Morning Congress Lesson 1 June 4, 2021 Transcription
1. Rav’s Introduction:
I am very happy we have come to the Congress from 10 to 1. Certainly this is what’s left for us to do to rise to this first degree, this spiritual degree. All the spiritual degrees are from, when we reach from 10 to 1 and then from the higher degree again, we come from 10 to 1. This is the ascent from 1 degree to another. We spoke a lot and we are speaking about, how everything is only attained in the connection between people. That is truly the correction, the correct correction of our vessel of Adam HaRishon, the soul that the Creator has created has shattered and has given us a chance to bring it to correction, to be as one or to become 10 to become 1 or from many 10’s to become 1 Ten. Then we come to the concept of 1 whole and let's hope we will be able to advance to such a state, such a high state that we will begin to feel in the connection between us, such unity called 1 and in it, accordingly we will feel the Creator as the one force that establishes and arranges all the foundations for the vessel. We will make the same qualities in the vessel as the Creator, as his filling. I truly hope we will come to it. According to what I am hearing from the groups, the preparations and the reactions for a study, we are very close to it. We have no other goal, only to reach that because we can see how the whole world needs it, if not today then tomorrow. We need to demonstrate to the world the path, show them the path and that we are the pioneers of the process of correction. Let's take another step towards it and I hope that this step will be the practical step, where the Creator will begin to be revealed in the connection between us according to the equivalence of form. Just like he is bestowing so are we in our mutual relationships between us and will come to such all-inclusive bestowal that the Creator will be revealed according to the law of the equivalence of form. Let's begin and we'll see according to the excerpts our friends have prepared for us.
Excerpt 1 (03:36 - 04:40)
1. R. Meaning there is no step to take towards spirituality, or approach spirituality or even enter spirituality or that we are in spirituality and we go higher and higher from degree to degree and nevertheless the way forward is to be in the ever-growing connection between us. That is what's happening, we are taking such steps from the side of the vessels and accordingly we attain the upper light that can reveal itself more in our vessels. The upper light is in constant rest, absolute rest and it's everywhere but it's not felt and this is called the Divinity in Exile. The Creator is in exile, He is concealed and to the extent, that will be able to connect between us, accordingly, we will begin to see that He is the one hiding and will begin to reveal himself to us from the concealment more and more. From the degrees of Nefesh, Ruach, Neshama, Haya, Yechida according to the level of our connection everything above the will to receive this repulsion from one another. But slowly we will form the connection above the degrees of Shoresh Aleph Bet Gimel Dalet, the root 0 1 2 3 4 .The Creator will appear in us according to the degrees of the Light Nefesh, Ruach, Neshama Haya and Yechida and this is the entire process we have to go through and there are many details in it because these parts connect between themselves and they influence one another but in general their foundation is the connection and in this connection. We don’t need to know exactly how they connect and in what way they are able to incorporate one another because in life it happens naturally. I don't need to worry about it so much, I just need to want it to happen. And then all those opposite pieces will come closer to one another. They will connect the right way so that the upper lights that connect them called the reforming light will also correct them and fill them. This is how we need to see our process here, only our desire for connection and it starts everything and ends everything. That's why He says, one who truly wants to serve the creator must include himself as all in creation and connect himself to all the souls creation and include himself with them and they with him. That is you should only leave for yourself only what is needed to be connected with Shechina/ Divinity meaning that's all is required to bring those parts, those broken parts together, the ones that are broken from Adam HaRishon. And this requires closeness in many people meaning, the more people participate in this process of connection the better it is. Because each one has his own scrutinies and the more people who serve the Creator, the more light of Divinity appears to them and for this reason one must include himself with all the people and with all creations and raise everything to their route for the correction of divinity. That is our work.
Meaning all-in-all maximum connection that I can uphold each moment in my perception and where I am, this is my correct path towards the end of correction.
Excerpt 2 (09:47 - 10:55) Twice
2. R. This is how Baal HaSulam describes our entire work in one simple line, “You lack nothing” but don’t be confused by other deficiencies, other goals in life, you lack nothing but to go out to a field and collect all these flaccid organs that have drooped from your soul in the shattering of Adam HaRishon and join them again into a single body and in that complete body, in that complete vessel you put together, you will feel the revelation of the Creator, according to the level of connection, the number of pieces, the quality of pieces as much as they resist the connection but nevertheless you bring them to connection, you unite them together and accordingly you will discover more and more of the Creator, that's how we need to see ourselves. We must connect ourselves and bring ourselves closer and truly glue ourselves in the internality of our desires and our yearnings with one another to such an extent, that this upper force that was once dwelling among us, for it to be revealed again. Once meaning before the shattering, before the sin of the Tree of Knowledge. The Creator shattered it in order to give us the opportunity to collect these parts and to reveal Him gradually in these parts, step by step. In this way we come to the correction of creation and we have all the preparation for it, all the Reshimot (records), the lights that awaken us, the Creator, how to arrange the teachers our groups, giving us a method, how can we connect between us and in then this way we need to connect. Let us try to be connected because it's all before us, only that is left. Everything depends only on the level of connection between us the more and more from corporeality to spirituality. This is where the obstacle exists. We need to try and feel ourselves existing in one desire, in one thought. It stems from our yearning to the one force, to the one state, to the one Creator and from him we begin to receive the reforming light and this light connects us. It makes a single body out of us and that's how we will feel our desires, our thoughts as truly connected and coming to one vessel. It all comes from our yearning and our longing for the Creator and for the Creator to make this connection and by ourselves we can’t make a single movement forward.
Excerpt 3 (15:10 - 16:34) Twice
3. R. Other than one person we have a problem here with perception of reality we grasp it egotistically, individually, personally. The reality that appears to us is opposite from the truth. Therefore it seems to us that there is a world with many people in it. That we are in contact with them and they are like us and so on and so forth. We cannot imagine that there is only me let's say, and before me all of the Shechina [Divinity] and there is nothing more. It is called Israel, Orayta, which is the upper light that connects us to the Shechina, and the Kedusha Berich Hou that is the general light we have to attain. So it turns out that a person by himself is called the created being and everyone else compared to him belong to Shechina, that is how the Creator is revealed before him, relative to him and that's why each one must relate to his friend as to the Creator and to try and connect them together all of the friends. So in fact by that he restores the Creator who broke Himself into pieces so that man will try to collect Him and eventually will reach a state where he discovers his creator as one single force. That's why he says it is a great rule that a person himself is called a created being meaning only he himself is called the created being and outside of him it is considered the holy Shechina, the revelation of the Creator meaning it follows that when he prays for his contemporaries it is considered that he is praying for the holy Shechina except he can't see it he can't discover it. He was given a chance to see and to reveal the Creator and to see the world still vegetative, animate and speaking where if he connects with them and intends for their good, by that he connects the Creator and that's why we are find ourselves today in such resistance, such collision, such contradiction and opposition with nature and ecology and so on and so forth because all of it, relative to us, is the presence of the Creator that we reject and we don't want it and especially reject Him, we don't want humanity itself and only if we change our attitude to the still ,vegetative, animate, and speaking and we begin to feel that other than myself everything else is corrected. I need only to awaken my love towards all of the parts of creation in such a way I connect with all the created beings and I am rewarded with seeing that other than me everything is the holy Shechina and then it turns out that when he prays for his contemporaries this means that he is praying for the holy Shechina meaning the presence of the Creator who is in Exile and that's how it seems to him because he is broken and he needs all the salvation and this is the meaning of eternity specifically and precisely in this manner the light of mercy can be revealed. The Creator can be revealed in a person according to his inclination, his desire to be incorporated with all of creation in order to bestow so that threw him all of the good fulfillment will flow to all the degrees of Creation the still, vegetative, animate and speaking and this man will feel that he is only destined to be the pipeline for all of created beings.
Excerpt 4 (22:16 - 23:24) Twice
4. R. Meaning the Creator has created us intentionally in this way and broke the vessel so that we will have an opportunity through these efforts through these exercises, when we come to connect with those we reject and we hate and we feel that they don't belong to us. Specifically by acquiring such relationships above our egos, above our desires from the other side, that everything we are rejecting now in our will to receive we will specifically draw in and we will want to connect with in our desire to bestow. In this way we will build opposite vessels compared to what we have right now and in these opposite vessels we will feel an opposite, upside down world, a spiritual world. We have no possibility of reaching this feeling or this understanding except through the connection with the other that I come to the other that I hate, that I reject, that I don't want and if I go and try to come closer to him the Creator arranges for me this vessel and saying take it, he places my hand on the good fortune and says shows me what it means to be in mutual guarantee. It turns out that through this study I come closer to people who will appear to me as foreign, strangers, different but as much as we approach spirituality we will feel ourselves even more distant from one another. Each one inflates his ego and disturbs the rest so that everyone else can approach it. That's what it looks like to me, so it turns out that from these feelings, we specifically overcome them and we come to a connection and that's how we will learn about how to reach corrections, where all the corrections take place specifically because we feel hatred, repulsion, distancing and we are looking for ways to overcome this distancing. This is how we learn about the system of Kedusha and Klipa and how do we come to it.
5. S. (27:00) You said that the Creator is in us and we feel it in our sensations and that the Divinity is outside of us, so what presents the Divinity?
R. The Divinity represents our vessel, our corrected desires connect to one another and arrange this field, this is called ‘The field that the Creator has blessed and in this field the Creator begins to be revealed, the force of this field. That's what we need to do from the 10 and later, from all the broken vessels to bring them into the system of Adam HaRishon.
S. To what extent during the Congress should we be thinking beyond one's skin?
R. All of the time, we need to move it towards corrections and it is all drawn towards corrections and taking care of this general vessel and in such a way, wants this correction to happen. That's why we have friends all over the planet and they're connected to one another and we certainly have a great success in our organization and I truly hope that we are at the gates of victory.
7. S. (29:27) What's the difference between connecting with all the friends and loving the friends?
R. In each connection there are many degrees. Everything that we have from here until the end of correction are the degrees of connection. All the degrees of connection exist on top of the degrees of rejection. The will to receive that reveals more and more. We have to overcome it and make it and see it as separate and turn it into the correct form of connection. That's why all those degrees, we refer to them as lights it is NRNHY and if you refer to them as vessels it's KHBZON otherwise it doesn't matter, there is 5 degrees in each vessel and another 5 and another 5 and all in all 5 * 5 * 5 = 125 degrees from here until the end of correction and let's hope that we will be able to get through them quickly in our time.
8. S. (30:56) You said that in this effort we have to constantly be in this effort and advance our mutual groups and world group towards the Creator so how should our 10 gather our inner effort right now in the Congress. How through our unity can we help everybody advance?
R. We are a part of our general vessel and that's why even though I am thinking of how, I can more and more connect to 10 and the rest of the tens. It might be more difficult for me to imagine that and I don't have such connection with them, although we are constantly studying together in the gathering of friends. We will have after the lesson, such connection and before the lesson you have such connection. But we need to think about everyone together because we have such a huge intensity where of course, the main connection is in the 10, that's without a doubt. The 10 itself cannot exist unless there are many other 10's around it to give it examples and to pressure it, and to this way each will help his friend and similarly each 10 shall help its fellow 10. There is a great big surrounding light that is surrounding all of our 10's, all of the vessels of Bnei Baruch together. We also have a women's part and this also is a portion of supporters and fans that are not organized yet. I hope they'll also connect into 10's and join us truly, daily. Tomorrow for our study and for our organization, we don't have any other goal but to connect the tens so that in each 10 there will be a strong desire for connection. So that in it the Creator will begin to be revealed, so the inclination for connection will awaken the Creator to help us. That's really our work to awaken the Creator to help us in each and every ten and also between the 10s. Even as we learn, he who prays for his friend is rewarded or is answered first and asks the Creator to help the friend. It turns out that I am receiving first help from the Creator and through me that help goes to the friend. Because I become the upper one relative to the friend and the mediator, when I raise MAN to the Creator for the friend and then through me MAD is coming down through me from the Creator to the friend, and the same goes for the groups. The more we care about all the groups to that extent we receive help first and then we pass it on to others and this way everyone advances. Except here there has to be a thought that I am not doing it in order to advance but only because I truly want to see the others succeed and that each shall help his friend, that's how it works.
Excerpt 5 (35:24) twice
9. R. (37:16) That's what we need to understand that spirituality exists outside of the will to receive and therefore the more I work with the other and with the friends and even with the other 10's, though it might seem simple, it needs to happen gradually but truly, I get to meet with the upper force, there I begin to see my soul. The holy Divinity when the Holy Divinity is standing after a person's skin, meaning outside of all of his desires that are aimed for the benefit of the person towards a person, so if a person takes all of his desires and tries to aim them as much as possible outside of him, outside of his egoistic self then accordingly he is raising the Divinity to a place for the revelation of the Creator.
10. S. (38:52) How can I practically help my friends outside of me even more than what I am doing now?
R. Try to awaken them, you see they're all asleep. When I look at you, I see everyone that you are half asleep. On the one hand it is good, meaning that's how we need to overcome it. On the other hand we shouldn't agree with it and we need to truly try and be full of impressions in this incorporation of uplifted spirits in mutual influence of one another. Something good, something beautiful that is happening. That is expected for us, that is the problem.
11. R. WSQ. (43:32) What does it mean that the Divinity is standing after a person's skin, because it says so in excerpt 5 the Holy Divinity stands after one's skin that's all it says but what does it mean that the Shechina, Divinity stands after one's skin?
12. R. (42:25) Meaning the Divinity that is behind someone's skin, behind the will to receive where the will to receive ends and we can connect between us in the will to bestow. So the will to bestow, that we can build be on the will to receive, be on the body that's where the upper world is, the spiritual world, that's where the eternal spiritual life is, that's what we have to reach to come out of the will to receive and build or perform the will to bestow.
Excerpt 6 (48:19) Twice
13. S. (51:15) Equivalence of form in the system of bestowal, can we come to the same degree of Ein Sof as the beginning of creation?
R. 620 times more it's way greater, then the Creator was revealed for the system of the first Adam HaRishon, NRNHY of NRNHY of NRNHY, I don’t even know how to say it. It is from a tiny pebble to a whole universe that everything is still, vegetative, animate and everything. I can't even depict how huge it is. When the Creator reveals and grows inside of all of creation as a result of the correction, we can't even imagine to ourselves all and all, on one hand, say that the Creator doesn't have a deficiency but on the other hand, his desire to do good to his created beings, to be revealed, that they will know Him. That this is what we're saying we can't really understand from our senses, from our thoughts, from our egoistic desires.
14. S. (53:25) How can we tell what we know about what the Creator thinks? It's just like an allegory the Creator doesn't think about himself, how do we know such things?
R. For now we can't speak about the Creator because we don't really feel Him or attain Him but the Kabbalists who attained Him, they write to us about it. Just like a little child you were shown how to do something, and you revealed to him and by that you showed him how the world is. Just like the Creator does with us, he brings us to the group and he tells us to take this for yourself. You organize it and he says, try and engage between you, it gradually takes a long time but eventually you will reach a state from the disappointments and from your attempts, you start to feel that in these games there is something new. Like children who discover a new world even more and more and they start turning new things around them. That this is how we, through the 10, if we keep playing with the 10, we will attain the spiritual world through that. This is how it works. Everything is only, “From by your deeds we will know you”, through acting. Acting doesn't mean something cheap and easy, but through engaging through something, I start to understand the inner force that it is in and eventually it is the Creator that is in each and every detail of the creation.
15. S. (55:55) Following the excerpt, if we work without doubts how can we predict, criticize ourselves and make some progress?
R. Here meaning, when you reach a state that you don't have any doubts that you're already corrected.
16. S. (56:50) If the Creator doesn't have any doubts of whether or not he bestows to the created being, we have no doubt that we want to advance in the work, do we do enough for the friends or not, I can advance, is it true or not, I have to cancel myself?
R. Of course it is true without doubts we cannot advance, it is from left to right, left and right so that's why we advance from doubts through scrutiny, the Creator shattered the vessel from the beginning, we have to collect it and put it together like a Lego block that we build and so in the completion He created it and shattered it so we can engage in it and learn how it works and build it step by step gradually. By engaging in it, we can understand, yes, no, maybe, all we want to do is actually to connect the blocks. Let's say, we are building, building like a child, now we want to do this and that and it doesn't work and this is our engagement, this is our business. That's why it takes so many to connect and then again connect and everything falls, but gradually, slowly there is no wiser than the experienced. That we constantly feel that we acquire the mind of the Creator from our failures and in this way we reach states that we already start to see that I try this and I tried that and feel it again in a very mechanical way. Subconsciously, we already feel that our body doesn't want to do this, or that and it remembers that he tried it and failed. In this way the connection between us is all of reality for generation to generation for thousands of years. Same thing with spirituality, it's exactly the same thing and that's why we have a very clear work here, as much as possible to try and build between us all kinds of connection without reaching despair because from a little bit it accumulates into a big sum.
S. What are we not working on, what should we annul?
R. We need to work on connection and on the ego, we need to annul ourselves and the more we work in connection, we realize that it's not successful but eventually from all of our efforts that we make we get some kind of a positive profit. In this we succeed maybe less in the other thing, with a little bit less and that's how we advance and that's why some of our efforts, like in YH or in connection between us it's very important, very important.
17. S. (01:01:11) Why does it make us happy that we have ‘thoughts after our skin?’
R. Why does it make you happy? I don't know if it makes me happy because if it's really outside of my ego then I guess it's really the spiritual world. I guess it's very spiritual and the truth and the Creator because everything is outside of me, everything in me is ego, my dirty thoughts.
18. S. (01:01:59) The Creator gives without thinking about himself. How can we imitate him and also give without thinking about ourselves?
R. I would not think about myself. It does not mean that you don't think, you cannot think, you can only give importance to your thoughts, if my thoughts about society will be more important for me than thoughts about myself, more than thoughts of myself. More than that I need, only to be in the society and afterwards from society I will reach the importance of the Creator, that's why they say Israel, the Creator and the Torah are one. That's why I always need to raise the importance to these three degrees. Afterwards in the Partzuf there will be Ibur Yenicka Mochin, the desire to receive, the will to bestow in order to bestow and the will to bestow, it all depends on the importance.
19. S. (01:03:46) Sometimes we say that the friends, ‘like flaccid organs that drip from our soul’. Now we say that they are Divinity. Can we say that they are the same?
R. Yes, yes
20. S. (01:04:24) You said that the ego is (vanities) outside the will to receive, meaning in our 10 if I know my ego for the intention of working for the friend I serve and build divinity.
R. Correct that is how we build Divinity.
21. S. (01:04:49) How do we know our actions are truly to benefit others and not to harm them?
R. We can measure it and check it within the group, inside the group.
22. S. (01:05:20) You said that we need to awaken ourselves, by awakening ourselves is to want, always to want something, what do I need to want, is it correct?
R. You are asking how to advance your friends and not yourself, it's something you need to work on. Don't ask me as the Creator to have such a desire, that's all, it's not a question to us, it's a prayer to the Creator.
23. S. (01:06:13) What are the doubts that we need to be concerned with as in the excerpt?
R. Everything that doesn't aim towards the friends in the Creator. For now, that is what we need to think about. We need to be more concerned about what we need to think about in our 10 and if you think about what we don't need, that will give us stability and establish us correctly the way we need to work.
24. S. (01:07:13) The love of friends as the person attain how the Creator love the friends so this opportunity to be in equivalence of form with the Creator. He attains the Creator’s loves of him?
R. No, the Creator doesn't love man. He loves the corrected man and if the man is not corrected then the Creator doesn't love him or hate him. Like they say, the Creator hates the bodies in the work, we can't expect the Creator to love us but all of his work towards us is to bring us to a state where we can love one another. Humans to the Creator and the Creator to the humans but for now we're not there.
Excerpt 7 (01:08:25)
25. S. (01:09:46) You said that the Creator hates the bodies, so can we come to the love if we are seemingly hated by the Creator?
R. The Creator hates the bodies meaning in the will to receive, he hates your will to receive that's what it means but if the will to receive equips himself with the will to bestow, according to that the love develops. The Creator towards the will to receive in order to bestow and that's what it's called. The Creator hates the bodies in the work because he hates the will to receive, because it's uncorrected but when the will to receive is corrected it's called a soul. That's what it's called a soul within a body, when the body becomes a soul that means the upper light can be revealed in there and then the Creator which will be revealed as the light of Bina, which is the soul when they are revealed and then the Creator loves them and then you get close to him, you get resemblance to him and that is what they call love. It is all according to the equivalence of form between the created beings and the Creator.
26. S. (01:11:44) At this moment thousands of friends are listening to the same lesson, to the same thought, the same intention, meaning we are in the same degree as the body of Adam HaRishon, a certain level of equivalence with the Creator right now?
R. Yes, correct. In the tiny little measure but we are already starting to resemble the Creator, we're not completely opposite because we want to be closer to Him.
27. S. (1:12:37) Is the hatred between man the same as the hatred between the Creator for the bodies?
R. Well let's say so.
Excerpt
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28. R. (1:14:44) We need to understand that if we really want to work with our will to receive and bring it to identification with the Creator, it doesn't matter to us how we depict things. But things that we hate that are in order to receive and the things that we love are in order to bestow. That's the way we need to see all of reality. Meaning not to see it in all sorts of colures, voices, sounds, whether pleasant or not pleasant, according to all sorts of discernments, it doesn't matter. What matters is that (on one hand you have) bestowing and on the other you have received. Bestowing: I love it, it draws me, and this is reception so it rejects me and I hate it. Only in such a way can I go from the masach of this world to the masach, screen, of the upper world and I can start seeing things in a true, correct way.
29. S. (1:14:58) It is written in the previous excerpt regarding several people in the collective, the Creator knows who will bring more benefit to the Creator. What does it mean that the Creator knows He will get more benefit from them?
R. The further it is from man's will to receive and closer to the will to bestow, from that there will be more contentment to the Creator, that's how it is.
Excerpt 9 (1:15:44 - 1:16:48) Twice
30. S (1:16:57) There was an expectation to reach a big prayer, how to realize it?
R. First of all, I can't hear you. Where's your microphone?
31. S. (1:17:25) In the state ‘outside my skin,’ beyond my skin, do I begin to attain the laws of the system? Begin to work with it to control my destiny, what happens to me in the world?
R. If you are ‘beyond your skin’ meaning beyond your will to receive so you start feeling the world in an opposite way. This is what they called ‘I have seen an opposite world,’ in the form of bestowal. Because now you see the entire world in the light of reception, in your sense of receiving. And if you come out of your skin, your body, it’s called that you start seeing reality in the will to bestow. Then you see it differently. You, supposedly, changed your perception of reality that was accepted in your will to receive and now it's accepted in the will to bestow. Now you have a new approach, a new picture of the world of the whole of reality.
S. Is it for me?
R. It is only for you, just for you. But now with your new perception, you can work in the 10 as a bestowing force and in such a way you can really help them advance.
32. S. (1:19:20) The feeling of the Creator in the friends that we are looking for, on what level are we looking for Him. I have this feeling but I'm not sure where to look for this feeling of the Creator in me?
R. The Creator is the force of bestowal. I try to locate it between the friends. The mutual force of bestowal between us, sometimes I feel that it exists, it's actually the Creator revealing Himself to us in such a way that we will start knowing Him. Especially if we try between us to discover the mutual force of bestowal. Then it turns out that in these forces, mutual forces of bestowal that we try to discover, it turns out that is how we discover, this is how we built Him, as it says, ‘You have made Me.’ That's how we build the Creator.
33. S. (1:11:21) What is the state of a flaw in spiritual work?
R. In order to receive. That I have some kind of desire in order to receive, that means that I have ‘flaws’ compared to corrected desires in order to bestow.
34. S. (1:21:42) If I acquire additional vessels, additional parts that drooped from my soul, does it not mean that my will to receive simply grew? When does it actually become corrected? Aren’t these two different actions? Baal HaSulam says that we have to attach all the parts of our soul that drooped from our soul. Does it not mean that I simply grow my will to receive? Does it mean that I actually correct the will to receive in order to bestow? Isn't it two actions that we have to do?
R. It's not really two different actions because you can’t add new desires from the friends if you don't come closer to them by the connection. So how can you do it? What, just the will to receive grows? The will to receive grows from above by the Creator revealing the will to receive to us and this is an egoistic will to receive.
S. In order for me to add those parts, what are the proceeding actions?
R. I don't understand what you are asking.
S. Baal HaSulam says that all that’s left for us is to go out into the field and collect those parts?
R. To connect the desires of the friends towards me, that’s what he’s saying. Come out and start connecting the friends’ desires to you then you’ll start seeing how in these desires that you are connecting to you how I'm revealing myself towards you.
S. And to connect these desires, you need to have a tendency of bestowal towards the friends
R. Of course, how else could you connect to them?
S. So the correction in order for me to turn the will to receive in order to bestow. Is this connection with the friends, with desires, or is it an action of correction on this desire? How can I do that without correcting it?
R. No, this is in practice what you do. You can't theoretically start correcting your desires. You are correcting them in practice only when you're connecting to the others, when you feel the others. Whether you are rejecting or hating them, you discover your natural will to receive. You ask for corrections upon it, you do all kinds of external, corporeal actions upon it until you start connecting with his desire. And then in such a way, you have your desire and the friend's desire. And in the friend's desire that you connected to yourself, you start revealing the upper force. That's what is called 'Shechina beyond your skin'. That your will to receive, even though you cancelled it and connected it to the others, it still remains yours. But the part that you’ve connected to yourself from the friends, in that same way, you discover the Creator.
Except 10 (1:25:29 - 1:26:54)
35. S. (1:26:58) From the previous excerpt, it says ‘We will be as one man with one heart’? Is this the same as one feels that one soul exists in the whole of Israel? ‘One man in one heart is the same as ‘a soul exists in the whole of Israel’?
R. Correct, I have nothing more to add, correct. We reach a state that the entire integral vessel and the individual vessel become as one. The individual and the collective are equal, that’s what we reach.
36. S. (1:27:39) Is it realistic to be able to sanctify all our actions for the sake of Heaven and for the other when we have such an ego inside that thinks only of itself?
R. Specifically, in order to overcome ego, we have to think of what is outside the ego otherwise we will always remain in our ego and our world will seem the way it is now, only suffering, torments and death. That's why as much as we will be concerned about the opposite world, connection, love, light that fills everything, the Creator that is revealed to us in such a way that we will come close to it. And we are getting close.
37. S. (1:28:54) Since we need to make the will of the Creator, ours, what is the will of the Creator?
R. The Creator's desire is that we will acquire His quality of bestowing and we will behave as if He is, here, between us. That we want to be in His quality to receive His nature to bestow. And in such a way, we and Him can connect together and we don’t separate to such an extent that we don’t feel each other, feel the difference between one another.
38. R. (1:29:53) Well, 5 more seconds and our lesson ends. I am going to be really on time in all these things. Our congress is called Connecting to the 10. So let's not forget about this topic -- connecting to a 10. Let's constantly think about it. Now you're going to a workshop.
39. S. (1:30:49) We thought before the end of the lesson, it might be a good idea to hold a common prayer for a few minutes, a common prayer of our large world group and afterwards we will conclude the lesson. We have 4500 friends in this lesson. It's a huge force and an opportunity to turn with a request to the Creator. So let’s feel that each 10 is ‘one man’ and let’s feel our entire world group as one 10 and from this state, let’s ask the Creator to bring us closer to Him.
Prayer: Let's ask the Creator to bring us closer to Him.