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

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

Morning Lesson March 12, 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. #48

1.Rav’s Introduction: In what way can we win this war, only in connection, only in peace. First of all in between us and with the sorrow that is still all over the world between all the created beings there is no connection yet and this is why there is no room for the Creator to be revealed because his name is Shalom, peace, adhesion and what we have to do is to build the place called Shechina, divinity so that the Creator would be revealed to everybody and then we would be called his son’s, his children and in that way the will come closer to unity between us and him. This is actually the victory. Let’s hope that we will achieve this. At least this is in our hands, we understand this, we talk about it and we are related to this, we are connected to this, we have some understanding, some awareness and maybe some doing to some extent and I’m very happy to see that the groups are drawn to the implementation of the connection, the right connection, and that the Creator more and more is coming closer and that he will start to be revealed between us so that out of those connections that we are about to do and we intend to do they themselves those connections between us out of the vessel we will attain the light. 

The truth is that the light is revealed as the connection of the opposite vessels that are far away from each other and they equalize and they connect in spite of the separation between them and then out of the gap of what they had before the connection and the the connection that they achieved that gap, the advantage of light out of darkness from these two states we attain the Creator. This is why it says; you have made me and this is what we have to do, to try to be connected more and more because by this specifically we win the war and the the result out of this we hope to see them in the whole reality, in our entire world and in the spiritual world along with that so these two words will join together and the darkness from this light will shine like the upper light and in this way we will discover the correction. Let’s go to the text and become incorporated in them. Let’s connect and come closer to the victory.

Excerpt 48 (04:24 – 05:19)

2. R. The Creator for him there is no place, he does not have a place, he doesn’t have a personality. In respect to us it is simply the complementation, the completion of all of the separated ones that are completing each other. The desire to complete, to connect all of the broken desires, this is what is required from us and then it turns out that if we are drawn to that then it is considered we are pulling the Creator to the place of our separation and he who makes Peace in Heavens where he himself exist then he will also dress into the vessels, connect the parts of the vessels and then he will be revealed in that vessel. This is why what we need to depict for ourselves is that peace, Shalom is Shlemut, wholeness, this is the Creator and we need to make room for him between us so he would enter forcefully he would dress into it forcefully and he will reform us correctly so that we can take on his form and then this way we will already achieved correction and everytime we want that the Creator dresses in us to reform us and pressures us then we would be ready more and more for corrections in spite of our selfish ego that does not want this and this is why Rabash would point to himself and say; let it suffer. That our selfish ego, our desire of each and everyone must feel how much it is suffering and by this it is given an opportunity to the Creator, giving the Creator the ability to dress into it, to connect with others because connection is always against the desire of each and everybody and as much as the Creator is putting pressure on as and forcefully dresses in us and as much as we want him to do this, above our natural selfish forces this is actually our participation in the building of the Kli, vessel.

3. S. (08:06) If the Creator is wholeness and peace, why do we need suffering for it? 

R. The Creator is truly wholeness and that form exists to begin with. It is just that what is given to us is the opposite form, deliberately to help us to progress so we would be opposite to the Creator because only in that way when we are opposite to him and gradually take on his form upon us, this is like darkness and light and when it enters gradually according to our desire, our prayer, according to our participation, our awakening then out of that we build the vessel. The deficiency comes first and then we feel how the wholeness fulfills the deficiency, it formats it, arranges it and fulfills, it rules over it. Then out of this we have the feeling that we are rising from the desire of the creative being to the desire of the Creator, from the state of the creative being to the state of the Creator. These are the processes we have to go through. Why was this done this way? Because otherwise we would not have a feeling. 

We need to be incorporated of two opposite things that we do not have it and then we do have it, we do not have it and then we do have it. From these two states when they connect and exist together then we feel how much we exist in a world, in the spiritual world. If we are hungry we only feel hunger, when we are full we only feel that we are full and also we lose the taste of it. Wholeness is in feeling both the deficiency and the fulfillment and that the two of them exist and hold each other. We do not feel what it is in this world because it does not exist in us more than a single moment, some pleasure or either we gradually reach it  or we descend from it. But that exists simultaneously both the deficiency and pleasure that we don’t know because there is no screen between them, there is nothing that links those two opposite things together. So we need to reach a state where the Creator can be revealed and he can exist in us so that both the deficiency and the fulfillment will exist and will mutually support each other and then we will be incorporated in both. This is the state of the spiritual Partzuf, face as we learnt. This is how it exist and when we will come close to it we will learn it in detail and practically, not theoretically but truly practically.

S. Simply, many people experience different deficiencies but it is clearly not enough to become a vessel according to the light so what should we add to these sufferings so it would become a vessel?

R. It is that we through and around those sufferings that people go through is that we will bring to that the right intention, the right awareness and we will connect to the Creator. It is like a little child is crying but his parents know what needs to be done in order for the child to reach a state where he does not cry but he’s happy with life so it is the same with us and with mankind then let’s say that the Ukrainian people especially who are suffering right now we, all of us need to connect to the Creator and ask that he would stop this suffering but why for what reason and when this stop. When we will be incorporated in these sufferings and we will want to build on top of it connection otherwise there is no benefit out of the suffering and it will not stop but maybe it will shift from one place to another. 

But when do we truly reach a state where the world will reach a good state? When we wants to connect above the suffering so each one in the world as much as possible as much as possible for everybody in his Kli to discover the pain to some extent and would want according to that to complete this pain in the right direction for the right goal and so that connection will rule over separation and the sorrow. This is what we need to do in our times. When we read this text winning the war, this is actually the victory. It is impossible to win by us killing each other. Instead it is possible to win only on the conditions that we reach wholeness peace when these two ends reach connection. When they rise above themselves and reach connection so much so that even the bad force will turn into the good force. We read about this in various texts and we need to come closer to the implementation of that.

S. So we need the suffering in order to feel it, if I got it right and above that we need to build connections. So who is affecting this? Who is it about? Us as a group?

R. First of all it all came to each and every group in our organization and the whole organization together we have to feel ourselves as responsible for what is happening in the world. We need to feel ourselves as responsible for the correction, for the healing that without our appeal to the Creator that situation this is how we need to feel that without our appeal to the Creator that situation will not come to an end and it is only we who can and indeed there are no other groups only ourselves I wish the whole world would be like this but only ourselves can make it change all of us from all ends of the world from all places we have to turn it to the Creator and ask and request that he will bring you upon us. Complementation and all the states, all the qualities will connect together and everybody will realize that there is no evil here, there is no good, there is nothing but rather the Creator is ruling over us and only by us turning to him from all of these different extreme states and demand from him to bring wholeness then peace can come and the Bnei Baruch organization is still a small part in this world, we just have to add that to his intentions that we are doing this in order to give contentment to the Creator. That intention, of course we cannot demand this or expect this from other people, but we do have to realize that everything that is done here is done opposite the normal logic and we want that complementation, that wholeness will come only in order for us to give contentment to the Creator. 

4. S. (18:01) Yesterday I talked to someone and they said that they met refugees from Ukraine and the Israelis who came back from shopping. How could they take advantage of this stage to help Israelis to share shopping with the refugees, how can we educate them.

R. This is a great work, this is a great effort that we each and everybody has to feel how much we have to use, how we should take advantage of all these states that the Creator arranged for us in order for us to connect all of the created beings together and so that love would cover all crimes. The crimes are that we are separated you’re even enemies and hostile to each other and we have to cover that with the Sukkah of peace, with wholeness and that can be only when we don’t talk about who is right or wrong but in general we cannot find anything where somebody is right and the other is not because each one is looking through his broken vessel and justifies himself and therefore we just need only one thing that can be done and this is to publicize the method of correction as much as possible in a way that it is close, accessible to everybody in the world, in all languages, in all places so that people as much as they are incorporated in the troubles along with that they also are incorporated with our explanation and then they would be able to relate, to connect that what they feel with the purpose of human development why is it that we are suffering this way and we go through such states. That there is nothing in the world that is not aimed at the general goal. So educating people to look at things this way and everything that happens to them this is our obligation.

5. S. (21:05) When we look at a dispute or a war there are two sides that are going through the state and the rest of the world is looking at them I wanted to ask from another perspective from those who are looking at the conflict what is their role in deciding that this dispute is word… for peace?

R. The role of the entire world is indeed to decide the dispute and everybody serves as pieces of the single Kli, the vessel of Adam. We are a single mechanism and the more people would practically connect into this mechanism according to that we will be able to promote the world to correction, there is no more than that. The fact that the right connection among everybody is truly good and necessary and today we can talk about it with everybody and somehow in different degrees but each and everybody can agree with this because everybody is suffering and we will suffer more from everything that is happening. We are all interconnected. It is clear to everybody that everything that happens in Ukraine is a great tragedy. It is truly something that is very sad for the whole of humanity because we are all suffering out of that state all over the world from lack of weed, crops, fuel and everything. This argument, this war between the two countries in some place in the world will cause everybody the great fall. We will feel it in the upcoming month.

S. Again my question is as I see myself for example, when I look at the war I cannot remain neutral about the dispute naturally you take sides instinctively so how to decide for peace?

R. This is natural but in above nature I do not look at one side or the other side, I look at the Creator as Baal HaSulam writes in his prophecy that it came to him in the days of war, so there is a war going on between nations and he turns to the Creator and says the one who sits in Heavens laughs, so he needs to relate all of these things a bit differently then how the nations and people feel this compared to him. We nevertheless have to see how to scrutinize the right reason which is our selfish ego in the whole of reality and how do we specifically because we are closer to the Creator more than mankind, how can we make it so in this state to make it good for mankind and through that to the Creator, through the people to the Creator, how can we do that and here what is it that we can do? Only to publicize more and more what is happening in the world, what is the reason and how to heal these flaws, these mistakes by turning to the Creator there is nothing else to do there is nobody else to turn to there is nobody else who can do anything about it and this is how we affect the correction and win.

S. I see my natural reaction but how can I see the Creator? How to look at the world through him? 

R. Look at the Creator, that he is the one making that war and we need to see ourselves being above all the separation, above all of these states, these mutual attacks, above everything and we are only drawn to connection so the Creator would arrange this, this is our role.

S. I also see in my attitude to the friends in the World Kli when friends from Ukraine the other from Russia how to remain neutral to them and not to take sides?

R. You wish for them to rise above all of their calculations that are still earthly to some extent. Of course they hate each other and of course they are far away from each other and you want to see them rising above all of those calculations and by attributing everything that is happening to them to the single Creator, to the single source and wanting to connect in him this is what you wish for them to happen for our hearts to be rejoiced in him and as much as we go and progress to Gmar Tikkun those wars will be more and more great and brutal and gradually they shift from the physical degree to the spiritual degrees and there it will be with confusion and width such form that it is not understood and it is above all of our intellect and emotions and we will have to rise above reason in order to work with them correctly and to connect the broken pieces this is why in this war we must not, even if your heart for the time being is on one side you nevertheless should try to rise above it and you have to see how can you cause connection between them in which the Creator will be revealed because it all comes from him and it all has to return to him through your efforts.

S. So what should a friend do if he feels that he is disregarding or hating the other this entire state?

R. He has to think about it too correct it, he has to he see himself divided that he let’s say in his mind and emotions standing on one side of the war between those who fight and he needs to see that and together with that he needs to be above his own reason, above taking site and we win the war through complementation, through peace and wholeness, this is the name of the Creator and in this way we can come closer to him and reach the good that even though I am entirely on one side of those who fight I have to bring myself together with that also to that I want to cause connection between them and this is what I am drawn to and the fact that the people there are fighting down below seemingly this is why we also reading more Psalms so we read this in King David’s Psalms specifically about the dispute, this is our way and there is nothing else you can do about it. We will not let all kinds of natural forces, instinct or whatever is happening to deflect as we, in spite of everything that is happening, we want to bring everybody to completion. 

6. S. (31:27) There are friends or groups of friends in the organization who feel neglected because of the situation, because the flow goes to one side and it doesn’t matter who is right, who is not right. So what to do when this seeps into us and we feel like victims? How do we rise above this feeling of deprivation?

R. I do not want to start a complete lecture now about the nature of the Russians and the nature of the Ukrainians and the nature of the whole of humanity and the Creator who is above all this. And in this way through those collisions He wants to be revealed. Everybody has heard this  already. But once again, we have no choice. We need to accept these situations, that they come from above and it comes from above with a simple purpose, that we nevertheless will reach connection in any possible state. It changes today, it changes tomorrow and the day after. It does not matter to me. I need to see nevertheless in every moment connection by rising above whatever I feel and understand right now. Connection. This is the success, this is the best possible state. Therefore we need as much as possible to see the future in that way, to pray for it and thus to see it. Of course in connection don’t have one who wins and one who is defeated,  rather, truly a mutual connection with an open heart as much as possible from both sides, at least in our groups it is desirable that this is how it will happen. This is a place for great corrections if we want to rise to the corrections.

S. So with my corporeal eyes I might be supporting one side naturally or influenced by the world naturally?

R. Each one, each and everyone is like that. Each one can feel that he’s more on one side or more or the other side but these are corporeal things. Spirituality is above everything, above both of these opposites. Only there it is achieved and only there is the Creator. So let us try not to look at what is happening to us inside of our emotions. You can take many people in the world who think exactly the opposite of you. What is special with us is that we want to reach complementation so that all of these things come from the Creator. They connect in Him to a single source and that single source we have to reach. Therefore love will cover all crimes. We do not cancel the crimes. We do not win by one crime defeating the other crime, clearly these are all crimes.. We just want love. Do you understand how much it is the opposite of whatever exists in the foundation of all the crimes? But we have to reach up to love.

S. So how do you rise above the natural reactions the world is influencing you with? 

R. I am living with it with all of my senses also, and I hear and I understand and I feel each and every side. It is impossible on the human level to say that I’m neutral, no. I cannot hear that they threw bombs on hospitals or other things on one hand; on the other hand I nevertheless realise that this is coming from above and I must give to it my response which is intensifying and becoming more clear from one day to the next. I accept that these things exist before me so that through my response I will grow and more and more I will rise to Godliness. 

7. S. (36:49) Why is my heart soft and can feel the other only when the other is suffering? Before that you don’t care about the other. We want to begin to feel the other before he reaches his catastrophic states.

R. Because you cannot clothe in him, you have nothing to clothe in. You come to a wedding and you become incorporated with the joy of the wedding. Or you come to our place of sorrow and you become Incorporated into the sorrow. How else, it’s natural.

S. It seems that even if nuclear bombs will fall nothing will move you. It seems as though the  Creator shuts your heart. How low do we need to go before we connect?

R. Until you will ask for connection. In connection you become incorporated with all kinds of emotions and troubles of both sides and from them, scrutinizing them you reach connection, you reach their source which is the Creator. Okay?

8. S. (38:24) Soon we will have the holiday of Purim symbolizing the joy of the end of correction question. If the wholeness is the feeling of the deficiency and fulfillment together then what is the deficiency we’ll feel at the end of correction?

R. At the end of correction we discover all of the deficiencies and all of the fulfillments together. And that state will be called Gmar Tikkun, the end of correction. That’s it.

9. S. (39:13) A year ago the conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan ended. It was also a complex situation and involved friends from our groups. About 8000 people died, the proportions were different but what did we learn from that situation? A year has gone by and maybe there are some conclusions right or wrong about this situation. What should we take into consideration now?

R. If you’re talking about Bnei Baruch in that state that we went through we hardly learned anything. We learned the negative things. That we cannot take part in something that does not belong to us. That we are far from both Armenia and Azerbaijan and the world is also that way. In the world even now there are all kinds of wars in different places.We do not even know about them and we do not become incorporated in them. Whereas here the whole world touches it, it touches each and everyone. The whole world is actually afraid that maybe, any moment perhaps there can be a nuclear war and this truly scares everyone. This is why everybody  participates in it and besides Russia and Ukraine there are countries who supply the world with a lot of food and raw materials and therefore it pertains to the whole world. The world is a great egoist and this is how it responds. Let’s hope that this conflict will teach the whole world. It already is teaching and bringing us into a new state. After this will end the world will take on a new form, entirely different, not more spiritual but closer to spirituality. It will introspect, scrutinize what is important, what is not important and it will rise up a degree. Not to spirituality but nevertheless it will understand its calculations should be closer to the truth. It will grow, just like little children, the world will grow.

S. I am asking about ourselves. We did not take advantage of this state in the previous war?

R. You see now how connected we are here. We’re talking about daily, all our lessons are aimed at this. On top of everything that we are going through to make this one correction, to be connected together, to turn to the Creator and be connected between us. We need to try to be connected between us above all the conflicts and disputes, not that we are leaving them. We have such friends in our groups that are on one side of this conflict and those who are on the other side of it. We need to rise above the conflict and to rise above it does not mean to run away from the dispute but to rise to a state where we can correct it, the future state that has to be revealed. And we need to be connected to it. So we need to feel the sorrow of all the friends who are on both sides, not give preference to any one side but to always be in the middle line and direct ourselves to the Creator in this way.

10. S. (44:14) What can we diagnose as a small victory but nevertheless as a victory in the connection between us? 

R. The fact that we are studying these excerpts about winning the war. The fact that we are trying  to be connected between us in spite of the fact that we include opposite groups, different groups, hostile groups let’s a Moscow and Kiev. Don’t blur this out. It’s clear that somebody from Ukraine and somebody from Russia, they are opposite to some extent and they feel it and we need to try as much as possible to show the connection between us above the dispute, the natural dispute. I received all kinds of emails from people from one side of the conflict or from the other. I see how much people are connected to what is happening on the corporeal level, on the ground. And I cannot tell them that it’s wrong, not when they feel it close to them. If a rocket goes off next to you, you are hurt, you’re impressed by it. So we have to strengthen one another, learn how to be above it as much as possible. As much as possible. 

11. S. (46:20) If this war is a war of the Creator and not just Russians and Ukrainians what does He want to achieve for mankind through this war?

R. The Creator wants to attain only one thing. For us to rise above the separation He is creating between us in this war and in general in our lives. When we feel in each and every moment, when we are with ourselves, with our families, with our neighbors, with the whole world, with the Creator, we are constantly in these forms of connection and separation. And we have to rise above these things towards wholeness, completeness. It’s called the structure of peace, this lid  that covers everyone when there is no good or evil. Rather each one however they were created by the Creator they restrict themselves, this is the first restriction. And he works outside of this first restriction through all of humanity towards the Creator in connection and love. This is what we have to do. And this feeling has to fill the heart of each and everyone and all of us together.  Because otherwise we don’t connect, we don’t approach the Creator, we don’t build the form of Adam HaRishon and return to the form of Adam HaRishon. This is what we have to do. So let’s take ourselves seriously and use our mind and think what do we need to do correctly during these times that the Creator is bringing us.

12. S. (48:49) You just said that humanity is one great egoism and you are saying that nevertheless following all these conflicts in Russia and Ukraine they will change to some extent and humanity also. So why isn’t it possible that the world will simply split like North and South Korea who have been in conflict for years and nothing helps; sanctions, negotiations and the hostility continues. Why won’t the world be split and this is how we will remain, in a dead end?

R. This depends on us. We have to do what is required for us to do and perform the corrections toward the unification of all of creation. To the extent it yearns for unity it approaches the Creator and the whole world is a dummy. Rather it all depends on us, specifically on us. This is why I see all those hints, those clues we see in reality. I see how much they change and they cannot change the world in the direction of correction. Let’s connect between us in our groups, above the groups while keeping the groups, but above the degree of connection of the groups to a higher degree. Let’s turn from the connection between us to the Creator.

S. How in the present state, maybe you can give it more depth. Kabbalists didn’t write to us how to unite between us above those hints like you said. Because if we will learn the Kabbalistic sources will that unite us? Don’t we have to make additional calculations?

R. When we are learning together, talking together, singing together, tomorrow we will have a meal together, this is a great thing. We need more and more to be in the intention where we are asking the Creator to correct the world. The world is us, it’s us. 

13. S. (51:44) In our group there is a great responsibility that is now felt towards what is happening in the Ukraine right now. The whole group beyond our daily meetings also take part in the prayers. What else can we do in our group to end this war?

R. Only to connect between you, connect with the whole world Kli, awaken everyone towards the prayer. There is nothing more to do. Turn to the Creator to do all those corrections we are asking for. There is no greater action, more real action than a request from the created beings to the Creator to correct all the corruptions that He caused, specifically for that.

14. S. (52:54) Can we say that all these conflicts in the world are what we call a descent?

R. It’s a descent on the one hand but relative to the correction it is also considered an ascent.  Because relative to the end of correction each and every state that we go through is advancing us towards the end of correction, either from the left side or the right side. So there is nothing that is happening just coincidentally. When we consider our feelings then some things seem to us like a descent but there are no descents, it’s all corrections.

15. S. (53:55) In addition to publicizing and writing about what is happening and the solution is only in connection there is also the principle of “each one shall help his friend.” How can we assist the friends without taking sides?

R. Decide together what to do and do it. 

16. S. (58:11) How on the one hand to feel all the suffering of the world and on the other hand to be above it?

R. How can you be above the suffering if you don’t feel the suffering? Of course you have to feel the suffering and later understand that it comes from above. Although we are created beings and we all suffer, and it’s the kind of suffering that comes from the Creator. He’s invoking the dark because it all comes from Him and we have to understand why did He do it when we have no choice? We have to be incorporated with the suffering and rise above it, above all the forms of suffering, even those that end with death. Let’s not try to conceal this state. All of these states come from the Creator only. It’s not from one side or another, it’s all from Him. Because there is no difference for Him in all those states except that they are born out of this point of truth and they cascade down from that point to us. And we specifically by complimenting, completing, reconciling all these extremes together towards Him we come to the center of these events. In this way we come to correction.

17. S. (59:50) Is our readiness to take upon ourselves the suffering of the world prevent wars in corporeality?

R. Yes, if we take all the sufferings of the world and raise them to the Creator and pray that He will give us in place of that understanding, feeling, connection, then there is no need for suffering. Meaning that there is a need but we don’t let it expand in the form of wars and corporeal problems which take a lot of time and pain. Rather we raise it back to the root.

18. S. (01:00:29) How come we feel or strengthen the feeling that this war pertains, belongs to us and truly participate in it?

R. It is written about it in many places that all the wars, all the problems come to the world only because of Israel and for Israel and it’s all because we need to correct them. Humanity can only suffer. Raising a prayer, asking for correction, this is something only we can do. We just need to feel how it is asked of us and this is our duty to do it and the more we don’t do it the more we run behind. Humanity will suffer more and hate us more and vice versa. If we work in such a way that humanity will stop suffering, then we will grow up, we will develop and humanity will come close to us. With this attitude towards humanity we’ll cover the whole world.

19. S. (01:02:03) Will it help us to come closer to try to understand the other side or we shouldn’t  waste any energy on that and just rise above it?

R. We do not need to try to come closer, do not need to enter any argument. We simply need as much as we are incorporated of them we have to raise everything to the Creator, ask for corrections for everyone. That’s it. Do not get into one side of the war or the other side but rise.  Love covers all transgressions, that transgressions will not go from the world. 

20. S. (01:02:51) You said the world will become even more significant or a time(?) to become internal not external. What does it mean that we will start hating each other without the reason or there will always be something that is external?

R. No, it could not be without any reason, the reason is the Creator and His end of correction that includes all the opposite forms together, that is the reason. But we will see more that wars will be more spiritual. We will understand it better; and also now if you go deeper into what is happening, you will see that there are two opposite forces. What is the nature of one forces. what is the nature of the other, and how is the Creator arranging them and preparing them? So by trying to connect between us we will reach wholeness and the world will reach a beautiful form of connection. We could do it now; we can feel to some extent the separation between the groups, even some form of collision, conflict. And how we can help, how all of us can help these two sides to understand one another more to some extent. Think about it, talk about it, it is all in the direction of peace and wholeness and mutual understanding where the Creator is the one who awakens. He is the reason, the cause, and we need to make our efforts in such a way that we turn to Him and we rise to Him all of us together.

21. S. (01:04:48) How can we discover the dispute between us in the ten and at the same time connect? These two things seem to contradict each other?

R. Of course they do, and that is good. If they would not be in contradiction then we would have no work. “Love covers all transgressions”, we need to realize that continuously: if there would be no crimes, there would be no love. The more crimes we have, the greater the eruption of love. If we are in different states between us then we feel on ourselves that we are missing something. We should try to awaken the love a little bit, maybe through some argument, like when we add salt and pepper to a dish. We need to do it in this way or else we will not enjoy it.

22. S. (01:05:50) Can the disputes be resolved only in a mutual way or can we do it if only one side agrees?

R. To teach it, to set an example, slowly, gradually to come closer not to do it coarsely. To understand it is the Creator who is dropping this on him, that’s why he’s thinking this way, behaving this way. So you should walk in such a way that you are taking upon yourself His corrections just like we do with our kids, and gradually become closer until we begin to understand and feel out of the relationship between us until they become truly lovers and in a very powerful way even more than how it was before,  much more.

23. S. (01:06:52) How can we replace corporeal suffering with spiritual suffering? In fact I feel far away from the Creator and feel suffering because I am far away from the Creator, hust like corporeal suffering?

R. This is through scrutinies, through the thoughts, everything will be clarified in the thought. If you think about it more and more, you will see that spiritual sufferings in thinking, in thoughts are much greater than corporeal sufferings.

24. S. (01:07:31)You described earlier a state where we have both suffering and pleasure together. What is that state where we are both existing simultaneously?

R. It is the middle line already, that is how we come closer to one another. I cannot explain how to combine two opposites, that is the middle line.

25. S. (01:07:58) What exactly should we ask for as complementation from the Creator when we see the war, these external horrors. What is the right complementation?

R. The right complementation is when we are all included together in the Creator.

26. S. (01:08:22) Why can’t the Creator give contentment to humanity by Himself? Why exactly. does He need us and our request?

R. He needs our request because without our request, without the feeling of deficiency, without revealing the deficiency correctly, He has no vessel in which to pour the love and connection, that’s it, He wants a vessel from us. It is like when you are coming with your plate to receive your portion; so if you have no plate you have nowhere to put this portion of food on to.

27. S. (01:09:05) What should we be careful about when we try to cope with external deficiencies so that we do not fall into an environment that is against spirituality?

R. What should you be on the lookout for?

S. What should we be cautious of when we are dealing with external disputes? How should we be careful so we don’t fall into the physical environment?

R. Be careful not to fall into this external environment. We hold on to one another in such a way that connection between us is everything. Let us say that my group wants to join another group and convince it not to be one-sided in an extreme way but to pull it out into the middle line as much as possible. And I need to ensure that my group will grow stronger by joining other group,  perhaps, and in this way we will have a group that when we can come to this group who has a one-sided view of this war and we will work there in order to embrace this group that is lopsided in one direction, left or right. And bring it back to the middle line. It is through good convincing setting examples, slowly we have to do it, that is also how we correct ourselves.

28. S. (01:10:49) What mustn’t we allow during the dispute? What is the condition for us to enter a ‘sukkah of Peace’?

R. We need to start this dispute in the direction of peace, ,this mutual complementation where we are all Incorporated in the Creator; it comes from Him and goes back to Him. The dispute comes to him and we return to Him when we understand the dispute, and we understand that we cannot do it by ourselves then we demand Him to do it. “He who makes peace in His Heavens will make peace on us”, and that is what we demand. And on that He says “My sons have defeated Me”.

Reading Excerpt (01:12:00 – 01:12:29) – No Calamity Comes to the work except through Israel

29. R. (01:12:31) Why for Israel? First of all, by not succeeding to reach sufficient connection between them and also to publicize this connection to the world, that is why the world reaches such states. And what Israel has to do, now, those who are connected to one another to some extent and to the Creator, we have to increase the connection between them despite of any sort of forces, arguments, desires that weaken the connection; nevertheless, we have to come to a state a state where we try all of us try to connect and turn to the Creator and we ask the Creator, of Him, this is our role. There is no way to take any other step and we should understand that we are not for or against anyone, neither Moscow or Kiev, Anything but one thing: to raise everyone to the upper force, to the good who does good, and that is it and to everyone this is our work.

30. S. (01:14:03) We try to overcome the conflicts but we feel how our body is still remaining with one of the sides and then there is like an inner tear between the body and the soul. Is this the way to start feeling the soul?

R.  It will always be like that, you will never be able, except for at the end of Correction there are certain unique moments along the way, you will never have inner peace, no. It will always be limping on one side or the other but that is how we advance. When can you advance? When you are standing on one foot and you advance yourself above it to the other side. By that you are taking yourself in a different direction than how you were before standing. And this is how you advance. We will learn about what it means that they are standing, their legs are straight and they are standing on both legs as one,  that’s a different way to advance, we will get to it. So do not be afraid that we are advancing correctly. We need only to accelerate the pace and it depends on how much in our thoughts we are trying to move forward to unity between us and unity with the Creator.

Reading Excerpt 49 (01:16:10 – 01:16:38)

31. R. (01:16:40) Meaning essentially we go from agreement to disagreement, agreement and disagreement with the Creator and these are our ups and downs in their essence.

Continues Reading (01:16:52 – 01:20:13) “Indeed why is the order of the work so difficult…” Twice

32. R. (01:20:16) “Then he receives vessels of bestowal from the Creator.” Of course it all depends on the dispute and how much a person wants to rise above the dispute. I hope that after that, you also review it and think about it, discuss it.

33. S. (01:20:45) In the past, we know that Kabbalists dealt with a lot of disputes. What should we do, what attention should we give to something specific?

R. We have to do what we read and what we understand. We do not need to awaken some dispute in an artificial way, no, there are already disputes between us anyway. Until we are in actual connection then we are always in disputes between us. So are we even aware of it is the question. So we have to be attentive and see how far we are from connecting one heart to another.

Reading Excerpt 50 (01:21:58 – 01:23:12) Twice 

34. S. (01:23:15) Only by doing an action in order to bestow, with this action we can discover that the Creator is the good that does good, based on the fulfillment that we receive in our vessel, the vessel of peace, of completion, the vessel that is in connection where all the disparate, different desires connect together under a single intention to bestow to the Creator. Even though they are very different, when they are all aimed at the Creator then the Creator fulfills them, and this is called that ‘peace dwells on them’, and that they reveal peace in their opposite, different vessels. And there is this whole vessel that in all of its pieces, it is in intense contrast and above it there is a cover of connection; and then these two opposite forces clarify the essence of the Creator to us, that is how it happens. So do not think that the state that we come to is a sort of rest where nothing happens, no it is where we are in a very tense and intense state but with it what we are discovering is the degree of the Creator, the degree of the Creator.

Excerpt 51 (01:25:07 – 01:26:50) 

35. S. (01:26:51) And therefore we have to be both in dispute and above it we have to connect, and only through this way of one thing and its opposite can we attain truth.

Excerpt 52 (01:27:14 – 01:29:47) twice

36. S. (01:29:56) I want to ask about the spiritual dispute. What’s the dispute about spirituality and corporeality? We always say that we want to complete with a connection between us but there are a lot of things that have nothing to do with our spiritual work that we shouldn’t even complete above. So let us say the opinions here in 52 that he says, that you have ‘to keep all opinions and not erase them’. What should we keep?

R. The views of each and everyone.

S. On each and everything or only towards the connection towards the spiritual advancement in  attaining the Creator?

R. There are methods for it both in connection and in going towards the Creator, there is as it says, ‘there are many paths that lead to the place’,  and it depends on the root of the soul. We also see that in our world today there are many different groups who study the wisdom of Kabbalah, and others doing different things, or each one of them is doing different things. I hear from them, some of them are in the direction of Kabbalah and music or literature. Or some have an interest in something specific from the wisdom of Kabbalah, and others in a more religious format or more scientific. For us there is only one thing: connection between us to attain the purpose of creation, that’s it, other than that nothing is important to us. That is why it is easy for us to accept the conditions of the last generation where we basically agree with anything as long as we are connected and our connection allows the Creator to be revealed to all created beings without any differences, that is it. So there is a difference and it all stems how some things are already sorted out in the created beings and some things, not yet. So each one according to his nature and his root.

S. So why now that there is a dispute between Russia and Ukraine, we do not supposedly know this corporeal dispute and we say that we are only for the purpose of creation. But how do we use it for the spiritual advancement?

R. I do not understand you at all. We are getting into this argument to show how we are drawn to the purpose of creation which is connection between everyone. And I do not care where my friends come from, Russia or Ukraine let us say for that matter, what does it matter? We have to rise above these discernments that we have from birth: a difference between someone born Ukrainian and someone born Russian, let’s say. We have to rise above that and all the other differences and the main thing is the connection towards the final correction.

S. Exactly, so we need to overcome disputes that come because of our efforts to connect like Rabbi Shimon’s students wanted to kill each other?

R. That too, we understand that we have arguments that come from our origin let us, Russian or Ukrainian, and then there are also arguments that stem from the root of our soul. And each one comes from a different place, a different connection and so on. From all of the crimes that we revealed between us, we have to rise above all of that and work to connect. Nothing disappears basically, nothing goes away, it just becomes connected to the others with love. And then you take this contrast and it is used in your system like an internal resistor, this resistance. And on top of all these clashes, the Creator appears because the Creator exists but has no place to appear. So when you put these resistors between us, like a resistor in an electric system, so it can either be like a capacitor or resistor, it does not matter, but there is that resistance. And then on top of that we can reveal the Creator. The Creator cannot be revealed if between us there is no resistance, no collision. To the extent that there is a clash between us and still we want to connect then we discover on top of the resistance and the clash we reveal the form of the Creator. To the extent that we concede the difference between us that we want to be connected despite the resistance, by that we come to a state that the Creator becomes revealed and that is how we build a system of connection between us; that ultimately, it is not like in Adam HaRishon where everyone was compatible because there was just one connection point. Now look what is happening between us, all of this dispute, all of this collision, all of this huge collection in all the different levels and aspects of it. And if we induce connection above that after all then this connection that is above the contrast, that is where the Creator is revealed, that is where we were revealed the Creator. Before that He does not appear for us.

S. The Creator is revealed upon disputes that come from separation in the root of the soul or separation between an ethnical background?

R. Everything comes from the root of the soul, what do you mean ethnicl differences or other things?It’s like it’s external, corporeal things but everything stems from the root of the soul.

S. So we need to use all disputes between us, also by external things like ethnic background?

R. It does not matter what disputes we have to bring ourselves to completion, to peace. We ask of the Creator to correct all the disputes, meaning to bring them to connection, that’s it.

S. And what from these disputes have to remain and what do we overcome?

R. That does not matter to me, I do not know. In the end of Correction nothing remains, everything grows and above it the connection grows. So all of these disputes become the foundation, the Aviut, the coarseness of the Partzuf, the general soul.

S. How to depict the completion that’s expressed in the dispute that is external like an argument about politics?

R. No, it seems to you that it is a political disagreement, it all comes from the corruption of the souls because of the shattering of Adam HaRishon. It is not a political argument in this world or anything, it all originates in the corruption of the collective system of the soul.

S. So what are we asking from the Creator and what should be the result?

R. To bring us back to become pieces of a single soul, that is it. That everyone thinks about the others, everyone cares for the others and everyone cares for everyone, and that means that there is a single soul which is 620 times more powerful than what it was before, and then we revealed the Creator. So on top of all of the collisions and contracts and differences between us that remain, they do not disappear, on the contrary, more and more separation appears between us and above these separations appears the force of unification. When the force of unification appears on top of separation, it is like a current that flows in a system that is filled with many different kinds of resistors that are in contrast. Because otherwise you will not reveal Him, the Creator’s desire is to be revealed, that is what builds the whole system because otherwise He will not be revealed. So we mustn’t erase, we cannot escape any separation but only ask for correction. And the correction is simple: love covers all crimes. That we accept these separations because we need them, we appreciate them, because specifically on top of them we reveal the Creator, our connection with Him. Specifically the darkness reveals to us the light;without it is impossible to reveal anything.

37. S. (01:40:44) Can this be applied to the work in the ten? In other words, have disagreements, criticism, contradictions but rise above them? Is that the work that should be done in the ten?

R. Of course we need to do it first in the ten and then between the tens, yes.

38. S. (01:41:17) Man who fights an inner war and weakens and doesn’t have the forces to turn to the Creator,  can he ask for the friends to turn to the Creator for him?

R. Of course, what are you here for the first day? Of course you have to ask of the friends, pray to the Creator as much as possible.

S. In what way does he ask for the friends? He tell them directly?

R. In all sorts of ways, sometimes it is possible that you’d go to one friend and ask for an answer about something or help with something. Other times it is by being with them in an activity of some sort but you have to become Incorporated. In the group, the one who succeeds is the one who incorporates himself in the life of the group.

39. S. (01:42:17) If the right approach about the correction is not to forget that the whole world is in me and now in me there are desires that I feel like Ukraine and Russia. And for the soul, the Creator is now correcting those desires and that is why there is a war and the scrutiny that the whole correction is ours, internally. If we correct those desires called Russia and Ukraine and Putin, so I guess as much as we change the external world will change too, is that correct?

R. If you are right, if we did not have these aspects like Ukraine and Russia, we would not feel them on the outside and in the correction of the outer picture that the Creator deliberately created, we actually correct our inner qualities. So the whole external world is projected in front of us so that it becomes easier for us to correct our internality. 

Excerpt 53 (01:44:05 – 01:44:57) 

40. S. (01:45:02) He said that the only way to discover the Creator is in the connection through disputes, now that all the tens are virtual how can you overcome these disputes, how can we ignite the spark, how can we feel or create this environment that we can work in closer times?

R. Look, I do not know what else I need to explain and tell and clarify. I think I gave you everything. You are now feeling the need for connection because only in the connection we come to the purpose of creation also you feel that attaining connection between us we correct the whole world. You then feel that otherwise we go into both global and personal troubles if we do not connect and everything depends on us so I am just turning to and warning to that the world demands connection if we don’t make the correction happen you will see how the world turns against us, because the world will begin to feel that we are those who do not provide the world with wholeness, peace and a better state. So let us all try as much as possible to overcome all the separations between us, bring completion and wholeness, let us turn to all of our groups in Russia and the Ukraine and try to support them so they to rise above all the corporeal discernments and connect in the spiritual discernments between us and by that the world will advance fast towards correction and we will see the result. 

41. S. (01:47:34) What is the difference between overcoming the dispute correctly or attempts to erase the dispute?

R. We could not erase anything, we can only rise above the separation so as to reach unity if we escape, we escape and then we basically as if we leave the path and by that we activate forces that will bring us back on track but that will be already in an unpleasant manner.

42. S. (01:48:13) When in dispute the ego stands his ground, how to feel a prayer to the Creator is more important than my opinion?

R. Friends and prayer nothing more.

43. S. (01:48:33) Can we overcome our disputes if we see our mutual goal is advancing towards the Creator correctly and through that to strengthen our connection?

R. Yes of course, that is what we should do.

44. S. (01:48:50) It is clear that we will not be able to understand each other on a physical level but it is not clear if we should speak about the dispute a bit or right away a turn to the Creator without scrutinizing anything?

R. It is better if we immediately rise to connection because we still are not that strong and experienced to clarify the separation itself and begin ascending from that, it is not good. We always rise and hold onto connection and clarify where we were separated, if there is a need for it, if it does not become clear on the way but we always have to hold the spiritual force in our hands and then we work with it on the physical states.

45. S. (01:49:50) Are there differences or caps between us in perception of reality?

R. The differences in the perception of reality of course there is nothing else than that.

46. S. (01:50:03) In 49 it says when he overcomes and does not run away from the war so the Creator gives him the covenant. What does it mean to not run away from the campaign?

R. Before me is the purpose of creation there we are all connected, united and supportive of one another to the point that we come to such a state where I do not feel there is any separation between me and others and that each and everyone’s individual feeling disappears and instead we feel we all exist together as one, and that is the state of final correction where everything rises above our degree to the Creator’s degree and we are included in that feeling which provides us with a sense of a eternity, wholeness, eternal life.

47. S. (01:51:13) It says then the Creator gives him the covenant, what is the covenant?

R. The covenant is the connection with the Creator who fulfills all of us completely.

S. Is there a difference between an individual covenant and all of humanity?

R. A personal covenant of the person is the covenant to work, trying to go into the Creator’s work, but the collective covenant is that we all come to connection into the Creator.

48. S. (01:51:50) In 49 it says sometimes in an ascent we are in it says that sometimes during ascent we are in peace with the Creator, what was before that state that wasn’t peace?

R. I would say that in those states there is no more than discovering the Creator through the connection between us, we make him by discreet egoists connecting together, by that we begin to feel and understand, attain who the Creator is.

49. S. (01:52:27) In 53 it says that we connect all the disputes to the world of unity, what does it mean?

R. That even though there is dispute between us and also there are dispute between each and every one internally, we want to be incorporated in the Creator where the whole dispute is covered in love, covered with love so it remains as a basis without which love will not dwell as well but specifically in this way we discover the advantage of light out of darkness. 

50. S. (01:53:13) What is the connection between the force of criticism working in us and the force of annulment working in us? Is there a connection?

R. I do not have an answer. We need to look into it, it is a short but very profound question.

51. S. (01:53:44) What criticism can we do in the ten?

R. Only constructive criticism  Meaning, that does not push us apart but connects us. If I see that the criticism does not take us one step forward towards connection, towards increasing connection, then I do not stir up this criticism this means that I ruined instead of connected.

52. S. (01:54:16) What is the difference between our inner structure to the rest of humanity that makes us unique that can turn to the Creator?

R. The root of the soul in each and every one, that a person feels that he lacks the essence of life, the purpose of life, the taste in life and that is why ultimately he asks for the Creator to be revealed.