Morning Lesson September 03, 2021, Transcription
Part 1:
The Creator Is Revealed in the Connection between Us - Selected Excerpts from the Sources
1. Rav’s Introduction: Yes, as we are continuing, we need to scrutinize more and more where should be the reference point of all of our exertion, attention and efforts. So, from there, we need to see the result of our work and, here, we need to talk about a very important point that has to do with our nature. That our nature, after the shattering according to the Creator's plan, our nature needs to be the will to receive. It is revealed to us that everybody is only thinking about himself, feels himself, intends for himself, and sees himself as being in the center of reality and this is the opposite of how it needs to be. The Creator is the center of reality and we need to yearn there and to develop within us qualities, senses for feeling what is existing outside of us which is the Creator instead of constantly feeling and developing feelings only for ourselves. Here we therefore build in the wisdom of Kabbalah greater sensitivity, understanding, attention, connection to whatever exists outside of us. Outside of us is not in the physical space between us, this is imaginary. This is just a projection of what we imagine to ourselves to the extent we enter the perception, a more correct relation to reality, then we also see reality itself, how much it changes with respect to us. This is why all of our attention; our concern should be not about ourselves. There we will not discover anything besides the degrees of still, vegetative, and animate degrees in us, all or in the whole of reality between us but rather we need to be concerned about the place between us, between one and the other. That place we have to bring it to a state where we will be very much concerned about it. We will feel how much this place has many properties and there actually our ego becomes revealed. Our ego is revealed in us in the concern about drawing to ourselves, and most importantly the main ego is revealed in the distance between us.
How much we do not want to bring ourselves closer to one another and if to the extent that we will succeed in building connections between us in relations, thoughts, desires, inclinations, and concerns between us, this place will be called the Shechina. The place where we can later discover the upper force, the Creator. This is why the title for our lesson is that the Creator is revealed in the connection between us, specifically between us, not in each one, but rather we have to rise above ourselves and towards the others and through each one shall help his friend. We have to help each other how each can emerge out of himself and transition or overcome the forces of rejection between us, which the creator has created deliberately. This is called the evil inclination. The more we are able to be drawn to one another and certainly this is work which is above the egoistic desire which the Creator created deliberately so later we would have a strong force for coming closer and connecting with one another upon the crimes, the rejections, we will discover connection and love. This is how we will assemble on top of our will to receive inclinations to bestow, to connect and we should only pay attention to this specifically and there to invest ourselves in the connection between us. This is why the Arvut (mutual guarantee) is so important for us. That each one gives examples to the others because envy, lust and honor bring a person outside of himself to be above himself from the corporeal world as we call it which is what we feel inside ourselves to the spiritual world, which we put together between us.
Then in such a way, as much as we will be able to assemble in this mutual inclination between us all kinds of forces, emotions, qualities, we will be assembling the Shechina, we will be assembling the place where the Creator is revealed. This is also called that, 'they made me a temple'. That the temple is what we read according to Kabbalist's text, what we need to build such a thing. What they mean is that we have to build some building, some structure from rocks but rather what we are building is the connection between us between the hearts so that they are all aimed towards connection, towards giving. Then, according to the equivalence of form, the Creator can dress in it as it says, I will dwell among them. So, building the place for the revelation of the Creator, that is our work. This is what each one actually yearns for and wants to happen but yearning is not correct yet, it is still not directed correctly, not established correctly.
We think that in each one of us the Creator can be revealed but, no. The Creator can be revealed only in the first few steps and this is not really His revelation but only a feeling of His guidance for our correct actions. He awakens in us all kinds of emotions so we could begin to come out of ourselves and to assemble that place between us that will be called a place for the revelation of the Creator or the Shechina. Therefore, shifting our attention from myself to the connections between us to the others, this is actually what this famous sentence says, 'love your friend as yourself'. As much as I am concerned about myself, I need to be concerned about the friends. If we will do that, then we build the correct connections between us and in it according to the intensity of the connection that Creator will be revealed and our will to receive is also not very big but the Creator will make sure each time to raise it more and more in each one of us just like with the students of Rabbi Shimon, that later even wanted to kill one another, so they had what to overcome and to relate to one another with love accordingly. This is how we build the place for the revelation of the Creator, the Shechina. We learn this in the wisdom of Kabbalah and also through all kinds of actions that are technical. We speak about the Tzimtzum Aleph (the first restriction) where I am no longer concerned about myself, then we speak about the Masach (the screen) which means that I come out of myself towards the others, then Ohr Hozer (the reflected light) which means that I am bestowing to others. Then the whole of spirituality is revealed in my inclination towards the others.
My desires, they keep changing according to the root of my soul and I do not know how it happens because this comes out of the shattering of the soul of Adam HaRishon. I just need to be concerned about all of my thoughts, my desires and intentions, everything that awakens within me, how do I establish it, position it, direct it towards the connection with the friends. Then specifically in the connection with them, specifically in that area, in the connection between us we will discover the spiritual world and the Creator and everything that we study, in the whole reality. Our reality will be called the imaginary reality and not the true one, it exists only in order for us to rise above it. This actually is what I wanted to say as an introduction to this collection of excerpts on the topic of the Creator is revealed in the connection between us. So, about the forms of connection, about the technology of how to come out of ourselves and how we relate to others, how to build that place between us which is called the Shechina. All of that we need to scrutinize here but practically so that later we can work on it throughout the day because specifically from this depends on the revelation of the Creator. We cannot discover him and even ask for him to be revealed, this will be an egoistic appeal. Specifically, by us, wanting to help one another, and wanting to connect to one another, by that we destroy our intention to receive and build the intention to bestow in which the Creator is revealed. Therefore, it is impossible to jump into a connection with the Creator if I do not build that through my connection with my friends, because specifically in that, I can build an attitude in order to bestow. Otherwise, I will not be able to reach the Creator with the intention to bestow. We will scrutinize all of this through these excerpts. This is a very important and practical topic.
2. S. (14:29) You said each has to help his friend. When we used to meet physically in the past, we had many opportunities to help each other through different roles and duties how in the virtual connection can we do this?
R. Whatever way things were in the past, that is how they were, it is not how it is going to be and we should not even remember one moment which has passed. All the more so, if it was a certain time ago. I do not remember anything that happened before, nothing. I do not rely on what happened before, this is called 'you should eat the bread of old' and this is not good, you will never see a person who grows up who is given the food of the baby. No, instead each has to have what they need according to their degree, age, health and it is the same with us. We have to use whatever is suitable for us and what is revealed now, this world with the limitations of the coronavirus, the need to accept it as something that is necessary, good and it is suitable for our advancement and not to cry and complain why I do not have different conditions. This is one thing; the second is that we need to approach this according to what the Kabbalists say and build out of these new states with the new conditions, new states. So, talk about it and we think about how to do this. I see that nevertheless our world, that has to shift now from physical contact to contact through the internet, they are doing it. People are getting used to this, I do not see that now that we have virtual connections between us that we regret so much that we do not have physical contact.
Do not feel this and if you do feel this way then talk about it between you and see how much it is already easy for us according to the structure of our soul, according to the conditions that are revealed inside of us, inside each. Also, in the physical world how much, these things are already adapted to our internal and emotional development is very much adapted to what is happening to us in the corporeal world, distances between us. Even without the coronavirus that are spread around the world and the correction the whole mankind has to go through and the Babylon, which is now revealed between us, this mixture of languages as it was in Babylon such a blow in ancient Babylon during the times of Abraham, they did not understand, they stopped understanding each other. They spread out of Babylon, they ran away from that place where back then for some time, the whole of human civilization was concentrated and they scattered all over the planet, spreading to all kinds of places. Before that there was one place, one language and they lived nice and well. However, a new condition became revealed that upon the revelation of this scattering and the distance and the lack of understanding and lack of a one common language, upon all of that they specifically had to build upon all these and contrasting desires. Not the way they lived before with nice and good relations as it says they said they were one people with a common understanding and everything was calm and tranquil and each have the little desire to receive.
Suddenly everything exploded with a true explosion with a great desire to receive emerged and separates between them, distances them and pushes each and every one to a different direction. Nevertheless, we are living now so we need to correct this Babylon so that once again we are coming back to the same pattern, we have to reach the state where upon the entire earth we have to do the same approach, each being concerned for everybody else and then we come back to the same system and effectively have distances between us. We have to see how to skip over them if you fill up those distances, not the physical ones, the emotional ones, if I fill them with the presence of bestowal, the presence of the Creator then by that we build the place of Shechina the place for the revelation of the Creator and that is revealed according to our state 620 times more than how it was revealed in the system of Adam HaRishon. So, this is our work, this is the correction and by this we elevate ourselves from the animate degree, where we still exist to the speaking degree. Speaking means the degree of Adam, human, who resembles the Creator in everything.
S. The question is, how should our connection be that we don't look back but look forward we have this state of the coronavirus, so this teaches us that from now on, this is going to be our state?
R. We need to be as much as possible connected to each other from one day to the next despite all the disturbances that are revealed one day less, one day more, different ways we need to be connected to each other. It is not in the physical state. in the physical state we see in this world that more and more we will become distanced from each other. The ego is growing, it never turns back and starts diminishing. It will be even greater, the disturbances between us will be even greater, the misunderstanding between us on the corporeal plane will be greater. All the pride, the lust, whatever you want between countries, where each wants to be greater than the others, lowering, humiliating everybody else. Those inclinations, those urges will grow greater and greater between the nations. The ego is growing, this is how it has to be revealed but along with this, we need to build connections above, this is called love will cover all crimes. So above it we have we have to build good and nice connections in contrast to what becomes revealed in the relations between us, over that we have to make restriction, have a Masach (Screen), reflected light and specifically build a spiritual relations on top of the physical relations and in such a way we build a place for the revelation of the Creator because in the gap between physically and spiritually reality we will start to discover Him.
3. S. (23:31) Our ego is constantly growing. How can we increase our desire to bestow and focus always on the current state without thinking about the past or present?
R. It is not without thinking, it does not work without thinking, that's not correct. We need to think about the past and the present also and about the future and how do I exist in all of these perceptions in the right way as the wisdom advises us, this is it. I do not see in that anything special, soon we will read the writings and we will for sure we will succeed in understanding them and building them don't worry, you are advancing each and every day according to the plan and I see that indeed the Creator is arranging for us a paved road.
4. S. (24:53) This concept of connection between us that the Creator is revealed in the connection is a bit confusing. What is the difference between this and feeling the others, dissolving into others?
R. There are all kinds of nice words to come closer, to embrace, to kiss each other, and such connections that are in the wisdom of Kabbalah. However, they are not talking about what we do in this world. In coming closer, embracing or kissing, and later there is the coupling and all kinds of things we will study these kinds of coming closer to each other and of course all of these things are in the emotions. They do not depend on the physical distance or closeness. They virtually can actually in an excellent way above the disturbances we can reach the spiritual forms of connection, this is how we will do it.
5. S. (26:13) The conditions the Creator is generating to separate us or to bring us closer?
R. The Creator builds us all the conditions in order to connect between us but in order for us to cause the connection between us. It seems to us that He is constantly working on separating us, distancing us but this is all in order for us to connect. We learn that by what Baal HaSulam and Rabash write about, my beloved is like a gazelle that seemingly moves away but by that He is inviting us to chase after Him and, in that way, attain Him.
6. S. (27:10) How to know emotionally if there is a correct connection between us in the work?
R. Emotionally I cannot tell you how to know because if there is an emotion then you know we need more and more to search for in what form in what disposition I have to work with the friends. So, in these dispositions of ours they will be similar to the Creator so he can be revealed in them. Because the main law is the law of equivalence of form, similarity between our desires and his desires as much as we want to be in bestowal, so we come closer to the Creator who is completely bestowal, that is all.
Excerpt 1 (28:07) Twice
7. R. (30:18) This means that, all in all, what we need is to reach such connections where I exist in an inclination towards connection with all of the created beings and it has to be gradual. For the time being it means to build such connections in the 10. I do all of this in order to build a place for the Creator and the place for the Creator to be revealed is called Divinity. That network of connection between us that has a special quality that are suitable, congruent with the Creator's qualities
8. S. (30:59) We have to return to our root. What is this returning to our root?
R. This source is the Creator and we have to return to Him meaning we have to reach the same quality of bestowal as He, Himself exists in.
9. S. (31:31) How to connect with the rest of the souls and incorporate them in me?
R. We have to build Divinity or build the temple, the place where the Creator can be revealed because by that we give him contentment.
S. We make all kinds of actions to build that connection during the day but that internal part, how to build that?
R. It is according to the information, the disposition of each towards the others, each to the others. If people understand that the Creator's revelation does not depend on each one but only building the place between us, by building Divinity then they should constantly be in this disposition towards this and as much as possible to create connections, intentions and this is how they build this network until they truly end up catching the Creator there.
S. We get on Zoom for example, with the friends, one of the two zooms, how to aim our intentions so we get this connection?
R. Talk about it, this is a question you should ask each other, not me.
10. (33:23) The attitude of Divinity from the upper, is it revealed or it is something the person builds?
R. The attitude of the created being that created it, is the person that has to build this from those conditions that the Creator creates in him, building the correct attitude to the Creator, I take whatever I have inside of me right now and I try to relate from whatever I have right now to the Creator. However, I simply shift, I transfer whatever I had from reason to faith above reason meaning I tried to do it in a way how would I do this for the benefit of the Creator. In this way how to shift this information for the benefit of the friends, how to build in the relation between us. This is called from the love of created beings to the love of the Creator. How to do this and in this way, we are in such thoughts as much as possible all the time and get into this, more and more, the place with greater examinations and in this work, we should actually be in it all the time. We build the Shechinah and here there are many questions and the entire Preface to the Wisdom of Kabbalah and the study of TES, about how to build upon our Avuit, coarseness in the connection between us called Partzufim.
11. S. (35:42) He writes that we leave only what is necessary, what is needed to connect the Shechinah, what does it mean only what is needed or necessary for connecting the Shechinah, so to speak?
R. Don't engage in anything besides that. This is what I would say, there are many things, all kinds, there is a mess, all kinds of problems in the world, but we should only be focused on this. Nevertheless, we have no possibility to stand against hurricanes, against the eruptions of heat and all kinds of great natural phenomena and that's only on the still level. Later on, the vegetative level, who knows, wait, what will happen and God forbid, the next blow will be that you will have nothing to eat from the vegetative, from the ground. If you will have nothing to eat from the ground, what will the Sheep, cattle eat? You won't have meat either, you won't have bread, meat, milk. So, you might have such blows that we need to realize that it is not within our hands not within our power to arrange all these things and I am saying this about the future not about now. But our power, our destiny is that through our attitude to the Creator, when we build a network of connection towards Him, which is 10 Sefirot that are aimed towards Him. By that we pull Him so that He would dress among us and then from us, from the level of the speaking, from the degree of Adam we build, we are similar to the Creator. From that divinity, those forces of the Creator, the positive forces, will come down to the degrees of still, vegetative, and animate and then everything will pacify and this is how we can heal this corporeal world, also this is our work and it needs to be revealed in the near future.
S. This means that he leaves to himself only the necessity and besides everything is only about the connection of the Divinity?
R. Of course this is the correct formula for existence, the person lives only in order to do the Creator’s work, to serve the Creator.
12. S. (38:58) If everything depends on the number of people for the revelation of the Shechina, why do we need the desire to receive that keeps growing?
R. I recommend that you read the articles again, I do not know what to tell you. The Creator wants us to reveal this connection to Him, everybody would grasp Him in the degree of connection He established in advance. This is when the will to receive grows and not only in us but on the still, vegetative, and only made level they also have to incorporate in this giving to the Creator and then they all received the abundance that they deserve.
13. S. (39:48) It is written to incorporate, to include himself in all the created beings and all the souls, so what is the difference?
R. There is no difference, you connect and then you can start asking such questions, try to be connected in heart and soul with everybody, especially with your group.
14. S. (40:15) What is the source of the soul of the friend and how to raise myself to the root of the soul of the friend to correct it?
R. You want to connect with the friends in your roots, when they come from the Creator and in those roots that everybody has, which is called the point in the heart. The heart is selfish but inside of it, there is a point, there is the spark that pulls the person to the Creator and you wish to connect all those points, all those sparks together and to the Creator. This is how it works. Stop speaking in Russian you have to transition to Hebrew already. Anybody who lives in Israel you have all the literature or the correct original books in Hebrew so why do you want to go to Russian when the translation is not examining the essence of things.
Excerpt 2 (41:46)
15. R. (42:14) The desire of the Creator is that anyone who yearns to reach Him would find a way to be incorporated in others and from these desires, from these connected desires of all the people who yearn for the Creator they would build the place where the Creator can be revealed and He can also shine from that place to all those desires where the point in the heart is still not shining. Just like us, where do we get our awakening from, from the Creator who is passing through all the souls that already corrected themselves, that's it. We get it from Rabash and that is how it is passing through us, but it is passing through all the souls from Adam HaRishon down to us. We need to accept this awakening and actualize it with our desire, add the heart to the point in the heart gradually because our heart is very egoistic, very big, very difficult. This is called the stony heart and we need to gradually slice off, piece by piece, and add this coarseness to the point in the heart. From that to build the place in the heart for the revelation of the Creator. This is what we are doing more and more and until the whole heart will be full filled with the revelation of the Creator.
Excerpt 3 (44:18)
16. S. (47:24) If I do not know my friend's needs, what should be my main prayer about them on a daily basis? Is it a spiritual demand that I wish for them happiness? If I pray for the friend, what should I basically request for them?
R. It is not correct that I do not know what they want, we have Rabash’s first article. We have gathered here in order to connect and give the Creator, a place to be revealed among us to build Divinity to dwell between us. This is why we gather so anybody who comes to us needs to know this clearly and we have to remind each other, each one has to remind this to the others. That is the reason we gather daily, this is the reason I am coming every day to the lesson, this is the reason we are assembled here and this is why I am coming, this is my intention and I am learning within this intention to build a place for the revelation of the Creator it is simple. The fact that we feel reality as disconnected from the others, even opposing each other, is called this world. If we want to reach the spiritual world, the complete eternal world, we have to connect. This is what the wisdom of Kabbalah is teaching us how to come to the perception of the higher world, the eternal complete world where everything is mutually interconnected. This is why we have assembled here, to build the place for the revelation of the Creator, this is why we assemble in the group, this is why we connect and only this way we can discover the Creator, this is it.
17. S. (50:02) It is written that the structure should be able to contain the higher abundance so what is this higher evidence it is talking about on which the structure of Divinity can be built?
R. We have to build from our desire a spiritual Partzuf where each and everybody is like a Sefira supporting the desires of the friends and all of us together, we are incorporated in this structure called the spiritual Partzuf and inside this structure we can receive, we can acquire the revelation of the Creator. There are many actions, the light from above, the reforming light from above, the efforts from below but generally speaking this is how we work.
S. It is the abundance, is it the work on the desire because I have the arrived desire and I integrate with the friends so I can perceive it?
R. I don't understand what you say, the abundance is the light of Ein Sof. It is beyond measure the degree to approach others above my ego overcoming the repulsion, the rejection from others and reach connection with them, the correct connection. Then the abundance according to the law of equivalence of form enters the connection and then we reveal the Creator this way inside the created beings, inside our connections. Everything is revealed only in the created beings, outside of them there is nothing, there is the desire and everything exists and is revealed in the desires, either in the desire to receive or desire to give, in order to receive or bestow. Everything exists inside the desire even if you say there is surrounding light or other such things seemingly taking place outside of the desire but there is nothing outside of the desire, it is merely a style of writing or speaking but everything exists inside the desire.
18. S. (53:08) It says in the beginning let them make a temple in plural form and then one should try to build his structure of Divinity in a singular form. So, the question is how does each one when he built his individual structure of Holiness how can he take part in everybody's temple?
R. We learn about this according to the work in the group, that everybody is a guarantor for the others, each caring about the others and this is how they build it. When they build with their desires when they yearn to build the connection above all the forces that are opposite and when they see that they are not able to do this and then they turn to the Creator, they pray and cry and then they receive help from above. This help from above they see how this structure, this temple arrives and begins to exist between them, meaning the desires used to be very egoistic and in opposition, very hostile to each other, these desires start to connect and incorporate into each other and fit each other and adjust to each other. All of it is done by the reforming light, it comes and dresses into the correct connection between the desired different desires and then the Creator dresses into those connections and the result of the building of the temple is building the place building Shechina where the Shochen the dweller appears. This is not a physical matter at all, we do not need to build anything, everything is happening inside our desires, in our hearts.
19. S. (55:37) What is spiritual concern for each other?
R. Spiritual concern to each other when we help each and everybody to carry out his desire for building the vessel to reveal the Creator to give him contentment.
20. S. (56:02) We always say that if the Creator does not help, you cannot build a house. Here it says that the created beings have to build the house, so how does that work?
R. Then he wants to reach a state that we want to build and we come to a state that we understand we cannot do this but that the Creator will finish the work for me. The Creator truly is the one who builds and does everything, we just need to yearn in each and every action. We need to disclose our desire for that, like a little child gripping the adult, dragging the adult somewhere when he wants the grown-ups to do something for him. This is our work. It is all called the work of the Creator, when He does everything and we just need to raise MAN, the request for Him to do this and the stronger our request the more precise the more general in quality and quantity then we can quickly build a vessel, Divinity, which is our soul.
Excerpt 4 (57:30) twice
21. S. (01:01:11) When can we scrutinize, what is the connection between the place and the intention?
R. The place is called a deficiency and the place called the Creator, it depends how we relate with either a place from the side of it, the created being, or a place from the side of the Creator; this is the concept of the place.
22. S. (01:01:41) Why does the attainment of the Shochen, the dweller, no longer distinguish between the Shochen and the Shechina?
R. Because the dweller is attained inside the Shechina, the dwelling place this is the entire vessel of the created being receives the fulfillment called the dweller and we have complete attainment in the will to receive according to the degree of bestowal in order to bestow from the Creator.
23. S. (01:02:30) So we need to work without discovering the Creator because we want to rise above reason. Can we build this request according to the excerpt we read?
R. We have to constantly see how to keep the conditions for connection between us, to be suitable for the Creator to fit him, nothing in this world, this spiritual world should be important to us except for how to attach ourselves more and more to resemble the Creator. This depends on our present and our future.
S. The dweller grows as the vessel grows. Is it revealed and renewed each moment? Is he knowing each moment?
R. The Creator is the light of Ein Sof which includes everything and He changes according to our perception. We constantly change because each and every moment the clock is ticking from the time of the shattering of Adam HaRishon all the way to the end of corrections we are moving forward. But this clock is working according to the degree of still, vegetative and animate on the biological plane, let's say. Very slowly, just as we see in this world, billions of years go by before something changes. We can hasten the times that is why it says Israel hastens the times since by adding our exertion we want to bring the future closer, we are drawn to it, by that we come to bring the future closer to the present, it all depends on our effort.
24. S. (01:06:14) Many times I hear this expression that the dweller should dwell among us. So, it turns out that if we build the dwelling, the vessel, correctly then the dweller, the light, appears there automatically?
R. With certainty. And not only will the Creator be revealed inside the dwelling after we do it -- but He is also already with us all the time, helping us and confusing us, throwing us off, building us a little bit just like we want to build something with our kids. We make it a little bit difficult for them. This is correct, this is not correct, do this, oh this just broke, let’s not do it this way, let's do it another way. This way the Creator is working with us and we need to learn how He is working with us. From that we will understand Him better and come to a state where we truly become like Him.
25. S. (01:07:37) How can I increase the need for this connection between us in our work with friends if I see that I'm getting distant day by day?
R. They give you this feeling of growing distance because they add to you more will to receive. More correctly, they reveal more and more your will to receive. Your will to receive, until the end of correction, is already present in you. But they show you more and more of it and for every new revelation of your will to receive you nevertheless need to reveal above it your tendency towards the friends and the Creator. Although the desire itself repels them and the Creator, you don't want the Creator. Then it takes a long time for the person, until the person begins to, by his participation in the ten and the study, he nevertheless begins to understand that there is no choice and we have to come closer to the friends and build a place for the revelation of the Creator. The Creator reveals here greater degrees of coarseness and seemingly makes things difficult and interrupts We need to understand this is His work. Against this we need to ask for His help. By revealing those disturbances to us, we ask Him to take us above those disturbances and by that we advance. Meaning, to wait for the Creator to bring us good things, if we wait for it, we will never see the good things. That is why it says, “I have created the evil inclination.” He is doing this creation; He is revealing this creation to us each and every day to each and one of us. We simply need to try more and more to be connected, to grow stronger between us and turn to the Creator. To turn to Him despite the fact that we see that there is none else besides Him and why are things getting worse. Nevertheless, we need to turn to Him and say that He is doing everything and we are asking for corrections from Him. To be in two lines. On the one hand to reveal, to disclose the corruptions from the Creator, and on the other hand to reveal, according to our prayer, that corrections come from the Creator. And between the two we include the corrections and the corruptions and we arrange ourselves right in the middle.
26. S. (01:11:18) We connect to the friends together. What does it mean that in a certain moment our desires become the dweller?
R. When all of your desires that are now revealed in you, when they connect mutually, in mutual help between you, with the intention to give contentment to the Creator, the smallest intention, by that you are becoming an embryo.
S. What does it mean that they connect in the intention, rise to the Creator between us?
R. When each and every one from the desire that is revealed in him, he wants that it will be revealed in him through the connection in the friends, and together through the friends to delight the Creator. That’s it.
S. What is this intention, do I ask for it for the friends, or how important is it for the friends to ask for me also?
R. Extremely important. It is extremely important. It has to be a prayer of many. Even when no one knows exactly what is going on with the other. In general, in total, we have to ensure that everyone has the same desire.
S. Does the dwelling have to be as a common field or does it come from each and every friend?
R. The dwelling is like a net that you cast to catch fish, so you're making a net out of the desire of each and every one towards the others. Each one that wants to be connected with the others from that you are making and you are weaving a net and in this net the Creator appears, this net begins to be like 10 times 10.
27. S. (01:14:10) We are engaging in prayer and we feel that the answer of the prayer creates more of a deficiency for revealing the Creator. How do we actually give Him contentment so that the deficiency is beneficial.
R. This is already beneficial. You're already giving contentment to the Creator but not in the level that it can also appear in you because the moment that it begins to appear in you have to place over it Masach (Screen) and new calculations so that it will not corrupt you. Even when you have good relations with the Creator, that too, will be in order to bestow. That's actually not simple. A person comes to a state where he begins to spoil himself because he's got this connection with the Creator, he is all set. It is very difficult; you can't do without it. We then need to build a Masach (Screen) not on the connection between me and the friends, but on the connection between me and the Creator, between everyone. This is a different degree of spirituality. We will learn how to put these two degrees together. It is called ‘from the love of the created beings to the love of the Creator’ and then we will advance on both to the end of correction.
28. S (01:16:28) Is the main part of our work revealing the Creator or giving Him contentment?
R. The main thing in our work is too long to bring contentment to the Creator. I do not need to see or discover Him, but to bring Him contentment. This is the main thing. Then I'm truly in order to bestow. If I want to discover Him, this is already in order to receive and I am not going to get an answer from above.
29. S (01:17:34) The Creator reveals Himself in the point between us. Does this mean that if we connect, we will reveal Him or is He in some more exalted place?
R. The Creator appears in the connection between us and not in some unknown point. If we all yearn for it in the connection between us, for the sake of the connection with the Creator, we are willing to connect between us, for that purpose.