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

Lesson on the topic of “The Ruin as an Opportunity for Correction”

Morning Lesson July 25, 2022 Transcription

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

The Ruin as an Opportunity for Correction – Selected Excerpts from the Sources. #41

1. Rav’s Introduction: Words to uplift the friends and extol the Creator and aim the entire audience toward the goal, to the revelation of the shattering and the correction of the shattering and achieving the purpose of creation which is the complete vessel at the end of correction. After I hear how the friends speak from all over the world, then I have nothing to add. I become incorporated in that truly heart and soul and there is nothing to add, it is so beautiful, so good, so direct. Let us hope that we will add out of our own efforts a little bit that remains in order for the Creator to take it as a vessel that is ready for his revelation. For me personally, I regret it but as much as I searched for what else I can add to society, to the friends I have nothing to add. You are so good and beautiful and strong and straight revealing a good clean pure inclination towards connection and towards the Creator that there are no words. There are no words.

I only bow my head, I bow before this whole audience that the day before and yesterday we saw what a congress they had in Baltia. Hopefully soon we will have a congress in Northern Europe. This is how we will advance more and more, pressing in the same direction and of course soon we will reach what we all want to reach. Discovering the Creator in order to show him how much we are yearning towards him, how much we can be his children, good correct children that are close to him. For me personally, after I heard and during these two days of the Baltia Congress, I also heard and also today in the preparation for the lesson. I truly have nothing to add. I am all there inside of their words. I am impressed by how much they are able to find these words. It is truly becoming like a song for the Creator. I just want to become incorporated among you to disappear there so let us continue and thank you.

2. S. (04:14) When everything feels whole, what more can you add?

R. Just to join that if possible so as not to spoil the wholeness. Indeed there is nothing to do. We are truly approaching a state where from one time to the next, our heart is becoming more and more composed of everyone. We are more and more close to the Creator. Even though we don’t feel it because actually the more we come closer we feel ourselves as the opposite of that. This should not confuse us. It is simple, there is none as wise as the experienced one. We have gone forward, ‘as an ox to the donkey and the donkey to the load’. Meaning in such a way that we don’t take into account any obstructions. We only accept them in order to know more and more how to accept them in Arvut and we will reach it .

S. Regarding the Balta Congress, it suddenly turned into a Congress that connected the whole world Kli, they really caused envy and it really surprised everyone right?

R. It is simply that we reached a state that any connection between us is already at Congress. This is how I feel even in the lesson and also in the noon lesson today we’re going to have it from 12:00 to 1:00 Israel time, at noon. I feel that people want to gather and to feel like another step forward and another step forward that we are approaching the Creator. Well so onward Bnei Baruch. Baruch, blessed, is the name of the Creator. We are the sons of Baruch, they are is children, so onward.

We are reading from the document : The Ruin as an Opportunity for Correction – Selected Excerpts from the Sources. #41

R. Yes, and here too we need to see that according to the history of the Kabbalists, we are also going according to the same steps a person goes through when he is going towards spirituality. First, he attains his destruction, his ruin. How much in his will to receive in order to receive he is inside of it, how much she cannot get out of it and it breaks him but he is not able to do anything in order to bestow. This is actually his ruin. He discovers how much this thing had been prepared by the light, by the Creator. what remains for him is only one thing, to connect with the Creator during the revelation of the ruin. So that then when he holds on to him during the shattering in whatever he has, it is like a grip on a point so that’s when he feels that grip truly as a single point, that he has no more than that. Just like one who is drowning in te sea, he grabs onto the rope and for him that is his entire whole salvation. The Creator wants us to feel ourselves in this way. How much we have to connect between us and to connect with Him. Then to connect with Him and then He brings us out of the shattering out of the exile, out of the ruin and we already begin to rise.

S. What does it mean to grasp the Creator in a time of ruin, specifically in this time?

R. That it comes from Him and that there are no other kinds of obstruction or diversion but rather There is None Else Besides Him, he is creating these states for us. He prepared them and we need to acknowledge that and accept and from that to begin to rise to connection, to adhesion.

S. After this little moment that he grasped onto the Creator recognized this in Him also, beyond this moment it will pass, what more can he grasp?

R. Just to add the friends to it. If he has the friends to attend this area, are they already this connection becomes tighter, stronger or bonded there are additional connections in it and all in all it becomes a single connection and then they reach a state where it does not stop.

S. What are they friends adding to this?

R. Each one contributes to the point in his heart where he is connected and in the shattering also. Then by the connection and the shattering that we discover, each one of us on his side when we want to be connected between us then we tie it like ropes which we try together. Then we reach a state where each one adds to it to this bond this is how he holds everyone and they hold him.

S. Where is the point of adhesion in the Creator?

R. Between us, inside of us. Only when we reach the connections between us, as much as we feel that each one is in the heart of the friend there he finds a connection with a creator, that he discovers the Creator. He cannot connect with a Creator like with the friend. This is why this is the law that from the love of people to the love of the Creator. When he connects with the friends, when he discovers inside of them, seemingly in the individual connections between them, they discover that there they have a connection with the Creator. The Creator is like the result totality. As we say with the totality, as we say with the totality, in HaKolel. This is the Creator.

S. The moment we already began to touch that connection between us and with Him even in a bit, why does it keep breaking, why doesn’t it keep growing.

R. It is not broken, it is in order for us to strengthen the connection and to participate with it ourselves in it and with a Creator ourselves. Meaning.each and everyone, inside of the group and with the Creator. Inside of the group so that it will be established in the right way, in the right system. We have to work on it for a long time. Many times. as he writes ‘not at once does a person reach sublime coupling but only good and mercy should chase after me.

S. In the afternoon we will start learning Baal HaSulam.

R. I am inviting everyone to this lesson at noon right? Okay so let’s go towards it.

Excerpt 41 (12:45) Twice

3. S. (16:17) What does it mean that the divinity, the Shechina, gives us the taste of exile?

R. Between us and the Creator, or the revelation of the Creator inside of that vessel between us according to equivalence of form. That is as much as we rise above our egoistic individual will to receive, as much as we connect between us by that we come closer to the Creator. Inside of this connection between us which is called Arvut we begin to feel the Creator His bestowal to us because out of the connection between us we are ready to do everything for Him, Then according to this equivalence of form as much as we are ready in order to connect.in order to bestow to Him, then by that we could discover how He to begin wants to bestow to us. As it is written, more than the calf wants to suckle, the cow wishes to feed. This is how the Creator has a connection between us.

S. Then comes the connection between us, is there some program that develops us in ascents and descents ?

R. Yes, to begin with this is why the Kabbalist tells us about it to begin with. We exist in a single desire called Adam and later on this system is shattered and we become distanced from each other between us the ego is revealed, the will to receive. We in spite of this ego need to connect between us and then the connection between us will be much more than what the Creator created to begin with. This connection will be on our account, and then in this connection that we will establish upon the disconnection, the shattering between us.

This connection between us will be the vessel that we serve to the Creator. Then the Creator is revealed in his 620 times more. Meaning with all of his power, all of the intensity that he wants to show the created beings and by this we give him contentment. That is where we have a role and a very special state. We can discover the Creator and be both who will link the Creator with the created beings and prepare for him a place to be revealed that there is nothing greater for Him and we can do this benefit for him. Okay?

4. S. (19:42) We need to reach such a perfect state in which each time we will want a new portion?

R. No, we shouldn’t search for the shattering and the distancing we should always yearn for connection. and if we yearn for connection then we can always find what else to add to the connection.

5. S. (20:18) Why does the Creator give us a push towards the connection with the friends specifically through obstacles and troubles? On the other hand we feel this pull and the hand feel this repulsion?

R. The rejection that I feel towards the friends, a cooling, let us say yesterday there was a good and beautiful connection that we felt so close in our emotions and in our mutual disposition and today I get up from the night, I don’t feel anything. I have no feelings so I don’t have any, what can I do? That is deliberate in order for us to renew the emotions, the connections between us from zero and not even from zero but from a negative state.

That’s how it should be, because by that we discover more and more broken vessels that have been there to begin with. They exist inside of us and we discover them and we correct them in the connection between us. We asked the Creator that he will correct them and connect them because without him we cannot do it, so it turns out that we are as Israel, the light and the Creator are one. Meaning we yearn for connection and return to the Creator to make the connection so that we are actually in a connection between us and together with the Creator at the same time. There is no other possibility here to correct and bring everything to a single unity but only if we will discover our state in such a way.

6. S. (22:27) Can we direct ourselves in the group to rise above the ego?

R. Yes.

7. S. (22:48) We work and want to connect according to the excerpt we are requesting from the Creator that we taste the taste of Exile. He writes here ‘that we taste the taste of exile.

R. Yes.

S. What does it mean as we have to go on the path of faith and believe the words of our sages? What do we want actually? We requested, we are working. What does it mean as we have to go on the path of faith?

R. You need to continue and search for how to really ask in such a way that you will receive the right answer. and maybe you do get the right answer but you can not identify it or recognize it. Maybe you are not recognizing the right answer. They are giving you that and you are saying yes, here go ahead. Please. You don’t look at it because they are giving you vessels of bestowal. They are giving you the opportunity to bestow, to connect, to build a revelation of the creator which means that the common vessels are bestowal between you and that is not what you are expecting. So check

S. We know that faith is a force that we require.

R. Faith is the force of connection, yes.

S. Where do I have the force to connect?

R. Maybe you do not get it. Maybe you do not have a deficiency for it that is why you did not recognize it.

8. S. (24:24) When we enter a new state there are friends that want to escape from the work. How can we do something in that moment that we will appear as if we are giving as gift to the Creator?

R. A gift to the Creator, we can present it to Him on the condition that we are not asking for anything in return and if we want to ask for something in return for it to get something then it is no longer a gift. Now it is trading. I give you and you give me. Check precisely how you are turning to the Creator and what it is that you want to happen. Then you will see what you need to change. Usually the mistake is in that our disposition towards the Creator has to be without anything in return. That we do not want anything besides and not even to see that he is receiving it and that he is enjoying it because that too can be a kind of reward like to us. That too we are very cautious that’s when we come closer to the Creator it will not weaken us but rather to see ourselves in a state where we do not deserve, we did not get anything but only to give to Him and to feel this giving on our behalf with such a condition at the Creator will guard it so that we will not begin to enjoy us giving to Him. Only that it will be given without any payment, without anything in return. This is a big problem, this is what we should work on later.

9. S. (27:00) Please explain why it occurs such that in the ten you can say that a friend falls and all the friends are trying to call him and he has been falling lower and lower with the opposite the friend rises in an ascent. After a few words he rises more and more? Do we connect with these dates and the time to reach something mutual?

R. Maybe that in your heart you want to help him to connect with him and everything however you still do not know how to do it . Here  there should also be the right intention, the right connection it will come on time for the time being continue. As much as I will speak about it, It won’t help. It comes over years when we try and try to be close to each other through all kinds of different states and then out of our failures we learn how to do it correctly. That is the study.

S. The problem is that a friend is disconnecting more and more.

R. Well, maybe nevertheless there are few friends or maybe one friend in the group that can be connected to him and in that way we can have the connection and hold onto the connection with him. It is not simple but you need to be as flexible as possible.

10. S. (29:25) What is it to prepare a room for the Creator between us?

R. It is the connection between us. It should show us what it means to have a place for the Creator. This is called the Shechina, the place for the Creator, the dweller can be revealed and it.

S. Can we say that the descents we feel are like the lack that we feel to request the connection even more between us?

R. Yes, of course.

11. S. (30:07) I heard you say beforehand that you feel every connection between us like the morning or afternoon lesson is truly like a congress. What exactly is a congress? and how do you feel it is a congress?

R. The connection between us around the topic it is becoming more and more tangible and indeed it is already being revealed out of the words, out of the excerpts that we read, when we find ourselves in each and every excerpt, you with your team find for us, bring to us for our connection.This is how I feel it. That these excerpts truly arrange us very nicely each and every day.

S. To a certain extent there are some habits that they need to make some on the outside in order for there to be a Congress to come together physically or doesn’t matter what and here there is a sensation that every day we have opportunity for Congress.

R. Yes, even though we want even more such Congresses like the one we just had now in Lithuania, indeed it was very successful. Soon we will have one in Northern Europe and hopefully they will also try to make it warm and tight. I see the lessons are also coming closer to that. It’s not truly like a real congress but the connection is also significant and each and every day when we have such connections and we come closer throughout the day I have at least two more times,we have a connection between us. One time it was in a lesson. The second time is in the Yeshivat Haverim, in a meeting of the group or groups. By that we maintain the connection and we try from one connection to another, from one time to another, to also end some connection between us. It seems to me that we are reaching states where we will already cause the relation of the Creator to the created beings already in the form that it needs to be in the last generation, not just in the group.

In the group it is possible to do it. Now we are in the conditions of the last generation and we are many people, from many countries. from many nations. and in many different forms of the mentalities, when we are all above that. We want to connect and then we can act above everything that is separating between us, and has been separating for thousands of years when we were in a distancing and in contradiction from the time of Adam HaRishon and onward. We became divided and distant as a nation, as countries through wars and all of these things. Now we are beginning in our group above that to connect.

This thing has never existed throughout history. This thing has never occurred to anyone. We together are truly realizing the plan of creation. We just need to respect, to appreciate how special this is. That state of correction that we are causing is the highest and most important state and maybe it’s not yet on a high degree but we are trying to begin to elevate this whole platform,this whole foundation of the connection between nations and groups, including countries and everything that we have from our whole history. When we take all of that and we somehow begin to try to bring us closer, to try to elevate it.This is a great thing, it’s a special thing. It is truly the correction of the world. Therefore, you should try to value it and to give importance to each and every friend that takes part in that.

S. I really feel through your words that we have such an opportunity in the air. I don’t know, I’m afraid on the one hand to harm it, and I don’t know, not to directly support the friends towards this realization but the correction of the world before us. How to be a positive part in the daily Congress we go through?

R. Try, try to take part correctly in the lesson with the intention that each and everything that I do I do, I do it for the purpose of everyone’s connection and that is it.

S. What is the connection of the last generation? What is it that you see? Is it portraying a new form of congress, not what we are used to but I heard a new perception now.

R. We are in a never-ending Congress. it does not end until the end of correction. That we begin to be in it in an accumulation between us ,until it’s completely finished in one person, in one man with one heart and everyone.

S. While we gather in big Congresses, from different countries and nations it’s clear. Now during the morning lesson, one each one is inside of his local ten, how is it manifested that correction of the world here?

R. I think also that our morning lesson has expanded and it will expand, that will accumulate and expand to all the nations, everyone upon the Earth ultimately will want to hear these things and in such all of us will bring everyone to the general connection.

S. So in the morning lesson we also have an opportunity to do it?

R. It will be a daily lesson or daily discussion for the whole world.

S. I hope it will open up like that, but how will a congress be different from a real Congress? How will it be different from a morning lesson?

R. I do not know if it will be congress like we have now.I think it will be very hard for us at least as far as I see in the short time to fulfill these Congresses. It is not that simple, it is not so simple. It is very expensive and humanity is rolling towards quite lean states.

S. It sounds like our notion of Congress the way we had them until now, it’s not going away it sounds like our morning lesson and our physical gatherings every which point becomes a congress right?

R. Yes and it turns out like this that it is never ending. When you go on day by day, in words we cannot really add so much but in the essence of our words and our inner sensation we will feel. How much on every word with this intensity.

S. Now we are having a noon lesson which is truly a congress because its a point of connection and we can do it every time.

R. Yes yes in part of the general never ending Congress.

S. How not to miss out on this lesson? That it is not just another lesson of spirits heading out to miss out on this moment. That it is not just a new lesson where we read something with you.

R. I don’t know, it depends more on your participation. I try to say a few words before the lesson and somehow it all will actually depend on the participants.

S. What does our participation depend on?

R. That we want to be connected and only for the connection that we ask and read and advise maybe some additional material that we want to learn. In short, it all depends on the tendencies on the heart.

S. The lesson. that I see is a strong lesson, is this expression of it if the work here and we are not asking does it mean that we are not participating?

R. No, but we need to nonetheless worry whether everyone is participating in asking or not that he is participating to direct his heart and all hearts to one broad connection.

12. S. (41:00) You said we shouldn’t receive anything in return but also I heard that the cow wants to feed more than I want to suckle. What’s that milk the Creator wants to give me? Do I feel like I am actually receiving it?

R. There is what is in the milk, yes, there is water, the light of Hassadim mercy and all the minerals, vitamins and everything that actually the baby needs or the calf, yes, in order to grow but he cannot receive the powdered milk. He needs it to be mixed with the water with the Hassadim, the mercy and that’s how he receives the milk, it’s the light of Hochma closed in the light of Hassadim.

That’s how we need to see how the Creator wants to give us the light of Hochma but we’re incapable of receiving it, that same light of Hochma in a direct manner rather only if it will be clothed in light of Hassadim mercy and thus we need to yearn for adhesion. Adhesion is that same condition, that same clothing that within it the Creator can give us already that light of Hochma which is in its internal of the milk and then we will receive and grow. Okay?

13. S. (43:13) In relation to the never ending congress yesterday I talked to Sanka maybe we should open a virtual center where we will be active 24 hours a day. We have a prayer two times a day maybe we can have a nonstop prayer 24 hours a day or what do you recommend that we start to do?

R. I recommend to wait a bit and do everything gradually although you may be burning but keep your flame for the future too. It’s good but we can continue gradually.

Excerpt 42 (44:02) Twice “What is the meaning of the prayer that we should….”

14. S. (47:45) What is the connection between Zeir Anpin and Malchut and what is the foreskin that is obstructing this connection?

R. Zeir Anpin is the Creator, Malchut is the created being and between the Creator and a created being there is a shell, Klipot, or the foreskin like here it’s called or something that separates between them and thus we need to remove it, but it’s also written in the Torah many times that you need to cut from your heart and then your heart will be able to connect the Creator that’s it, that’s what the foreskin is called.

S. It is written that we have to pray so that we can remove this intention so that Malchut will be able to connect with Zier Anpin.

R. This the Creator can do, without that “He will remove it” we cannot connect to Him, it’s like some isolation, it’s a stop that there is between our desire and His desire that we’re incapable of connecting rather if He removes the foreskin. In this corporeal life, by us it’s called The Brit Milah, meaning to remove what’s separating me and the Creator that doesn’t belong. It is a process itself but that’s how it’s described, circumcision.

S. We always translate everything into the connection between us between the ten and the Creator so what is this part that is obstructing us?

R. In our desire that we make effort to connect between us and from between us to the Creator there is such a desire that we are incapable of correcting and above it to connect to the others, incapable. Nonetheless, there remains that I is I and he is he and you cannot erase this discernment to cut off throw it away or to do anything with it, he can’t connect with the others to one body. Rather if we bring it to the Creator and the Creator does this act this procedure, that He helps us it’s called “like the light of Hochma” like a knife.

He performs this surgery on us, he cuts from our desire such a desire called a stony heart, that you cannot correct it, rather just to cut off of us and to throw and then in the same desire that remains you can connect from between us and to the Creator, that’s it. Because we are talking about the connection that He gives life through this, doesn’t our body it’s expressed like the piece of skin that’s on the male’s member because the male gives the overcoming in such that piece of skin that’s on his sexual organ that is cut off on the eighth day of life of the baby that’s born. That’s done by Jews, by Arabs, that’s how it occurs, that’s how it’s done, but it doesn’t really belong, this spirituality in corporeality, that’s it.

15. S. (52:54) How can we bestow to the friends without wanting anything for ourself because each time we build a restriction there is something, otherwise we cannot build a restriction, how do we do this? How can you completely eliminate that you receive anything? How can we do that?

R. To request from the Creator forces to connect to the friends and in open heart in a whole heart, that only the Creator can do if we request, we make many efforts in order to connect between us and we see after we make these efforts that as if we’ve already done everything possible in the previous state but later on we reveal that’s not enough there’s more and there is this and that, and it’s all because we are not sharing in this the Creator, He must be as a witness as the assistant and the corrector as a participant and then it can be possible that there will be the correct connection between us.

16. S. (54:40)The question is more about is there a need for a surgery for a man to remove the foreskin so that it will help our spiritual development? Do we need to do the surgery?

R. No no, there is no need in any spiritual form we just simply need to be normal, that’s it without any such symbols, I see that let’s say there’s somebody who grows some hairs, yes, that’s also not really accepted by me, what is that like antennas that you want to connect to the Creator with that. Of course we need to be normal people, that’s it, like you were born, continue, it all needs to be inside, inside the heart of man in his desire.

17. S. (56:25) When we feel the exile how does a person check that he’s not trading with the Creator in his prayer? How does he clean the prayer?

R. Within this, that he connects with the friends and from within this he receives sensation and mind, how to be more prepared for a connection with the Creator.

18. S. (56:59) I would like to ask about the spiritual circumcision actually, he writes here that the lower ones are under the Sitra Achra because they want reception and knowledge meaning we have a desire to connect but in the end we discover that we want to receive and we want to know in the will to receive. So where will we have this desire that he writes here that there’s another desire now that we want to pray to the Creator that He will remove the foreskin if we are under the control of the Sitra Achra?

R. To the extent that we connect between us in order to connect with the Creator that this needs to be our direction, to this we are directed through our connection to the connection with the Creator, yes? Then as much as we are advancing in this from within this we receive mind and sensation according to our efforts because our efforts that we connect first of all between us in order to be later on connected with the Creator that within the connection between us we are more and more establishing ourselves how to be directed to the Creator. Because we don’t know what it is to be directed to the Creator rather only by this that between we first connect thus it’s called I dwell among my people, that’s how we connect. Whoever yearns for the Creator without connection with a group that is foreign work, illegal work, he’ll get nothing out of it and it’s a waste of his time and life. To the extent that we connect with each other we connect with the Creator.

S. Maybe there is some help here that can come, well let’s say we’re all in the ten under such a state where, I don’t know we are under some bad rule, bad control, can other tens help us or maybe the world Kli? Maybe there’s room for a connection between the tens to help such a ten?

R. First of all reach everything that will okay in your ten, and if you will need assistance from the outside then we’ll talk about that, in the meantime I’d like to see all these tens that are arranged for a connection between us, that there will be between them the point of connection and with this point of connection they’re expecting revelation of the Creator, that the intensity a manner of connection between them will be similar to the Creator, we’re preparing it for the Creator.

Imagine to yourself that you have a ten and you in the ten with everyone are thinking, what connection between us needs to be that the Creator will be revealed between us? There is the law of equivalence of form here from our part and from His part. So how do we reach from our part to such a connection that the Creator is simply revealed? The truth is He’s there just we don’t reveal Him because connection from our part is not ready, so we need to think about that to debate it to discuss it and realize it.

19. S. (01:00:29) It is written there that we have both collective and individual conditions so what kind of conditions are there in order for us to have to do it in a spiritual way?

R. It’s all written, I have nothing more to add. It is all written.

20. S. (01:00:59) The question I received from a few friends, maybe it will help the new friends, also sometimes you say to the friends about you comment about a hairdo or about a shirt with some pattern on it, the question is do these things affect the connections between us or why does it bother you? Each one could do whatever he wants no?

R. No, it is not just each one according to his desire, a person in this that he appears he wants to say something to the others, our clothing and dress is some language, we see it also in the Torah, yes, the world of stripes, like the clothing of the great priest and such things. We see that the clothing is the language that’s what separates the person from the beast and so in this we need to be arranged as usual as normal as normal for our person today in our modern world which is a simple shirt not something unique and the clothing that it’s not unique rather, or a cut that’s also usual not something unique that he wants to say something to the others with it and that’s it, I can see by most it’s like that.

S. There are also heard those that are not a statement what he wants to say something, maybe it’s a cultural thing or maybe in his region this is how people are like that.

R. I’ve traveled around the world and have not seen anything unique. I’ve been to all places, North America, South America, Europe, no. I don’t see anything unique, we need to be like everyone, the world today is round, everyone is in the general culture more or less unified, it doesn’t bother me that people are going as we see now, that’s the example, take a look.

S. How does this harm the connection?

R. It says about this that the person is drawn to some, how to say, unique expression, it’s usually belonging to the psychological or religious forms but we don’t belong to that, we simply need to be as usual, more or less.

21. S. (01:04:31) Do I discover my missing points in the ten or individually, how do we sharpen our awareness?

R. This I don’t know, it depends on how you are connected in the ten, if you are truly connected in the ten then you’re revealing the point of the ten, then you are already, the entire ten is considered as one structure that’s a big thing, then you’re already privileged with a unique attitude to unique attitude from above and if you’re still not connected to such an extent then you could not reveal this point of connection between you and the ten is still not considered a ten. The ten is considered a ten when it has a connection between the point of Keter and Malchut, that’s it. So we need to make the effort to continue this. I am sure that you can, you can, specifically these Turkey groups are very strong groups.

22. S. (01:06:22) You said that the ten is a ten when it has a connection with Keter and Malchut.

R. Yes when there is a point of connection between you that they can point to this connection there as the center of their connection and truly in the center of their connection they feel the Creator in something. That it is the beginning point of their connection with the Creator. Thus the Creator begins to be revealed between them. He adds to them immediately hardship, difficulty and then they need to work on it and to connect once again above the hardship just like Baal HaSulam writes in his letters that be good chases me and that is how we advance.

S. What is the type of connection that we will point you in the ten and call it connection?

R. The connection between us that we want to reach between us and connection with the Creator and that is before us most of the hours of the day. That is how we depict for ourselves our future. That we are connected together and a Creator is within our connection. That is called Israel the light and the Creator are one.

S. In the Keter is?

R. Keter, Keter is the Creator. Malchut is the created being and the connection between us means that there is between us, the connections between us. that we want to be connected. that we are tied between the Creator and us.

23. S. (01:09:08) We were rewarded in this congress with a state of love and concern and there were friends. We were also rewarded with descents and I want to thank them because the inner state, the request from the Creator was very strong and I would like to add the importance to these friends, that we care for them so they will not the fall off the path God forbid and connect even more. I just want to express that.

R. Thank you very much.

24. S. (01:10:00) Can you explain the significance of the circumcision, the break between Yesod and Malchut?

R. There will be a point of connection between the first nine and the Creator. Thus the circumcision is done specifically on Yesod.

S. Malchut is not a part of his circumcision?

R. Malchut cannot correct, it is the will to receive with the intention. If we cut off the foreskin then everything else we can correct on the intention to bestow.

Excerpt 43 (01:10:54) RABASH, Article No. 5  “What Is, ‘When Israel Are in Exile, the Shechina Is With Them,’ in the Work?”

25. S. (01:12:35) No questions? I think it is clear.

26. S. ( 01:13:00 ) External difficulties appear that prevent me from finding the necessary words with which to uplift the word in the friends in the world Kli, should I have asked to have those worlds from which to elevate the friends?

R. Well of course. Always good if we have words, even without words we need to understand that even without words our desires and our thoughts are intentions they influence on one another. Of course they’re words are clear.so we’ll make the effort.

27. S. (01:13:41) What to do when someone who is always strong in the ten, who is always helping others to rise from any fall with joy in the greatness of the Creator, suddenly finds herself in a fall, in a state when a friend suddenly finds herself in a fall and is in the state alone falling and weakness waiting for her to rise from it?

R. In this way, a person goes through all sorts of states. This the Creator arranges for him. The Creator doesn’t help him with this thing. That’s the problem with the ten already,to make the effort to truly to connect and to help to each and every friend. To see in this that it is the opportunity from above from the side of the Creator that by this he gives us the opportunity to connect and to come closer to Him. We need to turn to Him, we are worried for our friend. Ask the Creator to help us to take care of them because we have no forces or desires or opportunities rather if we first connect to the Creator. In this way we have now the obligation to take care of some friend that comes to us from the Creator in order to connect us and if we don’t do this then we look down at what the Creator did to us.

28. S. (01:15:27) Does the Creator reveal a bit more ego every time so we can uplift above it and that will help us advance?

R. The Creator increases our ego all the time in order for us to turn to the Creator and ask him to hear us first of all to be above the ego and work with it.

29. S. (01:15:57) Why in the Congress are we willing to fly and make efforts to pay money to overcome all obstacles but in the ten sometimes things that are much more simple seem impossible?

R. You see a Congress is like a kind of holiday like some kind of nice gathering. You know there’s the flight, a wait,like kind of a game.Whereas the work of the Creator it seems more mundan, superficial you know like there’s nothing unique about it. There’s no play there, there’s no joy, there’s no awakening that comes from many people like in a Congress and so people are not drawn to it.

30. S. (01:16:56) In the Congress people are able to take a mutual deficiency and it feels like the secret of success, how do you develop spiritual fear towards the deficiencies of the friends on a daily basis?

R. I understand that this is how reality is, that’s life but we nonetheless need to try and awaken each other on a daily basis nonetheless. We don’t want to reach the same state as the students of Rabbi Shimon had that during the lesson they suddenly found out that they were going to kill each other and even though that it’s very big degree and it comes from up above and kind of a left line but nonetheless we need to try and be connected with each other.

31. S. (01:18:11) What can we learn from the friends who organized this Congress and pull everyone ahead without waiting for everyone?

R. I think that we simply need to learn from them how to do these things, how to do this work daily and not to wait for it once every few months. This kind of gathering in Baltia, in Europe or the US. Let’s try and adopt all these actions that they did. We felt how helpful it was to all of us in order to really do it on a daily basis to some extent.

32. S. (01:19:13) You mentioned that what we are lacking is to bring the Creator into the connection between us, how do you do it?

R. You need to think. When can the Creator be revealed in the most revealed possible way, what do we need to do in order to get him out of his hiding place in order to invite him to ask to make a place for him to make room for him? You need to think about it. We have enough materials about it. You need to try. Try to put together such compositions to talk about the conditions of what we need to do in order to invite the Creator to be among us?

33. S. (01:20:13 In order to come closer to Shechina can we turn to her and pray to her?

R. Here in order to come closer to Shechina again please?

S. Can return to her and pray to her?

R. Yes that’s what we do, if we pray to the Creator it means we pray to the Shechina.

S. What can we ask of her?

R. Scrutinize what’s missing, what are you lacking? What does the Creator want of us and what do we want of the Creator? Please it’s all in the connection between us, it’s all in our connection, scrutinize it.

34. S. (01:21:12) About what we wear, in Judaism there are symbols like that cover your head and someone said we should give up on that too, where’s the limit between being like everyone to keep a tradition that’s not clear?

R. A woman needs to dress as it is customary in our time for women to dress, it needs to be simple, clean, calm, not in order to draw attention from other people, like you usually dress. I don’t think it’s something that we need to talk about all together, although about your haircut you know what suits you. I mean a woman needs to wear what she thinks is good, correct, proper and solid. I don’t see anything on you, anything bad or out of the ordinary, also among men there isn’t anything like that.

35. S. (01:22:44) What is the ten? What makes the ten a ten?

R. What makes a ten into a ten? That they want to connect with one another in order to discover the Creator. We need to connect to each other in order to make room for him to reveal himself. People who want to reveal the Creator come together and they understand that they can do it only under the correct connection between them and in order to reach the correct connection between them they need to sacrifice something of their ego and that’s what they do and so they reveal the Creator among them.

36. S. ( 01:23:45) You mentioned that whoever yearns for the Creator without connection to the group that’s idol worshiping, so what is idol worship?

R. What does it mean aspiring to the Creator without the connection? Because it doesn’t help him. He has an illusion that this way he can reach the Creator this way he can reveal the Creator, he needs a society, at least one more person besides him it says the least is two. Two are already a group. This way he can reach a state where he annuls his ego towards someone and where he annuls his ego there the Creator can enter and reveal himself.

37. S. (01:24:40) What should happen for my heart to truly love the friends?

R. To understand that it won’t happen any differently if you want to connect with the Creator. Only if you make room for your friends to be connected with your heart, that’s where you discover the Creator. This is something very sharp, simple and necessary, decisive.

38. S. ( 01:25:25) I feel that what we study everyday is content that the whole world needs like oxygen, that the writings on love of others is a remedy for the world, what should happen between us for the worlds to join us?

R. This I don’t know. You need to come out to the world and try gently. To learn how to turn to the heart of every person especially of each and every woman, and to interest them to draw them to the connection in order to reveal disclose the Creator to all the created beings and then there will be peace and tranquility in the world and everything, in the weather, in livelihood, in health, in everything, well then feel that everything’s working out and that’s how we will reach calm and correction.

39. S. (01:26:09) What’s the connection between Keter and Malchut in the ten?

R. Keter is the Creator who wants to reveal itself and Malchut is our connection in which we need to reveal Him. If we have Malchut that can connect everyone then the Keter shines through all the Sefirot to the Malchut and the Malchut is what is called the Shechina.