*This transcription is made from simultaneous translation which leaves possibility for errors.*
*Rosh Hashanah Lesson 3 September 19, 2020*
*Rosh HaShanah - Selected Excerpts from the Sources, #13*
*1. Rav’s Introduction:*
This is a special lesson. We're continuing the congress together with the women's groups that are connecting to us as usual. They're always with us but usually they're behind the screens and now we will also see them like in our Congress has also some of the groups we will see on the screens next to men's groups and also we will see how they will be asking questions and taking part. Certainly, it is a common special holiday for all of us for our entire community. What can I say? I was very inspired seeing how you continued after the morning lesson and also now. I was with you in the preparation for the present lesson and I saw how much we have here. I think we have such a big number of people or more than the ordinary. I'm very happy about it. It gives more and more of a feeling of joy that we have a great force with which we can rise over all of the obstacles that the Creator is arranging for us on purpose so that we will demand a connection between us that will be greater than the obstacles and we will ask for him to be together with us to accompany us towards corrections and that's it as usual you will be able to ask and I have a few questions but maybe I will ask those later. We have to see to pay attention with any thought of ours with any connection with our direction towards the goal, we have to see always what we are capable of understanding and arranging, thinking, and what we're not capable of, and then we will try to raise it above reason with a common effort by turning to the Creator so that a bit more and more we will have this feeling between us of what we are capable of and what we are not capable of, what we can believe and what we cannot believe, where seemingly we feel that we are operating, and where do we realize that only the Creator can arrange for us our advancement and our success. So let's hope that we will mix reason and above reason in such a way and we will start to understand more and more where is the place for our effort above reason and how we should try to direct ourselves towards the Creator and in the meantime let's go!
2. S: (3:53) What is the fastest way to locate that point of ours or the Creator, the feeling?
R: I don't think we need to get there as quickly as possible and immediately but, rather, the more we will learn, where is this transition from within reason to above reason in all kinds of different manners, that is more important so we will see it, it will come. It will come. In the meantime, let's go to the excerpts…
*Excerpt 13 Reader (4:27 - 7:08) reads twice*
3. R: Yes, that is everything depends on how much we will become closer in our hearts until we will feel everyone, that we are in our hearts as in one heart, meaning as in one desire and we would scrutinize what our common heart should be directed to, and how much each and every one supports this heart to bring it and serve it to the Creator so that he will fill it up, he will connect our hearts and fill them up. Okay. Well let's hear a few questions Maybe…
4. S: (7:47) He says that we need to adhere to one another and connect to be closer to the heart of each and every one. How do we do this work? How do we do this point to adhere, aside from speaking nicely to one another?
R: It has nothing to do with speaking. It has to do with the effort in the individual heart of each and every one, to be integrated in the common heart.
S: What is the style of work? What do we need to do to adhere finally?
R: But I don't want to feel myself but rather I want to feel the others together in one heart so that I will be integrated there.
S: How do I do this final outcome of adhering?
R: Through effort and desire and thought.
S: In the time you said that beautiful sentence yesterday. You said that we are as if afraid to come out and do what we need to do.
R: I meant exactly this we are in a swamp and this means that you are afraid of getting out of your ego you're afraid to stop thinking about yourself you're afraid of transitioning from attention that is directed to yourself, so that it would be directed to others.
S: As if we're afraid of harming one another and then running away?
R: That to yes that too.
S: So what can we do?
R: We’ll do it forcefully. I want to stop thinking and feeling myself and only to feel the others. He'll feel the common desire between them and here we have a few subtleties. Let's say that I'm in a ten, so, I have to depict to myself that this ten already exists in it's corrected form and I want to be in it truly need to connect with it and to be in it, to integrate in it. This is my work. The entire group and the desire of all of the friends. It already exists as a single desire directed and correctly organized and I'm the only one who is still not among them. So I have to as quickly as possible have to run and integrate in the connection between them.
S: Meaning to nullify and not to pay attention to what's happening from my eyes?
R: Well if you will just keep silent and be like a baby that wants to integrate between them then you won't hear anything bad coming from them, that's it. If you want to integrate among them. If you come and you want to activate your own desires there and of course you will hear from them that they will tell you to go away and rightly so.
S: What to do if they're harming me?
R: Well if they're offending you that's even better you will like the fact that they are offending you because by this they are helping you to cancel your ego. Do you feel precisely how it is offended and hurt so you have a very clear place where you are hurt and you then you turn to them and you are grateful to them for the fact that they have clarified for you your egoistic discernments that you have to give up.
S: So, this is an opportunity for us to grow spiritually?
R: Yes, yes great.
5. S: (11:58) In the text speaking about repentance and mercy and the time of goodwill, what is he talking about here?
R: Repentance or returning means that we come back to being as one man in one heart, returning to being in one desire the way it was before the sin of the tree of knowledge and the shattering of the Kli of Adam HaRishon, when we repent or return the Hei to the Vav which means that we want to integrate with each other and also with the Creator in this way we want the Creator to fill us up, fill up our empty vessel but in a way that we make concessions over one another, over the will to receive of each and every one, then our will to receive becomes empty, the Creator can fill it up and he will rejoice in that or that we are placing his divinity for him and that he will fill it up as the one that is dwelling within divinity.
6. S: (13:16) During this period, it's a period where we start anew in Rosh Hashanah. It's a new year. Humanity, all around us, will feel this?
R: Well I hope that through these blows of the pandemic and also what we do, by these two factors humanity will feel more and more from one day to the next truly in this upcoming year that starting today, that it is getting treatment from us from down below. It will start to feel that it is some well-organized direction here and it's not that we have all kinds of forces that are chaotic. Rather, there is an order, there is a goal and there are forces here, where some of them come from above from nature, and some of us, some of them, come from people from us, in this way that humanity is taking on a whole new direction and the power to advance. I hope very much that we will advance in such a way together with you. Okay.
7. S: (14:57) In this excerpt, I wanted to unite the hearts and then towards the Creator, it's AHP to GE.
R: Yes.
8. S: (15:22) I wanted to ask a similar question. What is expressed in this type of work, meaning we connect with one another, what does it mean that we serve the Creator?
R: To prepare a Kli that he will correct and then fill up. We can't do anything good but only to discover the evil and through the evil to depict to ourselves what the good means as the opposite of the bad. The connection between us and with mutual bestowal to one another to also bestowal from all of us to the Creator. That's it.
*Excerpt 14 Reader (16:16 - 17:27) reads twice*
9. R: Yes, this is from Maor v’Shemesh. Maor v’Shemesh is a book that Baal HaSulam loved very much. He truly loved reading and studying this book.
10. WSQ: As we see here that we don't attain anything except through connection between us, if we just reach a plane connection in love and unity, bonding, so here, there is a question: what else should we do, what actions should we do in order for us to reach the state that he is describing? Then, we will remove all of the judgments between us and all kinds of light will come and flow through us and we will feel later how all of the judgments are removed and swept and mitigated with mercy, all of our problems, and from us to the world will truly flow rivers of light, of mercy and all the goodness, the force of connection, and the entire world will start receiving it from us and it will happen by itself. It will start to connect and be corrected and to become ready for the revelation of the Creator. How will we do that? This is a question for a workshop. How do we make it so that we will invite such corrections upon the world? Say a few words so that our desire will be aimed towards that so go ahead, quickly.
*Excerpt 16 Reader (23:08 - 25:18)*
11. R: This means that all of these days, even though they are called terrible days, terrible means the judgments are revealed however specifically because the judgments are revealed, we can mitigate them, turn them into good days, into a holiday, to rise from the degree of Din, judgment to the degree of Rachamim, mercy, from coldness to love, from distancing to closeness between us. The intensity of our connection, the intensity of the light that shines on us during these days, the upper light is more than whatever we have on any other day, well, besides the days of Pesach, Passover and there, we still have to see how much this resembles these days. So, we have to stay during these days and in general in the beginning of the year and arrangement of forces that if we will awaken them correctly and quickly, they can intensively take care of us, connect between us and truly elevate us through the reforming light to a connection between us and to bringing our Kli closer to in order to bestow. This is through the force of the lights of Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur so on the one hand it is called terrible days when great judgments are revealed. On the other hand they’re just called good days, good means that the reforming light appears and it elevates us from the degree of judgments to the degree of correction from the degree of sin to the degree of correction.
*Excerpt 16 Rabash Letter 23 Reader (27:26 - 29:50) reads twice*
12. R: I don't see that we have any questions so let's continue.
13. S: What is the light of Chassidim, mercy in the ten?
R: The light of mercy that fills us up in the ten, it is capable of cancelling our will to receive and then we begin to relate to one another in a way that is, how shall I put it, not egoistic. It creates a connection between us but on such a degree where we're not capable of working with our vessels of reception however to annul our will to receive, to fill it up, eliminate it, that yes. The light of mercy is like water that comes and fills the will to receive, not allowing it to work in an aggressive way, truly in the form of the will to receive. Later on, we have to start to work and advance with it.
S: How do we obtain this right now?
R: Well we need to perform all kinds of actions, what we're reading about and to wait and hope, to wait and to detect how the upper light is making corrections between us. Then we'll start to understand what it is.
14. S: (31:31) Rabash, he warns us about the sphere of the external one, so it doesn't go to the mind and the heart. What are the external ones?
R: The external ones are qualities that are outside of sanctity, outside of aiming ourselves in order to bestow.
S: Why is he connecting it specifically to these days of Rosh Hashanah etc.?
R: Because these days are unique and that we connect the connection between us. It's the beginning of the connection between us and which we build the Kli, following the sin of the tree of knowledge from the broken pieces of Adam HaRishon, it is called Rosh Hashanah. The beginning of the changes or the first Rosh, head of the change.
15. S: (32:32) I wanted to ask you, in the article there's a term “but repentance is when we pay attention to changing the will to receive to the will to bestow”. How do we get that in the ten, ask for this repentance?
R: So, we try to come closer to one another and to perform the actions that Rabash writes about in his Social Articles and by that our efforts are in connecting to one another and most importantly this works towards correction. A single individual can hardly, in society, even if he's as good as possible. But if ten weak people connect, they can influence more towards the correction than one who is strong. This is considered or called “my sons have defeated me,” the most important in spirituality is for the connection of weak forces.
16. S: (33:56) Repentance is the cleaner to clean, to cleanse the vessel in order for the light of Chassidim, mercy, will restore it and then we'll reach a good connection?
R: That's right yes, the important thing for us is to do it together because each one is asking out of his own Kli but all of us together complement each other, complete each other and then for sure the light will come and it will correct each and every one and all of us together. The thing is that through connection we are turning in such a multi-faceted way, such a different way, we don't know how it is but this is how it comes from each and every one so that the upper light when it comes it already corrects us. What is important here is not the strong force but rather that it will have connections in it between many weak forces, this is more beneficial for correction. This is clear?
17. S: What does it mean that wholeness is revealed?
R: Wholeness is revealed, it is a feeling that I'm not myself, that I don't even feel myself. I feel that I am in a desire, and this desire is complete and it fills the Creator in a way that it fills him, it directs him, and even though there may be many other degrees ahead of me. However, I already feel the wholeness, I feel the wholeness that is in creation from its beginning to the end. Like an embryo in his mother's womb he already feels the wholeness - he is in a world that is entirely good. As it is said: an embryo in his mother's womb can see the world from one end to the other and a candle lights on his head and he is being taught the whole of the Torah. Because he annuls towards the upper one with all of his parts. Embryo means a ten where everyone connects, where each one is annulled towards the others and then we become lbur. Of course, we ourselves just have to try to do it, to see that we are not capable of it and to turn to the Creator in order for him to do it for us.
S: Is there a connection between nullification and between seeing the friends as great?
R: Of course I have to see my friends as the greatest of the generation, as the greatest, that I just want to be included in them, just to be immersed in them, and this is by the entire connection, and indeed it is so because we measure the society according to our own corrections but in truth whatever exists outside of me is the light of Ein Sof, Therefore we need to see the group, if I would see it correctly, that I would see it as entirely whole, complete.
18. S: (37:53) From the excerpt we just read it seems that we need to be very sensitive to fear. No to harm each other and not to exhibit egoistic inclinations towards each other and towards the Creator, how do we grow this sensitivity?
R: Through giving examples to one another, by speaking about it, the most important is that we give an example to each other, yes. That's the most important. When I look at the friends, I see that they love each other and I do not. Here, I truly have a harsh introspection, this is what pushes a person forward.
S: Which Kelim do we need for the work in order to go from these terrible days to the good ones? What Kelim, what muscles do we need for work in order to discern between the good and the bad days?
R: Well it's the same Kelim. We don't have any others besides our will to receive, where we want to be connected with all of the friends, and in that we discover how much we're not in it. It's the same Kelim, we don’t have new Kelim, we don't choose our Kelim the vessels are given to us in advance, okay?
20. S: (39:47) He writes here, since....
R: Well, there's a lot written about it, many words written about it. We get to begin with in the beginning of the year, whatever will happen to us throughout an entire year and there is nothing new that occurs during the year besides one thing: that you get it when you need it or when you don't need it. He gives an example that it's like rain, but everything depends on the rains, as much as we have rains accordingly, we will have what to eat right? On Rosh Hashanah, they write down that Vlad from Kiev deserves to get this year fifty tons of water, as rain and you're happy because I'm certain that I will have crops, vegetables, to be able to make bread. However, if you misbehave, then this rain comes down in the wrong time and not in those places where you placed your seeds for the crops or for the vegetables etc. So, the Creator, according to the allotment he gives you, what you deserve, however not in the right place, not in the right time where you need it. Rather he is playing a game like a calculation that actually it is you who are doing and making these calculations. You, for your efforts, that are more correct or less correct, you determine how much you will receive blessing from above, even though to begin with it is clear for each and everyone what he should receive and this is how it is not only with respect to rain. That should be clear to us, but this is how it is with respect to each and everything throughout our life, our whole life, everything is pre-allotted and everything is ready made for the person, whatever he will have and how much he will have. However, everything depends on when it comes to us and if it comes to us or if we deserve it etc.
S: Meaning it's the exertions and correct behavior, specifically during the holiday of Rosh Hashanah?
R: Well on Rosh Hashanah okay but we should look at our whole life this way. Where does it say about the rains and everything? Give him this essay to read about it. We will learn it, we will study it nevertheless.
21. S: (43:10) You said about the matter of blowing the horn and improving your works?
R: I don't know we're only talking about spiritual discernment.
S: But action?
R: I don't want to hear things that are related to corporeality, did you hear me or not? Otherwise I will never allow you to ask again.
22. S: (43:45) When we try to see the friends as great then right away there's envy that comes out towards the friends. How to use it correctly?
R: It's good that you see them as great and you feel that you are envious of them however tell me would it be better if you would see them as little?
S: No, I specifically feel that this advances me. I just don't know what to ask of the Creator, how to work with the friend.
R: To be so to them that they will take you and help you to advance also in such a way that's all, and you're grateful to the Creator that he brought you to be among people like that.
23. S: (44:48) Reading this excerpt and hearing the answers and hearing what the friends are saying, and I feel this written truth here, on the one hand, and on the other hand what pops out is that it's just something that calms you down, and gives you this feeling that everything's okay and you feel that there's something here that or that there's something here that shouldn't be so, but it is. It says if all of our efforts, right now...
R: We need to feel that each and every moment when we have an inclination towards connection, we gain by this and we draw upon us light from above, the reforming light. The moment that we let go, the light stops, and this is already to our detriment because time works in such a way that the light doesn't feel it.
S: How to come out of that state but the common state? What action should we do, should we yell?
R: Ask of the friends. You have a strong group. Talk to them so that they will relate to it in a serious way. Yes of course, awake and then, talk about it between you.
24. S: (46:31) How do we help each other to cope with work, that resistance that comes out during these holidays? How can I help the friends simply to come answer your...?
R: I think that you should talk about it between you, and each one should tell the others how much they feel that there is room for them to connect, and how much in the connection between you how much the connection between you, that correction depends. The good future depends, the entire world not only Bnei Baruch but the entire world, and that you truly have to care for it, and especially like children, so that you feel yourselves responsible for the well-being of the world, everything depends on the woman's desire. A lot more than on the man's a lot more. It's written about it in many places, we should gather all of these places and talk about them so explain these things to your friends, that specifically through the connection between you, as much as you can. It's not like the men, rather here the connection is a lot easier, less committing, however as much as you're drawn towards it, it brings a great correction to the whole world.
25. S: (48:39) The previous request from Kiev, the excerpt on the rains, it's Rabash has letter 20.
R: Okay.
26. S: (48:52) As much as we pray together in the ten, will that strengthen the connection between us? Also, will it be felt in the Kli?
R: Also will you pray for the connection between you and how you want to build this connection for the whole world kli we will feel how much influence this has, certainly you will feel after such actions, yes.
27. S: (50:29) The Creator's attitude towards us, we see it only by exerting in the connection in the ten or we need to see the Creator also within the friends outside the ten?
R: In the friends within the ten also in each and every one however, it does come through the ten. The Creator cannot clothe in less than ten or more than ten, he must have a Kli and therefore this is how he comes. No, out of the fact that we have all kinds of forms of Kelim, tens, eight, groups of six, it doesn't matter which ones, all in all, we prepare ourselves in such a way that there is room for the upper light to come and even if it's not a ten but only six, nevertheless the upper light clothes here because all in all we have many tens of various kinds.
28. S: (52:23) What strength is there behind our words how does it affect the friend?
R: A force so that the words can open up a path for the upper light to reach you. This the friends can do.
29. S: (52:45) My nullification towards the ten, by this I bestow to them or I'm drawn to them?
R: It's the same thing, to use them or to bestow to them, to use the Creator or to bestow to the Creator. It is all the same. If you are not operating out of your ego, then it is all just a single action of connection and bestowal.
30. S: (53:23) How did we acquire the Creator's quality through the ten in a constant way?
R: Constantly you can't acquire anything until the end of correction. That's it I hear in your words that you are already searching for the end, when you will be able to stop exerting, so you will stop exerting when you will feel that exertion is rest.
31. S: (54:00) How can we understand if we're in the right connection and we're not in some illusion?
R: This you will feel, not immediately, but you would start to discern if it is truth or an illusion on different degrees. Over time you will start to recognize it just like we, let's say as we grow up, when we are like children, it's easy to confuse us in each and every place because children, they don't know what is the truth and what is not, and they just accept everything directly. Whereas as we grow up, the more we start to discern between truth and lie with all kinds of different discernments. This is already how it is spiritually also. Everything is ahead of us.
32. S: (55:14) How do we feel from the deficiency of the ten the deficiency of all of the tens in Bnei Baruch? How to feel the deficiency within the ten through that to feel the deficiency of all of Bnei Baruch?
R: To the extent that you develop sensitivity, to the women's tens, you will be able to feel these deficiencies. Everything depends on how much you want to feel it or how much you want to connect on how much you want to give to make them advance, accordingly you will start to feel these deficiencies. Yes?
33. S: (56:08) You previously said that true exertion is the rest can you explain this a little more?
R: Sure, how do we reach a world that is entirely rest? As it says, eternal life, how do we get there? By agreeing to all kinds of work and any work for us is just pleasure and any effort for us is more worthwhile than rest. This is how it is. This is called I've seen an upside-down world, an inverse world.
34. S: (57:06) This morning you gave us this picture that everyone needs to see the whole lesson and be in it as one hundred and ten, how during the congress can we do this and what do we need to pray for in order for it to happen?
R: By opening up the heart, just pray for that I am concerned that everyone will open up their hearts and then, whoever is inside of each and every heart will pass through all of the hearts and if that will happen, we will start to feel that the Creator is inside of us. Inside of this connection we will start to discover the force, which is our foundation, the upper force. That he is doing it, he has established it, he is making it. When will we do that? When we will know the boundaries between our hearts. Okay?
35. S: (58:34) What does it mean in our connection to turn the Malchut into Keter? What does it mean in our connection to turn the Malchut with the Keter? Where is here the illusion?
R: The fact that I from my will to receive I now want to bestow to everyone it is considered that I make Malchut into Keter. Malchut of Ohr Yashar, direct light becomes Keter of Ohr Chozer, reflected light and by this we connect. What is the Keter of the upper one? It creates a connection with the Malchut of the upper one and Malchut of the upper one is connected with the Keter of the lower one and this way everyone connects with everyone until we all become a circle and this is the correct spiritual form.
36. S: (59:48) What is the role of the woman in the will with the spiritual work?
R: I don't see such a difference between men and women. I don't see the difference. Also women have to connect and they also have to be concerned that they will be one Kli, one desire, one heart, one intention, one goal. The Creator has to be revealed in the heart, it's the same work that the men have just for women, she isn't demanded in such a persistent way that a man has to do it, like in this world. So the man has to go to work from morning to night to bring the salary home. A woman sometimes goes for 3 hours or maybe half a day. It's an addition to the family and you can't demand her to do it for more. That's how it's kind of accustomed in the whole world. The same thing in spirituality.
S: Nevertheless we are under concealment. The women are concealed.
R: You work-at-home, that’s something else. At home you work it doesn't count because you're not concerned because you are concerned for yourself in order to organize your home. But in spirituality it's enough for you to work as much as you can to connect with your friends and a bit and somewhat to continue in the connection between you and that tendency to create to her.
*Excerpt 18 Reader (1:02:07- 1:04:08)*
37.R:That means we have to do all kinds of efforts in our connection and also that's not enough because connection can be a force that's worse than not being connected, if it's like a mafia. That's why we also need along with the connection to constantly check ourselves. Where are we drawn to in connection? Do we reach connection with a Creator or not. That's out of work to try and be connected between us and the Creator I am that it will be as one body. The qualities of the Creator will be a direction for the connection between us. That we establish or stabilize the Creator between us. As it's written you have made me. Meaning that we build between us like when children build from sand or blocks some building that's how we build us. Such a form that is called Creator. Come and see. Let's look at the Holland group. Then we look at that group and we see that they are building the Creator, right here they are built building the Creator between them. Between then there's such a relationship such a structure that according to their construction that they are building it expresses all of the qualities of bestow which is the quality of the creator. That is the main thing that we have to do, how do we relate and connect to each other. From all of our actions and forms that we are relating to one another and everybody in the group we wanted to be like a small image of the creator. That the ten will get the form of a small Adam, Adam meaning similar to the Creator. So this is what we want to build. That's it. Now that also belongs to men and women there is no difference between one another. Only for the man there is more of a demand for it.
38. S: (1:07:09) What you just said was very beautiful. We have literally been together for over ten years, we know each other inside out here in our group so how can we renew our relationship to one another?
R: No, well if you're together for ten years and you are constantly scrutinizing together then you already know how to do it. No problem. Just more and more to try and work together. It's not that you know each other the whole work has to be in a way that it will be new in your eyes that supposedly you don't know the group because you come with new desires you want to check yourselves as new. Where are we, what do we have to read and supposedly start your work from new. That's what has to be, and it's a lot, so try and check everyday as much as you renew the connection between you in a new way as if there was nothing there yesterday and today you are starting from the beginning and you are happy that this is your work. That you are starting at brand new. There's people that aren't satisfied by this because they know nothing about spiritual work. What was yesterday was completely erased as if it was never there and today I am starting as a child that I didn't do anything before. Even small things like we learn from Baal Shem Tov that he forgot the ABCs. He starts from zero from nothing, that is the correct new form. That in this way we need to advance. Every time brand new ten start from zero to one hundred percent. In this way we go and we add one degree to the next. Okay?
39. S: (1:10:10) How can we penetrate that image that you painted. Where do we start everyday anew?
R: Scrutinize and criticize everything. If you are done with the previous degree then you are starting from zero, from zero that you do not know anything that is the best and healthiest way.
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40. S: (1:11:26) The only thing that hinders you from connecting with friends is pride, the rotten pride, how to get rid of that enemy of connection?
R: Pray for the Creator to fix it.
41 S: (1:11:52) If we got some impression of some confidence from the Congress it's within our reason. What's the right effort to make a connection in order to rise above reason?
R: Only by the connection only by connection. From your connection you will be able to establish new discernments. Listen. Today we need to start as if I'm something new meaning yesterday what we attain became zero. We need to start as if we didn't know anything and we don't have anything. New relationships. New discernments, I don’t know the friends, it's as if we're beginning to build everything from new. I need to renew the connection between us, I need to see all the relationships between us supposedly from complete zero. That has to be agreed that if yesterday I had fought with a friend or had some argument today no such thing. Know it's forbidden. Today I have to begin from the beginning as if I never met him. Otherwise we won't advance.
42. S: (1:14:10) When we feel a rejection from the friends and after that we regret, is it a kind of a correction?
R: Yes.
43. S: (1:14:50) In order to connect, do we need to evoke some emotion in the heart or is it a technical effort rather than an emotional one?
R: Of feeling and emotion in the heart, how by the efforts in the heart a person has to try and aim his heart more and more towards the connection. It won't help him without that nobody can attain spirituality. You have to reach love, be your friend as yourself. It seems that it has to be clear either yes or no. Either friendship or death. Either you connect into a group or you die. One or the two, i the connection you receive the upper light, revelation of the Creator, spiritual eternal life. If not, you finish everything with this kind of life and that's it. Clear?
44. S: (1:16:04) What's the difference between renewing you every day and Rosh Hashanah?
R: There's a difference Rosh Hashanah is renewing a Partzuf or an Olam, a world and every day it's small individual changes.
45 S: (1:16:50) If you look at a school of fish you see that there is one force manipulating them. Now with respect to the connection between us is it right to ask that a single force will clothing us so that we will be able to connect because we are eagles to have no power to connect?
R: Correct that's why there has to be a prayer from everybody together towards the Creator that will give us such a connection that we will behave like that school of fish. That each one from his own Sephirah but for mutual purposes. Yes.
46.S: (1:17:49) I heard from you in the past few lessons that first we connect and then we give the disconnection the shape of the Creator but now we said that there is a danger of connecting as a gang. So first to connect and then make the for more first reach the form?
R: You forget all the calculations I already told you this. In your brain you can't do anything. First my mind then this then that I calculate that. It doesn't work in spirituality and spirituality there is one thing that works and that's complete devotion for connection and that's it. You can't invite the forehand the next form and you can't invite the next form because then you're smarter than the Creator. Again and again you're repeating the same problem.
S: How not to become a gang?
R: The way you were going with your brain you will become something mechanical. It's not good, it won't help you. Read more and more articles as much as you can. It will give you the right attitude towards reality. That only with your eyes shut that were connected together like this all of us and with our eyes shut we can get to the Creator. There's nothing else to do. You have a brain. I see you're smart, you like working with your mind but it won't help you. It will just confuse you. Or you'll leave.
S: The emotion is missing.
R: Pray to have emotions, exchange your brain with your feelings with your emotions but not in your regular life only in spirituality. I understand you, it's a big problem. I have this same thing.
47. S: (1:20:39) That text speaks of two states one is the body and the other is the intention called the Soul. So where and how are these states born?
R: These states are born in our desire there's nothing, but our desire and it all takes place in the desire.
48. S: (1:21:20) I hear for the first time that it's possible to cover the act with the intention after the act. I thought you always had to establish the intention and then do the act?
R: It's not a matter of right or wrong it's a matter of what state we're in. So the main thing is that you are drawn towards the connection. That connection has to be as disconnected as possible from each one's ego and then the Creator can reveal himself between you and the Creator is the force that is above you, pulling you to higher degrees. A main thing is that it won't be for the benefit of only the connection between you. Try and depict such a state for yourselves, we are working between us to be connected. Our purpose is to be connected only. Why? Because connection brings us a new state, a new feeling, a new reality that we all disconnect from the self and enter something new, which is we. a new reality. Then we feel who is holding us who is connecting us. He is called the Creator.
49 S: (1:23:18) Tell me please you told a friend to walk with his eyes shut, does it mean not to see each friend individually but rather to see the whole ten as one single thing?
R: Yes. Exactly like that. That's how I want to see the whole ten. As one entity as one desire as one reality filled with the upper force that is one, there I lose myself, in that way one just loses oneself in there.
50. S: (1:24:17) How to conduct proper scrutiny in the ten in order to complete a degree to reach zero so we can start a new state?
R: We cannot know these things that the upper force, the upper light that works on us performs connections between us and all kinds of connections correct and incorrect In order to teach us on the path we have to go through everything. That's why we only want to connect between us and we are constantly turning to the Creator that he will eventually organize this and connect us and teach us how to be connected, directed towards one another and so on.
51. S: (1:25:25) A simple attitude of love between the friends, does that turn into a Partzuf of complete equivalence with the Creator?
R: That happens by the light that reforms we cannot do anything except connect between us in order to turn into one Partzuf.
52. S: (1:25:49) Can a person work to direct his heart or should he try to help the friends and their heart?
R: Both but better to think about the friends that they will be aiming towards the Creator and by this he works indirectly in his heart that aims him to push, push the friends to the Creator.
S: Then how to aim and tune one's heart, is it prayer what does it mean to work with a heart?
R: Physically speak with them. That they have to aim themselves for the Creator and in the mutual connection between us how we will obligate the Creator to take care of us and to correct us. That is called “my sons have defeated me” and that way it will happen.
53. S: (1:27:06) If everything comes from the Creator, then why should we over what should we ask forgiveness?
R: We are asking for forgiveness on Rosh Hashanah that after the previous year we were left with these little tails that were left and we didn't correct them. Not in advance for the next year but for the year we have gone through. We have to calculate and see if we attained what we wanted to and ask for forgiveness for things that we didn't do. From that forgiveness we need to take all the vessels and all that discernment and all the decisions and within start a new year. Okay?
54. S: (1:28:27) Teacher we have assemblies of friends for women in many languages. For example, there is a Spanish. I don't know Spanish should I try to integrate into the Spanish?
R: Yes, that helps a lot even though you don't know the language try it. Rabash said it to let him set let him sit let him set even if he doesn't know Hebrew. Let him sit and just be with us and integrate that's how it is.
55. S: ((1:29:24) Is emptiness a lack of can we experience a feeling of connection that we can't even describe with words. Is that a valid state to be in?
R: Yes, of course why do you need their names? The main thing that you needed to connect with them and heart and soul. In spirituality these names don't exist.
56. S: ((1:30:19) You said in the morning lesson that the women before they make connection, they think and calculate a lot. And I really felt it because it happens to me a lot. So how can we overcome that?
R: The main thing is to speak from the heart and what the heart feels so first of all listen to the heart and then try to convey to the Friends. And don't calculate too much.
57. S: ((1:31:14) What is the world upside down, what is the upside-down world?
R: I cannot tell you what the upside-down world is. We will see it and then we will understand what upside-down means. The upside-down world means that love and bestowal will be respected and glorified rather than reception. Instead of loving myself I love others that's the meaning of the upside-down world. All our thoughts and desires we have to reach this. This opposite form.
58. S: (1:32:33) If I know I want to be connected I know I want it. Does that come from my ego? Should I work from the resistance that awakens any?
R: Don't be so smart. Hear what we say, what we learn and do that. If you don't know then turn again to Rabash’s articles and read and read and read without doing anything just reading. Then you will integrate properly.
S: Full devotion needs to get the concealment?
R:Then you will integrate properly.
S: Full devotion needs to get the concealment?
R: Soul devotion what does that have to do with concealment?
S: Devotion needs to bestow in order to bestow?
R: It means to do something above your will to receive.
S: How do I do it in the ten?
R: It's so far off it's so unrealistic still. Actions and soul devotion names that you try to be out of your will to receive. You don't need to add all sorts of definitions that confuse you. Right now you know what you need to do to perform that action which is above you will to receive, are you capable of it. You are certain that it needs to be done. So how do you do it? You start the work in the group and pray to the Creator. May you succeed.
59. S: (1:35:18) What should we do in a state where one friend wants to connect in another one doesn't. How can we work at annulment before that state?
R: I don't know, I'm not going between two women. That's forbidden. they need to read articles. Or they can remain with all their calculations.
60. S: (1:36:13) After every lesson we read Rabash articles for 2 and 1/2 years already and we discussed it, the topic of the lesson and the article. Is that the women's connection, dissemination?
R: The fact that you are causing connection through it that's for certain. Even if you don't feel it working. But does it act as dissemination? Why dissemination? Do you come out of the borders of your group when you're ten? Are you explaining these things to the broader public? Dissemination means that I am influencing a crowd and audience that is outside the boundaries of Bnei Baruch.
61. S: (1:37:43) The relation between mind and feeling. Sometimes you emphasize more the feeling and sometimes more than mind, which is the order?
R. There is no order whatever happens each time we are in different states.
62. S: (1:38: 36) What influence that we have on each other in the ten is the most effective force that is created to finish the corrections?
R: You need to think about how you can compel the Creator to make a connection to make a correction to you. Immediately all at once through to the end of correction. You don't want to wait for it any longer. This request should not be egoistic. It needs to be in order to bestow contentment to the Creator. If it works out for you then go ahead. There is no problem. There's no problem skipping ahead. The question is well you have to scrutinize it, this scrutiny is always allowed don't be afraid. The main thing is to always be conducting scrutiny.
63. S: (1:40:28) It seems that we're in a very special time. At least something I've never felt till today. Very powerful. That is getting a big emotional expression because on one hand there is a heaviness that the heart really wants to cry and there is a big happiness that the Creator is letting us grow.
R: Thank you very much. You're not asking a question you're explaining your state to is that doesn't add to us. Each one gets some time only to ask a question. I'm sorry to see how many questions we have there. We are done with you.
64. S: (1:41:26) This moment we the women deal a lot with dissemination. We go through ups and downs all the time. Sometimes we feel that we are really before birth. These states, are they the correct answer?
R: Yes, if it is an outcome of your work then it is right.
65. S:(1:42:45) How can I annul my friends?
R: To annul the for the friends means that I know myself, I'm talking about a woman. She annuls herself before her friends meaning that all I need in order to be connected to them, to connect to the Creator in order for the Creator to fill us up. Annulment before the friends that's so that my will to receive won't hinder the connection between us and won't obstruct the Creator.
S: Why does dissemination depend upon our connection?
R: I don't know dissemination perhaps doesn't spend so much on the connection between us. The outcome of the dissemination depends on the connection between us. That's a big difference. Look at Norma who writes two or three articles a week and if we go check what the outcome is of her work if we could check then we would see that the results depend on the connection between us. On the vessel of Bnei Baruch. Because she writes on the house of Bnei Baruch. Dissemination is dissemination, the outcome comes from the connection.
S: You mean that the connection is that people disseminate and share with each other?
R: No, no, no it's the connection of the hearts what does that have to do with it. You are asking about external corporeal things. No. you can write very nice words and make the audience cry and shed tears and it will end there. That will be the end of it because the power of connection is missing in that dissemination and it needs to penetrate the audience and it makes the changes, the transformation.
66. S: (1:45:57) A few tens gathered physically for this Congress, on the next degree....
R: I don't see any possibility for the time being of connecting together physically. I'm very afraid of that, of you getting together physically. Certainly, we will feel that God forbid our friends become sick, with coronavirus. I'm more so than before, and so I am not in favor of that. I heard that in Moscow 100 or more people got together physically. They didn't ask me about it, I'm not going into that because they didn't ask me about it but I actually don't think that it's a good thing. Until we this pandemic passes, we need to protect ourselves in order to constrict the virus. Even though from all of our connections and attractions most of us already have the virus, still we need to be watchful and careful. So, I am against physical meetups, but we will see. In a few months perhaps we will act in a manner which will allow us to start connecting more in such ways. Maybe if we make an effort, we will be able to hold our customary Congress in Israel in February. Why not? It looks like a dream today. How can it be that from abroad over a thousand people will come, how many months is it?
S: What in February is about 1500 and we have 6,000 here.
R: So that's how it is. It's a wonder that we had even that Congress this past February. Right after the beginning of Coronavirus, as soon as we ended it the coronavirus started spreading, the pandemic started.
67. S: (1:49:06) Expecting the reforming light. What is that feeling?
R: The feeling of light which moves me forward to the source of the light which moves me forward to the source of the light. I want to get rid of all my ego and to love all my friends. I want to help disseminate the method of correction and connection to the whole world and am willing to invest my whole life in that. My everything. That means that the reforming light is operating on me.
67. S: (1:49:50) What kind of questions are you expecting of us in the lessons?
R: I hope that there will be some serious good questions. That's it, learn from that. Learn what to ask. Usually of course it won't be personal questions, not related to your connections between your friends but about how to actualize the method of correction. I am certain that you know that the women know everything that we study more than the men do. Better than the men do, I have seen that already.
68. S: (1:51:11) You often mention prayer is important. Is prayer a source of the creator that we have to pray for because sometimes it's difficult to pray. Should we pray to the Creator for this force to pray?
R: No. You all need to discuss together and scrutinize what is best to turn to the Creator with and then to turn to him as you turn to someone important. There shouldn't be all sorts of confusions. The request has to be very concrete and strong from the depths of the heart and for the single most important thing, then the Creator will answer you. That's all, together and for something important that is what we need to turn to him for. Usually it's something that we are incapable of attaining by ourselves. What can't we attain? The power of bestowal and therefore that's the only thing we can turn to the Creator with. Turn to the Creator with. All the rest everything else is included so if we scrutinize what the source of the force of bestowal gives us and that only he can give it to us then we can turn to him. It's worthwhile to discuss what it can give us and that only he can give it to us than we can turn to him. And it's worthwhile to discuss it. Let's say the Creator gave us the power of bestowal right now what would I do with it?
69. S: (1:54:00) My heart is happy that we are here but I also feel pain and despair, I feel that we have to love each other, like we love our children. Otherwise we won't be able to attain a goal. Should we demand this of the Creator to help us love each other like we love our children?
R: Of course. Even more than that because my children I love like a beast. Like a beast loves its children, and here we need to be on high with the Creator on the degree of Adam, human. So I need to love all of humanity much more than I love my children. I'm sorry for saying this but it's the truth.
70. S: (1:55:15) In about 40 minutes the cultural event will be very different from all the previous cultural events. So we'd like to ask for all the friends to be together just like we are now.
R: First to invite all the friends that are missing in order for us to be able to build our prayer together. Build a common prayer. So that this effort will enable us to build a request for humanity to make the Creator happy.
S: Rav give us some more guidance please. To be with us in thought so that we will be able to build this prayer together. Thank you.
R: So that's it. We can start finishing the lesson.
S: Please guide us how we can increase our prayer?
R: Didn't we talk about it enough that we need to unite? Women and men. I have no more words. My throat is ragged already and my heart is full. My heart is full of the feeling of love from all of you. Let's simply connect. I am behind the scenes looking at you, rather behind the screen. You are all creating, establishing, stabilizing and filling the whole world with good energy. It is certain that we are going to make it big so let's all have good luck, a good warm connection and a good warm embrace connecting all the hearts.