THURSDAY PRAYER: MALCHUT-TIKKUN CHATZOT תקון חצות – LESSON WITH RAV MICHAEL LAITMAN
READING: between after midnight and sunrise of Thursday
Zohar for All. Introduction of The Book of Zohar. Rabbi Shimon’s Exit from the Cave, item 185
Morning Lesson February 07, 2023 Transcription
Transcription is made from simultaneous translation which leaves a possibility for differences in the audio
Part 1:
Zohar for All. “Introduction of The Book of Zohar”. Rabbi Shimon’s Exit from the Cave. #185
1. Rav’s Introduction: (00:59) Let’s bring a prayer into the heart, connect the hearts into one, and all of our prayers into one prayer, so that all of our friends in the Turkish nation and in general will come out from this with upper mercy, and study with this intention.
Reading Item #185. (01:40) “Rabbi Pinhas was usually before Rabbi Rehumai,..”
2. S. (05:00) The terms like sun, moon, what are they for in our work and why is it so important, this connection between the sun and the moon, so that the moon will reflect the light of the sun?
R. We are in a world of action. We see here, the result from a thought, the thought of creation, the thought of the Creator upon us. Therefore, that’s how the sages of the Zohar explain to us the sun and the moon, the light of the sun is the light of the moon. What should we do? What should a person do in this world in attainment, in work and prayer, where is the main place for work which is mostly in prayer and for us to advance and our progress, as we can see for the time being, is according to the verses. We don’t understand exactly what is going on here, but slowly he will explain to us more and more.
3. S. (06:47) With such a disaster how do we relate to the world, to the Creator, how do we relate to the connection?
R. I feel you can not disconnect from it through the lesson, I feel that it is influencing you that much, it’s true, that’s what I feel. I think we all feel it, especially those who are in that area, either spiritual or corporeal. What can we say? We don’t know why the Creator awakens us with such sharp actions, such harsh actions. I guess there is reward and punishment and we can turn this punishment into a reward and we shall.
Let’s try to think about it how through the connection between, us again I emphasize, through the connection between us, which is the only action we can take, we can come down to those states where our friends are, those who are affected by the disaster physically, and wish to bring them out, from all those places, from all those states, and bring them, raise them above our heads. We know them as loyal friends very near and dear to us, yearning to reach adhesion to everyone and the Creator and with them we will try. We will try to feel them inside.
First of all, we need to understand that the Creator is doing it in such a way that we are all incorporated, meaning He already did a part of the work. Through this action, through such a special action, He connects us, he ties us together with the help of this disaster.
We will try for this entire case to connect us. More than connection we don’t need, to the extent that we connect, then the light the Creator shines on us, on all of humanity, like humanity – the more we can connect – the more it shines, the more we feel ourselves connected, tighter together more in a common embrace. To that extent we will have the light, we will have the force of the Creator and above it, will be able to float above troubles and then we will embrace, especially our friends from those affected areas by the disaster and in this way succeed, God willing. So we fill our mind and our heart with it and go with the lesson.
Reading Item #186. (10:55) “And that light stands from the heaven to the earth..”
4. R. (12:45) We are not speaking about humans, people, we are speaking about spiritual phenomena and degrees,and so the previous degree was the wife of Rabbi Shimon, and the result of his coupling with his wife elicits the next degree in line which is Rabbi Elazar. And that’s how he continues.
Reading item #187. (13:30) “He went out from him and was about to go..”
5. R. (14:46) We see this attitude towards those who engage in the upper wisdom, as it remains until today, to some extent. We have to hide, we have to be careful and continue in this way.
6. S. (15:03) We are far from the truth. How can we accept everything that is happening in the world from the Creator through the connection that we create everyday between us?
R. First of all, everything that the Creator does it is for the good. We don’t understand it, we want everything to take place according to our forces, our desires, our understanding. But certainly we need to accept what is happening. As it is written, ‘a person must bless the bad, as he blesses the good,’ and there is no difference. And if not for our egoistic desire, we need to accept everything that happens, as happening by the hand of the Creator, and everything is advancing us towards the end of correction; to do good.
And a person has to pray over the bad as he prays over the good. Hence, we have to hold on to our thought which is to help our friends, whom God forbid may be harmed by this calamity in Turkey and let’s help by that. We externally help them, that is a certainty. That we try, even now when we are reading, what are we reading that there are different calamities, blows that were prepared for humans, the systems of forces from above like Rabbi Shimon and Rabbi Elazar. We see that nevertheless it’s possible to arrange things and to mitigate the judgment and we will try to do it this way.
Everything that is happening is not an accident. Rather, we have to accept these things, and everything is happening for us. Meaning, for us to give the powers and to pray and by that there will be correction to all the friends and to the whole world.
7. S. (18:30) There’s a feeling as if we are building Noah’s Ark. Is that correct?
R. Each and every moment we build our connections together: this is called the Noah’s Ark.
8. S. (18:56) In the upcoming Congress, we will unite as one heart in the world Kli. And everything that is happening now, all the events, you can really feel like the friends and the Turkish Kli, in general, everything that is outside of the framework of the ten. How when we are reading now, through the connection with our ten, how do we connect with the rest of the Kli, and especially with the Turkish Kli?
R. Understand that the plan of creation is to connect to all of us. All the people as they were before the shattering, they were as one body, one man, one thought, one desire; everything was one. And through the shattering of the Kelim as we call it, the sin of the Tree of Knowledge, this vessel shattered into pieces, 600,000 pieces, and more and more pieces thereafter. The 600,000 is in the first shattering, and later there were additional shatterings. And through our efforts we need to connect them together. This connection started not too long ago from Rabbi Shimon, as the Zohar tells us and beyond. It’s not millions of years or an infinite number of actions, it’s not too long ago as you say.
We are in the heart of the matter of correction and our time, our group, us ourselves, the way the Creator connects us from all over the world, we can feel a certain purpose, a certain guidance, a deliberate Hand here that comes and connects us together. We do wish to connect and through that each shall help his friend and help one another.
9. S. (21:53) How can we combine all these spiritual desires with the desires that were created so that we can build a deficiency for connection with the Creator?
R. Good question. We read quite a bit and tried to connect to some extent between us. Now we need to understand what’s happening in Turkey and in other places, and God forbid it can expand throughout the entire planet, spread all over and we need to try and be more connected. As only through the connection between us can we prevent this form of additional disasters from spreading and we will reach connection soon in our days and we will reach the end of correction.
We don’t need to walk around in this world and perform all kinds of corrections and connections. We can do it in one leap. It all depends on how much we wish to connect between us and to correct things. So we will try.
10. S. (23:51) If the Creator only sends us good, what does it mean to bless for the good and bless for the bad?
R. It’s regarding a person, how a person feels through their actions. It is written, ‘Neither them nor their reward. And it’s not that I want to feel bad, I only want to feel only good and that it comes from the Creator openly. And connect with this action in my heart and my soul to such an extent that my heart is open and I’m opening up towards everything that is happening in the world, all the people, all the actions between us. And in the meantime, we are not able to do it, so therefore we have to pray for that and ask the Creator to make such corrections that we will be happy to open ourselves up, to open our hearts and connect with our hearts to such an extent that it will come to again, a single heart, the way it was before the shattering.
11. S. (25:28) We are grateful for being in the lesson and we are sending strength to all of our friends. The question is: can Bnei Baruch be regarded as our cave where we support everything that happens externally; to give more strength to cope with life?
R. Yes, you said it beautifully. The entire group of Bnei Baruch can be like a cave where we can all hide together in the connection between us and then there will be room for everyone. It is like Noah’s Ark. We are able to host an entire world to be connected and so we are inviting everyone and with our connection we are drawing the reforming light and we reveal between us the end of correction.
12. S. (26:53) Who are the people who are going to the sea?
R. Those who came from crossing the sea and went through all kinds of difficult states and now they are coming to a safe haven and they were rewarded with it to come out of the ship and go on shore. Typically it is felt greatly in a person who has spent a long time on a ship and he goes out on shore and he feels himself on land and he has an opportunity to determine his dependency on the Creator. Although he won’t have certainty or security, he knows what to do and he can control his state. Nevertheless he goes in faith above reason and that’s what it means that he comes out and it is different than what we think. The more, wherever he has more confidence and support as he is coming out to shore, with that he wants to go above reason, as if he has no support and no confidence, no certainty and instead he delivers everything to the Creator.
13. S. (29:09) Why is the Creator awakening us in such a hard and painful way?
R. According to our history, we can say that it’s not the worst state; there are worse states in quantity and quality. And why is it happening specifically to Turkey and now, we can’t open this up yet and reveal things but according to what was revealed we have to grow stronger and pray for the wholeness of our Kli. To understand how everything was done only for that.
14. S. (30:06) You said that there is no need for these harsh states but our lives are filled with such harsh states: so does that mean we are not doing our part in the correction correctly?
R. It doesn’t mean that we are not doing our part in the correction. Rather it means that there is an opportunity of reaching it even without these instances theoretically even without such instances we are able to come to corrections. Although if it’s happening, then we should say after everything is said and done, we have to say that this is what was supposed to happen. And why it was done, why did it happen in our time and in Turkey? We can’t elaborate on that as well but we will come to know all those things.
We just need to understand that through the prayer and by aiming our hearts together, by that we make corrections. And it turns out that all the states we are going through, even in a difficult manner, all of it works in order to accelerate our correction and aim us to a good final state.
15. S. (32:10) Why is it happening through suffering, why not through the light? We are doing everything we can. What is missing?
R. First of all, there are a few things here that I need to shed some light on: What appears to us as suffering and it is possible that it is not suffering but rather rewards. This is about everything that’s happening around us in the world. There is no evil, there is nothing bad, it is simply the way we see it. That in reality there is nothing bad in the world and all the actions are the actions of the Creator who twisted us in this way in order to bring us to correction and connection, that is one thing. After that we will see and we will read in the zohar. There is plenty about it; that what appears to us as bad is not bad, and that the blows we receive are not blows, and it shouldn’t calm us down but it should help us correct our vessels of perception and reception.
16. S. (33:50) In light of what is happening in the world we are chatting between us and we understand the importance of the prayer and the connection but we end up realizing that we’re lacking the outcry to raise this prayer from the bottom of the heart. How do I raise the prayer to the Creator so He will answer it?
R. We can see even from the years that we have existed in this world that it all depends upon how a person goes to all the states, how much he absorbs all the troubles and problems of the world, how much he went through and he understands and feels what’s really happening in reality? It all depends upon life’s experience, so the more he absorbs everything that is happening to him and the more he connects with humanity and absorbs from all of humanity what is happening; It’s like you know he is grabbing humanity and he is squeezing it and what comes out of it, he squeezes humanity and all these troubles he is willing to accept and also feel it and out of that he comes to correction, a very fast and very big correction.
S. But now there are 1000 people that are willing. How do I raise the prayer together? How do we outcry?
R. We will gather, we will all assemble and try to do it together in the Congress.
17. S. (36:17) Recently I have been having this thought that I won’t be able to win over my intellect and overcome the bad mood.
R. You will succeed in nothing but if you connect and adhere to your friend then you will succeed in everything.
S. Will I constantly be moving about in this desert?
R. It depends on you, as much as you adhere to them.
18. S. (36:55) How can we ensure that we are not being egoistic in our prayers because in my will to receive my prayers appears bad and ineffective, what should I do?
R. This is why the Creator broke the one desire that was called Adam into many many pieces and we have to reunite them. That each one overcomes his personal ego to be connected with the others, and in this way we come to a state where we can ask the Creator together by helping one another that he will connect us; and out of the vessel that becomes connected, as much as we can each of us ask for the others to that extent we draw the reforming light which connects us and performs the corrections for us.
19. S. (38:35) When we hear from you that we need to connect, what’s the reason the Creator does not disclose directly the result of whether or not we managed to connect?
R. That too is in order not to fail us, so that we will be able to work with faith above reason. Everything is organized and arranged in such a way that we will come to the form of bestowal.
S. So a person can develop a means in which to feel whether or not he’s acting correctly?
R. A person has to go with faith above reason and then he asks the Creator to organize the vessel in such a correct way.
20. S. (39:39) Right now ahead of the upcoming Congress there are more and more opportunities for connection in places where we are invited as a ten. How to figure out in a ten whether to participate or not considering we barely make the meetings in the day as well?
R. I don’t quite know what you mean. I think we need to be connected between us and mainly within our world vessel of Bnei Baruch and not disperse to other places. Now before the Congress we have to be as close as possible to each other, to feel each other and look what problems the Creator creates between us in order to push us to a general connection. Let’s yearn for it more as much as possible and then we will succeed in everything.
S. All kinds of initiatives there are many possibilities and sometimes we lose our direction in the ten, where to participate or not? We see that sometimes it weekends the friends or do we have to come together more as a ten regardless?
R. I think there is no need to skip from one place to another, from one activity to another. I think we need to somehow create boundaries and be a little more close within you. Don’t build defenses from others but don’t get dispersed. So the most important thing for us is nevertheless to feel that we are constantly getting closer, that we are getting closer and closer to each other; feel each other more, internally, more and more etc. This is very important.
21. S. (42:28) Thank you for the prayers. How can I overcome the pain I am suffering that we are going through right now and help our friends?
R. We don’t need to overcome our hearts or our suffering; we need to take our hearts and the suffering and together, everyone, precisely within this feeling of suffering to unite and understand that it is all coming from The Creator in order to give us the possibility to reveal our hearts, to open our hearts, to remove from it all of the shells and with an open heart with the heart of flesh to connect it into one big heart. And in this way to achieve correction; men women all of us together.
22. S. (43:42) A question about the text, it says that Rabbi Shimon ran away from the Malchut which was ordered that he should be killed, so we see that even in such higher degrees there are judgments like that. What does it mean that Malchut ordered that he should be killed?
R. That it does not let him move from degree to degree.
S. How do you hide? it says that he and his son hide from…?
R. In a cave. We will learn that, in various places in the Zohar we will learn what a cave is? There are special conditions there and you can hide there, you can hide there from alien forces and that is why it is possible to make corrections.
23. S. (44:48) How to work with this inner contradiction on one hand where you cannot agree with what is being revealed, and on the other hand you ask the Creator to change what is being revealed?
R. No, I agree with what is revealed. Meaning that it’s revealed, I do not agree because in my opinion although I have to say it is coming from the Creator. But what is revealed, is revealed in a negative form; so I have to activate the prayer and the request for the connection between us in order to rise above the judgment and to awaken the forces of mercy.
S. And what exactly is the adhesion with the Creator if you are asking Him to change something?
R. I am asking instead of judgment for mercy, to add more of the light of Hassadim to all those forces that are awakening in the world and to achieve sweetening.
S. What does it mean that you are adhered to the Creator when you ask Him to change the judgments into mercy?
R. I do not ask for the Creator’s actions to change, but for me to accept these operations more correctly.
24. S. (46:56) A question about the text, when the Zohar writes about the different Rabbis for example Rabbi Shimon, Rabbi Pinchas, what do these things indicate, what is the Kabbalistic definition…?
R. These are spiritual forces; they are not people, they are spiritual forces. Let’s hope that soon we will start getting to know them, that they are operating in the world.
S. The names themselves are not so natural to understand for example when the Zohar uses the languages of Branches…?
R. We will continue and we will understand everything. Patience; part of our correction is patience.
25. S (48:17) How can we work for it say in Achishena not to be rewarded that we do not get blows because that would be the wrong prayer, but come to a collective outcome to work let’s say in Achishena more or less, how can we avoid the blows but not as a reward? How do we come to this correct prayer?
R. To avoid blows means that I don’t take the blows into consideration, I take the relation to the blows into consideration. That I understand the good operation that is in it, and how it awakens me to correction; therefore I do not ask for the blows to disappear from the world but for me to learn from them as much as possible.
S. Does that mean that we need to accept that blows can come even more just like this…?
R. We do not make calculations with the blows themselves or consider them, we should be in the state that we don’t care where there’s more or less blows. I take into consideration the result from the blows; in what way do I want to emerge from them. This is my reward: To learn from them, to make greater and greater corrections over them.
S. What are the steps that we need to take right now, let’s say in this situation that we are in? What is the correct way to pray right now together, to come to this outcry, to use this correctly?
R. The right way is one: To unite more between us and turn more to the Creator in a more concentrated way and ask and demand of Him to hear us by correcting our prayer; so that we will learn how to pray correctly, how to turn to the Creator and what to ask for exactly. That is it. This is where you start.
26. S. (51:42) You just answered our friend that this cry, something we can raise during the Congress in a special connection between us. The question about the connection between the women we cannot ask the Creator to remove that state but we can ask him perhaps to somehow mitigate it with mercy, how to do it is this through the power of women connection in the Congress? How can we mitigate the judgments?
R. There is still time before the Congress and we will talk about it. we will see how we change and in the Congress itself we will also talk about it, now we simply need to go with the flow of the lesson.
27. S. (52:55) It is written here in the Zohar: The commentary that the daughter of Rabbi Pinchas Ben Yair was Rabbi Shimon’s wife, it follows that Rabbi Shimon is included in the house of Rabbi Pinchas ben Yair. It refers to Rabbi Elazar who came out of the light that was included in the SAG and in the house of the rabbi Pinchas Ben Yair that the light is Rabbi Shimon and his wife and Rabbi Elazar came out and illuminated the entire world. The question: His wife, the lower Nukva, Rabbi Shimon’s upper, Elazar his son the upper upper, this is the order of the degree, and the order of lower and upper upper is this correct?
R. I do not know.
28. S. (54:17) It says here in the item 188 Rabbi Shimon told him, happy I am that you have seen me so for have you not seen me so i would not be so. Why is the connection between if you have not seen me so I would not be so, it’s a person depending on how people look at him?
R. I do not know, but this is what it says in the book of Zohar. I want you to read, i want you to see what is written in the book; If you understand you understand, if you don’t understand you will understand later. There is a limit to how much we ask and to how much we want to advance.
Reading item #188 (55:25) “Before he went out to the ship the birds came and one of them held a letter in her beak..”
29. R. (56:40) In other words, one who wants to advance in adhesion with the Creator, the one who is called Israel, Yashar Kel, straight to the Creator then he has something to do; to do those operations as it’s written and what does that mean? Commentary…
Continue 188 (57:00) “Commentary for all the years that he had to dwell in the cave he had to sit there inside the sand to cover his nakedness and engage in Torah..
30. R. (57:20) Of course this is not about the flesh or the sand or covering the body; It is about spiritual things.
Continue 188 (57:34) “Rabbi Pinhas wept over him and said well unto me that I’ve seen you so..”
31. R. (58:52) Yes, thus far this is the article of Rabbi Shimon’s exit from the cave.
32. S. (59:06) It is as if he is testing us with our friend who we see making the greatest effort to please him, why is that?
R. I did not understand what you said.
Reader: He is asking why is it that the Creator is seemingly testing them regarding the friend that appears to be trying the hardest to reach adhesion, so the Creator is testing the group relative to that friend.
R. Yes, you can put it this way that the most successful one in the group sets a certain level, a threshold, like a bar with respect to which you measure the group.
Reader: He means that one of the friends under the ruins is one of the ones that invested the most, why is it towards him?
R. That is also clear. It is always like that, that all the corrections begin with the best. This is why also those who engage in the wisdom of kabbalah have more problems, pressures and they suffer more and in the end they gain more and succeed more but during the work until they complete the correction they suffer more. Nothing you can do about it, look at the people of Israel as an example.
There is no such thing as the people of Israel and there was no such thing in the world at all. But because a group decided, so and so many years ago decided to go for connection between them they called themselves straight to the Creator Israel and then according to how much they directed themselves towards the Creator they decided to walk on this path and they started suffering blows and troubles which hasten their path to correction.
33. S. (01:02:17) How should we come to the congress with a heart that is mostly mitigated and sweetened because the heart is really hard, I cannot feel the friends I cannot feel the push of the women and also the state in Turkey became much more hard and difficult.
R. Yes, all those things are arranged in such a way that we will feel it and direct ourselves to correction on top of anything that happens and we have to accordingly arrange ourselves, position ourselves towards connection and afterwards we will see how much how much are connections sweetens truly sweetens the states and brings us more quickly to correction, to connection to mutual support and by this we all gain and we all help each other. Each one helps his friend and in this way we all succeed. We will see this.
34. S. (01:03:57) Do these difficulties strengthen our faith above reason?
R. Of course. All the difficulties, all the hardships, all the blows, all the problems are only in order to strengthen us and raise us above reason.
35. S. (01:04:31) It is written happy I am that you saw me this way for if you had not seen me this way I would not be this way.
R. In other words if I did not suffer so much from the sand, from the rust, from all the sores; meaning, not physical sores but more internal ones. If I did not suffer from them I would not be healed from them. I would not correct them and of course you would see me in a state where I am close to correction.
S. It’s clear but it says here if you had not seen me this way I would not be this way. Typically we become a certain way and then they see us in this way and here it is the other way around?
R. I do not understand what you want.
S. It is written, if you did not see me this way I would not be so.
R. As the friend sees him it testifies to him being in that state.
36. S. (01:06:18) When I see a shattering in my friend or if the friend sees a shattering in me should that be a trigger for the work?
R. Of course. The more broken I see my friend, if he needs to make many corrections I connect to him and I help him go through these corrections quickly together.
37. S. (1:07:02) Are the bad things that are happening to our friends provide us for the mirror for our evil, our own evil?
R. I did not understand, again.
Reader: Are the bad things that happen to our friends become the mirror to the evil that is inside of us?
R. Yes, but it is not personal. It is more general to put it more correctly but it is a good question. It is a general question, yeah.
38. S. (01:08:43) With everything that is happening in Turkey, is it enough to raise a prayer? Because we are ahead of an action and we need to also help physically if a person is ill and not just pray.
R. I think that although all over the world countries are organizing to help Turkey, we should do it too. We have a group of people that are dealing with it. I hope at the end of the lesson they will talk about it and you will all decide together what can be done to help. Of course however we can we will help without any doubt, yes.
39. S. (01:09:53) You said that the sores on the body match spiritual attainments but the sores that appear on the body over the years do they have some relationship to the Spiritual development?
R. Of course, of course. Anyone whom the Lord loves he admonishes That’s the Law. Those that the Creator loves more he usually gives them more blows in order to advance him more quickly to a higher level of more corrections.
40. S. (01:10:55) What should we understand with this new direction that we received in the congress. Does this mean that there was no connection or it is the Creator re-aiming us?
R. Yes, we can think that the connection between us was probably not enough and in order to awaken the connection between us the Creator is taking us through such an incident as it happened in Turkey. We can think like that as well because there is no chance, there is no coincidence in life, randomness.
Reader: She is asking about the change in the Congress from the desert Congress to a Congress that will happen here, men and women, is that also a sign that we are not doing the work?
R. Yes, these are all signs that we want to have a bigger Congress, a more connected Congress, a more powerful Congress and this is why we are changing these things. We are not going to the desert but rather we are staying here at our center, the men and the woman together, not mixed but still in the same zone in the same location and this is what we will do.
41. S. (01:12:51) Ever since we started reading the Zohar time passes faster like we are in a spaceship, what is the reason for that?
R. The influence of the book of Zohar that we are studying. We think that we are reading stories. We do not understand, it is like little children when they hear a story and they don’t understand its inner content, so are we, in reading the introduction to the book of Zohar.
42. S. (01:13:42) Is there, can we say to some extent what we experience in humanity today is actually seeing the posterior of the Creator and if so what should we do in order to see the face of the Creator?
R. To be drawn to our correction, to be as one man with one heart.
43. S. (01:14:23) You let us feel in the beginning of the lesson that our vessel is the cave so what is the meaning in our work to be sitting in the sand in order to cover ourselves and learn Torah? What does that mean?
R. We can’t speak of that correction now. We can’t understand it but it is a great correction that covers our sores that come out as a result of correcting the Torah on our flesh. It is a very big correction, a very special one that we will learn separately. We just have to flow with the Zohar, whatever it says, we hear it, we continue.
44. S. (01:15:28) You told a friend that we are not asking the Creator to change reality but to change our attitude towards reality and at the same time you said we will do some action to help the friends in Turkey. I also look at the way we look at the friends, that actually the friend’s corporeality is my spirituality so in what intention should I do it if I don’t want reality to change what the Creator is giving me?
R. I did not understand the end of the sentence.
S. We are asking to change our attitude towards reality. We want to see everything that’s happening in the world that it is the Creator, the good who does good, we want to feel it. On the other hand we are helping the friends also in the ten, let’s say, so when I help someone in the ten or in the Turkish vessel, what am I asking for in my action? What prayer do I have to raise? What will happen to the friend, what will happen to my attitude?
R. On top of everything that I feel in my mind and heart, what is happening to me now. I want to discover the Creator as good; meaning, I have within me all kinds of Sefirot in which I get all kinds of influences. I organize them in such a way that there is me and in the direction that the Creator is all good, so I change all those discernments in me so in them I seemingly feel the greatest good and then I look how much I needed to change each and every Sefira, each and every part in me and accordingly I see what more corrections are still missing in me.
Let’s say I have ten buttons, ten knobs and I have to turn each and every one of them so that the Creator will seem to be as the absolute good and then I see accordingly to what I turn and what I felt before, how much I still need to correct myself. Maybe I can somehow depict to myself the level of correction, where I am and in what direction I truly need to turn myself.
S. The point is clear so now another physical action is taking place. I am coming and I want to help the Turkish Kli so this action, what are we doing this for?
R. What do you mean for what?
S. If I change my attitude, I change the Sefirot in my heart. I try, and pray, and see reality as the good that does good so what are we demanding in order to come to the state of the good that does good? What are we demanding from the physical action towards a friend?
R. In what we demand, we include in us, that same friend or all of the Turkish group or all of the Turkish country and we include them inside within us and together with them we want to feel ourselves, we want to feel the Creator as good that does good. We want to live in that, we want to be in that we are taking all of our friends within our hearts and we’ll bring them to the Creator the good that does good and then the friends together with us are fulfilled with a good that does good, the Creator.
45. S. (01:20:34) Today everybody is talking about the disaster in Turkey but also in Syria it happened even though we don’t have a peace agreement with Syria. I read online that through Russia they asked Israel for help and Israel agreed to help Syria too even though it is an enemy state to us. Can you relate to that topic?
R. No, I cannot relate to that I have no connection to Syria and I have no thought about it, no. In Turkey I have friends, I have students. I was there a month or two ago and hopefully I’ll be there again. This is a country that we are drawn to and they are to us and I see now in front of me on the screen many students from Turkey. It is very pleasant to see them and with Syria I have no contact. I’m sorry but that is how it is but that’s the fact, that’s the truth.
46. S. (01:22:28) Ahmed is the friend that was hurt in the earthquake. He is a very strong friend in the ten and it is very painful to think of what state he might be in right now and we do not know what is actually happening to him right now. This is the first morning lesson that he has not been with us and we really feel his loss that he is not here so we are in a very difficult state as a ten. Can we get forces from the group and what should we turn to the Creator with? With which mutual plea?
R. We are all connecting together in order to try and feel him within our heart to prepare in our mutual heart a place for him. I really hope that the fact that we do not hear from him now or see him now is because of lack of contact from where he is and I truly hope that he will be able to be in contact with us. We will be happy to receive him here in Israel and I think in any place in the world and let’s hope that from hour to hour we will be updated on his situation and we will hear from him.
47. S. (01:24:40) You said that there’s no such thing as a coincidence. There were two strong earthquakes and we were studying Zohar at the same time in the lesson so what does that mean that during the earthquake we were studying the Zohar?
R. We do not know how to interpret this. We can say that because we studied Zohar there was an earthquake or we can say that because there was an earthquake and we studied Zohar we got what we got and not more than that. You can interpret it and turn it around in any direction that is why we do not speculate in all directions but we simply study what Kabbalists tell us, that we can mitigate all states through the study and that is why we are studying. That is all
48. S. (01:25:55) You said that we are changing the inner Sefirot in us in order to justify the Creator and to give the friends correction and light. So what are those inner qualities?
R. The fact that we want to change ourselves in order to be good in the eyes of the Creator and man. That is all.