BINAH: TIKKUN CHATZOT תקון חצות – LESSON WITH RAV MICHAEL LAITMAN

Lesson on the topic of “Winning the War (against the evil inclination)”

Morning Lesson March 9, 2022, Transcription 

Transcription is made from simultaneous translation which leaves a possibility for differences in the audio 

Part 1:

Winning the War – Selected excerpts to reinforce the World Kli and for peace in the world. #36

1. Rav’s Introduction: This means that clearly we have no possibility to obtain the Creator, coming closer to the Creator, the steps that we have to go through in coming closer to him, but only out of us first of all feeling how far we are, and we overcome, we take part in the overcoming, we ask and then we come closer. Each time we have a revelation of the present state that we are far away, we are opposite of the Creator, and later on we make efforts between us to come closer between us and by that we also come closer to the Creator. This is our path. Therefore, suffering, confusions, everything that we feel along the way, it is all forces of separation. That these states need to bring us to connection and two adhesion.

As much as we have great confusions and unpleasant states, all of these things become revealed only so that upon them later on they bring us the feeling and the attainment of that Creator towards whom only all of these forces in revealing the darkness and in revealing the light, the distancing and the nearing, the weakness and power. This is how it all goes over us until we discover Him to the fullest, and there is nothing more to add to it. All the many contradictions to His uniqueness which we taste in this world, meaning in the state where we do not yet discover the Creator, the states that we do not discover the Creator are called this world. When we do not discover inside of us some force of bestowal, although initially they separate us from the Creator, yet when we keep exerting to keep the Torah and Mitzvot, meaning all the possibilities that we have to do in order to come closer between us and to the Creator with love, with our soul and might, meaning to collect, to add at all of the forces that are possible to discover within us as we are commanded in order to bring bestow and contentment upon our maker, meaning to bring contentment to the Creator by it. All those forces of separation do not affect us into subtracting any of the love of the Creator with all our souls and might.

So then to the extent that we do exert in it, to connect between us and reach connection with the Creator, every contradiction we have overcome becomes a gate for attainment of his wisdom. Meaning that we attain how much in that contradiction and in the connection above the contradiction, we attain the Creator’s attitude towards us. By this we build the vessels and then we discover the Creator. This is so because there’s a special quality in each contradiction revealing a special degree in attaining him so the whole path is actually in gathering the contradictions upon which later on we will be able to discover our relations, our state, and discover the Creator and his relation to us.

Those worthy ones who have been rewarded with it turning darkness into light and bitter into sweet, but only in this way can we discover the wisdom the sweetness of attainment in the end select attainment in the senses, for all the powers of separation from the darkness of the mind and the bitterness of the body have become to them gates for attainment of sublime degrees. entertaining him so the whole path is actually in gathering the contradictions upon which later on we will be able to discover our relations, our state, and discover the Creator and his relation to us and those worthy ones who have been rewarded with it turn darkness into light, and bitter into sweet, but only in this way can we discover the wisdom, the sweetness, attainment in the intellect, attainment in the senses, for all the powers of separation from the darkness of the mind, and the bitterness of the body have become to them gates for attainment of sublime degrees. That is “The darkness becomes a great light and the bitter becomes sweet”, meaning before we will feel the darkness and the bitterness, and the separation between us, and in between us and the Creator, we will not be able to reach revelation because we won’t have a vessel.

The vessel actually becomes clear to the extent that one feels sorrow from being separated from all the parts of creation and from the Creator in general. That is the darkness becomes light and a bitter becomes sweet, and to the extent that they previously had all the conducts of his guidance as forces of separation as much as we discover the separation, according to the times that are extended and they pull us out in different directions, now they have all been inverted into forces of unity. Meaning, that there cannot be any revelation without the feeling of separation and disconnection, and they sentence the entire world to the side of merit. That they understand and they feel, and they justify, why did we have to go through such a long way in the darkness, without any taste, rejection, and weakness? All of this was in order to discover the vessels that were suitable for the revelation of the connection and the Creator, and there is no other way. 

2. S. (09:34) Is there a cumulative value to all of the changes in addition to knowing that as the Kabbalists advances the gaps between the ascent and descent gross, but is there something that accumulates that he takes with him?

R. We need all this darkness, it becomes the foundation of the spiritual degree. It’s not that we reach some revelation, revelation upon what? It has to be upon the darkness. It has to be upon the forces of separation, they remain as the foundation, as the basis for any spiritual attainment.

S. But that’s always on the previous degree of darkness now there’s a new degree of revelation.

R. Yes, which it sits in the darkness, it’s based on it because there’s no light except out of the darkness.

S. But is there something that a Kabbalists from experience going through these things time after time. How can you define what remains for him from his experience?

R. His experience, which doesn’t help you. Usually, we start every degree truly from zero, from a new, from a state that is even worse, deeper. The disconnection is greater than the ones that you had before and so you cannot use all of your previous attainments. It is to the opposite, this is already clear to us, even out of our little experiences it’s clear that this is how it happens, so there’s nothing here that you can rely on but only on us renewing ourselves again and again through the corporeal habits, that we have the group, the times we have when we connect so on and so forth and then we again enter the connection between us and this is how we come closer to the Creator. 

S. How do you define the difference between a Kabbalist who’s gone to two degrees and a Kabbalist who’s gone to a hundred degrees, except for the level of darkness he can overcome?

R. He has experience, he nevertheless has experience but at the time he disconnects, then those disconnections, there are such states where in each and every state of descent one has a state of disconnection, total disconnection, then he cannot do anything because otherwise he won’t have the new degree.

S. Meaning in that state that he discovers, of course, he’s experience cannot help him?

R. No, how can it be? The experience can only help him a little bit in that he starts to when he starts to come out of the state of total descent, the deep descent and from there he starts to reset himself and reaching go back and then he uses all of the states that he had before, his experience that he had in something that he lives to himself, some preparation for the future, so he engages in that. This is why we say that it is good to engage and dissemination, in teaching other people etc. Because that helps a person to go through from one state to another. He feels himself as obligated.

S. Can we share this experience with the students and with others, can he pass it?

R. Yes, but they don’t feel that it comes from Him. The fact that he can help them it’s also on the two worlds, on the corporeal world it’s by teaching in the ordinary manner, and in the spiritual world they don’t understand, they don’t feel it, they don’t feel what can be.

3. S. (14:12) From which moment can I notice that the process of darkness has ended, and the process of light begins. How can I discern that?

R. For the time being when we are in the state of preparation, we are expecting knowledge, some feeling, this is not the same light that the Kabbalists intend for, or they talked about. Kabbalists talk about light, which is the force of bestowal, the force of love, the force of connection that is revealed in a person, and we for the time being talk about a nice, good feeling in our mind and emotion. This is before we reach some kind of true proximity to the Creator. Therefore, we should talk more about what is the true proximity, what is the true step towards the Creator which needs to be above our corporeal mind and emotion, what we call above reason. In that we can acquire those states in the relations between us, specifically upon the rejection, upon the distancing that the Creator awakens between us, when we do try to discover a connection which is not egoistic. I cannot quite express it but that’s not egoistic. That I will be happy in the fact that I’m not related to do it and I am above this matter. It’s hard for me to express myself. We will talk more, and we will find the words.

4. S. (16:57) The moment of disconnection when a person falls, is it given for a certain period of time from above or is it always in the hands of a person to shorten it?

R. Yes and no. Theoretically, certainly a person can always determine to what extent he has disconnection before him, some darkness, but all of this happens according to how much the person has prepared for himself the group, the study, times for the group, and for dissemination. How much he takes all the opportunities from this world whatever he has here, and he uses them. We need to say that as much as we prepare those supports, so we will advance.

S. On the one hand as you said we know that it has to happen. On the other hand there’s a feeling that the disparity of form depends on my actions, my words, my attitude towards the friends. Meaning not that it’s happening from above but it’s seemingly your fault?

R. This is the confusion in the darkness that we have upon us, that we think that everything is done by us, everything depends on us but rather depends on our foundation’s, the records that exists inside the soul of each and every one, they actually determine all of the states. We just need to add to it the force of overcoming each and every state, in order to bring each and every state closer to bestowal between us, this is how we actually advance.

S. How in the ten can we turn the confusion to revelation of the Creator?

R. Specifically, out of us overcoming the confusion and lack of orientation, not knowing the way, we don’t know which way to run, and how to make out of our state’s something that is organized, something that is One. When we try between us to build a system of connection such that it is suitable for the Creator to be revealed, out of that we begin to feel a need for each and every friend for the connection in the most difficult states and realize that all of these states come only from the Creator. That He is actually helping us in such a way to find the conditions for his revelation. All the darkness and all the separation and all the states that each one of us and all of us go through each in the ten, he is actually organizing everything up to the very last detail. As much as we try to be connected between us more and in adhesion between us more, we actually try by that to discover Him. This is the vessel for his revelation, as Rabash writes in his social articles, that if each one annuls himself towards the others, if each one cares that everyone will be connected, if each one sees his future in the inner connection, meaning the points in the heart. The spiritual vessels that are inside each and every one, if each one wants to connect them if he makes an effort to connect them to the others, then certainly we won’t see success in that until the Creator will connect us and will be revealed in this common vessel. That will already be a spiritual Partzuf. This is why we also learn all of these spiritual operations. We need to reach a state where we will carry out those operations of coarseness, restriction, screen and reflected light. Discovering the Creator in the reflected light and in order to give Him contentment and this is why it’s called reflected light, and in that way we will already enter practical Kabbalah.

5. S. (22:47) Is it normal that each time it precedes us, this connection, where we have some experience perhaps, but then it precedes us and disconnects our mind and are feeling, why? 

R. We cannot reach any spiritual awareness unless if it grows out of our disconnection between us and from the Creator. As we learned we even read in the Zohar that the students of Rabbi Shimon wanted to kill each other. We hated each other so much, up to the point that we didn’t understand why we are here, what for, all of these things. They come to us in order to elevate us actually to the higher degrees, but the disconnections must be there because each and every disconnection is a revelation of a new corrupted desire, that in the next moment we will already begin to arrange it and connect it also to our vessel. Then love will cover all crimes meaning upon any disconnection, upon any evil that we discover. Later on we justify this evil that it comes in order for us to connect above it, this is how we build our vessel, through restriction, screen, reflected light between us and then to the Creator. From bestowal to the friends helping everyone in the ten and outside of the ten to our entire vessel, our world Kli and out of that to the Creator. Why am I saying that we should also think about everyone, because there is might in quantity and might in quality. We need to try as much as possible to connect, all of our friends from all over the world who can take part with us in the connection above the separation. Bestowal above reception.

6. S. (25:32) My ten is a great ten. They do everything so I don’t have to worry about anything. Should I just be thankful, or should I want the Creator to do more for my ten?

R. The fact that you feel that it’s good for everyone, everyone is in the light feeling good, so check if after they are in that state as you are describing, so then what do they have related to the correction of the connection between them? If this is all that they need to reach there’s nothing to add, then ask together with them from the Creator, that He will reveal to you what it is that you have to do. That He will reveal to you the deficiencies so that you will see how much more you have left to work on the connection in order to discover Him between you. It’s not enough yet. For the time being you’re telling me about a state where you are seemingly in slumber or that whatever you have it’s good, but is it enough? You need to become incorporated in the deficiencies of the friends. If you are in a state where you do not discover anything, you cannot advance without a deficiency. Maybe it’s worthwhile to connect with other tens. Maybe it’s worthwhile to try to open up additional groups next to you for beginners, to perform all kinds of actions in order to awaken the deficiencies because without deficiencies you will not advance. For the time being you’re seemingly dormant. Sleeping.

7. S. (28:06) We say that the light is love and connection that we need to feel, we’re talking about good feelings, good sensations. These good or bad feelings must be the point of inversion when I feel pain but it’s not mine.

R. The fact that we feel deficiencies of the friends and I’m talking only about the friends. About the whole world that’s already a different vessel. If I feel the deficiencies of the friends, then this should truly become my vessel, my deficiency so then I have to work with them. I need to do everything so that these vessels, these deficiencies, I will feel them as mine and then I can ask for correction and filling. 

8. S. (29:18) It says that outside of a person is the Creator himself. Is this person me or is this our spiritual Partzuf?

R. No, this is an ordinary person. Besides our sensations there is only the Creator who awakens our sensations, our emotions and we need to arrange our emotions into such forms so that we will be able to discover Him and to feel Him.

9. S. (30:01) We learn that when a person begins to climb the spiritual degrees, every descent is a greater darkness. Absolute scale but there might be a difference between the preparation stage and a time when a person already discovers this force? Since when a person is in spirituality already learned to prepare his infrastructure he knows how to come out of such states in his subjective feeling, the darkest state. Subjectively speaking, is it before the first degree?

R. Of course, according to his feeling. Of course the greatest darkness comes before he reaches some spiritual feeling, yes. Later on he will have to get used to all of these descents even though getting used to them it’s not really possible, because every descent is the revelation of new vessels, but nevertheless there is none as wise as the experienced one.

10. S. (31:43) What are the forces of unity that sentence the world to a scale of merit and is it designed only for those who merit it?

R. Those who are worthy of it are those who are Zakai from the word Zach, refined, that he aims himself to be in bestowal as much as possible and accordingly he receives forces of rejection and nearing that are greater.

11. S. (32:23) You said that experiences of the Kabbalists will not help you. Don’t attainments consist of experiences? Can you explain this more?

R. I’ll tell you only one thing, we need to check ourselves whether we want to bring contentment to the Creator through contentment to the ten or we want to attain and to feel and to discover something in it for ourselves. That is the question actually, for what do you intend? For what are you aiming? It’s either you want to reach that you will feel, you will know, you will discover, or that by your advancement, you will advance not to revelation, you’re advancing towards giving contentment through the friends to the Creator. This is actually the question that one has to  check himself each time, where am I standing.

 Excerpt 37 (34:10 )Twice 

12. R. (36:13) I don’t even know what I can add here, it is so clear. That each time it becomes revealed to us how opposite we are, how far and weak, and what happens is that we need to feel it, but not to remain and dwell in it, no. It’s enough for us for just one moment to taste that this connection in order to immediately try to rise above it and to feel connection, to reach connection in any way possible. And in it to discover where we can truly attach ourselves to the Creator in heart and soul to adhere as much as possible. Once again we will have these connections and again we will feel how opposite we are and once again. In this way we will overcome and come closer. 

13. S. (37:20) A few days ago we met as a ten physically, it was a true privilege, and we had the opportunity to feel one another and build a lack. We read articles, we talked, we managed to feel one another, on the one hand the virtual world extinguishes this. How, in spite of the situations we are in, we can be in an ongoing deficiency for connection?

R. We talked about it many times. How do we obtain the deficiency for connection? It’s by talking to one another in a group. It’s when we read suitable material, it says envy, lust and honor takes a person out of his state out of his world. We need to try and look at the other groups and see where they are, how we learn from them and feel that we are lagging behind them, and why we aren’t advancing like everyone else. Although this gives us an unpleasant feeling, it nevertheless advances us. It’s not pleasant to feel deficiency but it advances us. It’s worthwhile for us together to talk about what we are lacking and what we have to do and not to disconnect from the awareness of the deficiency and our true low state when we are not together. Since if we disconnect we will fall, each one into his own personal despair. Rather when we are together we are holding ourselves where this state of dissent is a good state for us, because we get from here to a new ascent. Hence If we hold on to the connection, in this connection we need to distinguish between a feeling which is unpleasant and in determining the state where we are not connected. That’s why we get such states where we are disconnected from one another, disconnected from the Creator, a lack of contact between us and to that extent with the Creator. When we determine that this is our state, what should we do together? The important thing is to hold on to this togetherness, not to disconnect from it, and if we begin to strengthen one another more and more just to grab hold of each other more and more and more and more, to connect between us in order for us to turn between us to the Creator so He will connect us truly internally more as a spiritual vessel. Then we can come to the revelation of the Creator to the created being. 

13. S. (41:19) If I don’t manage to feel the suffering of those who are at War now, does it mean that I’m not connected to my ten?

R. Anything that you discover, anytime you discover that you’re not in connection with the Creator, it points to the fact that you’re not connected to the ten. You don’t have a vessel. It’s recommended to first correct the vessel and be corrected to such an extent that you will discover that there’s a force in it that connects everyone that shines to everyone, embraces everyone and this force is the Creator. It’s present in the ten but it’s not revealed it’s concealed.

14. S. (42:34) If following the scrutiny, of whom are we doing it for, the Creator through the tens or for myself? If I see that I am doing it for myself, what is the next stage, what should we do next?

R. Keep going, pray that our intentions will be in order to bestow to the Creator. I don’t want to feel sorry for the fact that I don’t have any contentment but rather that the Creator does not have contentment from me.

15. S. (43:19) Many times you say envy, lust, and honor, that this is the way to lift each other. How do we shift from destructive envy to envy that will truly elevate us?

R. It’s true inner work, internal scrutiny when I begin to see in my friends, partners, parts of our vessel and not that they are in opposition to me. Rather that they are together with me and only when we are connected we can attain the Creator. Our goal is revealed in the connection between us. We have to work on that and understand it and we’ll talk about it more and it will happen.

S. I’m saying that you’re always proposing for us that we should play and act between us to that next degree seemingly, and it doesn’t do any good, it awakens rejection. The friends look at it as if you’re looking down at them, so sometimes there’s this dilemma. What should we choose because we need to conduct ourselves according to the ten?

R. I see that you didn’t get enough blows. There still is not enough despair from the state you’re in and the forces that you are activating. This despair has to grow, and it will only grow when you try to enact the correct states, the correct actions and when you do it, when you perform such actions sufficiently, you will reach the despair from your own strength and then you will cry out to the Creator.

16. S. (45:22) Will obstacles begin after we reveal the distance between us?

R. The internal distance between us depends on how much we are trying to reach connection. Then we discover more and more just how distant we are from one another. It’s all designed to eventually bring us to prayer, a prayer to the Creator. He is setting up these connections and disconnections and he constructs our prayer. We have to discover this state that is worthy of asking, of praying and from this will be an advance.

17. S. (46:28) If the very fact that we are created beings means we are already far away from the Creator to the full distance and also in our feelings as we advance, we also get the feeling that we are far away, then how and in what way are we coming closer and what is our nearing?

R. We are approaching the truth. That in truth the distance between us is infinite and only the Creator can help us connect in order to be revealed, for Him to be revealed in us and by that we give Him contentment. Meaning we will change all of our ways in our intentions, our desires, our goals and then we’ll see how much we are changing. We do not remain in the same states, the same goals we had before, we want all of that to be replaced in us. For us to acquire more spiritual definitions, for distance, for nearness and for the entire state and how we feel it and how we understand it. That’s what we are expecting to happen.

S. Really there is no nearing the distance and always remains the same distance and it’s just that the feeling or in equivalence, how is it?

R. There is no other distance, what is the distance in spirituality? It’s a feeling. What, it’s a physical thing?

18. S. (48:13) How do we reach the awareness that the contradictions bring us nearing to the Creator?

R. Because the light excels from darkness. I cannot discover anything except from a state and its opposite state. First the bad state is revealed then the good state is revealed and without the revelation of evil I wouldn’t be able to recognize the current state as good and the bad state. The darkness that is revealed is revealed from above in ways that allow me to detect it, identify it, weigh it, and define it accordingly. I reveal the different modes of nearing, connection, and light, only in this way. You have to understand that our revelation cannot take place only in the light. We won’t be able to feel the light. We go out into space, and we see that it is darkness there. We place a certain barrier in the middle of space, and we see that it is light, and without that barrier we don’t discover the light. The light cannot be revealed, we also are surrounded by light right now, the Creator is everywhere but how to discover Him? If we wish to be revealed inside of Him, inside of His light then this light will be revealed on us, the Creator will be revealed on us and that same Partzuf of Adam that we will discover ourselves. Think about it, there are many things in it. We are already in the upper light but where is that barrier by which we can see Him and reveal Him, discover the influence of the Creator on us? The Creator is light, and He forms darkness, and He does everything.

19. S. (50:48) Why is it that the rejections qualify a person to enter the King’s Palace, what qualities in a person do these rejections develop?

R. It’s not rejection. It seems to us this way, but it is actually a revelation of the true state between us. The Creator reveals and discloses that state and on top of these states, on top of the seeming darkness that He reveals to us, we need to draw Him in and want to be revealed as the light. That’s why each and every state, when we advance we truly advance and we should truly accept it as not priority, meaning in advance. That the Creator is doing everything, and He is bringing us closer, but in nearing Him we get through the left side and right side as we say, darkness and light, descents, and ascents. That’s our work to accelerate these states since without them we cannot feel that we are making any progress.

20. S. (52:22) With the help of what can we quickly overcome obstacles that the Creator places before us in order to come closer to Him?

R. True advancement is by coming closer to the friends and through them to the Creator because the Creator is concealed between us, don’t forget about it. That’s why in this way we need to advance and if we don’t want it, it’s a sign that our ego is managing us as we will not succeed, we won’t. We are advancing according to the time maybe time will do its thing and maybe we can wait, and the laws of nature might change according to our ego, it won’t help. There’s only one thing that can help us and that is to accept reality the way it truly is and that above our feeling above our nature we have to nevertheless, connect and pray for the entire group so that all of us will connect and in the connection we reveal the Creator. We only have two actions, even one action connection between us. In this connection the Creator is revealed.

21. S. (53:44) Is it worthwhile to discuss in the ten the force of separation in order to know better the matters of our work?

R. We don’t quite need to talk about the force of separation as Baal HaSulam says, half an hour a day no more than that. The rest of the time we should speak about connection, love, and unity.

22. S. (54:19) What helps the friends to get a spiritual deficiency from the friends and not to reject that deficiency?

R. To see how I am the smallest among them, how they truly control reality, and me and everything, how much we can advance towards connection. This should always be before us, this goal His feeling has to be before us. We need to ask about it all the time, from the connection between us we reveal the Creator. From connection between us we reveal the Creator, (and again) from the connection between us we reveal the Creator. We lack nothing besides that. Now take a look, are you doing it or not, and not in words but as internal as this connection can be.

23. S. (55:28) How can I help my friends go through the barriers the obstacles quicker and easier? Does the speed of their advancement depend on me?

R. Of course it depends on each and every one and we need to do it in such a way that it is constant. Only this I want, only this I’m doing towards my group and from my group towards our world group. That’s the only problem, nothing is missing besides that, to correct the broken vessel of Adam HaRishon.

24. S. (56:19) Why is it so difficult for a person to realize that it is possible to correct everything by uniting by the Creator?

R. No, by uniting between us and then according to the connection between us the Creator enters, and He is revealed between us. We have to portray that image before us and we are like pixels who connect and by that we reveal the form, the picture of the Creator. This is called, that he will see the picture of the Creator. By adding, each one is adding his pixel, his point, by wanting to connect to everyone, by that we construct the Creator. We reveal the Creator, You Have Made Me. This is our work, all of it and we have talked about it a lot. There’s a vessel, we need to connect these parts, these points from between us and then we discover the Creator. How do we know how to connect Him, in what way connect these tiny squares together? We don’t. We simply come and we want to be absorbed and the Creator arranges us.

25. S. (57:51) Through our work in our connection and prayers can we prevent the suffering of people in the world?

 R. Of course they cannot save themselves from their suffering. And even more than that they will come to us, and they will blame us for their suffering, and they will be right to do it. Because after all, we can bring the light, the connection between us, we can bring the Creator to the world and then everyone will feel good. Practically as much as we connect, we reveal the force of the Creator in our world, and everyone will be rewarded with it. 

Excerpt 38 (58:55) twice 

26. R. (01:02:40) These excerpts are so powerful, beautiful words I’m not sure what to add, very deep.

27. S. (01:02:52) No translation 

R. The Creator doesn’t let him in advance. That’s what he sees that he did everything possible but there’s no more strength. There’s no power. He agrees with anything and everything that they’ll do to him, but he has no power to move. He can’t reach adhesion; he can’t reach anything. Even from the perspective of the desire, they don’t let him. Seemingly they disregard him, and the upper forces do not want him. Well, that’s a state. There’s nothing to do here but that’s a state everyone has to go through. Until he goes to a state where there’s nothing to do. If the Creator won’t help, but in everything where a person doesn’t have even a single point that seems left to him rather it’s all up to the Creator ,that he feels himself as the black point in the upper light and he begins to develop from that. This is the meaning of being rewarded with entering the King’s Palace and this is through many preventions he feels along the way.

28. S. (01:04:49) All of the preventions, the rejections that come to a person, how exactly does it make him stronger?

R. These rejections come to him from the broken vessel and gradually, they must be revealed as hindrances, as forces that confuse him but in this way they build him. They actually build him. Everything is built specifically from these forces that appear to us as running against us and they help us to add those forces and build the general vessel.

S. But what makes it so that you don’t move away from your place, in spite of the rejections?

R. When you invest as much as possible, whenever you can. More and more in connection in building the vessel, the general vessel in everything you can. Especially during our time, in the last generation. As much as you disseminate the knowledge of the wisdom of Kabbalah, the future of the world, on what it depends, when you spread it among everyone and you don’t grow tired, you don’t stop on the way, all of it works in order to carry you behind it. So, it turns out that from above, from the Creator, they give a person forces and the desires to disseminate the method of unity, the revelation of the Creator in the world and as much as he does it, this itself will carry him forward.

S. So the vessel of the person is the rejections that he’s given?

R. Yes, yes.

S. So what comes out of all of the work that we do on connection and all of our attempts?

R. We do it in spite of the rejections, we do it in spite of the rejections, so all in all, these states become an embrace. Adhesion connection with the Creator. The more these forces, the more he repels these forces of separation, he discovers that these forces of separation came to him so he would hold onto the Creator more and more. It’s just like when we scare a child a little bit, so he will agree to come into our arms, to hide with us when we hold him closely. We see how there are no forces that awaken in him and any fear and or caution then he immediately wants to come down from our arms and run his own life and if he feels bad at something then he comes back to hug us. 

S. So how do we make it so that and all the rejections come, how can we leverage them towards connection, leverage them towards a prayer and not move one from my place?

R. No, it is written everywhere, the revelation of the true attitude of the Creator that wants us to come closer to him. He cannot put us closer to him, we have to do it, rather he does it through the opposite side. All of the preventions that we have in this whole article, right, all the preventions that we discover they’re not preventions but rather those forces by which the Creator is pulling us near him. 

Excerpt 37 (01:09:53) again

29. S. (01:10:51) Being admitted into the King’s Palace, is that a constant state or after that once again we are expelled from the palace in order for us to continue working all the time?

R. No, once you enter the King’s Palace, you’re in the palace, you’re not expelled from there. Spiritual laws are arranged in such a way that you only raise the person through sanctity and never bring him down, so there’s never descent. The descents are all in order to bring a person up and those ascents on the left side it’s like an ascent, an ascent in the desire but not in the realization of the desire. But left right, you are climbing to the left foot, as well, but acquiring a new deficiency and then you complete this deficiency with connection ,with intention and you perform the ascent practically in your feeling. Clear?

30. S. (01:12:13) What will be the end with all of these states that we are not able to overcome them, when will the change finally come?

R. When you understand that the states that you can’t overcome and the problem is you are not reeling seeing them correctly, you must realize them only in the connection and in the connection you will reveal the Creator. You wish to jump to the revelation of the Creator without preparing a vessel, that’s the problem here, so we need to teach you how to prepare yourself correctly for the revelation of the Creator which is the Creator’s entire purpose in creation. That is to reveal himself to the created being and the problem with the created things is that above their ego they need to connect, and this is the calculation. What is more important to step on my own ego, what is greater in my eyes? The greatness of the Creator, giving Him contentment or my ego, to give contentment to myself? Who shall rule and that is what is standing in our way? 

Excerpt #39 (01:13:41)

31. R. (01:15:58) It is a problem. Since that’s what we feel is the address of the Creator towards us in every single state that the person feels to feel that this is the Creator’s appeal to us and then from that he will know how to respond.

Excerpt # 39 again (01:16:12)

32. R. (01:17:15) As a person can’t differentiate that it is the Creator in everything…

Reader continues: (01:17:21) “It is written about this, seek the Lord while He is found….”

33. R. (01:18:08) This is a very strong piece. We do not feel in every given state that this is the Creator that is turning to us, and we think it is us turning to him, asking, crying out, we are in demons, complaints, and expecting when we will have some kind of nearing to the Creator and we do not understand that it is Him pulling us in every given moment, we are not too aware of that. All our work, at every given moment, is to discover, as he writes, that it is the King that is calling upon you. Calling you. This is how it is.

34. S. (01:19:08) The repulsions we turn to revelation and then to in them to feel the Creator?

R. The connection between us, why did the Creator shatter the vessel, from the shattering of the vessel we can actually reveal him. Because in one desire that feels itself is one, as Adam, as a person. What is a person? The desire all together, made of all kinds of desires, he feels that it is one, that it is him, he cannot discover or reveal the Creator, he can’t but rather, only by connecting foreign desires and there’s a distance between them, even rejection between them, we can specifically in the resistance, the clash, the distance between these desires begin to discern the relations between receiving and giving between the Creator and the created being and then if we relate to this foreign desires like to the Creator, as he’s also a foreign desire, then by that, we can build new relations, such a system that will be similar to the Creator Himself. This is the reason for the shattering of the vessel of Adam. That is our work.

35. S. (01:21:14) Our work is to reveal that it is the Creator turning into men every morning moment, but it is Him who gives us the sensation, he gives us the sensation that comes from Him or not?

R. If together with you seeking the way, seeking the way the Creator is turning to you, you’re also seeking the way the Creator is turning to you through you to your friends then you will discover you will reveal the connection with the friends and the appeal of the Creator to you. It is like you’re looking, you’re seeking for a certain radio station. What wave it is on, what frequency it is on. So you need to make the frequency between you in the group and then you can wrap the voice of the Creator that is coming and clothing on that same frequency that is how it works.

36. S. (01:22:19) The question is, what do we need to do in states in which the sensation of weakness and despair stop us?

R. What do we need to do in such states? To only strengthen ourselves one will help his friends, strengthen one another. If the entire group falls to this, then we need to sit and use the group, gathering of friends, maybe do a meal together if you can sit together and like that slowly, slowly we will come out of this. There is no choice. You have already heard many times about this prayer, study, and group connection.

37. S. (01:23:28) What is the difference between demanding the Creator and praying to the Creator?

R. The truth, my friend, I don’t know what to tell you, to demand and to pray is the same thing. It just depends on what the prayer includes within it, just like a demand needs to be. I would say a prayer is something more general and the demand is a more internal thing, maybe, maybe that it comes a little more from the depth of the heart. But it is part of the prayer which is called demand.

S. Can it be degrees of lack?

R. Yes, the revelation of the inner deficiencies is the demand, and the more general deficiency is the prayer and there is both in this and in that, kind of both deficiencies, because prayer is more general which we can do together, and the inner demand is more personal.

S. The demand also comes from the Creator?

R. Yes of course, all the deficiencies, all the demands and prayer are all revealed from deficiencies which the Creator discloses from his shattering, from the shattering, the way he shattered the vessels, so he reveals within the vessel by the light that awakens the vessel, that the vessel discovers all kinds of deficiencies and from that it comes to a prayer, to a request, to a demand. It all depends on the Creator, but the Creator can be hastened, rushed, through our work because even if the Creator does not awaken us we can awaken ourselves. Because we’re different vessels and in the connections between us, for as different vessels, we can awaken ourselves this way and then we should not wait, we need to do this awakening.

38. S. (01:26:19) How can we always place the Creator before, the Creator, from the separation between us in the ten? How can we always hold this point because I think this is the point which can help us to connect? Where am I wrong?

R. The point we begin from is despair, being helpless, not being capable, capable of doing anything. Therefore we need to search like an embryo, a drop of semen that is seeking where it can adhere, to the wall of the womb. Then it’s the same as a baby, who is looking to see how it can be as close as possible to his mother and so on. As much as we search and manage to find this connection, this is our success, connection can be only from us building from ourselves a point of connection which is included of the ten let’s say or from a certain number of points, different foreign points. Specifically, by wanting to connect between us, in the relations between us, above our egoistic desire, if we connect between us or want to connect between us, that is called in faith above reason. By this force that we stabilize between us somewhat and as much as possible even as if by that, we resemble the force of the Creator and then we begin to be somewhat connected to him. Therefore above the feeling and the intellect, above our ego where we can connect between us and specifically that connection which we attained, even though we don’t want, we’re not drawn to him but as much as we forcefully, nevertheless, establish this connection between us, through this connection we are connected to the Creator. Then, already, again and again, as we establish ourselves in such a way we discover the extent in which we’re already connected with him in adhesion, like the drop of semen on the wall of the womb and from that point onwards would begin to develop. That is what is before us.

39. S. (01:29:48) Our intention in the time is always connection and bestowal, that’s clear, along with that our bodies sometimes lack energy, because we can be together physically we can’t do physical actions, one for another, so how can we do thanks physically not just virtually?

R. I don’t see there’s a difference between physical and virtual. When we gather through the internet lines with one another and talk, consult and learn, it is like we’re together. What is the difference? The fact that I am in one place, and you are in the other place, one in Europe and the others in America and the third one is there in Asia. What is the difference? There is no difference, we can see that we are together ,what does it mean we’re together? We’re just physically together, so on the contrary we need to see that the internet connection helps us see ourselves more dependent on our feeling, on the inclination of our heart. Therefore we have no diminishing of the state by being closer or distant physically, no, it’s not right, do not think that spiritual distance, that physical distance is between us. We do not need to be physically connected bodily with one another. Rather only internally with our souls.

40. S. (01:32:12) In the text it says if the king calls you, this call that the Creator does is all day and all night or only in moments when we are trying to connect through the lesson or in our actions that we did together in the ten?

R. Try to feel yourself as one who does not leave the connections, like sometimes you have during the lesson, where you constantly want to be in that feeling, connected with the friends and with the Creator.