Morning Lesson February 21, 2023 Transcription 

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Preparation for Opening the Heart at the Congress - Selected Excerpts from the Sources. #2

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1. Rav’s Introduction: (00:33) Yes, we are finally reaching the opening, the opening of the Congress which is awakened and comes to us through the opening of the hearts in the Congress. The Gathering of the hearts is really the action that we have to make. It's the action that we always talk about the correction of the heart, of the broken Adam HaRishon whose pieces are we. So, we have to try to feel how far we are in our heart, that all that man has with his desires and thoughts, with all that he has got; this is called the heart. 

There is nothing outside the heart or outside the will to receive. And we have to connect these desires to receive, each one connects his and tries to feel the other, that's an indication of connection. And after we feel, ‘love thy friend, as thyself’, to that extent, we will feel the force that departed from us in the shattering, in the time of the ruin, the sin of Adam HaRishon, it doesn't matter how you refer to that, so we will connect the hearts above our desires, our egoistic desires and thus, we will once again feel the Creator as we correct this system. And in our common heart we will feel that there's one unique and unified force that dwells and that is the Creator.

That's how we have to advance together and this is the goal of our life, the goal of our existence, the goal of creation of all of the worlds and all of nature. And that's what we already wish to begin to attain, at least the beginning of it. All sorts of emotions, thoughts that belong to this process of the revelation of the Creator’s system and the Creator himself who dwells in it. So all of that is called opening the hearts. And around that we will feel the results from opening the heart. All sorts of other currencies within us that will begin to build, to grow and to be born like in every growing, living body, so the heart, the liver, the brain, the arms, hands, legs and so forth. We will begin to feel, that is, how we operate in all the organs of the heart to the extent that we want to be connected to a single system through them. 

And just as from a drop of sperm that develops in the womb, this way we will feel that from our small, inner desire, evolve desires for connection, for reciprocity and we will all feel ourselves that we are, as if developing like a unique kind of animal that develops within the upper force called the Creator. To the extent that we can be connected between us, to the extent that we can be connected to the Creator, we will feel ourselves as existing in a single body, in a single Creator. 

And that we are the pieces of the body that we call friends and then we will begin to better understand what is going on with us, what is happening to us, what does it mean to reveal that we are growing. Just like cells that grow in a living body, that we are interconnected, that we connect to each other so as to belong to each other, reciprocally, so that each one as much as he can bestow to the other, and then the other can bestow to the next one and so forth, as we proliferate, this way we build our single body.

 So imagine how there are millions or billions even of tiny desires, each of which develops, not on his own but at the account of connection to the other desires. And this is how it begins to grow. And then we begin to feel what is our calling, what is our goal, our development and how we, how we develop and where we need to go.

That's all, and then from this we will understand that in building ourselves, we are building the attainment of the Creator; we are starting to better recognise who is He, what is He? To the extent that He is close within us, to the extent that we are closer to Him, to the extent that each and every friend becomes important to me because he adds to me the resolution, the resolution of knowing the Creator. Each one brings me closer to the Creator by adding more and more recognition of Him.

As if dividing the picture to another 100, another 1,000 ,another 10,000 small pictures that come together more and more and more. And then, I see the picture of the upper world, my relation to the Creator through everyone enlarged in a clear, large picture. How do I see? Because I see everyone, meaning everyone, all of you, how you're moving and thinking and aiming, intending and feeling and all the changes in you. I identify there, a single upper root that awakens you and actually through that it is speaking to me. In this way we will get to know, ‘through the love of the created beings, the love of the Creator,’ and we will start recognising a single reality. And all of that comes from connecting the hearts. Therefore, he writes in  item 2: read it.

Reading Item #2. (11:18) “Through the wearing out of the hearts,..”

2. R. (12:05) It is still difficult for us to understand how it happens. What does it mean by the wearing out of the hearts? That I feel the other very close to me, I am still in an egoistic will to receive and I still think that what is good for me, is that I feel close and I've got nothing else for now, I don't yet have a second nature. So what do I do? How will I try to force my heart to be closer to the friend's heart, so much so that we will feel between our hearts heat, resistance,

that we want to connect because we understand that this has to happen, but we also sense that we cannot do it. 

That to truly achieve one heart is impossible and this way, when we nevertheless, try and are rejected by it and again we try to get closer and we are rejected from that again, by that, we begin to feel the wearing out or the rubbing of the hearts and how strong they are, how much they cannot enter each other. That actually means that the heart is ready for true connection.

We even see from our experience in life, spiritual life that is. That the more a person yearns to be closer to another and he has nothing that resists it from within then he easily connects to the others and finds some pleasure in that, some fulfillment, some purpose and he sees that it is good to be together, how else, the friends are all together and so forth. And these people usually don't go far. 

Those who go far are those people who have a strong heart, meaning very stubborn, very egoistic, it doesn't sense the other, it doesn't understand the other. That's why he was given the mind to grab hold of the principle, just the edge of the spiritual principle that we have to attain, after all, some thread of connection between us. And from the mind, from not allowing myself and the other to escape the connection, that we nevertheless have to be connected in order to feel and sustain the system of Adam HaRishon. So, from that we continue until a drop joins another drop into a great account and we begin to somewhat connect the mind with the emotion, and we see that they can go together, and that we have to be connected both in terms of desire and in terms of our feeling.

And that's how we come to the rubbing of the hearts, or the wearing out of the hearts. That means to the extent to which I make room in my heart for the friends heart: to that extent we can connect between us. And this is how we connect. There is a mutual form here of work, group kind of work and working with each other and also working with oneself. And that we already put into the preparation of the heart in the Congress. So, what does he write?

Through the friction of the hearts meaning that each one prepares his heart towards connection. Even of the strongest ones. Each one will bring out warmth from the walls of his heart by rubbing his heart in order to prepare it for connection with the friends hearts. And the warmth will ignite the sparks of love until a clothing of love will form. Then both of them, both of these hearts will then be covered under one blanket. Meaning, that there is no longer anything that separates between them, and what used to separate becomes a single cover for both of them, a single wrapper. Meaning, a single love will surround and envelop the two of them, as it is known that Dvekut [adhesion] unites two into one and then they seemingly have one heart, as if, I am mentioning that, that they are just meanwhile connected that way under a single cover. 

That cover holds them together and they as if become one body. It's like us in many, many, many different cells. Each according to its function, each according to its origin, point of origin. But they all begin to connect under a single body, where our skin covers us together and then we are considered a single body, a single structure. This way we will understand how we are built, how all of reality is built, and we inside of reality come to a structure called Creator and There is Nothing Else Besides Him.

3. S. (20:40) What does it mean that each one prepares his heart for connection?

R. That's what we just discussed. I prepare my heart towards connection, meaning, like we see how we build a house, not from bricks like today, from ready-made bricks but as they used to do. They would take stones of different shapes and sizes and they would grind them until they would match each other. And that's how they sorted them towards each other and by that they would build the walls of the house.

So, by the friction of the hearts, to make them match a single purpose, connection, path, everything that we need to achieve, how do we each need to make ourselves compatible to the others in order to build a common house, a common Kli.  So, we need the friction between the hearts, so that each one will examine how can he be connected to the others? What is unnecessary in him and what is missing in him? And by this individual work, this inner work on oneself.

Then he says, ‘even if it is the strongest ones, each one will bring out the warmth from the walls of his heart.’ To the extent that we understand the importance of the purpose of creation and this is what we have to do and we do that accordingly. And then each one cuts and adapts and matches his brick, his stone to the others. So he's not just looking at himself he is looking at himself with respect to others. How much can he take away from himself in order to connect to others and if he doesn't need to take away from himself he doesn't, and exactly how much and so forth. It's all about how to get into contact with the others. 

And so we don't need to think about everyone being like square bricks, but rather that everyone will complement each other, will be compatible to each other, so maybe each piece is not like a square but each one has a certain angle, a slope and so the other will match that. This means that from the first moment we can be in mutual work. That my work is not to check how straight is my friend, how square he is, but rather how much he matches me and I match him and I match myself to him. And if we can each match ourselves to the other, then we can build together, we can build a system for the revelation of the Creator within us. That's what we call a house or a temple; as it is called the house for sanctity. Meaning the revelation of the quality of bestowal between us.

4. S. (25:25) Every friend is in a different situation. What kind of connection do we need to build so that we can have a clothing of love?

R. For each one to match himself to others, to adapt himself to the others. That should be the situation. I don't know what needs to be in my situation, I cannot choose in me what preparations, what discernments, what shapes, forms to have in me, but rather the environment decides how, what shape I need to take in order to be incorporated in them. Clear?

So, you can even see it, maybe you know how ancient builders used to build. They would build not from these square bricks that we use today, one on top of another one and they were all built the same way, the standard size. They would rather build: I have this rock, so I match another rock with it, and then another rock to that, in this way as long as they are suitable for this kind of construction.

In other words not particularly squares only, so this is how we need to understand this building with our hearts. No heart feels that it has to be cut in such a way that whatever is not suitable for the other is cut off from me and likewise everyone, the way we build today. This is why we break all the bricks from nature and build out of it cement. We are left with only crumbs, powder and from this we build what we want with the standardized construction. In spirituality you can't do that. We see that perhaps we would like to do that with our ego but it doesn't work. In spiritual development, the real one, we need to, each one, to give him his own development, his own development and then to develop in a way that is suitable for him that it is he, and he will remain he, and the other one will remain as the other one, and the third one as the third one.

So we need only to remove the resistance between us, only the forces of resistance and then we discover that form of connection that the Creator wanted to have between us. Then, between us the form of connection is called the Creator is revealed, otherwise we don't discover anything of Him other than our own intellect in which no building can be done. This is why everything we build, we see that it is ruined, and in families, in social structures, spiritual social structures; in everything. So, what we need is only to know how to connect the heart.

5. S. (30:33) What you just said is to remove these forces of resistance. Well, l feel many times, that once you've got this yearning, that you want to connect in this great environment, this love of friends and then you have tears in your eyes and you really want to love the friends. On the other side here, you have this resistance and that can become a very great resistance. So how do we do this practically?

Like now when we are sitting here together, with friends, we are preparing for the Congress. Actually we are in the Congress already because we are preparing as well. How do we, this great rubbing of the hearts, how can we come to this process of this rubbing of the hearts to really, truly feel it and to be able to use it correctly, that we can overcome it, to reveal and to annul.

But how do we do this because it can be very difficult because we have lots of resistance. So what is our work to really overcome this rubbing? Point 1: how to come to the rubbing, and 2: how to overcome it, and how can we help each other practically? This is a very interesting state.

R. Try to feel that there is a wall in front of you and there is just one spot there for a single brick. And that brick is you. And you have to take on such a shape, in all of your dimensions, so that it fits that hole in the wall. 

That's what you need to do with yourself, to plug yourself to the friends that are around you and how many are there? 6 friends? 2,2 and 2 let's say 6. In spirituality it is much more, but let's say it is 6 and you have to take your shape from them. Meaning, you don't have a spiritual shape, but according to how much you connect and adapt yourselves to your friends and enter them like one Sefira, let’s say enters the rest of the ten, and they determine what you need to be, how you need to be shaped, how you need to give to them, to conduct yourself towards them and so forth.

And by that, you go into your spiritual work. You begin to understand that this work is actually the work of the Creator. That He keeps changing your friends towards you, and you by the friends, that He always positions towards you, so they will rub you; by them you will get to your own true, spiritual form. 

Well, ask more and whatever I can, I will add. I don't have that many words here but at least to make it clear towards our connection.

6. S. (34:50) According to the depiction you gave us about the wall of stones: I don't have my fixed point but it is caused by the shapes that the friends create around me?

R. Your form depends only on the others and so all of us together in this mutual way build the image of the Creator. Just think about it a bit more deeply. The Creator himself doesn't have his own form but rather we build Him, ‘you have made Me,’ it is said. And that is by making ourselves compatible to the others. By that, it is said, ‘that you have made Me,’ before that I did not exist. Meaning, who's doing anything here? It's only this law of equivalence between one to all.

S. How do I feel the kind of bulges of the friends correctly so that we come into a connection?

R. You cannot enter contact with the Creator unless you make contact with all the others. And to the extent that your heart is tough, to the extent that your heart is ready for spiritual work, then you have a greater difficulty in feeling the others, in beginning to relate correctly to being with them, and through connecting with them you have to reach a place where the Creator is revealed. And actually we build the Creator, as it is said, ‘you have made Me.’

7. S. (37:30) There was another big earthquake yesterday. Many houses were destroyed. Thankfully our friends are alright. Does that mean that we have to hurry to build our spiritual home? How do we interpret all these external ills?

R. Yes, the more we hurry in building a stronger connection between us and a connection can only be through our mutual desire to bestow upon each other, the more we build this connection, to that extent, we will be able to stop the revealing of the bad forces, the negative forces that are emerging from nature.

8. S. (38:38) How do I know what I need to do in order to not break my connection with the friends towards the Creator and how to not disconnect from this?

R. Only through work. We can say 1,000 words here but it won't make it clear. Understanding comes only through searching how to become closer to each other in our hearts, in a common desire, common goal, a common help, in a common prayer. If I pray for the friends, then by this, I advance, specifically by this. One who prays for his friend is rewarded first.

So, let's try to implement all the counsels of the Kabbalists and we will reach the goal quickly. Today it is opened amazingly before us. Look at what he writes in excerpt number three: ‘You lack nothing but to go out into a field that the Lord has blessed,’ meaning a place of work where we need to be. ‘And collect all those flaccid organs that have drooped from your soul,’ in the breaking of Adam HaRishon, where everything became separated, everything was divided.

‘And join them into a single body,’ but now it is already according to our effort. In that complete body which we will build, the Creator will instill his Shechina [divinity] incessantly, and the fountain of intelligence and high streams of light will be as a never-ending fountain.’ We will connect all of those pieces when we connect them all together, we will allow this streaming of the upper light and the Creator will be revealed in all of them in this entire system.

9. S. (41:37) Is our heart the one that opens or that we begin to feel in a much bigger heart?

R. It's the same. The more hearts that we can unite, that we can connect to ourselves, each of us, the bigger our hearts become. That's it.

10. S. (42:30) How can I match myself to the friends without cutting myself, that wasn't clear?

R. We adjust ourselves to one another as I drew here. What I wanted to emphasize here, is that each one has to kind of cut off from himself in order to make room for the other, and likewise each one sees in what way he removes himself to the minimum and adjusts himself to the maximum, to the others. So these qualities that we require, that we implement within us, make us a vessel, a wall, a home.

S. So I still have to cut myself?

R. Of course, but afterwards I discover what it means that I cut off myself, the thing that I had to cut out for example. I had to cut out of myself some piece and another piece. So, the pieces that I cut out from myself, these pieces, they were my stoney heart. They objected to connection with others and that's why I cut them out. And by cutting them out I join the others and from this I build a big vessel or a big whole.

S. You said in the beginning of the lesson about the strong hearts so when do you allow the heart to soften or do you keep this tough strong heart, I didn't understand?

R. The heart always remains tough but I decide that through special actions in the group, when I go to them, to meetings to Congresses, when I participate with them against my will against my will, right. When there is resistance here too from my body, this is my body right? And I have to cut out, cut off from it, at least I think so. But when I cut off from it my together with a friend so when we are all adjusted to each other then we are building a wall, we are building a construction, a building. So it turns out that I didn't remove from myself something that was good for me but something that was redundant in me and for a higher goal so I see that it is worthwhile to remove these qualities from me, these desires etc.. So that together with us we adjust ourselves to a higher level of togetherness of a higher Kli, a higher vessel. And this is how we build it.

S. So we have to go towards everything through resistance?

R. Everything happens to resistance

S. You always want the opposite, you always want to go away and you always go to the friends?

R. Yes until we begin to understand and also distinguish external forces for example why do we have earthquakes? An earthquake, where does it come from, why does it come, why does it come specifically here etc or other things like a pandemic or a fire or a tsunami etc.. Until we can understand all the reasons for all those incidents and be able to resist them in a different way then we do now, now we are building force against force and it is not good. We have to adjust ourselves internally so that all of nature's forces will work for us in our favor from the outside. In other words we build such breaks our hearts we build our hearts into such breaks that they will be as a vessel for the revelation of the Creator and then the Creator on the outside will be external on the outside and as much as he will be internally from within inner light and surrounding light. They will come closer to each other so that these walls are the boundaries between us the boundaries will not be separated but will be in order to distinguish how different we are from The Creator in our nature but how in our desires we want to be similar to him. 

S. But if we want to work with, for him, with joy?

R. By all means, can we do it?

S. But joy means I want to enjoy is the will to receive?

R. It depends on for what you enjoy. If I adjust myself to the friends and we see that we're all building the house of the Creator together that we are building and building and building by each one adjusting himself to the place that the Creator will fill and I enjoy it.  It is as if I take off from me all those thoughts desires actions that interfered with the revelation of the Creator and interfered with the connection between us. Another words the more I work the more I build the place for the Creator before that there was no place for him.  There was no place for him in the world.

11. S. (50:44) The more I match my heartbeats to the friends I am afraid that I will draw them downwards towards to my corporeal flaws, is it possible to influence each other badly in terms of our connection and how to avoid it?

R. We avoided by being with the friends and trying to be build according to their shapes to add your own break into the place where it should be but all the brakes around you are your friends and they determine the shape you should eventually take. It is like we learned in the 10 Sefirot. Let's say I am the Sefira of Hod, what is Hod? no one knows, Hod there is this Sefira: Hessed, Gevura, Tifferet, Netzach, Hod. well, but if I adjust myself to Netzach and to your Hod that I Hod understand what I need to be in between and this is how we build the 10 Sefirot. We build the 10 10 Sefirot this is the basic block building block of creation in it we discovered the inner life which is called our Creator and we magnify him and adjust him by connecting other blocks until we begin to see the complete reality which is revealed before us in all of its manners above time and place above everything. This is what is about to be revealed to us but we have to be in this building in this revelation we have to be in this we have to participate in this, wise brave participants and together and you will see how it will go with joy and easily if it is not easily then it is a sign that we are not working correctly.

12. S. (53:47) This wall is it already there and I just need to match my stone there and put it in?

R. Yes, if theoretically I relieve myself of all of my ego then I am automatically like a block of butter among everyone around me there are many many blocks of concrete or you name it and I am a block of butter. I enter and everything fits this is ideally. If I have no will to receive only a desire to bestowal to adjust myself to everyone to truly adjust myself to everyone. It happens if we want to enter a new group for example which is new for me so I enter with the soft spirit to help others so that I will have my own place there and etc. But with our will to receive the opposite happens then we begin to discover to show our own egos our own desires until we soften up until we acquire until we get pressure from everyone etc. But if I I just myself to the 10 it is a sign that I have certainly have find my right place and I am in the right place and I am advancing correctly. But we only need to go from the love of people to the love of the Creator.

13. S. (56:12) Can we say that the definition of connection is to see the friends as righteous and always try to connect to the friends vessels?

R. Yes but it is not in an absolute way meaning with your eyes shut no no that is incorrect because I have to constantly connect to them and adjust myself to them and they have to adjust themselves back to me. So each one towards me and towards everyone else, so this work is mutual work it is not that simple. And we become experienced in this work and in the end why because we have to constantly change ourselves towards the Creator so that behind every single break every single person and every single friend stands the Creator and he is the one who changes himself towards us he is playing with us in this way. He is influencing us and demanding of us changes. So this is why we need to try to be in constant inner movement and between us in the 10 and from our 10 to come closer and connect and change with other 10s. And you need to see to it because I see from my place I may be seeing something incorrect incorrect but we also need to see that all of our 10s are as 10s that are not necessary connected into the 10s right next to them. Let’s say all the Russian speaking 10s, all the Trukish 10s or Belarus which is somewhere in the corner and we do not really know what is happening to them rather things need to be a little bit more mixed. Just like when we cook when we cook we need to constantly stir It we need to constantly stir It and then we get something common, something final.

14. S. (59:39) How to understand that specifically the environment defines my form and meaning that everyone needs to be the same?

R. Yes, you simply need to imagine it ,depict it to yourself, go into the internet and look for this kind of ancient construction that they used there. What was it? You never seen such things? They used to use it 5,000, maybe 10,000 years ago, that’s how they used to build, because it was very difficult to polish the rocks so they would match the stones with one another.

S. It is just that the echo begins to yell as soon as you as if you are trying to make everyone the same and there's no coercion and spirituality?

R. I have nothing else to answer we have spoken about it so often I have nothing else to say. Of course we have to change our egoism and we need to adapt it to others adjusted to others and it's true that there is no coercion in spirituality but there is coercion in corporality. On the corporal desires of course there is coercion, what can you do? until we do it nothing will happen, No coercion in spirituality does not mean that I'm in spirituality.

S. In principle the 10 has a permission not to make everyone the same but to straighten out some people a bit?

R. Those are very complicated terms, we have to see it from our lives out of your willingness to connect between you. This is the most important thing, the main principle is that in the end you need to be together, one wall, one construction, that’s it. Not that each one does not want to change towards the others because it is not spiritually, spirituality is precisely when I adapt myself to the walls of everyone and then I find my real place, real place in the structure of the Adam HaRishon.

15. S. (01:03:13) When we bring the bricks together what needs to be from my prayer outwards to serve the other bricks strengthen them, help him?

R. It needs to be a prayer this needs to be a prayer that I am asking to adjust myself to adapt myself to the shape of the others so is to add to always add them up to the form of the 10 Sefirot.

S. And in such a way you ask for the common house?

R. Then it will be for the common house, of course!

16. S. (01:04:07) I still cannot understand how can a person change himself? on the outside you can do play a part and wear a costume but how do you make this inner adjustment?

R. I understand you that it is difficult, it is impossible if not for the help of the Creator. Just as he created you with all of your qualities and all of your foundations so he can change them and only he. This is why what you have before you is only a prayer.

S. Is it not possible to be active in this possible?

R. What can you?

S. To basically be active in this process it is just a prayer and waiting for a change from outside?

R. A prayer is the most active action that can be in reality, no act is more active than a prayer with your hands and legs you cannot change anything, you can only disrupt everything. Only with prayer. If we know how to turn to the Creator and make the right connection with him, the right contact with him, that’s it, we have nothing else.

S. So how to reach the correct prayer? We have so many prayers in our minds the friends the spiritual work just some corporal prayers too?

R. It is all one prayer it is all one prayer to turn to the Creator to fix everything.

16. S. (01:06:16) The confidence with the friends sometimes leads to lack of importance towards the friend it is like a child who pays no attention to his mother. So we do not take the account the beauty of the friends. How do we not lose the importance of the friends? 

R. Without him we won’t reach our goal. First of all we have to pull him into this egoistic motivation, two because the Creator chose him and brought him to the group at least those two.  We need to grip on to those two.

17. S. (01:07:17) The matching of the different bricks in corporality it is a set space and here we the space for the brakes is always moving and my brick is also moving all the time. So it is like I always have to run after something that is changing and the glue is the Creator and that the glue that also sometimes escapes so we have to put everything together while in motion and keep adapting myself?

R. It is because there's no stability in you start doing it methodically and you will see that things are not so confused and changing but rather everything is in front of you in the thorough way and you can arrange everything and everything is in your hands.

18. S. (01:08:30) Even though it is not exactly the topic but the question is the Creator gives King David the bricks to build a Malchut and King Solomon built the temple, what is the meaning of the degree of King Solomon as he built the temple?

R. I do not care about that now we're not talking about his degree we are talking about our work.

19. S. (01:09:30) When I match myself towards the friends there is a shape but we cannot see it how can we feel that shape?

R. When you are together when you agree on something together and somehow you advance together on the same path.

S. Meaning these qualities we feel them we feel that this wall as our states?

R. Yes

20. S. (01:10:18) I feel that I am polishing myself towards of friends to be compatible with them but there are specific bricks that I cannot shape myself towards and as soon as I try to shape myself they are in a different shape and we cannot match to each other. Why does it not happen?

R. Why it happens I cannot answer now because I cannot see the complete form I know what I need to do in this specific case in order to adapt myself towards the friends near me, and I need to work in this way all the time

21. S. (01:11:16) I believe we have gone through many conditions in this generation, corona wars and earthquakes. How  will we build our home under these conditions?

R. How do we build it? This is exactly what we are talking about today. You are asking exactly about the question that we are discussing today. This is the structure that we have to acquire by each one adapting himself, adjusting himself to the friend, we will discover how we are building a group a ten a small construction from which it later becomes a big building.

22. S. (01:12:23) This rock in the wall is through our annulment towards the friends?

R. In the wall it’s our annulment before the friends, it’s annulment in order to participate. I don't just annul before the friends just like that, I annul toward the participation between us so that there’s something common between us. Participating comes from the word ‘common’ in Hebrew so before that form I annul, okay. It is very important. I do not annul before any friend. So it turns out that through this work I annul before the Creator.

23. S. (01:13:39) It is about this feeling of adjustment and adaptation. You gave many examples, you can let’s say cut off the hard parts, the stoney heart parts, so it is constantly searching for what is that hard part is in my heart that needs to be cut off. On the other side you said okay, to fit, you can have butter, many examples of the lava the rubbing of the hearts, the warming of the hearts so the hearts will melt and it will fit. So what is this process? Is it the weakening of the heart through the rubbing of the hearts or is it chiseling off the hard parts? It can also be both, it's a   searching process.

R. We advance from a desire to connect and so we are constantly ask for connection between us and whatever way is suitable for connection, that it must be for a connection, to this we agree. If we have to reach friction let there be friction on us. If we need to come to connection through cutting, we are willing to be cut. If it is by being heated up so we become as lava we’ll be as lava. The important thing is to go through the connection so in the end we do not need to think about terrible things we need to only know how in our most external way, most superficial way, to undergo an external to change to adapt myself a little bit to the friends, so that I disrupt them interfere with them, and we connect with our forces to take one step forward and in that one step forward we will see ourselves as belonging to one goal, to one connection, so that one Creator can clothe in us. Only one step forward, and afterwards another step, and then another step. and by this we come to building the temple.

S. So actually it's about really annulling yourself, what we just talked about the participation, so when we are in the congress we are now here, we are participating together in this and we're helping each other and then you chisel or you warm your hearts or whatever that you fit exactly this participation and that’s dynamic process. This is what you are trying to tell us, constantly adapting and searching how to fit the purpose of the goal of and participating actively in that and the prayer is really here to help.

R. Excellent, that is actually the topic.

24. S. (01:17:39) They just showed a picture of the bricks that are connected in a way that you talked about here. I grew up in Jerusalem and this is a very familiar thing to see in Jerusalem so that each stone adapted to the other, and I wanted to know, we want to build a home and we see how much efforts the friends are making to come here, to gather together, external and internal efforts to implement this amazing opportunity we have to build a home,exactly as a direct result of things that are happening on the outside, so if I understand it correctly there are two process that have to take place. One of what I heard that you explain, one thing is to cleanse myself from desires that I do not want to connect, and on the other hand to find and refine the desires that do want to connect to others and those are the ones I work with. Is that right?

R. Exactly, we're using the desires of others that can suit us and those that do not, then we remove them gradually from us and from them. That is how, over time, the correct integration is built and the walls of the building.

S. Up to here it is all very rational so the question is, we say that the resistance of the sparks brings more spiritual reward, how do you sort it out correctly?  

S. I will repeat so now we said the desires that do not want to connect we just cleanse them we said them rub them and do not use them. We learned that in the place of the resistance you can connect even more?

R.  We have not reached such states that we can connect about above the resistance, wait.

S. The first stage is to search for our mutual points where we can connect around those inner desires?

R. Yes, Let's do a break [Rav pointing to his throat] 

25. S. (01:24:23) You mentioned that we are building the Creator and that of ourselves we have to become the walls. What is this action of building the Creator? What do we do that builds Him?

R. Explain to me what is the difference between the bricks that we switch to connections and build some form with them, according to our understanding and what is the home which is already the place already suitable for residents of people? That is something completely different; This is a thought, a desire that turned into matter It turned into an idea which is both spiritual and corporal together. This is how we build the Creator. From this idea that of course it all comes from Him and subconsciously comes from and starts as an idea to know who am I, what am I, where am I and so on. So that it will only belong to the speaking, not to the still, vegetative, and animate although for them it exists naturally to some extent. Like seashells, crabs and those that live in their homes and  those that live in holes in the ground or in trees and so on, until we build the structure in which is like humans: Something that is similar to it does not exist in nature but human beings created it. Houses for humans. so, there is a matter here for coming closer to the form of the Creator; to understand who the upper force is? That is how He created us and through our work, through our creation we can reach a state that we can understand Him. As it is written “you have made me”, you build me. so that is how we gradually reach this structure of man and that is it.

S. What is the exact form of the Creator because we say He is formless?

R. A person is similar to The Creator, he builds from himself the form from which he understands who the Creator is; he attains the Creator through himself.

S. What is this home that we’re building that inside the Creator dwells?

R. Our soul, our desires which are all in order to bestow. They were not prior, prior to that they were all in order to receive and we turn them to in order to bestow, and by that we build the building that the Creator fulfills; and then what we have in the building and what the building is on the outside becomes the same thing, the light and the Kli are one.

S. When we succeed to build a vessel of ourselves does that already cause the Creator to dwell there?

R. Yes. As soon as the Kli and the light are equal in something then the light feels the Kli.

S. Earlier when you drew those bricks you said that we have to slice off everything that doesn't suit  the connection with the next stone, so what is this slicing action where I slice whatever is not good for the connection?

R. I correct my nature, my character, everything that is in me.

S. What am I doing in order to adapt to them? how do I put myself into this action to slice all these things off?

R.ou're checking in what you can be related to your friends so that he will be your friend and what is not suitable you just remove, you slice it off.

S. How do I slice it?

R. You don't want to use it.

S. What does it mean that I don't want to use it, and what then?

R. If you see from your connection with a friend that you have such qualities that are not suitable to use by the friend, then you don't use them.

S. So we both do not want to use what is not good for our connection?

R. Yes, yes, and that is everyone; every single break becomes a brick for building.

S. And how do we reach a state that we already become walls, how do we become a wall? What connects those two stones together?

R.ou do not need any connection. You do not need any connection.

26. S. (01:31:58) On the next degree of incorporating do we come out of the same form that we had or do we start everything from the beginning?

R. We are constantly changing.

S. So it is like a new composition?

R. Yes. in each and every moment. 

27. S. (01:32:32) We heard that the stones have to be matched up to one another, how can we help the Creator to match those stones correctly for us to connect? 

R. To come closer to the friends in any possible way. To come closer to the friends, male to male, and female to female. 

28. S. (01:22:11) Continuing the previous question, what is holding the stones together?

R. Nothing. Each one holds on to the other; it doesn't need to have matter between the two. Matter is when there is not sufficient compatibility between them so then you build matter that glue them together even though they are not in contact, not in sufficient contact that in fact  need to be connected in such a way. That there should not be any matter between them.

S. (01:34:00) We see that when we look at that style of building, what holds the structure together is the force that pushes them towards one another from all directions. But this Force exists only when the structure is whole. 

R. If you are constantly thinking of this complete structure and building it that way that each time it will be a complete structure even though it is partial, it will still hold on.

S. Where is the Creator?

R. The Creator's is in, that we can’t adhere to one another without the Creator. The force of the Creator is what adheres them.

S. This is the force that rubs the stones?

R. I don't know I don't want to get into that, there's friction there isn’t friction.

29. S. (01:35:06) What is the force that a person has to give and what component does the Creator add in order to cause this connection between us so we stay united.

R. Be in Partnership, don't divide the work but to be in connection of the work all the time.

30. S. (01:35:45) You said that it is important that I do not annul before the friends but participate between the friends. Why not annul? What is the difference? 

R. I do not continue. I continue what is mutual between us.

S. So I have to recognize it. It's something special. I know the friend, I know his qualities, I can annul to that, what is this participation?

R. You do not need to annul, you need to suit yourself to him and him to you and for the both of you, you will have the continued of the building.

S. That might be revealed because I do not exactly understand the work.

R. That is how you build, I'm sorry to say this is how you build otherwise you're not building.

31. S. (01:37:15) [..No translation] ..We're talking about lowering our inner qualities, not changing the external qualities, right?

R. We are not going to argue about this.

Reading item #4 (01:38:14) “You must always stand guard all day and all night..” twice

32. R. (01:40:14) You must awaken the hearts of the friends until the flame will rise, that is our work. I need to give examples of Awakening to each and every friend until I see that they are ignited and that they do the work from their side, from their side.  And by that you will be rewarded with Awakening the love of the Creator upon us. That accordingly, I awaken the Creator towards me for all of us, for all of the 10.

33. S. (01:41:24) He says that you have to stand guard during the day or the night and he connects it to Awakening the friends. What does it mean to awaken the friends in the day and in the night.

R. That both when it shines and when it does not, we still see in front of us the purpose of the connection as the only goal that we need to stabilize in every single day, every single moment, all the time only connection. We do not like anything that is building ourselves in this structure of the soul of the first man. We need to constantly engage in building to be one man in one heart.

34. S. (01:42:27) The more we study we fear that this stony heart is hard, that it is square. That more than the friends, that we need to adopt ourselves to the Friends. More than the friends are doing towards me, I need to do towards them. So I want them to change for my own benefit, so what should we do when we pay attention that, how not to run away from this? How to keep going?

R. I understand. I think this comes from fear, from good fear that I will enter my ego and start dictating to them the form of work in the connection between us which is suitable for my ego and not what it should be in the connection between us all. Therefore, I think that we need to work together and not each one feels that they connect to the other. That here it is talking about the fact that we are together under one leader, under one governance and now we're talking about the fact that we are coming closer to this concept, this idea of the Creator. That is it. We are passing on to one another our impressions to the extent that we are not even willing to go one step and we're moving forward and we're holding on to one another to not fall and not to slow down even for a single moment and for the advancement for everyone to move forward and that is what he speaks of here.

Reading time #5 (01:45:30) “At the end of the day this is a group of people who have gathered in a certain place..” twice

35. S. (01:47:36) He says finally at the end of the day.

R. It is not easy because it is like we are reminded how difficult it is for the Creator to connect the friends in the groups in all kinds of forms one towards the other after all the shattering and that it is great work to bring them closer to one another. It is not just forces of nature that have nothing in them. We come and they fall into place like magnetic forces, like the force of gravity. So this is according to inner forms before the shattering and after the shattering, in the end of Correction, and in the middle and all kinds of forms and how one helps another. All kinds of participations, who knows when they need to meet and influence they each one takes from the other in order to pass on to number 30 and from 30 to 50. And who knows when in return. This is so unclear that even today we don’t understand it even a little bit. What happens to us that from your actions we shall know you. Somehow from what we see, we can recognize that this we need and that we need. To start with, to say that we will break it and do it and divide it this way in some form one towards the other, we are not capable. This already is not the matter of the created being, but in order to attain godliness then how to come closer to it, to be this something that we can lean on than that we need to an extent to slightly attain that.

36. S. I'm looking around here in the study hall there is tables of friends from Spain, Italy, Russia, Kazakhstan, Siberia, from the United States, England, Holland and it's finally, it is after years of finally everybody's gathering and every moment another friend is coming in from another Country and another Country. How do we take this whole salad that finally have gathered after years of distance ,what the Creator gave us? How did we really turn this into one butter where the Creator can?

R. Also, that isn't us. We need to do things that are close to us, that are simple, that are clear and to try to do them daily and continue. And then we'll see after a few actions some summary. And after a few more actions, another summary. To whatever extent we are capable of, but we are advancing nicely. We are advancing nicely. 

37. S. (01:51:56) Thank you for the opportunity to ask. We say there's none else besides Him, so why are we trying to push the friends. It is as if we're not taking None Else Besides Him into account?

R. This is the matter of concealment that influences us. That it's not the Creator that influences us, but whomever is closest to us according to corporeal qualities, so what we need to do is to rise above the Corporal qualities and go under the influence of the Creator. And that is what will happen. It already is, we just can't identify it.

38. S. (01:52:57) Question about that wonderful example of the stones. I feel great responsibility for the friends to be able to adapt themselves and I wanted it to happen correctly. So how can we help one another? How can we implement this form of Arvut so this action of adapting oneself to the other will be successful?

R. This is practical work. You need to help one another and then to understand what needs to be done. When kids come to kindergarten, they are put together in a circle. They are told to hold hands and to sing some song, and from that their connection to the other begins and as well here in the group. It starts from afar. It is just for them to start singing together and clapping together and being uplifted. And here it’s the contrary. On the contrary, here to bring it closer to one another and we don't feel better as a result on the country, it seems like we're working against our egoism. You need to do such actions here in the group so that we will have these reigns. And as long as we don’t recognize in the greatness of the Creator and for Him, for Lishma and for that it's worthwhile working. It is not simple. I think that towards the end of this convention we will already be in some recognition, consciousness of, the importance of Lishma. 

39. S. (01:55:41) You said to keep day and night. It says that we need to be on guard day and night so she's asking how can you do this all the time, is this an intellectual matter or how can you feel it all the time?

R. It's just like with every big thing corporeal. If it's something of importance in my eyes, I don't forget about it. It is always in front of me as if I am beside it, the same thing. So another day and another day and eventually I get used to living in this constantly and in this gradual manner we also reach Lishma. It’s a feeling of the upper world. The main thing is persistence. The main thing is persistence. That is why society is so important, because if the society doesn't give us a strong enough atmosphere, so on our own we won't be able to do it. We need a group. 

Reading excerpt #6 (1:57:15): “The main path of repentance is…”

40. S. (01:58:15) In excerpt number four it says that a person needs to awaken the heart of the friends. With what quality can I awaken the heart of the friends?

R. Example, be an example to all the friends, the example you show them as much as I want to connect. That is it in that way I awaken their hearts.

41. S. (01:58:53) We have been talking the whole lesson about opening the heart, the friction of the heart, what else? Connecting the heart, building and mutual heart, is it our goal now?

R. Right.

S. What is this mutual heart, what is that organ?

R. That is the desire that includes all desires.

S. The heart is an organ from the whole body? Out of the whole body that we built?

R. I don't know what you mean. The heart means the desire.

S. Okay but we are building a body you said that we build a body?

R. The body is included from a desire and a thought and the part that implements.

S. So the heart is the first organ that we build in the body or is that considered building the heart?

R. Let's say the heart is the first organ, okay.

42. S. (02:00:10) It is Written in the quote to unite with each one and work the Creator in one heart. What is this action of working the Creator in one heart?

R. To bestow to the Creator or to try to come closer between us in order to bestow to the Creator meaning the action itself or the reason for the action that we all do it as one.

S. What does it mean to bestow on the quality of love? What does it mean to bestow upon the Creator?

R. To bestow to the Creator means to connect and ask of Him bestowal.

43. S. (2:01:17) In the article it says to have a brave heart, to have superhuman courage. What does it mean for us to have superhuman courage? Why do we need courage? What is a brave heart?

R. That is called the brave at heart, the people that are brave.

S. What does it mean? Why do we need to be brave? Because I have so many great friends here to help me. Why do I need to be brave?

R. Brave means that they can change their heart. That their heart is looking in one direction and they're turning it around to the other. My goal, my expectations, what is important to me, what was important and what I want to be today and want to be tomorrow, I want it all to be in my hands, I want to be above that, above what I want in the next moment and tomorrow and in a year from now. I want to be above that, I want to determine my future, I don't want to be some kind of just a part of creation, like wind.

S. So what sort of fear are you overcoming here, so what coverage do I need?

R. We are overcoming our will to receive eventually, the will to receive that only wants things that are convenient for him. In each and every moment what is convenient it chooses it, the egoistic desire but I want that what will determine the direction of my development from one moment to the next is walking towards the Creator and even if it's unpleasant and usually it is unpleasant like climbing the mountain or something that I need to overcome that, so I have no choice, I need, I am willing, I am ready for it.

S. Is it also building this courage to help the friends build the courage to build the confidence to be able to do this work of participation? This superhuman courage? Are those building blocks?

R. Above the superhuman strength, what it said, that we all want to overcome and uplift above our ego. That we don't want to be connected to one another in an egoistic form so it will be like a mountain of stones but we want to be connected to one another in order to build a building and the building is something else so we need to be shattered from the previous state and to build the building from it, the temple.

S. Is it my task, let's say to achieve superhuman courage or to give superhuman courage to the friends?

R. It is two tasks at once if I help the friends by that I build myself.

44. S. (02:06:13) We learned that we have a heart or a desire and part of that desire we connect with so it becomes softer and other we can't connect. So what you said, you spoke not of the walls that are in Jerusalem, there is some assumption that builders in the past knew how to soften the brakes and we also similarly need to soften our hearts and connect and the only way to do that is to create this friction between the hearts. What did the kabbalist try to explain to us when he said even the hearts of giants? We are engaging only in this. We have workshops, gatherings there, specifically, we need to realize practically the friction of the heart, so it's unclear what friction of the heart actually means, if you can explain that?

R. I do not understand the question in the end.

S. I wanted to ask what does it mean to create friction between the hearts for those that have this, let's say people who have a regular heart?

R. Rubbing in the hearts means to correct desires. The heart is the person's desire and correcting the desire in a way that they will be adapted to the friend's desires.

S. What the friction of the heart is a metaphor? Correcting the desires is a metaphor?

R. I'm not arguing with you, I'm explaining what is written and that's it. What you believe in that  you think yourself that you have to do, this or that, if the builders of today were right or the builders of the past weren’t, think about that yourself.

S. How can we create friction in our gatherings and our workshop?

R. Bring the desires close to one another as one man in one heart.

S. So approach it with softness and goodness towards people?

R. Not necessarily. Depends on the circumstances. To rub or frictions in the heart doesn't always mean to be nice.

S. You always said stoney heart. To rub two stones together, this is not clear. 

R. The stony heart is a heart that doesn't agree with anyone. 

S. That's where the sparks come from?

R. That’s where the sparks come from, the sparks don’t soften anything.

S. So what softens our heart?

R. Understanding the necessity to change.

Reading Excerpt # 7 (02:10:00): “One cannot correct one’s thought but…” twice

45. S. (02:12:08) In the psychological world we live in we see that the thought builds the emotion and the real world when we try to reach it we see that the heart will be directed straight to the Creator and we feel all thoughts to bestow contentment upon his maker. How do we always hold on to the heart straight to the Creator?

R. Through the thought.

S. But he writes here that thoughts I don't need to correct, even my thoughts are pulling me in all kinds of directions so how can I make my mind, my heart yearn for that place?

R. You need to correct your thoughts right? So where do you take the correction of your thoughts? If you come closer to the friends and they are directed towards giving contentment to the Creator and you are incorporated with them by that you correct your thought too.

S. So inclusion, that is what holds on to the thought and builds this emotion?

R. Right.

S. So how can this emotion be transferred to the Creator?

R. By prayer, through a plea. That is what he writes that when he corrects his heart to be in holiness so the heart can be the vessel for the upper light. It's not simple because every moment it leaves the heart, enters the heart, every time there's a bit of confusion and incorporation with all kinds of thoughts we have here in the air. It is all intensive serious group work what we are going through now.

46. S. (02:14:24) You said that I don't pay attention to what there was and what it will be. I want to rise above this to a heart above all these states. How can we build the future correctly and aim our hearts where to? How to do it?

R. Where to aim the heart towards?

S. You said that I want to build the future according to the Creator.

R. Through the group towards the Creator.,Depict the Creator as being in the center of the group and you are aiming yourself to Him through the group.

S. And this is the foundation of all of the decisions? 

R. Yes, that's the foundation of all decisions.

47. S. (02:15:36) We have two questions, please the friends are asking what is the difference between correcting thoughts or selecting a thought? That's question one.

R.Choosing a thought is the first action and correcting it it's the next action.

S. Question two, the question is: you said that persistence is the main thing. The question is what does the vessel called persistent consist of? What is it made of?

R. From a desire that keeps strengthening. that you are constantly concerned that the desire won't disappear.

48. S. (02:16:48) Today turkey five we want to reach out to you and give some proposal. We give great importance for our inner work in the ten and we would like to ask you if we may that at the end of every morning lesson, if you agree, you will give us some questions to think about or some thought for inner work throughout the day so that we will take this question and we will work with it throughout the day. Do you think it's okay? We want to ask if this can be some custom in the morning lesson?

R. I am delighted from your questions and from this request. We will do that. Remind me every time after the lesson because sometimes I can be confused with thoughts after the lesson but remind me and I will give you a question for the day.

49. S. (02:18:10) This is really, we're really glad to see you even though you're getting angry it is wonderful to see you. The question is: equivalence of form it becomes with respect to our request to our prayer to become similar to the Creator and the request and prayer is according to the environment?

R. Repeat please.

S. Is equivalence of form is that in relation to our request, our prayer to be similar to the Creator and is that built according to the environment that we are in?

R. I guess so. I guess so.

50. S. (02:19:20) When I study the friend like a sage he feels all of my everything. I always see the friend in front of me all the time. How do I become something efficient for the friend? How do I give him strength and how do I give him a good mood in the path?

R. We talked about it all the time, how to open the heart towards the friend, how to draw him towards me, how to come closer to him, how together we can enter this mechanism of everybody together and we will be… We need to try to think about it. Everything will be clarified in thought that we in such a way will build the connection between us that this connection can work on its own that will constantly participate in it and warm up this fire that from it we will always feel warmth and awakening and by this we will constantly rise each and every moment more and more because as the fire, a bon fire this is what we need to do. Okay?

51. S. (02:21:30) There is a small clause here that is unclear. When he corrects his heart and the heart will be clean, the upper light shines and the upper light shines in the heart and it grows stronger. Now, we have a convention: how do we do this and how can I correct my heart and desire in the convention? This is what we have a convention for but how do we do it practically?

R. Practically, simply open your hearts towards everyone without checking, without doing any… without any identifying anyone just open the heart to everyone.

S. What do you expect me to tell everyone how I feel?

R. Not you, let them work on your heart.

S. What does it mean? When there are random tens? I don't know the people I'm sitting with, people who are foreign to me they're not in my ten. How do I behave in that ten? You say that I need to open the heart and they need to open their heart, how is this done?

R. You need to try and open their heart. to accept them that your heart is like your home that you take the guests into your home.

S. Can you give an example from the past, from the future? How is this done? When someone comes to my house I give them cookies or something but what can I do here in the ten in this convention that there will be such quality from heart to heart. How should it be done? What should we be talking about?

R. I can't explain this to you. When I come to your home I expect there to be music, friends, happiness, a lot of food, refreshments and not that you are giving me cake and coffee. I wont come to you for that.

S. Maybe Vodka? Whisky?

R. Not even for that.

S. You're saying in these random tens it's not our regular ten...

R. It doesn't matter. There are random tens because they came from all parts of the world that is why they are random and they came for one goal that is why they are not random. It is not random; it's because they have something that draws them from where they are and brought them into one goal: the Creator, to find Him, to grasp Him, to come close to Him, to adhere to Him.

S. So we need to be in some form of how to say like Bnei Baruch Petah Tikva they are hosting all of the groups from all over the world. Is that what we're speaking of?

R. Yes, to come to us. 

S. Yes, to give a good feeling.

R. So lets hope you come and you can already come now. 

52. R. (02:25:28) So until the afternoon lesson what are we thinning till then? What should we have in our thoughts until the noon lesson? What we had here today? The preparation to open the hearts in the Congress. So what is the next stage? So why are you silent? It's written in excerpt 11: “the most important is the labor meaning to crave to labor in his work for the ordinary work does not count at all, only the bits that are more than usual which are called labor”. Meaning, if I work as usual like I'm used to between let's say breakfast and lunch and then from lunch till the evening I keep working that is not called work. Work is what I do above all my routine. So what effort can we make to connect between us above all our routine? And then by that way we will succeed, so let's think about that and I will see you in the noon lesson. Maybe I will have forces to do it instead of an hour, an hour and a half, two hours, let's see but everybody is invited. I hug you all and wish you all health and attraction towards the goal that the Creator will never forget about us and strengthen us.