Morning Lesson February 03, 2021 Transcription is made from simultaneous translation which leaves possibility for differences from audio
Convention "World Kabbalah L'Am" - "Discovering Life in the Ten"
1. Rav’s Introduction: The greatness of the Creator in the 10. Well, first of all, in general who is He, where is He, how do we discover him to discover the Creator or his greatness, what is it specifically in the 10, why is it important for us? Why by this, we say that we attain the purpose of creation, the purpose of life, the purpose of our existence? Why does this goal necessitate us to perform so many actions, it's an obligation for us and for everyone? These are questions, these are questions that we discover almost each and every day, even several times a day, these are questions that we stumble upon that we can't feel the need for the Creator, the need for the greatness of the Creator. We have no natural inclination for it and why did the Creator do it for us in such a way that we want Him, everything else may be but he himself, no. Even more than that, the greatness of the Creator, necessity that contact with him we can achieve it only through the connection between us and the connection between is entirely not natural, it's not like we are born and immediately some inclination opens up in us to be in connection. We see the more the world advances it becomes more and more hostile each and everyone becomes more outstanding and distant from the others. So how can it be, by this we actually advance towards the Creator, it is as if our whole human development is going in the opposite way than our purpose. If we go out to the street and speak about connection, about unity, about love, it will awaken laughter, unless there is no choice people will understand it will be better for them this way but this goal is not realistic.
Everybody understands we cannot attain it so there is something here and its opposite as if on one hand, even though we don't want to be in connection, but we understand that if we will be in connection apparently it will be good. The other thing is this connection, we have no chance to reach it. So, we have before us work on the vessel, on the 10 that is truly a struggle, a fight for our connection in the ten. Along with that about the goal, if the goal would be important in attaining unity, meaning the vessel for it that would be the problem then we would be fighting for that vessel. If the vessel was important for us, for something, for some goal, we would be fighting for the goal, but both of these and that, these two things are hidden from us in terms of their importance, in terms of how we need them. How can it be that the goal and the means for it are so important that they elevate us to the Eternal and complete degree? So how is it hidden from our field of vision and importance? This is why we need those people, which is the 10, which is they attain the goal which is the Creator as revealed in the 10, adhesion with him. We need to listen to their advice out of lack of choice on the one hand, we have pressures, problems, troubles, the world is revealing this to us more and more each time. On the other hand, both the means which is connection and the goal which is attaining the only force, the one unique and unified force, the one holding us, it is all behind the concealment of the vessel. The vessel is concealed and the light is concealed and all of this we can attain if we nevertheless reach 10 each vessel that the Creator has created, this is why it says that the Creator brings the person to the good fate and tells him, take that. He puts man's hand on the good fate and if that person holds on to it even though he doesn't want it, even though he doesn't understand the importance of it, but we reach this means out of lack of choice. There's no choice because everything is dark and there's nothing and here, I have some end of a thread, the understanding that I find a sense of life, the purpose of life, the reason to exist, to keep on going with life otherwise there isn't. It's not only us, all of humanity is also coming closer to this everyone even though humanity is not aware of it.
This is why all of our work is nevertheless to respect, to appreciate that gift, that action that the Creator performs with us, that he arranged for us a group, arranged for us a means by which to reach him. This means even though we don't really want it, we're not naturally drawn to it and if it's not natural from where will I take the forces? Out of the fact that we get a method, council from above, from Heaven through Kabbalists who tell us about it and we can above our reason, we can perform it, meaning perform all kinds of actions against our desire, against our mind of coming closer to one another in order to obtain the force of correction. This force of connection is hidden, just like our universe, once it came a single point of exploding and that point expanded and it started to spread in all directions. We seemingly now want to hold on to that point of connection that existed. This is how we gradually reach the understanding of what is happening here in this system and in truth, when we truly reach the feeling and understanding of where we are and how do we reach the importance of the vessel and importance of the light, of the Creator in it and we discover an upside down world. It's not what we expected, it's not what we were thinking, something that is the opposite of opposite, it's double concealment as we call it concealment within concealment.
To attain this we can only if we actualize each and every day from the state that we discover every day an inclination towards connection, above our mind above our emotions, above our logic. The more we advance it will be so more and more. because the upper force is revealing to us the plan of creation how much we are more broken to a greater depth of the Kli, how we are more distant, how are we are hated as it says that the students of Rabbi Akiva, how it says we are advancing, We discover that shattering in a more essential way and along with that we need above that each and every day, again and again, to start the work of connection however in a degree, on a level with a different higher essence. We need to be aware of it, not like children who are operating only according to their desire, their mood, the wise has eyes in his head. We have a very special goal ahead of us to discover the source of creation from where the big bang was done and the whole of creation spread in all directions. How this is spreading specifically through our own force when we unite all the parts of creation that are expanding, distancing from each other when we unite them back more and more into its source, in this way we discover its source. This is why the most important thing in our Congress is us coming together all of us to a single goal to discover the Creator. In order to discover the Creator first of all we have to establish for ourselves the greatness of the Creator and the greatness of the Creator, we cannot do it any one of us because each one is just a small spark, a small broken vessel.
Therefore only by us advancing towards each other forcefully against our desire, we will learn the importance of our goal, the importance of our situation, the importance of our work from one another even though each and every one according to his nature disregards the other. This is how we start to learn how we can reassemble creation from opposite forces upon the hatred from all the crimes we discover connection and love and these two need to be in both of our hands and we're not letting go of it, as it says the Lord has created one opposite the other. This is how we dance therefore if we get up in the morning and we wake up in the middle of the day towards the purpose of life, we immediately need to hold on to the right and in the middle we already have to compose from the two of them our goal that we are discovering the upper, the upper force is being revealed to us because love covers all crimes. This is why the greatness of the Creator should I see as the topic of our lesson, lesson number two in the Congress, it comes from the fact that it is from the opposite, for there is no Creator, there is no greatness of the Creator. Who is talking about it even, I can hear about it from the friends but I don't feel the greatness of the friends and in general everything is 0 if I bring everything down to zero, then I only have this world which exists in my beastly senses so I remain as animate. The level of the speaking begins when I hold within these two edges, negation of the Creator, negation of the greatness of the Creator and negation of the greatness of the friends, negation, negation, negation. It's not important to me and I discover it is according to my nature, this is the left line for the meantime let's say and against it I develop the right.
Yes, it's the greatness of the Creator, yes, the greatness of the friends is the means for which I discover the greatness of the Creator for the goal. This is how I can rise from this world to the upper world, otherwise I will remain on the level of the beast and then I will finish my life just like everyone else. I have to raise to a state which our life, as a means, a special means with which to discover the whole of creation, it's force and this is what we have to yearn for. This is, even though we don't want it but each time we discover that we don't want connection, but specifically from within the connection it is revealed. We have to like the whole entire universe, we have to converge it connect it back together into that place from which it exploded and started to expand in all directions after the big bang. This is how we need to assemble ourselves for the meantime in our 10 and there will be from everywhere in the world. There are not be any country or state anywhere in the world where we won't have friends that from their place, from their desire they would start to move in the direction of their connection and then between us we will connect more and more until we will connect all of us into a single ten and this will be considered that we reach that point from which the Creator started the shattering.
Because he caused and performed and is revealing the shattering to us, we now together are in a very special state where after he revealed the shattering through many generations, over thousands of years and over the last few thousands of years to Kabbalists, to unique souls, unique people. Now he wants to reveal it to everyone and we must all move towards that central point from which the shattering began there we will discover the greatest deficiency, the greatest rejection between us, the force of shattering, the force of the explosion, in the greatest explosion. Along with that we will connect upon all of our force and the Creator will help us and we will build our vessel. Once again everything that was revealed between them with that big bang and all of that that we are collecting back into that original 10 Sefirot. This action is that we need to carry out in order to discover the greatness of the Creator in that same original 10 which we want to reach. This you might say, should be, may be the possible form for the lesson in the Congress. We're going to go over the topics now that our friends gave us. These excerpts we will discuss them, I'm willing to answer all the questions, everything this is the most relevant engagement for us, if we will engage in it in our mind and in our heart, if we want to actualize it. This main action that we need to do in order to correct the souls and bring them into a single soul. the individual soul is the 10, general collective soul is once we all connect together connect our souls together okay?
2. S. (19:59) What does it mean that we will advance to the point of the Big Bang?
R. We will discover each time a greater and greater shattering, distancing, misunderstanding, helplessness, no means by which to reach connection, what for, why? Each and every time, the person will find himself opposite in these questions however they become more essential, more just and just like with the 10 plagues in Egypt that the more we advance towards the Exodus from Egypt meaning from connection, we discover greater problems. More difficult problems and with our logic, with our mind, with their emotions, we are against it, we don't care about it. We don't even want it, it's not even our goal. We start very far to discover this whole process until again, we awaken and through the friends, through all of the tens by each shall help his friends again and again, we come back on track and we keep going. Because in nothing that we have in our world will we find any support for our path in no form, no shape. This is how it will be more and more, we will finally discover how much it's not that we are closer to the whole world or further away from it, who needs connection. We explain it in such a way like parents explain to children, that it's not good for them to fight, but look at what is happening in the meantime, look what is happening in America, what is happening in Russia, so that it will be revealed in China all of these great superpowers that they have to fight. Also, in Europe you find also in Europe, European Union the world will discover the opposite more and more separation, mutual hatred and we will beyond that, that even within our groups we will discover hatred towards each other, like in the group of Rabbi Shimon.
We will discover that negation and above it, we will have to discover the necessity for connection and here we have to assemble systems, systems that will be made of our friends that each and everyday part of the group will have to awaken it and demand from everyone connection unity, the importance of the goal even though we don't have any. It's just like a person that gets out of bed and he was completely disconnected from everything and he's aware of it, he doesn't erase it someone who hides his eyes like a child because he doesn’t want to see something. One who is advancing as it says, the wise one has eyes in his head. This is how we will advance, it's very important for us to go forward with two lines with the left and the right and only with the help of the left will we increase the right this is how we advance. This is why the greatness of the Creator in the 10 is in each and every one of us and also in all of it every one of us together in the ten. We have these two lines the left and the right and we hold on to the two of them and we want to connect them together such that we're not running away from the left to the right and the right to the left and from the right to the left. We run away through the fears that conquer us and we just want to hide but we also don't try to run to the right, where we just want to see the good and we don't care about the left. We don't want to see it but rather we hold onto these two reins just like with a horse that we have before us we hold on to it and with this is how we manage it so that it will go towards the goal. In the goal we are constantly, constantly supporting each other and connecting between them and them in between the two of them we build ourselves. Therefore, the greatness of the Creator in the 10 is in that ten tries each and every time to connect the right and the left into the middle line, it looks in a healthy mature way like a man truly who knows how to overcome all of these things. Overcoming the right also because the right pulls, we will all be nice, let's play nicely together. No, we specifically want both of them, we want to connect the two of them and in the connection between them, we will learn how each time nevertheless we can build the right upon the left but first of all we have to bring them closer and realize that one cannot work without the other.
Therefore the Creator is revealed as it says BoReh, come and see he does not exist but rather to the extent that we connect these two opposite lines, we just discover between then a third one that did not exist there is no Creator, there is some upper force that is awakening us and he will remain this way, hidden from us however what we discover is we discover BoReh, come and see, advance, come closer, come and see and then you will discover you will advance. You will discover according to your efforts exporting to your success in that ,this is why all of these systems we have to put them together in each and every 10, in each and every ten and also the systems we will learn out of our individual efforts in the 10, in our general 10, in our general vessel. Then we will rise like a man with overcoming, Gever, man from the word lHitgeber, overcoming the left and overcoming the right and establishing them together doesn't fall into despair and doesn't fall into unlimited, he just knows that he has to establish these things together. Out of that to compose and assemble his life so let's try that in such a way like men to get up and understand our weaknesses, to understand our abilities, our dependency on the upper force, our dependency on our teachers, Baal HaSulam and Rabash especially who give us the method, the pattern, the Torah as we call it. How more and more we can build a system between us that is called Neshama, a soul, the system of Adam HaRishon so that its livelihood is the Creator who will be revealed in it. You realize we can talk a lot about it but the truth today I came to the lesson, to the beginning to your preparation and I didn't even know what I was going to say, not a word but when I incorporated with you a little bit and I was listening a little bit mostly it was the spirit and I felt it maybe this is what I should say. We need to be more and more partners together and in this way we will succeed.
3. S. (29:08) Is the greatness of the Creator, does it gradually open up to us through integrating every day in the morning lesson? So, like you said we appreciate that beyond the prayer how to express the personal examples of the greatness of the morning lesson?
R. Yes, the morning lesson is all of us connecting together, it doesn't come from me, just realize that what we feel in the morning lesson this incorporation more and more emotional, intellectual. You are establishing all of it here, I'm doing my role but actually, myself I wouldn't be able to reach all of these states, it's only together and specifically your greatness and your exertion is what builds the lesson. What you feel, you feel the results of your efforts, from the hearts that want to connect from the shattering that is revealed each and every day from all of these things, you are doing all of it. So, the most important thing for us is to feel how much we can help each other, how much we depend on each other and from that comes our power. This is what the Creator's expecting from us, that force of shattering and force of connection that exists in him from him, it emerges this is the concept of him BoReh, come and see, this is what he wants each time that we will know how to connect more and more each time from the greater and greater darkness each day. We're not afraid of it, rather we can already hold each other, each will help his friend, if I will get up by myself and disconnect from others, I would simply not be able to get up. It's better to shut my eyes and not open them.
Because I have friends and I come to the lesson and sometimes we come to the lesson and we have nothing we're empty inside, we don't want anything and the heart as well as the brain we can't find anything there. When you're incorporated with the others from them you start to receive an awakening, because it is true you shouldn't be afraid, you shouldn't be ashamed of it. Specifically, this is called the essence of creation, the center of creation. When you have some connection with the friends and from that, you who were empty and even despair and feeling yourself truly as nothing, nothing inside of you but you incorporate with them and you start to recover, you start to wake up. It's like truly some resuscitation device and then you can get up. This is what we need to feel more and more our dependency on the 10, it is a dependency that brings us life, without it we should feel that there is no life, just the life as the beast which ends and that’s it.
We were given the life of the beast in order to establish that pipeline from each one to the center of his 10 and from all of the tens to the common center between all of the tens and into one 10. Until we reach connecting with the generations of the Kabbalists, that we will discover that they worked back in their time, everyone revolves into the center of Adam HaRishon. This is all up on us to do, this is called the greatness of the Creator in the 10 by this we discover once again we're rolling back the carpet that has opened up for us. This is how we reach the awareness of the Creator, the greatness of the Creator but it is through the connection, according to the connection between us and upon the degrees of the falls between us. This is something wonderful when we start to understand it, we start to become aware of how we depend on each other. Because that is really our only salvation if any one of us falls from that, he just flies away is beastly life and who knows if he will have hoped to once again to come back. So to strengthen connection to the 10 as much as possible, even if we fall one day to the next to greater coarseness, his connection, the ties that we had yesterday, they will help us. It won't help each one in how he was before and he fails, rather that he was connected with the others so that when he falls, he still has the Reshimot, the memories of his connection with the others in this memory revives him.
As we learn with the Partzuf, what remains in the Partzuf after it refines and that it has memories, has sparks, lights that derived at the time that he was refining these are connections on all levels that he had with others and they specifically now building in him an infrastructure for a new Partzuf for a new spiritual state and we will learn this in practice how it goes how it works on us. We will discover this, and we will realize it and it is all in order out of us how much the descents are import no less than the ascents as it says the advantage of light out of darkness if the darkness is great the light will be greater. In order to connect the darkness and the light we discover the greatness of the Creator who is composed of both of them as it says the maker of light and the Creator of darkness, that is the concept of the Creator, this is how we will advance.
4. S. (36:52) What does it mean to be happy when the left line is revealed in the 10?
R. Illumination from the 10 when we advance on both lines then you don't fall into the left you know but now you need to take a step forward with your left foot. This is why you are discovering certain problems along the way related to connection. It's like let's say you're fixing your car, you open up the hood, you open up some other parts there that you have in the engine and each time you reveal more but you know that you're going to discover all of these things you're going to open them up to correct them, in order to fix them. This is why each day we have to get up like this but there's no such thing to get up or you start something, you don't feel the shattering which is tying you to the center of the tree of knowledge, to the general shattering, it has to be revealed from there. This is why you discover which time each time you are discovering that point of shattering, in a more important way and then at that point you feel disconnection from the Creator, from anything you feel yourself like no idea where you or what will be, how do you get back to the connection, how you get back to the goal. It's not important where am I or who am I. This point that includes within it all kinds of questions as a result of the disconnection from the center of creation has to be revealed and the more a person rises on the ladder of degrees, in each and every degree, it is revealed in him in a more powerful manner.
On the other hand, in what way is it revealed and in what intensity is it revealed, to the extent that you prepare your connection with the 10, this is why one who is greater than his friend, his inclination is greater than him. You will discover this point in a more powerful way, that's why the students of Rabbi Shimon wanted to kill one another, to kill one another. Whereas small people who are just beginning the path, they don't have such oppositeness to one another, such hatred. Rather they don't feel the need for it or they get tired of it, all kinds of such moods. When do I discover strong hatred when on one hand I feel the dependency, the closeness of connection someone to someone and on the other hand I feel disconnection as negative for some reason. So, it's the opposite form something and it's opposite each and every time this is how we discover it and we rise.
5. S. (40:32) If the point in the heart is revealed to a person must he develop into such an attitude must he make it the most important thing in life?
R. Yes, exactly this is how it is.
6. S. (41:02) Can you elaborate on the idea of not falling into despair on one hand and on the other that cry of despair that needs to emerge from us for the Creator to help us?
R. The example of not falling into despair we can see that from Baal Shem Tov when he fell into despair, he didn't know anything he couldn't even read the text and this is a great Sage who read and study a lot. He was the greatest of his generation at the time of despair, the time of the fall, he didn't know how to read so much so that he had an assistant and this assistant then started to read and then he didn’t understand it, just repeated the same words that the assistant was saying and .... all the created beings were created, emanated beings were emanated, there was upper light filling up all of the reality. He repeated it even though he discovered the essence of all these words and now he couldn’t understand them, but by repeating it he gradually brought upon himself the reforming light and this is how gradually, we regain life.
7. S. (43:08) During the preparation of a lesson you said that you did not have the words to begin with and then you heard the words from the focus group and you said that you have to turn more and more into partners. So between you and the friends what does it mean to be partners in the advancement of the world vessel?
R. I don't know this but we learn this every day you'll get it from our study I can't say, do you want to connect with everyone in heart and soul as much as possible, any moment that it is possible. Then there will be even greater falls from the state that you attained but you already tied yourself that you'll be able to get it up get up and from that I'm saying is that it happens to me daily there is no day when I get up with an awakening, I jump out of bed to the work of the Lord. It happens sometimes only in order to give you the other form, the opposite form, A thousand times shall the righteous fall and get up, first of all fall and this time comes to us from above, if we prepare ourselves and therefore see these falls are as an invitation to advance to come closer to the Creator, he actually wants to pull you close. This is why he is giving you a feeling that you are far away and we immediately need to actualize it through connection.
8. S. (45:09) The Reshimot the connection with the ten that you talked about, do they stay with us even after the death of the physical body, what happens after we connect with the friends?
R. I don't understand you first of all why do you care so much about the physical body, the physical body counts for nothing it just gives you now some certain condition under which you can connect and you don't need it for anything more. Once you achieve the inner connection, you emerge to the realm of spiritual forces and then this body dies, rots and nothing remains of it. What do you need it for? What do you need it for, to mummify it like Pharaoh? There are no questions about that, what you obtained in your physical body, it all disappears, it all vanishes because there is no importance to it. Other than to the extent it helped you achieve spirituality and everything else belongs to the degree of the animate and not to the degree of man and so it has no way of existing on the degree.
9. S. (46:49) In our 10 we have been talking about and trying harder and harder to work with feeling and in doing that it seems we become more distant or recognize the distance between us because we feel more and more how different we are from one another but at the same time through the work we also discover how perfectly that we fit together. Is that the greatness of the Creator showing through in our work?
R. It is not the greatness of the Creator because there is still no Creator in your sensations, in your attainment. but this is proper Merkavah, proper assembly, a chariot with your advancement towards the Creator.
10. S. (48:00) If we are fully committed to the love of the friends in our 10 do we reach a level of Gadlut?
R. You all need to learn more and more, to mainly to discuss these things together because it's the influence of the environment on the man and you need to tell each other during the YH and various meetings, you all talk about how only through your impressions from the friends, talk about how this becomes part of your spiritual vessel. The person can read and learn and know by heart verses from the text and he can do many things, it doesn't matter exactly what, but what he actually needs is to be impressed by the friends, by their connection that is Incorporated in him, his spiritual vessel is built from that.
11. S. (49:34) This process which confuses us so much when we try to understand the greatness of the Creator, what does it mean that he places our hand on the good fate?
R. It's him who places are hand on the good fate, we don't know but this is how it happens, this is what is written and this is how, if we advance according to how the Kabbalists write to us, then we can see that indeed it is the Creator's hand that guides us individually and collectively so yes, then we discover it and that is what it is to discover the Creator.
12. S. (50:45) Can you focus on where is that point of the composition of the plus over the minus, where the Creator makes himself as the source?
R. In the middle between them, it's called he makes light and creates darkness. Darkness is the creation, it's a new vessel. After that the light comes upon these lacks that he discovers so that in both we need to see the action of the Creator upon us and the darkness is the more important one because it embodies the new degree, a new coarseness and the light that's according to our efforts, we reveal that. Meaning the darkness is revealed to us by the Creator on the previous degrees and the light we ourselves need to connect together by all the means we have at our disposal, to connect together and pull the light to us, it's called The Creator coming closer and shows us what we are.
Baal Shem Tov Reader (52:00 - 52:46)
13. R. Meaning the teacher tells the student, listen I don't know anything now, everything is gone from me. Maybe you remember something from what I taught you so you can see what you have in spirituality.
Continues (53:05 - 53:15)
13A. R. Because he was smaller than Baal Shem Tov also everything vanished from him as well except for the letters, the knowledge of the letters.
Continues (53:26 - 53:46)
13B. R. That's it, so even disconnections come to Kabbalists like the Baal Shem Tov so we have no one greater than the ARI from the ARI to our times have the Baal Shem Tov was and you can see what descents he had and it's right and natural and nobody's ashamed of it, nobody's afraid to tell about these things because that is the path these are the degrees that we have to cross.
Excerpt # 1 Reader (54:33 - 55:35)
14. R. Meaning to build such relations between us from minus and plus from darkness and light so it's like a web, a network of connection between us. So connection can only be made from different things, from opposite things we want the contrast to be in contact and then we assemble this web and in it we discover the force, the shape, the darkness and the light for us and he's above them which is the Creator and this is how we advance. So we have assembled here, that by the act of the upper force, of course we didn't want to be in connection, we didn't want the tens and these connections. Even now we're not so naturally inclined towards that as we are towards more egoistic aims. But we gather here as Baal HaSulam explained to us in these articles the giving of the Torah and The Arvut, he explains that this is how we attain the upper force. Only in that way we build the net of connection between us which is built and included of both the distance and the closeness, the darkness and the light and then from both of them, the darkness and the light we discovered the upper Force, the upper force which is the source of both.
15. S. (57:17) In this network when we had darkness and light in this excerpt that we read teacher and the student fell into some state and will we be ever worthy of going through all of these states together with you?
R. It will come, it is certainly distant from our condition and our state, it will come and we will feel these states through our closeness, when we advance together to a state where we participate together as equals and certainly we will come to feel that we are moving through light as well as darkness.That's not the problem, our problem right now it's a connection in which according to which the style of the intensity of the connection, we can discover the Creator.
Excerpt #2 Reader (58:23 - 01:00:16) reads twice
16. WSQ: How can we awaken in the friends the greatness of the Creator? How can we awaken in the friends the greatness of the Creator? How do we awaken the feeling, the consciousness of knowledge about the greatness of the Creator in the friends? I need to see this as my primary role, my most crucial one, this is my goal. If I end the day without investing in the society with the greatness of the Creator, with the greatness of the Creator awakening in that more than before, then I haven't done my spiritual work at all. So, this is how I can measure my spiritual work and success according to the extent to which the friends have been impressed by my actions, by my acting, me singing, dancing, it doesn't matter what exactly, doing all those things in front of them because of the greatness of the Creator. How do I awaken in my friends to the greatness of the Creator?
17. R. (01:04:01) We serve the Creator meaning we want to reach the state where his greatness is revealed in us. The Creator himself is a concealed vanishing thing. It's only if the friends reveal him to me in that vessel which they reveal, I can be impressed by him, discover him and that will be called the greatness of the Creator in me. It cannot be less than 10 meaning a complete vessel, it is not the number of people but nevertheless it has to be made of different desires and intentions, different states which connect together to reveal the Creator as their source. A single source for several different people, several different desires. The question is how do I by connecting with friends, discover the greatness of the Creator? Do I discover the greatness of the Creator or do I reveal the greatness of the friends who are engaged in the greatness of the Creator and what's the difference between the two? How do I come to discover the Creator? It's through being impressed by seeing, by discovering how enthusiastic my friends are. How vigorous they are in their desire, their attraction to discover the greatness of the Creator, so I appreciate them in a way, I want to join them, but how, from that do I discover the greatness of the Creator. Not the friend not what they're doing, dealing with but rather the greatness of the Creator himself, how do I come to that?
Excerpt # 3 Reader (01:07:45 - 01:08:58) reads twice
18. R. Therefore, there is a need for the shattering. by us being distant to each other where nobody feels that he is related to the other, through that we can be impressed by each other. in a special, selective way with respect only to the greatness of the Creator specifically. Meaning I need to come to the 10 each time, what for? In order to hear from them, to be impressed by them with regards to the greatness of the Creator which is in them and that is what is important for me it's called each one helps his friend. Even though we ourselves, inside, no one is connected to the Creator yet and it is impossible because we are not connected together yet in that way. Regardless we need to see, to detect ourselves or each one through the others through acting, that we have the greatness of the Creator that it's important to us what for? In order to publicize this to the friends, that each one gets an impression from the friends not that he's in attainment, he doesn't feel it or anything. We're talking about what the Kabbalist discover, they talk to us, they tell us about it and we talk about the great reward we have been given which is to be able to reach him, to bestow to him and in that way gradually we began to come closer to his revelation.
Excerpt 3 again (01:10:57 - 01:12:08)
19. S. I got an impression from my friend. What can I add to it?
R. If I am impressed by the friends what can I add to that? You can increase your impression that you got from the friends through thought, thinking about how their friends are in it and how you're jealous of them because they're closer to the goal and in the connection between them how close they are to the Creator. You feel that you're not exactly together with them in heart and soul in that direction and through that you come to a state where you feel yourself to be lacking. Here you start turning to the Creator for help to adhere to the friends and to be with them together in coming closer to him, to the Creator. Then your impression from the friends ultimately should always bring you to prayer to the Creator. If everything ends with you turning to the Creator through the group, through the friend or even you by yourself, yes, regardless this is the desired outcome it is your raising a deficiency, a lack and the Creator needs nothing than those lacks. But of course, he is expecting the lack of the 10, from all these lacks from which we gradually reveal to each other, we come to our collective lack and then the Creator with the correct lack, in the correct way, we immediately discover his response. Because this is the way the degrees are connected, the Creator is always the degree which is above us. So, if we reveal MAN from us to a higher degree, immediately we elicit MAD in response to our prayer to him, a question to him, and there's no such thing where it remains unanswered, there's always an answer for us. Sometimes it's not an answer we were expecting but immediately we begin to feel very quickly that it is the Creator answering us and so we begin our connection, our dialogue with him, “I for my beloved and my beloved for Me”.
20. S. (01:14:57) So it turns out that the greatness of the Creator. We cannot feel it in our vessels of reception?
R. No, the greatness of the Creator we can feel only in the connection between us, because he created us together as a 10 and if it is less than a 10 what we feel to be the shattering is something we feel with our corporeal ego, not our spiritual one. If we rise above the corporeal ego and connect to the 10 then we are in connection with him.
21. S. (01:15:46) Does the Creator show us our own attitude towards spirituality through what appears to us as a friend's attitude to spirituality in the greatness of the Creator? The greatness of the friends and the Creator depend upon me?
R. It is all according to your vessels, that is how you discover, yes.
22. S. (01:16:26) What feeling can provide us confidence while we are making efforts to establish a powerful 10?
R. First of all, my confidence grows becoming greater in the 10 when I appreciate the friends more, also during a descent when I fall and disconnect from them, that is preparation for the attainment of the connection between us and even greater confidence between us. Confidence is an outcome of Arvut and that is why we will need to again return to the text about the Arvut and to understand how we can increase, intensify our Arvut because if we are not connected through the Arvut then no one will have the strength to attain the Creator for the spiritual ascent.
23. S. (01:17:42) What does it mean to be worthy in the world?
R. Being worthy in the work means that I have the vessels, the tools for the work, that means that I have connection with the friends and our work is such that we tighten up the connection between us, that we come closer and closer to each other so that through the connection between us, the mutual connection that we will be able to come closer to the Creator. What does that mean? The Creator is the smallest fish and we are building a net which needs to be very delicate in order to capture him, to discover his resolution, higher and higher resolution. Through the connection between us we build such a network, such a net in which we can discover him. Through the connection between us our net rises to the degrees of 0 1 2 3 4 and you have 125 degrees in total. The Creator can be felt starting with a certain degree, first of all as the force of support and bestowal we discover him even in the vessels of reception in order to bestow.
24. S. (01:19:25) How can we even in a descent can we use the descent for the benefit of the 10 and not to just hate that state of descent?
R. On the one hand we have to hate the descent because it disconnects us from connection from the Creator, on the other hand we have to appreciate the descent because it reveals in us broken desires, shattered desires. So, through correcting those we come to discover the Creator more, so there is the thing and it's opposite here. There is a state in which he separates us and we hate that, but hating it doesn't mean that we want to erase it, rather we relate to it in a purposeful manner like adults, not like little children who don't want to see the bad, but only the good. That is how we relate to life, we always try to see the two opposite states, the darkness as well as the light, the light above the darkness, that is how gradually we discover the form of the Creator which appears to us in that way through both of them together. That he makes the light and creates the darkness, that is all.
25. S. (01:21:16) How to push the Creator so he will trust us, that he will have faith in us?
R. We do that by trying all the time to be connected above all of the interruptions that he awakens against that connection in us, he reveals the shattering in us more and more, the shattering that he made it. Above that, upon that we reveal a greater and greater inclination towards connection, but it is not by hating the shattering, we say that we have to hate the evil but we also understand that without the evil it is impossible to reach the good. Both of them, you need to awaken the darkness against the light and the light against the darkness otherwise we wouldn't be able to recognize anything. Me, the created being cannot see the light but only upon the darkness can I see all sorts of forms other light and through them discover all different ways which the Creator relates to me, to us. We need to constantly stand on both legs, the right and the left, with both having importance, the created being doesn't have any less importance than the Creator even though he is the first, he is the last as we say but to reach, to come from the first state to the last we can do that only through the darkness, meaning that we value the darkness and the light. We see them as two forms which both reveal to us the Creator. BoReh come and see, they don't reveal to us the actual upper force which is above those distinctions but rather only with relation to us. That is why we appreciate, we evaluate the light and the darkness with respect to the goal equally, that is what we mean by he makes light and creates darkness.
26. S. (01:23:45) Other than the yearning, the longing to work in order to discover the quality of love, let's say concern, all of these inclinations what other form of the greatness of the Creator can we bring to the friends in the 10?
R. Actually we discover the greatness of the Creator out of negative states, states of lack and in states where he helps us, elevating us above it, also we are impressed by that but more than that I am impressed by how he builds up the bad forms. Really because the advantage of the light is only out of darkness, if there is no darkness, with all of its discernments, I cannot see the lights, I cannot discern nuances, nothing. I attribute this work to the Creator where he builds in us, in me the degrees of darkness, the work at night as we call it and that is the main thing. I thank him for creating the darkness because from this darkness we can then come to exist, we can stand, we can come to recognize his greatness.
S. The greatness of the Creator that we can work with is always only wow, look we didn't feel any connection, closeness, even the opposite of that we are inside of ourselves and now suddenly we are yearning for something else a little bit, that is the greatness of the Creator we can talk about?
R. I would say so, yes even though I went to University, even there most of the study and the learning comes from you doing exercises, yes? Questions, problems in math, physics, many different things and you need to answer those, meaning from darkness, from confusion out of things which cannot be understood or felt, digested, regardless you gradually find how to solve them, how to find a solution and from that you learn how to build yourself, only from that. Our study, I talk but only a few percent of what I say that enters the ear and even less than that enters the heart, if you yourselves becomes stuck with it, meaning that happens to each one at times that he goes through darkness looking for answers for the light himself, if he goes through that himself from that he grows. All of our actions need to be accompanied by workshops at least, you all need yourselves, by yourselves not to run away from the problems and questions but rather to arrange them properly so that the Creator will shine, illuminate within them and give you the right answers. But this is according to your own efforts, like when solving problems in different external kinds of study.
S. More and more it is recently I felt that the words cannot convey it, in other words we can talk about it and we can say that we want to give it to each other, that we want to discover it but actually the words fail to convey this form unless you experience it in your flesh.
R. That is correct, that is true, that is our language, it is the language of emotion. It is not linguistics.
S. In the 10 our goal is to give the friends the strength to go through these states so that I will be able to face the darkness and create some inner appeal that will bring me this feeling of greatness, just the force and the power to do that, the yearning for that only?
R. You must awaken the hearts of the friends and in that way, you awaken in your own heart, not directly and your work is actually through the friends’ hearts to reach your own heart, that is how it works. Otherwise, your heart will remain sealed.
27. S. (01:29:29) How can we increase in the 10 the importance of discovering the greatness of the Creator collectively?
R. You need to draw each one of your friends, that otherwise the Creator isn’t revealed and that the friends will think that you are already revealing him and something, and out of this envy they also will want to come to recognize the greatness of the Creator, at least artificially but from this also shall come to them a recognition of the greatness of the Creator a bit more and they will advance as such.
28. S. (01:30:36) I heard that I can feel the greatness of the Creator only through the unity between us, how can I work with it if it seems to me that a friend is always saying the opposite of that?
R. Why don't you want to agree with him? Let's say the friend is speaking differently than I, so what? If he is not speaking against the purpose of creation and he is only thinking about maybe something seemingly on the side, maybe I want to connect with him, actually that it is your desire as his, not specifically towards the Creator that you also must have an intention to bestow but also towards the friends. Maybe I will do as such and maybe we will hug and this is called love shall cover all transgressions. That I am not waiting until the friend will change, maybe I will change and then maybe from this that I, in such a manner of getting closer to the friend, that I will feel this is what the Creator expects of me. This is a really great thing, try it.
29. S. (01:32;18) When I see my friends already in connection and I am not in it and I want it and there's a prayer for the Creator all the time, where do I locate the Creator's answer, how do I detect it, not what I think it is but where is the answer?
R. Try to depict the Creator as being in sum total between the friends, I need to hear the reaction of the 10 towards me as the Creator. That is called I dwell among my nation.
Excerpt 4 Reader (01:33:12 - 01:34:46)
30. R. We can't relate to the Creator directly, to his greatness, to his uniqueness, we can only do this through the vessel, through the 10. As such it is written beyond every friend there is the Creator and I have to relate to the ten as the Creator. These are not just words, rather this is from within our vessel and as such I must see every day how much I increasingly nullify before my 10, in such a manner that I am making an effort and I see that maybe the friends are the opposite, that they are making an effort to nullify between them and them towards me
and I don't know how to nullify towards them and we are really in this struggle. We're not talking about it but we're in this internal struggle that I want to nullify before them and I see that from them they are all connected among them in order to nullify before me. Try to do it as such and then you will see this is how it happens as it is also the game of the Creator, the game of the Creator that he is doing it as such. It is in such a manner specifically that we want to nullify one before the other that each one for the 10 and then we feel the 10 more successful in nullifying before him. Then we get shame and all sorts of sensations and so what do I do now? I cannot serve them because they place me higher than them, so what do we do? So then I turn to the Creator and I asked of him to give me the force to nullify before the vessel so that in such a matter that I nullify before them that I am formatting myself, arranging myself in such a way that I can nullify myself before you. Because without nullifying towards the vessel I cannot approach you in self nullification.
30. A. WSQ: (01:37:27) Let us first of all before your questions let us discuss this, how am I constantly in this effort to nullify before the 10 to reveal the 10 as being revealed as nullifying before me?
31. R. (01:41:39) After I make the effort to nullify before the 10 and I see that I don't succeed, that I am not succeeding, I see that they are nullifying towards me even beforehand and more successfully than my notification towards them. Then I turn to the Creator because from my nullification I get nothing and through nullification in the 10 I must nullify myself before the Creator as summary, the results of him beyond the 10, so I turned to him and I truly request, I cry, give me the opportunity to nullify before them and then from this I get closer to the Creator, this is called the Creator has formed before me the vessel that if I feel I want to nullify and I am not capable then I reach him and I request, I cry for him to help me. Then from this we truly advance in self nullification.
32. S. (01:43:24) The question the topic of the lesson is the greatness of the Creator in the 10, the process of revealing the greatness of the Creator in the 10 what is this?
R. As much as the 10 appears to me as a goal by which I must format myself, incorporate and nullify, connect with, truly to bury myself in, that I must be close to try to understand, to feel the term called the Creator. That beforehand I don't know as he appears to me as some foreign Creator and when I get close to the 10 with which I have at least some contact with the human level, then through this I find some feeling to have some attitude towards this force that is forming the 10 that is revealing through the 10 being called the Creator, and I relate to him that you shall not have a foreign creator, that through the group how important it is, how dear it is that it is felt in me. In such a manner I begin to relate to the Creator, that ultimately afterwards I must bring this emphasis, the Creator, he brought this 10 to me and whether this group exists or not, it is all what the Creator formed in order for me to connect with him. Through the network of the 10 Sefirot I can feel him, it is some network as such, a matrix through which I can reveal him. Then the importance of the Creator, the importance of the group, by me it is all the same because the group is the vessel and the Creator is the essence, the light revealed inside the vessel. That is how we advance.
S. What is the difference between the greatness of the ten in the greatness of the Creator?
R. There is no difference, by me in the meantime that I wish we should all reach a state that it will be as one, that it shall truly be as one as there is no more. The group turns to be the same format of Adam HaRishon that the Creator created and through this we can reveal the ability to connect with him because through the 10, without the vessel there is no light and my connection with the 10 and as supporting and connection with them as Malchut, as their Malchut through this I connect to the Creator. It turns out that the 10 is my system of connection with the Creator and the system of connection, communication of the Creator with me as much as I enlarge this 10, I am connecting with the Creator in a manner that is more universal, more intense, more common, more general and as such I discover the whole vessel.
S. How to cross and add the concept of the Creator to the 10 and also how to add the ten to the greatness of the Creator?
R. I relate to the 10 all of the forces of the Creator, who is the 10? A ten is what the Creator forms before me, presents to me as the same theater that I see and so through the friends I relate to him through its friend and all of them together, they are playing this game that the Creator is obligating them and I accordingly must enter the game and for myself that I am carrying out the same game, the same dance with them. There are a lot of things here. All the rest, work with a bit of your feelings.
33. S. (01:48:17) We learn on the one hand that we are not supposed to ask for ourselves, not even to bestow contentment to him and on the other hand there was a moment where you explained that I should ask for the strength to see the greatness of the Creator, so where can I discern whether or not I am praying and asking correctly or harming?
R. If you are turning through the 10 to the Creator or even to the Creator without any 10 it is not so important ultimately it will bring you if not to a direct path, then indirectly on a side path, in any case it is not the wrong way, it is not something that will lead you off the path, lead you astray. Do you understand? The main thing is succeed, the main thing I tell you once again in the lesson every day and a few times a day if possible to connect with the group and we reach the convention in a nice and good manner.
34. S. (01:49:59) Before we can have faith above reason in the greatness of the Creator is it necessary to know what greatness even, is it that all the members of the 10 have different notions of what greatness is because they have different deficiencies to fill and together in the combination of all we know what his greatness really is?
R. You can talk with your friends about the greatness of the Creator, the greatness of the friends, the greatness of the 10, the greatness of our business in together in general, the purpose of creation, but in any case, the advancement in this, is that we form ourselves as such that we invite the light that reforms. Because only as a result of it we will begin to feel what our states are that we advance in from day-to-day. As such we must work it out to arrange ourselves.
35. S. (01:51:23) How important is it to ask the greatness of the Creator for the friends, according to a certain form to check the results?
R. I can't answer this question because according to your question you don't understand what is being talked about, so I can't answer like that. If you hear this lesson a few times and a few other lessons on the same topic then maybe you will get an answer, you need to read some more articles from Rabash and to participate more in the lessons, this is what I feel that you need.
36. S. (01:52:25) How to correctly relate to the Creator's games?
R. As the most important thing.
37. S. (01:52:42) I am grateful to the Rav and the women's 10’s for their support in this question. What is the role of the AHP in the relation to the Creator?
R. We are not now dealing with the AHP the main thing is to fix the Galgata Eynaim so we can take care of the AHP and learn the correct way to relate to the AHP so they can more organized themselves so we can work with them which is mainly after the Congress.
38. S. (01:53:27) Regarding the Creator's greatness in the 10, I see that methodically there is this phenomena. If I try to awaken the friends and give them greatness, I awaken myself. It is a law of nature. Is it an index of sorts that I get this feedback, is it a sufficient index for correct work?
R. I don't know if it is satisfying but it does show you that you need to constantly be concerned for the greatness of the Creator and the 10 only in such a way that you can also correct yourself in the greatness of the Creator. The approach is correct, it is nice.
S. (01:54:19) How important is it to push all the way with the scrutiny of the friends in the group? I also have no room for incorporation, should I always state my position in them to accept the friends opinion or to accept the friends opinion in advance, to nullify before him that he has no connection before me?
R. You don't worry about the feedback you get from the friend to you or from you back to the friend. The main thing is to show the friend that you want to be connected with him in order to connect with the Creator, this is it, this is the main thing. His reaction or yours afterwards, the main thing is to show the friends that you want to be in connection with him that you agree to be with him in any form and in all states, only such that will be directed to connection with the Creator. If you show this to him you are doing him and the entire 10 a great favor.
40. S. (01:55:49) What is the meaning of the effort of each friend or the 10 regarding the Reshimot?
R. Upon the previous Reshimot we feel the present state as such we need to go forward. We don't need to worry so much about the Reshimot. The most important thing is what awakens. The main thing is to incorporate in the society and the society with the Creator and to go forward with all of the Reshimot that awaken within us. We are not yet capable of sorting the Reshimot, records and choosing with which we should do actions and what not.
41. S. (01:57:51) How do we construct a plea to the Creator?
R. I want to awaken the entire 10, to turn to the Creator in order to receive from him forces of bestowal that should help us to connect between us and to connect with him. That is what we are lacking in general. I want to awaken the 10 and with the 10 together the Creator and such disconnection between us we'll reveal the state of which the Creator is having pleasure. Let us make an effort to do this as the essence of the Congress.
42. S. (01:58:51) You said we understand the lesson where we go through the states of the lesson by ourselves, can we go through each other states and that will be the incorporation?
R. I don't think about how I'm going to pass through my own private states. I think how I'm going to connect with the group and through the group going through such states that they are as much as possible close to the revelation of the Creator to give him room to be revealed and receive contentment from us like good children who want to make mother happy. This is a more correct approach, more correct work.
43. S. (02:00.04) The Creator is advancing us purposefully systemically light in darkness, how do we relate to his influence with our spiritual mind and feelings and not to beastly ones?
R. I don't understand the question, by light and darkness, spiritually this is how he is advancing us, light and darkness the gap between them is as much as we can open it to bring it correctly this is how we will advance. We understand that first of all light in darkness comes from him and it is not dependent upon the friends or me but rather it comes from the Creator. Such that he formed the conditions for us by which we must always be aimed directly in the connection between us towards the Creator, only. For this the entire sensation of reality was given to us, made up of light and darkness.
S. How do I write to his influence spiritually not beastly?
R. I don't know what spiritually or beastly is as if you do. What I have now is what I received from him and my relation to the 10, from the group and to the Creator.
44. S. (02.02:23) How can I check if I increase the greatness of the Creator throughout the 10 during the day?
R. As much as the 10 has become closer to you, more important for you as much as you feel that it is more in your heart, in this you reveal instead of a corporeal heart a spiritual heart and the Creator is gradually revealed in it.
44A. R. Just imagine for yourself that we are now with you two hours in the lesson in the Congress will also be 2 hours and we have only gotten through four excerpts. What are we going to do in the Congress? You need to think and give an answer to me and to the Congress organizers, what do you think? How can we advance in such a way? Either you give us only three or four excerpts and maybe that's enough? I don't know how we are going to work with the source material in the Congress that they want to give us? Maybe the next passages are more essential, more fundamental than the previous ones, I don't know. Let us participate in organizing the passages for each lesson in the Congress. We want to do more workshops and more talking among us and of course going over the answers of the friends so that they can participate in a comfortable manner. Also, for the women to participate, do you understand the huge mess that is falling on our hand? What are we going to do? Maybe to shorten the entire content of the Congress to not have so many topics, you need to think about it with a heavy heart. What is the point for us to build our vessel called the 10 of Bnei Baruch, that it is unique that it shall be in our sights, this is what we need to reach. The spiritual vessel of Bnei Baruch was 1 ten. What are we doing? Who has a short answer on this, two sentences at most. What are you recommending for us to do with the first lesson? Look how much time it is taking up and it's not ending yet, not even halfway, What are we doing? Who has some good advice?
45. S. (02:06:08) Maybe we can add to your question, we have maybe a thousand new people who have come to participate?
R. You need to participate in forming the Congress in the best way, we can still do everything as I don't need to be among all of this, the main thing is that you will debate and decide, bringing to each lesson the same passages.
Excerpt 5 Reader (02:09:20 - 02:11:40) reads twice
46. R. I think this excerpt is a bit advanced because it talks about certain recognition of the greatness of the Creator.
Excerpt 6 Reader (02:12:05 - 2:13:19)
47. R. This is a very deep concept that I don't have the energy to explain, if we wouldn't develop as babies and from kids to grown-ups to have babies of our own and care for them, so we begin to recognize to know the attitude of our own parents, what they did and how they felt for us, this is all from your actions we shall know you from the same principle. If we didn't have such a possibility, we wouldn't be able to know, to understand the attitude of our parents to us. So how do we get to recognize the Creator's attitude towards us, we never reach his level after all. It is all attained through the broken vessels that the Creator shattered the connections between us. That is why we can work in the connection between us like to our baby, we have to grow it is that little person that we assemble from zero that were willing to give birth to from the connection between us and to care for it more and more and when we make the connection to Partzuf of Adam we begin to understand the work of the Creator, what he did for us, on us. Then it is similar to how we get to know the work of the parents, what they have done and how they cared for us. From the work between us we can come to know the Creator so we can know, we can attain and understand the Creator only to the extent that we create the correct connection between us. It follows the same stages, Ibur, Yenika, Mochin connecting with the 10 greater and greater 10 that includes in it, all of the people in the world. It is only in this way that we create our form which we will call Adam which resembles the Creator.
48. S. (02:16:19) Can we ask about what you said before about preparing the material of the Congress?
R. Yes, I'm turning to you more than inviting questions to me, but okay.
S. What you're teaching us is truly artistry, of how to deal with the ten in the Creator that you're teaching us according to our ability and our preparation?
R. I can't take kids and put them in advanced classes.
S. So how can we know what our state in the Congress will be, we are hoping to reach some state but it could be that we will read one passage and it will open the entire lesson from it or maybe we'll have ten passages and read through them all depending on our state, how do we prepare material for states we don't know?
R. You need to be aimed at connection only and in the connection, you will discover the level of connection that you can reach. Very different people come to us, we have new people that haven't been with us in the daily lesson and the workshops and we have to make room for everyone on the one hand. On the other hand, we don't want them to confuse us and throw us out of line as we can't advance according to those who are joining only now for whatever reasons. Rather we are moving according to the advanced groups, tens who have built themselves and are coming to the congress with the necessity and the need to reach such closeness and such connection between them that the Creator will be revealed. So we are not taking off the greatness of the goal, the clarity of the goal rather we are going to be just like we are now and even more than that and this is how we advance. If we get questions that are not on point, we simply glide over them with a bit more patience, but we may have to build a system where if someone is asking a question and I say I am passing this question to someone else and that person is sitting like me with a microphone and is answering it and I'm continuing with the main line of the Congress. There's no other choice, we might have to divide things in this way. We don't have much time and we don't want to dilute our progress by these people who are not able to work in the same direction, at the same pace, or use the same means that we do.
Excerpt 7 Reader (02:20:09 - 02:21:27)
49. S. (02:21:28) Regarding your idea, all our preparation of topics for the Congress like we do in the morning lesson and the Congress needs to be a bit of a different format but let's say we want to have a big opening introduction to a topic of according to what Gilad mentioned, maybe a few topics in workshops, and maybe that the 10 stands behind the question not only the friend by himself.
R. Maybe, I'm not incorporated in that but nevertheless I want you to write those things to the Congress organizers.
Excerpt 8 Reader (02:23:02 - 02:24:27)
50. R. That is a question how can a person get it from his friends to such an extent that whatever the Creator does is good, is right and a person has no say in it except for subjugating himself and accepting it completely, so how does he accept it through the friends? He has to be annulled towards them to such an extent, but purposefully, that he is aimed at the Creator and only in this way he connects correctly to the friends and only in this way he discovers that the friends are not those faces that he sees before him. They are actually spiritual Sefirot that the Creator arranges, that's the meaning of that he is standing behind them. In this way through these different friends the Creator plays with a person in order to calibrate him in the right way, through this, different forms that appear to him as his friends and if he is trying to locate, to detect the Creator behind each and every one, in this way he is approaching, the friends are becoming as a pattern, a template, a mold of sorts through which he is discovering the Creator.
Excerpt 9 Reader (02-26:17 -02:26:48)
51. R. If I see the friends in adhesion toward one another I do have the strength to connect to them, to cleave to them and this is our work to show each one that we are in adhesion and then in this way we draw, we attract each and every friend to the adhesion and in that adhesion, we discover the conclusion of the adhesion which is the Creator. If we connect together then the arrangement of our qualities in connection can give us the feeling of the total, the sum total of our efforts which appears to us and is called and felt on us as the Creator. That is the wonder, no one thought before that you have made me, we arranged the Creator, who are we, we are seemingly his parents? No, we come from the shattering to the connection and through the connection between us despite the difficulties, the hardships, obstacles that we discover, we build the image of the Creator in us, this is the Creator, come and see, this is how we do it and what we have to attain in the Congress. Pay attention to it. Maybe before that even, those who can.
Excerpt 10 Reader (02:28:44 - 02:29:18)
52. WSQ: My last question, what did we attain from today's lesson?