Morning Lesson September 28, 2023

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

Part 2:

Rabash. Article No. 2, (1984). Concerning Love of Friends

Reading Concerning Love of Friends(0:36)

1. S. (07:48) I wanted to ask about the intention during the study, a few Sabbaths ago I heard you saying that we have to think and ask that the Creator ties us all as one ten. Now with this direction that we are all sitting in our own tens and we have to connect to them and from that to everyone else. Is there a different intention should I ask for everyone to connect strong and in his own time and through that to everybody?

R. Yes, this is what we learned that each one should be incorporated in his own ten, he has to be there “as one man with one heart” and then from the ten to the nearby tens etc.. Right now I do not want to learn how to be incorporated in bigger tens, rather now we want to be incorporated in one ten.

S. When I come to the lesson or each one of us we have to ask the Creator to connect each one very strong in his own ten?

R. Yes.

S. I should do it from feeling that I am connected to my own ten and asking through that?

R. Yes and also that by that you are preparing yourself, too, in the future to be connected to all the tens.

2. S. (09:43) In this article Rabash calls us to open love of friends in a revealed way to show it, so how to show love of friends in a revealed way and along with that to not forget that it is the path to the Creator?

R. That is the condition. I understand it because it is as if love demands from us devotion. if I dedicate myself to something or to someone then it is as if I have no more power or ability to cling to anything else that is what it sounds like. But here it is a condition that precisely by connecting to the ten I prepare myself to receive the revelation of the Creator within the ten and connect with him. If I understood the question. Did you hear what he asked? Is this correct? I have a feeling, ask again.

S. I think he is asking what does it mean to reveal love in his heart to the friends?

R. We must be connected between us to the Creator. In order to connect to the Creator we have to be incorporated in one another or in our mutual incorporation in one another is actually called love.

S. What is the to reveal the love in his heart to his friends?

R. How much he is connected to each and every friend to different extents that there is between them.

S. We have to show it, what does it mean to reveal it?

R. Yes, we also have to show it and I am connected, when I'm connected to the friend I have to show him that I love him.

3. S. (12:36) I have to disclose my love towards the friends but for what, for them being great or they are great because they want to reveal the Creator?

R. My friends are great because I, together with them in the connection between us, want to reveal the nature of the Creator so that all of us together can direct all of our hearts towards Him and receive His revelation in our hearts, the revelation which will be revealed in our hearts.

4. S. (13:39) About the connection in the ten, it becomes more and more difficult to connect in the ten and I'm searching for this quality for what through I connect to the ten. All the previous qualities I supposedly stopped believing in them, I see myself as a horrible actress on stage and I do not even believe myself. On the inside I understand that it is a new degree somewhere I can add, and I am searching for this addition in quality and I'm not understanding what it is. How can I organize myself from within to ask in order to connect with the ten in a true way. I do not understand what the addition is but I cannot stay in the qualities I was working in before, please help?

R. These qualities should be revealed to the same extent that you really want to discover them in the same conditions that the Creator is putting before you. Meaning you need to disclose myself towards the friends otherwise nothing is possible, in the prayer with a plea so it will not be you alone with the whole ten will be in such a state. A person himself cannot do anything here, if his friends are behind them and that is how it is with each and every one so we will succeed in everything. Otherwise, if I do not have those friends so we will not succeed. One person in a battlefield cannot fight on his own.

5. S. (17:02) It's a question from a friend who is going through a difficult states and he wants to ask you with the growing coarseness in me, I get from the Creator very difficult conditions. There are many tears and although I am trying to use these states for the sake of the ten and despite my demands I cannot succeed. He does not hear me at all and this feeling just empties me. How can I realize these opportunities for love of friends?

R. The fact that you feel that the Creator does not hear you, that is Him doing it on purpose so that you will feel this way and it is interesting here how you need to respond. The response has to be in such a way that to me it does not matter how I feel the Creator's attitude toward me is nice or not nice. I want to do good to Him, that is what I want.

S. (19:09) Our friend in the ten is really very strong. He gets up for every morning lesson and the situation is very heavy on him, he cannot even carry the situation and in our country we are learning virtually, so how can we connect in order to overcome in such a situation?

R. Just as we are learning from all of our articles. I really do not know what else I could say. You are with us and all the lessons especially you, and you hear what to do, only connect between us and turn to the Creator to be revealed in a connection between us, that is what we need. And it takes a long time, it takes a long time.

6. S. (20:40) Sometimes we feel the sensation that the friends disappear out of our reach and that we are with no connection at all. How do we cope with a state? What does the Creator want from us in this state?

R. That we will let go of the path and become connected between us with His presence and also when He is not present. We always want to be in a connection between us and as much as we can from us to Him. That is what he is demanding and that it will not depend on as much as we feel convenient, good, nice happiness or the opposite. Meaning we need to try and have a connection between us in the structure of Adam HaRishon through all states the pleasant ones and the not pleasant ones.

7. S. (22:40) This work in connection and connecting the forces of the friends of the ten, I'd like to clarify specifically about this work at the convention. Part of my ten is in Israel, a part is in Kiev, and a part is in other countries. How do I work with my own ten, how do I keep them in the heart during the Congress to connect with others?

R. We have to try and connect together all of us in the convention all the time, without going outside of the borders of the ten. And the next time at the next convention we will already be connected in a new way.

S. But practically for example I'll be with my friends but not at the convention but will be there physically in our country and we have registration here but some of them will be in Israel and some will be in other places. What does that mean not to go out of my boundaries at the time if I am sitting in a ten with other people, I should think of my own ten?

R. For now, yes. When we continue we will try to do it physically together, virtually we'll try to do it together we will see how to advance.

8. S. (23:47) It turns out that we are sitting in the ten that we happen to be in at the Congress and some have their local tens and they are there, and this environment that I am in and at the same time I keep my own ten in my heart?

R. In principle, yes but soon it will be meaningless.

S. It turns out that it is like the next degree, like you are talking about the next convention when we connect between the ten?

R. Yes, that is how it is going to be, even more than that.

9. S. (26:11) Here in the article it says that the group was formed so it would get a lot of friends from it, love of others. What does it mean to receive love of others from the group?

R. Through the group to feel the love of the friends. Of course such qualities come to us from the Creator but they come from the group by the connection of the group. The more we connect we'll be able to pass on towards one another more of what the Creator is filling us in. Those are His qualities, connections of love, that is how we advance.

S. In other words as a result of our work in the group we acquire the love of friends?

R. Yes. And that usually takes a lot of time, it depends on who. Those that have a good soul, an ego with parameters with serious data and a serious place of correction, so to those people it is more difficult, the greater than his friends so is his inclination greater. Whoever has a bigger soul, so his desires are greater too, his ego is greater, so it is more difficult, but thanks to that he can ascend afterwards more than the others.

10. S. (28:29) How can we make our hearts or prepare our hearts for our friends when we are so different? How to make them?

R. Specifically because we are so different and want to connect between us in order to discover them because He includes all of us specifically because of that in our connection we are coming closer to Him, to the Creator.

S. How is it possible to help them effectively?

R. Speak about it between you, how is it possible to open the heart practically towards one another? Well?

11. S. (30:05) Today in this lesson a new phase has come and my mind isn't working and I just feel great excitement from the connection and something new.

R. Okay, that is not what I planned but what can you do?

12. S. (30:33) I wanted to ask about the tens because I hear the repeating of this question. There is a situation where some of the friends came from overseas and they are here, some of their friends stayed in their countries. Now we are saying that this convention is in order to build the tens, so how should we conduct ourselves, how should those friends conduct themselves? Should they be connected virtually to their friends at home, should they be here in this convention? How do they conduct themselves correctly in order to achieve this goal of building tens?

R. I'm not giving any commands about that, nothing, no commands. I'm just giving an opportunity to hear what we are talking about to do exercises together with everyone and then everyone will find a way to do it for now.

S. I'm not looking for a command. I'm trying to think together with the friends what is the most correct, what is the most purposeful?

R. The most correct and the most purposeful is to try and be connected to whoever you have here and whoever you have in your country, your original ten and you have to try to be in a good connection with everyone. For now that is our preparation.

S. It turns out that you do not forget them during the Congress, you stay with them all the time?

R. I stay with them, that is what I think. I cannot disconnect and connect and disconnect and connect. It is not a game. It is like with love, you cannot say today I hate tomorrow I love.

S. Clear, what is new about the tens because for many years we have been talking about the tens but now there is something new in the air. What does this new thing in relation to the ten that is happening now?

R. We want to finally reach the connection, that in it the Creator is revealed and we will want to be connected with the friends in the internality of each and every one and in the heart of each and everyone and we, according to that have to pay attention also to people that are between us. Can they and are they willing to be our friends?

S. What does it mean to be ready to be willing to be a friend?

R. That they are willing to devote themselves to the connection in the ten.

13. S. (34:05) There's something fundamental I do not understand. Previously we could switch tens, you know like you change your shirt. Today I am with one friend and then another day I am with another friend. Now it seems like we cannot make this change like there's this force where you cannot switch friends or reorganize the tens?

R. You will be able to do it but with very great efforts.

S. What is this force that exists now in the tens, something that is more solid, I do not know?

R. Yes, throughout time we got used to being in connection with these friends and through them speak to the Creator and the Creator through them is connecting to us.

S. If we were to mix the tens now, just mix it, what will be the problem?

R. Still for now it might not be such a problem.

S. Is it a question of habit getting used to a friend?

R. It is still a matter of a habit but it is becoming a matter of spiritual incorporation.

S. In other words, there is a phase where you get used to the friends and become incorporated with them, that it becomes spiritual and you cannot untangle it?

R. Yes.

S. This Congress we plan it as a Congress on the topic of opening the hearts and although the lessons are on opening the hearts?

R. That is great when are we not engaging in that?

S. Well, in light of today's lesson and this beautiful long introduction that you gave us, we were thinking maybe we should focus more on the work in the ten and find more insights and go deeper into connection in the ten?

R. Well, that is what I felt like saying.

S. Do you think we should continue with the topic of opening the heart?

R. Opening the heart is the foundation to everything.

14. S. (36:21) An interesting situation has come up, precisely the convention gives a special force to perform the connection in the personal ten. There is a desire and a clearer feeling but precisely thanks to the convening of everyone. Why is it not always like that and what is the relation here between having a big group and then you feel the ability to work more on the connection in the ten. Why does it work this way and how should we use it correctly? Not only today and now but to see how we use it always and generally this relation between having many people to hold, the whole Kli is coming to the convention and connection in the ten. Why does it become more stronger specifically in this phase?

R. I don't know if I can answer it correctly. What you are asking about, but what I think is that there's a difference in the investment. Before the Congress we invested a lot of forces also in the renovations we did here, also in the work that we did here of all kinds, also in money and buying tickets, organizations, work and all kinds of things. This investment gives us the ability to feel more of a need in connection and getting a result, but from day to day we can reach it and we will but still not to that extent.

S. Yes, from this comes the question also in light of the article that we read yesterday. With what good results come out of the gathering that we have toward the work throughout the year or throughout the coming months. We want to achieve connection and my fear is that it will disappear, the power of the big group that exists right now. I think ahead and I'm afraid of losing it in this time of goodwill that I feel. How can we not be afraid and keep this force that we have now? What can we do now so it will always stay with us and accompany us throughout our lives?

R. We cannot stay in the same place. We have to take steps ahead and in such a way we will advance. And this convention is actually a very special one, that in it we are building a foundation for our tens, that afterwards we will all connect together and advance towards the next convention which will be in January. In our lessons and in our connections. I think that while truthfully I could not determine the character of the convention and also the people were not ready for something specific and the fact that today it started being revealed, it is a good sign.

S. I also want to add that indeed there's this feeling of something new and we are very excited toward something that is coming, but we don't know what it is but we already love this thing that is coming.

R. Thank you.

15. S. (41:32) This is something that we all feel and it's a revolution now in relation to previous Congresses. He writes in the article that if the society is based on ten friends, each one will be incorporated in ten forces and engage in annulling yourself and in loving others. Until now, at Congress's the most impressive thing that would happen was the impression from all the friends that you are incorporated like water, all of the friends from overseas, every look, every connection, every word and every situation you would be incorporated not just in ten forces but a thousand forces. How in this focus now do we concentrate on the personal ten and still become incorporated in everything that is happening here without losing or running away from the ten?

R. If before you run away from the ten and incorporate in everybody which is easier, it is easier to incorporate in a thousand then in a ten, which is difficult. Today now, you will have a different type of work that you'll need to incorporate in everybody as if it was a ten. It does not happen instantly and it is not right now, we do not have to confuse ourselves, but that is how we will advance and come closer to it.

S. How practically in the coming days when we have a big mass, the whole world Kli? How do I use it in order to intensify the connection in the personal ten without running away from the personal ten, what do we do? What do I do during breaks? I'm very troubled, confused and we need to know how to work?

R. We need to connect through our ten to all other people that are here, how to do it? We are searching in what way we can implement it, perform it. The question is I think is clear, the approach to it and to its solution is not so clear, and that is what we will have to search and find.

S. At the Congress there are all kinds of activities, lessons and breaks. Some of these are friends with meals and in all of it I have to be in my own ten and I'll come out of it during the assembly of friends too, when we are all sitting together in a circle?

R. Yes, that is desired.

16. S. (44:46) From what he just asked, how do we become incorporated in this mass because now it is clear that it is the work of the whole ten, that now we should not each of us think how to become incorporated, but the ten must decide how we are incorporated in our vessel?

R. Yes.

17. S. (45:28) I also wanted to continue the scrutiny you started yesterday in the noon lesson. We have known for many years the processes of Congresses, when Congress comes you switch to Congress mode and then we usually connect with the friends and we dissolve into the center of the world ten. It seems like we extensively remove from ourselves from the inner ten that we are used to and in the questions. And from yesterday and today it feels like it is a burden. The work in the ten every day is harder than the Congress naturally, because it is the routine it is every day. And here it is suddenly very easy to jump into the sea of love that you spoke about yesterday. It seems like the inner ten that you are saying about and that we are embraced in, is like a burden for some of the people. It is not just an organizational complication like, what do we do, some are here, some are there. Internally it requires that we stay connected to that process. First of all, thank you for pushing us to that degree because it is a lot more real and closer to the reality than what we have done before. Now the question is how do we go with this house in reality, how do we remain in this spiritual structure which is called the ten and what do we bring into the ten and what do we bring into the world ten from our personal tens? This seems to be like a dialogue that we have to work on?

R. That is not for now but if that is correct, not for now but that is correct, we buy that we'll start rising more and more.

18. S. (47:45) I worked on a blog post where you spoke about putting the hearts together and you said that as we attempt to do this action the heart can turn to stone and we need to break it into pieces to flow into the friend's heart. Do we practice this in our ten, just the need to pray for more sensitivity that the Creator brings more sensitivity to feel?

R. For sure we need a new sensitivity, yes. We need a new sensitivity that rises from one degree to the next.

19. S. (49:07) I understand that my ten is my relation to the Creator and the reality of each of us is always built from ten Sefirot. In this connection to a specific ten, specific people it can be confusing at times. How do we distinguish between the physical reality and the constant search for the Creator in our environment?

R. I didn't understand you.

S. We are connected to the material world that we see around us and we know that it is a false world that often confuses us, so we should search for this point in the ten. These are ten qualities of the soul that are connected between them. In other words it is one point that is divided into ten and it is very complicated as if there are ten but they all have to be concentrated into one point, and yet there are the physical bodies that we are seemingly already connected to?

R. Yes, I understand you. What should we do, we will advance ahead and we will feel gradually more and more of what is between us because we are coming back to the state where each of us includes everybody in himself. That is why in the end we will find that same system where we will already discover in a constant way more and more ourselves the Creator and the group and in this way advance towards the center of creation.

20. S. (53:04) My animal is confused and there are three things against each other and the animal in me asks, why do I have to go thousands of miles to come here if it were easier for me to connect with my ten where I live? On the other hand we learn that the one who is farthest in the ten should be the closest. If someone felt, for example, he should be closer to me than someone who is better off, another point is if I am in my ten with someone else, I heard in the lesson, then I should see others and I should show others what love we have between us. How do we connect all of those things together?

R. In the point of love in my heart, that is it, there's nothing else but that.

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