Morning Lesson July 24, 2021 Transcription
1. Rav’s Introduction: The branch and root in our world meaning in what we feel, the seconds, minutes, day and night, months, weeks, years. There are roots to all of those signs and the highest root is the end of correction that we have to achieve. That in our world, in our situation it has never been revealed. It is a day when a vessel should be built that received the complete revelation of the Creator and this is why we say about that day that it is a day of love because the purpose of creation, the purpose of the corrections is love. You will love the Lord your God and love your neighbor as yourself, all of the loves join together and this is why because all of our state's we measure with respect to the Creator the most important day as the happiest day, that is the greatest and highest day and it is the day of the revelation of love among us and from among us to with the Creator. Because one depends upon the other.
We have to come to this, here among us in this world and in this lowest point. We also should feel and reveal or discover this love in a complete correction and complete filling. Its root is the 15th of the month of Av. It hasn't been realized in our world but besides this, the rest of the spiritual roots have already come to this world, to this branch and have been realized. The world's corrections but not the day of the final correction, the last one and today we will talk about it. In the end we are going through this process, through this gate. So let us listen to what the Kabbalists say about the source of love that has to be revealed in our complete correction. It depends upon us when it will become revealed but it will be revealed for certain and that day is called the 15th of Av. As the building of the temple, the house of holiness, of love and bestowing among all the people in the world as it is written and they shall all know me says the Creator from the least of them to the greatest of them and my house shall be called a house of prayer for all of the nations. This is what will happen. Let us see what is said about it.
Excerpt 1 (04:39)
2. R. (05:50) In other words normally we come to these days with pressure, forcefully and when that date comes, when it comes the state of correction, the end of correction, the final correction we will immediately discover out of the darkness the greatest darkness that there is before us as there is before the dawn, it is the darkest and then comes the great light, the light of the great correction.
Excerpt 2 (06:26)
3. R. (07:01) The 9th of Av is the ruins and the first ruin was when they wanted to build a vessel of Adam HaRishon to correct it in the Mochin of Haya and they could not and then in Mochin, light of Neshama, a smaller light with the second temple that they also couldn't which was also ruined, after those two ruins there was nothing more to ruin as we are in complete destruction. We have to only discover that this is where we are. Then out of the shattering that is in us, in each of us, in each of us there is a broken desire to receive and if we begin to unite, to move toward each other and to build something out of them we will discover all of the shattering. We are not revealing anything. We can continue because we are on an animal level. When we start getting closer to each other we begin to feel that we are in a state where we can't make these connections. We build the tens, we can't build them. We turn to the Creator and then when we make contact with the Creator, then we do come into the spiritual work, where everything that we want to build between us, to bring closer to do we try to do something and turn to him. We try to get closer and return to him. Then in this way we approach the end of correction.
This is called building a complete vessel where all of the desires and all of humanity manifest and connect through the upper light which assembles us. Not the way we wanted to do it ourselves in the first temple or the second temple. On the contrary it is when we only awaken these desires to connect and the connection happens through a light that shines from above from the farm of bestowing when we understand that we can't do anything. When we do discover the absolute final destruction that is among us and we have to come to it by wanting to build and to be unable to, then the truth is revealed. That only the Creator should rebuild the vessel of Adam HaRishon and this is how it happens. This is called the 15th day of Av. This is why this day is the correction and the mitigation, the sweetening of the 9th of Av, the ruin, which was the decree of the dead of the desert where each year people would die. Each year on that day people would die in the desert but on the 15th of Av but the death in the desert stopped and it turns out that the 15th of Av is the correction and a sweetening of the 9th of Av.
Excerpt 3 (10:52)
Excerpt 4 (11:32)
4. R. (12:20) In other words on the 15th of Av, it is not a day it is a state, then the love of the Creator is revealed to all of those who desire him or who are called Israel and to the extent a person desires the Creator he feels that the Creator desires back to him and that desire of the person to the Creator and the Creator to the person is called love and it really is love. How else can we define love? This is what we celebrate when we come to “I am for my beloved and my beloved is for me”, as it is called man for the Creator and the Creator for man. These feelings meet these dispositions and from then it grows and grows until it comes to a complete measure called the end of correction.
5. S. (13:26) Do they come on their own or as a result of efforts of the lower ones?
R. If we are powerless then we can't discover that anything comes to us from the Creator. To the extent that we reveal our disposition, our leaning and desire for the creator, meaning for the force of bestowing, the force of love, not for some image of shape but for an essence which is love, giving. If I desire for this quality it is called Desiring for the Creator.
S. (14:47) We were talking about the fact that it is a day on the calendar, the 15th of Av.
R. What is marked on the calendar are just signs and symbols that we celebrate but in truth any date comes to a person when that person has arrived at it, meaning you can feel this disposition towards the Creator in his relation to you at any day in the year in any situation.
S. (15:42) Specifically the state is an expression on our behalf to the Creator or this is his revelation?
R. It is that we want to come to him and out of the darkness because first we don't want it, we don't pay attention, the Creator is not so important because in our ego we want to feel that it exists in us, that we are important, subconsciously we are always thinking about ourselves. If I develop greater and greater importance of the Creator then I come to a state where I desire to give, to bestow to the source, to the origin of giving and bestowing and by this I awaken it. This is how I come to reveal this mutual inclination, that I am for my beloved and my beloved is for me.
S. (16.53) How to awaken the love to the Creator correctly in the ten?
R. When we constantly think how we can reach him through friends, the Creator is hidden in the ten. He cannot be revealed not in the ten. The ten doesn't matter, it can be two, three or four, it's not that it is he and I. There can be he and I only if there is someone else between us, because otherwise it won't be in order to bestow.
S. (17:28) By this we express our love to him, that we should feel this love in the ten?
R. In a ten that stands between the Creator and I, I can discover to what extent I really relate to the Creator and not to my own ego. If I am concerned about the ten to the extent that they are important, to the extent that they stand in front of me out of connection, out of love and out of concern, out of all kinds of feelings that awaken in me. If I care about the Creator through those feelings it is a sign that I am developing my vessel through the ten truly to the Creator, and in the end I can discover him as a sum total, as inclusive as the Creator is called the inclusive, the everything. This is how he is revealed to me as the sum total of my feelings toward the friends.
S. (18:49) Is the Creator something that we enter into? Like into this feeling of love for him?
R. Right.
6. S. (19:02) The 15th of Av is the state of the highest correction, what is a higher correct Purim or the 15th of Av?
R. According to the date it is the 15th of Av, the revealing of the joy and from the perspective of the action it is Purim which brings to the 15th of Av as each one stands opposite to the other on the calendar. We're going to go through all the excerpts so it will be clear what we're talking about because of the connection to the root and the branch on this day we should read and awaken ourselves, the day of the end of correction.
Excerpt 5 (20:40)
7. R. (21:31) In other words we have to come to 'love of others'. Why did the creator do it this way, that you have a precondition before you come to love him? Because then in the system that he built and broke, we can detect precisely how we relate to him, how we can position ourselves with respect to Him. So we don't miss that if I come to hatred for everyone and that is where my will to receive certainly brings me, hatred doesn't mean I want to kill everyone, although we eventually do come even to this. But rather at least that I am concerned only with myself and I don't care about anyone, anyhow, whatever happens. This is the expression of the will to receive for oneself, a person who comes to this, this is regarded as coming to the recognition of evil. We can come to the recognition of evil on a very small scale in our situation but when we begin to organize ourselves in a 10 there we discover the hatred, the repulsion, the criticism and you name it, as it is written about the disciples of Rabbi Shimon that they wanted to kill one another. Then out of this darkness they come to such a day where they truly love one another and out of the darkness, the light of day that they attained, they discover the source of the darkness in the light which is the Creator. Therefore we have no choice except through connection with others. Although it is detestable, we can't even imagine it; there is no greater hatred than the hatred for others. Opposite this it later becomes revealed that there's no greater love than the love of others. It is not love for others anymore as it becomes more precious than anything in the world, more precious than I. This is already called eternal love. So he says this: there is self-love and there’s the love of the Creator and there is a medium between being in self-love and loving the Creator, which is love of others. In other words, through love of others we come to the love of the Creator, there’s no other way. You can write it on your heart, in your mind, wherever you want, but you should know, know, that anyone who wants to achieve correction and correction means loving the Creator, it is possible only through love of others and to the extent that we have love for others. That’s it. The greater the soul the greater the will to receive it has, the greater hatred it has for any other and for the friends which it has to reveal. It is truly in a state that doesn't understand why they all exist. I exist and the Creator, and the rest of them, what is the need for them? Nothing. They should not exist. A person with a big will to receive doesn't even understand what the others are doing here. The world is built for me and I am facing the Creator even in such a way that I relate to him as a servant. He should serve me, but the rest, I don't get it, what are they doing here? They should just vanish. That‘s what a big will to receive positions us before this fact that we have to specifically, through love of others, so that everything there is between us and the Creator which is the whole world including the still, vegetative and animate, there’s an eruption of love. This is what we need to come to, there's no choice. In the end we understand that we first have to come to loving others, and it doesn't matter what reality, what state reality is in, what state I am in, the world, it’s just how it’s felt in a person that he must, first of all in the 10, and then everything joins into the 10, so he has to come to a state where he is in the hands of the friends, that they determine his future, they themselves are his soul, and the Creator fills this soul. This is the meaning of what Rabbi Akiva said, 'love your neighbor as yourself' is the great rule in the Torah. Great means it’s everything and besides this nothing happens. The Torah is all the light that comes to us from above, from the Creator that organizes us, arranges us, corrects us and fills us. As old Hillel said to the gentile who told him to teach me the whole Torah when I am standing on one leg, the gentile, the proselyte, the foreigner asked him to teach me the whole Torah immediately right away, concisely. He said it’s very simple, that what you hate do not do to your friend, and the rest go study. This is so because through love of others we come to the love of the Creator. This is basically the conclusion, the summary. Then the whole Torah and all of the wisdom are in the heart of the person. He attains all of reality completely by expanding the point in the heart that he had initially, he had only one tiny point, he expanded it by connecting to everyone into a complete world, and in that world is the spiritual reality. He feels this reality and the upper light, the Creator fills this reality.
8. S. (29:09) In love with others, it is written that there are degrees that come first, don't do to another that which you hate. I don't understand this thing of doing something bad to friends?
R. If I don't make every effort to connect, I can only imagine that I am hurting the friends, reasonably thinking. I have to exert into them every single moment that I have, maximum that I have for connection, because by this I build a vessel for the revelation of the Creator, by this I build the infrastructure from which the Creator will enjoy.
9. S. (30:01) The most essential component in love is what is revealed in it?
R. We are created beings, we don't know how the Creator feels. The Creator is only love, the quality of love, that’s it. He created hatred, and darkness opposite to love so that we, the created beings, would be able to exist between the two and distinguish one from the other. In the difference between them we will exist. Let's say you build some instrument that measures electricity, or heat, you need a basis against which to measure zero heat or zero electricity, zero current. We always want to give a baseline with respect to which we measure. We can't feel what the Creator feels because we are created beings so we need to measure the qualities of the Creator compared to some basis he built in us. He built in us a basis that’s opposite from him. To the extent we have this oppositeness from Him, we reveal this oppositeness as darkness and light. Then in the difference between the light and the darkness we measure. To the extent that we are in a 10 and want to make progress, we increase the sensitivity to both light and darkness. That’s why we say about it, that darkness will shine as the light because we respect the darkness as much as we respect the light. Because for us the truth is it doesn't matter if it is darkness or light, what is important is the gap between them, we want it as great as possible. To the extent of my sensitivity to darkness and light, I become more suitable, worthy of revealing the Creator. It becomes two lines, right and left and in between them we discover him. This is our work. Think about it, write about it, turn it into all kinds of exercises and you will see how it expands your tools of perception and you will advance toward the revelation of the Creator.
10. S. (33:05) The love of the Creator is the source of all the spiritual work, for that I should reach the love of friends. Can I make it so that I will want to reach the love of the Creator because he is great?
R. No one has love for the Creator if we check it honestly. Why should I love him, do I receive from him, do I discover him, no. We discover the way a baby discovers the mother, it’s the source of everything that’s good. It’s a source of life so it loves her. It loves because it’s attached to her, it’s attached to her womb then to her breasts, then to her arms. He embraces her because it’s confidence, it’s warmth, it’s everything, it’s a source of life for him. This is how it happens the more that we connect among us, by this we begin to acquire the power of bestowal because we receive from all kinds of sources as if besides the Creator and that builds in us a special vessel, what is called 10 Sefirot or the vessel of the soul. Then we can approach him not from one point but from 10 points and out of this we already get a new discernment that the Creator is a collection of qualities. It is incorrect, it is only one quality, but when we relate to him this way we discover that it’s as if he has these qualities and each of us is the point of Malchut and we receive through our friends Hessed, Gevura, Tifferet, Netzach, Hod, Yesod and then it turns out that I by this, begin to grasp the upper force in a more multifaceted way, in a more diverse way and then I get a grip on it. Like a baby when it grows it’s no longer only attached to the breast of the mother but also to her hands, to his bed, to something else. In this way he expands his field, his horizon and that becomes his world, and so are we. We have no choice, but precisely because we have to come to reveal the Creator, to love the Creator, we have to reveal the vessel of the society which is the most detestable and farthest from us and to adhesion with the 10. The more that we talk about it, each one should try to build for himself this template. I recommend for everyone to write for yourselves, write down what you think about it, because as you write you want to scrutinize things. Suddenly this becomes clear and that’s not and then you reread what you wrote, you see that you wrote incorrectly and it can be done differently. In short, you want to work on it, and working on something usually is done by writing, it develops you.
11. S. (37:09) Don't do to your friend what you hate and all the rest go and study. What is there to study beyond these words?
R. Yes, but to come to it you need to do it by not doing to your friend what you hate and then out of this, this is only the restriction, don't do to your friend what you hate. This is only a restriction when you don't harm others because all of you want to harm others all the time and everyone. If you don't understand this you will learn it now. In other words you will learn it on your own evil inclination, on your own desire, on yourself and then you have to come from hatred for others to love for others. So there is more to learn. When you begin to learn about hatred, out of the hatred you come to a state where instead of the hatred there should be love, and then you come to the opposite, from darkness to light. This is our work, we’re getting into it, don't worry, we’re going into it, no one will be left out of it and we will reach the goal. We are already emerging to the straight path, we just have to hold on to the friends tighter and to the Creator and we will advance step by step.
12. S. (39:17) When I try to scrutinize what I hate, I don't know what I hate?
R. I have to scrutinize what I hate but the way to do it is only through connection with the friends and then I discover how much I don't want it and this is what I hate. Do what Kabbalists write, whether we want it or not and then we will discover what happens.
13. S. (39:55) Can you explain how we can develop sensitivity for the light and the darkness?
R. For the friends, where do you have the instruments to discern between darkness and light and hatred and love, with the friends? Darkness is when you’re rejected from the friends and light is when you are attracted to your friends, that’s all, you have nothing else. The more you discover your heart in there, both in the bad direction and the good one, but as much as you can open your heart, open it inside, you don't have to show it to everyone that you are jumping and hating and loving, the main thing is the whole work is inside, it’s the work of the heart. So that’s how you will advance.
You at home also when you read these excerpts, when you write about what you feel in society and in what way you want to discover and to realize these excerpts, if you have questions write them down and later you can ask and if there is no time to ask then send them to our inbox boardworldkli@gmail.com and then we will scrutinize them because this is the subject we are advancing with. Send your question in whatever language you speak and it will be translated and then I can answer to you all at once, but it is obligatory for us to always talk about our connection in the 10.
14. S. (42:14) Is writing something a personal task or together?
R. No, whatever a person writes he should write it on his own, if he wants to consult with others and they don’t oppose it. Maybe they oppose it, maybe they don’t want everyone to confuse all the others, you should take that into consideration, each one should increase his sensitivity as much as he wants or doesn‘t wants. Each has his own place, later we will come closer and we will be more incorporated in the feelings but in the meantime that is how it is.
S. If in the 10 I think with your recommendation we open up the excerpts, we learn and it’s open and everyone can go in and after every excerpt write some impressions about it?
R. With everyone? No, it's too early for that. Only after we start connecting between ourselves maybe, gradually. For now it will only cause confusion. Everyone’s corrupt so each one will come with his corruption. In the meantime everyone is egoistic, individualist so each one is trying to understand that our work needs to be with a good relation upon the crimes, the crimes of love, to be in good relation with each other. Let’s discover what we’re made of.
S. Writing is a personal matter that is recommended for everyone to do?
R. Yes.
15. S. (44:02) If I go over each and every friend I have a different feeling and love towards them, what is the next stage after I know what I feel toward each friend?
R. Later we will talk about it, we're not going into all of these personal questions. We’re learning the rules now. So go over what you have to others and to yourself, collect it, scrutinize it, sort it out very well, and then we can talk, it’s still ahead of us.
Excerpt 6 (44:40)
16. R. (44:57) Meaning that’s all we have to reach, there are no other goals, no goals. What about the Creator? The moment we attain “love your friend as yourself” that’s exactly where we attained the love of the Creator and his love to us.
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17. R. (46:16) This is something that we see in this whole world, that everyone says they can love the Creator but for them the love of the Creator is the peak of the selfish love. To truly reach the love of the Creator according to equivalence of form with the Creator is only possible through love of others. That’s why the Creator created one soul and broke it to all the NRNHY, to all of the parts, the degrees of the will to receive. That the still, vegetative, animate and speaking are revealed in us and if we yearn for love of others we come to a state that we reach the love of the world, meaning love with no limit. Where all the still, vegetative, and animate, and all of the humans are there. And that’s how we come back to a complete vessel.
Excerpt 6 again (47:45)
18. S. (48:59) Is there love of others without loving the Creator?
R. Love of others cannot be beyond the natural love that a mother has to her child. Otherwise it’s, look everything is egoistic love, love of others is egoistic. Only under the condition that you will intend for the love of the Creator meaning bestowal to the Creator, and so love of others is also altruistic bestowal and giving.
S. In the intention to bestow upon the Creator is it possible to attain love for others but not for the Creator yet?
R. Yes. There are all kinds of states here because it is revealed as a vessel and light, yes, this is still ahead of us.
19. S. (50:08) In the excerpt it says to put the friend's needs first, what is he speaking about?
R. That I should help the friend reach love of others and love of the Creator and this for me is the most important goal. I am not thinking about myself, I am thinking about the friend. And this is how I need these exercises, in order to reach the love of the Creator.
S. This is what I think about preparing the conditions for the friend so that he will have a desire to
R. Reach the love of the Creator. This is what you have to put, this and that. You have to place it like the ladder. I come to the friend and I love the friend, I want to love him and to be close to him because only in this way I reach the Creator. The friend is standing between me and the Creator and not that he’s hiding the Creator behind him, he’s helping me acquire such qualities in which I really reveal the Creator and I reach adhesion with him.
20. S. (51:34) Yesterday we spoke about complete annulment and today we're speaking about love. Can you say what is the difference between complete self-annulment between the friends and love between the friends?
R. It’s when I annul myself, when I restrict my ego and I don't use it and by that I truly reach a restriction, zero, as if I'm not there. Now that’s not enough. To what extent I can help them to reach connection between them and adhesion with the Creator, for that I have to activate other qualities of mine, not to restrict but rather to expand and to enter and go with all of my strength. This is why these are two things that are seemingly opposite actions, restriction and the opposite, opening and expanding.
S. I thought that annulling before the friend was to position his needs before mine?
R. Yes but before that you have to make a restriction on your desires, when you are not tending to your desires for yourself. But if you are going to connect to others you’re connecting to them in your qualities for their sake, for the sake of the friends. This is a different kind of work. The goal, the address, when I activate everything I have in my mind and heart for myself or for the friend.
21. S. (53:49) This morning's news talked about the love of a mother for her child and the child for the mother because he is dependent on her. Also in the 10, I work on this mutual dependency so how can there be love without dependence?
R. Because by the upper light we received to the extent that we are capable of doing the efforts, nonetheless in helping each other, each one should help his friend so this way we come to a state where each one does something at least in each and every action of his egotistically. There is also a part in bestowal, then bit by bit all our bestowals are such for others, are connecting and we receive in accordance with each and every action an illumination from above that corrects us. That is how it makes us.
S. Can we say that we change the mutual dependency into mutual guarantee?
R. Correct yes, by doing that we come from dependency to Arvut, when Arvut is the same dependency but it’s positive. That’s it.
Excerpt 7 (59:07)
22. R. (59:39) Meaning I don't take into account whether the friends love me or maybe they don't love me or how much. What I see is an opportunity in front of me that the Creator establishes this opportunity, he placed the group for me where in order to reach Him I have to love them, that simple. If I come to love them then I reach the love of the Creator, it’s a condition. You can say that in front of you there is a mother that has 10 children, and you want to come to a state that you connect to her truly, with all of your heart and soul, that you want to give her love, and her children are the condition. If we want to reach the love of the mother, we have to show that we love the children. That’s how it is. That’s the correct and true condition because then we really attain the love of others because we understand what it means to love others. We have 9 friends around us or it doesn't matter how many exactly, and by them we learn what it means to love others except for me and this is how we reach this quality of love of others. Meaning what the Creator created, the vessel of Adam HaRishon and broke it, what we have in front of us is a world that is big and full of people. We have to understand it's all for us and only intended for us, so that we will reach the love of the world and through it the love of the Creator. We will have enough feelings, understandings, discernments that we can understand and feel the Creator in his relation to us. Then we reach the complete and eternal world.
23. S. (01:02:10) What do I do when I discover bestowal itself is hated, I hate bestowal itself?
R. That is very good! So you should say thank you very much to the Creator for showing you the truth, you hate the quality of bestowal, this is the truth. You have reached something already. If you talk to other people on the street and you tell them you’re all receivers, you hate everyone, all you think about is yourself. They will start hitting you. Because that's not the way they think. Meaning what you’ve come to, you’ve reached a point on the path called recognition of evil. Meaning you already know your nature. You don't want to bestow, you don't want to love, you don't want to relate to anyone in a good way at all. Your relation to everyone is only egoistic, it’s bad. Besides that you have nothing. Good. So about this it is written, anyone who is bigger than his friend, his inclination is bigger. This means that we discover our evil inclination in us and the higher the soul the higher its evil inclination. That’s why for some people it takes ten years, maybe even more, until they discover all the evil in them. They may start working a little bit to connect with the 10, with the others, but before that they’re trying but it’s all - they themselves see in themselves how artificial it is.
24. S. (01:04:37) How does a person depict to himself the benefit of the friend?
R. It is very simple, don't know what the friend wants? What I want. In my process towards the final correction, he too wants the same, it’s clear. What does he want? He wants to reach a correction because there’s no choice, that’s how the Creator set it before us. That only to the extent that we’re corrected, the quality of bestowal, we can come closer to him according to equivalence of form, and that’s all. So don't I know what my friend wants, doesn’t he know what I want? And with respect to that we have our disturbances.
25. S. (01:05:45) How can I measure the love for the Creator through the love of friends?
R. The morning lesson is 100% important because besides the morning lesson we don't have anything. If a person is not part of the morning lesson he has no other source by which he can advance. It’s only his ego, his laziness that brings him all kinds of thoughts all the time as if he can do it in a different way, but it’s impossible. You can't do it in any other way. Rabash wouldn’t take anyone into account if he didn't come to the morning lesson, and for us the morning lesson is just like it was with him. That’s how it started at 3 a.m. Even for him it was a bit earlier, and you finish at 5:30, you can say 6 but I’ve seen that towards 6 many people leave. I guess they have the problem of getting ready for work, so 3 to 5:30. We come 15 minutes earlier, some come half an hour earlier, and that’s how we learn. But you can't do it in any other way. You don't have any other place where you can receive guidance for that day or force for that day in connection with all the world Kli when our work is getting stronger and stronger. We’re not acting in the 10, we are acting in the world 10 of ours, truly so. Whoever wants to truly advance then all his life should revolve around this lesson. Maybe for him it will be in the morning or the evening, it doesn't matter. For Toronto it is evening, for Moscow it is earlier, it’s still night, etc. We have no choice. We need to nonetheless organize our day in a way that this is the lesson, in a live manner. I see it, I take part in it, and it is a different feeling than doing it later when I download it from the archive. Still it is something if you do it, but you have to have a disclosure of importance for our meeting for the tension that exists in the lesson, and that’s how we advance
26. S. (01:09:42) All the suffering we feel during the day do they come because we are still not doing our work?
R. Yes. All these unpleasant things we feel during the day are all to aim us in a more precise way to the purpose of creation. However, it’s not that we should love them so much, but we should accept it as coming to aim us in the meantime, but there’s no reason to expect torments. I want my path to actually be easy, completely aimed at the group and through it to the Creator. Although if the stick comes out to kiss it, but yearn for good. I hope we’re going to soon reach a state that a stronger connection will exist between us, and we’ll feel ourselves in this connection, and it will become much easier for each of us to hold on to the path and to feel that he is in a strong group of people.
S. I feel when a friend says these things what can I do to a friend who suffers blows because this is our work so how can I be in bestowal toward the ten?
R. The answer should be clear, you should, as much as you can depict yourself as in the state of your friend and what then would you want to receive from someone like you as help. And this is what you should do.
27. S. (01:12:21) Why do we feel in our nature that we are alone in the world?
R. Because we are, each one is closed within his ego.
S. What is the purpose of being built this way?
R. So that you want to come out of it.
28. S. (01:12:53) To obtain love of the Creator do we have the first obtain the gap between the friends and the Creator between the other to the Creator?
R. We have to attain the gap between us first of all and from the gap between us we’ll discover the distance between us and the Creator. I didn't think they were such questions.
29. S. (01:13:37) I turn to the quality of love, quality of bestowal. How can I yearn for something I hate because what I discover is that sometimes when we try to increase importance in the ten…
R. Inside each of us there’s a point in the heart and there’s a heart. Heart is our ego and the point in the heart is what we call the Divine part from above that draws us to the Creator. So certainly this point, this drawing, the attraction to the Creator is within our ego, which is the heart. But still there is this tendency, and if we connect the points in the hearts between us then we can overcome each and every heart of each and every one. This is basically the reason why we have to connect in the ten.
30. S. (01:14:58) Between friends could there be a state of ‘he who spared his rod, hates his son’? What should be important is that the friend advances spiritually or that we have mutual love?
R. I try to bring all the love that exists in my heart and only this way I relate to the friend. I am not allowed to judge a friend, that's it. Moreover to say that OK he's getting blows, so this will correct him, no. I have to be along with him, in his heart, in all the worst states he’s going through. Feel that it’s me going through that.
S. If I give a good example to a friend but I feel that it’s painful for him, that he doesn't feel good from it, should I keep doing it?
R. No, there is no commandment on us, a Mitzvah, to teach the friend the way we relate to him, no. How come you become higher than your friend? What does Rabash write, in what way should we relate to society and to your friend?
S. He says one is greater and one is smaller...
R. No, I’m higher in a way that I can give him good things, not that I come and teach him, subdue him. No, that's your ego telling you to do that.
31. S. (01:16:49) It's written that I have to love the friends and not them towards me. When I start building such an attitude towards them what does it mean that I feel anything by this? Because you said I can feel different kinds of love towards the Creator through the friends, so that's something external.
R. I don't know. You will do it and then from your experience you will see how it happens, how it’s built, and then you will tell us.
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32. R. (01:19:07) Yes, this is simple. If we work in such a way in the 10 that each one tries to connect with the others, gives an example, it is very important, to give an example of what he’s doing for everyone, then certainly by that, they can each connect to everyone, and then everyone would have their own vessel and everyone together will have a common vessel, then we will have 10 Sefirot where each one is also comprised of 10 and this is called the Partzuf, the spiritual Partzuf where the indeed the Creator will be revealed.
33. S. (01:19:51) If I’m included in the friends’ hearts, I feel his problems, his difficulties, his lack of connection with the group, so automatically I want to help him. How can I simply feel and participate in his feeling, but also I can't help in such a way?
R. This you have to consult with the whole group and decide what you need to do. Then see what you decide. These are the things that you need to discuss on your own and decide on your own.
34. S. (01:20:45) About that example that you just said: that you must give and receive an annulment and love of friends, it’s like our work is becoming more and more internal, especially in the last year and a half. And you don't really have a place to give an example because the more the work is internal, how do you give an example in your internality?
R. We just discuss between the friends, if so, what we can do in strengthening the 10? In truth, besides reading the excerpt especially from Rabash, we don't have much more to do. And in reading, each one works in his heart because this work is concealed work. It is all the hidden wisdom. That it appears in a man's heart and we just feel the results of that. The Kabbalists barely speak among them. When I saw some Kabbalists, when I was still young among them, they barely spoke between them; they only spoke when they were studying, in how they were studying so through the text. But what they felt internally, it was also very clear to them what they were feeling because they read about it. Therefore, I didn't hear, not because I was there. I just didn't hear that they spoke about the revelations in their inner work. For everyone it was clear about what they have to do.
S. Not internal work, I'm just asking about the place, an opportunity to give an example and an annulment of love of others?
R. That's a must. Let's see, if one does something for the other, then you all have to discuss that. It shouldn’t be hidden because this brings love, brings connection. Therefore, one who gives a gift to his friend must publicize it, must inform him. Meaning you did good to the other. You have to reach a state where he knows that you’ve done this. Giving in a concealed fashion, modestly, is not good, because that doesn't increase love between the friends. We need the opposite, each one showing that he wants to give to others and each one advertises that he does that, not to be respected but that everyone would do that, because we are working on our sum total, our general account so that everybody would benefit from it. If I don’t tell the others then I’m taking away from them.
S. My question is about the point that we keep repeating: how during the time that we are not together, we have two to three meetings a day and the morning lesson. Most of the time a person has, that he’s with himself, and work, and things, how can he do the work there in a more effective way because there you feel just thrown and there’s lack of grasp, you don’t have a place to give an example?
R. Everyone has a phone. You also have a phone
S. Yes, but you also can’t be on your phone all day?
R. No but you can read the whole morning lesson and repeat these quotes, and then think about them.
S. I can, I have a break once an hour for it, but is that enough?
R. I think if that’s the work you do every day then I don't think we need to pick up the pace although I would really like that. But we are a great amount of people. There is this inertia from everyone, a certain kind of approach that each group and each 10 has, no. Only clinging to the daily lesson. If we truly cling to it and through that we want to penetrate the inner form that we have, then we don't need anymore.
35. S. (01:25:49) My friends, the world Kli, is following a true Kabbalist, and I'm very proud of that and it gives me a lot of power. Then I discovered that this pride is also a trap of the ego. So what is the correct use of pride? How can we get power from such a group, from such friends but that it doesn’t become a trap for the ego?
R. First of all, there has to be pride, as it is written, ‘one’s heart should be prideful in the path of the Creator. So if one is prideful in having a strong group with the teacher, then this is good, on one hand. On the other hand, he needs to be concerned about others, that all of this pride should be manifested in having a group that he is taking care of, understand? That's what’s important. I, for instance, am concerned about this whole group of yours. And it is very important how we will advance and it hurts me that there are some that are falling out, and I'm happy that others are connecting and coming. And so I try, that all together, the group will be happy and as connected as possible and advancing as possible. That's what each one you think about. Besides his personal ten, but also the global 10, the whole of the Bnei Baruch, and even the entire world. We have to think about the entire world, and then we will be closer to the Creator.
S. If I think about it, if I think that this small group of people that follow the teacher, how are following the Kabbalists, then I feel like a group of superheroes. Can that be a trap or is it OK to use that power?
R. I don't know, try and see. I can't get into all of the intentions and what's happening there in the details with regard to what you’re asking. You already have sufficient experience and most importantly, a group that can guard you all. Still the opinion of the group, the opinion of the 10, that needs to be the main force that directs the person.
36. S. (01:29:19) When there’s a rejection from connection in the friends, it’s a state that even though it’s difficult, it makes you happy because you see that there’s work and something to correct. What do you do when the rejection chrome from the studies? The ear gets clogged, you can’t hear anything?
R. You have grown tired, you have lost your deficiency. Become more incorporated with the friends, work on the connection between you, and from that, you will then get another deficiency from them towards you so that you will once again want to connect to the study.
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37. R. (01:31:20) This is how it works and by that we help each other. The more I show the friend that I care for him, it obligates him to care less about himself. That’s how it is built from the general system that we’re in. So if each one from the system shows toward each and every one that he cares about them, that it pains him, by that he helps him rise above the ego and also care about others. And this is called one should help his friend. That I give an example in loving and caring for the friend, and by that I obligate him to also relate this way to others. So let's try to do this. That as much as we want to show each other the love, the connection, the concern, the support, by that we obligate everyone, we really force them to do the same. And by that we all connect together to a single, global, great Kli, which will make it a whole lot easier to attain the connection with the Creator. Agree?! Try!
38. S. (01:33:20) Since I asked you if a person comes to the lesson once a week, how can he advance spiritually?
R. Are you married?
S. Of course.
R. Tell you wife I'm going to see you once a week, and I also have a few other families of my own that I also go to, each day I go to a different family. How will she take that?
S. My father used to come home every 6 months.
R. Did you hear my question though?
S. I didn't hear it because of the translation.
R. I can't speak just to you, I’m speaking to the whole world Kli. No one can tell their wives I’m going to see you once a week and the rest of the time I’m going to be in another family. So the same way you can’t say that to the group you. Can’t say that to the Creator. Where there’s true love there’s love. There can be various situations beyond that, above that, but love is love. And in love you can't love someone once a week and then the rest of the time you're not there.
S. Arabs don't have such a thing.
R. I don't know about Arabs, so go study from the Arabs. You are causing such a situation where your group can't participate. So simple question, if you want to achieve connection with the Creator, there’s no other choice. Where there is an opportunity, you need to be there and you need to be first.
39. S. (01:36:33) In the virtual reality, how can you express love towards the friend, how can you express concern? We used to prepare a room, make coffee, what can I do now?
R. I don't know. The fact that I'm in the lesson every day, and that I come even half an hour before the lesson, that I'm willing to bring everyone together, that I'm preparing material for the lesson, making sure that everything is ready. I don't know, all kinds of things that can be for us physically well-organized, that's one. Two, we are internally supporting each other, not externally, internally. I awaken them, I show them an attitude of love, inclination to connection, that’s it. As we study together and then throughout the day, when we connect, we have sufficient opportunities. I built this course for a long-term, of let's say 3 years. That one who takes part in this course has to reach a state where he enters through the love of friends to the love of the Creator, and let's hope that those who are here daily and do what needs to be done will achieve that.
40. S. (01:38:30) What does it mean to love the friends? What do I need to love exactly?
R. I need to love the friend just as I imagine to myself that I need to love the Creator. It's impossible that the friend will be less than the love of the Creator. That‘s impossible, that’s just false. So according to the love of friends, you can see your relationship with the Creator.
S. I have to search for something special in the friend in order to search for the love of the Creator?
R. Possible.
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41. R. (01:40:04) He says that nothing depends on the friend, it depends on me. How much I keep wanting and wanting to show him that I want to connect with him more and more and then even though his heart is like a heart of stone that can’t be penetrated, I still must. I have to try to enter his heart and then from a single crack there is more and more space until there’s a void in the friend’s heart, and into that void I can bring all my warm attitude towards him. And in this way each one must fulfill the entire heart of the friend. And to the extent that each one tries to enter his friend’s heart, and don't think that you have such friends that you can't delve into their hearts. To that extent you advance toward the Creator who ultimately is at the innermost point of each and every heart. The innermost point common to all hearts. Yes, continue.
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42. R. (01:42:32) So that's how we connect and that's how the entire intention to receive they had is burnt and it becomes in order to bestow, and our heart becomes a pure heart, and that's how they achieve love of the Creator. There they find the hidden Creator inside the friends' hearts. OK?
43. S. (01:43:00) What does it mean to enter the friend's heart?
R. It means to try to fulfill him with your love and not to be overwhelmed that the friend doesn't feel it, doesn't see it, and what are you doing, what am I doing, he doesn't understand what you want from him. He wants to do something inside you, he wants to do something for you, he even wants to come and do all kinds of good things to you externally. And you accept it and you don't feel like he did something and then he’s baffled and again he tries, and again, and again you don’t respond. He has to keep trying and trying, if you’re his friend in the ten, until he bursts into your heart. And then in your heart he attains this fire of the upper force of the Creator. Meaning what do we need to work on? We need to work on not our ego but the friend’s ego, in order to penetrate it and ignite the fire of love there.
S. (01:44:48) And the friend, for me, he is like a yearning for spirituality right? I don't care what he looks like or sort of thing?
R. No, of course not. But his yearning for spirituality too, I don’t really reveal his heart is a heart of stone, I can’t feel. He comes, he participates but let’s say he’s entirely prideful, patronizing, removes himself from the others, distances himself. And then I can’t grip hold of him, I can’t penetrate him. And still I need to accept this friend as a friend, as great, because he truly has a great egoistic desire, and I must break through the shell of his heart with my love.
S. So when I work with the different friends I need to try and enter each friend's heart differently or is it the same process with each one?
R. I am certain it’s different. With each and every friend you need to try to reach a state where you enter it, like the sperm enters the egg. That’s how spiritual life is formed. This is how you build the cell of spiritual life. When each one tries to penetrate the other.
44. S. (01:46:47) I think you already answered the friend but I’m really inspired by the lesson. Could you speak about that inner point of the connection with the friend in order to focus on that point and be able to help the friend?
R. Look, this needs to be very delicate work. Let's say when we see the friends, they don't feel, they don't hear, they don't identify that we relate to them in a warm soft loving way. We still have to try to soften them, to explain to them. In the group we can do anything as long as it’s in a way that leads to correction and not to reach a state where we throw the friend away, where we expel a friend from the 10 because we see that he’s not intended for it. He's not intended for it because he has a much greater ego, but with it he’s not running away. He is in some connection with us still as much as he can, as much as the Creator orchestrates for him. Even though there are friends or let's say there’s a certain friend in the group that is really like a rock and can't connect with others. We need to realize that this is the way in which our whole group receives our collective burdening from above. So let's try to reach a state where the more we go forward, we might see him as worse and worse. When we advance in our connection and he is as if falling behind. But we have to see that this thing still needs to be a part of us because the Creator brought it. If he doesn’t directly break up the ten, and this is the question. If it gets to a point where we see we have to expel him because otherwise we don’t advance or that we have to continue with him whatever happens because he’s not going against our goal, he’s just not yet showing, revealing that the connection between us is the only means towards the goal. And then a little bit more and a bit more to explain to him in different ways as much as possible. I don't think that we have a possibility of getting rid of him, taking him out of the 10. We have to understand that this whole thing was given to us from above. This person doesn’t want to hurt our 10 and he’s sent by the Creator to us and so we need to raise the prayer to the Creator because probably with this opportunity the Creator gives us a way to contact him and ask for help from him. That probably in our 10 we need to discover the Creator’s help and connection with the Creator. And then it turns out that this person who was such a stony heart that he actually helped us connect to the Creator because we have no choice, we have to turn to the Creator, we have to raise our hands towards him and pray for him to help us in this state. So it turns out this person, we thought he’s breaking apart our connection, is actually doing the opposite. By resisting connection and showing us different forms of this regard to our connection, he actually revealed to us our internality and that we have to turn to the Creator and the Creator has to help us. There’s a lot of details in this, we will work on these things, don't worry.
45. S. (01:52:18) Entering the heart of every friend in the ten. Does that mean to invest first in whoever easier to enter his heart? Or to start with one who it seems impossible to enter his heart?
R. The correction is always from light to heavy that by connecting to lighter things turning them to forces of bestowal that leads you to heavier things.
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46. S. (01:56:21) What does it mean those tactics I need to acquire to the heart?
R. Everything that you can imagine to yourself, use it. Speak about it between you, see what Rabash writes in his articles and also Baal HaSulam. I do not know, that is what you need to discover, you need to search and learn from each other.