Morning Lesson June 3, 2021, Transcription
Preparation for the Convention - Selected Excerpts from the Sources, #8
1. Rav’s Introduction: We continue to scrutinize how we set up to re-establish the broken system of Adam, the system of the soul. How do we erect that system? The Creator shattered it for us, just like we present a certain puzzle, building blocks to a little child so he will put it together and learn what is the meaning of the whole thing, and we need to do the same with ourselves. Except the problem with ourselves is that we are still separated from one another, emotionally separate, called the evil inclination, our ego, which rejects us from one another. We need to come close to one another to such an extent that we connect in our inner points, as it says, ‘as one man with one heart’. It's not simple, it is difficult. We don't want it so much. We don't understand the connection to it and we start from a very remote place where our desires, our intentions, all of our senses, sensations work in an opposite manner, in order to receive. Why did the Creator do it in this way? We would be able to relate very precisely, accurately, realistically to the connection between us. I know why I hate the other, that is my nature and his nature. I can't stand him and I can't come close to him, let alone appreciate him more than I appreciate myself, and want to be connected with him more than how I relate to myself. I need to prefer him over what I have and all those things are in order to scrutinize all of the discernments that exist in connection. With these discernments, we acquire a special force, a special feeling called NRNHY, five levels of the revelation of the Creator, of the attainment of the Creator, in us, NRNHY. In this way we advance more and more through greater rejections and we need to overcome them with greater importance for connection. Meaning each time, we need to portray before our eyes the structure of Adam HaRishon, and we have to reach a state where everything goes back to the way it was. And we are in charge of this entire process. There are many things in it. We are gradually discussing them and each time we need to seemingly start over. Each time we need to seemingly start over, and each time, it’s written,’ and they shall be as new in your eyes’, on the one hand. On the other hand, ‘a penny and another penny are added to a great sum’, since what was yesterday is not felt in me today. It is already corrected and through that I receive revelations of greater corruptions to correct. That's how we advance, we climb up with our feeling, our intellect, our discernment until we begin to assemble this puzzle, in practice, into one whole picture of man. Man is the form of the corrected desire that resembles the Creator.
Excerpt 8 (05:26 - 06:29)
2. R. (06:32) Meaning we need the nights in order to renew the deficiency so each time we would work on a greater deficiency, and in this way advance to putting together this one vessel. For that, we need the night. We need the daytime in order to awaken the lights, surrounding lights, until they correct us, connect us and to that extent they enter and begin to fill the corrected vessels. This is called ‘inner light’ that fills the Partzuf and this way each and every part of Adam HaRishon must undergo corrections until we reach the end of correction.
3. S. (7:26) What does it mean that the flame rises by itself?
R. That we want, by ourselves, this connection so much so that our desire will determine the corrections, not that the Creator awakens us using the light that was in Adam HaRishon and then departed and is pressuring us and we advance in this manner. Rather we awaken, it's written ‘I awaken the dawn and the dawn does not awaken me’. That's how we wish to advance.
S. But it says if we awaken each other in the 10 and ask for the friends. How is that related to these?
R. We are still not touching on this because we do not have the will to receive that which appears in such a way that is showing us different modes and various degrees of difficulty, 0 1 2 3 4. We still can't feel the layers or the levels of the ego inside of us when we feel such rejection from one another. Later we work on it and we come to connection with one another. This is all ahead of us. But everything comes from overcoming the will to receive.
S. It’s a special kind of will receive that we have to reveal?
R. No, we don't have to discover a certain special kind of desire. We have many desires that are the state of self-love and hate for the other. We need to try to, of course, discover them as such, reveal them as such and try to work with them because there are no other desires, they are all broken. Above that we need to try and be connected. Very simple, be connected above them.
Excerpt 9 (10:22 - 13:12) twice
4. R. (13:15) First of all, this is how we feel, several things here, the fact that each and every one meets disappointment along the way. It's a must, otherwise there is no difference between the degrees. There has to be a revelation of evil that we can detect, locate, overcome it, turn it to the good and by that connect it instead of separation and come to connection and that's how we connect the vessel, that's one thing. The second thing is that each time we need to work between us on the goal which is wholeness. The more we are able to connect between us, this wholeness is that state where each one completes one another until we come to this concept called the Creator, the final completion. Or that in each and every degree, we feel that state as such and the Creator is filled more and more, as Kabbalists say, ‘each day I have a new Creator’. It's because they discovered this concept called Creator, BoReh, it's one of those concepts we attain, Bo Reh, ‘come and see’. There's no other way. You have to do it only in this way, it is the only way to attain it and outside of our attainment, there's no image, no place or anything. There is upper force, that is something else, but the Creator is only relative to us. The more we prepare between us in order to detect Him and get to know Him in our vessels, and this character that we established between us is called Creator, as it is written ‘you have made Me’, just like that. That's why this is our work. Each day we must try to assemble from the shattering, each day something new called the upper force, our Bestower. We want to resemble Him with our relative effort and in this relative manner we discover a relative piece of Him. That's why each time we have a different Creator.
5. S. (16:17) What is the best thing to receive the strength to overcome, to be incorporated in the 10 or to ask of the Creator directly and constantly?
R. No. to connect to the Creator directly, immediately is not so beneficial since what am I raising to Him? I need to raise to Him something for him to correct. The Creator doesn't do anything except for correct what we are raising to Him, which is called MAN and He corrects us through His participation called MAD. Only in this way can we participate with Him and He with us. So only a prayer, only a request on our part that is what gets to the Creator. This prayer has to be complete. It has to be a prayer in a minyan, in a quorum, meaning it comes from a group and that's how we make it. A prayer has to be when we feel just how much we are unable to connect ourselves and we’re asking Him to connect us. Ultimately all the prayers have to be of this nature, why? Because what else is there for us to pray, to ask? The Creator created the vessel in an incomplete way and shattered it. And we have to ask that He will put it back together. When we discover our breakage and we ask the Creator to correct it and connect us then we are present both in the shattering and in the correction. That's why the entire work of the Creator, what we discover in how He did it in the shattering and in the corrections that He will make, all of that, we acquire on ourselves, by ourselves, by our own efforts, on our own flesh. That's why we don't need anything more than to be present in these two actions. Then you can say that we acquire the vessels and we are ready to receive fulfillment in them.
6. S. (19:04) I noticed in my work in the 10 when I give myself a task to call the friends and give them greatness against resistance, I get energy immediately, but in the inner work in my thoughts it doesn't happen this way, why?
R. Keep going, keep going and you will see the differences in it. When you are speaking about a connection between you that is precisely that place where the Creator helps a person but if you are asking only for yourself then to whom are you connecting and what to do? You don't feel that much help from Him or changes, only in this way you will feel them. It will push you to the revelation of evil so you'll begin to ask correctly, okay?
Excerpt 10 (20:23 - 21:03) 2x
7. (21:06) This adhesion depends on how much he appreciates the friends. Here, we can somehow measure and check, each passing day, how much I am trying in that, how much the Creator is giving me an opportunity, there. Each day I have a new form of criticism of the friends, ‘let it be as new in your eyes’, and I am asking the Creator to overcome, to help me. Nevertheless, I feel distant and in rejection from my friends, repulsion. I try, nevertheless, to come close to them and although it seems to me that my distance from them grows daily -- where is the closest that I facilitated yesterday? Nevertheless, I understand that I have no choice and I must work only on the connection. I don't care that much to see if I come closer but what is important is if I asked or not. As it says, ‘why didn't you ask? This is the main thing. In order to bring me to great corrections the Creator brings me a variety of states all opposite from wholeness so I won't get comfortable thinking that I'm in advancing. You can rest on your laurels, so to speak. But rather if I want, I'll always see myself deficient, and this is a sign of progress.
8. S. (23:06) Here in the excerpt it said, ‘without any work’, whereas now you just said that as much as I ask for myself . . . what does it mean ‘without any work' when I don't ask for myself but I ask for my friends?
R. Rav reads Excerpt 10: “It is impossible to receive the influence of that society if he is not attached to the society. Meaning if he does not appreciate them to that extent that he does he can receive from them the influence without any work meaning if I it here to the society I receive what is in them and I have no more work. Me, I need to be adhered to this society attached to them. So, what is the question?
S. What is the work of adhering to the society?
R. This is our work, specifically. Where in spite of my ego I have to be adhered to the society, I have to annul myself in the society as if I am not present. That's what I want it to be. Because it's certain that I will receive everything that is in the group and what happens in the group is always a spiritual degree, because it is a group, nevertheless. In an individual, one person, you can never have a spirituality only to the extent that he is adhered to the group. That's why we insist so much on the matter of connection of the 10. If you are not in a 10, you are delusional thinking that you will reach spirituality. That you are somehow on the right path, advancing. The whole point of the spiritual system, the system of Adam HaRishon, is a connection between egoists. That's why we can't escape it. I hear, sometimes, from beginners who say, ‘well this is morals; for us to relay beautiful words to one another; it is secondary to our study; so, we will have a nice environment and nice society”; no, it's incorrect. Completely incorrect. It's not so we would be so nice looking towards others or towards ourselves, it is only in order to make the only correction that must be in this world, the correction of the broken vessels.
S. We understand that, precisely, in this is the entry point, the connection to spirituality. But what is it made of in practice? There is an expression that if you don't state your mind then you are stealing from the group. So how do we divide between them correctly?
R. You think that if you're not speaking everything is fine as long as you are not talking? You think that in spirituality everything works according to how much you open or close your mouth? Spirituality is not according to those things that you have in the heart and you disclose or do not disclose. It exists according to what exists in the internality of your heart, which you yourself don't even know. That is the spiritual matter, here.
S. So what do we do if we don't know ourselves? Is It something within us the connection between us?
R. As much as you open up to the friends. As much as you want to be connected with them, close to them, to that extent you bestow to them and that's how you advance. It doesn't work according to how much you open or close your mouth, corporeally, like that. It depends on how much you open your heart. Spirituality exists out of desires, intentions, thoughts, and our inner forces. Those that you cannot control from the outside. You close your mouth and everything is fine, nobody knows about it, no.
9. S. (29:14) You said in the introduction we should constantly imagine the structure of Adam HaRishon and reach it. What is the work of imagining the structure of Adam HaRishon?
R. This means to correct the 10 because the structure of Adam HaRishon is also 10 but these 10 parts -- Keter, Hochma, Bina, Chesed, Gevurah, Tiferet, Netzach, Hod, Yesod, Malchut -- they include all of the desires, the corrected desires. This is called the corrected system of Adam HaRishon. That's how we need to erect it, that's it. Meaning bring those pieces together and connect them in such a way that each one serves the other and no one does anything for himself.
S. Should I imagine my influence on the friends and their influence on me, and that we are being assisted by the power of the Creator? Should I imagine this picture?
R. Of course. How else can you do it if you are not imagining it? (But) not too corporeally, just as we learn.
S. In places where I feel that there is still a difference between the desired state and the existing state, is that the place of the prayer?
R. Yes
Excerpt 11 (31:07 - 32:33) twice
10. R. From this we can see the importance of envy. I look at the others and I see that they have more and they understand more, they feel more and they have a greater desire than I do. Then this envy helps me greatly. Because if he doesn't have a desire and a craving for spirituality but he is among people who have a desire for craving it, for spirituality, if he likes these people, he wants to be close to them and be like them then he will take their strength to prevail and aspirations also by his qualities. He does not have these desires and cravings and power to overcome no but if he is among those who he considers great then he receives from them, he learns from them, he wants to absorb it from them. According to the grace and importance he ascribes to these people, how great they are and how special they are and how smart and wise, then he will receive the higher powers.
11. S. (34:00) Can you say about envy, does it depend on a person how I perceived the friends or does it depend on how the friends should awaken the envy?
R. It depends on how much you adhere to the friends. I don't know about my friends; I know about myself. I envy them and I thank the Creator and I thank the friends that I am actually happy, that I am envious of them because to be among the great ones is important for our advancement otherwise, I will not advance. That's why we need it in the society, although the society is equal, nevertheless I need to see before me great friends. The greater I see them as the higher I raise myself I envy them and that's how it works.
S. That's in the ideal but how do we achieve this do you have any practical suggestions how to reach this ideal you described?
R. Try to speak of the friends with the friends and you will see how they say how many great things they say and we have to say only good things with the friends and you'll see how much you will envy them and how it will advance you and it will give you the strength to get up and to learn to do something. Envy is essential for one's spiritual development. it exists only in the human species and not in the steel vegetative animate degrees.
12. S. (36:19) What interchanges should we come to in this Congress as a 10 so as to feel renewed?
R. We need only to come closer to one another as much as possible, feel the necessity for being clothed, constantly imagine what else do we need to do in order to restore the broken vessel of Adam HaRishon. How do we bring it to correction?
Excerpt 12 (37:12- 39:23) twice
13. R. What's important here is that he envies them. read it again. The important thing is that this is what we can acquire by the society, new forces, new desires since each one envies the others.
14. S. (39:45) We speak a lot about envy and how to use it but we're not talking about lust and honor. I think they could be more powerful but do we not talk about them because we are afraid to use them?
R. I don't know how to distinguish, I think all those discernments you mentioned are also included in envy. Ultimately the difference between us is expressed in one word, envy. Also, between us and the Creator. That's why that's what we learned from the Zohar as well when he explains to us about those discernment send envy has several types of several types of envy and I think that this is what we need to take into consideration and then we will see that everything else, there are many more kinds of rising towards one another and it is it is all found in the concept of envy.
15. S. (41: 26) When a friend awakens that I find myself either envious and angry or indifferent or awakened, now I assume the same goes for when I awaken the friends, some wake up, some stay indifferent, some envy me. What is the best reaction that I should feel when I awaken my friends?
R. For them to wake up and it doesn't matter how I feel. Maybe I won't feel that great as a result. However, I need to try to elicit as much good awakening, pure awakening, as possible without anything in return for myself and that makes me happy. I wasn't able to do more but I have done that.
16. S. (45:33) Each of my friends in the 10 is different and unique. What quality and characteristic do I have to envy in each of them?
R. Look, each one of the friends has many good discernments towards his profession and participation in the society in dissemination in general but we mostly want to envy what each one appears to invest in society more than me. So, one invests in connecting everyone, the other cares about the gathering of friends, the third one always makes sure that everyone will remain connected, he's in charge of that. The fourth one makes sure that we always have study materials and we know what we are learning and soon on and so forth. Meaning each one has by nature qualities or maybe also according to his profession and what he learned in life before us so he can have a certain role and a certain way of taking care of society. This is why I envy them a little bit and mostly I understand without those things in society he will not be able to exist and that's why I am grateful for them for holding us.
17. S. (44:36) All the work is inside the 10 but in the upcoming Congress that starts tomorrow it will be a world gathering with a lot of power. How can we use it or is it enough to be in our own 10's?
R. There are so many exits on its compositions and Kabbalists wrote about it a lot they also wrote out you may fall between those states and awaken and again they are rise through a deep pit, to a high mountain and they fall into a greater deeper pit and then they raised to a higher mountain until they reach a state where they reach a mountain of the Creator. Where all those reasons and causes and all the results from their states are revealed and they can connect the two and become masters of the method. So that's the state and when we understand clearly and we feel how connected we are. This is probably worth while studying.
S. What's the right relation between the work in the 10 and the work with the world Kli during the Congress?
R. During the Congress we mustn't disconnect from the groups, disconnect from our group each from his own to try to see during these 3 days to see the world only through the group. One's personal group and the world Kli through the groups. we are coming to the state of the last generation so it is very important for us to depict all of reality in this way. That's it. I don't know. We talk about it all the time.
S. If the work is in the 10 what is the addition of work out to use it?
R. The world vessel is the real 10, more real than our personal 10s. What is the difference, what is the difference between in a particular cell in the body compared to the whole body? There's a huge difference and if you're the one who feels that he exists that in you there is for example your own vital force but you feel that you live in this collection of cells which is called an organism into the extent that you feel individually that you're connected to an organism there is a lot more inspiration. power than being in a spiritual system than existing on your own.
S. How do we feel the body because the focus is usually to work in my personal cell but how to feel that I'm part of the body, what's the work here?
R. The work here is the power of feeling the vital force that sustains all of us which is the creator. that as much as there is a bit in the 10. We feel some force that is tending to us. We are like a baby who feels that someone is taking care of it. It still doesn't feel connection to the mother and to others, it cries when it feels bad, maybe it's smiles it doesn’t know to whom though when it feels good, when we connect to other cells like ours and assemble ourselves our cells into an organism, by this way acquire new feelings, new intellect and by this we rise to new awareness of reality and then we discovered the Creator.
S. How can a cell connect to the body?
R. Just like any person connects just like any cell connects to the body you connect to the body in the same manner of connection.
18. S. (49: 35) I see that in the 10 there's a huge potential for envy but we are not using it fully.
Can we say in the 10 concretely in what we envy one another, are there any other ways to actuate the envy potential of envy?
R. Envy in the 10 should be especially about learning from each of the friends how I have to improve my work to order them and through them towards the Creator. This is one thing and the other thing is that I learn from each one what qualities he's still lacks but I can't be instead of each friend but by connecting to them I add their qualities to me and in this way, I gain from the evil inclination which they tended to each of them was not in me. The good inclination which we acquired, I wouldn’t have been immersed in. I couldn't have tended to them along with all the discernments. In short, when I connect to the group, I acquire the work that they did which if I were in place of one broken person, if I were one broken person it would have taken me billions of years. I don't know if I will ever get to it. Besides the fact that it's impossible but let's assume that it's possible so in this way I received from the work of others, I received pieces of the system of Adam HaRishon that are ready system and I just put them together more and more and more and this is why it takes only a few years. 6000 years let's say that this is the time so that's not it's not so bad. This whole spiritual matter exists only not many years 3500 years ago the system was in ancient Babylon. 6000 years ago - 200,000 the system of Adam HaRishon was erected. What is it? That's the speaking level that's manifesting in our world, that's it.
19. S. (52:54) About envy between the tens are let's take for example that say, yesterday one 10 took out a really moving clip for the Congress and I'm really full of envy, but not personal but general and they want me to take me leave the 10 and go to the successful 10 what is good about it?
R. Make your own 10 successful and good.
S. Well, they're not talented and good videographers.
R. I guarantee you that he who faults, faults in his own fault and in your case, it is several times more so don't criticize others before you look at yourself a little bit, believe me and afterwards you won't be speaking that way.
S. Not criticism, it's envy that they ...
R. If you want to be like them, be like them no problem, you have to work. Just to be in envy won't help. Just being envious is called a fool folding his hands in his bosom and consuming his flesh with envy but those who have envy correctly for them it is a lever for advancement.
20. S. (54:41) The envy arises naturally when you see the greatness of the friends and the relationship between them how they enjoy, together but sometimes there is inside this envy and the connections and the exchanges they have to ask to have envy towards them and for them to have it towards me to the same extent?
R. You have to develop the power of love and envy without love, destroys and be with love promotes and advances.
21. S. (55:32) Can I say that envy allows me to acquire a quality of opening and turning a new page in the work each day?
R. Correct.
S. What should I envy the friends in what?
R. Of how much they have more power of bestowal than you.
22. S. (56:03) It is not our first Congress, always before the Congress there is pressure and there is a heaviness we receive and it's not clear what is it giving us because I feel that it's not letting me in envy the friend? I'm not in the state of connecting incorporating in the 10?
R. Will you read in many articles the way Kabbalists speak about spiritual ascent and how difficult it is before the ascent which is called the burdening of the heart and I feel it especially from you and I experienced it and you see I am falling asleep really and it is all because I see this state in our vessel. I think it is a good thing which gives us new heaviness, new desires and a new degree which is difficult for us to climb and overcome it, but we will do it together. I'm already used to it. I am experienced with all those obstacles and disappointments and difficulties that appear but we will get over it you will see. So, anything we feel as bad, it is a sign that it will become good and will give us great benefits.
23. S. (58:09) I have great anticipation for the Congress, you said that the next three days we have to try and look at the world through the 10, how to correctly do it?
R. I look at the whole world as being one body one desire which divides into many desires, smaller greater and then according to their own characteristics but it is basically one desire and that one desire has to undergo corrections and throughout the times and layers of desires each of them has their own correction and therefore we need to advance in this way. According to the law that each and every penny joins into a great amount there is no other way we can't skip to the end of correction. We will be lacking discernment who are we what are we, what is the Creator what is the connection between us and between the Creator we have no choice we have to scrutinize in all four phases Root 1 2 3 4, every iota of the will to receive that was broken and divided and connected in all kinds of ways with all the other broken desires and we have to scrutinize all of that and correct it and raise it up to its upper root. This is how we achieve corrections.
S. How do we scrutinize the desires in the Congress?
R. It has to manifest by itself through our experience and through our learning as much as we try to come to the good.
S. Let's say this whole great big world exists there for its own corrections and we have a 10 with whom I arrive at the Congress, how do I myself in such a way that I'll only see the friends, the connection between them?
R. Try, try to keep yourself in this way and we will advance.
24. S. (01:01:03) If we want to achieve new qualities through jealousy, and envy are those qualities that come to us from the Creator or from the friends?
R. Everything comes from the Creator, everything, the way it comes to us it comes to us through our vessel nothing comes to me directly from the Creator but only through the 10. Because from their stems the vessel the breaking and the corrections and the Creator to is revealed in the vessel that comes to correction. Accordingly, the upper light is revealed everything is done in such a way that we have no work to be present but only in the 10 and one who exits the 10 falls into the degrees of still, vegetative, inanimate if he tries to be in the 10 and he is already on the speaking level. that's it.
Excerpt 13 (01:09:01) twice
25. R. (01:10:25) This is from the book Maor v’Shemesh it’s composer, Baal HaSulam really liked him. He often took interest in this book and he also took examples from this book, there it is a good book light and sun. Well, we will see what to answer.
26. S. (01:10:57) Describe please what is true love and in what is it different compared to warm relationship between friends? What are those warm relationships? Are they corporeal or some degree higher than this world?
R. Imagine a situation where you are caught by this mob or murderers. There are also cannibals you know, really ruthless people and they are subhuman, and you want to explain to them about love. How will you do it? You understand that it will take you a long time and, in the meantime, they are thinking about how to cut you up and eat you. This is how our ego is built so now you want me to tell you about sublime spiritual things when all you want is to slaughter one another to butcher one another. How is this possible? Check your own desires to what extent you want or do not want to connect to the friends and don't cover it up, don't paint it with nice colors rosy colors but your real desires, how much you don't care about anything, how if any sore on my feet happens to me that I won't be thinking about the friends but only about the sore. We have to be aware of our nature and how immersed we are in our egos and how we can rise above it. We can't rise above it we can only do one thing, if we connect, we will be able to turn to the Creator because according to the systems in our generation we already know that everything is systems so if we are in a system of a ten then we can turn to the upper force and the upper force tends to our ten and then I will discover the importance of connection. My connection to the ten more than the sore on my foot for example and likewise more and more and more so to the point where I rise higher and higher and higher above my ego and I stop feeling what I have in my personal ego and I feel only what exists in our general common desire. This is what we need, this is why our whole work is only in the connection between us, only in the connection.
S. You said today that our entire world, the large ten is like a body relative to my ten. What does the Creator receive with certainty the prayer from the ten or the prayer from the general ten the prayer for that?
R. It is certain that the Creator receives or accepts all the prayers of the ten, even a personal ten which is not connected to anyone. Let's say there are ten people or a or 15 it doesn't matter exactly how many but if they want to be connected, and for the power of connection to be among them, above their egos the ego doesn't disappear it grows more and more and more and then each time love covers all the crimes, love covers all the crimes and likewise every time. So then if they advance in this way the Creator is with them together tending to them and they can turn to Him and He turns back to them.
S. ….
R. You have to stand up and remind us that this is probably not the time when we all pray together and think about our connection in the whole ten and likewise several times during the Congress each and every lesson, this is beautiful, this is great and important raising of man.
27. S. (01:16:54) He writes you an excerpt 13 about love and friendship between the friends. Can you explain what is this friendship, as students we would be able to implement in the ten?
R. We connect according to the work of the Creator, the upper force, the upper light which is called the Creator. He influences or bestows upon all of the broken vessels and brings them to connection, this is called the Creator is placing one's hand on the good fortune, the good faith and bringing them into fruition. He says take this this is your fate, your destiny so if I am in a ten that is looking for spiritual elevation, a spiritual goal and I have to first of all except it, something and then I discovered that that's how it was pre-planned and this is how and what the Creator does to me. So, the friends are not just random friends that we happened to get to know like people that we used to sit with on the plane or on train rides, no, but through the effort each of us was chosen according to the qualities that we don't know why or how. But He chose us and said to be in a ten, it is not random as there is nothing random in life. So, we have to accept it as something that is how we have to keep going onwards to make every effort to connect together into 1 ten and I don't check the friends to what extent they seem like the right friends, beautiful friends, capable, suitable, I accept them with my eyes shut. If the Creator brought them just as He brought me into this connection and I have to accept them as pieces of my soul, not just partners on the road as they are pieces of my soul. I walk along with them all the way to the end of correction and beyond. There is more there, the end of correction is only when you've finished correcting this shattering that happened in the system of Adam HaRishon, but afterwards we continue precisely with everything we have corrected into higher degrees. The breaking of Adam and the correction of Adam HaRishon is only in order for us to have discernments where we are, in what plus and minus forces we are in and how we can connect them. How it can create such communication and manners of connection between them that we will be able to feel the full depth of the true reality above this world. In this way we connect so we need only to continue according to the suggestions of the Kabbalists.
28. S. (01:21:31) Can we be jealous of our teacher in the ten, because the teacher is the Keter of the world Kli?
R. I am not the Keter of the world Kli, it is true that I am a guide, but I am standing aside. I am incorporated to some extent but I am not included in the world Kli I do not belong to Keter or Malchut. You need to try to bring yourself into what Baal HaSulam and Rabash write as I am only giving you the method, don't turn me into something sublime, maybe high but only for the purpose of listening to and implementing. This would be good. It will not turn you into blind followers or some religious society. On the other hand, you will not try to put me on a pedestal and attribute to me degrees that I don't belong to. I am just a guide.
29. S. (01:23:26) Maor ve Shemesh, he says in there all the judgments are removed and sweet and by Hassadim what does this mean?
R. It is when all the forces that previously caused separation and remoteness, distance between all of the pieces of the vessel of Adam HaRishon are now becoming corrected. Meaning they acquired forces of complementation and each of them can work on top of its own desire to receive in order to bestow. They turn the desire to receive into a desire to bestow if you can put it this way and then they advance.
S. Do we have this sweetening of Hassadim?
R. Those who are our and those who are not are not very.
S. Can we do this in the Congress, what we are missing?
R. Why do you think we are not succeeding?
S. I personally can't do that, I only get blows.
R. Yeah, you truly are special.
S. How can I do this?
R. You have to bow all before us.
S. What does this mean?
R. Bowing down means you have to submit yourself, that you are the smallest and that you are willing to do anything to cause connection between us and this is really your whole connection. If we are connected because of your efforts, by this you will be complete, happy.
S. It sounds easy on the face of it to cancel yourself towards the friends. Why can't we do this?
R. You tell me, have you ever tried such a thing?
S. I do this all day long like a 0 and I don't see my life becoming better. This is what is bothering me.
R. Very well. Keep going.
S. What do you mean keep going?
R. Keep serving, caring and connecting everyone, keep being a complete 0 as compared to everyone and only by helping them can you maybe do something, just the lowest most ignoble works.
30. S. (01:26:39) You said that you are just our guide nothing more and nothing less and in the culture that I grew up in when a person fights together and sheds tears together, they usually become good friends and ever since 2007 when I first met you at the first retreat for the education center that is exactly how I felt walking away. That is what I wanted to say.
R. What is the rest?
S. Not just that I view you as my guide but you are also my friend and my brother on this path.
R. This is a correct way of relating as each one can relate to me as much as he wants according to the point in his heart, I tried to respond to each and every one according to what I understand that it is for his benefit. As a guide I cannot relate to each one according to how I would like to relate to each one because I have to take into consideration our entire system and each one who is in it and how they should advance into the corrected state. Accordingly, I relate to him and not otherwise.
31. S. (01:29:12) How can I feel the need of a friend, what is this need?
R. A need of a friend is to connect everyone in the ten in order to serve the Creator a place to be revealed, to give him contentment by that.
32. S. (01:29:47) The whole world is actually the way the Creator is speaking to me and there are special parts of my friends, we're through them I get an even clearer signal from the Creator, can I say ...
R. Yes, we should see the world through the ten, but through the ten and no less than the ten, not through one, two or three friends through a true ten.
33. S. (01:30:34) If I ask friends about connection, one will say of course I'm working on it, I am praying for the friends all say and another will say I am working for the connection and doing physical things in the ten and the third one wants to make the friends happy also making efforts to connect. What is the correct definition of connection so it can speak about the same thing?
R. The work on connection should be non-stop, I should always arrange for myself some image of the ten when they are all connected from their desire to the desire of the Creator. This is how as much as I can join them and support this. That is, it and work on it all the time.
S. In what way, to work internally, to pray for it, to do external actions?
R. You made talk about this, you may work on it in a group and also each and every one but this subject has to be all of the time most relevant.
S. If it is the most actual so it doesn't matter in which way the main thing is to speak about it, pray, work on it with the friends?
R. What do you mean work on it?
S. I mean that if I now say I want to work on connection, I am making efforts to connect. That means to think of the friends and pray that they will be good or to initiate actions to awaken them?
R. You can now say 1001 different things and I can't tell you if this is important or that is, each according to his time and his situation. That's why this question is no question as there's no answer here. You have to scrutinize what is more important and more beneficial today.
34. S. (01:33:23) What do I do in my ten when I feel the pride that comes out of me, how do I break this?
R. By increasing the connection more in the group, only there will you find the correct answer and solution to all the questions.
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35. R. (01:35:39) Meaning two states have to take place here in the beginning they hate each other, their enemies and reject each other and if they can’t accept each other, on the other hand, in the end if everything ends nice and well, that they work and they did the correct action of connection they are as one man in one heart gladly. This is the process basically, you should discover both hatred and love if you discover these two states in the beginning, hatred and in the end the love, this is considered that the lesson is successful.
36. S. (01:36:34) The Shechina we say that we have to be as one, should we say as one in a female way because the Shechina is feminine? To just think about how to serve the King and sing and dance in the congress as a woman?
R. Our desire to connect between us and to serve our common desire to the Creator is called Shechina, in this desire the Creator reveals himself as the dweller, Shochen, if you reach such a state where we build ourselves to Divinity then we can be happy about doing it. This is called the happiness or the joy of Divinity and when we serve it to the Creator it is called a bride and the Creator is considered the groom, connecting to her and filling her with His light and that is considered that the Creator is revealed to the created beings.
37. S. (01:38:04) This sentence from the excerpt “and then they return to be as brothers”.
R. I am the desire to receive which is common in the ten and for the Creator and going through all kinds of states of coming closer or further away when the desire to receive, the Creator arranged for the ten to have these states to come closer and move further away, to be in struggles. When they finally connect, accordingly the light comes closer to them making peace upon them, filling them this is called the wedding canopy, the connection, all kinds of names. There aren't so many actions, they are all the same all the time they're just different degrees in different manners, but it is always this way, being far away, wanting to connect and discovering the forces of rejection between us, overcoming these forces the rejection by different manners, learning together and participating together through this we come closer to each other to understand each other a bit better, praying already that he will shine upon us to connect us. This is how we reach connection and the Creator feels the connection and is revealed.
S. Just to be precise on that point we really reach the connection ourselves not that the Creator brings us there, we get there?
R. We try to perform all the actions of connection between us and non-stop prayer to Him because it is clear that in each and every step when we try and make an effort to come closer to connect that we need His force to cause this final connection. The effort comes from us and the force that pulls us together comes from the Creator and by this we become partners and this is how it is all along the way.
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38. S. (01:43:50) When the friend slanders isn't this called that it is harmful, how can you love him?
R. I don't know what to tell you, behind every friend stands the Creator and if it is to such an extent that he sees and understands and feels that some friend is against him, what should he do? Either he can run away from all these things or you can cope with them, face to face or you may say no, this is my opportunity to turn my enemy into a loved one.
S. When do I say there is also the matter that you can harm society?
R. These calculations are not in the place where I feel that someone hates me, that is me and that is my society. I should not take this personally that someone who discloses hatred to me as someone who comes from the Creator if it is in the ten, as coming from the Creator so I should correct myself.
S. The other calculation that you can't harm, when do you do this?
R. It isn't for me, it is for him, he should know he shouldn't harm but if he made these calculations or not, I don't know, after all the Creator is the one who made him the harm doer and this is how I should accept the Creator's bestowal upon me.
S. The ten shouldn’t calculate with the friend who slanders in the ten?
R. That is the effort of the ten, it should be yes but it has nothing to do with each other as there is a ten here that is seemingly evoking hatred, there is a person that is hurt from the hatred because it is aimed at him, there is the Creator here and there are many discernments here. Each of them has his own role here, you're talking about the person being hurt, so this person who is hurt first of all, it comes from the Creator secondly, it is not a chance that it happened to him, the Creator chose him in order to be some kind of tool in his hand and how should I respond to that? How should I see society myself, the Creator and humanity in general, so of course all of these things I want to only connect them in a way that I will rise as a result of that spiritually.
S. On behalf of the ten?
R. This is also better if we accept it spiritually that each and every one will be able to rise to a certain extent.
S. What does it mean in a spiritual way that way rise above reason, that we have eyes and not seeing we shall overcome or do we see what is happening not agreeing with the slandering in the ten?
R. Think about it, I don't want to give a recipe for each and everything, you should be physicians or healers to a certain extent on your own. You have all of these foundations, all the different forms of behavior, we read and we spoke about them for quite a while now and now start connecting them correctly to reality. You have an obligation for a person who is seemingly slanderous who has to examine himself whether he is doing it correctly or not, is he doing it for the connection or not, so accordingly this society has but the person who is hurt has to accept it differently. To see it coming from the Creator, to be thankful to the one who is doing it, doesn't arise as a result of it to show everyone that he is doing it.
39. S. (01:49:08) It was said about the action of justifying a friend, it is not clear what the benefit is from such an action, we could have been told that behind the friends stands Creator we have to relate it to the Creator or is it a place that the ten has to pray for the Creator to correct it?
R. If I would say that behind every friend is the Creator there is nothing left to do, I am just saying everything is for the best, it is only the Creator and I have nothing to do, that all I have to do is to accept the form of bestowal of the Creator up on me and each and every moment and I don't need to do anything and there's also no friend here, because behind him stands the Creator. Then I should see myself that I am always in pure bestowal from the Creator and that is it, is that correct or not? It doesn't force the group to advance as by that the group ten as tens it has to be in struggles, scrutinies and all kinds of states, this is why the revelation of the Creator is also in concealment.
S. What does it mean to justify the friend to the scale of merit?
R. There are many degrees in that, I justify the friend because the Creator is working through him and my friend is not even aware because there are no actions in the world, the Creator is not the one doing them, the general field in which we are.
S. Is that an action in our minds?
R. Yes.
S. What is the benefit in it? Let's say I justified the friends in my thoughts. What comes out of that?
R. I'm not certain besides justifying him, what else? Who are you, who is the Creator, who is the friend, what are you doing with all of these connections? What does it mean that you justify him? Now you cool down and everything's okay?
S. Yes, that is what I'm asking, what is the result of such an action?
R. The results should be in me that I am either asking for correction from the Creator over myself or, yes basically that is all, scrutinize myself, demand correction, scrutinies, if I see in a certain state that we have an imbalance then it has to end by me demanding correction and the correction is in the way that I relate to reality.