KETER: TIKKUN CHATZOT תקון חצות – LESSON WITH RAV MICHAEL LAITMAN
Lesson on the topic of “Faith Above Reason”
Morning Lesson November 28, 2022 Transcription
Transcription is made from simultaneous translation which leaves a possibility for differences in the audio
Part 1:
Faith Above Reason – Selected Excerpts from the Sources. #52
1. Rav’s Introduction: (00:20) Yes, we are in the same direction on the same path towards the same goal of reaching Lishma for her sake. We need to realize that we are actually already on the straight path to the purpose of creation. If we achieve Lishma if we achieve faith above reason that if we achieve such a connection with the Creator where we are all incorporated in everyone and in Him and by that we return to the same state as it existed before the sin of the ‘Tree of Knowledge’, before the shattering of the vessel of Adam HaRison. Our purpose in our actions are all converged and aimed towards that single point of unity. Let us read it and scrutinize it even more, nevertheless, this is the way and this is the topic of which we shouldn’t come out of this topic but only add to it more and more discernments.
Reading Excerpt 52. (01:43) “What appears to one as things that contradict..”
2. S. (03:06) How is it possible to draw the upper light or the exaltedness of the Creator upon the contradictions?
R.If one tries to aim his thought and his heart towards unity with the Creator and he sees that he doesn’t have so many thoughts towards that. He doesn’t have so many inclinations of the heart to connect with the Creator then he searches by what means can he nevertheless direct himself and it could be that the group is also not quite felt in him.
I am not talking about how the group is in and of itself but the way he feels he feels the group that it doesn’t pressure him, it’s not drawing him ,it does not obligate him and so he doesn’t know what to do. He sees that all kinds of such states are actually these components of spiritual success.They disappear from him they seem to have contradictions between them and you have to overcome each one all of them forcefully in order to bring them together in a certain common action. The forces and thoughts and directions and he sees that it is not working. All of this all of this is because he lacks the exaltedness of the Creator, that if the Creator were great in his eyes everything would fall into place but if the Creator is hiding then he doesn’t have the strength to overcome it.
Then he turns either to this or that or that,meaning through all kinds of means that can bring him a certain relation of anxiety or greatness or some inclination towards the Creator and he sees that it’s all difficult for him. What can you do? Then one realizes that it is the Creator who is sending him such states. The Creator is pouring on him this darkness, the feeling of disconnection or distancing and he has nothing that he can do about it. It is as though that place where he should have felt the friends and the Creator and the group and the importance of the goal there he feels a fog. It’s just like when we are in a fog and we can’t quite see what is around us, so it is with the person and what can you do? Here, one must not forget that all the contradictions are sent to him by the Creator.
The contradictions, the concealments are sent by the Creator in order for the person to want through that to accustom himself to work with Him with the Creator and nevertheless, in a way that is as close as tight and that it all truly exists within man’s forces, and if not then pray and the Creator will bring him that. This is why all of those feelings of lack of exaltedness of the Creator in his eyes. All of these judgments, they cause him to want to discover the Creator as a force that is greater, higher, broader and controlling everything. That there is only one nature, the nature of bestowal, and love and connection and this force holds within it the whole of reality and the person should make efforts in order to discover Him.
3. S. (08:08) How out of these contradictions do we begin to build the Kli?
R. It happens in many manners, I can’t say that if we nevertheless don’t forget that all of these states and thoughts that are contradictory, everything that we have. We want to connect all of these things together because it comes from a single source.This is only because we have to resemble him. We feel them as separate things and contradictory. This is how we try to put it all together.
There is nothing that is against and something that is for and there is no bad or good but rather it is all revealed in this way towards each one of us and all of us together in order for us by trying to connect them all together, we will find the single source which is the Creator so that the bad also becomes the good and and and we connect together as one man in one heart. This is something that we should more and more try to to understand.
Why did the Creator do it like that? What is our work in this? How do we discover the correct relations between us? The correct one side and incorrect ones, that the Creator deliberately awakens all kinds of states that are contradictory and opposite. He himself hides, He doesn’t want to show us how to put together all of the good things and the bad things, those that are for and those that are against and it is all in order for us to search.
When we search by that we develop our senses, our brain, and mind through such searches, like children in their games. That we deliberately buy games for them so that they will look for a solution there. Our whole life,our whole study in schools also it is all by question and solution, question and solution. This is how we need to see our work. That each time we have questions before us and from these questions we reach a search and from the search we eventually do reach answers, solutions and that we understand that the whole of creation from it’s beginning to its end.In the end, after many such states many such efforts we do understand why he did it like that what is our role in this and when we solve all of the problems we become like Him like the Creator.
S. The Lo Lishma, from the Lishma to Lo Lishma the difference is that the person begins to become interested in these contradictory states?
R. Yes, we are actually interested in those opposite states, in the questions because we see that without questions we cannot reach the understanding of nature, the understanding of the Creator’s relation to us, the understanding of our answers and how we should answer everything that He is seemingly asking us of us, or that we are asking Him. We should feel in return His relation to us, His answer. It is all some kind of questions and answers. I to the Creator and the Creator to me and this is how together when we turn to Him. This is how we actually advance.
5. S. (13:28) Is it necessary to awaken this Hisaron in all friends in order to reveal the greatness of the Creator?
R. Yes, we eventually need to scrutinize all of the questions and find for them all of the answers and the explanations. This is how we reach the end of the path, when everything is clear to us and everything is felt in us. Then the Creator is revealed and He is together with us in the solution and we understand the whole of creation from the beginning to its end. This is our way through that we get to know the Creator as it is written, “from your actions we know you,” from his actions we get to know Him.
6. S. (14:44) What is the thing that helps us most to increase the longings for the Creator?
R. It is truly not simple to yearn for the Creator. In the beginning we seemingly have a natural disposition for it but later it fades bit-by-bit. We have to artificially awaken ourselves towards the Creator. What do we need Him for? What does it mean- Creator? It is a collection of all of the created beings and so through from all of the created beings through all of the created beings I feel some force that operates them. What do I get out of discovering the Creator? Feeling him?
That is the question that we cannot even ask precisely. You can say the general force that is holding us and holding the whole of the world and it determines for me what I had yesterday and today and the future but it is still not clear. I want to bring him before me in some form that will be more clear and here I don’t have it yet. The Creator is revealed specifically inside of the created beings. As much as we try to connect with the friends, I actually see that I build this model, this form in which I can discover the Creator.
This is why the Creator is called Boreh, come and see. This is how I attain Him through actions and qualities through there is ‘None ElseBesides Him’ that He feels the whole world that He is the Good doing Good, etc. etc. Meaning, He is revealed to me in many directions until I begin to see that He fills the whole of reality. We are all included in Him. This is how the Creator from zero where he was not felt and was not apparent and seemingly did not exist, this is how He is revealed more and more and eventually He feels everything.
7. S. (18:09) I heard you mention being in conversation with the Creator constantly. We are always praying for one another individually. What is the most appropriate way to engage in conversation with the Creator throughout the day?
R. I want you to search for that on your own. I can give you one piece of advice. Try to talk with each other through the Creator. It is simple, it is a simple and concrete piece of advice. Try to talk to one another with the friends, the men, the women, through the Creator. If that doesn’t work don’t let go of it but rather nevertheless search in which way it is possible to build this connection.
S. When we are not gathered together and speaking about the Creator and trying to be in conversation through the Ten with the Creator, during the rest of the day in our intention and inner inner thoughts, what is the best way to be in conversation with the Creator? What should be the focus?
R. I think that the most correct is to depict the Creator as linking us together, connecting us, and if I want to turn to a friend, I turn to her through the Creator and then for sure the connection will exist. Even just to depict it even if I have nothing to say to the Creator that He will help me in the connection that I cannot reach, that I cannot reach a connection with anyone, that He will help me, that He will awaken the heart of my friend so that I will be connected with her.
8. S. (20:50) We are speaking about the greatness of the Creator. How can we correctly use the greatness of the Rav and the friends in order to enlarge the greatness of the Creator?
R. It is a practical question and a very difficult one, how can I use the greatness of Rav, of the friends, of the group. I need to see the entire system as one. The Creator is the one who is connecting all the parts of the system with each other, each one with the others without any flaw. No connection is missing in this system and this whole connection that exists between all of us, between the billions and through all of the incidents and throughout all of the times, all of this is called The Creator. This network is called the Creator. Then I search for how I can become incorporated in this network. How can I clothe over it? How can I sustain it? How can I take part in it? This is what I want to attain. Try.
9. S. (22:50) Attaining in the greatness of the Creator is a gift but we cannot pray for getting it without falling into the world to receive an issue so how do we attain the greatness of the Creator?
R. When I hold together with a few friends and hold onto the connection between us and the whole same goal. That we want to be truly there as one and cover between us from the form of connection between us to discover a single force, a single thought, a single desire, meaning a single state, then I have no problem. I will not fall from this disposition and I will also hold the friends in that and this is how we will reach He and His name I one. As it is called that our connection will reveal to us the nature of the Creator and of the whole of creation and that we will be inside this connection.
S. Can we pray for that, friends get it a time and can we pray for that?
R. Certainly this is the strongest means towards man’s correction, it is written, one who prays for his friend is rewarded first. Go ahead please good luck prayer it’s one toward the other and you will see how much this will help you.
10. S. (24:57) We live in constant Emotion of difficulties days and responses overcoming the difficulties. Sometimes the Ten isn’t making use of these opportunities in the states so the question is how can the Ten respond when there is a contradiction or conflict that we will be able to see the greatness of the Creator
R. Only through examples that each one gives to the upper class that we can then advance correctly. Try specifically before the friends to perform or kinds of actions of connections, participation to bring them even more perhaps to some kind of connection in the Arvut and this so you will see it.
As much as everyone will advance and succeed. When you are in a group then there is no choice. You already depend on each other and you depend on each other so much that one cannot succeed without the other one succeeding. It is not a matter of competition. Here it is the opposite here there is a matter of support. There has to be competition in support in connection, in pushing each one pushing the other towards mutual guarantee. This is what has to happen to you.
11. S. (27:16 ) What is the correct manner of putting up with judgments and a sense of emptiness with happiness? What action will be the most beneficial to us in the early moments of this condition, the judgements and emptiness?
R. The judgments come in order to show us where we are not yet connected. Where there are flaws in our connection and this is why we specifically in the places where the judgments appear there we should try to to close to tighten outranks a relations are connections and advances in this way and therefore the scrutiny of the judgments where we are not yet close enough to each other these are actually the places that we have to pay attention to and put our thoughts into them and connects and come closer to each other. This is how we reach the goal a lot quicker.
12. S. (29:00) How in the Ten can we build a connection with the Creator that is Lishma?
R. That we want to help each other and as much as we truly want to help the friend and not oneself seemingly even though it is a single system this is how we reach Lishma?
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S. By what means do we actively begin our mutual bestowal that will be called Lishma?
R. That I want to help the friend in any way possible so that he will be connected with everyone and help push everyone to the Creator.
13. S. (30:08) In order to reach and feel the greatness of the Creator. We have to reach and feel the greatness of the friends and then we have to try and save them and break them and see the friends, we don’t see any response in empathy. What can we learn from this?
R. I think that this is how it appears to us and we shouldn’t pay attention to that but rather realize that this is how the Creator is arranging the relations between us in order for us to have more and more, always the possibility to strengthen our ranks and not to pay attention to the external behavior of the friend because it is the Creator who is arranging it for a deliberately but in general we shouldn’t pay attention to what is happening to us in the group so much we should pay attention to where is a place that each and every one of us has to work in.
The fact that we see the friends who are actually hugging me or jumping at me they care for me etc no, no. I shouldn’t see this. Even worse as it is written, ‘that to those that advanced they have between them such places of quarrel that they appear that they truly want to kill one another you remember where it is written like that. We need to try my most importantly to work on supporting each other and this is how we will advance and succeed.
14. S. (32:18) The faith is the sensation of the reason and the thoughts between us? How does the Creator increase the faith because there is none else besides him?
R. He, according to our efforts, awakens in us on the path of bestowal and this is enough in order for us to advance on the path of faith.
15. S. (33:01) You said that the friends need to support one another and not to jump up on top of each other so how is this support actively expressed in the group? In what manner is support for friends?
R. The support between the friends and the Ten is that each one wants to help the other and realize the work instead of the other so that he does something. I also do something. I also support that and this is how we help each other.
16. S. (34:01) In order to reveal the Creator the judgments we need to delay them by annulling ourselves or do we need to reveal the opposite? The contradictions in order to rise in 5 above reasoning above them?
R. We need to understand the judgements and to try to overcome them through connection between us and praying to the Creator. This is called overcoming. It is not like our life that we overcome all kinds of corporeal states. Here we have to connect between us and overcome what the creator is creating between us in order for us to ask of him and obligate him to help us connect.
17. S. (35:15) You said try to talk to one another through the Creator. how to do this?
R. Through bestow, through the Creator so that the force of the Creator that feels everything, try to work through Him he feels everything. He arranges everything. Try to be connected to Him and with each other through Him. Is it clear? I have nothing more to say. The rest of it you should think about.
18. S. (35:57) How do you explain the exaltedness of the Creator?
R. We expand the exaltation of the Creator by talking about it giving examples to each other of how much this actually influences us.
19. S. (36:27) What should I check on myself before the Congress to make sure that I did everything for it?
R. When I come to the Congress in order to help everyone because otherwise I shouldn’t come. I want to come to the Congress in order to help everyone, what does that mean ? That I come in order to support everyone in order to bring the friends closer together, in order to be in this whole process of the Congress together with everyone make everyone happy, hug everyone. Well, of course, most of our connections are actually done through the internet but it should felt nevertheless, try it.
20. S. (37:53) You talk about the greatness of the Creator. How can I connect the honor of the friends and the Creator?
R. As much as the Creator chooses the friends and I see that he chooses them and he supports them and they in return connect between them and support Him. In my eyes the greatness of the Creator and the greatness of our friends become as one.
21. S. (38:31) How do I support my friends without them feeling pressure from me?
R. You need to do it gently but with love. If they are pressured out of love in a clearly revealed manner, then they won’t feel pressure.
22. S. (38:56) What do I do if I myself look at the states that are sent to me, that they are so harsh that in fact my inner prayer is not about unity but about death, how do I change that?
R. Once again all these things we can understand and solve them only in connection. Talk about it amongst yourselves. If it doesn’t succeed, ask your other friends. Let’s make an effort in order to be more connected and you will see how it goes. Some friends come and want to connect with you and work together with a connection and and with the connection you run forward until the end of correction. You have no more what to do other than connection. For the time being that is what we have.
23. S. (40:25) The judgments are a contradiction to the Creator’s good providence of the “good who does good”s but every judgment you were also talking about punishment is that some kind of spiritual punishment?
R. Punishments for this that we are not fulfilling the sentence from the Creator, it can be in all sorts of means, it can be immediate and it can be over the course of a long time. I can’t explain this in detail but there are those that we can identify, each punishment and there are those that we can’t even identify the punishment and we think that these things just happen instantly and so on. Make an effort to not work love out and not from punishment but with a desire to love, to connect and then you will surely succeed.
24. S. (41:44) In the preparation for this lesson we talked about taking advantage of the experience we have accumulated and on the other hand we talked about how it is actually good to forget about everything, that everything is erased and we need to start anew. What is better to discover everything new or to use or to use your insight from the past? Which actually did not help me so far.
R. It is better to forget, it is better to forget and begin a new as it says “each moment shall be as new in your eyes” and make an effort to quickly open up the problem that is before you in a new manner, in new adhesion, in new reorganization and succeed.
25. S. (43:02) You always talk about the fact that the Creator does everything full stop who made the first restriction?
R. Up until the first restriction there was nothing at all, not even the created beings. The created beings were formed after the first restriction.
S. That’s exactly what I am asking. We always learned in TES that phase four reached a state of shame, of hell that of hell that it restricted itself upon its quality of reception. This created this kind of judgment that the world cannot exist and then the Creator added the Hassidim mercy. Was this action on the side of creation because it turns out that the Creator created creation and creation took that first step, is that how it was?
R. We can talk a lot about this but it is lacking focus here because we don’t really understand what is happening on this level yet. I can say that the force is always still in the hands of the Creator.
S. Yes, exactly was in the hands of the Creator but it turns out that we can actually for now pay attention to your responses, to your answers that you give us , that those that you give to your students they actually push forward it is hard to get out of it. It does not have to do anything with the striction or anything of this.
R. I am talking about judgments, in the meantime we are existing truly like small creatures, like small beasts,we have no belonging to the Creator. You have created some systems for yourself that you live with, that’s what I think.
S. But a person, the first time he touches godliness he is happy that it exists but later on you say that disappears and then the judgements begin.
R. Hatred, rejection from the Creator etc. It is hard for me to talk about this because there’s a lot of things that we need to reach an agreement with here together. I don’t think that that can happen here and now.
26. S. (46:33) I have a double question, the greatness of the Creator, why do we have to reach it? Why is this entering a milestone and for what kind of work can we succeed in?
R. We need to acquire this that he rules everything. That he rules everything that he penetrates and is in everything, that we all depend on Him, that we all exist only in order to reveal him.
S. In addition besides this work with the contradictions in the opposites is there any other work or is that our primary work?
R. Our work is to reveal the Creator as the only force in the world, nothing else besides this.
27. S. (47:30) How do I push the friends to Lishmawithout it being a place of control or domination, honor?
R. The best thing is by example, and that’s it to push them too for her sake, to show them that you are in towards that and there is no other path besides this.
S. If the ego jumps?
R. So it jumps, what to do? That’s how we need to be together, that each one makes the effort to go above their ego in connection with others and when it jumps we know that also happens and we will make an effort together to rise over this ego and to win It.
S. To continue the friend’s question, do we try to give an example and sometimes you then see following your action that the response of the friend when you talk to him that actually the example you gave him lowered him and distance him so I want to understand how do I receive the example and how am I supposed to take to receive the example that the friend gives you because they already up always have examples around me but I want to make sure that these influence me correctly?
R. The best thing is to receive and accept something correctly is by love, when you love someone the love also corrupts but you can perform corrections upon it, if you make the effort to love the friends then you will see correct good examples from them.
28. S. (48:54) If I don’t see that I need to?
R. If you don’t see that then it’s a sign you don’t love them and you don’t pay attention to them.
Reading excerpt number 53 (50:11) “and in the state one is in..” twice
29. R. (52:39) You don’t need to be wise.
Reading continues (52:40)
30. S. (53:55) Who do we identify as the enemies you have a table set before us by our enemies. Who do we identify as the enemies?
R. All those seemingly that hate me but actually it’s called an assistance against oneself.
31. S. (54:31) If we understand correctly the translation of this excerpt, He will send me out of my spiritual work. He will send me against my enemies, it is also written that they don’t need any Mochin or understanding, so how do we operate?
R. The Creator doesn’t need any actions of mind in order to bring me to the end of corrections but nonetheless he wants me to act in these actions to perform them.
32. S. (55:19) How nevertheless through all of these states that a person experiences how to be the servant of the Creator?
R. Don’t disconnect from Him wherever he may throw you, up, down, you respond to him like a baby grasping on to his mother, like a little child, how he holds onto his mother? He grabs on just like a little monkey, and he hangs on his mother and he holds on and that’s why he holds on that’s why he grows in this manner. That’s the precise beastly instinct and we need to act until we will acquire the connection through the mind of how to hold onto the Creator.
S. In this way in order to hold on like a little monkey to hold onto the Creator so it turns out that it has to be above all the states because it is written here that one can only do it above a reason, so it turns out that in order for a person not to feel whatever he feels upon his feelings he has to be connected to the Creator?
R. Yes, it means to be connected to the Creator and afterwards just buy all kinds of changes that occurred to him in the states between you, you nonetheless hold on to him.
33. S. (57:25) Out of our work we know that we have to present a good example to the friends always, but this example causes envy, what do we do and how do we work because sometimes it ends up being the opposite of what we want sometimes somebody gives an example but it’s not received correctly, so how do we work with that?
R. You grasp on the Creator and the friends it’s the only thing that exists and the most sure thing possible.
S. I know that too, indeed it is so but what happens it does help if somebody gives you a good example?
R. It’s very important to give a good example to others.
S. How does the fact that there is ‘None Else Besides Him’, my friends are the Creator or is it me?
R. Your friend is not you and not the Creator, it’s that same part that disconnected from you, over the course of the breaking the shattering of the general soul and you need to adhere them back to you.
S. I need to become myself and make it myself?
R. Yes, you need to turn it into yourself.
34. S. (59:44) [no translation
R. All of l the time I want to get closer to the friends. As much as I want to get closer to the friends faster and closer and in this I am hastening the correction.
35. S. (01:00:35 ) Our task is to engage in corrections and only in this we make corrections in these states?
R. How to make concrete corrections? Only by checking what we are lacking in order to be the corrected state at the end of correction in which all of us are connected in a mutual manner and want to exist only in the state.
36. S. (01:01:21) I want to go deeper a bit, what does it mean to hold onto the Creator?
R. To grasp onto the Creator is to grasp onto the entire group and to make an effort to be in its center that means to grasp to hold onto the Creator.
Reading excerpt number 54 (01:05:21) “a person should say..” twice
37. S. (01:10:19) In the first paragraph it says he wants to correct himself. Can he correct himself or that or is that entirely the job of the creator? Do we have a second nature, is that the same level as the first nature or is that a higher nature?
R. No, we have only one nature which is opposite from the Creator. The nature only of the will to receive but I want to turn to the Creator that He shall correct me and give me the other nature just like the Creator has, the nature to bestow add with the site turn to Him.
S. Can he do this himself or does he need the Creator’s help, can he correct himself?
R. No, the Creator wants that a person will see just how I opposite he is from the Creator and will want to be similar to the Creator and will want to ask of the Creator to be similar to him and he will see just how incapable he is but he can’t turn to the Creator that he shall correct him. This is what’s asked of a person just to ask to be similar to the Creator.
38. S (01:12:07) What does it mean that I need to see that I need to repent?
R. That you need to see just how opposite you are from the Creator and how much the state is not good and you must change yourself to invert yourself instead of being the receiver to be the bestower like the Creator.
S. This is actually the true joy? I am supposed to discover these states?
R. Yes.
39. S. (01:12:50) What is that state of lowliness and how can we diagnose the state of lowliness?
R. When we have no desire for bestowal no desire to get closer to the Creator or the friends so that’s the low state, and I am ashamed to be in it and the opposite if I can receive desire to bestow, then I am enjoy and closeness to the Creator and I advance in this until I become truly similar to him.
40. S. (01:13:45) I would like to ask about the Congress which intention should we try to enter the Congress because we know that the Congress itself it’s connection and joy or maybe it’s more correct to enter and take advantage of this Congress as a leverage towards the world?
R. We need to think about our correction because otherwise we will not reach good correct actions. First of all we want to be connected between us in a good, nice manner as one man and one heart and this is what we want that is one thing. The second matter is that we want to turn to the Creator to help the entire world besides just our friends, outside of our friends as well to be, how to say this to be in connection, mutual bestowal are coming closer to one another, and this should be for all of us. That’s it. All in all that’s the preparation for the Congress.
41. S. (01:15:35) Question about the excerpt, I’ve already asked this but still, there’s a gap when I hear about the teacher saying that I have to bring myself closer. Let’s say I ask the Creator to bring me closer to give me a desire to bestow, so I can’t internally ask the Creator to bring me closer to help me understand. Is this normal? To ask for the world for the friends because that I understand?
R. This is your internal pride that you cannot reveal to yourself that this is what you need so think about this. This is pride, the most internal ego.
S. But you know, I’ll think about it for sure, but it seems that that I’m asking for myself, like a contradiction that we’re not supposed to ask for ourselves that always bothers me
R. What does it mean for yourself? If you have no force to do something for the Creator so why can’t you request such a force that you will have it? You’re not requesting for yourself, you’re requesting to do for others, for the Creator, for the friends.
S. Another question about this excerpt, when we see let’s say that the friend goes through a certain state and his nature is revealed on the outside, I see what the friend is going through with his evil inclination, so here I’m told to ask for him?.
R. If you feel this then it’s meant for you, the instruction.
42. S. (01:18:15) When in which moment does prayer from effort become and in space
R. I don’t understand.
S. What does space mean?
R. What is space?
S. What’s the place for what? We asked you a while ago about a plea to the create about the mother’s side of things and you said do it and we will see what will happen and now the strange thing is happening that before the prayer was an exertion and effort a big effort. Now there is a place where you include the whole group there, and it’s unusual it’s not clear.I’m trying to understand because it’s also connected to the Congress this last excerpt, that you start seeing that you had don’t have anyone to correct and the only one to correct as you and this correction is in being that connector between the upper one to all the others, you’re concerned about them like children and the prayer is felt like a place and area where you want to incorporate the whole world that mercy that higher mother so I’m asking how it happens how does an effort become an area?
R. Continue and you will see I have nothing else to add.
43. S. (01:20:28) If a friend has great disturbances can I see it as my own disturbances and corrected me
R. Yes, it is very healthy and good.
44. S. (01: 20:15 ) I think you’re actually answered my question, basically the only thing I have to do, the only request I have to do is make me a bestower so I can help my friends?
R. Yes, exactly.
Reading excerpt number 55 (01:21:30) “suffering is primarily in a place..” twice
45. S. (01:23:12) It’s not clear what does it mean that the main suffering is above reason it seems that above reason there is no suffering?
R. As much as a person rises up the ladder he has more and more, she tacos various components on the way he is under greater and greater pressures. We as if envious of him, how high he is and how much he understands and feels puts such spiritual scrutiny on us as if we don’t have yet but he is under greater and greater pressures like it is in our world. How many parents, who feel this world and they feel in a much more serious and sharp way than the children.
The kids have their own problems, games and competitions, but the parents already have different problems, bigger and more serious. Same thing here. That the main suffering comes when a person is above reason, and there he clarifies things and to the measure that there, against reason and he is above reason and in that he wants to give contentment to one’s maker and he completely dwells there.
46. S. (01:25:34) Also in a state of descent where can we find the fuel to keep working?
R. Only out of us being together and then we have connection with the Creator from the surrounding light as it’s called, from there we will receive the strength. We will be able to identify and work out of that place.
47. S. (01:26:34) From this excerpt it seems that the Creator wants suffering for man working above reason.
R. No, that’s not true. The Creator wants a person to reach the end of correction the final correction and feel it and all of his vessels.
S. What’s the matter of suffering here? You say that you were going to the path of Torah and not the path of suffering?
R. It’s not suffering, you identify, you locate and identify your own state, the real true state where you are.
48. S. (01:27:12) The scrutiny above reason, through that a person expresses a tendency towards the Creator his longing?
R. Yes.
49. S. (01:27:43) In the Netherlands we will have a physical mirror Congress friends from Ukraine and Germany will join us. We will sit in random tens and each and every lesson, what is the fastest way to integrate into the Ten in to work together as it is my regular Ten?
R. I think the fact that you will be changing times throughout the congress physically your Congress there, it’s a great idea. We will advance you much faster so we will hear together what’s going on there. Tell us and report to us.
S. We will. There’s another question and it has to do with the friends who are in our hearts, they are members of our Ten but they’re not actually with us in the lesson, specifically not in the preparation for this Congress. How should they relate this event to this Congress? Should we put in all our efforts to have them also in this gathering or what is the advice here?
R. Yes, to give them an opportunity to be partners in to participate as much as they can, maybe compose or construct for them a system where they can ask and receive answers and discuss. I don’t know this, see how much it is possible. I understand that there are such states that a person cannot obligate himself to come to the study, but on the other hand, as much as the friends push on him, I see that it is successful.
50. S. (01:30:34) Also a question about the Congress our dear men friends who are on duty they asked in the beginning of the lesson a question for a workshop for the whole group. Why does the Creator awaken a great longing towards him there’s also a letter of the teacher of number 19 that we like an our Ten that he writes that if a person has an awakening towards the Creator it means that the Creator is the one who awakened and man and in that letter It also says that the soul is the measure of longing and now before the Congress it’s not really about the Congress it’s about what we want to happen there. We want to ask we’re always lacking forces of a desire forces of prayer if we all want to awaken a great longing to the Creator will that help us awaken that longing in the heart of each and every friend so we can be in love towards the Creator
R. If we are going to think about it, then certainly it will happen. It depends only on how much we are connected together and yearn to be to the connection, to the motion to the Creator.
51. S. ( 01:32:21) In our work there’s contentment to the Creator that’s we read and there’s always a question if there’s if he’s enjoying what we’re doing we’re searching for an answer in the group so according to watch parameters do we get an answer for that what do we have to feel in the group?
R. I don’t know what you have to feel, this is how you will feel but how to align yourself correctly this is towards the connection between you. How much your connection is aimed through the connection through all of the groups of Bnei Baruch all of the world and all the people in the world to the connection to this final state. This is, in essence, has to be our direction, our vector in there we have to align.
52. S. (01:33:55) Why is it important that our work in this Congress won’t be in our regular Tens?
R. I don’t know about the regular Tens and not regular Tens. There is a group of friends who are organizing the Congress and responsible and in charge of the Congress and these questions should be directed towards them.
53. S. (01:34:30) What are the necessary conditions for us to enter Lishma?
R. This was studied from the articles of the Baal HaSulam and Rabash. Lishma is called in order to bestow through the friends to the Creator, we have all in all, two states the first state is love your friend as yourself, the second state is love the Creator your God. That’s it and so we walk like this from one state to the other from one degree to the other.
54. S. (01:35:06) In what is the Congress different from a regular lesson?
R. The Congress differs from a regular lesson in that we prepare for it, we are more excited. We want to open ourselves more in the heart of the friend. We want through the Congress to obtain something more to feel, to come closer to and for this to really happen between us. We are at a degree where we can occasionally sometimes feel the Creator that may reveal himself in the connection between us.
How are we going to do this? How do we start to feel? When do we start to feel the Creator and the connection between us. We hope that it’s going to happen in the Congress. I know many men and women who anticipate who are waiting for the Congress. So that for the first time when thousands of people want to connect in order to feel the Creator, for it to give them the opportunity, as a part of this mass, as this quantity to also want to feel the Creator that exists between everyone and to this we anticipate: we wait for.
55. S. (01:36:58) In the past in big congresses there was big excitement. How to raise our excitement and importance in the ten until the Congress?
R. I don’t know. If I know that at the end of the week I have a chance to reveal the Creator that fills the entire world, the entire reality, all of the skies and I feel Him and I reveal Him and I will know a little bit about him and then it excites me and I already am in some sort of anticipation like a child that awaits a birthday or something pleasant that is coming and I am the same way. I am awaiting the Congress that I am going to receive there.
56. S. (01:38:17) In excerpt fifty-five it sounds that the greatest suffering of the Creator is the fact that we are shattered. Is our work in unity what brings joy to the Creator?
R. Yes, there is no more pleasure that we connect and in this we obligate all of the parts of the reality that are more external to connect. That we have these worlds to connect and to bring through all of these layers.
57. S. (01:39:13) In excerpt fifty-four, it says that, “the mercy of the Creator, I will always praise.” Meaning that on one hand there’s happiness and he’s singing praise. What does that mean?
R. Singing is gratitude and praise is to the Creator that we lift Him up through all of the skies, to the Heavens, to all of the states that He corrects everything and brings us to G’Mar Tikkun.
58. S. (01:39:52) In excerpt number fifty-three it says, “prepare the table for me before my enemies.” Who are those enemies?
R. This is what he explains to us here: these are the enemies, the haters that they are my problems, my troubles and precisely when the Creator corrects He corrects one against the other and my troubles are also corrected and are joined with a correction.
59. S. (01:40:36) It is written at the end of excerpt fifty-two, “we see that these judgments are the ones who cause the bringing of the greatness of the Creator.” What are the judgments he’s speaking about?
R. Judgments are forces that are revealed as if opposite to the correction but really they’re not opposite they just obligate us even more to bring the forces of connection to connect to Him. It’s called help against him. Against him means it is only to help us and strengthen and come closer to the Creator even more.
60. S. (01:41:33) About the Congress when I sit in a workshop and I don’t speak Russian and the tens keep changing. So what should I search for in the friends or how to pray through the heart?
R. I don’t know about languages. I hope that the entire Congress is going to be in Hebrew and the translators are already making efforts and labor between us in such a way that we understand one another.
S. There will be translation. I mean in a workshop, when we keep changing -so I will probably sit with Russian speakers.
R. I’m going to be at the Congress. I’m going to the congress in Georgia.So everything is going to be in Russian.
S. So when I sit in a workshop with the Russian-speaking friends, what should I search for in the friends? How to pray through the heart and not through the words?
R. I don’t know that. Ask for advice from the friends of what to do. I don’t know. I can’t advise you on anything.
61. S. (01:43:21) Also about the convention. The preparation and work in the convention everything should be in mixed tens but until then we’re in our regular tens. So what should we bring to the Convention as a ten when we go and mix with other tens?
R. I didn’t understand.
S. We are supposed to reach the convention as one ten, ‘as one man with one heart;’ that is all of our work.
R. So this is your regular ten?
S. Right, so I come to the Congress and I start mixing in every activity I will be with a different ten. How do I keep my ten and what should I bring to the other ones?
R. I do not know, ask the organizers of the Congress. Why they do it this way and another time that way, every time you are in a different random ten.
S. I do not know, that was not the question. It is not clear why we are mixing, there’s a lot of force there, what do I need to bring for my ten into this mixture?
R. I don’t know. I don’t know how to answer this either. I think you have to bring to those random tens that you are going to have in the Congress that will constantly change. Some Hello, some greeting from your regular ten, how connected it is and how it passes its connection to all of those instances where you divide and connect in the random tens but I do not know. I do not have any hand in this. I do not determine this and I do not know about this. Why to do and why not to do. I do not understand this.
S. Do you think it is truly something else?
R. I do not think anything. I’m just saying that I do not know. I’m not in this.
62. S. (01:45:57) The excerpts he writes in fifty-five that, “the reward is that by this work above reason the Creator will get contentment.” So what is this mechanism that the created being can rise above reason and the Creator lands it is like giving contentment its?
R. No it means that the spirit lands on him meaning from a higher degree.
S. I thought he meant that the lower one raises to the AHP of the upper one. There is nothing about that?
R. I do not know your calculations sorry.
63. S. (01:47:07) First I want to tell him do not worry we are going to translate everything will be okay. With what prayer should we go into the convention?
R. Compose the prayer. You know the topic of the Congress. You are aware of all the participants. Connect the prayer that it will suit, be suitable for every one you have examples of prayers.
64. S. (01:47:58) What is the fear to reveal them? Shouldn’t it be opposite the desire to reveal him to get that for us?
R. Yes, but together with this, there is, It speaks about it in several places.
65. S. (01:48:22) Continuing what he asked.. a prayer for the convention. Sorry, for the nerve but for a whole year I am waiting for the group to be born and now there is an opportunity and every week we build an intention for the next week. We pray for the group, we try to feel the group before we build the prayer.. it is all about the group. So, I have this plea, sorry for the nerve or maybe today? We, the whole group, can gather such an intention for this week- a weekly intention towards the Congress. Sometimes, we do it in a workshop with a few go-arounds. Sometimes, it takes a day; but, once we connect we get like an agreement so we hold this prayer for 3 minutes, this silent prayer that we intended towards the Creator and then we return to that intention in the next few days.
R. This is very good. You can do it every so often and put together a prayer and conduct such events.
S. Can we ask for the whole group to participate?
R. If you are successful,
S. Can we do it now… that all tens just do it.
66. S. (01:50:19) Why do we feel suffering if we still study with Bnei Baruch? Is it because we are not working right?
R. Possible, possible, on one hand. On another hand, it could be early. Suffering is because you want something out of the state that you are going through much more than you deserve. The Creator wants to advance you, to progress you towards truth and you want something else. And, it comes out that as you advance you discover a variety of things, but these revelations do not bring you a fulfillment, a joy, a good feeling. This is yet to be corrected.. You aren’t yet stable in you want out of the way and this desire has to be corrected.. to clarify precisely.. What do you want?
67. S. (01:52:10) Also, a question about the prayer. We have a few more days until the convention. How, throughout these days should we adhere with your prayer to the general prayer of all the friends in this mutual attack?
R. We need to imagine as: Depict us together as one man, that is collecting the entire Kli and is aimed through it, through all of his parts towards the Creator.
S. How to add this extra percent beyond what we can?
R. It is only with the help of the connection, nothing but that. The connection between you, ..nothing but that.
68. S. (01:53:36) Despite us being rather new in this study, are we able to hope that we are going to reach Lishma for her sake in the Congress?
R. Without any doubt. It all comes according to your desire. There are people that study a lot and do not know how to ask and, there are people that can open their heart and ask and receive it. It all depends on your plea, the more you can scrutinize it, okay?
69. S. (01:54:43) In March the Congress in Georgia is going to happen thanks to our active women of the group of Tbilisi and not only them but those that are coming from Israel from other countries the women have taken all of the roles all of the duties and the role is going to be big at the Congress. How can the men give them maybe a special token of appreciation or attention?
R. Do what the women tell you. That is enough! I’m serious. If the woman will manage this whole convention? You know how it all works there. And so everything will work. It will all work out.