*This transcription is made from simultaneous translation which leaves possibility for errors.*

*Rosh Hashanah Lesson 5 September 20, 2020*

*Rosh HaShanah - Selected Excerpts from the Sources, #20*

*1.Rav’s Introduction:*

Yes, we're continuing the order of our lessons on the topic of forgiveness and the Rosh Hashanah. In this upcoming week we will continue in the way towards Yom Kippur, the day of atonement, and then the Sukkot. This is how we will go through all of these stages in the spiritual way that we need to know about, to absorb, be incorporated in and to see how this all helps us advance. In our lesson now we have, also our women from all over the world. We see Bulgaria and Italy, Zichron from Israel and many others will come in their place and will join them throughout the lesson. The lesson is again on the same topic of Rosh Hashanah. What I feel today and I spoke and received an impression from our friends, that many of them are actually in a kind of foggy state, not good, not bad, but kind of like, as they say, between heaven and earth. I want to say that it's actually a typical state for those of us who are engaged in the wisdom of Kabbalah during the holidays. At the time of the holidays, we have thoughts, desires that are being connected from the whole big world in the same direction, and this gives or that influences us as well, and we can't be concentrated usually towards the correction of creation between us like in regular days as much as it sounds as not unusual on one hand, on the other hand we need to understand that this state is the best possible state. If to start with I'm in an awakening, upliftment or that's already placing me on the path towards the goal, but it puts me there not because I put myself there. If I'm on the other side of it, in a down state, a passive state, passive in the point where I'm truly nothing, I'm opposite, I'm putting, criticizing everything, that's not good either. This passive state that were talking about now is the state where it's difficult for me to move, not from here nor to there, and I truly feel lacking forces, lacking discernments, half asleep and then it turns out that from that state, the best for us is for us all to unite, and one helps his friend, and to ask the Creator for him to uplift us because we don't want to be righteous on our own, we also don't want to be wicked, but a state in between. It’s the best possible state for us to unite, all of us together, as much as we're capable. We're not quite capable of that either but nevertheless as much as we can connect and ask the Creator to accompany us and draw us towards him, this is how we will enter a New Year. Let's, we are in excerpt number twenty, yes? 

*Excerpt 20 Reader (5:06 - 8:19)*

2. R: Yes, you know what, maybe I'll read it in a more concentrated way. Rav Reads: So it's written this way more or less: We must know that in the work, it's, the books of the righteous and the books of the wicked which is the way it is in every person. What are these books and those books that are in each person? Where a person himself must make a choice, what does he want? The wicked and the righteous are in one person, his qualities are either egoistic or the opposite where he yearns for the Creator. Therefore, if he wants to be written, to be seemingly written in the book of the righteous, that he's a righteous, to be for life, for spiritual life, meaning adhesion with the Creator, meaning he wants to do everything for the Creator and for the will to receive for himself will be cancelled, nullified in him, and will be like it's dead, this will to receive, but sometimes a person doesn't want for the will to receive to be cancelled in him, but he wants it to be nullified slowly, where a little bit of the vessel of reception and a little bit of the vessel of  bestowal. He can't decide at once, immediately and for always that he wants to just be in the bestowal always. He doesn't have a strong opinion of what to do. If the body doesn't agree that he will do it all for the Creator, what to do, what should a person do? Just to pray to the Creator or to have all the desires in practice for the Creator, for the Creator to change it in short, he has no other choice. So we need to constantly bring ourselves to a state in which we have no choice but rather to ask the Creator to cancel our vessels of reception in order to receive and for us to be able to fully, each and every one of us, bestow to others. This is considered that it was written in the books of the righteous. Books are called a plain, clean page and in which one writes his acts of bestowal towards others. The books of the righteous are in which we write, love letters, notes, letters to friends and to the Creator.

3. S: (11:29) It's unclear what it means to be written in the book of the wicked because he writes here that the will to receive will be revoked and will seemingly be dead?

R: No, no, no, it is, he wants to be, because that's what he writes in the book of the righteous, that belongs also to the deeds of the righteous where he's asking to nullify his will to receive. Whereas the book of the wicked is where he operates fully towards himself, he's asking for things to be good towards him in this world in the next in everything, in simplicity. We don't need to think above that in all kinds of spinning and revolutions.

S: So, is it possible to write these notes, notes of love and bestowal to the friends?

R: Imagine to yourself that you're writing them a letter and you're giving them, you're transferring your feelings as much as you love them, want to connect with them and hope that through the connection between you you'll come to such a form of connection that the Creator will be revealed there.

S: Yes, but I don't always have this force it will seem funny to them that I'm...

R: Alright maybe I'll ask for them to have them support you and you will support them, eventually through envy, lust and honor you'll come to a state in which you are writing. None of us start with these desires to love the others or to even do good to someone even a bit. Always behind that good desire there is still evil inclination standing there and is hoping to have some kind of profit. That's why we need to altogether scrutinize our common desires and to help one another, each to purify and all of us together, the common will to receive, so that no attraction remains for ourselves.

4. S: (13:51) There is the state, is there a state with the body agrees to it?

R: No never. If it seems to us that our body agrees, it's considered that we simply don't understand what's happening. If our will to receive, is making it such that we will, it will seem to us that we're in bestowal already and we're rising in degrees, there's no such thing. We need to discover how much we don't want, how much we're not capable and to what extent we are willing to give everything so that nevertheless our ego will be cancelled.

S: So it turns out that this entire first excerpt where Baal HaSulam writes about the book of the righteous etc. it doesn't matter at least sometimes a person is doubtful, that's the point that a person wants to emphasize?

R: Yes of course that's why the whole entrance into a New Year begins, from the recognition of evil, forgiveness has, regret, and decision.

S: Until we reach that we have to know that we're working in order to reach that point?

R: Yes, and again I'm saying if a person feels that he has no desire, not for a good, not for a bad, and he's old together in some obscure third way, that's actually a good state because then he can from that ask the Creator advancement,  Support from friends in everything. That's what happens to us usually during the high holidays. It's a certain fogginess. 

5. S: (16:14) We annul our ego, what then works instead of the ego?

R: Again?

S: I'm saying you said that we annul our ego, we can revoke our ego but what comes instead of the ego?  Is it love of others or some other state what is the state?

R: The light from above influences us and we start to think in the direction of the benefit of others and the Creator. That illumination is not ours, it does not depend on our desires that come from above, from the Creator, that is the force of good that does good. He's the force of bestowal and love and when he illuminates upon us and comes closer to us that's how we feel, it's not ours, that's from his influence on us. That’s it. We could say that the sun shines upon earth in that place where it shines we have light, we have day, we have warmth. If it doesn't shine, we have darkness and cold, night. That's how it is. That's why it all depends on becoming closer of the Creator towards us.

S: How does it happen? Does it happen instantaneously in one moment or?

R: This is by raising MAN through the request on our behalf as much as we raise this request in a power, of such an extent, we invite this illumination upon us. This is a law of nature as much as we raise the deficiency, by that we awaken the force of bestowal that comes closer to us. To the extent that in which we erase and put to death this desire, accordingly the force of bestowal, the force of the Creator, seemingly distances. We need to define that, we decide it.

S: Last question. Does it happen through the process of raising MAN or as a result of it?

R: We talked about this a thousand times, if we raise MAN, we invite from above a response where the Creator comes closer to us and bestows upon us with his force of bestowal. Then as a result of his influence upon us we begin to be also more in that force of bestowal, each towards the others and all of us together towards the Creator. That's it. It all depends on the extent to which we raise our lack, by that we draw the Creator to come closer to us. As a result of that we change between us and towards the Creator. It all depends on the deficiency from our side towards the Creator which defines how close the Creator will be to us. It all depends on our work.

6. S: (20:00) To be written in the book of the wicked means to correct the desires that are not corrected in me as yet?

R: As a result of the Creator illuminating on us we receive all kinds of results. They could be for our good or for our bad. For our bad meaning that we egotistically are, it seems to us that it's for the bad. If we're in a little of the same direction where our tendency and the Creator's is in the same direction, we feel good for a bit because we receive everything from the Creator but our life nevertheless, we are all including good and bad feelings, and it all comes to us from the Creator. The thing is, as it's written, ”make your desire as his.” If we're in the same direction as him then we'll feel good. If it's to the contrary, then we'll feel bad.

S: What is the correct demand from the Creator, the correction of the egoistic desire?

R: To just be connected between us because in that connection he will bring us, we will always be drawn correctly towards him.

7. S: (22:04) Notes of love to the friends, what is it and how do we write them?

R: In the heart. I write in my heart notes of how I love the friends, want to be connected to them, that I want to come to one desire, to thoughts of one heart and so on, in this I want the Creator to be revealed.

S: Can I ask you another question? I heard that in order to reach the repentance we need exertion, a desire and a thought. On the other hand, we learned that we should always go above reason. Can you explain how these two things coincide?

R: We will talk about this throughout the lesson. It's a pretty complex question. It's correct but it's pretty complex.

8. S: (23:24) To do everything for the Creator, means to harness the ego for the sake of bestowal so the question is how do you do it?

R: Repeat please?

S: To do everything for the sake of the Creator, it means to harness the ego to the purpose of bestowal, how can we do it?

R: We're not capable of doing this dear friend. We're not capable. We ask our friends and together with our friends from the Creator, for this to be established in such a desire. For us to want to be connected together in one desire, in one thought, in one heart as we call it but we ourselves are not capable only if we receive help from above we are fully dependent on the Creator, all of us.

9. S: (25:00) I'm interested about this thing about the two books, the righteous and the wicked are both in the same person. If these two things are constantly inverting, then I can be written down in the book of the righteous while I'm still wicked? Because until now I was written in the book of the wicked and the next moment I discover that I want to be written into the book of the wicked, because in that moment comes a feeling that I'm righteous? I understand the feeling of the wicked is more precious to the person because there, you can work more for the Creator. Still what's the most important here? To ask to be written in the book of the righteous even though I'm...?

R: Yes, yes,. We need to only be written in the book of the righteous, yes. The question is good by the way. It's a good question.

10. S: (26:23) You said before like always about the connection between us and the unity between us. This circle, which is between us, is it only the ten or where can we try to also apply it in external circles, that are not related to Bnei Baruch?

R: Only in my permanent ten, that is where I build the Kli from which I turn to the Creator. If I want to connect to other tens that's also through addressing the Creator only.

11. S: (27:09) Where is the spiritual DNA registered in a person? Where is the spiritual DNA registered in a person recorded in a person?

R: Inside his soul, inside the structure of his soul.

12. S: (27:34)  Before you said, about behind all the good is the evil, inside is when we think we're doing good, there's actually evil behind it looking through himself. Is it that we are trying to get a global perspective, a united perspective on how sick and evil this evil is so that we can create a force together to overcome it?

R: No, we can only want for this to happen and we turn to the Creator and he does it. All the positive actions can come only from the Creator. We, if we think that we will do something good, it's for sure that it's bad, because we are disconnecting from the truth, from the upper force and then that we will for sure not succeed. We are not capable of doing anything good. We need to recognize this is not simple, but all the good actions that can happen all together in reality from the smallest to the greatest ones are only the ones that come through the bestowal of the Creator honestly. They come from us inviting these actions from the Creator. Prior to that everything we do is altogether just part of our path, where we come to recognize the evil as we call it, where we understand there is nothing good in, no actions, no thoughts, nothing. Rather only through the Creator we can do something good. Therefore this is ending with us understanding that to the extent in which we operate, we do so only to unite our desires, necessities, once for the Creator to do this and this and this and this is how we obligate him to carry out these corrections. That's called “my sons have triumphed over me” and not that each time some desire awakens in us to the correction, that's nonsense. It's the Creator who’s awakening us to look opposite the Creator and by this we err and we think that we ourselves will do something there for the address through the group altogether to the Creator, is what we need to eventually do altogether. Is that clear?

13. S: (30:45) In the lesson you suggested for us two clear possibilities. You described for us a picture where we will have a congress, we might have a congress in February and we will all be there or God forbid this place will be filled with sick people's beds. So now we're in the time of gathering, what should we even ask for in order to determine that we will go to take a good fate?

R: There is no difference here between the man and the woman. We should ask for the Creator for bestowal, but upon us so that as quickly as possible we will get to know the evil in us and how we can convert it to the good through prayer. That's it.

14. S: (31:38) Thank you Rav. I understand that there can't be a correct address before the feeling of evil, the feeling that I'm wicked and not feeling is not pleasant and there's a sensation that we're trying to. How not to run away from the truth?

R: If you scrutinize it together in your ten how to turn to the Creator then very quickly you can scrutinize what is the truth, how to turn to him what exactly to ask of him and then you will reach the correct results quickly. Try it out. Try to do this in practice and you will see how it is fun, it's there before us, and we have to constantly care for this state. We decide together and turn to the Creator. We decide together and turn to the Creator. It's called the prayer in the public for the Creator. That's it. If there is a ten, a minyan, we just have to aim ourselves towards the Creator and very quickly we will reach the feeling of how we received the response back from him.

15. S: (33:00) It's almost the same question. Is the appeal to the Creator in such a way, is it a collection of such desires in the friends or do we need to compose together a common prayer?

R: It's a collection of desires among the friends, but it is better if all of us reach a single question. It is considered to be as one man in one heart.

16. S: (33”34) To be in agreement in the ten and to discover the evil which is considered removing the gloves, because sometimes we get confused and where moving the gloves is like some kind of confrontation between us, and we can't find a way to resolve these matters in the ten do we need to turn this to the Creator?

R: I don't know what you can fight over there, what kind of big arguments you have there between you? I don't get that. We should all agree that we have to reach adhesion between us and with the Creator, this is our path. One who goes in this, he goes there and one who doesn't go in that direction, he's free, he can leave the ten. That's it. What kind of arguments can you have between you, what can you argue about, about the path? The path is determined by the Kabbalists, but about the present situation; it's a situation that is not worth talking about. What's with you? Are you so smart that you are now confused about something where there is no room to be confused? Just ask for the forces of bestowal so that they will come to us and protect us and arrange us. What gloves do we need? We have to stop with all of this nonsense that we have in this world between one and the other. It's not what we're talking about. It says if this life on planet earth is coming to an end. We have to start rising above it. I don't understand you really. Are you in such a state Katnut, smallness, infancy ?

S: Thank you Rav. The confusion was whether to remove the gloves or not, of course we need to rise above all these things.

17. S: (35:53) Before we ask the Creator to inscribe us in the book of the righteous, do we need to ask him to reveal the book of the wicked in us?

R: No that's an incorrect way. I don't need to open up the evil in me. The most important for me is to reach the good and the evil along the way if it is revealed, it is revealed. Why should I enter the bad? This is an incorrect way.

18. S: (36:39) I understand that the prayer of the ten is something that we do together. If I, alone, want to turn to the Creator as an individual?

R: I don't know how you by yourself can turn to the Creator. Only through the ten. That's it. If it's not through the ten, it's a sign that you're an egoist, you are prideful, and you only think about yourself.

S: That's exactly what I'm asking. How can we turn through the ten, let's say we are at ten not together in Zoom or physically but I'm alone and I want to pray for the ten, how do we address him, that's the question?

R: Why does it matter if you're in the same room or not? You take from that all the desires and you want to ask for them that it will be good for them that's it. As for you, you do not exist in these things but only as the one who is asking, as the one who is passing like a pipeline. You get nothing out of it but only for this to reach them.

19. S: (38:15) Tell me please, he writes that a person doubts and doesn't agree immediately to give himself to the Creator, is this an obliging rule, or is there a possibility to do this directly? Why is a person in doubt?

R: There are three states either the person entirely wants for himself or for the Creator or in the middle. This is how it is pretty much, so he is explaining to us these three states.

S: The feeling is as if the path is straight but we're always looking for indirect ways.

R: If you're included in the ten, you're going straight but not according to your mind then for sure you're taking a detour but only according to the mind where you are included in the ten.

20. S: (39:29) How do I accustom myself to such a prayer where my heart and my mouth will be equal?

R: Try as much as possible to talk with your friends in a way that is as direct as possible and as much as possible to integrate with them. Reach devotion towards the friends and then you will feel that your heart is opening up and you will feel that they are all standing inside of your heart.

21. S: (40:20) How do we, the moment we touch this point of connection and ask to connect in the Creator, how do we not hold on to the state of my personal feeling, of unity with the Creator but only hold on to this bestowal that we are all connected together?

R: This is the point where your all connected together with one heart where each one is annulling his own ego, seemingly rising up rising up by himself to the air and there you all meet in this way and you want to adhere out of you also to adhere to the Creator, truly so, like a hot air balloon.

S: How to hasten the states? Where each time coming to this how to not how to hold on to this?

R: Hold on to it all the time this is considered that you are accelerating time.

22. S: (41:42) What does it mean to come to a common prayer?

R: You only want one thing to integrate between you to a single desire called a single heart and then with the Creator will be revealed in your heart he will be happy since he has where to be revealed. He has some desires that have connected into a single desire and he can fulfill them with his light. Constantly think about that.

23. S: (42:32) The DNA of the soul, if we build it together while we're studying the wisdom of Kabbalah? Does the DNA of the soul of the spiritual soul where a person is built out of the work in the study of the wisdom of Kabbalah?

R: Where did you find this DNA where did you take this word from where did what do you mean by that? It's not clear to me. I'm asking you, don't use words that are not written in our articles. Maybe they've heard some lectures somewhere I don't know. In the wisdom of Kabbalah there is no DNA, there is no such word. Please think about how you ask. How many times have I been hearing this DNA where do you take that from?

24. S:(43:55) It's the good and the bad in a spiritual state, how do I justify the Creator in this world?

R: That is a problem to justify the Creator, to justify the Creator we can do it only out of our Kelim. If I am capable with whatever I have in life, if I can describe it to the Creator and I can be happy with whatever I get, and justify what I get, both in the present form and also what I'm drawn to, then it is considered that I am justified in the Creator and I'm blessing him. This has to be the permanent state for us. This for us should be a state where I don't care what state I'm in, I am always in the state where I am blessing the Creator for the bad as for the good and truly in that I have no problem because all of these states are ultimately to my benefit and I can feel that because I'm in my ego or I could feel good because I am in the world to bestow or maybe the other way around but I always feel along with that that I am under the Creator's governance. Whatever it is, I'm under the Creator’s governance and therefore I bless for each and every state.

25. S: (46:10) The recognition of evil is only towards the ten or is it also towards the external world?

R: The recognition of evil, actually, for the time being, it's what there is in me, desires that I cannot yet ascribe to the Creator. Before I ascribe them to the Creator, I think of them as bad, evil. After I ascribe them to the Creator, I now accept them as good because even though they're creating all kinds of problems and troubles for me, these desires, these disturbances, however I relate to them as good, that they are putting me in the right direction, they're not allowing me to have deviations on the path. Meaning both the good and the bad are two forces that lead me to a rendezvous with the Creator, to the end of correction. Okay?

26. S: (47:33) Question about removing the gloves, this always rises again in a different way in the ten. What do you mean when you say removing the gloves practically in the work and the ten?

R: To remove the gloves means that we discover our will to receive and through connection between us we want to use the will to receive in order to serve it to the Creator, in order to help him to be revealed in us and to correct us and to find in us, the place for revelation. This means, to this is the meaning of removing the gloves.

S: Talking between us, there's no intention in this talking between us in removing our gloves?

R: It depends on what level you're on. What are you, like children playing in the courtyard? What do you mean to remove the gloves? The hands are the will to receive and you want to discover the will to receive in order to be more connected between you and to ask of the Creator for correction, for this common will to receive with what you want to connect. This is called to remove the gloves and the wisdom of Kabbalah. Otherwise it's the other way around. You put your hands into the gloves so that they won't be able to see what an egoist you are. You are allowed to reveal your vessels of reception only to the extent that you can connect with the friends into the Creator.

27. S: (49:30) How to be always in faith, in the unification of the Creator and be in joy from this?

R: This depends on how much we all in our ten talk about it, that we are under the Creator's influence, the upper force the good who does good, eternal and that we can arrange such a relationship between us that the Creator will be revealed, and he will connect with one another and then in this connection between us it will be permanent and also he will be revealed in a permanent way and that way we will advance more and more into a stronger and stronger connection between us. This way we'll all feel our spiritual state more and more until the corporeal world will truly disappear and we will see the work, that the world is imaginary. It doesn't exist, it was simply given to us right now in order for us to start connecting between us but, in truth, it is a connection between the souls, it is a connection between the desires.

28. S: (51:03) To ask for the force of the Creator in the ten means to ask for the friends to have the force of connection?

R: Of course, we want to reach a connection between us, and we ask the Creator for us, it's all of us together, all of the friends, women or men it doesn't matter. After we reach some sort of form of connection, then according to the intensity of connection between us we can feel the Creator who is there filling us up. Even now, we are in a state where the Creator is together with us however, he is not revealed, a state of concealment. The more we make efforts to connect, the more and more we will discover that state of concealment and then states of revelation. Everything depends on how much we want together to ask the Creator to be revealed and to arrange our connection and to be revealed in that connection. Okay?

29. S: (52:33) The question is you were just explaining about blessing as good as well as the bad so the question is when we feel bad... you were explaining about blessing the good as well as the bad...

R: You have to be responsible for the way that you are communicating, just your microphone needs to be open. I don't want to hear more and more voices there. Try again now.

S: You were explaining about blessings that good as well as the bad so...?

R: I don't want to hear if it's a translator or it's not the translator it has to be clean if you don't know how to arrange it then I won't listen to anyone. You have to take care of it.

30. R: My goal is for you to jump on all of our technology people in charge of communications and obligate them to create the good and correct connection and not that in every lesson we have such connections, that's it. They have to feel that you are truly following them, and you are standing ready to straighten things out with them. I don't want to know if this is okay or not if it's difficult or not. It doesn't matter. Okay?

31. S: (55:44) If our world is an illusion why should we correct it?

R: I don't know if this world is an illusion. Well it's written somewhere but I don't know if this is so and you too, are you now an illusion that appears before me? So, let us stop being foggy philosophers okay? That's not how you relate to reality but rather we speak about some unique form which is an illusion, that is if the will to receive that the Creator gave, if in that will to receive, we feel something that seemingly doesn't exist, we call it an imaginary world. We imagine it and it truly does not exist, as if, but doesn't it exist in our feeling? It does. Aren’t we living in it? We are. So don't relate to it as an illusion. I live in it and I depend on it.

32. S: (57:02) We're asking for the Creator to be revealed between us, in the connection between us and we're also asking for the reforming light. Is the reforming light what enables the Creator to be revealed between us, do we have to ask for both of them together and how does this go?

R: We are asking for the reforming light, that it will correct our road to receive so that our will to receive will be adopted, congruent with the Creator and the Creator will be able to be revealed according to the equivalence of formed between him, the will to bestow, and our desire to receive in order to bestow. This is how it is.

33. S: (57:52) First question, from a student, about a state where it's hard to move internally or externally, how do you come out of it even when I'm turning to the ten and I'm asking of the Creator, this situation can continue for several days and then some blow or pressure in corporeality comes and you think that you're missing internal exertion. How can you come out of such a state and the best way?

R: It's impossible to come out of it but only to read what Rabash tells about it in the group and to actualize these articles. That's true for the men and for the women it is truly the same action, the same action, in order. There is nothing you can do about it. If you want to complain there's nothing to complain to. Once you perform corrections then you will be able to turn to the Creator, the men and the women it doesn't matter. Then what needs to happen will happen. There are laws here. Absolute laws from the beginning to the end and there's nothing here that we can as if seemingly to do this way or that way, that will never happen, never. Therefore, we need to learn how we should keep these laws and it won't help us to keep some conditions only 99%. Until it's truly 100% it's not going to work. This is in relation to what you said but I ask and I did, a few days ago and afterwards I don't want to hear such things. If we actualize the laws of nature, what needs to be, then it happens. If we don't realize them that it happens if what we didn't realize and didn't actualize and there is no other way. We have to understand it and get used to it and then we will succeed okay?

S: How do you get rid of this state that's described in the article where half wants to bestow and half wants to remain in order to receive, how can you make that decision?

R: Only through society, only through the environment, it is called that the friends and the study and dissemination, in the end turn to the Creator through all of these factors, I try to change myself. Also, patience, persistence. Persistence means I don't just sit and wait but I perform all of the required actions as much as possible and I keep going and I keep going and I keep doing them even though I see no benefit in it.

S: Is there a deciding point or is it all along the way there's always this work and I will always continue?

R: It will continue all the way through to the end of correction and the work will become harder with bigger desires. Yes, that's how it will be. You don't want to, you can leave. But you won't be able to leave any other way, ultimately you will just go around in a circle and return on all fours to the same path.

S: Can we create a state where there is such strong Arvut in the ten, where you grab a person and he belongs to the ten always?

R: If you could do such a thing, then of course that would be for the best of course. For that, you need to be adhered to the ten in heart and soul and then you will feel that you're already in such a ten. Before, you saw all sorts of flaws and that was because there were flaws in you. Then I discovered that the friends are in the ideal form and they are all in love and connection and it's only I who is missing there in order to connect to them and then we would connect to the Creator. 

S: What you're saying sounds like some kind of decision where thus far, you're saying, where a person was on the fence but now I'm in the ten and I'm adhered to them but you said before that there is no decision until the end of correction.

R: What do you mean there's no decision? On every degree there's a decision. Each and every degree is a kind of end of correction where I conclude my current state, correct it and adhere to the Creator and it's a complete degree. Then a new degree starts, a revelation of a greater will to receive and more work to be done and a greater decision, more adhesion, that's how it is.

34. S: ((1:03:30) To continue scrutinizing the question to continue scrutinizing the question. There is a collision between bestowal and my desire to let go. I'm afraid that my entire world will remain and I will disappear. What do you do with that fear?

R: I shouldn't fear disappearing, there is no such thing in spirituality at all, there is no such thing. We die in corporeality but means I'm absent from the spiritual state. That's all. and all my work is to reveal the spiritual work, what are you so afraid of I don't know. Vanishing? It's only in the will to receive that you stop thinking of and discovering reality in your will to receive. That's all that happens. You need to think about it more. Read more.

35. S: ((1:05:02) Is it possible to say that Kabbalists as they climb the degrees of the ladder become more proficient and in inviting the force of bestowal from the Creator?

R: Yes, not just more successful but they understand more and they feel more, they're wiser and smarter.

S: And also they understand more?

R: Yes of course.

S: When the Kabbalists climb the 125 degrees, these are degrees of what changes? 

R: Aviut, coarseness, Masach, screen, desire, intention to bestow, to reveal the Creator.

S: The changes in intensity or quality?

R: In intensity and in quality.

36. S: (1:06:06) Everyone is with you when we are truly enjoying this Congress. What do we have to ask forgiveness for? What is the correct true forgiveness?

R: The correct true forgiveness means that I'm not yet connected to the friends and to the Creator through them. That's what forgiveness is about.

37. S: (1:06:46) If you already reached a state where you feel the light and your ten is also there and you feel them. Then can I ask the Creator for him to take all of us to the field of light together?

R:. Very nice question. Yes.

38. S: (1:07:25) When there is a problem, a corporeal problem, should I leave the ten in order to take care of it and not bother the ten with it? Or is that not the right way to deal with it

R: I don't know perhaps it's worthwhile for you to consult with his friends but consult, don't decide according to what they say just consult with him. So that at least they know the state that you were in and then with respect to their work towards us and for the Creator they can take it into account. It's good for the friends to know that you have some corporeal  problem to some extent.

39. S: (1:08:39) We are watching the lesson out of great joy, waves of joy. We'd like to wish everyone a happy holiday,  the entire world Kli to wish everyone good and tranquility and sweetness and things that creation has not yet seen.

R: Thank you very much.

S: What I want to find out is, Kabbalists give examples for complicated concepts through examples in nature. We know that natural things in nature are not rejected. The Creator created the evil inclination and I am the evil inclination. Why, then, when I discover the evil inclination it causes me sorrow and rejection? Maybe it's not a natural matter after all. I'm trying to understand.

R: I'm sorry to say that all of our nature is evil. Our whole nature is evil and for the time being there is nothing that is good. So let's agree to that- gradually. Perhaps it's not so awful - it's all of us that way. But we are working on it in order to start emerging from it and I hope that this year this will happen to everyone. If it seems to us that we are good at something, it's only an indication of the concealment from the Creator. In order to not make us completely depressed the Creator hides our true state. Like we do with children, we don't show children this world. We create for them a world of games and nice happy songs, sweetness all these things and so that's how they grow because a person cannot grow with hatred and pain. He cannot grow from that, he shrinks and shrivels. In order for him to develop we need to give him something good, each time better and better, then he can grow and that's how we grow. But when we come to the wisdom of Kabbalah and we need to balance ourselves with nature to find equivalency. Let's hope that we can do it. This year there's a great transformation happening in everyone and I hope very much for good things to happen for everyone. So, we wish for you all a very fun, nice trip, good connection and that we will succeed. It's very pleasant to see you all together. Good luck.

40. S: (1:12:47) We have two questions. Right now, everything is changing so quickly. Should women listen to the morning lesson along with the men or is it enough to hear it in recording and maybe chosen excerpts?

R: To the extent that she is able the more she can do the better. Because the problem isn't if she knows what you're talking about but it's also about the spirit of things how people spoke and how they ask and integrating all the society. So, the more she hears the better.  Today you can find and do all sorts of things to listen to the lesson. Especially at home, the woman does her work at home whatever she does and alongside that and parallel she listens and listens to the lessons.

41. S: (1:14:11) Throughout the holidays we talked about the end of correction. What is the state of the end of correction and how can we force the Creator to bring us to that right now?

R: We learn that the end of correction is the end of the correction of our will to receive. As it acquires the intention in order to bestow. That's all. How to come to it, we do that by asking the Creator to make such a correction in us that is all.

42. S: (1:14:58) To continue on the question by the friend from Brazil. If a person has a corporeal problem should I share his problem with the rest of the ten or keep his privacy?

R: You have all kinds, but certainly has to be with the agreement of the friends. If it doesn't feel comfortable telling the ten and he asks you to tell them fine.

S. The truth is I told him not to share it with the rest of the ten, maybe I made a mistake.

R:  I don't know, I can't control your personal things but usually it's better for all the friends to know and their thoughts will already begin to help him. Help him overcome the state.

43. S. (1:15:55) Can a philosophy that the world is unreal, help us? Reduce the attraction of corporeal goals?
R. No, that won't help us. If we want to actually do something helpful, useful, it's very simple, there's only one thing. Connection between us and an appeal to the Creator for him to sustain our connection and be revealed inside of it. That's all it is. There's nowhere else to run.

44. S: (1:16:47) A question that has been worrying us for quite some time. What is the difference between awakening the left line and how not to harm our connection?

R: If we want to awaken the left line we do it when we already have the right line and we can feel it and can grasp it, maintain it and then by ourselves we awaken the will to receive. If we take our gloves off, it's a question. It's a very general issue. We want to discover the will to receive in a simple, open manner.  I don't know, in spirituality there is no such thing: when to take the gloves off. We have three lines, the right, the left and middle and how we work with all these lines in length and also, we have Ibur, Yenika, Mochin and Katnut, smallness and so on. But no more than that and don't get confused, all of you. Be a bit more concrete, a bit more simple that's how it needs to be. Later you'll start replacing one term, one concept with another and you're confused. If we're talking about something that we understand even if it's a tiny sign, a tiny portion of what you've discussed, it has to be understood. It has to be scrutinized and it's not that you can or you can't draw more and more names and terms of disturbance in it. That's not good in terms of discernment.

45. S: (1:19:02) How much exertion do we have to make in order to reach faith above reason?

R: How much I cannot say. It is very individual.

46. S: (1:19:38) Usually when tens meet, we read excerpts, answer questions, go over the study material, how important is it at least once a week to talk about dissemination? Participating in dissemination on our ten meetings. How much can that advance our ten?

R:  If we occasionally discuss our dissemination once a week but say but in a very concrete way not just idle words but in a very concrete manner it will work. Even though we want ourselves to connect and give the Creator room to build we create a room to be revealed.  However, if we want to advertise the method to all of humanity then for certain this will come out and it will be an act of bestowal and it is worthwhile to discuss it.

S: The students are asking for you to give them advice.

R: Only to listen to the lessons that's enough.

47. S: (1:21:28) What does it mean to work with the letters while reading excerpts?

R: To have translation and have everything understood clearly in the words and it has to be ready before the lesson,  then we can understand the lesson, what the teacher is talking about, what the questions are about and how we prepare ourselves for the lesson this time. Each time, know what we are going to study with proper translation and it's not that in the middle of the lesson it is happening that we start trying to clarify the meaning of the words and to translate things. It all has to be ready in advance and you all have to demand of the people responsible for the lesson to provide you with the materials for the next lesson at least 20 hours before the lesson. Everything is in your hands. It's not that you get the text the moment before the lesson, that's not good, and I hope very much that those responsible for the lesson are listening and taking this into account. Under no circumstances can it be any other way. In the evening I know what I will teach the next day in the translations and the interpretations of the words and everything it has to be clear to me and much more for you. Otherwise when you ask questions, I see as if you just now heard of something. Know in advance even write your questions ahead of time. Perhaps you won't ask them in the lesson later but it's good for you to write down questions.

48. S: (1:23:55) The left line awakened up gets included in the right line?

R: Usually yes.

49.S: (1:24:23) The guys who were responsible for the lesson are doing a good job. Some of the excerpts are so deep that it takes a long time to scrutinize them. We don't know to what extent to keep scrutinizing them before the next lesson comes on.

R: Complain about the fact that the texts are too long, they need to be shorter. An excerpt needs to be no more than eight lines, nine maybe ten, no more than that. If it's more than that it is disqualified. Let them do better work. I also complain, I don't tell it to them, but I see that it's a lot. The excerpts need to be no more than ten lines long.

50. S: (1:25:51) What I meant was the excerpts have so much depth in them not so much in the length but in the scrutiny. To what extent should we hold on to it until the next dose of light comes in? How much scrutiny should we do before we do the next day's text?

R:  You have to know superficially what it is about. That's enough to know superficially what it's about. That's all.

50B. S: (1:26:47) You are explaining that we bless for the good as well as the bad? When we are given a bad state is it necessary for us to feel it as bad in order to make a proper scrutiny? 

R: No, you don't have to actually feel it, you scrutinize it and find it to be evil in your spiritual advancement, and so you start working on it.

51. S: (1:27:32) How can we reach the proper deficiency in the ten?

R: That you can scrutinize amongst yourself, you do that together. It comes slowly according to the measure of awareness and recognition that without connection of the friends I cannot come to correct my soul and all these friends are ultimately my soul,  I have no choice, I have to get to love thy friend as thyself. It is a law of nature which pulls us forward in that way and if we don't follow it we will receive greater blows every day.

52. S: (1:28:46) You said that our group is like a locomotive that pulls all the wagons of humanity with it. Does this locomotive have a special?

R: No, it's not a cart somewhere off to one side attached to the train. I think the women are following the same train as the men attached to the locomotive which is the Creator and the whole train from beginning to end has parts that are full of women parts and that are full of men parts. There cannot be any space in one cart or another will you have a man without a corresponding woman, it's not men and women actually, it's the will to receive and the will to bestow. We are all working together in a reciprocal way. I cannot imagine to myself that a woman like yourself from whom I get all of my texts and materials and writings and so on that you are somewhere in the background in the back of the train. She's a bit shy, a very special woman.

53. S: (1:30:39) As students do, we shift into the new degree along with everyone else?

R: The fact that you understand and I'm talking to both men and women, the fact that you understand that in front of us there is a period of corrections and we need to start connecting in practice as much as possible in order to bring the correction about, to bring the Creator near, bringing him closer to our world in our situation. That means you are with us and it doesn't matter if you are called a student in some way, all sorts of groups and students. The main thing is that you are together with us in connection.

S. Thank you. What do you wish for the students?

R: What I wish all of my students, I wish all of my students, everyone who is with us in any kind of communication together with us that this year we will come to the recognition of the Creator, the correction of ourselves and the end of correction. We have all of the necessary conditions and it all depends on the measure to which we want to do it. The problem here is that we can only do it by connection.

54. S:(1:33:00) All the transformations we're expecting in Israel and in the world, how should we prepare for them? When is it above reason and in the heart?

R:  I don't know above reason really. We have to be connected at heart, we have to find in our hearts how to connect at our hearts and this way to build one heart out of all of our desires. That's it and not to be afraid. It's possible the upper light can do it. 

55. S: (1:34:05) The question is yesterday in the morning lesson that we are GE and the nations are our AHP but it's not sufficient just to pray for the nations of the world, we have to elicit a desire. Can you elaborate?

R:  We have to awaken everything. The Creator awakens the deficiency in them, gives them blows in different things to make them think: what am I living for? We have to publicize, disseminate the method of correction among them so the Creator has work and we do the other half. We work together with the Creator in tandem. Him, us, Him, us and we explain, we disseminate. Eventually have to meet there with the Creator as it is said “I dwell within my nation”. The Creator is revealed only among all created beings.

56. S: (1:35:32) What change are we required to make in order to be in a state of awakening while still turning to the Creator always?

R: We always have to turn to the Creator but either with a request or gratitude one of the two, do try not to be in between. Not here nor there because you don't come to know him, you don't acknowledge Him. It's either a gratitude or a plea.

S: What kind of assistance should we ask for in that state?

R: Only connection, that's all we need, the connection to which he will be able to reveal himself.

57. S: (1:36:44) We learn about the power of our thoughts. When we speak of plagues and catastrophes that come, aren't we inviting all of that by talking about it?

R: No. That is what the common folk think that we talk about something and by that we invite it, we invite the things through the bad relationships between us, the entire world and also between us. If we don't correct in time what we are given to correct and by that we cause all the disasters.

58. S: (1:37:58) If I'm not listed in the book of the righteous does it happen because I'm afraid of bestowing?

R:  I can be written in the book of the righteous only if I caused my ten to be connected to some extent and from that I get an impression of what should I ask to be, what should I ask in order to be further and further connected with them. A book is a Kli, a vessel of ours in which we are connected. I can't ask to be written down in the book of righteous if I don't have friends, then I don't have a book. A book is ten Sephirot where each of us writes what he's doing in order to be ten Sephirot every time on higher and higher degrees and that's called to ask to be written down in the book and you know, don't start imagining things about what that is all in all we have ten Sephirot and we have we need for the Creator to fill them up until we achieve equivalence of form with them. To the extent we want it, he wants it to.

59. S: (1:39:44) You answered the friend that it's possible to advance only with a strong desire.

R:  Envy, lust and honor. If you get an awakening from the group then you can, and if you don't: then you can't. That's it. Only through envy will you be able to do it and the friends have to bring you to a state that you will be envious. 

60. S: (1:40:46) How can we be not so judgmental?

R: Only by being free of our will to receive. Good question.

61. S: (1:41:12) I hear all of your programs and everything and it sounds like the end of the world is coming and this makes me anxious and concerned.

R:  You know me for 20 years if not more and now you're getting anxiety from my words? If it was someone else okay but you?

S. Yes, me and I hear you and I want to be in connection so much, I want what you say to happen but it’s so frightening to me that I get despaired and I want to find the middle line and don’t know what to do. I'm afraid of all of us suffering and for there to be great suffering and people will die in the streets and there won't be food or electricity.  I'm worried about our children and I'm really afraid. Every writer's meeting when you speak, I become sick and I talk about it in my ten and we discuss it. How on one hand can I be so concerned for the world and on the other hand not to break up.

R: I didn't even imagine that is how you are. I didn't think that. That it touches you so much this one thing. I don't feel anything in my writers, they are made of stuff so that you can't move them, okay, I'll take it into consideration.

S: The question is what to do?

R: Connection between us, the Creator awakens the bad to the extent that we can awaken it into the good. We as much as we can need to connect with each other to feel that we can't do anymore and then do like Rabash writes: if the person cries out help me lift this heavy sack from my shoulder, no one will help him, but if he already lifted it upon his shoulders and then he's crying out help, he is falling, then anyone will help him. So, we have to start working on our connection and everything else will come from above. There has to be a measure of yearning, the force with which to return to the Creator. We need to generate all these things as our MAN, as our request, we have to formulate it and then we will succeed. So really don't cry but do everything necessary to succeed and be happy. I promise you that you will feel contentment from your children and everyone and even from me. Good luck.

62.S: (1:45:00) The question is how to actually put ourselves to death?

R:  No, we don't have to do that. We don't have to do anything negative we only have to yearn for connection as close as possible to each other. Our heart and our desire, our heart and our desire, according to our goal. If we want to reach the goal, then we have to understand there we become as one. Really. The entire ten has to turn into one that means we have reached the goal. Therefore, we are somewhere trying to reach that even though we have no desire for it. No desire for it, no deficiency for it, let's try to do it and the Creator will help us. Then suddenly we will want and feel that not only it is a savior, but it is our salvation, that is actually the best possible thing. Let's try, you will see how it opens up an entirely different world through our connection. On top of the hate, that below you have hate, below you have love and above you have connection. So, we both have hate at the bottom and connection at the top. This is called love covers all crimes, and in the sandwich, we discover the Creator in the middle. That He is the one that connects the hate and the love because he is the source of both.

63. S: (1:47:22) We feel that there was a female Kli and a male Kli with the support of the women behind it. Now we feel that there is a whole vessel coming together. Can you share with us how it's supposed to be built?

R: We still don't know what is a spiritual Kli in which both men and women are included. We're all together men and women. In spirituality it isn't the same as men and women in corporeality. I don't want to confuse you. To what measure does each of us who is a corporal man is also a spiritual man and vice versa. These are things that we have to discover. There are different kinds of desires that each and every one, so don't get confused according to what you ask, a bit later. We'll talk about this. Soon is Sukkot coming up, seven days in addition and the women will be with us throughout the entire holiday and maybe then we will talk about it. The state of men and women in our common kli. It is something different than what we're used to thinking of it is.

*Excerpt 21 Reader (1:49:34 - 1:52:21) reads twice*

64.R: Meaning that the prayer has to be in the heart, and that the heart has to go through the mouth. That a person expresses what the heart feels through his mouth and what the heart wants to express is the desire of the heart that way. The request of the heart. Therefore, before Rosh Hashanah we have the period of the time of forgiveness, asking for the forgiveness that gradually we start feeling what we have to ask for, and then we ask to be written for life. For bestowal, for connection for the will to bestow and with this request we reach Rosh Hashanah the new year

65. S: (1:53:30) No translation

R: Ok, a person knows how to express this in words, that means that he knows what he's asking for and if he feels inside that he can't express it through his mouth it means that his emotions are still yet unclear and not fully clear to him.

66: S. (1:54:12) How should we be in such equivalence with the Creator, this readiness, this intensity, how should we synchronize it?

R: You, the group and all of Bnei Bruch and all of mankind, you have to connect everyone together as much as possible and to turn to the Creator and ask for correction so that everyone including the Creator will be as one. That's it. So that’s me, the ten, Bnei Baruch, humanity and the Creator together, this is the state of the end of correction. This state the Creator created and then broke for us to aspire to return to that state.

S: With every action to be in that?

R: Yes, always being in that.

67. S: (1:55:37) How should the American Kli prepare itself to rise above the political and social upheaval that is about to happen?

R: The entire world is facing such actions that are really tossing the entire world from side to side. We are on the verge of very serious natural disasters and this virus, it didn't leave us, and it is now starting to rage in different places, it doesn't matter how much people are cautious or not cautious. We will reach a state where we will be exhausted as mankind, that mankind will reach exhaustion. What do we have to do? Just to disseminate the message, our message, our method. What is it for, what does it come from, what should be our correct form so that we don't come to the corrected form through blows but through recognition that as quickly as possible we will take upon ourselves the good and correct form, that this is how we will overcome and do.

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