Morning Lesson February 20, 2023 Transcription
Transcription is made from simultaneous translation which leaves a possibility for differences in the audio
Preparation for Opening the Heart at the Congress - Selected Excerpts from the Sources
1. Rav’s Introduction: (00:31) Yes, so let's start straight from the excerpt this will help us enter this spirit. I am happy that I can see you, all of you, and we will try to get into the spirit of the Congress even though it's still the time of preparation. I am happy that you're happy that we have a lesson, so please.
Reading Item #1 (01:05) “We must always awaken what the heart forgets..”
2 R. (02:12) We should feel how necessary it is for us to correct our heart, meaning how much even though I thought and I studied yesterday, and even before that for a long time, and more than once how much I should be connected with the friends. How much together with them I need to prepare myself, as it is written, ‘from the love of people to the love of the Creator.’ Currently, I still didn't prepare it enough. That I think of the Creator, of my role, about the purpose of creation: that I should yearn for it, get closer to it.
That I don't have yet, I don't have the heart that is ready, immediately, that it is self-evident. That this is how it is and it should be already incorporated with the love of friends that it already includes them, and this is how it wants to advance. It understands that the advancement depends on and it's determined by the magnitude of the love of friends that this is the foundation.
I wish we later build all of the other steps of nearing the Creator and the whole of creation. Therefore, here is the first condition: that we must always awaken what the heart forgets, what is needed for the correction of the heart which is love of friends. This is the foundation without which, if I don't stand firmly on it in the natural way, then I do not advance towards the end goal. I see you don't need to ask about this anymore. That is clear but well, yes.
3. S. (04:51) What is the matter of love of friends that he writes about here that it has the ability to correct the heart specifically?
R. What is it?
S. Yes, what characterizes the love of friends that it is specifically what is necessary to correct the heart?
R. It is coming out of my will to receive. When I arise above it and I rebuild myself on a new foundation which is love of friends. It's not yet love of others but rather these are the friends that I feel that this is the first stage where I can come out of my egoistic heart and become incorporated in something new, that it's not foreign. I already prepared myself, and I understood, and I felt more than once that this is not me, it's not my pure egoistic heart, it's not a heart or desire that is foreign to me there is something in the middle between this and that.
There is a ten, that I can enter it and I can be inside of it such that there are people who by their nature, they very much show it externally, in a very expressive manner with a great expression that they love, that they want to embrace, they want to talk about it and this is how they bring themselves forward, that's how they appear. And there are other people who refrain from this, that they cannot express their hearts in such an open way.
However, nevertheless, inside both these and those should feel, it doesn't matter how we see them physically on the outside but inside one should feel how ultimately, after many years, after many years, it can take Ten or 20 or even 30 years, that a person feels that he must already come out, he comes out and he can identify what does it mean to come out of his egoistic heart into the heart of the group. And he will be ready for the feeling of the Creator; prepare himself for the feeling of the Creator.
4. S. (08:55) How to be in constant readiness for the correction of the heart, we have another lesson, another meeting. How do we focus on correction of the heart to be focused on this?
R. This is according to the demand when I remember it. That I must be connected with the group, that actually this is the vessel, a small vessel, this is how it is a small vessel, in which I will feel the Creator of the world that it is all the group this wrapping, the volume of this cup; this is the group. If I feel that this is all I have in the whole of humanity, in the whole of reality, sorry, more internal reality, more external one, more general one, the reality of the worlds, that in the end it is all inside of the group.
I think about all the years that I went through, all in all how much I heard, how much I understood, each time just a little drop of what I understood and a little drop of that I didn't understand. That I feel how much these things are apparently very precious, and this is what we need to be inspired by in order to collect and collect and collect drops and drops of this feeling and in it in this feeling, we will then begin to feel the Creator.
S. In the upcoming Congress, what drops of sensation are we trying to squeeze, to squeeze out in our unique gathering?
R. What I'm talking about now, these two feelings, the feeling of the friends that I feel that I am becoming incorporated with them in heart and soul and earlier I didn't have, to such an extent such a gathering, coming closer, connection, demand. But now finally I understand it, and I even feel it a little bit, the entrance to this feeling; however at least more and more clear understanding that becomes emotional understanding.
5. S. (12:30) I wanted to ask: I heard you say now that we need to go from my own heart to the heart of the group. What is the heart of the group?
R. In a group we usually have a few friends that we feel more and others that we feel less. It could be that we are moving from the feeling of this world to feeling that is a bit more spiritual. If in this world I am closer to one particular friend, then with the other I'm closer to another friend. And this is how we, bit by bit, from the feelings and relations of this world that say, there’s Akoka and Shimon are close to me in terms of the broadcast, and in terms of materials it is more Dudi and Shy, and in terms of organization it's Moshe and somebody else - Gilad that’s it, and in terms of health.
How come I couldn't remember? I'm going over the names in the Torah: Shimon, Ruben and each one is clothed with a different name. This is how we go through it but the most important, nevertheless, is that I collect within my heart these friends; they gradually lose their names.
I myself don't even make any effort in this, even the external appearance of what we call faces. And later on I feel them not as individuals but as one unit. Inside this one unit of course each one of them has a certain form in which he appears but in the end I feel all of them together, and out of that I begin to feel the Creator, gradually. Because of their general character, they become so disconnected from the feelings of this world and they shift to giving, to love of others, that in that I gradually feel a transition to the force of bestowal.
S. (16:27) What exactly is this thing in the heart of the group?
R. This is what needs to be revealed. We use that also in this world, when we speak about a certain group of people and you talk about a certain character that they have, a certain goal and how much they're getting closer.
S. What are the components of that same heart of the friends?
R. Our desires, the way that they become connected and where they are yearning to. All in all, there are a few specific elements here.
S. And what are those elements?
R. The desires of the group that each one comes in order to discover the Creator; the purpose of life. And then he is willing to remain in the group, to invest in the connection from a state where he doesn't really see such a need for it on his own, until more and more, he nevertheless does receive more and more influence from the group; we say that inner light works on him. And he advances in such a way towards the general connection. In this general connection he already begins to feel something new, that earlier he didn't have a feeling towards the group in general.
I'm talking with such words that should be understood by everyone even though what each one gets from these words are a feeling from anywhere from 0 to 100%, meaning what is more close to him, to his internality, and in the beginning it's far away from him and it doesn't mean anything to him. There is intellectual understanding and emotional understanding.
So, this is how we advance until we begin to feel all of us in one heart. It is very similar to the feeling of the mother who has many children and when she thinks of them she thinks about them together, this togetherness for her, it is felt in one heart. This is how it is with us, we need to reach a group where we have one heart and this heart is all the group, it is truly, entirely the group. It is not relatives or family but rather it's only the group and everything is there, all of my life, meaning that now I am about to die, seemingly, that is how we can explain this, so I'm willing to disconnect from everything that I have in this world, anything that is unimportant but I do not disconnect from the group because this is the only thing that this, this feeling is what I take with me: this is what connects me from this world to the upper world; the group that I acquired.
There's a lot more to say here but you will learn it on your own.
6. S. (21:41) You are trying to feel the friends in the group, right and each one has their own unique quality: one may be in broadcast the others responsible for the schedule. How to see everyone as one group behind all these qualities?
R. We are advancing in getting to know all the friends, connecting with them bit by bit until we start to receive in them inner qualities until they become impressed in each and everyone in specific characteristics. In one I perceive these qualities and in the other, these qualities and so on. And so then I have an image, like a photographic picture of each one of them. And when I think about the group then I already think about the collective picture where they are standing before me and then I don't even think about the collective group anymore but rather they exist within me as some kind of, their standing before me as a single image, as a single image. And later on this image gradually becomes something more.. in which I feel a relation,and through this relation I begin to feel the cause and that cause is the beginning of the feeling of the Creator.
S. If you could please give a bit more detail: what attitude do I begin to feel the relationship with the friends?
R. The relations with the friends, I begin to feel that almost immediately just like with any other group that we join. Kids, children who join classes at school, they begin to feel each other also somehow. And so later on if it becomes for them more like some kind of a cloud that includes many manners inside of it, many colors, and later on more and more, many things are added there but as much as they're added from the outside doesn't obstruct because all together it becomes all mixed in the cloud; this is how a person feels himself being incorporated with them.
S. What is the reason for these relations?
R. The cause is that he himself wants to be together with them or they obligate him to begin with, let's say through having the coach, somebody who is managing the certain group or its route etc.. This is how they all gather. They become formed more and more and later on it is as much as the goal is higher, according to that and he's capable of holding everyone together.
S. You said that the cause is the beginning of the sensation of the Creator. How can we reach from the beginning of the sensation of the relations of the friends to the beginning of the sensation of the Creator?
R. I think it is simple to constantly stay in that. There are people that according to their natural character, their corporeal earthly character, it is clear to them and they are ready to be closer to each other.
There are people who can lie to themselves, more, that they are advancing so much towards each other but they don't feel that they're actually lying to themselves.
There are people that can't even depict to themselves that they're closer, they can't even touch like this, they can't touch by the hands, touch their friends. They have to keep their distance, as we call it, a greater one.
I'm talking about men, for women it is even more complicated because the woman is closer to the natural will to receive, corporeal one, and this is how we, nevertheless, advance: whatever the mind doesn't do, time does.
And afterwards, years later, years, many years, it could be after 20 years, a person begins to feel that he has a change appearing in him. He begins to feel that yes, indeed some special relation is forming in me, a special relation to the group. I begin to feel that these are not just words but specifically in the group, apparently there I can begin to feel some kind of spiritual phenomena, that they could be spiritual but they are not spiritual yet, and it could be after 40 years even.
7. S. (29:15) So before, about intellectual understanding and emotional understanding, how does this inversion occur from one to another, from intellectual understanding to emotional understanding of connection?
R. This inversion happens in a different way between different people. There are those who begin to feel the transition from one to the other in a smooth way and it could be in a very sudden state, through some tragic event maybe. There are all kinds. There are those who need to have a fight between them in order to begin to feel these changes and there are those who come close smoothly, in a nice, good way.
8. S. (30:30) From the love of the friends to the love of others on different things, there is an opposite connection with the friends but not with the other?
R. It is close, so close according to the spiritual definition as much as in the spirit he's close to me.
S. As I understood, a friend is close?
R. Yes, that he is close, is one who is willing to be close to me for the attainment of the main goal in his life, the spiritual goal, the revelation of the Creator.
S. You said that these are two things: the friend the one who is close, these are different things right because there is opposite relations with the friends and not with one who is close? Is that what you were trying to say in the beginning of the lesson?
R. So he could be close to you family wise but here he's close to you according to the spiritual goal.
S. Thank you.
9. S. (32:46) So you speak about this, that the changes in the person can take even 30-40 years. On the other hand, in just a few days we have this event ahead of us. How can we use this event to hasten the connection between us, to go from external sensations to more internal ones?
R. On the efforts of the person, how does it depend on the person it is according to his nature. The more the soul is greater, higher, more difficult and strong then one has difficulty in his spiritual advancement, it takes a longer time. It's more dependent on time but 20 or even 30 years that is not the condition. I need to try, and even until I attain only a little bit at the end of my life, even that is worthwhile because there is nothing more important than that.
10. S. (34:06) I'm very happy to see you and I'm praying for your health. What is this special sensation that you're talking about and how do we hasten times so it doesn't take 30 years?
R. This shouldn't be our concern because this is purely an egoistic concern. We need to replace our goal. When will my deeds be as the deeds of my forefathers, meaning when will I reach a state where the Creator is demanding of me, meaning when will I receive spirituality? No, no, no, but rather when will I attain a state when I am bestowing to the Creator: that is the true spirituality that, yes. So we have to check: what do I have inside my desire?
11. S. (35:41) It's saying here we need to always awake in the matter which is forgotten from the heart. Question from the Ten is what does it mean love is what's forgotten from the heart but the heart forgets? Is it a Reshimot, a record? How do we search for it inside?
R. What the heart forgets or the heart doesn't forget we need to check that inside the heart, do we forget about it or not? And according to this we have to check the importance.
12. S. (37:00) So what we need to come to is that urgency to do all that I can do. All the corrections should be for others. Not only this, we need to do it for others and how can we do that?
R. How to reach this urgency? I can't really tell you. All that's in your hands and in your ability to do you should do, that is what is written. How do we reach this, that the friends will be the closest people in the world, the dearest from all the people in the world. And that after the Creator they're standing in importance above everyone in your eyes. That’s what needs to be, that is how you need to imagine them to yourself from everyone. It is of course repulsive, as you don't want to accept them this way, but it must be this way to such an extent that we don't put them even on the same level as relatives, wife, kids, parents, they are truly, there is the Creator and under Him, the group on the rule of importance the scale of measure of importance.
13. S. (39:28)The Creator sends us more thoughts about Rav’s health than connecting with the friends and the Congress. Why is it so? That you rise so much and you're so sick that we are connecting but you're so sick, why is that?
R. That is not important, leave that alone, you will understand that in later years.
14. S. (40:00) Rav, you said that there are people that have difficulty to touch the friends or embrace them. How is this relating to, connecting to the heart of the ten touching the friend?
R. It also depends on the corporeal personality of the friend who is connected so we don't measure a person by that.
S. So we talk about opening the heart and you talk about I need to come out of my heart and come to the heart of the ten: so what is the difference?
R. I didn't understand.
S. In recent days we talked about opening the heart to the ten. Today, you said that I need to come out of my heart and connect to the heart of the ten.
R. So what's the difference?
S. Yes.
R. Between this that you enter the ten and this is that you draw the ten to your heart.
S. When I enter the ten that means I come out of my ego and bestow to the friends and means I become incorporated with them, with their qualities?
R. Yes.
Reading Excerpt #2, Twice. (41:22) “Through the wearing out of the hearts..”
15. R. (42:47) Here we see a very special principle. That is the stronger the heart will be, the more egoistic it will be, the more distant from others. Such a person will be able to exit from his ego, that after he, nonetheless, does actions to rub the hearts together, friction, that I don't want to be connected with anyone but if I will do it, against my desire. Usually we don't see such actions externally but this occurs for him. By this he is bringing out warmth from his heart and he connects to them to one adhesion.
16. S. (44:00) We have very strong sources, excerpts and guidance also, very tight guidance to reach love of friends and from there to the love of the Creator. But today, I heard you say, it takes 20 years. So should we simply be lazy enough and wait 20 years? Does it mean 20 years in the calendar, corporeal years or is it about a certain number of corrections a person has to go through until he builds the right spiritual vessel?
R. No, no, 20 years doesn't mean anything. It is just something we say. I will tell you. I studied in School for 10 years, 15 years, afterwards in the University for 6 years. I did a doctorate for another 5 years, that is already more than 20 years and then what? So what?
Meaning a person who wants to reach something, to be a scientist, yes he also invests, he also invests 30 years, at least 20. So that is how it occurs in life in our life and now even more until we advance. And it's not a matter of years and each moment you feel that you're going towards the goal, more or less, ascents, descents but you feel that you are changing or seemingly one is for good one is for bad, seemingly with respect to your ego you are weighing it that way. But that is our path. All right?
17. S. (46:24) I feel very lonely when I'm not together with the friends and when I am with the friends I feel the power to do anything, is this a sign of connection?
R. Yes, that too is a sign for connection. I wish you all the best of success.
18. S. (47:00) You mentioned the correction of the heart is according to the demand. Is it enough that we demand to draw closer to each other to love each other more and the correction is taken care of or do we also need to demand for the correction of the heart?
R. The main thing is to be in connection between us, that this connection will be suitable to present it to serve it to the Creator in this manner like this. That this is the connection between us and we are presenting it before the Creator that we want to reveal it in our connection.
S. This is all we need to be concerned about.? We don't have to ask for the correction of the heart, we just need to love one another?
R. We asked for the correction of the heart in order to be in connection between the hearts and such a connection between the hearts,with that the Creator can clothe in.
19. S. (49:09) How will we reach the feeling clearly that the connection between the souls never disappears, how?
R. We are still not learning this.
S. Understood thank you.
20. S. (49:40) We asked before how it is possible to accelerate time, and where's my responsibility to enter the collective part of the group. My question is what is the responsibility if there is one, as an environment to let the friends develop as their responsibility in this Congress as an environment?
R. Both, from the side of the group and the environment of the Congress, there must be a responsibility to include within us all the friends who are with us. Otherwise it will not be a whole vessel. it will not be a complete vessel. We can reach even a million people to the Congress just be satisfied that we have Tens among us who are connected, and it would be entirely, entirely a complete failure. Rather the tendency must be to hug everyone, to get closer and tighter with everyone as who is coming from even farther, seemingly that they shall enter the center of connection.
S. My responsibility as an environment to simply enable it to give it warmth to get closer and to feel that they are home?
R. Yes, specifically so that everyone will be in the center of connection.
21. S. (51:17) How to work with a Ten? My individual Ten in the congress?
R. I need to be in my private Ten already prepared in the beginning of the Congress to continue with it throughout the Congress, that over the days of the Congress and beforehand, we are connecting with all the friends of the Congress, meaning with the entire world Kli and not just those who came physically but with the entire world vessel, even more in connection, that's it. This Congress has not just a physical meeting.
S. Yes, in a congress itself however we will be in random tens we will all mix up?
R. Correct, correct that's how it should be?
S. Where is my Ten? It's always in my thoughts and concerns or just leave them or put them aside?
R. Thoughts and concerns on one hand, on the other hand the random Ten you are with also and it could be the same day of the Congress you're with one Ten and the second day you are with another Ten, and it could be Ten. In this manner we are feeling a more and more complete mixture.
S. During the Congress let's say if there is an opportunity if we have an intermission or before the schedule begins or at the end of the schedule during such times we have an opportunity to meet with my individual Ten is it recommended or not recommended should I go back to them or not go back to them have a summary to them or meet with them in the intermission what do you think?
R. I cannot say that it depends on the relations between you all. That there is a whole variety of relations that could be here so I don't want to say to who yes and to who no. It's not just entering the connection with my constant Ten but also into the connection that comes up for me in the first meeting in between, the first and the second and between the second and the third, like this. I would go through all these states, go over them and absorb them and order that afterwards to take some principal out of it.
22. S. (54:09) This incorporation helps us to enter or to attack other things or other kinds of behavior?
R. In this incorporation ,what will help me to connect all the different kinds of behaviors and parts above my ego?
R. You will feel it because we think that by this that we connect to others, we are connecting others and that's not correct, by this we are connecting the parts in us to one connection. We are turning ourselves into the place of connection and this that we want to connect to let's say the groups the other groups by us.
23. S. (55:48) In the rubbing of the hearts when there is always this rejection and that is influencing us how can we still reach sparks of love? How to maintain this feeling?
R. I think that an answer to this question will get you over the course of the Congress. In this manner all the sparks connect and in this manner of the sparks connect. How in this manner we sort and arrange these sparks and we begin to understand that they already are connected in some sort of system. This we will feel and we need to feel inside of ourselves, it's appearance of the system that is similar to the system of the internet of the world.
S. Can we say that the connection of these sparks is the Creator?
R. No, the Creator is the thought that manages the sparks.
24. S. (57:54) These parts inside of a person that are organized already, can he use them to increase the connection and to connect the parts of the friends that are not connected yet?
R. Of course, but first and foremost, he must think about the group with which he is. at the moment even if it is for one lesson.
S. No, I'm talking about the inner group inside of the person, should some kind of mask be formed inside of us like an army that wasn't there before?
R. That's our entire world vessel, the entire group that stands behind us and is holding us. This whois wo he sees.
S. There is a difference between somebody standing behind you or you're trying to do something on your own
R. Depends on who you are.
25. S. (59:23) Which actions lead to the rubbing of the hearts? Is there some kind of tactic to do it, to stay with it?
R. Yes and no, coming nearer usually, but there are people who are very hard and very difficult. Even from the outside, externally, from outside they want to come closer. That in this, it is as much they are in friction and even if they're in friction then many sparks come closer. Then there is great benefit from their seemingly unsuccessful coming closer. Then there's also the opposite, that there are those who connect and they feel good and they feel themselves close and ready to hug and everything, but this is not such a great benefit because these sparks are not coming out as a result of the friction. They are not working above the friction despite the repulsion in the rejection. Thus we have like this and like that and we need to learn this.
26. S. (01: 01:21) To continue the question of the friend who is going the Congress in Petah Tikvah. He's afraid of losing the connection of the friends he's on the phone. He's constantly on the phone with his friends. You see them sitting other people sitting in the study hall at the same time they're using their phones to stay connected with their friends. Maybe it's better to disconnect from the phone connection?. How should we choose?
R. I don't know. What to choose amongst yourselves by yourselves, I cannot dictate what the heart feels.
S. How should we behave correctly, we are in a Ten and we have our friends there, how do we make sure we don't lose him?
R. I don't know I do not know. if they feel that it's better for them to be connected among them, then let it be so and if they feel that this friend that he's connected to them and they want through him as a tube to receive additional spiritual discernments and so they don't disconnect their connection with him, the heart needs to answer this.
27. S. (01:03:18) What do you recommend for new students in the Congress to remain with their Ten or be incorporated with the entire vessel?
R. See how they feel, it could be that for them it would be better to stay with their regularTen that they are in this virtual connection.
28. S. (01:04:06) You described before this very emotional image, you talked about it a few times. Following a few years of the relationship in the Ten, I begin to feel what are the forces for these relations? Of course it's hard to feel it but this is the cause for the actions of the friends. This is because when we discover that this is truly bestowal?
R. That's already the light from the next upper degree that's penetrating your lower present degree. Although you are connected to the friends from the previous degree but you're receiving the illumination from the next degree that's what begins to become formed here and it helps in transition from degree to degree.
S. This emotional transition, this emotional leap is it connected to the fact that I discover in my friends that they are already in order to bestow?
R. Then as a result from this this light penetrates to you from the upper degree it begins to reveal their attitude, their degree. It's not saying that they are higher than you whether you are feeling them as higher than you.
S. The responses as you described that we heard more than once. that there are examples of the device, an instrument where we don't feel the Creator directly, but we can feel him through some device or some sort of an arrow that's showing us fluctuations. Is this the upper illumination that reaches us?
R. Of course, we never feel the thing itself, rather only its influence on us.
S. If we imagine it in our mind and make it so simple, where does all this confusion come from?
R. Confusion passes and everything becomes simple. That is how we call it, simple light and so on.
29. S. (01:07:03) The friend who asks or opens his heart, I feel him very quickly. I managed to be incorporated in him to reach one heart. The question is how do you feel friends who have a more difficult time opening their hearts?
R. If a friend speaks and he opens his heart and he asks a question it's easier for me to feel him. The question is,how can I open feel friends who don't open their hearts? It's more difficult to feel them?
R. Yes, of course but you need to look at them in a manner that is a bit more internal, more of an investigator. Why is it like this and what's happening with him? Because it depends on the beastly nature. They are friends say that if something hurts them, some cut or something and he is going and he is crying, that it's hurting him and some friends can have really great pains and they are hiding it. The question is simple. How do we need to behave in life to show the friends that we have pain, or not?
To show them that we have pains in order to give them an opportunity to be in sorrow with us? To help us exit it and then we'll be healthier and help everyone? Or the opposite, that we don't want them to show their pain, so we won't include it but we are seemingly preventing the general correction. There's a lot of calculations here, so it could be like this and it could be like that and we need to learn both. Actually, the one who is showing himself to satisfy not showing himself to others that's very hard to feel for him. You need to rise above his degree and then clothe in him such that he will not even know. like the Kabbalist does with us. Then they feel what we are and so on, and then they can participate with us.
S. If I look at my responsibility right now, I should try to open my heart as much as possible to the friends as much as possible to give them an opportunity to feel me and my state?
R. Yes and no, meaning we need to be as usual by our nature and only in the matter of love of friends, we need to make the effort to open up ourselves more.
S. If a friend makes a calculation, what can I truly give the friends? What can I truly give the friends?
R. To show them that I'm serious in attaining the goal. That there is no such thing that I'm letting it go, I am constantly drawn after it without stopping.
30. S. (01:11:02) What characterizes a person who is ready for the Congress?
R. As we spoke now, a person who wants to enter and he is serious with a serious external and internal in relations to the friends and the study. He's not making calculations with himself, he doesn't make calculations with himself. How much he needs to do, rather he makes calculations with what he needs to do towards the society in order to push it forward and then he does it. That is called seriousness. if he's doing things not by his character and mood of that same day rather according to what the society needs.
31. S. (01:12:20) What is the work of rubbing the hearts?
R. That I rub my heart, it's like taking a stone and rubbing it on sandpaper, or have you seen how gemstones are made? They have this disc like sandpaper, and they are rubbing it. How to say this? But the diamond at the edge, and it's like a record that turns around. This diamond is rubbed in this manner and it's measured a bit more and more in this manner until they reach the desired precision, that's it. That's how we rub the heart.
S. The relations between us and the connections with the friends?
R. You measure precisely in the connection towards the friends.
S. Where is the diamond?
R. The diamond is in the tip, in the edge of your sensation and you want to bring it in order to feel the friend, to feel the friend. Then you measure him and you've reached this that you feel him not more or less.
32. S. (01:14:08) What does it mean to include everyone? Because the ego only feels itself. Does it mean to exert in prayer that the Creator gives us a deficiency with the right intention to include everyone?
R. The second one is correct, I want from the Creator to give me a deficiency and desire to feel everyone.
S. Can I ask that from him?
R. Yes, ask him to give me a desire and a lack to feel everyone.
S. How do we know that we're feeling the Creator? Is there a sign for that, what is a sign for it?
R. None, there is none. It's not that we are born and we know what it means to feel milk, something sweet, something sour. We taste a little bit, once we are given the taste and then we know that this is called sour, I don't want that. Then sweet, oh I feel that I do want it. When we come to 'gatherings of friends' and all sorts of such gatherings and meetings between us, they tell us that we need to love our Ten. This means that you are coming to 'love your friends' and they are for you.
The friends, that you didn't choose them, just according to the goal. jJust according to the spiritual goal and you may not even know them at all and according to their faces, you wouldn't even look at them. Among them maybe such faces, one looks like a criminal and like a liar and the third one a robber and the fourth is all a heart of stone and so on and so forth. Then I come and they tell me this is called the society that you have to love. I never loved any of them and then you begin to love them and come closer to them, despite not being able to. Make a list for yourself on the wall 1, 2, 3 4 until 9, and the 10th should be you. Each of them from 1 to 9 are more important than me. Do you love them? What do you love them for, and so on. Try! Then you will begin to file away why you love each and every one.
33. S. (01:18:00) It says that the wearing of the hearts we can understand, like rocks that you said. As a result, when the sparks come out can those sparks advance and spirituality in the Tens and the congress. What does it mean to grab those sparks in advance in the Congress, What are those sparks that he writes about?
R. I don't know, you read it.
S. I don't know what the sparks are?
R. Did you ask?
S. Many times we talked about it . Once in the Congress, how can I find the Sparks in the Congress itself?
R. A spark happens when I take a piece of rock and hit it against something hard. Then from these two hard bodies come out sparks. You understand it or not. A rock against a rock.
S. Yes, I understand. The question is what do I gather?
R. With these sparks you can ignite a fire.
S. What is that in our Tens?
R. When you meet with a friend who is hard as you are, as hard as you are, and then between you come out the sparks.
S. Wouldn't we reach some argument between us, forcefully or something?
R. Of course an argument.
S. That's the spark?
R. No, no, love covers all crimes. That you can be covered, listen, that you can be covered with these crimes under one blanket and then you will be warm.
S. In a congress there are a lot of people, let's say in the Ten. Could there be a state that there's an argument in the Ten and we should work on it?
R. No one starts with an argument and it doesn't end with an argument.
S. Is it possible to reach sparks in the Congress in the Tens?
R. Yes, we have to do it in such a way that we are exchanging these sparks for a fire of love, you hear me?
S. Yes, I like what you said.
R. You liked it, like I heard from your wife that once there are fights all the way up to the sky. How could it be that the world didn't explode? Everything is shaking from the screams in the family, just like it was in Turkey, this earthquake and then specifically after you start hugging and connecting one with the other, instead of these vibrations begin vibrations of love.
S. Right and then you said for 5 minutes and I'm telling you the truth.
R. After 15 minutes it's over.
S. After 15 minutes, we sit and laugh and we think what were we even arguing about? It's clear that the Creator is doing it, but it's hard to go through that stage. I don't want to be there to fight every time I struggle to argue.
R. How will you feel the sweetness of an argument of a fight if you didn't gather these deficiencies during the fight?
S. You are right. That's true, if there's no war, there's no peace, but we need forces every time those explosions come.
R. All of the wisdom of life is how do we gather and connect this and that together and that there is always a completion between them, both peace and love together.Otherwise it will not be with the wholeness of the world.
S. How do you get the forces like in such a congress to overcome this, like all sorts of little obstacles. You see the arguments sometimes, he's not in place, he didn't get his food. How do you overcome that? What feeling do I have to come to the congress with? With what awareness?
R. You come to the Congress in order to study how you connect correctly with the entire world Kli.
S. Nice thank you.
34. S. (01:24:14) For thoughts of the whole world Kli. tThere's a congress in a few days and many friends are here. on their way here so in order for them to be able to come let's say today three friends from Kiev are on the way here so that they have a good trip. I want to ask a question, you gave an example of prayer of the raspberry sphere could you repeat that?
R. For you to throw at each other?
S. 10 years ago there was a Congress and you gave an example of a feeling that there is a raspberry sphere that you need to feel between you? Is that still possible, a good example?
R. Possibly of course, maybe we're at such a state that we could taste the flavor of this raspberry sphere. Maybe today this is possible when each wants to pass sweet something sweet or warm, together it is possible
35. S. (01:25:49) You said that we need to connect and present that connection to the Creator, the feeling of the connection, isn't that the feeling of the Creator?
R. The feeling of the connection is not the feeling of the Creator. No, because connection happens between the parts of the vessel, and the Creator is what fills the vessel.
S. Can I say that I need to feel the friend and afterwards in the feeling of the friend invite the Creator? How should I depict it?
R. I want to feel the connection in its completion and then I will feel how I come closer to the friends and how inside we attain the Creator.
36. S. (01:27:00) Does frivolity sabotage the work and can we work with serious people?
R. Lightheadedness in the work is ruining because you're not taking seriously what the friend is passing you or the Creator's awakening in you. This is why light-headedness when you don't take it seriously what comes your way. That's why it's very important to use every moment to moment very seriously. What does it come to teach me? I need to get an answer for each.
37. S. (01:28:29) How do we in the Congress exchange the sparks Into the fire of love? You said we have to do it. How do we exchange the sparks Into the fire of love in the congress?
R. Do what?
S. How in the congress do we exchange the fire of sparks of fire to the fire of love?
R. For a fire of love. If we want for the sparks to be a fire of love, meaning they come out because we are frictioning, rubbing up against each other and creating friction and they're happening from that friction,then sparks come out and from the sparks turn into a fire of love, because we want it. Let's put it this way, a husband and wife for example have a mutual reason not to be happy with one another. Then they begin to resist and to argue between one another. Being angry with one another and then something happens and they begin to feel something and that this friction against one another is happening and them because they are close to one another, and with this, This is very important for them, they don't disregard but the opposite they cherish that they're close to one another and they begin to grow.
They start with being opposites but connected mutually with one another because they don't have a choice. Although they wish that they could just disconnect and run away from one another, but then they start frictioning and frictioning and frictioning and they begin to feel that they depend on one another, that they are close to one another, and that their mutual friction, although it should have led them and explosion between them. What it starts doing is creating a state of warmth and they don't want to push away. They may be teasing one another but in a loving way and love begins to flourish and develop between them and they start cherishing the state and being closer to one another, it just needs to be beautifully described. This is the difference between the state of hatred and the state of love. They are very close to one another,these two states.
38. S. (01:32:45) Can you depict the process of our efforts for connection that bring the warmth and bring steam that brings wind and the rain down?
R. I spoke so much on this I don't know what else I can add. It all comes from the Creator from above and between this and that, we need to find its source of the one who brings rain and blows the wind.
S. That's from our efforts to connect?
R. Yes, love happens in the reason where does the coming down of the rain and the blowing of the wind come from?
S. From our plea?
R. The request comes from our willingness, it comes from him as well, but it comes from him in concealment even prior, which is why he starts with bringing down the rain and blowing the wind.
S. Thank you.
R. If we understand that all of these things in our life, they come only for this, to bring us at the end of the day to love. Then within our love, we will discover and reveal the Creator. This is the entire reason for why the person is Created. If it's a male or a female and there's a child between them, then this is how they need to arrange themselves, that usually the entire fight is for the child.
S. It's like the reason for love is hatred?
R. Yes.
39. S. (01:35:39) How to help a friend that can't deal with the states that he goes through in life and brings them to a lot of panic and anxiety?
R. Excellent! Excellent that there are states in life that bring him into fear and trepidation. All of our states that we are going through are in order to bring us to states where we finally decide what we have to do. What we have to do, what does he need to do? What at the end of everything I have to do, above myself?
S. How can we help a friend in that state?
R. For him to look for the words to give him an example. Otherwise what is he alive for? He lives for 40 years, so he's going to live for another 40 years, and then life will be over and then what's the point? He needs to make a serious decision. A person thinks about the day of his death from the day of his birth. Why? To plan his life, and what he wants to turn into from the day of his birth.
40. S. (01:37:40) We usually learn that in the Ten we only need to express love and annul my ego and not my personality and my toughness. How can sparks come out in such an environment? Let's say in my Ten, they don't like when we even start scrutinizing anything. We have a friend that just has the quality of love in her and the friends demand it and we act in it, so how can we reach the rubbing of the hearts?
R. Situations of sparks happen specifically so that above them you can unravel love. Love is already fire, love is already fire that cannot be lit if there are no sparks. Sparks must be present. Sparks come down by the rubbing or friction of two hard objects that don't want to enter any nice connection between them and then the sparks come out from that friction and light the fire of love. This is why if you only do nice things and love and everything is okay, this is okay for girls.
S. We should in an honest way scrutinize let's say if there's a problem?
R. The entire real creation is founded and built on the desire to receive on hardness on contradictions between us and the Creator. This is why there is no choice other than the rubbing and the friction between two hard things that sparks come out and turn into light
S. Meaning we need to express some quality?
R. No, of course not to play with dolls.
S. We lost a friend because she couldn't stand those sparks and now there's like the fear and everybody became close but I'm close I'm afraid that we might lose someone else so what should we do?
R. No you need to scrutinize why you lost her and why you need all of this and what you want all of life. This requires time and it can take even a few years but you have to certainly continue onwards and take from the Kabbalah what it is giving and not what you would like to receive otherwise you're just playing with dolls.
41. S. (01:41:06) We learned about the lights of NRNHY and the world of Assiya. Are the sparks that come as a result of the rubbing between the stones, are they connected to these lights?
R. Of course and from these sparks come the beginning of the lights.
42. S. (01:41:45) How to stop playing with dolls in the Ten and to really do the important work in connection because not everybody can withstand it?
R. Start treating one another with more seriousness. I'm not saying that you have to open your heart wide open but you have to relate more seriously towards the goal and why are we headed?
S. How to help the friends that feel pressure in this that for some it's a normal state that we have to scrutinize. We have to uplift, we have to call the Creator but the others feel it as stress that it's not in their qualities?
R. Think about yourself as if you are in their place.
43. S. (01:42: 54) In the beginning you said that you see certain qualities of the friends that are closer to you, let's say this friend, and about how the other friend is at the organizer and so on, There's also qualities in the friends that aren't close to me, what should I do with them? Should I even pay attention to it or just let it go and work with whoever I think is easy to work with?
R. Begin with what is easy for you, this is how it's set up in life. Then you will get experience and you will be able to work with stronger people.
44. S. (01:44:10) We're coming closer to the Congress and we really want to discover a warm heart towards the friends, and you said that on the path to love, hatred will be revealed. How in this congress can we respond to those conditions and overcome them together with the friends?
R. You have to reach love, it means you need to play. I'm not saying love between men and women, but higher than that. Meaning people don't have, rather only between animals for example, this is what is interesting for us and this is a higher part and not gender love, but spiritual love. This is what interests us and nothing other than that. If I'm looking at someone, I see on the screen before me little halves of women and men groups and I understand that the programmers are men so they divide them in such a way but in general , this is how it is.
45. S. (01:46:45) You said that all that is in our ability to do, we must do. What does this particular statement demand from every single person coming to the Congress to do?
R. Each and everyone who's coming to the Congress has to present himself also as a representative of his group, it happens regardless of how he wants because if he comes he already has the Reshimot that he's included from all in his group. He's connected with this group, they are connected and then he accepts from them and they pass this to him and they pass it to him and they connect in a virtual way, and this is how they are connected.
S. You said that we should build a connected picture in front of us
R. Let's say you are from Ghana and you are representative of your group.
S. The collective picture that we have to build, how does this represent both the virtual students and those in the physical locations around the world?
R. In their congress each has to feel that way. That he is a representative of his group and all the other groups that he can be connected with. Then he will complete them in some way or from the inside or add from the side of a question and this is how it should be.
46. S. (01:50:12) When we scrutinize, we see a certain state and each one sees it a bit differently. I hear them and I gather their impressions one after the other and I ask the Creator to connect it onto one?
R. Our desires get processed in us and they want to make a connection between our thoughts and emotions and the questions that we felt, what we've absorbed and to give them answers. That's why what's happening here is a lot of processing information, it's a lot of stages, whether it's sound, emotion, thought, perception, mutuality, there's like a balance that keeps coming and clothing upon it all. When this information comes endlessly, the most important thing,maybe the beginning or the middle or the end. We have to constantly connect this information inside and reprocess it and send it back as a balance. As we know that the light expands to the Malchut from it the reflected light rises back to the Keter and not in the opposite way.
S. In essence I can hear?
R. At the same time you hear contradictions because you are hearing yourself not the friends. You want to begin with to negate yourself or the friends, you want to connect the thoughts and the goals of the friends on your own and so on. That is why what is happening here to begin with is like a resistance and then understanding from it.
S. Yes, but important to the scrutiny I need to remember that I sent every opinion.
R. That is called that you are restricting yourself. Restriction and you do not want to receive any perception of your own but only such perceptions that you are created with to begin with. That's why I have to go through a restriction and the deeper it is from Keter, Hochma and Bina ,Hesed, Gevura,Tifferet, Netzah, Hod, Yesod, and Malchut, you will be able to go lower in order to grasp what your friend is saying from the Keter in a better way. Then you can understand it correctly and afterwards with all the opposite desires you can express it you can return from Malchut, Netzah, Hod, Yesod, and so on.
S. I am hearing each.and do this work and when I speak from the heart my opinion I have to somehow focus on what is inside my heart, to open it. I don't need to somehow continue someone else or….?
R. You must continue in the work and to let it pass through your heart and in your heart you need to process or adapt what you are receiving and then there will truly be a returning balance, a returning light. It is difficult work but it is the essence of the work that is the main part of our work through it when we start absorbing the Reshimot ,the records or everything that exists in the wisdom of Kabbalah. When we pass this all through our heart, then our heart changes and becomes a spiritual vessel.
47. S. (01:55 :22) We say when we come to conventions we put in very serious preparation and then we find during the Congress sometimes the powers start to dip. People go through all sorts of different states, ascents and descents. How do we make it so that we keep the descents to a minimum and how do we make it so that we give maximum effort all the time?
R. Discuss it with everyone between the lessons and try and see what they think and then you will get questions, answers, impressions and it will give you a desire and fuel for the next lesson to also see the importance in it. That is what I recommend.
48. S. (01:57:01) What is the difference from playing with, playing in love and playing with dolls?
R. Again?
S. What is the difference between playing love or playing with dolls?
R. It is not different in anything. Even more than that, I will tell you playing with dolls is more real than playing with love because it encompasses inside it all of the feelings that a child has that are imprinted in him from nature as foundations for the future development. So, everything is happening correctly.
S. What then is the source of growth, the cause of growth?
R. That all of this needs to develop from dolls into resembling the true state, a live state.
S. Reading a lot of sources and the question is, what is the connection in the work in the Congress between the sources of Baal HaSulam and the Zohar?
R. Again?
S. We read a lot of sources from Baal HaSulam and Zohar. What should be the connection between our connection in the Congress were we work in connection and these sources?
R. We want these sources to be revealed inside of us, what each and every word is in emotion in our mind in connection between us. That is how every word is taking place in us, do you understand? That’s what we want.
S. To come into connection in the Congress to such a state where we can feel these sources already?
R. That we want, no not that we really have to feel the sources it doesn’t matter, it's no problem.
49. S. (02:00:00) Earlier you told the woman to stop playing with dolls and we need to treat a little more seriously so that there is this friction. In parallel we are told that it is important to play acting love, but to stop playing with dolls. The friend now asks the difference and I heard that it is the same, so should we stop or continue?
R. Stop playing with dolls gradually and start playing with real love with awareness. Awareness meaning above our own desires. Our desires to keep going and playing with dolls, but we want to play with true love. Instead of that, we the sons exchange it with all kinds of other games and the women change it with more feminine games with decorations, dresses so on and eventually we do not attain the right relationships of right appreciation and right love between one another. That is the main problem of the whole world that eventually it summarizes with building the right attitude towards the Creator.
S. (02:02:03) Until the Congress, what additional effort would you recommend us doing to come prepared so that we feel that we bring contentment to the Creator or bestow to the Creator.
R. Only the correct attitude between the friends and an attitude towards the Creator. That is what we have to keep repeating and talking about. iDo not get into arguments and just into inner scrutinies.
S. How is this expressed, the effort?
R. I don't know, think between you, talk between you.
50. S. (02:02:59) When I hear you say stop playing with dolls, what I think about is the work sometimes we do not see the friends in the morning lessons or meetings and now I come to realize that the reason why is because we do not hold the friends tightly in our hearts which then gives us the constant prayer to the Creator to hold them so tight that we become almost like them. Then we begin to see them wake up one by one, and that thing is a lot of prayer to do that. Is that what you mean by stop playing with dolls because really this is a spiritual work to hold a friend to bring them to the Creator and not complain because we kind of like hold them and this is what is really real work.
R. Yes, exchange the complaints on the friends, from the friends to the Creator. Change it for a request for the friends, for love of friends towards the Creator.
51. S. (02:04:42) What is the transition from the game to love depends on. Is it a conscious transition or does the Creator do it?
R. It is a transition. It is an aware transition. It is called the age of love, the growing in love. When I do not want to play with dolls anymore, but I want to scrutinize inside me the correct attitude towards my spiritual partner.
S. How to check that my friends are ready for this game?
R. The way to check it is when I put myself in the place of the friend and I want him to relate to me in such a way.
52. (02:06:20) As a continuation of the scrutiny, this common scrutiny playing with love, playing in love maybe I should answer to myself that the main orientation should be love and we hold it constantly as the target and we're going towards the goal holding on to it with both hands and the method in reading the sources and being corrected, we continue to play Love and the Sparks are guaranteed where the Creator as we implement the method that we study in going in Arvut. Is that so?
R. He will not succeed if you work less with your mind, more with your feeling.
S. The inner work right?
R. You don't have to keep going. You are still, your continuing to work with your brain.
53. S. (02:07:40) About the seriousness of friends and a few years ago in the Arava Congress we would do a silence fast. We wouldn't speak to hold on to the inner seriousness during the Congress. What do you think about something like that in the upcoming Congress? Is it appropriate or not?
R. If you have a reason to be silent, so be silent because then you are busy in that silence and you have nothing to say because you are full of the silence and thoughts and feelings and all kinds of calculations of that silence.
S. (02:08:37) Once we would do it as a collective agreement.
R. I understand the collective agreement but if you feel that that is the pressure that right now, so please do it. Even not a whole day. Do it until noon.
S. It is a great idea because for many friends it is beneficial to speak between lessons and for some friends at least part of the Congress, beneficial. We already feel as if we are in the middle of a congress. Everything that we spoke about opening the heart and the feeling of love, it is felt here everywhere. How do we not fall asleep in this feeling of love, but continue in the demand and do not let go of the prayer?
R. You have to feel electricity in the air.
S. We feel, we feel this burn.
R. So good, it helps you to not fall asleep.
S. You told me this week when I asked you about the love of friends, you said there's a very delicate matter that you could fall into the shells. How to be careful and how do we not fall?
R. The shell, the peel is thinking of yourself.
S. I'm sitting with the friends, I saw Chris for example and the heart is enjoying.
R. That doesn't mean anything.
S. Here this love that I am feeling towards the friends, how do I use it correctly?
R. Correctly means how you are connecting to his heart and together you are closer to the Creator.
S. This is always the measurement to see if we have together gotten closer to the Creator.
R. Yes.
54. S. (02:11:06) I wanted to ask what is a spiritual pleasure?
R. Spiritual pleasure is what is revealed. A fulfillment from a desire to give.
S. In my thought, can I pass my heart to the friends?
R. You ask your thought. Why are you asking me?
S. We feel this electricity in the air and in the Congress it is going to increase and be real, tangible, pressure and what are we supposed to do with this pressure. How do we use it correctly?
R. We will talk about that at the end of the Congress. You have to understand on your own through what you go through, how to use those results correctly and what you are going to receive.
55. S. (02:12:36) I am so excited that you started to speak about electricity. I wanted to ask, if our connection is like the electricity between neurons and the brain, how can we increase the power of our mutually loving intention so that it has more voltage, more electricity?
R. I can't answer that question because it is not exactly like two neurons in the brain. Because there is like a box that compares the external part and the internal part of the neurons that keeps checking their nature. And it adds, except for like magnitude, also the character of connection. I cannot answer in that way. You need to ask in a way that everyone can understand.
S. We are preparing for this great Congress, we are in preparation. My question is what do I need to understand from the Creator? What does the Creator want from me and what do I have to do? Because I know that in my desire to receive I am thinking I want something, but the Creator wants something else. How can I feel the Creator and bring to Italy I know everything that we are going together from here.
R. You need to fill your hearts with love of friends. And to bring that to Italy, that love of friends. In a way, it'll be clear to you what you are bringing and what you want to give to the friends. The friends in Italy have to prepare themselves to receive from the Congress, and from those that are coming back to them, that fulfillment. That's it. And I think that for sure, it'll be huge. The Italian group is an outstanding, big, important, very strong group, very unique. I think that the Ukraine group is going to get stronger and connect soon. I think they also have their external conditions that are disturbing them, meaning that the Creator for now is giving them a certain period of these times. But afterwards, it will happen. I really hope. All together the Italians, Spanish, English, they're all getting stronger. And the main thing is in Ukraine I hope. I don't want the Russian group to fall, even though there is a big weakness there already. because of the interstates of the country. Well what can you do? The Creator is sitting in his place and he sees the whole land. And I guess, this is what has to happen. But wherever there is a spiritual descent, eventually a corporeal descent comes.
56. S. (02:18:31) In my 10 there are those who get into the friction of the heart, and those who are very careful of this work. Today you told us to be serious.
57. S. (02:19:07) I feel that there are some friends in the ten that I show love to, but they do not respond to my love that much, so I feel like I am talking to a wall. What should I do in this situation? Can we show too much love and hurt the friends? If a friend is not responding, do I restrict my love and become colder?
R. No. You shouldn’t. You have to warm them up, and that they will feel how much you are drawn to the convention, that you are entering the convention.
58. S. (02:20:24) You just said wherever there is a spiritual descent, there is also a corporeal descent. What is the connection between the two? Please.
R. In the lower degrees, we feel a corporeal connection. In the spiritual degrees, if we rise to them, we will feel a spiritual connection. So we will all enjoy each other. If we rise above, we will pleasure one another, enjoy one another. So friends, all the best. I really did not expect to have the forces to speak to you. But I saw that my throat got better, so I hope I will see you all today and the lesson at noon, according to Israel time. Hug to everyone together and personally from me to everyone, and everyone together. Thank you and good day.
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