Morning Lesson December 01, 2023 

Transcription is made from simultaneous translation, which leaves a possibility for differences in the audio.

Part 2:

Baal HaSulam. The Arvut (Mutual Guarantee)

Reading Article. (00:30) “All of Israel are responsible for one another...”

1. R. (01:13) In other words, until we achieve the Arvut, mutual guarantee, we cannot receive the Torah, we don’t reach the state of opening our eyes.

Reading Continued. (01:30) “This means that each and every one…”

2. R. (02:21) In other words, it’s a very strict law, and it’s truly against our nature that we have to be in Arvut, mutual guarantee, in love and connection and real concern, each one for everyone else, and only then can we come to a state where we receive the Torah.

Reading Continued. (02:50) “With this Collective responsibility each...” 

3. S. (05:16) In the second paragraph is written, “The Torah was not given to them prior to each and every one of them was asked whether he agrees to receive upon himself the Mitzvah of loving others.”

R. Yes.

S. So that agreement to accept that commandment of loving others, that sounds like a very advanced state, that you agree to receive the love of others upon yourself?

R. Well, let's say that you go into some synagogue and tell them, is it true that we have to love each other as ourselves, and everyone will tell you, yes sir! 

S. And then we'll receive the Torah?

R. For them, it was enough.

S. But then do I have to agree to receive the Torah?

R. It is written to the fullest measure as is explained in the giving of the Torah. There were people at such a degree that they understood and felt the depth of this requisite, “Love your neighbor as yourself,” and they agreed to it.

S. It explains that they have to be in connection and concern for one another, and only then can they receive the Torah.

R. Yes?

S. But it sounds as if?

R. It sounds like they were at the Gmar Tikkun, end of correction.

S. Exactly, and only that gave them the receiving of the Torah, so what made me come to attaining all those things?

R. It's a condition, a requirement, it's not like they could keep it, but are you willing?

S. A willingness for what?

R. Meaning that each and every one in Israel will take upon himself to work for each and every one of the members of the nation, to satisfy his needs no less than satisfy his own needs. Well, so they felt that they could not exist. It's an illumination from above that the feeling, the understanding that without keeping this condition they cannot exist.

S. What do we need to do to receive that illumination?

R. To be closer to the Torah, to the reforming light, to the friends in order to receive as a surrounding, this requirement. That, without connection, complete connection between us, we cannot achieve anything. Can't you see such things in the world today as well? Same thing, same conditions exist, and it doesn't matter that it's been several thousands of years since then, but we still exist without meeting this requirement.

S. So we need to come closer between us and then we'll receive an illumination?

R. Yes, to the extent that each one wants to come closer to his friend and to take, to see before him, the goal of “Loving your friend as yourself,” and then everyone begins to understand more and more what love of others means and what we need to do in order to be rewarded with the reception of the Torah, that will help us acquire the vessels of bestowal.

4. S. (09:17) He writes that as long as a person is concerned with anything else of his own concerns, he's not qualified to even keep the observation of the love the friends as thyself.

R. Yes?

S. I see that, and I'm concerned in myself more than just a little.

R. Yes?

S. So when will this thing disappear or what's the order here? Because he says as long as I'm concerned with my existence, I can't even start?

R. Okay, so that's your state so what are you trying to tell us?

S. So in general, when does this state disappear?

R. Whenever you want it to disappear, whenever you want to stop worrying for yourself and start worrying about the others.

S. Enough to want?

R. It's enough to want, you can't do more than that because this desire awakens the upper light, and the light changes you.

S. Is it the right desire not to care for myself or is it the right desire to care for others?

R. It's both.

5. S. (10:28) Did they already have a desire for Arvut, or do they have an agreement that they need to have such a desire?

R. They had an agreement for each and every one to accept that he should worry about his friends.

S. Meaning an agreement that this is the solution for everything, it's not that they had these desires, but they need it and it will take them out of it?

R. Yes, they lack the desires, but we wish to have the desires that we will care about each and every one.

S. This agreement needs to be so strong that it actually invites or asks for this request?

R. It will be like a network that connects everyone, and through this mutual collective agreement, they rise above the will to receive. 

6. S. (11:40) Is the Arvut given at once when they can understand that without helping one another it cannot advance?

R. Yes, it's both, really, you need both, they need to understand that they can exist in order to benefit the Creator only on a level that's above corporeality.

S. And because of this attitude of ours to above reason is through the path, books, what is the approach or what kind of character of work do we need to establish? Let's say, that I come out of the collective for one reason or another, I don't come out of the Ten, but I don't participate in the general actions of the collective?

R. That means that you’re not present.

S. What are my friends supposed to do in order to awaken in me a yearning for that, other than the example, which they always do anyway?

R. Maybe they're giving you all the examples but you're not seeing them, you're not seeing them because it's not on the radar of your needs.

S. And they need to bring me around the table in order to reveal these things, talk about them openly?

R. These are very difficult things to scrutinize, we're not able to do it yet.

7. S. (14:05) We can relate to what he's saying, today, where it says that “When the whole nation unanimously agreed and said, ‘We will do and we will hear,’ each member of Israel became responsible that no member of the nation will lack anything, only then will they become worthy of receiving the Torah and not before.” So, if we talk, look at this situation, most people are liars, they're not keeping what is written here. You see that everyone's lying to you, also since you started speaking about Arvut or mutual guarantee the whole nation?

R. What are you saying to me, I thought that your job was to be a spokesperson for the union, and you want to educate the people?

S. We tried.

R. You tried?

S. Certainly, we tried.

R. So we see what you’ve done today, that is a result of that?

S. These are the results, to my sorrow.

R. Too bad we didn't know before.

S. We're changing.

R. Changing?

S. We’re trying to change.

R. Forget about changing, forget about all those talking like this; I shouldn't even continue.

S. But I'm asking you, really, you look and see, you see the, who cares about what's going on today?

R. I don't want to relate to things today.

S. You look at your environment, no one cares about anyone, what Arvut is he talking about here, so when's it going to change?

R. That Arvut, the mutual guarantee, it's a correction, you have to come to it, it’s not like it exists, it's absent, there is no mutual guarantee, you have to reach mutual guarantee. What do you think, you think this is the law of nature that exists? It's a lot of nature that we have to reach in keeping it.

S. What is Arvut?

R. That each one is responsible for the other.

S. It's very painful to see that there's nothing, that every one's caring about himself, no one cares about the others, everyone is out for themselves only.

R. Yes, that's what you guys built.

S. I ask myself how is it possible to change, how can we reach what's written here, the Arvut?

R. We need to listen to people who are opposite from you and let them run things.

S. Great, who are those people?

R. I don't want to get into politics.

S. Give me some people to take example from, is it Rav Laitman?

R. Rav Laitman wasn’t there before, I’m talking about sixty-seventy years ago, before that even.

S. Who is there that it was possible to take an example from, who could truly bestow, who could truly do these things?

R. Everything continues from the story of Altalena, the ship.

S. The ship?

R. You heard about it?

S. Yes, that’s the period of Begin’s time that you’re talking about.

R. I don’t want to get into all of those things, I don’t think that we have anything to do today besides praying to our father in the heavens.

S. How do you reach Arvut with a prayer?

R. Also prayer.

S. Only a prayer?

R. Yes.

S. And relations with people?

R. Also in prayer, we need only to reveal ourselves that we are in the worse possible state, and we have no hope to come out of it by ourselves.

S. And you believe that that will be able to reach that Arvut?

R. We have no choice, if we don't come to it and soon, we will discover such, we will reveal such troubles, that it will obligate us to reach this mutual guarantee, this Arvut, and it's not far from us.

8. S. (19:11) Continuing the friend’s scrutinies, “We will do, and we are here,” how does an action above reason bring us to Arvut?

R. It's a matter of education, you can't just switch a hundred eighty degrees in a person.

S. That's clear that we can't make a U-turn but let us start, let us teach, learn.

R. If there are more organizations like ours and we would want to change human nature because it's burying itself every moment deeper into the ground, then we'll succeed, we will invite the upper force to take care of us, to correct us.

S. What is a loyal lover? Who is this person in relation to his contribution to the Arvut?

R. He's a guarantor to everyone; what is that Arvut, what is the mutual guarantee, that each one is a guarantor to everyone.

9. S. (20:38) In the Torah and in the article, it’s written that if we are not brought out of Egypt, then we have nothing to talk about. So, before that, what can we ask for other than that, if the Creator won't bring us out of Egypt, so we have nothing to pray for other than that? To overcome this ego that gives us these illusions that we're talking about here.

R. Only through the prayer.

S. But here I'm hearing friends praying for connection, Arvut, and we don't have that, we don't even have to reach that.

R. That's why they're praying, that is why they're praying.

S. But the prayer needs to be to come out of the ego, before we come out of the ego then, he writes in the article that until we come out of Egypt, we have nothing to do with.

R. And we're praying for it, you don’t hear me?

S. I hear that we're playing for Arvut, unity, but not for existing Egypt.

R. In total, this is the exodus from Egypt.

S. Maybe it's the feeling where we can still do something with our own powers?

R. No, no, you can do nothing with our own powers, only through prayer. 

10. S. (22:04) You told a friend that the desire is enough, just to want. My question is what is Arvut, is it a desire or intention or an action that becomes executed? We received the Torah or maybe we didn't receive the Torah, what, I don't know?

R. First of all we need to want, through our actions, to really, really want from the disconnect between us, and to come closer between us, that’s first.

11. S. (22:52) He writes that “Each one needs to receive upon themselves to work for all members of the nation.”  I understand that it's not talking about physical work but spiritual work.

R. To feel that we all belong to one body.

S. Arvut is only when we care for each other in our spiritual advancement and everything else we don't have to engage in?

R. Don't separate spirituality and corporality as if you can tell where the line runs, you should care about each and every one, specifically also in corporality.

12. S. (23:40) The agreement where each one cares about everyone; does it need to be an intellect and emotion?

R. Yes.

S. And an intellect, it seems simpler but, in an emotion, we don't control our emotions, so what can we help so that it enters emotion more?

R. To change from one emotion to another we need the intellect.

S. Meaning to think about it, pray about it, pray for it, to talk about it?

R. Yes, that's our problem.

S. And that agreement can come about firstly in the Ten?

R. Yes. 

13. S. (24:34) Sounds like the condition, unless a person has this Arvut from others upon the will to receive, so he cannot come out of himself. My question is how could these people who attain spirituality, individually, what do they do against this will to receive? Because here it says that only when everyone cares about him, then he has the confidence to exit himself, so it's not in the form of Arvut in the group, how do these individuals attain spirituality?

R. Well, nevertheless, there are certain kinds of Arvut, mutual guarantee, that he should feel and understand that we need to keep.

S. Who gives the confidence that the will to receive won’t be in the air, because until it happens that means the person cannot exit, who in the end gives the confidence?

R. Only the Creator, but with everyone's agreement, otherwise who would want to accept the mutual guarantee? Only when everyone turns to the Creator and everyone demands and expects to, and understands that only the Arvut, the mutual guarantee, they'll have a complete vessel that they can attain.

S. And if it's just one person, let's say he’s not in Arvut and he attains spirituality, so who was a guarantor for him?

R. There's no such thing as one person coming to Arvut. Arvut, mutual guarantee is something at least ten people attain.

S. Okay, so not Arvut, he attained spirituality.

R. Where did he attain it?

S. There were Kabbalists who attained without a group, spirituality.

R. Those are exceptions, let's not talk about it here, it’s not through their work, only it’s organized according to the Torah.

14. S. (26:59) When the people of Israel were in Egypt, they drew the reforming light otherwise they wouldn't have been able to come out of Egypt; why was the reforming light there not called the Torah? From when, from which state, and from which correction of the will to receive can I say I am in Arvut?

R. If you want to come out of Egypt and you come out of Egypt, and you arrive at the foot of Mount Sinai and you're capable, you're willing to keep the conditions of connection at the foot of the mountain, then you are with everyone on the level of Arvut. And that's how you advanced towards the revelation of the Torah. 

15. S. (28:13) We learned that we cannot, or we don't need to ask for something bad, but is there a prayer for the recognition of evil? Because it seems like until we really feel that we are in Egypt, that were in this hard toil, so that we don't have the correct prayer. So is there a possibility of asking for that, even if it hurts a bit?

R. Even if it hurts or not, it's not a consideration, but yes we all need to pray, it doesn't matter the level or the state.

S. I think this is what the friend was saying as well, is that we pray for Arvut, maybe we need to pray to the Creator so that He will show us our true state. Then suddenly we can be like, wow, I don't want to stay here anymore, I really want to leave this place and to reach.

R. You are correct, we wish to reach such states, but we can't awaken the Creator yet; it means that our desire is not ready yet, that's what Baal HaSulam explains to us.

16. S. (29:54) I heard Rav say that Arvut is the correction, in our world how does thought influence Arvut?

R. In our world, it's hard for me to say.

S. Because we learned that everything is clarified in thought?

R. Yes, that's certainly something we should scrutinize further, the conditions of Arvut. Yesterday some friends read to me, the laws that exist in “The pack of wolves,” and we saw together that these are, these laws are such that if we humans would accept them, we will be an absolute Arvut and in the complete attainment of the Creator.

S. What does that mean?

R. Ask him, no you have to hear it, there are many items there ten, right? We need to ask him to give us a lesson on that, it was truly beautiful!

S. Each day we are in the morning lesson, and we are in the zoom meetings, and we hear about “The field that the Lord has blessed.” How do I know that I observe the Arvut in the Ten, that I hold them throughout the whole day?

R. Check yourself, ask yourself for each and every moment where you are, where are your thoughts your desires, where are your goals, your purposes.

Reading Continues. (32:36) “Thus you evidently find that the...”

17. R. (33:15) It means that all those who are in Arvut, in mutual guarantee, had to separate themselves from those who were not following these conditions, and then they received the Torah.

18. S. (33:31) What does it mean that their needs provided for themselves?

R. For themselves, meaning that they're responsible for what's happening to them.

S. But what's that state where suddenly this responsibility transferred from the Egyptians to Israel?

R. That they came out of Egypt, they came out of the dominion of the ego in front of them, they rose above it, and then they were able to establish connection between them. Such Arvut, such mutual guarantee through with which they were able to create a different attitude toward one another and the society became a spiritual society.

S. And then the question comes that if they needed to be in a certain inclination to Arvut or a certain Arvut in order to exit Egypt, why are they being asked whether they are ready to accept the Arvut?

R. These are, I guess, stages, these are after all stages.

S. Meaning, there is something inside Egypt that allows for a certain detachment from the will to receive?

R. Of course, absolutely, also in Egypt there are several degrees.

Reading Continued. (35:00) “It turns out that even after the reception of...”

19. R. (35:47) This condition has to be a general condition for the entire group.

Reading Continued. (35:59) “Thus, these rebels cause those who observe... “

20. R. (37:37) Meaning, here we check ourselves, the entire society and we can even divide ourselves into two parts, those who are ready for the Arvut, for the mutual guarantee, and those who are still not ready. Of course, eventually everyone will have to come to it. 

21. S. (38:07) What is this part that he defines the nation, what is a nation?

R. It's that group that feels itself separate from all the others.

S. Yes, but we can see even among ourselves, that it always changes, people join, people leave. What defines the nation, what is the state called a nation which would cause the reception of the Torah?

R. Are you asking about us, ourselves, I cannot say. I think a state has to be revealed in the world where a part of humanity will say, will present to us, that it wants the Arvut?

S. Yes, but there's this impossible state because on one hand, he presents this nation, which is independent, and on the other hand, we reveal this increasing dependency on ourselves.

R. Also in Egypt we were not independent, completely not independent, we're talking about an internal feeling.

22. S. (39:55) We first need to want to connect, you explicitly mentioned, but actually it's impossible to reach Arvut, but don't we need the Torah, the correction, actually to come to this mutual guarantee, to come to the Arvut?

R. There are many more questions here, very real questions, I can't tell you, I think let's start coming closer to it, and both the questions and the answers will begin to be clarified. But in general, we have to understand the state we're in and the state that we can reach through the Arvut, that's it.

S. So what does it mean to receive the Tora if you actually need the Torah to come to the Arvut, actually, because to come to the Arvut actually is impossible, we need the correction?

R. Yes, yes.

S. What's the receiving of the Torah mean then?

R. Receiving the Torah means receiving the laws and the power to keep them and the connection between people, this is the meaning of receiving the Torah. You open up such laws of nature that they keep you, they maintain you, they allow you to be connected with others. That’s what changes in reality.

23. S. (42:35) I heard that what is lacking is a strong desire to be in Arvut and that it appears in a group of people that wants to do that. My question is either we need to wait for suffering to appear in order to build this desire, or we need to in order to reach that desire, do we need to be somewhat similar to the Kabbalistic group of courts, where they are connected, and they pushed for that Arvut? Where they differentiate themselves from all the mess around them and got the Arvut from that?

R. According to what I received from Rabash, I can see that for the time being we should continue as we are right now, and what will be, let it be.

S. Each one in the Ten needs to reach his own Arvut? 

R. Of course, and you should yearn for the Arvut between you.

24. S. (44:08) What is the state where we have reached Arvut, let us say, we reached Arvut tomorrow, what is that state, how does it look?

R. The wholeness in connection will draw you, will attract you to a higher degree of connection, where you can come out and pull behind you more and more layers in the public, that is how it is.

S. Meaning it is a feeling of wholeness, is that the main criteria?

R. Yes.

S.  And everyone feels that simultaneously?

R.  I cannot say. 

S. I just wanted to make it more precise so we can see how we can yearn for that state.

R. Try to think about it between you so then you will understand what to yearn for.

25. S. (45:27) What is the condition, “We will do, and we will hear”?

R. The condition “We will do, and we will hear,” is when we need to proceed things with actions and from that we will understand the results called, “We shall hear.”

S. How can I want to hold the law of Arvut out of love and not out of fear, fear of blows?

R. What is he asking, I didn't understand?

S. How can we want to reach Arvut out of love and not out of fear of blows?

R. That depends on our states, if we yearn for it then we will come to it out of love, if not, if you don't yearn for it then we will get through it through the left line, blows.

26. S. (47:12) He writes here two very strict conditions: “That is, in terms of existence, everyone keeps the Arvut in order to care for and satisfy the needs of his friends.” That is on the positive side. If I look at the Ten, we have such moments where we are really, truly strong moments, where we feel everyone is very important to everyone, there are such moments, but those are moments. He says that on the negative side, “If a part of the nation does not want to keep the Arvut, but to wallow in self-love, they cause the rest of the nation to remain immersed in their filth and lowliness without finding a way out of their filth.” When I look in general at life, I see that 90% of my life, I am in that state. When do I pay attention to that, when I read what Baal HaSulam says, when I'm with the Ten; so, I discern that most of my life I'm in that state where I'm basically just screwing up everyone, myself included. How can I, in the Ten, create such an environment, an atmosphere where if I'm in this, then I can pay attention that I'm in that?

R. Artificially, artificially, you must determine in your little environment, in your Ten that you are on the correct path, and you are moving toward the goal. And you are in Arvut, in connection as much as possible.

S. What does it mean, when you say an artificial form, what do you say?

R. You can't do it, your nature has not changed but you want to change, and just like little kids who play in the future state already, now.

S. I understand that, but these expressions of that artificial form, what is the expression?

R. When you, in reality, relate to another like loyal friends, close friends, there is nothing outside of this connection anywhere else in the world. And that all these actions will become a second nature to you.

S. And what defines this artificial loyalty, how can I define if I am loyal or if a friend is loyal, on what basis?

R. On the basis of how much he is acting in it, more than that you cannot see, but you must act; otherwise, what is this whole thing about, the greatest of the generation and his students? That they learn from him, whatever he does they follow in his footsteps, and that is how it is everywhere in everything. If you do not follow the teacher, you will not advance, how can you tell if something is right or wrong? How do the little chicks, the little fledgling, they follow their mother, same way. That's how everyone grows, except in spirituality, I think, we think, oh I’m already a grown up, I'm 30 or 40 years old. What are you counting, the years of your beast? What does that have to do with spirituality? You aren't even born, in order to be born in spirituality you must keep the laws as if you are in your mother's womb, you are trying to cling to her.

S. Meaning that we in the Ten, we’re these chicks that go off to the mother, the Kabbalists?

R. Yes.

S. So, our loyalty is in the extent to which we help each other to stay, like those chicks that follow their mother, but if we see that one went to the side a bit, then we need to return him?

R. Otherwise, you’re all going to stray, you have to be together, awaken each other and to cleave to your mother.

S. Sometimes in the life of the Ten, there is a state where the chick goes to the side; for many years, I don't find how to return him.

R. How to put him back in line and then he’s lost?

S. Or that he’s there but, he’s on the side.

R. He cannot exist there.

S. What does it mean that a friend goes to the side?

R. He's losing connection with his friend and with his mother.

S. But that is within, on the outside we see another picture where it doesn't matter. Internally the friend loses connection but on the outside he seems okay.

R. I don't know what you're saying.

S. I will speak about myself, so it is clearer: many times, and this is where the question came from, the connection with the friends is internal on how much I care or don't care, how much they are important or not important to me. Many times, I find myself that I'm or wasn't in connection with the friends but if you look on the side you will see I’m here sitting at the table, sitting at the meal, doing dissemination, it seems as if he is with us. But from the inside who is protecting me, who can the Ten look after me on the inside?

R. Through external signs, first and foremost, if you see they are somewhere, you have to be among them, I don't understand your question.

S. But that’s the question, we need to take care that everyone is here with us.

R. But a certain spirit has to be there.

S.  The spirit will be that which comes about when they’re here.

R.  Yes, okay, so that is what we need to do.

27. S. (55:06) How not to miss an example from the Rav?

R. Rav doesn't give examples.

S. Before you said, “The greatest of the generation and your students.”

R. No. Rav explains your laws to you, and you need to observe them. It’s not like in a sports organization or something where you look at the greater one and do the same thing.

S. So how not to miss out on examples from the Ten?

R. Precisely from the Ten you cannot miss examples if you’re connected to them.

S. How can I ensure that I constantly increase the connection in the Ten?

R. That you hold each other.

S. In what exactly, what do you mean one another?

R. The extent of your connection to one another, so to that extent you hold on to the path?

S. That I constantly want to get examples from the Ten, I have to be in such a state where I'm receiving examples from them?

R.  Yes, you also need to understand that you need to be responsible for yourself.

Reading Item 18. (56:55) “Therefore, the Tana described the Arvut as two people…”

28. R. (58:22) That is clear, yes, that we are all in one boat, and if we do not hold on to the Arvut between us, then we are all lost.

29. S. (58:46) Explain the connection between the work we are doing here and what is happening on the outside, in the world?

R. No, I cannot explain it in a precise way, in detail, but we need to accept it such that what happens here between us, the result we see on the outside.

S. So if we are looking at the last few years, our state is getting worse. Is our state getting worse here as well, it does look like that to me?

R. Why?

S. Because there are Tens that are growing stronger, friends are working, we are together with the world Kli, the Arvut system, thousands of people. If you were to ask me ten years into the past, you see that Bnei Baruch are moving forward, but when you look at the world in the past ten years, it is clear that the world has gone backwards, it is clear to everyone, you don't have to be so smart to see it.

R. Yes.

S. So, where are we totally blind to what is happening between us?

R. No, we are not blind, we truly are advancing but it is insufficient in order to attract the world after us.

S. I have a feeling, you constantly say that we are going to attract the world behind us, and I have a feeling that we depend completely on the world, and not that they depend on us. That is my feeling. Because as time passes, let’s say, when we’re reading this Arvut article that we have read dozens of times the past few years, it’s clear to me that until something extremely unusual happens, but may have started on October 7th and who knows what else will come, there is no chance of even starting to talk about those things. It’s just like Baal HaSulam talking from the floor one thousand and we are in the basement.

R. I have nothing to answer, you see all the sources, you have been through them a few times, and everything depends on us.

S. Everything depends on us, or everything depends on the world?

R. We need to say on us, according to what is written in the sources, you see in the world your copy.

S. And the world is becoming worse, what does this mean about us?

R. That you are also that way.

S. So I’m back to the beginning, it doesn’t seem like this.

R. “They have eyes and see not.”

S. So, how can I see then that I’m actually becoming worse, what will let me see them actually becoming worse, other than looking on the outside and getting a clue as to what is happening?

R. Look at the world.

S. So I should look at the world, see that, and say, “Okay, even though I totally don't feel it, I’m becoming worse, I’m growing worse.” Then what’s the next step, and that’s when you have to do what?

R. More and more, and more overcoming on the correction of the world.

30. S. (01:02:25) This thing of a boat with a hole, I'm in a boat without holes, it’s sailing beautifully with love, the friends are connected, they're singing, there's hummus and vodka, the boat is sailing, the sea is calm, there are no holes in the boat. I don't know, it's like, where are we sailing to, what's the point of sailing like that? At least if there's a hole there's a bit of action.

R. That's your question?

S. Yes, what are we doing with such a feeling that the ship is sailing but it is not enough.

R. Because you don't need anything.

S. So what do we need?

R. You need nothing, that’s the answer.

S. So, something is missing?

R. You lack.

S. What?

R. Intellect to differentiate between what there is and what there needs to be.

S. We feel like there is everything, we need to feel like what is missing, what is this thing that is missing? We're in a good environment, everything is good, we lack nothing here.

R. The boat, it is not called that it’s sailing, it is staying in the same place because there is no difference between what was today and what there will be.

S. How to create this difference where we lack that?

R. To pray.

31. S. (01:04:26) About the friend’s question, I feel that I'm moving forward, and the world is going backward, and Rav said, that is what I heard, “That you have to overcome more and more, and more.” But it seems to me that this overcoming, more and more, and more is what the Creator’s trying to give us, this is the good and bad, the Creator wants to give us. From this endless overcoming to us it appears like we are moving forward but we're moving backwards, and that's what the Creator wants to give us until Ein Sof, is that correct?

R. Yes.

32. S. (01:05:20) How do we come out of this state where we condemn the Creator for seeing the world as not advancing?

R. The world is unimportant.

S. If I see the world moving towards correction then I justify towards the Creator and what is happening around me, but if I see the world and say that it is not moving then I sentence Him unfavorably?

R. Well, it seems like that is your outlook.

S. Right, so how do we come out of this outlook? Not to condemn the Creator and see that the world is advancing towards creation even despite what I'm seeing in my ego?

R. The world cannot progress alone but only according to our force, our motivating force.

S. Meaning, we have to nevertheless, in spite of everything, see the Creator as the Good Who Does Good, and invite the reforming light to work on us?

R. Yes, we just need to know what is behind those nice words: to pray to the Creator, to draw the reforming light, all these things, but that is what we need to do, yes.

33. S. (01:07:07) One question about our Ten. How do we deal with our friends that are not here right now, they do not hear the message of Arvut?

R. We need to call them after the lesson, firstly we need to connect among each other all of us who are the lesson and decide what we need to send them, what material from the lesson, from the discussions, and something from our own personal things, and accordingly we connect.

S. Can this hurt the friends?

R. No, you simply send them the lesson and what you discussed, if there is something important there between the lessons, and that is it.

34. S. (01:08:33) It says that each one from Israel became guarantors, that nothing would lack from for every friend, is the friends need only spirituality, or the needs of the people have to be responsible for?

R. No, we need to accept them corporeally and spiritually, and try to do whatever we can in order to help them, corporeally and spiritually; if they are our friends, we are obligated to relate to everything that they lack.

35. S. (01:09:31) What are the reasons that prevent a person from coming out of caring for himself?

R. Only the lack of support from the group, if the group wants, it can pull the person out of any state he is in, is that clear?

36. S. (01:10:16) How to bring contentment to the friends in the Ten? 

R. I don't know, you need to know, it is your friends!

37. S. (01:10:40) Is it true to say that unless the Creator is our Guarantor, we will not be able to receive the Torah, and have to pray to that all the time?

R. Right, yes.

S. The Arvut is built around the control of the needs, is that happening in the Ten?

R. Yes.

38. S. (01:11:24) If I see the friend is not ready to take responsibility and assume the Arvut over others, it is a flaw in me, how can I reach a state where instead of a flaw, I see the merits of the friend?

R. I try together with the friends, these returning efforts bring us to the correct feelings.

39. S. (01:12:12) We want to ask you after the lesson, such a strong lesson with such strong scrutinies with the matter of our advancement relative to the world, we want to ask you for advice, what do you suggest we do?

R. What do I suggest, we need to connect between us together in such a compression, in such a great pressure from which we will be able to cry to the Creator and awaken Him to help us, that is all. Do not wait but enter such connections of sorrows that our voice will travel all the way up to the heavens, is that clear?

S. Yes, we see that he is bringing us to this corner where we have no one to trust but Him, really only to cry to the Creator?

R. Yes.

S. Other than what we are doing already, how can we do better, we want to advance in this direction?

R. I think that only connection between us, if we from within it, can turn to the Creator from our heart, then we will succeed, we will succeed.

S. Relative to the picture that is revealed in the world and what is happening in the group, I'm asking relative to the friend’s question, the Kabbalist teach us the person follows the path of truth discovers how remotely he is from the Creator, from the force of bestowal, the more he advances the more he sees the truth, the attitude, the relationship between his will to receive and the Creator’s nature, there’s an infinite gap between the two. Is it possible that the more we advance in the group, the connection between us and the world will appear, it will be able to play more with that shattering?

R. Yes, certainly that is how it plays out.

40. S. (01:15:19) What justifies our readiness for Arvut?

R. As much as we are connected, as much as we are connected.

41. S. (01:15:42) Just like those fledglings who have to adhere to their mother, in what are we not following you enough?

R. You need to connect more among yourselves, among yourselves, that is how it is.