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

Lesson 1 “The Joy of Having a Ten”

Morning Lesson August 27, 2022 Transcription

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

Congress Lesson 1

1.S. (01:43) Now that the clay has made the inner work and the outer work where every effort of a friend will be only to bestow to the Creator, with what intention should we enter into the Congress and be in this lesson?

R. In our Congress and especially in this one we want to feel that we build a vessel of Adam HaRashon, that we come back to that vessel the one vessel with one light meaning the Creator that fills it holding it, nourishing, developing it and this is what we want to feel. Everything depends on the connection between us as much as we work on the connection together with the forces of rejection that lie between us we really we don’t think it’s easy, and we already see that it’s not easy but that is the work that the Creator arranged for us, for humans in the framework of this life.

That we need to reach a state that we connect despite our ego the forces of rejection and we establish a connection called a vessel, where the Creator can be revealed to the extent that there is true connection, mutual connection between all the parts that are opposite, broken, far from each other, as much as these parts despite, meaning above rejection in between them from birth, from their creation. As the Creator says I have created the evil inclination, if we’re above the evil inclination building the good inclination and connecting that the evil inclination is for us a coarseness in our connection, this mutual rejection and the good inclination is bringing us connection, and so we as much as the connection is increasing above separation, this is how we build the vessel and we discover the Creator in the relation between separation and connection.

Accordingly we discover Him and the forces of Nefesh, Ruach, Neshama, Haya and Yechida in 120 degrees that lie before us, this is how we rise and rise until the final correction of the vessel as we come to a system which is entirely connected in all its parts and we are all feeling ourselves existing in one network as one man and one heart and this is our work. However even if we are not in the feeling of the work, still we are happy that we have this work that the Creator chose us that for billions other people that He hasn’t given yet this desire and ability, realize it, and for us He did, we’re happy with that we’re also happy because we are going together in the connection that is being prepared for all of humanity, ultimately according to all the theories and the methods.

Humanity is always in all kinds of ways and manners wants to connect but it can’t because it’s against the evil inclination against our nature that connection, and we receive here a method which is, maybe it’s also not simple, but it’s applicable we can connect to one body and one desire within this desire we’ll feel the upper force above us the Creator, and that’s why we have great joy as a result of that and confidence, because we truly are going in a direction that all of humanity wants basically, it’s only that it doesn’t think it’s possible but it’s possible but is it practical, that’s not something we’re sure, so that stops them from advancing we have to show them an example, once we attain it and this is soon, we are going to have to give them an example how to perform such a connection that really exists, and how we out of connecting we attain spiritual life.

Let’s hope we’ll succeed and will show that to the whole world. That’s why we also need to understand that being a light to the nations of the world is also our role and our goal. I really hope that we in this Congress will already come to some kind of new feelings new discernment, and that’s for no reason because we how should I say it, we’re breaking down our tens and we’re connecting again to different shapes and from that we should get new discernments in connection, more subtle, new, and as a result of that we’ll understand what we really should do, so let’s all of us go towards that I invite you to take part in a more warm way to get to know your friends, the friends that are with you now as much as possible, it’s good that we’re connecting this way, together in a random way, sudden way.

It seems to be a very new thing but with these people before us even though we have seen them we haven’t been together so let’s try how to be together with them, how will we connect to the people I’ve seen more than once on my screen and now I want to connect to them deeper, behind the screen, behind the computer screen and also behind the screen that I raise above my will to receive, this is how if we connect we’ll start feeling according to the intensity of our connection, the place where we meet with the Creator, that is called the upper world. I think that we’ll get used to this method of connecting very quickly, we have a team that accompanies us, and let’s hope that they will answer all of our requirements. That’s it now if there are any questions for me you can ask but make this calculation that by this you also want to help your friends so the question should be not far from our subject.

Reading excerpt number one the joy of having a 10 (12:18) “ In the multitude of people..” Twice

2. R. (15:13) This means that we should try to get importance of bestowing to the Creator from our connection, upliftment to be impressed of the greatness of the King to get it from the outside we don’t yet have that, but each one that brings a little bit of that to connection gives his part his share, and so of all these parts if we want to work towards the Creator, then even though our forces are few are weak, the Creator shines on them and we get a strong force of connection to such an extent that we can start feeling the Creator, this is why.

What is in a multitude of people is the King’s glory because it’s the multitude of people we discover the king’s glory, his greatness and importance all only depend on the multitude of people. Multitude of people is not only about the amount even though we gather despite all the limitations we have we gather in great amounts, there is no greater group in this world that thinks about connecting in order to bestow to the Creator to give him contentment by that and this is how we hope we really hope that we will advance towards Him.

3. S. (17:26) I wish we could be like that all day, enjoy in this manner in the new ten that we’re working in the Congress. How can I serve my new friends as if I am serving the King?

R. You should come closer mentally and in your heart come closer to your friends and you’ll see how your heart becomes broader and is filled with joy and confidence and your brain becomes sharper and sharper and you suddenly feel that you’re incorporated with the hearts and the brains of your friends and then you grow, you really you’re inflating by their forces in your mind and heart in your heart and mind, and that there’s no limit to the extent that you can attain and you can feel everything depends on how much you give your friends to go into yourself as much as you yearn to connect to them. This work is internal work, emotional work, try to just be in that to forget about yourself until only be in them and all of them, and then you’ll see how much you suddenly attain a new vessel, both in the desire and in the thought.

4. S. (19:28) If my friend is rewarded and I feel joy with what he’s rewarded with is this spiritual joy?

R. It’s already spirituality even though you don’t yet feel what you attained by your connection. But the connection is there already it’s just not at a level that you can feel that you are connected in a way that the Creator can be revealed between you, but it’s on the way it’s already spiritual. It’s already in you and that’s already your attainment and your reward, by that you already practically built your spiritual vessel. Try to be as connected as possible to the friends so that the Creator will have room to be revealed between us.

5. S. (21:05) How can we in a new ten reach in the shortest time a state where we appreciate the environment?

R. Make an effort in your heart with a clear notion that by yourself you will not attain, only together. As you connect and you’ll want to embrace the Creator in the connection between you then you will be able to attain such a connection with the Creator and He will be revealed between you. You already have preparations and I’m certain that you are capable, I’m certain you can.

6. S. (22:09) I am here outside of my regular ten with 14 new friends whom I’ve never seen before and I feel that beyond seeing their faces I need some workshop so that we have some connection in the hearts, to hear them and to get closer to them.

R. We may do that if the time will allow us but that’s not important. Try even without the workshop to connect as much as possible upon all the words and the questions and the writings we read. Just understand that this is the work now between you all, between women and men it doesn’t matter. In all of the groups you are in now what you need is to aim your hearts to connection, and in a much stronger way than you used to be previously in the connection in your tens. It’s a very, very special opportunity.

7. S. (23:57) [missing translation]

R. Yes we’re talking about the quality. There is a hero in quantity and hero in quality. Each of us incorporates many different parts, alien parts in the incorporation between us, between everyone. That’s why we’re considered both heroes in quality and in quantity.

Reading excerpt number 2 (24:51) “each of them had a spark of..”

8. R. (25:00) “Them” is my friends.

Reading continues

9. R. (25:24) This is what Kabbalists started to discover where they are, in what world they are, in what system they are, how they’re connected between themselves. So they discovered that in order to discover the force that governs them, the upper force, they need to connect. They discovered that it doesn’t come from above, it comes when a person searches and bit by bit he discovers this is how we need to see that this happened for many years. And today we already accept this method, we receive it in a complete, practical way. That’s why this is what Kabbalists discovered, that there was a vessel, one big vessel, a big desire the Creator has created called Adam, according to his purpose to resemble the Creator.

This desire broke to pieces, and we see results of that in the universe and things that are happening, and all kinds of actions of explosion and dispersion and then collection and connection, and that’s why this is what happens to us. That’s why Rabash writes to us there are many sparks of love of others. Each of them had a spark of love of others, it was love of others but it exploded and each of them has only a small spark. But the spark could not ignite in the light of love to shine in each of them, so a person would feel that he really has a tendency towards the Creator. So they agreed that by uniting, the sparks would become a big flame. And then they reached a solution, that if we all connect, and each of us has a point in the heart, from these points there is a flame. And then we will be able by that to connect to the Creator, to discover him and to feel Him.

What do we need to do in order for the sparks to become one big flame of love?  Each of us has a spark, that’s why we don’t feel that we’re drawn towards each other however in order to connect these sparks together to one big flame of love we need to connect. So the question is actually clear. What do we need so that these sparks that each of us has of love and each of us has, otherwise this is called the point in the heart that each one has. If it wasn’t we wouldn’t even come close to the method of Kabbalah which is the method of connection. So what do we need to do so that these sparks will become one big flame of love?

Workshop: What do we need so that the sparks will become one big flame of love?

10. R. (42:43) I would like to ask, what do you think, what is the difference between being here as opposed to being at home and watching us through the computer? What difference is there in the connection, how do you express it?

S. First of all it’s a very special feeling to sit here with the friends and to see the friends sitting in mirror workshops around the world. The friends obligate you to open the heart, this is correct for everyone to open the heart, to ask for each other. Sitting in a random ten in this workshop that’s what I felt, that each one has so many words, they’re saying so many words but with time the words end and what starts is the need and the necessity to open the heart. And that’s the most special thing.

R. Have the other person add.

S. The truth is, what is special is that we really need to reach the opening of the heart, that is the default that we have now after everything that we’ve been through. We know with everything that we’ve done all these years. So a random connection is really what’s left for us from everything we’re learning. It’s truly what comes out of us.

R. another person adds something.

S. Yes, the feeling is like an olive that is being pressed now, much more obligating than sitting easily in front of your computer. There is some pressure now that we have to realize, that’s the strongest feeling. It’s on the way, we feel it’s getting warmer and rising, bit by bit.

R. Next person.

S. I like to add that to there’s a real opportunity. I’m sitting here with all the friends and I’m really happy of having an opportunity to feel I’m looking for their point in the heart, their desire for spirituality, to really incorporate in a new desire. And I’ve come, in general we came with a great preparation and I came with a heart that is as opened as possible. And we can really feel that the heart used to judge every person in every situation and every face, and now there’s a real opportunity for the heart to agree to connect, to agree to open and connect, and maybe finally reach a common prayer.

R. It’s the same that we have with close people. We don’t judge them we try to connect with them.

S. We are the friends from the Ethiopian vessel. We have met because we all speak the same language and we have such an impression, it’s really very exciting. Friends from Ethiopia, the US and Israel, there’s a gap in our languages but we did feel it as we’ve met. For a long time we’ve been trying to disseminate, to build a group in Ethiopia and we’ve been learning for several years. We’re talking about the prayers, so we have a prayer for the society to help us succeed.

R. We will pray for you and will succeed in Rehovot in Israel and in Ethiopia. Good luck.

11. S. (48:16) We are here the friends from Argentina, the Argentinian vessel. I’m on the side but the camera is on all the friends in the mirror Congress. We’re trying to fix a technical problem so we can speak from the big table. After the Congress in Israel this is the first time we are physically meeting and we feel the fire, there’s so much excitement that it’s unbelievable. And everything you’re talking about in the lessons we live it here in this feeling, that we feel here physically. How can we pass it to our friends who are sitting virtually with us because..?

R. Spiritual, not virtual but spiritual. You want to convey something to the friends it is spiritual not virtual. Virtual is your voice plus translators, but if you want to convey something it’s only from one heart to another heart, so please.

S. How can I do that?

R. Open your heart as much as possible to all of us, all of us and we will feel it, we will try to feel it. Because indeed there is only as Baal HaSulam says, there is a very blocked part in creation that we have to open, and then everything will will flow in all the hearts.

12. S. (50:25) I wanted to share the new sensation of warmth we feel. Is this a feeling that we should search for, a new kind of warmth, a new feeling, a new degree?

R.  Yes. First of all the heart needs to open and then after that we will begin to feel what is happening with the opening of the heart, what sounds we get, influences, what they are. We’re not used to it. It’s like a little child, when he’s approached he opens his mouth and wants to grab. For him grabbing is in the mouth so he opens his mouth. Afterwards we lend our ear and do something else maybe, reach out our hand. So we will learn in this way. The important thing is to have this disposition, this leaning towards each other. And in between these leanings we will begin to feel that the Creator speaks with us, with all of us like a kindergarten teacher to her children. It is wonderful. You will discover, feel and see what it is.

13. S. (52:34) I just want to share what we’ve got here. Friends from all over the world not speaking the same language of course and after one round of workshop the feeling is totally different. If you ask me whether we sit throughout the globe or at one table and physical location there is no difference. We really started to feel each other, the warmth of each heart and thank the organizers and you for this wonderful Congress.

R. L’chaim.

14. S. (53:22) Thank you for encouraging us to open our hearts. I really don’t even know what I’m going to say. I do have a desire to express the willingness of the friends to open up, its really really felt and we’re just getting started. I’ve been a virtual student and have been to several congresses and just to know that friends are pulling for each and every one of us through the entire world is absolutely amazing, truly one man in one heart. And like I said I don’t have any words because the expansion is such a desire to expand beyond limitation, you can feel it from each and every friend. And we have nothing but gratitude to our friends, to you and the Creator. Thank you.

R. The main thing is to feel how much we want to break the partitions, that we still don’t perhaps feel ourselves as one group. We want to break them, to cancel them.

15. S. (54:46) We have a great connection, an atmosphere here in Turkey, we love you all, the question is how can we come to feel friends yearning, desire for the Creator and how can we connect with them at this very special moment?

R. Open your hearts, bring your hearts closer to each other as much as you can, ask the Creator to cancel the partitions that He created between us, He created them and this is called’ I have created the evil inclination’, that’s the evil inclination between each one. So have Him cancel it, that’s what we demand of Him together, all of us, we are crying out like a little boy crying when he wants something, he screams. So are we, we want to cancel the partitions between us in order to correct, connect our hearts truly into one heart.

16. S. (56:10) How can we depict this so special state, the feeling of something new and something we’ve been expecting for, we’ve wanted, but we don’t have the words to describe it. How do you describe this whole special state, this whole world ten is going through now?

R. The main thing for us is to restrict, to shrink, to compress ourselves to help each other feel the necessity to compress ourselves between us, so we come to a state of one man with one heart, to return to the image of Adam HaRishon, this is what we need. The more we have the disposition toward it, the leaning toward it, by this we feel that we are getting closer from us to the Creator and we feel more and more ourselves, more connected in the Creator becoming revealed in the connection between us, like when you fix the focus so out of the mist and the blurriness some image emerges, a picture. And in this way through greater and greater connection between us we have to discover the Creator, that there is None Else besides Him and only He exists. And out of all the pictures and all of the shapes and forms we ultimately should discover the Creator and this is what will happen.

17. S. (58:20) We don’t really have a lot of choice in the German Kli but we can feel that each of us here is trying to open our heart, doubly, and what just happened is that things that women have shared here, it’s as if we experienced it in the past already.

R. Nice.

18. S. (59:13) The heart is starting to open to this ten I am in now but at the same time I don’t forget, I’m constantly thinking, my heart and my thoughts are in my constant ten. Am I supposed to try to disconnect from that?

R. We need to incorporate in that state, in that ten, in that group that I am in now. That is the only thing for me, nothing except for that, it is a matter of degrees we’re each ten has a degree of its own, I must enter its degree. And through it feel the Creator, later in another ten, feel the Creator throw it, another ten, through it feel the Creator. And in this way each time I will move from one state to another, I will be the one who controls all of these states, I will know how to enter each state quickly towards the revelation of the Creator.

19. S. (01:00:37) It feels as if bringing the feeling of all the ten, bringing all the friends together and bringing out that total composite image. Can we analogize that to using ‘associative memory’ as we would to bring in from different, from each of us individually to bring it together like an associated memory and bring it together as a whole? I’m trying to see an analogy that we can work with.

R. No, no, no, do not go to all kinds of examples in this world. Seek a connection in the heart so that from the connection in the heart, you are discovering some feeling, a new feeling of unity, from the connection in the heart reveal a new state between you, a new feeling, a new connection.

20. S. (01:01:56) We are very excited here, the men and women from Argentina are here. The question we want to ask you is what is this excitement, this feeling that has to awaken in us that will bring us directly to the Creator?

R. This is because the Creator is already in the connection between us and He is inscribed, we just don’t differentiate between this illumination and discernment. But the general feeling is there, that is what we are impressed by.

21. S. (01:02:46) There is something truly I want to ask: if we work normally in let’s say in the Holland ten it is very easy and now you feel that’s it is very difficult to tune, to add to the friends, and in certain moments in this, in the circling around, it became easier and easier. What is that process, why was it so difficult and what is it that it becomes easier?

R. Because you are starting to become a new ten already, there is no problem, and in this way to move from one to another until everyone connects truly around the globe.

Excerpt 3 letter 40 (01:07:02 – 01:08:35) Twice

22. R. (01:08:37) Meaning here we have something very special and Rabash explains it to us in a very practical way I would say. The wearing, “the friction that happens on the hearts”, he says, meaning my heart and the heart of the friend are like two rocks but if we begin to rub them against each other we elicit a certain warmth out of them in; and after that, out of that warm emerges sparks, sparks emerge, sparks of love already, yes? And from these sparks we can already begin to connect, to enter heart into heart, to cover one another, to warm each other up in all kinds of ways.

This warmth that’s in each of us, no one is similar to the other, and then when we connect between us and get covered and warm each other up, and this way we come to where the Creator is revealed. In all the common things between us that are becoming, also in warm, also in the sparks, also Indie wearing. In all of these different actions when we connect those together then in them we feel the Creator, then from this we build the spiritual Partzuf which has coarseness and a screen and reflected light and this is how we feel the sparks and from the sparks we reach the light. These are very special things, it is possible to feel them, let us try. The main thing is the friction of the hearts and the warmth that emerges from it.

Reading Excerpt 3 Letter 40 (01:11:13 – 01:12:13) Again

23. S. (01:12:17) Thank you for this opportunity to ask, we are very excited. We finally gathered with a lot of friends from all over the world and from Israel too, a lot of places in Mexico. So yesterday you said that we will be together in a ten that we’re in today in the Congress, and we need to think and feel this ten, we are holding on to it forever. How can we attain it without forgetting about our covenant?

R. Repeat please your question

S. Yesterday you said that this ten will be forever, the ten we are in in the Congress. How can we hold this covenant all the way without forgetting?

R. We do not need to be concerned with forgetting or not forgetting, we just have to try more and more to connect in a connection that includes everyone. And then by this, it is not that we forget but rather we begin to live in such a reality until we feel this reality that we are connected together as the true reality. And the reality that we are living in now here in this world will gradually, slowly, slowly distance from us, from our feelings, and then we will simply move to the true different reality, the upper reality. This will happen, don’t worry, it will happen, the main thing is for us to make sure that we will have more connection and not separate.

24. S. (01:14:46) We would like to say that we have prepared a lot here in Moscow, it is midnight here and at midnight we all connected the men, we read from Psalms, very exciting excerpts. And you said we have to cry like children to the Creator to annul the separation between us and connect our hearts. So could you say how to do it so it will not be like a private cry, how to connect to a mutual cry and be in it constantly?

R. The barriers, the partitions are in our hearts, in each and every one of us. How do I purify, refine my heart from all of those boundaries so that I will relate to all people in a manner that my heart is open? It is very difficult, on one hand there is a desire for this, there is even a feeling that I am connecting my heart to his heart. And they become one heart which is greater on the one hand.

On the other hand, I cannot hold on to it for more than a moment because other people are missing here, for them to connect and for us together to make such an effort. If we were to be a ten, we would succeed. This is how it happened according to the laws of nature so let’s, know how was it written here? “Let’s create friction in our hearts in order to take this warmth out and in this warmth, we will burn all of those barriers”. So let us try to, with force, to wear our hearts towards each other so that they will enter one another, that’s it, let’s try. We have today South American Convention so we have to go back to South America in a little.

25. S. (01:17:52) A question about the text, he speaks a lot about ‘covering with love’, how can we come close to this? Is the happiness as a result of our connection, is that what we want to attain, that it will cover us all?

R. Yes, the moment that you connect your heart to just one more heart you already know what the connection of hearts is and everything will go smoother and simpler and easier. The main point here that Rabash writes is that the main thing here is that first point is that that changes there and becomes easier.

26. S. (01:19:05) Tell me please, what does it mean that we are in our new ten that we are rubbing the hearts? How can we rub the hearts that will really build this vessel between us in such a short time?

R. The time is right for us to perform spiritual actions and I feel as much as our tens here, random tens, that are doing the right actions and they are really advancing, and their heart is really going through friction, good friction. They are rubbing good with the hearts of the friends in the same ten and I definitely, I didn’t expect for such a thing to already be revealed between us but I see that what the friend recommended we do was right, so I am aware of it.

S. But, let us say, a friend is studying with me, he was never with me before but now he is. So what does it mean that we are rubbing our hearts between us, me with him and him with me, what does that mean?

R. This is considered that you want together with him to feel the Creator, very simple, to connect in the heart until you reveal the Creator. Because the smallest amount of a plural is two and it is enough to have two hearts where each annuls himself before the other and between the two of the Creator will be revealed, I have nothing else to add. Do all of the actions so that between the two hearts the Creator will be revealed.

27. S. (01:21:29) I don’t even know how to say it, but what we are feeling now we can compare it with people uniting in some concert and hearing a song that everyone likes and all the hearts open and everything is wonderful. And in the article of Rabash it speaks about the connection between two friends, so does that mean that the connection in quality is between two hearts?

R. No, in the beginning there can be two but actually it needs to be ten. If we want to truly come closer to spirituality by feeling the spiritual device that can receive and bestow and change itself, and according to its changes reveal the Creator, when it begins to work from itself when it can feel passively, it’s enough to have two. But to perform actions, operations in order to reveal the Creator in all kinds of ways like in a laboratory, that is only possible if we are ten.

28. S. (01:23:06) The rubbing of the hearts, is that the work of the heart or are there physical actions?

R. It is only the work of the point in the heart, the work of the hearts.

29. S. (01:23:46) I’m physically in the gathering with Bnei Baruch with the great friends that came here, and it is a great inspiration from it and I want to share this inspiration with my ten. Part of them could not come or even participate in the lesson. Sometimes the thoughts about my ten keep coming back.

R. What is the question?

S. The question is: we are where our thoughts are and our thoughts are about the ten, what should I do with them?

R. I understand, I understand, what do we need to think onwards in the connection of the ten? We want to connect between us from two to ten, as many friends as we have, to connect with them to the extent in which we will reveal within us a mutual force of bestowal, a small one but with one tendency, one inclination towards the others. I am sitting with several friends and bestowing upon them, I’m bestowing to them, bestowing to them.

Within me bestowing to them, I want to discover the general force of our bestowal; also the others, each and every friend is also thinking this way, about the connection and bestowal towards others. And from our mutual circle where we are doing this, we begin to discover that within this mutual force of bestowal there is some upper force that arranged us this way, established us this way and awakens us now such that we will relate to the friends this way. And from we to the love of friends begin to relate to him with love of the Creator, and this is how we reveal Him as a result of our connection, as a result of our love that we have in the circle. And then it turns out that there is no created being without, there’s no Creator without the created being and the Creator is our connection. That is the spiritual creation and this is how we come closer to the revelation of the Creator and unification with Him.

30. S. (01:27:18) We have connected from different areas from all over Kazakhstan and really it is a very special Congress. We went very deep and quick into the Congress, into the general group. You said that we are going to learn how to go into spirituality when we switch between tens and friends, so why, what is new here?

R. We never tried this before and we didn’t used to do this. I really hope that now we will do all kinds of such actions of connection, we will have, still the next lesson, Lesson Two, there you will have other connections it could be, and then you’ll see the extent to which this is different and that what a difference there is between everyone. And on the third lesson you’ll discover that there is an even bigger difference between the connections, and on the 4th connection you will discover that there is no difference between any kind of connection but rather everything becomes one simple connection that’s it there is no more. We just need to open our heart to all the friends and to include everyone together equally and then this is how the Creator is revealed fully, wholly.

31. S. (01:29:07) This is a really special time because we have broken from the usual tens and we’re formulating into new groups and new tens so we have to develop those actions as scientists, is that right? We have to learn like this is a new scientific experiment, and what kind of actions are we going to find in the new tens and is there a way to measure it, like. scientifically?

R. We are not capable to do so yet, we are just coming closer to one another, trying to get one to know one another, we are creating a little friction between one another but the measure, the extent of the connection or the entrance towards one another is still ahead of us. We will work on that as well, don’t worry that is the main thing. In that we already beginning to build a spiritual Partzuf.

32. S. (01:30:18) We want to as from our current ten: the question was asked but if we could go deeper a bit, what does it mean the friction of the hearts, the rubbing of the hearts right now in thoughts?

R. It is a desire to enter into the heart of the friend and to live in her desires. This means the friction or the rubbing of the hearts.

33. S. (01:31:06) After we heard you, a feeling of fear awakened that we won’t be able to open our hearts in front of the sparks before me, so how to direct his feelings of fear?

R. We will work on it.

Excerpt 4 letter 40 (01:31:43 – 01:33:10)

34. S. (01:33:19) Yes, meaning how do I depict to myself that the efforts of the friends will help me, too, to enter in connection with them, that’s my question? How do I think that my friends efforts for connection will help me enter into the connection with them. The fact that I need to put forth some effort is clear but the fact that they can give efforts in connection and help me enter in between them, how do I measure that, how do I appreciate that, what do I think about that? Who wants to answer, please put your hands up.

How do I think that the efforts of the friends to connect will help me connect with them?

35. S. (01:34:51) It seems that the desire of the friends is what I can clothe upon and ask the Creator to give us the strength to raise it to Him as a prayer, as a request for Him to be revealed on that connection that I recognize in the friend. I can really turn to the Creator so that He implements that friend’s desire

R. Alright.

36. S. (01.35.26) The envy when I see my friends connecting and the way they feel the happiness suddenly I got a feeling, it is like infectious, that I want to connect to the friends because of the happiness.

R. Nice, very well.

37. S. (01:36:15) Thank you very much, I see the huge friends, I feel their huge desire and I feel that I’m the smallest and I’m afraid to disappoint them, I do not want to disappoint these great friends.

R. So what do you suggest?

S. To be in this great fear the whole Congress.

R. Excellent, you are truly a long friend that we have.

38. S. (01:37:00) What is it that I have with the efforts of the friend that I have to make more efforts, if not, I’m not performing the Arvut. So what can I do to be at least like the friend, or more but not less, because otherwise I am ruining the Arvut?

R. You are 100% correct, you are right, if I see that my friend is efforting then this evolves in my obligation to exert and then we very quickly, much faster come to connection and to the revelation of the Creator between us, excellent.

39. S. (01:38:12) I feel we are so attuned to holding the friends in our regular tens on a regular basis that the strong internal work here, the real challenge is to keep the friends that I see before me in this random ten, in intention so I feel that the work is internal and through that internal effort we will feel each other?

R. Yes, yes, right, correct.

40. S. (01:39:27) I convince myself and really appreciate the friends’ efforts to connect, I want to see them, if I do not see that, I have to try to see it, to search for the effort and find it?

R.  That is correct, maybe we will continue with another excerpt.

Reading Excerpt 5 (01:40:13 – 01:41:33)

41. R. This is a very beautiful excerpt, read it again.

Reading Excerpt 5 (01:41:42 – 01:43:00)

42. R. (01:43:05) Meaning we have several things here. I have reason and I am depicting to myself the extent in which I can go against my reason, above it despite the fact that it is not according to my intellect, according to my feeling and my rational, that is not important. I am trying to go above that. This is called to go above reason and this is how we come to connection with the Creator. If I want to go above my reason, all that I am then I ask the Creator to give me the strength, this force. I want to leave this reason of mine and to feel what it is to go above it. Then I build in me two degrees: reason and above reason. And then to the extent in which these degrees are different I have greater joy since I am rising above reason and I’m asking the Creator to give me this force even more and more, to go above the reason of the body. So I feel also my rationality and how I can and how I don’t want and with that I’m asking the Creator to give me such a possibility.

42. S. (01:45:09) It feels like a holiday and there is a question. The ten I’m in now, I see the friends qualities of my original ten so I wanted to ask how to work with it, like it’s written here to overcome this knowledge. What should I ask the Creator for?

R. We need to turn to the Creator and ask Him only for one thing, connection above all the disturbances. Not to cancel the disturbances but to raise us above the disturbances. In this way we will rise more and more on the spiritual degrees.

43. S. (01:46:22) I want to give you this joy and pleasure that I’m feeling in my new ten today and I have a question. How to raise faith above reason? If we were capable of doing this, in overcoming the fact that we don’t know one another and we are together in the lesson for the first time, will we be able to succeed in this mission or we will have to continue working on this?

R. You need as much as possible to cancel the partitions, the barriers and connect between you, to truly be as one heart. As much as you manage to get done, you will and as much as you do not you have to see it as the Creator planned that for you. With the next group in the next lesson  do the same exercises until it will be clear to you which faces are before you, what corporeal qualities are being revealed towards you. What is important is that you’re trying to connect to that which is ahead of you. Don’t look for responses look for the extent in which you are giving forces for connection.

44. S. (01:48:17) Tell me please, is this rule that whoever is more distant is more close than working in a random ten. There are friends that I know personally and I have personal connection with them. Is it worthwhile for me to specifically start with those that I know less? When I do a workshop with those who I know it’s easier for me to annul.

R. Yes it might be worthwhile to start with those you don’t know so much.

45. S. (01:49:07) At the end this Congress after the continuous friction of those sparks that will create a big fire, how as women can we push our men to disseminate through physical campuses the wisdom of Kabbalah in the world? Is this the right time right after the Congress, and we as women how can we do that?

R. You can do it by you knowing how to manage the men. Press on them, demand them to participate in connection. A woman is the desire and the man is the restriction, screen and reflected light, that’s how Kabbalah teaches us. Even though in each and every one of us there is both but still in the general manner the women represent the desire and the men are the correction above the desire. So please, press on your men, also as much as possible push them into connection and in this way you’ll succeed. Even though it works for men and for women there is still a division according to the gender.

46. R. I would say this, I recommend during the breaks, the states that you are together in the meals to establish a prayer. A prayer that will raise us above reason, a prayer that raises us above reason, that is what we want to put together. So let’s write a short prayer, 5, 7, 8 sentences, that the topic of the prayer will be a request to raise us above reason.

47. S. (01:53:07) Thank you everyone. What needs to burn in that prayer so it will work?

R. So let’s wait for an answer from everybody.

48. S. (01:53:37) Great gratitude for this experience of connection in random tens. We have a question, above reason we take this state from the ten, and if we see contradictions, disturbances in the ten is above reason connecting between this contradiction so they will complement one another, complete one another?

R. Yes or no. Above reason means I see everything that is coming to me now that it’s coming from the Creator and all the conditions that are being established in me now I’m taking them as one in order to overcome them towords connection. I am not trying to solve a problem on the same level that I am actually in, I’m always raising myself above that, towards connection. And that’s called that I’m rising above my reason.

S. And if I constantly compare everything to my reason and hold on to what I already know, in the ten there is a new lack. In this new lack does this new lack help me rise above reason?

R. Always. Always the Creator organizes it in a way that it doesn’t matter through who you get the questions, those questions always call you to rise above reason.

49. S. (01:55:42) We have a new ten and according to the answers from the workshop we can see the friends are really great and they have all they need for themselves. What to do with that feeling, what can I possibly give them?

R. It might seem to you that they have everything and that they don’t need anything, they need you. They need you. Even if you see them as whole so they are whole only on the condition that you join them with all your forces. Otherwise you were not with them in the ten.

50. S. (01:56:46) The prayer helps us to emerge the sparks between the friends and the ten?

R. Yes. The prayer helps us because through those sparks we will receive the screen and reflected light. And by that we will start discovering the Creator in the spiritual realm, and already a new world. Prayer solves everything. We just need to want, and to know what to ask for.

Reading Excerpt 6 (01:57:44)

51. R. (01:59:32) The Creator sends us thoughts. A thought cam to me to think of the Creator. How can I answer that thought that He sent me? Please, I’m asking you, workshop.

WSQ: How can I give the Creator gratitude for sending me a thought to think of him? Speak about it between you and whomever has an answer and you think the answer is clear, put up your signs.

Creating a prayer together (02:00:31)

End of the lesson

Info: (02:11:38) We want to really invite you to a very special lesson today about the chain of Kabbalists. We’re going to go through this lesson together with friends from Brazil and myself and this lesson is going to be very connecting, very special. There will be many clips, quotes and at the end of it it will be the broadcast of the first of the revelation of the Zohar movie. It’s a short one but there’s a great message in it.

Info: Yes, really in the next lesson you will see the movie which was created and directed by Semyon Vinokur. It’s a very important movie for dissemination. It’s part of this series of learning through the state of Israel and was made with the desire to go into the heart of everyone who watches it. It’s a short movie but with a great message. So all the friends who devoted themselves to this, that through the reading of the Zohar and our sources we can draw the light of love and connect as one men with one heart and raise from hatred to love. It is something that is very relevant to the whole world in our days. So whomever took part and made it from that intention and that desire we’re sure you are going to enjoy it so be with us.