Morning Lesson September 21, 2022, Transcription
Transcription is made from simultaneous translation which leaves a possibility for differences in the audio
Part 1:
Rosh HaShana - Selected Excerpts from the Sources. #12
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1. Rav’s Introduction: Rosh Hashanah is the beginning of the correction when that same system of Adam HaRishon that's soul that the Creator created was broken and now we need to try to bring it to correction with our efforts with the bad qualities in us which we resist and through our resistance in spite of our resistance we nevertheless want to re-establish the soul, the collection of the souls that were broken and became separated, and bring it back to one soul, by this we truly build a new world, it’s a new development, and this is what happens to us in this holiday. In this time called Rosh Hashanah a new year a new beginning, Rosh is a beginning and Shana a year or change is a new state and in that state we already put together all the forces that were in the system called Adam HaRishon before the sin before the shattering and all of the forces that were revealed during the sin, meaning during the shattering as the Creator says I created the evil inclination so by this He breaks the system of Adam HaRishon that was there before the shattering, He breaks it and we have to re-establish it with all the bad forces and the good forces together and this is the matter of the building of Malchut. You will ask as much as possible so it will be clear what happened, so we are in the excerpt called the building of Malchut.
Reading excerpt # 12: (02:43) “Rosh Hashanah call terrible days that the Ari says ...”Twice
2. R. (05:20) Rav reading the excerpt: “Rosh Hashanah the beginning of the year called terrible days.” Strong, good, sensitive, very high, very much determining the state and also it’s the Rosh. The Ari writes that Rosh Hashanah is the building of Malchut meaning control called the quality of judgment meaning it's a great force and Malchut means that the whole world follows their quality that she obligates that the entire world and all the other discernments to be under her clear and strong control, since Malchut is called the assembly of Israel that she assembles within her, she's incorporates within her all the souls in which all six hundred thousand souls of Israel are included.
The whole work of Rosh Hashanah from the side of the person is to accept the burden of Malchut of the Kingdom meaning, that one is under the upper control that organizes everyone this is why we pray that when we want this to happen and that we’re willing for it to happen, reign over the whole world with your glory, that we want that the Creator will reveal His glory, His control, His greatness, upon all of us that we will all feel it and then we will arrange ourselves correctly. In other words Malchut means that we much accept and crown His kingship the kingship of Heaven over us, the kingship of the Creator the Creator’s rule, this is what has to be over us the rule and the control in Rosh Hashana otherwise we're not established correctly and we're not aimed correctly towards our development from this state onward, so it does not have the form of Shechina in the dust, meaning that the Creator will seemingly be unimportant in our eyes that His rule will be unimportant but rather the form of glory.
This is why on Rosh Hashanah we pray and do give glory to your people that is we ask that the Creator will let us feel the glory of Heaven, His honor, His glory, that we will be so inspired so impressed from the revelation of His glory, of His control, His forces, that we will simply bow and do everything required whatever He requires of us, that it will pressure us so much and aim our ego so that we won't feel that it exists within us but only the glory of the Creator what rules the world. Since Rosh Hashanah is the kingdom of heaven and the heaven is the king which is the state of Shechina in the dust and all the other forces that are opposite the Creator are considered as dust truly a zero, it’s not that they don't exist but they are truly beneath our feet.
Therefore Rosh Hashanah is the time when we must ask the Creator to feel that we will feel the glory of Heaven meaning that the kingdom of heaven will be glorified in our eyes, that we will want to feel it, we will want to be under it, and this will determine our whole life. This means that at a time that the Creator created the evil inclination He gave the evil inclination validity, strength, and we need to have a scrutiny here that we actually want the forces of bestowal, the forces of connection, the forces of love, the forces of the Creator, to crown them over us and all of the forces that are opposite to Him we want to consider them as dust.
3. S. (10:26) What is the upper Malchut?
R. It’s the rule of Keter it’s the rule of the Creator of the will to bestow, love, connection, all of these qualities of Malchut the qualities of the Creator this is how, what we should crown over us to raise them the importance above our head.
S. What is that exactly? Is it a form of our unique connection?
R. Of course we have to attain it through the connection between us but besides that we need to raise to establish this Malchut Shamayim, this kingdom of heaven within us within our awareness, within our consciousness within us, within our understanding, that this is how the Creator should appear in our eyes as the king, as important, as great, as special, this is what we want to feel.
S. Let's say we have some form of our connection, let's say it's very serious and deep, but what does it mean that at some stage it begins to be called the upper Malchut, what’s added here?
R. It's not enough for us to just connect between us but rather we have to feel within us that our will to bestow, the desire to connect between us up to love, a deep connection between us, it is done it is made for us the most important that there's nothing more important than the interconnection in our hearts such that we don't care about the whole world we don't care about anything in life so long as the connection between us will be above everything and that it will determine for us the whole of reality and our whole life, this is called to accept to take on the burden of the kingdom of heaven for now there are more and more degrees in that.
4. S. (13:22) What is the burden of the kingdom of heaven?
R. I just explained it, that it's that we receive forces of bestowal, love, connection, mutuality, Arvut, everything that pertains to the depiction of the Creator to the quality of the Creator we want to take that upon ourselves and that this will be the most important for us and will determine our whole life. This is called to accept the burden of the kingdom of heaven but these qualities which are the qualities of the Creator will determine our whole life.
S. Why is it called a burden?
R. Because it's against our will to receive, that we need to accept it forcefully nobody wants to accept it and accepting it it's a prolonged period of time until the will to receive surrenders and we will want to be under this force of bestowal, love connection, Arvut.
5. S. (15:25) We observe with our five senses, our corporeal senses, are they aimed at our corrections or are they just here that we change our perception of reality?
R. Precisely you're right. The entire evil inclination was created by the Creator deliberately in order for us as created beings to be able to feel opposite that this evil inclination, the qualities of the Creator, and to adhere to them to be like Him even though we ourselves exist and also want to remain incorporated of the will to receive the opposite of the Creator.
6. S. (16:26) Something isn't working out for me. We’re not supposed to request on ourselves, bestower, requesting the burden of the kingdom of heaven. Does that mean I'm requesting to feel it? Aren't I not supposed to feel it for myself rather, the world the friends need to feel it, it seems a contradiction is that correct?
R. There is a prayer when I ask to love the friends, that's one thing, and there is a prayer when I ask that the Creator change my qualities and there's room for both of them both for this and for that think about it.
7. S. (17:40) Should we see Rosh Hashanah as an invitation from the Creator to be more open to Him in our unity?
R. That too but first of all it's the correction that we want to resemble the Creator as much as possible, that's the beginning, that's the Rosh of the change that we would like to occur within us.
8. S. (18:24) Why is the Rosh Hashanah the new years called like the terrible days?
R. It's terrible days because we go through very sharp changes and we work against the great true will to receive which is called terrible with a great force of the Creator which is called terrible, this is the beginning of the correction in its initial point where both the will to receive and the will to bestow, these two tips come and they begin their connection through oppositeness between them. We need to feel that, we will talk more about it, and also it's according to the names of the Creator the terrible king, great, mighty, and terrible, we will learn more about that.
9. S. (19:50) It's written here about the new year that the upper Malchut appears as His glory. For us, His glory is darkness?
R. For us the glory of the Creator it’s above everything because it determines in which direction I'm about to develop. Do I determine my direction of development to be towards the Creator or towards something else? I don't know which way and how therefore all of our prayers on Rosh Hashana are aimed truly to the Creator Himself that we want to be beneath Him, we want Him to rule over us, our main prayer is, reign over the whole world with your glory, the King and so on.
10. S. (21:12) Why in order to be an Adam do we need to rise in the ladder of degrees of man that Baal HaSulam prepared for us?
R. Because only in this way we reach the degree of Adam which means to resemble the Creator.
11. S. (21:36) In these strict days as I've understood it then both reception and bestowal come to …..
R. Rosh Hashanah simply means that a person makes a scrutiny a calculation after each he checks himself and he sees that he is full of sins and he truly has something to do with himself in order to get closer to the Creator this is why he decides that here he must take steps forward towards the Creator and then he also learns that coming closer to the Creator can only be after he changes his heart that in his heart he builds the building of Malchut so it will resemble a quality of the Creator, the Keter, bestowal, love, and he can do that only through additional side actions when he connects with the friends because otherwise his heart will not change, he has to connect his heart to the friends and together with them, with the hearts of the friends to create such a mix, such a mingling, such that all of the hearts will be as one heart, then from this one heart he will be able to feel the Creator's relation to them, and it's preferable that these will be ten people, not more not less, this is how it is according to the general structure that the Creator created to begin with, this is how it works, because the forms of relation between the Creator and the created beings have undergo through ten changes, a metamorphosis, until they reach the quality of the created being from the quality of the Creator, and so if we have ten friends, well it could be less, the Creator will arrange it nevertheless so that they will be as ten not according to the number but according to the qualities, so we by that connect them together, we try to connect together as one heart and then in as much as we try to bring our hearts closer together to that extent we do give the Creator a place to rule our heart and then we ask of Him be the king, we have built a house for you, the temple, we want it to be a place of bestowal and that you will dwell there as the one who fills it, we build for you a house of honor of glory and you will fill up that connection between us and we constantly want only to maintain the connection between us so that it will constantly improve and grow such that You will develop within us You will be revealed within us more and more and more, so within our one heart that we build between us we want You to fill it and improve it and we will reach a state where our entire vessel will be suitable for your filling.
S. The ten is made up of ten people right? Then it turns out that Malchut changes and comes into expression, it will come in one friend and then another time in another friend.
R. No it's unrelated to anyone it relates to everyone, it's not related to any particular person, a person already starts to annul himself, to stop feeling himself, he starts to feel how he exists together with everyone and there is no difference between them so that they are separated and divided in some way, this is how it happens, the individuality of each and every one does not remain. The Creator fills everyone and connects everyone such that everyone is in the direct light and reflected light between them becomes one.
12. S. (27:13) Is Malchut the only Sephira that needs correction? Is it the only one that broke?
R. Yes, Malchut exists everywhere and the rule of the person over each and every quality is called Malchut.
13. S. (27:46) We say that in spirituality there's no place or time. So what is this accepting of the burden of the kingdom of heaven?
R. This is how the Kabbalists determined it that on the month of Tishrei, there is such a month in the Hebrew calendar, it's going to be one of the days from the days of the year to make it short, we will say this is the Rosh Hashanah the beginning of the new year and we will start to mark this day as the beginning of the turn of the earth over the sun, the revolution of the earth over the sun, that this is the new year so every nation every calendar has a beginning and it has an end, this is how we exist in our universe but in truth according to spirituality you can take any day whenever you want or night without any differences related to geography, or biology, or astronomy, or your own feeling, the most important is that you determine that I now want to begin a new stage that this will be Rosh Hashanah and this is how it will be. So we the Kabbalists at some time the first Kabbalist a few thousands of years ago they determined that there is the system of the sun the moon and the earth and there is a special day called Rosh Hashanah and they determined it and we follow them that's it, but individually each and every person can have this thing whenever he wants, it's just that all of us together we follow the Kabbalists who determined it a few thousands of years ago. They determined it according to how they would to send people, it's written about in the books, that they would send people to look at the new moon and whether they look at the moon and whether the moon is precisely as it should be that this will be the first of the month which is the beginning of the month and they determined that according to the revolutions of the moon around the earth and the sun that this will be the new year, not just the first of the month but the first of the year also and according to that we adopted it and since then this is how we do it. This is the calendar of the Kabbalists.
14. S.(31:10) It’s written that we need to expect salvation on the one hand and on the other hand how not to fall into the intention to receive?
R. So what's the problem? If you're expecting salvation then salvation for you is to rise from in order to receive to in order to bestow then you're afraid that actually the salvation will occur to you not that you will fall to in order to receive, that's very good so keep yourself in that.
15. S. (32:04) When we request to feel the glory of the kingdom of heaven what do we need to know in order that our prayer has been answered?
R. If we determine for ourselves what is it that we want, and that in our desire as much as we will connect between us and from our heart will turn to the Creator and ask from Him that it will happen, what we all want, then we should hope that it will happen and it will happen actually and we will feel maybe bit by bit, not immediately, and not all of it but all together, as much as there will be desires, yearnings, our outcries will be close to each other in one direction to one Creator, and from our one heart then certainly it will happen. We need to come closer to the concept of Adam HaRishon when we are all like one Adam, one human who has one heart, one single emotion, one Guf body, meaning his emotions his inclinations, and it's all entirely to one Creator as we were able to feel ourselves in this one single image as Adam HaRishon and towards the Creator we will succeed more.
16. S.(34:11) How to connect the hearts of the friends into one heart?
R. Well this is, you should make all kinds of exercises and mostly it's through Rabash’s articles about the group about the society, his first articles which we slight a bit but there he talks about it, to be as one man in one heart where each one diminishes himself as zero and he annuls himself towards the others and then each one cares for the others and so on, these are the things that bring us closer to each other and ultimately, not the bodies of course but our internality, our heart, our mind, we begin to be closer to understand more to feel more and this is how we reach a state where our prayer becomes the prayer of many, that even though we are many however we're asking is one man and this is how we receive an answer. We need to come closer to the image of Adam HaRishon in short who is one man and we are all his parts, of course not in our bodies, not in our flesh and bones, but in our desires, our yearnings, our thoughts, our internality, this is what we have to put together into one internal image called Adam HaRishon.
17. S. (36:21) How can we be sure that we've really succeeded to accept the burden of the kingdom of heaven?
R. We will feel that, just like now I feel that my will to receive is ruling me, right, this is how I should feel that I have within me a new rule, the rule of love of others connection to the friends getting closer to the study getting closer to Rav, like that, these things should be felt it's a matter of feeling, sensation.
18. S. (37:16) In my mind I realize that we have to advance towards the Creator and for the Creator and to always be like Him but my heart doesn’t move in this direction. How do I persuade myself about that?
R. We need to connect to the Creator to get closer to the Creator only by our sensations and thoughts, meaning that the thought needs to assist the sensation the feeling in order to be as close as possible to the Creator, to bestowal, to love, to connection, to this that our internality that all of us, all of us together will be able to connect to such an extent that we won't feel any changes here any differences here rather all the thoughts and sensations and tendencies and everything we have inside all connect in order to reach one form, and this will reveal that it is the Creator. As it is written you have made me, and in this we build the Creator, we make Him, the Creator doesn't exist rather we make Him.
19. S. (38:40) If I don't manage to detect the center of the ten in order to connect to the friends, is there something additional that I can do besides praying?
R. Prayer and as much as possible actions of connection with the friends as Rabash writes.
20. S. (39:04)If suddenly there is a big hole in the necessity in the needs of the body and there's a feeling of fear and on the other hand we hold on to the covenant of the friends and so great pressure is created how do we withstand this pressure?
R. If it's divided among everyone then it's the opposite, there is lightness easiness, the same work of connection as Rabash writes is if you're taking the correct suitcase that it’s light for you and if you take the incorrect suitcase then you cannot carry it.
21. S.(37:50) What is the thing we call quality in the work? How do we manage to integrate the right quality into the ten so that we can contribute to our progress?
R. Explain please what is quality in love or hate or unity and friendship, explain to me what that is. We cannot check it by measurement of kilograms or any other scale of measure in this world, it's mechanical, electrical, electronic, you can measure it only according to the sensation, so as much as you're capable to enlarge this quality in your eyes that's called that you're raising its quality its uniqueness.
22. S. (41:16) It sounds like the glory of heaven is all that we need for our correction and spiritual advancement. If I understand correctly, the glory of heaven is the greatness of the Creator, so my question is, is this the constant reward we should ask for our effort along the way? That's the only thing that we would need and this completes everything?
R. The glory of the heaven, that's the main thing that's the main prayer of the Rosh Hashanah …… it’s the kingdom of heaven that we raise it above us and the king is the greatest that there is none bigger than Him and He's everything, covers everything, determines everything, manages everything and He is the King in short thus the kingdom of heaven is the necessary determining thing.
S. It’s not only on Rosh Hashanah it’s always really that…
R. Rosh Hashanah thus it’s called the head of the whole year that it continues such for the whole year.
S. Should we scrutinize the reason we are asking for the glory of heaven or that’s not so important?
R. It needs to be scrutinized yes, each one needs to scrutinize it for himself what’s called the glory of the heaven, what's called that the Creator is king, is that that determines every detail in our life, in our thought, intention, and action.
Reading excerpt #13: (43:05) “When we want to ask that the Kingdom of Heaven ...” Twice.
23. S. (45:54) Why does he emphasize here that every prayer is within the person over his general desire and also about the whole world? It should always be like that. Why does he emphasize it here?
R. Well it's Rosh Hashanah meaning that we pray in general for everyone for the whole world that the Creator will be revealed to everyone, to all the created beings, not just to a group or a nation or country or anything rather we pray for the whole world, for the whole world in your glory and so on that the king will be the kingdom of heaven yes, and love and connection and Arvut and that it should be on all people on all human beings, that's the symbol of the world yes, because we're talking from the degree of Adam HaRishon which is the form of one man included in all the created beings and thus the symbol of Rosh Hashanah is that it's the most general, it’s not let’s say like Passover whether it's one group that exited Egypt and began the correction of the world though even though that it's still one group or that all the rest of the times and the science and the traditions that they have, a private part and a general part, but Rosh Hashanah is for everyone and thus even the temple it was written that it was open to everyone and everyone to come to Jerusalem and anyone who wanted and so on because this spoke about the correction of the generality of Adam HaRishon.
S. Specifically because here he speaks about complete annulment.
R. Yes of course correct.
24. S. (48:00) Why does Rabash say here that the person is a small world?
R. Includes in him everything that there is in the whole world, that you have billions of people and still more animals and plants and the still, and yet all these are within a structure called Adam, that in sum total this Adam is the assembly above all the details of nature that in sum total the connection between them need to resemble the Creator, and thus it’s called it's a small world.
25. S. (48:54) You mentioned the degree of Passover and the degree of Rosh Hashanah. Can you maybe clarify the difference because both here and that we speak about the first spiritual degree. So what is the difference between the degree of Rosh Hashanah and the degree of Passover?
R. Wonderful, good that you asked. Passover is a correction, an active exit from the will to receive, that we flee from the will to receive, we flee from Egypt to the desert, and then later we receive them means for correcting these vessels that were taken out of Egypt, the will to receive, there wasn't beforehand. The group that entered Egypt in the authority of Yosef, Joseph, it wasn't under the control of the ego yet rather gradually over seven years of satiation and seven years of famine they reached such an extent that the entire Kli of Pharaoh, they took all of his vessels and escaped from Egypt, and later on over the time of the 40 years of the desert they corrected these vessels until they brought them from Malchut to the degree of 40, meaning the degree of Bina, and afterwards they began to build the temple and they saw that temples they are incapable of building them, so the first temple was destroyed, the second temple was destroyed, and we are at the final correction, we're not building any more temples, or building anything, rather we understand that this needs to be built in our heart, and that's what we're talking about here that Rosh Hashanah is the summary of our work, of our previous work, and the beginning of the new work that we want, that in our heart, that will connect our hearts, then we build what’s called a house.
S. Seemingly Rosh Hashanah is a state that is after those high spiritual degrees of the first temple and the second temple the ruin and now we have to re-establish them?
R. Yes we have to raise a third temple that will be built from our desires and not from stone, also what they tried to build back then, there was the conflict whether to build it out of desires or stone bricks, and there were wars, there were problems, I don't want to talk about it now to not confuse you but the main thing that as much as there was a connection between them and so we see that there wasn't so much connection still in the first temple and also the second temple even worse and how much there were conflicts and problems and murders and what not, in short it was a very distant from connection of hearts, rather here and now we're working with you to place the foundation for the third temple.
S. You said that on Rosh Hashanah and Pesach they're all spiritual states of a person who's advancing towards the revelation of the Creator. What is the difference between him crowning the Creator or himself on Rosh Hashanah and coming out of the control of his ego in Passover?
R. Well this you need to learn. I can't begin to explain it now. In Passover in sum total we were escaping, were fleeing from the will to receive to the intention to receive which is called escaping to freedom and then we receive corrections from Malchut until Bina, the entrance to the land of Israel. Then at the entrance to the land of Israel already we think that we can build the temple and that's what they did. Then it was destroyed rather quickly because they didn't correct everything and the second temple was even worse in that after they returned from Babylon from Babel, they built the second temple and there too there was even worse connection between them and thus it didn't exist for a long time and was completely destroyed. The first and second needed to be destroyed and that's called that against the shattering there was in the vessels of reception and the vessels of bestowal, as we learn in the shattering of the vessels. Afterwards we can begin to scrutinize and raise the temple meaning a corrected Malchut.
S. That’s about Passover. What about Rosh Hashanah?
R. That's Passover and the destruction of the first temple, destruction of the second temple and then the nearing to the raising of the third temple. On Passover I told you they escaped from Egypt the disconnection from the vessels of reception.
S. This is clear but what about Rosh Hashanah?
R. Rosh Hashanah is a new beginning that we begin to build the third temple. That we understand that everything is built only by the intentions, by tendencies towards one another.
S. What does it mean to make him the King over the whole world on Rosh Hashanah?
R. There is one upper force, and He controls everything both through the states that are good and states that are not good. He operates on us from both sides, both of the good inclination and the bad inclination there's none else besides him then he manipulates us in this manner that we will correct ourselves that we have no as what I've said we have nothing to hate outside only ourselves and then and so we will correct ourselves we will see that around us we will see that there's only the force of good.
S. Why only on Rosh HaShana do we make the King?
R. Because of the corrections that we need to renew once a year.
S. What is the difference between the king that we make in the ten and the king of the whole world?
R. You'll check and you'll see and know what you're doing? There's a degree of Malchut that determines on all levels, on all levels and it’s like you have many managers but the King who controls everything and determines everything. He is the king of Rosh Hashanah, the king, there are many forms of Malchut.
26. S. (58:00) I would like to go back for a minute to this issue that every man is a small world like fractals, like waves. Where every wave is made of waves that look exactly like this up to Infiniti. Is this the image we should have?
R. Let me put it this way, I don't think you should use fractals because it's not so understood but you could say.
S. Only for the study I mean.
27. S. (58:37) ‘The burden of the kingdom of heaven and you have made me,’ what is the right way? Apparently the Creator exists in each one of the six hundred thousand souls, He exists there, He is hidden and we begin to create Him only the moment that we exit ourselves, whether it is to exit Egypt that's the first stage to build a spiritual vessel outside of me, so what is the right way to let Him become revealed in maximum speed?
R. As much as you exit yourself, then initially you exit from Babel, from your inner skin and then you exit from the land of Canaan and later from Beer Sheva that you are there now and then you exit from Egypt with all the revolutions that Moses did. And afterwards from Egypt, you go out again to Mount Sinai through.... and all these things, the desert of Sinai. You're always in a lot of these entrances and exits of all these states until you arrive and build in your heart instead of all these stops that you've built, you build in them a temple. Out of this that you reveal in you all sorts of opposing forces, for and against sanctity, bestowal and love then it is destroyed and when it's destroyed what can you do when it's ruined? You search by what forces you can hold yourself, what more can you do? Here is such you reach the Third Temple and it's even worse than the first but what can you do? At least some connection. That's how you reveal that you have even more negative qualities, much worse than what you revealed in the first temple and the second temple what you revealed. They were in the first temple but they were concealed, you didn't recognize them, now by the shattering you recognize and even recognize even more and more until you reach a state that you are truly in despair and hands to the heavens. You have no forces, you have nothing but, you have a method, the method of connection. You have now also recognition of evil in the general reality of the world and if not now then in the next few years you'll see how much the world begins to recognize that there's truly no choice. We need to build something here, otherwise we'll get nothing out of our existence, you'll see. The world now will begin to get more, and they'll wake up in their mind and understanding and sharpness and then they will come to us, it's called to the nation of Israel that are aimed somehow to the Creator. And they will begin to demand of us both in a nice manner and a not so nice manner. But it will obligate us to show them the path and they will help us to rise and in this will obligate us to show them the path. And that is how all of us will reach corrections and then we'll reach a state that's called Hamelech, the King.
S. It's a wonderful exclamation. This process that we're now going through that the entire world Kli that we have to go through it together. it's not the personal correction as it was in the past where you make it with individuals, is this the reason why it says in our excerpt, in the sources that the Third Temple will fall ready from the heaven, meaning that the general vessel will?
R. We are getting closer to the building of the third temple. We don't build some building we don't have blocks of stone, concrete. Rather to build it in the hearts of man and it must rise with the entire Earth around the world, it must be. It must stand for everyone and thus we need to ultimately reach despair and such a connection must be built between us and only then will it be called home. That only in it we can live and feel confidence and connection as it needs to be at home. That is how it should happen. Now we are going through states that are very serious in this. I hope that will pass it without going through a third world war and a fourth world war, rather enough that we have now but it depends on the attitude between the war of Darkness and Light. The gap between light and darkness that we need to show the world. Then the world won't need any more wars.
28. S. (01:05:51) What is the most important quality that we have to ask of the Creator in order to be able to reach the building of the Third Temple?
R. Connection. As the Creator created Adam HaRishon, this structure, our minds from sensations in from all the qualities and He shattered it into pieces, and we need to raise it to desire that it should rise because we cannot raise it. To desire that it shall rise that all its parts shall connect between them and the correct mutual, whole manner. Yes? That's what we request and that's what we operate toward, that's what needs to be. All the rest you can add for yourself, we'll see.
Reading Excerpt #14 (01:07:22) “We Say In The Rosh HaShana Prayer...”
29. S. (01:09:50) What does it mean when it says to accept, to take the importance of the glory of the Creator with our eyes shut?
R. Whenever I see what is important or let's say some important person, stronger or smarter, then I put myself aside and I give them a place. What do we want, we want that there will be such a sensation between us that the Creator the Creator will be the king for the whole world in our eyes, now what does that mean? And I, like a little child, will want that the Creator will show me how much He arranges everything and manipulates everything and is capable of everything that He created everything from zero and can do everything again and return to zero. What does it mean that I want to recognize the glory of the Creator, the force of the Creator, His uniqueness? That He dwells over everything, does everything, creates everything, and manages everything, that we want to be such active rather I want to have such a relation towards Him with that but he shall show it to me, that I shall have such a relation to Him that He is everything. And besides Him, there is nothing in the world that even exists, exists. Be it in motion, can perform anything, there isn't, nothing. That everything in the world is only the Creator and I am disconnected from Him, and around me and in everything is only the Creator and everyone, everyone, still, vegetative, animate speaking, in some total they are what the Creator wants to show me. I accept these things that they come from Him and He wants, that through relating to them in the correct manner that such I will reveal that actually it is He who is standing behind them to such an extent that they later disappear and only He remains.
Reading Excerpt #14 Reading Again. (01:12:48) “We Say on Rosh HaShana...”
R. (01:14:10) Yes, it's toward the Creator.
R. (01:15:15) Meaning giving the honor of the Creator to your nation, meaning that all of the world, all of the human beings will feel the greatness of the Creator but other than Him there is no one ruling no thought, no desire, nothing, it is only Him controlling every single detail.
30. S. (01:34:38) Resembling the Creator means that people are trying to behave like the Creator, or does he see the Creator in everything?
R. That you need to try and live all the time with the state that the Creator is in every place and fulfills everything and governs everything you are in Him. Let's put it this way, that's usually how it's depicted.
31. S. (01:16:33) There's a question about how ascribing everything that comes to the Creator, you say we have several stages. From experience there are things that I do succeed and then they disappear but there are things that for years it's the same and I'm asking, what is the mistake, what's this lack of scrutinizing that we don't succeed to move to the next step. We are always in that same state for many years?
R. That is not upon us to decide. We need to try more and more and more as much as possible to come closer to the friends, that is the only thing that can help us, that can save us. And also we need to see there are those that it is hard with them and there are others that it's easy with them, but we still nevertheless need to see that only an interconnection between the friends we find the opening to the next world, the spiritual world, just like that.
S. But how is this connected to those things that come that you say you need to ascribe to the Creator. That everything comes from Him, and this attitude also clarifies these things and then you have to also look at it as these things that come, how does that come from the connection with the friends?
R. I can't say you need to explain it, we need to discern it, we need to talk about it but all in all everything needs to lead to connection among the friends. At the end that's what you need to bring everything to, if it brings you further or closer, how are you coming closer towards connection.
S. If there's a problem and I identify it and I'm scrutinizing it and it's not being solved or disappearing. It's like being in that same state for many years, so I need to join the thought and prayer that together with the friends and the connection of the friends I need to approach it? We're all together, it has nothing to do with the problem itself but rather just bring it to the connection with the friends?
R. I'd say in general about anything, no. Especially a doer like you, I can't say. But you should come to me personally and tell me and we'll decide, let's see how many times, we will see what we can do, we will think together.
32. S. (01:19:45) We started with the stage of building Malchut. Can we arrange the stages of this building because it feels like a collaboration between me and the Creator and the ten and the Creator. Can we see the stages of this building and how do we sort this Malchut?
R. Yes, first of all we need to understand that we are building the Malchut from broken stones. We need to try and find this point of contract so we can glue them together and after that we can bring them towards connection one by one, one by one. Before we build it we need to agree for this building, we need to come closer to one another and to understand what we are building. That we are building the connection in such a way that each and every one strengthens the others, and we all hold on to this building and we need to strengthen it, keep it, and raise it and it's not that we build it like some wall and that it remains and stays, no. Here we will need to constantly be on guard, constantly strengthen, that in spirituality there is no such thing that it comes and goes, no. We build it and it keeps existing because we keep strengthening it in spite of all the internal and external conditions which are constantly changing, and that's what all of humanity will have to do. All so now it's being done, all of the wars, all of the problems, all of the trouble, everything, and every single detail that a person, everything a person does in life that too is considered to an extent that he is correcting creation advancing it towards building, yes that too.
33. S. (01:22:25) What should we do and so my question has to do with what we should or how can we influence so that on Sunday, on the day of Rosh Hashanah we can truly make a jump into the next degree and my second question is what is the Shofar in Rosh HaShana?
R. We will still learn many of these symbols in Rosh Hashanah, why they exist, how to use them and what we can do in order to do this leap in degrees. But it doesn't really matter when it's going to take place Sunday, Monday, what day in the week, it could be in a month. The day is completely unrelated, we are speaking of an internal spiritual state of ours, that is what matters. We will talk about it gradually about the Shofar and all those things, don't think that this happens according to some calendar of time, and also that it depends on any time that the world decides. No one decides, we decide, we decide ourselves when Rosh Hashanah is for us. Whenever we can connect and decide that from this point onwards we are going together.
34. S. (01:24:31) You said dividing the heaviness. What does this mean and how do we do it?
R. We study and from our study we get better and we are arriving at new states, I have nothing else to add.
35. S. (01:25:10) In order to build Malchut, do we rise above the difficulties, focus on connection, and let the Creator formulate a response to the difficulty?
R. Yes.
36. S. (01:25:50) You said here give glory but when we talk about evoking the greatness and here the matter of glory, what is the difference between them?
R. There are many disturbances here we cannot say but we ask for the Creator to shine upon us with all kinds of lights, that these lights will give us a feeling of what the greatness of the Creator is in all kinds of manners.
37. S. (01:26:45) The Creator discloses each time the opposite of Him. After the recognition of evil, what prayer to the Creator will help us understand the state for the benefit of everyone ,what should we ask the Creator in the state of recognition of evil?
R. Only to ask for connection. From outside there is no action other than connection.
38. S. (01:27:19) You said that it's a burden because it's against the desire and we need to do so forcefully. On the other hand you said that if it's difficult it's probably not the correct suitcase, how does that settle?
R. It all depends on a person to the extent that he's connected with the friends and the quality of the connection with the friends. From a large suitcase until a small little box.
39. S. (01:28:00) What does it mean that the direction will define my whole year and how it will be?
R. I try and build such relations with the friends that even if I advance with them later on that direction will seem to me as advancing towards values that we have decided on. Connection, love, mutual guarantee responsibility and so on. Even though they change in intensity and in their quality these discernments, they are still ahead of us, they show us the path.
40. S. (01:28:58) What's the part in the Creator in changing our heart and what is our part?
R. Our part is in raising MAN and the Creator's is in applying.
41. S. (01:29:20) How is our work in the ten helping us in the task of activating the good judgements?
R. To the extent we try and be tighter and tighter in the ten we will feel that our work becomes more and more pleasant.
42. S. (01:29:47) Why did the greatness of the Creator become dust?
R. That was done by the Creator. It is written on that, ‘From Dust You Came And From Dust You
Shall Return.’
43. S. (01:30:07) What is to show the world the gap between light and darkness?
R. In every place we have a gap between light and darkness and this gap between light and darkness we need to try and identify, strengthen, and constantly limit the gap between us, the emotional, the intellectual that will give us stability while standing.