*This transcription is made from simultaneous translation which leaves possibility for errors.*
*Morning Lesson October 20, 2020*
*Baal HaSulam. Article "The Love of God and the Love of Man"*
1. Rav’s Introduction:
Yes, the topic is truly central. Everything we learn at the beginning of every morning lesson are usually topics that are truly in the front line, in the highest degree of priority and importance for our spiritual work, because altogether, we understand that just like we learn, the Creator created the will to receive. Then through the change in it, we can come closer or distance ourselves from the Creator. This has to do with the size of the will to receive and the most important is the intention, as through the intention the creatures can come closer or further from the Creator. This is the problem. It doesn't have to do with our desire. Sometimes our desire is very big just like in the beginning when a person comes to the wisdom of Kabbalah and discovers that he can reveal the Creator and enter some new spiritual world and is truly burnt on it, he's on fire, he's burning, but his intention, he doesn't know what his intention is at all. He didn't ever work on the intention and then he has to move from caring for the desire to being concerned with the intention and this is great work and it's not simple. It's not easy. A person starts to measure, examine, scrutinize his intention as the whole quality of this action completely is measured and weighed according to his intention. According to his intention to give more, he comes closer to the Creator and according to his intention to receive more he distances from the Creator and in the middle between his intention to give and the intention to receive, is the zero point where he can decide whether he is in the spiritual or the corporeal worlds. Where the whole spiritual world is in accordance with the intention in order to bestow, to give and the whole corporeal world, we immediately feel if we are in order to receive for ourselves. How much to receive and how much to give? It's already another matter. The essential point is that we are on the boundary between spirituality and corporeality is what our intention is and therefore until a person comes to a state in which he can examine what he's drawn towards not how much he's attracted towards it, but towards what he's attracted. This takes time for him to locate and begin to examine and attribute to this intention the main importance. Because it's like shifting it forward and it's more forward or less forward, towards the Creator towards the ego or its reversing and I'm moving backwards. This is something the intention defines. This is why it's in our hands and this is what we need to pay attention to, more and more slowly, slowly, we need to get accustomed to this, we need to live in this meaning, where does my heart lean towards? Outwards of me? Towards others, towards friends and through the friends towards the Creator? Or to myself? This decides where I'm going, who I am. Am I the Creator’s servant or do I serve myself? Do I advance to the friends and through them to the Creator or on the contrary more towards myself? This all depends on the intention and only later the desire which comes later, comes under that intention. The intention decides. Usually in the wisdom of Kabbalah we talk about the desire because it seems as though the desire is aimed at the intention, that the desire is aimed towards bestowal, towards others, towards the created beings, and from there towards the Creator. We don't actually, really pay attention to this, and that's why we need to exercise this, do drills on this. I talk about it and it's not simple. We need to aim towards that. This belongs to those who are drawn towards spirituality, drawn towards the Creator. For other people we don't need to tell them about this because this would confuse them. They don't have these discernments, they don't have in their souls yet these discernments, they don't exist yet, to bestow in their intention. It's not yet inscribed there. Here we are in what we call faith above reason, where I prefer the intention towards others and the Creator, than in order to receive for myself and so on and so forth. We will check these things, but I wanted at least today to mention and remind about the fact that we should do this clarification and scrutiny of the direction of our intention, towards who does my heart incline towards? In order to examine the intention, we need to also disconnect from the action itself where it doesn't matter what the deed itself is but for whose benefit. Who do I want to associate myself toward? As if I don't exist, but where do I want to see the good result from that which I'm doing? Or even not that which I'm doing but where my heart is attracted towards, towards the friends to be in them or towards the Creator which altogether is after the friends I locate that essence or that I am thinking about myself, I'm in myself and still I'm in that but nevertheless check what the quality of the intention is? What do you intend as they say? I have to be in this examination all the time and to live in it, meaning I need to constantly try to get accustomed to having the habit of being in the feeling of the intention meaning where am I streaming, where am I flowing towards with my actions, with my thoughts? Whether they are intentions for myself or intentions for others. Others are all those who are outside me and beyond them is the Creator. This is how I decide whether I am in the world of the Creator or in my world. In my world, meaning inside my shell, inside my will to receive. This is why the intention outside of me or towards myself or for myself, divides my reality into two parts: a part that belongs to me, me, mine and a part that I attribute to outside of me which is others and the Creator. Therefore, in order to exist in the world of the Creator and not in my small beastly world, I need to constantly see, examine and if where I am, just like the Zohar says that those people who are in the thought for themselves, the intention for themselves. They have eyes, they are looking into themselves and they don't see anything. They are truly blind. They don't see the big world that's outside of them. Their intentions are only for themselves and this is how they live, not being able to locate anything outside of this world and that's how they live and die. We need to try for our lives to be devoted for, we should say, dedicated towards replacing our sight to be only outward from us, to only discover the world of the Creator. That's called the upper world. The lower world is when we're looking, intending for ourselves, therefore this article that the friends have chosen, I saw it a few minutes ago when they sent it to me, it's the love of God and the love of man. It's truly an article that talks about these two parts: whether we're towards the love of the Creator and the love of the created beings or are we for self-love? Let's learn and see how we attribute ourselves to the love of others as we say. Others, are also the created beings as well as the Creator who is outside of us. If you have questions, please ask. We need to clarify these things and the main thing I ask throughout the day is to do exercises on this, again here again think less about the desire you should be concerned, but that intention is a must to be constantly concerned with. What am I inclined with?
2. S. (12:49) I want to have the right intention and I want to see the example and I look at the friends, that's the only example and also, but I want to know if my subjective perception of the way the friends are acting is my guide to if this is the right intention?
R. Check where you want to see the results of your exertion because now you're living and you're doing something, you're going around, looking, doing, thinking about something. Where do you want to see the changes to occur? Very simply that means the intention. Whether you want for those changes to be in your friends, in all of humanity, in the Creator or do you want them for yourself? Whether all the changes that you want to be in you are just so that you can change your attitude towards others outside of you and towards the Creator. Check that. The main thing for us now is to locate the vector, the direction towards which I am looking, what where do I want to influence, to see results? Where do I want changes to take place? To the benefit of who? Not that I want to be there. A person will be where my thoughts, where his thoughts are. That's clear but where do I want the changes to take place? If I do a restriction on myself where it doesn't matter to me what will happen with me but I want for the changes to be in others, in friends in all my friends, I want the Creator to receive all the good that I can possibly attribute to him and that's all in order to bestow. That's called, above reason, above my reason. If I'm thinking of what will be with me, that's already a problem but also it depends. It could be that in this thought I begin but later I go with it together and develop it in the direction of truly in order to bestow. Meaning the whole direction, the vector, the inclination of the thought, I need to see whether it is towards me for my benefit or for the benefit of others and the Creator, through them, through the others, otherwise they won't be correct. From the love of the created beings to the love of the Creator as we've learned. What we especially want to emphasize today is that we need to examine well and measure and locate my intentions, what is my heart drawn towards? My heart. Can I change, scrutinize, control my heart? If I'm created in an egoistic way, I've created the evil inclination, the Creator says. That's how he created me, as I only think of myself, so what will I do? As they say yes you can do specifically as the Creator created you opposite the correct form you can erect yourself in the correct way. Then you can turn to him and complain, you created the evil inclination in me where I am only thinking about myself, all of my intentions are about and thought that way because you made me that way, now help me invert them so that I will think of others and you. I want to be like you, to resemble you. This is how we work. This is all our work.
3. S. (17:44) What does it mean that the intention is what decides? Is the root of the decision not coming from the thought of creation?
R. We will learn, and you will understand the answer.
4. S. (18:10) We had a friend who had a surgery a few days ago. The group said that this friend has to tell them, what is the operation about and so they can pray for him and the friend told him no, pray for another friend who's really sick and let's pray for them, pray for him together. Is that a correct approach to when someone wants to pray to you?
R. I don't know and I'm not getting into these scrutiny, and I'm asking for everyone, you hear what I'm saying and please ask according to what we're talking exactly and not what rises in your head about all kinds of other things otherwise I won't let you ask...Think before you ask.
* Excerpt Reader (20:10 - 22:08)*
5. S. Meaning how to this rule that the Torah says that we have to come to which is love your friend as yourself, how can we include our attitude towards the Creator because altogether we need to come to the Creator. Towards him we need to arrange these things. Everything we do prior to that, outside the Creator is only to get to Him because beyond that everything in between is just existing in order to connect me to the Creator. This is why it turns out that this rule love your friend as yourself is all aimed towards the Creator meaning your friend when I intend this, it's not even people and not the world but it's the Creator where I aim through all these incidences of the creatures and altogether, still, vegetative and animal and all the speaking where I actually through this, locate my attitude towards the Creator. It could be that that's why it's written this way, love your friend as yourself and by advancing to the creatures in such a way, to the others, I need to in such a way scrutinize for myself that this is how I advance towards the Creator and to that extent in which I am in a good extent in the creatures, I attain gradually slowly, slowly my connection with the Creator. Where the Creator can't, doesn't want maybe, to reveal himself immediately before me, but rather he puts before me all kinds of such still, vegetative, animal, speaking through which if I learn how to correctly aim myself for their benefit, in such a way I eventually come to the benefit of the Creator and not that he's behind them, he's also in them. In such a way I advance and build myself towards him and then these creatures that stand before me, between me and the Creator, help me and myself to the Creator truly in order to bestow. Because such creatures themselves repulse me from them, I don't want or intend to do anything good from them and this is against my nature, against the egoistic nature but I can exercise on them degree after degree slowly, slowly still, vegetative, animal to come to a state where I am able to bestow upon everyone and accordingly where I begin to discover that it's not the creatures it's not the others but it's the Creator who's there hiding in such a way in order to enable me to develop and aim correctly my intention to bestow to him.
*Excerpt Reader (25:42 - 28:02)*
6. R. Meaning from this we can see that the whole Torah, he didn't quite explain to us yet but, precisely the whole Torah altogether and all the judgments and all the rules and all the stories, details, all the parts of the Torah, everything that is brought to us from that which the upper force was given to us through the prophets and in the Bible and all the other things everything that is spoken has, if it's truly true, correct but books that were written by those who attained the Creator, otherwise other books we don't want to read. What do we have from them? Each of those books, all of those people who spoke words after I only speak of the love of the created beings, love your friend as yourself. Even though it hides behind many stories that are very distant from this topic seemingly or at least it seems that way to us but altogether this is what they want to scrutinize and nothing else because this is how the essence, the concentrate of the whole Torah is. This is all it speaks about and when it speaks about love your friend as yourself, all of that splits to many thousands of names, characteristics, stories, rules, all of that but in each and every one of them and all of them together, it's actually that same intention to bring man to the love of others and through that to the love of the Creator.
* Excerpt Reader (30:00 - 32:39)*
7. R. You can see how hard this is even in that ten that I'm in so I have friends that are closer, I have friends that are more distant, there are those that I'm drawn towards by my nature, my corporeal nature and there are those that I can appreciate according to how much they know, understand, invest more and so on. I don't relate to all in and equal way meaning my nature, all kinds of calculations that I make which for the time being are always egoistic, aim me also not in an equal way to relate to my friends equally. Even my friends in my ten and I need to come to a state in which I relate to them equally not paying attention to what they have but rather locating and each of them only the good and all that they have and they're all so different. So how do I do this, meaning how do I raise myself to a state and which it doesn't seem to me that it is so, not easy, it's not even possible? I need to completely rise above my nature, not to take into account any tastes that I have, my relations to people, to life, to certain characteristics and attributes and nothing, and then I will be able to relate to them correctly. I need to relate to them all and in all that's in them. How is that possible? When we are born, to start with we have relation to certain things that are more, they're nicer to us or less nice, smart or not, meaning we differentiate colors flavors, forms, sounds that which we feel closer or distant, I need to rise above all those discernments and love them in an equal way where there is no difference between them all. Everyone outside of me is perfect, complete and I love them all as they are and what I don't see in them as in an equal way, it's because I'm dividing them in such a way and not that they are that way.
8. S. (35:33) It's so powerful the article in which we are talking about, I don't know what to do with such inspiration, can we read this again?
R. Well, I hope the people will allow you please.
* Excerpt Reader (35:55 - 36:10)*
9. R. Like yourself, yes…
* Excerpt Reader (36:14 - 37:30)*
10. R. Meaning he will emerge out of himself and leave himself he won't feel himself. If I feel others I stop feeling myself. What's left for me? It's like where do I exist? All the sudden I start to feel that I myself don't exist. I can't feel the other and also myself. It's one or the other. Then it turns out that if I divide myself to everyone, then I disappear. It could be that it's a desirable thing. That is reality for it to be that way. Yes.
* Excerpt Reader (38:17 - 38:31)*
11. R. If I give my heart to love others, I don't feel myself at all. My self disappears from me. I'm completely in them. Do I need to live in such a way? Yes.
* Excerpt Reader (38:51 -39:28)*
12. S. You talked about having to relate equally to me and the friends in the heart.
R. That is something we will have to clarify but let's say it's so yes.
S. You said afterwards that I need to lose myself completely?
R. I asked I didn't say. You're changing what I said here. I asked whether I lose myself by this? Stop feeling myself and then I have to exist this way? I only asked. I didn't say that it's a fact.
S. Yes, but when you start to ask for the friend let's say and you really feel that he, only he exists and at some point you disappear, the question is why do I need myself at that point? What's that egoistic additional? What does it give? What does it add?
R. That's clarified. Nice question, why did the Creator create the egoistic will to receive where we only think about ourselves and don’t feel outside our borders anything, why do we need to invert that beyond my beastly boundaries that I was born with and then start living in others. Why do I acquire that? What do I buy in this? What do I feel like I poured myself to everyone? What happens to me here? Maybe this is what we call the Divinity? Maybe this is the field that the Creator blessed and that's where I feel and discover the Creator? We will see.
S. It turns out that love to the friend needs to happen at the same time as self-love or I just need to get out of there, out there and that's it?
R. That's a question. How do we build love of others or love of the friends or love of the Creator upon my love? Then it could be that I need to build that upon that. I can see both love myself and love of the created beings and also the created beings and to the Creator. We need to clarify how we build these things. For the time being it seems to me that I prefer this over that. That's it I don't have several hearts. It could be that I in one heart, love the created beings and that's it. It could be that through the other side come to love the Creator and that's it and then I don't have a place for loving the others or loving myself. We need to see how this is yearning, this love connection, how they are connected together or not. We will scrutinize that. Nice question.
13. S. (43:10) In order to realize the rule of love your friend as yourself, do we need to fully yearn to discover love for myself?
R. No, nice question whether to love others I need to first attain love for myself. It can't be because specifically by starting forcefully in efforts to come to the love of others, you understand how you love yourself and your self-love doesn't let you go outwards and love others. Only in such a way you discover how much you love yourself. Therefore as much as we have a tendency toward love of others or love of the Creator, our ego opens up even more and even more we locate the extent and in which we love ourselves only and upon that we do a Tzimtzum, Masach, Ohr Chozer, screen, restriction and returning light and build a spiritual Partzuf which is considered we are correcting ourself towards love of others.
14. S. (44:44) About the end of the paragraph we've read, what is the reason that will bring about such a desire to work on this rule of your friend as yourself?
R. That comes to us from our Reshimot where we want to locate the Creator and we were once connected in our root prior to the shattering, us and the Creator, where us and together we were together in one desire with the Creator. Then this connection broke and then in place of us, in place of one desire there are many shattered desires, disconnected from one another and the Creator also even though he is one it is felt in each and every one as a Creator to each and everyone of us. Now we need to connect ourselves and then to that extent in which we connect our side, we can depict the Creator as more and more as one for all. That's the work. Now where do we have the Reshimot from to connect between us? From us once being connected in one desire, then we shattered, we distance from one another but in each and every one of us, besides each of us as being in his own desire, we also have an impression from that state in which we were together. There's an impression from that state where the Creator filled us. It's a very small, very weak Reshimot, recollection but it nevertheless exists and that's why we're drawn towards it. We can yearn from it and draw that state towards us.
S. When he asks whether his strength, whether he'll have the strength even if we had the desire?
R. Only by the connection between us, the more we connect the shattered pieces, we locate between us more than one force that is coming to us all which is the Creator.
15. S. (47:29) We're told that we need to love the others. Is that only a person who has the qualities of Israel, straight to the Creator or every part?
R. This is really the right question and to the point. We need to love your friend, a neighbor which is truly one who's closer to you meaning it's a sign that if I was to connect with those people who are close to me with them I will quickly enter into one desire and within this one desire I will depict ourselves and bring ourselves closer to the Creator. Each time I need to arrange my can I see what those people who are connected together with me and the inclination to bestow in everything and accordingly I advance. Just like in our lives we succeed this way if we connect to people who have the same goal and are close to us in the knowledge of attaining the goal. They are called my neighbor or my friends as they are those people because that's why as we go towards the general correction along the way we need to depict the people, those people who have an inclination towards it. The more we understand the states we need to go through the more we connect with them.
S. We need to long to love the people of the world, our friends, what?
R. To love we need everyone even though they could be harmful and very distant. We just need to understand I feel corrupted and they will reveal their corruption and will correct that as well but along the way we connect only with those who are closest to us and each time like that more and more.
16. S. (49:54) How to integrate with the public that is mentioned in the article?
R. We need to publicize the purpose of creation to everyone and to see those who are more drawn to it are closer to us.
17. S. (50:20) Could you explain but since exactly the state that we are in, our ego grew on the other hand we can't find this mechanism of the Direct light that reforms, can you give us a practical example because basically I can't implement this move together with my ten?
R. We will talk about these exercises don't worry, don't jump so much.
18. S. (51:17) Not everyone has the opportunity to correct themselves? Some are just supporting that?
R. We all have to come to the Tikkun HaKlali, complete correction and then the general correction eventually we are intermingled between us in such a way that there is no difference between big and small, those to come earlier or later, but all of us come to be as one in everything. Along the way, if in accordance with a shattered vessels, how much in each of these shattered vessels there is a Reshimot of itself, larger or smaller and then according to that we advance. That is what decides the order of the corrections and actually the biggest correction, the strongest most important vessels cannot awaken so much immediately. Therefore all the great Kabbalists in the previous generations as great as they were then and close to the Creator and revealed everything, those who will be revealed towards the end of correction will be even greater because anyone who is greater than his friend, his inclination is greater than him. Hence those who have yet to awaken within them, big desires and will have to be corrected by those who have corrected themselves prior to them and this is how they all come to correction. Meaning we're not allowed to disregard people who are now in all kinds of nations of the world somewhere out there. Actually, those vessels carry within them big desires, the AHP, big desires of reception. We Israel are considered small, direct to the Creator, those who are here now, but those to come and connect to us can I take desires and specifically thanks to them we connect and thanks to us as we draw the lights upon them, specifically in their vessels the end of correction will take place.
19. S. (54:13) Love your friend as yourself or don't do to others what upon you what are those stages in the work?
R. It's the rule that follows us, accompanies us throughout our whole path until the final correction.
20. S. (54:41) Without the state of Arvut can you come to the state of keeping the Mitzvah love your friend as yourself?
R. Of course, of course one thing depends on the other thing yes.
21. S. (55:08) What's the meaning of as thyself?
R. As yourself means like yourself, very simple, he explains this in a bit all right?
22. S. (55:40) Where is that inversion point of recognition of evil in the friend?
R. On the way, on the way, when we gradually receive the light that reforms and it gives us this mind, this feeling that love of the created beings is love of God as the same thing. This is how we detect it because what you love and the created beings, the more you correct yourself, you actually love the part of the Creator in them. Listen, if you are corrected, you start loving in the created being not there, their corporeality from the side of the will to receive but when you're in the side of the will to bestow you love the Creator that shines through them, that is present in them. When you treat the created beings as having a part of the Creator, they are all part of the same field that was blessed by the Creator, they all carry the Creator so let's say that the Creator is dressed in your ten and when you see that you love them you cling to them just as you cling to the Creator, it's one and the same. There's no other way for you to cling to the Creator if not through clinging to those parts of the Creator that exist in your friends. That's how it works.
23. S. (57:58) Love your friend as yourself, like myself, I love egotistically, how to learn to love the friend like the Creator?
R. We have to do exercises and look at the friends and be envious of them for being more successful at exiting themselves and loving others and even if they're not capable of that, they're capable of making efforts towards that. As hard as it is for them they still do it and I look at them and I see how much they work in it and I see it and I respect it and the friends who are not so capable that I also appreciate them as the Creator keeps them on the path and doesn't let them just escape. They're in the path because they have higher souls with strong powerful egoistic desires and at the moment they can't do anything about their egos and they can't connect to the friends but still even though they hate everyone and they reject everyone, they feel like they can't escape the group. So, there are many different states that I need to detect and sort out here and with it I advance. Above all, through this whole group which has all sorts of states, I maintain that the Creator sustains them. I know that the group has to contain everyone, this and that and everyone else. As long as the friends don't leave the group, and they're in it as much as they can with all their strength even though it might seem to me as though they disrespect or disregard or reject things and so on. I need to understand that this is the Creator who advances, awakens different states in them and they're fighting with themselves and nevertheless they advance. I have to try to bear everyone except for everything other than leave, everything other than a person who truly is a disturbance, but it depends. What does it mean? Maybe he says I don't want the friends I don't want the ten but he's still there and he's doing what he needs to do so I need to see, maybe the Creator is giving us all an exercise. So, it's not so simple. We will advance and see.
24. S. (1:01:19) Baal HaSulam speaks to the nations of the world. Why is it so hard to understand him? How will the nations of the world be able to come to such a huge scrutiny?
R. The nations of the world will not need all these scrutinies because we need to understand the whole Kli is divided into two parts: Israel and the nations of the world. Israel are those who feel they have recollections that relate to Binah. That's why they are drawn to the Creator. There is a part of the Reshimot that comes from Malchut and the Reshimot that comes from Binah that are drawn to the Creator by the light that shines, they arise out of the whole of humanity to reach adhesion with the Creator. Those who have Reshimot that comes more from the Malchut, they're not drawn to reach the Creator and between these two Reshimot or two camps of people there is a collision, a conflict, a separation, they don't understand each other. We have to try to gradually evolve between us and towards the purpose of creation. Then bit by bit, according to how the other part of humanity which is all of humanity besides Bnei Baruch, let's say, as they suffer we need to explain to them what is the right remedy to come out of the suffering. Now is the time when we have to start doing that, connecting between us and the Creator and on the other hand bestowing to them their method of correction, their method. We don't demand them to yearn to the Creator. We only try to explain to them that if we rise above our ego slightly, slightly, we're talking to them. If they are somewhat slightly, rising above their ego to this kind of collective connection between everyone in a very common people way in a very earthly way, according to their desire, not to completely exit their desire. If they can move in their feelings towards each other somewhat, that will be sufficient for the upper light to influence them and give them good, life, health, well-being and so on because they don't need more. They don't require more. If they just want in this way to be connected among them, just, not to harm each other, all the rest will flow through us and the upper light will rearrange our great and beautiful life. That's what we need to explain but in truth beyond it, when they begin to absorb the higher influence, they will also begin to connect with us and we will all become one system. Both of us GE and the AHP will become one Kli and the Creator will be revealed before all inside one Kli.
25. S. (1:05:38) Tell me please, we don't know how to connect and how to love others. When we do actions to nullify ourselves, we start to feel a new sensation we start to be drawn to one another, to hear one another, to do pleasant things to each other. The question is whether it's enough each time to work on self annulment and their needs, does there need to be other actions towards the friends in the world?
R. That's a very broad question. We always clarify how much a person needs to connect to his friends and to others and this is a question that encompasses the whole correction. That's one thing. Secondly, fix your microphone.
26. S. (1:06:53) Are there any external exercises that support our inner will?
R. Excellent question. We have a special teacher called Rabash. He has articles about the group but if we follow them, then we advance to the direction of love your friend as yourself. Inside love your friend as yourself, inside that connection, we find connection with the Creator called love thy Lord.
27. S. (1:07:56) Relative to my will to receive what is that quality in me called, the others? How to work with it?
R. You're asking very general questions, how do I discover who is close to me? Close to me is a friend in the group. If you don't have that, you have no one close to you, you have no one to work with, you can't advance. A person must first be in a group and try to, to become as one man with one heart with the friends in the group. Otherwise it's not good.
28. S. (1:08:47) What is this essence that's called myself in spiritual work?
R. I don't know it depends on what we're talking about and it could be not the ego, maybe already the will to bestow that I activate. Ask things that are more connected to the text, something that we can understand what you're asking. Be a little bit more how to say advanced serious and working with a text. Otherwise your questions are totally, I understand that you're asking things that suddenly come up in your minds but I don't want these questions. I see where it comes from. It's just making all kinds of connections and I want us to go into the article of Baal HaSulam and not what you suddenly think is related to a thousand other details that are related to it.
29. S. (1:10:04) How does the connection in the ten and love of friends relate to one another?
R. Without connecting between us in the ten, we won't be able to understand what love of the created beings love, what is love for our friends? We won't get it. Specifically, we have to feel ourselves closer and closer and that means there's all sorts of problems with it, ups and downs, scrutinize but when we actually find it, the connection between us, it happens through things that seem very, it seems far from it and then once again we come together and that's how it happens. If we find this unique emotion between us which is above all states, these are bonds of love, by which we come to the love of the Creator. I'll tell you how it can be seen. When you love your kid, what can you do? You hate him, you love him but you can't separate from him. Perhaps he's a criminal but you still have love for him and you're connected to him like a mother feels towards her children. That is a spiritual connection between us that we can no longer separate them from us. This is called love of friends, that we feel that we are sharing a single soul, that the Creator brought us together from above in this way and we don't have a choice. We can't separate from each other. In our life, mother and children, in the end everyone dies and nothing remains but in the spiritual life, if we become connected, that we all belong to a single soul, that's it, it's for eternity. That's how we need to understand the connection so if you see that nothing can separate us even though sometimes you hate or you reject or you don't pay attention, or they do it towards you. There's all kinds of scrutiny so along the way because the will to receive has to be completely revealed. Love covers all crimes so you have to see that this is it, they belong to you above all the states you can go through.
30. S. (1:13:27) Please tell me....
R. This is not what we're studying. I don't know what you're asking. I don't want to get into these questions. You have to help everyone clarify what is written in the article, not what you feel like asking.
31. S. (1:14:15) Wanted to ask one of the feelings that the people need is honor what is between honor and love?
R. We will see, you can ask besides honor about a thousand other things, where does it say this in the text that you're asking about it?
*Reader “We should not imagine that this verse.....”(1:14:51 - 1:15:04)*
32. R. About love your friend is yourself.
*Reader “for we are warned and insist...”(1:15:07 - 1:15:45)*
33. R. We have to care for the friend more than we care for ourselves, this is called love, that the one I love is more important to me than myself in every sense, in everything. The most obvious example is how a mother treats her baby, to her the baby is more important than herself and this happens naturally there are no other examples here. All the other examples are only in the other part of reality, spiritual reality, in the intention to bestow. There the intention to bestow can only happen above the Tzimtzum, restriction and the restriction means that I restrict myself, I raise the others above myself and the others are important. The others are more important than myself. This means that I made a restriction and then above that, above the restriction, I work towards the benefit of others. Don't think that we're capable of that, if not by the upper Force. The Creator dresses in us and then we are capable of doing that.
*Reader “Even more than that they said that one must satisfy....”(1:17:29 - 1:18:40)*
34. R. It is clear to us from what he explains to us here that when we reach in order to bestow, we simply replace the will to receive or we replace an individual need with the needs of others in a way that we are capable of either restricting ourselves and following the needs of others or even opening ourselves up to bestow to others. If we just restrict ourselves and work according to the desire of others this is called bestowing in order to bestow, if we also take all of our powers and transmit them, transforming them for others this is called receiving in order to bestow. Accordingly, we go through two states, infancy, Katnut, smallness and Gadlut, adulthood, greatness. Katnut, Smallness is when we can only relate ourselves to others and greatness is when we can use all of our power to bestow to others.
35. S. (1:19:55) Why don't we call Jews the others because they have Reshimot?
R. I didn't understand?
S. We learned with you that the Jews have the Reshimot, so why are the Jews not close to us, why are they not called the others?
R. Since when have you been studying with us?
S. 11 years.
R. It doesn't seem like it from what you're asking it doesn't seem like you're with us, how many times do we explain that has nothing to do with who is Jewish or who is not, today we are awakening toward the general correction. Those who awakened are called Jewish in that they achieve Yichud, unity, with the others and the Creator and those who are not awakening are not considered or called you a Jew or Yashar Kel, Israel because they don't have that inclination straight to the Creator, only according to the intention. We said today everything follows the intention of the person, not whether he is born from a Jewish mother, We have to get used to that and transfer to that very well we are transferring to spiritual discernment not beastly discernment as it was for the two thousand years of exile. Understood?
36. S. (1:22:04) Can we say that from the love of the friends in the ten we can come to the love of others, the love of the world, the love of the created beings? Is it a matter of resolution?
R. Not only resolution but through that we achieve it, through love of friends we achieve everything, love of the created beings and the love of the Creator.
37. S. (1:22:38) Whether the move from love of self to love of others is at once or slowly and gradually?
R. Everything is gradual, there is almost nothing that happens at once.
S. So in the ten we say that today we are going to cross the Machsom what does this mean?
R. I don't know, but you should know because you're talking about breaking the barrier. Breaking the barrier means breaking through the boundary between the intention for self and the intention for others, if I shift in my intentions to intentions for others that means that I crossed the barrier.
38. S. (1:23:33) What is the result of rising, raising the concern for others above the concern for myself?
R. When I raise the concern for others instead of the concern for myself it means that I moved from in order to receive to in order to bestow and I enter the territory of the Creator, the spiritual world.
39. S. (1:24:16) He starts the verse with meaning to fulfill the needs of his friend and then he moves to fulfilling the needs of his servant. Is there something in this or..?
R. No difference, servant or friends, no difference.
S. You spoke about the Reshimot that is the residue of Israel and the Reshimot of the nations of the world, can there be a situation where the Reshimot is mixed both here and there?
R. It is in each and every one after the shattering, of course, this is why we are all integrated with each other and we can connect and do it in order to bestow.
40. S. (1:25:16) He said the Creator will help me to love others as myself so what is my work here my first action is my intention?
R. You should try to reach a state where your friend is more important than you in attaining bestowing to the Creator, your friend is intended to help you reach bestowal to the Creator and without him you can't reach it.
41. S. (1:26:10) On one hand we need to love the point of the Creator in the friend on the other hand he writes that we need to feel the lack of a friend or another how do these both come into place?
R. It is the same thing, think about how it is the same thing and you will see how it is like that.
42. S. (1:26:39) What is changing in us that allows us to slowly feel the friends? I start off the path and can only feel myself and then I get a small sensation of the friend what changed and how to grow this ability to feel the friend?
R. You have to do everything that Rabash writes in the social articles and then you will feel that something is changing in your relation to the friends because the upper light influences and brings changes in your attitude to them, you begin to feel a great importance in them for attaining the Creator. You start a turning, from attaining the connection to them and the attainment of the Creator, at first you don't feel that there is a connection between these two. So I have friends and I have the Creator, I need the Creator but I'm told that I have to be with the friends so I will be. But you still don't connect the group that you wish to establish together with them and the attainment of the Creator that appears inside the group, inside the connection between them, between the friends. You are still not putting these two things together, that is why the love of friends is like a burden, like something that you have to do. Your ego doesn't let you recognize this, that it is actually the vessel for the revelation of the Creator, the group is the vessel where the Creator is revealed. The level of connection that you have with a friend's is the level of revelation of the Creator.
43. S. (1:29:11) When we start feeling the friends do we feel their personal qualities or a general deficiency of the ten?
R. Normally it is a collective deficiency, good question.
44. S. (1:29:46) Towards the friends there is one problem, there are such friends that give you a very good example: they bring envy, and those are the friends that I love more. I can't have the same attitude toward everyone liking them so what do I do with it? Do you have to have a similar attitude toward everybody or use a different attitude?
R. The group always contains within it all kinds of people, that we can't even say who is better or who is worse, perhaps those who are doing harm actually help us because we see what is missing, what is good, what is not. So, we have to understand that everything has a place, the Creator created the evil inclination and the evil inclination constantly grows. We grow on top of the evil inclination with the good inclination, love will cover all of the crimes so that the more crimes we have the more love we will have and you can't increase love if you can't increase the crimes between us first. So we need to accept whatever comes and work with it, not to say that I disagree with it with this being revealed or that it being revealed whether something is good or something is not good, but rather everything that is revealed is revealed and thank God the Creator revealed that. What did He reveal? I don't care what, whether I feel good or bad about it I accept everything with love. Try it this way.
45. S. (1:31:53) Do we need, the rules Rabash writes about do unto others as you would have done unto you do we....?
R. Of course, in our group we must not harm each other, what I would want for me, how could I not do it to the friends? On the contrary we have to increase love, what is the question?
46. S. (1:32:37) Is it the beginning of the restriction and requesting to restrict myself in order to connect to the friends right away to ask for the friends?
R. Ask for the friends immediately and restrict myself, what actually they don't interfere with one another, but first of all ask for the friends to try to shift and to be in them and as a result of that you will understand what you have to restrict in yourself.
47. S. (1:33:27) What does it mean to buy a slave? And what does it mean to buy a friend?
R. That is irrelevant for us now, I have to buy a friend through gifts, when I buy a slave I don't buy him as a friend through gifts, but it is irrelevant for us, we are not in these scrutiny.
48. S. (1:34:08) Why does the ego not allow us to see and feel these states?
R. Because the ego is the opposite of the intention to bestow, that's why it closes us, either we are in this world, and this half the intention to receive or intention to bestow and accordingly we understand differently, think differently and feel differently, this is why our ego completely disconnect us from spirituality.
49. S. (1:35:23) When we learn these lessons we are also searching for ways to implement it in the work between us, what can you recommend for today to implement in that connection of love your friend is yourself equally among all of the friends?
R. We have to feel all of the friends equally before me because that is how it comes to me from the Creator and the reason I see them different is because I see them different than my ego, but in fact I have to come to a state where they are all as one. As one, and I am together with them and I really can't distinguish between them, but distinguish according to what? That they are all close to me and they are all complementing one another into one desire in which I see that the Creator is happy to be revealed and he is together with them. That is it.
*Reader “One Commandment” (1:37:15 - 1:38:37) reads first paragraph twice*
50. R. Who in the world is in love of others, who is in that state? And if not then all of the demands that their Creator demands of people we don't pay attention to it, we are in our animal life that is all we are dealing with, in the upper Force and His goal doesn't matter to us. Everyone is like that, religious, secular, everyone.
*Reader “ Since we observe the details but not the actual..(1:39:05 - 1:39:13)”
R. If the Creator demands some instruments, some means to come to love people and to love Him, then we are willing to do it physically with our hands, but not in our hearts, not in our hearts. We are willing to show that we are connected, to pray, but these things are only in corporeality, material, we do it mechanically, but not in our hearts. What can you do? It is called dipping with an insect in his hand.
*Reader “it is written When You observe the will of the Creator...”(1:39:55 - 1:40:19)*
51. R. He is giving you a simple example, if you are living in your society and there are still people among you who need something this is not regarded as being in a state of loving others, very simple. There is no point of philosophizing and doing things, if there are people who are lacking something to sustain themselves, it is a sign that you have no love for others and according to this the Creator relates to you because you are not concerned with love of others.
*Reader “The issue of the Hebrew slave that the....”(1:41:05 - 1:41:21)*
R. If someone from the outside comes to us and wants from among us we have to relate to him as if to everyone else, even though he may be Jewish or non-Jewish, it doesn't matter, if he is living among us we have to relate to him as to everyone else.
*Reader “The meaning of the text is that even if they for a...”(1:41:41 - 1:41:55)*
53. R. It is written in the Torah, more than 30 times in the Torah that you have to love the stranger, the foreigner, you have to relate to those who don't belong to your nation or to your tribe, to your kind, you have to relate to all of them with love. And we said what love means.
*Reader “the word ger, proselyte or foreigner...”(1:41:22 - 1:42:41)*
54. R. In other words if he is tending to be among us, that he wants to be like us in that giving, in that same inclination, the same direction as ours and to live like us then we have to accept him like everyone else among us.
*Reader “This is the meaning of Mitzvah, .....”(1:43:06 - 1:43:22)*
55. R. In other words, only through these commandments, if we do this commandment by this, we are performing all of the commandments and we correct the entire world. Read again.
*Reader “this is the meaning of the Mitzvah......”(1:43:35 - 1:45:00)*
56. R. There is a reason why Baal HaSulam expands and elaborates on these words and intensifies them increasingly more, he wants to say that the people are all the same people, we are all part of the complete vessel of Adam Ha Rishon, the difference is only in those who perform the corrections first and those who perform them later, those who perform them now are more obligated and those whose turn has not arrived, has not come, we mustn't disrespect them as they will come later and complete the corrections. So, we have to care for the entire vessel which is called Adam and all of humanity belongs to that correction.
*Reader “We must understand that are sages...”(1:45:57 - 1:46:16)*
R. They spoke only about how we should perform the corrections to achieve the purpose of life, the purpose of creation, only about that and not about things that don't relate to it. It relates to everything but in a very marginal way, but only about what relates to corrections, because we don't need to learn things that are outside of our perception of our attainment, as we advance toward great corrections in the purpose of creation these things appear to us anyways.
*Reader “therefore when they say one commandment...”(1:46:51 - 1:47:31)*
57. R. In other words what is he trying to tell us time and again? We have nothing to do other than connect to the point of love among everyone and by that we correct all of creation, we come to the degree of the Creator, Dvekut, adhesion with the Creator and that completes everything. So, what is he trying to say when he says love the Lord your God in adhesion with the Creator? It all happens within, specifically within love of people, if we come to such a connection where we all connect together, this is a complete correction of the world.
58. S. (1:48:17) Love toward another friend of Bnei Baruch is this personal or general?
R. It is just love and that is it, it's not love of the world, it's not love of everyone it is partial love. What is important for us is that it is on the way to the end of correction, along the way we will have love of the world.
59. S. (1:48:57) How in this current state can we give the pillow to the ten practically in order to supply their needs and by that to be guarantors for the world?
R. You have to talk about it and if you have questions, I'm willing to participate and answer. But of course, we have to help each other and give each other examples from one ten to another.
60. S. (1:49:42) What is the meaning of the part where he is part worthy and part not worthy in the ten and how to pray so we will all be worthy?
R. We have to constantly ask corrections from the Creator because they can only come from Him and out of our situation as much as we detect where we are deficient, for that we have to pray first. But even if we don't feel what is missing exactly, we can always ask for an addition of love, because there is no boundary, there is no limit to love and we can always ask for more.
61. S. (1:50:46) He did perform one Mitzvah and save the world, is that about the nations of the world that only have to do one thing or is this talking about everyone including us that we have to do so many things?
R. We don't need to do that many things along the way compared to the nations of the world, we also only have to do this one Mitzvah of love your friend as yourself, but we observe this Mitzvah of loving others as yourself gradually through all of the degrees, through all of this states that the Creator throws upon us, reveals in us, the whole breaking, gradually and we have to connect meaning correct the shattering. In the connecting vessels we begin to discover the inner light which is the Creator, the inclusive of all of the worlds, conversely the nations of the world get it all prepared, they don't need to go through this gradual process the way that we do with the Reshimot, Katnut smallness, Gadlut greatness and all of the scrutiny, they don't, they receive it through connecting to us. What does that mean, and how do we learn it? We learn it from what we learn that we build the vessels of bestowal, GE and when we have GE we begin to connect ourselves the Kelim of AHP, the vessels of reception to the extent that we can receive the vessels of AHP according to the Aviut, thickness that we can add to ourselves in order to bestow. Then we correct and this is why it is revealed in them without first correcting the GE, but rather they receive it all at once. Baal HaSulam writes this in many places and you can find it. That is the difference in the corrections, but until then, we haven't discovered the vessel, the complete vessel of GE, there is a lot more in the world and many more parts of the soul of Adam Ha Rishon that still have to be added to the GE and they have to join and correct themselves. Those that belong to AHP we will add them later, we have to disburse the knowledge and the information among everyone throughout the world so that those who belong to GE will join us and we'll gradually receive their correction and then all of us together, all of the GE will work on AHP but now also we can already make it known to everyone.
62. S. (1:54:05) If friends hide what they're lacking does this harm the advancement of the ten?
R. No, it is all included in the corrections.
63. S. (1:54:31) We read from Baal HaSulam that we do everything except for the main thing and this sentence of love your friend as yourself is a big rule in Torah, I say that I'm sorry to say that is the smallest sentence on the side, people don't even say it because they're sick of it, people even say that there is a writing mistake there. There is no real understanding about this. How do you break through this psychological barrier to understand that this is the main thing and I'm thinking about everybody especially towards dissemination.
R. I understand, and look I have no answer, somehow make efforts to come to implemented, to observe it even a little bit this love your friend is yourself, I can't obligate everyone to do this. We understand that the whole world doesn't understand it and the current corporeal people of Israel don't understand and don't want to know or understand, everyone rejects these things. They are willing to do any corporeal material thing instead of doing this one spiritual act. But that is what we have and we have to keep going and I still hope we are coming closer to a state where the Creator will reward us with keeping this Mitzvah at least to those who have in their internal residue the inclination towards it.
S. On behalf of the mind people ask what is the connection with the subject as a whole of the stories in the Torah what does it have to do with being slaves and going through the desert even the romantic stories how do we explain that this is a connection and the whole story?
R. It is one story in one connection about how the created being which is entirely egoistic, aiming to receive which gradually finds that it is in the ego and it must reach the opposite of the ego, love so that instead of self-love it comes to love of others and that is the whole transformation, inversion that it has to go through. It is a problem how to explain it, believe me I also would like to know how to explain it and how to implement it. We will try together.
64. S. (1:57:47) To continue specifically what we are reading here, if we do this between us so we are determining the work world to the scale of merit, why do we need their agreement to this commandment?
R. The end of correction when all the people in the world come to love your friend as yourself, the fact that I am doing it by myself or even in my ten then I did some personal correction in one cell, this is just one cell because a ten is one cell in the entire common soul of Adam HaRishon. By this if I don't extend it onwards then by this, I become in order to receive, I become a Klipot, a shell. The spiritual direction, the plan of creation demands that I extend it immediately to everyone, until everyone works in order to bestow in adhesion with the Creator. How can I settle for any less?
S. According to what I feel from the article, the work itself in connection between us, if we are a conduit asking for the love of friends between us and want it to spread to the entire world, this is what we need ?
R. No, if you are saying that we wanted to spread over all of the world and we're implementing it we don't need anything more.
S. So that is already in my personal work, so what is the matter of dissemination beyond drawing them that they are part of the Rosh in the correction, what's the point?
R. Because you also won't be able to complete yourself completely unless you correct your connection with the AHP and pull all of the nations of the world to you.
S. So my ability to perform the connection is that I feel them and I'm connected to them and there is a meaning for aiming towards them because I could supposedly aim not only for ourselves that it seems to us that we are intending but not in reality?
R. Your correction is mainly that you are extending the upper world through you to all the nations of the world, why else do GE exist if not in order to sustain the AHP which are the vessels of reception that the Creator created as if we don't exist, those who are drawn to the Creator, we are only the conduit that is what he is writing to us in the Arvut. We are only a conduit, a passageway connecting the Creator to the real created beings and the real created beings are the whole AHP. They are the ones that need to be corrected, the Creator yearns for their correction and for their filling to be clothed in them. If this could be done seemingly without Israel, without this part He would. Because we are completely insignificant here, we don't matter, we matter only for the correction of the world and if we don't induce the correction of the world and there is no need for us. Totally, you could just destroy this part, what is GE? It exists only for the purpose of AHP because the will to receive that the Creator created and wants it to be similar to him is the AHP.
S. So us disseminating is not for people to agree with the rules specifically but to awaken their desires and their attitude and we are performing the correction above it. I don't need them to agree, I just need their desire and I will correct it?
R. Well, you can say that also, because to the extent that we connect to them and all kinds of ways to that extent we can bestow, pour on them the Upper lights and they will make them connect to us.
65. S. (2:03:29) Does the collective deficiency in the ten, should it also include love for the entire world?
R. Yes of course, we have to come to a state where the power of connection and love happens among everyone.
66. S. (2:04:12) What is the example that the friends have to give one another?
R. Connection and love, what is the question?
67. S. (2:04:45) There is a feeling that it is hard for us to implement this, can you aim us exactly what to ask for, what should we pray for in order to really feel that these things live in us?
R. We will now keep going to maybe another paragraph, it will let us understand what is going on and in what practical way we should perform this.
*Reader “Now there is no question about the Commandments...”(2:05:37 - 2:06:48)*
68. R. In each one of us according to the root of the soul, according to the character of the group as much as you can come close to the connection between those so that connection will be suitable for the Creator as much as you can understand it, so go ahead and do it.
*Reader “And To Adhere To Him” (2:07:11 - 2:10:20)*
69. R. That is called the law of root and branch that everything that is in the root is also in the branch and whatever is pleasure in the root so it is pleasure in the branch and what the root suffers so the branch suffers it is also clear we have the same rules in this world.
*Reader “Because our root is the Creator...”(2:10:40 - 2:11:20)*
70. R. Meaning the way that he asked before when I receive from society, I'm embarrassed, why am I embarrassed, why am I ashamed where is the shame coming from? Because it is according to the law of nature because I don't resemble the root, the Creator has no such thing as receiving and when I receive that is why I am ashamed. If the Creator would be receiving then I would also receive and I would not be ashamed, I would be proud. It is all according to equivalence of form.
*Reader “On the other hand the whole matter of baseness...”(2:11:56 - 2:13:53)*
71. R. That is the correct education that we are born in this world, like animals and then we need to educate or to raise ourselves and then our children, generation after generation to resemble the Creator, very simple. That is it. How do we do this practically? In connection between us, in love between us, generation after generation and each generation will be born in an egoistic way and every generation has to get an upbringing towards the love of others. Towards bestowal to the others and in this way we will advance to the general correction.
*Reader “But we still don't know what that cleansing.....”(2:14:49 - 2:15:34)*
72. R. Yes, he was born opposite of the Creator.
*Reader “When one grows and his educated in Torah....”(2:15:40 - 2:16:19)*
73. R. So, we have now to correct ourselves, even though we were born opposite of resemblance to the Creator.
*Reader “By this the creature develops...”(2:16:29 - 2:17:17)*
74. R. If he performs actions in order to bestow increasingly more as much as he can as much as he finds it's called that he is performing commandments meaning taking steps towards bestowal more and more. When he finishes them, he reaches complete Dvekut, adhesion with the Creator, he performs the Mitzvah between the created beings with love to them and according to that he reaches love towards the Creator. By that he implements himself and rises to internality in the upper world.
75. S. (2:18:00) Who wants to come to the connection Yichud, who are these foreign ones and how do I be a conduit to them to convey the wisdom?
R. We explain this in a very distant way from actually implementing, we explain about creation, the parts of creation, how we all exist in one system and so on until we reach a corruption that also explains what it is in creation and the correction that has to come. In this way we actually, first of all we open the whole system for a person, where we are what's going on with us, all of humanity, what parts can start the correction which parts will join later, how do we reach the end of correction where everyone becomes one in the Upper force fills us all, this is what we explain and in this way a person starts feeling does he belong to this, no, does he care, no. This is how you advance.
76. S. (2:20:10) It seems like every ten there is AHP how do we work with the part that seems like it is stopping us in the work of love of others?
R. That is an each and everyone they are vessels of GE and AHP because we all come after the shattering and this whole mixture where everybody is mixed up in that shattering, that is why in and everyone there is also GE and also AHP and in such a way we have to sort these desires what is up and what is down, first week correct the desires that are closer to bestowal, spirituality, connection, love, afterwards we start adding the lower desires and it is also that when we feel in each one of us a part of GE and AHP then we, what we discover is what we work with. Every time we see more and also in GE and also and AHP and also in this way we advance. But it is not important for us all of this mechanics of the way that it happens, the main thing for us is to work in the same direction, connection between love, between friends and society and to reach such a connection that it will be called love. This is how it is.
S. It seems like we are distinguishing between those who want to connect and those who don't are influenced by the connection between us. Do we just leave them or do we connect to them and try to connect them to us?
R. We want to connect everybody into one circle without pressing on the others these more or these less, everyone together, the main thing is to be in the circle and that everyone will feel that they have an obligation to come into the circle and then others will feel how much they are lacking to be in that circle along with everybody.
77. S. (2:22:59) Baal HaSulam writes here that those who are going the maximum to bestow upon others achieve maximum adhesion with the Creator so when we bestow upon the friend is this like bestowing upon the Creator?
R. There is no additional force in our attitude towards adhesion to the Creator. It is all inclusive, if we reach a state that we are all included in the ten, we start feeling some force in this, a mutual force between us that is called the inclusive and that is the Creator. Every time more and more, as much as we attain the forces of connection between us, that general common force that is revealed in all of us, that is called the Creator. Let us say this, it is like an integral, that you have from the sum of all of the individuals, the sum has a different essence which is more exalted.
S. What does it mean if that force of connection we discover the thought of the action?
R. We discover the root towards us, we also reveal a feeling and I was from the Creator, and there is the revelation of the Creator that is in us, His thought towards us, His actions towards us. So, there is like a child that feels what he is getting from his mother and he doesn't care about anything that is what he wants and that is what he can. But there is one who starts understanding the mother, what does she expect from him, what is her intention, this is already attaining the Creator.
S. So we are discovering that the force of love between the friends organizes everything, it totally controls us?
R. Without the force of love between us he makes us exist He calibrates us, He manages us but above this there is also a force that invites this force of love which is the Creator and this is what we also attain. But again, from building the force of love between us we start attaining the force of the Creator which is above us. Yes.
78. S. (2:26:03) How to implement during the day what we learned in the lesson practically?
R. I don't know you have to worry about this, if you don't go through this during the day so we wasted the lesson. It seems that it hasn't been absorbed in you and it doesn't bear any fruits, so you don't advance. The whole day has to be in a concern of how do we implement what we received in this morning lesson. All in all, we learned one topic but in all kinds of changes that we got from it, different results that we received from it. We have to try and connect them all together into one topic, because except for this there is nothing, nothing. We are not even speaking how we need to publish this in the world or how we need to realize it between everybody, we are only talking about how we absorbed this in us, how we absorb it in the group, no more than that.
79. S. (2:27:42) We learned about the rule love your friend as yourself, that it is a great rule, and we see how difficult it is for us to implement it. I want to ask if the Mitzvot between a person and the Creator can help us cleanse the body, purify the body and help us to advance to come to this rule?
R. Yes and only in such a way.
80. S. (2:28:19) Is love the same as bestowal and how is love expressed in the ten?
R. Love is the upper degree in bestowal, and it has to be expressed clearly between us in connection.
81. S. (2:28:46) How can we picture the ten if we don't see any corruption in the ten? Do we ask the Creator to expose the collective bad, so we have something to ask for correction for?
R. We're not asking for the corruptions we only ask Him for love and the connection, then we see where we are corrupted.
S. Can the ten be corrected even if it doesn't see any corruptions in itself?
R. The correction in more forms is that you're not connected enough between you, if you start connecting more between you than you will discover more that you can't and you will have a revelation of the corruptions.
82. S. (2:30:05) When it grows and becomes educated in Torah and commandments only aimed towards bestowal and contentment to the Creator and not towards himself he comes to this towards others.... what is this condition before he is corrected in his intention so that initially from the very beginning, he aims only to bestow contentment, how this is possible?
R. As much as possible and even if he doesn't know how to do it, he has to be aimed towards that state, just like a child, what do teach a child that knows nothing? You tell him that you have to try this and that, but I don't know, but you have to try. Just like that.
S. There is always the question if we haven't reached love of others how can we...
R. I just explained you have to try and it doesn't matter whether you know it or not or whether you succeed or not, you have to try.
83. S. (2:31:19) We started the lesson with your request to maintain the right intention and the whole lesson has been very focused on one topic, how do we maintain this during the day?
R. I see this in the way that the lesson goes by like today a great advancement and a great help from above upon us, that we are truly becoming a big group of people that are able to be in one topic for 3 hours, to discuss it, learn about it and to try to implement it. I think that it will work, we will succeed, we have to keep going throughout the day and I hope that you will scrutinize all of these details on this topic. Start more and more to be in it and we will keep going. We didn't finish the article and the topic has no limits, it is endless and eternal.
84. S. (2:32:44) How can the friends help each other come to love of others on the level of thought and intention?
R. Example, give an example, that is the most certain that works in the group.
85. S. (2:33:19) In the implementation of today's topic and during the day what state of prayer are we expected to reach please?
R. We are expecting to reach such a prayer that it will entirely be a plea for the force of love that we will have the force to love everybody, mainly our ten and in that ten we will discover the force of unity and at least we will correct that small cell from all of the parts of the body of the shattered Adam HaRishon but from that cell we will be able to expand and add more cells, more tens and increasingly more in this way we will advance.
86. S. (2:34:38) In the beginning of the lesson you told us about scrutinizing our intention, you repeated several times the question where is my heart leaning? It sounds like I'm scrutinizing where my desire is and it's not clear to me how it's connected..?
R. The intention is where my heart is tending to for myself or outside of me; the outside of me is for the others and for the ten and for the Creator.
S. Is the work more in about thought where a person thinks that he is or in the feeling?
R. I don't know how to discern between them, I think this intention is in our desire and our desire when it starts becoming it is like if you are playing with a magnet and nails, so let's say you put them in a line, one after the other so if you are working with the intention, already according to that intention you can start seeing the directions of how everything is organizing, how the force is working how it gives you a feeling that it has everything into it, everything follows the intention.
S. In the end we have to set an example to each other and it's not clear how to give an example of inner work while most of the day we are disconnected from each other?
R. I don't know, everything will be clarified in thought as it is written, everything will be clarified in thought, hold them in your thoughts all the time. If you hold them in your thoughts you are already working on them and constantly thinking about them and if you with your thoughts, you are with the Creator also and you want to bestow to the friends, by this you are already becoming a Creator's worker.
S. In this work can I demand something of the friends, is there mutuality here or do I have to demand of myself?
R. Yes, you can demand but first of yourself if you see that you've already reached a state that you need to awaken Your friends physically that they will also participate and you're certain that it will be for the benefit of everybody so gently you can do it. But actually, each and everyone has to scrutinize within himself what is his attitude. I think it is simple, try listening or reading, Whoever has such an opportunity, this article a few times a day, today. You will start seeing as much as you have more inner connections here during the day.
S. During the day I feel awakenings it is a sign that somebody probably asked about me?
R. Probably
S. I want more of this so can I add more out of me?
R. So you think back about them and you will awaken them to think about you.
S. This focus is upon me I don't have demands from the friends.
R. It is not demands, you can just think about them about the connection between us, why not?
S. It is me doing it, I can't come to the friends and tell them I need to feel more love from them.
R. You awaken it within yourself without speaking, awaken your love towards them and you will see as much as you feel that they are awakening towards you.
S. If I am on the road today should I listen to the lesson again or the writers meeting that's happening at that time?
R. if it's at the same time then listen to the lesson, the lesson is more important.
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