Morning Lesson January 27, 2023 Transcription

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Part 1:

Zohar for All. "Introduction of The Book of Zohar". On the Night of the Bride. #138

1. Rav’s Introduction: Yes, we just have to continue, we are continuing with this introduction, it is an introduction to the book of Zohar as Rabash says, it stands for the entire book of Zohar this is how it is constructed. Indeed we see that we are going through the most important points, the most valuable moments in the creation of the world, the creation of man, the creation of the means between man and the Creator and how much we can use them in short the entire book of Zohar in its essence is found in the introduction. So let's continue.

Reading 138 “For this reason, one must keep from saying things....”

2. R. (09:30) I don’t see any questions so according to the simple explanation we can leave it like that.

3. S. (10:52) What is the difference here between sins and mistakes and how will we not fall into the sins.

R. We are still very far away from such lines like King David and the crimes and transgressions. We will come to it later. This is reserved for high souls, high, meaning that they made many corrections and reached high degrees. They have great transgressions ahead of them and great corrections before them where one cannot exist without the other. We are still scrutinizing what is a transgression, what is a correction, crime and mistakes, those things are not at the height that we can understand them.

S. For instance when I can perform a certain correction to pray for the friends, to do some kind of effort and I do not do it. How will that be called on my side? Will it be an iniquity or a mistake.

R. If you can pray for the friends.

S. Yes. If I could pray for the friends but I do not do that.

R. If you don’t do that, it could be an iniquity or transgression or commandment. It depends on the state you are in.

S. In the lesson for example, I can now invest efforts or less somehow, maybe I will have some kind of diversion in my mind.

R. Those are your calculations with the Creator because he is giving you all these states. Either you are moving closer to him or away from him or at least you are trying to hold on at least to the state you have been in. These are your relationships with the Creator. Of course it affects everyone but for the time being this is how it is.

4. S. (13:38) The concealment of the judgment, how does that influence us?

R. If we can not feel the weight of the crime above us, if we can not feel the heaviness we are in and what we do and what we wish to do, then accordingly the sentence does not get disclosed and we do not feel it. As much as you make a crime, it is not a crime. It is not revealed before us. Everything is according to the degree before a person on which he has to climb, to rise.

5. S. (14:33) Can we say that hell is double concealment of the Creator?
R. We can say that it is the result of that.

6. S. (14:57) It is also said that hell is a great degree for a person. How is that?

R. Of course, because another layer of the corrupted desire to receive is revealed and now the person has to repent over it and pray and receive the power from above and then make corrections until this hell becomes Heaven.

7. S. (15:41) I am very confused here with the matter of judgment and mercy. What is that state of judgment and mercy?

R. It is what is revealed to a person, the attitude of the Creator towards a person's state. We will read about it more. Everything is gradual for the time being we just read.

8. S. (16:36) What is it actually to keep the covenant appropriately?

R. That means that I am not going into in order to receive because the entire covenant is around the foreskin where it is forbidden for us to hold on this foreskin and everything that has to do with in order to receive.

S. So actually the whole way we are discovering our true nature so….

R. Yes, we cannot progress otherwise without the revelation of the evils. We have to reveal the evil.

S. So if I go through something and I do not ask to correct it is that not keeping the covenant?

R. The fact that you reveal that you have many bad discernments that is very good. It is a sign that you are ready to correct them. The fact that you reveal a prayer towards them for the Creator to correct them, that is the correction. This is what we should do.

8. S. (18:11) Does the fear and mercy come to us from religion?

R. Yes and we will learn about it even more.

9. S. (18:36) I had a question but it has disappeared for some reason. Why does that happen to us?

R. It means you do not need it.

S. Still I would like to ask. All the calculations of the ego we have especially during the lesson, what does it say that we are distancing or coming closer to the Creator?

R. If I wish to remain in connection with the friends and in connection with the lesson and be connected with everyone in the topic of the lesson, that is my goal. That is where I invest my powers. Everything else I see as things that awaken in me and through the Creator so that I will fight them and remain in adhesion with the friends and the topic of the lesson.

S. Can I come closer to the Creator here in a not selfish way, let's say in a selfless way?

R. Only through the quality of giving. For friends only through the quality of the coming closer to the friends can I also come closer to the Creator.

10. S. (20:17) Is it the Creator that creates in us the repentance? How can we attain together repentance from love if it always comes to us in the opposite force.

R. Yes we get the opposite force so specifically through that we will reveal the opposing force, the opposite force. That is how everything is done. That is the difference between the Creator and created being between Good & Evil between reception and giving in order to receive and in order to give this is how it is the thing and it's opposite. That is how we are learning, that is how we grow.

11. S. (21:46) I wanted to ask about the two types of repentance. Repentance from fear in which his crimes become mistakes, is that the one who attains himself defines that they become as mistakes for him?

R. This is in relation to the person.

S. Can it not be some kind of temptation? How can the attainer himself decide that his crimes become merit for example?

R. This is not important. When a person thinks incorrectly or in the opposite way because he learns from that and all of the mistakes become Commandments and all of the crimes, the evil becomes good. This is our work. We have to see how much we are able to change these things because we are building the corrected kingdom. Of course it is with the help of the Creator, the Creator is resurrecting it from the dust but it is all thanks to our requests.

S. Does the person who attains needs to accumulate a certain quantity of crimes in order for this flip to happen?

R. This is what the Creator arranges for the person.

12. S. (23:45) Can the ten fall into crime or an incorrect interpretation to what we are relating to for the time being?

R. Repeat please.

S. Can a ten fall into crime or in the wrong understanding when it does not relate everything as coming from the Creator?

R. Yes. Of course it is a crime. Of course it is a crime. There is none else besides him.

13. S. (24:47) I have also a question about repentance from love. Does repentance from love always add to none else besides him, the good that does good?

R. Of course it has to go hand in hand but when one brings about the other, we cannot say. There are always some changes to it.

14. S. (25:32) We come to the lesson, we do a preparation. We want to connect and hold onto the topic of the lesson inside the ten. We make this effort. Along the way there are resistances of all kinds and we hold onto that effort nevertheless towards connection. Are all those resistances called judgments?

R. Yes, but again all of these judgements we need them as the opposite part against Mercy and out of these two forces we build this structure of divinity where the Creator is revealed, so we have no other choice. We must accept those things with understanding, with Love.

S. Yes, that is how it is feeling that the judgment is the beginning of the connection. It could even be felt in a pleasant way that there is a certain feeling towards the ten that there is some force that is a rejecting force but it is already a force inside the ten.

R. Correct.

S. If we continue to work in that direction, at some stage the Creator starts to shine into that effort. Is that called repentance from fear?

R. Not yet.

S. What is repentance from fear?

R. We will learn about it.

15. S. (27:14) At the beginning of 138, he says that because of this a person should be cautious not to say anything like King David because he cannot say to the angel Dummah that I have made a mistake and later he mentions that this is the main matter of Rav Hamnuna Saba so it is not clear where King David did something that we are no allowed to do, there is some hole we can fall into maybe you can guide us. What is this mistake here that we are not allowed to do?

R. Where is it written?

S. At the beginning of 138 it is written and due to this a person should be cautious not to say what King David said because he cannot say to the angel Dumah that it was a mistake. What is the mistake we have to be cautious about?

R. We are not in it. We still cannot feel it. You can see it on yourself how much we are not in those things that the Zohar is talking about. We are lacking these discernments.

S. So we just have to ask to have those discernments and not more than that.

R. Yes and not more than that.

16. S. (29:16) Why are these two stages first judgment and then Mercy. Doesn't judgment always have to be besides the Mercy always?

R. How can that be? It is different vessels just like how we are walking on two legs. What do you think? Otherwise, that we will be able to go on the middle line without being on both lines one against the other?

17. S. (30:00) What characterizes true repentance?

R. True real repentance is characteristic of a repentance that includes all the conditions that are revealed from the get-go and also the calculation itself and the result of it which includes in it the solution. This is the true repentance. It seals everything together and there is no difference between the lack of solution and the solution because the Creator ultimately is revealed as I am the first and I am the last.

S. A person can feel that true repentance has been done actually that he gets that feeling?

R. Yes.

18. S. (31:18) It is written here in the middle of the article that the kingdom is obligated to sustain the other side to the measure of a thin candle. In our ten there is a desire to connect and come to adhesion. Do we need to think about enabling the other side to continue to exist? It is like we are lowering our free choice from one level to the other.

R. No, it is not like that. Specifically when there is an opportunity from all sides to be revealed in judgment then we have free choice; otherwise, we would not discover the truth about judgment.

S. If so then where is our free choice in the spiritual structure we build?

R. Our freedom of choice lies in prayer, the request to have the strength with which we can overcome and reach the middle line.

19. S. (32:30) You may have already answered this. It is still confusing to me how a crime will be atoned into a mistake. Since there is none else besides him, how can there be a mistake? What does it mean that the crime becomes a mistake? Is it about the intention behind the action? What is the difference between these two things?

R. Everything comes from none else besides him in order to teach us. It is exactly how we play with our children. We confuse them sometimes so they can understand the confusion that we are presenting to them. They will also understand the solution of how to come out of the confusion and build themselves correctly. That is why this is how it is here. Our entire lives are like that. It is one game. A big game of one Creator with the created beings and us created beings have to only try in each and every moment under the actions of the Creator, we have to try and position ourselves in the form that is most accurate for the correction, for finding the solution for prayer and requests. That is how we progress.

S. What helps us to see things either as a crime or a mistake. What determines which way we see these things?

R. What helps? Only the connection between us since from the connection between us we can extract additional details that none of us have but in the connection between us can extract the details and say that there are additional details that do not exist in me or the other but together in the Ten certainly we can find all of them. The Creator shines according to that.

20. S. (35:24) The recognition that the person is in a mistake, does this happen through the upper illumination and pressure from the right and left has to be identical so the person could make a choice to mercy?

R. Yes.

21. S. (35:56) How to arrange or regulate, I do not know the right words are, that we do not cancel the Sitra Achra or the evil angel Dumah and we keep the small candle burning, this thin thread. How do we sort of make a dosage to regulate this? How to work with this in the groups? We have a small flame and we can use this small flame correctly for correction. That it doesn't take over like a huge fire?

R. This is a very nice question but the solution is only in that we have to do the work together only together when we are doing this common work in the group than the wants to hate and kill each other and then we do not want to connect and with all the forces of all of the friends helping each other from one end to the other end these are are further apart and we are attaching ourselves to each other even more tightly and this way we find the solutions for all the degrees of the ascent.

22. S. (37:43) What is this action that David says that strengthens the deeds of my hands twice?

R. It is when we obligate the Creator to make a judgment between as and to teach us how we can withstand it.

23. S. (38:77) How to make sure that the mistakes don't become transgressions or sins so this thin light doesn't become the thick ropes of the wagon?

R. We simply have to work each time in the correct state with the correct manner and each time we will turn a few sins into mistakes and then into merits and this is how we overcome it. Simply work consistently and the most important thing is not to fall. Not to fall when states of weakness are weaker and misunderstanding, lack of connection, helplessness, purposelessness. We sometimes find ourselves in such states that we do not know those states fully yet but they show us some grave disappointment and darkness there is nothing. Then out of this darkness the light appears as the advantage of light from darkness and this is how we advance.

24. S. (40:20) Can we say that the rejection between us is a new quality that needs to be revealed?

R. Yes.

S. If so, why does this repulsion come along especially when we try to implement what you are advising us ? How to talk about the state between us when we try to do something and specifically what happens then?

R. The Creator decides when to reveal new discernments to us.

Reading continues (41:09) " Know that this is the whole difference between..

25. R. (49:15) It is beautifully written. Isn't it beautiful?

26. S. (49:24) In the article it says that destroying the work of your hands, what does it mean to the work of your hands?

R. The deeds of the hands of man or the hands of the Creator. This is the question. All the questions are around free choice. Does it exist or not? Are we corrupting anything or is it the Creator arranging for us those incidents through which we resemble him and who will make the corrections? Is it us or the Creator? The entire article revolves around these actions,corruption and correction and who initiates it? Either the Creator or the created being? Ultimately he explains to us in the item 138 that both the corruptions and the corrections all come from the Creator in order to teach us, because the light excels from darkness and we cannot learn anything good. intentions or actions if we do not first through all those forms that are opposite through corrections or sanctity.

27. S. (51:13) Sounds like that there is no evil reception, all of the reception is good. Is this correct to say?

R. No, everything depends on the goal, if my goal is to approach the Creator as much as possible, to resemble Him, to give Him contentment, then certainly I have here a method and a certain sequence of actions I have to take.

S. What do I need the Ten for? Why can't I aim myself to the Creator and receive everything? Why do I need the Ten.

R. If you could do that on your own alone then do it alone and that's it. Then you do not need anybody.

S. Then what is the Ten adding to my work?

R. What kind of work can you do without a Ten?

S. Doesn't matter what I received from the Creator, I always receive it, like you say, for his sake, I do everything for his sake. Nowadays, we call it religious people?

R. This is not what the Zohar is talking about.

S. If I can aim all my actions to the Creator then all the receptions are okay, as long as I do this for the sake of the Creator.

R. True, you are correct, if you can do it, then do it and you do not need anything besides that but the question is can you do that?

S. The question is, what is the good Ten that can change my actions that I can't do myself?

R. Specifically in order to aim me at the Creator.

S. I just see a bunch of people in front of me, I don't see the Creator.

R. This is something that you have to correct and see in that group of people before you that they are not just a bunch of people but they are Ten desires with whom you can enter the Ten which can aim you at the Creator without which you are not able to do it.

S. I have to see their desires as my desires?

R. Yes.

S. I can only do this through praying for them or can I pray for general correction? Can I pray for myself to be corrected or I have to pray for them?

R. There are many things to do here. It is not simply to pray. You have to scrutinize a lot more things, without it you will not be able to reach a connection.

28. S. (55:10) Why do we feel that the Creator is unlimited and there is nothing more exhausted than delighting the Creator? Then we come back to all kinds of temporary pleasures and smallest after we feel that the Creator's unlimited and nothing more exalted, then why later do we return to the little pleasures and do not prefer the eternal pleasure that the Creator is preparing for us?

R. I will answer in Russian especially for you. We constantly go over our problems,our egoistic issues so that we can correct them piece by piece. This is it more than that we cannot do anything and more than that we do not need a thing but we cannot perform our corrections at once, rather we are being shown that we are egoists and there. Upon each of these disclosures of the ego, we need to form corrections. It is like each time we turn to the ego but actually what is being returned to us is a new part of the ego and then again we rise above it and we try to invert it to the quality of bestowal the connection of love and this way each time, at once. We can not do it all at once.

29. S. (57:44) It is written here that King David did everything right in the eyes of the creator and did not sin except with Uriah? What does it mean to sin?

R. The sin is like disconnecting from the Creator like from the root of it all. That is called sin.

Whereas that which I receive, what I feel, what comes to me,  seemingly is not coming from the Creator. That there is another force operating in reality besides Him.

S. Dumah that they speak of here Basically the Creator activates him in front of himself?

R. Yes.

S. How did David manage to not sin throughout his life?

R. Because he was a special soul. King David against the Malchut, the kingship but nevertheless he had to go through all of those corrections and then he comes to the general correction.

30. S. (59:18) Is there a separating force called egoism, is that a result of the shattering?

R. Yes, of course all the separating forces between us come from our ego and come as a result of the shattering. Yes.

31. S. (01:00:04) Reward and punishment, is it already a correction of bestow in order to bestow increasing faith?

R. Yes,

S. Transition to in order to receive in order to bestow?

R. Yes.

S. Let me be more precise before the barrier, the Machson, reward and punishment was given before to reach the true reward and punishment?

R. Everything is given only to come to the correct repentance,to the correction. Only for that. The Creator doesn't work in any other way, that is what we call the Creator's work. The work that He performs upon us. That is why we need to appreciate all that is happening with us that way.

32. S. (01:01:25) A friend that did not get up for the lesson or does not have the energy to participate in an action of connection and he feels guilty. What is the true calculation he has to make?

R. He needs to repent.

S. What does it mean that he is successful at repenting?

R. That he needs to feel what harm he is doing for himself and to the group and to the Creator and by what actions he can correct it.

S. He said earlier that you shouldn't fall into the situation but actually derived strength from it. What gives you the strength in this calculation?

R. That I adhere to the friends more and more and through them to the Creator and I ask for the forces of connection. More than that we do not need.

33. S. (01:02:36) What do I have to do to keep the covenant?

R. Constantly through the sins and the mistakes and correct them, such that above them we put connections between us and from between us to the Creator. Such that we are covering relations between us and the Creator together in this form of a tent, a Sukkah inside a Huppah, in all sorts of such conditions in which the connection and love covers for us and protects and sustains us.

34. S. (01:04:03) I have a huge impression from this item. I want to ask it says that the Creator does everything for his sake and for his own purpose and the Creator throughout life pressures a person not only to justify Him but sometimes one starts to curse Him out of despair because it seems like He is the egoist because He created these schemes so we'll be able to benefit Him and on the other hand I saw a clip a talk of yours.

R. Look at this, we have good students, that you're looking at it this way. Well, well, keep going.

S. In truth I want to ask about the end of the correction I will try to conclude. I heard your talk, video clip, where you say that there is none of that, and Simon said, in wars throughout history, all this happens yes, but then in effect it did not happen. I was trembling when I heard it because on the one hand all these horrors are revealed and on the other hand with the power of our inner work it places a hat on us and disappears everything for us. I wanted to ask about the end of correction. Is it possible to connect emotionally to this concept? What does it mean that all the horrors we are to somehow cover it and we see only love or there is a combination of good and evil? Or you remember the evil but you kiss it and you are grateful for it or everything is erased and all the evil turns to good?

R. I cannot answer that and I'll explain why, it is written that when the Creator brings a person back to him then a person understands that this whole time he was in a dream. A dream and therefore, try to find the answer yourselves. Did he have it or not? Was it all a dream? Now I'm starting to awaken and all that appeared to a person, all the 6,000 years which are a certain form of an introduction to his awakening that he is awakening now. All of that was truly in a dream, in order to give him all kinds of feelings, like in a dream.

We have to go through all of that, it will all go by us, pass us, and we will discover ourselves as rising from a dream. Although, would say that it is very difficult, I'd say impossible to explain because you cannot explain to a person only what he has been through and we haven't been through it yet. We are just kind of talking about it in a naive way like children, but we will go through all of this and we will scrutinize it all. Do not worry we will scrutinize it. Altogether these are wondrous states the Creator prepared for us.

35. S. (01:08:47) I understand that repentance, the general repentance is something different because you have this state where every day I come in and I do these actions and it is repentance, every day each moment true?

R. Yes.

36. S. (01:09:32) I need to go through a state of repentance in order to reach the end of Correction and the state is where I see that everything is his doing. If a person has to go through great sufferings before reaching repentance is it correct? Can you come to repentance from a state of despair and emptiness?

R. That is a question that is asked about also and the wisdom of Kabbalah and the johar asked about it whether a person really has to go through all these disconnections, these systems from the Creator, all this disparity of form from the Creator, is it even possible to go through all of that? Is it even possible to hold on to this, these are horrible things. Yes and no.

We need to go over this only in our awareness and our conscience somewhat, just like we see this in the Tens, in the group, in all kinds of our actions and deeds, where it is not so terrible what we are going through but relative to spirituality, it is really called horrible, great, immense states. We will talk about this more. I do not have the words for it now of how it is possible that we receive in the final correction, Ein Sof, eternity, no boundaries. All of these immense and exalted things beyond our universe and creation,do we also feel actions that are against this? So we will scrutinize this, we will, we do not yet have words but soon. As we come closer to completing this book, the introduction to the Book of Zohar, we will already know these things in a closer way.

37. S. (01:12:47) You spoke about states that can only be explained after you went through them. If you went through them, why do you have to explain them?

R. It is seemingly a correct question but what does it mean that he's been through it? He's been through it since he received an explanation? or did he go through it where they are not operating on him anymore?

S. I don't know?

R. Or did he go through it is considered that he didn't understand him yet or feel them fully and cannot say that he did go through them. What does it mean that he went through them?

S. I'm saying he went through meaning attained?

R. So that is your definition?

S. What?

R. We do not know yet but probably, there are much deeper states that we need to scrutinize and the advantage of light is from darkness. Meaning against the final correction we have to understand and attain what the end of corruption is, the end, the final corruption. We will think, we have a few more pages that we need to study.

38. S. (01:14:17) It is so difficult for me to live in the feeling of sin. The ego is looking for ways.

R. Where do you see that?

S. By the things in the will to receive.

R. That is a question whether it is a sin.

S. But it is hard for me to live in this.

R. You're mistaken you don't have sins, your feelings are mistaken.

S. There's a yearning of the entire Kli, for all of us to reach a certain state. As it is written in the books, as this infinite pleasure and we live in infinite suffering. The ego constantly is looking for ways to ease the suffering in this world. It is hard to continue to live in this tension over time in corporeality so what to do? How to turn to these places of relief in order to reach the cry because these reliefs removed me from this great cry.

R. First of all you have to understand what sin is. Sin is distance, of being distanced and broken from all the rest of the parts of Adam Ha Rishon, that were displaced due to all the different directions of the shattering of the vessel. Then this is the act of the Creator. Our act is when we get the opportunity from Him to bring all these pieces back to their place to connect and then there is a question, in correcting them or not the only thing about that.

S. I do everything I can with effort in the lesson and in the Ten as much as I can.

R. Okay, okay. I guess it is not yet time where we will have to do that too.

S. But this intolerable feeling to be in the will to receive

R. That is an egoistic feeling.

S. That is what I am.

R. No, that is not what you are. It is what you are allowed to feel. You have to understand the correction is not by us not standing in our current situation, it is about not standing our ego, there's a very big difference here. A big difference.

S. In any case both of them are suffering.

R. Okay, but it depends in what way you are suffering. I remember myself suffering very much to a point where I wanted to die, out of the wounds, that's what kind of suffering and a different kind of suffering is that I can't do anything about it and I have to do different kinds of actions to bring myself to correction. No, no this is, I lost the words. There's nothing you can do about it. We have to establish ourselves, by the friends and feel ourselves established in the Ten and the right way and that we are asking the Creator to connect us together so that we will establish our round system in the Ten each of his own Ten in a way that if we hold correctly to each other the Ten is there and we can come closer and closer to the center of the Ten all of us. There we can meet all the friends together and along with that we will also meet the Creator

S. How can I prevent my ego from getting into that?

R. Don't think about it, think about love and connection, not the negative things.

39. S. (01:19:40) According to the text and the fifth paragraph from the end where the person who exerts enough to detach from the Creator even though he feels a bad feeling he gets a reward, what is that reward that he gets?

R. The reward is not disconnecting from the Creator.

S. And that is after I exerted efforts even though I feel bad I'm still doing efforts and that reward of adhesion with the Creator comes after my effort or does it come at the same time?

R. Afterwards.

S. Afterwards It is written that at the time when the evil comes the other side takes the force to raise its faith and then they come to the great punishment of detachment and then they have the Hirhurim of …., the thoughts of heresy, what is that? Sometimes I feel that there are good and bad thoughts and relation to our work and in general in relation to life. I checked out with my intellect and then understand that there is no doubt that there's none else besides Him but in any case I understand that he can make me suffer or kill me.

R. Why?

S. I don't know but we see that people who put in effort…

R. What we see is something else. We blame the Creator so to speak that everything comes from Him and then a Priori we have to accept as much as we can that everything comes as the good that does good. We have to aspire to discover that.

S. I understand that but look what is happening all around, how is it possible?

R. You're starting to explain what is going on all around?

S. I'm trying to understand that together with all of that the thoughts do not leave me each day there are such conditions of this increasing danger and when these thoughts come the question is…

R. It is only for us to need the Creator, only that, to need the Creator.

S. Okay, last thing, bad feelings, can we have those at the time of adhesion with the Creator or are bad feelings an outcome of the separation?

R. Bad feeling? Ask again.

S. In relation to our work and our relation to life. Can bad feelings come from a time of adhesion with the Creator or is it a sign of separation from the Creator?

R. It is the result of the disconnection but it doesn't mean I'm in the process of going further away, maybe I’m coming closer but in the process I am shown how disconnected I am. We cannot say it in a real way, according to a feeling you cannot tell the trend, what is your distance, what is your direction coming closer or further away? The feeling might be negative but it can indicate that now I'm discovering my real state. It should lead me to something positive.

S. Thank you.

R. I understand your state. I can even imagine, I was also under attack 20 or 30 years ago when Saddam Hussein attacked here. In the house the windows broke, so I understand all of that. The thing is, specifically despite everything that happens, what we need is to guard ourselves by the group and the Creator. It should be like a shelter that guards you above, there is an umbrella made of the group and the Creator.

S. We are truly in a state where it is felt that the last thing or the one thing that we have is the connection between us.

R. You have to try to see the concern and the mercy by the Creator, his desire to correct people, that is the way it really is, that is how it will be revealed.

S. It seems to me that we understand and feel that but the states are changing ascents and descents.

R. So even though the situations are changing we should still hold on to the same direction always. All that is happening, only to strengthen our connection in the group and with the Creator then bit by bit, gradually we will discover his control over us, how he is leading us to correction.

40.S. (01:26:32) For me personally it is hard to accept that the Creator is some creature that does things in separation from me and I think that that's the root of our entire psychological problem that there is some kind of animal that wants for itself and I am there on the side but if I think for a moment that the Creator is a state of perfection…

R. Perfection, yes.

S. …And I'm a part of that perfect system so then if I take a projection upon myself within that perfection then that's the ego and that's opposite of the Creator however if I together with the rest of the created beings are one system and I feel that that is one perfect system and I don't see a difference I don't see my existence without that system so everything returns to its place and there's no deviation or anything, meaning the entire problem is that there is a separation that there is me and there is a complete system. Is that correct?

R. Yes, yes that's correct

41. S. (01:28:12) When the Creator gives such states where you cannot in your heart or mind justify Him and you feel that it gets worse is the true justification of the Creator always a feeling of the next degree or does it come in reality, in practice?

R. I didn’t really understand what you are trying to say. What do you mean becomes real in reality? We are coming closer to a state that will become, for us, the reality. The existence of the Creator, the existence of the field of forces where it acts and that is the upper world and our current state only exists as a dream.

S. Meaning it is okay that I never succeed to justify the Creator or is it something ahead of me and to a certain stage it doesn't need to be tangible that it doesn't need to be felt in reason that you know you can justify Him.

R. Bit by bit it will come into your mind, your intellect and also the feeling.

S. A righteous person who feels and justifies the Creator is that similar to a person who can justify the Creator within reason?

R. I suppose you could depict it that way in the meantime, yes.

42. S. (01:30:16) The text doesn't talk about a person suffering and we know that suffering is a major component of correction. The text talks about the final correction of the unity of Malchut, Kingdom, with the light. Does suffering only work in Malchut, Kingdom, what is the role of suffering in this development?

R. The role of suffering is to aim a person for correction, all in all its big mercy by the Creator that the moment a person is disconnected from the Creator he starts suffering, he starts feeling that he's suffering, otherwise we would never identify that we are disconnected. Okay

43. S. (01:31:25) If the angel Dumah brings out the soul from hell does that soul disappear or does it have a chance to correct its sin and repent?

R. We correct everything, don't worry we will correct everything and all of this Angel Dumah it is intended to aim us directly to the final correction.

S. The question was asked about Kabbalists whether we don’t come to the justification of the sins, whether we come to full justification at the end of correction only?

R. Yes but before we get the right direction, how in a practical way do we use the attributes, do we strengthen the intention of faith in them?

S. The Sefirot, do we strengthen our intention and faith through them?

R. You see I wouldn't call it some presumption, I would say it is some thought we are now basing ourselves on, not an axiom, it is too strong a saying but ultimately the group will come to a state where we can come closer to this saying as an axiom we can base ourselves upon.

S. (01:33:20) This week we met physically and it was a very great connection. Some friends could not sleep at night afterwards and then afterwards I felt this great emptiness in me and I wanted to ask about that, is the reason we feel that emptiness because when love reveals it also surprises us?

R. Yes, yes. Only in a much more pleasant way.

S. Now the reason I felt the prayer that came from the emptiness is that the light is an absolute rest and the Creator just wants to bring us to more closeness with Him, He pressures towards that?

R. Yes.

S. Yesterday in the morning lesson I heard that you said that we are already in a convention. There is a feeling that if we tend into this intensive connection then the Creator will bring down to us this MAD which is to bring to the whole world thru BB. Can you figure out the importance of us doing that inner connection in our tens?

R. I didn't understand.

S. I feel that if we create an intensive connection in our tens towards a convention then the convention already began.

R. Yes, of course.

S. Can you speak about the importance of reaching this inner intensity in order to break the boundary of the heart so that we can truly reach that peak of what the Creator wishes to bring through BB to the whole world?

R. Yes, I really hope that we will come even before the Congress to a certain degree of connection and this way we will come closer to the Congress, to the congregation, to a connection we want to come to. The purpose of this Congress: do you already understand what it should be?

S. It is wow. It is wow.

R. Wow? I didn’t know that this is what it is called. Is this a special degree in Kabbalah, wow?

S. There are no words to describe the great light the Creator wants to bring us.

R. Okay, this is the group you are in?

S. No, I'm in ten number nine. Women’s Petach Tikvah number nine.

R. So what is Heb. one?

S. It is women who connect during the daily lesson from all kinds of tens.

R. Okay, so these are women that nobody else wants to accept so they are scattered so they connect to this ten W Heb one?

S. Only to the Creator.

R. Only to the Creator. This is a wise woman, very nice.

S. So what is the purpose of the convention?

R. What is the purpose of the convention, how should I know? They should know. Do you know?

S. Wow, it is the light that the Creator wants to bring to the whole world through Bnei Baruch to the whole world.

R. To put it shortly, it is the final correction. If we have such friends, men and women, we will succeed.

44. S. (01:37:52) During the lesson you said that we need to find shelter from.. inside the group that's somehow I feel that the.. because I always have measurement to check disconnection from the Creator to the group and when I look at the group I see all kinds of… wants to kill and destroy each other and this gives the question is this the handiwork of the Creator is this..

R. Yes, of course who else does things there's no that's besides him. the Creator said in the beginning of creation I have created the evil inclination that is the whole creation outside of him by this it turns out that he created all evil that this evil exist only as a projection a shadow of the real good that exists so that we can distinguish between the two just like an hour world if there won't be a difference between the colors…. so what the Creator did he did those differences he broke his unity and he allowed us to discover the lack of connection and that is how we come closer to the revelation of the evil and throughout the revelation of good because you can't discover one without the other.

S. But the revelation of evil comes to the extent that.. I don't have words . It is not possible to see the wisdom of the Creator because what he wants to give to us, is not clear to see.

R. The Creator wants to teach us this work, His qualities, His situation but with the creative beings outside of the Creator it is impossible to exist in a way that they see the good without the bad, the light without the darkness. This is why our whole work is to learn darkness and life as opposed to it, the difference between them, the distance, the proximity between them, that is how we learn the advantage of light in darkness.

45 S. (01:41:49) Something happened that hurt you really badly, but you know that the Creator is the good that does good, and still you do not understand it. What is that state? What does that mean?

R. Because you are not doing it through friends. Only by expressing each and every spiritual state in the friends,when you lower it to the relations between the friends and you want to see it before you as if the spiritual world it's in the relations between you, only in this way can you enter an understanding, a recognition, a scrutiny and analysis of the spiritual world.

46. S. (01:43:25) You spoke about this dream where the Creator shows us all kinds of images and we need to correct that and connect. If I understood correctly you also spoke about this accident that you went through and also about the war, if these source of that feeling comes out of my corporeal qualities then is the revelation of the Creator something that comes out of the change of qualities?

R. I don't understand what you are saying. I hear you saying the opposite. The Creator gives us everything we feel in order for us to learn how to look at the world. The quality of bestowal, the quality of reception. This is what we have to learn. In the meantime I see how people justify themselves rather than trying or making efforts to attain in any way the right perception, or understanding of what is going on with them and what the Creator is doing between us. I don't think we are so close to the solution of all those problems and also the war, among others. I feel that you somehow want to understand, to scrutinize when it can end. It may end when we understand who we are. Here we are talking about us being very close to complete annihilation and we were never so close, they say it's like seconds. If you take a world stopwatch, why is that? Is it because we are coming closer or better? We are not changing, our qualities are not improving. We have a problem.

S. You're speaking about such lofty things, how I wish I was also worried about such things but with our corporeal problems, let's say one is smart and one is dumb. That is how one remains throughout his entire life and that is how he will reveal the Creator

R. I can't start talking with you about elementary things, even though it is important for you but somehow it will be built in you. The important thing is not about the fools or smart people. The whole thing is there's no quality of ours there's nothing besides discovering ourselves, the desire to come close to each other, no matter in what way, at what price. To simply come closer, like a family when each one, as much as he can, can complement the other and brings everything he has to the table for everyone, and everyone will be better off to bring us to such a need such a state that is what we need.

47. S. (01:48:34) If our perception of reality is a dream created by the shattering, is our intent to connect the waking up process?

R. Correct, correct.

48. S. (01:49:20) I pray for the friends and I believe that these prayers will be received by the Creator unconditionally. Is it a mistake to think in such a way?

R. I think it's a mistake because of course everything we feel is felt in the Creator, meaning the general or some total of all the thoughts and the emotion, but that doesn't mean that by that I do good to everyone by my own feet. Here these are the conditions, that's why it's called the wisdom of Kabbalah that we come in bestowal to the general force of nature that is called the Creator in a way that it will change our relation to each other so that we change and come closer to Him. That's why there's a difference between the ways we ask, connect between us etc.

49. S. (01:51:20) With what intention should we come to the convention, should we come with the intention to reach the end of correction or with an intention to progress one or two more degrees? Meaning with what ambition of intention should we come there?

R. There is a question, what corrected state can we depict to ourselves that we are in or or we want to be in? Connection is the strongest, the tightest, the warmest, the most that we can imagine to ourselves. The way that we are all connecting in our hearts. If we take all of our hearts, let's try to connect them together, what connection can we depict in this one heart? Well, let's think. Let's imagine it and then we'll see how much our hearts connect, bind together, come closer and out of that will come to some understanding. What way it should be since there has to be one heart that incorporates all the hearts inside it and each and every individual heart helps all the other hearts to enter this connection of one heart and we can do it, we can do it, as I now feel you, I see that all in all we are, yes, we can be connected in this way. It can happen. It can happen. So let's hope it will. I love you.

50. S. (01:54:10) You spoke at the beginning of the lesson about the levels of awareness that we need to rise to, that we can do everything in a certain level of awareness. How can we rise to that feeling of mutual awareness and not remain dependent on actions?

R. That is very simple. Open your heart and invite all the hearts. don't turn to people, turn to the hearts so that they will enter your heart. Don't think that in your heart there is no place for everyone, there is a place there for everyone in the world.

S. And this is what each one should do, that how…?

R. Yes, all in all that's what we all need to do.

51. S. (01:55:35) It sounds from everything we heard in the lesson that everything is always the opposite, the good is bad. the bad is good, the punishment is the reward and the reward is the punishment, everything goes in the opposite way and confused so how to stick to the goal?

R. I really don't know what to tell you. We simply need to be closer in the feeling of the heart among each other, without calculating whether it's direct or around, connection. try to observe that somewhat and then you will feel it.

S. Connection is felt, there is this feeling of connection but then there's always this thing that throws you and then you don't know, am I working correctly or not?

R. It throws you away so that you will check that connection and correct it into a more successful and stronger connection. That's how the Creator works.

S. You said in the beginning of the lesson that maintaining the covenant is that the person doesn't return to the will to receive and that their only freedom of choice is the prayer. the connection and the love of friends when you come to these two things: the prayer, the demand to the Creator, they disappear. How to maintain the only connection between the love of friends and love of the Creator?

R. That depends on you all, to the extent which you connect and which to hold on to that connection between us and the Creator there's nothing other than that. Okay?

52. S. (01:57:45) There's something that bothers me and I want to be in the path and I want to connect to my friends and I want to disseminate but what's been happening lately, I have the job giving me big money offer and they keep chasing me every other week giving me more money and I'm telling them I don't want the money,I want to be in the lower job. It bothers me because I keep asking why does the Creator keep trying to give me a job that would take me away from the path and I keep saying I don't want the job, it's more responsibility, yes it’s more money but it's more responsibility but it would be like I'm selling my soul and I don't want to do that but I keep getting more offers.

R. It's a problem, it's always been like this, for our people who wish to progress in spirituality suddenly they get all these proposals for corporeal progress in their professions, Yes. There's nothing you can do about it. Try to hold on to the balance between the two. You cannot not work and you cannot go without money, that's correct, and on the other hand you need what you live for, the spirituality of life. You need, in a certain state, to decide that you do not progress anymore, that's it, tell them that your relatives don't let you make another step forward in this profession, that's enough. That you are planning on having another child, that usually helps women.

53. S. (02:00:22) You just told a friend now that you can correct the connection and to add, how can I know if I performed a correction on the connection or not? Everything is in my emotions and I'm not in a place where I can see these subtleties?

R. What you feel is enough. As much as you feel that is enough and move on.

54. S. (02:01:50) We hear a very big difficulty in certain groups in the world like in Ukraine, our friends, maybe in other places like in Africa. The question is besides us incorporating in that as one world group, is the work individual for each of us or should we strengthen our ten and the force of our connection between us should we try to pass it on to these groups?

R. Other than prayer we have nothing to do. Other than prayer there is nothing to do.

S. To do it as individuals or in the ten?

R. This needs to be work not in the ten and not personally from one person to another but throughout the whole organization where within the organization there are all kinds of systems they need to make a decision of who to help and in what way. That's how we need to operate.

S. And spiritually speaking, the inner work?

R. In terms of the spiritual work we need to pray that there will be peace and wholeness and quiet throughout the world and that people will finally make a correct conclusion out of all these wars and of everything taking place in the world, because truly otherwise our world is swinging.

S. So the work is more in a general way or specifically as tens we can focus on this, suppose Ukraine?

R. Both individually and also in a general way.

55. S. (02:04:16) With respect to the question from the friend from Europe. Is it not a very big egoistic desire to wish for more than spirituality?

R. I don’t know what she is talking about, repeat please.

S. Is it not egoistic to prefer spirituality, I understand that there should be balance but isn’t it egoistic to say only spirituality?

R. Not only spirituality. A person needs to care for himself to the extent in which he will not fall onto the hands of society. On the hands of the friends because that is also egoistic if he does not think about his corporal reality then someone will have to take care about his corporeality if that's the case. We already see such holy “quote unquote” people who don't think about themselves and whatever will be will be and what they do, I fall on them so that they will take care of me and certainly that is the biggest egoism. It's incorrect. Here we're talking about people who are in a risky state in their lives, they fall, we need to see how much we can help them, for the time being in the states that they are in, that's all.

56 S. (02:07:07) The excerpt we read from the Zohar 138, I was very impressed because the language suddenly becomes clear. I want to ask about the lesson, many times when we see the book is it important to be with the reader? Sometimes it's clear so you sometimes read on or maybe you don't understand so you read back or maybe I have a question so I go back to the Zohar and read something to I understand, how much do I need to be tied to the reader and with the Rav or can I move with the book a little bit?

R. I think that all of these directions are correct and each one you need to pay attention to. I respect all of these movements that a person has at one time he wants this, another time he wants that, that's how he progresses. That's how he absorbs the material in a way that is comfortable and good for him, the way he is built a certain way so I have nothing to recommend to you simply continue and keep going over the Zohar more and more.

S. I also want to tell you that after you were not showing up because of your medical thing every morning we were under pressure, when will we see you? and it makes us so happy to see you.

R. Thank you.

57. S. (02:08:50) You said that we should open our heart and insert the heart of the friends. You also said that we don't have to invite the people, only the hearts. Can you explain what does that mean to only invite the hearts?

R. Only the inner that we have, each and every one of us. That we need to, in some way, emphasize in each and every person and try to connect them. That is what it means to be as one man with one heart. To build out of each person one person that has one heart. Then in that way, it will be easier and closer for us to connect with the Creator.

S. Can the Creator really feel us? I'll be precise here, can he really clothe in our limited state not knowing he is the Creator, not seeing the corrected future but rather feeling our state as we feel it?

R. The Creator designs us from within, from the still point through the vegetative, animate and the speaking where we connect all of our points together and in relation to him we are not in any distance from each other but we are within him. In that way we need to depict ourselves, how we are connected between us and how we are in Him, in the Creator. That is the correct form and what will feel other than that is called the force of the shattering which is how it appears to us and that feeling of the shattering, of distance, we need to correct it within us. That's all.

58. S. (02:11:47) Yesterday you gave me such a lesson of love that I had no choice left but to become healthy today and to come back and the feeling that love is the only remedy for all disease, from all shattering, all wars, from the group and from the Creator. How can we take this tremendous force from the group and aim it to spread out love in the world? Can we do that?

R. Certainly we can do that and we can do it, how do we do it? Like everything we discuss, where we say that only with the help of connection. Let us come closer together and bring the hearts closer together so that they'll start to pump as one. synchronously. That each heart will pump for the heart that is next to it so all the hearts will pump together simultaneously. We don't need anything other than that, then thanks to that one heart that pumps strongly as one we can return the entire world to the best possible state, the end of correction.

59. S. (02:14:02) What should be the preparation for Arava Congress in the ten so we can, as much as possible, come prepared for the congress?

R. All of us need to come to become as one heart in the ten. Afterward we will try to connect the tens together. Doesn't matter where they are, some will come to us from Brazil to Israel, some will come from Turkey and other parts of them will remain in other places, so what? The main thing is that we want to be together. In spirituality there is no place, there is no distance. If we want to be together then we will be together, as much as we want to be together then we will feel that we are truly as one. That is how we hope we will have a true convention, a true connection between us. I have nothing more to add but I think if I look at the friends today, I see that it is possible. I see that it is possible.

60. S. (02:15:55) During the lesson I heard a few things that seem to contradict: the first is that the Creator is a complete system and the second is that we can harm the Creator. Can you explain how we can harm the Creator and if it's a complete system why does he enable us to do it?

R. The Creator is a whole perfect system because he is made of a single desire to give pleasure to the created beings. Beyond that we cannot research him or understand him but his desire to please the created beings, for which he created them, that is what we can research and that is what we can attain. That's all, and he has no other action. Whatever appears to us as being something other than that, is other than love there is nothing. The Creator is absolute love.

S. So how can we harm him?

R. If we will somewhat delay our correction.

61. S. (02:17:52) It's written that the feeling of good and evil with respect to the supervision, the guidance of the Creator, leads to the feeling of reward and punishment. What's the difference with respect to the providence, is this private providence or general providence?

R. An individual and general providence, when those two forms of providence connect together then we reach the complete end of correction. Individually for each person and also in a general way for all the souls.

62. S. (02:19:23) When we watch the lesson together with you does that help us connect the hearts?

R. Yes.

S. And that's why it's different when we're together?

R. Yes.

S. What qualities are corrected when we see the lesson with you together?

R. When we connect together then we have a mutual force, a mutual heart, Qualities that enter into connection between us and common heartbeats. That is what we want to attain. that all the hearts, you saw this thing where we have a metronome and when there are a few metronomes ticking together so then they synchronize.

They coordinate and click together. So we need to reveal the same thing between us. Also in the entire universe even though it appears to us as, even though it's distance appears to be immense but in any case that single force acts in everything and it is a force that does not progress at the speed of light. From one end of the universe to another but it has no boundary, in its speed and in that way it connects all the created beings together. However, in matter, it shows us that we can progress faster than the speed of light, like Rambam writes that the entire universe is created under the speed of light.

S.This joy we feel when we come to the lesson, together and we are with you is that spiritual joyness, does it belong to spirituality this joy?

R. Certainly it is spiritual. All the discernments that we receive, all the things that we acquire here knowledge, sensation, it is all spiritual and gradually we come to states where we can differentiate between them and reveal them upon ourselves in the space between us. I very much hope that it needs to take place soon. It needs to take place soon.