Morning Lesson January 14, 2022, Transcription
Transcription is made from simultaneous translation which leaves a possibility for differences in the audio
Part 1:
"The most important is the prayer" - Selected Excerpts from the Sources. #12
1.Rav’s Introduction: Indeed, the most important thing is the prayer because the prayer is a deficiency and deficiency is what we lack in order to show to the Creator, to the upper light, to the extent that we have the deficiency in us then we are ready, we are worthy of receiving the upper light for a correction and for fulfillment. Our correction will be that our Kli, our desire will be instead of in order to receive in order to bestow and the light that will shine in us will be a light of bestowing and love and it will fill us. Therefore, the prayer, well we should check whether it is directed, whether it is approaching, how we need to fill ourselves according to the purpose of creation. That is with a desire to bestow, to love, to connect, and with a fulfillment accordingly of the filling and joy out of us being connected that we will feel our hearts as isolated, separate and then as connected more until we will all become as one heart. This is the correction of creation, and this should be our primary work. Later on, we will learn about it from all kinds of different actions that the Creator had prepared for us according to the system. This is not so important; it is a system that will be revealed to us anyway out of our work.
The most important thing for us is nevertheless to determine our way to the correction, for us and for the whole of humanity so it will be as clear as possible as felt as possible, how it was prepared for us and how we can advance and exist and actually do it, implement it. This is our work. Therefore, the most important is how do we reach the right prayer, raising MAN? Because indeed if we know how to tie the deficiency of Malchut and the deficiency of Bina together this is called Mayin Nukvin, MAN, then immediately we receive a connection with Bina and we begin to be corrected and be filled with the force of Bina, the force of bestowing. Accordingly, we are both corrected and filled, this is how we rise on sanctity, that is the degrees of bestowing, therefore everything is attained only through the force of prayer and there is no more than simply caring for how do we aim our heart, to one heart and in a single direction towards connection between us so that in the end of the connection between us we want to serve our heart to the Creator so that he will fill that heart, that common heart and he will enjoy it. Let us hope that we will succeed.
Excerpt 12 (04:25) Twice
2. R. (06:01) The fact that we are now praying and asking correct request or maybe not so correct request or maybe not so correct, together or each one separately, all of these things accumulate, they gather, it's a matter of accumulation and then we need to reach what is called the quota, meaning a complete degree, then he can receive a response from above, the Creator. Because in spirituality it has to be a complete measure 10 not 9, not 11 so we have to reach a certain tension in achieving the force of bestowal in the right form and to the right measure and all of our prayers are for that, help us correct ourselves, or correct us so that we want to be similar to you. We want to be like you to some extent and to bestow, bestowing to each other and from all of us together bestowing to you and in such a way to reach, resembling you and approaching you according to our mutual actions, ‘I to my beloved and my beloved to me.’ In that way we reach the recognition of adhesion with the Creator, equivalence of form with him but all of that is out of how much we are arranged and discover the common vessel between us. Because out of the connection between us, we all together learn how to connect with the Creator. The Creator is as a result the connection with the Creator is a result of the sum total of all of the connections between us which we learn in the current degree. This is how it is on each and every degree we will need to try to be connected, more and more in quantity and quality of the exertion and accordingly we will receive the revelation of the Creator. This is how it works.
3. S. (08:40) You said we are coming to the recognition of adhesion with the Creator. How does that awareness come in our work in the ten in our prayer?
R. Out of the fact that we try to be closer to each other because it is clear to us that the Creator is revealed to us through this action of Bo-Reh, see, we need to reach correction and then see the essence of the connection between us in the connection. This is where he is revealed as the force that is revealed in the connection, therefore this is how we work between us. To the extent that we connect and come closer and understand that the Creator all together is the result of the connection between us, so we try every day we feel how much the Creator raises the range, sensitivity, he raises the degree of our familiarity, the ability to discern a resolution, the measure of indication of how close we are or how far we are from each other. We need to see all the time how much we make an effort in that. The fact that today I see us as more distant than yesterday, it is good. It means that I am not far away from the friends now but right now I see the previous state with a greater sensitivity and therefore for me it seems farther away and thus the more we advance, it seems to us, as it says one who is greater than his friend his inclination is greater. This is how he sees it, each and every person who advances but we do not weaken because of that but rather we actually see it as the correct form of advancement.
Therefore, we need to, nevertheless, to raise our requests more and more and those requests we need to raise them not from each and every one of us but rather we need to start to feel between us where is this common emotion, this common field as it needs to be in the group, in a unit or the way we have it into a family, to some extent. That is in our ten is there a common emotion from which we are able to begin to turn to the Creator and I do not turn out of myself anymore but rather right turn from that emotion that was born between us and from it I turn to the Creator. I personally, right, and other friends each one but it is as if we raise our request out of our common vessel already. Later on, we will reach a state where it's not that I raise that request from the connection between us, but rather we all together are doing it, we will start to feel already how we are all connected and we are raising this connection, this emotion that was created between us, together, and by that we already to begin to stand opposite the Creator. These things we need to now Implement them and establish them and within some time hopefully we will feel it in practice, and we will work in such a way. So that this will truly be called the preparation of the vessel for adhesion. ‘I to my beloved and my beloved to me’ this is actually inside of this action.
S. You said now as much as I understood that the foundation for my request and later for our common request is the common feeling of ours, of the ten, what is that common feeling from which we ask?
R. We learn that the matter of creation is desire, what the Creator did is he created in his desire. Desire for a fulfillment, for a filling and this is the matter. That is if we are not talking about the matter that we see, what we perceive in our five senses but rather matter as an idea, as a concept, it is a desire, an empty desire, and that empty desire, what does it want? It actually wants to be filled with the Creator; this is how it was created. Therefore, all of our work is how do we process our desires, how do we connect our desires, how do we bring them into such an interconnection between them, between the particular desires into such forms out of which the complete vessel will be made. We can see also from nature how much more complex, the more refined nature is, the higher it is in its development, it has a much greater inner composition in its inner actions in the connections between them we can learn that from organic chemistry.
4. S. (15:32) At the beginning of the lesson you said that the MAN is a connection between Malchut and Bina. What is the deficiency of Bina and what is the difference between the deficiency of Malchut and Bina?
R. Bina is a desire to bestow, Malchut is a desire to receive. By Malchut asking from Bina the qualities of bestowal, forces of bestowal, this is called raising MAN from Malchut to Bina, all in all there is no more. We have the Creator and the created being. The Creator is the degree of Bina Creator is Bina and therefore we need to raise our request to him each and every time and to try that we will not get tired of it but rather each time it will actually revive us. The fact that I am turning to the Creator, I need to try to feel with each and every appeal that I am closer and closer to him. I am more precise with my request. In that way we advance.
S. Do I correctly understand that at some point the in the ten becomes Bina?
R. No, it doesn't become, Malchut does not become Bina, it only receives the intentions of Bina, the will to receive remains, however upon it we have Tzimtzum, Masach, Ohr Hozer, restriction, screen, reflected light and in that way the will to receive becomes similar to Bina, that's why we call it Domeh, similar to Godliness.
5. S. (17:42) It is as if we must have a complete Kli, a complete prayer before we get an answer. It says if it is digital, we have to be in total or you get no answer. So, can you be half complete and get half an answer or be a little bestowal and get a little bit on the basis of bestowal out of that work?
R. Look, in nature, like you are saying there is nothing digital or discrete, meaning cut off 1, 2, 3. This is only something that we see but in nature itself there is no such thing, there are no discrete numbers 1, 2, 3, 4, there is none. In nature it is all works, extends according to the upper light which is entirely in absolute rest, and it is all smeared over the entire will to receive that it created and there are no differences or any cut offs. He writes that there are no cuts, separations in there which is something that is actually typical to the corporeal. So, we have text about it, so the fact that we do it, that we create the discrete forms meaning that they are cut off from the analog, this is simply how we are used to it, this is how we are capable of doing it but if we are truly talking about the nature, of the upper light, there are no measures than it even in the NRNHY that we say it's all according to the measures of the vessel. For the time being we are still lacking, we have this boundary, limits but once we reach the complete correction there will be no boundaries, no numbers but rather it will be just the upper light filling up the whole of reality.
6. S. (20:11) I pray for bestowing for my friend, but I see no result, where is the secret here?
R. I do not know what these words mean, I am praying for bestowal for my friends, this is something that we need to scrutinize, however we need to reach a state first of all, for the time being, right now, that the prayer itself, when we turn to the Creator, is for us the pleasure. It is for us the goal, the fact that I can arrange myself, in turning to the Creator, in somehow connecting according to buy view, according to how I am capable of depicting it to myself, connecting the friends in my emotion and asking out of all of us, out of the entire ten, with an appeal to the Creator that he will help us to be connected, be a backing, a vessel for his revelation in order to give him contentment, this is actually my work right now. Later on, will come more particular, specific works, more pinpointed, we will talk about it when the time comes but for the time being let us do that.
7. S. (21:55) Does prayer have to be spoken or is the silent prayer enough?
R. I do not think that there is a difference between speaking and inner speaking without any voice. Sometimes a person when he cries out, when he shouts, he gets a greater force out of it, greater expression but usually we do all of these things silently even though it is not forbidden, you can speak, cry, sing in any way that you feel that you want to express your heart.
8. S. (22:53) About the excerpt that we just read, where it is written the Creator awakens us until we will have the vessels, what are those vessels that we need to prepare and how to prepare them?
R. Deficiency to bestow through the friends to the Creator, this is our vessel. Therefore, out of this deficiency to bestow through the friends to the Creator, we connect between us, and we serve ourselves to the Creator. We want him to enjoy the fact that he is revealed between us. Try to think in this direction and you will see how much this will promote you even though it is the opposite of our nature, there are those who hear about it, and they cannot agree with it. I understand that however bit by bit as we speak about it, the light works on us, and it reforms us. We have been through the Congress. We went through a very special Congress, a very good one and now we can start to approach that stage about which I am talking.
9. S. (24:35) You said that the prayer has to be in joy and emotional, did I hear that correctly?
R. The prayer should be emotional of course and with joy? Joy also, yes, but each one gives you a different expression, but it does need to be emotional, out of the heart.
S. The emotional part I get because we are trying to find that brokenhearted place but how do you find that brokenhearted place and still hold on to joy?
R. I need to be connected to all of my friends, with a single desire to bestow through them to the Creator and I see that I am not capable of it, and I also do not see in them that they're capable of it, that they want it, this is our general state. That general state is something that the Creator reveals in us, so we have to accept it to be happy with it, I need to discover joy in that as well. This is the state that the Creator is revealing to us, the fact that I realize that this comes to me from the Creator even though it is a very small and low degree but nevertheless, this is what the Creator is revealing to us, so already the fact that I am connected with Him even though from afar, and not directly that I would like to bestow to him. I do not want that; I do not feel that in my desire or that he wants to bestow to me but nevertheless there is something in that connection that should make me happy. I need to appreciate this connection nevertheless I have something and in truth all of the work in spirituality is besides it, this thin thread of connection that we discover in the beginning, all the rest of our connections with the Creator are in order to bestow to him, to give to him and we just need this thin, very thin thread that ties us with the Creator so that out of that I will know that I am giving him and connected with him. There are such words here that may be confusing, and it is hard to convey through them something that is internal but try it out and you will see.
S. Is that thin thread, is that felt by us, is it a sensation, a feeling or are we unconscious to it?
R. We are not unconscious, we do have consciousness and awareness, we have a connection, we just need to expand this connection, this is by expanding the connection in the ten first of all. Do not run away from that and out of our expanding the connection with the friends, out of that you can together begin out of this connection to rise to the Creator, to turn to the Creator only in such a way from the love of people to the love of the Creator.
10. S. (28:38) How can we be sure the prayer will be received?
R. We cannot know if it is accepted or if it's not accepted, we don't have yet this mutual connection but rather it's only in one direction and we need to believe that whatever we are saying the Creator hears it for sure because it is in us to begin with, in all of us and all of the people, everyone whoever the Creator created. We are all managed by the upper light that is poured down on us and manages us all of the still, vegetative, animate and speaking, all of the world, in all of the degrees, and therefore our connection with the Creator from the side of the Creator, it is established, it exists. Our connection from us to the Creator, which is a problem. This is what we want to establish but also, we need to feel for what do I need this connection? What do I need my connection with the Creator for so that I will feel good and be secure, I can get hold of him, I can feel, I can be wise, for what do I need it? Here I need to realize that there is the matter of the restriction, that I want this connection only so that through the friends I can bestow contentment to him otherwise we do not reach the goal, we remain egoistic. So here we therefore need to perform actions, group actions between us, such that the reforming light will influence us, it is not that we do not have a desire to bestow, of course we do not have a desire to bestow. But along with that we would like to have it, therefore we turn to him, and we ask. All of our work is actually connection and prayer. So, we come back to where we started.
S. Why is the matter of having to beg the Creator to hear our prayer?
R. The Creator does not need our prayers, he does not have such a lack besides the lack to bestow so everything that is required of you is that you will have a vessel of reception.
11. S. (31:49) I tried to scrutinize in the ten why it is hard to pray? Why is it hard to pray?
R. You do not sketch before you, establish before you this whole picture but first of all the Creator is the degree of Bina, let us just say the degree of bestowal, the degree of bestowal receives actions of bestowal or requests to be like it to some extent to bestow. So, towards Bina we need to develop, we need to develop this desire to bestow. From where do we take that? I am telling you, according, at least to my small experience, it takes a lot of time. But it all depends also on the connection each one shall help his friend, and as much as there is envy between the friends in the group so that each one thinks that the others as more successful, that is good. Because authors or counters envy increases wisdom. This is how we need to advance; this is how we need to advance and therefore we need to try to connect between us in order to demand from the Creator. Here we will already feel obstacles, barriers between us, partitions between us, how do I connect with the friend in order to turn to the Creator? The Creator seems to me something that seems very personal, and the friend is something on the side. So how do I connect to the friend in order to connect with the Creator and even more than that I feel the friend, that he truly exists on the side next to me and the Creator is high above me or before me. On the other hand, it says that the friend should be on my way to the Creator, from the love of people to the love of the Creator. In the connection between us we attain the Creator. So, what should we do?
This is how we need to see our actions, our work. I need to constantly try to depict to myself what kind of connection I need to have, what kind of a connection we need to have between us so it will be qualified, correct for our connection with the Creator. We simply build together a device with which we can connect with the Creator. So how should we position each one and arrange him towards the others, so let us together create, like placing a team on the court, on the playing court, the playing field so that the connection between us in itself will start to meet a wavelength, like a radio wave it will start to meet such a wavelength that it will reach the Creator. How between us should we connect so that the connection between us will rise to the Creator and bestowed to him? This is what we should think about how to build such a thing each and every time. This is our mandatory work. Then we will see that He already exists, and He is waiting for us, and He is happy when we finally try to reach Him according to the laws of nature, meaning out of the connection between us to a connection with Him.
S. You said to arrange ourselves correctly on the playing field, what does that mean, what is the correct arrangement?
R. The right order is for us to support one another as I want to bestow to my friends, like I was to bestow to the Creator.
12. S. (37:22) When I pray it seems to me that it is my ego that is turning to the Creator so how can I turn my request so the prayer will come out of the ten and not out of my ego? Maybe phrasing it together can help?
R. I will tell you if you turn to the Creator alone, you are turning to him as an egoist and it is best that you do not even address him, it is written that way. Not building but destroying, it is written that way. Whereas one who appeals to the group and through the group to the Creator tries to build himself that way, almost immediately very quickly feels that he has a spiritual connection. It is something that you did not have before, it is something that emerges from him towards bestowal. It is good for him to be in this he begins to receive pleasure in this he starts to feel a new development here, by through the friends wanting to turn to the Creator and he tries to see the friends before him. From the love of the created beings to the love of the Creator and tries to arrange them in such a way that they will bestow to the Creator because my friends actually at the bottom line are my forces of bestowal, mine, and when I connect to them, I am the Malchut and they are the nine upper ones and through them I bestow to the Creator, otherwise I don't reach Him. We are building a Partzuf each is building a Partzuf out of his personal laboratory towards our common Keter towards the Creator this is how we need to see this. I see that today we have a lesson that is quite different, okay we will talk in such a way.
13. S. (39:59) There's a feeling that the more we have the scrutiny's the less clear it becomes how to pray, so what is the main thing that we are lacking in our effort to reach a complete prayer?
R. The main thing we are missing is to connect between us and from the connection between us we will discover our attitude towards the Creator. Otherwise, we will not reveal Him. That vector, that direction we will not discover. Only through connecting to the friends and trying to somewhat arrange them and seeing them and that is how each and everyone needs to do because each of us is the personal private Malchut in the ten. Then in such a way we aim ourselves to the Creator and then there is no problem. You will see how fast you come to contact in connection with the Creator, and if you cannot it is a sign that you are being lazy.
14. S. (41:25) You said if we turn to the Creator on our own and a prayer it is damaging?
R. Yes, which is what is written.
S. We're also told we have to keep a dialogue with the Creator all the time. How can we make sure that that dialogue we keep with the Creator is not damaging.?
R. If it moves through the friends, it is not harmful and if it moves from you directly to the Creator like you are imagining to yourself, then it is harmful. The prayer of the individual spoils. The prayer, the public prayer as we call it, ‘The Prayer of Many,’ corrects the prayer, the common prayer. Because it hastens the whole system towards the end of correction.
15. S. (42:46) Seems to me that you answered already but if you allow me to try to be more precise, you said we feel already to each one is in his desire so how eventually will these desires come together?
R. Don't worry about the desires connecting the desires, restrictions, direct light, reflecting light everything will connect that is the work that takes place in the Partzuf. The main thing is whether we are trying to enter ourselves into the mold of the Partzuf and that will happen. Then the laws of the Partzuf will operate on us.
16. S. (43:46) We can fill only our egoistic vessels?
R. There are no egoistic vessels if it is egoistic, it is not a vessel, a Kli. A Kli is called a desire that is ready to reveal the light which is in order to bestow that it has a restriction a screen, reflected light that is what is called a Kli. The desire that is in his order to receive is egotistical and is not a Kli. You can say a shattered Kli if you want.
S. The moment that we elevate the friend we raise him; we tell him great you are doing a great job, so something fills him right?
R. You can fill him with whatever you want we are talking about the upper fulfillment. The upper filling can enter only in vessels of bestowal in accordance with equivalence of the filling and the desire. Where the desire wants to work like the filling, then the filling is revealed in the desire.
S. If instead of a request to fill our friends that the friends will be filled, is there room for such a request that the friends will be filled?
R. Yes that is a correct request, let it be for the time being later will be corrected with the development, why am I saying in such a way, as if it is doubtful? Because the true request is to fill the Creator and not the friends and the friends is only under the condition that through that we come together to connection and can fill the Creator to bring him contentment as we call it. To fill the creator meaning to ask Him for filling for Him to fill us, because by that we bring forth pleasure to Him. And for ourselves no. We work against our will to receive, we do not want to receive, we overcome the desire, the restriction the Masach, the reflected light, all those actions that we do, and this is an order to cause the Creator pleasure by us receiving. But our reception is not from the filling but from us causing this pleasure to the Creator. Actually, there is no reception and bestowal other than the intentions, I for my beloved and my beloved for me.
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R. Okay it's very good that you have all kinds of doubts and cautions, and you don't know exactly right and wrong and now I understand it, start to do the main thing as if you want to do this together with the friends through the friends, to the Creator, for the Creator, then at least you can do. And you will start to receive from the Creator forces of correction. Yes, corrective forces.
18. S. (48:44) If I am behind in my prayer, can my friends complete me? Complement it so that the friends will complete it into a complete prayer?
R. Yes, we always complete one another.
S. What happens with the angry complaints towards the Creator, complaints towards the ten, how do they also become a prayer?
R. They also become the prayer, anger complaints and screams and everything that you have inside and those that you do not even know or feel yet, not only what emerges, but you get to know you feel recognize what is going on inside of you. Even all of those things they all rise above to the Creator and are all included in this field of the light of Ein Sof. Do not worry, everything is taken into account, the main thing is to work. The main thing is to work. Put it this way, to perform bad actions is better than not doing anything. Because from the bad actions you will see very quickly that you are doing something wrong and not okay, you will still feel bad you will start crying, whereas a fool that sits, folding his arms over or eating his own flesh, from that you will not advance. If you do actions that are filled with errors, you will advance and if you do not do anything you will not advance. That is why it is worthwhile to do of course try to do the right actions, but even if they are not the right ones it is like a baby that breaks something and does something, but he learns from it.
19. S. (51:08) My qualities, because of which I see myself above the friends, so they specifically are already corrected outside of me and if I will correct them that I will be in bestowal?
R. Yes, do, the main thing is to do.
20. S. (52:16) A few minutes ago if I heard you correctly, you said ask of the Creator through the friends, through the desire for the friends, does it mean to say that I emotionally have a feeling of the personal desire of each one of the friends' individual desires, this is the spiritual force?
R. If we turn to the Creator personally, I am turning to the Creator there is no result from that. I advance like the whole world. With all my imagination's but it is zero. The Creator only hears from within the group. When you are correcting your ego through an appeal to the group, and from it to the Creator then you are already in contact with Him. According to that which the connection you built, otherwise you have no connection. You are pulling an egoistic string from you to the Creator, and it does not work. Even if you with one friend can be in a mutual connection and then between you there is a certain measure of bestowal with that measure of bestowal you can already appeal to the Creator.
S. Yes this is fantastic, it is great because I have a feeling, an emotional feeling of the desire of the friend as he turns to the Creator, and something inside of me towards each of the friends that makes it all simpler, the prayer to the Creator and how to come out of myself?
R. To exit yourself you can under the condition you are incorporated in the friend, integrated in the friend. You are willing to place all your qualities, your mind, and your heart for the sake of the friend. And when you depict in such a way that you are willing to do this, turn to the Creator with that. Ask for the friend. One who asks for his friend merits first. You receive and pass it to the friend. That is how it works. You appeal to the friend and take his deficiency and you want to raise it to the Creator. You receive from the Creator filling in that deficiency that you receive, and you pass it to the friend. It turns out that you arranged the connection of the friend and the Creator, in both directions and by that you both enter into spirituality. There are many verses that talk about this. See them in such a way.
21. S. (56:00) I would like to ask you again how do we practically conduct a prayer? Should it be as stubborn prayer done through words towards the Creator or is it a constant state in which we have to connect between us and think about the Creator if the prayer is a matter of words. Can you give us an example of the words that we should use?
R. With words, there are many books in which all kinds of words are written. We do not use that. We are happy from our little efforts of what I feel. My heart does not work according to a certain language or some grammar or some special compositions. This is how I should be; I should speak in the simplest form. It can even be without words, it can be melodies, it can be about anything, as long as it expresses the feeling of my heart. This is what the Creator demands. The hearts. The hearts.
22. S. (57:51) Do we get to know our connection with the Creator as an emotion or as a law?
R. I do not understand the difference between this and that. We operate, well we want to turn to the Creator according to the laws of nature and our emotion actually constructs those laws of nature. I think that the one who asked that question does not understand exactly.
23. S. (58:35) What is the difference between asking through the friend or together with the friend?
R. Do that together.
S. You say that we need to ask out of the group but many times we try to write such a prayer after the lesson between the friends. Sometimes I do not know what to ask for, I have all kinds of desires that I see even inside of myself, but I do not know what the right request is so how can we phrase it?
R. Because you want to ask from yourself but ask in place of the friend for the friend. Then you will have it much easier to turn to the Creator and much easier for you to restrict your request in a clear way, in a concrete way and address it to the Creator. What do you think is necessary for the friend? It will be much clearer for you. You are completely deviating the path when each one asks for himself. There is no such thing as asking for oneself, it is best you should not ask anything in that case. We need to ask only for the others; this is the law of an Integral vessel which we need to reassemble and recollect.
24. S. (01:00:27) Should we pray that the will to receive will grow in the friends?
R. No we cannot define more or less the will to receive we just want to reach a form of bestowal. A form of equivalence of form with the Creator. And we pray for that. Only for that. I for my beloved and my beloved for me, that is what it is called. We want to connect between us in order to open ourselves to the Creator so that He will enjoy feeling us or doing whatever He wants with us. As clay in the hands of the craftsmen of the master, that is what we want to be and with this the Creator will do what He thinks.
S. If we ask for the desire how to connect of the friend, by that we can correct our own desire?
R. Certainly, then specifically we correct our desire only then, if we ask for the friend, we are correcting our desire to receive. And in no other way. That is the correct and only form that we can address the Creator and receive from Him help and filling. Where I ask for the friend. Try to think in that direction, try to get inspired, try to feel it and you will see that it is possible. Because really, we are in this connection, only that the connection is concealed.
25. S. (01:02:59) We need to think only for the friends. If the friend, should he somehow display and present his desire not to hide it?
R. No he does not need to, we do not need to open our desires to one another, anyway we learn and talk about it and learn about the common goal and what we need to reach. Therefore, I actually know the friends and where they want to go and what is going on with them, in the plans, let us say in our plans, I know that. Because we are studying together.
26. S. (01:03:58) How does the connection between small tens into a bigger ten, how can that assist their connection with the Creator?
R. Without connection of friends, friends would have no connections to the Creator, very simply. At least two who are connecting then they already have a connection to the Creator. And optimally if it would be ten. That is what is written and that is what we learn from the system.
S. He was asking about connecting two small tens?
R. No, two tens I am not taking into account, I do not want to answer about that. I do not have connections between tens if you want to get confused do whatever you want. That is not from the wisdom of Kabbalah, and I do not want to talk about that altogether. Connection between tens will be where each ten feels itself as one. Then the connection between the two tens will be like between two people. Only in such a way. You are not yet in that therefore do not be wise, one step forward you make from yourself, it is worse than several steps backwards. And do not ask me ever about that direction do not hurry things. Do not rush it. Do what we are doing implemented in practicality and then you will see how much that is standing before you still.
27. S. (01:06:08) How should we feel such a need for the Creator that we will be able to demand from Him His help so that we can work for Him? How can we feel such a necessity, such a need for the Creator so that we will be able to demand help from Him in order to work for Him?
R. That comes from the talk between us in the group, we need to awaken the hearts of the friends and sensitivity for us to hear these things, the words of the Kabbalists and what is felt from the work so that we will be able to digest it correctly. It all depends on raising the sensitivity and refine the sensitivity in the group. There are people in which it is very difficult for them, I am also one of them where it is very difficult. I had a very difficult time to get along inside the group, inside the ten but everyone gets there. There is nothing you can do about it; everyone gets there, and I did too.
28. S. (01:07:44) There are states of conditions in the ten that we do not need to lose, those are chances to add, to create a greater connection to reach, I for My Beloved and My Beloved for Me?
R. There are such states in which we miss, but then it returns, but there are, and we need to also be fearful that we do not miss an opportunity, it is there. It is a matter of reward, punishment, and fate. There are many things in that.
29. (01:09:18) The friend before asked you according to talking to the Creator that we can do it without damaging ourselves only within our ten. How can I keep talking to the Creator from the ten? I do not understand it is not clear. Usually, I relate to Him during the day in a continuous way, a cautious way?
R. Try to first settle in to immerse yourself in the ten and then from the connection that you have in the ten, address the Creator. When you are praying for them and not for yourself where you have nothing of yourself, only what they want. For what they yearn. You want to match make between them and the Creator.
30. S. (01:10:22) What's the difference between asking for a friend what I want and asking for a friend what he wants. For example, if I want corrections but I cannot ask it for me, I should ask it for him. it is one kind of asking. There is another kind I ask for; what he needs. What is the difference between both of them?
R. If you raise the deficiency of the friend, that deficiency comes to the Creator and the Creator answers that, but you raise your own deficiency the Creator will not answer it. You see, the whole world is crying out and praying, raising deficiencies to the Heavens seemingly. Each wants something to attain, to understand, to feel, to discover, something. Well, what do they have? It becomes only worse and worse until they come to the understanding that we need here to stabilize in a different way to life and towards that which causes life.
31. S. (01:12:11) We somehow obligate through our prayer to do something but when the friend let us say, reads his prayer, should we reach a common phrasing of everyone should it be common?
R. It is not a problem that one reads his prayer. I can also incorporate in all those words that he wrote there and read it. There is no problem with that. If you want for it to be that way, then do it that way. Sometimes it is worthwhile to do so.
32. S. (01:13:06) What is the ultimate deficiency that will calibrate this correctly in our prayer?
R. Where we are asking on behalf of the group for Him to make of us a vessel to bestow contentment to Him. In what way do we need to be in order for Him to be satisfied with us? That is what we want. How to come closer, what to do so that the Creator will enjoy us. That is what we ask.
33. S. (01:13:57) We compose a prayer after the lesson and later on we just have the written text of that prayer. How do we work with it correctly when I read it, does that mean that I am praying already?
R. It is good that you do that too even though there are all kinds of ways of working with the deficiencies. But it is worthwhile to do that too and then you will see how those thoughts and desires of yours will already change as much as life throughout the day will influence you, and so on it is worthwhile. We learn from that who we are.
S. Is it possible to say that when I read the prayer during the day, so I am incorporating in the friends’ deficiencies?
R. You can say, try. All those things we need to try them and then there is none wiser than one with experience. You are asking me about such things you should know on your own, from your own, from your experience, from your life.
34. S. (01:15:49) During the lesson or zoom meetings, how can we concentrate the time and efforts on raising the prayer?
R. Through the intention, through the preparation, through reminding it to one another. To each and every one all of us together, that is our work, what is there to explain here? You are asking as if you do not know our system, as if you do not know how to get along and connect, to bring forth the deficiency, in what way to organize and what to do. It is all in your hands. Be men, what do you want?
35. S. (01:16:57) We are constantly yearning to be in a prayer each and every moment also and workshops also in lessons and after the lesson, then we just scatter but should we be in pain constantly to the Creator to help us?
R. You do not need to be in pain, you need to be in prayer all the time discovering deficiency, what do I want, that is it.
36. S. (01:17:47) We all have that deficiency for connection and of course we all have different kinds of yearning for that. so, what should we listen to more, the ultimate deficiency or what I feel at this moment? Do I need to listen to the current deficiency of the friend?
R. It is desired to be always in the desires of the friends, to connect with them and make an action of raising their desires to the Creator, which is our work. That ultimately, I pray for the friend, for all the friends, for the whole ten, and then even for the whole world. That is my role. There are many quotes about that.
37. S. (01:19:19) Is it possible to relate to the whole part of the lesson as a prayer to the Creator?
R. Yes, yes, you could say that.
38. S. (01:19:50) When we build a prayer together three times a day, my prayer is prohibited but it comes from my feeling. But the prayers of the friends I do not feel, and I do not want, so how do I push it into my feelings?
R. I do not know, you have to work on your heart, you have to understand that the deficiencies they bring up is what you need to realize. They just raised these deficiencies to you, and you need to raise these deficiencies to the Creator. That is up to you.
S. And that is how I get excited from what they want?
R. You hear what needs to happen, that is it. So, you see how far you are from it.
39. S. (01:20:52) The moment we ask for the friend, what should I do with the tendency to search for an answer from the Creator? Should I restrict that?
R. That does not matter. In the meantime, you need to raise the deficiency to the Creator.
40. S. (01:21:18) You said in the beginning of the lesson that we need to raise a prayer from our mutual feeling that we are building between us. That each one prays and searches for a way to raise our prayer through our mutual feeling. So, do we have to strengthen that mutual feeling between us?
R. read again excerpt twelve.
Excerpt 12 (01:21:53)
41. S. (01:22:44) If the ten have two or three friends that like each other better, they have a good connection with one another. Should we first pray for the friends that are closer?
R. Yes, put it like that, sure. It does not matter, start with the closer friends and then the farther friends, make it like that. The most important is to start this work that I want to pray for the friends.
42. S. (01:23:30) How do I give the importance of the prayer to all the friends in the ten that everyone will burn in that direction?
R. Try to find quotes that speak about it. There is a lot about that because our plea to the Creator is everything that we need to do, and this is what saves us and advances us, there is nothing more. This prayer, this plea needs to be correct in order to get a response. It needs to be in line with the laws of progress towards the final correction. So, what do we need to ask for, how do we need to ask, how will it change us? By forcing ourselves to ask for something we do not want, by that we awaken the light that changes us and corrects us. There is always a kind of work to do here. A scrutiny.
43. S. (01:24:51) Am I going to feel my friend's deficiencies inside of me or outside of me?
R. No, you have to try to connect with the friends, try to understand their deficiencies, spiritual deficiencies of course, not from earthly corporeal life but spiritual, and try to be the one who raises their deficiencies to the Creator. This is called, “one who prays for his friend is awarded first.” So, you will begin to receive from the Creator a response. You begin to understand and feel what is happening to you and it is interesting. You begin to also receive answers for your questions as well as the questions of the friends. Even though towards the Creator you seem to be raising their deficiencies, but you are doing that, so your deficiencies remain in you and so when you raise their deficiencies within your deficiency you as if become impregnated with their deficiencies and you raise that to the Creator, so the vessel is your vessel. Within it are deficiencies of the friends and so you receive an answer both to their deficiencies but in your vessel; so, you also begin to understand your answers. Do not worry. That is the most correct prayer to pray for the friend, and if you pray for yourself, you are not going to get an answer.
S. Intellectually that is okay but when it comes to feeling it is not clear how to feel the deficiency of the friend. Today I called all the friends in the ten and I asked them what can I do for you? How can I raise importance in the ten, how can we be more in the morning lessons? I talked with all of them, I prayed, I am trying to do everything, but I cannot reach them. I cannot reach their heart, their deficiencies no matter how much I try.
R. Try more and more, try, you do not have a choice. If you will not soften your heart to feel the friends your heart will not be ready to feel the Creator. Your heart is that organ, the organ in your body where you can feel the Creator. The Creator is felt within the heart, the heart meaning what feels, the heart means the desire. So, if you develop your desire which is the heart, to sense, to feel the friends, you are then making actions like a training, by which you teach your heart to feel the Creator. This is why it is called from love of the created beings to love of the Creator. It will work, it will work, do not worry it will. Everyone comes to that; everyone is qualified for it and certainly you.
44. S. (01:29:57) I wanted to ask that from the excerpt that the Creator is waiting for us to have the right vessels to receive that bounty, which is the answer you just gave to him?
R. Good that you heard, good that you heard.
45. S. (01:30:24) When I am incorporated in the friend’s deficiency, so I went from my deficiency to the friends correct?
R. No, in your deficiency you feel the friend's deficiency.
S. That's the deficiency I raise to the Creator? What do I mean to raise to the Creator, how do I recognize him?
R. You pray to the Creator, you turn to the Creator to fulfill your friend's deficiency.
S. So what is the Creator, how do I recognize him?
R. You don’t, you just turn to the upper force which is a source for everyone, and you ask for the friends so it's not like any kind of request that all people have, there is many deficiencies, and they all ask whether they turn to the Creator or not doesn't matter but each one is asking for himself. You are turning to him through the friend, so your desire to some extent is already in order to bestow. It is somewhat compatible with the upper system, the system of Bina even though you are in Malchut but you raise such a deficiency that is compatible with the system of Bina and so it turns out that the Creator is hearing you because you have some similarity, already by that you become Adam, similar to the Creator to the force of bestowal because you then take a deficiency from the friend and raise it to the Creator. It turns out you are beginning to make a spiritual action and the Creator must answer it towards him, it is the exact deficiency that he is waiting for, which is a deficiency that is as if in order to bestow. You are asking the Creator to make an action of bestowal to your friend and by that you are also doing a good action towards the Creator by raising the friend's deficiency to him, so you earn twofold. This is called you are rewarded first because you are the connection between the Creator and the friend through you and then the Creator through you to the friend and that is how you advance so you have built an actual spiritual vessel.
S. So you just did with your hand you go upwards, what is upwards?
R. To the Creator, the force of bestowal, which is in my appreciation, he is above me.
46. S. (01:33:59) Should there be some uniqueness in our work on the prayer specifically during the morning lesson compared to how we work on the prayer the rest of our time except for the morning lesson?
R. Sometimes I do such a thing because we are continuing the Congress we had, and we need to continue it more. We will try to kind of do it on a Friday or whenever the opportunity is there.
47. S. (01:35:13) You said there is none wiser than the experience, so I just want to clarify the effort in the prayer so in the morning after the lessons usually we listen to the lesson again and then each of us really raise what is missing between us. What kind of effort that we can put so that we can build and reveal this connection of love and bestowal between the friends and from there each of us talk to each other and we try to raise a prayer and between the meetings we tried to feel this heartfelt prayer and in the end of the day each of us tries to summarize how much we try to do it, this prayer. How many times we can do it and what happened, meaning that each of us try to restrict ourselves first from all the stuff we have in this world and feel more of the Hissaron (deficiency) of the friends?
R. Do you have a question, maybe you have a question you can ask?
S. Is this correct, is this how we should raise our prayer and restrict ourselves first feel the friends Hissaron and then we want to bring this lack of my friends, build this vessel of bestowal to him, is that the way for us to reach the prayer?
R. Yes and try to restrict your questions to a point where they can be heard and understood.
48. S. (01:39:20) I can pray for a friend only if I see a flaw in him that needs to be corrected because if he was perfect, I have nothing to ask for so what is the right way to relate to that?
R. I want to receive the friend's deficiency, what he feels, what he lacks, and that deficiency is what I want to raise to the Creator. There is great benefit in that. Since first I pray for the friend’s deficiency, the others and by that I connect to the others, by that I am connecting the others to the Creator, so through that I also connect to the Creator. It is like I am catching a ride or an opportunity to rise to the Creator with the friend’s deficiency, there is a sort of an exploitation of the friend here. There are many aspects here but, in the meantime, let us put it like that but I am doing that because that is possible. You can even say it is egoistic, that I am working egotistically, fine, but it is doable. Receiving in order to bestow also requires using the egoistic desire and I am using it with all of the vessels around me. We are going to have to learn how to do that in sure that is how we need to continue.
49. S. (01:39:16) On one hand the Creator only hears the prayer with the person from the right vessels, on the other hand the right vessels are given from the Creator, how does that work out together?
R. The right vessels are only built by the Creator according to the request of the lower, the lower one has to feel the need for these vessels. I want to bestow to these deficiencies and that is why I am asking for them.
50. S. (01:39:50) There are friends that come to the lessons and the meetings and work and pray internally, and they say that we do not need to put the prayer in words, is that right?
R. It is true, there will come a time that they will do it differently. But for now, it is true, you know it is like a baby grows, so each time you demand a bit more from it, you show it more things so if they say they do not need more they do not need more, fine, there will come a time when they themselves will want more.
51. S. (01:44:07) What is the connection with Bina, what am I connecting to, who is on the other side of that connection?
R. I connect with the degree of Bina as a result of first to bestow, wanting to reach the degree of Bina, the degree of Bina is the degree of the Creator, turning to the Creator means I turn to the degree of Bina.
52. S. (01:44:51) Is the true plea that we all want to annul in the ten?
R. The true degree of the ten is that we all come to annulment towards the ten, the ten is the sacred concept because that is where the Creator is revealed. That is the vessel of bestowal and that is why we relate to it like that, the ten as sacred.
53. S. (01:45:39) What is inner work when I cannot unite with the ten when my ego is attacking me and stomping everything I am aspiring for, when I can't even pray for help?
R. I am included with the ten and I try to be like a dead body but still a part of them. Then it gradually influences me, and I recover.
54. S. (01:46:14) You said in the Congress that if we put together sentences from every friend in the prayer it is not right, that we need in some way to scrutinize our prayer, how should we do it correctly? How to put together a mutual prayer in the ten?
R. First of all to feel each other. Then we can say that we put something together, there needs to be a common desire, a common intention and then to try to be in that, come closer, that is what is important. I do not have more to say, that is just you need to work on that, there is not many words here. What is important here is not the words, to be together means to be in a single heart.
55. S. (01:47:17) What's the work of a friend if the whole ten is praying for him?
R. The ten has to pray for the friend for each and every friend, that the Creator will correct him, each and every friend, so that he connects with all of the other friends. All together we all want to be connected as one man and one heart. That is it
56. S. (01:47:54) You said that if we are not able to connect the aim ourselves to the Creator that means we are lazy, how to fight up against that laziness?
R. Together one shall help his friend. We should talk about it, raise the importance of that and influence each other. It takes time, it is not simple, but we have to work that way.
57. S. (01:48:26) The attempts to feel the friend and ask for him awakens the resistance and a lack of desire right away. How to work with that?
R. When one has to overcome himself and accept each friend as the greatest of the generation and if you're not in the friend's place then it says don't judge your friend until you reach his place, because if you were in his place, you would behave just like him or worse, that's on the one hand. On the other hand, we should always see that one judges through his own flaws. There are many results of the shattered vessel that we have to really just shut our eyes hard and say we have eyes but see not and I have to see everyone in the final correction besides me and that is true. That is true, the point from which I see the world as broken. It is not that the world, my friends, and everyone else is broken, everything besides me is the Creator. So that is how I should relate to everyone and to all my friends, to my whole group. I need to relate to them as an opportunity that the Creator deliberately built the world and the group to give me an opportunity, me, the only one who is broken, an opportunity to rise all the way to his degree.
58. S. (01:50:26) You stated the lesson today is different, what did you mean?
R. I meant it is not an ordinary lesson in the sense that we were also skipping Pticha and then it started on a new path, we had to renew the Congress and that is why it came out that way.
Reader - Excerpt #13 (01:50:59) Twice
59. R. (01:53:33) WSQ. Let's talk about how we need to incorporate with the friends lack or the desire of the ten, so that we right in front of us that we have a group or friend this and that, both this and that and we raise these prayers, a prayer for the friend and a prayer for the group where you raise them to the Creator. What kind of prayer then do we raise to the Creator for the friend and for the group?
60. R. (02:00:33) WSQ. How can we depict our vessel, our common desire where the Creator is revealed? The Creator can be revealed only in our desire where we, each one, nullify our personal desire and are willing to connect with the other desires in the ten. So how can we depict the common desire that each and every one feels as a personal desire in a personal way and there the Creator appears. How do we reveal the Creator?
61. R. (02:05:07) How can we reach a state where specifically the longing becomes the fulfillment and not what we thought before, where is that excerpt? That specifically the longing is our fulfillment and that is what we fulfill our hearts with and that fulfills us in an unbounded way. How can we already begin to appreciate the longing so much that they shine to us with all of their infinity?
Article 15 from Baal HaSulam, Reader: (02:06:32)
The measure of the Creator's listening depends precisely on the measure of the longing that appears during the saying of the prayer, when one feels excessive longing, he should know that at that time the Creator is listening to him attentively. Clearly when he knows this, he pours his heart out even stronger, for there is no greater privilege than the King of the world being attentive to this is quite similar to what our sages said, the Creator longs for the prayer of the righteous. For the Creator’s desire for a person to draw near him awakens great power and longing in the person to crave for the Creator, for as in water of the face to the face, so the heart of man to man. It follows that the saying of the prayer and the hearing of the prayer go hand-in-hand until they accumulate to the full measure, and he acquires everything.
62. R. (02:08:07) This is basically so we understand that we do not need to chase anything, but the right fulfillment of the heart is the longing to the Creator.
Letter 19 by Baal HaSulam: Reader (02:08:29)
Grace is deceitful and deceit is vain but a woman who fears the Lord shall be praised, this means that during the preparation beauty and grace appears the essence of perfection for which one yearns and longs however at the time of correction when the earth is full of the knowledge of the Lord, I shall see an opposite world as only fear and longing are the desired perfection. Then when one feels during the time of preparation, they were lying to themselves.
Excerpt 14 (02:09:30)
63. S. (02:11:08) When you say to pray for a friend it is for the common deficiency of the whole ten or maybe I go friend by friend?
R. If I can pray for the friend then I already read myself and I am included with your desire of course, I have nothing else, so with my desire I am included in the friend and then what I perceive is the friends desire within my desire. So, by that I, as if the friend impregnates me. The friend becomes in me and then this deficiency that I have absorbed I raise that to the Creator then I have a prayer for the others to pray for one's friend. This is essentially the only action, the only true spiritual action that we can do, and we need to imagine it now every day. Every day, how do we do that?
S. I understand the mechanism but let us have ten friends in ten, who am I praying for one by one or the whole ten together?
R. However whatever is easier for you for now, for now wherever you feel that you are able to be more moved by it please, later on you will go on and develop more and more other relationships with other friends as well.
64. S. (02:13:16) If I feel that it does not matter how I pray, I just do not do it right, so what is the first step to start?
R. The Creator hears the prayer of every mouth, if you try then he already accepts it, that is it, you have to be certain that specifically this work that you ask for the friends or for a friend does not happen for no reason, it is certainly registered in your account above.
65. S. (02:14:03) If I understand correctly, yearning for it is equivalent to the greatness of the Creator?
R. It is not that I need to discover the Creator but just to see Him as the good that does good and that I can reach faith above reason. Yes, you will reach faith above reason to the extent that you pray for the friends, this is the safest means.
66. S. (02:14:52) How can we help each one of their friends in the ten come closer and connect so each one of them will feel that he is in a connection with every other friend in the ten.?
R. There's no answer to this, just pray and that is it.
67. S. (02:15:24) How to open the hearts of the friends without confusing them? How to open the hearts of the friends without confusing them?
R. You do not need to confuse them, you do not need to turn to them, we are talking about your work of the heart, also when you ask of the Creator you do not need to yell aloud so that everyone hears, is it understood?
S. If I do not help the friends by opening the heart?
R. I do not understand you. When you try to help the friends in turning to the Creator for him to help them by that you help them. Afterwards you will start feeling it first and we just went through so much material on it and you are asking these things.
68. S. (02:16:44) All the shattering that will be outside of us, that will be our work?
R. Yes of course, we will try to correct the shattering that is our work. We will always discover the broken vessels and in the connections between them that is our work. By the light that reforms, by the light that does not just reveal the bad but also corrects it, raises it to good, that is our whole work. So now we are at the beginning of the work, preparing the vessel for the work.
70. S. (02:17:39) It speaks about a force, what is this force, these powers that we are asking from the Creator?
R. The force of bestowal, the force of sensing the others.
71. S. (02:17:51) Excerpt 11, You said that if I pray for myself, I do harm to my soul, correct?
R. Yes.
R. Meaning that if you pray to the Creator, you're asking him to give you the force of bestowal because you want to bestow to the whole world that too is an incorrect prayer, you need to receive deficiencies from the world or even from one or two, it doesn't matter and with that deficiency you approach the Creator and that means you raise MAN.
S. So in this prayer that he just pointed out where seemingly it is all for one person praying for their own ability to be safe, if we use that as a group prayer for our tens does that do anything wrong?
R. Possibly but that is not what it is about.
72. S. (02:19:51) You say that we must build a connection between us where the Creator is revealed so can we say that the only real connection is built through prayer?
R. Yes of course, all the connections are all only through prayer.
S. The connection between us only?
R. Yes, yes of course.
73. S. (02:20:20) Baal HaSulam writes that the perfection of the prayer, the whole prayer comes from the lowest person, that there is nothing in his body. But we know the Creator did not create anything redundant so can we turn it into something good, something beneficial, what does Baal HaSulam want to tell us?
R. We need to achieve correction so that all of our desires instead of an intention to receive that they have after the shattering, the sin of the tree of knowledge, they will receive a different intention the intention to bestow, the same desires but and intention to bestow and with the intention to bestow, they will connect and when each and every one connects with the others, you understand what kind of connections are being recovered here. All the connections between one to all the others, and by that we come to a state where the whole light of Ein Sof, the light of Yechida will fulfill all of these desires in an unbounded connection between them and this is called the final correction and that is what we are talking about today. We want to begin these corrections actively, practically. So, I am asking you during the day, try to determine such states between you, such reminders that you will feel where you are, where this is between you, how can we find the shattering between us, the failures between us and what can we ask for and whom to ask for. Does everyone ask for themselves or the others, and if we ask for the others, we truly correct ourselves, one who prays for his friend is awarded first.
74. S. (02:23:14) I do not see any spiritual desires in anyone, they are all corporeal, how to raise something we do not have?
R. We can awaken the upper light, so it brings us a deficiency for spirituality.
75. S. (02:23:45) The mind understands but the heart does not feel the friends, year after year and lesson after lesson, how to develop a sensitivity to the friends’ deficiency and raise the prayer?
R. Turn to the Creator to help me feel the deficiency of the friend and out of that that I will incorporate with everyone.
76. S. (02:24:30) If I need to only correct myself, how can I ask for the friends' deficiencies, am I not depicting them as corrupted?
R. No, which is my corruption that is actually my correction. When I correct my friend, I am not correcting the friend, I am correcting what I can raise from my vessels towards correction but that is how it is called that I am correcting the friend.
77. S. (02:25:07) Should we have a mutual deficiency in the ten that only that I can raise to the Creator?
R. Yes and no. In the meantime, you can each raise his deficiency for correction, that I want to feel the friend's heart and I raise their deficiency as much as I can to the Creator and that causes our incorporation.
78. S. (02:25:46) If a friend who prays for himself instead of the others does he harm himself so a ten that prays for itself instead of the world, do they harm themselves?
R. I do not know all the conditions you are looking at, is their prayer egoistic or not? Decide accordingly. What are you trying to spin the sentences this way or that way? One cannot pray for himself because he asks for himself.
79. S. (02:26:34) Should we take every desire that is revealed in the friend in order to raise a prayer to the Creator?
R. All the desires that have to do with connection in the group.
80. S. (02:26:59) Our progress is made of thousands of little actions we make every day, we keep making actions and making adjustments on our actions but also, we need to feel like salvation is like the blink of an eye, so how do these two things work together?
R. Both the deficiency is big and also the solution is big, but the distance can be even close to zero between them, but it is still there a partition between the solution and the problem. I need to break through that wall and come to the solution and sometimes it seems like it is nothing, but it is like a membrane, that it seems like I can just easily pass through it, but it does not work. Until ultimately, I understand what kind of subjugation is required of me here.