FRIDAY PRAYER: KETER-TIKKUN CHATZOT תקון חצות – LESSON WITH RAV MICHAEL LAITMAN

READING: between after midnight and sunrise of Friday

Zohar for All. Introduction of The Book of Zohar. The Second Commandment, item 198

Morning Lesson February 08, 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”. The Second Commandment. #198

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1. Rav’s Introduction: (00:31)  We have learned that the first commandment is the commandment of fear and the second commandment, he writes the second commandment is a commandment  to which the command of fear clings in which it never leaves, it is love. Meaning because we are from the will to receive and it has to be in great guard and under great hold, so the first commandment is the commandment of fear. Then we can reach the second commandment which is love. Love cannot be like the Creator which fulfills all of his space, if we can say that, but first we have to correct our Kli, our space and that is by the commandment of fear. Then we can make sure that it is filled with love. We need to do actions here, all together kind of too Global actions to make. Let us see how we hear this, how we do this, how the Zohar describes this. That is basically what we need to see in our life and also that would have been that if we want to do something if we want to do it with the right powerful firm foundation so because we are made from a will to receive and besides our ego nothing works on us to begin with we first have to activate the commandment of fear and only to the extent that it governs the will to receive, that it shapes us and rules us only to that extent we can approach carrying out the commandment of love. Meaning that just playing love as we sometimes talk about love as something that is unconditional and unbounded there’s no such thing in the world because the world is entirely built on the will to receive, something that is completely opposite to love as it exists in complete self-love. When we say love we mean the love of others. Let us see how the Zohar tells us about this. It is something very important. It gives us the right attitude to everything that we do in life also. That if the quality of fear or reference is in the at the foundation of the created being than he is likely to succeed in his mission because the fear will keep him in the right direction, position him correctly and then he will advance in the right way, and we can’t think like little children that love is the most important and love will cover everything and make everything better. No it is impossible it is impossible that it will do anything in our nature because we are made from the will to receive. We are not going to be able to bridge. First of all, there is the commandment of fear, we have to establish it correctly both with ourselves and with children and in relationships between spouses between countries everywhere. We first have to take care of the commandment of fear and then, only to the extent that the commandment of fear already is active within us, then we can turn to love. We will learn that now.

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Reading Excerpt  198 ( 06:08) The second commandment is a commandment to 

2. R. (06:25) Meeting to really think of what the Zohar  discusses, if we carry out spiritual instructions laws which are truthful then we must have the commandment of fear be a complete basis for all the rest of the Commandments. 

 Reading Continues (06:46) “…is love that one should love one’s Master with whole love.”

3. R. (06:57) It is interesting how it could be that these commandments, these actions, are so close to each other.  First there is fear and next to it love. Usually they are canceling each other out for us. If I love, I do not want to think about all kinds of limitations and fears and doubts and so on but here not necessarily you have to achieve the Commandment of fear and then right after that at the same place, same conditions you achieve the Commandment of love.

Reading Continues (07:49) “And what is whole love it is great love…”

4. S. (10:02) What exactly is this commandment of fear? We always are learning about love in the Ten but how do we work on fear between us?

R. If our foundation is a will to receive and that is our whole nature, and everything is perceived in the will to receive so we have to see what we give the will to receive so that it reaches the will to bestow. What will we give the will to receive, what kind of corrections will we give it so it will think not on the benefit of itself but the benefit of others and that is called love and so on. Here he gradually explains to us how we achieve these things. The question is that in such love where the Creator gives us everything as much as he gives everything to us he might be failing us as we receive and we have to give back to him and we feel that he fulfills us and then our love is bought because he fulfills us, He gives us. We have no room to set up our love. The love is in exchange for receiving all kinds of good things from him, that he at least canceled out some empty voids for us. Is it love then? Even in our world we recognize that this is not love, it is some sort of exchange that He does get things to me and therefore I love Him from my will to receive so is that correct is that love? Of course not. This is like we say beastly love or like with a dog or a cat or any other animal. The more you give them the more they tie themselves to you because you feed them. This is probably not love, the definition of love, we still do not understand that. We even see from this world that our relationship with another in exchange for receiving goodness from Him is not love, it is a response.  Basically that is where we begin, just like we when we begin to get to know someone. Let us say I see a man going on a date with a woman. He gives her flowers, he invites her to sit together at some coffee shop, in a cafe. He gives her a gift of some sort, but it’s not love, it’s signs of attitude towards each other. When do we start talking about love? This unique emotion that exists from one towards the other. Can this  emotion, can it develop only among unique people that already are compatible with each other to the origin of their creation?  These are profound things. I don’t know but they are profound not because we are talking about relationships in this world but because we are talking about relationships between us and the Creator. How we find ourselves connected to each other correctly and are able to connect in the right place where only I and these friends can be connected together and be in the system of Adam HaRishon, close to each other and others, no. No one of the other billions of people can be connected that way as we are, what’s happening here? How do we achieve this level of connections that are truthful and loyal? I don’t want to go too fast but think about where we are and how much more we need to understand our situation where we need to reach. 

5. S. (16:36) The truth is I want to ask exactly about that, why despite the fear there’s such a desire that appears answered by the Creator in connection and not just run away?

R. We want to get closer to the Creator we want to start understanding better and better that He is the source of life and only through connection with Him we can organize ourselves and raise ourselves above this whole corporeal world and reach a level of forces and connections that are above matter and so that is how we look for what forms of connection we should make between us. We reach a state where the connection between us has to be only internally in the interstate that we all have to depict to ourselves this network where we are all connected to each other, we are all responsible for each other, we are all in adhesion with each other and thus we get closer and closer until we begin to see where is each and everyone’s place in this connection between us and it is all in order to find between us this form or configuration that is more and more similar to the Creator. That is how we will advance to the right form. All right?

S. After that, later on when we will process this place, work with it, the fear and later on it will continue to be fear?

R. I do not like jumping to things and that is why I don’t really like your questions. Be a bit more restrained, you are not alone here.

6. S. (19:28) Can you explain the line “walk before me and behold”?

R. Yes, it is that he always feels himself in the presence of the creator and always wants to be in contact with the Creator, to be in front of the Creator meaning face-to-face, qualities opposite quality. Meaning the quality of bestowal and love from one and also from the other and do that innocently. Innocently means that it does not matter on what levels and degrees I have relationships with the Creator I tried to be with him in heart and soul, in adhesion.

7. S. (20:42) How can we rise above the quality of fear to the state of love?

R. That is a problem but because we have a connection with the friends, it turns out that if I connect to them I can rise higher. I can skip over my quality of fear, I can receive support from their friends and be above my personal fears. This is even known in a corporeal way in the meantime it is sufficient for us.

8. S. (22:04) Is the relation between love and fear like light and darkness, meaning that one cannot exist without the other?

R. True, that is correct exactly that way. There cannot be love without fear and fear without love with respect to the creative beings, this cannot happen. Otherwise, we are made from a will to receive. Therefore it has to always feel one thing and it’s opposite otherwise it does not sense.

9. S. (22:59)  I am sorry that I love the Creator and conditional love. Am I supposed to  let go of this?

R. I have to increase my love to the Creator so much that I will depend on Him in each and everything so that this is above all of my calculations, and we will also learn and read a lot about this. how we have to how I have to establish my attitude, my love from each and every one towards a Creator. But ultimately that is the only thing we need to work on. There is nothing more than that. That is the first commandment.

10. S. (25:02) I want fear but how to identify if it is the correct fear? I ask the Creator I want it?

R. How do we achieve fear that we will learn that is not a question it is a general question.

S. He is asking how do I know if it is the correct fear?

R. We will scrutinize that, I don’t know I don’t know. It depends on what I am afraid of. What am I trying to reach? Who is directing me? How do I increase my fear? What is the difference between Yirah and fear, more like reverence and How many types of fear the person has and so on. There is more to scrutinize here okay?

11. S. ( 26:21) I understand that the matter of progress and walking on the path is always with two legs but ultimately we always need the fear, the will to receive. How do we let go of this feeling of split and go towards unity?

R. How can we get rid of fear if we see that our foundation is self-love?  The ego. How can we get rid of fear if we are always nevertheless in this inner fear that we will not cause harm to ourselves. Obviously, there has to be some system here that will fulfill us, that will split us, that will turn us into some other system, that we rise above the fears, but these fears have to be inside of our foundation. We will not be able to run away from it as from our will to receive it is with us. We build our progress on that.

S. Is there also love that is beyond fear?

R. If there is, then we will learn.

12. S. (28:10) Our action, by giving them concern by giving them gifts by raising the friends, how to use it correctly to advance me in spirituality?

R. To the extent that I raised the friends and the Creator above myself that is how I advance by that I am drawn forward. That is basically the answer.

13. S. (28:57) Why is love for the Creator without support without assistance? Are we missing support in the connection with the Creator?

R. No, we will learn about it but there we mostly need support from the group. We need support from the group. It will bring us closer to the friends and the Creator, we will learn. We have not started the system with which we advance. We are now only getting acquainted with the first condition for our progress in the spiritual ladder. It is only the first degree.

14. S. (30:12) What is to correct this void? What is this?

R. It is to fulfill our entire desire  with the presence of the Creator.

15. S. (30:36) In order to reach the love of the Creator and to feel this love we want that first to feel the love of friends to actually reach them , to actually love them but why is it difficult to feel this love inside of our hearts? When we ask the Creator to open our hearts?

R. I don’t have a place, it is our safe self-love, I don’t have a place in my heart to love more, if I love myself I cannot love others. It is very simple and that is where the struggle is.

16. S. (31:44) What is it that a person needs to feel fear if a person is not in accord with a Creator?

R. We will talk about it. This is quite an early question for now.

17. S. (32:15) As much as fear is exchanged with love such that fear is revealed?

R. Okay, we have to advance, move forward. I see these are questions that are asked ahead of time.

Reading 199 ( 32:47) “My father, I heard the meaning of complete love…”

18. R. (34:12) Meaning complete love that entirely fulfills man’s desire and he has no other place to make the calculation with respect to what he receives from the one he loves. Love fills the entire space of the heart and therefore there is no space left to feel any anxieties, fear, doubts, anything only complete and total love.

19. S. (34:52) It seems here that he is talking about unconditional love and the question is how do we reach this because everything, everything we do is dependent on something, how do we reach love that is unconditional?

R. We need to reach a state where the main thing for us is love, meaning giving bestowal above all the conditions that is basically our correction.

20. S. (35:34) When we talk about love, many times Rabash explains to us that we need to buy the friends this attitude, is it in order that we should draw the friends or to understand the greatness of the work itself?

R. Yes, both of this and that. Very good.

21. S. ( 36:16 ) What does it mean even if he takes your soul?

R. Even if you lose everything that you have in spirituality and you have nothing left, it doesn’t matter to you what is important is to remain in contact with the upper force that you do not want anything to receive in exchange for that.

22. S. (36:56) We can reach this love through the mind or only above reason?

R. It is in the faith above reason it is not just in the mind some calculations.

Reading Item #200. (37:33) “The love for the Creator is interpreted on both sides..”

23. S. (38:41) I’ve been in fear since this earthquake situation came out. I spent the whole night in fear for our friend. How to rise above this?

R. Connect with everyone and pray with everyone to the Creator that he should help. We have no more what to do and we also don’t need to do anything because there is no other force but the other force that does something in the world. So let’s connect together and ask together of the Creator to answer what our hearts are demanding. That we are requesting that He should reveal our friend in a whole healthy manner as fast as possible.

S. What kind of correction do we need to overcome this, and how can we cover it with love?

R. Nevertheless, we need to cover with love everything that happens because that is the first commandment, that is the attitude of the Creator towards us above all of creation and thus we need, without seeing the conditions, or the states, or different elements, or components, we need to relate to everything that there is, that these are the actions of the Creator and relate to them in love. Even that a knife may be rested upon your neck, you still need to not despair upon the mercy and be led to Him with love; such is written.

24. S. (41:30) What advice can you give our friends, in order to continue in the work. That they are feeling that if they will scrutinize the goal more, then it will make things worse?

R. That is correct, I cannot say that that is not correct, the more we scrutinize the goal, then we are scrutinizing the conditions that are more and more difficult in order to reach the goal. Let us say it is like we go to school to learn, and we are small like this, and then we don’t know what will be with us later on, but day by day, we are given work that is more difficult. Homework, all sorts of exercises, problems that we need to solve that become gradually more and more difficult. That is how we advance, that we learn things, that we learn more and more things and then we have to invest ourselves like this more and more and that is the same thing here. The more we will advance in the study of the wisdom of Kabbalah, although we may feel more, understand more, but it will all be by this, that we connect more and advance more in connection between us; fulfill  between us the laws of nature, which is the Creator. That all in all, the laws of the Creator are called Boreh, the Creator, and that is how we will advance.

25. S. (43:40) Do we attain fear as a result of the efforts that we make?

R. Do we attain fear as an outcome of our effort in the work? Truly, of course it also occurs like this but not directly that as much as I make an effort in my spiritual work, that then I more and more acquire the quality of fear; there is some connection but not directly.

26. S. (44:34) It turns out that we draw more light then we can work with the right intention. Does it turn out that the lights that we draw are more than we can work with and correct it with the right intention?

R. In principle, yes.

Reading Item #201 (45:20) “Complete love is love on both sides..”

27. S. (47:50) Meaning the matter of revelation and fear from the revelation that we will be able to maintain ourselves, hold ourselves, not in the correct manner. Meaning not in the intention to  receive but the intention to bestow. This needs to be for the created being as a condition, that he cannot cancel, he could not annul and thus, there are conditions here that are very delicate: how do I get closer to the Creator, how do I reveal the light in such a manner that I leave it only for the sake of the revelation for myself.

28. S. (48:44) When we care about the complete love between us in the work in the ten, it is clear how it will work on that part of love, that we express our love towards the friend in this way but the quality of Din, judgment or fear, you do not really work on that or we already should?

R. In order to rise above it with the quality of love and adhesion, and receiving support from the friends to such an extent that we will annul this form of fear, we will raise it to a different fear, we will cross the barrier, the limit from the beastly fear, for ourselves, to a spiritual fear. Will I be able to bestow contentment to the Creator, and then I will be in this and then as much as I am in this more and more than this fear for me is an assistance. It does not reject me anymore, it repels me, rather it draws me closer to the Creator, and that is how we will advance. Think about that and you will see that all the qualities when we exit from the intention to receive to the intention to bestow, they will begin to work in an opposite manner.

S. How is it possible to develop this fear that I can’t give contentment to the Creator, that I will lose my ten or lose my path: how can you describe this fear?

R. It will be revealed along the way. There are so many details and facets and private sensations here that I cannot just wrap it up into one sentence.

29. S. (51:03) What is a unique combination between Hesed and Din?

R. That I’m going in the middle line between them, it is not that I’m letting go of 50% of each one for the other. Rather I’m taking both of them and using both of them in a whole manner.

S. And what is the connection between Hesed and Din and fear? 

R. Well that is an entire system. We will speak more about that.

30. S. (51:48) What gives an example to a person, like an educational model where he learns what love is? How does a person, what gives a person an example, like an educational model so that he can learn what love is, learn what love is?

R. It is the relations between the friends. That the Creator reveals these relations and then from that the person learns envy, lust, honor all of these states that a person goes through; he learns from that just how much he lacks love.

S. So how does he look at the friends? What does it mean to look at the friends and learn how to love?

R. Because he is looking at them he sees how much they repulse him, how much they need to bring him closer and how much, what more he is missing in relation to them that he needs to improve.

S. Our whole path of Torah is a path of joy. How can you come from joy to fear?

R. Why not?

S. There are two contrasting things, there are two oppositions here.

R. If before me there is a goal, and I reach this goal to the connection of two qualities that seemed to me opposite, then it is no longer an opposition here. In contrast, rather a combination of plus and minus that works together, like we see everywhere in technology, in our life; everything is based on opposition and contrast.

S. Yes but when I end some action I can rejoice. Let’s say I reach a certain state but how can I always go with joy and fear that is sad?

R. It is not sadness and yearning, it is all thanks to the quality that I reach in the final state. We will talk about that later on.

31. S. (54:30) Even if someone wants to receive in order to bestow, is that not after all a request that makes a condition for the Creator? How do I go through this thin line?

R. I didn’t understand. Are you talking about yourself, or towards the friend and the Creator? I didn’t exactly understand.

S. He is asking about himself, he is asking about the person. If a person has an intention to receive but to receive in order to bestow, by that does he not put some condition to the Creator, and if so how do you cross over that?

R. We are of course placing conditions to the Creator, that’s we are telling the Creator we want to resemble You, of course that is a condition. I want to receive on the intention to bestow, in this I want to be like You, I want to reach adhesion. These are conditions, yes. And thus, it is written, ‘in the end My sons have won me over.’

32. S. (56:17) I wrote from your words, there is a condition that we cannot violate. That we receive a light only in order to bestow and the corporeal fear that is to receive, the spiritual fear that is to bestow. So regarding our work in the ten: what is our work here and what is the Creator’s work?

R. Actually it is all the work of the Creator. He is what awakens in us all the desires, qualities, questions, answers. On them, He does everything. On us, He is playing with us from all sides,  from the side of one actor to another. Let us say, like in a game of chess where there are two sides playing against each other, so the Creator’s playing really from both sides. Why? It is like we sometimes play with children in order to teach them how to play, it is the same thing here. That is what He’s doing and we need to understand that our entire life is a game, it is the game of the Creator and we need to try to enter this game such that we will learn what He is doing, what the Creator is doing with us, why is He doing it, what does He want from us?  All of our work is in this. No translation. Only that we should be full of all … We are at the beginning of this work with all the qualities, getting used to them, all these qualities through which we ultimately attain the Creator and the connection with Him.

S. It also feels like we are going through very moving lessons and the heart opens up in this direction. So how to feel the others more than myself? Is it now changing towards fear towards the ten because without it I cannot ever find the Creator, can I always want that?

R. Of course, yes and it is necessary, we will bring you to this.

33. S. (59:47) You said that there are conditions . How do we reach the light in a way so we leave it only for the revelation not for myself and what does it mean in practice in the work of the ten?

R. This we will learn later on what to do with this.  That to use it only for the sake of revelation, only for the sake of the Creator, only for His benefit. This we reach through the benefit of the friends.

S. It is clear that there’s work that everyone should do but in terms of working in the ten, how can we move that forward?

R. All of our work is in the ten, that we need to do the same actions in the ten that will bring us to such a state we influence and bestow to the friends, and through them to the Creator. You cannot reach directly to the Creator; from the love of the created beings to the love of the Creator.

34. S. (01:01:10) There is such a fear of not receiving for myself. There is also fear of being in bestowal. They look like opposites, but they are actually supporting each other: what is better to develop in myself?

R. To what better to develop?

S. Yes, is it better to be in this fear of being in bestowal or fear of not receiving for myself. They look like they’re opposite but they’re also helping each other.

R. It’s not a simple question, we need to scrutinize that.

S. Can we by exertion, make sure that I am in fear of not receiving for myself and thinking about bestowal, there is a feeling that it helps?

R. Of course, yes.

35. S. (01:02:35)  At the end of 200, it says that because his love has a foundation, because the root of his love is based on something, if that is revoked then love is revoked. So if love is not revoked doesn’t it mean that its root has no foundation?

R. Rabash used to say that love is such a creature that you need to feed it all the time, otherwise it dies. Meaning all the time, all the time, not to take any breaks, without breaks, it is such a creature that needs to be constantly fed.

S. It’s not the first time that I’m reading about these commandments, and I have the same question. The first commandment, about fear, it says that there are three types of fear and only one of which is truthful and it is the third, the foundation. And here it says love should not be based on something, that if it is based on something it becomes canceled: so there is a foundation for love or not?

R. Root of love is love of the Creator to his created beings and from this everything comes.

36. S. (01:05:00)  I feel like I am hanging in the air. Can we say that to the extent that my ego develops from me, to we, then my feelings, my sensations also become more spiritual?

R. Yes, yes.

37. S. (01:05:33) I feel that I’m hanging in the air in all of the states that I go through, all that I feel. It feels like something unreal, like a dream. But in contrast to this situation, all the states of suffering, or joy feel very real. What is this state? What is the message that the Creator is communicating?

R. The Creator wants to raise us to a state that we will feel how much we are dependent on Him, that He arranges for us. And truly that there is no more in man than what he feels in his heart and what we can do with ourselves is to connect the hearts, and then we will determine what we feel in our common heart.

38. S. (01:07:22) If in this complete love He takes my soul away, what is left in me to love Him? In that state he also takes fear away from me. I no longer know who I am, so what do we have to give?

R. That He takes it from you, the soul that is called, that you connect to Him and then you have an unlimited vessel with unlimited sensations, so continue.

39. S. (01:08:15) I give a condition to the Creator that if I am only willing to receive in order to bestow. I feel that he is basically asking: does placing this condition, does it not make my question egoistic?

R. Possibly, it could be but that depends on the person. There are words that we cannot exactly understand them and what attitude is the person speaking?

S. The question is this: that the man, to receive the quality of bestowal, is it not ultimately egoistic?

R. Egoistic or non-egoistic demand, it all depends for whose benefit is this demand, only that answers the essence of the demand.

S. So the question that person needs to ask himself is not what I demand but what I demand for, for the benefit of whom?

R. Yes, of course.

S. How can we as a world Kli incorporate with the friends from Turkey because it feels they are going through a very intense state? And how can we go under the stretcher with them, to help them carry this load that they have now?

R. First of all we need from all the people that are tied to them, to clarify what they need and how we can help them. What can we do? I’m not really sure, maybe we need at this time, from the states that they are in, in places wherever they are, maybe under wreckage of the ruins, maybe we need to invite some of them, some of them and their families to us, and maybe they can live with us in the meantime. And by this maybe we can assist and pray and do something for them until everything will be worked out for them or maybe it is forbidden for them to leave, I do not know? This needs to be clarified with people from there, but we can maybe send them something that they are missing. We need to clarify as much as I understand their needs should be, their basic needs should be covered by international organizations. Nonetheless, we need to hear these things from our friends that are tied to them.

40. S. (01:12:00) Maybe we will use this opportunity to turn to the friends from Turkey. That if anybody needs help to turn to us, from the coordinators or write to  boardworldkli@gmail.com and we will try to help with whatever we can.

41. S. (01:12:22) He writes here about the light that was created in the last item 201. He writes that if it wasn’t concealed then the harsh Din had not been revealed, this great love would have been devoid of the righteous. The question is: what is this whole process of correction of creation? Is it only for the righteous?

R. Ultimately everyone needs to be righteous, ultimately we all need to reach this degree that we justify the Creator above creation; reach the end of correction.

S. And this light that is called the great love, it says that the righteous will be like that?

R. It is like that for everyone at the end.

S. In the process I understand the anger there is towards the true workers of the Creator, it sounds like it’s for you and not for us?

R. I don’t understand. According to what a person corrects himself, he justifies the Creator more and more and he’s willing to work such that all of his work will only be for the benefit of others.

S. But the reward here, it says it is for the righteous. Meaning that in the process of correction, I suppose it says that it is only for the righteous, so there’s a question here: why does it say only for the righteous?

R. It is the same qualities in the person that they can justify the Creator, only they can feel the reward. That through them, this fulfillment, this light passes on to all of humanity and operates in each one in some form to bring each one closer to correction.

42. S. (01:14:37) I want to awaken from this bad dream. I cannot tolerate it anymore. How can I wake up? How can I not get angry?

R. I do not know what state he is in and who we are talking about but I think that simply to calm down. There are many people in the world who are under a lot of stress that goes over them like an internal earthquake and they want to close their eyes and open them in a different state and there is nothing you can do. 

The important thing here is to connect with the friends and enter those feelings that they are all feeling, that is it. And try to disconnect from this reality they are in emotionally and to understand, to accept it because that is what the Creator is arranging for us; it is all coming from Him. So let us accept what we receive from Him with love. 

The soul undergoes many corrections through that. It is all for our own benefit and we need to understand that later on we will be grateful for it. Although for the time being it is extremely difficult to feel it and to get through it. So please strengthen yourself.

43. S. (01:17:28) If a person is in such a state that it is hard for him to move even his head, and he tries to do that and he thinks, and he tells the Creator, and he can’t do this either with any kind of great joy. So what can be done?

R. There are people that are willing to put their head under the pillow to cover themselves up with the pillow and not hear anything, not see anything and not think about anything. I recommend not to do it. Rather to embrace the friends.  You can dilute your troubles among everyone, to receive support from everyone. And eventually you will feel how much it is working towards the correction of the general vessel. You are not running away from reality, you are actually creating reality, and the Creator is doing it on purpose so that you will connect. 

44. S. (01:19:01) Question about the excerpts that we read: how to check that love of the Creator is not dependent on something, that we will not falsely think that we love him?

R. Love to the Creator is tested according to the love of the friend. If you constantly try to come closer to the friends, embrace them, to support them, that is how your love for the Creator is tested, that is it.

45. S. (01:20:08) I had a feeling from a previous question to help carry the burden for the friends from Turkey was in relation to the perception of reality that we are in. Should our support only be internally, in thoughts, and for example to have a YH to help them, also internally, to support them, the world Kli?

R. That also will not be practical but only a gathering of friends but we’re not talking about that.

46. S. (01:21:20) We see that the person receives this awe, this fear and then he has this motivation for work with the friends but as soon as he works with a friend he also reaches this kind of love. How can we maintain this in line between judgment and mercy, to not  fall into self-love all the time?

R. Invest in the friends without looking at yourself.

S. But specifically here, when you invest it is like you suddenly have so much pride, you also feel the strength.

R. First you invest, and then you will measure your love, but investing is first.

S. How can I measure love?

R. Invest first.

S. We are investing, we are working every day, giving up on yourself, annulling, you’re entering with all of your strength with the friends. To work in love of friends, to buy the friends, to make the goal great. We are really, friends here are lions, each and every one, but there’s a point which we always fall into this self-love: how can we make sure that we do not fall?

R. Prayer, prayer.

S. What is exactly in the prayer here?

R. That the Creator will help you have the correct intentions while you’re doing actions for the benefit of the friends.

S. Is there some measurement to know the prayer was correct?

R. Prayer.

47. S (01:23:03) How can we build the love when we feel sometimes, most of the time, lately, that we are growing apart from each other, that there is more disconnection than connection in our ten. How can we build love on top of that? I mean it is a gift from the Creator, it is a calling from the Creator but how can we use it in the best possible way in this Congress, so that we can reach the highest, most possible attainment of love and understanding for each other?

R. We discussed it, we already spoke about it a lot. You can ask friends who already experienced this and you are most likely falling behind.  We must work and pray towards the Creator and then you will feel how He’s guiding you. I have nothing more to say, only keep going and do not miss any lessons but rather participate with everything you’ve got.

Reading Item #202 (01:25:05) “Rabbi Shimon took him and kissed him..” twice

48. S. (01:28:26) It is not clear here, he says he will cause the sin and the fortune will turn on him, what should I be fearful of if I reach love, why do I need to be fearful?

R. That you will remain in it, that your love will be whole, complete. Meaning that it doesn’t matter what you receive from the Creator, from minus to plus, from one end to the other end. You will nevertheless adhere to Him and you love Him.

S. So what is this verse that fear is included in love? What does it mean, because love is love?

R. Because we cannot have love without spiritual fear.

S. Can you explain that?

R. The explanation is simple, if you listen and stop talking, you will hear it. Because we are made of the will to receive, and we think only of ourselves. If we wish to speak of love, we need to first of all, speak about how we can annul our will to receive because without it we will not be able to use love. With our will to receive we can activate love, when we annul the will to receive, and later when we even increase the will to receive, grow it, and awaken it, enliven it, revive it, and then from the negative form, we can even turn it into a positive form; we can use its coarseness.

S. Exactly what it says here, this negativity, we invert it into love. So let’s say, a group of friends are sitting around a table, in a ten, what does it mean we turn it into love?

R. That’s what I said, you need to try and do it.

49. S. (01:30:51) We heard that a person loves himself with his whole heart. We know it is true but it’s so hard to come out of that state of ourselves and to build the correct connection, this full connection with the friends. How can this be done and how to advance correctly?

R. That is what we are learning in each and every lesson more and more and more. I cannot explain to you in one line. Simply be in the lessons all the time and hear what we are discussing and gradually you will begin to see how you are advancing.

50. S. (01:31:50) How can we give spiritual life to the friends?

R. By connecting together all of us and wanting to raise everyone together our entire connection together, raise it, and then when we do it together although we have no power to do it, the Creator joins us and then we raise ourselves upwards.

51. S. (01:33:15) Mutlu is with us here, he wants to give us an update on what is happening.

Mutlu: First of all I want to thank the whole world Kli for giving us a huge support we feel the whole world Kli is with us and as a group we are maintaining the unity with Bnei Baruch and all the friends from around the world and we are just really overwhelmed with the strength, confidence, and the whole group is really praying for the whole for our friend and feel that the whole Bnei Baruch is with us and praying with us, so I want to thank the whole group. In terms of Achmed we do not have a lot of information at the moment because the information flow is not very sound but we understand that his family is under the rubble, and they are currently working on trying to retract the people there. We have another few friends in the district of Hatai, their buildings are also knocked down but they are safe, so we are only missing one friend Ahmed and his family at the moment. We have a few other relatives of the friends who currently, we do not know what the information there, they are also under the rubble, but you know the whole country is pretty much like a war zone here, it’s all like alarms here, it’s like the country has gone to war so everybody’s helping everybody. Other than that there is not much to update. We just want to thank the whole world Kli  for their support, it’s really boosted us and we just do like to say that our unity can help us all, and as the Turkish Kli we understand that we need to focus on the whole unity of the friends and despite the fact that the country is going through a rough time we have to understand that we have friends all over the world that are going through a rough time including our friends in Ukraine and Russian and many other places in the world. So as a world Kli we just have to stick together, like the Rav said, keep working, not leave the path, and just bring all of our hearts together in unity as much as possible. Thank you to the world Kli, thank you Rav also, and thank you to all the friends.

R. We will continue to pray and the most important thing is to connect between us from the power of our connection that power will flow to those that are going through rough states and will help them come out from the depth to the high point. What can we do, we’ll go back to our business here so they will derive strength from that.

Reading item # 203 (01:36:36) “And thus one should evoke the fear on the other side of harsh Din..”

52. S. (01:53:04) The text relates to Din and harsh Din, what does it mean?

R. Din is limitations and harsh Din are harsh limitations that we first of all need to adapt ourselves to the conditions and then to enter contact with that same degree which we turn to.

S. What kind of limitations?

R. In accordance to the degree like he’s saying here. Here it’s speaking of connection between AB of Ima, we haven’t reached that yet, but it will soon be that we need to know under which conditions they can be in contact and work together, because in fact the vessels are opposite vessels from one another, how can they connect and continue this love together even though they are opposite.

53. S. (01:54:40) Question about harsh judgment and the hardening of the heart, the heart becomes harder, but during the judgment the person suffers and it suffers the heart so how come the heart gets harder?

R. Dinim are limitations, it’s prohibited from here it’s prohibited from there, that’s why the heart needs to be more and more sharpened, more and more arranged, directed correctly in order to transition between these limitations, that’s in general.

S. It’s not that I’m becoming more angry or anything like that?

R. Such sensations also awaken in him but he also needs to know how he arranges them.

54. S. (01:55:44) How come love is a commandment? Why is it not a result of spiritual fear?

R. Love is a commandment because love the Creator your Lord, it’s a great Mitzva, it’s a great commandment, and how could it come freely in and of itself to a person he needs to accept it as pressure from above, in order to reach it.

S. I see that the work with the friends and the group the Creator seemingly builds in us fear, spiritual fear, and what do I have to add to the spiritual fear so that love will develop from it?

R. Fear is a sort of result of your actions. You need to reach that same love in order to reach the correct form of love then you need fear that directs you, that you are afraid maybe I won’t do it maybe I’m not suitable for it and so on and then you can gradually come closer to the correct form of love.

S. So how come spiritual fear is the first commandment and not love?

R. Because we are built of a will to receive and that is why we have no choice we first of all have to have Tzimtzum and after Tzimtzum all of the remaining actions.

55. S. (01:57:41) We need to care about Bina so Malchut will rise to Bina and then the worlds will be able to filled with Hochma?

R. Yes, yes.

56. S. (01:58:07) He’s saying we write here that Hochma and Bina are always together. The question is, isn’t Hochma separate from Bina and Bina separate from Hochma and we need to build it?

R. Bina cannot exist if it lacks the light of Hochma.

S. Meaning it exists in nature or a person has to build it?

R. A person needs to make it so that he will be connected to Hochma and then from the Hochma he will be able to rise to the degree of Bina, so there cannot be Bina without Hochma in it.

S. And then love is built as a result of Hochma and Bina?

R. Yes.

S. Two forces okay.

57. S. (01:59:00) How not to cool our love to the Creator?

R. How to not have our love cool down? It depends on my connection with the friends only in such a way, when I tie myself to them and when I am envious of them and we speak of it, I receive from them inspiration awakening in such a way we advance.

58. S. (01:59:50) Does love play a role as a Masach?

R. Yes of course, it develops the greatest Masach possible, the Masach of receiving in order to bestow.

59. S. (02:00:14) Is one of the qualities of fear not to feel or to lose the yearning for the Creator?

R. Yes.

S. But if a person comes to the spiritual fear after a very difficult state can I ask it for my friends? How can I ask the Creator that the friends will go through this path of suffering?

R. Yes of course we can pray one who prays for his friend is rewarded first, yes.

Translator. She’s asking if the path of suffering is bringing us closer, how can we pray to the Creator for the friends to go through suffering in order to bring them closer?

R. If I take with my own strength something from the friends then they will not need to experience it in such a way like they did and it will be much easier and I will do these things because I am already prepared to do it and by this one will help his friend. When I take something that is upon them and then they take in another situation what they can take and it’s difficult for me, is that clear? Besides no one is equal to the other or similar to the other according to his qualities according to his character and personality so it’s the same as in our world. For one person something is easier than the other and that’s why each one takes what they are capable, also for himself, and also for the friends, and by that together we help one another and advance. Is that clear? Good, we need to study these things, because when we will be able to work together then we will see how it begins to accelerate all of our advancement.

60. S. (02:03:08) If we want to give a lot of power to the Kli, let’s say can we give power to the friends of Turkey?

R. Yes, of course yes, of course, and it’s very very important. It’s not that we’re just talking it’s because we are a large Kli around the planet and we are asking for each other, then there are forces here that multiply themselves due to distance, and it turns out that all in all we influence this in a very significant way one towards the other, in a very significant way.

61. S. (02:04:17) About our expectations when I feel spiritual fear towards the friends because I wish to come closer to the Creator but I feel inside of me a certain expectations towards the friends, from the friends, what I do for them I expect something in return for example Arvut, mutual guarantee, how can I overcome these expectations?

R. I need with everything to share with the friends all of my expectations and my requests and prayers and everything. If I share it with the friends and we do it together, then it receives a very strong power it multiplies itself many many times, so let’s do that.

62. S. (02:05:36) Fear and love are two opposites when we need to reach absolute love that’s clear, and now we are starting to discover yesterday in the ten, the day before yesterday, the issue of the blow that was given to part of the world Kli because something’s happening in Turkey and we prayed, we tried to strengthen them from the connection between us. The question is how is it possible when we receive this blow and we understand that the Creator wants to advance us how can we on the one hand accept it out of fear and turn it to love by holding on to the joy together with the sorrow. How do we how do you suggest that we understand this path and how can we strengthen that feeling?

R. We have to start this together and from us to the Creator and we have to bring ourselves to a state where we will turn all these troubles to the opposite when we connect to the Creator all those negative things if they become positive they will become positive, and then we will see a grace of the upper one what He wants to do for us. So it’s highly recommended for us to embrace between us and accept the Creator also in the embrace between us and in this way we will begin to feel what is truly going on in those events in those incidents that He’s taking us through that it all comes from absolute love.

63. S. (02:08:07) From the questions of the friend in Turkey I felt that even though I am not in a danger zone I have the fear that something will happen tomorrow I have this inner trembling how to give friends confidence the full feeling of confidence that he writes here that no matter what we are adhered to him how to do that?

R. We can only trust in the Creator to create the connection between us to enter between us that he is between us and also that it’s all depending on him, it is all depending on the upper force. From us what’s needed is only the request, the demand, the prayer.

S. So what is exactly the support for the Turkey friends?

R. That we pray for them.

S. Pray for what?

R. Pray that the Creator will turn to them and will help them more, and that we will be able to use the power of prayer we’ll be able to bring them closer to us and they will feel that help of ours that we are pushing them to the Creator, all in all this upper force is the only thing that is working that is doing and will be doing everything.

64. S. (02:10:01) In the excerpt that we read I discovered two prayers that I want to consult with you, here Israel in the beginning the Creator is one is that a good prayer for today?

R. Yes, thank you.

65. S. (02:10:36)  [no translation]

R. It’s not always like that it’s all individual states.

S. What does that depend on?

R. There are many conditions.

66. S. (02:11:09) During the lesson you explained about spiritual fear and love toward the Creator, it’s really gripped me and first we have to love the friend and then the Creator. For me this height to love the Creator is so high I’m not able to do it, is it important to always think about it or first to think of the friends and that’s the question, but the lack of love the Creator is felt strongly in me, but I can only pray for the friends?

R. Continue like that until you will arrive, until that sensation will arrive.

67. S. (02:12:20) Before every Congress there are always things that are happening in this case something very difficult like what’s happening in Turkey.  Everything’s going on, it awakens great spiritual fear in us that we will be able to cover it with love, the friends and turkeys received a lot of love and from the entire world vessel. My question is where is the Creator taking us?

R. Of course to the final correction to the last generation to the connection between us and from the connection between us to him, men and women, there is no doubt. These events that we are experiencing now, they are simply pushing us forward faster towards a solution.

68. S. (02:13:35) I heard you say a few times that we live in a system, and everything is organized according to the goal of the system and I heard you say that the teacher said that he pointed to his body and said let it suffer from everything that we see or at least how I see it, we can understand that we are a means and not the goal and the upper force is using these means in order to fulfill its goal, meaning they don’t really consider the protein system in the universe and whatever happens it’s not really relevant relative to reaching the goal?

R. We will understand all these things at the end the end of the act starts with a preliminary thought and along the way you cannot understand anything.

S. This I understand I’m just being able to relate to what happened this is the way that I see in order to relate to it, that the Creator doesn’t consider these bodies and the universe and I also don’t want to consider these bodies in this universe meaning spiritual not my corporeal world and my corporeal life I have to take it very seriously, but relative to the goal these bodies are irrelevant and right now they’ve expired and they will not reach the goal and something else will reach the goal eventually.

R. Okay I cannot start now arguing with you, every now and again you are coming out with these things which are opposite from what we are studying and there’s nothing to do. I will not be able to correct it, I don’t understand this direction of thought of yours.

S. Meaning he doesn’t consider humans it’s simple we said that the upper force is doing everything he is killing people, he is destroying parts of our life and he doesn’t value them, they’re all a means for it to reach the purpose of Creations. I don’t know what’s so complicated to understand.

R. However you understand it it’s not complicated you can make it even shorter in the first place it’s I’m saying no and that’s it, that we want to know and understand and to feel and to enter the entire system and to be included with everything that the Creator does and to understand him and to justify him even, even justify him from this understanding from this adhesion to him and then in such a way we can be workers of the creator that will take upon ourselves part of this work of Correction of the world, and we will participate in it.

S. What I’m saying doesn’t contradict what you said.

R. Okay, but I’m not saying that the Creator doesn’t consider us to be anything or nothing at all no I am saying that we need to participate in all of this work and then to feel how in this work we can be adhere to him and doing the spiritual work of his together.

Congress updates

S. We are a little over 2 weeks before a special Congress, of course it changes each day and we try to get more precise about what’s right for us for connection and I want our friends the management of the Congress to give an update on the schedule the hosting and everything so it will be so we’ll be able to be incorporated into it and hear it.

S. So as we heard from the friend, we are about 2 weeks before a very special very challenging Congress which reminds us of the big Congress we used to have at the exhibition Gardens and its nature so we will say that the Congress will take place Friday and Saturday two full days 24 25th of February. it is open to men and women 18 and older. Once we made a decision not to hold the Congress in the desert, that we are going to have a congress here in our Center and our home we sat down to create a schedule and we  followed a few guidelines. First of all we wanted to consult with everyone, language heads and representative of the Israeli vessel, the women’s organization, the logistics, the events, the Departments friends from our society who have a lot of experience in building congresses and another thing is we consulted with Rav about the Congress and how he sees and also the point of view of the schedule and how he sees it.  Rav had a very clear answer very clear direction that Congress has to be comfortable for everyone. It is a congress for everyone and everyone has to feel comfortable and convenient to come to these days, it has to be something that’s different than our regular schedule it cannot be like any other day that starts with the morning lesson and goes to the rest of the day, it has to also be full days so it’ll be a big celebration and time for Gathering and time for connection two whole days, so with this guideline we sat down to create two full days of Congress so you can see the slides.

Additional option:

Zohar for All. “Introduction of The Book of Zohar”. The Third Commandment. #204

https://kabbalahmedia.info/sources/lgUtBujx

Part 2:

Preparation for Opening the Heart at the Congress – Selected Excerpts from the Sources