Morning Lesson Transcription is made from simultaneous translation which leaves possibility for errors.

Morning Lesson November 17, 2020

Importance of Studying Together Excerpts

1. Rav’s Introduction:

Although we have a regular order to all the lessons, sometimes we have because we can see that more and more important topics are being revealed. We need to also discuss them and learn them. The main thing is that we arrange our lesson. We learn from the source materials from the writings that the Kabbalists have defined how we need to organize and assemble in one place where we sit together, mostly in a round manner, a circle, or even this physical sitting points to a certain point of equality, order, to the fact that we want to unite. The lesson needs to be usually in fact the lesson would start with Kabbalists from midnight, from twelve at night because midnight is exactly the middle of the night where night is already turning towards the morning. This is why, this is how they would begin. Also King David would awaken this way it's written that he had a harp that was on the wall that would start playing it's midnight or twelve when he would rise for prayers where he wrote Psalms from for later this is 3,000 years ago. Nevertheless we need to understand how this happened, the whole study was nevertheless together and to start with these were not prayers like where there are a prayer place in all kinds of places in the world but rather they called it a place of Beit Knesset, assembly, a house of connection, a place where people would assemble in order to connect together. It's not a house of prayer which was later being called, but rather a home of assembling, a place where people united to be as one man in one heart. Therefore, the whole importance of the study was specifically as it went together with the connection amongst those who study. This is why we need, to understand this principle, the main thing is why are we studying? In order to reach through the connection between us to qualities of the corrected vessel of Adam HaRishon, a corrected vessel of the soul. This is why we assemble. What other goal do we have? If we were to update the connections in such a way between us, that we will each of us feel in place of himself, feel the ten at least at the ten and then into the ten more and more thousands will assemble and thousands and ten thousands of millions and billions, but it would nevertheless be the connection of a ten. Then we will feel the power of the upper force which comes and reveals, revealed in it, hence all our work has to be together with that connection and I understand that there are many questions and complaints that I can't wake up for the lesson, that I am busy with this and but we nevertheless, need to make these calculations of well, I don't learn alone. I don't study alone. Study alone is wisdom, then I'm studying wisdom. Rather, study, together is the only way to study Torah where we want to connect and invite the reforming light which is called Torah and operates on our desire as “I've created the evil inclination I’ve created the Torah as a spice” and the light in it reforms. This is what we learn for. This is called the study of Torah. Otherwise this is called idol worship and we need to completely divide between this and that, differentiate. If we learn in order to connect and reveal the Creator, the force of bestowal and love inside the connection, then we will succeed. If not, it's a waste for the efforts. It's also good but nevertheless this is the study of wisdom. It's not to reach attainment. To reach attainment we need special conditions that Kabbalists revealed, examined them on themselves and then write for us exactly what to do. We of course here like we're little ones hearing the adults and there's a chance that we will grow up to be like them. Therefore, I understand that it's hard for me sometimes to wake up for the lesson or to arrange my day such that I need to come to the lesson. Let's say like on the eastern part of the United States at 8 p.m. or maybe in, on the west coast LA or San Francisco on the west coast where it's now like 5 p.m., and certainly it is difficult but we need to somehow arrange it in another time if possible. Today when we learn from home where we don't need to drive an hour or an hour and a half to the lesson and drive back in order to be in one place but rather if we have moved to long-distance studying, each from his own, I don't think that we have much of a problem. It's less of a problem than it was before. I can hear it from my car. I can hear it from my workplace even, from home. I can nevertheless more correctly adapt myself to be with others. I just want to say that you should know that studying at a different time, not when everyone is studying, yields a different result. It's, you can't compare. Either studying together in the ten when I learn or that I study it in some other time alone or with a couple of friends altogether. There must be a Minyan, ten people and we gather, assemble so we gather not physically but rather even virtually we could say. We gather and learn together in order to connect and in the connection reveal the Creator. That is all and all what the wisdom of Kabbalah offers to a person. This is a whole lot. It's to move from the corporeal world to the spiritual world but for this is what we actually have to do. To reach the quality of faith above reason. I need to bring myself under the upper influence of the group, of the upper light that will bestow upon me through them and will draw me a little bit more outside of my ego and this can only take place under the condition that we learn together. It's best to do this in a permanent group. Of course, there are all kinds of conditions that you could say it's impossible, I can't. Then arrange it the way you can but in truth first check yourself whether you truly are not capable that the conditions that you are feeling are not enabling you to study together with the whole World Kli of BB at the time of the lesson, whether these reasons are true, real reasons and here each is with his own calculations with his own scrutiny, I understand this is not simple, it doesn't seem to me as impossible. We have seen these things for many years already and other than that just understand that from the moment that the wisdom of Kabbalah has been revealed which is 6000 years ago in Adam, the first Adam, the first corporeal Adam and since then has been cascading all the way to us, the order is that you rise at night and study. That's it that's with us. You want to wake up at night like us at two, three at night and study, you have such a possibility to do it at a different time because we are doing this and then it's the same calculation for us all. Therefore, I don't have much to add here but to say but you don't owe me or Bnei Baruch or anyone. You need to make that calculation with yourself and with the Creator. There are many people that think that they can allow themselves to learn in a different way at a different time. So I'm telling you your lifetime will pass and you will not attain anything and you will ask yourself why and then I want you to remember these words that I just said now. Let's hear what was written by our Kabbalists about this.

Excerpt  1 Reader (12:33 - 12:49)

2. R. This place that everyone assembles is a place where they come and connect. It's not a prayer house or a synagogue. It's a house of assembly. It's a place both spiritual and corporeal, it's called that way. Where they come in order to connect that's why it's called the house of assembly.

Excerpt 2 Reader (13:13 - 13:44)

3. R. Just meaning, just like the Creator is for one force, one force of bestowal and our assembling in our connection needs to come to one force. We want today to resolve this question about the study so it would be clear to everyone that this is how we learn. You can yes, you can't know but you should know that this is the law and it doesn't depend on us, it's a spiritual law of how the Upper clothes itself in the corporeal manner and we need to arrange ourselves to be as adapted as possible to the upper force.

4. S. (14:40) Rabash writes here, does it mean that no one needs to enter the house of assembly before there are ten people and then everyone enters?

R. No, no, of course not, but we try that when we start to study that everyone will be there connected, be in the preparation.  That's why we're doing preparation before the lesson and we need to be precise so that we will have more and more of a beneficial effective preparation. For us to start the lesson in upliftment, excitement, great expectation in the connection between us already. That's why the preparation for the lesson needs to be very important and serious. Let's hope that we will reach that. For the time being it's in its beginning stages.

5. S. (15:46) In the last few days I feel a special awakening during the lesson. I sometimes even wake up at midnight. I can't fall asleep more than that. How is it best to use this time for preparation if you have two hours or three hours before?

R. First of all you need to arrange your daily schedule normally and not wake up three hours before that's not okay, you will have no strength and forces and you will have nerves, you'll start becoming out of hand and nervous and that's known to us. You have to arrange your life and a normal and good, arranged way. I recommend a good normal and balanced schedule but not it's nevertheless, you wake up early, then I would recommend to read the same materials from the lesson alone and think about it, how you're preparing. Then towards the lesson how you're connecting toward the friends and why, for what, for what need, what's the purpose of the study for the lesson? And then with them when you come to an inspiration and excitement that have the opportunity to connect with others and to draw the reforming light that will bind between you to reveal the Creator, then you come to the lesson. Each and every lesson is practical work. We're not in the university. We need to try between us to connect in a manner in which the Creator will be revealed. This is actually a practical action where every day more and more we want to feel ourselves more assembled together as one man and one heart. If we were to come to this at least to the measure of 1 over 125, the lowest possible degree which is the degree 125 of Ein Sof. When we come to that state, we will begin to reveal the Creator and ourselves as the vessel and the Creator as the filling.

S. Does it need to happen to all of us together in the ten or in the world Kli?

R. No, this can't even come to a ten in such a manner that some feel more, some feel less. A part of them feel it already in a spiritual manner and a part not, but all together it is being revealed. We need to understand and feel this. This can be both in a personal way or in a group way. It nevertheless depends on the group. Simply, I can't be directed to the Creator without the ten. I address through my egoistic will to receive in all kinds of directions. I can correctly aim myself to the Creator only through the ten according to what Rabash writes.

6. S. (19:22) I wanted to ask about preparation of the ten before the lesson. We heard from you several times that the ten needs to be as one when it enters the lesson. Now we are working on how to make it in a way that we will feel as one before the lesson.

R. I can't tell you, you are with me already, twenty-five years. What will I explain to you? All the writings are before you and the society that you're in for all these years, so try. Try to keep it but meticulously to keep what Rabash writes about the connection in the group. That's the first condition: connection in the group. A group or death. Connection or death. We either come to connection or we come to death, one or the other. One or the other. Here a person really needs to bring himself not immediately, but time after time, time after time, he starts to discover that this principle of connection with the group is becoming more important to him. More oriented to his fate.

S. I wanted to ask what's missing in a recorded lesson as opposed to a live lesson, as it is now?

R. It's hard to say. Spirituality operates all the time and is constantly in the air so we can't say that something's missing. A person is missing the connection towards that spiritual force that is always there and the Creator, his glory fills the world so on his behalf there's no limitation. He shines to everyone equally, but us in order to be aimed to him must be in a ten and for the ten to bestow and influence us and for it to obligate us to be in it and the friends are pressing me from all the sides and I feel them and specifically from this pressure I am turning to the Creator correctly.

S. What to do if we are living in other places in the world where the time of the live lesson is not convenient? It's difficult, it's after our workday.

R. I don't think that a lesson after a workday is more difficult, I don't think so. It's actually, a person gets accustomed to, he removes the whole day from himself and comes to the lesson. First of all, he comes today home because almost all in all of our places, they don't assemble like they used to in centers. From home he already enters the lesson. If we're talking about let's say New York so it's 8 p.m. 8 in the evening, by the lesson on the eastern coast, it's excellent. Meaning relatively, we can get along in all the places in the world towards the lesson. It is worse for them there in China, the Philippines, for them it's in the middle of the day there in the middle of the workday, India but it's not too bad. You can get along. Also if we're already assembling a different time because we have no choice where I live in a country that the morning lesson is exactly in the middle of the day and I have to be at work and this is how it is with my friends from that area from that region then we organize as the group and then we hear the lesson but together. Together, not that I do this alone. We hear this lesson together as if we are in it in real time.

S. Even if we hear a recorded lesson, I still have to assemble with the friends to give the lesson?

R. Of course you need to do intentions, you have to bestow to them and them on you, the lesson is not something that was happening there a few hours and it passed. The lesson is that we assemble to a connection between us, a new additional connection between us which is called the lesson. A lesson is called on measure, where it's another measure between us that we're connecting to okay?

7. S. (25:10) What does it mean on my part that I need to arrange my corporeal life around the lesson?

R. Well what to do? We need to arrange the day in such a way that you can be with your friends together and during the lesson if possible. According to the astronomical hours and that's considered that you make order to everything, where during these three hours everything in the world is dead. Everything is dead. I connect to my friends, into the Creator and we are in the upper world. We are entering a womb. The lesson is entrance into the upper womb. Understand?

S. If I can't, am I to blame for that or the Creator has given me this kind of a correction to do?

R. No no no, it's only under the condition that you are not capable in all sorts of external forces you cannot arrange yourself to be in the lesson with the ten. It's something that needs to be the last possible thing.

8. S. (26:50) In the UK, personally I believe we have the worst time. Our lesson starts at 1 a.m. and we've struggled for years to find the right way for friends to especially those that have young children or jobs where they have to wake up early, it's an awkward time because we can't sleep really much before the lesson and you can't get good sleep let's say after the lesson. I don't know if you have any specific advice for us. We've tried many things over the years. For now most of the friends are able to get to the lesson and to sleep but....?

R. Yes, you are actually, I really hold up the UK group and also France, I know that you're in more difficult conditions than others, what to do? I will tell you, that's a joke. It's written that a Kabbalist needs to sleep the sleep of a horse. Yes, the sleep of a horse is 60 snores, 60 breaths and to wake up and again continue to work do something until he falls asleep, he can't and again he enters into a sleep of 60 breaths. It's a joke, it's a joke you can't spoil it, man can't do this is how Kabbalists define this according to the upper force according to the upper order. What to do? I don't know. I'm just evoking in you importance such a need to arrange things because yesterday I spoke to several groups, and they brought me this complaint that some are coming and some are not coming and they don't know what to do and so on and so forth. They asked me seemingly for permission to do whatever they want to and therefore I didn't decide and I didn't say that to them. I don't decide in place of any group. I'm just telling everyone that you need to understand the rules, the laws, to know them and if you can observe them, do so but if it's impossible, impossible is considered that it's above you truly. Then no. What can you do? It's not that you're looking for some path, how to get out of it, how to run away from it that won't work. The laws and conditions that the Creator gives out later he does the calculations because all together he needs to be revealed in you and if you didn't put forth the quotient of your exertion then he won't…

S. It seems there has to be some kind of envy between the friends who can take that kind of Lifestyle that they can take those 60 breaths and get to the complete less than the complete morning lesson and then other friends that really have the kind of schedule that only allows them to be on a portion of the lesson or to have to listen to recorded mostly and it becomes a contentious issue within the tens. I'm sure it's everywhere between those friends that are there cameras on non-stop and those friends who are still with us watching and listening, recorded in this but not straight every morning on camera.

R. I will answer just one thing. The ways of the Lord are straight, the righteous will walk on them and the wicked will fall, that's it, if you want to be straightforward or righteous, you will find a way and it will say more than that I'm not capable. I'm simply incapable of that, it doesn't depend on me. But I have a job and I can't find another job and I have to be in this and or some other conditions but every thing requires both sides to be formed along with additional experiences, sensations to bring both together as one over all the differences. Let's be the generation of the correction of humanity such conditions that are not dependent on me whatsoever, because if it was dependent on me this is first thing, the lesson and then connection with the friends. All the rest is if you're doing the calculations correctly than the Creator will arrange for you even if you'll be at the lesson just for an hour or two hours I don't know if you have such conditions and not another way that will be enough for you in order to obtain and achieve what you want to achieve. You need to be straight in this, frontally towards the Creator. Not to turn to me and ask for some for me to give you some permission you know, give you a slip that you can do it this way or that way. I don't get into that because those laws are not defined by me.

9. S. (32:34) I assumed that you had such questions when you studied with Rabash or Rabash when he studied with Baal HaSulam about not coming everyday or not coming in full. If we don't carry out these laws then we will just die without attaining and there are no exceptions here, to this rule. Let's say a part of the ten gets organized and comes daily to the whole lesson and another part of the ten as if they have a feeling that they're in the ten but in practice they don't come every day to the lesson. That part that comes every day as if it was missing something or it doesn't influence them and they advance in the same way or there's maybe a point in organizing the ten?

R. Ask me about all these things, I'm just giving you the principles, the laws and you need to see how you arrange these things within your laws. Don't ask. I told you yesterday also there were several groups that started asking and I just told him the same thing, I told you. In a little bit more of a harsh way which is leading me. I don't decide these things, this was decided according to the connection of the upper spiritual world and the lower world. Do you want to open up the upper world, please these are the conditions. You need to fulfill your quotient of exertion, you need to connect between you so that the Creator will be able to be revealed in a complete Kli, complete and at least 125th of the vessel of the degree and don't turn to me I'm teaching you I'm just explaining to you like a guide what's happening, but it's not like I can change the laws of nature.

S. If I may, it seems like we are disturbing each other that's the feeling would it be better to maybe build a ten of people who go normally daily to the lesson that those two haven't defined their framework yet or still not there yet, there's a feeling like we're disturbing ourselves we cannot advance and they think that they advance.

R. I will not decide in your place do understand, I've got some experience, do you understand this and I know that if I get into all of these discussions and clarifications with you then, it's endless. Also I can't do this in place of you. You need to do this. The fact that you're bothering or helping or something else I don't know. It's not important to me. You examine again and again all the laws and decide for one month see how it works then decide another way maybe. It's all possible and given to you. Everything is given to you to do. In the world we have hundreds of groups. I'm not going to go now and arrange each and every group. I'm not a kindergarten teacher. I am a guide who tells you what to do and each group tries to adapt itself to the conditions of nature. According to my example I have no reason that could stop me from the lesson. If it's really, I don't know, I was having surgery or I'm flying to some group but there is no reason that I wouldn't be in a lesson. I told you, I immediately decided that I come I sit next to Rabash I prepare a cup of coffee for him, I turn on my tape recorder, I write down so there's a book before me and the notebook before me and I have these thick notebooks so many of them and I prepared the cup of coffee for him and I write everything down and draw and ask everything. I have to participate with him in the lesson.

S. Did you have such friends who didn't come every day to Rabash? With you in the group and how did it work?

R. No, there were barely any who left. There were a few individuals throughout the years let's say the group that existed next to Rabash from 1983 to 1991 when he passed for 8 years and barely did anyone leave. Almost no one left.

S. And they didn't miss any lessons?

R. There were a few that fell asleep during the lesson, me too, there was a period of time where I fell asleep and I asked Rabash, what will I do, I am sleeping and he said try and do.  You understand, just like you're asking me now and I'm telling you, he told me, try, it's written I can't do this work in place of you. You're building your soul through this.

S. Maybe Rabash gave some advice to those who missed the lesson or it was something that wasn't even discussed?

R. Just to raise the importance between you just to raise the importance between you and also to be ashamed but you are neglecting your friends, you are betraying the friends, you understand? If you don't come to the lesson. You're truly lowering them, you're harming them and the Creator cannot be revealed already like he could if he was with you together. You need to feel that commitment. What did we talk about the covenant for? That obligation, that commitment that we need to sign ourselves, tie ourselves together in such a way that the Creator will enter between us. We need to connect between us to the extent in which there is not an empty space between us, an empty place, and the Creator will be revealed specifically in that place and that physical place that won't be, that will be revealed as the spiritual place that he is going to be revealed.

S. Lastly, do I understand correctly that the one who needs to do it is the ten itself and not to consult with the management or friends from other tens?

R. Yes, but according to the spiritual laws that we learned and not that the ten can decide on making some kind of new laws and make up things.

10. S. (41:00) Today you gave us a very very strong direction. That we have to reach the quota of the effort so that the Creator will be revealed. How can we communicate this message so that people might not have their importance to come on time to the lesson or they'll come in once a while, how can we communicate this important message?

R. The group must be made up of permanent people and people that can join it whenever they can. Where we don't even ask them, whether they can or can't when they can and when they can't, but rather they too have a place. There's the foundation of the group, the framework, the frame that is permanent and the main thing is that it exists and other than that there is something additional. It could be that the group itself is seven or eight friends, the permanent ten, the group and sometimes they gather all the way to 15 maybe that I understand that's okay. That's all right because also humanity is that way. It's all arranged in circles, in circles from the central circle, to the external circle. It's not too bad if I belong to some circle in between in the middle. I know that I belong and I need to come and it's not that I'm committed. The internal circle is the one who are obliged, committed. I can't be there, someone that won't come to the lesson that won't sustain the ten. In truth, mostly, they are the ones that merit the revelation of the Creator because they built the vessel but the others also will receive illumination and they too will advance.

11. S. (43:23) Can the ten exist if in the inner core there's only three or four friends? 

R. Yes, Permanent ones, you mean that.

S. Yes, regular friends.

R. And the rest comes sometimes if there's no choice then at least that. It's better off for there to be 5, 6, 7. That, it all depends on your work, nevertheless. What are you waiting for there to be more troubles and then people will come study? That's already the path of suffering not the path of Torah. The path of Torah is where we are drawing on our own. Try. But at least that way. At least three people.

12. S. (44:30) We noticed in the ten that when we make efforts and connect and all of that, the day after in the lesson there's less attendance or we're all asleep, how can we overcome that?

R. Of course, it's that way because you put forth great forces and strengths and then the Creator adds to you, desire.  That desire now you're discovering as incapable to work with. After some time there will be a recovery and you will work with it as well. It's that way it's okay.

S. If there is this tiredness then it's because we can't sleep properly. If the reason we're tired it's because people are not going to sleep on time?

R. Next.

13. S. (45:46) You are teaching us to integrate with the friends' questions as part of the study and it happens that questions arise which are not mine, they're too big for me. The question is whether to ask these questions?

R. I need to flow with everyone, it's not the wise that learns. The wisest one who wants to obtain the light of Hochma, the upper light inside the light of Hassaim and that is learned not by me learning like in physics. I learned how to be in a vessel of bestowal, because the light of Hochma clothes in the light of Hassadim therefore be concerned with that and you will succeed.

S. Can you tell me if that's correct or not? An example, Hebrew 10 whose spoke and we couldn’t hear well, he cared about the issue that before the upper degree of faith.

R. I'm not going to go into all of those personal private stories, don't tell me what's happening there and for me to tell you my opinion. I never answer that. I don't want to. I'm not a judge. I'm a guide. A judge hears and answers and like this and like that, the guide just explains the upper laws and that's it. You wan't, observe them, you don't want to, that's it, don't. I am passing it on like a pipe. Don't put me into the matter of your friends. Never.

14. S. (47:58) About the changes of time zones, we are three tens who agreed on watching the lesson together and then during the day everyone works in their ten. The question is if this is okay that we are watching, together three tens, the lesson together in the same room and then everyone is in their own ten.

R. Of course, it is okay it doesn't bother the more you have a possibility of connecting it is good.

15. S. (48:41) Let's say that a friend has a problem that prevents him from coming to the lesson. How do we relate to that? Is it because we don't pray for him enough or is it because he's not doing enough work or arranging his life to overcome that? How do we relate to this?

R. I don't know. I am not in your place. I just know that New York is in a state that seems to me that is the best. 8 p.m. the lesson starts. At 11 p.m. it's over. Even before that. 10:30 ish. It's usually like all the people who are stuck to their TVs or all kinds of things at home caring for their kids and so on. Maybe it's time that really it doesn't have to do with sleep or with work. What do you mean you don't come to the lesson? Do you have to travel somewhere today? No. You're connected virtually so what is the problem that someone would not be? He doesn't want. There are more important things. What can you do? That's how it is in all of America. All of America.

S. How do we as a ten relate to that? If a friend doesn't come for some reason?

R. Rabash writes about this. It's all written you need to scrutinize and examine and check between you and with him and see what will be with you. He's either in the ten or if not in the ten but he needs to give an explanation he has to stand up to the scrutiny and you to for him. I don't really understand. We are now putting together let's say a car or some device and then we're missing a part, what do we do? Think, well I don't know what to do with you. With the Americans all together, in my eyes they are so spoiled, and now be that, you'll get a good lesson in the next four years.

16. S. (51:12) You said in the beginning that we should study together not in a personal individual way, to help the friends not to fail in the Covenant is that called Arvut?

R. Yes if you're helping the friend to constantly strengthen more and more in the connection, that's excellent. There's people like that, that are like that naturally from the side of nature they just truly want everyone to connect and everyone to assemble and to read and to learn and to do some kind of actions. There are such people that they love the society that way and the connection and doing together. There's people that completely, completely repulse such things naturally and for them connection is only I would have great overcoming but they benefit more from it, they are rewarded more from it, because they have to overcome. Those are kind of like, naturally friendly and like people in society and all that, it doesn't necessitate overcoming on their behalf since whoever has more exertion, benefits more. That's why we need to help each and everyone to give as much as possible exertion until we fulfill the measure necessary and our ship will advance towards the spiritual world.

17. S. (53:16) From what I understood, you emphasize two things: the friends in the lesson and who are following you have a desire and power and friends to come or don't come. We need to be the middle line between these two kinds of friends. Sometimes, the friends who have the desire, are attacking those who come less and that's something that is incorrect in my opinion. We need to be the middle line between…

R. No, no, there's a difference between people that are in the lesson permanently regularly and people that come whenever it's opportune to them. There's a difference. We need to differentiate between these and those. Those that come only sometimes should feel that it's expected of them to come each time, for them to be in every lesson. We love them, we want to be together with them, but it's not that we don't take into account the fact that they are not there. there's no such thing. We need to scrutinize every single thing. What's the result of that scrutiny? That's already a different thing, but this needs to be a critique that builds the group.

18. S. (55:18) About to sleep, that you talked about before, you told us that Rabash would tell you, wake me up in two minutes and he actually had a deep sleep, so the question is really if a person, how much do I really need sleep?

R. You can't say, I've seen these kinds or those kinds and these kinds, I would travel and wake up people and bring them to the lesson I saw how difficult it is for some people to wake up and how some wake up early easily, I can't say. It's very specific to a person. It is very specific, I for example, relatively, can sleep three or four hours and it's enough for me for a day but there are those for whom, eight or nine hours and no less otherwise they cannot exist.

S. Is it something that changes according to how much a person advances in spirituality?

R. Don't do your calculations this way and that way. The calculations about that are prohibited. It's like you're going into some kind of negotiations with a Creator to arrange for you this way or that way. You do what you're capable of but capable truly in a complete way and also take into account that habit becomes a second nature. Habit. Take a person who really loves to sleep, put him into limitations, like in the military let's say and other such places, as well so what. Just like with Baal HaSulam that used to be there was one who said I can't. I can't wake up at 2 a.m. to come to the lesson at 3 and I'll be there without sleeping until 6 in the lesson. I can't and he left the group after a while after maybe a month or so he was fired from his job. He got a job in which he had to work at nights. That's it. And then it wasn't from 3 to 6 a.m. but all night long he couldn't sleep. There was no other job. All night long he would drive and deliver groceries for stores. That's how it is.

19. S. (58:33) Please say, and what vessels do we need to feel emptiness? You said we need to connect until there's no emptiness between us, in what vessels? How do we do this in practice and reality in the ten?

R. By you wanting to connect in those vessels that are not capable to connect, that there are distances between you, there is an empty space there.

20. S. (59:17) Things are very clear. We have a lot of friends in North America. How can we assist them?

R. I don't know. If you can hear me correctly, help them. I have put my hands up already in the air and I have given up already both with our English department and altogether with North America.

S. Should we maybe try to strengthen the connection between the tens, to create a better sense of mutual guarantee or support?

R. It requires work. I don't know but it's permanent work all through the hours of the day or the night whatever is suitable to them, but there needs to be a true work with the cooperation with the goals that we will see a change that we will see results. We're seeing now, the opposite results. Opposite results in Canada and in America in short and all of North America, we are feeling opposite results. There's a great deterioration in connection in the group, in the awakening. Why? Especially this pandemic. Gives us a possibility to be more connected during the lessons. Why is this happening? I don't receive any rational answer. It's hard, we can't like this like and like that what to do? I don't want to talk anymore about this. Maybe we will read a few more verses.

Excerpt 2 Reader (1:01:23 - 1:01:59)

21. R. Place, some assembly, meaning a place where you enter it's a convention, it's a convening, every lesson is a convention.

Reader continues “And let me make me a Temple and I will dwell...”(1:02:14 - 1:03:02) 

22. R. This is why we need to come and connect and merit the light and the Creator between us.

23. S. (1:03:15) Whether you had time with Rabash when you felt like there was no more room for you to ask him questions in a direct way frontal way but maybe to learn differently?

R. Of course what do you think of the many hours that I was together with him also during the lesson, also later as we were driving and let's save from 9 to 12 and then in the evening from 5 to 8:30 so see how many hours a day that is and in the afternoon I worked. So it turns out that many hours we learned many things. Also, there was no longer a desire to ask because what will you ask? You already want to receive the answers in a practical way for the Creator to be revealed, for you to not be told about something but for you to start recognizing something. Practically. If you did not put forth the measure of exertion, you don't reveal. You don't receive faith above reason. We want to get into conditions with the Creator. We can do it this way and you can do it that way, and not even in our subconscious. It doesn't work. Until we fulfill the desired measure, the Seah, the quotient, this quotient is revealed in every degree it's the spiritual condition.

S. What is this kind of study that happens when you don't have more questions? What is this source from that you're next to the Rav and…?

R. You don't need the Rav. Do you need to demand from yourself whether you're doing what is written or what is needed. The Rav is just explaining to you helping you organize things, to arrange things and to learn from what is written. We go according to Baal HaSulam and Rabash and all of the Kabbalists, all the way back to the Zohar and Adam HaRishon, in this way. You received instructions now. Now do. What are you asking? I don't understand. Ask from yourself what can I do? As much as I connect now more to the group, where do I discover that there's another place that I can add in exertion? That's the main thing. Not how much you study, how much you know, after the lesson but rather how much you're connecting, because in that you're going to reveal the Creator.

24. S. (1:07:04) What gives a lot of power and importance is the Ramchal duty. Is it a good time to continue the Ramchal duty?

R. Don't bring your ideas okay. You saw that it doesn't go so much so what do you want to put this in? Your desire is good but it's not in such a way that you're doing it.

25. S. (1:07:46) We have eight friends present out of nine and that is a completely new impression of study. I'm a little bit worried about reaching mutual guarantee or Arvut in our German speaking ten.

R. Why not? If you have seven, eight friends and you are coming to the lesson and you are in the lesson together with us so why can't you advance? I don't see any blemishes, any flaw in them.

S. How reach Arvut in the German-speaking ten?

R. How would it not be? What does it have to do with German? Altogether, Germans are the European, one of the most advanced nations in Europe altogether in our world. Philosophers came from there, how many scientists came from Germany? The fact that we have altogether from Germany seven, eight people, that's a problem but in truth from the German nation what is it like 80 million, I think? You could have so many Kabbalists that could come out of there. Why not? How many philosophers, composers, authors, scientists, why can't you be in Kabbalah that way? You're very sensitive people with a very strong inner sense. Why talk in such a way? Everyone can. Other than the fact that we're now in the last generation, where the door is open for everyone and there's no difference for anyone whose first or last, who is yes and who is not,  for everyone. The question is truly not in place. You will succeed. We are with you. Okay?

Excerpt 3 Reader (1:10:21 - 1:11:29) 

26. S. I wanted to ask about this, when we had a physical center in Piter, then we joined the table next to us. Now we live in the new virtual world and we have quite a few tens who have less than five people in their group. They can't see you then they can't ask questions. What should they do should they connect to other tens or strengthen themselves?

R. Though you need to examine, check, decide, understand, maybe it's worthwhile for us to see such groups that are going to rise on the screens and will be able to ask and you need to decide what to do. It just needs to be in a permanent way. It's not that today it's like this and tomorrow it's like that connection. Connection needs to be such that we are all in permanent connection and all day establishing ourselves more and more correctly towards the revelation of the Creator between us. You know all of these principles. Why should I tell you about all of this and then you'll say here it's 5 but there it's 3, here it's like this or that or what will we do? You will know what needs to be done. You need to make it so that there will be 8, 10, 12, somewhere around that as close as possible to 10, for there to be people in a group and then you will also appear everyday in the lesson and ask and receive questions and answers and this is how we will advance. Other than that you have here in Bnei Baruch people that are responsible. For caring for you. Turn to them and talk to them and ask and arrange these things. 

27. S. (1:13:55) Seeing that the preparation phase is a very important one, what is the best way for the ten to bring itself to the right state before the lesson begins preparation before the formal preparation? What is the best way for the whole ten?

R. Ask the friends about that and see what is written in the writings of Rabash, I have opened everything for you, there is no room for any more questions on this. There is room for being interested to check and to execute.

Excerpt 4 Reader (1:14:57 - 1:18:22)

28. R. The essence, the main thing is the connection and the place that we do the connection is the group, The ten it is called the house, Beit HaMikdash, the place where we can convene together as one man and then the Creator can clothe there, according to the equivalence of qualities we are one and he is one.

29. S. (1:19:32) What does it mean when the body is completed? 

R. Desires connect more and more until they become one complete desire called all desires uniting into one body.

S. 

R. When the Upper light which shines upon us helps us connect in the right way as one. 

29A. S. Since we moved to virtual study, questions have become very advancing in the lesson. What is your expectation from us in regards to questions? Should we make efforts to ask questions, is someone who's not asking questions not participating, what is our attitude towards questions?

R. Let us say that I'm in the lesson and I am one of you. I think by which question according to the topic we are learning now, how do I bring forth connection between us, to you hear? The question needs to be according to what we're learning and this question needs to be that it will cause more of a connection between us, to advance us all towards the revelation of the Creator. therefore questions are certainly important.

S. Sometimes there are lessons where we see there's not a lot of questions and it feels like the lesson is not really moving forward. In these lessons should we try to ask questions even if we don't have questions?

R. You don't have questions that can awaken connection also in accordance with what we're learning then there are no questions, without a deficiency for connection that comes on the background of the lesson to start asking. First of all I won't accept such a question from you.

S. Questions like you said that awaken connection and are on the topic of the lesson but they don't awaken a question that awakens naturally within you?

R. In a natural way meaning from your ego?

S. Yes.

R. It's best if it's awoken from the deficiency that caused the connection.

30. S. (1:22:38) I want to know what does it mean that the first ten and what is the difference between the first ten who come to the house of assembly and those who come later?

R. This speaks of a person who wants to be in the first ten, who comes to the revelation of the Creator to bring contentment to the Creator, that becomes that vessel that is the conduit and the transition of the revelation of the Creator to everyone, this is what they want to be. Meaning to connect to the Creator and transfer his Revelation to all the created beings, this is called to be amongst the first ten.

31. S. (1:23:52) In the article we just read the roles Shatz and Gabai, can we add these roles in here?

R. Yes.

32. S. (1:24:15) We learned in spirituality ten is one unit, we were present in a unique state or can we think about the lesson as a cogwheel that turns for a whole day?

R. Repeat please.

S. Each lesson is unique and each moment is unique, can we connect that to a chain that way, take in to the next lesson, is there room for that or only live the present moment? 

R. The chain needs to be that each time I am more and more stabilized my desire for connection with the friends and connection with the Creator and it doesn't matter what I studied now the study of the Ten Sephirot or an article or a letter or a selection of questions and answers as long as my desire develops more and more in yearning for connection between us and the Creator together, that is what I need to examine.  This is what I count the lessons through, each time how I'm going more and building my Kli. That's considered that Abraham is old and he comes in those days taking the vessels that are suitable to the Creator and through him to pass it to the whole world.

33. S. (1:26:36) About the question, is it correct to present the question, that we have to the ten before we ask it in front of you or is it better to ask it without the ten criticizing the question?

R. No, don't confuse the friends, you need to check very well whether your question will help the connection and the advancement to the Creator. That's it. That is the main result that needs to happen from all of our efforts. If it will happen that way, ask and to the extent that it is possible as you will see that this question doesn't come from your egoistic desire but that it is a question that awakens also in all of the friends but not that you're going to go consult with them because then you'll be confusing them during the lesson.

34. S. (1:28:07) Is a feeling of anger in the ten something that can advance you in the work?

R. Yes, of course just like it's written about the students of Rabbi Shimon where they wanted to kill each other before every lesson, yes it happens, so what? This is how we advance love cover all crimes and then they make efforts in order to cover all of this anger and repulsion with love.

35. S. (1:28:50) What does it mean one by one or bit by bit since he says that there is no sum or part in spirituality?

R. This way they are advancing more and more each time. It's also a person in the world who is connecting increasingly so in many ways and they also join gradually. Very pleased to see all of NY 4, NY 3, NY 2, NY 1, Florida, USA Northeast, usually they're not all here, this many on our screens.

Excerpt 5 Reader (1:30:12 - 1:39:27)

36. R. It is a solution, that's it, you are one bundle. Then it will work out.

37. S. It seems there are many things we do understand the importance of the lesson and being in the tens but at the same time we're missing that they are drilling here and it feels like we are getting focused on the amount of people in the times and somehow there is this underlying message that is still hard to grasp, what is it that we're missing?

R. You are speaking in a very nice internal and correct way but we are not about to start counting our tens in an inner essence, but in quantity, what can you do, this is what we understand and feel for now that each and every one is equal to 1000000 people, no. We are building tens and for now we are counting it in such a way but actually if we take into account our essence, the importance of each and everyone in the system of AdamHaRishon, then each one is weighed against millions this is why a few hundred or a few thousand that we are already, if we just connect a bit between us, we can obviously through us, shine upon all of humanity in such a light that they will need to connect, they will need to be in a group, they will run to us. In this way we can very quickly reach the general correction.  The connection is in quantity but toward spirituality in the eyes of the Creator, it is quantity.

S. Why does it seem that this matter of connection is so hard to understand?

R. Because it's against the ego, everything that is against your ego we don't want it, we forget it, we reject it, whether in awareness or subconsciously, even without my decision I forget I don't want it. It is my preventative internal force of the body that just pushes it away not wanting to remember, to be aimed towards it. It is what our ego can do, the will to receive just rejects everything that it doesn't want, that is because the connections that we constantly have to remind each other about it, look how much we're talking about it. You don't have anything in Torah but connection, connection upon all of the disturbances, what does this mean? Upon all of the egoistic desire that rejects connection you have to connect above it, this is all the Torah, there is nothing but that. Then in the connection between you, between us, the Creator will be revealed and the revelation of the Creator is what we need as a purpose of all creation. It is very simple, just to implement that is difficult.

38. S. (1:35:23) How do we generate and maintain the proper level of concern and responsibilities towards the work?

R. Man will help his friend, we just need each one to give an example to the other one, even if we don't want the connection, obviously I don't it, and I'm not drawn towards it. But I fo it on purpose towards the friends that they will see as much as I do want it and I do it as a game, from my acting, from my playing in it they look at me and each one of them is also wanting to do it as they are envious. That I in their eyes am succeeding and I am advancing in spirituality and they are not. So envy lust and honor take a man out of the world, out of the corporeal world into the spiritual world, in this way I bestow to the friends and they in such a way start advancing, it is great work what I am doing and it is a great favor that I am giving them, that when I look at them afterwards I learned back from them and this is called man will help his friend.

39. S. (1:37:09) We have examples where our friends say from Israel move to America and friends to America move to Israel, is it important where a ten is physically?

R. No, it doesn't matter where they're a ten is in Israel or America it all depends upon the exertion that it can give. I don't think coming to Israel means to come to a corrected place, it is the worst corrupted place there is, there are more Klipot are here than anywhere else, as Baal HaSulam also writes about it, but we need to specifically correct ourselves according to that but it doesn't matter where we are as we are already today correcting the general world.

40. S. (1:38:25) Concerning Excerpt 5 where Rabash wrote that we will become one bundle, how do we achieve that?

R. We need more and more to wash our minds, in Hebrew, we call it brainwashing, but only in the connection between us we reveal the Creator, revelation of the Creator is our goal and in our connection it is revealed and then we have no other work but to reach connection. It is simple, just write it before you, number 1 reaches connection, number two the Creator is revealed.  Number two you can write it and put a line through it because you don't have to do that, the Creator reveals himself, you have to do one thing and that is the correct connection. Meaning correct the shattered vessel of Adam HaRishon and then everything works out. You see there is nothing else to do and from this moment onward when you know what you need to do, go back to your state and see what you are lacking in order to be connected with the other nine friends, 9 desires with more friends, 5 ,6 or 10, in order to reach and intensity of the connection, a manner of connection like the Creator to be in bestowal even to the smallest degree of mutual bestowal in your heart, that you really want to connect in your heart and to feel everybody that is in you for this you need to talk everyday, Maybe sit physically together, have a picnic, something study together to draw the light that reforms and specifically in the studies you think that the whole group, you thinking how the whole group should get the light that reforms and in this way you advance when all we don't have, and also humanity, we don't have any problem in our life but connection.

41. S. (1:41:30) This evening we will be watching this lesson recorded and then we will have a half hour workshop. What do you suggest that we discuss in the workshop?

R. I won't add anything except what we have been talking about till now.

42. S. (1:42:05) In this article Rabash is talking about wholeheartedness. When will you become one society it becomes easier for us to do our work wholeheartedly and what is this in spirituality and who is the judge here?

R. The whole heart means it is written like this, there is no whole as a broken heart, when you discover that the hearts are shattered and broken in the ten and then you connect them together as a result of the shattering of Adam HaRishon that you connect them into one heart, just like one desire that means that we return to one vessel and the Creator is revealed in there because He is one and He needs to have a desire that is supposedly one then it turns out that at least on the smallest degree that I look at a certain picture and I see that it is a whole picture, then I go in moving forward about a meter towards it and I see all know it's not whole, it is put together from a lot of parts, pixels. So I correct it and then again I see a whole picture, the connection between us which is whole and complete on the new conditions and then according to that a new Creator is revealed to me which is more precise instead of Ohr Nefesh the light of Ruach and up to 125 degrees until I reveal Him completely according to me adapting myself towards it, through the connection between us I am resembling the Creator and the Creator is revealed in that connection. Then I become a vessel for the filling of the Creator and in this way we advance.

S. Who is doing the scrutiny here?

R. Only the Creator obviously we also in what we should do but in the end who decides and determines is all from above.

S. How do we compensate for this lack in our daily framework?

R. Do it all the time, what is the problem, think about it and write it before you, you can do it on your phone that each one has or the computer. I used to write it on my hands. I used to write what I want to remember all the times so while driving with Rabash I would look at my hands and then I would remember. Do whatever you can it all connects together to the limit of exertion.

43. S. (1:45:52) When the Creator created all of the worlds in the Torah for correction make an effort or just came out this way?

R. The upper Force we don't ask about Him, as much as it costs or forces or yes or no, we still can't understand these things as you are asking because you still can't find their way in anything spiritual, spirituality is above all of our vessels, all of our qualities that we can't depict it. This is why you're asking about it in a corporeal way, about how many forces are there needed by the Creator to create the corporeal world? Keep studying and you will discover but they are good questions.

44. S. (1:47:03) In the item where it says if the Creator is revealed if we deleted all that's left is in order to connect, how do we break down the element of connecting into subphases or do we each decide what his connection to advance to the final state?

R. In connecting the vessel, correcting the vessel we have 125 degrees and we need to connect, the first connection is called Nefesh of Nefesh and then Ruach of Nefesh, Neshamah of nefesh, Chayah of Nefesh, Yehidah of Nefesh in that way 125 degrees, it is laws on each that on every degree that on each level you have to keep these laws otherwise you can’t ascend to the next degree, every degree feels you and a way that you have to accept it and work with it in order to bestow, this is all really defined and organized.

S. The first minimal degree of our connection to enter it. Can we break it down in this process? What is the first and second third thing that we need to attain?

R. With your desires you have to connect with one man as one heart and what is the final degree on the ladder also with the desires that you will have there, also to connect as one man with one heart. But every time the difference is in the will to receive where it is revealed as greater and greater and more difficult. Now it is a small easy degree, only to annul oneself with a connection towards the friends, if each one annuls, even doesn't connect with the friends even annuls his ego just a little bit, you already reached the first spiritual degree. That is called faith above reason, connection above separation, bestowal above reception and greater than it.

S. How should we check ourselves after every ten meetings whether we grew or when smaller?

R. You don't have vessels you can weigh and measure but try doing it like that.

45. S. (1:50:14) You mentioned during the lesson we attract the light that reforms when we gather together when we're not in the lesson and we're on a call with each other. Is there some other kind of light that we attract during these times?

R. What does that matter, this lighter that light, the main thing is that we want to be more connected in our hearts, in the inner desire got to give a place to the Creator to reveal himself, that we want the essence of the connection between us to be as the Creator because we are building Him we are making Him, we are stabilizing Him, creating Him there is no Creator without the created being. Our type of connection between us we are establishing the Creator in there, He is the result of our correct exertion, our correct connection between us.

46. S. (1:51:41) There is good envy and bad envy, how do we keep the ten from the negative envy?

R. It's only like giving each other examples of Rabash writes each one will help his friends. I have to help, my friends that they will see a good example in me. That I do some kind of action in the ten that I always need to take into account as much as my friends will get inspired by it and learn and advance from it. Like a mother that does something good for her kids this is how I can do something for the group and by this I want to help them advance.

47. S. (1:52:) Let's say we managed to achieve the right connection. How do we continue to benefit from it, from this connection?

R. Don't worry once you get the correct connection the Creator will be revealed and then from this moment on you will get guidance from him, you will be guided by the Creator. Just like that.

S. What activities do we do afterwards?

R. I don't know first reveal Him and then you see what is revealed to you by His revelation? Then you will be as Kabbalists that receive revelation of the Creator and work according to the revelation of the Creator, step by step.

48. S. (1:53:56) It was said that the Creator is a result of the connection between the friends when the friends connect, the feeling of the Creator will be something individual or a common feeling?

R. It will be common, but each one will feel it in his individual way, let us say that you all eat a soup from one pot, each one takes a portion to his plate and eats it. So each one tastes something a bit differently or not? We have different tastes somewhat, even though we are eating the same thing, this is how it is.

49. S. (1:54:49) Is it true that in workshops that you give us the connection between us is stronger and more illuminating?

R. Then what?

S. Then in general because when you said many workshops and I wanted to know why it has diminished?

R. Tell me please what is the difference between what we are speaking now and a workshop?

S. I don't know.

R. All in all we have to integrate as much as possible, now for two hours we are in a lesson that is speaking about integrating and connection, this is why I don't see such a difference and a workshop is according to a certain to find a question that someone asks and you have to think about it and here it is the opposite, here we are constantly checking ourselves whether we are doing it correct or not, how to advance, here we have more of an interest, flexibility, exertion internally to build the mutual vessel.

50. S. (1:56:27) What does it mean to connect incorrectly?

R. It is hard to say, egotistically, in a way that to harm someone, in a way that the will to receive is included in the connection in any way.

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