YESOD: TIKKUN CHATZOT תקון חצות – LESSON WITH RAV MICHAEL LAITMAN
Lesson on the topic of “Speaking with the Creator”
Morning Lesson September 09, 2022 Transcription
Transcription is made from simultaneous translation which leaves a possibility for differences in the audio
Part 1:
Speaking with the Creator – Selected Excerpts from the Sources. #14
1. Rav’s Introduction: Yes as usual we are starting the connection between us by speaking about our connection with the Creator and this is how we want to determine this and establish the collective and individual path for all of us and for each of us that we are in the right direction in the connection between us in order to connect with the Creator and in order to connect with him in or there to help our connection so let’s read.
Reading #14. (01:05) “After The Fact…”
2. R. This means that the Creator is always the first because the will to receive of the person is always upon him that he never wants anything on the outside, he only wants to hear himself, what does he want, and as much as the will to receive in him is fulfilled with whatever he wants. This is actually the person’s entire inclination and if he has anything besides that, the words connecting outside of himself to the Creator or to anyone else, all of these dispositions and desires only come from the side of the Creator. That Creator awakens the person, this is why it is called I am the first and this is why it is written before they call, I answer.
That the Creator gives the person a desire to turn to Him and because he already has an answer for the person, and accordingly He awakens a desire in the person. We have to understand that we are never the first, we never begin, it is only the upper force that comes down to us and awakens us and connects between us and leads us. And then it is upon us only to try to be with Him in the same lane, in the same inclination, in the same goal for us to connect between us and to Him in such a way that we all become together connected between us and with Him.
3. S. (03:46) What state is the Creator bringing him near?
R. That the person feels that he has something that is above food, sex, family, money, honor and knowledge above those desires, about him wanting to know more about his life and the purpose of life. That is how can he connect to the friends, to the Creator, what is the essence of life and all of these things. It truly comes to him from a higher degree, it is already from spirituality and of course it is not yet spirituality but the awakening is coming from there.
Reading #14 Again
4. R. (06:09) Sometimes I hear complaints from the friends that I do not have an awakening, I get up in the morning and I search for where do I have connection with the Creator? I do not see Him, I don’t feel Him in any form and I want to awaken towards Him but I cannot. It is difficult for them to understand that specifically those states, those desires and thought, that Creator is sending all of them to him and the Creator is already awakened before him towards the person. And he awakens him in such a way in order to show the person that apparently the person did not prepare himself well in advance. This is why he is now getting up in such a way that it is difficult to establish a new connection with the Creator to begin his day. We have to realize that all of these things also have advantages and disadvantages.
If I get up and it is difficult for me to find connection with the Creator, it is a sign that I am discovering a new desire and it is a desire for advancement which is greater because one who is greater than his friend his inclination is also greater, the friend is also including myself one who is greater than his friend. Meaning from myself yesterday, so his inclination is also greater. Today my inclination, my desire is greater so I am rising to a higher degree which is more difficult and this is right but this is what we have to do. This is called they shall be as new in your eyes.
5. S. (08:08) How to awaken the relatives, let’s say my wife. I cannot seem to awaken her heart and she is always skeptical.
R. This is not upon you, this is also the Creator’s affair, this is how He is awakening her as a disturbance towards you and you have to understand it is actually not a disturbance but it is help. In this world there are in general no disturbances, instead we just do not understand correctly the Creator’s attitude through all kinds of people who are good or bad, enemies, friends that all in all these are all corrections and they all promote us towards correction, towards connection towards in order to bestow, to above reason. Actually as much as the problems are greater and the person truly starts to shake and he does not know which way to run and what to do.Those actions upon him, the Creator is doing them deliberately to shake the person and elevate him to a higher spiritual degree, to disconnect him even more from his will to receive.
S. I gradually accept what you are saying really, but you want to awaken this point in her, my wife in order that she would feel the study that adheres us to the Creator. How do I do this?
R. You do not need to put all your forces on it. If your are next to it and you do whatever you need to do to connect with the friends, with the group then this light that you are awakening, the surrounding light can influence her, your wife as well and gradually and she will understand that you are engaging in important things and maybe this is enough for her because not every woman needs to be attached or adhered to the spiritual path. They also have all kinds of different degrees which they are willing to join in a more passive way. Don’t pressure her. You should engage in your connection with the friends and she will get from it as much as she needs.
6. S. (11:10) According to the text before one calls the Creator answers, before they call I answer, does this relate to that the answer existed before the question?
R. It is not worthwhile to go into such depths. Before they call I answer, certainly the Creator’s answer exists before our calling, before our questions and then indeed he prepares everything for us, all of the steps forward and also on his side there is no problem. As far as how we will answer these things the Creator already has the entire path, the entire lane until the end of correction of all of us together in each and every group. With respect to Him there is no free choice or other states that are not known, of choice. It is on us only to do as much as possible in what we all have, to be together, our choice is only in connection on top of all the disturbances.
7. S. (12:56) Why does the calling from the side of the Creator come each time from such a different place? Sometimes it is directly like you feel the awakening through the ten and sometimes, as it is written here, it can come from a distant place.
R. The Creator awakens all of us but he awakens all of us individually. Then sometimes he calls, he evokes each of us together and this is how it is sometimes. Sometimes this way or sometimes that way, he awakens us in order to gather us together and then there is a very special process that the collective and the individual, the general and the particular need to connect. We will talk more about it, you’ll see that this is not a problem but the most important thing is that we should always be focusing on connection because all of the solutions are there.
S. How can we each time gather ourselves together correctly towards the Creator?
R. You said it correctly. We need to connect to the Creator. The Creator is the center of our connection. He does not exist, as it is written, you have made me so we need to connect between us until we begin to see that out of our connection we are building within us, truly building within us the image of the Creator, such a form of connection that we can call it come and see, the Creator, BoReh.
S. In what situation is the form of connection that we got used to in the ten, when does it change into the form of the Creator?
R. You need to read about that in Rabash’s articles about the society when each one is nullifying to the other but it seems to him that the others are the greatest of the generation and they are all equal and he is lower than everybody else than the Creator seems to him that He is truly in the center of the friends and if he’s reaching a connection with the friends, through that, he can also reach connection with the Creator and there is no other way and more of that, those things that we read there.
S. We do this, of course. The question simply is, behind this connection, we need beyond this to reach a call to the Creator?
R. Which call to the Creator?
S. We want to reach connection with Him, right?
R. If I connect with the friends in the right manner I have the correct connection with the Creator because I am building Him, I am making Him, I am getting Him to me, I am discovering Him in respect to me and then I have a connection with Him. I gather, gather and gather the friends and I adhere to them, they exist inside my emotion, inside of me and then through that I am feeling that I’m coming closer to the Creator. I am using the image of the Creator, you have made me, this is what He says. Through what?
Through us connecting the friends inside my emotion, inside my heart, then this is how I reach Him and later on more and more connections that are deeper and mutual with the friends and each time the Creator is revealed to me in the connection between us and then more and more, this is considered that I am beginning to work with higher and higher degrees and in that I elevate myself on the degrees of bestowal, love, connection and then this is how our whole ascent is until the end of correction when we all connect as one men in one heart and the Creator is inside of us, that we have built Him, we have made Him, we have gathered Him.
8. S. (18:08) Is it possible to separate and make a border between the Creator, in our connection, and can we differentiate between the Creator in the connection that we work with Him consciously, as it is written, where is the border?
R. There is the surrounding light that exists above all of the created beings and it will be revealed in the end of correction and there are the small lights that we are capable of waking up out of our disposition to the connection between us. This is the difference.
Reading excerpt 15: “Why did the Creator choose him…” twice
9. S. (21:29) The Creator begins everything that we do then what is the privilege of one who studies the wisdom of Kabbalah?
R. If the Creator awakens you and somebody else who lives next to you, he does not awaken him, it is not that you chose it and he did not chose it but we are talking about free choice about the investment that a person has to give after he has been awakened. We have billions of people in the world, they are not awakened to the connection to the Creator so therefore there is nothing to say about them, they just live like the still, vegetative and animals live, they also live that way.
Whereas if the Creator awakens a person, if he pulls him from billions of people towards himself, the Creator wants that person to come closer to Him, then that person reaches, let’s say, the wisdom of Kabbalah and starts to scrutinize in certain ways. When he gets there he start to scrutinize why, what for, what is happening to him, what is it that they want from him in this life and then he has to make these introspection about life that now he was given an opportunity to look at life in a very special way, to find the force that is managing and organizing and pulling him and when the person can attain this force, this spiritual life in this world here and now. He has such an opportunity and others did not receive this opportunity. There time hasn’t come yet so they do not receive an awakening.
10. S. (23:58) This rule that if not now then when? How does this rule turn into something practical and actual in states that are not simple?
R. We need to connect between the friends in the group. Try to talk to them, to awaken them up and find a few texts from Baal HaSulam and from Rabash and read those and try to become incorporated through them even more strongly. Try to feel how much we wants to be together truly in the connection of the hearts and desires so that they would be, well of course each with his own nature, but we would all become connected to a single goal and this way again and again and again,following such exercises, will reach such a state that we will feel that single common goal between us and in that what we reveal is the Creator.
S. If we can be more precise, when difficult states come we see, out of experience, that habit helps you overcome certain states, specifically with the connection in the ten and sometimes you ask for the help of the friends and that is the only thing that helps.
R. So you need to find these things, sometimes it is this way, sometimes it is that way, sometimes it is in everybody together in certain relations between all of these awakenings that we have to invest. Sometimes I subjugate myself to the friends, other times I awaken them, sometimes it is half-and-half, sometimes it’s a quarter or a third. The most important thing that we need is: how can we adhere to the friends in my heart and through them to the Creator, but through the friends and to the Creator, that the Creator exist inside of the friends if I penetrate the hearts of the friends then there I meet the Creator and it is impossible in any other away because He does not exist outside of that. This is very important.
S. Now you say, that towards these states when you are nothing but a 0 and you have to incorporate into the hearts of the friends?
R. Yes. Later we will talk about different states.
11. S. (27:05) Can you explain what it means that only for myself and what am I?
R. If I think about myself, what am I? I’m not a person, I’m a beast, thinking only about itself Instinctively and he does not discover that it is also the desire of Adam, a human; who thinks through the friends to the Creator.
S. And in the first question “if I am not for me then who’ll be for me” I am not thinking about myself, I’m thinking about the group right?
R. Of course. We need all the time to try to be in these questions, until they will be felt in our desire and we won’t have to speak about them with words but rather every sentence will be as a feeling that is already in us, already within us.
12. S. (28:28) The same vessels of bestowal that we yearn for and will connect us to the Creator, are they in me or outside of me?
R. That is not important at all. It’s not important at all, there is no place for them. Rather they themselves are the place, the place of the group and of the Creator. The vessels of bestowal that I establish do not have a place, they do not exist in any place but instead they themselves become The Place; I discover in them the group and the Creator and the connection between us and our whole goal.
S. Why in my sensations do I feel that is something inside of me or outside of me?
R. It has to be so, so you would be able to advance. Let’s say that you detect a certain goal and you’re connected to it let’s say through some optical device, then you change your focus, your power as much as you are able to see then that goal now becomes greater but less how should I say, less sharp less focussed; so once again you focus on it and this is how you advance each and every time, this is how you progress. Each time you have to discover it as greater but also to concentrate and focus it so it becomes more sharp and we have to do this. In that aspect we have two vessels, we have coarseness and we have the intention; with the coarseness we increase and with the intention we focus it, make it clearer, and this is how we advance.
S. And later it needs to connect in me, what’s outside of me and outside of me?
R. There is nothing which exists outside of me, It is all within me. There is no sense or thought or some description no matter what you call it that exists outside of me, it all happens inside of me: The entire world, all the worlds, the Creator, all exist inside of me in my qualities and in my desires, there is nothing outside of me. Also if it appears to me that it exists outside of me, it is only how it appears. As we learn at the beginning of the introduction to the Book of Zohar about the perception of a reality that everything that seems to the person that exists outside of him, it all exists inside of him.
S. What is the gradual order, first I need to differentiate that something is mine belongs to me? How do we transition?
R. Through the effort that you constantly try to be more and more connected with the environment and through it with the Creator and as much as possible to focus yourself and understand the excerpts. We’re done.
13. S. (32:30) I need to believe in the reward and punishment? Does it connect to one another, is this the way I build my vessels everyday as it says “everyday they will be new in your eyes”?
R. Yes. It is true. You have to believe in reward and punishment and each time you have to see how they change; It could be that what was felt yesterday as punishment, today you are developed and you see it as a reward.
14. S. (33:08) What are the vessels of bestowal that are revealed inside of me?
R. These are the vessels of bestowal that are revealed inside of you because the Creator shines to you and then a part of your desire to receive already becomes a desire in order to bestow. This is how it happens. These are the corrections that occur through the reforming light, by the upper light.
15. S. (33:48) What does it mean to penetrate into the hearts of the friends?
R. To penetrate into the heart of the friends means that I want to work with his desires and to fill up whatever he wants. Because how do we fill up our own desires? Each one has a desire, let’s say infinite, and nobody can fulfill their Infinite desires, and there is no way in which we can satisfy those desires but instead each one fulfills the desires of the friends and in this way we can reach the state of in order to bestow. If I want to satisfy the desire of the friend, the Creator is in my action and He fulfills the desire of the friend. And, this is how we give the Creator work and this is how we come closer to the correction.
S. What is the action I need to do in order to enter the heart of the friend, how to do this?
R. I imagine to myself whatever the friend might want, and I begin to come closer to his desire, and then through imagining from my desire to receive, his desire, this is how I come closer. I come closer and I bring my desire closer; my desire to give to his desire to receive. I take his desire to receive as a vessel which i need to be a means to fulfill its desires, meaning I have to link that desire of the friend to the Creator and the friend does the same thing with my desire and the Creator, he is the pipeline fulfilling my desire, my heart; and this is how we are interconnected together and exist in this common heart with the common fulfillment and then we have a soul which we build; a general desire where we are all in participation, in Arvut.
S. So when we work on it between the friends to enter into each other’s heart, how do we add the Creator to this work?
R. How do we add the Creator to this work? I must have the Creator otherwise I can’t feel the friend? How can I fill up the friend? How can I connect with the Creator and connect to the friend? All of these actions I must have the Creator, He does all of these actions and I just invite let’s say, I invite the work and this is why this work is called “the work of the Creator”.
S. In what am I activating the Creator?
R. With my request. My prayer, that I want this to happen, I want to reach the desire of the friend and I want to reach the desire of the Creator, I want to make connection between them to be as a pipeline between them, the pipeline is me. I just want a single thing to become the pipeline through which The Creator fills the heart of the friends.
16. S. (37:47) Sometimes we see that the friend’s desire is opposite of mine and I do not want to truly fill him, he is so opposite of me that I’m rejected by it.
R. it feels to you in your desires.
S. So what to do?
R. If it is a friend who comes to the lessons and learns with us, he is not even aware of it, but he has the same desire to be in pure heart and connect with us and the Creator, although this tendency is concealed from him we need by working on him, to awaken him.
S. I don’t understand, I feel that I know the desire of the friend, I feel it, but I have a rejection from asking the Creator to fulfill it?
R. I do not know what you mean by the desire of the friend? I just accept ahead of time that each and every friend wants to open himself up for fulfillment and I am becoming the pipeline that can fulfill his desire, otherwise he won’t be able to be filled. That is why each one has to work for (Be’Shvil) the friend, Shvil means a pathway or channel and this is how we have to work, each one for each other; each becomes the channel to the others.
S. And it doesn’t matter if I do it with goodwill as long as I ask, even mechanically?
R. Yes. Of course. Imagine yourself in this state and begin to practice. How do you do it with your kids? you give them some game and you teach them and you push them and then they do not want it and then they do, they don’t understand and they put it in their mouth instead of playing with it and this is how they grow.
S. But that comes when I have love for them. How do I develop this love for the friends so I have a yearning to want to fulfill them?
R. You have a society and you have to receive from them an inclination, force, rejection example for the connection. We have no choice. We have no choice; if i don’t connect with the friend i cannot through him connect with the Creator.
S. This no choice later on becomes something else?
R. It becomes a heartfelt connection. A Connection that becomes more important to you than yourself. Why? Because that connects you to the creator, meaning it connects you to the source of life so of course it becomes more important. Like 0 and 1 as Rabash writes.
17. S. (41:11) Should we categorize everything we experience as reward or punishment?
R. Yes. Yes.
18. S. (41:36) When we speak about the fact that we build the Creator is this equal to building a soul?
R. Yes.
19. S. (41:56) Should we make the calculation with the reward and punishment if we are working with the right intention with them?
R. Of course we do. Of course we need to make a calculation about the intention.
20. S. (42:28) What do I discover when I change my intention to benefit and to be a pipeline from The Creator to the friends? What is the revelation that I receive through the change of my intention?
R. That you are the representative of the Creator to the entire world, towards all the spiritual Kli. You are the representative and out of this you begin to feel what does it mean to correct creation, to manage creation, and to fulfill creation through you.
21. S. (43:18) Sometimes it is easier to connect with the creator than with the friends because you can speak to the Creator all the time and the friends are in all kinds of places they are not accessible, so how should I arrange it in my mind?
R. You cannot connect to the creator without connection to the friends. You have to be at least in connection with a few friends that threw them you connect to the Creator otherwise your entire connection with the Creator is selfish and not correct. The friends need to be the first to give you the possibility to nullify yourself and to connect with them correctly in order to subjugate yourself and after all of these actions that Rabash is speaking about, then you are ready for connection with the Creator and without this you are not ready.
S. But I am asking…
R. You can say whatever you want but you are not ready to turn to the Creator if you don’t do such actions with your friends. Don’t look for excuses.
22. S. (44:58) You just explained how to work with the desires of the Friends where I have the role of the pipeline. How much should I scrutinize the desires of the friends that they are the ones I want to fulfill?
R. I do not do any calculations with the desires of the friends. I just want to nullify myself towards them and nullify myself towards the Creator and throw that I nullify in the middle between the Creator and the friends, the Creator can take care of the friends and fulfill them.
S. I am now trying practically to depict it. Should I imagine that I am nullifying and these are all the desires of the friends that I ask to fulfill, all of them, or should I feel all these desires?
R. In the beginning I just want to become a conduit, a tube between the Creator and the friends and not that I know precisely what desires they have that I need to satisfy? What does it mean accordingly what I need to receive from the Creator to fulfill those desires? I’m a tube that simply just wants to become the connector between the Creator and the friends, without any calculations. The calculation is one, to become the connector.
S. What moves this process first: the desire of the friend or to nullify myself?
R. I nullify myself towards the friend and to the Creator and buy this I become the pipeline.
S. Meaning that what comes first is my desire to nullify myself.
R. Yes.
Reading extra excerpt: “ Being a Pipeline between the Friends and the Creator…The Light of The Eyes…” Twice
23. S. (49:05) In the text it speaks about the fact that the connection that channel is between the Creator and the creation than this is about the group so the ten has to nullify this way?
R. Of course, it first of all, is in the ten and as much as we connect between us and to the Creator, since we cannot connect between us because there is nothing to receive and there is nothing to give and so through the Creator we connect and turn truly to the ten. That inside there is this communication between us through all of these tubes and the Creator is there and fills us in this manner, He connects us together, meaning we will learn about this later.
What do I feel in the friend, do I feel the friend or how much the Creator fills him, or the response of the friend to the Creator, and the response from all of us from what we reveal in the ten? This is precisely what we are learning now in TES and the fourth part, how much are connections there between the Sefirot and the upper light fills them from the general light. And how we have different types of direct light and reflected light and surrounding light and Inner Light. We will not learn much from the book, instead gradually we will feel them and begin to work with them in an inner manner.
S. If a person alone tries to nullify in the ten and tries to become a pipeline, it is impossible for him to hold on in such a way, only if everyone wants to become a pipeline, no?
R. No no no, it is not that one person cannot hold on, he cannot hold anything because he will not be able to receive anything. He needs to be connected with at least one more in order to be a conduit towards him, a transition a channel to the other friend and only in such a manner he feels that he belongs to the Creator on one hand, from the side of the fulfillment. And on the other hand he belongs to the friend on the side of the lack, and then in the difference between both these elements of fulfillment from the side of the Creator and the lack, from the side of the friend he will feel how much he is working in the present.
Actually this determines his spiritual degree, that towards the friend he becomes like the Creator supplying the fulfillment and to the Creator he is giving the receiving, but not for himself but for the friend so it is the correct receiver. Then it turns out that he has the same person that connects the friend and the Creator together and he has both a part of the Creator and part of the created being and then both of these parts connect in him and this action, this result is called a Sefira.
S. What happens at the moment when the entire ten becomes this pipeline?
R. There we already receive Neshama, there we reveal Neshama and in the meantime we reveal the correct connection for the will to receive, that we are capable of turning it to the will to bestow of the Creator. There are many more things here because it turns out for us that we are not capable of being a vessel of reception only to be in service of it, we will talk more about this. We are already entering into practical, good correct actions, that we are already talking about it is good, it is beginning to be built in us.
24. S. (54:08) About this process by which I become a pipeline, a conduit. This at trigger for my will to receive so my question is, is this what awakens in me the prayer for correction or connection? This prayer distracts my attention from being a pipeline, so what is the correct thing to become a pipeline or to use this provocation?
R. I do not understand you. You are in the middle that you connect to the lack of the friend and to the Creator and you are in the middle, how to arrange this correction to open this faucet which is you. You have no other opportunity, either you are blocking or you are opening, so please do it. You will see in this how close we are, to work like a flip flop or all sorts of machines which are working like this, that they are open and close. And the intensity of the connection of the opening and closing already depends on the degree of the person, of how capable he is both being closed or there is an opposite flow, and then he would seemingly receive for himself and the flow which is towards the friend which is actually to the Creator. Afterwards the person reveals that there are no friends but only the Creator. And what he did with him in such a game, it is only in order to teach the person how to relate to Him, to the Creator himself.
25. S. (56:33) It turns out that the every friend who is in our connection, inside each of us there are certain elements, spiritual elements which are called Reshimot, records and our task here in the work and the words, don’t really matter in the connection between us on a certain higher-level. Let’s say we have to supply each other with these records and the elements that have to be put together in the right way through the light. And if we don’t put it together by the Light, then the entire ten and the entire world Kli is not in the right form, the right circle and we have to think about it all the time. Not about certain external forms of words and emotions but rather this inner connection and these elements. Maybe it is not completely scrutinized right, is this correct?
R . I cannot tell you if it is correct or not because these are your words and your thoughts and we do not talk in this manner in the meantime. Continue and scrutinize and try to talk more shortly.
26. S. (58:15) I see in the friends and their desires and I try to become a pipeline, instead I find in myself only resistance. How can I annul my resistance?
R. Try to make an effort and there are a few means here. Rabash is writing here, to first of all think about how much you are a zero towards them, even if you don’t think you are a zero but think how without the friends, you will reach nothing and that you are a zero and that you have no choice. Rather bow before them because the Creator brought these friends, you did not choose any of them, nonetheless they are the ones the Creator arranged for you. Begin to appreciate them as such and not because they are wise or they are witty in language, or maybe other things. Rather simply because the Creator brings them to you in order that with them you can build the place for His revelation, so try, and see in this specifically you will succeed.
27. S. (01:00:03) Can I ask you to explain a bit more about reward and punishment?
R. I cannot explain it now, but reward and punishment, the person needs to depict for himself, what each state for him is reward or punishment in each state. Check it, on this depends the person’s attitude towards what the Creator is doing with him.
28. S. (01:00:42) Why does it say that he is between the Creator and the created being, and the moment he annuls, he becomes the lower one, like Malchut towards the first nine?
R. I have nothing else to say.
29. S. (01:01:09) You said that we should depict a state of the friends desire, so I tried to depict it and I see that that friend has a weak desire for spirituality just like me and I have to become a pipeline so what should I fill him up with if he has a desire for spirituality, the lack. I bring him an additional desire, an additional lack?
R. You can awaken him of course, each one helps his friend, so please help him and awaken him and you will see how much it wakes him up and you will see how much you can take care of his fulfillment.
S. Depicting the desires of the friends is not about corporeal desires but desires about additional spiritually?
R. Of course we are talking about spirituality, what is there to talk about in corporeal desires, there is nothing to talk about.
30. S. (01:02:01 I would like to continue this, if my friend is not going through some state and receives a certain disturbance in corporeality which can disconnect him in terms of health or legal problems or kinds of things. Can I connect to this desire specifically which seems to be corporeal and ask for correction and fulfillment for them?
R. Of course you can, it says that one who prays for his friend he is privileged first, he is rewarded first. Of course we need to pray for the friends and we are obligated to pray for the friends, that is the very special part of our work.
S. But this corporeality, but to continue what was said before is to feel only desire for the friend’s spirituality?
R. No, the corporeality of the friend is my spirituality.
Reading extra excerpt: (01:03:08) “One who Prays for His Friend Become a Pipeline of…”
31. S. (01:04:11) In the pipeline where does all the dirty stuff that the light melts, where does it go to?
R. It is corrected by the upper light, nothing is dirty it all depends on the extent of correction.
Reading Excerpt # 16. (01:04:41) “It is Impossible to Say the Words of the Prayer…” Twice
32. R. This means directly to the Creator, Yashar El, Israel.
33. S. (01:06:10) During the lesson can I become a pipeline towards an individual friend during the whole lesson, a particular friend?
R. Yes, you can.
S. And the ten before the lesson can determine who is becoming a pipeline towards the friends?
R. You can try such exercises, please.
34. S. (01:07:03) What is the correct prayer we have to raise to The Creator in order to penetrate the friend’s heart?
R. You have to ask the Creator to help us to enter into the heart of the friend, this is the prayer.
35. S. (01:08:06) The prayer in public, what does it mean the prayer in public? The Prayer of Many, what does it mean?
R. The prayer for the public, the prayer of the individual, there are many such things, it is always talking in respect to the person, what is he praying for? Whom is he praying for? We will learn more about that.
36. S. (01:09:13) Does the Creator fulfill the person through the ten and for that do I have to subjugate myself to the friends in the ten and demand for them?
R. Of course you have to subjugate yourself to the ten because otherwise you will never be filled, even egotisticly we say such, and even more so in bestowal, in the form of bestowal.
37. S. (01:10:03) It is an obligation and it is necessary to connect together the holy society and it says here to unite the holy congregation together, what does it mean?
R. It is through desire and prayer, out of our desire and we have to pray and of course all the actions the Creator does, the upper light, but only according to our request. We are broken vessels as much as we awaken to correction, then accordingly we receive the light of connection.
38. S. (01:10:55) Earlier you said that the need to do an inner action towards the friend and it becomes a Sefira, what is this action?
R. Usually it is the act of connection as much as we make an effort to be connected we reveal that we are not capable. If we are really making an effort to connect and we see that it is not working for us and then we pray and then we receive forces that they connect us.
39. S. (01:11:37) There is a need, a lack and according to what we are reading, how do we reach a state of peace, what does it mean to be in a state of peace during the prayer?
R. At the time of prayer and even before the prayer we have to connect to between, that is called The Prayer Before the Prayer and then when we are in connection between us we request from the Creator that he will begin to correct us and according to the correction that he will fulfill our mutual vessel in all sorts of fulfillments meaning in all sorts of presentations of his Revelation towards us. These revelations are revealed and in this that we feel that the connection between us becomes mutual. The connection becomes such that we reveal that in the connection between us, ourselves that are filled with bestowal and love giving and that is what we need to attain.
40. S. (01:13:22) If there some connection between us before the prayer and another connection between us after the prayer?
R. All the time we see how much the connection between us, it changes in quantity and quality and its character.
41. S. (01:14:06) If I do not feel or understand anything that we are studying about, I am focusing my prayer on the friends and they will feel and understand, is that a good participation during the studies?
R. It is good participation but not final. We still need to see ourselves advancing, advancing in connection, to be a conduit a pipeline as we said between the Creator and the friends. In this way each and every one of us, if we try to be in this, we begin to see that we are really in it.
42. S. (01:14:50) If my request for the friends is egoistic, as that is what I feel, should I still keep asking?
R. Try to gradually change them.
43. S. (01:15:13) How to penetrate into the friends in a precise way to fill their spiritual needs and not fall into the ten so that it would be just like a support group?
R. Try to get closer to them in a way that they will feel that you want to support the connection of everyone.
44. S. (01:15:45) How can we take advantage of the feeling of private providence for the benefit of the ten and in that way bestow to the Creator?
R. This is as we said, I become a conduit, a pipeline connecting the Creator with the friends and the friends with the Creator. I try to elevate the deficiency of the group to the greater to pray for them.
45. S. (01:16:17) The Creator is revealed in the connection between us, is it only in the positive connection or in any kind of connection?
R. From any connection but on the condition that we want to correct this connection.
46. S. (0116:36) If the action of the pipeline is called this Sefira, why is it called ten Sefirot?
R. Because this is how we are built, we learned it in the four phases of the direct light that to get from the upper light from the Creator to the created beings, the light has to go through five discernments, five phases. Then it comes to a state called the created being and what he feels, fills up the created being and sees that the created being reaches equivalence of form with the light, that we have reflected light. In other words the created being rises above itself above its will to receive up to the desire to bestow, back from Malchut to Keter. It turns out we have between the Creator and the created being five discernments KHBZAM. From this the Created being feels itself being in increasing Aviut, coarseness in its’ roots 1,2,3,4 and then it begins to correct itself from the degree 4,3,2,1 root, and this way from the Creator to the created being through these qualities, there is nothing else. As it is written, ten and not nine, ten and not eleven.
47. S. (01:18:19) If the friend’s desire is not clear, should I pray to know what the desire is or just ask for their desires?
R. The most important to me is to constantly yearn to discover the desires of the friends. What they yearn for, what they would like and how I can use their desires to bring them closer to the Creator, to make their connection with the Creator stronger.
48. S. (01:19:01) What does it mean to help a friend, to make a connection with him but we see that the state just gets worse?
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