Congress Lesson 2: Uniting Above Reason December 11, 2020 Transcription is made from simultaneous translation which leaves possibility for errors

The Darkness Will Shine As Light

1. Rav’s Introduction:

These words they're very deep. Darkness will shine like light. What does that mean? It's like light excels the darkness and either there may be evening, there may be morning, one day or even late one day, all these different kinds of things that we don't exactly know how to accept, how to look at them, what value does darkness have, so Kabbalists tell us all the time, they say that darkness has the same validity, the same importance and significance as does the light, really so. The advantage of the light, there can be an advantage only because of the darkness and if there's no darkness there can't be any light so it's felt, it's clear, it's understood so in the darkness we have to understand and discern all those different forms and possibilities that we want to discover in the relationships between us and our attitude toward the Creator, many, many different discernments, all of these discernments only in their inverted form.

We need to also identify and see and acknowledge in the darkness as it says that the light excels the darkness. Therefore now, what we're going to talk about is the darkness will shine like the light, that's the topic of the lesson, so what does it mean that darkness will shine like the light? Darkness will shine? Yes, we are told so. That darkness has to actually shine and that light can only come from the darkness and that if you didn't prepare the darkness, you'll have no lights. Meaning, the preparation for the big darkness that you'll come to is actually the preparation after which the light will come and this is what we have to see. The created beings, they can't feel the light but only from the darkness and so what follows is that the more darkness there is in all of its different shapes and forms, not just darkness, but in all of its different forms and discernments, the more we include these discernments in us, feel them, understand them then correspondingly, we can discover the light and no more.

When we do discover the light, we have to also make sure that the darkness doesn't disappear but for the darkness to sustain, to hold up the light like the oil and the wick hold at the light of the candle and so they're really two forms, two sides of the same coin here, we as created beings we can't be without darkness otherwise, we won't be able to identify the light at all. We're right now in a world that is full of light, the light of Ein Sof, of endlessness this is what Kabbalists say but what is this like? I don't even feel a bit of that spiritual light and why? Because I have no darkness. To the measure to which I discover the darkness, that I'm in it, to that measure, from within that darkness can I discover the light, meaning the light it exists infinitely in complete rest, there are no changes in it. All the changes they come only from our side from the side of the darkness from the side of the Kli meaning this is actually what we have to discover in order to be able to discover the light by that, that's called that darkness will shine like the light because of the advantage of the light from the darkness, meaning, that if there's no darkness you can see no light. From here come questions.

1A. WSQ: How can we discover the darkness, not the darkness that we can’t find but the correct darkness out of which we attain the light? How do we attain such darkness out of which we attain the light? This is one thing. Another thing is so what is darkness? How should we properly relate to it? How are we supposed to look for it? Discover It? Gather the darkness? It's like gathering something that you later on can light so as many wicks or firewood that you collected, accordingly, later on we have to make a fire so the very same way in spirituality we collect it so we can light it and it starts shining and as a result we can connect both, the darkness and the light together. It's like we see with those, it's like in science that if I don't have a question then I won't understand the solution. It’s only when I have a question and I'm really bothered with some problems suppose in mathematics or physics, whatever discipline, then according to the measure to which I feel that question, accordingly I enjoy the answer and the solution.

This way I connect the two. This is the question and this is the answer for it, question and answer and there can't be one without the other. It's afterwards, suppose you give me some solution now, but I don't have any question for it and I don't even understand it and for me it's not even a question then what's the solution for? For me it won't mean anything meaning that we have to exactly position one opposite the other as the light excels darkness. So we can’t discover the Creator before we have a suitable deficiency for Him, that I exactly know, who do I have to discover? What do I have to discover? What is that darkness that I have to prepare so that opposite - that darkness - I will be able to feel the Creator and the different forms of darkness will not affect the revelation of the Creator in any way and I'll get no answer for them? We can go around for dozens and dozens of years and we won't get any revelation or any answer if we're not preparing the right Hissaron for it because the Hissaron is what invites the light, it is what invites and draws the Creator to be revealed there. In this darkness I can get confused.

There's ordinary egoistic darkness like we have in this world where I feel that my life isn't going the way I'd like for it to go and I'm discontent and that's darkness. Meaning, darkness can come in different forms and shapes of this world but with this darkness I can't come to the revelation of the Creator, I can't. These things, they're not revealed just so, meaning what I need is in our world, in our state, the one we're in right now, to discover the darkness upon which the Creator can reveal Himself, a special kind of darkness and what is that darkness? Kabbalists say the darkness of love of friends, the darkness of love of the created beings, the darkness of not having the quality of the bestowal that I want to connect everyone, and I want to love everyone, these are the forms of darkness that are completed by the revelation of the Creator. These deficiencies they're not quenched, but all the time I have also kept these deficiencies because otherwise I'll have nothing to, I'll have no burning material, I'll have nothing to light it with because the darkness has to shine like the light. That only from the darkness the light can come from the concealment, this is where the Creator comes from and I have to take care of the concealment if so.

This means to hide myself and therefore there's a part in The Book of Zohar that's called “Safra d’Tznuta,” meaning, the book of the modest, so to speak, meaning that we actually hide, we don't look at the Creator, we conceal, we make sure He is concealed and then and hidden in such a way that if this is how we treat Him then is He revealed, He reveals Himself. It's not that we reveal, what we reveal is the concealment and this is what we respect. This is something that we'll talk about later and it will come so we have to relate to the darkness, to the lack of light have to relate to it as the opposite form of the light, of the Creator. It's like if we make some kind of imprints, right? We can print some shape in the sand or, if I want to see the form of the Creator, I can reveal it only from that imprint that He gives me and that lack, that Hissaron and I learned what do I lack in the Creator? Out of that I can understand Him therefore, it says that the wisdom is for the modest, for those that know how to hide this, that it all comes in concealment and it's not that we yearn for the revelation but where you yearn everything from the concealment and then we'll reach success. There are many things here you know after each of these sentences to give entire lessons.

Well, I don't think that we should continue because there's a lot to say about this. What I want to explain in this 10-minute intro is to give you a perspective, a new perspective, well maybe it's not new, not that new, but a direction, guidance kind of, about the situation, the state that we're in. We have to relate to our state in a creative fashion, creatively let's see, in these different forms of concealment that we're in, which of these forms of concealment belong to the Creator and what's simply related to corporeality, to animate life and with that how can I learn from all of this that the Creator is lacking here, He's lacking there? Out of His deficiencies, out of the deficiencies for bestowal, for love, for connection? How out of all of these lacks can I start putting together a system where I can say I need the Creator? In all of these deficiencies, I want to discover the right form. Well, let's go to what we prepared. Try the excerpts. Afterward, we’ll answer all the questions and anyone who wants to ask, they always want to ask, this I understand, and so let's talk a bit about the excerpts and let's hope that from them, by them maybe we'll be able to answer the questions. So keep the questions, we'll have time to answer them. Go ahead.

Three Points (15:39)

We do not ask to cancel the disruptions. We ask for the power to rise above them.
The work above the disruptions is done in the ten, because the Creator is found behind the friends.
Love will cover all crimes.

2. R. (15:39) We do not ask to cancel the disruptions. We ask for the power to rise above them. We do not ask to cancel the disturbances. We ask for the power to rise above them - why? Because by rising above these disturbances, we better understand the disturbances, the obstacles and what is the solution to that? Why do they come, why did the Creator invite them to appear in us and what can we achieve as a result of overcoming these obstacles? What kind of solutions? What kind of fulfilment? Otherwise, we wouldn't have been able to discover neither the obstacles nor the solution. Therefore, we always have to see how much do we equip ourselves with the proper, the right obstacles that are around connection, love, bestowal, anything that we can relate to the qualities of the Creator? Do I have some kind of yearning for that? Do I feel the lack of it as a kind of disturbance? Do I feel that I'm lacking bestowal, love, to connect everyone? If so, then what I lack is the Creator because these are His qualities. If I lack something else, then it has nothing to do with the Creator, then I don't need them but probably I have to go to work in a bank, or I don't know exactly what, but still the qualities of love and bestowal, things that are related only to spirituality, only to the Creator, do I need them? Am I suffering? Am I in darkness as a result of their lack? This is what I have to answer myself right? Okay, so we're not asking to cancel the disturbances that we see, that we need them in order to reveal the Creator, but we're asking for the power to rise above these disturbances and then that force or power that we want, for it to appear above those disturbances, that will be exactly the advantage of the light in the darkness, but the light excelling the darkness and then both will keep each other up.

3. S. (18:42) In the work above the disturbances it’s done in the ten because the Creator is found behind the friends.

R. Yes, here you have something practical. If I want the sort of right spiritual disturbances and not that I'm lacking food, sex, family, money, honor, knowledge, then I need to scrutinize these disturbances which of them are related to spirituality? Which of them are related to my relationship with my friends in the ten because there's no place to run to, there's no other place to look for it in the world, only inside the ten, in the connection between us. Only in our connection can we work with all of these disturbances, desires, intentions and thoughts in which we will feel some deficiencies that I don't have, some of that I don't have. Suppose I don't have love of friends, I don't have the desire to connect with the friends, I don't have something with which I can come to them and strengthen them and do something. So, if I have something and that's good I can start working with it, but if I don't, then I have to always do something. So what can I do then? I feel that I don't have these qualities and what do I do? I pray. If I don't have them and my friends don't either I have to see maybe they do have them, so if they have them, I have to reach a point where I'm envious and along with them I start tying us together through different things and I see that we don't have them, we're missing them.

Then by helping each other in this way we can warm each other up about it and by envy we can really increase all of those desires and intentions in which we can come to the revelation of the Creator. But in the meantime we don't have that. That's how I have to take the friends into consideration because the Creator, He is behind the friends and the ten, there's no other place to look for him in some galaxies or in the upper world someplace, the Creator is behind each and every one of the friends, as simple as that. This is where He is hiding, so to speak, meaning each and every friend is hiding the Creator from me. So what are we going to do? Can we move Him and discover that the Creator is standing behind him? How do we do it spiritually - physically, it's impossible, so how do I do it then? I do it very simply if I cross the friend with the Creator that there's no difference between them and the Creator and me that there's no difference between them in relation to me, both the Creator and the friend, they're both the same character. If this is how I relate to them, as one, then I start getting to know the Creator. This means that the Creator is behind the friend, that the friend won't be like a kind of partition or as something that interferes between myself and the Creator, I simply have to adhere them together.

That the Creator, he's playing on the Creator's team, that otherwise the Creator can't reveal Himself. This is how he reveals Himself to me through the friends and actually shows me what kind of form I am supposed to get in order to discover the manifestation of the Creator in each and every one of the friends. So, I see that before me, suppose there are ten friends and the Creator, He is revealed in each and every one of them differently and I have to accept them as those who introduce the different characteristics, manifestations of the Creator in relation to me. This is how He wants for me to see them, as His representatives, why? Because then by thinking that and accepting it this way, I will change. Until all of these friends of mine, they will either be in such a descent where I hate them like the students of Rabbi Shimon or I love them unconditional love and from minus Ein Sof to plus Ein Sof, this is how we reach a state where the darkness will shine like the light because all of the friends will be a manifestation of the Creator for me and this is how we will reach revelation.

3A. R. Love covers all crimes, that the crimes are not what I see in the others and that too but mainly these are my crimes that everything that I see, whatever bad thing I see in the world, that in the meantime I can't justify. I have to know that eventually I will have to reach a state where I cover it with love because this is the end of each and every one's development and in the world, not even a bit, but of anything that I hate, that I want to erase, that I want to develop I might get rid of some quality in someone, that's very far from us, something that maybe we will discover in the future but in the future for sure, but in the meantime, we have to know that this is where we're headed, that's the general direction. Okay I took 25 minutes from the lesson for myself. I ask your forgiveness. I think that now you'll be better capable of working with it now. So let's see what do you want to ask about this?

4. S. (26:39) You said that if I can't justify something in the world, in my world, then I didn't get it, then what, then love will cover this crime that I'm not able to justify?

R. Well that's in the future. No point in talking about it right now. Now we're only talking about the ten. In the ten I have to reach a state where I relate to all of the friends in a way where they are truly angels that for me they are an example for everything.

S. On a practical level, how can we see the Creator behind every friend all the time that we won't let go of this?

R. To simply make an effort to repeat it again and again and to tell yourself that this is an exercise for me of how I can get to know the world, that it's like a theater that's made for me, what can you do?

5. S. (28:03) What is the difference between rising above a disturbance and restricting what I desire?

R. No, we don't restrict our desires because actually the desire is what we have to correct and correcting a desire, it's not that I don't want, it's supposedly like the host invites me for dinner and I come to him but before that I eat in order not to be hungry, not to have a big appetite, hunger in front of him, so what if I have no desire to eat? I have to come with a big Hissaron and then I will be able to feel what he wants from me and how I can relate to him. Meaning, we're not working on restricting the deficiency, the deficiency for spirituality is actually a present from above.

6. S. (29:13) If I understood correctly, but before, I heard you say from all of our problems, from all of our states that we receive in our reality, we need to relate to it like to a ten, that a ten can solve all of these problems, did I understand correctly? How do I relate to all this ?

R. Incorrect, I can't bring all of the problems of the world into the ten and in the ten, I learn how I can calibrate myself on the revelation of the Creator, how can I make a corrected desire out of myself?

7. S. (30:18) So I can consider darkness as something that comes before the light, not as an obstacle or difficulty?

R. Well put, true. We need to relate or refer to the light to come into the darkness as an introduction to the light that without the darkness we will never be able to discover the light. That is true.

8. S. (30:54) I heard you say that we have to conceal ourselves from the Creator. How do we do this in the ten?

R. It's not for now. There's a lot of work here. It's building the screen. You can read about it.

9. S. (31:26) How do we collect all the darkness? What does it mean to collect the darkness?

R. We need to see more and more of the darkness. Darkness is considered lack of bestowal from a lack of love, lack of connection. All kinds of forms that relate to spirituality, to the nature of the light. This is what we are lacking, it is considered that we are in darkness, that we will find that we don't have such qualities, that will find that they are desired, these states, do you think qualities, and then we will discover from this that we are in darkness and then we will want with respect to that you have light. Light is considered love of others. I am now lacking to have such a light for love of others, am I really lacking this? Oh yeah I don't want this. What is it for? In other words, we need to first of all reach the correct deficiency. Okay?

10. S. (32:57) What is this darkness that drives me to seek love of friends?

R. That is exactly the darkness that you feel, that you don't have love of others, and you need them from what? Let's say from envying them, that they have such a connection between them and they are getting along so well with each other, and you're looking at them and you're saying I don't understand what they're doing between them, they are connecting, they're talking, as they have together different kind of thing, I don't like this on the one hand. On the other hand, you think that well wait a minute, this form of connection that they have between them, it connects them to the Creator and they are coming close to the Creator when will I start discovering Him? Then you start feeling a deficiency in that right and even though before you didn't have a deficiency, now you will have one. By that, through envy, honor and lust we're coming closer to the spiritual state. As it's written, envy, honor and lust take a person outside of the world, meaning they take us out of this corporeal world to the spiritual world. And lust and honor, if we start using them correctly within the ten. Is that clear? Okay.

11. S. (34:57) Many times you said that whoever is greater than his friend, his desires are greater than his, his evil inclination and there's also a lot written about this. Today, I understood that it's really a law according to which we can advance so how do we, every time, use it correctly?

R. I can only say one thing, if you will not miss the lessons you will see how you are advancing more and more and understanding more and more. That is all.

12. S. (35:41) Is there a correlation between darkness and annulment? To annul the Malchut?

R. No relation. If I annul myself, then instead of that I can be in darkness instead of light, that's a direct connection that doesn't exist.

13. S. (36:15) When you're talking about building a system, what are you referring to or what are you saying, what do you mean when you say that with the help of our deficiency we've….

R. We can achieve something only according to what we're lacking. If we lack the Creator, then the Creator is the force of love, do we really want to love everyone or to come closer to it, to some extent, then we need the Creator, this is the revelation of the Creator. So if we practice between us in our groups how much you love one another as much as we can, then accordingly we will come closer to the Creator or to lacking it.

14. S. (37:45) You said that behind every friend is the Creator and we learn that the Creator is revealed only in 10 Sefirot, so what is that special quality of the Creator?

R. The friend is this image that is in front of us, that the Creator plays with me in such a way that He created around me a world and me within that world, that I'm also like these friends or like all human beings and He gave me the opportunity to each and everyone of us to stabilize one's self to the world as if I am corrected, the end of correction and then by correcting myself I begin to see that the world is receiving a corrected form. That's how it is.

15. S. (38:56) There's this fear that the Creator will show me that it's Him behind all of the friends, then I have this kind of fear that my free choice, that I seemingly have, will be erased, so how do you work with that fear?

R. Well, keep being in fear what can I tell you, keep being in fear, but I promise as soon as you will see the friends as overcoming such disturbances, then from this envy, honor and lust, you too, it will be able to overcome. We lack connection in the group, to go through all of the difficulties.

16. S. (39:46) What it seems is that the friend is hiding the Creator, from me, it's like a matter of life and death - we have to connect and turn it around so with that darkness how do you transcend?

R. To try and reach a group in such a way that you connect all of the group together and if it doesn't work out then don't get angry at them, but pray to the Creator to help. All in all, what they want and don't want, your friends in the group to connect or not, it's the Creator doing that on purpose so that you will turn to Him and then He will help.

17. S. (40:49) I thank the Creator every day for the great friends that I have. What do I need in order to see them as the Creator?

R. You need to connect them together as one group and one desire connected to the Creator and if you try and do see that it's not working then you should reach out to the Creator to help with that.

18. S. (41:39) How can we constantly raise the importance of spirituality over corporeality?

R. Spirituality of spirituality will rise and more than spirituality of corporeality if….

19. S. (42:13) On YouTube you speak about the balance of opposites between good and bad, can we apply the same principle that you explained in that video, to darkness and light?

R. I can't say. What principles I said there or I said here, you can be mistaken both with those and with these, so to recommend to you to do that, I can't. If you'll tell me exactly about something is this correct or not? Then I can say but talking about something there, I don't know what you're referring to, so you can't ask that way. By that I'll only be able to turn you in the wrong direction unintentionally of course. Is that clear?

20. S. (43:19) Is the Creator hiding from us or are we the ones in the ten hiding the Creator?

R. That's not an easy question. There is a time where the Creator conceals Himself from us and there are times or states where we hide the Creator, conceal the Creator. It all depends in what way we work with Him. Once here, once there. Usually, we feel that the Creator is revealed, so we conceal Him and when we find that the Creator is concealing Himself, then we want to reveal him. Every time we need to have the intention in order to bestow, a Masach, a screen.

21. S. (44:45) You said that, where does the darkness come from?

R. I didn't understand the question.

S. You said that there has to be the right deficiency. Does it come from the revelation of my ego or from the connection of the ego of my friends?

R. It's revealed only in the connection of the deficiencies within the group. One deficiency of one person isn't considered a deficiency because it's not a deficiency for connection, meaning it's no deficiency for the revelation of the Creator and that's why upon such deficiencies, there is no answer. The Creator is revealed toward the group. If the deficiency comes from within the group that is already some kind of contact with the Creator and there is hope that a deficiency is correct, that we are connecting it to revelation.

Excerpt #1 Baal HaSulam, Tetzaveh “And In The Desert Where You Saw” #86 Reader (46:54 - 49:04)

There is no light except for that which comes out of that darkness. This is so because when that side surrenders, the Creator rises above and His glory grows. Also, the work of the Creator is only out of darkness, and there is no good except from within the bad. And when one enters a bad way and leaves it, the Creator rises in his glory. Hence, the perfection of everything is good and bad together, and to later depart to the good. And there is no good except for that which comes out of the bad. And in that good, the glory of the Creator increases, and this is complete work.

22. S. (4:25) It says here, that when a person gets on the bad path and leaves the Creator, what does it mean to go on a bad path?

R. Because without entering darkness, the evil path, then he cannot go out to the path of the Creator.

23. S. (49:52) Receiving the darkness, this I understand but darkness and spirituality, it's where I can't, I don't give enough, I might not give enough, what does that mean?

R. Exactly what you say, that I feel that I'm lacking qualities of bestowal, that it is considered that I am in a spiritual darkness, that I don't have what I need in spirituality. What's lacking in spirituality? Only the force of bestowal, the force of connection. That's how it works.

24. S. (50:39) Can you explain how to serve the Creator in the darkness?

R. Only from the darkness, we can work with the Creator because darkness means I'm lacking connection, love, bestowal, concern for others, for me that's spiritual darkness and then from that darkness I can already ask for the Creator through the group of force and to receive from Him the forces of bestowal. Then I receive from them the forces of bestowal and I start using them and that is how I enter spirituality, the work of the Creator.

25. S. (51:35) He says that's from the perfection between good and bad, after that He comes to the good. What is the difference between the two goods that he's talking about?

R. I don't know what connection between, good and bad, are, where did you ever see such a thing?

S. In the excerpt, it's written, where did we see that?

R. He writes that the completion of everything is good and bad together that I treat bad as I treat good and good as I treat bad, because between them I need to find this connection and the direction to the Creator, that for me good and bad are actually darkness and light, they are for me equally measured. I'm looking for their source and their source is equal, it's only the Creator. It has light and creates darkness. That's why if I want to reveal the Creator then for me darkness and light are on the same degree, I need them both and that is how I arrange myself, I build myself, that is what is important for me is the force of love, of bestowal and not the darkness and the light that's revealed with respect to my will to receive.

26. S. (53:31) I do believe that I understand dark and light as you are explaining to us, but according to this, why should we annul to our friends and not to be their equal?

R. Everything in order to attain the quality of bestowal.

Excerpt 2 Baal HaSulam, “Peace In The World” (54:24 - 55:23) reads twice

Everything in reality, good or bad, and even the most harmful in the world, has a right to exist and must not be destroyed and eradicated from the world. We must only mend and reform it.

27. R. (55:24) So, all for bad and for good, it all has its own state and each and everyone has a place in reality and we mustn't ruin anything, not bad, nor good. The world is engaging with everyone determining what's bad and wanting to ruin it, to burn it, and the goodness, wants only goodness to exist, this can't be. The Creator created such a reality that goodness and bad are equal, they are connected together and there's no badness without good or good without bad and that's why we need to reach a state that we are protecting everything, we only want to complete, to make the correct connection between good and bad, and that alone. That's why, what is he saying here? Everything that there is in reality good or bad and even the most harmful in the world has a right to exist and must not be destroyed and eradicated from the world. We must only mend and reform it and bring it towards goodness meaning that eventually, what we will see from all of these things that seem to us as bad and seem to us as good, that we will see that the system is entirely in balance and it exists, and what needs to be corrected? Only my observation in what I see outside of myself, that I will see the system as complete and the upper light fulfilling all of reality and this is the system of the Creator, the system of Adam that the Creator fulfills, that's what I need to reach. I don't need to destroy or eradicate anything, not to build and not to destroy, only to correct my observation, that's why I'm in a ten which can help me see the world that way.

28. S. (58:00) How to come out of the darkness if we can’t raise the right prayer?

R. We are not able to raise the right prayer because between us there isn't the connection that we need to achieve. Meaning, the Creator is giving every group an opportunity, if they can connect under that same condition that the Creator puts between us, He does all kinds of frictions, all kinds of problems, if above these problems, we can connect and we can turn, direct our request to the Creator, a mutual request, then we will succeed. Don't think that the problems are any worse than what they can connect, it's given from above in a very precise way with respect to the ability of every group to connect, to turn to the Creator and ask. To connect and turn to the Creator and ask.

29. S. (59:22) What can make us appreciate the darkness if it's against our nature?

R. We can appreciate darkness because, specifically through this appreciation of darkness, we reveal the Creator. Besides, we see to the extent that our world is also, it must get rid of the sensation of corporeal darkness and acquire the spiritual darkness, that it lacks connection, it lacks love, it lacks mutual support. So all of these things, both corporeal and what we learn about the spiritual, they are all correctly aiming us toward connection.

30. S. (01:00:22) Is the stony heart itself balanced by the Creator as far as... because what else in creation could do it?

R. We are correcting all of our desires, what we've been given to correct and there are such desires that are above our ability. They, too, are corrected in what we have upon us to correct. The stony heart is corrected in our work within the desires that we are able to correct.

31. S. (01:01:06) How do you need to express a question so that it would advance the group to be in the right intention?

R. How do I ask a question that would advance the entire group? You need to feel the group. Where is it advancing to, and by what question can you advance it. Think about it, talk to them and then ask on behalf of the group, whether you or someone else, and then it would be in the right direction. It's possible that you ask not for your group but for another group, that's also good. That's how it should be.

S. Can I ask for another group?

R. ....

S. You just said that each of us who cares for the group needs to hold every friend in his hands, but if it's someone on the outside, let's say, it was someone that's no longer in the group, do I have to care for him?

R. No, I need to care only about those who are in the group. Outside of the group and maybe there are those who get kicked out of the group, that are separated from the group, I should not be connected to such people. I need to be only in the group and care about the connection in the group. With the group, I can care about other things, things that are outside of the group, but only with the agreement and the understanding and the common work of the group.

S. ....

R. Outside of the group I should not work with any other person or something else, is that clear? Let's hope it's clear for him.

32. S. (01:03:24) Could you say that the feeling of spiritual darkness in the ten is the true prayer for the Creator?

R. No, it's incorrect to think that if I feel darkness that's already a prayer. I need to check, to examine this darkness, to process it properly, is the darkness what I feel or is it a spiritual darkness, is it what I'm lacking in order to be in bestowal, love, connection and this is felt in me as darkness, is that the case? Or is darkness in me because I like honor, success, knowledge, that’s incorrect. I have to check what is in this darkness. Then with the correct darkness, when I reveal it from within the group that I'm lacking love of friends, I miss the ability to love them, with that I can turn to the Creator.

S. Meaning, the test is done through the scrutiny with the friends in the group if I am lacking love or...?

R. All in the group, only in the group. Otherwise, I will be like a dog chasing my tail and I'll ask for things which I will never receive an answer from the Creator because I'm asking for something that does not belong to spirituality and His purpose is for me to advance toward spirituality.

33. S. (01:05:19) The first question is, the happiness of the Creator is related to our transcendence of the dark states, is that correct?

R. Right...

S. The second question, how can I be sure what I think is good for my friend is really good? What if it's bad for her?

R. You need to discuss, if it belongs to spirituality and then everything that belongs to spirituality you wish that upon your friends. You ask the Creator to bring him those things, you ask to be able to get those gifts for your friends that the Creator will send them those gifts, that's what you need to do. This is the meaning of, each shall help his friend. No one can ask for himself, but for the friends. As we read in our articles, if it is for the friend, then it's certain we can succeed. If I will now ask for my friend, the Creator will give him something. If I ask correctly of the Creator, the Creator will take care of it, the Creator will make it happen for the friend. I have to truly ask for the friend and want for the friend to receive it. I'm the one who raises MAN to the Creator for the friend who's underneath me because I'm asking for him and then I receive from the Creator first and then I pass it to the friend. Also, he who prays for his friend is rewarded first.

34. S. (01:07:59) You said that the deficiency needs to come in the right way from the group, what does it mean that the deficiency is from the group?

R. If, between us we decide, let's say the women’s group, we decide on what we are truly lacking and we check and confirm that this deficiency is a spiritual one, and then we turn to the Creator and we can receive an answer for this deficiency. Scrutinize it, try and I'm certain you will feel a response. A response might come not immediately and not overtly and in the open, but you will see in a few days, a week or two, these things suddenly, we have it. We have the understanding we have the feeling something opened up. That's how it works.

35. S. (01:09:27) It was said that an obstacle is not put before a blind man. No one's given an obstacle he cannot overcome?

R. No, each and everyone receives only according to his individual vessel but to correct the vessel he needs to have connection in the ten.

36. S. (01:10:07) What is the difference between a corporeal bad deed and a spiritual crime?

R. I'm sorry that I cannot reply to you because the answer is going to be too long and maybe write it down and I will try to answer in writing. That's a very complex question and I'm happy you asked it.

37. S. (01:11:57) We have a question about prayer. In the morning lesson, you suggested that we should pray and we feel this state that at first we start to think about something, then it was some lack of activity innerwise, what kind of internal action are you aiming us towards?

R. You need to feel that your heart needs to be filled with what you are asking. The heart should be filled with only one thing, connection and love through the ten, to all of humanity and beyond, to the Creator. Try to feel it in your heart. This is the true prayer that we will actually come to.

Excerpt 3. Rabbi Nachman of Breslov, Assorted Counsels. Peace. Reader (01:17:00 - 01:17:44)

The essence of peace is to connect two opposites. Hence, do not be alarmed if you see a person whose opinion is completely opposite from yours and you think that you will never be able to make peace with him. Or, when you see two people who are completely opposite to each other, do not say it is impossible to make peace between them. On the contrary, the essence of peace is to try to make peace between two opposites.

38. R. Meaning, the problem is not to erase the thing that appears as negative and raise the positive thing. Minus or plus or plus over minus, but to maintain them together, one corresponding to the other. Specifically, where there is opposition between them, there you can discover wholeness. Wholeness is revealed only between two opposites. What is he saying? The essence of peace is to connect two opposites. They remain opposites. But if you connect them... what’s the middle line, we will learn how to build it. You will certainly discover everything correctly. You don't destroy anything that exists in nature you only arrange them correctly so they will start to work together and then you come to a true construction where all of the minuses and pluses are arranged in such a way that both the Creator and the created being can exist in the system in wholeness.

Reader reads Excerpt 3 again (01:19:01 - 01:19:42)

39. S. (01:19:54) When there is envy between two in the group, is it worthwhile to speak about it?

R. There can’t be something in a group that we leave untouched. If that’s the case then why does the group exist? It doesn't advance if there is a problem. If there is a problem that is revealed, it's a sign that it was revealed from above as There Is none else besides Him and everything comes from the Creator. If the Creator awakens a certain problem between two friends and they cannot solve it then they seemingly don't want to participate with the Creator who awakens these things. There is none else besides Him and everything comes from Him. Of course, we need to solve the problem in such a way, the entire group needs to work to take care of those things. The entire group must connect around it and care about it.

40. S. (01:21:35) What should I do if a friend loves me so much that I want to run away from the ten, how to work with that when I tell him and share it with him and he doesn't listen?

R. We need to explain, according to what Rabash tells us, that we need to keep our emotions under some veil, to conceal them, reveal them a little bit, but mostly concealed and work with them internally, inside each and every one. If each friend will begin to reveal how much he cares about the others, it will only disturb the connection between us. On the contrary, Kabbalists used to conceal the good attitude between one another and in its place would show how much they seemingly deride one another and disregard one another, you don't understand, you don't have those books that talk about the behavior of the Kabbalists throughout the generations where we learn these things. Nevertheless, I wrote about it with books in Russian that you can read and see what is written there. We cannot relate to one another in such a way, that we let our emotions become overbearing and by that we tie the friends, inhibit him.

41. S. (01:23:40) How can we explain to the external world that peace is to connect two opposite points?

R. We are not talking about the external world, the question is not in place and not for the convention, we are not talking about the external world, only the work in the ten.

42. S. (01:24:29) What is perfection, what is peace?

R. The word in Hebrew it is perfection, Shlemut, perfection is a state of the upper force which is in that state. Perfection comes from the word Shlemut, whole, wholeness, absolutely whole and we can only say that about the Creator. Hence, this word of perfection or wholeness we can only attribute to the state one is in.

43. S. (01:25:31) If I get the attitude from a friend that appears to be relating to me in a disrespectful way, does he need to change his attitude or do I need to nullify before the way he behaves towards me?

R. You can turn to the society and ask them, maybe you don't understand the way he is relating to you, and maybe he is relating to you in a good way, ask the friends, do not trust yourself, do not rely on your opinion in this. Try it, it could be that you're wrong.

44. S. (01:26:33) How can I know that my intention is pure when I am asking for the friends when the sources say that he who asks for the friend is rewarded first, so how can my intention be clean, how do I ever know that my intention is pure?

R. I understand, yes you are right, the question is in place but in truth if I pray for the friend, I am truly in her and operating from her desire and therefore at that time I can't think about myself. Because if I think about myself and ask for a friend, I am nonetheless asking for myself and hence, I do not receive. That is how it turns out.

45. S. (01:27:50) How do we merge the gap between hearing the Rav and hearing the friends?

R. I am always with you. That is one thing and it is a problem that he doesn't connect himself and all of the world to the ten, to one, he's not working on this enough, he's not thinking about it enough. He needs to think about the ten only. Only they exist, all of his friends. Otherwise, he is not aimed in the right direction. He has to do these exercises all of the time and only with the ten. To see that all that he feels is in the ten.

46. S. (01:29:16) What does it mean to try to make peace between two opposites, what is the effort in that, I might exert too much, how to do this correctly, so what is it to make peace?

R. This is the work in the middle line, we will work on it and learn it pretty soon. All of spirituality exists as a result of the connection between light and darkness, as we just said, you can't cancel the darkness because by that you cancel the light. We have to care about both the darkness and the light in such a way that they will be connected correctly, both of them. We will talk about that, this is the middle line that we have to learn how to maintain.

47. S. (01:30:26) Spiritual states, do they influence the body as in the flesh, the health?

R. Not talking about that right now, it's not the purpose of the Congress.

48. S. (01:30:50) Do we need to differentiate between spiritual and corporal deficiencies or do we need to make the corporeal deficiencies into spiritual ones?

R. You need to connect everything simply. In corporeality I need to have enough to sustain myself, to exist and everything else belongs to spirituality. Caring about spirituality. That should be the goal, only to arrange our desire in this direction only this way.

49. S. (01:34:34) We are talking and not just today during the lessons about bestowal, love, faith above reason, it is completely opposite our nature, my nature and each time we try to connect to come closer to this my ego experiences suffering.

R. That gives you pleasure.

S. I want to understand if the sign of the right advancement is joy, how do I circumvent the suffering for myself and help my friends with that, can we prevent the suffering somehow, hasten our advancement? How should we combine the joy and the suffering?

R. I understood everything. I think that we need, inside the group to establish a field, a system that we will care for and nurture, grow, so that field will influence us. And that field needs to influence our thought, our desire, such discernments that connection is good, love of others is good, bestowal, giving is good. I constantly feel from the group, from this field. I invest a little bit, but everyone invests a little bit and the Creator is behind everything and then we receive from there, from this system, from this field, great influence that is sustaining us. Because each one can add one ounce, all of the friends because we want to build such a system. It is called the field that the Creator has blessed. It is a field in which we wish to reveal the Creator so He is participating with us together and in each of us there is a tiny bit that we can add to this thought that it is good to bestow, good to love, good to be connected good to care for the friends, a tiny bit. But because all of us want that same thing in the same direction in the center of the group to bestow, the Creator participates as His part and then we feel from there the importance. The power where we truly want it. I suddenly want it, I want to be in connection, and I want to be in love with others, I want to be giving. Do it. Don't wait, start doing it, in our world there isn't such a program in the bank where you invest $1 and you get $1,000,000 with certainty. Here it happens, in spirituality it happens, each one invests in the group that tiny desire, a tiny thought, but all of us in the same direction toward the connection of the group, we wish to reach a state where we have a common force of bestowal, of love of friends. Suddenly, we will see that you have a great force that you can count on and rely on that works, it works because the Creator participates in it as well. In this way do it and you will see success.

50. S. (01:36:40) Do we need to ask to awaken the darkness in their ten or wait for the Creator to awaken the darkness and we are just asking to awaken the light?

R. We only ask for light, the force of bestowal, the force of connection. This is what we are asking together from the Creator. We never asked for darkness. No. Why should I ask for a deficiency for something when I can ask for that thing right away? We don't pray to have a deficiency. There are such prayers, deficiency without a deficiency, but why do we need to follow this path? Ask directly. We want the power of bestowal, the power of connection, the power of love we want to feel in those things that we are advancing, we are succeeding, that’s it. Later we will talk about the higher degrees in it.

51. S. (01:38:18) How should we come to bestowal in order to bestow?

R. This is what we are talking about today, we want to bestow with nothing for ourselves, the force of Bina. To bestow in order to bestow is the force of Bina, the force of faith above reason.

52. S. (01:38:56) How do we examine the deficiency as well?

R. In the group.

53. S. (01:39:12) In the ten, the states of purity and coarseness, can we take care of this in the ten, somehow?

R. Not now, but later in the spiritual degrees, we will be able to manage all of those components, not now.

54. S. (01:39:59) The feeling of responsibility for the advancement of the ten when that accumulates is that spiritual deficiency?

R. No, all of the friction between us, we need to see them as being sent from above so that we will ask to rise above them in connection. All of the friction between us, all of the problems awaken from above so that we will ask to rise above them. Again we will have problems and again we will rise above them with a prayer. Each time more and more.

55. S. (01:40:51) What does it mean to separate between the friend and the Creator that there is no difference between them?

R. To the extent that I relate to the friend, the same way I relate to the Creator. The attitude to the Creator cannot be better than my attitude toward the friend. That is what I meant. They both have to be equal in my eyes. It is very tough. What can you do with respect to my will to receive? At the end of the day it is better for me to relate well to the friend than to relate well to the Creator. From love of the created being I come to love the Creator.

56. S. (01:42:08) If you feel despair from the disconnect, the ten...

R. In the ten you can talk about everything. Everything with the intention of seeing ourselves connected beyond all of the talks with the Creator together.

57. S. (01:42:54) In order to make darkness shine as light, are you saying that we don't try to fill the emptiness ourselves, but that we invite the friends to meet together with us in that emptiness and together we make room for the light of the Creator to shine between us?

R. Exactly.

Excerpt 4. Rabash, Article 8 (1985), “Make for yourself a Rav and buy yourself a friend” 2, Reader (01:46:21 - 01:47:38)

Those people agreed to unite into a single group that engages in love of friends, is that each of them feels that they have one desire that can unite all their views, so as to receive the strength of love of others. There is a famous maxim by our Sages, “As their faces differ, their views differ.”

Thus, those who agreed among them to unite into a group understood that there isn’t such a great distance between them in the sense that they recognize the necessity to work in love of others. Therefore, each of them will be able to make concessions in favor of the others, and they can unite around that.

58. R. How do we come to a state in the groups, in which we are happy to reveal the gaps between us, where we don't agree, where we are in some distance between us, contradictions between us. How do we, as we discover such states, not erase them but rather, begin to relate to them in a spiritual way, that it is good. Just like the students of Rabbi Shimon. The great ones. They discovered that they wanted to kill one another and they wrote about that in The Sefer HaZohar. So, how do we try to discover these gaps between us, the clashes, the friction, all of those things in a way that we are happy, that we preserve those contradictions between us, we don't delete them. But rather, love covers all crimes. For the crimes to remain and love will be above them.

58A. WSQ: (01:49:22 - 01:56:29) How do we come to a state in which we don't erase the disturbances between us, but on the contrary, that we protect them, keep them and are satisfied that they are revealed?

59. S. (01:57:42) How should we raise a prayer during the Congress for approaching Dvekut between friends?

R. How do we raise it? From our hearts, prayer comes from the heart, the fact that I want. Heart is desire, we have our mind and our heart thought and desire. So we need to come to a point where in my heart I want connection, bestowal, love, so at least in my ten I feel that I want to have it realized in this way and also, all over the world, between the poor humanity that doesn't understand how much it is missing from the upper world, spirituality, perfection. Let us hope that this will all gradually, slowly slowly, come and be revealed to everyone. It's too bad that these things are still concealed from everyone.

60. S. (01:59:07) Why is it said that my sons have defeated me, the Creator is fighting it with us, how do you connect love and war in the group?

R. The Creator is saying I have created the evil inclination and we need to battle the evil inclination against our ego. So it turns out that we are seemingly in a battle before the Creator. It is, in a certain way, that the Kabbalists talk this way. Because the evil was also created by the Creator. It's not that there is a good creator and a bad creator that they are both fighting and we're in the middle fighting, poor things. No. The upper force is One. He created the evil inclination so that we, in skipping over the evil inclination and rising above it, we will come to the good inclination. To bestowal love connection. Therefore, towards that force of the evil inclination we are seemingly against Him. But it is not that we are against Him. When we start to work in the true spirituality, we begin to see that there is no bad and no good but rather that it is all good. In the merging of the bad and the good we come to perfection, this is why we only speak in such a way on the degrees when we begin to get to know the truth. That is how it happens.

61. S. (02:00:59) Lately, how do we rise above the friction between us, because I want to say that for a long time we are each in our corner and it is very hard to not be in the physical gatherings that we have had, where we had more friction and now it is more difficult to work. Everything kind of calmed down, how do we work in this state?

R. I can't tell you, you are a person with experience in life, you have the intellect and feeling. Just like I know you, and all the rest of the friends from the group. You need to talk between you and understand how much of an opportunity that you have to realize it otherwise, what is the benefit here? To say that we are not capable, it is just like that, you are not trying, you need to try with all of your might to come to connection according to what is written in the articles of Rabash, the Social Writings. Take the lessons every day, and the articles and read them together, and then you will feel that you are advancing.

62. S. (02:02:45) What is the difference between asking you a question and asking a question and receiving an answer from within the connection, the center of the connection in the ten?

R. I don't know, that is something you need to know, I don't know where the center of the ten is, who gives the possibility, I know if they asked me I can say what source I take the answer from. It is not my thing, I read the sources of the Kabbalists and I can say that more or less there with the sources this is how it is written there. I, myself have nothing.

63. S. (02:03:46) What does it mean that I have to bring the evil to correction, is it only to ascribe it to the Creator as the Good that does Good?

R. I need to bring the evil to correction, to the Creator, just as He created the evil, I am asking Him to cover the evil with good. That is called, love will cover all crimes. That is our work.

64. S. (02:04:35) Is the darkness a promise for the revelation of the light?

R. The correct darkness yes, the darkness from connection, from love, from bestowal, from closeness. That is the darkness and that kind of darkness, if they are revealed and I feel that it is darkness, that I can't come closer to the other even though I would want to, that I can't, this is the darkness and I am turning to the Creator with that and I am asking for a correction. It depends what we mean when I say darkness. That is clear?

65. S. (02:05:28) How do we connect with friends, where in words, he speaks nicely he's already in Atzilut, but when there is a matter of doing some work, he is simply absent?

R. Turn to other friends and ask him to explain it, don't turn to him directly.

S. All of humanity now is going through the coronavirus, giving a feeling of depression, society is suffering, why is it felt especially elevated with egoists, business people?

R. Where the will to receive is greater it occurs more. It is all ahead of us, you will see what will happen in this coming year. We will see how the Creator is teaching people during this period which is already called the period of the last correction. How He teaches us to relate correctly to life, to bestow, to connection, you’ll see. You will see what will be. I see this in the near future, the way He will teach us and all of humanity in a very harsh manner. He will obligate us, that’s it, life or death As it is written in the Kabbalistic sources, that which needs to be revealed at the end of times, such things that it is truly unpleasant to talk about.

66. S. (02:07:56) Can we, in the ten, help a friend who is in the dark through actions, or only through prayer?

R. It could be through deeds as well, but certainly there needs to be a prayer there. You need to have both.

67. S. (02:08:27) I used to check my friends, now I check myself and I establish it is all a lie, it is not a prayer. The desire to cry from the heart, so that state will open up, so that it won't be a lie, that it will be real.

R. You need to pray for that as well. This is called a prayer before a prayer. To prepare the heart for the heart, to want to ask for that.

68. S. (02:09:09) You just explained to a friend that when the true darkness is revealed we ask the Creator, we pray to the Creator, we ask for correction. How do we come from this darkness to the prayer of one man with one heart?

R. We come to a true prayer under the condition that we are completely despaired, where is that written?

Baal HaSulam. Letter 57. Reader (02:12:19 - 02:13:46)

There is no happier state in man’s world than when he finds himself despaired with his own strength. That is, he has already labored and done all that he could possibly imagine he could do, but found no remedy. It is then that he is fit for a wholehearted prayer for His help because he knows for certain that his own work will not help him. As long as he feels some strength of his own, his prayer will not be whole because the evil inclination rushes first and tells him, “First you must do what you can, and then you will be worthy of the Creator.” It was said about this, “The Lord is high and the low will see.” For once a person has labored in all kinds of work, and has become disillusioned, he comes into real lowliness, knowing that he is the lowest of all the people, as there is nothing good in the structure of his body. At that time, his prayer is complete and he is granted by His generous hand.

69. R. I think that it's worthwhile for us to connect that to this lesson. These words of Baal HaSulam. It is worthwhile for us to read together in every single group and in every ten and to repeat it several times, specifically for the women, also who ask a lot, both men and women who ask a lot about the despair and what to do with it. So he starts in a very beautiful way. There is no more joyous moment in the whole life of a person, there is no happier or more joyous moment than that which he feels that he has no forces that he can put forth from himself, that he can't do anything now or in the future, nothing. Then he is worthy of a prayer, a request for the Creator. This is a very special thing. And as much as we need more and more to do all kinds of things and to see that we don't succeed, to come into this true despair. That is it.

70. S. (02:15:09) It is not coincidental that this Congress started in parallel to the holiday of Hanukkah, how do we use this help from above?

R. You are right, it has been revealed that it comes together with this holiday of light. Of the revelation of the root of the force of bestowal, the force of Bina. Hanukkah symbolizes the quality of light and bestowal, so we are in a state that we are close to this. Where this will be revealed to us and through us, it will be revealed later to all of humanity. I am very happy that specifically in this convention and in this holiday we are with so many friends together, let us hope that it will be even more and that we will do all of our efforts, everything that we possibly can so that everyone will know how we can be in this connection of ours in the revelation of eternal, spiritual life and that it is all open before us. I really hope this way that we will do it, we also have and I am very happy that in the second half of this convention the women are joining us, tomorrow morning we also have the men and in the afternoon we have men and women, everyone is invited.

71. S. (02:17:31) Young women tens that just started to come together, we are talking about problems that women have where they can't actively participate in the work of the ten and they feel guilt?

R. I don't understand what you're talking about, in such a state you need to turn to the management, you have something to write and the place to turn to, even here we have women information, write them and you will get an answer. I don't understand those things nor do I deal with them.

72. S. (02:18:42) Need to know if the Bnei Baruch message can reach humanity or not until we reach total separation, or it will come gradually?

R. The more we connect, it will spread through us to all of humanity, Baal HaSulam writes about this at the end of The Introduction to The Book of Zohar.

73. S. (02:19:28) What exactly does that mean to use our will to receive with a Masach?

R. A screen doesn't restrict the will to receive it just makes the will to receive be in order to bestow this is what the screen does. That is how it works.

74. S. (02:20:06) We want to share something very special, in the last couple of weeks all of the women have gone through a special process from the Woman's Congress to the Congress we're having now. Based on that many women from all over the world have prepared letters for the men that encourage the men's group and support them, what we have done is we've collected all of the letters that the women wrote and edited into one letter to the men and we asked if it's possible to read that letter?

R. Yes, please.

Women’s Letter to the Men

S. (02:20:08) Dear men, A letter to the men from the women’s Kli, we the women of the world Kli are asking the Creator to give you the strength, the power of love and faith above reason, we believe that you will unite in this Congress above everything that is revealed on the way to revealing the Creator between you. We pray for you that you will be as one and radiate the light to humanity. Our heart is filled with joy and confidence because you are chosen from all the nations, strong men, from all the nations to draw the light of the Shechina to all of human society. We, the women of the world Kli, all have a strong desire to unite as one woman in one heart and soul, we thank the Creator for all of the opportunities to serve Him and humbly ask His help in order to give us the strength to support one another and unite. Dear friends, you are the greatest of the generation, your daily work is awe inspiring and it fills the women’s Kli with power we are learning from you, your efforts to unite during the lessons and now during the Congress awaken us to pray tirelessly, to ask and to demand, to unite as one woman who will bring the world the next degree. But we can't do this without you, in order for this new humanity to be born we need both parts united, the male part and the female part. This way and mutual completion, the new state will be born. Please feel our unconditional support. We hug you and praise you and are with you in all of your efforts to connect, good luck and love with infinite admiration. The women of the world Kli.

R. We accept this with joy and we are happy that we have such women that are concerned with us connecting and that they are helpful to us in this. We really hope more and more that we will expand the circle of influence of the women upon us and the men and that this is very helpful in the connection that we have. This is really helping as a great force, we can see from our world that behind every successful man, what stands, a strong woman. So, if we have such women behind us we will succeed. It is good that they are writing to us that we also are turning to them in return to stand behind us and push us forward this way just like a mother sends a young child to school, to every place this is how we also need the women to push us ahead. This is very important to us.

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