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

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

Morning Lesson March 10, 2022 Transcription

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

Winning the War – Selected excerpts to reinforce the World Kli and for peace in the world. #39

1.Rav’s Introduction: Yes, let’s continue, what can we do? Let’s get more and more additional holiness from the words of Baal HaSulam and Rabash will push us a little bit further ahead and in this way we will continue until we are rewarded with the revelation of the face of the Creator, according to our equivalence of form with him let’s go let’s hope it’s sanctifies us.

Excerpt 39 (00:55) Twice

2. R. (04:15) In other words precisely in things where we don’t feel we have so much of a connection with the Creator, we have to understand that in these places, in these times, in these states it is the Creator who was pulling us but He does it in such a way that he summons, He asks our turning to Him. This is why we don’t feel it so clearly, so obviously, in such a way that it’s neither here nor there but the situation, He awakens it after all. So in great yearning in small yearning we don’t quite know what those states are but we have to understand that the Creator does everything, in every state, whatever it is as long as we turn to Him. This is why it says seek the Lord while he is found. Meaning as much as it may seem to us close or blurry it doesn’t matter we have to always try to turn to Him in every situation when we remember that these states come only from Him and in all of them He hides and He invites us in all kinds of ways to awaken to Him.

3. S. (06:03) This excerpt awakens this feeling that the king is seemingly calling on you. How does the king call on the ten what is the feeling that has to be awakened here?

R. The Creator always turns to a person through the ten just as he builds the ten and not us. We think that it is all our doing because we don’t see and we don’t feel that our thoughts come to us from above, from the upper force, from that corrected state that we should reach. Therefore we have to understand that it is the Creator who constantly awakens us and brings us to turn to Him every moment and that’s at every moment from each one and in every situation so let’s not forget it and remind each other of this and then we will succeed quickly, that’s the difference between the short way and the long way.

4. S. (07:20) When the Creator turns to a person how does one notice this? Are there signs for that?

R. A person should always give his own extra feeling of his own then he will hear that the Creator is turning to him. In the foggiest state when you have nothing you don’t feel anything, you are a total beast, awaken a little bit of the thought, feeling, something of your own and you will feel that this too is the Creator approaching you. We basically have to bring ourselves to a state where we feel the Creator’s approach to us every single moment, incessantly, every single moment that this is the real and correct form and that we, as Baal HaSulam writes, here we surrender and say okay, well the situation right now is unclear, blurry, it’s dark, it’s night, it’s sleep, there’s no point waking up and I don’t have to renew the connection, that’s incorrect. Precisely at times when the Creator does not show a person that He is calling him, He is giving you a chance to wake up and call Him.

Excerpt 40 (09:18) Twice

5. S. (11:33) How does it work that a person adds?

R. Wait, I didn’t understand the question. He first turns to the ten? He first turns to the Creator? He’s got a purpose in advance that he awakens himself from zero? What’s the question?

S. I heard before that a person needs to constantly awaken additional feelings from him and then he will see that the Creator is constantly turning to him. Can you explain this mechanism?

R. The upper light always operates and we are always in the upper light and the records in us are ready to awaken. The only question is to what extent a person wants to participate in the awakening, that the upper light awakens those records, so here is our free choice, if we connect among us if we go towards the upper light which is one and the same for everyone, in this way we shorten the times and awaken the Creator and even impel Him to become revealed, what’s the question?

S. What does it mean to awaken additional feeling for himself?

R. I have an inner feeling let’s say, egoistic or even somewhat corrected, I want to connect it with all of the excitement, impressions of the ten and then it is certain that to some extent I am in this connection between us and the Creator, I will find in it some feeling of the Creator back to us because He is always there. He is always in the ten, the question is to what extent I can be incorporated in the ten.

S. Meaning from this action we discover the Creator is awakening this feeling?

R. Of course, of course the Creator always awakens everything, the only question is how we calibrate ourselves in the right calibration to bring ourselves to a state where we begin to be inspired directly from Him. From what we intend and then I hear in the connections of the friend, I hear an actual melody that he is playing a tune on us.

6. S. (14:54) Why in the force of the importance of the Creator does it give us the possibility for going above reason?

R. If we unite among ourselves, in order to somehow, somewhat, attain connection with the Creator by bestowing upon Him by being similar to Him by finding a desire to connect, by this we position ourselves on a higher degree than where we are now. That’s basically our spiritual work. So this is how we operate. Therefore in the smallest awakening, that I receive even without any feeling, just by remembering that there is a matter of adhesion here, of connection, of an ability to connect to the Creator to reveal Him in all kinds of ways, I have to say that it comes from a above and the Creator waits for us and for our part we have to put some action into it. Give some answer, some awakening for our part and in this way we have to help each other in the group and come to it. The main thing is the awakening. It’s not something simple, and then the more we advance, their awakening becomes more difficult, difficult.

I saw Kabbalists and not just one, even besides Rabash, how difficult it was for them to wake up. Until they arrive and awaken and begin to get into the work and they get some internal inspiration, awakening from something, it’s very difficult. A person yesterday was in Atzilut and today he is back in such a lowly state, so dense, so thick, worse than any other person. Anyone who is greater than his friend, his inclination is greater than him, so to recover from the worldly life, from sleep, it’s much harder for a Kabbalist. It is said that the great Kabbalists would sometimes sit for several hours before they arranged themselves and organized themselves into the right reception, the right contact with the upper force because many degrees in their posterior of each degree influence them so as to give them an ability to rise even higher, meaning to give them resistant, so it’s hard.

S. We can’t understand that the Creator is good who does good, if not only above reason. What is the difference between above reason and building of new senses that spirituality is giving us?

R. I didn’t understand. There is a letter by Baal HaSulam where he writes about a son who was in a basement and he suffered his whole life, he wasn’t allowed out. He wasn’t allowed to walk through the city through places where people enjoy themselves, people who were born with him at the same time and grew up and now they’re having a good time, they are happy and poor, he is constantly in such states and he can’t justify Providence that is constantly beating him up but later he discovers that it was all so he would gradually acquire the understanding and the feeling of how to be a real prince.Then he understands how much his father, who is the Creator, was merciful and wise and cared with complete love for what to do for his beloved son. In other words right now we can’t appreciate it, we are also not required to but gradually we have to see the goal before us.

7. S. (20:57) How to add feeling? To feel the Creator’s plea to us each moment?

R.We have to keep our heart open, to keep our hearts open and try as much as we can. I can’t tell you how, each one should find his own tricks and tactics to awaken the heart. Sometimes it’s to speak to friends to read something, to sing something, to watch something or listen to something, I don’t know. A person should find his own tricks that awaken him. You understand? Sometimes it is through one thing sometimes through another thing but we basically need to constantly find ways to awaken our hearts.

S. What to do in order to awaken the ten and the friends, is that a guarantee?

R. It’s good if a person knows how to awaken the ten but he has to do it proportionally, not constantly. He has to do it with good measure, not constantly pressure them. He needs to see if he is really awakening them to the right intentions from him. It shouldn’t seem too pressured. I heard it helps to attain spirituality so I am now going to pressure them with all my power. Of course you don’t do it this way. You just see how much you can support them and what they need. In other words first we have to feel the friends, the ten, see what I can really add to them and only then do what it takes to bring them support.

8. S. (23:58) When we say that the Creator approaches. It is not individually but through the connection between us, right?

R. Yes. The Creator presses and basically demands our connection and he presses our connection; he presses it through the ten, he presses the ten and if we want to answer correctly we should unite as much as possible and from our connection, let’s say it is a ten that is already to some extent corrected, so from our correction we turn to Him.

9. S. (24:46) If I feel that I have blemished the love of friends in my ten and I want to show them my love that they are important to me, does that mean that I now have to show it to them physically or is it enough to do inner work?

R. Inner work is enough for sure although if you can add with words or something, yes, but don’t confuse them do it gently out of the gentleness of the heart so you can add in that as well but mainly is the prayer for them.

S. It’s from the Creator? I have to feel the moment I can turn to them with that request or is it something that I can do all the time?

R. You can constantly turn to the Creator with a request to help your friends.

10. S. (25:45) By what does a person portray for himself as if he was rewarded with faith in the Creator, how not to fall into a scheme within reason?

R. By beginning to feel himself and his friends and the Creator to some extent as one, that they’re all incorporated together and he tries to check it so it is not a lie. There are other things here that we will talk about. In other words the test should be: is it above my ego and is it really for the connection between us? We will see. We will talk later about how to test it.

11. S. (26:55) You said that the Creator always turns to a person through the ten. What does it mean? How to detect when he turns to me in the ten or through the ten?

R. We can’t detect it right now but it’s always through the ten because the Creator does not relate to any one individually, He relates to us through the ten even if you’re not Incorporated in it yet, you will be, your destined to be incorporated in it but the Creator relates to you from the complete vessel. From his perspective it is if there is no breaking. He wants to teach us how to connect over what seems to be a broken vessel but it’s broken from our perspective.

S. What’s the difference between when the creator turns to us through the ten or personality? Is there such a reality?

R. Personally? No. You may feel it personally but it always comes through the ten, this is what exists.

S. What do I do with thoughts that come to me personally? I think it comes to me personally at least?

R. You try to shift it to the right form. That it all comes from the ten or for the ten etc. and you are an inseparable part of the ten.

S. Tying it to the ten, what does it matter where it comes from? If I tie it, that it’s coming from the ten, what’s next?

R. You connect it to the ten and you connect it to the Creator and you want to increase the connection between you and with the Creator and turn to the Creator to increase and to intensify the connection which brings you coarseness which you also have to correct and so on and so forth, that’s how you advance.

12. S. (29:02) Is the truest, the best indication, is through my connection to the Creator through the friends?

R. Yes and there’s no other way.

S. What does it mean that I have to feel him in the organs, are the organs all the parts of my soul which are the friends in the ten?

R. Exactly, you said it very well and correctly.

13. S. (29:34) In that last excerpt we read number 40 it sounds very serious as if it says a person is obligated to portray to himself as if it’s the end of correction.

R. Yes, every degree that we want to complete and finish seems to us like the end of correction and afterwards we find before us another step and another step and another step but we only see the next step and if we take it, complete it, we think that’s it nothing more to do because spirituality is wholeness so even on the smallest degree, we feel ourselves as whole, as complete.

S. The question is now with what we see within reason as the Creator dresses in all these characters and the false world, how much to invest in that and seeing that or beyond that we should try to constantly see the corrected state, the true state that is beyond this veil, what we’re seeing as unreal as bad?

R. I didn’t understand.

S. We need to make an effort over what the Creator is showing us, that this world is bad? Seemingly erase it in the thought, try to see the corrected state?

R. No. Love will cover all the crimes. I need this bad, dismantled form so as to build on top of it a form of connection and in the gap between the two forms I will discover the Creator. This is why the Creator is called BoReh, Bo Reeh, come and see, containing both darkness and light. this is how he’s revealed to me, otherwise how would I detect Him?

S. So the thoughts should work on two channels? Seeing this world and above it constantly the state?

R. Excellent, correct.

14. S. (31:40) What is the form of peace of wholeness in the ten, in my form, in order to bring peace to the world?

R. Connection, the right form is only connection. Connection between us for the sake of revealing the Creator which is the result of our power of connection. The Creator is called one unique and unified that there’s none else besides Him, and there are all kinds of words that explain to us that there’s nothing besides that drop of unification, of unity.

S. And how is it in the relationship between us? That drop of unity that there’s none else besides Him?

R. It’s relationships where we all, each of us, annuls and cancels oneself and wants only to connect with their friends and he wants to lose himself in the connection with the friends then we come to that drop of unification. We discover it.

S. How does that come to peace in the world in practice?

R. When we expand this vessel to the point that what matters to us is only the connection between us, among all the created beings, all the people in this world and then we begin to feel a deficiency for it and the filling.

Excerpt 41 (33:20) Twice

15. S. (36:07) In the text there’s an expression where in my view I have managed to do everything and when I reach that conclusion I reached an agreement with the body because the body says that’s it you’ve done everything you could and the rest is on Him you should wait for the Creator to give it to you. So this moment is the despair itself when I surrendered and I got to an agreement with my ego?

R. Here you have to fight against your ego, our ego wants to put us to sleep, it wants to put us to sleep. If you’re fighting with it it’s good this is called that it is promoting us, the ego, but by putting us to sleep there’s nothing worse. Nothing is worse than slumber, sleep. Therefore this is what we have to constantly fight against. Then we either determine like a roster in the group for each one to awaken the others or we have to do something from the most mechanical simplest things to the highest most sublime things, meaning the prayer but not allow ourselves to calm down or fall asleep.

16. S. (37:58) In the article it says: “In trickery you shall conduct war”. What is the trickery?

R. We don’t have any more than trickery because this war is as Baal HaSulam writes to us later, in this war he reveals how wonderful it is, how all the actions and all the different times and the fear and the terrible threats that we’re going through, it’s all in order to scrutinize for us the forms of connection between the will to receive and the will to bestow and for us to separate them and raise the will to bestow and annul the will to receive and then He will connect them correctly which is receiving in order to bestow. This war is multifaceted or diverse as we learned about it in the manners of Hanukkah and Purim. Until every negative thing will become a positive thing.

S. I feel internal pressure in a way that it seems all Tzaddikim, they are looking into my eyes and expecting me to act but I don’t know where to act and inside that internal pressure that it seems all the heavens is staring into my eyes and I cannot do anything.

R. I don’t know, I stopped giving advice a long time ago because I saw and also it is written that advice that a person can receive counsels that person can receive and incorporate and succeed from, these councils he receives from the environment without any mediators in the middle like a teacher or someone else. The best thing is to incorporate in the ten, shake them up and to say that stop sleeping, wake up, let’s rise together above our state, and that’s how we acquire another degree another overcoming and another until all these bricks that we form from our matter we will use them to build our first degree and the second and the third, it will be easier then.

S. How can I clothe in the ten’s desire?

R. Of course you can clothe in the desire of the ten. Just merely clothe in them, in clothing in them you can determine your desire that you want to connect to them in these forms and your friends each one of them will want to connect in a different way and this way and another way and don’t disregard any of it except everyone towards connection and then everyone can add and even the weakest and the newest in the ten he also adds something small and that’s how he succeeds. The important thing is to work on it during the day.

17. S. (42:19) Some things happened to me this week that made me realize that my faith above reason, it was just very intellectual. I couldn’t feel it. I want to know what it is I can do more for it to be totally unconditional?

R. If you have a ten then you can’t be in an intellectual state and all kinds you can be in practical states. You can sit and discuss but discuss seriously. What can we do in order to come out of this lack of contact, this lack of feeling that we are connected. Lack of feeling that we’re connected but inside this connection we can’t discover a state where the Creator needs to be revealed. We need to build a network of connections between us just like a net that we used to catch fish. So how to make this net in order to catch him? That’s what we need to talk about, that, think about it. With what thoughts, what desires, what kind of effort to connect in order to catch the Creator between us. He’s not in the water where we wish to catch Him, He is found only when we think that we need to catch Him and suddenly we see that in our thoughts and our desires we make Him. Then He’s there. We seemingly bring Him down from a higher degree to our degree and then He materializes, He is revealed.

S. This was personal. I don’t think the rest of my ten had the same problem.

R. Try to do it together. It’s much easier, It’s much faster.

18. S. (44:38) It feels like only the Creator can help. How do we come to a prayer from the bottom of the heart from this state?

R. It’s only on the condition that you talk with the friends and you scrutinize how necessary it is to come out of your state and reach a state where between you the Creator will dwell. That is something very important that should be extremely necessary. Then you get into a true prayer.

19. S. (45:33) After all the efforts, how does the Creator help a person?

R. How does he help a person? I cannot tell you. After all our actions when we discover a more advanced state, we discover in it how the Creator constantly accompanied us and connected us and twisted us and until we would be able to receive wisdom and feeling and a lack from all the conditions that we met along the way. Then we learn, that’s the meaning of being the Creator’s worker, we learn about the work the Creator’s doing on us.

20. S. (46:42) What is the state of sleep and how do we avoid it?

R. It’s very difficult. It’s worse than death because when you are dead then you know that you are dead. Slumber is when you know that you are asleep and you can’t do anything. That’s a good, best case scenario, the worst case scenario when you’re asleep and you don’t care and you’re asleep and you have no powers no powers of intellect you can’t move anything in your head or in your heart. It seems like you have mountains there from big boulders that you have to move somehow in your heart, in your brain and you can’t do it.

Those are difficult states but again the Creator gives it to a person so that a person would need the connection in the group since only in this way he can come out of such states and he should be afraid of leaving the connection and he will constantly be awakened by them. You’ll determine things like the Ramchal duty and other times of duties in order to awaken one another and you do it specifically out of the fear of getting to such indifference when you are bound by iron shackles and you cannot move and you know that you cannot do anything and you do not care you just want to fall asleep but you can’t even fall asleep you can’t disconnect from the path because the Creator is giving you a feeling, a thought, even the smallest that you belong to the path and you don’t belong to the path. That awakens us to add more and more from ourselves.

21. S. (50:05) Sometimes the conversation in the ten gives you an impression it’s stuck because no one wants to put himself in it. Sometimes the conversation falls apart or breaks down because we agree that it’s best not to talk about it because we say things that we don’t understand and the conversation can decline to something that’s more logical and then you forget about the rules of the workshop and then we can’t understand what the other is saying. What is your recommendation for a discussion that will be helpful in the ten.

R. The benefit can come only on one condition that there is someone in charge, someone responsible who works according to a predetermined order. Each day it can be a different person and he and he ensures that the ten is awakened and not just a formal awakening but he truly worries and cares about igniting them and lighting them up and he knows how to arrange it and if he doesn’t know how to do this he should take another person another friend to help him. In this way each one needs to feel this is my day, and in this I have to bring the ten to the end of correction, it’s simple, the end of correction.

Both according to the feeling they have, the deficiency they have and also according to their yearning and the understanding of how to reach it and the prayer we have to get to. All those things a person who is responsible for the connection in the ten, he must do it and it’s impossible for him to fail. There’s no such thing; he can’t simply go through the motions in his duty. He cannot. I also feel myself on duty but in the morning lesson but on duty nevertheless, what can I do? I, even look today when I started the lesson, I looked sleepy I was devoid of feeling and strength but gradually because I have a responsibility, I wake up, I recuperate I received efficiencies from you the questions you bring me I feel that I have to answer them, I feel that I have to fill each and every one, and that’s important to me and each one who is responsible who’s on duty should do it.

S. There is this assumption, there is this habit in the ten to get into arguments or discussions and sometimes we don’t want to look for logic, for a reason in the topic because logic ruins the work. How can we speak among us above reason?

R. We only want to scrutinize questions, short questions, practical questions, don’t drag them and look for answers to them in the text. In the sources. That’s the main thing and not simply open discussions. There may be time for it if you want to dedicate an hour a week for discussion between you but also don’t drag it. Each one needs to have an internal discussion. I listen to what we are learning, I take all of this material and I try to discuss with the material inside of me to connect things together and make and see if they how they compare or not but just to discuss between us, on what? The important thing is to understand the sources and through the discussion I think that in most cases it simply brings more confusion.

22. S. (56:10) By what signs can we understand that the ten is standing still?

R. If we don’t worry about advancing towards connection between us and with the Creator, then it’s clear that we are not advancing. We are standing still. The deficiency for the connection between us and with the Creator, we have to worry about it and we have to renew it constantly.

23. S. (57:10) The bad is revealed and the conclusion we come to is not always that the Creator is responsible for it?

R. Work on it intensively, intensively, internally, each one of you and you will see that we cannot overcome the bad and also that evil inclination of ours that is giving us all the trouble is also telling us that we have to overcome and correct these troubles. He wants us to fight it. The evil inclination itself he’s telling you, catch the thief. What does it mean? He says chase me, catch me and in this way you’ll succeed and it’s completely incorrect we need to chase the Creator and bring Him to wage war. The Creator will finish it for me. It’s a problem, that’s why it’s the evil inclination that’s why he is so cunning.

24. S. (58:41) The excerpts are great, concerning our inner work. How do we intensify this feeling and turn it to the Creator to resolve and make peace in the world? Because what is happening is very painful.

R. This question everyone is asking, I don’t know what to tell you about it. It is not a question. We need to try and reach such prayers that will awaken the Creator that he’s in the actions and we feel the actions and then we can see if our prayer is good and that we are turning to Him successfully. That’s it. Until then you cannot say. Rather, anything on your part to do, you should do.

25. S. (59:38) Why is work about reason, why does it enable the person to come to the importance of the goal. What’s the connection between the two?

R. We can’t weigh, we cannot see, we cannot feel the importance of the goal if we are in the will to receive and only if we rise above the will to receive, with our intention with our desire to bestow then we understand what is the goal, what is the state, we can weigh it properly. So, to be in the force of bestowal in faith above reason, in connection, in love above the hate and the separation, this is the necessary condition in order to feel spirituality and to weigh all those spiritual states against the corporeal states.

26. S. (01:00:54) You said we have to open our hearts. How should we do this if our heart means desire?

R. By connecting between us in the ten, talking between us and we, discuss how much we got from the lesson, the material of the lesson, like this we can form, connection between us and in this connection we can feel the Creator, discover the Creator.

27. S. (01:01:28) What does it mean to turn to the Creator from the subtlety of the soul?

R. The subtlety of the soul is how much I can annul myself towards the friends. There is nothing else for us with which we can make the soul more subtle, to cleanse it, to refine it, It is only when I approach a friend, when I come close to him more and more by that I cleanse my soul because between me and the Creator there are many screens as I go through those screens, those filters, my soul undergoes corrections, it is getting galvanized as we call it.

28. S. (01:02:30) Excerpt number 39 says that the Creator presents Himself first to give you a heart to demand Him. Question: How can we demand him in the ten?

R. To the extent that we want to connect between us, above our ego, to that extent we can turn to the Creator for help.

29. S. (01:03:04) If the Creator always relates to us through the ten and in order to connect it, why does he give us personal and far troubles that seem to us like they are the farthest from the ten?

R. It seems to us that the problems, the troubles that we feel in our lives individually or in the group or in the world all those troubles they come from the corrected state so we have to correct them along the way and although we don’t touch much of those problems and troubles and they slowly seemingly calm down and disappear over time, it only seems to us this way but in truth we participate in their correction and it all comes to us from the broken vessel.

30. S. (01:04:12) I want to connect with the friend in the ten but I see how material problems separate us. They drag us completely into our own problems, even the pain of the friends doesn’t release me from myself. How do we achieve this connection, this mutual responsibility in prayer?

R. He who is greater than his friend his inclination is greater. The more we advance on the spiritual path our heart will become more stony, like the stony heart that will be revealed until we want to kill one another and destroy everything. A person comes before the Creator and is willing to kill the Creator if it were possible. That’s how we feel it, we attain it. That’s how it is towards the friends, men and women, so we do not need to think, anything that we feel, anything that we think it all comes from above. So, we will deal with all those things, we will correct them in our prayer to the Creator. That’s it, It doesn’t matter what the Creator is giving us, there has to be such a reaction from us that together we are asking for connection because in the connection everything disappears and turns to good. Even that we don’t know how, in what way, what comes to us, thank you, we bless over the bad as over the good. Thank you for giving it to us. From here on we are asking you for connection between us and connection with you, that’s it. Simple. This is called complete faith. I don’t want anything besides that. I just want above it to come to unification with you.

31. S. (01:06:52) Even when there are corporeal problems with the friends she doesn’t feel the outcry from the bottom of her heart. With respect to spiritual problems, how does she come to that outcry?

R. The Creator, the Creator should worry about what I’m feeling or what I’m not feeling. I just need in every state to ask for the connection between us and with Him. That’s it, nothing besides that. I don’t care about the troubles he provokes, all the troubles and the problems he awakens in me, I don’t need to take it into consideration. The important thing for me is not to enter into the problems and the troubles; it won’t do me any good. The important thing for me is that above them love will cover all transgressions and I’m asking for the connection between us and I want to feel this connection tangibly that I exist inside this connection that I feel and embrace between us, between the friends and with the Creator. That’s it and as much as possible to demonstrate it.

32. S. (01:08:19) The more I try to connect to the ten and rise above my evil inclination, the more I try to do something for them the more the Creator gives me states that are not simple in corporeality. What am I doing wrong?

R. It’s possible that you are doing everything right because what you are describing is a normal thing. The more you advance you get more problems, disturbances of all kinds, you get more of those and we need to go above that to overcome and to ask for correction, for connection between us and then we will discover it. Only in this way, that we are willing to accept all kinds of disturbances, relate to them correctly, that I understand that all is coming from the Creator. That I’m willing to accept it as coming from the Creator and I’m turning to Him and asking, help me rise above all these problems.

I want to relate to them correctly that I am receiving it all from the good that does good. Since by giving me the problems and the troubles I can go above them and I raise myself closer to Him and that’s how I advance towards the goal. Each time, the more we advance towards our final goal and we have to move in that direction like it or not because this is the plan of creation. Each time we receive greater troubles and problems, greater and above them we have to climb. All of our study, our craftsmanship, our craft is in learning how to rise above all the growing problems and there will be more and more of them. That’s how it is in our lives. Look at what kind of problems small children have compared to teenagers compared to grown ups, adults and then when they have their own kids and so on and so forth. Each time we get bigger problems. We just need to know how above them, specifically above then we rise and we connect to the Creator and then we see how our world is built in a wonderful way, reveal him, grab him, grab hold of him and be in this way all the time to reach the complete adhesion.

33. S. (01:11:42) When I feel a great inner force and I’m full of energy, I want to share it with everyone in the ten. Is this a good state and how do I do it correctly?

R. You have to relate to it gently. I need to think is it the right time, is it correct for the friends to receive an impression from me on the path about this state and so on and so forth but there is room for that. Is it beneficial to the advancement of the group and then you wont make any mistakes.

34. R. (01:12:50) Thank you to the women and to Coleman. May we see times of peace, that’s the first thing, let’s see all our friends healthy and in one piece. Good luck.

Reading (01:13:26) Item #42

35. R. (01:14:12) Meaning there is no problem, there is no problem in the world whatsoever. Only to discover to some extent that it all belongs to the Creator and then all the evil whatever it may be will certainly turn into the good against it.

Reader continues Reading Item #42 (01:14:37): “Since the guardian is united with…” twice

36. S. (01:17:11) I wanted to gently ask this, also I felt your explanation go there, in order to make the spiritual process tangible Baal HaSulam gave us many parables and there was the parable of the servant, that the Creator wanted to promote, to advance. He waged war against him so in terms of the discovering of the shattering we learn how to cope inside the ten with all the revelations of the shattering and we understand how to nullify but the shattering that appears in the world does it indicate that we are already prepared to face of the Creator?

R. No, no. The shattering that is being revealed right now in the world like the war in Eastern Europe is not disclosing anything. It reveals another layer of falsehood in human society and it is still clarifying the situation of the people of Israel somewhat as the two Nations here but it is, I will say is preparing, I will say that eventually the whole goal of this current war is to advance the world in general to a state in which they will feel that the purpose of life is above them and on wards.

There will be such results from this war, we will have to add our explanation to it, it is best if we spread out as much as possible suitable material, both in Russia and Ukraine and from the troubles that are being revealed, from Ukraine and the war and in Russia mostly from the financial situation that both will be able to come closer more and more to the truth and to the correction of the world in a real way. That we need to think of, how we do this I hope that you too will think, all of you and we will help the whole world awaken, uplift itself and rise towards the upper force of connection, and love which can only be by the method that the the wisdom of Kabbalah speaks of which is by our efforts and the work of the upper light but that’s it, that’s what I expect we will do.

S. In these states the dedication and loyalty of the friends is being tested, also the friends that are in the two different camps?

R. Yes and no, I wouldn’t recommend to perform any kind of examinations that you think that need to be done because of these situations but as usual we want to just check ourselves in order to connect between us even more powerfully above all the corporal conditions. That’s how we need to build ourselves as a group that is towards the purpose of the last generation. Where there is no difference between the nations of the world, what color a person is, what nationality, even what gender. No matter what, who or what. We just want one thing to connect their hearts, their hearts without any corporeal differences that may be in color, gender nationality or anything. Only the connection of the hearts which are drawn and awakened towards the Creator. For it is in him that our heart will rejoice, it is in Him that we will connect. That is our source of birth and that’s where we need to return to. That’s our origin and that is where we have to return to.

37. S. (01:22:56) What does it mean to raise MAN, how do we do it during the lesson?

R. The lack that a person discovers in his heart as he wants to discover his connection with others and to give, make room for the Creator to be revealed there in order to bring Him contentment, that’s called MAN.

S. What’s the reason that we don’t produce MAN, that it doesn’t come out?

R. It comes out, it’s just not enough, it is added kind of swallowed in its source there it is not yet capable of illuminating with it’s lack for the revelation and the connection between us and the deficiency to fill the Creator to fill our connection between us, still this lack has yet to come to a sufficient form of force in its intensity and its power.

38. S. (01:24:22) What is the difference between private providence, for example the pandemic and the war that apearnow and other things. Does it mean that I am personally advancing when these events happen or the ten is advancing?

R. We do not know. If you are asking me, we don’t know and It is also not important to me the calculations of the Creator. It may appear as if Kabbalists don’t care, they care but they don’t go into all those things. I want to think and to be in the solution of how I bring myself to a state of a deficiency of connection between us, and between us and the Creator. That’s all we need, we don’t need anything else. So, why do I then need to go and scrutinize the reasons? I can get into such calculations that also calculations of this world, that there is no truth in it whatsoever. Because the Creator awakens all those things, so let’s be engaged in what Kabbalists write and from that we will understand that it is not important to us, the reason. What is important for us is the result, the result. The reason is the Creator, and the result has to be our connection with the Creator.

S. In a practical way, in a ten, how to make it so that we stopped being ashamed of opening the heart? How is it supposed to happen, when I see the suffering of someone else?

R. You need to connect between you, somewhat at least and then from that point of connection between you, you will begin gradually, slowly, slowly, open this point of collision between you, problems, issues that you are awakened in order to increase, to intensify the connection between you even more. Meaning, it is like between couples, when there is a certain state between them, they discover how can they rise up between us. So, first they need to evoke the love a little more so they will have some form of infrastructure, then from that love evoke a little bit of friction, coarseness, distancing and then fill it with love, and then the sandwich will be a little thicker. Then, they awaken more love and again more friction, separation and once more work on that love. Meaning, each time in such a way we work and then with certainty you will always advance well. Every couple must know how to constantly be in the increasing of connection between them, and the increasing of love between them. This can be according to the same condition of “love covers all crimes”. Meaning prepare the connections, the love and then increase the crimes and then upon that, the love. If we learn how to do this in the group as well as teach the whole world Kli how to do these, all together between everyone; we will succeed for sure.

39. S. (01:28:53) We are going through uneasy times and we are trying to somehow pray. What do we need to do to obtain the heart of the Creator? If we raise gratitude to the Creator, I think with a complete heart we can praise the Creator for the teachers, the Wisdom that we have here. With this gratitude can we touch the Creator’s heart?

R. If we will all unite our hearts as much as possible and turn to the Creator, for Him to enter our one united heart; then certainly it will happen and we will feel it. Then we will be able to rise in the connection of this one heart more and more.

40. S. (01:30:17) If a person feels that there’s no other force other than the Creator but he cannot agree with what the Creator is doing in the world?

R. Then we need to ask, we need to pray for Him to have the mind and the feeling to be able to agree with Him.

41. S. (01:30:46) Why is the most important thing in the work is the restriction? Why does the light that reforms fulfill us during the restriction and there is a connection between restriction and prayer?

R. The restriction is the condition that we are ready to restrict our will to receive in order to receive and want to rise from it in actions in order to bestow. The restriction stands on the border between corporeality and spirituality: between the Malchut which restricts hertself and the Malchut that can open herself towards Bina.

42. S. (01:31:47) What does it mean to incorporate the deficiencies of our friends? How does it happen?

R. We are actually all in one process and we rise from one state to another in one system, in one ladder but we are just not aware of it. Therefore, we cannot help one another and without the rule of “one helping his friend”  we really cannot hurry on the path. We need to put forth thoughts of how everything is taking place in the system of Adam HaRishon, that towards us the system demonstrates itself as a shattered system and we must try to reconnect it, which is how we will reach the end of correction. What is it that you are forgetting about such basic principles? Where are we coming from, where are we going to? Therefore these questions should be resolved only there, in that system.

Reading (01:33:46) Item #43 Twice

Reading (01:36:24) Item #44

43. S. (01:37:30) Does the person need to aspire to reach a state where he is at such a point that moves between justification to descendants?

R. We learn this in a simple way: We need 23.5 hours a day to be in gratitude and half an hour a day to be in scrutiny and demand. But, if we connect between us in the ten then it is enough for us to be all the time connected and turning to the Creator because there we also each bring the lacks from their hearts and raises all to the Creator together. That is how in the ten they complement and complete one another because we are working above the shattering and these lack work in a positive manner.

44. S. (01:39:03) Why is there such a confusion in man’s feelings when he prays? How can one basically come to the awareness that all his feelings come from the Creator?

R. That he needs to believe in what the Kabbalist tells him and sees it this way. A person needs to depict himself just as we learn from the writings of the Baal HaSulam and Rabash that actually a person needs to see himself constantly as being before the Creator and that there is nothing between him and the Creator other than what he depicts this word and the creatures and all that he sees here. But, all together, all and all, this is the distance between him and the Creator and if he knows how to connect them and with all humanity, then with that he’s connecting with the Creator.

45. S. (01:40:37) There is a lot of work in the ten and still we cannot move to live in the inner connection between us. How can we help each other lip above this fence?

R. From the external work, as we try to be together, we slowly, slowly, also externally and internally know no ourselves more and begin to be closer to one another until we begin to understand that this incorporation penetrates into the heart.

46. S. (01:41:26) According to what it says in excerpt 42: What does it mean to adhere to a private providence?

R. That means to be together with the Creator and all the actions he does upon all the created beings. And, from that feel and understand all His actions and in such a way He opens up. He is attained in that way.

47. R. (01:42:08) Following excerpt 42: Who is the one who is pure?

R. Who is pure? Pure is the one whose intentions are in order to bestow to others and not to himself.

S. (01:42:21) Who is “the true servant of the Creator”?

R. The one that’s called, “The true servant of the Creator”, is when all man’s intentions are in order to bestow. To the Creator he cannot bestow but only to the created beings and as much as he bestows to the created beings, he is doing good to the Creator. We need to understand that the Creator created the deficiencies that we will feel it and He will feel it; as if all the created beings are His children and He gave me the possibility to take care of them, because they are his children and he’s concerned about them and to the extent that I invest in them, I truly bring him contentment.

48. S. (01:43:16) How not to fight the Creator when you see children, orphans suffering that are not to blame for everything?

R. Yes, it’s a problem. I understand and in difficult times like war it’s even more difficult to justify the Creator for what He has done In this world. But in truth, we do not understand yet to the extent in which our ego, our will to receive is deep inside of creation and that what we see; all the people that are suffering are not people, it is part of our soul that is suffering. We don’t understand, we are not aware, we don’t recognize that this is in our ego, and if we cancel our ego we will feel more pain and that will help us feel more bestowal, care, concern, and prayer for all those who are suffering. We can’t explain these things until we attain them. A person cannot identify with all there is in the world.

49. S. (01:44:55) We talked about increasing the friction. If you can explain what it means to increase friction between couples and spouses it is clear, you raise the friction and you rise above it with love but how do you raise the friction in the ten?

R. We do that out of the connection between us and we can see how much through the connection between us we sometimes enter into clashes or not. If we do not enter clashes then we don’t need to, we don’t need to awaken it. It’s a sign we are not ready for it yet. We do not do it on purpose.

50. S. (01:45:38) What is the “drop of unification”? How will we be awarded with that in all of our tens and our world Kli?

R. The “drop of unification” is the part of the Creator, in which He throws His seed, His drop of force from bestowal and love from a higher degree in us, towards us; as we are all as a female towards Him, as the Nukva. And, then we receive that drop of unification that unites us and brings us to a state that we’ll be able to awaken us towards the Creator.

S. (01:46:33) Can we check that we have removed ourselves from forighn pride?

R. To remove ourselves from foreign pride can only be done at the end of correction. But in any given degree that we rise, until the end of correction; that is somewhat, drop after drop, step after step, we rid ourselves of our foreign pride; from the pride that is revealed as foreign.

51. S. (01:47:18) If we know that it is possible to connect the ten in many ways. What lights awaken in the ten when most of the friends are indifferent?

R. If they are indifferent, we make sure that everyone will come out of their indifference. If people are in a state of indifference, we just need more and more and more to study, and it could be that after a few years, it’s not a problem; even a few years but advanced in such that the heart, the crust and shall of the heart will crumble and this drop of unification will enter the hearts and it will connect all the hearts into one heart. That is it.

52. S. (01:48:22) They want to thank Rav for gently, everyday turning us to this dialogue with the Creator towards the final correction.

R. Thank you, I’m happy to hear that. Because from that you also understand this process of education, especially spiritual education is a gradual one; It’s persistent and we have to specifically, in such a way, more and more advance towards the big corrections. Believe me that I have less patience than all of you. Whoever knows me as a human being, I am very crude, very impatient, I’m even cruel but toward spirituality, there I have patience and persistence and perseverance and a lot of strength to help and love. Because that is the spiritual law. Let us hope that we all will receive from the Creator more and more of those forces. So, thank you to our women and we are going back to our lesson.