Morning Lesson November 27, 2021, Transcription
Transcription is made from simultaneous translation which leaves a possibility for differences from audio
Part 1:
The Reforming Light - Selected Excerpts from the Sources
1.Rav’s Introduction: Yes, this is actually our main means to come out of the degree of the beast and to reach the degree of the Adam, the human level that resembles the Creator because inside us there is no more than in this great will to receive more than the still, vegetative, and animate levels. Whoever is more than that then he feels in his life there is something missing. Something missing, the second half of his desire, the fulfillment, which is the feeling of the upper force, the feeling of the Creator. Not in a real clear way but nonetheless the essence of life he feels that he does not have it. It is not clear to him what he is living for, he is looking for it but he does not find it. He finds it ultimately by that light. What's leading him in life is that light which is leading him to the means which is the wisdom of Kabbalah. Certainly on the path the person goes through all kinds of other sources thinking that this is where he will find the answer but eventually, he does come to the wisdom of Kabbalah. It is not all at once maybe not in one incarnation but nonetheless he does come to it. This is why we need to make efforts to learn how we can work with this light that reforms in a more beneficial way. We can bring it closer to us.
This is not simple, this is not easy. We need not only to learn this for ourselves. First of all to learn how to organize ourselves so this light can bestow on us so that we ourselves will help it bestow on us and this is by our structure so that we can at least somehow resemble the complete system of Adam HaRishon. This for us is called the ten. Meaning at least even two if they connect properly between themselves, they are connected to that light because the light bestows not on the person but rather on his relation to others. To the extent that the person wants to come out of himself towards the others to that extent the light bestows upon him. The condition for it we can perform, we can correct in this structure that the Kabbalists themselves invented for us which is the ten. In the ten we connect and the closer we are to the ten the greater the force and if besides this structure we also activate our desires, intentions, passions, efforts of connection to be as one man with the one heart. These are signs that a ten is becoming connected as one and resembling about this the nature of the light which is one unique and unified. According to the equivalence of form with the light, the ten brings this light closer to it, the light is everywhere, it fills the entire reality. Now too it is the same shape, the same form that will be revealed. We are talking about these Kabbalists who are receiving this light. To the extent that they can overcome all the egoistic rejections that the Creator created intentionally in them as he says, " I have created the evil intention". To the extent that I can overcome the ego in order to be as one man with one heart and by this we can adapt ourselves to the light and it will bestow upon us performing all kinds of actions so that our vessel will resemble it.
On one hand, we can rise above our personal ego and to the extent we can rise above this personal ego we can connect between us. When we reach a state of being as one man with the one heart, even if it is the first one, this is considered that we enter the Ibur, the conception. This is a new state we build for ourselves from a ten of simple human beings we have become a spiritual ten that has some kind of internal connection above the desire of each and every one, a personal desire into a general desire. In this general desire the Creator can already shine, can go into it, can can show himself there and this is how we come to be in contact with the Creator. Then we continue with that until we reach unity of the whole ten on its behalf, on behalf of the vessel, which is dark, black, egoistic, opposite to the Creator specifically by overcoming as each one is overcoming in the direction of connection.
This is how we can come closer to the light until we become according to the common desire, the common force between us to resemble the light. Meaning all in all we build that quality of bestowal from ourselves just as the light is and all that comes with help from above. The help of the light that elevates us above our ego, from our ego and then we start in our intentions to want to be connected both between us and with Him, with the light. Then we come to a state where all of us are connected and to the extent we are connected, we are connected between us to the upper light that fulfills us, organizes us and fills us. Certainly in our efforts we discover all kinds of different efforts by each and everybody how much he is changing. He doesn't want to change in favor and against all these changes. We feel it and then we can distinguish what is correct here, what is beneficial for the connection between us and to come closer to the Creator to this light and what isn't. There is work here, scrutinies and corrections. This is our path, we are already on it some more some less. Still it works on everyone.
I am very happy when we are all overcoming the disturbances, we must have on the path otherwise we would not know how to better participate with the upper light. We have to be its partners. When He does his share and we do ours this is how we become partners with the Creator until we make our shape in Adam, he who resembles the Creator. This is basically the process we have to come to until we come to a state where every through ten feels itself as a ten that receives adhesion, real glue from the upper light as an answer, as a response for the effort to connect. Besides that as it connects it feels a true need to be in the fulfillment of the upper light. Meaning in this quality of bestowal and love just as the upper light is and that is how it happens between all the friends more and more in a gradual way. This is not a short path, it doesn't take a short while. The main thing is that we have to start in it, in conception so we can connect together by the light that reforms to a state where we do not yet really participate in it.
Later in the degrees of conception until the birth when we feel the Creator’s action on us more and more. Even though we can really take part in it besides the restriction and adhesion of what He does, later it will be a more independent active way from our behalf where coming closer between us becomes more scrutinized. Let's call this more clear discernments, both in our behalf we do everything only what comes to us from above in this process of the conception the Ibur. Rather the process after the Ibur after the conception in the birth we take part just like little children like babies. There are all these examples so from our behalf we become similar to the upper light and become closer more and more. We perform different actions between us and this is how we become more and more like Adam resembling the Creator. Everything is done by the light that reforms until it completes all its actions on us which we call the final correction. Then we reach that form of Adam the way it was before the shattering but it was organized, managed and in order of intensity 620 times more than it is. Meaning that by this we resemble the Creator. We have some excerpts about the light that reforms that speak about this. The chosen excerpts from the sources. So let's talk about it. Let's ask ourselves what else is left to do in order to reach what this whole process of creation places in front of us.
Excerpt 1 - "Introduction to The Study of the Ten Sefirot", Item 155 (15:03)
2. S. (16:15) You said that the light fills all of reality, so the question is does the light also operate on the people and make them want more corporeal things compared to other people, for example the students in Bnei Baruch. The question is why does the light operate according to such a criterion that promotes some people? It looks like it gives only some people the ability to progress?
R. Yes, it is the light that acts and it has to act in two ways. On the one hand it has to increase the desire to receive inside the person so it will be more and more suitable in its strength to the light so it has to be the opposite of the light in the will to receive. On the other hand it has to have more ability to come closer to the light, the will to receive as it comes to the person what develops him is an ordinary desire, maybe for many different desires. The person can start receiving a desire for food, sex, family, honor, money, knowledge and in some direction and in different manners that appear before of him. It is the increment of the desire is also by the light that reforms. There is nothing besides the upper light and also on the degrees of still, vegetative and animate the light works and develops them and this whole process I see before me, birth process and corrections of all sorts of people and in general, animals and the plants, everything is done by the light but it is a gradual and purposeful shape.
When we receive the light that reforms when we talk about people with a point in the heart so the light that acts on them. On the one hand increases the desire with a small desire one cannot advance. On the other hand it increases the illumination if the desire acts in us in a direct, egoistic way and we want more, so here before us there are all kinds of options of using the desire open before us. Every day we see people from our group who want to reach spirituality, they suddenly want all kinds of other things, previously they did not see that there is an opportunity for some business, some new hobby. Suddenly there is a feeling to engage in music, in sports, in all kinds of things. All this is because the light acts more on the person compared to before because he started to engage in the wisdom of Kabbalah, his development became faster compared to all other people.
What is special about our development is that we go through the stages of spiritual development very fast if we are in a group and we are studying, we do not go into all kinds of parallel developments of food, sex, family, money, honor, knowledge, it is as if we skipped through them, I do not identify with them. Because through the study and the group it is as if I sort out the bestowal of the light that reforms on me the way it affects me in a special way, this is how it bestows and I only progress to the purpose of creation, purpose of life and also in a certain way. Because there are many teachings and beliefs and different means that also draw the person to go forward and tell them that they can show him the correct purpose of life. Sometimes in those other methods there are different teachings, some great differences and some are difficult to distinguish, so this is why here there is a problem for the person, where he falls to, where he can progress. Here there is a problem to what extent the person is allowed to listen to what his intellect tells him and what his heart tells him.
This is why there are many things that draw the people into various ways of development and for all of them the light comes and passes on its intensity, it's influence and there are those who have it in a direct way. Some attach themselves to someone who can speak in a nice way and this is how people progress, others do supernatural things. The truth is everybody is progressing. The question is at which rate, at what speed and how purposeful the whole process is for each. This is why the Sages tell us that everybody is required to learn the wisdom of Kabbalah and also in this wisdom we see that there are various methods because this wisdom is ancient, it is thousands of years old coming from Adam HaRishon, who wrote the first book of the wisdom called Raziel the Angel. There are many other books that vanished and this is how we nonetheless progress forward. Soon I think, in the upcoming years this should become clearer and clearer to the world. Suddenly we start to discover other sources of books and scriptures even though we do not need them because in the books of Baal HaSulam the entire wisdom of Kabbalah is concentrated a very clear and I would say final form what relates to us, what belongs to us is to find the depth in them and accordingly we can rise to the height, towards the Creator.
3. S. (25:51) We're here, we are very lucky to be here. My question is, is it the importance in the states themselves that we receive the light flowing that never stops or is the choice of what to do and who you serve, what am I doing with these states? How can we recognize and maybe appreciate the work with these desires in order to serve the Creator?
R. I see from all the scriptures and everything I have heard from Rabash that first of all we have to find the ten. The Creator brings us to a ten or we find it, but ultimately the way it falls into place is that the person may move from one place to another or friends are moving from one place to another, this happens but once the person chooses that this is his ten, he has to make an effort to incorporate into them whatever happens, no matter what happens. All the future disturbances the person will get are the right ones and beneficial for him to connect properly through them and to find himself in a way that the spiritual process and the spirit goal will be entirely formulated, established in the ten. This is a must for the person. In his life this is all he sees before him. This is why we do not really have places to run to, the Kabbalists established a very clear path for us by the light that reforms. We get an awakening and after this awakening we are brought to some organization, to a group and this is the meaning of the verse the Creator placed a person's hand on the good fortune and tells him take it for yourself.
So then you have to try to reach the first degree of connection where you feel yourselves annulled to the concept of the ten. It is not that each one annuls to another, this is also correct but the main thing is to the essence of the correction. The essence of the connection is for you to feel yourselves belonging to one spiritual force, one spiritual concept when the more you consolidate the more you formulate yourselves between yourselves, and this also happens when you feel the disconnection and the distance between yourselves. So if you overcome these disconnecting forces each time and you still connect by this you start establishing contact with the Creator, mutual connection with the Creator when the Creator is putting pressure as if to increase the distance between you. So this is why it is called help made against him and despite that you resist it and you want to connect and then by this mutual work the Creator from within, wanting to increase the distance, this is called I created the evil inclination.
All the time this works until the final correction of that creation, of that evil inclination and every time you are going against it, against the Creator not wanting to hear, to listen to these forces of separation the Creator brings you, and by this you more and more establish his shape, His form upon the forces of distancing and the forces of connection. This is the whole of the Torah until we reach a state where these two actions the action of, I’ve created the evil inclination and the action of the Adam, meaning the spice that helps us connect until we establish ourselves in the form where in this shape that includes the two opposite forces, specifically between these two we see how we connect them together in the middle line. And in this middle line we find ourselves in the right existence and in contact with the Creator.
4. S. (32:23) No translation
R. When you ask what the rule of the ten is I can answer, but all the rest of your words what you talked about I did not really understand. How can you talk about lights and vessels or something if it is not in the ten? How could it be if there is no ten? So you cannot attain any light if you are not connected to at least somebody because the light when it appears it has to appear between the two, between the plus and minus. If you do not have as opposed to you at least another friend, that you are in this opposition between the two of you and above this it’s like with a resistor in electricity, where above it you perform a connection. Where can you find the current the light flowing between you two? You can’t. This is why when you are talking about the ten you don't yet understand what it is for. Go to the study of the Ten Sefirot, go to PTICHA, see what a spiritual structure is. The light in order to reveal itself has to go through Keter, Hochma, Bina, etc. until Malchut. Only in Malchut is it revealed on the condition that Malchut can raise itself back through all these Sefirot until Keter. Meaning there must be from above downwards 10 Sefirot of direct light and 10 Sefirot of reflected light and all the actions between them.
Otherwise there cannot be a connection between the two parts of creation which is the will to bestow of the Creator and the will to receive of the created being. And for us it is expressed in the desire to receive. The force of giving is revealed, which is the Creator in the created being when we build a model between us. When one is in the plus the other is in the minus, then they switch, etc. But how can it be that you will discover something if you don’t have a vessel or a system in which the Creator can be revealed? The Creator can only be revealed on the condition that the will to bestow is revealed. The will to bestow is the Creator, the will to receive is the created being. How can you establish the will to receive to resemble the will to bestow? And according to the law of equivalence of form, the law of adaptation, the Creator will be revealed in the created being, the law of compatibility. If you do not have the vessel that can somehow make itself compatible with the Creator, this is how in our corporeal life when we feel something we only feel it according to the equivalence. How can you imagine that a single person can discover the Creator? He can discover anything that comes to his mind and emotion but it will not be spiritual.
5. S. (36:48) Thanks to the strong desire and the yearning, it illuminates the light that reforms, what is this about?
R. By yearning to be connected between us above our egos which repel us, by this we awaken the light, the upper light to influence us. There is resistance between us. By wanting to connect above the resistance we awaken the light that is concealed so it would influence us on those degrees of connection that we want to reveal, to discover. I cannot bring lights to myself unless I find that above my resistance to the friends, I want to be connected to them, so the more resistance I have towards the friends, like the students of Rabbi Shimon who wanted to kill each other, the more resistance I have to the friends, the more powers I have to exert toward connection, and to that extent I awaken on me the reforming light. Then when I truly exert and labor in it and succeed in connecting with the friends above the separation it is called love will cover all crimes. Where below you have rejection, hatred between us and above it we want to have love and connection. So in the gap between what is existing, which is the rejection and what is desirable, which is connection, in the gap between them we discover the potential, the difference of potentials between them, where if we truly come to a sufficient power between the resistance and the connection, from this we can begin to reveal the Creator, the upper force, because there is someone to be revealed.
It’s technology, just like in this world it is simply the laws of our world. Between plus and minus you discover the difference in potentials between them, and between them you discover the power. And the power you discover on ourselves, you begin to discover it by how it influences you, and then you begin to feel kinds of inner currents within you. This is called all my bones will say, where from everything you go through you begin to feel that it is the Creator, BoReh, come and see. He dresses in the created being. In this way we reveal Him but for this I need to go toward connection with the friends. This is why this light is called reforming light because first it returns us to the structure of Adam HaRishon, at least towards it and then to the extent we return to this structure the light operates on us as reforming light and then when it is revealed it reveals what it did in lights, Nefesh of Nefesh, Nefesh of Ruach, etc. This is how we advance.
S. These states in us are changing? Does love cover hatred, or do these two states come together?
R. It is intermittent, we feel both, ups and down all the time, they alternate. If we work in the group, if we are sensitive correctly, if we have the right sensitivity then we do feel ups and downs many many times every hour so to speak. Afterwards it will be every moment, it all depends on our sensitivity.
6. S. (42:34) How does the light act upon us, directly or through the environment?
R. It is both, I cannot say. It really depends on how you position yourselves. What does it mean that the light influences directly or through the environment? Through the environment is through the ten, so of course the light influences us through the ten, although you might feel it as if it is influencing you directly but it doesn't matter to us. What matters to us is how we position ourselves with the ten so the upper light will influence us, and I do not care in what way as long as it influences us and advances us. And here is all our work.
S. What is this process where I affect the ten and the ten affects me?
R. You need to constantly be influencing the ten and feeling the influence of the ten on you all the time. Just imagine you are an embryo in the womb so your connection with the ten is the same as the embryo in the mother's womb. This is how you have to be connected with them, in contact with them, in connection with them, all the time in everything. Both when you get from them food as it is called and when you excrete the waste in order to exist and grow. You need to constantly be speaking to them, be with them in thoughts and desires as much as possible.
7. S. (44:51) You said previously that the first degree of connection is annulment. Can you please say if there is a second degree of connection? Can you somehow characterize it so we can yearn for it correctly?
R. Yes, the first level of connection is annulment of each one before the ten so that the concept of the ten, we begin to build it by having several principles, and each one annuls himself before these principles. This is the first stage and each one tries to build himself more and more as much as he can, as much as the person receives disturbances each time or awakenings, and accordingly we grow. We grow only through the disturbances. Don't wait to receive forces that pull us to spirituality. We always get forces that push us away from connection and from spirituality, and on top of that we want to ask for the power of connection and progress, otherwise it will not be progress and the connection will not be on our name. It is something essential and we must not forget about this. We don’t get from the Creator anything good so to speak. We get from Him all the preparations to feel that we need help, that we need powers, that we need to know how to advance, how to connect. This is what the Creator does, and this is really that correct way of learning for all the degrees on the ladder until the end of connection. That the Creator is revealed as a force that moves away, as a god that hides. It is called Bo-reh, come and see. And by this we grow, otherwise it is impossible to grow. Each time He reveals in us a new space of empty will to receive in which we have to fill up with everything we need in order to resemble Him in our feelings, intellect, preparation, prayers and connections between us. So we all need to build, establish the system opposite to the Creator, facing Him. So we disagree with the distance, we disagree with the confusion He creates and this is how we grow. Just like parents who play with their little children. They place before them all kinds of obstructions and the children have to try to perform the right operations on their own. And then we begin to discover that in those operations that the Creator does when He pushes us apart, in those operations He already hints to us how we should be connected, just like we do with children.
8. S. (49:13) After yesterday’s Congress you said we have to have some audacity. I don’t know what I want to ask but it has awakened me. Since 2008 you are the only person I believe in the world, and any force I have to survive is only through this path. What we had yesterday I cannot pronounce in words. How can I give an answer? Until the pandemic I was driving for 10 years half an hour to get to the morning lesson every day. My house fell apart in 2008, my children live in a different city, I’ve lived with a different woman for the past 2 years. Two of my children are in the military, officers, one is in a special intelligence unit and the other is a fighter. I do not have answers to give them. They see me on the path with good things happening to me but I cannot pass it on to them, not to my spouse, not to my children who live alone in a different city. How can we take all these Sefirot everything we’re dealing with, how can I solve my everyday problems? And are you willing to accept me as your student from the perspective I have now and the intellect I got yesterday from you? I am responsible for everything. I wanted an answer for my spouse who is living with me, she cannot continue living in this way. She is working in a kindergarten. She's telling me the children are biting each other, all the children want to take toys from each other, they are all fighting with each other. She is dying every day, and my children have their ego, I do not know what to do. Can I be your student? Are you still seeing me as your student the way I see things? How can we take everything that we are doing all these brilliant things, but how can we help people solve their daily lives without going to a hospital to take something to calm down? I am talking about myself, I'm not criticizing. I just want to know what to tell my children, to keep being together? This reality every morning, I drive through the roads in the morning and everything is so good. I get the force through the morning lesson but I fall apart during the day. I cannot answer anybody with our teaching. I feel I am an egoist, a person without any answers for others. Am I still your student?
R. A disciple or student is one who listens to what he is told and we learn a very simple principle. That we are in a world that exists only through the upper force which is good that does good. So I just need to find how to relate this force correctly to the good who does good, in order to reveal the good who does good and be in contact with Him. This is what the Creator wants and not otherwise. And the fact that He gives us a life that is filled with all kinds of obstructions is only so that within this life we will find the right life for the Creator who to begin with directed for, aimed for. The fact that you see around you a world that is confused, shattered it is true. I am not even getting into the matter of anybody who faults, faults in his own faults and the way you see the world is how you are seeing yourself from within. So if you correct yourself from within you will see the world at the end of correction. This is something far, although this is the truth. You have to start correcting from yourself and not from one family another family, these children, those children. start correcting yourself, very simple. Start relating to the world that is the world besides you, the world that you see is a corrected world, the world of Ein Sof, the world where everything is fine besides your attitude to it, to the world. What is left for you is only to correct yourself. And then your vision, your perception will change as well. This is what I have to say and this is what we learn through the wisdom of Kabbalah. A person must first of all correct himself and not think about how to correct others. To the extent he corrects himself he begins to see others correctly, more corrected, except for the greatest thing when there is lack of connection, an absence of love among all the people, this is still ahead of us. But throughout our lives we have to say that first of all I have to correct myself, that's it. And then you have before you at least one thing and not many, children, and wives and all those problems and messes. Correct yourself and then you will see that the world is a projection, a result of what you are like inside and everything will be OK.
9. S. (56:31) You said that the Creator is revealed in the gap between Malchut and Keter. The question is our connection in the ten is Malchut that is the opposite to Keter and between us there is a light that shines as the Sefirot where the Creator is revealed?
R. You can think about it like this for the time being although it will change.
S. We always say that we have to talk only good things about the group, the goal and the Creator. So this resistance you mentioned is it external or internal?
R. What resistance?
S. That I have resistance inside, rejections. You said we always have to have this rejection so that the light could shine.
R. It needs to be inside.
10. S. (57:43) Does everybody need to learn the wisdom of Kabbalah in the world or some people only?
R. Only a handful of people who feel, let's say all the people, men and women who feel that they have an attraction to it, that it appears to them that they are attracted to get to know the meaning of life, to get to know the Creator they are drawn to study the wisdom of Kabbalah. It is not like they have to, nobody is forcing anybody, the person feels this in his heart and there are no limitations on anybody. According to the person's degree we also connect to the concept of Adam although in this concept we have people who belong to the development of still, vegetative, animate and speaking of the degree of Adam and accordingly participate in life some people are happy to live very simple and easy primitive life and nothing more to live and to buy what the TV offers, some want a little bit more somehow to belong to society to develop in society some want to change the society and some want to change the world, the world meaning the relation to the Creator of the world, there are all kinds of both among men and women and I would say that in the women the disposition inclination to get to know the upper force exist more than in men, except in men perhaps for the time being I am not sure as it can be alternating here and there, but their desire is more stable.
11. S. (01:00:13) A person that doesn't have the yearning or the feeling to do it but he does it mechanically, does the light work for him?
R. Yes, according to how he operates the Creator does.
12. S. (01:00:33) How to control the light in the correct way?
R. By adapting my vessel to the light and through the changes in the vessel I awaken the light so that even before the light influences me, I influence the light through my relationships with the friends. This is called I awaken the dawn and the dawn does not awaken me. This is our role to do. Specifically in this you bring contentment to the Creator when you draw him and you don't wait for Him to influence you and you like a rock don't move. On the contrary through the changes among the friends in all of the ways you want to get closer and be more similar to the light. By this you awaken the Creator and this is called you have made me.
13. S. (01:01:47) What difficulties are there in my attempt to control the light?
R. There are many difficulties but all of those difficulties are in order for me to know how to strengthen my connection with the friends and with the light where I am like Malchut that grips to the upper 9 Sefirot and arranges them correctly so they will grip the light. It’s like a radar that I place Malchut before me and I am searching, where is the light?
14. S. (01:02:41) What is the equivalence of form and what is the equivalence of essence?
R. Equivalence of form is the equivalence in connection between our different desires, where all of us want to come to mutual bestowal and toward the Creator when we direct ourselves. And equivalence of essence is when we already know how to direct ourselves internally, each of us individually and all of us together in a certain specific essence in order to detect the Creator in a specific way, into a specific degree with Him from within us. This is already work on a higher level.
15. S. (01:03:47) How can we draw the light without wanting it for ourselves?
R. I want to draw the light and bring the light for the sake of the friends and I myself will only serve them. This is called putting a restriction on myself and drawing the light in order to bestow. And to the extent that I have hatred and rejection towards the friends and I overcome the hatred and rejection and I want to connect them together in my heart, and I pray for them and I ask for them the reforming light for the light to fill them, by this I do my role, I do my job. And I am above reason in the form of bestowal. By this I bring real contentment to the Creator because I built a vessel out of my friends within my heart and from this I can turn to the Creator and to the extent that I do it I tell the Creator this is how I love you. And there cannot be love of the Creator that is more than the love of people.
16. S. (01:05:16) Is drawing the light an aware action that happens in a detour from the actions in the ten?
R. Yes, it is conscious and it cannot be otherwise. If it is not conscious it is drawn from above from the Creator who wants to awaken us but, on our part, it is only a conscious and aware act through a group effort between us.
17. S. (01:06:00) How can a student understand when the intellect is talking to him and when the heart is?
R. He needs to be more and more connected to the friends and then he will understand when his mind speaks and when his heart speaks. It is only through the development of the relationships between them.
18. S. (01:06:29) Is all of my bones, is this a physical feeling?
R. Sometimes it is felt physically in the whole body because there are levels of trembling, shaking all kinds of sensations. There are all kinds of physical phenomena, physical symptoms. It does exist but you don't really need to pay attention to it because they pass along with the spiritual state.
19. S. (01:07:20) My intellect doesn't understand what unity is, doesn’t let the light go in and then I don't feel what unity is. What should I do?
R. I hear that people, because of love they lose their reason, their logic, there is such a thing. Did you ever feel it?
S. There is a verse that the love ruins the mind.
R. It is written.
S. I did feel it.
R. So a person that has physical love, we were given these feelings to learn from them. So because of the love we lose our reason, our rationality because love is greater than the intellect, and it is true. It sometimes happens to us in corporeality and afterwards we get smarter, it is called the wise at night. But in spirituality it is all the more so. Love will cover all the crimes. The crimes are the crimes in the intellect and above them there is love. Absolute love contains within it all of the intellect that has become corrected and points to those discernments of love so that love and intellect on the top level, they connect together. When I truly love the one that I should love and I don't shut my eyes, the eyes are the eyes of wisdom. So I don't shut my eyes but I open them as I open my heart. Try to imagine this, especially women, that both the eyes, the intellect and the heart are all open and there is no distinction, discernment that you have to shut something and say that this is not so much. You are completely open to the light of love.
20. S. (01:09:55) When evil appears in the ten, there's a tendency to want to run away. What is the correct way to relate to this evil that is revealed in the ten?
R. I feel that this is all said out of lack of connection. So these discernments that come from lack of connection in the vessel, it is hard for me to talk about them. It will just bring us down to psychology, which is not good, so it is best if we just continue.
Excerpt 2 (01:10:49 - 01:11:11)
21. R. (01:11:13) So there are several things here. We have to understand what is ‘adhesion with the Creator.’ Adhesion with the Creator means being in exactly the same discernment that are revealed to us from Him in our minds and our hearts, in the intellect and the feeling; and to open our intellect and our hearts to understanding and feeling in such a way that we will understand and feel Him and how we are built because this is how He prepared us. We will feel Him completely; and in order to open ourselves up in this way, there is a gradual path of development and it is called ‘keeping or observing Torah and Commandments.’ Meaning that through the connections between us when we try to restore ourselves as much as possible into the system of Adam HaRishon, we demand the reforming light, the upper Force, to glue us together into the system of Adam HaRishon, and the connection of those pieces which in the end build the system, this is called ‘keeping or observing Torah and commitment.’ So accordingly, this disposition that exists in each one begins to connect with others, many other dispositions until we come to one disposition toward the Creator. This is called the complete love of others.
22. S. (01:13:09) You said adhesion with the Creator is to be exactly in the same understanding that appears from Him. What does this mean?
R. The Creator created the will to receive – existence from absence – He permeated the will to receive and filled it with His qualities, the qualities of love and bestowal and connection and everything, and then He blasted it. And in all of those pieces that exploded, there are also records from being connected as well as records from where they are now, data from where they are now, contradicting one another. So we have to put all of those pieces together. It is not we who connect but the Creator connects us through our request. In other words, we need only to detect, find how much we would like to connect among us, but we can't. We need two parameters to prepare, one, that I want to be connected to others and two, that I can't connect to friends. Out of those two elements, wanting to connect but being unable to connect, out of the two I turn to the Creator. The more that those two are genuine, accordingly my request is more correct, more demanding and this is how we advance. We are rewarded with the reforming light.
S. You said by connecting with the friends you tell the Creator I love you and what comes back from him is also love? That’s adhesion with the Creator?
R. The Creator is revealed in us, in love because he has nothing else in which to do it, only love and we have to see in all of our actions that we are performing the right connection, that there is love in them.
23. S. (01:16:10) What are the correct vessels to be successful in corrections in the work?
R. The right vessels are that we feel how they are in a bad state but in connection they will discover a good state. We must not forget about our shattered state and our true state which exists in the connected vessel of the corrected Adam HaRishon. That is the only thing we are working towards, no more. The whole thing is very simple, you have a given state, an existing state and then you have the future desired state and then there is our path which will happen in any case but it is either that we shape it or the Creator shapes it for us. If we participate then to the extent, we participate it is called the path of Torah, the path of light. If the Creator shapes it, meaning without taking into account our request that we do not rise then the path becomes a path of suffering because we are awakened only through the evil inclination that he created in us. Meaning through the disturbances and the distance that appear between us the shattering becomes revealed more intensely in order to awaken us to connect.
24. S. (01:18:15) What is the difference between annulment, restriction and devotion?
R. Annulment is that I annul myself and don't want anything, you can add to that what do I want from the annulment because there is no action without a goal otherwise it is not a human action, so that is annulment and the restriction is when I already have what to restrict, and I cannot restrict it that I prefer to restrict it in order to attain a higher spiritual degree as he has a higher desire to receive which is also restricted accordingly. So annulment restriction and then what?
S. Devotion.
R. The self-mortification is not really something that we work on, not something that we are doing. We say that whatever you have, you have to use it, as the whole manner of correction of your measurements is about intention and not your action. So you can eat good food, drink and rest and do whatever you want. The Creator wants you to be in a state where you enjoy life fully but you correct yourself to come closer to the Creator and then anyway you are doing things that are more spiritual in which you enjoy more. So it is not that you stop going to football matches as you are used to watching and your TV shows or whatever it is but that in each and every degree do you know how to enjoy by also being adhered to the Creator, try doing it like that and you will see that there's no limitations, there is only one thing. It is worthwhile for you to advance to the Creator and enjoy collaborating with him. There is no room here to try and limit yourself from doing something, no. We see that in our history there are people who are very rich and also very high in spiritual attainment so I also didn't see it in Rabash that he would restrict himself in that sense, not with regards to clothes or food. But on the level of intention that is where the great important work was and so to the extent of his intention, he would choose to do this or that.
25. S. (01:22:14) The light that reforms. Does it depend on the amount of people connecting or the quality of the connection? What happens with the light during a congress?
R. Good question see, there is what we call a hero in quantity and a hero in quality like Baal HaSulam explains; heroes of quantity were like flies, they go into your house and you have this problem that you tried to expel them as he says people who feel free, they feel they can go out and travel and do whatever they want. A hero in quality is let's say one lion comes into your house. What do you do? You are going to have to run, not like trying to keep the flies away, you are going to have to do something to get away and escape. There are all kinds of people and disturbances like that that the Creator sends to you, he either sends you flies or lions, whatever is preferable.
S. What if I see that I have more quantity than quality as a student how do I increase the quality?
R. I recommend with regards to the spiritual heroes in quantity or quality that the Creator puts before us that you need to go inwardly to stabilize yourself to the ten and by that you will see that you scare away all of these disturbances whether it is the quantity or quality that rises up against you. Only one simple action that your inner focus with yourself to the ten and this will scare away everything.
26. S. (01:25:15) The quality or the intention, the intensity of the light that we are drawing, is there a difference between the time that we are in the lesson and the time afterwards that we are supposedly going to our life? Is there a difference between this form of the work between the lesson and the rest of the day, what draws more light and where is our work more expressed?
R. Our disturbance happens in quantity and quality, if a person is with himself, it is a completely different disturbance. If he's thinking about his relationship with the friends, it is a different kind of disturbance. I think that all of our disturbances are mostly about unifying ourselves to being one instead of ten, that is really the only problem. So each and every one must first reach a state where he designs to ten, the group they call it, the ten. So shaping the ten in your heart so that you feel no friend as more or less than the others. They all are important and equal to you even though each one is both in his corporeal characteristics and spiritual attitude different from the other, very different but it doesn't matter to him as this is how he relates to them. This is essentially exercise number one that he must always stabilize himself like that. Then he needs to raise them together when they unify in such a way in his heart, to raise them to the Creator. Not that he brings down the Creator to the ten but he raises the ten to the Creator. He wants them to be on the level of the Creator and so it is like a baby, the mother raises the baby making it greater and important for her, similarly a person wants to raise the ten to the Creator. That is our work.
S. We meet 3 hours a day in the morning lesson and then we go out, each one to his personal life so the work you just described where do we do this? What is the difference between the time we are in the lesson or in the time we're outside the lesson? Is there a difference in the approach?
R. No, there is no difference whether I am with the ten physically or I leave the physical connection and now I am on my own. I always feel myself within the ten, you have to reach a state where whatever happens I am inside the ten, literally inside the ten. The inspiration, the connection, the impression needs to be such that you don't feel you can separate from them. It does not depend on physical meetings as it depends on your effort that you want it to be so, you have to achieve that and then the connection between you will be in a way where you are always together. As much as possible, making this connection an inner, emotional connection in desires and thoughts is the main thing. Physically it is not, even though at first the physical depiction of each and every state and friend is a determining factor and it brings us back to connection. But later on it will pass and you will feel those inner qualities represented by the friends and with these inner qualities you will begin to feel how they all begin to shape up in a way, like when you are mixing something to eat, you put the ingredients together and stir them up. Then they become one thing, this is how you will begin to feel the group.
27. S. (01:31:30) About being in the ten each day even when we don't see each other, what is the difference between feeling yourself in the ten during the day and being in a state that everything comes from the Creator, what draws more light that reforms?
R. This is a matter of time and consideration, try as long as you feel that you are inside the ten opposite the Creator, that is basically the right discernment.
28. S. (01:32:28) After the beautiful Congress we went through with such intensity, how can we implement the light that we received there to help the ten and everyone advance?
R. We had a beautiful meeting in Rome yesterday, 2 days ago and I am greatly inspired by the friends who came from different places for this meeting. I saw warm open hearts to receive the Creator within them and also ready to connect between them in order to make room for the Creator to fill them. What is missing is only more connection between you, I saw that the men groups are less inclined to connection than the women, there needs to be some more attention on that. Really a strong beautiful group, very thankful to all of the organizers and everything that took place there. Also the managers of the group and those who came specifically on a special flight to help in administration and translation. I am very thankful to everyone, all of the Italian group. You are really an example to me of a country that knows how to bring together the Kabbalah students and bring them to connection. I hope that you are coming close successfully to being a single ten across Italy. So thank you for that, I went through a big experience.
Excerpt 3 (01:42:54 - 01:44:37) reading twice
29. S. What is the addition that happens when there is clothing as opposed to that grace that works from above?
R. When there is an external awakening, when the light clothes in the vessels the person practices already the practical wisdom of Kabbalah because he already has a desire, a screen and reflected light and then according to that calculation he receives direct light and then he actually studies the practical wisdom of Kabbalah, in practice.
30. S. (01:45:38) What brings constant happiness, love of friends and love of the Creator?
R. Revelation of love happens when we start feeling one another. Created beings and Creator and then in the connection between them what happens there, that is called love, that it connects them and then it raises them. Love is a result of two contradicting things that above the contradiction they can be in connection.
31. S. (01:46:50) When a person reads in the sources, it works on him because it reminds them of the Creator or does it have force of its own?
R. We don't know what it means. For some there it is all according to as much as the person is connected correctly to the group and to the sources and that between them there is a mutual place a mutual desire or it was or there is or it should be revealed in the future. According to that he feels lights that are let's say now during an action or surrounding light or they're there by accident, it’s all from that mutual vessel.
32. S. (01:48:01) We read terms in the sources, kinds of Kabbalistic terms. Who was the first to determine these terms in the Hebrew language?
R. Adam HaRishon, the first Adam.
S. He already knew they were in the Hebrew language?
R. That's what he created. There was no Hebrew language before the first Adam and that's what the Baal HaSulam also writes about it. He was the first one. First of all in the Torah, that he gave names to all the, in an allegory it is written of course, that Adam HaRishon from him we've got all the language of the Kabbalah. Then Kabbalists with all he gathered from their revelations he revealed more and more but it all comes from Adam HaRishon, he is the source.
S. The Hebrew language is like computer codes basically?
R. Of course, did you not hear about it before? I talked about it all the time from these two contradicting discernments on one hand on the other hand they fit like a mirror and an object and from both of them we get the Hebrew language that's why the language doesn't change for thousands of years and it can't change because these two parts of nature don't change. And what we do have changes only in the connection between the two parts. As much as they go into more of connection and scrutiny so we have but regular no. If we have difficulty speaking in the Hebrew language, then we can sometimes take words from other languages from foreign languages, say from Greek or there are words that we're used to using and we shouldn’t be embarrassed about it, why? Because Hebrew loves abbreviations. The more you shorten things in sentences, in everything but it's not on account of the scrutiny of the language so that is better. Hebrew likes it short so we also use foreign words from ancient Greek there's a lot of words in the Zohar, what's the problem? The main thing for us is to pass the topic, the matter correctly. Does it have to be in Hebrew? Not specifically.
33. S. (01:52:09) Baal HaSulam writes in the first sentence that when a person engages in this wisdom and mentions the names of the lights and vessels related to his soul, they illuminate him to a certain extent. What does it mean to mention the names, what is that action?
R. When we read the texts from the Kabbalists, what they wrote, they wrote them from their feeling of the spiritual states, that that expressed them in writing, that’s why when we read even if we don't understand what it’s talking about, we awaken these connections that they were in, and that shines on us. That's called the light that reforms. That's why it's worth to read the texts from the Kabbalists, Baal HaSulam and Rabash first of all, because they wrote it completely from attainment only, and that’s why by this we awaken lights on us that they have attained in practice. We awaken these inner lights as surrounding lights because we don’t have the same vessels that they had.
S. To refine the question, if a person who is not in a ten reads it and he doesn’t study Kabbalah at all, does it awaken light in him?
R. Also. If he reads it something will work on him but obviously the more, he is connected to the others, connected in the ten and is in connection with more people who study, then according to that he will awaken the light much stronger.
34. S. (01:54:37) You said to be cautious not to bring the Creator down to the friends but to raise the friends to the Creator. Can one demonstrate that in the ten?
R. I have to be concerned that my friends and I will make efforts in the connection between us to rise to the Creator. What does that mean? To make the connection between us as internal and heartfelt as possible. And by giving it to one another we can rise to the Creator. That in Him we can truly connect into one.
S. When the ten makes an effort to overcome resistance and raises a prayer and the Creator helps, so the next stage besides gratitude, what do we do?
R. According to the state you attain it could be that He will give you a big descent and then you have work to ascend, and you have to relate to this descent as a big attainment, that you attained the depth of the new will to receive, which is also a gift from above and on the other hand it could be an ascent.
35. S. (01:56:25) The fact that one mentions the names of the lights and the vessels does that need to be out loud or just in the heart?
R. Everything you read we need to hold on first of all, for now we are separated and we want to be connected and between us to locate that place that will be suitable for the revelation of the Creator. And from that we want to reveal the Creator that is between us, filling us, warming us up, drawing us, really escorting us into higher spiritual degrees where we can completely rid ourselves from the will to receive and only be in the will to bestow with one heart. The Creator inside, that's what we need to depict to ourselves in each and every action and state that we're in.
36. S. (01:58:11) There are three states in which we read the texts: in the lesson, with the ten and on our own. I notice when I read the text on my own, I can read 100 times and nothing goes into my mind like when we read it in the ten or in the lesson. Is there any way to do that individual work a bit more qualitatively?
R. Certainly there is a difference, I agree with you. When I read alone, I usually prepare myself for every upcoming lesson, I’ll go over it and it’s something completely different than when coming to the lesson. For me, the difference between the two are the discernments of where we are, where I am, and I'm happy that during the lesson with you I feel different than reading it alone. And then when you ask me questions in such a way that alone I wouldn't have asked, or maybe you yourselves don't feel what you're asking, but what I hear is that they are already asked from a degree of connection, of unity. So we just have to keep going at it. You get the text in advance of the next lesson, you all read it. When I read it, I put all kinds of signs and marks in there, and when I come to the lesson I know the text very well, even though I’ve read them dozens or maybe hundreds of times before. During the lesson when I'm incorporating you, I feel that I'm really in a completely different vessel. I don't read it with my heart and not my mind and not my desire, but it's a huge, big vessel with a big heart and a big head. That's why the lesson for me when reading these sources is a completely new experience that I couldn't have ever reached alone.
37. S. (01:01:20) You said in the beginning of the lesson that in the next few years we are going to start seeing additional sources of Kabbalah. We wanted to ask from the study material team, what should our relationship be to Kabbalah sources that will suddenly crop up?
R. Don't wait for it and don't expect it. First it has to be revealed in what we have. Except for that, we have to go through all my archives, there are more things in there. I don't feel pressure in it yet. Like I gave Shamati to everybody to print, I just gave it, I let it be published because if it would have come out in my name it would never have spread all over. That's why I wanted to give it to everybody and also to those who were supposedly against me. The main thing is that it will get published, that is the main thing.
S. If some article by Rabash or some rare Baal HaSulam excerpt reaches us, should we work with it or just settle for what we have today?
R. No, we should publish it, maybe edit it into a book from Baal HaSulam or Rabash. I am for it. I am for all of it coming out. I’m not hiding anything from everyone; even though I’m breaking all barriers, without all this you wouldn’t be before me. All the circles that were drawn by our materials and my materials, they fill all the circles, so please. There's a lot of ways to reach the goal, everybody should find their own path and let the Creator organize it.
S. How do you know if some material is a source or not?
R. What I received from Baal HaSulam is that thick book that has already been published by someone. I gave him that booklet and he knew how to do it. You should check because sometimes he also knows how to change all kinds of things according to his mind. We've seen that happen once, even all of us together with Rabash. That's why he published it and also Baal HaSulam’s big book. We also have 80 pages by Baal HaSulam that he wrote in his handwriting, big pages and small writings. We took stuff out of there and that's in the four books that we published while Rabash was still alive, so I don't think there are any mistakes in there. But still I have those pages from Baal HaSulam. We should check to see if we can get more things out of there. There are a few things that it might be early to publish from 30 or 40 years ago and he worked on them in the beginning of the 80s, meaning over 40 years have gone by. And there are still more writings from Baal HaSulam and Rabash that I have in my archive and I think we should put a team together and start organizing them and reveal them. The question is simple, is there a benefit from it? We know that after the ARI died all his writings were hidden in all kinds of places and even some of them buried in a cemetery, and then they were brought back according to custom. That a book of Torah that you can't use anymore you bury as if it was a person in a cemetery, a kosher cemetery. And also next to Baal HaSulam there is a place for burying Torah books. If you go there, you can see that there's a place under closed cement where there are old books of Torah. So we have to see. We should put a team together that will go over my whole archive and check everything I have, and we are sure of what we have also in photocopy and print. We should bring it to the world. Whatever I did I published Shamati, the notebook I have from the Rabash and a few more things that were written but there's still work to do. We’ll do it together.
S. In the future if other sources appear not from your archive?
R. There are such things. Sometimes people came to me wanting to sell me a letter by Baal HaSulam. The children of a person came to me and he wanted to sell me letter for $40,000 so I told him I thought you're coming to come to me and you’re asking us to publish it for the public because as a Kabbalist supposedly want these things to be published if they could benefit the correction of the world. He said yes but I need the money. The need for money depends on a person. If he has 100, he wants 200, if he has 1000, he wants 2000. I'm not criticizing him even though he was very rich. So he came with his son and that's what they asked for. I said I'm not going to pay for it. So he left, and there will be more for sure. For sure that in Rabash’s family and Baal HaSulam’s family whoever’s left there are still some excerpts. I don't think we have a need for them. I don't think we need like academy people to gather every little note, but we need to simply see if we have all the needed material in order to reach revelation of the Creator to his created being. I think that after I published Shamati that Rabash gave me before he died before, I also saw the notebook and I read it and it was constantly next to him that notebook, but after I published the notebook of Shamati which was the most precious thing he had out of all his writings and all his books. So I don't think we have anything else to do. we can and we will, but it's in order to not just leave it. It's not like after the ARI when they started opening his grave and taking writings out of there and making books of them.
S. Let's say you received writings of Baal HaSulam for free. How do you check if those writings are a source or fabricated?
R. Whoever has an attainment truly knows. And if he’s not in attainment he doesn't know. It can’t be any professor from a university that researches according to a language but only a spiritual researcher who is a Kabbalist. But again I’m saying it’s not worth being interested in at all. We need to make efforts on how to go in, we are not lacking anything but that. And the archive we have we’ll work on it. We’ll check everything we have. There are things that I wrote that Rabash didn’t want to write about but he told me you write it. And I wrote it in my notebooks and I have a lot of notebooks, but I don't know if there is a need for it. Still we will do it. I don't think that it’s things that are preventing you from advancing towards connection and revealing the Creator in that connection. For sure it’s not. I gave you everything and the rest is in your hands.
38. S. (02:15:12) It says that they shine on him without dressing into the internality of the soul. What is that internal part of the soul?
R. There is illumination from above in surrounding light and there is illumination from above in inner light. Those are completely different things because the surrounding light is according to the person’s yearning and inner light is according to a person’s screen in equivalence of form of man. In surrounding light a person feels an illumination from the outside that the Creator shines and takes cares of him but how does it take care of him, what does it do exactly, that a person doesn't know. If the illumination comes from inner light meaning that before man made his vessel and according to this vessel, he already has revelation of the Creator, so a person according to this vessel feels and understands what form he is in with the Creator, what he has to do onward and already accepts the Creator and inner light. There is already a mutual part between man and the Creator with man as the vessel and the Creator as the internal part of the vessel, the fulfillment.
39. S. (02:16:52) Do specific lights awaken specific souls that are closer in quality?
R. Each and every soul awakens a certain light that has to come and fill it specifically. That's why for each and every one and each and every man there is a special Illumination and he can only awaken that one. I would say that it's not only towards people it's also towards the animate, the vegetative and the still. Each part of creation has the special light that is connected to that part and in connection with that part and in that way, it awakens that part and fills it, the lights. But on that specific part that created being needs to awaken from himself towards that light just as we see as much as the vegetative opens itself towards the light, the air, the rain and so on, even animals. Each and every part of creation even if it's not man develops and awakens towards the upper light even though in man as opposed to the rest of the still, vegetative and animate his awakening has to go against his desire, to resemble the Creator the will to bestow and that is the difference. That it is all for man to use.
40. S. (02:19:02) In order to draw the lights that are related to one’s soul, is there a need to know their names and certain places in the system?
R. We will know that to the extent we attain these lights, these vessels. How will Kabbalists know what they will attain? They also knew through their equivalents of form, their efforts for equivalence of form, through their effort they discovered that their desires are including 4 degrees – root 1, 2, ,3 4 and with the Masach according to that with the light at comes against it, and through this attainment they gave names. Baal HaSulam writes about it – he explains all of this: where the language came from, where the actions come from, with all the areas of the mouth, the nose, the throat, the lips and so on.
S. In order to draw the lights, do I need to know all of that?
R. No, in order to draw the light I need to know how to connect to the others and to be devoted to the Creator.
41. S. (02:20:35) Is the light that reforms what helps me see a new reality?
R. Yes, it doesn’t help that in the light that reforms, in the way that I’m able to awaken it, in that I reach the light that reforms and in that, I reach direct light.
42. S. (02:21:05) How to build the correct intention before the action? Please give an example for the correct intention?
R. That I want to be with the friends in one heart. The heart means what connects me to the Creator.
43. S. (02:21:29) How to practically turn to the Creator with two pieces of data that we want to connect but we can't?
R. We uplift above this information and the main thing is that we connected the Creator. And obviously, nobody has what the other has, each one uplifts, annuls himself in order to be connected to the other and that's how we connect to the Creator.
44. S. (02:22:05) If we learn that even before I turn to the Creator, He generates all my thoughts and desires, so it turns out that when we turn to the Creator, we are just basically trying to create the desire that is opposite to what the Creator gave me?
R. It is always like that, it happens instinctively. That, first, before I have a desire to connect, I have to have a desire to disconnect – a contradiction. Obviously, the coarseness is revealed before every action.
45. S. (02:22:43) Is it possible to reveal the Creator even without achieving spiritual connection in the 10? Why does this give us such an intense desire to know the Creator?
R. Because that's the condition otherwise we can’t reveal the light if you’re not connected to a 10 because you have no vessel to reveal the light.
46. S. (02:23:14) The more I am aware of the importance of my connection with the friends, the more I become aware how flawed it is and it creates a sense of pain. How do we work with these states?
R. The feeling of pain has to be covered with the feeling of importance to connection. That reveals as much as you are evil but still you want to reach a connection; and you don't look at the evil that it is evil on the account of the Creator, the connection comes from your account. That's called the Creator ruins the building and you fix the building. That's what they call “my sons have defeated me.”
47. S. (02:24:09) What determines the frequencies of disturbances in different parts of the 10? Can some parts, friends in the 10, receive a higher frequency, intensity of disturbances than others and why?
R. Nobody's like the other and we can't turn this into any calculation. For that, we need to be in a much higher degree than we are and then we'll be able to feel – when we're downward on the previous degrees, like adults looking at adolescence – then we will be able to understand the difference between those and those. But not that the children can do the calculations upon themselves.
48. S. (02:24:59) Is egotistical love help-mate against you on the path? How to relate to corporeal love in order to reach altruistic love?
R. Egoistic love obviously it’s a disturbance but I'm speaking of egoistic love of man. And if we start uplifting above this egoistic love – first of all, we don't want to go and erase anything, no love is erased. We just have to build above it – build and build and build and not ruin – so if we build above the egoistic love, we build importance of the connection between us and the Creator, that would be more, so by this we raise ourselves to a higher degree. We can't raise ourselves only by climbing the mountain, which is entirely of rocks, garbage, broken. All kinds of things we were in and we took them into consideration once, and then related to them as something worthless, garbage, that’s there’s no actual thing in it. And in this way, we can climb more and more above the mountain. That's why’ the mountains of the Lord’ that we climb on is entirely made of garbage, of waste that we once saw as something good, as food and we climb above it until we reach the peak. And on that peak, there is no more than that one Creator.
49. S. (02:27:04) Questions about the Unity event: we felt a lot of power and deficiency from the Italy group and the whole world Kli, how can we use it and implement it in the Unity event tomorrow?
R. The Italian group is very important, it’s very unique. They went through a lot of changes. It’s a very veteran group – I know them, I’ve been there more than once; also our representative from BB also works there. He was there even before we were there, and he took care of them. Then when he came to Israel, it turned out that they were there without a translator. So he flew back there for one day in order to translate just for that evening. So we can say thanks to him, it succeeded, so we say, ‘thank you,’ that's one thing. Second, it's a strong group, homogenic, even though it’s spread upon the whole country from North to South and they're going through a lot . . .. But still the foundation of the group is there and exists, that's why they're successful. I wasn't planning on meeting them but for that week I was in Italy, I was in a different area than Rome where the meeting was. They connected, they wanted to meet and they came from all over the country – and you know it's a very long way from the North, Milano, to the South. And that's why, obviously, I had no choice and I agreed happily to meet with them. And you saw how much they were happy about this meeting also between them and me, that's it. It all turned out very nice. Along with me, there were also more of the managers of the general Bnei Baruch and still there was the presence of the management of BB. I'll be happy to visit more and more groups in the world like we used to do. A Few times I went to South America, North America, all those places, Georgia, everywhere. But now because of the covid-19, it's not simple, even though I'm willing to receive invitations from everywhere, send them. Organize yourselves because I also understand that such a meeting also helps the friends that live in the same area and they can meet and gather together, so it helps the entire organization. Even though there's a virus that won't let us go. I was talking about this when the first blow I started, that is staying with us, look what we were saying – so somehow, we have to live with this. That's why if there is a desire for us to come and visit for a day or two, some Congress, under the conditions that you come and participated in you prepare yourself for it, then we'll willing because it all causes connection and unity in our organization, that's why I am willing even though it's not simple but still it's worth it.
50. S. (02:33:05) Tomorrow we are going to meet after two years. We haven't seen each other. There's going to be a lot of excitement. How to keep the intentions to give contentment to the Creator?
R. Two years ago when the Covid-19 started, everybody thought it's like the flu. It'll come and go. I said that it's not going away and it's going to be with us for many years, it's probably recorded somewhere that I said this. That's why we need to know how to live with it. And life with it is also going according to doctors’ recommendations. That still we are implementing, I am the first one to go and get all these vaccine shots, what can you do, the doctors have permission to heal. All the conspiracies around it. There are pros and cons. I don't pay attention to that, that's what Rabash did and that’s what I’m doing. That's why along with all these things we have to be careful but with the carefulness, as it is written, “you watch ourselves from below and I will take care of you from above.” And in this way, we still need to have our meetings somehow but with all the necessary precautions. That's why, here, on Sunday that is coming to us, we are having a local Congress that our management is giving it a special relation – whoever can come, come – according to ages and what else? So turn to them, see if you can come and have a can, you're all invited. For now we've got 1600 people who will be coming to the center and we will be happy to receive them all. We're going to have a meal, l’chaim, songs, our friends are going to perform songs and theatre.
S. There’s going to be an update soon from Info. It’s going to be a rich and wonderful event. The question is: how to keep the inner intention with all that physical occurrence happening?
R. I don't know what else to say. The internal intention is the main thing. No matter where I am in the world, or here with our meal, or the other side of Iceland on a glacier, I want with heart and soul to be with them. “Where the thoughts are in a person’s heart, that’s where he is.” That’s why we’re writing to all of you and talking with you all in our heart.
51. (02:40:37) R. No difference, everything is in the heart. The more the heart is connected and mutual, according to this, you have a Congress. You can attain in the two or three hours that we will be together the same intensity as we have in a regular Congress of a few days. So let's try and do it. Let's hope that we can have bigger Congresses, maybe under certain conditions, but still I'm expecting that within two to three months we might be able to have a congress in Israel like we used to have. And that it will be for two to three days and we’ll be able to connect and accept here in a hug we’ll be able to take the whole world. All the best.
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