KETER: TIKKUN CHATZOT תקון חצות – LESSON WITH RAV MICHAEL LAITMAN
Baal HaSulam. Foreword to The Book of Zohar
Morning Lesson May 15, 2022 Transcription
Transcription is made from simultaneous translation which leaves a possibility for differences in the audio
The Approach to Studying the Wisdom of Kabbalah – Selected Excerpts from the Sources. #13
Reading 13 (00:45)
1.Rav’s Introduction: (02:09) What is this about, it is the desire to receive that the Creator created, he created the evil inclination which is opposite to the Creator’s desire to bestow which is called evil, for this will to receive, we have to correct this so it would be in order to bestow. We cannot invert it that instead of the desire to receive it would become the desire to bestow but the same desire to receive that was created. Only how we use it, this is what we have to change, so that instead of it being for our own benefit it would be for the benefit of others. Others can be anything outside of myself, outside of the person but usually, all in all, it is to the Creator. Therefore, at the beginning when the Creator created the desire to receive any gave it the possibility to develop over many years, thousands of years, so the will to receive would develop on its own and it reached the state when it already begins to feel how much it is in contradiction to nature. How bad it feels in nature and then naturally it started to correct its attitude to nature, to others this was thousands of years ago that it started, that it started.
Therefore when the will to receive grew significantly within people the Creator gave them a special approach for what to do with the will to receive, this means that they need to try to connect between them and to try to be not for one’s own benefit but for the benefit of others as much as possible. As much as people understand that this is what they have to do and so on. We already talked about that a lot. However, the thing is more, the question is the greater question, what will help us to change our desire instead of me constantly thinking about myself that naturally this is how I am built and born and this is how I developed. How suddenly at a certain age. a person, even though he hears that he needs to be connected to others and have a nice attitude to the others from where would he take the forces for this. How can he convince himself that this is how it needs to be? Even for our own life, how many times if we are told by the parents and the educators that we should be good to others and we simply cannot, nevertheless we are constantly in conflict.
There is no room next to me for anybody else only me, we can see how children grab hold of their toys and even though he has a few and he could give some to others, no he holds them next to him and does not give it to anybody else. How can we cope with that will to receive that grows inside of us. Then we are told that it is possible you should try, you should give, you should listen to what you are told and by this you can come close to others. This was possible many years ago, thousands of years ago even and we see also that in such a way in a primitive will to receive even now there’s people who live in some villages are in certain tribes, somebody in the Amazon or all kinds of other places remote places where they feel close to each other and they do not have such brutal and developed will to receive, such that he cannot see others being close to him.
I saw such states in all kinds of different nations, when I met with them, people feel that what I have and what he has is actually the same, we are like brothers, we have no malicious thoughts or kinds of evil things. how can I somehow take advantage of the other. I also so other kind of relations there even though they are brothers and they are close but I get extra pleasure specifically from me rising above him, that I actually want to be greater and stronger. I want to be the ruler, I want to be rich even though he is my relative, it does not matter if it gives me additional pleasure that I rise above him. We see that this is happening, the more humanity develops, the more and more layers of the population of the world are entering into the recognition of their ego so much so that they become contradictory to each other. Those layers become more and more modern as we call it until it becomes so cruel that they cannot see that there is anything good in the other but everything has to be just like with the children grabbing their toys and they don’t want to give it to anybody else. Just like that we see, the adults behave the same way, this is the truth, full form of the egoistic development that exists in the human race.
The Creator manages this and he does so deliberately so we would reach the recognition of evil, how much we are not capable nevertheless, to continue living in such a way that around every person he has thousands of enemies, haters, who are in contradiction to him and there is no choice. Instead we have to put things in order somehow so that at least it will allow us to survive and this is what is happening today also. We can see, look at what is happening in Europe with all of these wars and even more than that. What can we do what are we going to do, so there were times when people were able to limit themselves and live in a calm state, they nevertheless because they saw and realized that otherwise it will be bad for us, it is not available for us, they were able to overcome the small ego in them in order to be in a balanced state and in an equal one like in a village without all kinds of malicious thoughts that each one has to the others.
Certainly it is not a modern village but this is how people felt in those times, this is what he is telling us, that there were such times. Whereas later on because the desire to receive grew it was no longer possible for the person to restrain himself and he was not able to hide himself, pacify himself be in some kind of a nice connection with the others because it is not possible for us to jump on each other and to start ruling each other it is better to be in a tranquil state so we could no longer hold ourselves in such a state. Then it turns out that we are not capable of somehow pacifying our ego, it has been growing to such a state that it is no longer possible to manage it. Then comes a method called the wisdom of Kabbalah which tells us how we can establish ourselves correctly so that the connection between us would be a connection that is at least beneficial for the continuation for our life.
Because otherwise we just eat each other up, that’s it. In animals the ego is limited so it is not allowing them to finish each other but there is a general balance between all different forms of life and they support and help each other this ones eat those ones and these prepare the soil for those, to ensure there is some kind of a balance in nature and animals and plants. While in humans there is no such thing, if they grow they grow to such an extent there is no place in the world for anybody except for a single person which is me. In the end this is how it is, so this is where the wisdom of Kabbalah comes to us, that we have to learn it is not enough for us from life to simply pacify ourselves and tell ourselves it is not worthwhile to live in such a way, in conflict, instead we study the wisdom of Kabbalah and that the Sages explain that indeed we cannot cope with our ego but instead we have to draw higher forces. That this upper force, the reforming light, will correct us, it will give us the possibility to see what happens if I do not succeed in my corrections then we are in a world where each wants to kill the others.
What is the benefit, we will just end up like this, we can see how it is happening here and there in humanity to such an extent that each person is jumping and he wants to subjugate the others in such a way. So there is no choice, we have to learn how nevertheless, we can continue our lives and therefore the wisdom of Kabbalah will be needed if not today then tomorrow or the day after but everybody will need it. Because otherwise simply from the desire to survive, to continue life, this is why they will need it and they will realize that we cannot just pressure each other and come with wars and try to conquer each other. Instead only to reach a form of balance between us and this is what the wisdom of Kabbalah teaches how we reach a state when we all have to be in a single vessel not to pressure each other but to the contrary to help each other. This way we can reach all the corrections and then with such a nice attitude, more or less, when we start with this, we can discover the general force that exists in nature that created us and is expecting us to reach such a good relations between us so that be specifically would discover him that he is existing among us.
Baal HaSulam. Foreword to The Book of Zohar. #31 (16:15)
2. R. (18:02) We are the receivers, the Creator is the source of the abundance, light,to the extent of rebuild of ourselves as vessel of reception that can receive that can be fulfilled by that we give a possibility to the Creator to open himself up and to fulfill us. By this we give him contentment just like a little child that more he receives from the mother the more he suckles from her, to that extent that she is more pleased as it is written in many places. It is worthwhile for us as quickly as possible and as strong as possible to connect between us so we will have a common vessel between us otherwise it would not be a vessel. Just one is not a vessel, two or three or at least ten. Then we can say that we already have some vessel and its volume is ready to receive the abundance from the Creator, this is how we reach a state where we would become Sages receiving the revelation from the Creator.
3. S. (19:10) What does it mean that the lower ones are rewarded with receiving the bestowal of Atzilut?
R. Atzilut is the light, this is why it is called Atzilut, Atzlo, in him, with him.
That is the name of the world of Atzilut this is where all of the process is going after the world of Ein Sof have to be in a certain degree of similarity as much as he wants to give you also have to give it even getting our reception we have to be getting and if you are giving to each other because there is nothing we can give to the Creator he has no deficiencies about there is only one deficiency that he wants to give us that if we connect between us that every birthday what he receives from above he can give it over to the others and then it’s not going to be just block in the way of the Light then in that way we can build a vessel which is ready for fulfillment and then we are connecting to the Creator and the Creator is fulfilling us and everybody from view change and each one of us becomes a small pipeline that can receive from the Creator and passes it to others and then we connect mutually between us this is called the Partzuf, the ten, in practice
S. We try to keep such an action with the friends in the ten more or less to bestow to one another but we still do not receive from the world of Atzilut so how to come to this?
R. We do not receive from above in order to give to others. We are not capable of it. I don’t think that I want to receive in order to give it to the other, otherwise I would never receive. Ask yourself are you ready it, that you’re going to receive from the Creator only with the condition that everything that you receive, you remain the way you are right now, and everything that you receive from the Creator you give to the friends. Do you have such a preparation, such a willingness? Yes or no, if not then this is what you have to come to. Then the minute you come to it and you connect to the friends then everything you receive from the Creator you are interested and you want and you desire to give it to them, then you will not be a blocked pipe but on the contrary, you will open up. Then the light and the abundance comes to you and flows through you to the others, if you do not open up the path of light from you to the friends then the light is not revealed in you.
S. What needs to be the focus in this work relative to the friends, meaning I need to cleave to them or the fact that I do not receive?
R. The point is a simple one. You need to resemble the light with your vessel and what how, what does it mean to resemble the light, to be a giver, a bestower, like the light, that everything that enters into you, you bestow it to others, to the friends, that is all. This is called the law of equivalence of form.
S. What does it mean that everything that enters me I pass it. How do you do it?
R. With a desire, an intention, ask that you will have it, that you will connect to the others in your hearts, in your actions, in speech, in any way possible. It is an inner inclination that you should have such, that you are with them in one desire.
S. When I am with them in one desire, what is this desire?
R. It is your desire to bestow to them.
S. I passed my desire to them?
R. Your desire, that they will feel that you want to pass on to them everything that you have, this is called to ‘open your heart.
S. Maybe to pass them some light?
R. You do not have a light yet but only some desire. We are only currently joining our conduit, our empty pipelines. Later on if they would try to connect then the Creator would already fill us with as with his abundance, he would be revealed to us in other words.
4. S. (25:05) Do we need to ask the friends to help the friends or to help us to help the friends and to help the friends is an expression of our ego?
R. We want to connect with the friends and be connected with give and take as though we are truly in one heart. Whatever that friend wants I give it to him whatever I want the friend gives me and it is impossible to give without receiving in such a way we build ourselves such a way that we feel herself that we are truly in a single action. We make no difference between one and the other just like cells in a single body.
Reading 32 (26:47) “You might compare it to a candle….”
5. R. (27:54) Yes this is how it is certainly there is no blemish in the upper one it is revealed only in respect to the lower ones. In our world it is revealed mainly regarding control. How much each and every person is or is part of a nation or an entire nation or it could be a party, usually however it is more conspicuous between nations, how much eat each wants to rule over the other. Now because we are entering the period of the last generation we will see the opposite. We will see how much it is to the opposite that those who want to be connected to the others and come closer to the others and to some extent to support the others they specifically are going along with nature. Coming closer to godliness they will succeed and profit and those who engage in pressuring the others humiliating other nations pressuring them in a brutal manner. They will not succeed. They will fall because this period of time, called the last generation, is a very special time, it can be revealed for the better or it could be revealed for the worse. God forbid and indeed those who do not pressure anybody will succeed. Those who only care for how to develop as much as possible in a free manner among everyone.
6. S. (30:11) I think that the feeling of time in this world is not for us, it does not do any good, so how can we tomorrow or in a month or in a year but right now how to do this?
R. Do whatever is necessary in the group and then you will not have any questions forget about the world. I am speaking in general because nevertheless we are in the last generation but however the most important for us is that each would behave correctly in his ten and then out of that when one sees his true development.
7. S. (31:10) In item 31, he writes that the more the lower ones receive, the Mochin of Atzilut then in item 32 he says there is no change in the world of Atzilut whether or not they receive from it.
R. In the world of Atzilut there is no change but as much as the demand from Atzilut, as much as raise MAN to Atzilut, deficiencies so Atzilut raise is it even higher to the world of the Ein Sof and then from that he received the light of Ein So and then it passes it, it distributes it between all of the worlds of BYA. In the world of Atzilut of course there is no change, there are no deficiencies in it. it is essentially as some kind of reservoir of the upper light
8. S. (32:06) If I understand correctly the first thing we have to do in the ten is to intensify the deficiency for the Creator and the connection between us and in a state when we are in bestowal to the friends in the tens, it like two stages on the way?
R. As much as we want to bestow to each other in the ten we will receive from above the abundance in order to bestow. As much as we do so in the ten, our ten will become corrected. A ten that will do so will be corrected and it will be able to receive from Atzilut, from the upper world more and more fulfillments.
9. S. (33:50 ) That light itself does not obligate one to bestow to others or it should be first build and intention and then the light comes. vand if so, where do we take such a desire from?
R. Out of you studying the wisdom of Kabbalah and being in a group, and you are learning what the Kabbalists are saying, you’re realizing this is what we have to do in order to advance. Otherwise, there will be no place in you for the higher light if you’re not opening up the conduit from you to others. You are actually a blockage and therefore. First of all you have to open up the way out from you to the whole world to the friends, the ten and only to the extent that you open this up then the higher light can enter into you.
This is the law and it is actually very clear it is just like we have in technology and everywhere if you have some sort of blockage in a pipe line then it is felt in the entrance already. The upper light is not felt statically it exists there is no such thing, it is constantly at rest but for it, it is in constant motion. That is is constantly giving, filling, providing. That it is constantly giving. If you do not allow it and do not give it a place to pass from you to the other than you are blocking the light and then you become a blockage on the way you are blocking it and it will not help you until you open up that blockage and that blockage is inside your heart.
S. But I cannot hold this light within me?
R. Until you open a way out from you to the outside. it does not enter you.
Reading 33 (36:22 )”Thus, why did the authors of The Zohar have to….”
10. R. (37:21) This means that by us, seeing changes in the light when it passes through us it reaches us in from it as it reaches others it performs all kinds of actions. Besides these actions we feel that the Creator the one who is operating these actions is called from your actions we know you.
Reading Continues (37:52) “It is like a father who constrains himself ….”
11. R. (39:15) This is exactly when we play with our children. We want to show them that this game interests us and in it at least the same level of interest as the child. It is important for me to succeed and do various actions like that child is doing, why, what for? In this way, I want to be in connection with him, I want to awaken in him and in the little child, I want to awaken in him those feelings. Those attitudes that I am showing him, This is what the Creator is doing with us. Do not think that we are making any changes in godliness. Instead it is revealed only relative to us but it is enough for only that he is doing it in order to play with us so that we will grow up and develop to reach his level.
12. S. (40:33) I wanted to understand better why if the ego is growing such a cruel manner, in the end, it reach is a state of erasing everyone else, so how will it reach at state where our will to receive will help us to connect and do all of the work we are compelled to do according to the Kabbalah.
R. The will to receive will never help us to directly reach bestowal and love of others and to approach the Creator. Our will to receive will always be a help against so we need to understand from this point on at least that anything that may help us along the way is to work against the will to receive and it will never be in our own hands, never. Rather only to the extent that we will conquer it.
13. S. (41:54) I wanted to ask what is this action of opening up the blockage that is in the heart?
R. So I will be able to give, to feel the friends that influence my heart, since I am not on the path and not criticizing anything, I think that really the friends influence my heart, like it or not they are in my heart, let’s say like children who influence us. We can’t say that I am not letting them influence me rather because they are with me to animate degree, like I give birth to them, I care for them, and I like it or not what is in them influences me.
S. So what is the action by which we start to bring the friends into your heart and let them influence you?
R. That more I can convince myself that they are like my children, they depend on me, I depend on them, as much as we are in one heart.
S. This is what enables this preparation like you said before that everything inside of you, you receive for them?
R. Yes.
S. Ok now, until we succeed in bringing the friends into our heart the light doesn’t flow through you?
R. Of course not, because you are a blockage. The light comes to the vessel that is in equivalence of form with it, if you are not bestowing through your vessel to others then the light which is the abundance that comes from the bestower can also not enter the vessel.
S. So what happens to the light, what does it do?
R. It is concealed, it is a blocked, above you somewhere that is what’s happening and then there are judgements, various problems that appear all the way up to wars, in short, pressure, Gevurot and bad Gevurot, good fears, bad fears, it is not good, in short.
S. I am just trying to understand the solution for it for the lights to flow through me.
R. Through me, through me, I always need to be prepared how if the light comes to me how I pass it on to others. I open my heart up to the others and the moment I decide and I am truly capable of doing it then I see that the light is there and abundantly and begins to pass through me to others and this is that I am receiving the light in order to bestow.
S. And it is not within you, that the fact that it passes through that is considered that you received?
R. Of course, it cannot be in any other way. It cannot stop and stand there, it is in constant motion.
14. S. (46:15) You said that we do not change the light so the question is how do I change myself then?
R. How do you change yourself ? The help of the friends, the help of the reforming light, this is the entire wisdom of Kabbalah. What have you come here today for the first time?
S. Of course not, but do I even have the ability to change myself?
R. You have the ability to ask for change.
15. S. (47:01) Bit by bit I begin to hear Rav saying that there is no way to do anything with the will to receive, we do not have any control over it, we always have to cope against it. The question is where do the forces come to feel above this feeling of abstaining, the fact that you’re not being filled you feel it as sorrow.
R. No, no, let the Creator do these things and the work will be for the Creator, as it is written. This is how you give joy to the Creator, you’re letting take care of your will to receive. Why did he create it for? So that you will decide, will ask, will pray for the Creator to arrange your will to receive and give it the validity, the ability to give bestow, to receive in order to bestow.
S. At the moment, the will to receive, it’s not really, it’s not interested in this. We received the example that Rabash says that he should suffer but with joy, how do we reach that?
R. You are talking about a decision, that you wish, you want your will to receive to work in order to bestow, so you bring it to the group, to the study, to your intentions, so that you will change and through such actions as study and the connection in the group also dissemination, your will to receive will change so that the intention over it will change from in order to receive to in order to bestow. This is written everywhere.
S. To be in this process patiently until it happens?
R. Why else are you alive for?
S. For the time being, all of life is just in order to be filled just so long as I don’t suffer this sorrow just to be on the lowest level in life.
R. Change yourself that this is not the only reason you are alive just to run away from the small sufferings and trying to reach small pleasures, rather you wish to come to an effective action, a spiritual, eternal action and this is within reach. You have everything, everything in order to do it.
16.S. (50:06) In relation to the blockage that is blocking me from passing it on to others, can it be that the entire ten is like a blockage that it is not given the possibility to pass it on?
R. Yes, of course.
S. What’s to do to get out of that state?
R. Talk amongst yourself and decide that we must think clearly, I’m sorry think good about the others, so that in total our good thoughts will wander in the relationships between us and that we will turn to the Creator to help us to be in our thoughts and influence us in such a way that it will correct the connection between us until it becomes a pipe and the Upper light will enter the pipe and flow our ten it will flow not only between us but into the entire reality, into this entire huge vessel.
17. S. (51:18) I heard the instructions thousands of times that our solution is to connect with each other. I heard something tonight that we have to feel towards the friends like we feel towards our own children with this warmth. I know this is a very very simple question but is that connection when we just accustom ourselves to feel this kind of love and warm towards the friends, is that called connection or the beginning of connection?
R. That the attitude towards children that you will feel towards the friends, and towards your friends more and more, because they are parts of your soul, and children are parts of your flesh, your body, not your spiritual but your physical body, corporeal, that’s why you will feel your friends much much more than your children.
S. The question is more from the side of, not the result but from the side of the work. I am always breaking my head trying to understand what it means to connect more and more when you explain like love towards children already there is something I can relate to a little bit, so I’m asking from the side of the work I need to do, is cultivating this love towards my friends like my children, is this called connection or it is the beginning of connection?
R. Yes, yes.
18. S. (53:20) That spiritual process starts with the restriction and the screen, the reforming light, what does it mean coupling by striking in my heart or in the heart of the ten?
R. The coupling with striking, the Zivug D’Haaka, is when you receive the pleasure and you clothe it with the intention to bestow which is opposite to the intention to receive, the natural intention to receive that we have, and so the fact that I want to receive pleasure from above above but in order to bestow that creates a striking inside of me between my will to receive and what I am doing right now, where I reject myself and my will to receive from the incoming pleasure and then I clothe the incoming pleasure with bestowal from me, in rejection from me, in the desire to bestow and that’s how I deliver it to the other. Let’s say that I am receiving some candy, I love this candy but I can stop myself and give it to a friend, so there is a desire from me, there is pleasure from above that comes near me, there is a restriction, I restrict my will to receive from receiving pleasure, and my action in reflected light where I pass the ability to enjoy to the other.
19. S. (55:30) You say that the Creator told the creature to enjoy but on the other hand we know that the desire to receive grows infinitely for enjoyment so what is the radical way to break this eternal cycle because it seems that we are in a kind of entrapment that the Creator tells us to enjoy and as we want to enjoy and as a result our desire to receive grows infinitely.
R. It all depends, depends, it depends what gives you, what you want to enjoy from, to receive joy from, if you manage to stop yourself from enjoying by yourself and you pass this pleasure to others, to the group for everybody to enjoy themselves, then it turns out that you start to feel the pleasure ten times bigger, let’s say, and you receive it in a new vessel.
20. S. (01:00:24) That friends should want to receive from me what I want to give them or is it enough that I want to give them everything?
R. For the time being it is enough for me to wants to give them everything, later we will come to a mutual form and in the mutual form we have NRNHY, lights, vessels, and the entire spiritual development but for the time being let them.
R. According to the coarseness, different coarseness accordingly there is the screen, they are related to each other.ave, I should have this tendency from me to my friends.
21.S. (01:01:05) What is the light that passes on from me to the others, what does this do for them?
R. That light that passes through me to the friends it corrects our pipelines, our vessels, so that we connect, we allow the Creator to work in it, to pass through it, to connect us.
22. S. (01:01:40) How can we check ourselves in order to know if our hearts have opened up and the heart is entering?
R. You will feel, it is a feeling, we will feel this response, reaction, each one towards the others.
23. S. (01:02:05) What is the check that indeed the other is receiving the fulfillment or maybe he does not receive the fulfillment if he doesn’t have the possibility?
R. This is something I feel in my heart. We have to do it. These are questions, questions before we do any actions are not real questions. We need to start the work and then from experience since none is as wise as the experienced then we will be able to scrutinize these things in practice. Those things get clarified only if we do it and we don’t work with theories.
24. S. (01:02:45) From the beginning of the lesson how will we succeed in raising our deficiencies to Atzilut?
R. If we, when we raise our deficiencies to the Creator it means that we are raising them to the Atzilut.
25. S. (01:03:07) How to collect the deficiencies of each and every friend and the deficiencies of the ten, the general deficiency of the ten?
R. When we all work on the deficiency for spirituality toward the Creator then we collect the deficiencies from each one, like a bouquet of flowers, we collect everything in order to present it to the Creator.
26. S. (01:03:48) The person who was not rewarded with having children, can he develop inside of himself such powers of love towards the friends even though he does not know how to feel this in corporeality?
R. Yes, she can, the Creator will open up for you everything that you need, it has nothing to do with it, you’ll then also understand why he arranged things for you in such a way that you don’t have kids, maybe you don’t have a family, nevertheless you will see how you come to the complete fulfillment.
27. S. (01:04:32) In the case of a woman is she supposed to feel the ten closer than her family?
R. Yes, eventually all are incorporated between us and with the Creator and the family remains on the animate degree and we are on the spiritual degree, on the speaking degree which is higher.
28. S. (01:04:56) When we give everything to the friends we make the Creator happy so what do we receive in the ten?
R. We received through the ten contacts with the Creator.
29. S. (01:05:21) What is the difference between the light that flows only if I want to pass it onto others and the reforming light?
R. The reforming forming light comes to me from the Creator. The light that flows to others flows through me to others as much as I am connected to the Creator and to the others, when I make myself into a pipeline.
S. So the reforming light does not depend on whether I think about the others or not?
R. Yes, but nevertheless it comes for your correction whereas where you are connected with others and the light flows through you thi is already a different light completely, it is the light that fills the vessels.
30. S. (01:06:22) Now in the lesson there is a feeling, a good feeling, the feeling of fulfillment and the desire to pass it onto the friends. Is this what you mean by wanting to pass it on to the friends?
R. Not only that, there’s more there’s less, there’s corporeal things and spiritual things, we will see. Each and every state has its own discernment, its own details, its own components.
S. So what should I really do now in the lesson in order to pass it onto the friends, to pass my desire?
R. To feel every one as one vessel and if this vessel is incomplete, let’s say in place of one of the friends there is a hole in the side, in the wall of the vessel, so the vessel is flawed and the light feels that the vessel is punctured, it is flawed and the light does not enter it. The light does not enter, this is called, “the end of the actions in the initial thought”. If, at the very end there is a certain problem, a certain defect, you feel it from the beginning because everything passes through the reflected light from the end to the beginning. If you do not have this reflected light that comes from the side of the vessel then there is no approach, there is no way for the light to enter the vessel. It is a very simple thing, very practical.
S. So what is my work or the work of every friend?
R. You have to help the friends to be like you and more than you, that every one, all of us, are working to be connected to one another and to be in Arvut to hold and support one another so whenever we turn to the Creator, it will be the complete desire for Him to correct the connection between us. And in the connection between us, when we are in this mutuality between us, He should fill this connection with His presence and rejoice.
S. But how can I be concerned? I understand that I can replace the friend in filling the vessel so it would be his vessel?
R. This is also correct that each one is ready to be a guarantor to his friend.
S. If I can ask another question about our work during the day. Here it is clear but throughout the day, do we have any work with the world in such a way, let’s say?
R. With the world I do not know, each one whatever he’s doing in dissemination we also need to try to open it up to the whole world so that the world would also understand its role, its purpose, why it is going over such sufferings, why do people incarnate this way? Look at the world: from all directions we hear there’s rumors that we are either before a nuclear world war or before a great crisis or something else. The world is missing only one thing which is the mutual guarantee, that we would all understand that we are in one plate, all of humanity. We are responsible for each other and we have nowhere to run to, and all the blows that we are feeling are in order to open our eyes up to that level of interdependence. That you cannot live in a small tribe in the Amazon, somewhere, or some god-forsaken place on the planet and live quietly and peacefully. We are fast approaching a state where more and more people are entering this mutual guarantee and there will be no escape but to feel how much we depend on each other. It will be a terrible state in order to obligate humanity to reach this thought of everyone thinking about everybody else.
S. So what is the work of the friend who leaves the lesson now, goes out to the day, what is his work towards the world, humanity?
R. First of all to disseminate this idea as much as possible; to care about the strengthening of his ten and through the ten care about strengthening our vessel; to publish, publicize the method of correction of the world in such a way that it would be acceptable to humanity. It depends on where you are publishing it and on what level. This is what we need so he needs to realize what the last generation should be.
S. In the form of thought or I do not know such a form, is there work?
R. Of course if you do it in action and also in thought but towards the world you have to do something in practice. Of course our thought is what is working and this is the main thing but as much as possible we need to try to publish it in all the networks, wherever everyone is, just to see where you are and not enter into unnecessary arguments and idle discussions.
31. S. (01:13:31) It appears to me that the questions, today in the lesson from the friends, come from a place which is really close to the heart, they’re not from knowledge, we want this connection, we want to feel the friends. And it makes you feel like it’s not so hard to take these desires, these deficiencies and raise them to the Creator, actually to pray for them right now, to raise MAN. My question is, what do I do with the impression from this prayer without blocking the light? I’m not sure how to proceed in this lesson with this phenomenon. If I am in a workshop or I’m talking to the friends, I can elevate the importance of giving something to them. Perhaps I am asking this question, perhaps this i the way to bestow but how do I go from there if we get the impression?
R. The most Important thing for us is to awaken all of humanity to corrections because humanity is miserable, it’s facing a great blow and suffering from famine and natural disasters, lack of supplies and we have to at least give them an answer about what it all depends on: why is this happening to us? Why the upper force, nature, the Creator, why is it playing with us in such a cruel way? So we have to explain this to humanity that we have no choice but to be connected in a beautiful way and know how to extract the abundance, the upper force, the light towards us. We have to explain this system to them whether it’s in an emotional way or an intellectual way, with Kabbalah without Kabbalah, usually you don’t need Kabbalah in there, just a simple explanation.
S. Early in the lesson we were talking about the blocking of the light and that we need to be ready to pass it on so how can we do it now in the lesson because we’re also attracting the light and we don’t want to block it we want to pass it on to the friends
R. When you open your hearts to the friends and each one does the same to the others and whatever is in your heart in each one of the ten out don’t have to discuss that but each one is aiming that everything that it’s in his heart will be felt in a good way by the friends this is how you also try to explain to all of humanity that this is what we need and even if we come to just a little bit of someone over connection such an intention we will see the world turning upside down from the bad that there is today to the good that there is going to be tomorrow.
S. How do I do it now, how do I work now with the light to benefit difference and not be a blockage? I hope the friends can fill me now,now I can speak but 99% of the time I’m silent but I can not convey that to the friends, is it only within the thought?
R. The inspiration, the prayer,what you are feeling is what works.This is the spiritual force that works. In the meantime our force is very small but it’s still what works in respect to humanity that’s the single most powerful force. so we have to continue just have to continue.
32. S. ( 01:18:56) What is correction? How do we do it?
R. Correction means an intention to bestow over all of our actions.
S. How do we execute the correction in the world of the host?
R. We ask the host for the power to think about others.
33. S. (01:19:30 ) So that the ten will implement its role in becoming a pipe, is it enough to be connected in the ten or do we need to serve some external thing as well?
R. I don’t understand, are we talking about the ten or are we talking about the world? Why is it only when we talk about these things it’s as if you don’t hear and you are asking whether I can only be inside the ten? You heard how much we have to go out right?
S. Yes but is it enough that each of us goes out personally and advertises?
R. That too, both personally and together. The question is not to the point at all, as if you didn’t hear anything.
Read Item 34 (01:20:42) “Let it not surprise you that you find our….”
34. R. (01:23:40) I see we have to stop here. It’s not being absorbed. We will have to stop here and maybe start there tomorrow?
35. S. (01:24:04) What does it mean that everything we perceive is outside of ourselves, it is only a picture that exists inside of us . Meaning what’s the difference that helps me see something through my qualities and is not true?
R. We see everything through restriction, through a restriction. That’s why we think there’s this white scattered world that’s all disconnected and so on but if we saw things for what they are we saw things for what they are, we would see that everything is a single system. There is a tight connection between each and every part of the system and then we would have no problem in connecting and moving each other and so on but because the connection was broken, the will to receive went in and filled all the spaces between us. We have to work against this disconnect, this difficulty that the will to receive distances us and that’s our work. Why does it happen? Specifically by that, by going over the will to receive, wanting to be above the will to receive, by that we begin to recognize the Creator. What is his nature? Through the opposite, from darkness to light, from disconnect to connections and that’s why He did that. He had no other choice, if you want to create the created being and have them attain Him, then you have to put them in conditions that are opposite to Him and then allow them to attend Him.
36. S. (01:26:21) The last sentence is not clear at all. What does that mean that all the forms are seen in the giver and they have no doubt that all those are only on their own interior. What does that mean?
R. Outside of them, outside of them. What a person thinks is a wide world outside of him.he is unaware that he is seeing all of that within himself.
S. In corporeality it was said before but here it’s not talking about corporeality?
R. It doesn’t matter, it doesn’t matter, it’s all either through reflected light through which he sees or he doesn’t have reflected light.