TIFERET: TIKKUN CHATZOT תקון חצות – LESSON WITH RAV MICHAEL LAITMAN
Lesson on the topic of “Faith Above Reason”
Morning Lesson December 02, 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. #69
1. Rav’s Introduction: Yes, we are in advanced steps in revealing the Creator from concealment meaning according to equivalence of form, according to the extent that we agree and we want to reveal the state that he is in and let’s hope that we already soon that it will be revealed to us. Maybe we will read here because the excerpts are so relevant that there is no point in talking in their palace.
Reading 69 (01:12) “It Is Written, Indeed You Are A God…”
2. R. (02:ten) Yes, that the Creator truly fulfills reality There Is None Else Besides Him and it all depends only on the person and to the extent the person comes closer with his equalities to the qualities of the Creator. Despite the fact that the Creator is hiding, we need to come closer to Him according to how we understand that it is Him. Until we, from the darkness from the concealment, imagine the character of the Creator in the right way. This all depends on our inner corrections and these corrections are called the force of faith. Despite the fact that the Creator is concealed we through the force of our faith depict His image as if he was already revealed.
3. S. (03:39) If the Creator is in concealment how do we know that we are working in the right place?
R. We do not want Him to be revealed because it is also against creation against the process of correction, rather we want to relate to His concealment as an opportunity for us to correct ourselves to be in bestowal, in the quality of bestowal and to the extent that I would in myself build the image of the Creator then this is how I see him in such a way and to that image I connect. I do not ask from the Creator to reveal Himself, no, on the contrary let Him remain in concealment. I will come closer to Him when He is concealed.
4. S. (05:09) The Creator is concealed, and you said that I get closer to Him from the concealment and I depict His form His model in faith above reason, so how do I depict Him in that?
R. What leads us forward and how you say, connect to your mother as a child, you do not know her. She knows something that in such a way she is revealed to you through your senses and here it is the same that you need to try and reveal the Creator according to your senses, according to your thought and to know that it is Him that remains as a concealed God. And we were given to reveal Him only according to our being adapted and suitable to Him to the extent we will be in the Good That Does Good according to our understanding, our consciousness, our awareness, what we learn and hear from the Creator and to the extent that we depict ourselves as the Good That Does Good, each of us towards the friends we can try to do this in such a way that each of us will try to help the friends to reach adhesion as much as possible and then accordingly we are all going to awaken and discover and reveal. But first as it is written, they have eyes but see not, so how to see Him? Only through helping each other to come closer to the Creator, when we give each other the example of what appears to us as the image of the Creator.
S. I am helping my friend in the ten, how through this action it turns out that there is this model of the Creator that is being built ?
R. When you behave that way you will see and just like that each and every one we build the correct image of the Creator.
5. S. (08:25) In the passage it says that when the person looks at creation, is this when the point in the heart is awakened when the person starts speaking to the Creator even before that?
R. No, beforehand we do not know, we do not have an awakening before that, but the moment the person awakens to seek and find the Creator and come closer, this is called the Creator awakens his point in the heart and wants the person to come closer to Him.
6. S. (09:16) A child feels his mother, it is not really in consciousness it is not fully in his awareness, but we need to change our nature we have to build a screen in the ten to feel the Creator consciously and the relation between us, so what is this screen in the ten?
R. We want to build such a connection between us that in the relation between us will be similar to the relation of the person with the Creator. The Creator does not exist. But we in our connection build His image, His character, and this way we come closer to Him. We depict the character of the Creator which seemingly He exists in a certain way, and all of us try to connect to Him and this way we come closer to Him.
S. You mentioned earlier that I now work where we are not trying to seek to reveal the Creator, so does the fact that we become in a position when we can work without His revelation, is that becoming a reward in and of itself that we can work without His revelation?
R. Our reward is to be revealed and as close to the Creator to be in bestowal, to be connected, to be immersed in His force, that is the reward.
7. S. (11:34) Where is the Creator hidden?
R. The Creator is hidden between the friends, where we cannot see the friends as one force, there the Creator is concealed.
8. S. (12:08) In what exactly is there revelation of the Creator if you want to remain in concealment?
R. I want to remain in concealment specifically in order to be closer to the Creator. This is the whole point, I do not want to reveal Him I want to keep his concealment, also upon the concealment of all the friends I want to discover the Creator and discover the friends in a manner of bestowal towards me, where I give Him, come closer to Him in order to satisfy Him and gratify Him and not that from this I want to get something.
9. S. (13:24) It is still hard to understand, you say that the Creator does not exist, that we form Him and generate Him in our correction, so who exactly are we turning to, what are we forming by our prayer?
R. You establish this character and form, and you establish this form that you will call Boreh, come and see, this is the Creator, come and see. That is the way you will reveal Him to the extent that you want it for this image to be before you, this character to stand before you, this is the way in which He will be revealed. Therefore it is written The Creator says, you made me, you Created and made me.
S. What are we praying towards, are we building ourselves on this, who is answering us?
R. We are praying for knowing to create inside of us this form of the Creator.
S. (15:18) You said that we reveal the Creator according to the existing state I am in and we are always going through all kinds of states, each time I reveal a new Creator?
R. If each time new desires and thoughts change inside of you hanging in you in all kinds of ways accordingly, you want to be constantly focused on the construction of this image of the Creator before you. Turns out that each time you are in changes you go through internal changes and external changes, more or less and this way.
S. For example, now I am in the morning lesson, I feel the friends are very close to me, does it mean that I feel the Creator close too?
R. No.
S. What does it mean?
R. It doesn’t mean anything, it depends on how you imagine it for yourself.
11. S. (16:40) Maybe I did not hear correctly how can I reveal the Creator if I am yearning for Him but I do not want to reveal Him?
R. This is called revelation in concealment, where you reveal a certain form and that helps to build in you such a state that you get near and connect to the form of the Creator that you depict. You do not want to discover him, instead you want to be connected to him only in order to bestow back to Him. Soon we will get to the fact that. There are still several conditions that are hard for us to express.
12. S. (17:51) If I heard correctly you said that we are in a system of connections with the friends, if we need to be in concealment in the system of relation to the friends and we have to be in concealment with the friend, practically what does that mean in our relation to the friends?
R. Let’s read more of the texts and then you will see that Rabash and Baal HaSulam sometimes express these states for us. It is better than what we started to philosophize about here.
Reading 70 ( 18:42 ) “What Does It Mean that Moses Was Perplexed ….
13. R. (20:36) What is there to say here? Try in every state to be adhered to the Creator even if he is confusing you even if he wants to take you out of the entire work. Let’s read it again.
Reading 70 Again (21:02) “When a person begins to take upon himself the burden…”
14. S. (22:55) According to the text we just have read, does it mean that to not reveal the Creator is working in faith about reason?
R. It is just part of the matter, that we want to get connected to the Creator and that we do not get closer to revealing Him rather we want to be in the same character in the same characteristic or image or quality like Him. Love and connection and bestowal and from those qualities that we acquire we will pray to him, and we will ask and we acquire and from that we understand Him we will feel Him become closer to him according to the equivalence of form.
15. S. (24:09) Do we need to build a mutual form or a mutual model of the Creator? is it something that we scrutinize together?
R. Yes, we need to build a common image. Yes then we connect then we are closer to that image that the Creator is revealed to us.
16. S. (24:41) How should we calibrate our thoughts and desires in the work in order to reveal the Creator?
R. We need to review as much as possible and as much as possible qualities of bestowal and quality of connection. These are the qualities of the Creator that are opposite qualities to us and in such a way if we all reveal these qualities more and more than accordingly we come closer to Him. We will receive this special force that can bring us closer. This is how we correct ourselves. This goes fast, only we need to convince ourselves to behave this way.
17. S. (26:04 The efforts to construct the image of the creator, how do the Reshimot influence us will it affect our correction?
R. We are operated according to the Reshimot records, from the beginning of creation till the shattering of the soul of Adam HaRishon all those states were broken and shattered and exist in us in the form of the shattering. When we wake up from these shattered states of ours then wake up those forces that operated prior to the shattering and those forces and those forces we want to correct so that they would connect us.
18. S. (27:18) When our soul is taken from us does it mean that we do not have contact with bestowal so on what basis can be operated?
R. I understand.
S. In the excerpt it says here it says when a person begins to take upon himself the burden all of his heart and soul even if he takes your soul so taking the soul, does this mean one does not have bestowal?
R. Yes.
S. On what basis is he operating?
R. Based on the society.
19. S. (28:15) If I understand correctly, we do not want to reveal the Creator and we just need to acquire the quality of bestowal and love and if He is revealed to us nonetheless it can happen that we begin to feel Him through the friends?
R. Such as I think that cannot be that you want to be distant to the Creator and you want to get closer to and acquire bestowal and love. The quality of love and bestowal work is the Creator.
S. I did not express myself correctly because you said we do not want to reveal Hm but if he starts to reveal if he starts feeling really good what do we do?
R. \When it happens we will talk. There is nothing to worry about. We will surround Him. We will adhere to Him and will exist in such a way. You will see what happens and that feeling itself is what we’ll lead you forward.
20. S. (29:21) What is the difference between the revelation of the Creator and building the form of the Creator between us?
R. What is the difference between the revelation of the Creator and knowing the form of the Creator? I do not see any difference in recognizing these worlds. the image of the Creator or the revelation of the Creator, it is basically the same thing. Maybe there are some additional intentions here.
21. S. (30:27) Rabash is writing that when the person starts to take upon himself the burden of the kingdom of heaven then all the foreign thoughts come to him. What does it mean that we perform this work that we take on ourselves the burden of the kingdom of heaven?
R. We want to exist, we want to be in the form of bestowal, inside the force of bestowal we want to see and feel the whole world, the upper force, and the group and each and everyone and ourselves so that the forces that operate in us will become the force of bestowal. That is what we wish to happen. Together with this we start to feel the upside world, this is what we mean when we say I have an upside world. The moment this upper world, the group appears in a different way and the moment and we see that and not through our egoistic eyes but we see everything differently, that is called I have seen an upside-down world.
S. And this happens specifically in our efforts to unity?
R. Yes, to the extent that we make efforts to connect, distancing from our ego the moment we replace all our different egoistic qualities with altruistic qualities.
S. Today we begin a new and intensive stage with the Congress. We will have three days of an opportunity that we will constantly be in this effort, so how do we focus it, where do we want to emphasize and hold ourselves in?
R. The main thing is the additional connection with the friends demanding to connect to the friends even more.
S. To add in connection with the friends what does it mean exactly? I will be with them for 3 days I will see them I will be in activities with them. What does it mean to connect with them?
R. What do you want them to do for them, that is for you to want to feel for them as well and what they are feeling inside of them could be the hidden thoughts. I do not know how to say it but you want to be in there, you want to help them and by that advance them.
S. And my thoughts and desires?
R. That is what you want for those to be your thoughts and desires.
S. And I need each and every friend to respond in this manner?
R. At least in your ten but in essence we would like to feel like this in the whole Congress and the whole Congress becomes, after all what is the difference between a Congress and the regular state? The convention is the ten where several thousands of people gather together and they all try to feel themselves as one ten.
S. But with us it will be mixed tens?
R. Okay, do it that way.
22. R. (38:22) Sending our regards to the Georgia group and let’s hope, we are certain actually that they will connect there nicely and well and also will help us to be together with them. What a beautiful hall they have, wonderful, it is very pleasant to see.
23. S. (39:00) The Reshimot, is it grasped in the shattering between us or in this world ?
R. This Reshimot is revealed to us or what is left for us from the shattering, from the state where we were all connected and corrected with the intention of bestowal and that it became on the intention to receive and shattered. These are the states that awaken in us, they are called the records from the shattering and we need to correct and sort and arrange them and in such a way they are corrected. Mainly it is done through prayer because we do not know exactly how to arrange things how to organize them, rather the upper degree the Creator the upper degree from us is what we call Creator, and it arranges and corrects us and accordingly we receive a new state.
24. S. (40:33) This image that we create of the Creator is that the feeling of our relationship to the friends? This image, this form, does it take on more depth and clarity?
R. Yes, it is a very nice and correct a question. What we feel as connection between us more or less corrupted and something that is the depiction of the Creator in our qualities that are still broken and corrupted qualities. As much as we awaken in this we are correcting this model, this image and thus it is called “You have made Me.” We have formed the Creator in the shattering us and between us and this is how we advance. The Creator on His part helps us in this that each time He awakens in us more and more broken forms of His broken images, this is called the concealed Creator. And through our efforts between us that we want to connect despite that we reject each other and repel each other and that our ego is dominating between us, but nonetheless we want to be a bit more connected and closer between us in a good way compared to what happens between us. Thus it turns out that we correct and correct the relationships between us and this is called the image of the Creator, we correct Him between us and this is called the concealed Creator. That in the egoistic relations between us the Creator is concealed and when we go against this form of the ego between us, in this we reach a state that He is revealed.
25. S. (43:40) Can the revelation of the Creator be associated with the phase of Bina?
R. Yes, but you also do not know what is this concept of Bina, the revelation begins from the revelation of the aspect of Bina, you are right.
26. S. (44:29) How to work with all heart and all our soul?
R. We have to try between the friends as much as I can get closer to the friends and together with them in an embrace, in connection, in support and mutual assistance. Out of this I start to understand what unity is and to the extent we unite we also start to understand what is incorporation, and to the extent we unite and incorporate into each other we begin to feel the quality of the upper degree from us, the second level. Then we begin to understand what a spiritual ascent is, and from all sorts of such exercises we begin to form for ourselves and establish for ourselves activities efforts, what to do in order to rise a bit more and a bit more to climb the ladder. Thus we become participants and cooperating with the Creator in rising on the degrees and each time in upper degrees we reveal Him in a larger and closer manner.
27. S. (46:46) You said the need to summarize between us and come to this attack, what is this agreement to the attack between us?
R. Agreement or summary between us needs to be in that we constantly think only about this and also Rabash is what he advised us. That there has to be an attack and in what does it need to come into expression? In that we do not leave our movement and motion towards connection even for a moment. That we think all the time how more and more become connected between us and the men with men and women with women.
S. And this agreement between us has to be like an internal Covenant?
R. Of course, about what I am saying now I think everyone is accepting as the rule or general rule of the Congress, that from this moment only think only about how to be more and more connected between us and tide between us and adhered, such that we will be able to bestow towards one another.
28. S. (48:42) I have this internal disagreement with us creating at the Creator out of nothing. I feel His desire, I feel that He wants to be revealed, and I want to connect to His desire of his, am I wrong?
R. I do not know if you are wrong or not, but we need to put together the image of the Creator out of our tendency. Just as we build a house out of cubes or blocks like children or that we play with dolls like little girls, like little babies. In such a way we want to build the Creator in the internal relations between us, how we can depict them, how we can describe them. I am asking from you, describe to us the force of love between us that is existing between us, connecting between us and exists between us all the time, so please describe this to us, that is the Creator.
S. Yes, it seems to me that there is His desire, the Creator’s desire is fulfilling the world and this is what I want to connect to?
R. Alright, but how will you reveal His desire that you would have the same desire that He has, and then you will find Him, otherwise He is concealed and not found.
29. S. (50:51) Is it right to come to the Congress with the intention that my friends reach Lishma and not me?
R. This is also good and correct, to the Congress it is worthwhile without reaching even without any desire, but if you have the opportunity, I come and why did I come, I do not want to miss out. Maybe nonetheless I will have a desire to connect and have a desire to reveal the Creator, the Creator will have an opportunity to turn to me and pull me out of this world to the upper world so I give the Creator this opportunity like that.
30. S. (52:00) When I try to bestow to my friends and alien thoughts are coming to me, does the Creator that is shining for me this way is for the sake of correction?
R. No, that is not important.
31. S. (52:27) In quote 70 it is written that specifically because this is not just work but a person based on above his reason needs to work in all your heart and soul and might. As the Sages say even if he takes your soul away, what is even if he takes away your soul?
R. Even if you have nothing left of your work of your life, from your exertion you nonetheless want to do something for Him.
32. S .(53:05) I have seen an upside-down world, what exactly do we see as opposite, what is inverted?
R. We have to invert the desire to receive into the desire to bestow.
33. S. (53:22) Are the efforts for connection what brings a person to see an upside-down world?
R. Of course, only this.
34. S. (53:30) About the Congress that we are sitting in random tens, they’re asking in the previous Congress we were disconnected completely from the permanent tens and not even be in contact with them through phones and WhatsApp, so what is your recommendation for this Congress?
R. What do you want to advise yourselves, this is towards you, towards all of you, you all participate in this, so what do you think is best for you. Maybe we will have a survey.
R. WSQ: What do we recommend, is it worthwhile for us during the Congress to remain only in our tens, meaning without any connection to the other tens. Is it worthwhile to exit our tens and also connect to other tens, specific ones? Is it worthwhile for us to leave the tens, our tens and to mix up in other tens, according to languages, I don’t know. You have experience with this already, so you tell me what you prefer, what do you think could be better or actually what am I expecting from this. That I will meet with people that at first, they appear to me as if they came from a different planet, very far and opposite, and after a short time I see them that they are in my heart and that this is what I want to reveal. How will we do this? Should we ask a question, or do we vote, what should we do? What will the tens advise what we will do?
35. S. (57:00) I think the question at least in our ten was opposite. During the Congress we will be in mixed tens, so the question is; When I am in the convention in the mixed ten is it worthwhile to still keep connection with my original ten and write a text to each other, share impressions or in the mixed ten during the convention he completely puts his original ten and I think that is maybe the question?
R. I will not answer any type of questions for you because you have to decide and you need to build yourselves, thus think about it.
36. S. (58:01) I think that during the lesson if we are in a new ten at that moment, my whole focus should be focused on that work, and I do not need to divert my attention to anything else and the next lesson will be something else. Will we succeed more or better, I think so, it will be more powerful and you overcoming, a new impression and accordingly the lessons will be also like that. Here there is a question: what do we want to reach, meaning what kind of exiting ourselves do we want to come to in this work?
R. In this work we want to reach the maximum connection. The connection can come out of this that we will feel how much we are not connected still in how much we still need to invest in additional forces to come closer.
S. With new friends in the ten it will be such a feeling, that we are not connected yet we do not know yet?
R. If it is so it is good.
37. S. (01:00:05) Yes dear brothers I am translating for the China Kli. We need to be connected in this special lesson in the convention because the world Kli is one and the Creator is waiting for us to connect together no matter which friends. We just open our hearts together and we connect together.
R. All right, thank you so much.
38. S. (01:01:14) Maybe it is a good idea if we start the convention in our tens until we get comfortable, get a foothold, feel secure and as the Congress progresses we can mix the tens and then by the end of the Congress come back to our tens so we can compare together our experiences.
R. Okay, that is also an idea.
39. S. (01:01:57) I would like to simply bring an example, in 2014 we had a convention in Odessa. A friend came who did not understand Russian and I was envious of him. How a friend tries to come to the heart of every friend without understanding the language and I think there is a great advantage by us incorporated in such a way with one another and that we will bring it to our tens. After all the next step is connection between tens and really I want to express the hope that we will succeed in this.
R. Thank you we will succeed in this.
Reading Excerpt #71 (01:03:07) “The Reason for Faith…”
40. S. (01:03:22) The greatest pleasure.
Continues: “In order for one to receive all of this…”
41. S. (01:03:54) This means like a sign here, That he should engage in Torah and Mitzvot even though he feels no pleasure, that this is called not in order to receive a reward.
Continues: (01:04:06) “When he has this vessel immediately his eyes…”
42. S. (01:05:33) Yes, these are deep things here, and we will soon feel them, soon we will feel.
43. S. (01:05:20) When we build the Creator together I have thoughts that deny that the Creator is good and benevolent. What should we do to strengthen our faith?
R. If we connect between us and we want from between us to build the image of the Creator like children who build in a sandbox some house or something, then we strengthen one another and it is easier for us to be adhered to the goal. And we feel that in each motion of ours that we build just like we build out of sand, in this we show to one another how we get closer to that same building, that same image, model that we are building. Thus we need to all make an effort together to participate in that same campaign and it will happen quickly, it will happen quickly. Meaning despite that everything is concealed and if we begin to build it between us and the ten, we will very quickly reveal that in such a manner we do build the Creator between us, as it is written you have made me.
44. S. (01:07:52) The article says great is thy faith, and through it we receive a soul once more, what does this mean how do we receive our soul through the faith?
R. Faith is the power of bestowal that we want to attain and that each one rises above his ego, and that same force of bestowal is felt in us as reception of the new force.
45. S. (01:08:58) There are states in the ten whether it is in physical meetings or the zoom where there is this feeling of unbelievable joy. There is the fact that it is not some specific reason it is the moment where something is truly being in something is truly being embroidered here of the image of the Creator?
R. Yes a force the Creator is in this otherwise we would not feel the joy and excitement.
S. Building such a state and another state we are building the image of the Creator in this, and this is how it intensifies and becomes deeper?
R. Exactly.
46. S. (01:09:56) If a person serves the Creator in faith and falls on working on himself instead of falling to work not in order to receive a prize?
R. I did not understand.
S. When a person works in faith and says that it is worthwhile to be a servant of the Creator and then he falls to the will to receive for himself, is that right?
R. Why?
S. Because he is working for the sake of the Creator so why should he put in effort too much?
R. No, if he wants to reach bestowal, adhesion then this work is desirable.
47. S. (01:ten:44) The question is if I want others to reach Lishma and for me not anything, what is that state? I also want to work Lishma, and I really want it and it is fun and I want it also. How can you reach a state for others to reach Lishma and not me?
R. You do not want to be the receiver you want to be the bestower and thus this is what you are saying but not to desire anything that you cannot either to receive or to bestow.
S. The state that I have is that I really, really want Lishma, and I want to understand it and I want to have the pleasure that is there?
R. Ask, ask for His revelation in order to learn Him and incorporate in Him.
48. S. (01:11:51) Is the revelation of evil also the revelation of the Creator?
R. Yes, of course.
S. How is it possible, well how much revelation of evil the friends are revealing can we invert to good?
R. As much as you can, as much as you can. Because this evil is only towards you with respect to you.
S. Meaning that all the revelation that the friends that are revealed are in my eyes?
R. Yes of course, precisely.
49. S. (01:12:51) We started a beautiful topic earlier and we let it go about the tens and the convention. You said a sentence that I noticed about a half a minute ago, if we connect between us in the ten then we will strengthen one another and we will be adhered to the goal. If we were connected between us we would long ago do that and we are not yet connected between us in the tens and you want to do random. Meaning there is a problem with that in the ten especially with us, there’s a certain problem that some string has been unraveled because our security is in the tens as such. As much as I asked I was told that it is best that we continue to work in the convention in our tens, and right now in the moment that we are strong enough the feelings are the rest of the tens will receive it from us. Because it is a huge mess, one goes into the group, one comes out and some string is unraveled, and it is not clear.
R. I do not understand what you are saying.
S. I’m saying let’s continue with our permanent tens otherwise it will be a mess.
R. In the Congress you are not connected in your usual tens?
S. That is what I’m coming to tell you
R. How are you connected?
S. Between us in the tens?
R. Well you have to be in some ten, how will I make any step towards the revelation of the Creator?
S. If we connect between us in our ten then we will strengthen one another and then we will be adhered to the goal and then the force of the ten will really be connected to the rest of the tens. Meaning that we will already be in the degree where all the tens are connected. Now at the moment we have a little bit of a mess because you enter the room, you do know the people, you don’t know the people, little insecurities. I remember last convention there was a mess with that thing, meaning that we started to get dealing with this matter of do we know the people, do we not know the people. When you do this with your permanent ten you already do the work of connection between us.
R. What do you want from me?
S. We want to stay in our tens in our permanent tens if it is possible.
R. All right I will now come to you with a handkerchief and clean your nose for each one.
S. You said you wanted to do a survey, let’s do a survey.
R. You want this, I don’t want it.
S. How do we come to a decision?
R. You want to reach a decision so please do so.
S. How, what do you recommend doing?
R. I do not advise anything. The time for my advice and demands and the directions is over.
S. Do you recommend for us to do the survey between us?
R. What you want to enter Lishma to the intention to bestow, to the degree of identification with the Creator, even the first one the first level. Are you taking this stuff forward on your own?
S. I’m asking what physically, what do we really need to do?
R. Physically it begins from physical organization.
S. You recommend not to recommend ?
R. I am not giving any advice here. My advice is that you be the host of your own state, you will determine your state.
S. I want to do a survey between us.
R. I don’t know how you want us to decide.
R. I don’t want you to decide anything.
S. So what to do?
R. I don’t know, you will decide, you will want and you will do and I am not involved in this.
S. I understand I will not get you involved, and I will talk with the friends and we will see what we can do.
R. I don’t know, you know I want to take a vacation for a few months and fly away from here.
S. God forbid what are you talking about?
S. We will come with you wherever you go.
R. No, no, no I won’t let you. I’ll travel somewhere.
S. We will see what we will do after the lesson and talk with the management.
R. You are now going to talk with the management and see what will happen in the Congress? Nice.
S. We were talking about this for a long time, and they just did not come to a decision here.
R. Because you all rely on me and I’m not doing anything, I tell you this time after time, how many times? If you don’t build you don’t receive revelation of the Creator, there is nowhere for Him to be revealed.
S. The tens if we think there is a better chance to connect between us and with the rest of the tens, that is what we are coming to say.
R. I do not know what you are saying, if you have some path or some program force to perform it, then please.
50. S. (01:18:12) I try to approach the friend to feel his yearning for bestowal and how to help him internally to advance in this way, but I cannot shake the thought that, in that moment I am involving myself, how can I feel it in the connection with the friend?
R. Talk to him.
51. S. (01:18:47) I think that to include everyone to be in mixed tens is incorrect. All of our Congresses is the highlight of the virtual congresses was the gathering of the tens, the mixed tens and then when we moved to Congresses in the study hall of physical congresses, they were mixed and that made the real thing. Where you take the connection of the ten and you incorporate in the entire Kli, so that is my feeling.
R. All right, fine.
52. S. (01:19:43) What is the feeling of this new strength that we will receive as a single reversal or as together as a ten?
R. It is a different force all together, it is the difference between the corporeal and the spiritual.
53. S. (01:20:34) What I get is a feeling of great suffering in my will to receive. In that state do I need to do the exact opposite of what my desire’s want at that moment to reach the correct state?
R. No it is possible that you feel your suffering in the will to receive and that is a good sign that you are going against this desire that’s not enough a pleasant or unpleasant feeling that doesn’t indicate yet for you where you are.
54. S. (1:21:39) What is the breath of life and how can we take back the Breath of Life in the work?
R. When I am incorporated with my friends, and I want to receive from them the force for connection between us and the connection with the Creator that is called this force is called the Breath of Life.
55. S. (01:22:48) About the dynamic in the Congress, can this be an opportunity for everyone to grow up to be mature to come out of their I, their self, towards bestowal?
R. Yes exactly. This is an opportunity.
S. Is this what is offered before us here on the table?
R. Yes. Yes
56. S. (01:23:29) Both men and women will come here to the Congress. It is a tremendous Force. How do you feel this Congress relative to the world?
R. The Congress is the central point of the World. It is concealed from the world. No one in the world basically knows about this, nor do they want to know. No one is focused on this Congress and that is very good. We should act in the direction of the connection between us and when we go through this contact, this connection, from these states with respect to that state when we aspire from mutual connection without any conditions, then this world connection will be revealed.
S. Do we need to feel the world somehow or think about it in this Congress?
R. Yes still we do exist in this world during these days I do not think we should think about it. We should only think about how we should reach internal adhesion between ourselves all right?
57. S. (01:25:29) What does it mean that the Creator returns the soul to a person?
R. He gives a person a feeling of himself.
S. The soul is the vessel that he builds?
R. Yes.
58. S. (01:26:01) Friends ask that the Congress management will come up with info and update us on the decision for what will happen in the Congress. Is it favorable to hear them?
R. Okay if you want it now have it now.
S. We planned to come up with it at the end of the lesson about the tens. It was decided and communicated because of all the Congresses around the world, we will all be in a mixed format in one way or another because of all the Congresses around the world so that is why it was communicated to all the ten that each ten and will decide what is most appropriate to it according to its State but that principals in the mutual guaranteed system which one comes in according and its’ State. In principle, in the Arvut system each one comes in and joins a ten according to his language to be incorporated with everyone.
R. Okay thank-you Yakov.
59. S. (01:27:37) I would like to ask from the excerpt. It says when a desire awakens within him, is it worthwhile to turn to the Creator for the pleasure, he soon falls into concealment. It is so hard to overcome this desire to take pleasure from the Creator, and how can we keep and show the Creator without giving importance whether we take pleasure from this or not?
R. This is why between the Creator and the person there is a group and if we attach ourselves to the group we can stay adhered to this group without falling to our ego. Otherwise we will not have any choice to be either in our ego (in the will to receive) or suppose it is the world to bestow, it is like an angel. But because we have the group, we may be in the transition between the will to receive for ourselves and the will to bestow of the Creator. That is a good question.
60. S. (01:29:04) following a friend’s question, if I understood correctly: When we work in the ten it is a habit. People agree/know we are accustomed to the dynamic with them. When we work with people we don’t know we can exercise this work, this closeness in the same way with people who are not familiar and that is I think the advantage of the work in the random tens. What do you think?
R. I think we should get accustomed to being in all the different states, all kinds of the tens because we have to prepare ourselves to go out to the world.
61. S. (01:30:05) Throughout the Congress does it matter if I’m incorporated with the ten that I’m sitting with or with the ten in the Arvut system or am I thinking about my original ten?
R. There are managers to this Congress and so ask them I don’t know.
S. No, I’m asking if it is important that I am focused on one thing or now my heart’s inclination is to connect with everyone.
R. You cannot connect everyone. You could connect to everyone when you will be able to do, to depict everyone as one.
S. That’s what you told us you said to try to imagine that we are incorporated in one ten.
R. What I meant was not that you are taking the whole world as one ten. We cannot do that. That is just words. That’s it, that is why I’m not telling you what to do. In all the things that are related to connection and to move from one thing to another and do all these kinds of things you have with the management. So everyone knows their address of this management so be connected to that. Just believe me in one thing that as much as you will want to be more connected in the right way between yourselves according to the commands of these managers you will succeed.
62. S. (01:31:46) About the concealment in the ten many times you speak about our feelings. We don’t feel things. Is that a sign of concealment that we have to draw power from? Can the concealment be a gift from the Creator?
R. Concealments can certainly be a gift from the Creator. For us specifically through this concealment, thanks to it we will be able to conceal our ego and this way, bit by bit, you grow by the force of bestowal. Concealment is actually a gift.
63. S. (01:32:57) If I intend to cross the barrier in this Congress, do I need to do it with my permanent ten?
R. That does not matter, it doesn’t matter, you’re given some work to do, try to depict to yourself that it is given to you from above and do it try to do it and you’ll see that you can do it even more than the ten you are used to being in.
Excerpt 72. (01:33:42) “Before a person comes to perform a Mitzvot and bless on it, he must first…” Twice.
63. S. (01:36:55) Yes, what can I tell you but to be a bit more understood because we have friends here that are not yet accustomed to our definitions. Torah means the general law of the entire reality all the galaxies, the stars, the planets, all the humans, everything that exists in reality. The laws of their behavior of the still, vegetative and animate and humans are called Torah, the general law of the entire reality. And the Mitzvot are about those created beings that are already inside this reality to the extent that they should behave correctly in order to guard themselves so that they can be as close and as suitable as possible to the general force that we call Creator. This is what we are learning, and this is what we are drawn to. Sometimes we get blows, sometimes better things but this ultimately is what helps us develop and we reach equivalence of form between us, and the upper force called the Creator. This force is being revealed bit by bit that is why it is called come and see to the extent that we feel it that we discover it accordingly we enter the acceptance of the laws of nature in the right way and we do not need to escape them we do not need to guard ourselves anymore because then we are in equivalent of form with them in balance. This is what we are learning in the wisdom of Kabbalah meaning that here we are learning the general law of the entire reality of the Two Worlds, our world and what we cannot yet discover and that general law discovering it and we want to keep it and then we can reach an eternal and whole state. That is where we are headed to and on the verge on that doorstep out of the next World, the second world. That is where we are. I really hope that in this upcoming Congress we will start feeling these things in a more clear way and tangible that is it.
64. S. (01:40:58) How do we implement the state of “they have eyes, but they see not” when we are still not in a state of above reason in practice?
R. Okay that is what we are talking about but in the meantime we only see our egoistic restricted world and that is why it is written that they have eyes but see not, meaning that we have eyes, but we don’t see the truth, the true State. We don’t see the relations between the forces and the qualities of all the parts of Creation in the right way because all we can see is a small fracture of Creation, which is what’s an act of egoistic desire. This is certainly not enough in order to see the whole picture.
S. You propose we do the same actions until things clear up?
R. We don’t have any choice, we only have to know what things we need to do in order to advance to see the truth and then the Wisdom of Kabbalah advises for us to engage in connection, in annulment of our ego.
65. S. (1:43:05) How can we open our eyes and be grateful for that state?
R. When you will relate to each other with love, with a true opening of the heart, it will also open your eyes.
Excerpts 73 (01:43:36)
66. R. (01:44:51) This means that once a person feels importance in spirituality then he has all kinds of tendencies towards that beginning of the right appreciation to spirituality then he now needs to organize himself in a way he can examine his own thoughts and desires in way that will lead him to a real player because there is nothing that can help him. He may try to use all the qualities and requests and desires and thoughts, everything that he has, but ultimately he will see that it does not help him at all, and then he reaches a prayer and only a prayer from the bottom of the heart when he erupts. Asking the Creator to help him will bring him from in order to receive to in order to bestow and then he really reaches the importance of spirituality and then he starts developing in his degree.
67. S. (01:46:36) Everything described right now is something that we just felt in the ten. They said that we had a ten as we usually have every week and we felt this whole thing and we came to a prayer in the heart, without words. But a second after this prayer I was gripped by tremendous fear that now something is missing. What is that second after the prayer a person gives?
R. What’s missing is for it to be fulfilled for it to happen. That’s what we are missing and I’m happy that you felt that.
S. Will be fulfilled but now there’s a place where my reception falls into, I take everything and…
R. This will be slowly established. I’m happy with what you feel.
Excerpt 74 (01:48:03) “Specifically those who want to achieve the bestowal..”
68. R. (01:49:27) That is a very powerful excerpt.
69. S. (01:49:31) What can I do to increase importance if there’s a fire in my house, but I am not aware of it. How can I get help from the group to open my eyes and increase the importance?
R. That is why Kabbalists write, in advance they wrote it for you, that if you don’t feel it you should do it as if there is a fire in your house yes, try it, and then you will see that you are truly in a bad state and you need help and you better beg and you will get the help.
70. S. (01:50:29) What is the difference between the help you ask for and the Creator will just give?
R. The Creator gives what He thinks and we’re asking what we feel we need and there’s a difference between my request and His giving. However bit-by-bit we come closer to each other, and this is what we call make your desire like His.
S. What does He want us to ask?
R. To each one it comes in a different way; it’s not a standard response. I think what we need is to simply surrender everything and then we will feel what He truly feels of us.
S. He writes here that they asked for help from the Creator, so we need to reach a request for help or something that’s beyond that above it?
R. What do you mean above it?
S. Not only to help but to give us, to give the connection, the feeling of connection, bestowal to the friends, this connection.
R. Well that’s all help that is included in help.
S. That is His help?
R. Yes.
S. It sounds like something that He gives like the gift, not that He’s helping.
R. We’re not going to argue here but that’s incorrect.
71. S. (01:52:55) In this phase when we are inside of reason and feel empty and with pain or in this case I have a desire to reveal the Creator to feel this fullness with Him again. Is it a wrong desire? Is it my ego who wants to reveal Him?
R. Certainly it’s the ego but that is also good it is still a connection with the Creator yes.
72. S. (01:53:44) What is the process? Why should the process be so long? I can’t have this prayer that will just help us leap forward?
R. Go ahead but this has to be a prayer from everyone together from our low state for our higher state, do you understand? How will we do this leap from one extreme to another and all of us together with one desire with one heart when we cannot imagine we cannot depict what we are asking for in the final state.
73. S. (01:54:55) It is written they are asking for the Creator to help them to give the force the exaltedness the importance of the Creator and they don’t want the Creator to let them attain this since they want to subjugate themselves with unconditional surrender, but they ask for the help from the Creator. How can it be that they ask for the importance and exaltedness, but they say they do not want to attain it they only want to surrender. So what should we pray for ultimately, surrender? I do not understand.
R. I understand you, it’s going to continue to be convoluted until you reach a state where you will ask and you will understand from the Creator’s answer what does it mean to ask for it above reason, meaning when you begin to ask the most important thing the main thing I want is a quality I do not possess to bestow, to love, to connect, and then you will begin to understand what you’re asking for.
S. So why is it written that we don’t want to attain it?
R. To attain no, because attainment is within reason and they want to be in faith above reason