Afternoon Lesson April 12, 2023

Transcription is made from simultaneous translation, which leaves a possibility for differences in the audio.

For Every Penny Joins Into A Great Amount - Selected Excerpts from the Sources

Rav's Intro: Yes in our work, we went through several topics until we reached the decision that all in all, we only have to turn to the Creator and ask of Him for correction. This includes our ascent from degree to degree on the ladder of degrees and it also includes the connection between us, one friend with the other, and among all our friends from the ten and up to the whole world, until all of us reach a state where the Creator becomes the King over the whole Earth and His name is One, and He is One, and His name is One. Meaning for everyone that the upper force will be revealed, the force of bestowal, the force of love, and we will be incorporated in it and we will try to be a conduit between the Creator and all of the created beings, that is it, this actually is what we have to do.

I think that pretty much it is clear to us, we need to actualize it, and so let's hope that in the upcoming time we will be successful and then we will reach the holiday of the giving of the Torah, and other occasions which all of them symbolize for us our connection. The connection between us and the connection between us and all of the created beings and the connection of all the created beings with the Creator, that everyone will shift from the degree of the will to receive in which we were born and developed and up to the degree of the will to bestow and worldly love, all encompassing love and that's it, so let's read and let's talk about it.

Reading excerpt #1 “Before a person qualifies himself..” twice

1. R. (5:37) So what do I want to add here, that until we correct the vessels on our level, let's say on the minimal degree of the will to bestow, we do not feel that we are even getting closer to the world of bestowal to in order to bestow and this is why we have a big problem here that we are seemingly in a standby state, in the state where it seems to us that we haven't yet attained or not attaining we're still far away from the entrance to the spiritual world and so on. And only after we truly begin to acquire the degrees of bestowal, then also everything that we've been through so far opens up for us through all of our preparations and then we already begin to actually enter the degrees of the upper worlds, the degrees of bestowal.

What does he tell us, that only at the end of his work, when one will be able to see midway because he will not be able to receive his abundance before he has complete vessels that are ready for it. Meaning after we finish the complete, the preparation for a certain degree then we discover it, and then we can step on top of it, and this is how it is each and every time, this is actually clear to us in terms of the attainment, in terms of the corrected will to receive that must be ready for it, but we should just know that we get the revelation in the end, when we can use correctly all of the details of the degree that we are rising to.

2. S. (8:39) He writes that we need to strengthen ourselves and that we are standing near the King's palace. How do we strengthen it in such a nice way with words or promises, how do we strengthen ourselves?

R. We brace ourselves, we strengthen ourselves that we need to work without any reward, but only in order to bestow to the Creator and even though we don't feel that we are bestowing contentment to the Creator, because that, too, could be some sort of payment, and this will bring us down instead of raising us.

3. S. (9:26) What does it mean to delight and be delighting with the King?

R. To delight with the King, meaning as he bestows, you also bestow, as you are sitting with the host and he is giving you refreshments and you receive these refreshments and you are able to receive it in order to bestow. Meaning that you are equal, meaning that you give pleasure to each other, you enjoy from each other and this is how you advance in mutual bestowal, mutual connection and entering each other.

S. And what do we need to yearn towards some revelation or just the opportunity to feel our role, our task?

R. Get closer to the Creator and this means to bestow to Him as he bestows to us, that you discover His bestowal to us, as you want to bestow to Him, that is it, so that you truly enjoy from each other.

S. And what does it mean to be delighted from one another?

R. Well just like you are with someone as a guest and you enjoy from the host and the host enjoys from you, and all the different forms.

4. S. (11:44) How can we keep that sensation that I don't care to receive anything when we read excerpts that promise us that we're going to enter the King's hall, and be delighted. How can we be in this?

R. First of all if I want to advance towards bestowal then I need to see before me the way that is endless, it has no end, but rather each time that I have an opportunity on this path to do something in order to give pleasure to the Creator, to the benefit of the Creator, I do it. And this for me is payment, this is the reward, this for me is everything. I don't need anything more, and this is how we should advance. I realize that in the beginning of the path it doesn't sound nice or good, but later on we nevertheless, receive illumination after illumination from above and we agree with this, we understand this, and we truly want to get closer to the Creator as He is to us, only with the quality of bestowal. What does He give us, let Him give us an opportunity to bestow, what do we give Him, we give Him an opportunity to bestow to us. In Him giving us the force of bestowal so that we would be able to bestow to each other and to the whole of humanity and the whole of reality as well as to the Creator. It will become more clear as we read more excerpts.

5. S. (14:25) It looks like you need the full Kli before you get a reward at the end. Is it possible to have a partial vessel to be partially fulfilled?

R. Well, certainly we have all the time, the construction of the Kli which the Creator builds in us through a small illumination each time another drop and another drop of light, which He imparts on us and we accordingly open up together, we understand and we feel that somehow we are getting closer to the Creator. Whichever way it is, nevertheless it does take a long time, it takes a long time. Just as Rabash said that it can take 10 or 20 years or even 30 or 40, because we truly need many actions, subtle small tiny actions, with which we come closer to bestowal, so that we can agree with bestowal.

S. Is this many parts of coming to equivalence of form with a part of coming to the qualities of the Creator?

R. Certainly, yes, we are all in the will to receive and what the Creator imparts, He parts from his nature and this is why we receive his nature in small doses, with particles of light small photons, and we change, we ourselves don't even realize that the change is so gradual and slow, quiet.

S. So we don't really feel it yet what the Creator is giving?

R. We don't yet feel what the Creator is giving us, we ourselves also cannot give Him, but rather from a certain stage along the way, with our power we can already give Him and He can give us and then we can connect with this mutual giving. You understand that already.

6. S. (18:06) If we feel that we don't have the strength can we receive the text as above reason and receive strength from the text?

R. If we don't have any powers then what?

S. Is it possible to receive the text in above reason and receive strength from the text?

R. What does it mean to accept the text above reason?

S. I read the text and I adhere to the text and I get strength from the text and I trust the text.

R. We get the power to continue on the condition that we learn the texts that the Kabbalists have written for us especially when we are connected in tens. Until we will connect in groups that are correct and study the right text we shouldn't expect that just by time we will rise to a higher and higher degree, it's only on the condition that we are connected in a ten and that we study the correct texts. Correct in my eyes means Rabash and Baal HaSulam because all the other Kabbalists were very great, however, we cannot learn from them, like Ramchal for example, I learned from Rabash from Ramchal and there are other books and other authors. However, the question is if we are able to learn from what they wrote. This is why for us it's Rabash and Baal HaSulam, and when we study in such a way that in the ten together, or even many tens all over the world, by that we draw the reforming light, the upper light.

7. S. (21:36) There is a situation on the path that you're drying out. What should you do with this situation?

R. There is indeed this issue that the Torah exhausts the person's strength. It doesn't leave him much energy, then he seemingly dries out, and all of this is done in order for him to find a way to work above reason and by this he is being brought closer to this issue of working without payment, without the reward. For us this is not so relevant but soon we will begin to feel that we are not getting any reward, anything in return for our investment in the wisdom of Kabbalah and our advancement and then we will talk about that.

8. S. (23:00) How can we win against the rejection that we have against unity?

R. Each one shall help his friend. Only when we help each other, we give an example to each other, and only when we understand that without that it is impossible. I didn't see with Rabash, when I came there, I was young. I didn't see that they are so close to each other in any way, but I only saw that every morning when I would come to the morning lesson at 2:00 a.m., I would see them in the kitchen, in the sink, there always plates there, with food left over, a bottle of whiskey and five or six of them maximum of old people, what do I mean by old, all of them were between 60 or 70 or 80 or even more, and I was thinking what are they doing, every evening a bottle of whiskey, and a few other bottles of beer, the simplest of kinds of both beer and whiskey.

Every evening, every evening, they would sit down and speak between them like at a gathering of friends and this is how they would finish the day, this would be around 9:00 p.m. and then they went home. How did I know about it, because later I joined them they told me you can join us, so I saw it and I understood how they were doing it and that is all. What am I trying to say we work on the connection all kinds of forms as the most important for them was the small meals, and that is it, the small meals singing and a Nigun and this is how they would do it, but the most important was inside of their heart, they truly wanted to be connected, so that out of their heart they can bring something from within outwards in order to connect with which whatever each everyone has and in this common force they would be able already to attain the Creator, and this is how it was done.

9. S. (27:38) In the beginning of the Congress you said that we are going to leave the tens and we will become some sort of united single ten and we will connect with everyone. What was created between us at this congress?

R. You tell me, I don't know.

S. Because there is a feeling that something was created.

R. So whatever was created was created this is your business, this is not my business. I give advice and as much as you are able to implement then accordingly you will advance.

S. So the question is we heard the friends and we ate with them, and we connected with them and in the lessons, so in this common field there are many things, a great yearning, deep sorrow, longing, how should we now relate to that and how do we continue from here?

R. As you saw here in the guests and visitors and loved friends, you have to realize how much you have them all over the world and you should try to be connected with them in heart and soul, and this is how we advance, as much as you will be close to each other. It is written, “love your friend as yourself,” it truly means as yourself. In the end it should be “as one man with one heart,” and it should be as though there was the shattering never occurred that we will truly feel ourselves, imagine ourselves that we exist in a single body, it's very simple, in a single body and there is no difference, not between one and the other or each one whatever he feels, he feels it and not the other, but rather it is simply a single system, a single mechanism; there are no words for it.

S. How do we kick into the next gear? There is a powerful force within the world Kli and we don't feel it on a daily basis, so how do we bring these parts closer to us and not lose this?

R. I think you need to establish a certain time during the day which will be convenient for the majority of the Kli, and think in those ten minutes, about the salvation of the soul. It's just like you have in the ocean you have a few minutes where everyone silences their radios, their frequencies, and they leave only one wavelength so that anyone who is in any kind of trouble in the depths of the sea they can report about it and everyone can hear it, are you aware of that? like SOS, yes, so maybe this is what we have to do for five or ten minutes, but seriously with translation, with all kinds of nice short clear excerpts, that we will awaken our hearts truly to connect and to fly towards the Creator.

S. What frequency should I listen to in these ten minutes? What should I search for?

R. Connection, that I am crying out to the air of the world that I am searching for connection. I'm sure we have people between us that know and understand it, maybe they were even involved in such systems, ask them and find out.

10. S. (33:11) I wanted to ask about a person's attainment. What does this ability depend on to stop being in calculation on when I'm going to receive and when I'm going to enter spirituality, rather as you said it's the way for life?

R. First of all it's not ashamed, you shouldn't be ashamed of asking when my actions reach the deeds of my forefathers, and the more I ask about that, I realized more that we should ask for the force of bestowal about it, that's one thing. The second is that there's also no shame at that because I want to bestow through the friends and I tie myself with the friends all the time because otherwise, to begin with it doesn't even come out of my mouth, anywhere, it doesn't come out of my heart, anywhere. I can jump and cry out to the Creator and weep, none of this will help if it is not connected to the ten and even if it is connected to the ten, egoistically that we wanted to be connected to the other so it would be good for us so that we would rise so that we would be incorporated with each other that we would get closer to the Creator but we are together already by this I begin to some extent to soften my heart, and this is why it is very important for us, it is very important for us to try to be together as much as it is in order to bestow we don't yet know this and we don't yet know how to measure it, to weigh it, but the fact that it is together, it is important.

S. I'm asking how not to cool down from hearing that it can take 30 or 40 years.

R. What are you living for? Do you intend to live less than that?

S. No.

R. Then you'll just have to invest your whole life in this from the first moment the Creator gave you an awakening and up to the last day when he will take your life away along with this awakening, so that you won't waste a few more years. I don't know how much time and all kinds of other things.

S. It's clear, so we're learning about every penny joining into a big treasure, what is considered a penny?

R. An effort or exertion even the smallest exertion it joins all of the other exertions until in some total they give you a certain amount, the sum total of bestowal, of the ability to connect to the will to bestow.

S. This great, the great bank, what does this mean?

R. In order to bestow; that is the amount.

S. They all collect somewhere?

R. Yes.

S. And all the effort you're saying that out of you nothing comes, but out of the ten, specifically?

R. It comes out through your work into the ten certainly.

S. So you're saying the change that you're transitioning in order to bestow, what does it bring you, what does it bring you other than the effort that you make?

R. What brings you to that?

S. How does the transition happen for in order to bestow?

R. By a person making an effort, exertion more and more, a penny and a penny joining into a greater amount of the efforts of the person until in return for this he receives the power of bestowal.

11. S. (38:26) On one hand we need to acquire a lot of patience that 20-30-40 years that we can collect this great amount?

R. I don't think it takes that long. Don't start talking here about dozens of years, we are already in a different time and so I don't think that there are people here who will not be able to attain spirituality within a few years.

S. On the other hand, throughout this period of time that this great amount is collecting, Kabbalists are saying that the ones who are not expecting to acquire correction today will not receive it for many years.

R. One who can attain it tomorrow will attain after his death means not to delay anything, but whatever you can do right now, do. That's on the one hand, on the other hand, you need to understand that we are in the hands of the upper force and He manages our entire spiritual process.

S. What helps you, that maybe you learn from Rabash about how to get up in the morning with a sensation that today is the last day that I can make this correction and towards the evening the Creator will certainly answer and not..?

R. You said it nicely, how to do it simply, do it. I don't know how to do it but simply do it, but every morning I expect that it will come every day and every evening, I'm certain that whatever I wasn't able to do today will come tomorrow. But again the most important is that it depends on the connection among the friends, the most important is that it depends on the connection. Behind every friend is the Creator and the place between the friends is filled by the Creator, and this is how we should always be focused on that.

12. S. (41:30) Now it's not clear why we wait for the evening. We've gathered three times a day and for each meeting we've arrived at the Creator?

R. You don't need to wait, we're not waiting, we want to advance every moment but whatever I wasn't able to do today it's certain that I will succeed tomorrow.

13. S. (42:13) When a person is happy with his fate that the Creator awakened him and gave him friends and a great teacher, and his only request to the Creator is that until the last breath he will remain on this path with the friends, and it doesn't matter what happens, ups and downs, revelations, as long as you stay with the friends on this path, does this state represent a certain correction?

R. This is the path to correction and the person should be wary not to calm himself down, that he's connected with the friends and as if thinking about the purpose of creation and this is enough for him.

14. S. (43:43) When we invest in the ten, and our ego demands reward, will it be correct to pacify myself and that all of my efforts are going in the spiritual direction?

R. This is not such a simple question, we need to be certain that all of our efforts are coming from the spiritual calculation and enter the spiritual calculation, so we don't have with it any issue, it comes out for us that over time that we will discover that my calculation should be how much have I invested in others, and accordingly I will have the real and true calculation.

S. The spiritual action that joins the spiritual account is an action where we don't receive any reward in our ego?

R. After some time and it can be a few years, I begin to feel that the reward that I want to receive for my effort is in that humanity will advance, our groups will advance, the tens, that in this I see the payment, the correct payment for my effort.

S. Still if I see results that is a fulfillment for the ego.

R. Know if you are working for the correction of the world and make room, make space for the revelation of the Creator, to bring Him contentment, to attract to it people, it's not egoistic. There are such actions that you can do even spiritual actions that you can do already now.

15. S. (47:06) You said that it's important not to calm down. I have friends on the path that everything is good. I noticed that after being ten years in the wisdom of Kabbalah you're no longer concerned about quitting, but there is another problem, you realize that you have calmed down and seemingly you left already even though you keep on carrying the ordinary actions, and the question is: Are there any special actions that can preserve the fire within you?

R. Other than connection to the group and collective studies, studying meaning meals, events, I see no other means that can help us progress. Give me a suggestion. What can you do please? I don't know, I haven't found anything else and it isn't written, the most important thing is first of all connection between friends in order to construct a place for the revelation of the Creator and to the degree and force of the closeness between friends to that degree they reveal the Creator this is it, good luck.

16. S. (49:28) You said something that struck me very forcefully, to silence all the frequencies like we do in the ocean and leave only one frequency open, this is how we will feel that someone needs help. My question is here: I managed to silence all the frequencies because the environment is very strong. Tomorrow I will go back to Italy, I will go back to my environment, to my work into the environment that will suck me in and it will also take my time. I won't have time to invest, and unfortunately this is how the Creator made it that there are many of us but we are far away from each other physically, and we have only the internet in order to keep this frequency of unity, I'm sorry for taking a long time, but yesterday a student from the Young group said what does the teacher want from us, that's my same question, what do you want from us?

R. I don't know what to tell you but it appears to me that you need to twice, maybe even three times over a course of 24 hours, over the day, you need to determine that someone is reading an article, someone else's collecting questions from all of the friends, and all sorts of things like that. You need to build systems and you have that, just to revive it, and let them be responsible for each individual system and all of Italy. I don't think there's any challenge or issue here. I know people who already, many years are here on the path. That's it, I have nothing to add. It all depends and it's all in your hands, our work is mainly depending on how much we arrange for ourselves the atmosphere that holds us.

17. S. (53:09) What does it mean that we must embrace ourselves and say we are already near His Palace? What does this near mean, why not have to be in the Palace already?

R. We are nearing the revelation of the Creator and it happens according to equivalence of form, of what will be between us and the connection between us and the Creator, as much as we arrive into a state where we feel ourselves close to one another, and in that closeness the Creator reveals.

S. So what is this nearness? Why not really be and try to help each other visualize, to be in the King's Palace, working faith above reason already in, and help each other in faith?

R. Inside we cannot be, we do not have equivalence of form. We can't do on ourselves restriction, screen, returning light, we cannot be one for another “as one man with one heart.” There are many excerpts on that, we still can't keep these conditions but we're getting closer to it.

S. So the attitude should be that we're near the King's Palace?

R. Yes.

18. S. (55:15) I feel that the spiritual perception of myself and friends in the ten is constantly developing. My question is: If we have less orientation and understanding the Study of the Ten Sefirot and Preface, does it limit our development or we can attain everything only through connection between us?

R. Even without the Study of The Ten Sefirot we can attain all the spiritual degrees as they reveal inside of us just like they have revealed in Baal HaSulam and other Kabbalists and they wrote about it. Without them having to study it from some source, there was no source.

19. S. (56:34) Israel, [Yashar-Kel], straight to the Creator, what does ‘straight’ mean practically?

R. That I am aimed at the Creator in a direct way, straight way; it's called Israel.

S. And the combination, the joining of penny by penny, we seem to go around it, so how should this be felt in the connection between us this ‘straight?’

R. That I intend to connect to friends in the center of the ten, and if I hit that spot, I will find there the Creator. I don't know what else to say about that, in the middle of the ten there is the Creator in short, we need to try to reveal that point to feel it, and then, and this is how we will arrive at our purpose.

20. S. (54:41) There is a feeling that the main work and the exertion is in judging the friend to the scale of merit you see his virtues etc., but it feels like this is my individual work, how do we get the feeling this is actually collected work and we all converge in that work?

R. Talk about it, this is everything that you need to clarify amongst yourself, amongst yourself. I have nothing else to add. Precisely from you feeling that this is impossible and difficult and it doesn't work, start talking amongst yourself and clarify and discern.

S. What are we supposed to scrutinize, to clarify?

R. How are we supposed to gather in one place and one heart, so that the Creator can also join this gathering and clarify everything that you are lacking.

S. What happens at that point? Where all of these exertions join and what happens at that moment for instance they gather and each one makes this effort?

R. It states that you are doing efforts to connect together into this one point, the efforts of the heart it influences the force of the Creator and He also arranges you.

S. And how do we direct it so it will be specifically for the Creator, because earlier you said that we shouldn't be satisfied with the Yeshivat Haverim and I think about the purpose of creation everything is fine, so how out of that, from that point, do we also aim it so that it will be content for the Creator, so it will be for His benefit?

R. You will see that it's possible, start working in that direction. It takes time, there's nothing that we can do, if not now, then a month or another six months, but all the time we need to try to arrive at this and reach this.

21. S. (01:01:28) [missing translation]

R. Love, bestowal, giving; this is called vessels, correct vessels, spiritual vessels.

S. And they exist outside of me or inside of me?

R. They exist within a person.

22. S. (01:02:03) How can we sustain the new spirit that we built here?

R. That I don't know. This is your work, don't throw everything on me.

S. But I need you. I need your help, how to sustain this spirit?

R. So I'm here at the lessons and during the lessons. I answer what you write to me, I am open to you all the time.

23. S. (01:03:11) This point that the friend described where we connect and ask together. Is this how we establish the state of becoming one ten?

R. Certainly, yes. We connect throughout this point and connect others and this is our basis, our foundation.

S. [missing translation]

R. You didn't ask, you didn't demand, you didn't make a mutual effort. The main thing is the mutual effort and the cooperation that wasn't here. Look at what he's writing, “every penny joins into a great amount,” and what way are we joining all of our pennies, our little efforts and how do we arrive at a state that would be a great force and which we will be able to bestow to the Creator and receive from Him.

S. Practically, in our work if I begin to ask for all the friends in the world Kli, not the friends of my ten, with the same warmth and intensity with the same despair also that I naturally feel towards the friends of my ten, is this what it's about or is it something else?

R. This is not what it's speaking about, it's speaking about you working precisely in your ten and not running away to other frameworks. Don't open before yourself another, some other opportunities.

Workshop: How do we gather in one place, in one point so that the Creator will also enter this Gathering and He will clarify everything that we lack?

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