Morning Lesson January 13, 2022 Transcription

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Part 1:

"The most important is the prayer" - Selected Excerpts from the Sources. #8

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1. Rav’s Introduction: We should pay attention to how each day we feel more and more connected between us and the Creator through the prayer meaning through our plea to Him where everything we have to return with it to Him, we raise to Him. Not from one person but from everyone from the ten and in general from all of humanity and we ask for everyone and we turn to him with gratitude, with all kinds of please to Him. We need to understand that every desire that awakens in us from the greatest and best to the smallest ones that we are embarrassed about, all of those desires come because the Creator awakens them, there is None Else Besides Him. That's why we need to speak back to Him so to speak, I have this in this and that, what should I do with it? How do I deal with it? As it is written, ‘so he will not be a foreign God to you’ so the Creator will not be far but close. So you will speak to Him as directly as you can, because all of the desires and thoughts that awaken you are from Him, there is None Else Besides Him, He does it and he will do everything that there is. Accordingly you need to respond to it directly and speak to Him. You have no one else to speak to.

You always have the Creator in front of you. In order to be in direct contact with him, you need the group, you even need all of humanity, of whom you are seemingly their representative together with your ten. Then you will see how your contact with the Creator becomes more and more stable every day. Clear? You will begin to feel him really as close as a partner and everything that Kabbalists write for us, will seem to you as realistic. Especially, it is especially in understanding that everything that happens to us, that's not really in order and not really good and doesn't really advance us according to our understanding but this to comes from the Creator in order for us to be even more connected to him, more dependent on him and relying on him for all of our forms of advancement. Because otherwise, we wouldn't be able to overcome the nearing. We wouldn't be able to increase the nearing so we have to feel both states, the rejection and the connection, disconnection and connection and in between those two states, we will feel ourselves, we will feel our lives. Everything else is kind of accompanying, marginal, secondary, but the main thing is where we are between rejection and attraction, between remoteness and nearness, there, then between those discernments we will begin to see how we are speaking with the Creator. How we turn to Him and how He answers us, so please pay attention to all of those excerpts that the friends have collected for us. Let's delve into them.

Excerpt 8 (05:47)

2. R. (07:34) Look, we have these examples in our lives also, from which we can understand that bringing contentment to the Creator means that I don't receive any good sign in return, and even that the Creator shows me as if he is not listening, he doesn't hear me. Nevertheless, I yearn and develop in me a journey through the friends, helping one another, because this is how we bring ourselves closer to the Creator, even though he doesn't want to pay attention to us, but we ask of him to help us, to pay attention to us, to answer us. We want the connection with him, the first mutual connection, so we can work in a way that ‘I am to my beloved and my beloved to me’ as it is called. Even though I see that it is hopeless and it might take years, my situation, sometimes I am thrown far away and sometimes I get closer but basically I'm constantly building my connection with the Creator in such a way that each time I broaden this thread of connection more and more. As much as He may not answer me I understand it as a kind of a flirt, as a kind of opportunity to show even more Inclination from me to him and to believe what the Kabbalists write.

That the Creator actually wants the connection with us very much, but he waits for us to show the form of connection that is above reason, meaning that although I have no chance of achieving connection with the in my ego, I want above it, to build this connection only in order to bestow. Meaning that I will not get anything out of it and to believe what the Kabbalists write, that the Creator actually wants the connection with us very much, but he waits for us to show the form of connection that he is above reason meaning that although I have no chance of achieving connection within my ego, I want above it, to build this connection only in order to bestow. Meaning that I will not get anything out of it, I'm not asking for this connection to be for my sake in any way. I'm not asking to have any recognition or feeling of the Creator as a result. No. I only want to be in contact so that I bestow from me to him, bestow some contentment, to do something for his sake. This is what I want. If I come closer to this and I achieve this, meaning I build such a connection, such an attitude from me to him then I begin to feel that I really am coming closer to the Creator. I'm gradually coming to feel the connection, and this is already the entry into the upper world. This is how it happens.

3. S. (11:38) Is it important to me to do something for the Creator or just the yearning itself without any understanding that I found something to reveal for Him?

R. Your yearning for the Creator is not enough because basically it is an egoistic yearning and it is the complete opposite of what you need to have in the connection with the Creator. You have to relate to him only according to the equivalence of form as he to you and you to him. Therefore, it turns out that here you need to well, first of all, everything of course begins with the ego, you want to attain him, to feel him, to grab him, to connect him to you to all your desires and purposes you want the Creator to serve you, that's clear that's where we begin. We may not be aware of it so much but that's the way it is. Gradually by recognizing this attitude towards the Creator, we come to a different attitude. From where, from at least two reasons, one is that I am not succeeding in my connection with the Creator, then I keep asking why am I not succeeding?

On the other hand, I understand that the connection has to nevertheless be and then I'm bestowing to the Creator and what am I going to bestow? There should be equivalence of form, I have to be to my beloved and my beloved to me, right? From where do I take the form of bestowal? I will open it and reveal it, take him into consideration and be in a dialogue with him. There are other things here as well, everything will be revealed in this connection but in general we should begin to be focused on this point that I have in front of me, some sort of a tube that connects me to the Creator and that tube, that hose I need to now fill up with all kinds of forms of connection through the friends, besides through the friends with the right intentions, with the right desires, with treating it, keeping it, all those things as we understand in the connection between us. Look, there's a reason why we are at such a historic time where everything depends on the connection, everything depends on the connection. All the computers and everything we do, all the systems we are building, they are mainly systems of communication. Systems of communication, nothing else is important, everything else seems to be secondary. Only auxiliary adding to the receiver, the receiver and the giver, it only adds to them all kinds of additional devices but everything works on the communication between two. This is our whole life.

Afterwards we will see that really this is where we get all of our understanding and recognition of reality. Look at the viruses that are attacking us now after which other things will come. They are all about the level of communication between us, usually it's the level of disconnection, lack of communication between us, lack between us. We are approaching more and more a situation where you are forbidden to connect to another person artificially and it will be like that in all of our levels all our forms of connection with other people. What we need to understand now in our lives is that connection with the Creator is the main thing we need, we have no other worry besides this. The connection with the Creator can be only from a device called the ten and someone who isn't it, it should very quickly look for a ten for himself, for a group and not just be in it formally but he needs it as a place of connection or a hub. That to the extent that he builds the ten correctly he comes in contact with the Creator.

Because in the right ten there are all kinds of qualities that don't exist in any person in particular but only in the ten, in the group. To the extent that each of his builds his correct relation towards the friends, to that extent through them he can connect to the Creator and here it's not so important what the friends may be it make can be like Rabbi Yossi ben Kisma, that even though they were very small but you couldn't all before them and threw them connect to the Creator, he connects, he is great. That's why here we need to understand that the summary of our learning of our work connects to the prayer, to the plea to the Creator where we have to build ourselves. According to our connection with the Creator, we have to build ourselves the relationships between us according to the quality of the Creator which is bestowal. Then we'll be able to connect the ten, we will be able to connect, through the connection of giving to the Creator. This is how we build ourselves spiritually and then we only have to increase or intensify this connection more and more. So that they're more we can pass, convey more beats of information, more data between the Creator and us and the levels of connection between us and the Creator are the degrees by which we climb until we reach the infinite connection which is the world of Ein Sof when there is no boundary, no end to the connection between us and between us and the Creator.

Along the way we will certainly feel burdening, shattering will be revealed, they happened before already in the breaking of Adam HaRishon but this is how we will advance, this is our work, there is nothing more than that. We need to focus on that, concentrate on this. For this we have all the required discernments we learned a lot and now we need to build this connection practically. To check all kinds of things in it about how we connect between us and from us to the Creator. Only from the connection between us will we understand that now we can connect to the Creator. This is why it's called from the love of people to the love of the Creator. If we don't connect correctly among ourselves we won't understand how to begin to connect to the Creator.

Reader reads excerpt #8 again (20:56)

4. S. (22:47) Is a prayer complete if you think the Creator doesn't hear it?

R. We need to strengthen that in the group also within us we have to constantly think and imagine the Creator being within us. There is no moving away but only an emotional one on our part as it is written, ‘I am the Lord who is with them in the midst of their impurity’. So he is in the created beings in all of our states from the worst to the best, there is None Else Besides Him, only sustains revives he's called the king who puts to death, brings to life and brings forth salvation. Therefore, we need to depict, to imagine our worst states as also being in contact with the Creator that from his perspective, it doesn't weaken, it doesn't banish, it doesn't wane, rather moreover it is the Creator who arranges, organizes the manner of connection, the feeling that we are disconnected and he expects us to overcome all those disturbances that He himself sets up for us. This is called ‘I have created the evil inclination’ and we correspondingly have to deal with it and work with it, that's why it's so important that we help each other because if we have a connection between us and we remind each other, give examples to one another, that it all comes from the Creator only and we work deliberately against this disconnection, this remoteness, then this will be exactly the right attitude.

Because then that disconnection, that remoteness from the Creator becomes coarseness through which we convey the power of our connection to him between us and him. So it turns out that then we have the coarseness which the Creator arranged for us from the beginning, and our own power, our own force towards Him the bestowing on our part that we nevertheless want to connect them on our self and bestow to him so in this way we approach building a spiritual Partzuf. The spiritual Partzuf is the form of our connection among us which is suitable, congruent with the connection with the Creator. So we have our will to receive here the connection between us, between our desires overcoming our egoistic connections, egoistic desires in the connection between us and directing our connection, overall connection, to the Creator and then we understand who is what is for the connection between us. We build him as it is written, ‘you have made me’. Then it turns out that in this work, there is everything we need. This state, the state of connection, meaning this world, the next world we reveal everything that exists only in one operation, connection between us and from us to the Creator and revealing Him as already existing between us. In this way advance. I'm happy that there are many questions but just try to take it more inside. If you can answer these questions it will be even better.

5. S. (27:35) What is the meaning that the Creator is flirting with us?

R. He's teaching us. Just like your mother with her baby, she plays with him, she makes this face and that face, afterwards when he grows she begins to play with him, she gives him something to hold, to grip. Afterward she makes faces, she frowns and she sees how he responds, that is the flirt. Meaning I want to induce in the one before me some sort of reaction and this way comes to a mutual understanding between us, this is what normally the mother does with the child and what we have to do with the Creator or maybe the other way around, that's what the Creator does with us. So the whole process we are going through in our spiritual education is very similar to what we do in our world with babies. But the work is that there we do it from within the ego, the will to receive directly and here we are already grownup adults and we have to do it in the opposite way, to adapt ourselves to the upper mother, Bina and make of ourselves, build out of ourselves such forms, such pleas so we will be in contact with her. This is really our work.

6. S. (29:43) The body, the will to receive, speaks to a person saying things that weaken him, does the Kabbalist hear the body and work he works, nevertheless he doesn't listen and doesn't relate to what the body says?

R. I'll tell you just one thing. I went through a few disturbances and I could not overcome, just like we feel it on ourselves when I went through them. Rabash would laugh at me and he would say now you are a rag just like me. Don't think that Kabbalists don't experience difficulties several times more than we do. Because ‘anyone who is greater than his friend his inclination is greater than him’ why is he a great Kabbalist? Because he has a greater inclination, more, more each time in each degree it's revealed more. He falls and he rises, it is written ‘a thousand times will a righteous fall and rise a thousand times’ so this is how we advance, so he said now you're a rag just like me. When I began to realize it only through the states where you are nothing from this you can rise and build yourself a little bit through praying, through the prayer.

S. We have to take it seriously, listen to the body and everything it says?

R. You have to listen to the will to receive which objects, it resists, and prepare yourself to listen to it without falling, it's called falling under the load and be prepared through connection with the friends. So you divide this load among many people, and that way you can help each other and advance. He will see that it is possible, it is possible, just don't leave, don't quit, and don't give up.

S. You said that the Kabbalists also goes through these complex states and the question is, though it's written in the excerpt, maybe the first time a person prays that he sees receives no answer, he despairs but when a person discovers that the Creator does listen, then He knows next time that eventually he will listen?

R. Don't think it's as simple as you're describing it, a person between him hearing and he doesn't hear me he falls into worse states, you still don't know what it is, what it's like. It should come at its proper time. You haven't seen it. We are not permitted to see it but Kabbalists fall into very heavy states very difficult, they are on the verge, on the very verge of quitting, exiting, death, you name it. It's all in order to rise from it.

S. But inside of them they have the knowledge that the Creator listens to them.

R. There is no such knowledge, why aren't you listening, if you know it, it is not a fall, it is not regarded as a fall. We have to prepare ourselves for such states, a descent is a descent, it is when everything disappears. Not that you are a wise guy, well I know the multiplication table and I know a few more things, the Kabbalists tell me, it's written this and that. You don't know anything, you don't know anything when you are in a descent so much so that you don't know the letters. You can't put them together into words. You can't put the words into sentences, who to turn to, what to turn, nothing, it's just complete deletion. Why are you bringing me these philosophies, what did you learn?

A descent is a descent, it's when you lose everything, no connection, no value of spirituality, nothing and from this we have to rise, so how can we arise from this? Only through our physical connection. Why is our world the way it is in its physical form? Because that's all we have left of spirituality, from the descents and we have no other connection, only what we see with our eyes. That I have these friends, why do I need them? I have no idea, I hate them, I can't stand them. They repel me and I fell then the Creator is totally out of sight, so from these descents in even much worse, because it's not a descent yet, it's not a descent into the shells. So from this we gradually rise. So there are all kinds of tips what to do, all kinds of instruments, all kinds of means which we will learn as well. First we have to prepare ourselves for what we have.

7. S. (36:57) What's the benefit in these descents where one has to lose everything, why does a Kabbalist have to lose everything?

R. It's not a descent, it is advancement through the negative, the negative form it shows you that you still are not in the good, correct, strong connection with the Creator or not in the good strong connection with your group. Meaning receiving a decision is not a descent, it is an ascent on the left line. They tell you still don't know this and you still don’t know that and you haven't done this, meaning they show you all the connections that you have between you and the group and between you and the Creator. Where do you still need to add to the connection? This is the meaning of a descent. It's not a descent, in truth this is how we call it, it is actually an ascent. Darkness will shine as light, specifically in the darkness, we discover new forms of connection, the upcoming forms of connections that we will form. We learn that the connection of the correction of the vessels takes place at night until midnight, that's where the coupling of the Abba Ve Ima and they build a connection between us and then from midnight onwards we begin to rearrange the connections and when we do the light comes. The morning light comes. That's how it works.

8. S. (39:41) How do we deal with these descents, can we rely on past experiences in these states?

R. Only from the descents can we build the ascents, if the Creator would not bring us down we would never know how high we can climb. Our entire ascent, everything we get to know in spirituality is one from the other, it's when we recognize, we get to know the opposition of spirituality. We need to delve in it and be in it but rather as quickly as possible to rise from it and get to know the ascent, adhesion between us and adhesion with the Creator. Only from that can we do it without descents there are no ascents and without the evil inclination the Creator created intentionally, this is the only thing he created and for which he is called the Creator. We wouldn't be able to be created beings, we wouldn't be able to feel and attain anything.

9. S. (40:50) How do we prepare ourselves for the descents?

R. Preparing yourself for the descents is possible through the connection between us, all kinds of connections, when we build our daily schedule, the order of connections, we repeat the study material throughout the day. What we went through in the morning lesson, what we will have to go through in the next lesson and so on and so forth we need to fill our day with that. Meaning from lesson to lesson. We have to take ourselves from the content of the lesson we have just been through, we get an explanation, we listen to it, maybe talk about it and then also the content of the next lesson. How can we connect? Connect between us even more around the material of the next upcoming lesson.

10. S. (41:59) Why is it that the more we pray the more difficult it is to find words to turn to the Creator, to speak to the Creator?

R. Try to arrange the words not verbally but the words of the feeling even when there are no words but the feeling is present, when we feel something and we can't express it in words. Then we'll feel something and you'll see that these discernments actually have more depth.

11. S. (42:42) How can we pray in such a way that we don't give the Creator all kinds of conditions in the prayer, meaning you will do this and then we will do this, how do we not give conditions to the Creator?

R. Each and every prayer begins with gratitude, you have to be grateful to the Creator for making us such that we are distant from Him, we are remote from Him and because of that we can feel the nearing to Him. Specifically from these two ends, this extreme remoteness and extreme nearness, we can feel our degree of adhesion. The adhesion cannot be without revelation of coarseness and the revelation of the connection on top of the coarseness, these two opposites when they connect, they bring us the intensity of the level of adhesion. Sweetness and everything that is in it.

S. How do we not set conditions to the Creator in the prayer?

R. We try to connect the disconnection with the connection and we understand what the Creator did, what he is doing each and every moment with us when he renews the disconnection and he gives us a place for connection for unity. He does all those things ideally and it stems from our system, it is already built. It includes in it the farthest state and the nearest states. All of those states and everything in between, are already in the system. The system of souls and the souls are already in the end of correction completely, we just have to discover it. Therefore everything depends on our efforts.

12. S. (45:15) Can we ask not to drill a hole in the boat when I've already exhausted all of my efforts, when I am embarrassed of my ego that is being revealed?

R. I don't think it's possible until we enter spirituality in practice and we attain the degree of Bina, it's called an incomplete righteous. I don't think it's possible. Nevertheless, we have to try to understand that we need to demonstrate this state what is called an incomplete righteous. When we truly wish to attain it. To all the time we have to simply think, let me tell you what we are missing, the main thing is nobody is thinking about the others, we understand that this is the first necessary condition. If at the beginning of my spiritual work, in the middle and in the end, if I leave the connection between us, I stopped working with the vessel that has to attain spirituality. Spirituality is attained in the ten.

If I leave it and begin to think how do I make it instead of how do we make it, I'm thinking about what's going on with me instead of what's going on with us then the Creator before me is not the Creator because the Creator created the ten and not nine, ten and not eleven that's how He created them all of reality and that He created are one ten. If I don't turn to Him from my individual ten then I don't turn to Him, He is not, He is not before me. My cry is not a cry, we have to remember that and let's move forward.

Excerpt #9 (47:38)

13. R. (48:48) Meaning when do we come out of Egypt? When we begin to understand that what's important to us is to rise above the will to receive that dwells between us not in each one of us, but between us and it prevents us from connecting together from being a ten. When we understand that between us dwells the Pharaoh, our evil inclination, our ego, we won't be able to connect. We try and try to connect more and more but we cannot then we have no choice but to cry out to the Creator. We turn to him only with one thing. Take us out of Pharaoh, take us out of our ego. That's the only thing we need. From total disconnection between us to connection between us inside of the ten, that's what we need and if we still can't understand the level of the disconnection between us then we have to continue. This means that the Exile in Egypt is still not revealed between us, it's an exile from connection and then we cry out when we demand that there will be a connection between us in the form of as one man in one heart then in this way we advance towards the exit. When we cry together to a certain extent, together, because we understand that otherwise we cannot come out of in order to receive to in order to bestow from between us to the Creator, then we are ready to come out. Then of course the upper force comes and gives us the power to act, to rise above and to leave our ego.

14. S. (51:23) You spoke about organizing the words not verbally, what you will awaken in the ten so it will be felt like a request from the heart of the ten? Especially when we are in a state of descent?

R. I don't know if you're in a descent or an ascent, this is a question. How do we weigh our situation? Precisely if the state we are in is showing us that we are disconnected, then perhaps it's not a descent. Rather it certainly comes and shines to us and shows us our true state. So it's not a descent it is the truth and it's therefore an ascent, so it turns out that we need to know how to discern better our states. We'll talk about it.

15. S. (53:15) What activity does the ten need in order to face a descent especially after such a good Congress?

R. We speak about it, what do you mean what kind of activity, we're not talking about the activity we need to do inside of our tens. How do we need to turn to the Creator which is called to pray to him, so that he would arrange for us more spiritual relationships. Meaning that he will pull up the degrees higher and higher degrees that are closer to Him that's what we need. We need to do it consistently, patiently and as many times as you can during the day.

16. S. (54:23) Why is our connection with the Creator so elusive?

R. Because we cannot hold onto the connection between us and the Creator in the correct way. First of all, between us it has to be in order to be between us to some extent where I care for the friends to some extent, and to the extent that I care about the friends, to a small extent then in this way accordingly I can turn to the Creator, together with their friends in Arvut. That's what we need to build, meaning if I work to ensure that my friend won't fall from the boat into the stormy water, and everyone cares about everyone, and by that we are constructing this vessel, this boat where everyone cares about everyone else, between us we feel the force of Arvut. The sea is becoming more and more stormy and we see in the stormy sea an invitation to connect more and more. The sea will not calm down, in place of these small disturbances there will be Klipot, shells and that's how we advance. Until we begin to discover help from above and will turn to the Creator correctly, we will feel His reaction. How many forces are we getting from Him, how we can connect between us with these forces and will begin to feel that there is not, a stormy sea outside of the boat somewhere, rather it's between us in our egoistic desires, there are such states between us that this is the stormy sea, and then how can we be connected above these waves. Until we get to the Red Sea and even later, you never get to the next state more calm than the previous states. No, it's not calmer than them, rather each time above the growing will to receive and each one and in all of us together and we overcome above these disturbances between us even more to build to construct the one heart. Then from that we construct ourselves in such a way that it becomes a person's vessel, the vessel of Adam HaRishon that is our goal. Try to portray it before you more and more, talk about it more and more you'll see how these things are already right before us.

16. S. (57:35) Should I annul before the ten if I see that the ten is not doing its work?

R. We have to do with what the Kabbalists write to us in the Articles hence I will not answer these questions anymore. You turn to what they write, what you have to do in the group and then you'll know.

17. S. (58:10) How do we overcome a state of being afraid to ask?

R. This is good, this is what we are starting to feel to the extent that we are coming closer, that maybe I just might succeed. I have to leave this world and my wife and kids and all the friends, I will disconnect from everyone as Rabash writes and I enter an environment that is completely not understood by me, and all of it to bestow, I'm not ready for it. It seems to a person he is leaving everything. You can see what is written there and what to do accordingly. You have to be connected more to what Kabbalists write, they write only from experience and only what they have been through. It is certain that we will have to go through the same states faster or slower but nevertheless we will have to go through all of the states. Try.

18. S. (59:43) In the excerpt he writes that what is important to the Creator are for those people who have nowhere to run and we always learn that a Kabbalist has to lead a full social life. He has to be a part of society and that he needs to have many choices and he has to choose from all the existing possibilities, he has to choose spirituality. Here it says we have nowhere else to go, nothing satisfies them, so they have no other choice but to delve in spiritual work. It seems a little bit like a spiritual beast?

R. I don't think you're correct, our approach should be such that we are constantly in spiritual scrutinies outside of any necessary work that I do to make a living as an animal. Other than that I don't have to worry about anything corporeal to be connected with this world and its culture and its education and everything that's going on here, this doesn't add anything to me and spirituality it only confuses me. I might need it for the sake of dissemination, so to the extent this is used for dissemination I may use it but not more than that. Make no mistakes and don't drive yourself back forcefully into this world, into other rubbish of this world. Why do I need to do it? What do I have in this world that I need to intermingle with all the thoughts and desires on the outside? What good will it do to me, rather if right now I can use it to help the ten and help humanity perhaps, but who of us is in such things. We don't have the time and we don't have the strength to worry about connection of other people. Let alone, to advertise this tendency as the correct tendency between friends. If one of the friends or several of the friends have such tendencies they should try to overcome them but it is not like we need it or anything. We need to be immersed in increasing, expanding the connection between us and between us to the Creator, only that. Everything else we should see as things that we incorporate with, intermingle with reluctantly but not that we invest ourselves in it.

S. What does it mean that they have no choice that the Creator leaves them and have no choice but to go to spirituality?

R. Make an effort only in the spiritual work, outside of any work that they do in order to make a living in your corporeal work, you'll see that this is how it works and it works in the best way possible.

19. S. (01:03:41) You said that in the future there will be disturbances in the Klipot, shells what does that mean and how do I understand that I am in a shell?

R. There's a difference between where we are now and where we will be. There will be greater disturbances according to what we merit. Bigger people have bigger disturbances, he who has bigger than his friend his inclination is greater.

20. S. (01:04:24) When I am within my reason, in my ego, I ask for a friend or I ask for the connection in the ten does the Creator help them, does it help my friends?

R. Yes.

Reading Excerpt #10 (01:04:52)

21. R. (01:06:27) Can you hear what Baal HaSulam writes here? What kind of feeling we have to come to, that we pray and ask as if seemingly we are now facing the gallows. Then in this way we ask that I don't want this corporeal life that I have. I want my life to be entirely aimed at connection between us and to the Creator to bestowal. Imagine how much more we need to change in order to ask correctly and for the Creator to answer us. He is answering all the time but we still can’t feel those things, we cannot feel his response.

22. S. (01:07:34) Before you mentioned and you repeated it twice to pray directly to the Creator, what is directly?

R. Directly means that we feel Him right in front of us and we have a direct connection to Him and we are in connection with Him and all of us together. The more we move tightly together that is how we can reach Him according to the intensity of the breakage in the connection with the Creator and in the intensity of our plea to Him.

23. S. (01:08:44) In these states if we don't have no joy in what we do, is it not considered spiritual work?

R. It is not considered spiritual work because it is not in gladness. Gladness has to be present even when we are in the worst possible states because we nevertheless go through these states to adhesion and without getting through those states we cannot reach adhesion. Therefore gladness has to be in any state whatever it may be and gladness means that you show how much you are grateful to the Creator for taking you and of course it is only Him from taking you through all of these states all the way up to Him.

S. How do we incorporate it correctly because when you're in that state as is described here, you're going to be buried?

R. No, there is None Else Besides Him you have to bring Him into every state that you are in. You must be in adhesion with the Creator in every state that you are in. I understand it is difficult sometimes you lose the connection but in between, you have to constantly maintain the connection with the Creator in the worst possible states, there, specifically there, is where you build the true connection.

S. A friend who is in these states, how can I help him because in that state let's say, he doesn't participate, he's in the worst possible state. How can I get benefit from his states for more connection?

R. It is possible, the Creator is giving him such disturbances that if you would get them you would also be thrown out like him. We have to pray for the friend, for the Creator to bring him closer and bring him back to the group. You have to pray to the Creator to give us the strength to rise from the fall. With a friend it is a disconnection, with us it is only a fall and the fall means ascents and descents, descents and ascents this is our path.

24. S. (01:11:50) What is the difference between wanting the desire of the ego for pleasures and sentencing the ego to death in a ten?

R. I cannot get into it, he still does not understand it. It will slowly become apparent. I can't feel the question.

25. S. (01:16:11) What does it mean to cry together, what determines if the cry is together?

R. That before the cry, before the request we are working on the connection. We understand who we are turning to some extent, that we are all in it, that we feel one another somehow and we see a certain form, the form of the group, the form of our desires that are ready to connect relative to all other desires and in this way we turn to the Creator from the connection between us. You cannot turn to the Creator except through the connection between us, if you come to the point of connection from this point, you turn to the Creator. That is what he is waiting for. If you turn to Him not from this point of connection it is also good, why, because then the Creator will show you all kinds of disturbances, confusions and from these disturbances you will nevertheless come to some form of connection; in other words you have to turn to the Creator everywhere but first check if you have at least a small point of connection. Because without it you are not getting to him.

26. S. (01:18:08) What should we do to reach a depth of a state “and their cry went out to the heavens”?

R. That they understand that they are unable to be connected, to run away from Egypt, to rise above their ego and they understand that they must cry to the Creator since only He can give them the strength to ascend from the egoistic relationships between us and to come to a state where we are connected between us, and we cry about that. We cry about the connection that we wish to connect but are unable to do; the Pharaoh is between us and when the Creator will remove the Pharaoh from among us, He will reveal among us the first degree of connection: this means that we are coming out of Egypt. Then, we will rise in truth to the Creator to some extent and this is called “The Exodus from Egypt.” Well, it is a process, but nevertheless, this is going through darkness, helplessness, running away in fear but nevertheless this is how we come out of Egypt.

27. S. (01:19:45) It seems that there is a lot of confusion about what the prayer between us is. How can we understand it in the best and simplest way?

R. The prayer between us can be on the condition that we are in one desire then, there is room for a common prayer and if there isn't, if there isn't a common desire then, there is no common prayer and we also don't turn to the Creator in this way, because each of us does not have a creator. Creator means that there are at least two and they connect somehow between them, above their egos and then there is the creator between them. As it says “you have made me.” How did you make me? When each one rises above their ego in order to connect with the others in order to build a force of bestowal between them, and in this force of bestowal they discover the upper source, which is the Creator. This is the technique.

28. S. (01:21:11) How can we ask the Creator for help for a friend that is in a descent? If I understand correctly the Creator gives him more of a left line and does everything that is best for him.

R. That is not important what the Creator is doing to him, you need to do what you need to do and therefore in every state that the friend is in you need to help him without making calculations with your intellect, where it may be worthwhile to do and then it will come to even greater ascent. There’s no such thing. You have to every moment, to benefit the friends as much as possible and don't take into consideration that if they fall more, they will ascend more. That is an egoistic approach only.

29. S. (01:22:13) What is one desire of the ten?

R. One desire of the ten is considered when we unite as much as possible and we can depict our state more or less in a general manner that is clear to us, and the Creator which we learned together appears to us as the force of bestowal and love and connection to which we need to come to. To implement Him between us, the Creator is not there but rather we by the upper light build between us in our measure, in our nature we build between us such a connection; such a mutual connection and mutual bestowal called The Creator: Bore, Bo U Re, come and see. Only in such a way.

30. S. (01:12:18) There is a state that I just want to run away but I don't know where, it is a feeling of a dead-end, like prison. How to turn this into a good State?

R. Well, if it is just to run away like you are saying then there are maybe many directions but that is not us. We say that if a person really wants to solve the problem of his life then in life he won't find it, he will only find it if he rises above life. There is a force that governs us and we need to connect to it and then from this force, we will continue

31. S. (01:24:05) I heard that to want the quality of the Creator means to go against myself. Does that mean that before I acquire the quality of the Creator I have to acquire a quality of being a judge of myself, can a person ask to judge himself?

R. A person needs to constantly be a judge of himself, that means he rises above himself and examines himself objectively, independent of his ego. That is certainly impossible for the time being but nevertheless he tries. That attempt that try builds in him all kinds of preparations for more advanced states.

Reading excerpt #11 (01:25:01)

32. R. (01:26:46) Meaning, we need to understand that closeness to the Creator is in accordance with the equivalence of our qualities in His. He is entirely in bestowal, and we are opposite, to the extent in which we can understand that we must replace our quality of reception with the quality of bestowal, and that is why we are given the group for; and all together the whole reality, the whole of life, to the measure in which we will be able to slowly, slowly, gradually replace our desire, our attitude, from the closed people to us to the distant people to us, to all of humanity, to the whole world; accordingly we will resemble the Creator. Just like the Creator relates to everyone as good that does good; we are too, according to our equivalence with His attitude, and His relations towards nature and what is revealed before us, we become like Him. We have no other possibility of resembling the Creator or rising to Him, revealing Him, we reveal Him inside to the extent and which we correct ourselves we reveal the Creator. The Creator is never revealed as something outside. We also learned from the perception of reality that what appears to us as outside, is a projection of our qualities, and in truth these things have no real reality, no realism for being outside; it is all inside my mind and my mind is connected to my feelings. All together my intellect and my feelings are all that I have in the perception of reality. Therefore if we want to discover the true state, then we need to relate to all of reality as the good that does good, just as the Creator; and certainly we are not capable of doing so to all of reality but only have the possibility of doing this, in the ten.

33. S. (01:29:28) You were always next to Rabash, so it turns out that you were like this, quiet, you felt pleasant next to him. How come we feel low compared to the Creator?

R. I just want to tell you that if you think that to be together with a Kabbalist is something good that advances you that could have advanced you to spirituality that is not true. That is not true. It is very confusing, it demands much more exertion and inner and external effort and don't think that, if that is what falls upon a certain person, that he is very lucky. There is no luck in that. It's truly not.

S. I'm lucky, I'm saying, I'm lucky to have a ten, a wonderful ten, everybody is working and the friends are wonderful, I feel calmness. How can I feel a deficiency from such a state?

R. You need to relate to the ten like you do to the Creator. Simply in as good that does good to all the friends and that is it, no more than that. That is how you should relate.

34. S. (01:31:42) What is a common prayer if everyone feels whatever he feels, so what is common about it?

R. Before the prayer they know, there needs to be a connection between us and to bring ourselves to a state that it is clear to us, where we are? Who is separating between us, and who can in place of that, connect between us? And we address that force to there is none else besides Him, there is no one else to turn to; for Him to stabilize us in the right way, join us to one another, and that is how we will advance. All together this depends on the Creator. He is now separating between us, let Him connect between us and we will be corrected into one system, between us and with Him and this is Adam HaRishon in the correct state. That's it, so just depict to ourselves what it is to be in the system of Adam HaRishon in a correct manner, so at least that example, let's implement in the ten. Imagine to yourself what it is that we need to feel each friend, to relate to him and care for him, and in this way be and see ourselves advancing.

35. S. (01:33:49) What does it mean to be broken-hearted?

R. Broken heart means that all of our hopes and plans and everything that we wanted to happen does not happen. The breaking of the heart means the breaking of our will to receive as we wanted through it to attain spirituality and we couldn't. Therefore we flip, we understand that we cannot do this for us but only through the desire to bestow. Hence we need to turn to the Creator and demand for Him to invert our inclination instead of the desire to receive, give us the desire to bestow. He should give us His quality.

36. S. (01:35:01) A certain strategy to reach the common prayer, the prayer of many is that one day we ask about the connection between the friends and then another day about the friends of the world Kli and about dissemination. Can that be a strategy for prayers?

R. No it needs to be something on the first degree then second and the third and we can truly ask in a complex manner about several things but nevertheless the first question we have to the Creator is for Him to perform a connection between us. That from this connection we will be able to turn to Him and bestow upon Him so that we will know from this connection what to bestow to Him, how to bestow to Him. That is actually the first thing as by that we are preparing ourselves as a Kli. Why are we preparing ourselves as a Kli because the desire of the Creator is to bestow upon us and by us preparing ourselves to receive from Him, our entire intention is in order to bring Him contentment by being in a state of about to receive from Him. Therefore this is how we turn to Him, please correct us so that we will be able to receive from You in order to bring You contentment. And for ourselves nothing, zero, just like now and even more darkness that's not important. As long as we will have pleasure from giving you the possibility to bestow and be delighted from us. We need as much as possible to depict to ourselves what it means to be in the quality of bestowal.

37. S. (01:37:28) How to prevent ourselves from a routine if we constantly turn to the Creator?

R. Yes of course we need to search how to turn to the Creator more but to turn to the Creator, is more important how we can be more connected between us. Because the Creator is within us. And to the extent that we truly reach a certain measure of connection, true connection to some measure of it or even a desire for that true connection, then the Creator is revealed and begins to take care of us and deal with us and then it happens.

38. S. (01:38:58) How do you turn this broken heartedness into the joy that you referred to before the happiness. Because you mentioned also that there is tremendous fear when you are coming out of Egypt and presumably that is the broken heartedness but how do you then switch immediately to the joy?

R. First of all, certainly this is not a simple thing, we see this already on ourselves. It takes a long time and in ten and twenty, even thirty years there is nothing you could do about that. It all depends on the connection with the group and the extent in which the group influences oneself. Here we really need more, now in this time after the convention to be concerned with general influence on each and every one. That each will feel that he has a big mass of people that are with him in a movement forward that will drag him and carry him and care for him. Also the world, we see how the world is deteriorating more and more, the external world. Then accordingly we need to see ourselves more understanding, feeling more, raising ourselves more above our egos until it defines itself in our heart permanently which is called The Exodus from Egypt. There is nothing else to do just to connect more and more. I think it is worthwhile for us to decide upon a certain connection between us more, besides each being in his ten, besides the ten twice a day for it to be let's say, once more a week, let’s say Tuesday where we connect all of us together to a certain evening or something for half an hour, an hour, as much as we can. Think how to do this because the more we advance we will need such connections. It doesn't need to be specifically in a time that is difficult for us but to feel a little bit more that we are together. This is very important. We just need to feel, that I want to feel that I am inside a mass of people and that we are all together, are tight, adjacent to one another and are aimed in one direction. That feeling we're missing.

39. S. (01:42:41) What prayer will take all of our friends in the ten and the world Kli out of their health problems?

R. It is the same prayer when you want to come closer to the Creator there is no problem. Let’s all connect and cause by our connection some adduction some inspiration for the entire human humanity and this whole virus will be gone. It will be gone. There is no problem, only connection is the remedy for everything.

40. S. (01:43:51) How to reach a focus into the demand in the ten?

R. Talk about it and each one should be impressed by his friends and besides that read articles that talk about that. One should help his friend, yes that is a must.

41. S. (01:44:41) The women’s organization in the name of all the tens of the women of all languages in the world Kli want to thank dear Rav and all the men for the powerful Congress. We are full of inspiration and appreciation from the work and devotion and hold you in our prayers. We are the women of the world Kli continuing to raise the importance of the lesson and the work in the tens that includes workshop and in reading our sources and preparing together on Friday for the morning lesson on Saturday. We heard the Rav say a few days ago that he is already preparing for the next Congress. How do you recommend that we prepare for the next Congress, how do you see that?

R. I don't see anything, I don't want to hear it anymore and I don't want to determine anything because in the connection which is a Congress, a congregation, only the desire of each and every one of you has to be there. I won't determine anything and don't ask me about that. Don’t ask. Discuss this, do this, think about it, something. The main thing is that you start implementing right now so that every day will be like a Congress for you. Go ahead all the more so, we don't need to think about something in three months. It’s enough for us every day we will be in an increasing connection.

42. S. (01:46:20) What prayer can I raise to the Creator to help my friends in the ten if I am in a state that I feel that I am not able to do anything and everything I do is wrong and for no good, even though I think I'm trying, what should I ask for the friends?

R. That is what you feel about yourself but with the friends you can do everything specifically because you have nothing. Don't be afraid about losing anything specifically in such states, a person can really reach devotion in his soul. What does he have in his soul, nothing so pass it to others.

S. It says that I don't want any luxuries just so I can do something for the sake of the heavens, what are luxuries in spirituality?

R. Luxuries in spirituality is anything that doesn't help me bestow more.

43. S. (01:47:26) I want to change the quality of reception to bestowal, can that desire be egoistic?

R. Also, it can be, it depends on what and in what way you receive it. There is also bestow in order to receive. Yes.

44. S. (01:47:45) Is prayer a measure to check if we are in adhesion with the Creator?

R. In faith above reason, only in that we can examine that we are in adhesion with the Creator and in such a way that we see and we even measure how much the Creator is revealed in the quality of bestowal that we have attained.

45. S. (01:48:13) What prayer should I raise when I feel the pain of humanity?

R. We should incorporate that as well in our general prayer. We should also understand that there is no humanity, it is all our Kli our vessel. If we all connect together, when each one comes to the revelation of his soul in the real manner then we really feel all the created beings belonging to my body, to my heart, to my desire, everyone is me. That is how each and every one ultimately attains but there is no contradiction here between each one attaining himself and attaining everyone else because he himself and everyone else they become the same. This is why and this is what we should think about and yearn for it to be revealed. In the meantime our desires are so much disconnecting us from the connection from the unity that we cannot imagine these qualities we see today as opposite of us, as hated by us, how much they will show us connection and love.

46. S. (01:50:11) How did the prayer take place in Rabash’s ten?

R. It’s impossible to explain and I think it is not far from us and there were all kinds of problems there as well and all kinds of questions but somehow it happened. There were problems as well because the Creator every time increases the desire more.

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