Congress Lesson Two September 25, 2021, Transcription
Lesson 2: Annulment as a Preparation for Ibur [Impregnation]
1. Rav’s Introduction: (1:28) This is lesson number two on the topic of annulment as preparation for Ibur, conception, impregnation. I would say this is the most current topic, very important, very central, very important to us. Why, because in this lesson we wish to scrutinize how do we begin to reveal the Creator. Which means the beginning of this spiritual entrance of a person into the spiritual world. We know that there are all kinds of verses such there is no Creator without a created being and the Creator is called Boreh, come and see, where to the extent we come to reveal Him, we reveal Him and it all depends on our vessel. The extent we are prepared for the revelation of the creator. So how does it happen? Everything starts from the fact that there is no Creator there is only Atzmuto, his essence: an abstract upper light that fills all of reality as the ARI says in the opening of his book The Tree of Life before the created beings were created there was an abstract upper light that filled all of reality and had no beginning or end’ meaning it was unlimited everything was filled with the light of infinity. What happens next, we also learn here, in this cascading from above down, but when the preparation is complete from above, how do we begin to reveal the Creator according to the same laws and conditions that He had set up from us, from above down and how do we come to it from below up, to Him? We accept that condition, and that there is nothing before us except for this abstract upper force, and how can we arrange it, how can we reveal it and connect to it? we are getting an explanation except this explanation doesn't touch us, it doesn't touch our heart. Because it's abstract it is not accepted by the heart and the heart doesn't feel the explanation the Kabbalists have given us. Nevertheless, we need to hear that the Creator is revealed according to the annulment of the Creator being. To the extent that the created being annuls his ego, his will to receive, to that extent the Creator can be revealed in that same place where the ego was if the creature annuls himself that's where there's room for the revelation of the creator. Let's say we're in the 10, we all connect in the point of connection, the center of the 10, the center of the circle between us. To the extent we can annul ourselves, each one towards the friends and by that, we arrange an empty place, a place vacant from our control. In that place we can reveal the Creator, in this way we invite him. More than that, by that we also arrange Him, we organize Him as it says ‘you have made me’ because according to the level of annulment of the ego of each one, relative to that central point the connection of each one. We place conditions on a certain character, nature and in this way the Creator is revealed meaning, the Creator is a result of the annulment of our ego. As much as each one can move himself and make room for the force of bestowal accordingly, we will make room for the Creator to appear and in this way, we reveal him. Meaning only through the annulment of a person towards the friends are we able to stabilize the image of the Creator. This is also the interpretation of the expression, the Creator stands behind every friend. Since to the extent that I annul myself towards their friends I discovered the Creator, that is right behind him. This is the meaning of ‘there is no Creator without a created being’ meaning, we turn Atzmuto, his essence into a Creator in the connection between us. To that same extent we can annul ourselves. We should not forget that only through the connection between us, can we build the Creator and make Him and without our work there's no Creator, there is his Atzmuto, his essence. Boreh, Creator, come and see, does not exist in reality. Only when we come to the connection between us and we make room in the connection between us, empty from our egos. Only in this way in the connection above our ego, we discover what we have attained, what we have done, as it's written you have made me. That's what we see, that's what we discovered because we have made it. Before that there is only Atzmuto, his essence, that abstract force no one can see. We are building the vessel, we are building the shape or the form of the revelation of the Creator and that is what is revealed to us. That's why we receive the conditions for connection to the extent we can make this connection between us. From these conditions we annul ourselves towards one another so there will be a connection; then accordingly we make the Creator. I hope this is clear. Nevertheless, let's have a workshop.
WSQ. (9:35) How by making room for the Creator in the connection between us we discover him in that place between us? How do we build a place for the Creator to be revealed, also the Creator himself is called a place, symbolizing the place that we are preparing for him.
Excerpt 1 (16:45) Twice
2. R. (17:08) Meaning a person has to imagine that he enters into the connection with the friends and he is there like an embryo and all of his relationships between the friends towards connection are the womb for him.
Reader continues (17:24)
R. (18:18) Meaning we are coming home as we say: we used to be connected in a complete way, where each one was annulled in complete annulment of his will to receive, even turning his entire will receive to in order to bestow as we learn about what's happening in the spiritual Partzufim, faces, and now we have an opportunity to start this work in the 10. When each one annuls himself towards the others, he in fact reveals the place for the revelation of the Creator and he is rewarded with the revelation of the Creator to the extent he then reveals his annulment towards the group.
Reader continues (19:21)
3. S. (20:44) I hear that the revelation of the Creator happens when we cancel our ego so how can we, the will to receive, cancel our ego?
R. Now as we discussed, we are, let's look at the drawing (RAV is drawing). I have a few friends, let's say 10 or less it doesn't matter, and each one annuls himself towards the others meaning he sees that he is making room more and more and more and he leaves nothing for himself, he leaves everything for the friends and each and every one does this. Even when one is doing it towards others, he already comes closer to the revelation of the Creator to the extent he annuls himself; he has all the information, the opportunity to annul himself in that place and to the extent he annuls himself, he reveals the Creator. For the time being he reveals Him only on the aspect of Nefesh because this is annulment, later will be more active annulment and he will reveal Ruach, Chaya and Yechida and this way he will keep growing.
4. S. (22:37) Sometimes I feel a deep emptiness in my heart, what should I do in this state?
R. Remember what we are talking about now, and try to annul yourself, that's it. We have nothing else to do, this is the quickest and the cleanest work.
5. S. (23:15) We disagree with what the Kabbalists tell us to do, if there's like an inner barrier, so what is this thing that we need to take off our ego in order to be able to listen?
R. We need to talk about it more and more and more and try to reach what we discussed. If I annul myself towards the 10 through all kinds of actions, I am preparing a place for the Creator, because he is revealed only in the 10, between us.
6. S. (24:50) It said that the soul yearns to adhere with the Creator, is yearning considered Ibur?
R. No, yearning, longing can take many forms. Ibur, conception, impregnation, means that I made room in my ego for the force of bestowal to appear there, which is the Creator; in the smallest the discernment of Nefesh; this means that I am in conception.
7. S. (25:37) You sketched circles of annulment towards the friends, what are these levels of annulment?
R. This is Nefesh, Ruach, Neshama, Chaya, Yechida and to the extent I annul all these 5 degrees of my ego I turn them to, in order to bestow.
S. But practically wise how do I annul myself in each of the circles?
R. In practice you simply need to enroll yourself towards the friends, that's it.
8. S. (26:20) In the workshop we just had, we all agreed that we have a complete theory and intellectually we understand everything, but what we don't get is how we are supposed to expect and feel the revelation of the Creator or just be persistent and consistent in the work?
R. We need to discover the Creator with all of our senses: in all our thoughts, in our mind, and in our feeling, in our brain and heart, that He will fill us completely. That we would feel that he is filling us simply because this is the Source of our life. So, in addition to the physical life, we want to feel the spiritual life together with their Source.
9. S (27:27) Is the internal pain a measure for true annulment in each one of the stages or annulment towards the 10 can be without pain?
R. We need to overcome our ego but when we overcome it, we feel joy.
10. S. (28:06) How do I recognize the state of real annulment?
R. It's only according to the result, either the Creator has revealed or not. Before that you need to do everything possible in order to annul yourself towards the 10 and until the Creator appears in that place of your annulment.
11. S. (29:07) Prayer for the 10 is that annulment?
R. No, it's only a prayer. Don't confuse the different definitions.
S. In order to reach a true request I need annulment, I need to ask for others and not myself?
R. No, you need to ask of your annulment towards the will to receive of the others
12. S. (29:35) The Creator does not exist until we connect. We tried to connect but we can't and we reach despair. Who are we supposed to raise our prayer to the Creator that does not exist or the Force, His essence?
R. Boreh, means come and see, you don't reveal Him and you don't see Him, so all of your prayers are going to his Essence, to something that's not very clear. You have to turn to Him until you make the efforts and annul yourself towards one another and you will discover the Creator right there in the middle.
13. S. (30:40) We are very happy and excited to be in the Congress. The question is, to the extent that we annul ourselves we start to connect to their desires, even to feel the desires of all the friends and Humanity, like they are in us?
R. No it's incorrect, you cannot feel anything but yourself. When we annul ourselves, if we succeed in that, we begin to feel the force of bestowal, to the extent of our annulment, which belongs to us and to the Creator. In our restrictions we reveal the force of bestowal called the Creator. That's enough for the time being.
14. S. (31:31) What kind of preparation should there be in order for the annulment to be more effective in the 10?
R. Preparation for annulment should be simple, we think about it and talk about it and do it in the connection between us. When I wish to restrict myself to 0 as Rabash writes in the Social Writings; then according to my restriction I am rewarded, gradually, with feeling the Creator in the place of my annulment.
15. S. (33:03) After the first lesson we have a feeling that all the tens are forming one space, one area. Is this an illusion or is it happening for real and if it's true how can we strengthen this state?
R. You need to be together with us in the current lesson topic.
16. S. (33:36) I feel we have annulled ourselves in order to get here and my question is why does everyone have to annul? I have to annul in order for my question to be to the benefit of everyone, why is this a constant state?
R. Gradually we come to constant annulment because only that is appreciated by the upper Force.
Excerpt 2 (34:26) Twice
17. S. (37:15) Annulment and bending the ego, is it one in the same?
R. To bend our ego is part of the annulment.
18. S. (37:30) How can I understand or how can I know that I have really annulled myself before the friends in the 10, what are the signs and criteria?
R. That I love them, simple.
19. S. (38:13) Why does it say here, about the concealment of the Creator, as His desire because He also wants to benefit His created beings?
R. But in order to fill the created beings He must set up certain conditions by which the creatures can prepare themselves in such a way that He will be able to fill them with the spiritual pleasure, which is infinite, and not such pleasures that can exist only on our level.
20. S. (38:56) How to transform the quantitative question to quality? Through the question, what is the relation to annulment?
R. Try to feel everything in your heart, inside the desires, and work less with your intellect, more with the desire, more with the heart.
21. S. (39:30) How to understand better in this annulment, this void, that's created within us to which we invite the Creator?
R. Also, it's only through feelings. Think about it more and read what we are learning about. There is no mental answer for it, no rational, intellectual answer about it.
22. S. (40:14) We are in a state of constant request to receive the desire to annul. How does this connect to the states, to the constant desire of bestowal, and how does this connect to the advance in the levels of annulment? How do we know that we are actually advancing there?
R. Only by annulling toward the group. I can measure only the extent to which I am advancing and on that, it is written in all the articles of the Kabbalists.
23. S. (41:21) It is written for Him to bend to do His will as mine, as Yours, so that He will do your will as His? What does it mean that the Creator is bending His desire? Is our path not in descent and ascent or will we need to annul all the time?
R. We are always going to advance through ascents and descents, and the Creator accordingly will relate to us.
Excerpt 3 (42:00)
24.R. (42:22) Meaning he leaves his ego that used to control him, and he moves under the control of the Creator.
Reader continues
R. (42:42) Again we see that he's talking about annulment of a person towards the group, and through it toward the Creator. By that we attain the Ibur (conception) when he annuls himself to the group and to the Creator who is behind it.
Excerpt 4 (44:11)
25. R. (45:13) We need to have that before us, that this is how we should advance, according to these definitions, we then advance toward spirituality. It's close to us, if we're not confused through all the other twists and turns, we will reach very quickly, to our goal, no problem.
26. S. (45:47) For us to enter conception (Ibur), we need to reach full self-annulment, but on the other hand we have to be rude because the Creator likes the audacious. So, in what way do we annul ourselves, and in what way are we audacious?
R. We should not be afraid of our egoistic desire. We should not be afraid to demand an advancement from the Creator. We need to restrict our ego but other than our ego, there is nothing else to restrict ourselves in, rather to open ourselves up and to march ahead, that's it.
27. S. (46:54) What is the thought in the practical action when one annuls actively? Can we annul permanently, constantly?
R. Of course, everything is before us. The Creator is waiting for us to ask for His help, we just need to ask what kind of help, exactly when we wish to annul our ego in order to make room for Him to be revealed, in order to delight Him, and actually rejoice about doing it.
28. S. (47:57) How can we discover that our desire is the opposite of the Creator’s?
R. In the group, as we discussed. If we wish to annul before the friends in the group, then you are advancing correctly. There's no more than that. The discernments are very clear, very precise, very real. You don't have a clear way to annul your ego, but towards the friends, that's what all Kabbalists write about.
29. S. (49:21) How is it possible to include my annulment towards the group, and at the same time, to want to understand the teaching and its meaning, and everything?
R. Through the annulment you begin to attain the stages of annulment and of advancement towards the Creator. From that, you'll practically learn all the wisdom of Kabbalah.
30. S. (50:08) We’d very much like to annul, we're doing everything for this, and still sometimes it seems to us that we're succeeding, but again we're going to the domination of the desire to receive. What is missing?
R. Persistence. You have to constantly come back to the annulment, each one toward the ten. Then gradually, you will succeed, if together with that you turn to the Creator and you ask for His help. Not that you annul toward the ten only, but you annul and you help Him, you ask Him to help you annul that He will be your partner in your annulment. Then, in this way, everything will work itself out.
31. S. (51:18) If I have already annulled my will to receive, then why do I need to receive fulfillment in it?
R. We're not talking about such discernments that you are describing, because they are not real, realistic. Let's first annul our will to receive towards the 10, where we are, and then we'll discover the Creator at least in that first extent, in the first degree of annulment, then it will be clear where we are. For the time being, learn and make those exercises.
32. S. (52:21) If there is no Creator outside the connection between us, then does this mean that the desire of the Creator is the desire of the ten? Then, which desire of the ten is actually the desire of the Creator?
R. To bestow to one another, between the friends, is the desire of the correct ten from which it can turn to the Creator in order to bestow to Him. In our annulment we are preparing a place for the Creator to be revealed and by that we give Him contentment.
33. S. (53:09) With the help of what interaction is it possible to begin the process of annulment?
R. Very simple towards the ten, toward the group, annul yourself as much as possible and you'll start to feel that you're making room for the Creator.
34. S. (53:46) I understand that I connect to the Creator through the connection with my ten, but when I have insights, deep insights, how do I connect to the system of forces and laws?
R. You must annul yourself toward the desire of the group, toward the values of the group, annul yourself completely, restrict yourself completely. In this way, you'll begin to feel spirituality and the Creator, and the real world. Don't worry about what you want, you have complaints and thoughts, and desires. Restrict them, and in their place, you'll feel the Creator and the true spirituality.
35. S. (54:57) If, in my connection with the ten, I don't take the greatness of the Creator into consideration, am I performing an egoistic act?
R. No. If I annul myself towards the group even if I don't take the desire of the Creator into consideration, nevertheless, my action is to some extent, it is aimed properly.
Excerpt 5 (55:48)
Excerpt 6 (57:15) Twice
36. R. (01:00:55) Yes, I understand that there is a problem that these excerpts are very big. Whoever chose these excerpts didn't think that we have to go over everything within two hours, and also with workshops, and also maybe with the singing in between, and questions and answers, and all of this within two hours. Whoever put together these excerpts for the lesson, probably he doesn't understand exactly that, which we do in a lesson. So, make a little bit of calculations and thoughts about you bringing these long excerpts. The people here don't hear what you're hearing. And those of you who are there, in all kinds of groups, write to those who are preparing these materials, not just now, also in our daily lessons, that we can't learn this way with such big chunks of the text. A person can't remember that a person is not in that right now.
Excerpt 7 (01:02:16)
37. R. (01:04:18) Yes, this is after great work. But this is how we will come to a state in which we discover that other than nullification through the group, making room for the Creator, one has nothing to do all together in this world, in reality, in life.
38. R. (01:08:25) We are going back to the convention, to the workshop, and I want again to ask from you to discuss the same picture that we talked about, where a person needs to understand that everything is inside his ten, throughout his spiritual development, from here to the end of correction, to that same ten, more and more tens will connect, all kinds. Everything is in the ten, there is no more than ten. Not nine, ten, and not nine, ten and not eleven. Hence, let’s depict to ourselves, nevertheless, again, talk between us that only in the annulment of a person toward the ten he builds through this a place where the Creator can be revealed for him. It could be that he will do it correctly and towards him the Creator will be revealed. Someone else won’t do this correctly, and towards him there will be concealment, and we cannot help because he didn't build a vessel. Meaning, by us annulling our ego towards the ten, we are actually building from His Self, Atzmuto, we’re transferring to us the Boreh, the Creator, ‘’come and see.’’ We discover the place where we can already see a portion of the upper force that is operating upon us.
WSQ: So, let's do this again, let's talk between us. How we, through our nullification towards the ten, build an opportunity for the Creator to reveal Himself before the person.
39. R. (01:14:45) WSQ: What do I need to receive from the ten so it will constantly aim me towards annulment to the ten? What do I need to receive from the ten so that it will aim me towards nullification towards the ten, which is actually annulment before the Creator? That’s a question, please.
Excerpt 8 (01:21:11)
40. R. (01:22:59) Meaning, we see that spirituality is opposite to corporeality here, where each, the more one annuls oneself and makes from himself a zero, zero, zero, a complete zero, he is considered greater and greater in spirituality. We are not to forget this, because our ego confuses us and we forget about this principle. Hence, to annul more and more, and more, as much as possible, to the friends is the key to spiritual success.
41. S. (01:23:51) What do we go through in the degree of Ibur (impregnation)?
R. Whatever we go through, we go through. It’s the first awareness of the upper force, that’s it. What takes place, you could say, to what extent will I have to annul myself and to concede in order for me to be an Ubar (embryo), then you can think what will take place for you and what will happen to you in this case.
42. S. (01:24:45) If a friend is sick, tired and physically sick, but still got themselves to this congress just because of the friend, because the friend wants them to be there and they want to give contentment to the friend. Is that annulment because they’re doing it for the friend?
R. Of course, it’s annulment. Yes, clearly.
43. S. (01:25:31) If the ten has made a decision but it doesn't stick to it, nor does it scrutinize that state, so how can I annul to such a state in the ten?
R. You need to scrutinize towards what you are nullifying, and then with them you can talk about this as you don't see what you should annul before, and they should help you to find the state, the values, towards which you should annul.
44. S. (01:26:25) I was despaired because I understood that I'm unable to bestow. Then, I prayed together with the friends in the ten and I felt like I am getting force, help that is not really mine. Does this mean that the Creator answered my prayer?
R. We never have the strength to advance in spirituality, it's not like sometimes something took place here. You never have the force to truly spiritually advance, but to the extent in which I annul myself, I receive the force from above and then I can do a spiritual action.
45. S. (01:27:32) From the excerpt, it was clear that when we fall from our degree from lack of faith. What is lack of faith?
R. it’s the force of bestowal, Bina, where we don't have sufficient force of bestowal then we fall to our egos.
46. S. (01:28:07) Today we read that if a man is asking from the bottom of his heart to annul oneself, then the Creator helps him but that this state is temporary. Thanks to what can this state remain permanent? Thanks to the prayer, the prayer for the ten, the prayer for the friends, or maybe something else?
R. That is a decision from above, we cannot speak about those things. We need to try and yearn to be in increasing changes that come from annulment and bestowal from us to the ten and to the Creator. It's a good question but there's no answer that is practical at this point.
47. S. (01:29:10) In the process of annulment before the ten, we connect with the ten or is the connection some kind of an act, or an additional process?
R. No. We just need to nullify ourselves before the ten. To the extent in which we nullify, we will later see what more can be added. That we learn in the stages of Ibur (conception), Yenika (suckling), Mochin (adulthood), meaning the stages of growth, but this is revealed naturally. The main thing is to constantly annul.
48. S. (01:30:09) We have the following state, a friend that is from a long time on the path doesn't feel any taste in the work, feels heaviness, the inability to bestow, to annul before the friends. How can the ten help the friend?
R. Only by giving an example. Even words won't help, we all simply need to give examples of what we do. Well, if it doesn't help, let him leave, what can you do.
49. S. (01:30:58) What does it mean to give his soul to the Creator?
R. It’s considered that I annul myself to the degree of Bina and raise myself even from the degree of Bina to the degree of Hochma, and Keter. That’s considered that I am in soul devotion.
50. S. (01:31:26) How do we know if we are blemishing society?
R. If I think about annulments to the society I will never err. I can add to it all kinds of additional actions that are for the benefit of the society but they should all move through annulment. All of the spiritual actions begin from annulment. Later more and more I can add to the annulment, onwards.
51. S. (01:32:28) To reveal the Creator by the created being there is a space that is created that is departed from the ego. How to create the form equivalent to the Creator?
R. This will happen on its own from our annulment. We can't do this, it is done by the upper light. It builds in us the correct forms like an embryo that evolves in its mother's womb. It doesn't know how to evolve and neither does the mother, it’s the upper Force, it’s nature as we call it, that’s how it develops. We need to do the same whatever is in our strength, whatever the Kabbalists tell us and all the rest is the Creator called nature, as the numerical value is nature. That is what He will do.
52. S. (01:33:45) How do I know that I truly annulled myself and did the correct action and that I didn’t imagine it?
R. That can't be known. It can be known only according to the result, where the result is that you continue to annul.
53. S. (01:34:38) What do I need to do when I come to the 10 with a big desire to ask from the Creator? Does this mean I need to annul this desire to ask from the Creator too?
R. Yes you can. If you want to nullify, ask the Creator for the strength to nullify, for him to give you that. You can turn to the Creator for everything and ask for everything. If it goes through the desire to nullify in you, where you want to make more and more room for the Creator. And then ask for everything.
S. If I have a problem that I want to ask from the Creator by me nullifying, does this mean that I need to not want to ask the Creator about my problem?
R. I don't know how to answer exactly. It could be that there is something here but I don't know, I don’t know how to answer. I need to know exactly what we're talking about. Give me a question in a very clear way and then I will tell you what I think.
54. S. (01:36:36) In front of one friend I can cancel, in front of another a little, and in front of another I completely fail. Do I have to understand that friends are steps that the Creator sends me or I am in the confusion of the ego?
R. That is fine, continue that way from light to heavy more and more. It is the Creator arranging all of these degrees for you, very good.
55. S. (01:37:40) How to use the pain in order to work in connection and how not to fall to the ground and forget about the fact that there's none else besides him?
R. Keep holding on to the friends and the desire to annul to them as a small one to the great, and then you will certainly advance correctly.
56. S. (01:38:23) You say to annul to the 10 but they expect something from me at a time when I'm empty and disconnected. I feel if I open my mouth, I will lower the spirits of the friends and end up hiding myself and not being confronted with the situation. How do I annul to the 10 and participate without lowering their mood to the state I am in?
R. To nullify with them shows that you are annulling. It's not that you're empty and sad. to nullify means you want to advance the society, the 10 with all of your forces as much as possible, that is called to nullify.
S. Let's say we are in a gathering of friends and the friends ask you to speak but there's no preparation for it. You come to the gathering of friends, you want to annul the friends, you want to participate, but you are so disconnected inside you cannot even find the words to speak. There is such a disconnection from your emotion and your mind, like you’re completely split in two. So, you feel that if you do say something it feels like you're just lowering the mood of everybody and destroying the spirit that the friends are trying to create. How do I not make this damage to them?
R. Shut your mouth in such a situation because you are certainly not benefiting them, not because you're not willing, but because you're not ready to do it. You are not allowed to participate in society if you're not ready to bring forth their advancement. You are not contributing to yourself anything by this either. Just sit down and be silent, annul before them in silence This is what you are capable of doing.
57. S. No translation.
R. (01:41:16) No, because you want to advance towards the quality of bestowal and connection. Interpret a little more what you are asking for and then you will see if you should ask for it or not. If it is an egoistic request then you shouldn't, if it is a request that is coming closer to bestowal, to annulment, then it is worthwhile.
58. S. (01:42:04) How not to see and not to hear what you see and hear?
R. What do you see and what you hear, even that you don't hear and you don’t see.
59. S. (01:42:53) Is the question not why I live but for whom do I live?
R. I don't understand what you are asking.
S. When I say ‘I,’ I mean in the ten, in the friends.
R. I don’t understand the question.
60. S. (01:43:20) What does it mean ‘to put the body to death’?
R. It is considered that you are not giving your egoistic desire any fulfillment. Guf, body means our egoistic desire.
61. S. (01:43:53) Is listening to the friends one of the signs of self-annulment?
R. Yes, in one thought that it's already in the right direction, at least not for yourself but in the direction of the friends.
62. S. (01:44:34) How is the ten simultaneously in the center of the 10 as one friend leaves and another enters the center?
R. You need to organize this yourselves in a way that there will be room for everyone. I cannot say anything about that. Pray to the Creator for Him to help you connect and be together. There is no other answer here.
63. S. (01:45:15) How can we identify that we are in annulment for the first time?
R. You will start to reveal the Creator. If you enter annulment, even somewhat, according to the measure, you will begin to feel that you are dwelling, you are immersed, you are in something called ‘the Creator.’ You will start to reveal the presence of the Creator
64. S. (01:46:06) Is it possible to get personal when we start talking together in the ten and ask the friends how I can annul more?
R. You can ask.
65. S. (01:46:49) How is the upper force revealed in the ten when there is correct annulment?
R. When there is correct annulment there is no problem. One annuls the other towards the ten in a certain way, then second, and third. (Rav drawing) This is how each and every one should annul. In this mutual place between them there is then connection between them and the Creator is revealed especially there. Also, with each and every one annulling themselves towards the others, he also reveals the Creator there. There is the individual and the collective. Everything is related to annulment. Inside we reveal the Creator, Boreh, meaning ‘come and see.’
66. S. (01:49:08) How does annulment help us accept bestowal?
R. Annulment is the direct action to attain the quality of bestowal in us, in our vessels, and within those vessels to begin to feel the Creator. There is no other action because we are from the egoistic matter, the will to receive, and if we annul it, then we feel that in that place of annulment is where we feel the Creator. Only our ego, our will to receive, is disturbing us from revealing the Creator.
67. S. (01:50:17) You said we need to ask the Creator for help to cancel our own ego to the ten and the Creator, but we learned that a prisoner cannot free himself from prison. How do these two things work together?
R. Besides the decision to annul you will need to ask the friends and the Creator for help to actually do this. Don't worry, it's not the end yet.
68. S. (01:50:58) Do we reveal a personal Creator or a mutual Creator when we annul ourselves to the ten and enter Ibur?
R. You will feel you are entering Ibur, conception, whenever you annul yourself towards the ten. Don't get confused, overthink it, or philosophize it.
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69. S. (01:53:53) Can you say that when the Creator relates to the ten, He gives each individual the opportunity to nullify actions of the ten?
R. Yes.
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70. S. (01:55:33) What do we need right now for the Creator to be revealed in the ten?
R. Only for each one to annul oneself toward the ten. This is the first spiritual degree that we need to acquire.
71. S. (01:56:03) What can I annul to when I cannot feel the desires of my friends or the desire of the Creator since I am not in spirituality?
R. Towards your own desire. You don't need to feel the friends or the Creator. You can't feel that now, and you never can, the time will come. You need to annul yourself towards your will to receive. You need to enter the group, and you need to annul with respect to the group. In that place of annulment, like I drew on the sketch, in that place of annulment you will be able to feel the Creator. Wherever you clear yourself from your ego, that is where you will feel the Creator clothed in you. This is how it works.
72. S. (01:57:29) How do you know that all the friends in the ten are annulling?
R. You don’t know but nevertheless you need to judge them to a scale of merit and to annul to the ten. You will then begin to see. Not before. Your ego will not allow you to see the truth.
73. S. (01:58:22) Does a person need to be a heel and a zero before the society constantly, persistently?
R. As much as you can. According to the intensity of your annulment you will have the intensity of the revelation of the Creator.
74. S. (01:59:05) What thoughts are you leaving this lesson with?
R. I am very happy with the convention, I think it's a convention and not a lesson. It is a deep and important one. Every lesson I try to give a different and new angle in a manner closer to realization. I try to explain this in every lesson. This is why for me this convention is a beautiful opportunity to express the wisdom of Kabbalah to you in a practical way. I hope you will be able to apply it, just like we spoke about. A person annulling to the ten builds a place and in that place of annulment wherever his ego annuls towards the ten, in that empty space he created is where he reveals the Creator. I hope you understand and apply this and that you will discover it.