Morning Lesson May 24, 2022 Transcription
Transcription is made from simultaneous translation which leaves a possibility for differences in the audio
Baal HaSulam. Matan Torah [The Giving of the Torah]. #16
Reading item 15 (00:20) “Now we can understand the words of Hillel on the….”
1. R. (00:45) In other words, the whole Torah is only an interpretation of the condition of “love your neighbor as yourself”.
Reader continues #15 (00:52) “and even the Mitzvot…”
2. R. (01:02) In other words love of the Creator and love of the Created beings it’s not something disconnected. By loving your neighbor as yourself we also come to love the Creator “the Lord, your God”.
Reader continues #15 (01:16) “which is the final aim…”
3. R. (01:29) to those who are aiming for the Creator, those who are yearning, those who understand, those who feel that this matter is pulling them; of the purpose of creation, so they have no other way to come to it unless by love of people.
Reader continues #15 (01:52) “which is the cleansing of the body…”
4. R. (02:35) Meaning why is it not enough? Why do we also need instead of loving the Creator even more than that, we need to come to love the created being, the people, all of them?
Reader continues #15 (02:48) “He did this for the above reason…”
5. R. (03:11) This is not so clear because many people that come here want to discover the Creator. They want to love him, connect and bond with him. But with friends, with people, with all of reality, with nature? Why do I need it? And, then I feel like I have contempt from them, I want to run away to all kinds of desolate places where I'm not connected to everyone. But here is the opposite you have to direct yourself, specifically to love others and in the love others when you come to it, as it is written “from the love of people to the love of the Creator” then through it and only through it, do you come to get closer to the Creator, to similarity with Him and to adhesion with Him.
Reader continues #15 (04:12) “and because that proselyte…”
6. R. (04:49) So, just understand how they want to tell us about the situation: First of all it comes to Hillel; he is the greatest in the generation, the wise, the Kabbalist, the one who attains the Creator, an inconceivable height. And, who comes to ask him? A proselyte, a person who does not belong to Judaism, to Israel, nothing. Just a person out of the millions of people that is far from everything, and what does he say? You need to teach me the Torah. Meaning all of this wisdom, the attainment of the Creator, the attainment of creation, the purpose of creation, while I'm standing on one leg; one leg meaning only with one principle, I do not have a big intellect, I do not want to get into philosophies or anything like that just teach me one principle, that if I follow it I will come to what the Torah says, then I'm ready then I'm willing. And, Hillel says I'm fine, I'm willing to teach you, I'm giving you just one advice: love others as you love yourself. Look at how close it is to understanding, and how far it is from carrying it out. That’s it. This is called “teach me the whole Torah while I'm standing on one leg”; on one principle.
7. S. (06:42) you said that Hillel was on the very high degree of attainment of the Creator. What does this degree depend on the love of others?
R. Yes. Of course.
S. How's this measure of love of others expressed, there’re friends in the ten, you love them, but what are the phases here of Love of others?
R. To the extent that you can rise above your will to receive that awakens in you, from self love to the love of friends and through the friends you actually mean that it will be to all of humanity. And, you also understand that it will also go to all of creation, to the animals, the plants and the minerals as well.
S. So it turns out that the depth of loving others depends on the interference of the will to receive?
R. All the disturbances that we get along the way, especially among friends. These disturbances, these interferences, are in order to give us the right discernments where we have to work in order to cancel these disturbances and progress and advance onward, so everything we discover along the way is an interference. it is not interference, it is help, it is called “help made against him”.
8. S. (08:33) Why does the ego always resist so vehemently, even if I managed to understand this work intellectually?
R. There's intellect and there's the feeling and they do not belong to each other. In my intellect I agree to the end of correction, I believe everything, I'm willing to be in adhesion with a Creator with all the created beings, completely annul myself. But this is the intellect, meaning I understand the idea and I agree with it, but what happens next? How do I implement it within myself? Here is the question and this is already not so simple. Because all I have to do is connect to the others and connect to the Creator; with the other I need to find out how I'm disconnected from them, how opposite I am from them, and then out of that opposite state how do I begin to discover how incapable I am of getting closer to them? and how I hate them? and I can't even hate them right now. I still don't hate them, I have not discovered my nature yet of how much I hate them, how much I do not want to love them, and how much I reject them. You do not feel it in the people that begin the way, only afterwards they want to kill each other as we learn from the students of Rabbi Shimon.
Then we come to a state where we need the upper force and only it can help and correct us. So first of all we need to come to understand that this thing is necessary, to come to love of others. Number two, we try to come to it and see that it is not within our power, not within our nature all together. Number 3, we understand and hear that only the Creator can do it, only He can help and we have to only to prepare ourselves for His help, what preparation? to do all kinds of superficial activities of connection in some way so that in that connection He will bestow, pour into us and bring to us the right preparation and He will bring us the right second nature; bestowal, connection, love. These are all the phases we have to go through and there is none more in all reality. Don't think that there is anything else, this closes the whole world.
9. S. (12:05) There are many states during the day that are seemingly not related to the ten, how by overcoming them do I connect them to the ten?
R. We have to try to sort out all the states we go through in such a way that they help us reach a connection or push us away from it. Some states almost have no connection but we still have to identify why by these states we still come to connection between us and with the Creator. We have to take care of the kids, ourselves, and work we have to do and all kinds of things and still we have to see that all of these things also emerge from the same source, There's None Else Besides Him and we have to try to tie them all together.
S. Can the nature of the state testify to the progress? If I feel these states more in the ten, does it mean that I'm progressing or advancing more?
R. Possibly, yes. We will clarify this later on.
Reading #16 (13:39) “In the above words we find a way to understand our concept
10. R. (14:02) Right, so that we cannot carry out “love thy friend as thyself”. Ask anybody in the world, do you want to reach the love of the Creator? Love of the Creator, Sure. Because in our ego we understand it’s worthwhile. How we’ll be against the Creator, who is upper to you and can do anything with you? So it’s worthwhile to us to love Him, our ego does not resist it. But when you come to the connection with the Creator through the others, that you have to love the others and then you make contact with the Creator and only in that condition the Creator connects to you; so you have no contact with the Creator unless you devote yourself to the others, very simple. It is as if there's this wall between us, an iron wall between us and the Creator and this wall is the “love of others” and only on that condition that I acquire love of others, to that extent and no other I approached the Creator. I reach a state where I can bestow something to Him and receive something from Him.
It is only on the condition that I do that through the whole coarseness of my attitude to the others, I have to pass through the others, all of humanity and my whole attitude to the still, vegetative, the animate and the humane; the more I bestow upon them as I intend towards their benefit, the more I love them, the more I connect to them, only to that extent I can connect to the Creator. Meaning my attitude to people is the preparation, is the key, the vessel through which I connect to the Creator and in no other way. It is like a passageway, like a glue that if I want to cling to the Creator I have to take all of nature, all of humanity, the still vegetate animate and speaking and through them to the extent that I'm immersed in them, to that extent I can be glued to the Creator and in no other way. Meaning that the coarseness with which I am glued to the Creator, the intensity that which I'm clinging to the Creator; is the love that I carry for the still vegetative animate and speaking and this whole world and this is called: The correction of the ego or the correction of the nature of creation
11. S. (17:13) To come to such a desire to attain the Creator, is it achievable?
R. We will receive all of these desires to reach the Creator from the Creator Himself, to the extent that we develop this tendency to connect between us, that is the only way it happens.
Reader continues #16 (18:01) “indeed, know that for this reason…”
12. R. (18:35) Meaning that there has to be a group here, who understands the goal and who is ready, also in term of its size; that they will assist each other to recognize that the purpose of creation is only that they are going to nullify their ego between them and only to that extent can they advance towards the Creator.
Reader continues #16 (19:13) “and once, each and every one in the nation…”
13. R. (19:38) only to that extent that everyone that participate in that process understand that we have to achieve love of others and this is the only way we can achieve the love of the Creator and equivalence of form with Him. which then we open Him up and we reveal Him and He reveals us in an open manner; only in this way we reach this reciprocal revelation of the Creator between us. only on the condition that we achieve love between us, meaning coming closer to the Creator is not the issue, that is no problem, He is open rather we ourselves are hiding in that we are hateful of each other, rejecting each other, pushing each other apart and playing all kinds of little egoistic games with each other and by that, essentially we are putting boundaries between us, we’re hiding the Creator between us.
Reader continues #16 (20:56) “this is because it is certain…”
14. R. (22:28) Yes, here we also touch upon the concept of Arvut, mutual guarantee. Essentially Matan Torah, the giving of the Torah, is the first part of what continues into the article of the Arvut.
Reader continues #16 (22:48) therefore once all the members of the nation agreed…
15. R. (23:45) This is the answer to the question of why the Torah was not given to the forefathers? But only after they multiplied, which means they achieve the intensification of the will to receive which means they went through the Exile in Egypt and then achieve the method of how to correct the growing ego in them and this is called Matan Torah, the giving of the Torah.
16. S. (24:08) It says here beyond the possible frameworks, what are the possible and impossible frameworks?
R. That it can happen by man and cannot happen by man.
17. S. (24:42) How can we get closer to our friends emotionally? Because it feels like you are pushing a mountain.
R. By prayer. Asked from the Creator to soften your heart.
18. S. (25:00) To whom am I responsible in the ten, to their bodies, to their inclination, to their points in their heart, and what is the difference between all of them?
R. You are a guarantor in the ten by willing to connect with a friend's heart and helping him with whatever his heart needs in order to get closer to the Creator and he does the same thing for you. That means that you are helping each other, that you are friends, that you are connecting. “One should help his friend” how? By being willing to give all the strength of bestowal that you can somehow establish and form within yourself, you give all of that to your friend and that means that you are helping. It is also what we are singing about in our songs, helping each other and so forth; that is the help, that you are willing to join him with all the power of your overcoming, you give all of that to the friend.
S. In our work we said that there's no connection between the physical bodies in the intention and in the past we said that there's no difference with who I'm sitting, I can sit with anybody in the world who is studying Kabbalah and follow Rabash and still feel like in the te. So what is the connection to the physical bodies that I've been with for four years and…?
R. We in the meantime, still cannot relate to each other through other discerements besides what we perceive through our five corporeal senses.
19. S. (27:08) He writes here in item 17 item, sorry item 16, that how will he be afraid for his own existence while 600000 loyal lovers standby with great care that he will not lack in anything of his needs, what needs are we talking about beyond the spiritual needs, does it also touch the corporeality?
R. Anything that's happening to him, whatever we can depict in our will to receive, both corporeal matters that we perceive in the same will to receive, and thus the picture of this world is pictured in us and also spiritual matters, it's all one.
S. Basically there is a directive here that the society should establish systems of physical concern for one another?
R. No, not physical systems but only in thought and desire.
20. S. (28:16) You said before that we have to give to the friend all our powers of overcoming so does that mean that when I'm in a state of overcoming and the will to receive asks questions, why, what for, so I have to direct, so by overcoming this I give strength to the friends?
R. Yes, that all my strength I'm willing to place it for the benefit of the friends, the benefit of others, this is called love thy friend as thyself, it's the realization of this sentence.
21. S. (29:00) It is written here that there weren't enough of them to start carrying out this commandant. Are we enough in numbers because it's written, the whole people, 600,000?
R. We already have a sufficient number of people to carry out love thy friends as thyself in such a way that from us onto to all of humanity that can be passed on, we're already a group that is open and built from anyone who wants to join it, from all people of the world, open to everyone,no limitation, not religion, or color or nationality or anything else, just human beings, just as they cover the planet each and everyone can come and learn what is the demand of the Upper force from the people on the face of earth, what they need between them in order to exist on a higher level than their corporeal existence in the meantime, they have to rise to a higher nature the nature of the bestowal and then they will discover an opposite world, the Upper world and there's no limitation to anyone here everyone's accepted, everyone's welcome.
We can't do anything with the Upper forces, the demand of the Upper force forcing us to reach love thy friend as thyself, which is the problem for the will to receive it created in us, but we don't pose any condition in joining us and starting to try and understand and acquire the quality of bestowal together with us, the quality of love, the quality of connection between us, so as to achieve a perfect eternal world and the goal of life. Everyone is invited, those who resist or object to this path don't come, clearly. Those who come and understand their desire is not that strong yet, they can’t, fine, but it all follows man's desire, the gates are open.
S. Is it not necessary to reach a critical mass of 600,000 people?
R. Yeah, no we're already we're already there. Like Baal HaSulam says we're already in the state of the last generation and therefore there's no limitations here, everything is open to us, and we just have to go there.
22. S. (32:33) If you can clarify, when each one in the nation was asked there is a certain still level of unity that's required, who was asked? Am I asking myself or is there a condition where free choice should be expressed in the people?
R. The Creator asks each and every one, these questions awakens in a person and the person begins to ask, he thinks that what he asks about life about connection about the Creator anything that it's his questions, it's not his questions, the Creator puts different desires deficiencies in him and then he examines himself.
23. S. (33:27) I wanted to ask should we ask for correction for the whole world in the prayer or is it enough to pray all day for the ten or for all of Bnei Baruch?
R. Gradually, first for the ten, from the ten towards all of Bnei Baruch, from Bnei Baruch to the whole world.
24. S. (33:54) He describes two states, the first state the current state at least mine, love your friend as yourself is totally impossible, in the second state it becomes not only possible he even writes that it's easy, so how does it happen? Is it a gradual transition?
R. To the extent of my connection with the group with the ten I begin to, with such forces that allow me to fulfill the demands of connection that nature the Creator places in front of me, one shall help his friend, if we don't connect we can't do anything individually. All our problems that we think of as a big mountain in front of us is because we are lazy in connecting between us, the moment we try to connect between us. as much as we can, in whatever way possible, by that we suddenly see that it's easy, that is easy.
S. You're describing a connection that we seemingly can't do by ourselves without help from the Creator and then when we do it there's a connection that's quite spiritual that's with the help of the Creator, right?
R. There's a connection that the Creator makes between us which means which is that he brings us to the group he organizes everything but then we have to try and start on our own, it’s similar to a birth, that part of the process depends on the parents, and then the kid who is born and also is taken care of by the parents but he grows and after two years I'd say he begins to to emerge in his own understanding and participation and awareness.
25. S. (36:02) We asked the Creator to soften the heart. How is that connected to changing into bestowal, changing the nature?
R. Softening the heart exactly means that we want our heart to be ready to absorb the qualities of the bestowal.
26. S. (36:31) Why do Kabbalists skip the phase, Hillel said what you hate don't do to your friends which is something that we can somehow understand both between us and in dissemination, why are we skipping this phase?
R. Because love thy friend as thyself certainly contains don't do to others what you hate to be done to you.
S. I understand this but if we talk about what we hate first then we have contact both between us and with the general public because everyone can understand it somehow.
R. You're right but he's talking about the goal here and how to realize the goal and don't do to others what you hate to be done to you is half the way it's just refraining from vessels of reception.
S. That's what I'm talking about. Why not begin with this?
R. Yes of course, we have to, there's no doubt but how do we come closer between us only through love thy friend as thyself of course love thy friend as thyself includes that stage where we transcend hatred between us.
S. This is clear to me but I'm asking both between us and to the general public in dissemination if you tell if a person with not doing what you hate to your friend so we have a point of contact both with the friends and with the public
R. You're right, write about it ,write an article, it's truly important, and you, you are capable.
27. S. (38:22) We talk a lot about loving your friend as yourself, what is the first degree of love that we want to attain in the connection between us?
R. That like your friend is saying now we will stop hating each other that we will receive each time a connection that appears between us I'll check how much am I free of hatred, clean of hatred, and above the hatred I'm willing to begin connecting in love, that I don't think about competitiveness and all kinds of other feuds between us, but rather love covers all crimes, that's where I want to go.
S. Is it good before each meeting of ours to prepare ourselves internally?
R. Of course, for that sake I come to the meeting.
28. S. (39:28) Why does Baal HaSulam compare love of people to love with the Creator, what does it mean by the created being equal to the Creator, how does it work out and why?
R. I think that love of the created beings is more important than love of the Creator and also we see that from some of the quotes that we have no way to advance towards the Creator if not through love of the created beings. The Creator as if puts all of reality before himself and says this is what I'm presenting to you, if you want to understand what it means to be in equivalence form with me, in with bestowal towards me, then please check yourselves, practice and see how much you can have love for the still, the vegetative, the animate, and mostly the humans. If you go through all of these stages of connection all the way to love and to that extent you're also ready for connection with me.
29. S. (40:50) What does it mean to love the creation? I understand with my friends that we have a common goal but for the rest of creation I don't have it, how do I?
R. In my connection with the friends I need to develop in me not just a desire towards others which is other people but also not a desire will develop in me towards the whole of creation because all of it is the revelation of the Creator, and just like in my friends I don't see in this creation anything besides the Creator that it's just how the Creator appears to me in different ways and that's how I relate to him. Meaning that all of creation, all humans, all still, vegetative, and animate, these are all facets of revelation of the Creator and that's how we achieve unconditional love and that's how the whole world becomes a good world and I don't see good or bad created beings, there’s no one who can actually harm, everything is a replica of my corruptions or corrections, there is nothing bad in the world, and if I correct myself then I see how all of this still, vegetative, and animate and speaking, they’re all in love towards me, everything depends on the person.
30. S. (42:39) Do we need to develop inside us a certain depth of deficiency so that we will be able to connect and feel the light of the Torah?
R. Well of course, what do you mean a certain depth, as much as you can. Without us engaging and the connection between us the whole of the Torah is the Torah of connection, if we're not engaging in that we have nothing else to do, and we have to understand that anyone who's greater than his friend his inclination is greater, so when a person comes with a strong will to receive, he goes against, he doesn't want, he really hates all the connections, he doesn't understand, doesn't acknowledge them, doesn't want to acknowledge them, doesn't even understand them, what is required of us on the one hand, I remember myself this way. On the other hand he can't leave because he has to come to the truth, he has to reach the truth but when the truth and the work of his own ego is the same thing that is something he can't feel, he can't connect these two things together, it's not some good-hearted person he's a cruel person with a will to receive which is deep and strong and is not willing for any compromise.
This condition of loving others that something he can't agree to, and bit by bit, it takes years but still if he's from a high soul that has to reach the purpose of creation, nonetheless he will rise above these conditions by his ego and he's pulling with great strength with great difficulty he's drawing the light that reforms, it comes to him, it corrects and connect him to others. These steps are very slow for those people who have a strong will to receive and in our times actually it's these people who are revealed in the world, the step we’re in is close to the final correction, that's why the last corrections are being revealed and they are very heavy.
31. S. (45:41) A few moments ago you said that the heart is ready when it can receive the quality of the bestowal. The question is whether we can know when we can receive these qualities or how can we prepare the heart so that they will be soft and ready to receive?
R. Only with respect to love of friends, when you look at them, your envy for them you see how much they are treating each other in a nice way and you see how much you're not there, out of this envy that's the main way for you to advance, try to envy or your friends, the way they relate to each other in a nice, way how sensitive they are, look at them and see. Why are you not this way? within each and every one you can find such qualities that you don't have and this is intentionally that's how the Creator arranges it for you.
32. S. (47:02) A question from a friend, what to do if I don't envy the friend, I don’t manage to envy the friends in the ten, what to do then?
R. That's too bad, there are no friends at all that you're envious of?
S. That's the state that a friend is asking about, yes.
R. I understand that it’s not you but that's a problem because if I'm not envious of my friends how can I measure myself, who am I, what am I with respect to the connection with the ten? I have to see everyone that they are truly somehow at least each one is higher than I am. I want to be like him and with the other one I want to be this way, I want to collect something from each and every one that I am missing.
S. Where to start that work, how do you approach it emotionally?
R. Look at them how much they are, how they are relating to each other and how you are not in that,you'll suddenly discover that you're outside of them, that they're connected, they are a ten, they are a group, they're supporting each other, they're close to each other, they understand each other, they feel, they're interested in each other, and it’s as of you are outside of these boundaries, outside of that. You don't have a group you don't have a ten you have nothing how will you get advancement towards the Creator how will you reveal the Creator if you're not among them? You must relate to them, connect to them somehow and here you discover you have no inclination towards that, no push towards them, nothing all you're doing is go to guard yourself, to not be too connected to them, so they don't come too much into you, so try to organize that somehow, take upon yourself some duty, that's how you can come closer.
S. With such roles will I?
R. Roles or duties, not the kind that you are managing them, social roles social duties so that you can connect them all together.
S. One of the complaints many people have today, that there aren't too many ways to express myself towards the ten, those roles, those social roles that are, many of them don't exist anymore.
R. That's correct and it will be more and more but you have to understand that we're not talking about physical, external roles, like administrative roles, we're talking about the connection between us. It's not that each and every one is keeping some business of his own now he has seemingly an office and he’s in charge of that in the ten, no. Every time each and every one looks for a way, a place where he can be more part of the connection between everyone.
S. So again we're going back to the internal work, how to relate to this?
R. Everything is about that, everything's about the internal working.
S. That's clear but if to start with I don't have an impression or envy toward a friend, how do I penetrate that barrier?
R. Then you’ll have to take something external, you are correct, you will have to take something externally and connect yourself to them this way, how? I don't know the groups to such an extent internally what you can add but find in what way can you be more connected to society just be careful that you're not turning yourself to be the manager.
S. Clear.
S. An additional question about the article: I didn't understand the explanation of Baal HaSulam and why does Arvut solve the problem of lack of ability to love others?
R. Arvut is when we are incorporated in each other to such an extent that in all the network of connections between us we are in such a way that each one becomes so tight to others that there's no distance between us and we become one vessel, everyone's attached to each other, that's called Dvekut, adhesion. Arvut is what leads us to adhesion.
S. Yes but why and meaning according to what, there's like a leap here, there's a jump here, each of us cannot love the others but together we can, why?
R. Because between us there's envy, lust, and honor and a positive mutual help, except for the negative one, there is no negative one, everything is for us to discover the distance between us and we can come closer, that's how we are built to begin with, that's how we are, just in such a network that it connects us.
S. It says that they agreed heart and soul, is that the first measure that is needed for the Creator to enter and begin to operate on us? To agree in heart and soul?
R. Yes, the hearts are the desires and the desires are in each and everyone of us we all should incorporate and all the desires and then we can come close to each other in a way that the vessel will be complete.
S. But how can we agree heart and soul before the Arvut?
R. That's the goal, that's the goal, it's not that we can do it and also the heart and soul that appear in each and everyone are so small in the meantime they are so, we can even say primitive, that it's not a problem.
S. What's the first measure that we receive assistance from above to come closer to Arvut?
R. That we accept the purpose of creation easily, we agree to come closer to that, this way we somehow take steps.
33. S. (54:48) They say they don't have anyone to envy. We can help them and cause them to envy us so they will advance thanks to us?
R. Try, that's good, that is good, that is correct.
S. What are the recommendations, how to do it?
R. Show everyone your work, your success, because by that you're helping others and so each one to others. You mustn't do this work in a way that no one sees that, when you show your work you're helping the friends advance.
34. S. (55:36) I have a role in the ten but it doesn't always help me annul, what else?
R. I don't know, look for a way to do it more. I can't come and manage you in your work, you should search for it.
35. S. (55:59) So envy is a turbo means for advancement to spirituality, at the same time the ego is battling and trying to blur it and not letting me, showing me that there's nothing to envy in the friend, there's always this going on. How do I do this counter battle against this?
R. You have to show each other in the ten such things that the friends will be envious, warm them up, to connect them, to envy, so they can advance. This is under the condition each person should help his friend both positive and in a seemingly negative way.
S. The friends are showing there's plenty to envy but the problem is that in me my ego is blurring it all the time showing me that there's other…
R. That's the way this is always and you have to go against your ego.
S. So what does that say? What do I answer to the ego that says to me no they’re not different?
R. Write down before you what you find yourself envious in others, in this person, that person, the third person, go back to this page during the day and let's see what's happening.
36. S. (57:22) About external and internal, the internal work what I want to say is in our last meeting a friend came to us who collected all the Baltia group, it’s something that we didn't have such a desire to to meet all of us physically, what do we have to add more? But I have now impressed that for the time being we do need the physical meetings for us to see the great friends through that, and we really got great examples from it. I don't know how relevant it is now but I suddenly got this thought of maybe organizing in the summer in our Arava Congress for the men in some place, in Europe and in Lithuania or Baltia, the baltics, or, and it seems like it may be possible and like something we might want to do because really the physical meeting we were very much impressed.
R. I very much respect that and I agree with that. On the one hand I would want to take part in that but by that I will really ruin the connection between you, it has to be a connection between everyone between people, friends who are equal, not a meeting between friends and the teacher, that something else already. It's like children when they play together and then suddenly a grown up one of their fathers joins, it ruins the connection between them, that's why I'm very happy that this is what's happening to you, so do, and keep on doing such meetings. Yes I'm in favor of that, just do it in a way that you are preparing everything , well you know how to do that.
37. S. (59:55) Do we need to think that everyone in the ten and in the world Kli are already in Arvut and only thinking about one another and only my effort is missing to complete the Arvut?
R. Correct, yes, if we think that we're in the Arvut and we have to keep the rules of the Arvut that's the right approach.
38. S. (01:00:29) Does a person need to believe that the law of Arvut always exists and that there are 600,000 lovers around him even if he doesn’t feel that way?
R. Yes, in general the whole world is in the final correction to begin with and it's only that we don't see it in our corruption we see the opposite and as much as we correct ourselves we come closer to the correct the only picture that really exists that everything is united with the Creator.
39. S. (01:01:02) How can each feel that he’s thinking about everyone and not thinking about himself?
R. That’s something we can’t do, we can only yearn for it and to pray, to ask the Creator and it will come from above.
40. S. (01:01:24) About the love of the friend, is this something that's passing and demanding us to work at each time that we go through all the degrees. How do we find the true love of our friends above our intellect?
R. We do have to climb in all the 125 rungs of the ladder, the degrees of the ladder from love of others to love of the Creator in each and every degree. The love of the Creator is the seal of every degree, it closes the degree, and then we can start a new one.
41. S. (01:02:08) It is written, Then they were asked if each of the members of the nations would agree to this exalted work, so what is the process of this being asked, meaning each of them agrees, is that me that has to come to that point of we?
R. Each and every person feels that this is how the question stands before him. Is he advancing, is he coming closer to the friends? If he's doing that he feels that this is the question that is before him.
42. S. (01:02:50) How to come to feel that every friend agrees?
R. Set an example.
43. S. (01:03:00) Do the women in Bnei Baruch have an active participation in the Arvut or is it only the men that are doing this to receive the Torah?
R. Both men and women are in the same work, it is only that each one has his own nature, with the man each man is different from the other, with the women also each woman is different than the others.
S. How can you know when each person has come to love of others?
R. That's something only this person knows that now he has a desire to connect to others and to do good to them above his ego. Previously there were forces of rejection, now he sees that above this rejection he can bestow good to the others and this barrier that used to be there previously to bestow to do good to others has become a certain level of, a spiritual level that he can relate to.
44. S. (01:04:16) The lesson is guiding us to love the others and why does your evil inclination become the other, why does your evil inclination make, how do we need to aim ourselves in such a way and not enter into the will to receive?
R. I think that here the answer should be that every time in a new degree the evil inclination is new and it starts the work of help made against him, disturbing us in the connection.
45. S. (01:05:02) Is acquiring love of others in one’s hand or is it a gift from the Creator?
R. Everything is in a person's hands to locate and to ask and the rest is in the hands of the Creator to give him what he's asking for.
46. S. (01:05:17) It is written, love the Lord thy God with all your heart and soul and all your might. What is the meaning of with all your might?
R. I don't want to go into these scrutinies because it's truly very deep. We say with every heart and mind meaning with every intellect, every mind and heart.
49. S. (01:05:46) All the materials are talking about the connection between us and not once it’s revealed that you can't be connected with the friends. The question is, is it right to ask during the lesson so that we will have a desire to connect with the friends, with the world Kli, Bnei Baruch?
R. Yes, ask as much as you can, more, ask, just know that along with a request you'll also have to give, not only to ask and to wait, you also have to give.
47. S. (01:06:19) About the work in the ten if you can expand about doing everything for the others, what does it mean to do everything for the others?
R.What would I want if I was in place of this person, how would I want to be related to?
S. What if you can't and you don't know how to do good to your friends?
R. That we need to try and place ourselves in their place, I need to depict to myself what I would want in place of him, what he would want a person like me to do for him. Let’s say that I have a friend, what would he want to receive from me? What would I want to expect in his place, to expect to receive from me? Put yourself in his place and you'll see. Otherwise we're not connecting to a person, only to the extent and which we depict such a connection.
48. S. (01:07:44) How does envy to the friend, how is that connected to the feeling that the friend enjoys bestowal?
R. I'm having difficulty to say right now. We need to think about that more.
49. S. (01:08:06) You warned us a few times not to be the manager in the group, why is it so important? Should we rotate these duties in the group?
R. Yes, there must be rotation, there must be all kinds of corporeal things that are arranged in such a way that won't bother us to connect spiritually, equally.