as he reaches a physical connection and this connection cancels or helps him increase the inner connection. That me, with everything I do with the friends together, with my hands, by this I am expressing the tendencies of my heart towards connection.
27. S. (01:19:50) If a friend frequently takes part in different other events but doesn’t take time to meet with the ten, how should the group respond to this?
R. Each one has a character and a tendency of their own which is why we need to give them such opportunities. The main thing is that they incorporate with us and each one finds a different way to do it, a different style that is good. That is how we are built and that is how we complete each other.
28. S. (01:20:23) How do I know when to turn the deficiency that I see in the ten to my inner work or when can I do and when do I act in order to fulfill this deficiency?
R. Constantly. If I see a deficiency in the ten that can be more united so I take it as my own deficiencies and try to fill it.
29. S. (01:21:00) I understand that when I annul toward my ten or put in an effort in order to work on our connection it is only because I want to come closer to the Creator and that makes me feel ashamed. Am I doing the work with the wrong intention?
R. That will be clarified. Friends, you're asking me questions that you have to ask yourself and try and try to still answer them on your own or wait until it gets clarified. Eventually on our path no questions will remain, and if there are questions you are not investing enough exertion in order to advance because when you advance all the questions are back there.
30. S. (01:21:57) What is our daily addition to the effort when there are cases in the group where the work in dissemination is going really hard?
R. We have to try each and every day to feel that we have fulfilled our measure in the advancement between us and the advancement in the general Bnei Baruch group, in inhumanity, and in the advancement towards the Creator, the goal. We have to feel that we have done that. That is what we go to sleep with and in this way we advance.
31. S. (01:22:47) The word attack is something very manly and aggressive so is it true to think that the role of women in the congress is the quality of mercy and to cover everything with love?
R. I do not think that the word attack belongs only to men. It doesn't contradict women and especially Russian women. They excel in attack and that is good. We need to discover each and every one, a willingness for attack. Men and women, and the women in this can give an example to the men. The attack except for this is not something on the outside, that I'm attacking others. I'm attacking myself and I'm conquering my heart and also not myself that I'm such a hero that I'm willing to and able to conquer my heart and turn it around whichever way I want because that will never happen. Only with the help of the Creator in that I take him as a partner by asking and praying, by drawing Him closer to me can he help me control my heart. Only in such a way can I advance. Our attack is not aggressive; we are going to go and punch each other but our attack is against our laziness and against our fear of touching ourselves, touching our hearts. When I constantly go towards the Creator and I demand and I draw Him into me to help me conquer my heart the attack is against my laziness towards the Creator and that is why if you think it is easier for men more than women I would say “no.” A woman on behalf of nature is more able to control her heart than the man. The men stay as children their whole lives. They have a lot of childhood because they never went through conception, breastfeeding, and birth. The women did which is why women are more prepared for spiritual advancement and that is why with a righteous woman you can come out of Egypt, from our ego, and not with the righteous men. From all reasons and all things we see in the wisdom of Kabbalah that the woman, who is the general will to receive and so on, goes through the correction and with the help of the man, in such a way she brings the world to correction.
32. S. (01:33:57) What is the correct attitude that the ten should have towards indifference?
R. Awaken, what can you do, just awaken. I understand that there are periods that are private to each and every one and also general, common periods, where we are all immersed in some kind of lack of a desire where we don't really care and are indifferent to all kinds of things but it is the deficiency of the light shining upon us that is not really shining in its changing intensity that keeps renewing our desires so that we feel that we are alive. We are not aware that we are constantly activated like a toy that you need to wind the key and then it jumps up and down, or like a rabbit, whatever. That is how we are but we just don't feel the Creator twisting the knob but then we start jumping. If He twisted it a little bit less and he wants us to add in our advancement, in our jumps, but we don’t do it. Then, what happens? It's a problem. That is why here there's only one method for advancement. That is why he stops himself from motivating us because he wants us to motivate ourselves, that man will help his friend, and that all of us in the group won't let go of each and every friend from outside of the awakening and that we will always have a group awaking which is a must from each and every one to look at what is going on inside the group. That is why we have groups that are no more than ten, that is a desired number. Also, in our inner physiology the structure of the ten Sephirot, the ten spheres, that we can hold in our hand and no more than that. That is why in order for us to advance correctly the ten is enough
S. When is indifference considered as disregard?
R. When we agree with it. That we are okay with just flowing with it whatever happens, happens.
S. What does it mean not to flow with it, to not say something?
R. No, we agreed that we do not have the forces. If we are able to give some addition to that motion that is regarding, that we add to the Klipot.
S. Suppose I sought disregard or indifference. How am I supposed to relate to that?
R. You have to give an example of a nice way to go to that person, to lower yourself to them, approach him somehow, hug him in some mutual action and then you can leave. You can ask him for help. Bring him to some action and that is how you advance. A person cannot advance on his own but only by helping others to advance then he advances.
S. Suppose we meet on zoom but a friend didn't come and didn't say anything or write later, how should the ten relate to this? Should we call him and see if everything is, okay?
R. The ten has to sit on him and be interested because on the spiritual side if he's not there it is as though he is dead. We cannot look at it through corporeal eyes but through spiritual eyes. If he is absent from participation without it telling us or doing any action up on it that is a big problem and by that he is drilling a hole in the side of the boat.
S. The ten needs to be concerned with it?
R. How not to be if you are all drowning? How could it not be when you already have a hole in the side of the boat?
S. If we see the indifference in the ten and we are not concerned with it and we do not check, or we don’t ask…
R. Then you are just like him, just like the friend who stopped participating with you and you do not pay attention. How can that be? You right away have to start calling him and see what's going on. Not to have one person in the group who is in charge and the rest are just used to it, used to having just one person in charge. No, everyone has to be concerned. How could it be otherwise?
33. S. (01:41:00) Sometimes in the tens when we have our workshop some of the people talk ceaselessly, taking up all the time, and the ten doesn't not know how to deal with it. How do we relate to something like that?
R. There has to be a certain amount of time for each and every one as much as he can speak. There is no such thing that one person takes the right to speak and doesn't give room for others from lack of consideration, or maybe it is not from lack of consideration. Sometimes I see people who just cannot stop and then I also see people who cannot express themselves if they speak less than 20 minutes. How can you let someone speak for 20 minutes in the way that we live? There is no such thing. That is why we need to check and we should all be responsible, that everyone knows he has a maximum of two minutes to speak. There cannot be a case where you cannot express something in two minutes and if it's more than that if it is interesting for everybody then you can do it another time.
S. If we decide on it and he continues?
R. Then let him write it down and we will read it and then it remains with us forever.
S. Suppose he doesn't write it and repeats himself?
R. Then he doesn't speak anymore, just don’t let him speak. How can you do it? Let him learn. There is no such thing in the world that a person cannot learn. He has to write down before hand on a piece of paper what question, what he should say in the answer and in the short way how he is dividing the question into parts and the answer into parts and in which way gradually he will go through those points and then he sees how long it takes it takes and see what is most important. Let him prepare as you would before a speech and then we will see how long it will take him. As much as he develops himself, to see what state he's in, otherwise his thoughts are just wandering around and dragging one another.
34. S. (01:44:08) How not to forget about your intention to give containment to the Creator in whatever you do?
R. First we think about the intention and then we concentrate. Concentration without intention it’s nonsense, it’s emptiness.
35. S. (01:44:31) If I'm focused on the prayer I cannot hear the lesson, what is more important?
R. We need to think of the goal and the lesson that sanctifies our goal. Constantly they have to be connected together as much as possible. If I'm only thinking of the lesson, it can be wisdom, and if I'm only thinking of the goal that can be Torah; but you need both of them, both Torah and the labor together.
36. S. (01:45:10) In the ten we feel that you really bring us into a new state, you are really making great effort and we are grateful for it. And the question is how important it is for each friend to give his impression in the ten, why does the Creator want all of us together?
R. The Creator doesn't have something that divides into ten, for Him ten is 1. Because He is in a degree of the upper light, and the upper light doesn't have less than 10. 10 is the minimum form of connection between different foreign desires, when they, to some extent become as one, have one intention and aim to one goal from 10 different desires; by this they resemble the light, which is one. That is why the Creator looks at the ten and if, in the ten there is some kind of a flow, so he does not have a ten. It is already the posterior of the Creator working on the ten, the values of darkness; that they also advance you but not in the direct path.
37. S. (01:46:38) About what you asked in the workshop: What does it mean to make an effort above human ability during the Congress or the preparation for congress?
R. Actually, it's faith above reason. At least for us is that I try to aim all of my forces, at all times to attain connection, and with the connection attain the goal. That the goal is in the center of the connection between us.
S. What is that extra that I can't do but I have to, one way or another?
R. That you add something even if you don't have anything to add, you add something. Try to imagine it.
38. S. (01:47:44) What does it mean that the group is putting pressure on us without us putting pressure on each other?
R. The group needs to constantly be concerned on its unity, and by that the group advances. That is why the pressure from the general unity where everyone is united, participating and understanding that they need to be even more united; that has to be felt in each and every one.
39. S. (01:48:36) I feel very different from my friends in the ten in any corporeal factors and it makes it very hard for me to connect with them. How do you overcome that and how is it possible to feel connected to them even though I feel like a stranger?
R. Everyone is different from the other, especially women. Each one. Men are supposedly more simple according to their structure, and a woman against the Nukva, there are all kinds of discernments that for men it's hard to understand. It's hard to absorb this, to get it, how can you pay attention to all kinds of little intricacies. For men it is simple, give and take. That is why we need to, what do we need to do? It is a general correction that we have to give place for the women, until they understand that specifically by their connection the world is connected; that their connection is that they let go a little bit more of the corporeal discernments and take themselves into spiritual discernments; what is important or less important. And here we have to help the women as much as we can with this, but actually it is their work. We are willing to build for them anything we can, a home as we say. But in that home, meaning inside the heart, that is where the women must organize themselves to connect and take control there. As much as they think that they can’t do it and they are disconnected from one another, that is the true form of the shattering. In the men there's no such thing. The man can connect, they can hug, they can do things, they go to the sauna together. The women, for them it's different, each woman on her own. That is why we need to give them all the conditions they need, external, internal, in a way that they can find the necessity for inner connection between them and specifically, imagine that as much as there is a matter of connection; that if the women connect between themselves the Creator is revealed. The point of the heart in men when they connect between themselves is not enough, it is not enough. The women can attain through these things an intensity in a true point. According to our life we see that the woman supposedly cannot be connected, what can you demand of them, it’s nature. But when we will help them and wrap them in our connection, they will understand that their connection, against the ego, and in this they can connect; against something they can connect. That they will feel that against the ego, they have to be connected and in order to attain the Creator, to hug him, to grab him; they also have to be connected. So from our pressure on the outside, in addition to that, they will be able to do it.
40. S (01:53:33) What does it mean that men build women a home?
R. The woman is the home, the heart, the will to receive in its corporeal form. And we need eventually as what happened in the beginning of creation with our holy fathers, and what will happen in the end of correction, in the final correction; that we speak about the women; and in the middle no. In the middle we prepared the male vessel which prepares itself with the desire to bestow that later on to work on the female vessel.
41. S (01:54:32) If there's a feeling that every friend takes the oar and row the boat in a different direction. When I see this picture in my heart, what should I do in such a case?
R. That's a big problem. I think that they should all let go over their oars and sit together in the boat and see how much this boat is about to sink at sea and only through a true prayer to the Creator can they get help from above. That an angel comes to them, angel as a force that will dress, clothes in all of them, and will bring them to the connection. otherwise they won't be saved. They will not be able to be saved from the stormy sea.
42. S (01:55:46) In our last physical Congress he said that we hope that we will reach a minimum spiritual degree, what extra effort are we lacking ?
R. There is no other direction besides direct connection like obelisks the right also humanity is having a hard time with her correct the next and everybody's playing around with their ego and their pride and therefore was we need to only work in this direction to cancel our pride in and ego for the sake of connection and in that reveal the qualities of greater the force of connection in love and with that and by that we will bestow to the rest of the world and the world is truly becoming needy of it.
43. S (01:56:44) is the right yearning of the ten should be more of turning to more to one another in the ten and less of turning outside the ten? In order to correct what is outside the 10?
R. If we go outside the ten then there are different laws that apply. Right now we are only talking before the Congress. I didn't want to talk about anything else.
44. S ( 01:57:20) What is connecting the desires beyond the Machsom that by that we give birth to the essence of the Creator?
R. We build the essence of the Creator. We make it by correcting ourselves as the Creator says, "you have made me". We have to make him out of our connection. We need to build him out of our realm, out of our 10 desires, the way that they connect for one another. We reach such a combination of desires that in these desires there is a common force related between them that comes as a result of all of these desires being different, opposed, really hated upon each other. hated by each other and we rise above that. This is called 'faith above reason'. We rise above that to a state where there can be connection. How is it possible that ten completely different desires that hate each other, how could it be that they connect. So we all serve the Creator. It is not in their ability to do so we also do not understand how to do it. We only can understand our shattering . Tell us what we can do now. We are asking you to correct this shattering and give us the force of going to reveal to us. Tell us what we can do in order to participate in it, and then the light comes that shines to us and that shows us how capable or incapable we are and the form we need to come to do the work. This is called the Creator shall finish the work before you. The Creator will do this work but the outcry will come from us.
Excerpt 4 Meshivat Nefesh, Item 40 twice (02:00:12 )
R. (02:03:45) This is what I have mentioned several times that I complained to Rabash, why aren't things working out for me, so he said why did you not ask? Why didn't you ask? Return to the Creator and ask, but not to ask by yourself but for yourself is also good, but if you really want to get the right response, proper advancement then this needs to come out of our demand, out of our prayer, out of revelation of our common deficiency. The Creator needs a vessel. The vessel is our ten connected together presenting him with this deficiency, otherwise it doesn't work. Try and see. Let us have a competition about it, an egoistic competition, that will push us toward it too. The more each and every ten connects inside of it, in order to raise this deficiency to the Creator with the request of the Creator arranging them more correctly, maybe they're not exactly arranged properly, but it is necessary to correct the Kli vessel that they have prepared for the Creator meaning we all need to be together in order for the Creator to be able to land in that vessel for it to be in order to bestow and then please try and do it. Why did you not ask? That is something very important.
46. S. (02:05:10) When my will to receive wants something I can really cry for it but the spiritual outcry is so elusive, so hard to find. Besides persistence and asking is there is some other qualitative action?
R. No, by connecting in the different ways that we can connect and influence each other, by that we increase our desire, our deficiency, and we can really come to an outcry. We can really cry. Crying is on the one hand a very big strong desire and on the other hand the inability to realize it. These two things bring us or give .a phenomenon called crime. So let's try and do it. A person cries because he is helpless, he's unable to do, he does not understand, it results in the will to receive when does the person cry because of bestowal, out of bestowal when the other cannot receive from him like a mom that cries because she wants to feed her baby but he's sick and he does not take anything she wants to nurse him but he does not want to take it. So we need to see the same thing here ,where us crying on the Creator’s part and von the created beings part and where can they connect in such a way that both the Creator and the created being will come to embrace and will rejoice it that the crying is the correct preparation for any corrected state.
47. S (02:07:52) I wanted to ask about that you have said many times you bring the example that you were at the meal with Rabash, and you asked him what are we attacking and he said attack, so still how in the Congress we have a lot of states, how can we make sure that the attack will actually take place?
R. When do you attack? When you see that you cannot win in any ordinary way and then there is a need for stronger connection to bring everyone closer together and for everyone to understand that now we are acting as one man in one heart, something that we didn't have up until now. We had ordinary connections. The attack means that we all connect into a single action all of us together and then we attack. How can we attack the Creator? By demanding of him, demanding, that he will connect us, arrange us, correct us, bring us closer together, give us such a form about which he himself says 'my sons have defeated me", that I can no longer hide from them, but that I need to correct their Kli vessel and to be revealed in it, to reveal myself in it. This is the attack that we demand him to do for him to correct, connect and reveal it.
S. Is this effort an impulse?
R. Right, an attack can't last long, that you remember that once when I asked Rabash what was missing he said, "attack" . I remember this situation as if it happened right now.
S. What did he mean?
R. Attack is our connection and to attack the upper force, the Creator, he likes us to turn to him with a demand. A demand, this is what we need. We need to grab him and shake him and demand, like kids do with their parents. This is a natural expression of the true or natural desire.
S. if we are speaking about the Congress, let's imagine when the Congress how can we make those impulses of an attack. We have to agree that every half an hour .?
R. It cannot work by the clock. These are things that need to erupt from within, to really erupt from within. An outcry where a person can no longer keep it inside and it slips out. Here person start seeing that he can always be internalized, quiet, and only the friends put pressure on him from the outside, okay we cannot put pressure on the Creator but we can't put pressure on each other and as a result we reach a state and understanding the situation where we cannot put pressure on the Creator and that is called my sons have defeated me. Nothing to add.
48. S. (02:12:26) When the ten performs a mutual action towards the Congress could there be such things as the intention of the entire ten and if so on what conditions can it take place?
R. Every ten needs to prepare itself for the Congress by working on their connection. This is what we have talked about, this is what they pray for, this is what inspires you and the friends; this is how every friend is inspired. This is whatever your friend needs to make his friends active. The convention is that we come to it as one ten and at the convention itself we can also cause the formation of the ten but actually the convention itself is that we come with our plate and every time get portions from above into our connection, into our connection into this convention into this Kli of ours. Therefore, we need to work now on our connection. We need to reach connections within each and every ten for the Congress
49. S. (01:14:13 ) It says in the excerpt that a person has the strengthen himself with his outcry to the Creator, the outcry is something that explodes after the point of despair, so what does it mean to get stronger in that?
R. Try and you will see, it is impossible to explain these kinds of things, try and you will learn from it.
50. S. (02:14:51) Hello, tell me please, these words that everyone feels something else what does it mean?
R. That everyone flows according to their own destiny but when one wishes to the group than the group has the destiny of its own, a spiritual one, it doesn't matter where the person is included in the group he shifts onto new rails.
S. If I can ask about deficiency, in the deficiency we've heard many times that you cannot devour yourself if a person falls it should only take a second so what happens with its efficiency if we don't devour ourselves how can we reach an outcry? Without devouring ourselves?
R. The deficiency needs to be true bestowal to the Creator not what will I get how will I advance what about me, but how do I disconnect from myself and help the ten and push them and elevate them raise them to the Creator that is my deficiency and this is what I want to be successful at, Then I will all the time try to hold myself in this deficiency and then I see how disconnected from him I am and that I exchanged the spiritual deficiency for a corporeal one for the deficiency for bestowal for the deficiency for reception.
S. To reach it in order to see still there has to be an inner scrutiny of a shattered ten. In order to reach what you have just explained there is a feeling that I am devouring myself from inside. I don't have the forces still at one point I devour myself?
R. Certainly you need to see yourself and in both states on the one hand anyone who blames others does it because of his own flaws, maybe the ten doesn't have the form that you see it all because you see it all through your ego on the one hand and then it might be is pretty much correct it's an advancement and on the other hand you understand that what you see, you see through your ego and therefore the more you correct your ego and this way your advance towards the truth and it is possible that you will reach a state where you will see everything as corrected and you and everyone. There is a need for scrutiny.
51. S. (02:18:35) Always before the Congress we speak about the great opportunity to reach the first spiritual degree. Why is it like that?
R. Because finally we connect. It is more than during the lesson. We are in the same action for several days and therefore it is good for us to think how we can enter spiritual that is called for each and every one to annul themselves, for each and every one to connect with the friends and each with a group with the friends to direct your deficiency toward the Creator toward our connection, correction, toward our for us to be a Kli for his revelation and by that to give him contentment.
S. I really want my friends in Congress to reach the spiritual degree, I have a few days left. What can I do for them to get there?
R. What I have just said all the time is that how can I through connection give the Creator the ability to reveal himself in us and we don't want to get anything out of it besides connection for the Creator to enjoy our connection. Then when the light starts to reveal in our connection rebuilding in our connection when screens and restriction. Think about it. It is a very serious point that is demanding us to disconnect from our corporeal selves and to really rise to the above reason.
52. S. (02:20:59) In order to disconnect from ourselves do we need to disconnect from the external environment like when a person is alone and sits inside can we build such an environment ?
R. We are doing it anyway, what is the difference? Suppose I live in an area where there is no one, no friend from Bnei Baruch in the area, so what? Has nothing to do with one another. All over the world we are in virtual connection so I don't understand your question.
53. S. ( 02:21:53) If I may, I want to scrutinize the opposite state of what the friend from Kiev asked. I see friends connected and corrected and then just want to run away from it so what should I do? Ask the Creator for the friends to be corrected that they hold you in so what can I do?
R. I don't need I don't think that it is possible in these states to ask for the correction but what can be done is to simply annul oneself and to be together with them and then when you annul yourself toward them then it will work on you and it will influence you, the main thing is to annul yourself and the group the connection the force it will work on a person.
54. S. ( 02:23:0 ) We are in the ten it is in which three of them are not coming for a year and not Zoom, not the lessons, they do not participate in our chat, one of them we never even saw and another friend said that his family won't let him study. We have seven that are constant, we have atomic wars, we want to kill each other and they pay attention that in the last 2 days I see the friends more than once.
R. It doesn't matter, if you're 7 then see ourselves as a ten, the main thing is that you4 advancing towards connection and you wish to achieve such a connection in which the Creator will reveal himself, good luck to you.