Congress Lesson 1: Uniting Above Reason December 11, 2020 Transcription is made from simultaneous translation which leaves possibility for errors

Not Even A Single Thought for Myself

1. Rav’s Introduction: We are starting the Congress in the special stage of a special world, let us hope this way we will truly take one step forward toward our goal for the revelation of the Creator in our world. I am very excited as we never had such an opportunity such as now according to the situation that was determined for us from the heavens to try to connect in such a way that really all that remains for us is spirituality which is ahead of us and all of physicality, the Creator already cleaned it, it does not exist for us. We are at a distance and we just need to exist in our inner state, each one being inside of one’s heart and we have to find contact with the others until we advance. We see that there is no direct contact with the Creator but only through the society as much as I connect with the friends inside of this contact with the friends, I later on receive contact with the Creator only when I reach a connection, the right connection right contact with the friends otherwise, it is not a Kli.

Therefore, we see that we cannot check ourselves thru the Creator, but only through the attitude to the group, to the friends, to the whole world Kli, as much as each one of us is ready to lower himself, to bend, to subjugate himself to the group so, the most important is the general connection between us and we prepare the place for the revelation of the Creator in our world. Later on we will also bring this vessel to the whole world to humanity and this way we actualize our destiny and I need to disconnect from the animal in me, from the beast in me. I have to detach myself from everything that has to do with myself, the animate in me, and I have to reach the degree of Adam, the degree of speaking, the connection between us, which apparently we had before creation at the beginning of creation and this is what we have to reach. The connection between desires, between the hearts, so we will all feel ourselves, simply as I feel myself so I can feel others in one heart in one desire so much so, that the physicality, the faces, the physical ego which depicts this world, it will all disappear.

We will feel ourselves only as existing in the desires and later these desires will also connect more and more into a single desire, which of course includes everybody, but truly it is one great desire called Adam. For that we need mutual help so that each group inside of it feels itself united, bonded there is nobody who is standing out, rather each one shows himself only as an example, subjugating to the others, nullifying to others in such a way that it is a felt in each and how much he wants to serve the group to reach connection. We went through a few stages in that and I very much hope that this congress will help us. That we will feel the connection between us more and more and the feeling of faces, bodies, external things and will disappear more and more from the field of vision, and we will feel that we are reaching the first spiritual degree in general, from this physical world which we feel with our five bodily senses. We will feel that we are reaching five spiritual senses and with them we will feel the spiritual world. This is right here before us and it all depends on our effort, how we go through, how we will cross to a greater appreciation of what we feel between us in each heart and between the hearts. We have to be as it says, a wise disciple has to be as hard as iron in order not to fall and more and more to try to rise above his ego. That each time he scrutinizes pieces of the broken will receive and each time he wants to rise above them, above each and every detail which is revealed in one's Kli and then when one brings together all the details, all the hearts with each and every state one offers to cling to the group, disconnecting from himself, connecting to the group, this way every penny and penny collects to a great amount. This is how we build our unity, build our vessel.

This is why everywhere the turn we are talking about the Kelim, we are talking about our desires and not about the lights. We always talk about the group, the 10 Sefirot, in which way they interconnect and how much each has to make concessions of himself to strengthen the others and not to be outstanding, to the contrary to nullify and each one would just want to help support the connection between the others and by this we actually do most of our spiritual work. Only after they are correctly connected, then we will start to discover accordingly, the result of our work, the Creator who dwells between us and that way we will start more and more work in a purposeful way, so the most important thing for us is the connection and only connection. This congress, the gathering between us is very important for us and all the spiritual work begins only after we connect and we start to discover the degrees of connection between us, they are the spiritual Kli, when we connect as 10 Sefirot as NRNHY, and everything is measured according to the degree, according to the intensity of the connection between us.

This is how it is in the spiritual world, all-in-all, on the spiritual path from here till the end of connection, it is entirely in the connection between us up to the point where we truly become one. Let us hope that we will start to feel this form of connection and the world is also progressing toward this and the world will understand. We'll see how much they will be talking about this soon, many people because this is simply becoming revealed, in each and every one however this revelation is not clear, but already subconsciously in each and every person. This preparation at least starts to become formed, for the fact that only in the right connection between people even though it does not seem very realistic right now, it is desirable but not realistic, we will bring them the connection between us so they will understand that yes, it is realistic. This is our duty to reach this. I hope very much that we will feel clearly, that the connection, the congress, our gathering, only starts from the first spiritual degree before we are in the work of preparation, but once we can already connect on the smallest degrees between the person and his friend, then we begin the spiritual work in practice, in the connection between us. Then we will reach the spiritual birth and the Gadlut, greatness and the spiritual work in the entrance to spirituality the true work in the connection between us only begins.

Then they will start to work like the group of Rabbi Shimon, in the connection between them, in all kinds of different forms, they discover all the manners in which the Creator is revealed between them according to how they connected. This is what they wrote the book about, the entire book is about how according to the connection between them they revealed the Creator in the connection between them in different kinds of manners that are more and more exalted. I hope very much that we start to reach this and this will be our life in all kinds of different forms of connection between us to discover accordingly, the Creator, and He is happy that we discover Him according to the correction of our Kelim. I don't know what else to say, because this congress is not a lesson, this Congress is, I would say, a workshop because we have to connect, we have to have a gathering and by that we try to come closer to a state where the force of bestowal, the force of love will be revealed between us which is the revelation of the Creator to the created beings according to how much we can overcome.

Everybody overcomes his desire and gives himself over to the others, according to that they will feel how much we are attaining the force of connection, force of unity between us, which is called the revelation of the Creator. Let's try, it all depends on us, on all of us, on each and every one of us. Therefore, as much as each tries to disconnect from oneself and to be connected, dwelling in the group, devoted to them, that all of his work is only to cause connection, not to be standing out but rather how to surrender to everybody, how to serve everybody to the connection of the others. By that I hope very much we will succeed and we will begin to feel that is the true Kli, and the degree of the Creator we can reveal in it. All the rest depends on you. I am actually with you but in this Congress we do not have much to study but we all need to work on the connection between us, so out of this connection, practically with trying to discover the lack of the revelation of the connection and the connection itself, which is already the Creator. If you have questions then let's answer them, I hope they will all be to the point according to this topic.

2. S. First of all, we are very happy to have such an opportunity for such an important Congress for the society and for the world. We started the preparation with a moving excerpt from Letter 8, “After I Have Attain This Clothing.” There is something which really touches me, the truth is the goal to decide between right and left, and this is the condition to come to this clothing of connection, which you're talking about, is this right?

R. You want me to explain it to you ok, between the right and left means that they want to connect to our connections, all the thoughts or the desires, actions which are for and against the connection for the friends, against their friends, for the Creator, against the Creator. You want to combine all of them, because the right contact cannot be unless we put together all these elements. So, all in all, we have to assemble the broken pieces from our desires. These are egoistic desires called, broken desires, and we have to see how much they don’t want, do not want to connect and according to that we have to be happy that we have this before us, the work of connection. Like a person who is before a nice meal, the table is set before him and as much as he feels that he has more appetite, he is happier because he is now before the fulfillment in front of him that is ready for him. This is how we need to work in awakening the hunger, the appetite and by that also to awaken the fulfillment and through the two of them as the light excels from darkness, there cannot be fulfillment in the Kli except if there is a feeling of hunger in the Kli. We have to combine it together, the revelation on each and every degree, there is more in relation to the Creator, it also speaks about it but we will touch it.

3. S. (18:16) In the spiritual world, which we create between us, it begins with each caring for the friends that they are connecting, coming to the lessons above all the corporeal desires they have?

R. Actually yes, I did not see, I did not understand there could be a state where a person who wants to reach the revelation of spirituality, does not reach an opportunity to be connected during the lesson and to come close to the revelation. How can this be? So to reach connection during the lesson, when there is a teacher and everybody is studying from the source, is it something that is necessary, essential, otherwise how can one advance? We have to understand this, we are built according to the systems of the sun, the moon, the planet, the Galaxy, weeks, months and days and we have to be in them, connected each and every day for the construction of the new Kli. So a day should not pass that we cannot come together and connect to study together and then we take a step forward, we give an opportunity to the upper system to correct us and to some degree to fulfill us. Even though now we are in a state of unconsciousness. Let's say like a drop of semen which starts to develop inside the womb, so it does not feel anything, it does not have any vessels of perception but the Upper is working on it. The Creator is working on us, we are not yet capable of connecting to him in a big healthy body, a wise body rather, they are working on us but we have to put the effort as much as our desire is for connection or against connection that awakens in us, so those who have a desire against the connection and they have a desire which is for connection, they come together. They give a place for the Creator where the desire is against the connection, that will be the coarseness which is revealed in the Kli and the desire which is for connection, that will be the restriction, screen and reflected light in the vessel. This is how we reach the vessel through which we already begin to feel where we are, it is no longer an embryo, we are born, and we start to develop and we have a body which can stand on its own. This is how our development takes place, this is why for the time being, before the spiritual birth we are already in stages when there is some kind of a body although we don't know where we are, we don't feel who is taking care of us. But we're going through stages, we need ever increasing connection and even though we are on the path relatively at the beginning of the path, nevertheless, we are already inside of the conception, the Ibur, however we don't feel it just like an embryo doesn't feel like it's inside of its mother. After it is born and it grows a little bit it starts to understand that there is some external body that is taking care of it and it is called mother. This is how we will start to feel ourselves. Later on when we will grow up we will go through this in a different way, in a gradual and purposeful way between us so that we will study this according to TES, and we will go through it in a degree of spiritual understanding about Ibur, Yenika, Mochin, the corporeal ones, well, not the corporeal ones but in the true reality.

3A. S. (23:21) You just said that the convention is not just a lesson, how do we feel the need in order for the need to be felt as a true...?

R. It takes a lot of time until the person persuades himself that spirituality is achieved through the interconnection in the ten. It is not found anywhere else, only in the connection between people who all want to reach the revelation of the connection between them and that connection has a different nature, a spiritual nature. So this connection between them is the vessel for the revelation of the Upper force, the Creator and then they shift from the desires between them that they are all connected, into the one who is establishing this desire from above. The one who created the whole reality and sustains this reality, the Creator. That transition from the device, the internality, to the light, to the upper force, it is only through the connection between us. There is no other possibility to discover the light inside the Kli, because simply the light is the inner force which is revealed in this device so even though we do not really want it and we are confused through all kinds of different methods, that connection is something that is good for all kinds of purposes, but we are talking about something completely different. We are talking about building a vessel, not that we are connected, but that we are rebuilding from ourselves a single vessel called Adam. That inside of this Adam the upper force is revealed, which is called the Creator, come and see. The extent that We build this vessel, to that extent, we can discover and scrutinize it's force and fulfillment and it is truly near to us. I am hopeful that the different groups can reach this revelation of the Creator between them and once we discover we should not disclose it to others for the time being we should just keep working but there are a few groups which are very close to it.

5. S. (26:49) The situation in which we all dissolve into the ten as one cell of connection in which is the role of this cell in the Congress?

R. First of all, we have to be concerned to be connected as uniform as possible that everyone will come together, connect and we will feel that everybody is connected and each and everybody feels that he must have everybody, that he is only the outcome. That his connection to the ten depends on how much the ten is concerned and then they will have mutual guarantee, each one depends on everybody and everybody cares for everybody else, this is one thing. The other thing is that we will realize that in every group, we cannot be connected correctly with the intensity, the power, that is required for the revelation of the Creator unless we feel around our ten many other tens working in such a way and each one also is concerned about everybody. So here they have a special competition, a very special competition where each wants to be in a ten which is successful even before everybody else. That he is concerned about his ten, then on the other hand, we have to realize that as much as our ten comes together to help others and to bestow to the others the highest spirit, the tension and the power and the drive to the goal accordingly, that ten advances. There are two things here we need to connect the force of unity bonding inside the ten and with that the influence of the ten on the others, we will talk about this during the Congress.

6. S. (29:37) I still see that I cannot disconnect from my animal self and only the friends can help me and I also need to help the others. My question is, do I need to think about every friend individually or it is best to incorporate everybody into one body and simply ask for this connection as a general thing and not something individual?

R. I do not think about any friend separately, individually maybe there are some special states about I only think about, the ten together how we connect in all different manners until the connection between us reaches the right intensity, right manner in which we discover the unity between us, the unity between us as already the Creator, we will feel in that unity between us we're giving birth to us. We are simply reaching through the connection between us until we discover that initial force and it establishes us, it is connecting us, however, we attain it from the opposite side from below upward. We try to connect until we discover inside this connection, the Creator, but actually the Creator is the result of our connection. This is why he is called Bore, come and see, we come to the connection and then we discover and see the essence of the connection, which is Him.

7. S. (31:45) It is written that you give reason to the person and teach understanding to people, give us this reason and understanding, I simply feel power in this prayer, can you explain to us what it means and give us the feeling and knowledge?

R. If we reach the point where we all connect together in the heart, the Daat is the result of the connection between Hochma and Bina, is the result of the forces of reception and bestowal together.

8. S. (32:33) What feeling do we come to in the true reality?

R. The feeling of the true unity when we reach it, which is called the Creator.

8A. S. (32:51) The question is that you said we have to make room for the Creator, what is this place, what does it look like?

R. This place is above us, when we are connected as much as we can connect from our plane, above our connection, we will discover the Creator as the primordial root.

9. (33:23) Sometimes it is clear, sometimes it is confusing to think about the ten and there is no face to it, is it just a general disturbance of integral light?

R. Like you said it is something abstract from the faces, from different forms of corporeality character, these are the individual inclinations of each, what we call the point in the heart for all. But we have to understand that they have to connect to others in order to build one point, this is the result of the connection between us. Then we are already in the degree of the embryo, when all our individual points in the heart are included in the single point, and it starts to exist in the collective heart, in the collective desire of the Creator to us, and this is like the beginning of the impregnation, embryo.

S. Doesn't matter what faces my ten is made up of I will see the same result as I connect to ten?

R. Yes.

10. S. (34:58) We have to connect to connection itself, we have to unite to unity, itself, love, unity and connection, is it the same or is there a difference?

R. There is no difference between anything, everything comes together to a single point, but we have to constantly scrutinize this point, we can discover this point of connection in this Congress.

11. S. (35:40) How do we get to the friends the forces we absorb in the lessons?

R. We are thinking together, we are listening together we are talking between us, we will have workshops later, this is how we reach the state of internal connection, bit by bit, we allow the upper force to influence us more to enter into us forcefully, we want it to enter, we have between us some kind of a prayer that we want the Creator to arrange the connection between us and be revealed in this connection. This is how we hope to reach the desirable result of the congress that in the connection between us we discover the upper force. That upper force. I don’t know how people imagine it, but the higher force which is revealed is a force of connection, bestowal and love. This is what we will discover, connection between us, bestowal that flows inside the connection between us and the ten and love is already the presence of the upper force that is revealed in such a way in our connection, and then we will go forward and expand the vessels to discover Him more and then we begin to check in which form we can expand our vessels more, and this is already an entire world an infinite world, above everything that we have in our physical sensation.

12. S. (38:17) We have the opportunity to feel the pleasure and joy, the coupling. What are the actions we have to do to feel this pleasure together with the Creator.

R. Only connection, I have nothing else to add.

13. S. (38:50) In my connection with the ten when some friend asks a question, as a friend in my ten, this is how I have to relate to all questions?

R. Every person who appears in our lessons is a friend by all means and I want to connect to him and I want to see him also participating in my ten, we are truly open to all. We are just not capable of including everybody, therefore, we are given a limited temporary state in the ten but through this then I connect not only to the whole Kli of Bnei Baruch and humanity, but also together to all the world, we are in them, we are not this connected. So my ten is about to expand, it is not really my ten, only later I discover it includes in it everything that exists. All the ten Sefirot, no more nor less but for the time being according to the weakness of our vessels, our grasp ,our perception, we are given to feel ourselves in this limited manner, like a baby who is given something and he plays with his little things and the more he grows we expand his place where he grows the games he plays with.

14. S. (40:52) This unity depends mainly on me giving myself over to others or mainly to other friends?

R. The connection depends on me and to the extent to which I awaken the friends, that's what the person has to feel that the world depends on me.

15. S. (41:30) We always ask different things, how to ask a question from the center of the group, what do we have to do for that?

R. I don't know what to tell you, you need to feel the center of the group, what the group wants, what is this desire that it wants to reach and from that you ask. It depends on the sensitivity of the heart to the friends and the sensitivity of the heart to the friends depends on the extent that the importance of the connection between us is defined in our spiritual degree, this is how it is.

16. S. (42:39) Is it possible to say that the degree of devotion, soul devotion means that we are in the spiritual world?

R. Yes, the question is who has such a state? We are just yearning, dreaming of getting there. Certainly it is a spiritual degree, devotion, you are talking about the soul devotion. That's where the person rises above his own will to receive, and he's willing as much as possible to what extent he is using it just to give, just to serve, to bring connection to others. This is called soul devotion to what extent the person sacrifices himself.

17. S. (43:38) What advantage is this virtual congress compared to a physical congress before the virus?

R. First of all, we feel ourselves on a completely different degree, there is a group which understands what is going on, that understands where the world is advancing towards, to which goal it has to reach, what really is the remedy of the virus today. We stand before the vaccination that we will all get vaccines, each receives an injection and we will not be sick. There are many people who do not believe this, but let's say that there will be some relief of some sort from the vaccine on the whole world and the whole population of humanity. Because we are investing lots of forces, suffering and thoughts, so we have invested a lot in this. So we get some form of relief from the disease itself, from the coronavirus on one hand, on the other hand, it will of course not heal us, because we still have to reach the purpose of these problems which are coming to us. So, why would it be that I get some injection and my will to receive will be corrected, of course not. Because all the sicknesses come when I don't take care of my ego at a certain time, that I don't raise myself to connection, upon the egoistic desires which are growing in me. Therefore, it certainly cannot happen, that this way we are advancing. Therefore, let us hope that we as a group are also working on our own vaccination, working on our own will to receive, wanting to rise above it with the assistance of the ten and if I am devoted to the ten, I don't want to say that I am vaccinated, I am not against the vaccinations, but that actually by that I am protecting myself from any external infliction, more or less, in advancement of course each time we have a great will to receive and each time we have to between us get more connection, but actually this is how they work .... therefore, what is happening today with the Bnei Baruch group, which is a group that is existing in humanity, it is a group that wants to rise above this world to a spiritual feeling, spiritual revelation, so that the Creator can dwell in it the force of love and bestowal to dwell amongst the friends by which we will feel through reality and this will appear as we truly have the right correct preparation, so we could finally implement this.

S. What advantage is the physical distance that is between us in this Congress?

R. There is an advantage to the physical distance because without the physical disturbances being disconnected between us, can we seek the internet connection between us.

18. S. (48:07) How can we make internal connections stronger as one ten in this Congress?

R. You need to give examples to each other to the extent each yearns for the connection and even if you are not yearning, but you talk as if you are yearning. This is acting the spiritual degree and through this play acting the spiritual degree, we reach the spiritual degree. So, please in the tens talk about each nullifying to the others, each wanting to ignite the others. awaken the others, nobody wants to be more than the ten. On the contrary, each wants to bring forth an example of how he is concerned about the others, as an example bringing the connection to everybody in that one place. This all comes in the ten and what these exercises can do, all together, they build the conditions for the revelation of the Creator.

19. S. (49:32) In this holiday we celebrate a miracle, what is this miracle?

R. Hanukkah is the holiday of light where the Kli starts to resemble the light where the vessel has some form of desire to bestow and then it starts to illuminate. The darkness illuminates like light, the darkness is called the will to receive which is connected, somewhat, it is considered to start to shine as the light. This is the matter of Hanukkah where from all our broken vessels, take out of our desires, as we are all broken, we take out some connection, some initial connection as if we connect our desires together. This is where we discover the Upper Light, the first degree, the light of mutual bestowal to everyone, each wants to bestow to the others, not yet to receive in order to bestow, but just to bestow in order to bestow, this is what Hanukkah symbolizes to us.

20. S. (51:17) When I care for the friends when I think about the friends, when I perform physical actions to the friends, each individually and together in the group as one, does this form of connection and action, is it bestowing?

R. It depends on the degrees, in each degree you have a different manner of connection, concern in each single degree, in each person, but all together when we connect, we reach a single Kli.

21. S. (52:07) Spirituality is in me or it's in the friends?

R. There is nothing spiritual in me, other than the spark which guides me to the ten and realize myself there. All my spirituality is inside the ten and to the extent I am incorporated in the others in such a way I am actually beginning to acquire the force of bestowing, the light, the upper light.

22. S. (53:00) There is a prayer that the Creator revealed in the connection between us and there is a prayer that we reach the lack for the quality of bestowal. In this congress, which one do we have to reach?

R. Only the connection between us is important for us now, because Hanukkah is a holiday of light, the light of Hassadim, the light of bestowal, the light with which we overcome our will to receive in order to shine, bestow to each other. Therefore, we need to search in the connection between us how we can expand the concept of bestowal, the concept of light, which is the light of Hassadim, mercy.

23. S. (54:16) The Miracle of Hanukkah, the sun shines in a special way so the light was prompted to burn longer than usual. The oil was burning for a longer time, how in this congress can we make a light which can shine for humanity for a long way?

R. I cannot say in which way it will be to shine to all humanity because these phenomena are yet to occur, therefore, even though there are Reshimot, memories, I still cannot see in what clear manner it will be revealed. Because, all in all, as it is written, one should not judge only what his eyes see, things are yet to be revealed in this world, but it will be only revealed in the form of a root like in the time of the Maccabees. We cannot do some form of manner which should take place today, they need to do what is upon us to do and what will be revealed for us as new. It should be as new in your eyes, as it is written, I am searching to look through history or anywhere but needs to be now. I know that before me there is a very concrete manner, which is the connection between us in the ten and this connection will always remain till the end of correction, until the whole humanity becomes one ten, one Kli, and that is all that needs to be before me. So, I need to invest all my forces into this, I am certain that I'm going correctly and I will not miss this.

24. S. (56:38) How can we encourage the importance of friends to be fully encompassed in the group or ten?

R. You need to connect all of the importance of each and every friend with the goal that you want to reach and then the friend will be as important as the goal. That is what we need. Do not disconnect, the attitude, the relation toward the friends and the goal. On the contrary, as it is written to us by Kabbalists, that the friends must be more important to me than the Creator, that I am now concerned only for the connection between us, only for love my friend as myself, my friend is all the friends in the ten and then from that I come to the love of the Creator. Is that clear?

25. R. (01:00:43) To the flow of the verses that were created with us by the friends and we will do some workshops and exercises to come to a state where at last we will see where we need to be and make a few steps forward. This is the purpose of the convention for the Creator to be revealed between us to the extent that there is a connection between us in mutual bestowal.

Three Points

Bestowing upon the Creator is to be like Him, not to receive from Him.
Bestowing upon the Creator is to bestow upon the Ten.
Feeling the boundary: It is impossible to bestow upon the Creator outside the boundaries of the Ten.

26. R. What we see here is the three conditions that we want to scrutinize. These are also translated into all the languages, we will go over every excerpt, discuss and talk about them and then we will come back to those three conditions that are here in the beginning of the document.

Excerpt 1. Baal HaSulam. A speech for the Completion of The Zohar. Reader Reads twice

This is because the Creator does not think of Himself—whether He exists or whether He watches over His creations, and other such doubts. Similarly, one who wishes to achieve equivalence of form must not think of these things, as well, when it is clear to him that the Creator does not think of them, since there is no greater disparity of form than that. Hence, anyone who thinks of such matters is certainly separated from Him and will never achieve equivalence of form.

27. R. (01:02:37) We shall hear what is written and discuss it in the tens and if there are people here outside of tens, they have the ability to connect for the first time. Do they have the ability to know where to connect to?

S. They can connect to the Focus group...

R. .... we nevertheless help them in this system, how do we do that now? Let us try and organize this in this whole process of the convention, we will know. There are many more virtual events in front of us, let us make it as close as possible so that the virtual reality will remain, so that we may have the feeling that we are together with our desires. So each that wants to connect will be able to connect, let us guide this to new people as well that are by chance coming here.

Excerpt 1 begins (01:04:56 - 01:05:11)

28. R. Meaning thoughts for himself just like their Creator has thoughts for Himself.

Reader continues (01:05:19)

29. R. What's going on with me, how do I reach the goal, how do I advance toward the goal, how do I reach it myself, not for myself, not to think of it for myself.

Reader continues (01:05:41 - 01:06:50) reads again

30. R. ... if I don't want them to ask me I want them to ask themselves in the ten, how they can solve the problem, so this question we read now, just like the Creator's degree, it has no lack, has no thought for himself rather it is all to bestow outward for himself, that's how it also needs to be for each and every one of us in the ten. So that it is all outward for a person, toward the ten as if he has no will to receive, no questions for himself only concerns for the ten alone which define his whole personality. They are actually the ones that arrange him, sort him, what way does a person need to receive, like his friends. Just as I need to be as a result of those nine friends in my ten, those nine friends are influencing me of how I need to be, since I want to bestow to them and to think about them, care only for them. What form do I need to take on in my thoughts and my desires, that they think and want, what is my response? My response with all of my abilities, thoughts and my desires, is to realize what is in them, what is in their thoughts and desires that is considered that I am Malchut operating, to wear them with the reflected light, to take from them all of their results they want and to implement them. How do we arrange the groups such that each can realize himself as the individual Malchut, that he is the individual Malchut with his nine individual Sefirot as he feels the friends. Each realizing himself so we have nine in each of us that are his first nine and Malchut which is himself and that is how we all connect and from that we collect our spiritual vessel. Talk about that, no matter how much you get confused it is good, there will be questions, write them down and we will scrutinize them.

29A. WSQ: (01:09:53) How do we make a connection between us in the ten in which each is concerned with how to be the Kli for connection of everyone?

31. R. (01:15:01) According to what we spoke about although some people are coming to us and being discovered as viewers without groups that don't have tens, they are beginners. They want to see what it means to participate in the convention, so explain to us?

S. Anyone who doesn't have a group for the workshop in the Congress please send an email to boardworldkli@gmail.com, just write to this email and they will take care of you.

R. So whoever doesn't have a group write to the email and this way you will get a place to advance in a ten together with us in the convention, we will be happy to help anyone who wants to advance this way. Meanwhile, we will hear questions after this first item.

31A. R. Do tens have questions according to what we just discussed? Just as the Creator does not think of Himself whether He exists or watches over His creations, similar such doubts, just as one who wants to achieve equivalence must not think about these things, meaning what is happening to himself, because it is certain to him that the Creator does not think of Himself as there is no greater disparity of form than that, the Creator does not think of Himself but you do. Anyone who thinks of such matters is certainly separated from the Creator and will never achieve equivalence of form ever. We have to come to a state where he is not thinking about himself, but thinking about others, this is considered that he is rising above his will to receive this is the first action in spirituality. So what will happen? This is what we want to define now between us, that I will be included in the ten, they will help me nullify before them and this way we will perform the first condition where no one thinks of himself but rather, it is just integrated in everyone. As much as these words scare everyone it is a sign that we are advancing.

32. S. (01:17:54) In the workshop when the friends speak, where is the point where I build the Kli, what do I hear? When they speak, it disturbs me, I can't do it?

R. Annul yourself and you will hear that what they speak about is for you like a melody from heaven. Do you need to reach that, if you want it please, if you don't want it, remain a beast and that is how it will be. We are here in a group that at last is discovering what it means, the spiritual world. It is called I have seen an opposite world and it is difficult just as Baal HaSulam writes that many have fallen and they will fall on this path, but there is no choice for those who have fallen and it has also happened with several of our friends in previous incarnations but nevertheless, we rise and continue as there's no choice for we all have to realize ourselves because there is no redundancies and we are all returning to our source.

33. S. (01:19:35) How can the Shatz and Gabai help the ten nullify?

R. They must be concerned with the generality of the collective tens, that they won't run away from the main goal and everyday or every few days they need to be replaced so that each will have that role, but they are the ones that are concerned with how the whole ten will be guided and aimed toward the goal so that the first condition of the goal will be that not any of us will think about themselves but only about the other.

34. S. (01:20:28) How does the Creator not think about Himself if there's nothing else besides Him?

R. I don't know but that's what the Kabbalists write, Kabbalah is to obtain the Creators say they have no thoughts of themselves it is only the force of bestowal, 100% force of Bestowal, no forces of reception, meaning thoughts of himself too, Clear?

35. S. (01:21:16) Not to think of myself, to integrate in the ten it is sort of a process that is going on and off, you go in and out of it during the lesson?

R. You are scrutinizing new Reshimot each time and when you complete the scrutiny you won't have that work you will already have a Tzimtzum, where you're not thinking about yourself this is the condition of the first Tzimtzum.

S. Tzimtzum means that nothing goes back to me?

R. You won't think of yourself whatsoever only about the general Kli and you will work in a way that you are the Malchut to the general Kli and then you will begin to discover in this general Kli the spiritual world. We are already talking about actual practical spiritual actions between us in the ten in my connection with the friends. How I need to arrange between us relations so the Creator will be revealed between us. I understand that sometimes it appears to a person as he is not ready for this yet. That's right I agree with you that many of our friends are not yet ready for this. But also, in our general society, in our world you have the elderly, you have youth, women, men, sick people, people with less forces and those filled with forces but together we are all existing and advancing from generation to generation this is how the general Kli is constructed and all of its parts. That's why it has strong tens there, they’re weak or tens, more veteran, younger ones, we are all nevertheless, under one care, the Creator. It includes us all hence, the more we, even though we see it, it is impossible and I barely understand what is being spoken here, as long as I am connected with the friends I am advancing, just like in our world. A young baby that's born he advances with the whole world and he advances with the world and then leads the world.

New Excerpt Baal HaSulam, "One Commandment" (01:24:21 - 01:25:50)

It is hopeless to wait for a time when a solution is found that enables one to begin the work of the Creator in Lishma. As in the past, so is now, and so will it be: Every servant of the Creator must begin the work in Lo Lishma, and from that achieve Lishma.

The way to achieve this degree is not limited by time, but by his qualifiers, and by the measure of one’s control over one’s heart. Hence, many have fallen and will fall in the field of working Lo Lishma and will die without wisdom. Yet, their reward is nevertheless great, since one’s mind cannot appreciate the true merit and value of bringing contentment to one’s Maker. Even if one works not under this condition, since one is not worthy of another way, one still brings contentment to one’s Maker. This is called “unintentionally.”

36. R. (01:25:51) Let us now try as much as possible even as little ones whether we want it or not, but to belong to that process, the Creator is taking us through. You will see that we are like babies who will grow up and we are weak, yet we will grow stronger. Whatever the mind can't do, time does. Like it or not, we are staying on the path so don't wait for everything to open up tomorrow. I don't demand that, I demand only one thing, give me room for work, explain to me what I have to do and that is it. This is called the worker of the Creator and that is how we advance and everyone can do it. If you are here, if you made it here and you are not making a mess in the groups and you want to advance without standing out like we had people here who used to stand out and I'm gradually getting rid of them. But each one who wishes to subjugate himself towards the other and advance toward the goal, he has his place among us and his place in the goal and he will make it.

37. S. (01:27:25) How do we cling on to that point of restriction that you were talking about?

R. When I try to annul toward the friends, in this annulment I attain the restriction, that is it. When I think how do I advance them, the safest thing is how do I advance the ten? That I want to be only in that and not in myself.

38. S. (01:28:31) How can I remain in fear with self-annulment?

R. Because you care not about yourself as you previously had the feeling of awakening with a deficiency in everything, rather, many fault more, the feeling of deficiency you have now. Because you worry about the others and it all depends on the extent you integrate with it, that you mingle with them, that you take their desires, thoughts and awaken he's from them, because you have the opportunity to fill yourself with the group's awakenings, you have to work on that. There's a feeling of disconnecting from yourself and existing in them, try it even psychologically to work on yourself, to convince yourself that you will see how much you will succeed but we have to do it. Otherwise, we will remain as a beast in this world. We have an opportunity to do this and this is the congress.

S. Where in this whole thing can there be the concern to see you and the necessities?

R. Don't think about it that you need whatever for the beast is neither condemned nor praised, you need to eat, drink and sleep, these are elementary things, whatever your body needs like an animal, give it. There is no problem there, because you do it, you know how you do it? You enjoy giving to the body as much as it needs and not more, what is the sign for it? That you would have been happier not to give it but that there is no choice, it has to exist that's why you give it. It could be big things, but say, I need to sleep a lot, I need to eat, I need to wash myself and keep myself warm, I need to rest, I need many things. Without that I am certain that I know without those things I won't be able to be in the morning lesson. So I have no choice, could I do it without it? No. Would I be happier to be without it, yes, if I could do nothing for the body and only be in the morning lesson and constantly in connection with the friends of course, but I can't. Therefore, in this way if a person relates to corporeal things in this way, it means he is taking care of his necessities. Clear, right?

39. S. (01:32:05) If I forget about myself and don't think about myself, what else do I have to overcome?

R. You will constantly see how you are going to go back to thoughts of yourself until you process your will to receive and think only of the other and when you reach that point it will be the end of correction. There is no such thing, try it, (Rav laughs) none as wise as the experienced.

40. S. (01:32:46) What does it mean to exist in the friends?

R. To exist in the friends means that everything I have, I aim it, I position it in order to push the friends to the spiritual goal. This means that I exist in the friends.

41. S. (01:34:13) In the degree we are on, will we always need the guidance of a teacher to continue towards correction?

R. Normally yes, why is it not good? You see that a person needs to be accompanied throughout his entire life, life in this world. It is recommended to have someone by him to help and support him, assist him, why not? Additionally, if we are talking about a spiritual process then the spiritual process cannot be followed except in a ten and in this ten we keep having more and more people, groups and it all remains as ten, 10 Sefirot. Hence there is no question about this ending at some point, our correction ends in 10 Sefirot, all of humanity, everything that the Creator created everything is included in the one ten called Adam, this all is an inclusive name for the Kelim.

42. S. (01:35:51) We have an opportunity to choose an environment. If I don't want, I don't want to go into the room with the friends, isn't it my decision or my ego’s, or the Creator?

R. Don't say before the action in general that the Creator is giving you these things, rather, it all depends on you, if I am not for myself then who is and do exactly what they say, don't be a smart guy and say that the Creator’s arranging everything and not letting me do good things. You will never receive bad things from above.

Excerpt 2 Reader (01:37:00 - 01:37:49)

Our sages said, “Let all your actions be for the sake of the Creator,” that is, Dvekut with the Creator. Do not do anything that does not yield this goal of Dvekut. This means that all your actions will be to bestow and to benefit your fellow person. At that time, you will achieve equivalence of form with the Creator—as all His actions are to bestow and to benefit others, so you, all your actions will be only to bestow and to benefit others. This is the complete Dvekut.

43. R. (01:37:50) You see that Baal HaSulam keeps repeating the same concepts, think only of the others, do only for the sake of the other, not a single thought or a single act for myself, only to exist on the animate level and besides that nothing. This is what He says. Rav Reads As all of our actions should be for the sake of the Creator, of heaven, meaning adhesion in the Creator meaning, you will do nothing that doesn't yield the goal of adhesion, meaning, all of your actions will be to bestow and benefit your fellow person and you will achieve adhesion with the Creator as all of His actions are to bestow and to benefit others. So, you and all of your actions will be only to bestow to the other. This is the complete adhesion. If you want to come close to the Creator, if you want to adhere to him, if you want to reach complete adhesion in the Creator, this can be only on the condition that you do as He does and what does He do? Baal HaSulam says, only bestow to the others of course, we need to think of ourselves only as much as we exist in order to bestow to the other.

43A. WSQ: (01:39:33) Let us talk about how do you organize such relationships in each and every ten?

Excerpt 3. Baal HaSulam, “The Love of God and the Love of Man” Reader (01:47:00 - 01:48:24) reads twice

When one completes one’s work in love of others and bestowal upon others through the final point, one also completes one’s love for the Creator and bestowal upon the Creator. And there is no difference between the two, for anything that is outside one’s body, meaning outside one’s self-interest, is judged equally—either to bestow upon one’s friend or to bestow contentment upon one’s Maker.

44. R. (01:48:25) How do we convince ourselves through the love of friends I come to love the Creator and that is a goal of my development, that is the path of the correction of the soul. How do I obligate myself to think this way, convince myself that this is so that there is no other way. That we have to reach the whole world with this, but it will be much easier to get to the whole world because we are doing it out of the recognition and understanding, investigation and work on ourselves for the rest of the world that will just kind of happen to them and that is it.

44A. WSQ: (01:49:20) So, how do we come to a state where my attitude toward the friends and my attitude toward the Creator is one and the same and only in this way can I reach adhesion which is the goal?

45. R. (01:51:57) We see how the demand to relate to the friend and to all of the friends, to the ten and to the whole world all of humanity, the still, vegetative, and animate, to everything that exists this means to relate to the Creator, this is the Creator that appears to us in parts. Ultimately, all of reality is the Creator, and we have to reach the state of adhesion. This is the state of equivalence of absolute love, our eternal love. How do we do this, we can't bestow to ourselves, we can influence ourselves. How do we influence each other, each will help his friend and in this way we ensure that all of the friends will advance more in love of others, and it will not be the other, rather they will feel and understand and hear from us that these are the parts of each and every person's soul. When I turn to Bulgaria and Africa, the US and Chelyabinsk doesn't matter. These are the parts of my soul, this is how I need to feel it and relate to everyone. How do we hold onto that feeling in the tens, how do we try to direct the friends in this way, how do I influence the ten that this is how things are? Please, how do I carry out my role in the ten, whereby we need each one to relate to the friends and all of us to other tens like each one treats himself, the Creator. Ultimately, all has to be as one Kli, so daily how do we do this? Each and every moment I care about the friends, that they exist in that tendency because if they come down from it, it is done and I am also not in it. I am not moving toward the goal unless the entire ten is aimed properly, between you and towards to go only in this way can I advance otherwise I am hanging in mid-air.

45A. WSQ: (01:55:00) How do I organize such an attitude toward the ten that they will remain constantly alert toward the goal?

Excerpt 4 Baal HaSulam, “Not the Time for the Livestock to be gathered” Reader (01:57:23 - 01:58:46) reads twice

One must not exclude oneself from the public and ask for oneself, not even to bring contentment to one’s maker, but only for the entire public […]

One who departs from the public to ask specifically for one’s own soul does not build. On the contrary, he inflicts ruin upon his soul, as in (Midrash Rabbah, Chapter 7, Item 6) “All who is proud,” etc., for there cannot be one who retires from the public unless with an attire of pride. Woe unto him, for he inflicts ruin on his soul.

46. R. (01:58:47) It speaks of how we should not leave the care and the worry for the ten and go to myself, to himself. It has to be clear constantly when I check myself, without stopping, what am I checking, the wellbeing of the ten to prepare her, to adapt it to the Creator, meaning, I as an egoist, I think only of them and I advance them, I pray for them and this way I respect them, I raised them. This means that I adapt myself more and more to the Creator because there I will feel how much the Creator cares about the ten and how much I care about the ten to that extent I meet the Creator in the ten.

Excerpt 5. Baal HaSulam, Shamati, Article 36, “What are the three bodies in Man?” (01:59:54 - 02:01:08)

One must think only of the inner body, for it is a clothing for the soul of Kedusha. That is, one should think thoughts that are after one’s skin. This means that after the body’s skin is called “outside one’s body,” meaning outside one’s own benefit, but only thoughts of benefiting others.

Excerpt 6. Rabash, Article 2 (1984), “Concerning Love of Friends” Reader (02:01:09 - 02:02:05)

We must remember that the society was established on the basis of love of others, so each member would receive from the group the love of others and hatred of himself. And seeing that his friend is straining to annul his self and to love others would cause everyone to be integrated in their friends’ intentions. Thus, if the society is made of ten members, for example, each will have ten forces practicing self-annulment, hatred of self, and love of others.

47. R. (02:02:06) It is exactly what we learn about the Partzuf, there is Malchut, which is me and there are nine first Sefirot, the friends, and when I care about the friends, when I raise them above me like the upper 9 above Malchut in this way, I build a Partzuf, and then whatever I invest in the friends, the more I wish to raise them above me, and in this way I discover that I can reveal the upper light there, the light of bestowal and this is how we advance. Consequently, the group becomes a Partzuf that reveals in the upper nine, the Creator compared to Malchut, which is a person and the person's desire to receive, he restricts in this way with each and every one of the friends so it comes out, to that fact that all of the upper nine connected to bestowal and all of our Malchuiot are restricted and in this way we come to a state where we have a complete Partzuf.

Excerpt 6 Reader reads again (02:03:31 - 02:04:27)

48. R. Then how do we arrange each and every friend relative to the other friends to reach a complete structure in the group, each one relative to himself is under restriction and relative to the other nine he works in developing them, growing them, raising them above himself. All of the articles of Rabash about the group speak about that state.

48A. WSQ: (02:05:06) How do we organize the group which the forms the soul, again how does the ten reach the soul, speak about it please.

49. R. (02:09:07) Are there any questions about everything we have gone through?

50. S. (02:09:28) How to accept the friends above me as the Creator, there is this desire to be independent in me that remains but it also comes from the Creator, where do I send that desire, do I ask the Creator to take it away or is it possible I will always have that desire?

R. Until the end of correction you will have to fight it because what appears to you as the friends are not the friends but the Creator who is putting this obstacle before you so that you will give up the nature that He created in you and prefer His nature, that is it. You are dealing only with the Creator, it's not the friends it's not the world, it is all the upper force. Either the upper force that created in you the will to receive or the upper force Himself which is the way to bestow, if you imagine it in this way the world doesn't confuse you, you will succeed and overcome each time your egoistic desire sees the enemy, the adversary and you will advance toward the Creator in love of others, seemingly, love of others, you will see the Creator being revealed in this way. We need to try and neutralize the concealment, cancel the concealment to try and see in every other person the appearance of the Creator before you, the world disappears, it is a concealment of concealment, Olam haElamah, it is concealment of the Creator behind all of these characters He portrays before you, the more you delve into it and try to portray it correctly, you will succeed.

51. S. (02:11:48) What happens to a person when he starts living in his friends, how does his reality change on a daily basis?

R. Do it and see.

52. S. (02:12:09) You asked us the first question in the workshop about the ten as the ten Sefirot, the nine Sefirot above Malchut and if I can ask what are Ohr Yashar and Ohr Hozer in the ten?

R. Just as we learn if it is a ten that is ten Sefirot, we learned what Ohr Yashar and Ohr Hozer is, you receive the pleasures you wish to delight the Creator. One is Ohr Yashar coming to you and the other is Ohr Hozer, do it in the ten and see how through the ten you are connected to the Creator who is the crown arranging everything and you as Malchut through the ten, you relate to the Creator. Through the ten you get everything you receive from the Creator to you.

53. S. (02:13:14) How do we increase the sensitivity to each other in the congress to break the walls between us?

R. Cancel himself, each and everyone starts by completely annulling himself.

54. S. (02:13:55) What does it mean to be included in a friend's intention?

R. Just as a friend in my eyes is entirely aimed at the goal, adhesion, and the Creator, I also by adhering to the friend reach adhesion with the Creator.

55. S. (02:14:21) There is greatness from all of the friends across the whole world Kli, do I need to nullify myself with towards as well?

R. I want to mingle in this huge group that we have now of 4000, 4500 people. In addition, those on other platforms we can't count, this congress is becoming larger than those we used to hold in the exhibition garden in Israel. We see the states that humanity is going through and they are pushing us toward the goal. Let us hope that all of humanity is going to wake up accordingly, we have to think about it, we should not let our heart relax. I should be in everyone and understand that through these friends is my pathway to the Creator. There is no other way, let us say all of these 5,000 people who are tied and connected to us through the systems, it is a small part of our entire spiritual world vessel, let us try to connect not through the system, but through our hearts and we will certainly have according to the quality and quantity the correct desire for the revelation of the Creator within us. This has to happen. We are receiving all of the discernment, all of the correct preparations from above.

56. S. (02:16:24) If a person is in this deep fall, let us say right now, when we want to connect, what should we do?

R. Annul himself this is all he needs, I don't care about what state I am in. I am annulling my I, that's it, then I am in everyone and I feel like everyone. I feel myself floating in the air in Ein Sof, in the Creator, this is what we need to have, stop thinking of himself and feel everyone, this is what it is all about. The more we advance, each one will feel himself individually lower and only by coming out of himself and integrating with the others will he feel himself climbing and descending only in this way. Clear?

57. S. (02:17:48) The headline of this lesson is nothing for myself, only for the friends. How can I rule over the thoughts that I want the Creator to bestow to my friends?

R. We only need to be together as much as possible, to feel together to mingle in our tens and through our great world vessel in the general tendency that will come from each and every friend. This is what is working here, it is what is obligating the Creator to try to participate with us, organizing between us the permanent spiritual vessel where He appears.

58. S. (02:18:52) After these questions the general state is that it's hard for us to speak of something in the workshop, everyone understands and feels great....

R. I'm very happy about your state and if this is happening to everyone it is great and that means you understand that the only thing that can help us, is help from above, no more than that. This help from above we need to hope and yearn and ask only for that, meaning, all of our attempts to connect with one another, to feel the friend, all of that will bring us nowhere. Only one thing, when all of us become vacant completely, and then from our last remaining drops of strength we understand that we have to ask the Creator and He will save us. So let us attain such a state, let us have such a moment, let's dedicate a moment to that common silence and common intention where only the common prayer of each one for everyone, not for himself, each one for everyone. Only that prayer can correct us and quickly, now in the blink of an eye we can attain a state where we resemble the Creator, if each one asks for the others and all of us together are aimed in this way. Let’s go, one silent moment.......

Excerpt 7. Rabash, Article 6 (1986) “Confidence” Reader (02:25:44 - 02:26:57)

Those who want to enter the path of truth, to achieve Dvekut, must accustom themselves to make every thought, word, and action have the aim to bring contentment to the Creator through the Mitzvot that they do and the Torah in which they engage. They must not consider what they can receive from the Creator for wanting to please Him. That is, they must not think, “What will the Creator give me?” Meaning that they can extract from the Creator’s authority into their own. This would cause them to create two authorities: an authority of the Creator and an authority of the creatures, which is the opposite of Dvekut.

59. R. (02:26:58) A person who is ready to reach adhesion, he's nice to himself, how do I become partners with the Creator, how do I perform all of my actions in such a way that they will support that goal, that process towards all of humanity, towards each and everyone and everyone together that’s what the Creator wCongress Lesson 1: Uniting Above Reason December 11, 2020 Transcription is made from simultaneous translation which leaves possibility for errors

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