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

Lesson on the topic of “Pesach (Passover)”

Morning Lesson April 8, 2022, Transcription 

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

Part 1:

Passover – Selected Excerpts from the Sources. (For Lack of Spirit and for Hard Work #111)

1.Rav’s Introduction: Yes, during the day and even when we get up from sleep we feel  ourselves disconnected to some extent from the purpose of life, from the connection between us, from the awakening of the heart to the Creator, and then according to that we see that again and again we have to awaken and return to the correct proper state. That we are yearning somehow towards connection and through it to the purpose of our life, to the center of creation, to the center of the entire universe, corporeal one and the spiritual one, and this is how we see that from one day to the next we have more and more burdening of the heart, disturbances, both in quantity and also in quality. Together with that we understand that we have to cope with them, overcome them, and bring ourselves above them to connection between us and with the Creator more and more each time.

All of these disturbances from one day to the next that wake up in us, we accept them as an inseparable part of our path and actually through the force of overcoming on top of the resistance of the ego that opens up each day more and more this is how we go forward. This is how we make that path of ascent even if you do not recognize, if you’re not familiar with this but this is how we rise above the disturbances more and more until you start to feel them in a way that it is more clear and we even start to weigh them, measure them that see these disturbances in all kinds of different forms in our brain and heart and in the relationship between us, in our relation to the study. In that we begin to acquire the knowledge and the understanding, the feeling on the way, that all in all, these things will connect, and they will give us they will give us the vessels in which we can feel ourselves, we can progress ourselves. Because we are a big body we start to feel also that our thoughts and desires connect together, that they mixed and become incorporated into each other. 

Therefore each and everybody has a great vessel greater each and every time, at first the person sees that he is incorporated maybe or in external way with the friends but later he will feel that he is truly beginning to become incorporated with all kinds of views and thoughts and desires of everybody with our entire greater vessel and first, at least with the ten and later more than the ten. This is how we progress until those individuals will come together and connect more and more and then we will understand that it is not just the individuals and the elements of my connection with the friends, those who are closer or further. This connection brings me the measure of the connection between us that becomes a network of connection, emotional and intellectual structure. As much as I incorporate into them it becomes a spiritual structure because everything that is not me but is outside of me it is already spirit and from one day to the next, I will try, I will yearn and arrange for myself at these tendencies to exist more inside the friends, inside of all the friends of the organization, to become in them, to receive from them, to drink from them, to listen to feel.

Because what I get in these external vessels as much as they seem to me as great or small, it does not matter as it says, I learned from all of my students that specifically by me becoming incorporated into them and wanting to receive from them, the awakening, the inclination to connection, by this I make my vessel greater for the revelation of the Creator. We continue on the path we will try to go through as quickly as possible through these chapters, these texts and later on you, as I hear this because I take part with you in the reading in the middle of the day, so we can work on this even in the middle of the day, go through these things, it is worth well to be immersed in all of this text all the time as much as you have time for this and you have the opportunity for this to read again these excerpts and to get into them more and more. 

2. S. (07:48) The thoughts and desires of the friends I am incorporated into them, or they are incorporated into me?

R. I do not know to what extent they incorporate into me, but I know that I have to enter into them, I have to include them inside of me and I have to be incorporated in them and this is my work. As much as we feel that in this way we lose ourselves, we start to lose ourselves and build a connection so that I nullify myself in order to be incorporated with the friends, by this I progress to discovering that I am nullifying myself in order to be connected with the Creator. That inside my connection with the friends I find the Creator as it is said, I exist among my people, this is where the Creator is found as I nullify myself out of myself, as much as I get closer to him in order to become incorporated in them, immersed in them, by this I connect with, and I come closer to the Creator. There as it says, from the love of people to the love of the Creator, from attachment with friends to the attachment with the Creator. This is the network, this is how it works because the Creator has no vessel that I could be incorporated in, I cannot attach to him, he has no body, has nothing. The body, the desire of the society that I become incorporated in, that does exist, and this is available for my adhesion so the group is the system, that in adhesion with it I can discover the Creator.

S. But if these desires of the friends are, the connection between them is the vessel of the Creator? 

R. Instead through my efforts to become Incorporated into them I discover that I become incorporated into the Creator who exists in the midst of them. The Creator is BoReh, come and see. Bo, come, means that we become Incorporated together as much as possible in each losing himself and each becoming incorporated into the others. Re’eh, to see that means that then we feel that force that fulfills our mutual annulment to each other. 

3. S. (11:09) You said that in the network of connection that has to be an emotional structure if each of us feels the correction together, life in a different way, what is this common feeling in this network connection?

R. Certainly we always feel ourselves even if we want to feel each other however I never feel the others, I always feel everything inside my own vessels. Then when I try to nullify my ego I also discover the degree of my nullification to the group but the group itself, for the time being, I cannot say that I feel anything there that will be later. The upper light will come and bind us together and then will become one Partzuf and then we will see what it means to discover our mutual attachment through the Arvut, what it means to be together in a single Kli.

S. So it means that if there is no common feeling, we are not right for it, so what do we need to find between as in this network of connection?

R. In this network of connection we do not have this network of connection, we have to try to have such an inclination to be connected between us, connected in all of our desires, in our thoughts, hopes and intentions and this is all so that this network will become uniform, and it will come closer to the concept of the Creator.

4. S. (13:19) What is the difference between incorporating into the friends in the group and incorporating into the Creator?

R. The group is the vessel, and the Creator is the fulfillment of the vessel that is revealed to us as the essence of the vessel, the essence of the group, this is already the Creator.

5. S. (13:51) When we are incorporated into the friends how to operate towards the revelation of the Creator, do we have to try to reveal him, or it happens anyway?

R. The ones that are incorporated into the friends will bring as the understanding and the feeling from the wholeness of our incorporation, that this shows to us the revelation of the Creator. Some kind of proximity of revealing what is this concept of Creator, BoReh, come and see, that we arrange our connection so much so, that we start to discover the essence of the connection which is called the Creator.

6. S. (14:42) By persisting more and more and engaging into dissemination and the revelation of the soul inside humanity through the vessel will this progress and push us more to the revelation of the Creator?

R. This will certainly help as and push as but now we are not talking about dissemination, which is an external action, instead we are talking about the internal action, the connection between us. As much as I have to reach a connection between us so inside this connection with the group I start to discover the common force which is the beginning of the revelation of the Creator.

7. S. (15:35) I have a role and on one hand I have to diminish my ego on the other hand I have to encourage friends, so who is this I that observes these two opposite actions completely?

R. We have many actions however the intention should be singular even if the actions are different. So check the intention and the actions, it does not matter which actions, they can be completely different and seemingly far away from each other.

Excerpt 111 (16:30)

8. R. (18:35) This is why the more we progress in all kinds of different forms in order to get closer to the group and in the group to discover the Creator, we will have many disturbances, more and more. This is called the exile of Egypt and it has to be for four hundred years meaning four stages 1, 2, 3, 4, with the entire coarseness of the vessel. Because everything that we later receive when we come out of Egypt when we’re rise above this coarseness we already discover our connection with the Creator, so the entire exile is coming closer and closer to such states when we are not capable of tolerating those states, So much so that they become harder and they confuse us and the pull us, they truly pressure all of our nerves. We reach states where we start hating each other and rejecting each other more and more and there are confusions in everybody regarding the path.

This is how it says in the whole story about the exile from Egypt that the Sages explain to us how much this issue is a very difficult issue, and all our work is in the connection between us more and more above all the confusions and disturbances. When we reach the point where they do not leave the path nevertheless, we do not come out of Egypt yet, out of the darkness, out of all difficulties, instead we continue our work in the connection between us and then we reach a state where we no longer can hold on and the cry out and then the strikes truly come, the plagues that we are not capable of suffering anymore, we cannot suffer this slavery, that we exist inside the ego and we cannot even see how we could continue with this.

This is called the darkness of Egypt and we then we reach a state then nevertheless with our outcry and with our efforts not to separate we are rewarded with the opening, and it is opening up for us how can we come out from in order to receive to in order to bestow, to freedom from the ego. The states we go through are not simple, they are internal states and the more we work between us in order to connect more and more in spite of the pressure that we feel on us from within each and everybody, if nevertheless do not let go, we progress so much so, that it is considered that we are coming closer to the redemption. The difference between the exile and redemption is the letter Aleph, which is symbolizing Aluf Shel Ha Olam, the champion of the world, which is the Creator. So all in all, between Egypt when we exist inside of ego ruling us and outside of Egypt when we are already free of the governance of the ego and we start to see the eternal and whole world, the entire difference is the letter Aleph, the champion of the world, the Creator is revealed and then we start to see an opposite world.

Excerpt 112 (23:01)

9. R. (23:38) This is what the Creator did to him deliberately, this we must not forget that there is none else besides Him and everything we go through comes directly from the Creator, all of our states everything there is, this is specifically the worst cases. 

Reader continues: (23:58)

10. R. (24:42) There is nothing more difficult than what we are engaging in, trying to rise above our ego and to become closer to the friends and through them to the Creator, this is the greatest effort that can be in our world before we exit to spirituality. 

11. S. (25:04) About this text here right here that it is very difficult to get rid of the egoistic nature? 

R. It is not that it is difficult to let go of our egoistic nature instead it is not possible, this whole exile that we discover how much we are more and more immersed in our ego, this whole exile comes to show us that we are not capable of exiting our egos we are not capable and then we reach the true outcry.

S. You said at the beginning that we need to incorporate into the thoughts and desires of the friends, this is the way we can disperse our egoistic in the friends?

R. Yes. 

Excerpt 113 (26:15)

12. R. (26:48) Because the person sees how much this requires not to think about himself but instead take some foreign desires and to work for them, whatever they want and how can this be? He does not have any possibility even to think about it, even to feel the desires of the friends instead of his own desire, how to do this?

Reader continues: (27:20) “However a person thinks….”

13. R. (27:37) He himself, the person, is feeling worse than before. 

Reader continues: (27:44) “At that time a person must….”

14. R. (28:00) The person does not change, instead he feels his same selfish desire in a clear, deeper way. 

Reader continues: (28:08) “It follows through the work….”

15. R. (38:22) This means that the more we progress, and we acquire more forces and understanding on our path, in our work we discover our desire to receive in a greater depth, with greater force. Then we see that the work is harder, and it is not because we became less powerful but instead we can see our desire to receive more, how much it is truly hard and so we should not be afraid and should not get confused that we are becoming less powerful instead the desire to receive is becoming greater. I now can see it in the more truthful way but it was given to me to see this in a very precise way, that measure precisely how much to each one of us and to all of us together we deserve to discover the desire to receive how much our ego is a truly against us so we could discover this special matter,  some substance which is the help against so specifically this way we discover how much we are not capable of progressing and then we have to turn to the Creator, we have no other choice.

16. S. (30:05) It is written that the person sees and feels that he’s becoming worse, how in the work in the ten can we start to receive this feeling that I am becoming worse?

R. When I cannot keep what I kept yesterday but I cannot be in connection with the friends as I had it yesterday. I feel like I am going away, moving away from them, I do not feel any tendency to them as it was before. This is what the person feels that he becomes worse, and I do not want to study. I do not feel any tendency to the scrutiny, the study, none of it, this is how it is less than before not completely but less. This is becoming revealed with respect to friends and in respect to study as well and it is all because my desire to receive is becoming more and more revealed.

S. What is the right way to differentiate what you describe this lack of desire when it comes, it comes from a spiritual work and other things are just laziness?

R. There is no such thing, that I do not want it and I am not drawn to it, but everything depends only on the revelation of the desire to receive in the person there is no other element, there is no other parameter except the desire to receive.

S. It is possible I continue with another question; can it be similar to some place where I justify myself in which if I do not go to the study it becomes more difficult for me to progress and those are signs that the spiritual progress my response is ok, something is not so good, is this a sign for a progress and is it okay, how to work with such things?

R. This is all a lie that I can justify myself in each and every situation it is true, that I try to justify myself it is truthful but because I do not go and study and I justify myself, this is truly a lie. We have to measure ourselves according to what we are given to study. I was in the lesson, I am asking questions, I heard the answers, I progressed according to the text that we are reading, I took part in the meeting of the friends, in the common prayer, then it is considered that I am progressing, then I can check this in all of our actions. If I am not in that then you can say whatever you want, you are in a clean, net loss. I am telling you again daily study and if it is possible also during the day to take part in the meeting of the friends, in the assembly, in the prayer and this is what saves us. I do not see any other means and if the person has time then he can open up the material of the morning lesson, the material of the yesterday lesson or lesson tomorrow and constantly try to fulfill himself with text. The fact that I was not, as you said, I was not in the lesson and I do not even go over it later there is no justification for this, from here on the person already declines, falls back and he has no hope to come back, is it clear?

17. S. (35:04) Does the Creator help us to feel the friends, when they do not feel our progress?

R. The Creator gives help as much as the person needs that help, as much as the person requires this help, it is not according to what the person thinks about according to what is needed, according to the general system how we need to progress that to the correction. So if you give the opposite, that the Creator also gives, if you do not give then from the side of the Creator there is only a single thing, to give you what you need to receive within the opposite feeling, to feel darkness and problems through that and by this he is helping you to progress.

18. S. (36:05) Why can’t we measure ourselves, in the desire to give only in the revelation of the desire to receive which is getting worse than the previous one? 

R. When we already have connection between us then it will be possible to measure the degree of our connection on top of the desire to receive, on top of the coarsening of the Shoresh and root one, and two and we connect above them and then three and four and so on and on top of the separation between us, when we build connection between us feel the connection between us as a Partzuf, as a system where we are connected and in that systems we discover the Creator, the Inner Light for the time being we do not have these elements because we are not connected yet.

S. So all we have to do is connect?

R. Yes we need to build the Partzuf from our egoistic desires that reject each other. We have to perform on each and every Partzuf a measure of restriction and then on top of that measure of restriction we need to reveal, discover the ability to connect. First of all restriction and connection and through the connection we begin to attain the measure of connection between us which is already felt as the upper light connecting us, this is practical Kabbalah.

19. S. (38:20) Turning to the Creator does it mean completely turning to the friends? 

R. Turning to the Creator means that I try to connect to the friends and together with them I requested the upper force that is above us which is the Creator but to address him alone does not help. 

20. S. (38:59) In the text we read, Baal HaSulam writes that we need to progress to the truth, is it the vessel? 

R. The truth is to the connection and in the connection we already reveal the whole spiritual world, we are restoring the vessel that was before the breaking, we are bringing it back to the same state when it was not broken yet, to do this into the same measure, to the same extent in return, 125 degrees in order to unite the vessel.

21. S. (39:51) In these two excerpts he writes that the person needs to believe that indeed he is progressing, what is this action of believing?

R. In all my states if I am not separating from the group and the Creator, I am progressing for sure, even if I do not feel this progress the Creator is not letting me to feel the progress, he wants more prayer from me.

S. So to believe is it something a psychological exercise? 

R. For the time being it is like that because we do not have any other vessel. 

22. S. (40:40) That first incorporation between us in the outcry to the Creator is it out of our common destiny?

R. Yes, the feeling of my friend’s shoulder, the feeling of our common destiny, when we are all aimed to a common goal, when we are all Incorporated without any differences between us each losing himself there and in place of me, it is we and this is the direction to correction.

S. What is connection then, is this that we all face this together, is this the connection?

R. Yes, connection is that vessel which is feeling that in that vessel we will reveal the single Creator.

23. S. (41:48) In such states like one of the friends describe rejection and I cannot justify myself, I do not reach prayer, or the lessons and I cannot get out of this state by myself. It turns out that by this I prolong the way although it seems to me that I get some rest and it will be ok?

R. How is it that now I leave the group, I rest a bit and I go on vacation and then I will advance faster, how do you think it is possible, how do you think that this is possible? I do not understand. It is written in all the Kabbalistic writings, if I shall leave you for a day, then He shall leave me for two days. Meaning if I leave my study for one day the Creator the upper system that cares for me will leave me for two days, what does it mean for two days? That I need to see the extent to which I did not go yesterday, did not advance one step forward yesterday and then also today I cannot advance that same step. Meaning my loss is that it was not one day but the loss is now two days, and this is a very big problem. Therefore being in the lesson every day is a must, not at the same time when we are learning now, but you must hear the lesson and you must truly observe as much as possible even all the things that are beyond the lesson, but the lesson is a must. I do not know how it could be that a person misses a day. If throughout the day I don’t touch our materials, that’s it. That day is erased from my life, and I do not know in what way I will be able to make it up. Be very careful about this.

S. In that state when the importance drops I seemingly become an aggressive animal pushed to the corner. The question is, how should the group influence me because in that state I am aggressive. The group tries to influence me, and I cannot even hear them, it seems to me that the group wants to harm me, and they are egoists. How can the group influence me correctly in that state?

R. I do not know, use all kinds of means. Come to your wife, have them come to your wife and tell her, look what kind of husband you have, he is not even a man, he does not wake up for the lesson, what is this? Help him participate with the friends. Why is he alive? For what is he living? Thank you and I guess that will be the next degree. 

24. S. (45:38) The continuous failure of our work leads us to a state of darkness, and everything seems wrong. How can they be sure that the way is not wrong, but it is the right path?

R. Only by looking at the friends, you have no confidence, you have no confidence. What do you want for the Creator to be revealed? He won’t be revealed. Rather you change and improve your qualities then you can reveal the upper force, spirituality the upper nature. The upper nature you will reveal but this is only after the vessels that you will have. Prior to that there is only the faith of the Sages, where before there were five thousand years where they revealed the upper system of nature and this is how they tell us and they are inviting us to discover it as well, and without this you are an animal, you don’t rise to the degree of Adam. Here you are given the opportunity to rise and resemble the Creator to reveal Him. There must be the influence of the environment upon a person where you subdue yourself before them and they bestow upon you the importance of the goal.

25. S. (47:27) Sometimes we have a state where we have lost control over the will to receive and there are states that I fear from my will to receive, and I am in fear?

R. It is excellent that you are afraid, and you can’t control your will to receive, so bend before the friends and let them control your will to receive. It’s like a person who is sick, and he is lying down on the bed, and we start taking care of him. Others are taking care of him and he himself is sick without any strength, he can’t, but here there are others who care for him, the same thing with you. Don’t think that you are strong towards your will to receive, you are not strong. If your will to receive is truly revealed a little more than usual, then you are a rag, you can’t do anything. You have a society and it’s done on purpose so that you will bow before them, subdue yourself before the friends, and let them control you. In what? In what you are doing and what the society dictates to you. Do what the society dictates to you and in that you are certain on the path, and you advance in the best possible, strong, and correct way. Succeed.

26. S. (49:25) The whole world seemingly is going to a very fast crisis. Outside of us it seems that there is a very fast move but internally it doesn’t look like that. Sometimes it feels like to work on the corporeality life it gives us more fruitful results. What to do and feel in the ten for fast advancements?

R. You touched on so many different things, but I will tell you one thing. The world is certainly advancing in corporeality and such forces are being revealed now. Such clashes in human society that point to the great pace that we have to go through in our general development in the whole of human society. Accordingly we need to advance as well, and we are advancing accordingly, and do not think that we are not, it is opposite to that. Day after day when we go through from day to day the excerpts that we read, by this we are making great steps forward. Therefore what we see in the world that there are all kinds of big changes, war and all kinds of actions that are serious and immense compared to what we are doing in spirituality, these are not big things. We do much greater actions, much greater changes on the spiritual forces that manage the world. Therefore don’t  be afraid and don’t think that we are not advancing correctly, that we are behind, held back in the development of the world. On the contrary we are really advancing fast and as the biggest international group that is advancing spiritually toward the purpose of creation, there is none that can even resemble it in this example, and the whole world is advancing after us. The more we advance we will soon see that our entire advancement defines the form of the world and humanities advancement. 

27. S. (52:53) What should I do so that my body will agree to work in bestowal? 

R. Incorporate in the friends, invest in the organizing of the ten in the group and then you will see the extent in which you are incorporated into the group, then you yourself will enter into the spiritual advancement. This is called through the love of friends to the love of the Creator.

28. S. (53:41) In relation to these questions, me, the group my efforts, it’s only me, so the Creator is the result of my effort in connection? It turns out that these are my actions to see the efforts that the friends are making.

R. No. The Creator is the upper force outside of you, which operates also in you to the extent in which he can advance towards spirituality according to your relationship with the friends. 

S. If I understand correctly the Creator is made up of my efforts, and the questions that I have are in respect to me making efforts, but I should also see the efforts the group is making so I need to see what the group is making, and these are also my efforts?

R. Yes, try to see the efforts that the group is making. 

29. S. (55:37) When we reach this point of the Exodus from Egypt we can discern that we are advancing, or we will stay with this feeling that we are stuck without knowledge or understanding?

R. When we prepare for the exit from Egypt we feel like we are entering additional darkness, despair that we are not capable of anything, and just like we could connect beforehand and learn and gather, we don’t  know what to do, we are not capable of doing such actions as we did before. They become much more difficult because the will to receive is revealed more and more and then those previous actions that we did, we can now barely do them or we do them but with great difficulty and this is towards the Exodus from Egypt. The darkness becomes greater, it is called “and the children of Israel sighed from the work” and Pharaoh became worse, and this is actually what pushed them towards the exit.

30. S. (57:15) You answered that praying separately is not very effective. Can you clarify how small is the influence of these words and what kind of progress do we get from individual prayer?

R. I do not think that a person who prays alone can truly advance but if he connects to others and asks together with them, meaning connects the deficiencies to one deficiency, one goal, one Creator, as much as this can be depicted together, it for sure helps. As individuals the whole world prays, each person, the whole world seemingly is asking the Creator somehow but what is the benefit from this that you see? We need to nevertheless try to be together to connect together, to learn together and this is how you will start to feel one another. The problem here is in subjugation, that we need to bow our head before the ten and try to accept what is happening in the ten. I receive it and I accept it and I am willing to support them in the way they are, and not jump alone and do and show that I think differently and more and more. 

31. S. (59:27) What should I do when I think that I have nothing, nothing, nothing to bring to the group and all I do is pray, pray, and pray and nothing changes?

R. Whether it is changing or not you don’t is because you don’t see it. The fact that you cannot do anything for the ten, I do not believe because the ten has a certain desire, direction, order, and you can participate with them and as much as possible to help them. Don’t demand immediately that you deserve something, rather try to subjugate yourself and do what they need for advancement.

32. S. (01:00:26) If the Creator always reveals the true state of ones’ measure of giving then what is the distorted self-perception?

R. I don’t know, we need to scrutinize that.

33. S. (01:00:52) What is the difference between praying for the group and praying with the group?

R. When you pray for the group you are praying alone even though it is for the group and if you are praying with the group then you are incorporating with them and the prayer that rises above is connected from all the friends that are incorporated in this prayer. This is already completely different. The Creator hears those prayers, the prayer of many or the prayer for the many or the prayer in which the many connect.

34. S. (01:01:48) What has changed in me or in spirituality, that in one moment you have a clear feeling that you have to be in the morning lesson which you could not say about that in the previous states. Is it that the ten worked in some way on my emotions or was it something in spirituality I just realize that it wasn’t me?

R. Everything that is happening is coming from above from the Creator and comes to you through the group even though the group does not feel it and you will not understand or know now why it is happening, it is not your matter. It is upon you just to advance and to say thank you very much for what there is, and we need to bless for the bad as we bless for the good, that there are changes there and yet you go from here onwards and advance into the new conditions.

35. S. (01:03:01) With every lesson comes an increase in feeling that I’m zero, nothing and the Creator is everything. At first it was scary, now it actually brings me joy, but the work during this time. What should we focus our efforts on?

R. I cannot hear what you’re saying. Can you come closer to the microphone?

S. With every lesson there is an increase in feeling that I am zero, nothing, and in the Creator there is everything. At first it was scary but now it actually brings a certain joy, but you do not want to be an absolute zero, so what is the work now that we have to do at this time?

R. Don’t ask yourself that you want to be a zero or you don’t want to be above zero, that you’re caring for yourself, that is the worst thing. You ask what you can give to the group in order to advance it to the Creator so that the Creator will be able to clothe in the group and  receive joy from this. Think only about that.

Excerpt 114 (01:04:47) “Our sages said, he who comes to purify is aided….”

36. R. (01:05:12) Do you hear? A complete deficiency, deficiency. That is what needs to be. Not a feeling, rather that I need to be delighted from wanting. I fully want, that I have nothing for giving to the Creator, for the Revelation to the Creator, for the connection to the group. All of those deficiencies, I need to be revealed in me as much as possible.

Reader continues: (01:05:43)

37. R. (01:05:43) This is a very powerful piece, very powerful. I recommend you read it later, each of you, several times, later on.

38. S. (01:07:20) Something does not work out for me. Baal HaSulam writes that’s all of our progress; we constantly discover progress in hard work. 

R. All our advancement is in what we are lacking.

S. But what are we lacking? If it is advancement, it is not wholeness?

R. In what do I advance? In what I am missing, I’m missing more, and it is more precise of what I am lacking.

S. But where is this deficiency, this lack because the difficulty in the work becomes revealed, and Baal HaSulam says that this is actually an advancement, so it feels like what else should I do, what is the deficiency here, where is the prayer?

R. Operate more in the group and towards the Creator. You have no more, only connection with the friends and prayer to the Creator. That is all you have. What will you start to build here, all kinds of other systems, that they will confuse you?

S. But if I go back to working in the group, I go back to the lesson, I go through the excerpts during the day. Where is room for the prayer here? That is not clear.

R. When you read and do not understand and you want to attain what is written, that  is already prayer. Prayer is a desire that is revealed while you are in the writings of the Kabbalists. When you want to reach what they’ve reached, to understand what they are saying. That is prayer, and you’re aiming it to the Creator as he is the source from which everything will come to you.

S. Does it have to be made up of these lacks of the friends, to understand, to attain?

R. As much as possible more, yes, from the whole group. Where the whole group is in such a tendency. So, certainly it is a great big force that awakens the Creator, the upper force, the higher of degree, and to the extent that you are united, connected to the ten you are worthy of receiving from above bestowal.

S. Earlier you talked about the building of the Partzuf. Does this happen after the rising of the prayer then we build the Partzuf?

R. We build the  Partzuf  from deficiencies, and by doing so, you ascribe it to a higher up degree called BoReh, The Creator, and we turn to Him, and as a result of that we receive the upper bestowal. It could be that, that bestowal brings us for the time being deficiencies and more deficiencies and upon those deficiencies we connect and ask again and ask again. Then we come to a state in which we are already beginning each time to feel that in our request we receive responses, and accordingly we sort ourselves, arrange ourselves anew, we place ourselves where we need to be and more and more we become ready to become a Kli.

39. S. (01:10:44)In our ten everyone is doing their best but the heaviness on us is increasing day by day, will this end, or will we always go like this?

R. It’s a very nice sign that the Creator is raising up your ego, opening up your ego and that is how you feel it. That’s considered that you continue in Exile and it’s necessary towards redemption. Where the heaviness will be revealed in a sufficient manner so you’ll the start to discover inside the heaviness, the upper force which is called the revelation of the Creator, or Redemption from Egypt.

40. S. (01:11:52) Everything that exists in our side is and evil and if we shifted to the see other side to the Creator it becomes a deficiency ? 

R. Well let’s say yes, okay.

41. S. (01:12:20) What is a complete prayer, a complete deficiency in the spiritual work?

R. The correct desire is that He’s revealed in every ten and is aimed to the Creator and the essence of the desire that we want the Creator to be revealed in us not because we want to feel Him and make Him good like that. But rather we want to give the Creator the possibility to rejoice from us that we made a vessel of us towards His revelation, Hence, the whole reception of the Creator in us will be through a restriction, a screen, and reflected light, and the clothing of the direct light in the reflected light and our common desires which are called the correct Kli in which we will receive the upper light in order to bestow.

42. S. (01:13:48) Why is it specifically the deficiency for the help of the Creator that brings us to the quality of bestowal?

R. Because by doing so, you nullify your ego as if you’re capable, you subjugate yourself before the upper force, the force of bestowal as you receive as a force that is greater and more whole you, at which point you want this forced to control you and for you to someone be like it as well, a bestower and whole in you bestowing, and then in such a way you connect in this perfection, in this wholeness from bestowal feels you with the force of bestowal which is called the inner light of the Partzuf.

Excerpt #115 (01:15:10) “Specifically when all the bad is revealed…”   Twice

43. S. (01:17:32) Can you please clarify in that excerpt the difference between a person calling out to the Creator for him and calling for help for the entire group

R. When a person cries to the Creator to help him personally it’s an egoistic cry, this is an egoistic cry even though I don’t disregard it because it later brings the person through various events, states where he despairs from not getting help from the Creator until he starts realizing that the Creator doesn’t help him because he’s is praying for himself meaning he’s becoming more an egoist and cries and then doesn’t understand why the Creator doesn’t help him and he’s in contrast with the Creator as if struggling with him. That’s the prayer of the individual. The prayer of many is what’s always reaching the Creator even when we pray for the Creator to give to us we still do somewhat of annulment of each one’s egoistic desire in order to connect, even when we want the Creator to give us something egoistically they are still somewhat of an annulment here of the individual towards the others and so to these that extent we still merit some illumination from above even though it is not a at all exiting Egypt still. It is, nevertheless, a prayer of many, egotistically, like the whole world prays and cries and laughs but when we talk about prayer of many for us many means as one, as one, that we all want to connect to a single heart in a single Creator in a single request that we want to rise above our ego our common ego and by that we discover necessity for help and we see help in the Creator connecting us that each one nullifies before the others literally melt into the others so that he’s not felt besides an addition of force but not his self is being added. In that way, if we come to a single desire then as one man and one heart we turn to one Creator and then gradually He corrects the connection between us and fulfills it. Here, we have to think about it, talk about it, to see a little bit better what is the difference between the prayer of an individual and the prayer of one for himself that means he did not pray with the others, it has to be a connection between the hearts, and this way we will come to the single vessel of Adam HaRishon. The beginning of the Kli and then 125 degrees.

S. So, when a person feels this burning within his vessels, he is feeling something that the whole group feels. So, is it his work to take that sensation that he feels and  raise on behalf the whole Kli or his ten? Because he knows he is getting it for a specific reason and not to take a burden for himself?

R. Yes. Well said. He has to be literally sick when the group is advancing to the Creator or not. Will the Creator help the group? or not he has to be, to feel sick for the group.

44. S. (01:23:24) I can’t understand. Whatever happens, whatever I feel is in my will to receive so that outcry is also stemming from the will to receive because it is forced to pray, and this prayer also stems from the will to receive?

R. Don’t start with these philosophies just work and then some light will come to you, and you will understand. You still can’t answer these questions and you will just get confused and it will stop you from doing work so invest yourself only in connection and from connection to prayer.

45. S. (01:24:19) How exactly can we keep this condition of the prayer many? We do not have a synagogue where we can pray?

R. What are you talking about, what synagogue?

S. So our synagogue is the Zoom, and our Zoom is during work and that’s ok. People are working, they barely disconnect from their work, it doesn’t always work out, but we do meet, and we do the best that we can, but it is not perfect to pray for the prayer of many, it’s not real  easy conditions for the prayer of many.

R. We each one of us during the day must add our lack, our desires, our discussions to the world Kli around the clock, around the globe, and then in such a way we move towards a state where we have a single prayer of all of us to a single Creator and then it is accepted and that is what he answers. It doesn’t matter in what states you are in and why and when. When you add your few sentences that you want to add to the friends towards the Creator within the 24 hours that goes to the general prayer.

S. So if each one during the day, during the time, contains all the tens, all the friends, and contains him in his thought, his heart, doesn’t that make it a prayer many?

R. Yes, yes, this is called the prayer of many. A prayer of many is a prayer for the many even though each one prays and doesn’t feel the others, doesn’t see the others, I’m not in the same space as others, it doesn’t matter but he is in the same desire. Place is desire, it’s like the temple. It is a place, which means a desire, that we want to sanctify, meaning to make it in order to bestow so that is why it is called the temple, the house of holy, or sanctity.

46. S. (01:27:07) It is felt that the children of Israel sighed in Egypt it comes from a force of despair it’s something that erupts and then you can say about it that it’s an action of prayer and there’s force to it. How can we put that force when sitting together and phrasing nice words like you write a song, how do you find the force when we phrase the prayer?

R. I do not know. When I read what Rabash wrote by that I feel his power, his heart, all of his passions, all of his hopes. Try to do that ,you can connect to him. We are all called Bnei Baruch, the children of Baruch who follow him.

S. How can the then examine that is not just write nice words but rather has reached a prayer?

R. Each one has to check his heart. What can we say here? Each one should delve into his heart and see where his heart is, what is he inclined towards.

47. S. (01:28:52) Pleasure comes after the recognition of evil?

R. I do not know. The fact that we recognize the evil is already a pleasure that we feel.

48. S. (01:29:15) What is special in an action when we turn together to the Creator with a prayer of the world Kli during the day in the Zoom?

R.  We have to all integrate around the clock, around the globe, every day, where everyone is to integrate into our prayer towards the Creator, from the ten, from the whole world Kli that we all request, that we all show a lack, and these deficiencies connect together and that is what invites the Creator to take care of us, to bring us together and then fulfill us with His revelation.

49. S. (01:30:14) As Pharaoh grows and a person loses his importance, how does that push him to come out of Egypt?

R. He has no choice. He must still run away from his ego that doesn’t let him live, exist, and connect and this comes from the light that reforms, but this is what happens.

50. S. (01:50:49)  In the excerpt 113 it is written that “once it from above he was given the interpretation for the sake of the Creator his work becomes harder”. What does it mean that from above he was explained about this, for the sake of Heaven?

R. This means that now he understands how far he is from being in order to bestow and that is progress discovering the truth.

51. S. (01:31:26) What turns a prayer to a common prayer?

R. That each one thinks about the success of all the others, without which there is no success.

52. S. (01:31:45) How can we increase not only the frequency of the prayer but it’s quality as well so that our yearning for unity will always be like an outcry of the heart rather than that of the intellect

R. Well said it is attention discuss it between you and them, by attention it will happen.

53. S. (01:32:15) If I disseminate and I pray to the Creator to help me find the words and to explain the message of our connection in a clear manner and I add my intention to pass this prayer through my ten, is this a prayer on my own or with the friends?

R. Basically, it is with the friends, but that I’m not running away from our connection, rather I want the deficiency towards the Creator to arise from the connection between us and the answering of the prayer from the Creator will arrive into the connection between us. That you shouldn’t forget.

54. S. (01:33:07) You said during the lesson to do what the society tells you, by that you can always be certain that you are on the path and you’re advancing. What does it mean to do what the society, what the group tells you to do if usually the ten does not come to one person with arguments, with claims?

R. No, but what they want. I do not hear the Creator, I do not understand him, I do not feel him. and I do not have a connection with him, but I do have a contact with my ten, so I check what is the need, the desire in the ten, and that is what I try to fulfill.

55. S. (01:33:50) What can we do in the ten to support the general Kli? How can we support the general Kli?

R. What is to integrate in a general Kli? We are all in the general Kli in the lesson. I am looking now at the people in front of me from all the continents from all the places and it is a single desire, so that is the general Kli. It is the common Kli, you are representatives of Bnei Baruch’s world Kli . 

Excerpt #116 (01:34:55) “Remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt..”

56. R. (01:35:16) Why do we need to remember where we were, meaning after we exit Egypt why do we need to remember it? It’s like it happened, so it happened that’s it it’s deleted. No  you shall remember it. Why?

Reader continues: (01:35:32) “ We should interpret that in the work  ….” 

57. R. (01:36:24) All that he does is only for the sake of the Egyptians within man, and this comes from the Creator meaning that the Creator awakens the person to do actions for the sake of the will of the receive the Egyptians or the Pharaoh as we call it, and the Creator does that so that the person understands in true state he is in.

58. S. (01:36:51) So it is either calming me down because the Creator did it?

R. Why is it ok?

S. Because he did it, he created me.

R. Okay. If you can agree with it, fine.

S. So maybe on the other hand I’m really mad that he put me in this state.

R. So what.

S. So what is the right thing to do here? With what discernment should I work?

R. That we will know that what we have is just None Else Besides Him and we only work opposite the Creator. You are only dealing with the Creator. One time the Creator dresses in Pharaoh, and another time in the Egyptians, and then Moses and whatever. It is all with respect to your will to receive so that you will begin to discern in all the states and observe the right direction.

S. Should I agree with him or not, that is not clear?

R. That is based on what you are going to see. You can agree with Pharaoh even though the Creator’s in it.

S. Isn’t this something that we need to do? We learned this when Jacob came, and he respects him in all these things

R. One thing, and the other thing should be dealt with separately here. When you suffer blows from the Egyptians, from Pharaoh do you agree with him or not? The way you say it means that in advance I have to agree with everything I have in life, it is all the Creator None Else Besides Him, leave me alone I’m not doing anything, whatever happens will happen, it’s all him. Why am I getting involved in the Creator’s actions at all? This way you will not get to anything. I will not even be called a created being.

S. So once we invest in the work we discover this relation that we reach a demand to the Creator to change this state.

R. We put our work in in order to exactly see where we have to face the Creator, opposite the Creator. This is what we’re going to understand from all these quotes.

Excerpt 117 (01:39:22) “Remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt..”  twice

58. R. (01:40:32) Because during the descent it means he was in exile, during the ascent he, as if, grows above the exile into redemption, so what can you learn from the exile for the sake of redemption.

Reader continues: (01:40:47) “Because during the descent there is nobody to…”

59. R. (01:41:27) So it does not matter to us in the dissent in what states we are in because then a person cannot control himself but in the state of ascent he has to try to relate to this whole state of ascent in the state that he had in the dissent and sort of the states, discern them, and understand why the Creator did that to him and learn from that for the future.

60. S. (01:42:02) So what does it mean to learn from the descent and gaining from it?

R. I go back into the states of the descent and from that I learn what I can see more in the ascent because I remember the descent, the advantage of the light comes from the darkness.

S. A friend asked, said that yesterday I connected to the friends, yesterday I participated more now less, how can I use this experience to gain today?

R. All that I can do is give a prayer meaning organize my deficiency to a state as much as possible connected through the group to the Creator and hope that by that I will correct it, that deficiency.

61. S. (01:43:14) About the time of descent it is written he has no consciousness meaning he is aware that he’s disconnected from the Creator?

R. During the descent of course he’s detached from the Creator. 

S. Without awareness of this connection or is he aware?

R. There’s both, there’s this and that state.

S. So at the time of the ascent he may still be disconnected, still be in exile but he identifies it and it’s still considered an ascent because he can ask to change?

R. No. Time of ascent or descent we measure it by the feeling not your philosophy. If one feels that he now has a desire to bestow and connect to the friends and the Creator this is called ascent. If he feels that he is immersed in himself feeling the darkness, feels bad, doesn’t want to connect and so forth, all these discernments, that is then called a descent or exile.

62. S. (01:44:24) I can make a prayer of many, or it depends on each one?

R. Each one can pray for the ten and this is called a prayer of many as well that each one raises but a more whole prayer of many is where everyone connects, everyone is discussing and collecting their desires and please to the Creator, clarify them and then ask of the Creator to complete the correction between them, the connection between them so he can appear there in wholeness.

63. S. (01:46:16) What is not clear for me is what can I learn from the state of descent to the next state? What should I take?

R. To the extent that you were detached from your friends, you didn’t see any benefit in connecting with them, you were immersed in your own thoughts and desires alone, not towards the right future, and from this you learn now how opposite you are.

S. What does this gap give me? So the next time I’m disconnected or far from them…

R. It will help you because even if you are detached you know this comes from the Creator and not that this is the true state.

S. How to advance? What do you learn from this past connection to the next one?

R. That everything is done from above to give you a detachment from which you will yearn for connection because the light excels from darkness. The more you feel darkness in detachment you feel greater light in connection, because there’s no light or darkness, it is all two feelings of connection and disconnection.

S. So it enables us to connect two states to one move?

R. Same move and same cause which is the Creator.

Excerpt #118 (01:47:02) “Being a slave is a bad thing….” Twice

64. R. (01:50:25) Meaning that without us collecting this amount of suffering from the exile, from lack of adhesion from us and with the Creator, without that we won’t be able to exit Egypt because the whole exodus and joyfulness of liberation, a sense of freedom, is because we can now finally connect between us and connect to the Creator, and he sustains the connection between us, and he resides between us and shines between us and that’s redemption.

65. S. (01:51:13) If I don’t remember about the ascent and I’m in the descent what does it lead to?

R. If you during the ascent you don’t feel the descent it indicates that you don’t feel the ascent because one is measured opposite the other. So what do you feel during the ascent? According to what you are saying you feel good but that’s not an ascent. Ascent is that you now measure your state that you are in bestowal, love, connection, opposite to not being able to be in love and bestowal and connection, and that is what’s called descent or exile. So, do you understand? The whole difference between ascent and descents in spirituality is that you can be in connection and mutual bestowal.

S. No translation.

R. You measure it in different vessels, do you understand? It is darkness for you if you can’t connect, if you cannot be in love towards the friends and the Creator, that’s darkness.

S. This is exactly what you explained yesterday? That this is exactly how the middle line is built? The middle line is more important than all the rest of the states? Is that the liberation, the freedom?

R. Possibly yes.

66. S. (01:51:30) In the ascent when I remember the descent there’s gratitude for all the states. Is this a benefit, to remember it?

R. I don’t think you are talking about the ascent. You said when I am in an ascent but what is an ascent though? You first need to depict to yourself that you are in restriction, restriction of the will to receive in order to receive, and you begin thinking about in order to bestow, and then you measure yourself, are you more in order to bestow or less in order to bestow, and accordingly you will see yourself in the right way.

S. That’s what I meant but now I can connect to the friends I can make efforts in the direction for bestowal, and I remember that a week ago or two weeks ago I couldn’t.

R. Okay that’s clear. Correct.

Excerpt #119 (01:54:54) “In the exile in Egypt when…” 

67. R. (01:55:09) Because the pleasures kept them, held them, how does Pharaoh grab hold of the person so the person can’t leave his control? By giving the will to receive fulfillment.

Reader continues: (01:55:25) “But after they acted, meaning….”  

68. R. (01:56:42) Meaning, the Creator who’s giving pleasures through Pharaoh enslaves the will to receive, even that will to receive that wants to emerge from the control of Pharaoh, but because of pleasures, he can’t, because the pleasures tie the will to receive to the source, and if he receives it through Pharaoh then he belongs to Pharaoh. This is called being in exile, enslaved, forcefully, because if I get pleasure from there I am sold, I’m bought, I belong to that, and I’m tied above my strength, I’m tied to Pharaoh. However, if I stop receiving pleasures from the beastly corporeal egoistic life that I have, then without a choice even that will to receive stops feeling that Pharaoh enslaves it. I stop feeling that it gives me pleasure and that gradually helps me disconnect from that source and by that I begin to advance towards exiting the rule of Pharaoh. This is called exit in Egypt. When I then bit by bit decide to detach from it I enter a different kind of pleasures, no longer the other side in order to receive rules me, but I gradually move to forces of bestowal, and that’s how the exodus happens. We will talk about it, it is not simple, there’s a few stages there. Everyone will have to go through that with no exception. We should learn that because that’s something we will also need to convey to everyone, to everyone, to all of humanity.

69. S. (01:59:18) But the corporeal pleasure it’s relatively easy to notice. Where are the spiritual pleasures that are in order to receive? Is there such a thing?

R. These are Klipot, shells. We will talk about it. We didn’t go through that yet.

S. So to really pay attention to the daily things?

R. Yes, simply what we have before us. This scrutiny is always in the intention, to the extent I belong to it or not.

S. How can the ten help scrutinize this intention?

R. By example. Each one helps his friend.

S. What’s the help?

R. When we talk, how we overcome such pleasures that disconnect us from his spirituality.

70. S. (02:00:15) How can I exit Pharaoh’s pleasures if my nature is a will to receive. How can I achieve that?

R. Because you have a Point in the Heart, and out of it being in you in the will to receive called heart, you can increase the influence of this, or the bestowal of this point and it will push you, pull you to the Creator, to the general light, and then when it will shine more to you through the point in the heart and all your heart being egoistic will soon start disconnecting, start distancing itself from the control of Pharaoh and this is how you will come closer to in order to bestow, to the Creator. This happens gradually  and all the Upper system is organized in a way that we are in it, want it or not, it’s only that now we’re being taught how it works.

The whole of humanity is in it. We are being explained this system so we can know how to increase our advancement, our development, what forces are we in, and how to sort out and to organize these forces so that they will bestow upon us in a purposeful fast manner. It works anyhow and even the far will not be cast away from Him and everyone will roll to their proper root. That’s why we were only chosen to understand this system, to perceive in the emotion and intellect what it’s doing to us, to what extent we are in the special process when Nature or the Creator organized for us to develop this way. When you look at this world you will see why the wars are taking place and all the problems and each one is incorporated in all his own destiny, and it is all for us to understand and agree with what the Creator is doing to us, a general force of all of reality.

So we were chosen to understand the process, to take part in it, and so to explain it later to others, even though all the others they won’t to know like us, but we will let each and every one, just like you know our corporeal life, some people understand more and some understand only the simple things, how to wake up, to get up to go to work, to come back from work, to turn the TV and to sit until they go to sleep again, and then to go to work again. That’s how it works. Some are like this, some are not. We can understand how reality, Nature, the Creator turns everyone around and how we, along with the reality, can turn it towards the Creator, so that out of all the created beings we are the ones who can help the Creator bring reality to the correct form, a whole form. So let’s learn that and realize it as much as we can.

71. S. (02:04:50) You spoke about the pleasure as something that connects us to the source. Now, the attraction that we have for pleasure, it’s governed by the Egyptians, but now when we will know the spiritual pleasure behind the barrier, is that the condition that will not allow us to return, to go back, so in the measure that we develop the vessels to build that pleasure?

R. Correct, there is no return to Egypt, there is no return to Egypt. We come out of it forever.

S. So it is always the same condition that we need to be connected to a pleasure that is part of our nature also in corporeality than any spirituality?

R. Yes, of course. Just as we learned. You have been with us for years already, yes as we have been learning.

72. S. (02:06:34) Rav, when you spoke to Michael about the difference between enjoying spiritual pleasures and, I’m sorry, corporeal pleasures and longing for the spiritual pleasures, that’s relatively clear. I don’t want to enjoy this world I want to enjoy connection being with the friends and so on, but if the day to day is very tough which a lot of people go through, I’m not talking just being bombarded in Ukraine, there are also situations in Israel and also most people, I don’t know if most, but me at least, are just engaged in survival. How do you, not even engage in this pleasure from connection most of the time?

R. As much as you can. If you would know how hard Baal HaSulam worked, Rabash worked as a construction worker, as a cobbler, as a worker he was paving roads. It was very hard work, day, and night, he would travel some road somewhere, work there, sleep there in a tent, and just come for the weekend, for Shabbat. Then he went back to work, and he didn’t have any Society, nothing, all he had was one book and with this book he would travel. So, we are certainly not as strong as they were, but we have no choice, we should try nonetheless to be connected to the friend’s today with your phones and all your devices you can be connected to everyone, and I am happy to see how connected you are and how during the day you are reading and praying it is very nice, very nice. Just be more and more connected to it and each one that connects to it connects to the group during the day, and by that he attains a tremendous force that stands by him and there’s no way to make things easier for himself, there’s no way I can connect I have work, so connect at a different time. Do whatever you can, and this is how you will advance.

73. S. (02:09:36) Can we say that in vessels of reception there’s another given that I cannot enjoy before the ten?

R. That is later, but the truth is that it is correct.

74. S. (02:10:13) Thinking about the past, because the Creator when he created us he gave us this mind that “quote on quote” can travel between the past to the future, so when we remember the past which was say a descent, it is always accompanied with feeling the feelings that were connected to the descent like despair, pain, so if I am in an ascent, let’s say, and I remember the descent then there is a danger there because I can also fall to the feelings of the descent, but when I have a dissent then I also have the memories of the ascent, and then from the descents I can try to remember the ascents that I had before and then connect with the feelings of the ascent and that gives me fuel so with the feelings of the ascents from the past I can be assisted of course with praying to the Creator, I can at least begin to pray to the Creator  because I was accompanied by the feelings of past ascents so there’s a kind of communication and travel between past, present, and future and it is all accompanied by our emotions because we are where our thoughts are. So, is this movement of in the descent to connect to the previous ascent, can we use that whole process in coming from exile to redemption, in all the states we experienced and will experience?

R. The answer is yes. I let you speak so long because you are a new ten, so become stronger and incorporate with us.

75. S. (02:12:48) You said that ascent is a desire to bestow, to be connected to the friends and the Creator out of love. What does it mean to be connected out of love?

R. To be connected out of love meaning that you have reached a state that you are attracted to the connection with them already.

S. I do it only because the Kabbalists wrote that I have a responsibility and so on.

R. So this is not out of love yet, it’s out of you hearing words of the Kabbalists and doing what they said and that’s also good.

S. There’s about remembering the descents and ascents and so on, there’s something that Kabbalists say that every day should be new, so should we remember or not, I don’t understand this?

R. This is something you will understand and if you don’t remember we will remind you don’t worry.

76. S. (02:14:09) If you can say in item 119 Rabash says that a person is being devoid of pleasure after he makes a choice. So what kind of choice do we make? Is it a time choice or all the time?

R. No, no it’s many times a person has to choose new discernments what he wants to be attached to.

Excerpt #120 (02:14:54) “What controls a person is pleasure….” 

76. R. (02:16:12) I don’t see questions about that, so  let’s read 121. 

Excerpt #120 (02:26:21) “When a person is in Egypt he can be he cannot be a Jew….” 

76. S. (02:17:16) There is a question about the previous excerpt and what you said that the whole world will have to emerge from the will to receive, but on the other hand our development is a specific development so it’s not exactly clear what move humanity will have to go through, and we are doing that is different?

R. We can have the same process when the will to receive reaches in order to bestow and by that it reaches adhesion to the Creator, we can do that in our times already, we can do that with  our awareness by being even in this world as Baal HaSulam writes that special people are given the opportunity to obtain life of lives in this world. He doesn’t really explain it but that’s it so we’re in this state, we can as much as we advance we advance, but we can still a thousand degrees more than an ordinary person in this world. That’s why we have to pave the road for them.

S. What is this path if humanity also has to come out of the will to receive, what is the difference between what we do and what they do?”

R. Do you have children? 

S. Yes.

R. Thank God. Are you preparing their future? That soon they will go to school and then move on, and you want for them to have a good life so you’re preparing for them the way they’ll grow up and go into life correctly, go on the right path. That’s what we should also do for everyone, for all humanity there’s a lot of written about it.

S. But this path we are preparing for them will ultimately lead them to what kind of exit from the will to receive? Will this not be a spiritual thing?

R. It will be different, it will be different than us. We are hoping for them to prepare such an Upper system for them so that for them it will be smooth, not like now it’s not yet arranged so it can go to wars and a lot of problems, rather by our spiritual preparation when we are performing spiritual actions the connection between the will to receive and the sources of light in a way that the light can bestow in a soft manner to sanctify the vessels so that they can rise to it in a gradual and nice way. It all depends on us. That’s basically our duty. Without that all of humanity would just go through so many blows from one degree towards the next.

77. S. (02:20:47) What does it mean that a person is a slave to himself?

R. He wants to remain a slave, he wants to be in his will to receive and to keep on going on with his life as now.

78. S. (02:21:15) You answered Michael that if we would not advance humanity will suffer horrible suffering. We see that humanity does suffer now, there a big war with a lot of suffering, and there’s more than one war and there’s more suffering, and I heard before that we are advancing, and things are moving forward. What is it working than?

R. We should see ourselves as not working properly, not working sufficiently and that we do have to reach a state where everyone, all of humanity, is advancing in a nice smooth way from one degree to another.

S. How to agree with the Creator for all this state?

R. Try, try.

79. S. (02:22:23) We are talking about Pharaoh and that my servants are not the servants of servants, what does it mean?

R. As we advance we want to be servants of the Creator rather than our own will to receive. With this we will conclude.