Women in the Correction of the World

Transcript of the English simultaneous translation video file

W INFO:: Our lesson today is about the questions from women from all around the world. Many questions were sent. You can raise questions, and anything you have in your heart in an open way. We can start with Rav.

Gilad: In the meantime, can you say a few words on the topic of today’s lesson? Why are women in the correction of the world?

W INFO: First of all A Woman in the Correction of the World is always our topic because we are women, and we have a responsibility and a role. We are going to start with questions that we gathered, like Rav recommended, questions with different topics, where women ask from their hearts, so the topic for today is open. Norma, please, can you open with the first question?

Question: Towards the Creator we are all in Gmar Tikkun, in the End of Correction. What is the sorrow of the Shehina?

Rav: I don’t understand the question, really. We are not near the end of correction yet. We are drawn to it. We have to make many more steps to come to the general correction. The complete correction of the whole ego in each and every one, and all of us together. I really hope that it will be revealed soon. Because, in truth, the problem humanity has had, has been to come to our times, which I called “the last generation”, the generation of the Messiah, this drawing force that draws us from our egos to love, to the general love between us in order to bestow. As we have already come to this, now, before us, there is a truly paved path for us to show our awakening as much as possible, as fast as possible. So, let’s try to do this. We are not quite yet in the End of Correction. I really hope that soon, we will begin to feel the ladder of degrees that I’ve talked about now on the portion of the week. I spoke about a few minutes ago with the men, as we can advance stages after stages to the end of the general correction in short states of connection and love all the way to the end of love, the correction, as the purpose of Creation is to come to a complete connection which is love. That’s what our work is, and where our goal is. (03:31)

Question: What does the woman need to overcome in the spiritual path?

Rav: As much as possible she needs to support the connection between everyone. Also in the tens, she needs to participate as much as possible - support the connection there. She needs to see herself participating in dissemination of the method of connection. There is no more than being concerned, caring for the connection. That’s it. (04:28)

Question: The world is suffering because of our internal part, maybe because of us, Bnei Baruch, but it seems that we all are participating in the lessons, dissemination and our tens, in the common prayer. What is the Creator missing, or lacking, to be revealed among us, and with this connection will be spread to all over the world?

Rav: Sometimes I really hear such questions, where “the world suffers because of us”, “due to us”, that “we are not working enough”, but we are dependent on the world. We also want and need to draw the whole world after us. So, whoever thinks in such a way, I would ask them “And are you doing what is needed?”, “Are you truly participating in the correction of the world, and bringing the whole world to connection?” We need to strengthen ourselves more and more, that’s correct. But to say that “the world is suffering because of us”, I wouldn’t put it that way. Of course, we can draw the world to corrections faster and faster, but that doesn’t really depend on us. To the extent in which we are doing that’s truly a lot. It’s a lot, and it’s good, and in truth I really respect all the members of Bnei Baruch. There is no other group in the world that is so big, and so advanced, like us. There isn’t. You can check and you will see. This is why certainly it is a great responsibility, and great expectation, and demand to us all. Let’s also give respect and honour to all our friends who work every day. There is no such group in the world that, other than working and caring for their families, and doing everything like regular people but in addition is also in the morning lessons, in the evening lessons, in the afternoon, and meetings, and gatherings in the middle of the week, and every day, and disseminating as well. I cannot see, even if I were to search in the whole world, I wouldn’t find it. I truly respect you and appreciate you, and especially the women. Such a big and powerful women organization! I don’t see such a parallel in the world. The whole world is advancing with this pandemic and other things that are losing the forces of a future. We are not. We are trying to advance and to advance and discover each time more and more abilities and necessities to connect between us. In short, let’s embrace one another and rise up. That’s what we need to do. (08:19)

Question: What is a question from the ten? Can you explain how to distinguish a question from the ten and other questions?

Rav: A ten’s question is where all the members of the ten, the friends, want to ask from themselves. And from themselves they want to ask the Creator. They might be addressing me, but mostly to the Creator, as they are seeking the connection with Him. For Him to answer them, help them, and come closer to them. Those are the questions. The question is a disclosure of the deficiency. A question is the disclosure of the lack of the ten. (09:34)

Question: Baal HaSulam is writing in The Last Generation writings whoever is making efforts towards the society is getting punished like attacking against the society. Maybe you put too much effort and you don’t have enough. How do you know how many efforts do you need to put in?

Rav: This doesn’t speak of having a lack of physical forces. Even finding a lack, a deficiency in the ten, or in general in humanity, that is worthwhile for you to pray for, and to benefit them in such a way. That’s a problem that you are not participating mentally enough with your ten or even with the whole world. If you connect and feel the deficiency that’s in them that you can fill, then certainly you will have the drive to ask for them. (10:52)

Question: Question was born from the workshop in our ten. How to connect the contrast of the opinions in our ten towards our spiritual path? Sometimes there is a feeling that we all listen to a different lesson…

Rav: That’s very good that you are hearing the lesson and understanding it and feeling it in another way. Because all of you connect to a group, to a ten, like 10 different Sefirot. Ten Sefirot are very different. The fact that you don’t understand one another is very good that you don’t understand. It’s very good, you don’t need to understand. Rather, you need to connect above all those questions together, and then you will feel what’s in the whole group, in the whole ten Sefirot. In each and every one it will be different. Don’t blur that, don’t confuse one another, but rather each is different: Hesed, Gevura, Tiferet, Netzach, Hod, Yesod. These are very different qualities and therefore you truly don’t understand one another. That’s how it should be. As it is written “love will cover all crimes”. When you begin to connect when you are above the differences and disturbances, and the differences you will start to feel that the Creator is filling you. Specifically, thanks to the differences as much as possible He will be revealed on a greater resolution, on a greater scale, in a greater clarity, and that’s why these differences will grow even more. I wish it on you. (13:06)

Question: How do we the women can help the men to reach the congress ready?

Rav: In truth, I don’t know. I also don’t want to answer. I also don’t think about that. I leave those things to you. You need to be ready for the convention both: men and women. You need to talk about this between you, how are you advancing towards it. During these days of the convention we can attain a very powerful connection to the extent in which we will start to feel there that force that sustains us, created us, connects between us, establishes us. We can already start to reveal it. How do you get to this? You need to talk between you, and accordingly prepare yourself for that. That’s it. I am not answering that question. I want you to be seeking and speaking between you, but I think that you need to now fill these two weeks that we have until the convention, you just need to be immersed in this especially, and men too. (14:57)

Question: How do we distinguish in the thoughts that come up whether they are coming from the Creator or are they coming from the ego?

Rav: I think the best is to think that it all comes from the Creator. Because the Creator maintains our ego and constantly awakens it whenever it is needed and where it needs to be. That’s why everything we have in us comes from the Creator. There is none else besides Him. Each time He awakens us in different ways. (16:07)

Question: Dear Teacher, the question is about the work in a women’s workshop. We know how the workshop is an important tool. How important is it to call friends in feminine or the masculine, or just to say a friend in a general way like in English?

Rav: That’s not important how I use different names for my friends however it is acceptable or not. As long as it will be suitable as much as possible in bringing us close between us. That’s how it is. (17:10)

Question: Beloved Rav, a question from the ten. How can the ten adopt a prayer of a friend who is going through difficulties?

Rav: I don’t know. You need to know that on your own. First of all, show her that she is not alone, that you are together. You need to take her to your group and talk to her about such things that not necessarily have to do with her, but for her to be impressed and begin to emerge from her state. That is something that you need to work on. (18:10)

Question: We are already in the golden age, the women in the age over 65 years old, and we have a woman who is 93 years old. We meet twice a day and in the morning we read Psalms. After reading Psalms this older woman she decided to let us hear music and be thankful to our Teacher, and to hear the Psalms together with the music. In our ten they feel it is a religious ritual. Do you think it is religious, or not? 

Rav: We only use the materials of Baal HaSulam and Rabash both when it comes to music and our texts, only of Baal HaSulam and Rabash, only.. 

Question: Can we listen to the Rabbi Nachman?

Rav: I don’t know who Rabbi Nachman is, and who else is. Baal HaSulam and Rabash only. Is that clear? That’s it. I am not going to do now some kind of critique and all kinds of other things. Is this good, is this not good, is it nice, not? Is it more classical, or more romantic? Only Baal HaSulam and Rabash period, that’s it. Songs of Bnei Baruch. (19:55)

Question: I hear many times that men are asking to be connected “as one man in one heart”, and women are asking to connect to “one woman” and “one heart”. Are these phrases not contradictory to one another?

Rav: Don’t worry, every prayer for unity that we prepare our unity for a state in which the Creator can be revealed in it is fine. It’s correct. (20:42)

Question: We want to know how do we give the Creator a possibility to be revealed in a ten?

Rav: Listen! This is a very important principle. Is everyone hearing? If you work between you in a ten, and you have ten, ten friends, and each of you filled herself as along, and with that you want to connect together, and despite that, you feel that each of you is a part, and also together, then you have also Malchut, which are ten separate ones, and also together we just the Keter. Then, in such a connection, where they are all separated and also connected, you need to start already feeling that Upper Force, the Creator. Try to do so. I simply gave you a practical exercise. (22:24)

Question: If a year ago we would reveal such states like now, for sure I would run away, but now, today, how can we give each and everyone the confidence that this is the best time?

Rav: Why did our state not seem good to you?

Question: Because we were lacking the greatness of the Creator, and there was dependency on the friends all the time, and the prayer for the time to connect us between us with Him, but inside there was no reception, there is no ability to ask for the others…

Rav:  That’s exactly the truth. That’s one thing, and the second thing is that, first of all, it is connection. It is also written about that - “from the love of the created beings to the love of the Creator”. That there cannot be a leap to the love of the Creator if prior to that you did not have the love of the created beings. That’s why our advancement is correct first of all. First, the ten. In the ten I must be concerned with the strong and powerful connection. After that  I can be already concerned with such a connection in which the Creator will be revealed. The Creator will be revealed it is not a problem. If we build the connection between us, we will make room for His revelation.  What do we do this for? Just to come to a state in which He is revealed between us, where we like Him? There is no other way. That is the foundation of the whole perception of reality, of the recognition of reality.  It is the foundation of all faith, beliefs, religion, philosophies, everything. We need to come to the general connection between all parts of the creation, and the force that unites all parts of creation is the Creator. (24:48)

Question:. I heard you are often saying that we need to discuss between us how to reach the correct prayer. What is a correct prayer? Does it change, or is it constant? Is the prayer we're going to reach in our ten going to be different from the prayer in another ten?

Rav: Prayer is called “the work in a heart”. That’s how it is written in the wisdom of Kabbalah. The work in a heart is called prayer. Meaning, that I am working on my desire constantly adapting it to others, to build the ten from this, to prepare the ten for the revelation of the Creator, that’s the prayer. Raising MAN, raising the deficiency where I constantly refine and reveal the deficiency more and more of mine, and of others, so that the Creator will be able to be revealed there, and to rejoice Him by that. That work is called prayer, because it is constantly in constructing the correct deficiency to reveal bestowal and love, which is the Creator. The Creator is love. (26:15)

Question: In the ten sometimes arise the feeling that is hard to describe but comes with great fear. How to deal with this fear?

Rav: What fear do you have? I remember your ten a little bit. You have a beautiful, strong and powerful ten, why would you have fear? Why are you afraid? What are you afraid of? You have nothing to fear, everything is fine and everything will work out, and you are advancing well. Just sing and rejoice in what you have between you. (27:18)

Question: Fear is to feel this enormous thing, the Creator.

Rav: No worries, I will be besides you. I will hold you by your hand, and you have nothing to be afraid of. I am saying this to everyone like this. You will feel that I, and not just me, all the kabbalists, all the sages, all the powerful ones, also all the men are around you. All the kabbalists are students from all the world kli, all of us are around you and you within, inside a circle, and that’s how we receive the revelation of the Creator. That’s, you will start to feel that soon. (28:17)

Question: How should the relationship towards veteran friend be, who is doing dissemination but is never attending the ten?

Rav: Give her a little bit more time, she will feel soon that she cannot be without her ten. There are people who have great difficulty in understanding and feeling that spiritual Kli is actually the ten. It takes a long time. They don’t want to connect, they don’t want to come to connection, especially women, it is very difficult for women. That’s why we need to give them, to give such people, such friends time until they understand and feel that this is their obligation. All together, our revelation that we need to come to is the revelation of love. Love. The Creator is love. This is what we need to come to, this kind of a feeling. Where do I come to such a love? That’s called “I’ve loved you the love of the world”, it is where I start to feel my love to my friends. When I come from this to a love to the whole of reality, then I come to the complete revelation of the Creator in a full way. Give every person their time, don’t press, that’s what will be. (30:37)

Question: Can we help support friends in an economical way to someone who has problems with money, or to which extent our support needs to be?

Rav: Our support can also be when it comes to money and all kinds of other things, but in such a way that we only compliment her, complete somewhat that friend something as she must, otherwise she won’t be able to hold on. No more than that. Not to spoil them, not to corrupt them. We need to do this in a very cautious manner. (31:50)

Question: What can help us to be in the middle line, and what is this feeling of a middle line?

Rav: I don’t think I can explain that now. The middle line is a line which includes within it both a right and a left. Both hatred and love, ascends and descends, and we connect to all of it together in order to rise towards the Creator. Maybe in such a simple way I can say it that way. (32:45)

Question: The question we came up with from the ten is you said in the morning lesson “not to desire spirituality but to build from its conditions so that the spirituality will be revealed in us.” How do we practically build these conditions, so that spirituality will be revealed in us?

Rav:  Only by connection and love. There is no more than that. Also until I understood, and until I agreed to this, it took a long time. The spiritual Kli is a desire for connection. That’s it. That’s what happened to us in the past where the Kli of Adam HaRishon shattered, and the whole big desire divided into many desires, and we need in our prayer, in our request to discover these desires that want to connect in return. We are asking the Creator to connect between them together. That’s the correction of the Kli - the way we come to connections between us to the extent in which the Creator can be revealed, and to fill the Kli. (34:17)

Question: What is the best way to prepare the ten for the upcoming congress?

Rav: I don’t know how to prepare a ten for the convention rather you need to be concerned with this now. Because in the convention, a great big spiritual force will be revealed, and it will be too bad for you, to each of you, and to all the tens to miss this opportunity. That’s why from now already, from these two weeks you have to prepare, each prepare herself, and her ten, and whole world kli for connection. Convention is convening, it is a connection. (35:11)

Question: How to work in a state when you feel the love of the system and it is executing some of your desires?

Rav: That’s not right. You are doing it that way. It is not that it is really that is been given to you, such conditions. A person is given all the conditions for him to advance. It is written about that “we are raised in holiness, not lowered”. That’s how it is. (36:12)

Question: Many times in the time of descent what fear of hurting the ten I do not turn to them, but I feel it will be the right thing to turn to them. How to turn to them in the right way without giving them the feeling of this descent?

Rav: Simply ask. If a person is in this state or another, what do you think needs to be done, and discuss it in a ten. Why not? And they won’t think that you are thinking about that. They will think that you want to scrutinize all kinds of questions that are on the path to revealing the Creator. That’s how it is. (37:27)

Question: We need to play, act and to show each other an example of the importance of the goal, because we are not corrected yet. There is jealousy. How do we incorporate this in our spiritual work?

Rav: That is work. We need to talk about this in the ten without saying where it comes from, but, yes, reveal the problem, and talk about it. There once was a situation in which people would write notes, and throw them into a box to head of the group or to the Gabai, and he would read those notes in an anonymous way. That’s how they would discuss things between the friends, and then there was no problem in disclosing his problem, or his problem, each and everyone are the members of the ten. Maybe you should do it that way as well. Today, you send emails, so maybe we can send email from anonymous, and that way you will be able to scrutinize these things and also not hold back on it. (39:15)

Question: When we are relating everything to the Creator are we achieving the state “faith above reason” when we do this?

Rav: Yes. (39:44)

Question: We prepared questions in the ten, how can we arrange one opinion when we are choosing a question when only one question is important and each one will settle for this?

Rav: I can’t tell you, because if you are not united, you will never come to the understanding of the question, moreover, you won’t get to the answer. (40:43)

Question: Can we pray for friends who have tough situations or we just pray for the connection in the ten?

Rav: If you pray for the ten to be connected, and also for those friends to connect even more to the ten, it will be the correct prayer. (41:31)

Question: In our ten, we are now ready to do dissemination as one ten. When we have got to the stage when we see everyone as perfect, there is no flows, what should be the next prayer to the Creator, because it is now felt to me like I love my friends, I feel them in my heart, I do not see them different for me any more, what should now be the next prayer?

Rav: Connection. Connection, and if you don’t feel that you are missing connection, and then the problem is that probably you do not have connection whatsoever. There is no connection whatsoever. Because if you work on the connection, you will discover how much it is missing. That’s how it is. (42:49)

Question: How will the new world look with the right connection between us?

Rav: We need to understand that if we were to correct ourselves, we will be able to bring forth the correction of the world. Only in such a way. Therefore, don’t worry about the world, but rather through our connection we draw the reforming light there for good force that will also bestow to the whole world. (43:30)

Question: Beloved Rav, to justify the Creator all the time, and to be above reason, how do we reach it without it being something religious?

Rav: It has nothing to do with religion. It has nothing to do with any religion, or anything like that.  The wisdom of Kabbalah talks only about how to come to connection and to love, which is the higher degree of connection. The Creator is called love. The connection between us, the whole wisdom of Kabbalah is how we come to the correction of the shattered kli of Adam. (44:31)

Question: Why does the Creator let one friend of the ten a strong rejection from the connection that she can’t overcome? For example, she is leaving when during a workshop she is not arriving to congresses when they were in the past.  What should the ten do in such a case?

Rav: Ask her as much as possible to come, and try for her to be there, and the main thing is for her to continue. Slowly, slowly the necessity for such actions will be revealed in her. It sometimes takes years. Sometimes ten, twenty years to discover that connection is necessary, that it’s the foundation in which the Creator is revealed. That’s how it is. (45:38)

Question: How to precise my intention? I keep catching myself that my intention is vague. Is there any point in focusing on the intention?

Rav: Talk about it in a ten. How do we scrutinize our intention? It is very good to talk about this in the ten. You will receive a lot of councils there, advices, and you will feel how to do it. (46:24)

Question: We are virtual ten of women, very old in our annulment. On one hand you said “women cannot connect, that it is very difficult for us”, on another hand, you expect us to connect, and today really gave us support. Thank you very much! It’s a great excitement and love. Thank you! In the ten we hear many times that women say “even Rav says that we are unable to connect”

Rav: There is no such thing. It is not true. It’s a law that needs to be both for men and women. We all come from one soul, we all came out in distancing to one another, from one another, by shattering, and we have to all return to be as one man in one heart. (47:28)

Question: How can you direct us that we will provide support to women who are with us together?

Rav: Attract them, draw them to the ten. That’s it. Thank you for the question. (47:46)

Question: Question from the ten about dissemination. What is preferable that each one will participate in her own project in a personal way, or does the ten do a project together?

Rav: It could be, well, I can’t say. There might be that one woman does a certain very big and important work from the ten, on the big network, on the Internet, or disseminating somewhere, and it could be that if she leaves it will be great damage to the dissemination efforts. I don’t know. But it is worth to discuss this together and to see what is good for the advancement of the whole ten to the Creator.  (48:48)

Question: You said that “the convention is a gathering, it is a very strong spiritual force”. What

is the difference between a convention and the morning lesson?

Rav: In the convention you connect together, in the morning lesson it is a little less, it is much less. In the convention it is truly for the sake of unity, for the sake of unification. (49:27)

Question: In one of the lessons, you recommended the men to participate in the morning lesson live, and if not they will not advance. Us, as women, the majority of us we cannot listen to the morning lesson live, we listen to it throughout doing housework and while taking care of other daily chores. Is this preventing women from advancement?

Rav: No, but women definitely need to make sure they are listening to the lesson, and that it is not just buzzing in the background there. Of course, you can listen to it that way. Like I’ve noticed you listen to it that way. You put it on and then hear all the time my voice and then it is like “paka-paka”, or you are talking back on the background there. You are not in the lesson. It shouldn’t be that way. It needs to be with the earbuds, it’s a little bit better. But not with the big speaker, the external one like that. Please pay attention to that. (50:35)

Question: I see that my ten has great desire to be in “faith above reason”. We connect very well. How to help my friends to be in “faith above reason” ? How can we reach it?

Rav: Simply hear the lessons. Hear the lessons, and talk about the lessons. (51:25)

Question: Sometimes, when a disagreement is raising in the ten, myself and another friend is not expressing what she thinks about this situation, because we want to annul, we don’t want to add flame to the fire. Is it ok to say the opposite opinion, or do we need to raise above?

Rav: If you talk about something against, you need to immediately bring the remedy. Meaning that you want to connect everyone in a connection, in embrace, even though there are differences and disagreements. So what? There will be disagreements between everyone, it is no problem. (52:26)

Question: Now, in the corona time, in the epidemic, there are times that I, as a mother, as a woman, as a daughter, because people were isolated for so long, some still are, some don’t work, some don’t come out because they are afraid. Seems like there is a social regression. How do we see this and jump from this to the connection that we will disseminate to the world, now there is complete disconnect between people? 

Rav: I don’t understand your question. Your question is a wrong question. You need to come to a connection between you and discuss, how can you bestow to the world for the connection of the world. Those are the conditions we received from the Creator, and in them we need to not wait for Him to change things, but to see how we can use all these times for the benefit of correction. That’s it. Your approach is completely wrong. The world is like this, and like that, that’s why we can’t do anything. It’s this way and that way, so that we will do the correction. (54:12)

Question: The question from the center of the ten. What are the steps of connection inside the ten, and between the tens?

Rav: That I can’t say. There are many degrees here. Each time more and more, 125 degrees we could say in a rough manner. (54:47)

Question: What can we do when foreign thoughts come to my mind and diverge me from the intention during the lesson or our workshop in the ten? 

Rav: Be even more connected to the ten and truly enter into the topic. Incorporate inside the topic. (55:28)

Question: Every time you open and talk about things that are beyond what are expected to be heard from you, if you do not hear it live, then they are disappearing because of censorship. If we don’t hear it live, then we ask each other, “What did Rav say?” When we spoke with responsible parties, we asked “Why is this like that?”  We were ignored except from Dudi who always answers. Is there a place where this material can be accessible to Bnei Baruch with Rav’s words?

Rav: That’s not a question to me. I do not get involved in those things. There is management, there is the censorship. I don’t know what they are doing there. You need to demand it, so this all will be organized like it should be. I think that it could be that there are such things that are over there, that they do not want for it to be later, or to remain in the archive, and they erase it. If they erased it, there is nothing I can do about it, let them erase it. I am not going to go now and scrutinize anything. What am I telling you? Probably, you need to record the lesson in real time. That’s it. Other than that I will just tell you one thing. Continue, and all the things that you did not hear, and seemingly did not want to hear, or that will come, you will nevertheless discover the whole world. (57:22)

W INFO: Rav, would you like to say a few words?

Rav: I wish you a good preparation for our convention. I see that from time to time we are understanding more and more, how we need to ask a question, how we need to hear an answer. I really thank you for being serious and understanding, and advancing. It is truly great contentment to see you this way. So, great big hug and we will see you in another week. Thank you! All the best, health, peace and joy. 

 

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