Morning Lesson September 22, 2022, Transcription
Transcription is made from simultaneous translation which leaves a possibility for differences in the audio
Part 1:
Rosh HaShana - Selected Excerpts from the Sources. #15
1. Rav’s Introduction: We are in the topic of One Bundle, as much as we can join together into a single bundle, we want to be closer and closer to the Creator, the one that we reveal as feeling this whole, creating this bundle, this is the main thing. In the connection between us, coming closer to one another, we realize what the Creator is saying, you have made me, then because we will truly perform, carry out the main action, will build, we make, we establish our Creator, the one force, unique.
Excerpt #15 (01:28) “One should awaken one’s heart precisely to Teshuva (repentance)..” twice
2. R. (05:33) This means that during these days we can enter and we can be kept from all of the separation, the separating forces that act on us, the evil inclination of each and every one of us. We do not have anything else to do to do other than to be as one bundle, so we start our progress, our inclination towards correction and over the corrections we can count in the way, only on the connection, on the measure of connection between us as one man with one heart, to repeat, to return to the very form of Adam HaRishon before the sin.
3. S. (06:59) Through this in turn heartfelt emotional connection in a ten where we feel the friends we return to the form of Adam HaRishon. How does it happen, on one hand I love the friends, I try to give to them and they try to act the same way towards me?
R. It is simple, Adam HaRishon, let's say we are a ten, if we can reach a state where we are connected in our desires, in the hearts and thoughts to be truly like one body, each one feels the other, each one cares about the other, each one is for the other. As Baal HaSulam explains we are in one boat and we all feel our advancement, our salvation, it is because we feel this boat as the general vessel of ours we're each and everyone needs to ensure and fulfill their role and save their friend.
This way we are connected together, we are under the power of mutual guarantee and the Creator feels our vessel, our deficiency, and our yearning to be in mutual guarantee and this way we advance more and more until we feel we are truly connected. In this connection does not go through our intellect through calculation but rather it happens like in a single body where the organs feel one another. Each organ works for the benefits of the others without making any calculations. What am I, who am I but rather instinctively, this happens to us through the Creator, we are connected through one another we do not even feel that this is yours or mine or his but rather we all feel ourselves as a single bundle. To the extent we connect, there are 125 degrees, between us to that extent we feel the general force that is working on us. This is called the Creator.
4. S. (10:06) In the ten we want to clarify how much we are together and what separates us and who judges?
R. Each one judges himself to what extent he is included in the general connection of the ten and is in it as a guarantor for everyone else, for everyone else. He sees that everyone is, he's in a good, beautiful connection and only he is responsible for the whole ten to be in harmony as one man with one heart. Just like the organs in a healthy body where each and every organ has Baal HaSulam and Rabash, each and every organ seals into the extended he it needs to be incorporated in the others, helping, and supporting and working for the others and that is what we need to feel in our ten. Not using pretty words, as all we need them for the time being but truly in our inner efforts where I feel the friends and myself are in a single machine that is working in the perfect integral manner.
5. S. (12:09) What is this repentance, the process of repentance in the ten to awaken the heart, can you go deeper into that, what is this process in our ten repentance?
R. Repentance means that, for the time being we come up with certain formula for connection of ours for our common work that will reveal for us the concept of the Creator, the Creator does not exist but rather our correct mutual connection between us, out of the dispersion, the conflict, where we complete one another, then we come to the concept of the Creator. Naturally, this force exists, from the point of view of the created being when we come to it when it turns out that we build it, we make it we truly establish out of the pieces, the separate pieces, the opposite pieces what belongs to us, what is up to us. How can we connect specifically those forces, those qualities what we call parts, opposing parts, so that they will work in harmony between them? This harmony is revealed, it reveals a love, connection. Only we can establish this with our efforts and this makes the Creator happy.
It turns out that here we can do certain things that he himself cannot because he does not have a deficiency and when we make the connection between us out of the deficiencies, the lack of our connection and by that we highlight the quality, we seemingly show everyone how great the Creator is, how complex and special He is. We as created beings show it, we can actually show it. Whereas he himself cannot. When we are incorporated out of these foreign qualities, opposing qualities, willing to kill, destroy one another and we manage to actually connect these qualities, between them in such a way that, yes, love will cover all transgressions, this way we build this love. In such a way that even the Creator cannot do it, only we can do it because we are included of the evil inclination and we can turn it to the good, to beauty. Because each and everything is capable from its thing and its opposite. There are not that many words, at least not for me, Baal HaSulam has more words, the truth, the direction is there.
6. S. (16:27) In excerpt fifteen what is the meaning of the sentence ‘Drawing Mercy’ on them?
R. That is what we said that the connection between us has to reveal the general love that comes from putting together the opposite parts through Hesed.
7. S. (17:24) It is written that to reach a state from afar I see the Creator the heart needs to be awakened for repentance?
R. It means the Creator comes from afar because we cannot start from the connection, the connection is actually our goal, we start from separation, so by coming at least returning to, to the thought that we have to attain the Creator and the Creator is revealed in the connection between the opposing parts. Just like in our nature if we want to establish something or produce something, a machine, new qualities you need to combine opposing qualities then see the result from them. By the result, because each result in physics, chemistry, mechanics, if we connect, combine two opposing things, there we discover the result. this result is a part of the Creator, from that point going to view of the still, vegetable and animate if we can link between us then we reveal something that belongs to the degree of the animate, all of the animate, and then the speaking and that is really our destiny, our purpose, to start with those small connections from still, vegetative, and animate and reach such connection between us that are in love with the friend as thyself. Through mutual guarantee and in this way we reveal the laws of the spiritual nature.
That is the, that if a person is capable of doing it without his participation it's still, vegetative and animate, it is still in the framework of this world but if he raises himself as a component that participates in forming of these connections with others then he comes to the degree of the speaking. Ultimately the result of combining in with other people is that he reveals the Creator. “You have made Me,” this is what the Creator says. That is his joy that is our joy and the result from this work is that we succeed in being together, connecting between us and the Creator between us that is our work, when we start on this work, to reveal the Creator, to build him, this is called the Rosh Hashanah, the beginning of the year, the beginning of our work.
S. He writes that he has to submit himself under the burden of his kingship and now I received the burden of his kingship?
R. According to the will to receive, our nature, we wish to rule over one another, this is what we see all over the world, even if many people do connect somehow, to do certain things, everything according to some ranking who is more and who is less. Whereas our connection to ten is about being one bundle, one unity, one connection where each one is different for each other from the Creator, from nature, but we wish to connect in such a way that all of us connect relative to the center of the ten. There is no great one there, or a small one rather we are all in the ten equally. This form of quality that comes from mutual care and concern that our boat will not capsize through all kinds of blows and the services that the Creator is sending then by taking care of general boat we come to the bundle and that is how we save ourselves from all kinds of bad forces that comes to us from the Creator in order to obligate us, to arrange ourselves and then this way the connection between us is revealed and the Creator is in it.
8. S. (23:28) Can you explain the part where the Creator distances because of the judgment and the person is distanced because of the separation?
R. That is how we feel the forces that operate on us, we understand that all of it is done to our benefit, that we would overcome it more and more. We see the disturbances as waves in the ocean and we have to see ourselves stabilizing ourselves in our boat, our group, and by this we will overcome all external disturbances by overcoming our internal disturbances. This is how we need to see our lives as well, that there aren’t any external disturbances but only the Creator who is forcing us to be more in the connection between us and this way we will rise and go through all of our disturbances, and thanks to the external disturbances, we will reach an even stronger internal connection so we will reach the full correction.
9. S. (25:05) The question is this: what is the request that I must raise in the ten, for the progress of the whole, in order to feel the state of Rosh Hashanah?
R. That we will be closer to each other in our tendency towards connection, unity, mutual bestowal, that on top of all of the disturbances. On one hand these days are called terrible days, we feel very big disturbances, each one of us individually and all of us together. See what is happening in the world from one point, one side, on the other hand we need to understand only through our unity between us we will be able to save ourselves in this one big boat like Noah's Ark that is floating in the sea that is stormy and this way we can save ourselves and then we can reach the shores and beginning the life as one nation one and this will happen soon.
10. S. (27:10) It is written in this except that “the love of Israel pours from the abundance of the love of the place for Israel”, what is the love of the place of Israel?
R. That the Creator does everything with love because His name is love and His general actions towards us is always love, although it is clothes in all kinds of forms not exactly as the love that we feel. This is in order to organize us and train us so we will be matched up to His bestowal. Eventually ‘the name’ that we reveal of the Creator is love; love means it is bestowal without any boundaries on the side of the Creator towards the created beings that is revealed according to the equivalence of form from the created beings towards the Creator. And this connection ends in the final coupling between the created beings and the Creator.
11. S. (28:30) What does it mean that the upper one is afar from Israel on the side of the trail and what are the judgments, the sentencing, and the days of judgment?
R. All the judgments and sentencing are the qualities in us that the Creator awakens in us purposely and are against his qualities which are unity and love for us to recognize how much we need to change in order to feel Him, understand Him and connect with Him, etc.
12. S. (29:19) What is the sentencing, it seems that it’s separating the people of Israel?
R. Of course, it separates the people of Israel, the people who want to go straight to the Creator. But by distancing them He shows them where they stand towards each other and everyone towards the Creator. Therefore these distances, these trials, these judgments that are revealed, showing us that we can recognize them, accept them, and correct them. It is like what you learn in school; when you rise from one grade to another you are given exercises that are more difficult and this is how we need to understand it that every day if we advance, we are given greater and greater disturbances and we need to understand them, solve them, and arrange them, and specifically by them to advance.
13. S. (30:38) How do we discern the reward from the next world and then later we give it up?
R. When we advance, by the help of the reforming light, we can see that we don’t actually need this reward that we were working for, but rather we are learning about a different reward; to bring contentment to the Creator, to be connected to everyone, to the Creator and the friends. As this stature is more important to me than receiving anything that we thought could be a reward. That is how when a person rises from one degree to the next he changes his place, his desire, his intention and eventually changes his reward.
14. S. (31:45) How do we correctly balance the opposite forces of judgments that are revealed in Rosh Hashana, is it by Hassadim?
R. Yes. It is written also about the previous question about the reward, that “the reward of a commandment is the commandment”, that when we come to a state where to observe this connection against my desire, is actually the best action, the greatest action that I would like to happen. I do not demand any reward but just to keep this thing, for instance to carry a suitcase without getting any rewards, if we're thinking about that example, of this person who carries this suitcase or an important person. Meaning the reward of a commandment is a commandment. And there’s another reward, the reward of a Mitzvah to know the commander, we will talk about the difference between them.
15. S. (33:10) The Creator seems to me far as it says in this excerpt, how can I work for him from afar if he is not here and around me?
R. The Creator's is everyone because this is how we discover Him, there is nothing else besides Him, there is none else besides Him. He is a positive force in nature, He is the negative force that will govern things this way in nature and He is the force that connects between these two forces and creates from them a complete nature and He Himself is above that.
16. S. (34:07) I want to ask about the mutual guarantee that we talked about before, we are here in the center for a week and it’s been revealed that from day to day we are depending on each friend in the ten, without each of the friend being accurate in the work I feel this sort of weakness, I cannot do the actions. What is it that the more we connect, I feel like I really need Arvut from each friend that if we want anyone, if one fault then the whole world is not stable.
R. I'm happy to hear this and this is how I see it, those of you who are participating there together and also feeling that because of the covid and also because of such reasons, all of a sudden a few people are missing, so you are feeling the extent to which you are dependent on one another. I recommend to all of her friends all over the world to awaken the connection in more internal ways so that we will feel the extent to which we are dependent on one another, so that we will feel this general big ship and not the small ship of the ten or less than the ten that what each one of us has.
As we are connecting more and more we need to come to a state that we will truly have a big ship like Noah built, where we all entering through the big Ark with all forces that still, vegetative animal and speaking that is in each one of us and all of us together and we are closing ourselves up there and let the flood take place outside of us will not harm us; there we need to be connected and this whole external flood is just so that we will prefer more meaningful, internal connection. This is how we will come to a state where the ten will truly be revealed in which the Creator can begin to be revealed to the whole world.
S. How does it come, that this physical action we were always in the lessons together but the fact that we came back all of a sudden, it increases the interconnection between us?
R. You are no longer you who left the place back then each one of you is different now and the connection is different and your willingness to connect is different that is the main thing. You are feeling that there's an internal connection between and it is not dependent on each and every one but rather from above we are being managed as one bundle, more and more than before not that it is the end of connection but already you are inscribed and drawn towards it, in one vessel. I'm happy to hear it, I see it, this is how we will continue together. You will feel an inclination, a yearning to connect to the presence of the friends together without that you it is like I don't feel that I'm somewhat there, where are they? It is like Joseph who was seeking his brothers. Where are they? I want to be with him. Then more and more we will enter into connection, these are amazing things that are happening to us. After thousands of years, this happens to the regular simple people of this world and the Creator's beginning to collect, correct them and gather and make out of them a new humanity.
17. S. (38:58) What is: All of reality is the Creator besides me and I am Adam, man?
R. So that you will feel that you are outside of the Creator, that’s how you arranged that you will feel that besides you there is only the Creator and except the Creator there is nothing else.
18. S. (39:23) I heard that each one of us needs to fulfill his duty. It seems like we are all doing the same actions so what do I need to do that the other friends can't?
R. Look at the friends; if you can see how they are yearning to connect between them in an external way, if you can feel how they are yearning for that internal form then take it as an example and do it. I do not have anything else to recommend. Either you take that or take an example from what we are reading and from this reading you try to learn how to connect with everyone. We are in situations that are becoming practical states for building the Kli, vessel, for the revelation of the Creator; where all the groups, the parts of the groups, don't matter, but all of us begin to be in one general vessel which is made up of all kinds of parts. And also not in connection exactly between us but where they are drawn to it despite the languages, despite the distance, even the misunderstanding and the ego in each one of them, that desire, that rejection. Because we are trying to overcome this, we are agreeing to overcome, then from that we will soon have the degree of revelation and we will have a new year, a new state.
19. S. (41:22) How can we work in the practical manner with this urgency that is generated in a ten? It causes this fear that we will not be at the height and the ability of the entire Kli, because we are going forward at the speed of light, that is how it seems to our nature, we feel unpleasant.
R. we do really advancing fast but don't think that this is too fast; It is all about the effort of the Kli, each and every part needs to feel that he's drawn forward even more than he is investing and this is true, this is really so. Because we are all parts that are very distant from one another in language, in mentality, and various things. But when we connect to reach something mutual then in this our force is great and it pulls us forward. The separation acts towards connection and progress forward. So, I see in this that we can achieve spiritual results in a short time.
20. S. (34:16) Can we say it in different words maybe: that the deeds that we do in order to connect and to resemble the Creator, ultimately they bring us to a state that we start resembling Him on the minimal level and precisely at His point of revelation.
R. Yes.
S. In other words by the disturbances that He sends to us we understand the efforts we need to make. He is sculpting Himself in us.
R. Yes, yes. You’re right.
21. S. (44:01) You spoke about Noah's Ark that we built and everything in the world as a result will come down. but in order to correct something external I have to feel it inside, meaning in the ten and then correct it, right? I just don't feel it in my ten so what isn't working?
R. Connect more with the friends and try to bring them to a complete connection as much as you understand from what Rabash, and Baal HaSulam write. That’s it. We don’t ask you more than that for the time being.
22. S. (44:53) Regarding the process that you described earlier that gradually we reach a state where we are ready to work without reward. What is the force that moves you if you do not have reward?
R. Reward yes, of course without the reward the person cannot do anything. But what type of reward? you say no reward. No reward for our ego; I want to see everyone connected, loved, in one bundle, that the Creator fills them and rejoices in them, that is my reward.
S. And where is this reward felt?
R. Inside of me of course. Inside that new desire that appears inside of me after starting to receive the vessels of bestowal.
S. Earlier you mentioned that we need to activate more of this internal effort on our connection. What does it mean to activate the interconnection? What do we really do in order to activate the inner connection?
R. I understand that in order to attain the goal we need to be connected. In order to be connected we need as much as possible to come closer to one another, although we cannot truly do it but at least touching one another, and the Creator will do everything that we will be incorporated in one another; and this vessel that’s incorporated of all of our parts, this is called: Ten Sefirot correctly connected internally where each Sefira is included in all the other Sefirot and then we will have one Partzuf, one soul.
S. What I'm trying to understand is in what way do you strengthen this inner connection where you do not have interaction with the friends? I have many points of interaction with the friends throughout the day, the lessons…
R. You should try to build in you this template of the entire group; I wish to feel in me all the friends as Rabash writes “they are standing in my heart”, and I want them to be inside my heart, connected, ultimately I want this to be my heart. That is how I would like to advance and I'm asking the Creator to connect them together even more, and more, and fill my heart with love which is His quality and in this way I would like to feel them. And, my heart will be corrected; I want to open up to them, to pour it on them, to connect with them.
S. Also, I heard from you today and generally in the last couple of days that we can attain something very real in a short amount of time. What do we need to focus on to attain in the very short time that we have?
R. Just as we discussed throughout this entire lesson: Connection of all of the friends first in the heart of each and every one, then we will try to connect our hearts; ten incorporated in ten and everyone is included in one ten.
23. S. (49:25) Our ten decided to come only twice a week to the center, is it a missing opportunity?
R. I don't know and I cannot hear and I'm not connected to these questions. You will need to ask these questions and to solve them.
S. When a ten reaches a mutual decision together from a clarification could it be a mistake?
R. Of course not, on the ten’s part. And of course yes on the part of others and on the Creator’s. What do you want this ten to be at the end of corrections? the height of all Corrections?
S. How [missing translation]
R. I don't know. You can turn to boardworld.kli and ask. I cannot get in the middle of this.
S. Do you see a state where a ten reaches scrutiny in order to reach a decision that it is correct to sit with 2 or 3 other tens?
R. Maybe. Nevertheless the boardworld.kli is the address, and then you can scrutinize even more but don't ask me about it. To realize it, to actualize it, is on you. I belong only to the giving of the lesson in the morning and the afternoon.
24. S. (52:00) It is written in item 15 “and for that said Shunammite, among my people I dwell” and as it is explained in the Holy Zohar that the same day was Rosh Hashana. The question is what is the connection between Rosh Hashanah and what Shunammite said “I dwell among my own people”?
R. When Malchut, kingship exists within the people; the people mean those that wish to connect and be close to the Creator.
25. S. (52:36) Who is the Shunamit?
R. This we will have to learn in the Book of Zohar, it is not simple. Shunammite is a concept of the Malchut, kingship.
26. S. (52:50) In excerpt fifteen it is written: A private person that is not included himself in the collective of Israel is not impacted from the collective. What does it mean?
R. It means to rise to the service of everyone, like cells in our body; each cell serves the entire body in whatever it needs. That is its role, it is a sign of a healthy body.
27. S. (53:33) Why does the Creator need a ten in order to reveal Himself to the whole world?
R. This is the law of the complete vessel. Where each and every part of it resembles the entire vessel and functions as a miniature version of the whole body. And, that's why it understands everything and feels everything, and it includes everyone's qualities inside it and then can be whole with the complete whole body.
28. S. (54:20) You said that from above we are managed as one bundle, how do we open ourselves to the understanding and the feeling of it?
R. Connect to everyone and feel that you are getting an order from above through the entire body that you are connected with; and then you will begin to feel these upper commands that are passed through you to the entire body, and you are the connector between the Creator and the Creator beings.
29. S. (55:01) What happens to the evil inclination when our heart yearns to return to the Creator, how does the evil inclination react to this?
R. It begins to gradually participate in actions of bestowal in receiving in order to bestow. This means that the angel of death is destined to become the holy angel
30. S. (55:33) In ten Sefirot that are connected properly where am I?
R. You are in all of the Sefirot, and this goes for everyone, each one is in all the Sefirot because the incorporation is truly infinite.
31. S. (55:56) It is written in excerpt 15: “From afar, the Lord appeared to me.” This is so on Rosh Hashanah [Hebrew New Year], when the upper one is far from Israel because of the sentencing”. What does it mean that the Creator is far from Israel because of sentencing?
R. We have to start the work of correction from connection. This is called the beginning of the year, Rosh Hashanah, we determine the Creator is the King and we are going towards Him.
32. S. (56:40) I heard you saying now that in the ascent from degree to degree a person changes a place. What does it mean to change a place?
R. Change of place means to change his desire.
Reading excerpt #16 (57:05) “It is said in the Rosh Hashanah prayer, ‘and they shall all..” thrice
33. S. (01:02:28) It's not clear why if we are all together it's easier for us. What becomes easier for us?
R. If we connect it's not that it's becoming easier, it means that we feel more what the Creator wants of us, we feel what more we can do to resemble Him because each and every one, if he works with his desire, with his individual intellect, he doesn't understand at all what it means to be spiritual because spiritual is inclusive, is whole, is a complete structure, its nature in its entirety. So only after connecting as one bundle when we annul ourselves to one another, we connect to one another; meaning ,there is work here, on two levels. Annulment is one thing and above the annulment the work towards the other on the other side; meaning, not only in Hassadim where we cancel one towards the other, each one towards the others but also when we do it wisely and we take the desire of the other and we seemingly try to fill them and it turns out that we're connecting in such a way that we are incorporated in one another, we are very tightly assembled together into a complete incorporation of one another and then we go back to be as one. To the extent that we go back to being as one we begin to understand and feel and attain what is the Creator, because he is one. We assemble Him from separate parts, broken and distant parts, and out of this connection we are building for ourselves a concept of the Creator, Bo-re, come and see, otherwise we cannot attain Him as wholeness that is above the shattering. We cannot attain Him this way because we are the created beings. We can only try and build from the shattering from such parts that will be connected between them until connection between them is going to give us the feeling of wholeness.
34. S. (01:05:42) What do we feel from the state of one bundle, will all of the desires of the friends become the same?
R. The desires do not become the same rather all the desires, they connect relative to that person who attains the connection, who attains the unity. He attains them as one concept and he begins to get to know what it means to be one, that inside of this one there are actions and phenomena that is the Creator and also the Creator is attained for us as light, as qualities within the vessel, we cannot attain anything else as the created beings.
S. I have ten friends in the ten. What do I feel? I don't know what it means to feel the vessel. What do I feel?
R. You feel that you're incorporated of everyone and specifically because you're incorporated out of them, out of that, you have the opportunity of understanding what it means to be in unity and to be in separation and then to be in connection and from this entire process of differentiation and integration you begin to understand the difference, as well as the connection between them and from that you begin to understand the actions of the Creator, as it's written from your actions we shall know you. We do not attain Him but rather from His actions that are passing over us as a shattering and later as connection we attain Him, His unity.
35. S. (01:07:52) According to the text, what does it mean that He shines twice and conceals twice?
R. We will learn about it. It’s not so important now, I don't want to take people into all kinds of secondary things. It's a light inside of light, light to see the darkness, another light to correct us and to fill the vessel. We need to see all these phenomena one time in negation and one time positively, in ascents and descents, it's always like that.
36. S. (01:08:45) You gave the answer to Moscow 3 and I'm surprised by the answer because I see how everything that I want to do individually is so lacking of importance in the ten. How important is it for us and all of us together on the level of the ten, as you say, the fact that we are all together it brings to equality between us and also a person who arrived a year ago as well as the more senior students, it brings us all to the same level in the ten?
R. To the same level? It brings us to the same level as the ten but each one of us has his own role and state and individual place, the tens are Sefirot. Individual Sefirot cannot exchange places with one another. Each one has its own quality, each one remains in its own nature as he is born with a point of heart and all of those things, it simply develops more and more; therefore, we need especially to be united, crystallized in the ten and each one as one Sefira in incorporation with the others and add to others and then he will be called a Sefira and I’m incorporated from all of my friends and I help them, I am drawn to them, I pull from them and so on so forth. It means that I ignite everyone on my part. Each one is like that, each one becomes a Sefira from the word Sapir, sapphire, that it shines. The more I shine to others the more I become a Sefira inside the other Sefirot, inside our vessel. So it turns out that here we have to have an internal connection with mutual help to one another. It doesn't have to be a ten, it could be a five or six, it's recommended to have something as close as possible to ten but it's not mandatory and no more than ten, that's it.
S. That's not what I meant, I'm sorry. I meant; I'll give you a simple example. One of my ten, a friend, comes from the young group and he is here for 6 months with us and some people here are 20 years and we're all part of the world's vessel. We're all on the same height and I'm not talking about connection I'm talking about knowledge.
R. Yes, it could be like that, it doesn't matter how many years he's on the path. How does it work that today when children and grandchildren are born even more than us they succeed in this world, so accept that there is no seniority here, learn from the young ones as well.
S. Can I have another question: the real use of our desires to bring contentment to the Creator is to absorb the desires of the friends and to be a conduit to their desires?
R. Yes, exactly.
37. S. (01:13:17) What specific quality are we focusing on during our connections in the efforts of connections during Rosh Hashanah?
R. Right now we are establishing for ourselves a new form for our spiritual development that is to be together as a single bundle and we should all resemble the Creator together, that's it. The beginning of the year means a new beginning, a new head.
S. What sort of ways of connecting is this bundle, is this different from normal, what is the focus and what are we doing exactly when we are coming to one bundle, what sort of connection do we really focus on, what do we have to do in the ten?
R. A new kind of connection because we understand more and we feel more and we arrange things more correctly on our end, relative to the goal. We understand how we need to move, everything is accepted and received and revealed and solved in the ten and the way we feel it now so our tens will connect but eventually or ultimately this will be the ten that in it we will reach the end of correction.
38. S. (1:15:17) How do we correctly build the group, correctly within our heart?
R. It's to try and feel that we depend on one another, there are few people before me, each one with his own nature and his own desire, each one with his own feeling, his own view of the world and I wish to connect with their hearts and the Creator; meaning, each one of them there is something that's aimed at the Creator otherwise they would not be with us. So there is something that is aimed at the Creator, this part in him, I wish to be connected to. I would like for this part in him to also exist in my heart and in this way we advance and then I take his part from his heart, from each and every one, and I take it with me and I move forward towards the Creator, towards the end of correction and they do the same thing with us and with me and that is how we approach Him, until we connect with all of our hearts, all of us together with the one Creator.
39. S. (01:17:25) What does it mean: “When someone takes a pile of branches”?
R. That he takes the entire group and he wants to change it so in this way he sees that he cannot do it with all the group so maybe he will try to break them to one by one and that's incorrect, that is wrong work and we should be cautious from such an approach.
Reading excerpts #17 (1:18:02) “The day of sentencing was set for Tishrei..”
40. S. (01:19:32) It feels like this idea of being like a bundle is like the idea of Arvut, that you're waiting for something to happen but there's nothing really to happen for everything depends on me, the whole world Kli, the whole group here it's all one bundle so what do I lack in order to feel it this way?
R. Incorporate with them, become included in them, what's the problem?
S. That's not the problem. I think that I am doing the work of incorporating, including, and nullifying, it's like something that's not depending on time, it just depends on me, something I need to change, I don't even really know how to express it in words.
R. It doesn't work, in short it's not working out?
S. Yes it's like the Creator doesn't want it, I don't know how to say it.
R. Well, the Creator doesn’t want? It's your ego that doesn't want, why do you say it's the Creator?
S. That's clear. That's why I'm asking, where else can I…?
R. We need to raise the right request and of course whatever happens, happens with the assistance with the Creator but it will happen on the condition that you ask properly and to ask properly you have to nullify towards the friends and become included in them, ask of them, not in words, just do anything so they will want to help you as well and so this way together you will incorporate with each other and achieve a single shared deficiency towards the same goal and the same means which is a single request, a single prayer and then when you ask you will get a response.
S. Thank you.
R. But do it.
Reading excerpt #18 (01:21:53) “The most important is true connection...”
Reading excerpt #19 (01:22:50) “Prior to blowing the Shofar…”
41. R. (01:23:28) Okay this we're not going to get into today. There's a lot of explanation on this that's also not related to the current state, so no questions on that.
42. S. (01:24:11) Now when the question was asked you said you have to turn to the friends, what is this inner plea to the friends?
R. To the friends? That you're connected with them and you need to turn to them, yes? You should see the friends more and more as partners, as pieces of your vessel and that together in your common effort, group effort, you're moving from one state to another. You should try to see it that way and overcome.
43. S. (01:25:09) This need for repentance that rises within our hearts. How do we include this need for repentance in the entire ten?
R. Talk about it and pray together and connect together until everyone is clear on what is our need for repentance, what is repentance, who to turn to and how can it help us rise to the spiritual degree?
44. S. (01:25:45) How do we recognize what the nature of each and every one is in the ten? The quality of each friend and then by that be able to give the most?
R. What is each one's nature in the ten? We don't need to know that, we need to know that each one, even though each one is egoistic by nature, like everyone, each one still has an inclination, a desire to be connected to the friends and besides that also connect to discovering in the connection between everyone the quality of bestowal and love called the Creator.
45. S. (01:26:42) I heard that you said now that as long as I illuminate to the friend, I become a Sefira. How do I do that?
R. How to illuminate and shine to them? Show them that I want connection, that's it.
46. S. (01:27:04) When will each one become a Sefira? Will the Sefira change in each and every new connection or is it something constant?
R. When I'm connected to everyone, I want to absorb desire from everyone and I want to raise that desire to the Creator and receive from the Creator fulfillment for everyone, not for myself and to only be the conduit to my friends and then I become a Sefira and I shine upon them.
47. S. (01:27:42) I'm not able to understand how to nullify before a friend even whenever I don't see them or speak with them. What is this inner connection?
R. I want and I wish to help all of them, help all of us to be connected together. It's very simple.
48. S. (01:28:04) When will we even know that we are working in the correct direction, what do we do whenever we feel that the Creator is not even really hearing our pleas for connection?
R. Say it again, I didn’t understand.
S. What do we do when we think that the Creator is not listening to our prayers for connection, how do we know we’re in the right direction?
R. That all of you feel that the Creator is not listening to you, that's a sign that you need to connect more because certainly, from all of you together, the Creator will hear.
49. S. (01:29:08) Why every time that we attain the special connection in the ten we immediately fall and completely forget about the ten, how can we recover from that quickly or even at the same time remember so it will end quickly?
R. All the questions are about the same point, about the lack of connection, all the questions. It's as if they want to bypass that point and move forward and it's not going to happen.