Morning Lesson October 20, 2021, Transcription
Part 1:
Rabash - Letter 16
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1. Rav’s Introduction: While I get questions addressed from our friends from all over the world, not only from Israel, about how to relate to those people who come and want to explain. Let's say, somebody from some country writes “A few people came to me, or just one person, and they want to explain to me that he has a method which is close to us, and it's more precise, it’s more beautiful, and he tries to explain it to me and push it to me.” Another one from some other country says that nevertheless he was related to certain circles earlier. Now he's not in contact with them, but nevertheless, he does pull him there sometimes and he doesn't know what to do about it. A third one says that everything in which he sees us as weak, unique, small relative to great bodies, organizations of religious people of some kind, it greatly awakens him, and so on and so forth, all kinds of such questions that they sent to me. Let them send it. I'm not saying they shouldn't, but we do need to give an answer to it, because it can be a great hindrance for people to come closer to the true goal. It deviates them, it deflects them from the path, and puts them into all kinds of doubts.
Indeed, there's a big problem in that because the wisdom of Kabbalah is very special, it's not connected to any social movements or religions, and not philosophies, and not any kind of psychology or anything. Rather, it stands on its own, on the side, from all of those inclinations of man through which he developed and he conducted himself, even though thousands of years of his development. The wisdom of Kabbalah seems to be standing on the side, and it is so much so, it is a special wisdom that nobody knows. There are those who think that this is some matter of the names, appellations, some kind of game with various letters, that it talks about the actions or dancing, or some ritual, and more and more. However, where does these come from? Out of the fact that spirituality cannot be grasped, cannot be perceived, cannot be seen, you cannot give an example or tell about it to each and everyone. Everyone will get some view from it and they will acquire it just like all the other wisdoms, even though we do call this realm the wisdom of Kabbalah so it is a wisdom, but there are many other wisdoms. Or we call it the Torah and there are many theories.
There is the theory of electricity. Any kind of study, right, any wisdom it’s a wisdom. So, also the wisdom of Kabbalah, what is the difference? People ascribe it to philosophy. Let's say, I wanted to get a PhD in the wisdom of Kabbalah, so I did that in the faculty of philosophy, in an Institute for philosophy. This is how it is customary. My daughter also graduated here, in Israel, in the profession of the wisdom of Kabbalah and philosophy, in the faculty for philosophy. This confusion is truly great, it exists and nobody wants to correct it, and engage in it. It stems from the fact that nobody understands how to even relate to the wisdom of Kabbalah, what to ascribe it to. There are all kinds of texts written about it; so much was written over the years that no one can check, if it is correct, if it is the truth or if it is false. They accept this but they don't accept that. They throw it away, they burn it, they don't look at it anymore. There's no interest in that and it's really a simple issue that as we learn on our flesh, reaching the topic of the wisdom Kabbalah is possible only through many years and great efforts, with special actions, and even a special order of life, special routine.
After a person invests himself entirely in that and he reaches it, and it's also not him, but he is given it, it is done for him, that he gets a certain entrance to the feeling of the upper world, or the feeling of the Creator which is the same. Then, he understands what this wisdom is, and how it is given to a person, and it is intended for him. So, because I get such questions, from here and there, from our students, our friends, we have chosen here a letter by Rabash. So, let's read it, how we should relate to all these things. If there are any questions, go ahead and ask. We’ll scrutinize it. These are things that can guard us greatly on our path because the way to the goal is very narrow. It's a very narrow trail and we have to walk on it by strengthening ourselves, and not to deviate from the path, as he writes, ’that one who deviates from the path in the beginning, even a little bit, later on the more he advances the more he distances from the goal.’’
Rabash Letter 16 (08:21)
2. R. (10:33) To be the servant of the Creator, you need to choose such people who also are precisely walking the same path, so that they will not obstruct you, so that they will not deflect you.
Reader continues (10:49) ‘’meaning wishes his work to be clean and pure...”
S. (12:15) How do you know that he's a good, skillful, professional? How do you know what his correct attitude is?
R. Look, throughout my life, I've been in this for let's say 45 years, I met with hundreds of people of all kinds, from religious people of all kinds, both in Judaism, and also in the adjacent religions, Christianity and even Islam. Also, with scientists who are close to the wisdom of Kabbalah, philosophers of different sorts. I talked with people from the East, the Eastern teachings. We don't come here to learn who is right and who is wrong, who is close, who is far. But rather, here we want to get advice from Rabash, a very simple one, a cutting one, that we do not touch anyone. This is what he will soon tell us.
We do not touch anyone, we don't accept advice from anyone but rather only from a single source. This is true really with everything. Let's say, if you are going to study something else, let's say another method, then delve in it and sit in it until you'll get the desired result. You can't now start doing research, from where we have the intellect, the mind for the research, who are you to do it? It is not possible, because to understand one thing and opposite it, to understand something else, and to make some comparisons between them, it is impossible. With spiritual matters, and it doesn't matter which ones, if you enter something, you're going all the way and then you can't get out of there. Because you can't get out of there, it's a sign that you never got in there.
4. S. (15:10) It's clear that we are speaking of people who might be studying a different stream of the wisdom of Kabbalah, and we think that we don't have any contact with them. But here, I want to ask. We study with you. You are our teacher. You teach us a method. You give us certain rules, principles and they are fundamental rules, absolute rules. How to relate within the ten when we are speaking about carrying out these things, but not all the way? You hear in the ten sometimes, “yes, you have to come daily but you can start from coming once a week.”
R. You realize that there is the truth, and this truth obligates us. Along with that, we also understand that for the meantime we are not capable of accepting and keeping this truth.
There is one thing that exists here, and this is how we need to conduct ourselves. And next to it, we see that for the meantime we are not capable of keeping it so much. So gradually, maybe we'll come closer to this in the future. There is what is desirable and there is the way it is at present, that is all. This exists with anything that one does, but the most important thing is to know what we have and where I am right now. What is it that I need to achieve and what I am capable of for the time being. This should be certain, open, clear, to each and every one of us. It's not a shame to talk about that, that we still are not able to keep what the wisdom of Kabbalah demands from us. But according to the degrees, as much as we are able to keep it, accordingly we can advance towards the purpose of creation, the purpose of life.
5. S. (18:05) In his letter, Rabah writes about how a skillful worker of the Creator is considered one who doesn’t look at the reward but enjoys the work itself. How to educate myself internally so I would not aspire for the revelation of the upper world, but each and every moment to aspire to Him?
R. You’re asking very nicely. That is correct and that should be the goal that we have before us. We’ll talk about it later. Write it down, later please remind us that.
6. S. (18:52) In creative work you’re prepared to work on a project that excites you, even without payment. With us, how does it work? Connection with the friends, ability to bestow, what is it here exactly?
R. No, our goal is not the connection with the friends, and it's not some nice planner, nice program. Our goal is to get as close as possible to the upper force, who is entirely bestowing good and doing good, according to the equivalence of the qualities that we wish to acquire through this upper influence over us. We wish to resemble the Creator, to be Adam, similar to the Creator.
S. So this resemblance, is that the reward?
R. Why is that considered without the reward? This is the greatest reward for me to get closer to the Creator, to be similar to Him, this is the reward. The work and the reward, and the goal, it all joints into one. Along the way, we change and all of those actions that we now perform forcefully, we will start to feel them, that it is not by force, it is by merit. That I accept these things and I enjoy them, I enjoy the effort as much as I do more difficult things that are more against my ego, the more I enjoy it. Because in that I'm giving contentment to the Creator and that for me is the reward. Our nature changes in such a way.
S. It's possible because the Creator's with me in that moment of effort?
R. Yes. This is to the extent that I value the Creator as the great one and He's great in my eyes such that all of my work is for Him. And it's not for Him, but rather I feel pleasure in it and not an effort.
7. S. (21:51) He writes that anyone who thinks he’s a worker of the Creator, you have to be careful that he's a skillful worker whose work is good and pure. Can you explain?
R. What is the question?
S. I thought, if I come to the ten, the Creator's behind each and every friend. Then, who am I with my corrupt ego to sort through the friends and think whose work is pure, who's not? The Creator is behind the friends, his work is not pure?
R. This is with respect to you, this is how you feel.
S. I feel I have to come to a state where I justify each and every friend whose work is pure, even if I see with my corrupt ego the opposite.
R. From where do you know, how do you check, how do you see that behind each friend stands the Creator?
S. You say the test is behind the corruption that I, see?
R. So how can you check if you don't see the corruption?
S. I don't know how to check, I truly don’t know, that's why I'm asking. He says that specifically friends who are our friends, you have to be careful and see if they're skilled workers or not. If they work for his sake or not.
R. We’ll scrutinize this. I see that you started getting confused. Let's continue and we will see.
Reader continues (23:44)” But with people who engage in Torah but are not meticulous...”
8. R. (24:25) That is to the extent that some person in the world is engaging in something that is closer to your profession, that is to the wisdom of Kabbalah, you need to be more careful of him and to be watchful. It is a question, how do you know where to be careful and where not, where he’s mistaken just a little bit, he’s almost like you where he is not. Maybe you're interning some territory where it might pull you away and you won't even feel it. So those people who are close to us, this is considered that they're engaging in Torah and Mitzvot, you have to be watchful of them for the time being. This is how it should be.
Reader continuous (25:20) ‘’And this is not so with ordinary people. Hence, since you have no contact with the people of Mizrahi, you do not need such a careful watch.’’
R. (25:32) Meaning, such people, simple people who live an ordinary life.
Reader continuous ‘’you do not need such a careful watch. But from the people of Agudat Israel,’’
R. (25:46) More religious, more strong, firm in their faith and their view.
Reader continuous ‘’you do need to keep away. And with Hassidim, you need even greater vigilance.’’
R. (26:01) Meaning, to keep a greater distance from them.
Reader continuous ‘’And with people who were close to my father (Baal HaSulam) you need to keep a very watchful eye.’’
R. (26:15) Meaning, to be very careful of being in contact with people who were close to Baal HaSulam, this is what Rabash writes to his students.
Reader continues ‘’And this is the reason: In the world of Nekudim, Melech ha Daat, the level of Keter, which is the first Melech (king), fell lower than all the Melachim (kings) during the breaking. This is so because while the coarser is also higher when it has a Masach, it is the worst when losing the Masach.’’
R. (27:29) Well, we have the saying also, that one who is greater than his friend his inclination is greater, and one who rises the highest is the one who falls the lowest. Because he falls into his own coarseness. Later on, if he does make efforts, he can be higher also according to the degree of coarseness which he had corrected. Therefore, here there is a problem. If we are dealing with people who are seemingly great, they can actually be, they can corrupt us more.
S. (28:28) I heard, not long ago, from someone who said that she has a friend in the ten, she studies with you, listens to lessons, but in addition there's another Rav, someone who studied with Baal HaSulam. He does the weekly portion very nicely, he explains it very beautifully, so she also listens to that, this nice addition, why not?
R. I'm not saying anything, this is man's choice. We just want to scrutinize what Rabash writes here and to behave accordingly. Let's say, I don't have another teacher and I don't follow anyone. Rabash, and later behind him Baal HaSulam, behind them the Creator, that's it. If I read the ARI, I read it how he is served to me by Baal HaSulam and Rabash. If it is the Zohar, then it's with the translation and explanation of Baal HaSulam, The Sulam Commentary, etc. I don't need anything else. I have these books and this is enough for me. If I adhere to only two of them, then I am somehow at peace that I am coming closer to the goal, and I'm not deviating from the path. This is what he wants to explain to us.
10. S. (30:10) It is clear why he says I should be aware of the people of Mizrachi, Israel, and Hassidim. But people of Baal HaSulam, seemingly people who followed his path, why should we be aware of these people the most, keep a watchful eye?
R. Because they're more capable of deflecting you. Even more, it's a wonder how much these things are dangerous. I also didn't know it, I didn't understand it, what is it that Rabash wants. Let's say, I didn't have so much connection with all the students of Rabash throughout all of those years. When I brought them there and later on, I wasn't involved with them. As much as I was involved externally, maybe I needed to do things, but internally I wasn't. Because with everything where I might have been involved with them, Rabash would pull me away. We have to drive here, we have to do that, and in this way, I was not connected with them. In truth, only later I realized what was his intention. Nevertheless, there are many views and many inclinations among the friends as we heard just now, that there is some woman who's going to some other circle about something else. In some way they catch some viruses from the outside, and later on their among the friends, the men or the women inside with us. Well, if you want to study, go ahead. You have all the books of Baal HaSulam and Rabash, you can learn them, study them, right. You can go straight without any doubts and then you're in the same direction, on the same path, because you don't understand where here alien thoughts may enter among you, and they deflect you from the path, from the goal.
S. When Rabash passed, you moved away from everyone who was there, right?
R. Yes.
S. What should we learn from it when you leave us?
R. That you have to keep your group and learn according to these sources. Not to get closer to all of the students of Rabash, if suddenly they will show up and want to be in contact with you. Even though I think, I'm quite sure, that they will not do it. So, you should not look at them as people who have some degree and they’re veterans. Each and every person has his goal in his hands, and this is how it is. You should go forward only according to what it says in the sources. Don't listen to anything but the sources.
S. The thing is if I take things that he writes. It turns out that, maybe I'm wrong, but the students of Dr. Rav Laitman, I have to keep a watchful eye on them, as he writes, those who are with Baal HaSulam I should keep a watchful eye over him. I have to say the same thing about Rav Laitman when he leaves?
R. I'm not certain of anyone and I cannot be certain of anyone, and I cannot testify for anyone. Of course, if the people are connected together right now to our study, then they have a certain source that renews for them each and every day, a certain nearing on the path to the goal that we together are coming closer to, and it is the same one for all of us. Whereas, if there is no teacher, then each one starts to feel that he has his own sail and he can advance according to his own sail and his own compass, according to the direction that seems right to him. That is no longer the one, the Rav that is thinking this way, the captain, it doesn't matter how you want to call it what he thinks, but rather his ego is thinking that. This is why a person must not trust anyone, but only follow the books.
S. The books are the easiest to interpret here. How to scrutinize it?
R. Only according to the books, and the Creator will aim us. Nothing more than that. You now are learning how to understand correctly the texts of Baal HaSulam and Rabash, right? Here in the understanding of the text there is not so much that you can be mistaken about. So, each one understands according to whatever he understands, and he advances. The most important thing is that you can advance to the goal, always through the adhesion among the friends. You have enough, a society, it just needs to be more solidified and getting closer to the Creator. Don't listen to any advice from the side. If a person comes and he talks beautifully with great wisdom and he knows here and there so much, it doesn't matter. It is actually the opposite. The more he appears to understand, and feel, and know, we need to be watchful of him even more, because the knowledge that he knows, what it says here and there, and how to explain it nicely so it will be suitable for our spirit, it doesn't testify to the truthfulness of is attainment. Therefore, just keep the connection between us, the system that we are establishing and with that to advance.
11. S. (37:55) We used to have only books. Now, thank God, looking 30 years back, we have the daily recording of what you said each and every moment. We should relate to that as a book, no? And even more because it is closer to us?
R. Correct. All those things of ours, we have such a comprehensive archive of the wisdom of Kabbalah that we don't need anything besides that. But I'm talking about living people and foreign books and sources.
12. S. (38:31) The guideline is very clear. We don't intermingle with people who appear to be close to our study and the process that you are speaking about, or Rabash is speaking about, it's almost like a kind of temptation for our ego. It comes like a sniper and we don't see it. When it happens to a person, he avoids it. But it happens to a person because he's surprised by it. In what desires can we feel the symptoms of this sniper? How can we recognize it? Are we desiring for more recognition or what is happening with us when this influence gets to us?
R. From the beginning we don't enter into contact with anyone who is not in our society. If we wish to be certain that we continue to advance in the correct path, our path. Otherwise, it will be a problem and you won't be able to look critically at anything and consider how much you are deviating from the path or not. How to get back to the path or not. You can't do it, no one can. There's only one thing that can protect us when we don't hear, accept, speak to and enter into contact with any wise person, any Sage. To disseminate, to give lessons, yes. To receive lessons, for that we have our archive and all the usual order of things. If we add to that our growing connection, we will certainly reach the goal.
13. S. (40:52) Should we watch out from praying in the synagogue?
R. I cannot say. I don't go. I don't enter any place. When you enter somewhere you immediately incorporate in the same atmosphere, in the same force that exists in that place. That's highly problematic and a great thing. There's no choice, no other choice. If we wish to maintain ourselves in a clean development, we have to arrange things autonomously in each person's house.
14. S. (42:02) According to which attitude can we know which is the path of truth?
R. Attitude to what, to whom? I don't understand the question.
S. You're talking about the sages, different wise people, different ways.
R. The path of truth is one you wish to scrutinize from what you read and learn from Baal HaSulam and Rabash. Alone, within a group of friends and with me, together. This determines your path to the purpose of creation where we try to aim ourselves and advance on the same path. Daily make additional steps on the path. That's it. We don't want to add any other factors to it. Only these two: Baal HaSulam and RABASH, the group, me and you, that's it. You have to be in that, connected to us and that's how you have to aim yourself and not enter, keep out of, strange foreign places, foreign people. The creator also arranges everything in such a way that they don't really come to you, they don't want to tempt you, and pull you into other foreign cultures. Just continue on this path. And beware that if you are watching some foolish movie, it will dumb you down a little bit for a while, it's not that great, but still. He says that if you're in contact with people who are close to your path, then keep a watchful eye on them and keep your distance from them.
15. S. (44:32) When we enter the wisdom of Kabbalah, we are told that ‘I don't care what religion you have and where you come from.’ What is the limit there? Because sometimes it is like an excuse in order for you to keep two methods in parallel. Can you talk about that?
R. I don't know what to tell you. I'm not in your shoes and I can't tell you what to do. I have no idea. Just see what he writes and accordingly beware. On the one hand, you are careful not to be different from your corporeal environment. Maybe you are among very powerful people, in a certain different method, in a different movement. So just be careful. But I cannot come up with a solution for everyone, individually. No. I mostly want to caution you not to engage in any other seemingly different method of Kabbalah, because as he says they are closer to us. That's why we need to keep a very watchful eye on them.
16. S. (46:25) In Kabbalah, the organizers of other current movements, maybe we can recommend something to them? Let's say, if you want faith go here, if you want religion go there. Without negating them. Those who were with us and studying with us, they've gone through these things. They have already studied different sources, so can we be the ones that will be the main organ and will connect all of these things?
R. No. For the time being no. This might be the case many years from now, but today. We may come to a state, look, Baal HaSulam writes that there's no problem. Everyone can do what they want according to their customs and religions. I think it's in the Last Generation somewhere. He writes that the main thing is to reach connection, the love of others, love will cover all transgression. Each one can be in his religion, beliefs and habits. That is not important to us as long as, above it all, we have the method of connection. Again, let me tell you that we are not in it just yet. I am speaking just now of our path. If you are left without me, this is what you should be careful of. So mostly be careful of various spiritual methods, methods of Kabbalah, various methods of Kabbalah. You should be careful not to be incorporated in them. Not to come closer to them.
S. That is, we cannot appear in a few years, let's say, but maybe we can consult people?
R. Yes, we can give lessons, lectures, talks and open up different groups and campuses for beginners, but not that we are under their authority. Rather they are under our studies.
17. (49:13) I would like to ask about the state where the teacher departs, clearly, we have the books with the archive we have recorded lessons and we should stick to them. At the same time there are also better students of yours, students who have been leading dissemination and projects next to you for many years. Could there be a state where 1 student becomes more conspicuous and starts explaining the teacher, interpreting the teacher, can that happen in the group?
R. It can be that on this condition these instructors will be as a group and not move away from one another for each one to become a guide on his own. Then you can learn from them only on that condition that they maintain the connection between them, true connection.
18. S. (50:13) Today in the world there's a lot of pessimism and it's very easy to get into confusion and get mixed up with different methods. Should we broadcast a lot more faith belief in our method because it seems like the worst possible thing to start getting into arguments about it.
R. I don't know, maybe it's also a method to get into arguments and show something there but I'm not sure you can succeed there because you've nothing to show. Nothing to offer because all the other methods are in the direction of psychology or religion and they have more appeal, there are places and objects and signs with which a person works. In the wisdom of Kabbalah there's nothing, there is only the person's heart and the person's mind and a direction of his heart and mind towards the Creator. That you cannot feel and see and we don't make depictions of Him. There is no point to really get into any arguments and do anything, on the contrary if you get into arguments those people behind who's there are years of religious development. They have wider audiences and buildings and methods and they can explain things more practically, psychologically philosophically, scientifically and what you can do. You're speaking of something that is not felt so what kind of connection you can have with another person. I don't think this is the place where we can succeed. If you speak to 20 people and you wish to convince one, you'll see that the way he speaks to you the other people will understand him more than they understand you. Because you're holding onto something that cannot be held and there's no public opinion to support what you are saying, no history, no geography, no science, no nothing. You are speaking of something an average person cannot feel or prove so I don't think this is our path. I used to think this way once, but for a long time, now I'm not.
S. What can protect us from those influences?
R. Only if we protect ourselves by ourselves, only in the connection between us will we develop as quickly as possible a common desire where we will reveal the Creator. This will be for us the goal, it will protect us and reinforce us and strengthen us and lift us.
19. S. (54:21) The quote from the writings of the last generation, the translators have it, we can read it. It says, the writings of Baal HaSulam the last generation, “The religious form of the all the nation's should first obligate its members to bestow upon each other to the extent that the life of one's friend will come before one’s friend as in, love your friend as yourself. One will not take pleasure in society more than a straggling friend, this will be the collective religion of all the nations.
R. In bestowal, everyone to everyone this is considered the true religion. From there after the deterioration of the generations, everyone fell into physical relations the way we have them now. Eventually we'll have to get back to that religion, which is mutual bestowal from one person to another, love your friend as yourself. Reader continues, yes but besides this each nation can follow his religion and tradition and one must not interfere with the other.
R. Each one is free but what we have to pass from one another is only the method of love your friend as yourself. This is the religion that has to be accepted by all. Logically this is how it should be.
20. S. (56:11) Nowadays the people who are closest to me on the path are my 10. I understand there's two states, a state where the teacher exists and where the teacher departs, so when the teachers here your control over us is clear, there's no question. What should happen with the 10 when the teacher departs?
R. It all depends on you, it all depends on you that's it. You have to protect the connection between you and continue to study, that's what I think and anyone who appears to try and drag you in a certain direction, I'm not even talking about some other method, you have to immediately stop it and restrict and even get rid of him.
S. What can give us the strength of the mind, the understanding to know how to handle the situation, it can be a very complicated situation?
R. Only the studies according to our sources. Any other source that is not in our archive, anything else is disqualified, not fit.
S. Today also you can see that no matter how much our views are different or how we perceive the lesson differently, you, the source, at the end you come and straighten us out. You collect us all into one thing. So how do we keep this thing, this force that we get from you, that constantly even if there is some confusion in the end, we always come back to a single line?
R. I have three friends, these three friends, they prepare the lesson for us and this is how it should continue. If you wish to add additional people that's fine but in effect you are the ones bringing the material to the morning lesson and that's how it should remain. Moshe's in in charge of the entire system, the General Manager of Bnei Baruch and that's it. There's no problem there, you decide. You decide the order, the studies, what do we learn from all the material that we have and day in day out we continue to study methodically. It should be clear that it doesn't matter in what world the teacher is, if he is like the Creator, it doesn't matter. There's always Providence and if it's not visible to the physical eyes then there is bestowing to the spiritual vessels.
S. Even in the letter that we read now, to ask about it earlier seemingly says be especially careful of the students of Baal HaSulam seemingly the people that were closest to Rabash, he says you have to be careful, especially of them?
R. They dispersed. They were not connected. That's what happened after Baal HaSulam passed. Also, when he was still alive, they had relationships between them that Rabash told us their relationships between them were very strained. This, on purpose, the Creator in order to bring people together he actually disturbs them from connecting.
S. Should we also be watchful of each other?
R. You need to try to have such a tendency, a disposition for connection, that there will be neither the intellect nor the feelings will have energy to think of anything else but to connect. That's it and the connection can be only for those that are in our society who behave correctly, meaning continue the same path we don't need any novelties or innovations. We need to renew our strength and forces towards attaining the goal.
21. S. (01:02:22) Here in the letter it says there's an option and it says that someone who's not a skillful worker can influence somebody else, can it be the opposite kind of a person?
R. How can I tell good from bad? I can't, as smart as I am, according to the mood it can be one day one thing and another day, another. Before a person is in spiritual attainment with his four hands and feet, he cannot be certain. Meaning, four hands and feet, vessels of reception and vessels of bestowing can only be in order to bestow this is the degree of Atzilut. Also, not simply smallness but greatness, adulthood in Atzilut, so before that you can't discern what is good and what is bad you can always fall. So, I know only one thing, I'm like a mindless person, I wish to be adhered to the source then what can guarantee my future. There are lessons that at the same time that Rabash had them, we learn, we have the same material we study with Rabash, we study the same material, Gathering of Friends we keep. A few other small things like that. Whatever you can keep unchanged you keep unchanged that's it it's mechanically and content-wise. There's a reader, maybe there can be someone who helps to clarify, to interpret, there's a few people who know the material that you know how to explain it, that's good, we'll talk about them and that's it. We don't like anything, everything else depends only on our connection. If you would connect even more, I would feel redundant. Truly
22. S. (01:05:13) Is there a point in the 10 we won't accept the fact that we are working in different professions?
R. It's very bad that you think this way because it means you have no 10, you have nothing. Try to think about it now because otherwise you're not even advancing. It will become apparent to you only after my control will disappear and you will see how you're pulling in different directions. The same cart in which only together you can reach the purpose of life.
23. S. (01:06:12) How can we maintain a connection that even if you depart from this world, we will be able to connect with you spiritually and will be able to continue receiving help from you like all of the Tzaddikim?
R. It's no problem the way we are talking about the Creator. That we can attain in the connection between us, in the center of the 10 seemingly, you can be connected to me from the center of your 10. It doesn't matter if I'm living or dead
S. Sometimes I'm feeling bad, I don't know because I came to this path maybe late. You are my teacher but I couldn't spend any time even later, I don't have too much memory with you except morning lessons and I feel bad, I am maybe blaming myself that I came late or Creator. How can I rise above this?
R. First of all what happens with a person up to this moment up to this moment, it's all done from above. We have to say on it that there's none else besides him whereas from this moment on I have to say if I'm not for myself then who is. Since it all depends on me that's it. If you regret what you had before it's not good. Because by that you are erasing the Providence of the Creator over you as if it wasn't Him who was moving you around but you yourself are a master.
24. S. (01:08:38) With all of these questions about the attitude to the 10 after your departure, it seems to me that there is one particular problem of some of misunderstanding and the reason for it I think is that on the one hand you say that after your departure we should keep the connection between us on the other hand we have your own personal story that you had a 10 and when Rabash departed, if I understand your personal story correctly, you immediately after his departure you cut any connection with your 10. So, in your example we shouldn't follow it?
R. I'll explain to you what happened back then but it's really not the way you're telling it. I wasn't entirely connected with the 10 and with anyone else because I was constantly with the Rabash. You don't understand how many hours a day I spent next to Rabash. The morning before the morning lesson we used to take walks, the morning lesson itself from 3 to 6 a.m. and then we go to rest at 9 a.m., I was at his place from 9 until 1 in the afternoon, we would drive. From 1 till 4 I would work in order to make a living. From four until eight 8:30 every evening I would study with him again. In the morning lesson from 3 to 6 there was a group that studied and in the evening lesson there were also five or six people at most even two or three people would come to study. That's all there was. The group there was a gathering of friends as we have today on Sundays except, we had it on Thursday evenings. That's it, so if you think that there was a connection as today that we are speaking about it also during the lesson, during the day when we connect with one another, this did not exist, practically did not exist. The group was those who gathered Thursday night, Thursday evening and read a new article by Rabash, he would give it to me in the middle of the week, I would make photocopies handed out to everyone and Thursday we would come and read it in our group.
S. I want to emphasize this exactly and then we can understand it will be easier for us and everyone, your example, should it not be an example for us?
R. Completely not there's no such thing no and even more than that. When Rabash passed according to this letter actually specifically I tried to keep my distance from the friends. Like I said how, you're looking down at them. I felt they were unable, there were several streams there, they were not capable of reinforcing the correct connection and if that's the case it's better to separate and not enter under anyone's stream. There are those who pulled in the direction of Orthodoxy, religious Judaism. There were those who were pulling towards more mystic behaviors and there are those who pulled to more studious form. Learn just what's written and each one according to his spirit how it was constructed, that's why I closed myself in at home, I had my writings of Rabash. I took the book of Shamati, I worked on that and a few other things. I started to organize and translate the Sulam Commentary and the Zohar. In general, arrange the Sulam Commentary in Hebrew. For the Book of Zohar, it would be more accessible so that's why we call it Zohar for All. That's how I advanced. Meaning I was connected to myself to these sources and that's it. That's what kept me and directed me correctly. That's why I recommend as much as possible to be connected to the lessons’ to our archive and continue with the same groups and those who can give a lesson there should be many people and we know who they are more are less who are capable of giving out lessons and they should switch roles intermittently, daily, that's very important. Because very quickly you can corrupt each and every person who still doesn't have his hands and feet in spirituality, you can corrupt him. You can buy him so to speak that you can awaken him, various egoistic desires that he'll want to be a great teacher, a Rav, and it's very easy. You have to keep a watchful eye. It's a shame about people because everyone is very weak.
25. S. (01:15:59) How to specifically be careful about myself that maybe have a tendency to teach more, explain more?
R. We have a system, a mechanism and we have to examine how a person is permitted, admitted into teaching. This is a big problem as a person who teaches others, he basically endangers himself into thinking that he is already great, that he is some Rav and some leader. That is why you need at least two or three people giving a lesson together and then they rotate with other people.
S. The intention I meant in the 10, how not to confuse other friends that I am right and want to explain?
R. Well the fact that everybody thinks that they are right, it is not new but they are people with greater controlling power and some people are smarter so both things are not good. We need everything to be balanced to try as much as possible and also to listen to the friends.
26. S. (01:17:57) Once I asked you regarding the country of Armenia and you answered me where is your head and here, I have a question, how not to lose your head on one hand and on the other hand to be in connection?
R. I don't exactly understand what you are asking, ask in a clear fashion.
S. I will try again later.
R. In regard to Armenia or the situation in Kavkaz I have not much to say, I'm not an expert in that I do not have data or anything and I cannot say anything really. Except just to pray for peace. But in truth, it is a very problematic area as all the other areas that used to be under the Russian rulership and when the Russians left for some reason, all those places became problematic for all the people who stayed there. That is Asia and anywhere, where Russia used to be. This happened even in this time of Stalin who changed all the borders between the countries and so till this day it is still a problem but it is beyond us, it is not our business.
27. S. (01:20:17) The advice envisioned that you gave to an organization for the future they have some spiritual roots, some examples of what we can expect, something that we can find with respect to the future of the organization?
R. Everything that we are learning should stabilize us correctly, there are a few such sources, some letters that we can read about it from Baal HaSulam and Rabash but no more than that, the rest is just from the connection between us, from the connection between us. This is all we need to extract the wisdom and the path.
28. S. (01:21:18) How to relate to friends who give doubt regarding your advice?
R. To explain to them if you are capable and if not, they can ask during the lesson. So, about the truth, according to how I say it or how they see it. So, let's see, I'm not afraid of any confrontation or scrutiny, on the contrary it could clarify our path better to do it in advance.
29. S. (01:22:24) In the chance that the situation the person is in doesn't allow him to live in the lesson, so what is it for a friend to be connected during the course of a day or few days. If a person because of factors outside of his control he cannot be physically in the lesson, how are we to be connected with the force in the group?
R. One arranges himself as much as I can but each and every moment where when the person can be connected to the lesson he must be. He needs to always have an earpiece in his ear listening to it over his device or phone, whatever, that is a must. If he cannot even do that then there is a problem. Well okay, he can listen to it at a different time but it is no longer the same thing, it is much less, it is not obligatory as much, it is not a similar feeling. But he needs to try as much as possible, it depends on where you live, what time you are working, what time zone you're in but really the best used to be attentive during the time of the lesson.
30. S. (01:24:28) At the moment in the 10 I can decide if to annul or not?
R. No no, that's impossible, that is false, if you can't nullify towards the friends then you cannot nullify towards the Rav or the Creator. First you need to nullify before the friends then before the Rav and then the Creator, that's it. Don't bring me here what your ego wants, this is how the system is built.
31. S. (01:25:24) If Baal HaSulam’s environment became dangerous how can we be correct about ours?
R. It doesn't matter, the method is the same method, connecting according to the same conditions. The wisdom of Kabbalah has existed for 6000 years, nothing has changed, it is the laws of nature, you understand it is not that we are philosophers or psychologists or some experts of human society and so we can come up with some new things here. It all emerges from the structure of the human society, how man is built and Kabbalists are telling you the results of this, what it needs to be. If we want to attain a second nature, please if not it will be closed before you like it is now and that is it, we will continue to exist in darkness as still, vegetative and animate level until we die that's it understood.
32. S. (01:26:58) How do we as a 10 keep the friends protect the friends when they go, when they have foreign influences on them?
R. We need to speak to them and see what to do, either to let him be in the meantime, if they are really new but if they keep going and they are still also connected to other kinds of methods and streams, then we should know that accordingly you should stay away from them. But not to throw them out or we push them out forcefully but kind of pushed him aside a little.
S. How do we protect ourselves from the viruses they bring?
R. That is forbidden when we gather, we are discussing only what is happening between us in the group and only the material of the lesson, that is it, there is nothing more for us to philosophize about.
S. Of course not to talk about their topic but how is it then as a ten, how do we protect ourselves from the viruses that enter under the rug?
R. Even without speaking?
S. Yes, even without speaking you feel that is affecting you.
R. Well that's a problem then perhaps they should be removed, what can you do? It is said save your souls, guard yourselves.
33. S. (01:28:59) I want to continue the same line above, many friends grow with many traditions whether it is Judaism or Christianity or others and they live there all their life in these traditions. We read that Baal HaSulam says that other than religion of bestowal to others every nation can go with their own tradition and religion?
R. It is not about our circles, this is about the state of the final correction, this comes from the writings of the last generation. It is about the end of correction, coming closer to the final correction when everyone awakens towards spirituality then he says they can stay with what they are used to and with it they will be included in the connection between everybody love your friend as yourself and their external behavior can be as a Christian, Jew, Muslim, externally but they will bring into it the spirit of love of friends, love of others.
S. And what about the spirit that they bring to the 10?
R. This is not about now, you did not hear what I said, it is not about now, did you hear what I said, it is about the condition of the last generation.
S. How to relate to the friends who in the current condition the Creator brought a friend to the study to the 10 and he has behind him his entire life, where is the border, the limit here?
R. Look, our society is very diverse and it is in construction stages so we cannot expel such people who come close to us, we need to give them time when they are still transitioning from this to that and be patient with them. What can you do? I understand I know that people write to me and turn to me with all kinds of things like that, sometimes I answer, some people I do not answer at all and time will do its job. This is how we are all built after the shattering. So, let's try to strengthen each other, the solutions are not many after all. Only patience and overcoming through our connection and that brings the light that reforms and it will correct everything.
34. S. (01:32:10) Today’s lesson is based on questions from students to give us precise directions. What do you think the future direction for guiding lessons is?
R. Also clarify in the 10 and in the ten if you do not come to a satisfactory decision, a single decision then you need to awaken the general management and maybe discuss certain problems between several tens and advance towards it like that. This is why you have an organization, there is the head of the organization, there are people who make the organization work sustaining it and that is how it should continue.
S. What internal attitude does a student need to have towards the teacher, that attitude, that the connection will always be?
R. We have to understand that our bonds are eternal, they originated in the connection between the souls, the closest proximity of the souls in the system of Adam HaRishon and that is why we are now working between us here in order to erase the corporeal existence that is between us. So that we will be able to connect only through spirituality and corporeality will disappear and we will feel the Creator is filling us. This barrier that is between us is our ego that we need to relinquish and nullify and accordingly we will feel how we connect above our ego and to that extent the Creator fulfills us in the shape of Nefesh, Ruach, Neshama, Chaya, Yechida.
35. S. (01:34:57) Beforehand we heard that many students we know who they are more or less they can give lessons sometimes switching between them, on the other hand you said that we need to protect them because they are weak, so how do we strengthen them?
R. To quickly rotate them every day someone else. Each and every day someone else. Some know how to read better. I recommend having let's say two, one reads, one explains and then the other one reads and the first one explains and so on. There is not too much about it, on the contrary you will have more opportunity for connection, you will feel how many gaps you have between us and then envy, lust and honor will play a bigger role.
36. S. (01:36:11) You teach us and the books teaches that the connection needs to be above all differences nevertheless, the path like you are saying the students dispersed and do not hold on to the connection and you also said by yourself you could not. What differences are we supposed to rise above and which ones not?
R. As long as you can keep the structure of the lesson framework of the lesson together and you can feel that no one is influencing someone else but you are really studying what is written in the source of Rabash and Baal HaSulam, so this way you should continue. Besides that, you have a lot of material in the archive also from previous years. Don't disregard this material, use it and then I am there in front of you, that is it. As written by ARI to his students it really exists if the students rise to some spiritual degree, they feel the teacher and he continues to teach them, the same spirit exists.
Reader continues (01:44:44) “And we can interpret these words when they walk in the path of the Creator.”
37. R. (01:46:41) Meaning students nice and good next to his teacher and he keeps them in the certain framework in the group and we see that it is, anyway, it is not always old so successful and might deviate to other sources like we hear and they have other opinions and they are not under his rulership of the teacher. They are not his students, they are the students of everyone so you can’t say they are in the group and part of the friends. Because in spirituality it is very critical if I am following one path, one view or not, even in science you hear this one was a student of this one or that one. In music too, in any kind of serious engagement that requires a unique artistry and craft then you will be asked who taught you, you are a student of who? If our friends are going to several sources and they are filled with by these different sources, then of course their spirit is just empty.
Reader continues (01:48:08) “... I'm being brief because I do not wish to have them in my thoughts…”
38. R. (01:51:18) Although he himself, he is in false but because he sees he is in falsehood that he shows where the direction is towards truth.
Reader continues (01:51:27) “. it follows this point which has a point of truth.”
39. R. (01:53:37) Meaning not to be afraid that we will discover that we are going deeper and deeper into the ego and discover how far we are from spirituality, specifically from the farthest point from spirituality that is where we enter into spirituality.
Reader continues (01:53:54) “. only here at this point does the issue from Lo Lishma one.”
40. R. (01:55:32) This is basically the letter. We need to take it seriously and each one should clean himself and we should clean the waste between us and try to connect better and better until the Creator will be revealed in the true beautiful connection between us. There is no other place for Him to be revealed and there's no reason for us to expect it to happen on its own.
41. S. (01:56:12) He says that in order to reach Lishma we need to prepare the biggest Lo Lishma. What does the biggest Lo Lishma mean?
R. On the path you will discover that as much as you try to reach Lishma, you are in Lo Lishma, in the ego, in various filthy calculations for yourself, and how much you don't really want anything. The ascents and descents come together to become one opposite the other, making one sum total. We switch to Lishma from this sum total.
S. What does the biggest lie mean?
R. That you thought you were in order to bestow but you are in order to receive.
S. It also means we are not to be lazy?
R. Keep going and you will discover.
42. S. (01:57:37) Rabash writes that we need to enjoy bestowal. What do we need to do to enjoy bestowal when we don’t enjoy it?
R. We reach a state where we receive the greatness of the Creator and greatness of bestowal and we enjoy being in it. It all depends on the appreciation of the group and the Creator. We reach a state that for you, to bestow is pleasure. We are now suffering from a lack of the importance of the goal. Who am I bestowing to? What am I doing? Where do I see results? I am already going forward in a different way the moment the importance of the group, and behind them the Creator, and the importance of the spiritual goal is revealed before me. It is a pleasure for me. It is like it is pleasurable for a mother to take care of the baby. It is difficult and she is tired, but will she give that baby away? Of course not, because for her it is the greatest treasure. Bestowal is not always a burden, it can be very pleasant and attractive. It all depends on the importance in your eyes
S. It seems as though he is stating very simply that there are signs indicating enjoying and not enjoying?
R. That is correct. A person is where he enjoys.
43. S. (02:00:54) It has been said that if there is not even one righteous in the generation then the generation is lost. Do we, Bnei Baruch, need to attain the degree of righteous?
R. Yes, of course, we need to attain the degree of righteous. Righteous is one who justifies all creation from the beginning to the end, with all the good and the bad forces in creation.
S. I read an excerpt where it says that the Creator loved Israel before He created the world and all the righteous.
R. He's talking about all the souls, all the human beings, that were incorporated with the Creator in the beginning. We feel ourselves disconnected from Him in order to banish the evil inclination so that we can come near and approach the Creator. Not that He is close to all of humanity, but that all of humanity needs to come close to Him.
44. S. (02:02:32) What thoughts should a person who follows this method be cautious of?
R. From thoughts that distance him from the friends.
S. What does it mean to enter some place?
R. This is actually the simplest thing for women. What woman actually connects with other ladies? Every woman is the result of Malchut and is her own woman who feels that she is on her own and is sure of herself. She has a husband and kids. Nothing else is important to her. The nature of women is that she is on her own. So, we have a very nice example here of how women organize.
S. To what extent should we mingle with students who just finished our campus courses?
R. Give them good conditions to incorporate. They will mix up a bit and each according to their spirit will later see who to bring closer and who to be less close to.
S. How to keep the method clean without understanding its essence?
R. As much as we're going deeper and learning together, it still takes a few good years until the person even begins to understand where he is and what the essence of the method is. They usually understand it to the extent that they attained a bit of getting closer to Lishma, for Her sake. The entire struggle between all the methods and our method of Kabbalah is the struggle to obtain Lishma. We need to scrutinize this term more.
S. How does excluding ourselves from all the other methods bring us closer to the final correction of all humanity?
R. I distance myself from all other methods and advance by living only one method. This is even seen in science. Once one person was a mathematician, a physician, a physicist, and chemist; he was all of these things. Scientists could be doctors and also experts of other things five hundred or a thousand years ago. Nowadays you have a thousand different fields of expertise, such as math and physics. You need more and more experts in each part and in each detail the more science develops. You really cannot find many wise ones who can incorporate all of the wisdom. The wisdom of Kabbalah specifically talks about the general, about how all the souls tie together to reveal the Creator as one from that great big will to receive. We are in one, centralized incorporation.
S. How do you guard yourself during your discussions with many people?
R. God forbid that I look down on people, but they are small and are not in spirituality. I am not afraid to meet up with anybody because they cannot harm me or persuade me to go in other directions. I can enter any place of any different method because I will not veer from the path. I cannot suddenly enter the influence of religion, philosophy, or psychology. In short, you cannot buy me. My ego is not in such a degree.
S. What is the benefit of friends giving lessons when we have thousands of lessons from you? Isn’t that enough until the final correction?
R. The truth is that it doesn’t even matter how much you advance in the study. There was a time when TES, The Study of the Ten Sefirot, or articles of Rabash, or Shamati did not exist and attainment was in the connection of people. Today there are other texts, but we have no need of any material besides Baal HaSulam and Rabash.
S. Many of us feel that we are in this organization and on the path because of you. What will replace this feeling?
R. You need to understand that it is the Creator who really draws and attracts us. He does it from the center of the connection between us. It is not good that you look at me; it is not enough. We need to see this chain: a person, his teacher, his group, and the Creator. We need to do this in this matter to return to the Creator. It is not important if one of your teachers is not in attainment, as this is in your corporeal eyes and has no real importance. We are together in one system, and there is a spiritual connection between all of us. It does not depend on us so much but rather on the mechanism that controls us. Let's agree that we only need to go forward with what the Creator reveals to us. It is not by chance that we are connected in such a manner. It is all in our hands.
45. S. (02:11:57) He writes at the end of the letter that we should each time renew the foundations, so by that, we’ll be in a state that we will never fall and move forward. What does it mean to renew the foundations?
R. It is refreshed by our Reshimot, our records. Every day we renew this question of where to go, what direction, every day we need to do this, to clarify this. Thus, we also need to answer this question to find the connection between us, so the direction will be mutual. Only in such a manner will we advance correctly. Meaning, every day to find a new connection between us and from within our new connection, we will know where we need to go, what direction.
46. S. (02:13:20) We are all on the path, it doesn't matter how great is the friend. If we advance correctly, then every one of us must fall time and again. According to what indications can we identify that the friend fell in such a way that we need to stay away? Where is the boundary between helping him or cutting ties with him?
R. You cannot check a person by any single action that he is no longer worthy of connection with me. Rather, it is clarified after some time, over time, a week, two, until we maybe feel that he is not talking to the point, something else is going with him, he is under a foreign influence. We need to take advice from other friends, what they are thinking about him, what is happening with him. That is how we think. It is a problem because it is like a virus that enters the group and it can harm very much, on one hand. On the other hand, we need to make an effort to speak with the friend and ask him, and tell him it is not good for him, not worthwhile for him to be under this foreign influence. Even worse, to bring this foreign influence on the group. As much as he is harming us, as a result he is harming himself even more so, then we will see the result. Really, we need to make an effort to clean this. It doesn't have to do with newcomers that are maybe still going to a few other places to hear some lecture. We need to wait with that, but if it doesn't pass, within the groups I don't think we need to accept them. Let them revolve around the groups, we have thousands that also watch our lessons, our events. They come maybe to our congresses, conventions, but not to the groups. The groups, it is already something more internal, more intimate, that is only between those who want to keep that line towards the purpose of life.
47. S. (02:16:06) How should we approach or make contact with other tens, if in practice we are barely in contact with them and we can’t create that center of a connection? How can we build the rule, ‘’love your friend as thyself,’’ with other tens?
R. This, really, I do not know. But it could be that Gilad will know how to answer this, because he is related to the connection between groups, and there are other people who will deal with that. I do not deal with that. Your question is maybe to him.
S. You have what to answer, in short?
R. There is a variety of ways to make a connection between the tens. We’ve never decided on one thing. So, I think that the moment we focus on the center of the ten, from there we begin to feel how to do it.
R. Okay. In short, scrutinize it. But I do not understand this matter, I do not deal with it. Finally, you need to think about your future and that you are arranging the future system of Bnei Baruch, that is yours.
48. S. (02:17:36) What is for us the transition between false and truth?
R. Whenever a person feels that he is in a very great descent and really, on one hand, feels he is in despair, he has no hope of getting out of it. On the other hand, he remembers that his only hope is to yell to the Creator, to scream to the Creator. That is the point of transition.
49. S. (02:18:14) Since we are dealing with caution here with the article, about a lesson or two, you said that there is no spirit of life in the mind. I could not really understand what the spirit of life is, and what’s the difference between that and love. If you can explain.
R. There is no spirit in the mind. Meaning, the mind is only given to us to compute, compare between two things. The spirit of life is only in the heart as much as my heart will be directed to bestowal, that it will feel from the general source of bestowal which is the Creator in spirit. Why is it called Ruach (spirit)? Because Nefesh is the lowest level of the light, and spirit is something that already has emotion, something alive.
S. What is love?
R. What is love? Love is connection without limits in each and every degree, in that framework of the degree. If we feel the connection between us to the brim, to the limits of that degree, that will be called love.
50. S. (02:19:46) You with Rabash, you were together most of the day, most hours of the day. In our time, we moved to a virtual connection, it is a bit different from what it used to be. How can the students today measure his connection with the teacher?
R. As much as he hears the teacher and wants to fulfill what the teacher says, that is on one hand. The second matter is that I was next to Rabash. At that time, we didn’t even have books. We had TES and the Book of Zohar, that’s it. Look what we have today. Go into our archive and take a look. You have many lessons and books translated to all languages and please engage in it. There are discussions, there are all sorts of recordings, there are films, whatnot. The main thing I want to add here is trying to disseminate, it helps very much, the moral person gives birth from himself, he is like passing the knowledge of the Creator through him to the whole world, it helps him to advance very much.
51. S. (02:21:27) How will I know that I'm truly a friend in the ten and I'm not harming in the ten?
R. Ask them, clarify. What's the problem, I can’t tell you. According to what? Maybe it seems to you that you are and you are not, and you can bring me all sorts of proof, but the best thing is to ask them, that’s it. In the ten there must be transparency one towards another.
52. S. (02:22:18) Is it correct to say that from the Creator we do not receive any ascents but only descents? He is showing us what we are, that this transition point is an ascent only after a prayer?
R. You are asking me or the friends?
S. You.
R. Me. Yes, I’ll tell you. That’s correct. It is actually written, the king who gives life and kills, and brings back to life, that all the ascents and descents all come from the Creator. The main action of the Creator is to bring us descents to reveal the will to receive each time, more and more, and when we shall request of Him to reveal against it the will to bestow, more and more.
53. S. (02:23:28) Yesterday in the ten we tried to clarify the end of the lesson, what’s the best to do during the day. Today we have a similar dilemma, because we can continue to chew on the amazing lesson, we can engage in Shamati, we also heard about the Arosa paper yesterday, today you mentioned dissemination again. What do you think is best for the ten to do today?
R. Again, what are you asking me, my opinion?
S. What do you think is best for the ten to engage with during the day, today?
R. Over the course of the day, I think you should read this letter from Rabash again and make an effort to understand it in all its details. If needed, ask me about it tomorrow as well. From within this, you also need to discuss how you can maybe form new connections between you and the ten, between the tens, to be better protected against foreign influences. Foreign can also be among yourselves, yes. Rather, aid and support to our spirit. That is how you should continue today, there are many things to clarify here, and they are important.
54. S. (02:25:04) The topic came up, but I heard you mentioned and asked about the topic of what is connecting between the 10's. It’s really a topic that needs clarification. We did some attempts, we touched it, but you always used to say that it's too early.
R. You feel it yourself that it's very hard to reach, it is still far. There is a distance between the tens, emotional, organizational, but at least within the ten.
55. S. (02:25:38) What is the difference between corporal death and spiritual death?
R. Corporeal death is the decomposition of the corporeal matter. Spiritual death is the coming part of all the spiritual foundations. This spiritual death already was in the breaking of the vessels. Thus, awakening from this is called that we are already rising to life. What's before us is not spiritual death, but spiritual coming back to life. Coming apart is death, in short, and everything that may be from the corporeal level into the spiritual level, and connection is life.
56. S. (02:26:49) To continue the topic, when you depart and let's hope you will be with us for many more years, healthy. But this question about the importance of the lesson, that is clear that the importance will not be like it is today. What level of connection do we need to attain in the ten?
R. You need to understand the connection between you, that is your teacher, that is your connection with the Creator. So, you must care for that, and it’s not that I need to tell it to you, you read it a thousand times. So, we need to worry only for connection. If it happens like this, it will go like this, it will lead you from success to success till the end of correction. That’s what will happen.
S. What kind of connection, what level needs to be in order to really be certain that we will not fall?
R. If you are afraid of falling then you will not fall. The fear must be very great, just not to fall.
S. How do you see the 10 in the future, the same assemblies we have today?
R. What does it bother me, what connection. The main thing I worry for is that each time spent teaching will increase.
S. My question is should we also beware of each other?
R. If you make an effort in this, then you will see how much your work is dependent on others, of the example they will give you and so on.
S. It is just that I'm talking about what you said. That in order for us to not fall, so that the connection will lead us, will guide us, we have to be connected very strongly. I am asking, if let’s say in my ten I discover that a friend is absent.
R. To worry for everyone, to care for everyone, to worry for this, that they will come.
S. In general, can the connection in the 10 really be a power that will compensate for the importance that Rav communicates?
R. Much more important than Rav, because the main thing is the connection between the friends in the group. Rav is like a nanny that explains, teaches, maintains. But if they do not make the connection, they will not receive anything. The problem is when the Rav is present, they rely on the Rav, when is he going to bring them the Creator. If Rav does not bring me the Creator, then they begin to look down at Rav. Then, Rav will depart before that. It is like the ARI writes, “that if you needed me, I would not be taken away,’’ he writes it. But because you do not need me anymore, you think that you do not need, even though you did not attain any spirituality. But because you do not need me, then I am taken away from above, from you. That is what is happening.