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

Lesson on the topic of “Becoming a Conduit to the Heart of the Friend”

Morning Lesson September 17, 2022, Transcription 

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

Part 1:

Becoming a Conduit to the Heart of the Friend – Selected Excerpts from the sources

https://docs.google.com/document/d/12ZkSoG1cPIDRR753UNSscc0dZO5qHRIt9zn8sXq2Vzw/edit

1. Rav’s Introduction: The system of Adam HaRishon is a complete system where the desire to receive that the Creator created is revealed and it shines all connections in it. For each one provides whatever is needed for others, whatever the others need. The person has to provide for them, and this is the internal system. There is a connection in the internal system and in such work and the intention in our desire to bestow to everybody, this is what we have to come to. Each one of us. This is called the corrected vessel and we are in a state where this vessel has started to awaken in its totality, and this is called the last generation that completes all the corrections. 

When everybody is connecting with everybody else, with the desire, against the desire, in all the changing states and this is what we have to come to, to a state where everybody will become as one man with one heart. We will have to discover this gradually. Let’s hope that we will discover it with understanding based on explanation before the states that might appear as a gradual shattering in between us and that we will understand it is not through wars, it is not through power that should help convince and subjugate everybody to make contact and connect but only the understanding in the full that we are in a complete system, in the general system and we all depend on each other. 

Therefore out of the entire system the rule is that everybody has to care about providing the system with fulfillment. This is why is it is written to become a pipeline or a conduit to the heart of the friend, meaning to the whole world or parts of it so each one of us, each and every one of us has to become like a conduit that passes to the others whatever the others need in order to advance towards correction. This is the meaning of becoming a conduit. This conduit precisely connects through me each and every person to the Creator and the other way around; the Creator connects with each and every person through me and I am willing to become both the conduit from men to the Creator and also from The Creator towards man. We have to try to keep this in our groups, in our ten so that each one does not work for himself but only to provide everything from the Creator to the friends, from the friends to the Creator and to become a conduit. This is the meaning to become a conduit to the hearts of the friends. Of course in this way we connect in the correct way, the correct integral way and we will reach the end of correction and all of us are in this correction, in mutual connection with each other and accordingly the Creator can be revealed in us and with joy in us. 

Reading Excerpt 1 (05:03)

2. R. Meaning ultimately each person remains empty for oneself. The person’s entire work is to feel the need of the friend and according to the need to turn to the Creator in the form of MAN, the MAN of that person to receive from the Creator the fulfillment and pass this fulfillment to the friend who needs it and the person in the middle will always be the one who raises the MAN of the friend and brings back MAD from the Creator to him, and this way each one receives and it is not that he gives but he passes it on. This is the role of each and everyone in the system. This is why the system becomes completely interconnected, it passes all the lights and all the deficiencies and all the fulfillment, and all the fulfillment from each created being from each and every one to the Creator and in return from the Creator back to the created beings and then the system becomes complete, like the Creator is complete. 

Nobody is doing anything by himself for the sake of himself but rather, why not for himself, because he’s always working with the deficiencies of the others and the deficiency of the Creator and the other ones receive from the Creator to give him contentment. How the Creator wants us to feel the others to give him contentment and then each becomes like complete and whole both from the deficiencies of the entire Kli, the deficiencies of the broken Adam ha Rishon and also in the fulfillment, the fulfillment of the entire general vessel which is the Creator himself and as a result in this each one brings the complete vessel and the complete fulfillment and in this way each and every part of the broken soul. So each one becomes this way like the Creator on the level and intensity of fulfillment of his attainment, and this is on the condition that he does not live for himself but only to fulfill the others, only to connect to the deficiencies and to fulfill their deficiencies through him in whatever he is passing to them from the Creator.

3. S. (08:45) You said that everybody needs to feel the hearts of the friends and raise MAN for the friend and then return MAD from the Creator back to the friend, what does it mean that I pass the MAD to the friends? 

R. Each one of us connects to the general vessel of Adam HaRishon to the Creator, to the upper light, ultimately this is what I need to do. To take the deficiency from each and everyone and raise it to the Creator to receive the reaction from the Creator which is the reforming light, the screen, the reflected light and all of it to pass it through me to the place from which I received the deficiency, that lacking friend, and this way I am in the middle, between each and every soul and the Creator. I raise their MAN and lower MAD from the Creator to them, to each and everyone of them. By this each becomes the Creator’s servant and in a complete way, from the side of the created being and from the side of the Creator, this is our work. 

S. I get this deficiency from the Creator? 

R. I received MAN from the friend, let’s say and I raise it to the Creator, I perform a coupling and striking, what is MAN, it is the revelation of the deficiency, the reflected light, then I receive a reaction from the Creator on that and I can have fulfillment according to the deficiency that I raised from the others, and I perform this action through me receiving the light in order to bestow, to receive the light from above from the Creator in order to bestow it to the lower ones, to the friends who have to receive it from me and it turns out that I in the middle become like the conduit between the two, I am becoming the connector and each one of us has to become the same so eventually the vessel becomes an integral vessel where everyone is connecting to everybody and passing on everything to everybody and each and everyone resembles the Creator and all of us resemble the Creator. 

4. S. (11:52) The person has the ten, what is the influence of the chain, that spiritual chain in the Kli? 

R. The influence of the spiritual chain in the vessel is where all of us eventually connect in order to bring fulfillment to one of the friends or one of the souls. There are 600,000 souls if we speak of the general vessel in these terms, and all of us connect in order to provide the complete fulfillment to each and everyone by connecting the correct way.

S. The 600000 Souls, how do they stop? 

R. These are questions you can ask later. You cannot ask about something else when I am explaining something else, it is not customary. You are confusing everybody so ask about what I am explaining. Later if we have time you can ask about something else but not here. Let’s say that I provided an answer if you already need to go to another question. It is a sign that the previous question is not interesting to me anymore and I ask another. 

5. S. (14:09) According to what you explain, where is the stage when the ten connect as one man with one heart? 

R. That ten needs to connect as one man with one heart in each and every action it performs. It does not matter if it is a big or a small action in which degree or what is the quality of the question but we have to try to be in it. Let’s say a friend is asking a question, I need to try and incorporate into that action as much as I can and then revive these actions, these questions and the answers I have to put myself into it. This is the whole point behind the workshop as well. What is a workshop? It is when all of us discuss together one question that belongs to everybody and then all of us wish to incorporate into that deficiency and later he receives the answer, the fulfillment of that deficiency, all of us together. This is why a workshop has to be like the beating heart; a feeling of deficiency and a feeling of fulfillment, a feeling of deficiency and a feeling of fulfillment, all of us together. This is why everything depends on the extent that you are incorporated into each other. I, because of my role and because I understand how important it is to be incorporated with all the deficiencies of the others, participate in their fulfillment so by this I gain much, again a lot because the questions and the answers of the friends are ready-made vessels for the fulfillment of my soul. So how can I refuse to accept them? On the contrary, I wish to be incorporated into them, to hear the questions, to hear the answers and to live in it. In my entire heart and soul because these are parts of my soul, of my big vessel so why would I miss out on this? It gives me pain that you are not incorporated in us, in both the questions and the answers of the friends. It belongs to our general vessel, to each and every one of us and it will be missed by each and every one of us if we look down on it, if we don’t give it importance. This is why I also bring in the question of the women so we would be incorporated into them as well. There are a lot of great questions on point, and we have to be incorporated into them as well.

6. S. (17:34) To get the reaction from the Creator, can we also raise MAN for the externality? For the world?

R. Yes. For the world to approach connection we can raise MAN, and it is good MAN, it is a good question, very relevant, very current. We have to do it, meaning for the deficiencies of the world, even their corporeal deficiencies, we can raise the internal spiritual deficiency. The whole world is suffering from corporeality, and we raise this as a deficiency for spirituality.

7. S. (18:53) When you get the MAD from the Creator, how do you get this to the friends? Is it through prayer? How do we pass it onto the friends?

R. No, first of all you’ll have to be connected with the friends and there you connect to them not in the same connection as MAN but in the connection of the MAD. Let’s say that there is a deficiency that I received as the pipeline, as the conduit. When I receive a deficiency, as a conduit it passes on the fulfillment. So there are two different conduits and that’s why you need to use the MAN that you received from the friends, you have to process it and raise it to the Creator and with the MAD that you received from the Creator to the connection with him, the adhesion with him, you need to form this connection to the others, to the friends and the whole world, depending on which degree you are in, and then you pass it on to them through coupling and striking; you as the upper one and the world or the friends as the lower one and then you form the, you incorporated with them, you have to include them in you and then for his deficiency and the MAD you have from the Creator you have to perform the coupling and striking. You are like the adaptor, the mechanism where the connection takes place. The other person from the lower one to the upper of the upper and there is the connection and you are like the upper one, we have to learn how to do these things and we will start to become closer and closer to our actions.

S. This coupling and striking how do you see this in this process? What do you do to make a coupling and striking? 

R. What should we do? You have to take the deficiency of the lower one and work on him and connect to the upper one, in the connection to the upper in order to adapt the lower one to the upper one and you are in the middle. This is the work, this is the work. Try and you will see if you have questions here. I think that typically you get answers on the spot. If you are going to go with it and think about it you see that it is possible to get answers and reactions on the spot when we are performing these actions. 

8. S. (22:26) A vessel for myself, so what is my soul? 

R. Your deficiency. Your deficiency to bestow to the other is called the soul. 

9. S. (22:58) What exactly am I annulling in myself when I become a conduit between me and the friends and between me and the Creator, and what do I have to annul in me in order to connect between the friends and the Creator?

R. You cancel yourself; you are included once with the deficiency of your friend to receive MAN and one time you’re incorporated with the deficiency of the Creator to pass MAD from Him, and you are in the middle, constantly in annulment of yourself. But in the annulment of yourself you are expressing yourself, you are constructing yourself.

10. S. (23:55) What is the deficiency that can awaken us to become more attentive and sensitive to the deficiencies of the friends?

R. When I want to truly be an adaptor between the lower one and the upper one with myself in the middle, and by this I wish to be as a conduit, where I have no thoughts of myself but only to be as a conduit. A conduit is a very special role in spirituality because ultimately we all become conduits between the Creator, the source of the light and that deficiency, I’ve created the evil inclination. We all need to be those deficiencies where we correct the will to receive in order to bestow and we fill it in order to bestow. We need to be in the middle, as workers, as those who are incorporated of it both the great deficiency the Creator created and the fulfillment, as the Creator Himself. Correction and fulfillment. 

11. S. (25:41) In this middle that you described several times today, is there specifically where the Creator is? Each time when we try to do this we reveal the quality of the Creator inside of us? 

R. Yes. Of course whenever we manage to connect ourselves to the Creator and to the user, the source of light and the source of the deficiencies, then we feel ourselves in the middle as working as a conduit.

12. S. (26:33) As to raising the deficiencies of the friends you said that we will come to a void to what we’re lacking, what did you mean? 

R. I don’t know what you’re talking about but of course in the middle we always feel our own deficiencies. On top of those deficiencies of ourselves we need to build a deficiency for the Creator who wishes to fulfill the lower ones and the deficiency of the lower ones to be filled by the Creator. I need to be incorporated of both, and from these two I build in myself the center of the connection that passes the deficiency from below up and the fulfillment from above down.

13. S. (27:49) In becoming a conduit does it mean that we lose our qualities, or each conduit needs to add something personal of his own? 

R. Each one of us, all of us build a new conduit according to the deficiencies of the Creator and the deficiencies of the receiver, the lower ones, the users. We make of ourselves the vessel that connects the light of Ein Sof with Malchut of Ein Sof. Eventually that’s how it is and all of us together.

14. S. (28:33) How can I be certain that I will not lose something in this MAD? When I ask for MAD how can I be certain? I’m afraid that I will lose something when I am passing the MAD. 

R. You don’t need to be certain, only in the fact that you are adhered to the friends, and you are adhered to the Creator. Therefore through the adhesion to both of them you are playing the role of a conduit, only as a conduit. 

15. S. (29:22) What is the difference between raising the deficiencies of the friends which my goal is to connect, and me going outside wherever I am and seeing deficiencies and raising them to the Creator?

R. We are not talking about what is on the outside and how you are incorporated on the outside. We have no business in that.

S. So I don’t touch anything out there? 

R. No.

S. I just engage in the ten and that connection between us.

R. You calm down and be only in that.

16. S. (30:00) To be a conduit, how do I start the work of being a conduit? Do I need to receive the deficiency from the friend first? 

R. Certainly. How can you be a conduit if you don’t have the deficiency from someone that you pass to Him?

S. How to identify the deficiency if the friend doesn’t share it? 

R. From the get-go we are in a group, we need to reach a certain goal. Meaning each and everyone has a deficiency for attaining that goal. So how do we attain the goal, by what do we connect to the goal? By what do we connect to the source of fulfillment? We need to arrange all those things in our mind, in our brain, in our hearts and then in this way we will be able to be a conduit.

S. How to identify the friend? Does a friend have to share? Tell me if I’m missing something or is it not a must. 

R. From the beginning we share similar deficiencies so it is possible somehow to establish for myself, I can establish for myself the deficiency of the friend, what does he want, because I have similar deficiencies. This is how we need to begin but later we incorporate in one another more and more.

S. I need to get a strong impression, his deficiency is like my deficiency, or it doesn’t matter whether I hurt or not I have to ask? 

R. You don’t need to ask, you need to read Rabash’s articles about the society and there he writes just how much the friends can and how much they cannot pass deficiencies to one another. I’m not going to explain it right now, we spoke about it, we read it. You forgot about it but now you can renew it. 

Reading 2 (32:24)

17. R. (33:10) Not that he’s simply like a pipeline in this world who has nothing in the beginning or the end or the middle of the pipeline and when the abundance passes nothing remains in the pipeline, it remains empty but that pipeline, the conduit in spirituality connects through his changing states, his changing qualities to the source of all the abundance and at the end of it to the user of the abundance, and it connects through equalizing the deficiencies with the Creator who wants to bestow to the created beings and connects with the created being to whom He connects with his deficiency and his fulfillment. In short the conduit is not simply a pipe. Rather on the end where it connects to the Creator it becomes like the Creator or like the upper one, not specifically to the Creator but to its upper one, and on the lower end he connects with the deficiencies of the lower one and he passes the abundance to it. Meaning the conduit is a very complex and very refined and the shattering took place in order to build these conduits, not simply to empty the deficiencies that existed in all the vessels and then to fill them later again. Rather specifically through the connections and the infinite number of connections between everyone and to everyone, specifically these conduits, the Creator intended for them to fill the space of Adam HaRishon and for those conduits to pass connections between one another. If previously it seemed to us that what’s important is each and every vessel inside his deficiency now it should be clearer to us that in the entire vessel of Adam HaRishon what’s important is the connection and the degree of connection, the degree of fulfillment, the degree of contact and the expansion of the conduits and so on and so forth. Meaning that’s the main thing. If we felt previously that we needed to see Adam HaRishon as including, as being incorporated in all these parts, all these desires that connected between them through these pipes, these conduits, now in the end of connection we need to see Adam HaRishon as made entirely of infinite conduits. This is the main thing; these connections are the main thing and not the places that receive fulfillment through these connections. Therefore from this we will better understand the need for the shattering as in total the Creator wishes to see his entire spiritual vessel as made of pipelines and conduits because the conduits of bestowal, connection, and fulfillment, this is the main thing. The type of vessel, the essence of the vessel becomes the mutual connection between everyone and everyone else. And that’s the main thing that we see and not these individual separate vessels. It’s not about them, rather it’s the conduits that come and they replace if we can say that, they replace those vessels. It’s not the vessels that are important, the deficiencies but the conduits of mutual bestowal between the souls, that’s the main thing. Through them, in them, in the deficiency to pass the abundance from the abundance itself, the Creator is revealed to the created beings. 

18. S. (38:03) The blessing we receive for the Dvekut, that we’re always with friends to diminish the distance between us and the friends, is that to be in contact with the Creator? 

R. Of course, eventually that’s how it is.

19. S. (38:36) Do these deficiencies I see actually exist or is it a gift from the Creator for us to do the work? 

R. Our deficiencies exist from the Creator because the Creator turned His desire to bestow, His love, He turned that into the opposite quality, hate and repulsion between us so that on top, above all this hate and rejection, repulsion we will reveal Him, the quality of love. The Creator Himself does not exist, He is revealed in us in the connection and love between us. 

20. S. (39:48) I want to refine the question. When we want to equalize with the Creator in love and bestowal and pass this to the friends so that they will have that desire, and we give them the greatness of the goal, the greatness of the Creator, do we become a conduit through this and pass the light of the Creator to the friends?

R. Yes, clearly. 

21. S. (40:20) The quality of the deficiency is different. There’s a deficiency for the world. That’s one thing, we respond to it in one way, the deficiency of the friend is different for his corporeality let’s say. How do I need to work with my response to those deficiencies?

R. This is something we will learn, the question is there, it’s correct, but we will learn about it.

22. S. (40:57) Even in a corrected state where all pipelines bestow to one another, are they still individuals? When do we connect as one conduit to the Creator and not remain as individuals but become a one? 

R. We never connect in one conduit rather with our intentions and desires we seemingly become as one conduit, but it never becomes one conduit. It’s always six hundred thousand souls, it’s always lights and vessels and many, many actions between everyone to everyone else. It’s like in a big supercomputer, let’s say, or a microprocessor with all these elements. We don’t turn these thousands of conduits between us into one, on the contrary each one who’s incorporated into the others, incorporated with everyone, he becomes himself like a miniature world. Specifically by that there is the ability to reveal the intentions of the Creator, the purpose of the Creator in a complete way.

S. So I remain as an individual in the system or as a ten? What am I in the system? An individual which is incorporated into the whole system or as a ten that is incorporated in the whole system? 

R. It’s the same, it’s the same. An individual in the ten or the entire ten as an individual it’s the same, eventually there’s no difference. It’s a matter of feeling, I cannot transmit that, each one will attain it, but this is how it is. That man is a small world and the whole world is in total one man, and each one has to reach the degree of Adam HaRishon.

23. S. (43:21) You said that the main thing about being a conduit is the deficiency of the vessels, how does that connect? 

R. Those conduits of connection are the vessels, otherwise what are they? They are vessels, desires with intentions and screens and all that’s in them, they’re the conduits. These are the desires that are connected in such a way, they connect each of us with everyone. When we talk about being as one man in one heart or that each needs to connect with one’s friend’s heart and so on, we’re talking about the building of these pipes, these conduits.

24. S. (44:15) In the ten there’s a concentration of very basic desires. What can I ask of the Creator? 

R. What you can ask from the Creator you need to receive from the ten, so try to connect to them in order to truly discover their true deficiency. 

S. How can I ask them to connect if they are missing the most basic things, for example they lack a job? 

R. You need to pray for them to have a source of income, that’s called that you’re connecting. The Creator doesn’t need anything from us, He has all the fillings that we need. The question is only whether we can ask from Him to fill all the deficiencies of the friends, and then through us it will pass to them. We don’t need to transfer to the friend’s money or food or anything like that, we need to raise the request to the Creator for our friends so that He will truly fill them with what they’re missing. 

25. S. (46:24) The deficiency of the friend, is that what he wants or is it the flaws that I discover in the friend? 

R. No, the deficiency of the friend is what he seemingly raises to the Creator. It’s his deficiency for ascent, his deficiency for connection, his deficiency for spiritual upliftment. Then you’re incorporated in that, and you help by helping a friend raise that deficiency to the Creator, only through your vessels.

S. His deficiency for connection? What do you mean in my vessels? 

R. That what your friend wants, spiritual ascent, a screen, connection and so on, you are asking for him, you are integrated with what he’s missing, and you are asking for him and it moves through you to him. Therefore one who prays for his friend merits first.

S. How do I discover it in me? What way does it appear in me?

R. You discover it as your deficiency and receive filling for it from The Creator, and then you’ll transfer from you to the friends. Just like the lower one, the upper one and the upper, upper one. 

S. So it appears as my deficiency for connection with the friend? 

R. It’s revealed just as your friend has a deficiency for the Creator it’s revealed in such a way in you, that same deficiency for the Creator, and you receive it from the Creator and pass it to the friend. 

26. S. (48:56) Is the conduit the degree of equivalence of form? Can we say that the conduit is the degree of equivalence of form? 

R. The conduit is the measure of equivalence of form with the receiver or with the giver. 

S. With my attitude toward the connection between the friends I want the friend to also build some measure of equivalence of form. Is that why I come to work with his deficiency? 

R. No, for the time being I just want to be the one who passes it from the Creator to him. I want to help him with his connection with the Creator. 

S. That’s why his connection with the Creator must also be founded on equivalence of form? 

R. Not yet, otherwise what am I for? 

27. S. (50:11) How to do this so not to receive MAD for yourself by actually pass it onto the friend? 

R. How to do it so as not to receive? To begin with you need to be that way where you take the deficiency of the friend, it’s not your deficiency, and you receive this lack as if it’s your lack and you pass it to the Creator like your lack, even though you are integrated with the friend. Therefore this deficiency is no longer called your MAN but rather the MAN of the friend. You receive from the Creator MAD for this deficiency, you receive it for the friend. Then it becomes as a conduit, it makes you into a conduit through which what you are asking from the Creator passes to the friend. What do you have in this? That you’re building additional Partzufim to your soul You’re integrated with the lack of your friend, the lack of the Creator, and the lack of the abundance that you receive from the Creator and you pass to the friends. Through this you built a system, a new mechanism of connection of the lower one with the upper one through you. 

28. S. (52:09) In order to raise MAN should I talk to each of my friends and identify their deficiencies or should we do this commonly? 

R. We can talk about it this way or that way but nevertheless it’s the work inside a person, the internal work inside a person. 

29. S. (52:43) If I see friends as corrected, what is the deficiency I can bring to the Creator or are their deficiencies my correction? 

R. The deficiencies of the friends are your correction. You need to include within you all the deficiencies of the whole world and pass to them all the upper light to each that needs. 

30. S. (53:29) How do the individual deficiencies of the friends integrate into one deficiency of the ten and what should we pray for each separately? 

R. This is a complex question. Each of us needs to pray for the deficiency he feels from the friends towards the Creator. Each needs to pray to the Creator to receive from Him filling for all the deficiencies he receives from the friends. It all ends actually in prayer. 

S. What to do with all of my deficiencies, restrict them? 

R. Usually if you’re working with the lacks of the others your lacks receive filling on their own. Because you are working, you automatically, internally include your lacks with their deficiencies, and this is how it is corrected. 

31. S. (55:11) What is that fulfillment that we wish to pass on?

R. What the friend demands. How do I know what the filling is? It’s usually the connection, what’s missing is connection with the Creator and I establish this connection for him, I install his connection through me to Him. 

Reading 3 (55:44)

32. S. (56:54) Lately in the past month we’ve finally had this understanding that the deficiency of the friend is my power for advancing spiritually, that’s my only way of advancing spiritually, and from that comes to question do I even need to see the deficiency of the friends as fulfilled?

R. For everything that’s passed yesterday you have to say that’s how it should have been, there is None Else Besides Him. Don’t be sorry, otherwise you become a Klipa, otherwise we are truly immersed in the past. That’s one thing. For the next you have to simply work, continue to work to raise deficiencies and let the Creator solve them, and no more than that. Continue and you’ll see, not in the place where you are standing with your question do you receive the answer but rather if you remain with the question you’ll receive it after a while. 

33. S. (58:46) It says that the blessing of the blessed love one another?

R. Yes that there’s a connection between them.

S. In our society it’s very clear how it can work this story, but how can it work from us to the rest of the world? Do they have to love us, do they have to be in some work towards us?

R. We need to love them even though there is nothing of equivalence of form in between them and us from their behalf. But for the time being this really should be and it should be from our general vessel. I must potentially relate to everyone with love, even though today if I look at them there is not much love or any leaning towards them, but we need to see in them those souls that are connecting more and more. In truth every day there are many corrections in the world that are causing additional corrections between people, more correctly we should say between the souls which is why we don’t really see it.

S. But ultimately their ability to receive from us will also depend on how much they appreciate or love us?

R. Yes, but here we are already in a question whether we can see it or not, meaning what is the truth and what appears before us. So it could be that we see a much worse picture than that which really exists. What is the picture that is inside reality. within its innards, that’s a true correct question. 

34. S. (01:01:00) I don’t trust myself that if I receive from the Creator I’ll pass it onto the friends. I feel that it’s preventing me from asking truthfully. What should I do?

R. First of all why I ask? If I with all the true smallest deficiency can evoke in the Creator joy when I ask Him, demand from Him, receive from Him then why shouldn’t I ask? I don’t need to be annoying and I don’t need just ask without a lack, the lack needs to be in the heart. But if I have such a deficiency I have to let it burst out words, operate itself, receive filling and even the fillings of the wicked which we read about in many stories of the Kabbalists, nevertheless if they turn to the Creator and ask for filling then also the filling of those questions tries to fill. All the deficiencies that created beings have, if we turn them to the Creator the Creator fills them somewhat, somehow and in joy, and if there are no correct intentions then He will demand the intentions later. But this is when we turn to Him and we create a place, a connection with Him, that’s good. Especially if it comes from a true lack. It’s prohibited to activate a prayer without the deficiency. If I just open the prayer book in the morning and start to say the words of the prayer there and read these verses and talk and I have nothing in my heart, nothing except for the automatic reading it’s not so good. It is better to raise a deficiency without words, just like we have Hasidic stories of a child who whistles and by that enters into connection with the Creator because through the whistle he executed the lack of his heart.

35. S. (01:04:15) Is this the place we’re talking about deficiencies of friends, are these the other six hundred and thirteen desires of the soul that we have to correct regardless of corporeality, only these desires?

R. Correct. Correct.

S. The moment I have feeling of the desire of the friend, at that moment I am the one who feels that friend is corrected, and he is filling my desire, is this correct?

R. Correct.

36. S. (01:05:10) The conduit wants to receive an order to bestow. In this work do we need to participate by suffering with the others and rejoicing with the others or do we simply strive to accept what’s happening passively because it’s all coming from the Creator?

R. Try to feel the lack in the friend, try to feel this lack as your own. This lack that you’re feeling from the lack of the friend try to connect with the Creator and ask from the Creator. What turns out here is that the friend cannot ask because it will be a Klipa. You receive a deficiency from the friend in order to raise it to the Creator and ask the Creator for filling. Then you receive the filling not according to your desire but according to the desire of a friend and therefore you can receive the deficiency, it can go through you and then you deliver this filling into the friend. Look at how many actions are here and they’re already spiritual, acts of bestowal. You received a deficiency from the friend, you need to feel it as your own lack, you need to raise this lack to the Creator and to ask for filling from Him, and the filling not for oneself but for the sake of a friend. Then this filling you pass to the friend, you feel how you’re giving him, filling him, and you are filled from the action, from bestowal. You did a favor to the Creator for receiving filling from Him because the Kabbalists say that more than the calf wants to nurse the cow wants to suckle, that as much as she suffers that’s how the Creator is as well. Also when you pass everything that you receive from the Creator to the friend you feel it as the filling that goes through you after your vessels but the friend receives it and enjoys. Meaning receives it in your vessels, in your reflected light, and in this there is really great pleasure to everyone as already a clothing to the upper light.

37. S. (01:08:23) During the lesson we speak about how we need to build a connection between the friends and the Creator, and we also said how we need to build the connection between the friends, meaning to connect with the friends. How are these two tasks connected?

R. We need to try and prepare ourselves in the connection with friends and then from the friends to the Creator. That is the work that is actually divided into two, the preparation of the vessels which is in the connection between the friends and activation of the vessel has to do with a connection with the Creator.

S. To clarify it says that we have to connect the individual desire the friends but the friends who are connected have different desires. How is it correct, what’s the deficiency that I should raise to the Creator?

R. What do you feel is what you need to raise up, what you feel, and don’t think that you are now starting with the zero point but rather you want to receive it as of now. Before there are thousands of thousands of actions within which all the deficiencies have changed and you cannot in such a way and in a precise mathematical way be in every single moment. I understand your nature, but it won’t help, you start with where you are now.

38. S. (01:10:21) The last line in the quote says they awaken the upper conduit, the upper pipeline so they can depart through the righteous. The righteous is the conduit, the one who passes?

R. Yes.

39. S. (01:11:08) The deficiency for spirituality that I have comes from friends, but I never managed to detect the deficiency inside of me. How do I detect the deficiency? How do I distinguish between them and work with them?

R. Why is it important? If I don’t identify exactly the deficiency of the friend where I am not quite with him in such connections and in spiritual revelation where exactly I can identify with all his deficiencies and the specific deficiency that I want to raise to the Creator and to receive MAD and pass this filling exactly to that friend, it’s not important to us now. That will be clarified to us after many actions when we have more and more complex states, and then we will start scrutinizing them. It will come on its own. It’s just like a child that is not getting along with the world around him and doesn’t know exactly what’s happening, this and that, but then gradually, slowly it comes. That’s why we have to continue slowly, slowly and try each time to do as many actions as we can.

S. So it doesn’t matter whose deficiency it is specifically, but how can I tell what’s the right way to distinguish between my deficiency, my impure deficiency and the friend’s deficiency that is pure?

R. Try. As much as you can differentiate between the two of them try, and as much as not, not. So it’s still like that. That’s exactly the way we grow in corporeality also, confused, we don’t exactly know what’s happening, that’s how it is exactly.

40. S. (01:13:18) That’s state that we are depicting to ourselves right now, a corrected world is full of conduits that are all connected together. That’s Gmar Tikkun, that’s the purpose of creation?

R. No, that’s the correction of the creation.

S. Is that the state of Gmar Tikkun?

R. No, what end of correction? We are the connections between those connections that were differentiated. There was one big sphere, this sphere exploded and from its billions of little spheres were created. What we need to do is to make conduits between all these spheres such that all these balls together will connect as one ball just like it was in the beginning. Now, what’s happening here? The thing is not in the balls themselves, the balls can separate in the shattering of Adam HaRishon, that is how they remained but all the created beings are actually the conduits. They are actually the conduits and they need to arrange between them mutual communication so that the filling will be passed to each and every one; that will be like in this big sphere, this big ball of Adam HaRishon. It turns out that in these conduits that they have with each other, these fillings with one another in this way that’s where all the secret, all the essence of Adam HaRishon will be that the Creator created. And soon we will begin to engage in that. This is actually already something that the Kabbalists explain about the system of the world of Atzilut.

Think about it. It’s very interesting how this construction, this assembly of the pipelines, the conduits, how they work in such a way that they wish to build the system, assemble the system that will work like the system of Adam HaRishon before the shattering when it was just one sphere. Now when it’s billions of such spheres connected by billions and billions of conduits they’ll assemble the system, the whole system in such a way that it works 620 times more in amplitude. Meaning in scrutinizing the internality of the system, the reason for the system, the purpose of the system and that will be revealed to all. What does it mean reveal to all? That each one will be so interconnected with all of those different pipelines through everyone that each one feels and understands and attains the essence of connection. This is called come and see, Boreh, the Creator. So the Creator is not in the spheres, the Creator actually appears in the conduits, the direct light, reflected light, all of those pipelines of light that connect and assemble those spheres, those individual souls, and each and every individual soul already highlights itself, it shines, it reveals itself in concern for all the others, responsible for all the others which did not exist before. At first it was just all swallowed in a single sphere. 

41. S. (01:17:58) We need to become that sphere of wholeness. That’s not only my work to take the deficiency of the friends but also to see part of His work. Is it a part of me, how not to miss out on it?

R. To reach a state where the entire work of all the individual souls is felt by each and every soul because all of us are incorporated with each other. So across these souls there is no greater and smaller or first and last, nothing. All of us, even though we are separate, discrete, each and everyone in and of himself yet each one also feels everyone else. That is perhaps similar to how these phones we have today, the mobile phones allow us to connect to everyone and we can see everyone and track everyone. Let’s say at some point it will come to that. So that is actually similar to what the shattering and the correction process enables us, correction of the shattering. That each and every one can become like the Creator in control of everyone and before each one is the complete system under his governance, his influence and he’s in control of it. They make a request from him and he transfers their deficiency to the Creator, receives from the Creator and spreads to all, and that’s basically how we’ll find the system after the correction. It’s very simple actually for us today to understand this, we are already living in the world that is almost ready for it.

42. S. (01:20:23) When we are demanding from the Creator for our friends, should we prioritize the friends who are in the morning lesson?

R. Yes, of course. According to the law you first have to be concerned with your close friends, your ten. After that the tens that are closer to your ten let’s say in the same country. After that other tens in your language and then all of the tens in all languages all over the world. This has to be the sort of hierarchy in the system of connection, that’s written. Where does it come from? It comes from what’s called the poor ones of your city come first.

43. S. (01:21:50) When we receive from the Creator how do we pass on to the friends? Is it internality, externality or is there is another dimension? How do we pass on?

R. I don’t know, I don’t know. I am teaching you the general law and you should try to realize it now among you as you discuss it together and do it in practice, activating the system.

44. S. (01:22:42) In order to be a conduit first of all I need to connect to the friend’s deficiency and here is a practical question: what is that action of connecting to my friend’s deficiency? How do I do it?

R. You have to receive the deficiency of the friend into your heart and imagine that you exist in his deficiency towards the Creator, the group, connection, all kinds of things. You don’t need to go into the very details but all in all to feel that now you are working with the deficiency of the friend. Then this prayer for the friend, you have to try to raise it to the Creator, to ask. Ask the Creator to give fulfilment, to give an answer to the friend’s deficiency through you, that you are willing to pass it onto the friend. You are only the conduit here, the pipeline, the pathway and that’s how you want to work, and the same with another friend and another friend and so forth. Towards them, for them you want to work, and for yourself you don’t want anything besides being the conduit of abundance for them.

S. How do I not get confused with my deficiencies and really bring the friend’s deficiency in the heart?

R. Well that’s the exercise, you have to exercise it, what can you do? The more you want to connect to the friends, that’s how you’ll do it. 

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45. S. (01:26:54) The action of the pipeline to the deficiencies of the friend, do I acquire the friend’s deficiencies that I’m lacking in order to be in a better connection with the Creator?

R. More than that. By being incorporated with the friends’ questions and the responses of the Creator by that I build my soul, my soul which I don’t have. I don’t have it to begin with. It is built only from the friends, from the world that’s outside of me, from those vessels, from these deficiencies and only from the fulfillment that the Creator gives them, their deficiencies. So both the vessel of the soul and the light of the soul I receive from outside. So who am I on my own? That point the Creator created.

46. S. (01:28:04) Every day we do two world prayers. How to use them to raise all the deficiencies, to receive MAD for everybody?

R. Try in those prayers to assemble the deficiencies of the world and your deficiencies for the world. Do that, a few sentences about that, then you will see. There should be a great benefit in doing that.

47. S. (01:28:37) Why should I pass the fulfillment through me and not ask that there will be a direct pipeline from the friend to the Creator?

R. Because a direct pipeline from the Creator one could raise it by himself if he could, but there is a matter of one should help his friend, that he can’t and only I can do that work for him. So each one does it for everyone else. Each one assembles this alternative connection between the friend and the Creator. The same way with all the friends for each and everyone and all of humanity for each and every one. They all assemble these pathways of connection by raising MAN and bringing MAD to each and every person in humanity, and that’s the correction of the world. The Creator created it as a single sphere and then He disintegrated it and made it empty. We assemble thousands and thousands of such pipelines through the connections between us, our mutual concern, and thus we fulfill ourselves with the same fulfillment, but in our feeling it is now 620 times greater than it was before the shattering of Adam.

48. S. (01:30:37) We all have similar deficiencies in society so what’s the difference if I raise my deficiencies or the friends’ deficiencies?

R. No. Deficiencies are not similar, each one has his own deficiency his own point and certainly we’re all completely not similar. As it says as their faces are not similar, the deficiencies are not similar, their thoughts are dissimilar, everyone comes from a different point in Adam HaRishon.

49. S. (01:31:18) Why do I need to be a pipeline?

R. Why you need to be a pipeline? Because in any other way you can’t enliven yourself or enliven the others. By enlivening the others you are not actually enlivening them, you’re building your soul and you’re fulfilling your soul in the light of the Creator. Then it follows that if you complete the fulfillment of everyone, sustaining everyone you are actually building the Creator, this whole image of the Creator. You pass it on to your system called the soul.

50. S. (01:32:08) The moment I connect the friend to the Creator what’s the uniqueness of annulling before the Creator and the uniqueness of annulling before the friend?

R. My effort, our exertion is what we add all in all with respect to Adam HaRishon before the shattering and with regards to the final correction. After everything, in the middle, in between we put in our effort, our labor, and that labor is what multiplies the fulfillment that existed in Adam HaRishon as a thin candle. It’s called to the light of Ein Sof, the final correction. It happens after our efforts, that’s what happens.

51. S. (01:33:05) Is our goal in the work to exchange our deficiencies with the deficiencies of the friend so we can be in a constant prayer for them?

R. Say it again.

S. Do we need to reach a point where the deficiencies of the friend is mine, that we can constantly ask for them?

R. Yes. All of us ultimately become incorporated with everyone’s deficiencies. These deficiencies don’t disappear they rather hold the light of Ein Sof in our vessel.

52. S. (01:33:46) If my friend has a corporeal deficiency how do I know what to ask from the Creator in order to fill it and how do I know that it will be for her benefit?

R. When it comes to corporeal deficiencies of the friends we’re not talking about that. We can pray for it if we see that truly necessities are lacking for a friend but also it’s not really related to corporeality because it’s what’s called reviving the soul. Corporeal deficiencies we don’t need to ask for them, we don’t need to worry about them.

53. S. (01:34:31) What are we passing to the friends? How is it expressed, with what words?

R. We pass onto the friend all the forces he needs from above in order to grow, to grow his soul, his force of bestowal.

54. S. (01:34:52) If in the ten we’re not all blending into one pipeline what does it matter if I’ll be a pipeline to my friends in the ten or to friends that are outside of my ten?

R. No, I can’t behave that way. I have to be as Baal HaSulam writes in Matan Torah and Arvut that the Creator puts the person’s hand on a good faith and says take it, and we have to just take it and that’s it. So I have to work within the framework of my ten and only there I have to find my destiny and also the completion of my work.

55. S. (01:35:41) On the one hand I’m in the middle, connect my friend to the Creator. On the other hand I can connect to the Creator only through the friends, so how to combine the two?

R. I don’t know what exactly she’s asking, repeat it please.

S. If I am in the middle between the Creator and the friend, I can also reach the Creator through the friends so how does that work those two things?

R. No. If you raise the friend’s deficiency to the Creator then you are already incorporated with the friend’s deficiency and with the Creator.

56. S. (01:36:24) Only a person in spiritual attainment can connect between the Creator and the created beings?

R. Yes. Otherwise he doesn’t have a real desire to connect the created beings to the Creator. As much as he wants it, he doesn’t have it.

57. S. (01:36:44) What needs to be the request to the Creator if we pray for the friends and want to be a conduit to them?

R. The Creator will fulfill us so that we pass through us all that He gives us to them, to the friends. For ourselves we don’t need anything besides serving them.

58. S. (01:37:09) Does a friend have to know that I’m passing his deficiency to the Creator?

R. No.

59. S. (01:37:18) When a person prays for filling a friend’s spiritual deficiency is that a request that the Creator fills the personal deficiency of that friend or that through that friend the whole ten will get a spiritual ascent?

R. So one has to add to his request also a request for the whole ten.

60. S. (01:37:44) How to be concentrated on the friend’s deficiencies in every moment when everything is organized to take her mind off it?

R. You have to make exercises and you need to exercise it. That’s it.

61. S. (01:38:09) How to overcome a state that the friend’s deficiency isn’t that important to me, that I don’t take that as the work of my correction?

R. Think about it more, give it more importance. It’s only by thought.

62. S. (01:38:29) It turns out that to be the conduit I need to annul twice, once before the friends in order to feel their deficiencies and once before the Creator. What gives me the energy to do this work? It seems that I’m just erasing myself?

R. Try it first for a few weeks, then we’ll talk.

63. S. (01:38:57) Is the friend’s deficiencies what I see they’re lacking, or do I have to try to understand the source, the true root of their deficiency and the pass that to the Creator?

R. No. You need to clothe the friend’s deficiency in your deficiency so as to help her. So there is no personal deficiency of yours there and then you raise it.

64. S. (01:39:33) When we raise deficiencies of the friends in the ten does that also make corrections in the world Kli and the whole world? 

R. Somewhat, yes. Somewhat when we are incorporating and doing that.

65. S. (01:39:50) When I’m thinking of filling the friend’s deficiencies it feels that my self disappears, is that how it has to be?

R. Yes.

66. S. (01:40:00) The prayer I’m raising, it’s a result of the feeling I get from the friends. Is that why it’s so important that I love them?

R. Not because of that but in general it is very important to love the friends because that’s how you build the vessel of your soul.