Morning Lesson April 14, 2021 Transcription
1. Rav’s Introduction: The Omer count, even though it is not so well known and not felt, we don't hear about it so much, it's not like Passover, or Yom Kippur, such conspicuous dates where even in the world you hear about them, but rather, who heard about the Omer count? However, this is our rule that the more spiritual the action is, in many cases, it is also more concealed, less felt. It’s modest. Therefore, this process of the Omer count, it is actually the construction of the spiritual kli. After we rise above our ego in the Exodus from Egypt, we are concerned about connecting between us, being as one man in one heart, which is the reception of the Torah. Otherwise, how can the upper light influence us, bestow upon us? On the other hand, how can we connect if the upper light will not influence us? Then we will not reach any connection. This is why there is a process which is called the 49 days, seven times seven. It will be precisely the form of Zeir Anpin standing between Malchut and Bina, incorporating 49 parts, or Sefirot. These parts, when they become corrected, they become Sefirot. They shine.
They become similar to the upper light. Then we, within 49 days, and a day means some special portion that we get from above and it corrects the desires within us according to the order, one by one. That way, we reach the state where, eventually, we connect more and more. It’s like the form of the connection of grain stalks that we tie together in the field. It is called a field blessed by the Lord. There we can take the crops and connect them together, and they're in such a form we end up gathering sheaves. This all together is called the Omer. Later on, when we reach a connection like it says in the Torah, being as one man in one heart, when we connect, in the form that we are capable of reaching it, it is only the initial form of the correction of the vessel, then we begin to receive lights that, upon this kli where we try to be connected over the 49 days, then we are drawing upon ourselves the upper light so that it will influence us. This light is called the reception of the Torah, where this light is already intended to close this kli. This is called the day of the reception of the Torah, when we will all be connected together, and we will already be able, in this kli that has now become organized, to begin to rise in degrees. This is why the spiritual ascent begins really from after Shavuot, Pentecost, on the day of the reception of the Torah. Before that, it’s the construction of the Kli.
Later on, it’s also the construction of the Kli. When we rise each time, rise higher and higher and higher, we rise by correcting ourselves each time more and more and more. Until when? Really, it's all the way to Gmar Tikkun, the end of correction. Along the way there are additional points, particular points that are typical to the correction, but we learn about those also from the construction of the general Kli in the study of the 10 Sefirot, which is the construction of the Kli of Nefesh, Neshama, Haya, and Yechidah. Then we rise from degree to degree, so we need to build a vessel of 10 Sefirot on each and every degree, until we discover the entire general Kli, and this is the end of correction. However, what I would like to emphasize right now is that the count of the Omer, the correction following the exodus from Egypt when we rise above our ego, then we begin to correct our desires so that they will be connected. We are not correcting them yet so that they will truly be in order to bestow. It is not that stage yet. Rather, it is the stage where we can be connected. It is not that we can already mix these desires, make out of them a kli of the incorporation of all the Sefirot together, and the ascent of those Sefirot relative to those Sefirot, etc. It's not that work yet. Rather, it is only an ascent, rising above the intention to bestow.
This is actually what I can say here, and I hope that we will get into it more and more. The most important thing is to think about it all the time, to bring us all kinds of questions so that together we will be able to scrutinize them, to discuss them. This is very important, because this really is the construction of the kli. It is the correction of the Kli of Adam. Let's hope that we will scrutinize it well and also pass it to others, to a broader audience. What really is the general correction of the whole of humanity? Gmar Tikkun, the end of correction, means the end of the correction of the entire Kli and we need to think also about them. So that the connection between us, meaning as one man in one heart, as it says that it was in the giving of the Torah, this is what we want to reach. At least us as the pioneers, the avant garde, in humanity. Then later on, let's hope that they will also come and join us. This means that the Omer count is the implementation of these things that we talked about a lot. Now it is a time when we seemingly want to resemble, to some extent, a single kli. It's called as one man in one heart.
2. S. (09:07) What does it mean that we are starting this work and we are connecting our desires?
R. We cannot connect our desires. This is impossible. It is simply one desire and a second desire. Even in our life it seems to us this way, but we cannot connect them. Rather, what we connect is our intentions, our goals. That's it. Let's say we have a husband and a wife and they have a baby, so the two of them are thinking about some action for the benefit of the baby. You cannot connect their desires because these are two vessels, each with his own desire, a separate desire. However, when they have a common goal, then their desires within that goal, they connect. This is how we should be. That is, no one enters...He cannot enter into the desire of the other. He cannot mix into the heart of the other. Even though we say that you are in my heart, it is all, nevertheless, an external mingling, an external incorporation in the hearts, but for a single goal. Then we check in that single goal to what extent we are connected. According to what do we check? According to how much the upper light, the Creator, this goal, shines on us. Then we feel ourselves as connected but connected through the upper light. Through it. Between us, the two desire, we cannot connect. Each and every desire is separate. However, if we intend for a single goal, then as it says, for our hearts will rejoice in Him. We connect in Him. Then, all of our connections are through the Creator.
S. This process of climbing the degrees of Zeir Anpin, what does it entail? Specifically, the goal.
R. It's a correct question, but it's not precisely the goal, but rather the means for it. Mutual support, mutual incorporation. Here it is the construction of the Partzuf. That is, the construction of the Soul, where the upper light is in absolute rest and we are trying to organize ourselves to be as similar to the light as possible. But similar to the light in our connection. No one resembles the light. Each one is the opposite of the light. He is in opposition, complete opposition to the light, because it's a will to receive and the light is the will to bestow. But to the extent that we want to connect with each other in order to reach in order to bestow upon the light, in order to reach it, then here we are building that same quality of connection, mutual bestowal, between us, in order to bestow to the light, to the Creator. It turns out that, by that we are actualizing the correction and we become as the Creator within mutual bestowal. Then the kli becomes entirely similar to the light.
S. So it turns out that these degrees which we climb is a greater and greater resemblance to the light?
R. Of course. Yes, of course. All of the degrees of ascent are according to how much we, within our vessels, want to bestow to each other in the connection between us, and out of the connection between us, to bestow to the Creator. As a result of that, the Creator shines on us, he arranges us, and he fills us. Then our egoistic desires, when they rise towards connection between them, they become a Sefirot. That is, they shine out of the bestowal that they have between them.
S. If we are talking about those degrees that are ahead of us, what is the difference between the 1st degree we're entering and the last degree of Bina. Can we understand it somehow?
R. When we will begin to correct the connection between us, gradually, in the 10, as much as possible, then we will start to distinguish the kind of connection, the nature of connection, that is revealed to us each time as problems, failures, delays. This is the time of Katnut, as we call it. Smallness or infancy. The Omer is called a time of Katnut. We're all together. We want to tie different desires together. We want to tie them, to connect them through the intention to bestow. This is where each shall help his friend, as much as possible. Where we begin to understand better and to attain better, that without connection between us, we will not establish the vessel for the revelation of the light, the revelation of the Creator. Specifically, to the extent that the difference between us becomes revealed, the difficulties between us, and we nevertheless try to connect them, then accordingly, the upper light that is revealed in these connections, these contrasting connections to begin with, it will be greater, more powerful, this is how we reach the levels of the light of Nefesh, and then Ruach, Neshama, etc.
3. S. (16:40) How should we come to a state where everything that is done is for the good?
R. Here we need to try to implement, to apply everything that we learned earlier that is everything that is happening it is all for the good and all of the confusions and disconnections between us and the hatred that appears and everything it is all revealed in order for us to rise above it specifically towards connection without correcting the evil but rather rising above it. It is impossible to correct the evil and that is not our work. Our work is to rise above the evil and in such a way we correct it. The ego exists in order for us to rise above it this is called a spiritual ascent that's it when we extend the evil, we are grateful for the Creator who sent us the evil we are aware of it, and we rise above it in order to connect to in order to bestow to the good, this is called love covers all crimes. This is actually our work until we connect in all kinds of possible ways since we need that in order to reach a single small Kli, a minimal Kli but that it is already capable of receiving the upper light according to the equivalence of form between the light in the vessel. When we reach a connection between us through these 49 corrections which is called the Omer counting where we come to these corrections then we reach the 50th day where all of these 49 corrections connect together and in them the upper light can shine which is called the Torah. Then we continue with this upper light already towards greater corrections in the relation with the revelation of the Creator coming closer to Him being connected to Him the Creator feels this the connection between us. It will come, take it slowly, here we cannot move until we somehow begin to implement it. We can't do these things theoretically and whatever happens, no, it also has to be sometimes in practice it has to be in practice.
4. S. (19:59) How can we use this specifically to strengthen our prayer?
R. We need to incorporate this condition that without prayer you cannot do anything that is number one. Second, the most important thing for us to achieve is connection between us. This is the time from Pesach to Shavuot coming out of later on a period of connection between us into a Kli, a vessel so that in this vessel we can already begin to discover the Creator. This is the time right now the correction, the first minimal correction of the vessel and this is how we will advance.
S. This is actually the period or the moment that we can come to a true sighing in the work where we need the Creator?
R. Yes, as much as possible. There are times when we feel greater necessity for it and there are times we feel less. There are times where we truly fall asleep and we cannot do anything the heart seemingly becomes the heart of stone, this is how it happens. We need to realize that all of this time, this is how they have to happen. The most important is that in each and every time whenever comes down to me from above each and every state I need to be, to some extent with that time that I am with from the Creator with that state that comes to me.
5. S. (22:52) Earlier you said that we need to use our desires and then they become Sefirot, what are those desires we can use in order to rise, are they not the ones? How can a desire be a Sefirah?
R. These are nice questions. We have to realize that no desire that exists in each and every one of us can be a spiritual desire. A spiritual desire, it can be if to begin with it is incorporated with all the desires of the group, and a single individual desire of one person, it has no right of existence in spirituality, and this is why we need first of all to reach connection. This is what happens to us in this process which is called the Omer count when we reach Egypt which is disconnect from our ego but later on when after 50 days we reach the reception of the Torah, so then within these 50 days we have to reach connection, minimal connection between us the fundamental connection so that we will be already received the upper light, to be in equivalence of form with the upper light. This is the law of the equivalence form that has to be, so that we are adapted to the upper light because the upper light itself is in constant absolute rest. We don't need to reach some special place or some special time, there is no such thing. The moment that we are capable between us of assembling a connection so that we want to incorporate between us to be as one man and one heart, this is the condition for the reception of the Torah as much as the heart is revealed in each and every one but the extent that it is revealed one wants to be incorporated with the others with all of his heart this is the condition that we feel we are under this illumination of the upper light which is called the Torah.
It is not that it shines in a special time or place, rather it only depends on our preparation, it is always the giving of the Torah. There is always the upper light that is filling up the whole of reality. If we discover ourselves in our connection, we reach a special state then it shines, then it is considered that we are receiving the Torah and this light begins to teach us and we begin to perform actions towards it and it is considered then that we are studying the Torah, we are correcting our Kli. Don't think that we need to reach some special place or some special time and then some special light shines on us. It shines because we connect. If we do it today, then tomorrow in the afternoon we will discover it. It always shines just like what we said about the Creator always in the upper light is in absolute rest.
6. S. (27.42) In this process of building the Kli between each and every degree will we see considerable changes in our behavior as a 10?
R. Of course, each and every state is a new state, there are states that are very different from each other, it is considered that we are rising on the degrees. This is how we advance, yes these are different states, and in which states each one of us is the individual states that it's also important for us because this comes from the reforming light. This is why we just need to constantly be drawn forward. Foreword means towards greater connection with the friends in the direction of connection with the Creator.
7. S. (29:03) As long as the light influences the desire, the person exists only in intention?
R. The system of Adam begins from the exodus from Egypt when there are already desires that are not egoistic and they want to connect themselves into a system that binds them together then they build out of themselves a system that resembles the Creator which is called Adam. Before that what the Creator did when he let's say broke Adam HaRishon is just like a prototype. It is called an evil man. It is as preparation for us but indeed and truth Adam is what we assemble through our work when it becomes similar to the Creator out of the fact that in it
a great will to receive is revealed and then it corrects it to be in order to bestow and by that and having a will to receive which is opposite the Creator and it can make out of itself a resemblance to the Creator, to be like the Creator by that it is called Adam and it's as much as it will to receive is greater, the correction will be greater.
8. S. (31:06) What are we lacking in our effort to reach this first connection between us?
R. What we are lacking is to be in a greater connection between us, what we are lacking is more and more to understand that the constant thought about connection, that only connection gives us the form of connection with the Creator. This is the correct action in that we will strengthen each other through envy, lust, and honor when we will elevate the special groups that are successful in that so that I will be envious of them and I will want to be like them so that I will respect them that they are already going through more advanced states etc. There are such individual people who are working in that but groups truly I am not declaring any yet, but we will have to work on that as well, use our envy with such examples. What is hindering us is that we are not envious of each other, there is no competition. We think that by the students of Rabbi Shimon, they hated each other, that they didn't advance specifically because of the great force of the ego was revealed in them and through descent, lust and honor they would feel each one as separate from the others it was clear from them what they needed to overcome and then they advanced.
S. How do we make those efforts as a group as a 10, what are the efforts we can make to be envious or make other groups to be envious of us?
R. I have no idea. I don't know what to tell you. This is something you need to see on your own How in practice to implement it. But it is worthwhile to awaken all of our foundations, even the egoistic ones so long as they won't let us fall asleep, and to be calm. We have to realize that each and every day we have to advance and if yesterday I didn't' achieve at the end of the day some concrete advancement in the connection and as a result of that, in the upper illumination in me towards correction, it's a sign that I am not okay. I am not connected to the 10. I am not awakening them etc.
9. S. (35:01) The attitude towards the work when I don't engage in preventing connection in the 10 how do we approach this?
R. I don't understand you, If I am not working against the disturbance towards our connection then I have nothing else to do because all of our work has to be only for the connection of the 10.
S. How much is this approach relevant?
R. What approach I don't understand you.
S. This thing when I don't pay attention to… (cut off by Rav)
R. If you are not paying attention to the connection the intensity of the connection the manner of the connection, you're not even doing spiritual work you're not connected to spirituality but rather you are running your own other calculations which are egoistic, that's it because we have a broken Kli and we have to bring it to a complete state, and we have nothing else to do and you are not in that.
10. S. (36:37) During the preparation I was surprised by this question, we spoke about the need to be incorporated with the world Kli. But we also spoke about being independent and the center of the 10. What is the more correct direction right now in our work?
R. Through the center of the 10 connection with the world Kli we talked about it a thousand times that we don't let go of the 10 in any shape or form because if I leave it I am leaving my whole spirituality and if I am not in the center of the 10 then I am in corporeality of this world. So first of all, I have to reach the center of the 10 and from it to begin to work towards the worldwide Bnei Baruch and through the worldwide Bnei Baruch towards all the people in the world. If I arrange these things all the way then through that to the Creator.
11. S. (38:29) How many Sefirot are spiritual desires and what kind of desires are they?
R. You cannot speak about it yet and I recommend you don't get confused with it. In your head you should be with whatever we are doing because otherwise you will not advance. No other state besides the one that we are talking about Should be in your head. Which Sefirot? What do you know what Sefirot are from? What is a desire? What is the will to bestow? How can you have a will to bestow if it isn't connected with other desires? So why are you asking, why are you jumping into some state that you don't have in you? Rather only consistently following the order, do whatever we are doing.
12. S. (39:50) As much as I understand, all the time the friend has dedicated to this path, studying the wisdom of Kabbalah, this is the collection of the sheaves towards the Omer count and one way or another We're trying to establish ourselves towards our one goal our unity, now we’re on beginning of this process, so how is the beginning of this process different from other processes? What to focus on?
R. We need to focus on the reforming light so it will work on us and it will elevate us above the ego of each and every one. So that each and every one will feel himself as disconnected from his own personal egoistic interest and this is called the exodus from Egypt. Then besides that each and every one of us will feel in himself that he has the possibility to incorporate, to connect with such desires to the Creator, to the spirituality of the friends. That we will build above us a network of connection where each one wants to bestow to the others and our desires to bestow to each and every one they will interconnect between them and we will build out of it a spiritual web, a spiritual network and in that spiritual network we will feel that we are as one man one heart in mutual bestowal and upon this network we will start to feel the upper influence which is called the revelation of the Torah to a person.
13. S. (42:08) I heard you say that if nothing is revealed there's nothing to overcome. Sometimes it is felt that something is revealed but you cannot grasp it, some hate rises without a cause, what do you do with such a state?
R. Love covers all crimes, this is the direction.
14. S. (42:46) After many descents and arguments in our ten and finally we have some connection we feel that we are advancing. The question is we need to pray to continue praying to be connected and to advance. I am scared of the moment of the descent because I know from the process of the study that after every ascent comes a descent and it's scary to have something happen in the ten and hit a descent, so should I pray to not have a decent or just continue descents?
R. We must not pray that there will not be a descent, it is not suitable for the servant of the Creator for a person who wants to advance because this prayer is an egoistic prayer whichever way you try to turn it. Therefore, we just have to advance to ask for mutual force of bestowal, mutual connection increasing adhesion between us, this is all. The direction of fear and descent don't even think about it, don't look at it. For certain we will not fall into a descent if each and every state that we have, we are already thinking that this is a descent, and we try to go above it ascend. Rabash writes about it.
15. S. (44:35) We talk about 49 corrections. How can a 10 pinpoint the correction that they did, what does it mean that the 10 has corrected something?
R. For the time being we cannot do it, we can see results from our work because we lack the spiritual vessels but once we reach connection between us, we're in the upper light and shines in us then we will see the states we've been through, the steps we have taken more clearly.
16. S. (45:23) The main work in our focus is in the 10. So how can we awaken other 10s or be awakened by others?
R. Try to set an example for them that is the simplest way. You need to set an example for the other 10s, a good example so that they will envy you. Specifically, and in such a way you're not doing it on purpose this should be impressed correctly by that, this is how things are for you. Usually, you have to publicize it in a special way like in a theater, you have to be cunning about it so everyone will think you are successful and take an example from it, even if you don't have those things in you, they should take that example and advance. Then you will look in them and see them advancing and you would want this as well. So, one person through another or one group through another we raise ourselves, we cheat ourselves and by that we also raised ourselves.
S. What does it mean to give a good example?
R. As if we are connected, as if we understand, as if we feel, as if we gather more. All sorts of such good examples as if you were at a higher degree, what would you be doing so even if you're not doing it try to publicize it.
S. Today we don't have any place where we can demonstrate it, each one is in his house, in his 10, so how will they be impressed by what is happening between us because we are so truly great?
R. I know you are great let's say but what is your greatness if you are not supporting others? If you are hindering development of connection then you are working egotistically, even if you are connected in a good, beautiful way. This is called the outcast city that cannot be destroyed because people are connected within the walls of the city, but they want nothing from the outside and they won't let anyone in. In truth you cannot break the walls of this city. You cannot do anything with that because they are shut inside, it’s not spirituality, it is a clear example that we have from the sources and that's why we are talking for the time being about a 10 coming out of itself towards the other 10s. But by that the 10 does not disperse it maintains its unique unity and by preparing itself for an attack, for promoting itself showing itself as connected as rising, it has to be even more connected in and of itself.
17. S. (49:20) What does it mean to exist for the sake of others? What exactly is… (cut off by Rav)
R. How does each one of the friends exist for the others? Why does each and every one exist? In order to give spiritual life to others to be a conduit for the light to them, to hold them and he is serving them he is a zero relative to them.
S. How does it happen on the level of the 10 so that the 10 begins to be like that towards everyone?
R. Also, why are you coming out of yourselves? Because you must resemble the Creator more and more, on your level you can resemble the Creator let’s say on the light of Nefesh of Nefesh. when you connect with others you will have Ruach of Nefesh, Neshama of Nefesh and so on and so forth that's how it works. How do we begin to become worthy of accepting and receiving bigger lights? By connecting between us it's like with computers according to the number of zeros or ones that they have inside according to the number of containers you have the power that you can reveal the same thing here what are Sefirot each and every Sefirah is one cell it has nothing of itself but only in the great connection between those cells we come to a spiritual power. You cannot climb in spirituality unless you are connecting with more and more souls.
S. What does it mean that the 10 becomes zero?
R. When it places itself like a mother relative to her baby. All her intentions with all her powers and wisdom and capabilities all of her intentions are for the sake of the baby and then she is making a zero out of herself.
S. How do we promote this change because constantly you want spirituality for yourself and now you have to specifically come from a place where you want spirituality for them, this is what you exist for, how does this inversion happen inside of us?
R. This isn't coming out of himself above himself when a person then does not think of himself but others by that he resembles the Creator by that he becomes the bestower. To pray for it, to expect it and to see a spiritual opportunity in it. Of course, behind the scenes immediately after I am thinking what we will get out of it but for the time being until they're reforming light comes and corrects that.
S. This change in our goal, do we have anything to do in order to accelerate this change so that instead of the goal being that I want to achieve spirituality it will be that they will achieve spirituality is there anything we can do about it?
R. Only us and only in us does the pace of advancement depend. it depends on who else only according to the awakening from below accordingly we will receive a response.
S. Yes but I realize that but how does it happen? because… (cut off by Rav)
R. When you go to connect with the others, and you come to a state where you do want seemingly to want but other than wanting it and nothing is happening because beyond this desire you need to turn to the Creator if you are not taking him as a partner here it it's not going to happen. After all the efforts of the scrutinies towards connection and towards climbing in ascending there has to be a turn to the Creator and with a demand, with a prayer and you never let go of it and you constantly increase the desire to connect, and you constantly increase how you turn to the Creator until it happens. This is called to chase the divinity, the Shechina, the revelation of Shechina and don't let go of it all night long all day long and so on and so forth. There are many verses about it in Rabash, Baal HaSulam and in the Zohar.
18. S. (55:32) Beforehand you said that we’re not yet in that state, but you are warning us not to jump into these states where we don't have control over yet we're not there yet. So how do we work correctly towards these materials that we're going through now? Should we search these advanced states in the 10?
R. We are talking only about that, how we need to locate those states in the 10, what we’re studying about. If we cannot locate them, we need to try nevertheless to reach them. That's how it is, pay attention to what I am saying, what I am telling you not to do and what I am telling you to do and do not confuse the two.
19. S. (56:45) Is it correct to say that the time of the giving of the Torah is the first time from which we learn how the Adam in us should be corrected?
R. Yes, the Adam in us, the man in us begins to awaken once we come out of the ego, one who resembles the Creator, Domeh, when we restrict all of our egoistic intentions and we wish to grow now the intention to bestow these intentions to bestow are called Adam.
S. How do we understand how these 49 corrections that were made in the Omer are done?
R. what comes to you what's before you that you should correct. Connect as much as possible all the intentions, thoughts, opportunities through your 10 as much as you can, in order to be as one man and one heart. That is it, that is what we need to attain in the giving of the Torah.
20. S. (58:25) I'd like to know what kind of behaviors we need to keep especially during those 49 days?
R. Those are not 49 calendar days, this is how this period is called, is referred to. This period can end quickly and it can stretch for a long time. It ends when you connect fully with your friends, where according to the connection you attained you already have a resemblance to the smallest degree of the upper life. But the upper light is called Torah so then it means that you come to the reception of the Torah and then with every passing day you have a greater illumination from above the Torah is seemingly revealed more and accordingly you feel yourself to be in a more of the egoistic desire because the light shines and it shows how much you are in your ego and you correct those newly discovered egoistic desires and you correct them as well to your vessel and then the upper light corrects you and becomes the light that fills you this is the meaning of study the Torah, using the Torah.
21. S. (01:00:35) What you said to do to you about envy between the tens is there room in practice, to tell other 10's about good states that we have or about inspirations we receive from the lesson or to send clips that awaken the others to perform such actions and practice between the two?
R. Yes, it is recommended but don't overdo it, you can confuse the other tens but to some extent you have to do it, it will help his friend to help each other.
22. S. (01:01:18) Whether coming out of the ego or the breaking of the shell of the heart which is roughly the process we go through in the over count Omer count is that the result of the time, how does a Kabbalist work with this whole thing that suddenly the whole ten is flooded with emotions, flooded with ego, how do we cope with these things that are so different where the Creator is playing with us?
R. We learn theoretically those stages that we have to go through in our corrections, and we try to see if we manage to resemble them or not, if we're in them are not, in those actions, those states and accordingly we need to make a calculation. What do we need to do in order to advance to what's written in the Omer count daily and correct it and receive the light in it that reforms and later like the light that fills its then each day it doesn't work like this, a night means that we correct the vessel a day means that we received the light in the corrected vessel? According to this order each evening we bless over the Omer count, meaning we make a blessing for this illumination that shines on us and is showing us a new vessel, we need to correct. Then from the evening till morning we seemingly correct the vessels. Kabbalists do their work during the nighttime this is the preparation work of the correction of the vessels later from the morning onward, meaning when the vessel completes its correction and they're receiving reception of the light and the light begins to be revealed towards the vessel, this is called morning it's not morning when the light shines. Rather when we correct the vessel and in it, we feel how suitable it is for the light and the light shines in it and this is daytime, and we receive this light in order to bestow. So that's how these days come out to us, 49 days were talking about, from the exodus from Egypt, from the receiving of the Torah, this is the time of corrections that can stretch for a long time according to our astronomical times here on earth, but we need to try to keep them. That's why we are learning about the steps that we need to take in general most of us all of us which is the connection between us and accordingly in this ever-growing connection the light comes and shines in us.
S. We had a friend in the ten, that within two weeks he lost his father and his grandmother, it really tears your heart so how do you cope with it?
R. There's nothing to say, there is nothing to deal with if a person dies and passes from this world and he passes. I think we have to treat it normally. What is up, what is in it, what is the difference between a person who is alive here and a person who passes from this life and goes to the next state? In this way you used to identify this all according to the body now that you cannot identify it or detect it so, what is going on here.
S. The grief, the sorrow is about why did this fall on him and not me?
R. We're not dealing with the sentences of the souls we don't understand it, we are very far from understanding it we're very far from understanding this you just have to continue with our work no one gets it, no one knows if you come to a state where you understand it, then you will if not then you won’t.
23. S. (01:07:30) About the example of the tens are there tens that Rav is impressed by?
R. Yes, but I still cannot publicize it.
24. S. (01:07:45) We used to meet with other times once or twice a week three or four tens together for a meeting half an hour on Zoom, it was quite a few tens we didn't have such a good connection but maybe we should go back to having these meetings once or twice a week with other tens?
R. Maybe if you are capable then we should perhaps have more of those meetings between the tens, but you should check if those meetings create an impression inside of each tend towards being inspired connecting advancing and you should check if they'd been learning a thing about connection.
S. What should I learn about other 10's? What should I take from them and they take from us?
R. You need to be impressed by the other 10, envy them and see what they have and what you don't. This will make you advance. Just like you were telling your child to look at this guy, look how much he knows, look how much he understands, go play with him or study with him. We are like that.
25. S. (01:09:11) You said that Kabbalist work at night, can you elaborate maybe explain what it means
R. According to the wisdom of Kabbalah, the correction of the vessels begins in the evening the first effort, the first mating of Abba v Ima to give birth to the soul is midnight, so from midnight onwards, not midnight according to our clock, but actually the halfway point and it is not astronomical actually, it's actually spiritual time. Since if a person is in a state where he is in night or day, spiritual night or day if he begins to distinguish in his existence evening night and along the way you have those shifts and during the day the special times. In this way he uses each and every time according to the benefit he can extract from it as well, what is it, it is a special general illumination that works on him from above and it's not necessarily that it works on everyone and he uses this illumination to correct himself and to advance but again advanced towards connection with the friends in order to create a more advanced vessel for the revelation of the Creator.
S. How do we create the inner night in order to work like all Kabbalists, how does the night create in us?
R. Night is formed by doing good work in the previous time, this work ends, and then new vessels appear and we're not necessarily happy about them. None of the beginners that I see that he's happy about the darkness that comes to him. That it's suddenly dark and his eyes but we have to respect those states because this is the beginning of the revelation of the uncorrected vessel. Hence, we have to correctly accept the states of darkness and advance in them. Specifically, so I would take them and bless the Creator for giving me an opportunity to advance and come closer to him and so on and so forth. The state of darkness is extremely beneficial, it is awakening for us, it depends on how a person reacts and it depends on the environment, but we always get opportunities for advancement and the states of darkness aren't bad states, it's a revelation of the corrupt vessels.
S. Is it possible to remember, to recall that in such a state of night you should always be in the environment, involved in the environment because without the environment you are lost if you don't get in a 10, how can you remember all the time if it's even possible to control it?
R. You can't fully control it, you can't truly control it. It's impossible but, we wish to establish times for Torah for our meetings for reading the article and so on and so forth and that's why we learn. Kabbalists would wake up at midnight and start to study then as the midnight correction on the many texts ready for those occasions, but we don't need them. Rather we come to the lesson and that lesson takes place at the end of the night because that's a symbol of the correction we wish to make, that's why our work is in the nighttime, towards daytime for those who don't know why they wake up at such times and study. That's why, now during the daytime we try to perform actions in practice in the connection between us in bestowal. The influence of dissemination on the world, this is a result already.
26. S. (01:14:45) Moses leads the people to the giving of the Torah according to the story, they have all kinds of delays, can we learn something from this whole thing in the process of our connection and how can we avoid these delays?
R. We don't need to go through all of those stages written in the Torah in the way that is so pronounced as described there. There are things which the proceeding souls corrected in their efforts and there are things which we correct not for ourselves but for the coming generations. Just like in our corporeal lives, each generation lives for the sake of the next generations, he prepares the ground, the soil for the next generation and this is how it is happening so we don't need to go through all of the acts, all of the states that we get in the Torah rather each and every generation according to how much it is Incorporated in others, that he must add then he is doing it. Some of the work that we do that we don't even know we're doing and another part we do consciously.
27. S. (01:16:48) What does count mean here in the Omer?
R. To count the states we are going through, the desires that are connected, the number of lights that connect and shine. The Sefirah is when I add desires to my connection until my connection will be whole and there the upper light can be revealed, the first upper light called the giving of the Torah. That is it, that is why this time called the Omer count when we count the corrections and we wish to correct them, connect them into one complete vessel, the smallest one then we are rewarded with the revelation of the upper light in equivalence of form with this vessel that we correct in the Omer count and it appears in this light called the light of Shavuot, the light of the Torah, the revelation of the Torah. Meaning of the revelation of the upper light for the first time in the corrected vessel. This is how we come closer to the corrections.
28. S. (01:18:39) How can we be aware that the light is in us if we don't yet have the vessels with which to fill it?
R. We can't feel the light that comes and fulfills us. We can't tell if someone is in us or not, we know he is not there, we won't dilute or lie to ourselves as if the light is coming and filling us. As it is written a judge has only what his eyes see, this is how we need to relate to the people of Israel.
29. S. (01:19:46) We are a new 10, new students, each one of us with his own habits, his own views and we have been talking in recent days about the Omer. What advice can you give us to perform this action in practice?
R. Only connection, the action can be only one, connection in order to give room for the upper light to reveal itself. The wisdom of Kabbalah is extremely practical, meaning that we don't have to do anything that does not belong to the revelation of the Creator in us. The revelation of the light in us. This we should attain only in the connection between us because in the broken vessel that we have from the outset we can't feel the light, this is why all of our correction towards the light is in connection.
Excerpt Letter 19 “When one prepares to is complete protein does not complete the complete coupling at one time but he creates stimuli by way of cycles chasing the Shechina, Divinity with all of his might quivering and sweating until he mounts this extremity all day and all night incessantly. while one soul is being completed in the degrees Nefesh he comes ever closer and so his yearning and sorrow grow since the unsatisfied desire leaves behind it a great affliction according to the measure of the desire.”
30. R. (01:22:21) As much as we advance towards the Creator but that we don't detain him yet, his great light and our corrected vessel, but according to how much we advance we feel more darkness. A bit more each time I do something, but I don't see any results, but this feeling of darkness helps me move quicker and arrange myself better and better to come more hastily towards the correction of the vessel.
Excerpt 4 (01:23:19 - 01:24:59)
Excerpt 5 (01:25:09 - 01:26:48)
31. R. I will read it again: waiting applies work that we need to raise the sheaf, the Omer, the Malchut, the glory of the Creator to rise from its place Bina but when we speak of Torah and Mitzvot, all of the things that belong to correction as relative to an individual. Meaning to come through it to adhesion, adhesion with the Creator, to perform these actions that bring us to adhesion between us and the Creator. Through the equivalence of form, forsaking the benefit of himself and working only for the benefit of the Creator, that is what we need as this work is called Divinity in the dust or Divinity in Exile. We have to see Malchut as falling to its place and that we have to raise it to the degree Bina, to the degree to bestow, it falls again and we raised it again in order to bestow, each time more and more to raise all of the part of Malchut to Bina and we come to a stage where all of it in acquires the intention to bestow and then it can receive the reforming light from above called the giving of the Torah.
Excerpt 6 (01:28:39 - 01:29:56)
32. R. Pesach is where they have been awarded free to Mochin, is the whole world is filled with his glory and there's no place for the evil inclination this is what raises them, man, and the state of moving from being slaves into freedom. He doesn't distance himself in his actions in the work of the Creator, on the contrary a person brings himself closer to his work as we can see. This was only in the way from an awakening from above that the Creator does this not depending upon a person but that it is only a person who suffers and suffers from his ego until the upper light comes and raises him above his ego. When he rises, he discovers other places for corrections and in this place the Creator cannot illuminate. Therefore, we need 7 weeks of the count of the Omer, as it is called in order to correct the places. Meaning the desires to see that the whole Earth is filled with his glory, meaning after a person through this upper illumination receives and ascent from in order to receive from Egypt to spirituality, to in order to bestow and at that point he needs to go through a time frame which is called 7 weeks, which is called the Omer count in order to correct additional desires until one reaches the state of seeing that the whole earth is full with his glory. To see that the Creator clothes all of the desires.
33. S. (01:32:16) What is the difference between corrections that are done inside of Egypt and corrections that are done after Egypt?
R. The corrections that are done in Egypt are where one tries to rise above the desires in order to receive with all types of forces and desires, they are not capable until they cry out, that the people of Israel sighed from the work in the Creator saves them. This is called the exodus from Egypt, when does he save them. When they cry with all of their might that they want to exit, meaning that they believe the Creator defines this time for them and only he can take them out of these states. It all depends upon their prayer to him and if it doesn't do that for them, they will remain in order to receive in this servitude forever and ever. When they come to such a recognition truly in the correct cry the Creator takes them out from Egypt, from that state, then they begin to feel that the Creator is not operating upon them, that he is not keeping them away from the work or hardening their states. This is considered to come out of the control of pharaoh but for the time being that they have nothing other than that at which point a new time begins which is called 49 days Omer of the count in which immediately in rising above the desire to receive they want to draw the reforming light as this reforming light connects them between them, not that they themselves can connect. A person can never do any act of correction, rather he cries, he asks, and the lights operate upon him from above to carry out the correction. Therefore, he cries, asks, and whines and prays and from above the forces come, the lights come that are the lights of the Omer those that are collected together into one group which is called as one man in one heart, called the reception of the heart. To be at the bottom of Mount Sinai at the mountain of hatred and to demand from the Creator to give them the forces to work with a desire to receive in order to bestow and they are not capable of doing so but the cry helps there for when they are in such a state where they are connected after 49 days then they receive a special illumination from above that gives them the feeling at the Creator does fill all of reality. This is called the whole earth is filled with his glory.
Excerpt 6 (01:36:36 - 01:37:53)
34. R. Pesach is where Israel meaning those who yearn for the Creator are awarded with freedom, disconnect from Pharaoh, from the evil inclination, from the ego and are rewarded with the discernment of the whole Earth filled with his glory. There is no longer a place for the evil inclination since he doesn't distance by his actions from the work of the Creator, on the contrary we see how a person was brought closer to the work of the Creator. To recognize specifically that the evil inclination that the Creator created rejects a person, pushes a person forward towards the Creator this is called the help against him because the problems that a person feels in his whole existence that he is under the control of the evil inclination in the feeling of this world it is all just in order to advance him from a great distance, towards the Creator. So accordingly, the evil inclination is called an angel we can see how it brought man closer to his work, although it was only by the way of an awakening from above. Only by it coming from above, the light and Illuminating in such a way in order to explain to us that also the evil inclination exist in order to bring us closer to the Creator. This is why there is still room for correction, as in this place the Creator cannot illuminate. Therefore, it cannot shine yet as it is not yet intentions in order to bestow this is why we need a period which is called seven weeks of the Omer count to correct these places so that the Creator will be revealed to see that the whole earth is full of his glory.
Excerpt 7 (01:40:30 - 01:43:25) twice
35. R. It is hard to hear this language because it is mixed between two different languages, the biblical language, and the Kabbalah language. We will go now according to the questions.
36. S. (01:43:50) In a circumcision that is mentioned in excerpt 7 is this the Covenant of Israel with the Creator and how is it expressed in the 10?
R. The fact that we don't want to use our ego in order to receive is considered that we are going through a covenant, a circumcision. Milah, it's called the connection of a person with the Creator that can only be under the condition that a person doesn't use his will to receive in order to receive. Then he seemingly cuts from himself that part that belongs in his body to in order to receive. This is why we need to understand why there are such signs in our body. We are only talking about a state, like it is written that you need to cut from your heart a piece of your heart oh, this is called circumcision. Circumcision is like a contract between a person and the Creator.
S. How is this expressed in the 10?
R. The fact that we don't want to use in order to receive between us and between us to the Creator is the fact that we make a Covenant. A circumcision and we read about this in the articles, Matan Torah and the Arvut.
37. S. (01:46:08) The 125 degrees where is this and the Omer?
R. Before the entrance to the 125 degrees.
38. S. (01:46:) We are thankful for the process that we have entered with the process from Passover onward. What is the difference between connection and the prayer that brings us out of the will to receive in Egypt and the connection that we do during the Omer count?
R. After we rise above the will to receive it is considered that we do so in the lights of Passover, we enter corrections as there is a matter of rising above the ego and there is a matter of already beginning to correct the ego because we don't have, besides an egoistic desire, anything. The fact that we are disconnecting from it, in the exit from Egypt, how can we exist after that? We need to take the vessels from Egypt, from in order to receive and slowly meaning in an orderly manner to correct them from the light to the heavy in order to bestow. This is what it means to engage in the Omer count, this is where we are correcting only the vessels of smallness, meaning that we are coming to the smaller lights and therefore the sign that we later corrected these vessels is only the Shavuot, where we eat dairy food which is a sign that we are small. This is a sign that we don't yet have the vessels of reception in order to receive in order to bestow, but not corrected, in bestowing in order to bestow we can correct, and we can use them. This is called the holiday of Shavuot, the giving of the Torah and the Torah itself also is attributed to dairy, to milk.
S. The excerpt 6, it says the whole world was filled with his glory and then they said there are places to correct where the whole earth is not yet filled with his glory so what is the revelation one is awakening from above and what is the difference between Egypt and the Omer count?
R. Egypt is the evil inclination, the biggest evil inclination which is cunning and we can just run away from it for the time being they Omer count is where we are already outside of this evil inclination through the operator illumination we feel ourselves being sustained by it like a magnet that is sustaining us upwards and this is how we feel ourselves through this up or illumination of the exit of Egypt, that we are above our egos and can't begin to slowly correct our vessels in order to bestow. All of the degrees that way now can correct will be bestowing in order to bestow, 49 attributes which are at 7 x 7 Malchut to Bina, then we come to a stage where we are included in the degree of Bina which is called Shavuot and the sign for it is that we eat dairy food, talk about milk, smallness which is just like you give a baby the milk.
S. How do we understand the development on the levels of connection?
R. The illumination we receive as a result of the connections between us is more increased and raising us higher above our desires to receive to desires to bestow. More I want to bestow, not capable yet but I want. After 49 such corrections where I want to use the force of Bina in order to bestow then I come to the giving of the Torah.
S. How did we come out of Egypt if we did not attain the desire to bestow?
R. By the Light affecting us and raising us above in order to receive, we just exited we disconnected from Pharaoh running away from him and didn't correct ourselves and now on these 50 days from the exodus from Egypt until the giving of the Torah we correct ourselves such that we do want to receive the reforming light. This is how we come to the giving of the Torah, meaning you can't reach the giving of the Torah if you don't correct yourself prior to that. Otherwise with which vessels do you receive the Torah?
S. Now the next state?
R. Ahead of us is the field that we are in Egypt, if you're asking about us this is our work as we are not in the state that we are learning in the lesson now. We are learning what we need to reach but for the time being where we are, we are still in Egypt and don't even feel the extent to which we are in slavery.
S. How can we, you say we're not where we are learning in the lesson so how do we feel the necessity to learn even though we're not there yet?
R. Always. No matter what state we are in, in the whole ladder of degrees, always what we need to reveal comes to us as a result of our efforts in connection. you want to reach the next degree, the next day to advance towards the end of correction, please, exert in connection.
39. S. (01:54:07) What is the difference between a covenant and Arvut?
R. The covenant is that we are defining something between us, establishing between us where we are willing to go to mutual guarantee which is that which we attain through keeping the covenant in practice, to reach such an incorporation where each of us is a guarantor towards the other that we are already finding ourselves that's one man in one heart. Mutual guarantee is actually the state of connection, the power of connection that we have in the vessel where it is an indication into what states, what place on the axis of development that we are on, from Egypt to the end of correction where exactly we are on that. That place, that state can be defined, each one of those points can be defined by the measure of mutual guarantee between us until we truly reach a state as one man and one heart in its final state which is the end of correction.
40. S. (01:56:27) In Egypt we recognize our ego and try to correct it during the Omer, will we always have a special time to correct this if we do not do this during this time?
R. We call a day in spirituality that we can correct a new desire that is revealed in us, just like we learned today that it'll be evening, and it'll be morning but first of all there is the night, the new vessels are revealed, we correct them which is called the work at night. Because there is still darkness, we are correcting the vessels which are still in order to receive and we are correcting them so they will be in order to bestow. Towards the morning we correct them in order to bestow and in the day, we feel those vessels with rides in order to bestow. When we complete all of that work then we begin to enter evening and night where new vessels are revealed, darkness comes meaning new vessels, uncorrected vessels we correct them during the night in the work, in the darkness, in the night and prepare them for fulfillment in the day. This is how it is for us as night is the correction of the vessels and the day is the filling of the light, the correction of the vessels, the filling of the vessels. If you do this for a whole month, one night and for another month or two months, one day. This is how one day will be for you, two or three months for one day, it doesn't matter how many, meaning it is a time that is not a time, it is a spiritual time it does not depend on corporeal time where the earth spins and revolves around the sun.
41. S. (01:59:32) How do we discern in the 10, between barley and wheat?
R. That's not important to us, later on tonight and it's in its place. Let us not get confused in those things as they are not important.
42. S. (02:00:11) There is an impression after reading the excerpts like after the exodus from Egypt where we obtained something, the light of Abba v Ima and then we need more crimes to correct, not clear?
R. We don't yet understand we can't yet graduate or grade these stages as the maiden on the beach, more than is Ezekiel the prophet, as such a revelation in the exit from Egypt but it is only an exit, it is not yet vessels. They are being raised above the ego from above, the light from above raises them above their ego and that is it and then they need to begin to attain this on their own, there is a very big difference. It is just like you birth a child and then you wash him, and you do all of the care for him at all of those things that take place, after that after the child grows a bit now you say you need to do this, you need to do that, you begin to demand things from him. The child doesn't understand as I always received everything I wanted and you gave it to me, according to my desire and now I actually have to exert and work, this is very hard. But this is what we have, after we exit Egypt and this is really only by the Creator as much as we want to connect and do all kinds of work it is only in order to pray to the Creator to take us out of our ego and when he finally does that, after that we have our work.
We need to exit, and we need to run away from Egypt, to go through all of the deserts, all the way to Mount Sinai as there is a lot of work there. Then we come to the giving of Torah and in the giving of the Torah we have even greater work where we need to begin to go through corrections of our vessels, not in bestowing in order to bestow in order to receive the Torah, but later also already in bestowing in order to bestow on a higher degree. Wait as we will learn this whole process but together with that, we need to also understand the differences between all of these states, meaning that we are learning with you what the Torah is truly telling us about, what is the path that a person has to rise from this world to the end of correction? This is it and everyone will have to go through this.
S. How can we picture it in the 10, let's say we came out of Egypt, we connected in the 10, what is next?
R. If you can connect between you in the 10 and to the extent of your connection in the 10 you begin to attain all of the rest of the states even though you don't learn anything in the wisdom of Kabbalah it is enough for you just to connect to your 10 and to be together with them in an increasing connection accordingly you begin to reveal the Torah. The lights and the vessels, everything that there is in you, you start to discover this in you even though you don't learn in any place from anyone.
S. Is it precisely because we are discovering the crimes between us?
R. Yes, if you want to have it this way then it is revealed and then gradually human development brings you to such trouble that you have no choice but to learn blows what you need to do in order not to suffer the blows and then you are brought to a state where you feel you are in the world to receive in order to receive and it is terrible, how do you get rid of it in order to be saved from the blows. Then you begin to understand that the problem is not in the blows but that you want to connect to the effort force and the blows are only in order to awaken you to this. In other words, you can learn this whole process from your life, but it will take you much longer.
S. He writes here, that the process is of some correction of some drop of impurity. What is this?
R. It is how it's written, it doesn't matter how it is. I don't want to get into the language of the Midrash, the interpretation as it is written poetically in this allegorical manner like a story. I want you to get closer to discernment as in the study of the ten Sefirot, what discernments, what lights, what vessels in order to receive in order to bestow that the created thing from the degree of Malchut and Keter that we speak about otherwise we will soon find ourselves in psychology and what will we get out of that.
S. Can we say in Pesach that we rise out of Malchut and that way rise to ZA?
R. Yes, of course.
43. S. (02:06:50) We need to define the desires of the beast in the 10 and correct them until Shavuot?
R. When you connect and correct your desires to receive so that they work in bestowing in order to bestow this is regarded as arriving at Shavuot, it is not a date that's written on your calendar or on the wall somewhere. When you come to it, this is called Shavuot, the holiday, the seven weeks when it is after you go through 49 days of correction, a day is a new desire that appears to you and you correct it. It may be that you correct each desire taking you half a year, six months to correct so if you have 49 desires, it'll take you 49 days or 6 months and you'll see how long it will take you. It's not a matter of time on your watch, it depends on how much you go over these desires and do not wait for them to be corrected and changed by themselves. They can be corrected and changed only through your efforts. It's not that you correct them, but you try, and you ask that they will be corrected.
44. S. (02:08:32) How throughout the day do we define the desires we are to correct together?
R. I don't know what to answer you as I have been speaking about it for many years you are asking me about this, I see that there is no point in explaining it to you anymore if after everything I have explained you are now asking, it is now like asking what are we doing here, why are we working and what do we want to achieve? When you talk about such things, I have nothing to answer, ask the friends.
45. S. (02:09:22) We learn that Egypt helps us reveal the evil, can we say the Omer count helps us to reveal the love we need to correct the evil?
R. We don't actually come to love but we come to the beginning of the connection and this is why I, accordingly on the minimal level that we can resemble ourselves to the upper light and it begins to influence us. Love is at the end of our development, now for the time being it is degrees of connection and our whole way in corrections until the only degrees have connection between us, to become more and more solidified, united in one vessel, one desire until this whole vessel of Adam is restored into being completely similar to the Creator and accordingly that the Creator dresses in it.
46. S. (02:11:05) How do I identify a desire that needs correction?
R. I don't think we need to check it in this way, we need to be drawn towards connection and therefore anything that can help me in connection I use in order to intensify, increase, and establish more connection between us. I don't scan over my desires and thoughts and so on, how else can I do something in connection? I work only on the connection and whatever is along the way that I discovered I use it.
47. S. (02:12:07) Yesterday evening we did a gathering of friends in the group and I had this feeling of a really special connection. Is this typical through this time frame?
R. No, it has nothing to do with it. It can be more it can be less. We need to accept these things that are given to us to work and it is not like we are learning the Omer count now, to do the corrections of the count, we don't have it as we haven't even lifted ourselves from Egypt, we still have to discover how much we want to be connected at least to such a level by which we rise above our ego. In other words, I have to have friends. I have to be in connection with them because otherwise I don't rise above my ego, I don't enter into the spiritual world, I don't connect to the Creator. This is what is important for us, not to deceive ourselves that we are doing corrections according to the Omer count.
S. What does it mean to get bread from wheat or barley?
R. I don't want to talk about two loaves of bread, work with your will to receive instead of the bread in the barley, okay? I am totally serious, don't move away and don't turn yourself in any direction except for what we are talking about, lights, vessels, forces, all of these things only. Don't go into a style or a different language.
48. S. (02:14:16) Do we need to be in one desire or one intention?
R. We need to be in a desire to bestow to each other and from us together to the Creator and this is really our desire and our intention.
49. S. (02:14:46) He writes to hear that through the fruits of the Harvest during the seven weeks we are awarded with the receiving of the Torah, which is reception in order to bestow, what are these fruits?
R. Fruits are results.
S. It says the fruits are like the freedom that we have to come to the freedom from the exit from Egypt?
R. Freedom from the Angel of Death, from the evil inclination this Is why we rise above it.
S. Then he says there's no room for the evil.
R. We rise above our ego.
S. Then what happens.
R. You can't run away from it, it is like the foundation where we can build our state, the spiritual state.
S. What is to build this spirituality in the 10?
R. When you establish the friends in order to bestow upon each other and to the Creator, by that you establish a state called a spiritual world.
S. We need to rise above the evil inclination.
R. Yes.
S. How and by what?
R. Draw the reforming light.
50. S. (02:17:01) Everyday needs to be a true advancement in the connection between us? What to do if we're working in the darkness and we don't see the results. How do we define advancement?
R. To the extent that you grow farther and farther from yourself and enter the friends,
In the mutual health in connection with them, that connection has to come to such a level in which you will begin to discover the force of bestowal which is called the Creator. This will happen gradually, and you still don't know where you are, in spirituality you can work for a long time but only the very last stage when you do something and you don't know that it is the last stage, there's suddenly comes just like in the exodus from Egypt, that it just all of a sudden happens.
51. S. (02:18:03) At the beginning of excerpt 7 it is written about Passover where there is only circumcision, what is only?
R. On Passover there was only the circumcision when they came out of the authority of Egypt and then they entered the degree of a beast, the holy beast this is why they bring the offering of barley which is animal food and by this the crop of the field is blessed in Malchut, like the field that the Lord has blessed. Through the fruits of the Omer, the seven weeks we are rewarded with receiving the Torah, receiving in order to bestow. Then it is regarded as man who already has the Daat, knowledge of Torah called heaven and the Torah is called the tree of life and man is called the tree of the field. This is why two loaves of bread offered which you already asked about, this is human food, by this the fruits of the tree are blessed, implied by the fact that they are blessed with the Torah. You see how the combination of languages of the Midrash, the interpretation and the commandments and the work of the Creator is so confusing as we should shift it all to one language, the language of Kabbalah. The Sefirot, the attributes and activities in the upper light there is nothing more than the light in the vessel and the relations between them, this is it and, in this way, it is easy and certain and correct to advance.
S. I think in the beginning it's written that it wasn't only circumcision?
R. Passover there was only circumcision meaning disconnection from the will to receive, from the intention to receive.
S. It wasn't only.
R. I'm telling you it was only circumcision. I understand you and I also understand your character.
Excerpt 8 (02:21:10 - 02:21:46)
52. R. That is the time of the Omer count, the correction of the vessels.
Reader continues “this is why he introduces the story of Bar Kafra ....”
53. R. (02:22:43) In short, this is what we learned already, we spoke about it a lot, that during the days of the Omer count we have to come to connection, unity and then we will be worthy of receiving the Torah. Afterwards in this unity we will advance more and more in the power, in the intensity of the unity, and its essence.
54. S. (02:23:15) Does reforming light appear from recognition of evil?
R. According to the recognition of evil in a person comes the reforming light and before the recognition of evil, a person has to work and exert extensively until he comes to a state where he is in the will to receive in order to receive and he is powerless to emerge from this desire. Then he really recognizes the evil in him and accordingly he prays and receives not light that brings him the recognition of evil but the light that corrects his evil.
55. S. (02:24:17) What is the difference between a will to receive in a person in the will to receive of the 10 during the correction of the Omer?
R. The will to receive of a person is individual, personal, it doesn't work in spirituality and the Creator doesn't regard it. The Creator regards the extent to which this will to receive in a person is annulled before the 10, included and incorporated within it to work in its favor. Then the 10 turns to the Creator and to the extent that a person awakens the 10 to the Creator, to that extent though Creator operates on the 10 and the person according to his exertion in the 10 receives from the 10 and awakening. In other words, I am in the 10 I exert and make great efforts in the 10 to connect them through this 10 in connection with them, I pray to the Creator. The Creator bestows upon the 10 and then when I am included in the 10 to that extent I am impressed by the bestowal of the Creator upon the 10 and in this way and accordingly I correct my next incorporation in the 10. In this way I come through the 10 to the Creator and from the Creator to me this is called Israel Torah and the Creator and this way I connect between us and bestow.