Morning Lesson February 25, 2024

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

Part 3: Baal HaSulam. Not the Time for the Livestock to Be Gathered.

Reading (0:25) “It is known that all...”

1. S. (17:13) There is a known line that we use that one should not pray for himself or individually, but what is all this talk about this flower can you explain that?

R. No, we need to see that in the study of the Ten Sefirot. There are explanations about that.

S. My impression is that he’s describing something exalted but it’s hard to feel it?

R. A high exalted impression and we do belong to it, in that we need to reveal it, incorporate in it, yes.

2. S. (18:15) First of all, a very exalted article but what can it tell us, that each action and everything we do we have to think of the entire world Kli all of Israel, to gather their hearts, what does it mean?

R. Collect everyone that can be in our group, men women so that together throughout time, we together will come to such an incorporation that the Creator can be revealed. That's all together, this is the purpose of our study.

S. What is this prohibition not to remove himself from the collective and why a person is removed from the collective?

R. In disconnecting from the Ten, from the structure of maybe the morals, the ethics of it.

S. We have to come to a place where every moment in life is only for the collective?

R. Those who are here I think that each of you should think that he has a clear knowledge and he lives in order to reveal the Creator and to adhere through the friends to Him, to the Creator. That's actually the purpose of our lives, otherwise there's no life, there is no purpose.

3. S. (20:08) Who are the herds or the livestock?

R. You don't know?

S. Ask the world Kli?

R. Yes, the world Kli.

S. What does it mean that the livestock gathers, what is that action of gathering the livestock?

R. That the shepherd gathers His whole flock in order to perform actions with them.

S. The headline is that it’s not the time to assemble the livestock, when is the time?

R. The time of the gathering, when is it? I hope we will merit it and raise our prayers and requests to the Creator that we are ready to gather so that He will collect us inwards.

S. The herdsman gathers us or we gather, is it in our power to gather?

R. It’s from our request.

S. Which is?

R. And it is not yet the time as he writes.

S. And what does it depend on the time?

R. I can’t tell you. For the time being it’s probably not the time.

S. Not the time together, why?

R. I can see according to the forces that are coming to us. That we are trying to be gathering the livestock correctly but we are truly not succeeding.

S. What is there to ask for if it is not the time?

R. No, Israel is above the time. We need to ask the Creator to send us salvation and it will be revealed in the desires in us so we will all be pushed to correction. You understand it's not the time for the livestock to be gathered. It is not the time yet, he writes, but we can ask.

S. What will happen when the livestock gathers?

R. Then in one strong powerful desire for everyone we will be able to raise a common MAN to the Creator and obligate him to perform correction, that it's all done by the lower ones.

4. S. (23:18) I want to ask about the example with the boat, he related the one who drills the hole, he’s the fool and those who don’t notice, that’s great but in practice it’s the other way around. It's better to drill a hole in the boat so everyone will start working and even the threat, the danger to unity will make everyone gather and start working together. So I don't understand this example?

R. The example with the boat and the one who makes the hole on it is the example of one that can make everyone fail so that's why we have to be careful with such friends. Those who are willing and are willing to do everything and in truth the damage from them can be great.

5. S. (24:46) It’s written about the incorporation he needs to include himself in Yechida, the root of Israel in the meaning, I am the first and I am the last. What does it say about this incorporation?

R. It speaks of the Upper root where everyone is united, the still, the vegetative, animal and speaking as well all those who belong to the creation they are all gathered there in one point.

S. In order to be incorporated we have to ask for incorporation in the Ten?

R. Yes, we need to ask for the incorporation in the Ten.

S. If we ask for incorporation in the Ten is it a prayer for me, for myself or is it for the collective?

R. A prayer for yourself so you don't need the Ten. In the Ten it’s only for the Ten.

S. So I'm asking for the incorporation in the Ten but for everyone and not for myself?

R. Yes.

6. S. (26:06) We read about it, you see it usually at the beginning of the Congress. We do a Congress, all the friends, the world Kli are coming with this inner cry, this great yearning it's felt that this is the height, the big moment. Now we need something additional, so the prayer will be more, how can we reach this threshold all together?

R. Each prepares himself and then each comes with his addition and then they gather together already and in another degree, a new one.

S. Meaning, each and every Congress we come stronger with a greater demand?

R. Yes, that we can see that’s for sure.

7. S. (27:04) They say the sorrow of raising children. Do you have joy from the pace of our advancement?

R. What can you do? I understand more and more about Rabash. I understand him more, there's nothing you can do about it. You want more but whatever comes out comes out and it depends on many conditions. Not all the conditions are we capable of skipping over, do without. There's almost none we can do without. Let's hope that we will advance.

S. What nevertheless is within our hands?

R. Everything is in our hands, the question is whether we will discover the vessels that are in our hands and to build ourselves the correct infrastructure. I don't know, I'm optimistic. I think that there is this power, there’s the goal, everyone knows; compared with a year ago the goal is clearer, the path is clear, the books, ourselves. We are in a relatively disclosed manner towards ourselves and also towards our world. I’m hearing that people are understanding more, feeling more, and accepting it more.

8. S. (29:33) What can ensure that we will always exist?

R. Nothing can ensure anything, nothing. Every single moment we hold ourselves because the Creator is holding us up.

S. We will discover daily that the greatest asset is the society and our friends? How do we keep it and protect it?

R. It is all in your hands, not in me. I'm going to be going soon, you will have to help yourselves.

S. What powers we can have now so we will have the powers later to protect, to keep going.

R. Just to connect between yourselves and the Creator, there's nothing else to hold on to.

9. S. (30:51) I'm looking at you, I see that something that is holding is us. You are raising us, you are growing us. I'm asking, is it only the connection between us or do we have to think how do we raise the next generation, how do we disseminate, how do we push the wisdom forward to the next generation?

R. Yes, of course you need to think about that too, how to disseminate all together not just to your children but to the whole world.

S. Yes, because if it’s stuck in us it seems like there is no right to exist?

R. Yes. There are no more questions? Can we say goodbye?

10. S. (31:57) Following the friend, lately it feels like I depend totally on the Ten. Our society is like that and it’s the greatest asset between two points, the Creator, that’s the point that we can hold on. I want to ask how to help friends feel that power, the power of the Ten and be grateful that we’re part of this power?

R. I don’t know. The time is really in order to gather the livestock, yes. What to do, I don't know. Start asking everyone to think about it, start collecting materials that are more aimed towards that, into a convention, whatever you want.