Part 2:
Morning Lesson September 22, 2021, Transcription
Preparation for attack in the Congress
1. R. I think what we discussed in the first part of the last lesson is great preparation and we're going to go to the verses we prepared, our friends prepared the preparation for the lesson. Other than connection we have nothing, the problem is that all the complaints that I get from our friends from everywhere around the world, these are the complaints that they work inside themselves and they say I'm bending this for 20 years where is the Creator. I've been waiting for him to appear in the connection within the spiritual world. Not looking in the right direction, not the right place the Creator is revealed in the connection between us. Where we are in contradiction with one another, ever growing contradiction and above that we wish to build the connection between us. A bond with one another and to the extent that we do it, then to that extent we advance until we come to a state where there's a great gap between our ego which is constantly growing and the connection between us. Which is also constantly in the process of being established and then according to the coarseness that we have and on top of it, the screen and reflected light that we wish to bestow specifically from within this coarseness to the Creator. Then the coarseness becomes a degree of purity and accordingly we come to a state where the Creator is revealed and closed within us.
We have to understand where it's taking place, not inside us but in the connection between us and this is why we are having this Congress and all these actions so it turns out that egoistically we are drawn towards the revelation of the Creator and we forget that he is revealed in the connection between us. Since the Creator is called the force of love, of connection, love your friend as thyself. It is a rule, a Klal, meaning the general all of the revelation of the Creator is the love between us, the connection between us above all the separation. So don't forget about it and don't say that you've been studying for 20 years, you could be studying for a hundred and twenty years, study your entire life and every lifetime and reincarnation, it won't do you any good. You should say how much you're fighting to be in connection with people like you who are also drawn towards the revelation of the Creator and then you'll understand what you are lacking. Did you even begin the spiritual work or even started it, because spiritual work is, specifically in connection. It is actualized in the connection between us and it is very difficult to understand and to begin to realize it. To implement it, we disagree with it and we forget about it after a second, what can we do? Therefore, again we're preparing ourselves for an attack in the Congress so that through our efforts, we will come to a state where the Creator will help us. Make yourself into what is needed in connection and then we'll all do our best to invite Him and for him to build for us the right vessel.
Excerpt 1 (05:03) Twice
2. S. (07:38) What exactly is an attack, do we have to make efforts in order to create a new vessel or correct an existing vessel?
R. An attack has different styles each time but all the attacks should ultimately be directed at the correction of the connection between us, so we will be more and more suitable to the Creator that will be revealed in this connection. That's the attack, in the end the attack is against ego that disturbs our connection to the extent that we overcome it and we attack it. To the degree that we connect to the Creator will also have a place to connect with us. This is called from love of people to love of the Creator.
3. S. (08:44) What does it mean day-to-day utters speech and night to night utters knowledge?
R. We will connect all the times update times of day and times of night into one vessel in which the Creator will then be revealed
4. S. (09:26) Rabash writes to us you must awaken the hearts of the friend until the flame rises by itself and by that you will be rewarded with awakening the love of the Creator, how do you do it?
R. I did it in the same way that we all need to do it and that is to try to be connected according to the recommendations of Kabbalists, again read what they are saying. Then according to how much we connect, we will discover in the connection between us, the connection between us, not in any one of you but in the connection between us, we will see those qualities in which the Creator will be revealed. It's not in you and me but in how much we make concessions towards one another. This concession when I rise above my ego and I'm willing to connect with you, with this concession I discover the Creator. This is the meaning of working above my will to receive that's why in every spiritual action, the rule is make your desire his desire.
Excerpt 2 (11:07)
5. R. (11:37) Meaning what we've done in the past even if we're standing steadfast, and we overcome if we don't add to it, it is not considered that we're doing anything. It is only when we increase the efforts that's what counts.
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6. S. (12:59) Can you explain what day and night are?
R. Simply put, if it shines a bit more to us it's called day and if we are in a state where spirituality doesn't shine to us, it's called night. Although there are additional important definitions, in practice this is what it is. Clear as day if I don't know exactly how then it is as night but here you also have work already, how do I approach the Creator in the daytime, how do I do it at nighttime. It's possible that night is more important work because I can't see, I can't feel, it doesn't shine to me but the building of the vessel, in the preparation of the vessel is something I can do specifically when I'm in the state of the night. Then as a result what I'm doing at night I get what we called day. When the light shines according to how I prepare my vessel during the night and during the state of darkness where I couldn't feel anything in spirituality. I have done various efforts, I've put in various efforts and accordingly I discover my attitude toward spirituality. Where I don't require the light, I'm willing to work at night in the dark. As long as I can have a place for. Work where specifically from darkness, I can express my attitude towards bestowal, towards the Creator. So, in that case night becomes from a state that doesn't shine to me into a state that is more highly regarded where I can yearn for and make actions towards the Creator.
Therefore, it says the person should bless over the bad as well as the good, if their various degrees of darkness come to me, I have blessed them because now I can show myself and others, the Creator, just how much I am yearning for work. and not for fulfillment. Also, at night I can understand a bit more where I am, because in the daytime it is possible that I'm in a state of awakening, upliftment but it's a result of what shines to me and at night, if I am rising from it, it is a result of my work. Of course, the Creator shines to me at night but as a reaction and response to my efforts. Day and night are found inside of a person. He needs to show to himself and to the Creator just how much he is on the same level of work but during the day and during the night. This is the meaning of darkness will shine as light.
Excerpt 3 (17:08)
7. R. WSQ: (18:26) How can we help one another so that no one will fall but rather we will always strive to add as Rabash is saying here? Let's read it again and then talk between us in a small workshop.
8. R. (21:55) How does it happen that where 1/3 of the friends in Bnei Baruch, the third does not register for the Congress, how does it happen? Am I simply kicking the connection between us by that I don't want to be in the general vessel, why am I doing this? Each friend who did not register yet should answer this, why are there such people here who did not think this is a common action in connection? I have a list of people who registered and when they registered by the way, and a list of people who did not register yet, why is it happening, tell me? We can just speak pretty words and then come later with a complaint 20 years later, I have nothing because maybe you haven't started operating or working towards connection and throughout these twenty years so you didn't build any vessel. You have to build the vessel and bring a common deficiency. For us we see that still 1/3 all the people did not register. It appears like nothing but in the process of registration, I connect something of myself of my awareness of my desire with the others. You have to pay attention to those little things. It's not like I'm turning on the computer, I sit down and I watch but what did I do in that direction at least? I still don't get it. But of course, we started the lesson with a friend who came up rightfully from his heart. I've been hearing you for 20 years and I have nothing. What did you do, what are you waiting to hear from us? Did you reach the degree of hearing? Did you try to reach it?
Excerpt 4. (24:50)
9. R. (26:29) Is there room for asking about the results or should we ask only about the possibility and opportunity to bestow? Because if we're asking about the results, meaning where what is I have coming to me, rather I'm asking none of that but on how much and in what way can I bestow, can I give, can I connect, can I contribute myself. That should be the question.
10. S. (27:13) He writes to us that our main weapon is the prayer, an outcry to the Creator and beforehand you talked about only the additional deficiencies are what counts so how can we get to that?
R. By connecting even more to the environment I have nothing else to get deficiencies. I have nothing with which to develop my own desires. My desires for spirituality are from the broken vessel and as much as I try to connect with them. Accordingly, I can discover my correct attitude towards connection and we have no other way and it comes after many years. That's why Baal HaSulam writes 10 and 20 years, he doesn't want to write more but in truth, also a person might need 30 and forty years to labor and toil until he understands and serves an impulse and succeed because advancement in correction is not so lengthy as the preparation. The preparation is exhausting, it is long but later you can advance in the speed of light, almost.
S. Here it seems as though those beats, the addition we're talking about it is not something from the outside external because externally we do connect between us quite a bit, a lot, we have a schedule we have less than two meetings on Zoom, but here it talks about some internal addition?
R. Can't you understand the important thing is the connection of the heart, what does it mean that I connect to someone? Does this mean that the friend wants to connect with me, perhaps, but this phone call in the morning before the lesson when he wants to wake me up to the lesson because that is what we agreed on, it says something but it doesn't speak of the level of connection the obligation, the tendency for our help. These are in your things we have to develop between us and you can learn from the other about anything here we can turn to the Creator. We have to constantly collaborate with the Creator to pull him into each and everything that exists between us.
S. There is a desire that in the Congress or even now, we will have this addition but we're gathering here together, so how can we take advantage of this opportunity and to bring about these beats, these additions in the heart and it's not that we just gather and go through the time?
R. I don't know, you are touching on things that only you could want and demand and investigate and request from the Creator towards the friends I cannot get into it. I can repeat the same words that you probably heard many times already. The important thing is to remain with the questions and to constantly renew them on a higher and higher level and demand each time the scrutiny of the questions, the scrutiny of the answers. There's no more than that. Insist on the question
11. S. (31:29) In the last sentence it says to strengthen oneself in prayer an outcry to the Creator, what does it mean to strengthen?
R. It means to connect ourselves and attach ourselves as much as possible with our inner desire, our inner tendency between us. To the internality of the connection between us, which is the Creator, Boreh, come and see, needs to be revealed there. Therefore, we need to attach our desires together as much as possible to be as one man in one heart who expects the force of connection to appear there, one for all called the Creator because it cannot happen any other way. It doesn't reveal itself any other way, also doesn't exist, the concept of the Creator, without the creature. The Creator is Boreh, come and see, who should come, us and see what, see what is revealed from the connection between us. Therefore, we have nowhere to cry to before we connect and when we try to connect where do we, who do we cry out to, to the point of our connection.
We are making the Creator, that's what the Creator is saying through the Kabbalists and we hear it, you have made me. Very strange sounds like heresy against all religions and understandings, what does it mean we make the Creator. But yes, until we build him before us, we won't begin to discover the upper force through that connection. You get it because that's the only way he's revealed relative to us. We have to focus, create this focal point in which he is revealed, otherwise Boreh, come and see is not revealed. That's why I'm so concerned about all of us making a connection and registering and doing all these common actions together. That's why it pains me that there are those who speak nicely about but are you doing these things in practice and if not, it is a waste of time. These things will fail.
S. Is it possible to say that every strengthening of the prayer comes from the strengthening of our hearts?
R. Of course.
12. S. (35:02) Whether to serve the friends is the entrance to spirituality that we don’t, see?
R. Precisely correct, you said it nicely, in this that I search the friends, I get closer to the entrance to spirituality, it exactly stands before the door that opens to reach spirituality. It will be precisely like that and the main thing in this is consistency, a lot of time as much as necessary because we are very bad and egoistic souls. You see how much we need to speak until it reaches the heart just a little bit, maybe just around the heart and not actually the heart itself. You see everyone how you get up like a beast until you reach the lesson and begin to read and slowly the emotions open up and begin to feel the friends more, not even the friends but the necessity to connect with them and that also disappears after a minute. We need each one to desire the state of connection and each one to care that it will not disappear from any of the others as I am responsible for the other. This is called Arvut that each one is concerned for the others and only in such a way do we build a vessel to re-enact to bring to life the vessel of Adam HaRishon, to restore it. It is unbelievable that we have received to be the parts that find and establish and build this vessel, to build the foundation for the entire vessel.
Excerpt 5 (37:49) Twice
13. S. (39:58) To ask about what you asked earlier that not everyone registered for the convention, why in spirituality is there such a calculation that we need to be considerate of everyone even though you haven't registered. Why can't we just be considerate of those who managed to do the action?
R. The king is found among the nation where many tens who are truly excellent and I don't want to make a list or something, we don't need that. We simply need to appreciate everyone. But through the corporeal actions we can check ourselves, signing up to the Congress doesn't demand anything of a person but just to enter the link and register, doesn't cost money.
S. Whoever participates in the payment of the Arvut system does not have to pay and anyone who does not has to pay a symbolic price.
R. Anyone who doesn't participate in the Arvut system is not really participating with us, we need to see some system of ours that exists, we give it life and maintain it, from it we receive and maintain and this is how it must be. I am not certain I very much hope that after we speak now whoever did not register will do so.
S. Simply about the principal from what you said earlier, it appears as if there are excellent tens and things are wonderful but because not everyone did this small action of signing up or registering even though they are tens, we won't succeed, why is the calculation as such?
R. Because the calculation is on the general vessel that's 60 or 70% of all of the tens registered participating in the Congress in a serious manner so certainly whoever participates succeeds. There is a calculation of each and every 10 but because the king is in the general of the nation and the light works on the general vessel, it pains me that there are those that don't register and by this that caused a great harm to themselves not understanding just how much they are shooting themselves in the foot, that they cannot progress. Here he has a vessel that is advancing him, he is in the car and advancing but if he's not sitting in the general car, he has a problem. Don't call me 20 years later and tell me why have I not progressed? I'm not going to go check everybody's file and say why, there is a calculation above.
S. Let's say those people that didn't register why is the calculation not with him why is the calculation on the collective?
R. it is also with the general because he harms the general, we see this in many articles how can it be that he is in the general and looking down on the collective action and also the general is at fault here, why are they not influencing each one and checking and reminding each one to participate in the correct manner. Especially when it doesn't cost money, it only costs effort to register.
S. If I didn't register, I'm hurting myself or everyone?
R. You are harming everyone and as a result very much harming yourself as well.
S. What is right to demand after 20 years of study?
R. Demand of yourself why have you not demanded of others, after I have all the writings before me and I have received all of the explanations, what more do I have left to do but to perform and execute it. In this it is how a person thinks that he can come and demand. You can come and demand correction on your soul, but other than that, I am sad and broken and I can't connect with others. I very much request connection with others to return to be a part of the corrected Adam HaRishon. if I request in such a manner of course if I request it truly from my heart, from my heart I see no problem to receive an answer.
S. What to do if I feel damaged or harmed after 20 years?
R. That the result is dependent on you and the Creator through the group so please perform, whom are you turning to as you can't even turn to the group because the group that is before you is what you see in your corrupted vessels. If you would see them corrected in your corrupted type you would see that same group that is truly like the group of Rabbi Shimon. It all depends on your attitude.
S. How to demand for myself and not expect something from others?
R. According to the first rule besides man there is only the Creator and so he sees friends, he sees a copy of himself in the abstract upper light and each and every friend that I see, I see myself on the white background, I don't see anything else ever. I need to simply bring myself to correction, that the friends will look to me like an angel and then also I will be like an angel.
S. How do I change my perception from being complaints all the time to just being thankful to grasp that I'm standing here sitting before the greatest of the generation?
R. That depends what role you are found in, if you are in a role that you are organizing our corporeal life of the organization, the video or audio systems or other systems, connection through the computers, then you need to see it in a corporeal manner. But if you are talking about the spiritual society then you need also to receive an impression from our spiritual state and also in these spiritual states you have a few approaches. All who sees fault sees it from himself, on the other hand you need to see those same impressions from most of the people that you are disconnecting yourself from all of these scrutinies in a personal manner and you listen to what they are talking to you passing on to you in a manner that is simply like an administrative action. There are many things in this.
14. S. (50:17) You said the 10 needs to participate in that convention and the calculation is with each and every 10, where is the seriousness of the participation in the 10?
R. Each person in each 10 in the entire vessel in general needs to make an effort from the connection between us to bring me maximum benefit, meaning I come to the Congress as a gathering of the general group that is directed to the end of correction.
15. S. (51:46) A friend is asking how to use the advice of the teacher to implement in the connection but each time that I try I see that if a friend is not interested it is not possible to do, how can I convince the friend?
R. Give him such examples that he will also want the correct connection.
16. S. (52:22) The matter of a certain percentage of friends who have yet to register to the convention is this indifference to the convention or lack of work in the 10?
R. Scrutinize it could be this and that or either This or that or there could be more excuses. It could be that they're looking down, I don't care, I'll register later, this is called that you are getting distant from the mutual collective action which is the main thing in spiritual attainment. Why was the vessel of Adam broken, to give us the opportunity to connect because in our we are returning to adhesion with the Creator to the extent of our connection create the Congress is that same action that we want to connect together as one man and one part, that this desirable revealed an upper force, come and see, and this needs to be in the action. So why are we not drawn to that same action as I'm talking about this today, let us check where we are more looking down at the connection between us because this is the action that is directly towards the revelation of the Creator.
17. S. (54:13) Is it possible to say during the day I am in a hunt against the thoughts that disconnect me from the 10 and when I identify them, I ask to correct them and this is a way to receive a matter of bestowing?
R. In the meantime, yes for this and there will be others and problems.
S. The fact that I don't see the answer I say to myself that I'm not supposed to see the answer but the opportunity to identify the shattering?
R. That is precisely the answer that if I work in a correct manner in my connection with the group and with the Creator then I will reveal before me each time broken vessels and states to use to progress more and more. I need to reach a state that I love it and I am satisfied who is an artist and expert that loves his work, because in this profession we are bestowing contentment to the Creator and I don't want to stop revealing my broken desires and all sorts of corruptions, I don't want this to stop. If it stops, I can't give contentment to the Creator the expert, truly the master who is he who loves his work, he who reveals things and enjoys from this that he has something to do.
18. S. (56:55) We wanted to say we are thankful to the Creator for bringing us to special times and are excited for the convention. Want to ask the Creator for the strength of connection and the force of love.
R. I am with you, thank you.
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19. S. (01:00:09) How do we know we are in an advanced state of true connection in the work?
R. Only according to the overcoming the problems you receive each time. If the Creator sends more and more, reveals more and more problems this is a sign you are progressing. There is no more as you can't know otherwise.
S. How not to fall to the illusions that we are actually doing something?
R. According to what you see that you are doing, only according to the same troubles that are revealed to you. You can check yourself only according to that.
20. S. (01:01:19) How important are the formal things like registering for the convention, the payment, the spreadsheets? Is this something we can demand?
R. Within the ten you can demand everything because you don’t advance without the ten. Everyone needs to look at the ten as his vessel and that if this vessel is not organized correctly then I have nowhere to advance. This is my basic vessel, my ten original Sefirot, and I see myself in the friends and of course I want to correct. There is the matter of my correction towards them and the mutual understanding, mutual sensation, perception of one another, and as much as we feel that we are one. These are very high things. We will reveal just how much we are incorporated in each other in the ten, why we are connecting, and how it is a result from connecting. In the meantime, it seems like we are doing it and this is not correct. There is nothing here on the side of man. The Creator places the person in the state and says, ‘take this for you,’ and the person needs only to cause connection.
21. S. (01:03:20) It seems like you are giving corporeal advice that is not connected to our spiritual work like registering for the convention, rather than emphasizing the importance of prayer and inner work. What do I do with that scrutiny?
R. You don't know how to scrutinize, thus you're not approaching connection, there's no vessel. That's what I am worried about. Truly, looking down on corporeal actions that speak of the internal spiritual state shows how much they are looking down at our mutual action. It's not even difficult as it doesn't cost money but just a little bit of effort.
S. Is there advice that the Rav gives that is not connected to spirituality?
R. None, what could it be? I'm here in the Bnei Baruch center and am constantly involved in many actions and decisions. I don't see anything that does not belong to spirituality. The entire organization exists only in order to connect humanity back as one vessel. You can see this tendency in each and every organizational action.
22. S. (01:05:40) How can we unite to create a beneficial prayer from the common heart of the ten?
R. You need to go over our material, to read and learn it together. Reading together will connect you and his Minyan, called the ten, will be ready to express one precise desire. All of our prayers are that we want to connect between us in one desire. We request the Creator to correct our desires to be in one desire and, accordingly, in that one desire we will begin to reveal Him. That’s the technique, called ‘one receives one.’
23. S. (01:07:00) We receive the Creator in the ten as a light that is projected from the hearts of the friends but we just heard from the Rav that the Creator is revealed in the connection between us.
R. I don't want to talk about such things. You need to scrutinize it between you. I can't stand such philosophies. You will enter the mutual desire and there you will reveal everything. I can't speak on such a level. You need to scrutinize between you and then work on the desires. Maybe you don’t feel why I am answering you like this but think and you will see. Your approach is incorrect.
24. S. (01:08:24) Is it correct that we need to not look at results but simply push forward with our heads down?
R. I don't precisely know how to explain what you're saying. Our goal must be more clear to us. We constantly advance in the force of connection, in the force of bestowing to the Creator, and think that we want to bring Him more contentment. Are we checking ourselves from day to day that we are forming from us a force of bestowal to the Creator more today than yesterday?
S. I didn’t hear a word you said as there was no translation.
R. Receive it later and you will see as there is no continuation to these words.