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

Lesson on the topic of “Memorial Day of the ARI”

Morning Lesson July 31, 2022 Transcription

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

Excerpts from the Sources Memorial Day of the ARI

1. Rav’s Introduction: Yes, we celebrate such days because it is a sign that the Creator sends us a representative of His who tells us about the relationship of the Creator with us, His providence and guidance and how much we depend on Him and we’re happy about this unfolding connection. So, such people the Creator sends to us in some generation and in every generation as it says “there is no generation without someone as Abraham, Isaac and Jacob”, however we don’t identify these people and yet the ARI is a special person, special soul that’s has has been revealed in our world.

Before him we were truly in darkness, anyone who wanted to attain the Creator, His guidance, to understand what you live for, what is going on? One would not be able to open up this matter at all and the ARI did it. It is interesting how the revelation of the upper spiritual system happens by people who are seemingly far from the Torah or science or wisdom of all sorts and suddenly they appear and give us some direct pipeline from the Creator, from the higher Providence towards us.

The ARI was an ordinary guy, I’m saying guy because he was just 30 something years old when he started studying a little bit with his uncle. And, he’s so quickly attained, well of course it depends on the soul not the amount of time or hours or years, and when he attained it he also didn’t advertise it, he didn’t make it public so much. Until in one of his travels, he lived off of trade, and lived for many years in Egypt and traveled through countries of North Africa that’s how he would make a living off of trade and then one of the travels from Cairo to Damascus he stopped and stayed in Tzfat. In those times, in Tzfat there were a few Kabbalists, and he connected with them and learned from them and taught them, some of them.

Then he appeared and he became known, he had just a few students and one of them was Rabbi Haim Vital, who was very dedicated and as much as it is written about him and as much as we understand, he would be really next to the ARI and wrote everything that was that you could possibly write. And, after the ARI passed away then they just studied the group of the ARI for about a year-and-a-half or so and when he passed away, he passed away when he was about 38 years old. Then over many years they were left to open up his writings and what they wrote, and again that was especially Rabbi Haim Vital and from him we have the true writings of Kabbalah from ARI which is the The Eight Gates and The Tree of Life; that teaches us what the upper forces trying to tell us about the structure of the world and the purpose of men and so forth.

So, the ARI is, I would say unique individual, I can’t really judge but certainly one of the individuals that thanks to him we have the knowledge of the upper world, the upper force, The Wisdom of Kabbalah, how to get closer to the revelations of the upper force, the upper system to us; all of that comes to us from ARI and today is the Memorial Day of his departure, it is called Yahrzeit. We are not engaged in crying, we’re actually happy that such a soul is rising beyond this world and has been purified out-of-this-world and still we are thankful that the Creator sent us someone who connects us to Him and all the people in this world can then connect and learn and know what is happening; what is the connection between the upper force and us, those who are here in this world on planet earth and so forth. We don’t just study and read it but we even want to attain something of those attainments of the ARI. That is given to each and everyone, it is possible, so let’s learn and see.

2. S. (08:44) A few questions, what is especially unique about the method of ARI that wasn’t beforehand, is it the language or the type of writing or the terms he brought? What is the renewal here?

R. What is special is that’s before the ARI no one spoke in a simple way I wouldn’t even say in a scientific way, it was always clothe in legends or different visions and it was not really clear to the listener what is the storyteller is talking about, is he telling something that has to do with spirituality with the structure of the world with the Providence and the laws the guide us?

When the ARI began to explain it was a different thing. Before him was the Ramak, he was a kabbalist who was already very old about 75 years old when the ARI came to Tzfat, he first studied with the Ramak and then Ramak discovered, he understood that the ARI knows and feels and attains much more than him. Then he took his place and he said you should be the teacher and I need to be your students and the ARI let’s say 35 and Ramak was 75, and he was known and accepted in the world and in Tzfat he was known as a great one and he set as a student of the ARI. So everyone because of that accepted the ARI, not that there were many people that wanted to study at all but they understood that the ARI was great thanks to the Ramak.

S. What he opened up was something that was concealed before or unknown?

R. It was a new perception, a new paradigm which means a new approach. Let’s say if you take the Zohar, the Zohar all of it talks completely about the upper world, there is not a word not a word about our world, but if you read it it’s either prayers or blessings or all kinds of texts that speak in a figurative manner, sounds as if it’s legendary, so it’s not clear that it’s talking about the spirituality, about the upper world even though yes, sure it mentions forces, spirits but there’s nothing to hold on to. If something is already on a spiritual degree, someone already receives from the Creator, from the explanation then he gradually has access and understands what’s written in The Book of Zohar.

But if he has no connection with it and didn’t receive an explanation he can’t just read it, so okay he can read The Zohar there is a lot of people who read the Zohar daily even, there’s such a custom of reading also from The Book of Zohar, but they don’t know what they’re talking about, what they are reading about. Therefore what happened by the ARI is like we learned from TES, he began i would say like a physicist, to speak about forces, direct light, reflected light, coupling by striking, screen, force of attraction, force of resistance, such concept that make it clear to make something clear to every person rather then something that somehow needs to be described in a very ambiguous way and imperceptible way.

Here, you can grasp it and weigh and measure it and compare things and it is seemingly more realistic, so everyone left the Kabbalah of Ramak and those who were before that there were many, from the medieval times and before them. Still, there is 1500 years went by from the writings of the Zohar until the ARI and there were many people that had attainment but they didn’t know how to express it because that depends on the depth of the attainment and in a particular individual way that the Kabbalist attains and there is none like the ARI. The ARI’s attainment was, in a way, everything was clear to him as forces, lights, vessels, records, each and everything. So, everyone left the books that came before the ARI besides the book of Zohar and they started studying only the writings of the ARI .

S. ARI was the one who uses the words lights, screens, faces?

R. In such a way that he made it into a system that can be explained in a clear systematic way. No one else did it. Also, the ARI didn’t do it in a precise and consistent manner, but he attempted to do that as much as possible and Rabbi Haim Vital wrote these things down and then compiled them into the books of ARI. The ARI himself didn’t write anything, so that’s Eight Gates and the Tree Of Life books and the main thing is Baal HaSulam, who came to a state where he felt the clothing of the ARI’s soul in him, then he fell from within, he attained from within what the ARI wanted to disclose, then Baal HaSulam already disclosed it. You can say that the study of TES is basically a book of the ARI. Baal HaSulam attained it and brought it to us in his writing but it is really the revelation of ARI’s soul.

S. The ARI himself also made an emotional change in the system or intellectual perception change?

R. That cannot be attained by the mind, no. It is only emotionally because the desire has to be at work. Therefore the ARI felt in his desire, he was a special soul, it is not that he is so smart on his own, and he expressed it in the book Tree Of Life and Eight Gates.

S. What did the ARI give us: He just helped the Kabbalists to understand and attain or also us on the path to attain?

R. I would say that the Kabbalists who appeared throughout the generations starting from the ancestors, Abraham Isacc and Jacob, were old kabbalists. And, we see it even with David who is the last of those four fathers. Then the Kabbalists of Tzfat, Rabbi Shimon, Rabbi Abba and the son of Rashbi and others; all those ten members of Rabbi Shimon’s group. After the Zohar we have a long pause until the ARI. There were Kabbalists in each generation but they were not to such a degree and that is why we have a period of time from the 2nd Century until the 15^th, 16th century that whole period, where there was relative darkness, and from ARI onwards Kabbalists began to begin to appear, mostly it’s the Baal Shem Tov, and then Baal HaSulam after that. There were many even dozens and hundreds but not on that level.

3. S. (21:03) How does a Kabbalist attain such heights while he’s still such a simple ordinary person, you said that he was marchant?

R. It’s very interesting because it’s completely unrelated to he’s external situation. He was orphane both his mother and father died when he was young and he lived and grew with his relatives, the person who raised him was a fabric merchant and he would travel from Israel to Egypt and Damascus, Syria that was kind of his line where he would travel in order to buy and sell cloths. So he grew up with that person and his wife and how he came to what he came from, he learned it from that person who reared him. He was also a Kabbalist but he was a medium Kabbalist let’s say, so he learned some of it from him and then he attained it by himself.

It depends on the soul not the intellect; If a person is worthy of it he’s given from above. Of course he has to make an effort but even then, it’s not necessarily that he comes to that, it also has to be a special root of the soul for that. Therefore Baal HaSulam writes, he writes about himself “I was rewarded with the impregnation of the ARI’s soul” and he also writes “why was I rewarded with that? I don’t know, that was hidden from me”, so there is this and there is that, and why does it happen? Who knows, these are forces of nature. Until we come to the point that we are all forces of nature, to a single sphere, to the soul of Adam HaRishon; where all the interconnections will appear between each and everything and we will know from beginning to end and from end to beginning, until then we will not know exactly what is going on at all. Because spirituality is very similar to what we see in modern information networks, If you don’t know exactly a certain component there then you can’t really say anything about the whole system.

S. What does it mean that Baal HaSulam was impregnated with the soul of the ARI?

R. Because from this great collective soul of Adam HaRishon, certain pieces of it, certain desires in it appear and they attain and they can connect other desires and attain the upper light in them. As a result they understand that holds them, that explains to them everything that is going on in reality; not the corporeal reality, the upper reality, the upper system. Until the ARI, the Book of Zohar for instance it includes everything, everything is there but in such a form that is unsuitable for our generation, it tells everything in a poetic kind of sounding way like a story and the ARI however did it in a precise and scientific way.

4. S. (26:08) From the time of the writing of the Zohar to the ARI were there Kabbalists who corrected themselves and if there were what method did they use if it wasn’t so clear what they wrote?

R. They explained in all kinds of ways but not in a precise way. You can even find all kinds of books of that nature and read them but you’re not going to understand so much from that. They wanted to explain but they couldn’t.

S. With the fact that there is a long period of darkness, is there a connection between the darkness in the history and also in Kabbalah?

R. More or less yes. More or less yes, it was an intermediate time, people lived in a very primitive way, religion was a huge pressure, they were very much closed in by their walls in their cities. They were very difficult times, plagues prevailed and other problems, diseases, yes.

5. S. (28:23) Why does a great Kabbalist like ARI forbid his students to learn except for Chaim Vital if the correction of the world is dependant on many people learning the wisdom of Kabbalah?

R. I think, and that’s my thinking it’s not that I saw it written somewhere, I think it was in order for them not to confuse Chaim Vital so that he would write what he wrote. He will always write following the ARI, as ARI taught them. So that he would open his notebooks and and see exactly what’s written there without all kinds of confusions from his other friends who were not so knowledgeable and understanding of the depth of it like Chaim Vital. That depends on the root of the soul or more accurately on the Creators will, whether He gives to someone or not and what. It mostly depends on the upper will.

6. S. (30:02) Do you know if the ARI himself received or was rewarded with a soul of a great Kabbalist?

R. There is such a lineage that from Adam HaRishon came through to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, Moses, Aaron, Joseph, David. And after that this soul would sometimes divide and then reconnect across the greatest ones who were there during the Sanhedrin, until it came to Rabbi Shimon who wrote the Zohar and the ARI. And there were a few others but we have to understand this was with regards to a unique revelation of the Creator to such unique souls that are like the cornerstones in each and every generation. So let’s say after Baal HaSulam we see it only in Rabash, and then no one else. There is no one else and I don’t think there needs to be anyone else because we received everything. Like Baal HaSulam says after we have been privileged with the study of the ARI and the inner work of Baal Shem Tov, we don’t need more than that. If we follow that we will achieve final correction.

7. S. (32:35) What gratitude should we raise to the Creator on this Memorial Day, what to give Him thanks for?

R. We are not crying that the ARI passed away, rather it is just a sign that through it we are reminded of the connection we have with the Creator through that lofty soul who really designed for us the connection with the Creator. Because he explained to us the upper system the structure of the worlds, Partzufim, Sefirot, how every soul can attain that whole system all the way to the highest degree, to the upper force himself. Basically after ARI we don’t need anything except for one thing. If we take his writings let’s say the study of TES, which Baal HaSulam explained more and more on top of it, but it’s still not enough because I don’t feel where it belongs to me, where it relates to me. If I only have TES in my hands I would not understand what I am supposed to do. How do I build these screens, restrictions and raise myself up the rungs of the ladder all the way to the Creator?

So after the ARI appeared a very, very great Kabbalist, Baal Shem Tov. Not everyone knows or understands him, he didn’t write anything on his own but he explained to everyone, those who studied with him, he explained to all of them about the inner work. How we can aim, calibrate our Kli, calibrate our soul towards the Creator and then receive from the Creator strength and forces and inside the soul do these actions that the ARI writes about in his book The Tree of Life. That is why Baal HaSulam says that after we’ve been awarded with the revelation of ARI and the spiritual work of Baal Shem Tov that’s it, we received everything needed to reach the final correction.

S. We can say today that the privilege of what Baal HaSulam wrote, the soul of ARI clothed in him. This that we learn the writings of Baal HaSulam in some manner we turn to be students of the ARI?

R. Of course. Certainly, we are students of the ARI and and also Baal Shem Tov and we are following them, yes. We’re following in their footsteps.

8. S. (36:50) How can we balance this that the different writings of the Kabbalists and the Zohar were translated to different languages and forms? How can accept this as a group? How can we balance ourselves in terms of the fact that TES was translated to so many languages in our time?

R. I don’t understand. TES has been translated to additional languages, so what?

9. S. (38:07) I just had a desire to connect with the ARI, to know his desire to explore his attainment and I don’t know if I’m curious or whatever but I really want to know how can we connect with ARI? How?

R. First of all surely we will all reach same attainment and even more so until we attain the Creator in His entirely and wholeness. But how? This we learn by connection with the friends, by attainment of the general mutual force in collaboration between us. And then in that same mutuality we begin to reveal the same upper lights NRNHY in forms that are higher and higher until we attain all of it. That is our path.

S. When I read about his life there was something written that ARI made a transgression and he revealed the secret which he should not and Creator took his son and I was terrified. How can that happen that a huge Kabbalist, a special soul and the Creator took his son?

R. It is all a lie and people who write these things are those who want others to be impressed from what they write. Kabbalists themselves from the outside look like ordinary people and everything that there is in them, it’s all inside, inside, nobody else can reveal it or see it. So what you are reading, all these stories about ARI and other Kabbalists, it’s better not to open those books. Every person that wants to become famous writes some book about something special and then he sells it.

S. So there is nothing to be scared of?

R. There is no such thing. Don’t be afraid, don’t be afraid. The world is a world of rules. Just understand there are no actions above nature, all is within nature. It’s just that there is in nature the will to receive and the nature that is in the will to bestow, but it’s all nature. And there is nothing of these concealed forces, don’t take into account all these things.

S. I have too much envy of them. 500 years later 600 years later is someone going to remember me like ARI?

R. I hope that you by our study won’t desire at all to think that you will be remembered or not. That there will be made some nice sculpture with your face or not. That it wouldn’t be important to you at all, at all. Even though let’s say I will disappear from the world and that’s it, and nobody will know that I even existed. Why is it important? What does it add for me, only for my ego. It just shows how much our ego is above time, motion and space, it acts above this. A person is willing to die just that there will be some memorial of him left in the world and everyone will think of him, that he existed. It’s the most lowly thing there could be, that they make of the egoistic desire something eternal. But it will pass, you are a good guy, it will pass.

10. S. (43:41) In this last generation do you think there will be a new perception of the teaching of the Kabbalah, what is written once and for all?

R. I don’t think that there will be something more than the Torah of the ARI and Baal Shem Tov. Like Baal HaSulam writes, I don’t think we need any additional something in order to reach the end of correction, just to fulfill, to carry out what they left for us. It’s possible that we will be able between us to form, to establish all sorts of other books to help, actions that can advance us, surely there will be. But not that we need to make some revolutions like the ARi did and Baal Shem Tov. No, we don’t need.

11. S. (45:13) What was special about Chaim Vital’s soul that he received so much in such a short time and the ability to write these very deep texts of the ARI? Did Chaim Vital continue to receive from the ARI after the ARI died?

R. Good questions but I will tell you the soul is a unique connection that there is in Adam HaRishon. Each private soul is a part of the general soul, the general system of Adam HaRishon and with the force that is in this system of Adam HaRishon which is the Creator.

Thus all who deserve from their nature, from some part in Adam HaRishon from which they come, then they attain. They attain their part, their connection with the Creator that fills that part and advances it such, that’s it.  And thus we need only to continue on our path. I surely would go to some additional places and methods but there isn’t. And so we have everything, really we’re not missing anything, we’re not lacking anything on our path. We have internal work, we also have studies and the main thing for us is to realize it in the connection between us until we will reveal the Creator and continue.

12. S. (47:42) What can we understand from the Creator’s work that he would introduce such a soul to the world? That the Creator would choose to advance humanity at such a time and through such a man?

R. We need to accept it as is, that that’s what the Creator arranged for us, nothing else really to say. It’s like anyone can say why don’t I have such qualities and I have qualities like this? Rather we accept it like this, we accept it, we can’t really ask. If you advance with what you have then it could be that you will understand why you specifically have these qualities and not others, why you were born in this form and in such a family and all these things, you will know. You’ll know the system of forces and qualities and you’ll be able to reveal it in sum. But without attainment, without being revealed you can ask and it won’t help you.

13. S. (49:15) I heard there are 36 righteous in the world. Can you tell us more about their place in the general soul?

R. These are all spiritual terms not corporeal terms and it does not exist in human beings. Rather these are spiritual forces that are called Lahmed Vav, 36 righteous. That’s it, it has nothing to do with human beings.

14. S. (50:03) I heard Kabbalists refer to the ARI as the son of Joseph and Baal HaSulam as the son of David. What are these discernment internally and what is our role with respect to that?

R. We do not speak like this. We could but nobody could really say that it’s true or correct. What we want we want, that is one thing but what is true is another. This that the ARI is the Messiah, son of Joseph, you could say it because it’s also written in a few places but this that Baal HaSulam is the Messiah, son of David, you cannot say that, although his Torah is truly the light for our feet leading us to the end of correction. But we have nothing authoritative to rely on that we could say such things. So wait with the big words, let’s act and attain and then we’ll know and understand them.

Reading Item #2 (52:11)

15. R. (53:45) You see how much he appreciates ARI. It’s like the Torah was given, so much the importance.

16. S. (54:12) It is known that each Kabbalist deals with the present ego and corrects it. So the ARI  already dealt with our level of ego, the ego of our generation?

R. The ARI didn’t put up with the ego of anyone else he put up with his own. He rose above his ego, from the intention to receive to the intention to bestow in what was given to him and in this he attained what he attained and then he passed on to us. There is a matter here of the attainment and there is a matter of the passing on. It is like in our world, there are many people that feel our world strongly and good but they don’t know how to write about it, to talk about it. The ARi too knew how to feel inwards into the upper world and also to explain to us in a clear scientific manner.

S. Yes, maybe I misunderstood but we learned that in every generation there is a new level of the ego and there is also a Kabbalist who can cope with it or correct it.

R. I don’t understand so much what you are saying, we will talk about this later on.

17. S. (56:08) You see how in many examples of Kabbalists that there is a gap between the action they do and then many generations until that teaching is worked with. Is there a reason for that, is there some law for that?

R. There are no reasons, rather each and everyone writes according to what they understand and attain. The next generations afterwards, they already open up and reveal more and more and that is how it is generation after generation.

S. Why for instance the book of Zohar, why wasn’t it written in our time if it was written for our time? It was written hundreds of years before.

R. This is the time that it needed to opened up and all the generations advanced spiritually by the book of Zohar. And it’s enough of them the book of Zohar. Meaning it includes inside everything but in such a manner that you understood only a small part and others used it as a remedy. Because the generations were still not developed, not ready for spirituality.

S. Also the ARI himself, it’s not him who wrote it, Baal Shem Tov also didn’t write anything. And still their method opened up the world?

R. What’s the problem then?

S. Why didn’t they write, why didn’t they perpetuate it in writing?

R. I will tell you. Kabbalists don’t want to write so much because there is nobody who to write to. Baal HaSulam had who to write to, there was a generation who already had to receive the method in a clear manner and fulfill it. But those same generation’s like from the Zohar who lived in a cave and even the ARI, these still were not generations, not souls that were ready to realize it. The Book of Zohar was realized in what, between them. They corrected the upper world, brought our world closer to the spiritual world and how much they were capable and that’s it. They made corrections by which ultimately those after them were able to receive spiritual awakening but nothing special.

Later on after many generations they began to be appreciated more and more, Rashbi and his students. Also you need to understand that the problem of the Kabbalists, they don’t want to be connected to this world, they don’t like to be advertised in this world, to be made famous in this world as opposed to other people. A Kabbalist who is in attainment of the spiritual world, he is not running to everybody to tell them that he’s attaining something, no. There is no where to sell it, nothing to do with it, and that’s how it is.

S. You see even Rabash barely wrote anything until you came and then for the first time he wrote on that cigarette paper in the park and then he started writing.

R. He didn’t have who to write to, do you understand? I was a few weeks ago in that same park on the same bench, I was even photographed by friends there. I sat on same bench the one that he used to sit on and write and so what? It’s because I explained to him that there are people. I brought people to him, there were not people before when I reached him, there were mabe 4 or 5 students and they were very elderly, the younger of which was my age now. And so he didn’t have who to write to.

When I brought people, suddenly there were 30 people and he didn’t know what to do. I told him we need to tell them something to explain something to them. Why did I say like this? Because by them, meaning by the Berg Institute, that’s how it was, traditional. There was a teacher like in a class in every school and the teacher explains to students what needs to be done. So I told him what should we do? He said explain to them. I said what, I’ll explain to them? At that time I was 2 years by him and what can a student explain after 2 years? And they were smart, they wanted to know. So he sat down and he wrote that first essay, and the second and the third and that’s how he began writing the articles aand then I brought him a typewriter and he used to type with one finger, that’s how it was.

S. So we can say that if a Kabbalist doesn’t feel there is someone to receive from him there is no point in writing if there’s no one who needs it?

R. No, there is no point, for what? Everything is inside him, who is he going to write to? Like people in this world who are are just looking to be famous. He is not looking to be famous, a Kabbalist gets nothing from being famous. If for the need of dissemination, for the wisdom of Kabbalah then surely he will do so. But if not for the need of dissemination, that through dissemination people get closer to the Creator, if not that of course he will do nothing. What kind of Kabbalist would he be if he was doing something to be famous himself? It cannot be.

18. S. (01:03:43) The ARI was traveling in Africa and the question is what drives Kabbalists to specific places on our planet and what can we learn from this? Is there any significance of these specific places that Kabballists live and travel to?

R. No, I think it was just for the need of making money. He had to transfer different stocks, cloth from Damascus to Palestine and from Palestine to Egypt and then he would travel back and forth. That’s it. There was nothing spiritual in this. Don’t look for, in all sorts of things, that people do in this world, something spiritual. Spirituality is only in the intention to bestow, only. People want to grasp onto spirituality to get closer to it and they think maybe by such actions by wearing something or maybe putting curls in their hair, no, nothing, nothing helps. Nothing will help, only one thing, your heart. We need the heart, that is it.

19. S. (01:05:41) We know that some of the writings of Chaim Vital were lost, actually a big part of them, and then restored, recovered. Was that by Baal Shem Tov or Baal HaSulam?

R. Yes, we need to see in this some providence from above, ultimately everything is in the hands of the heavens, the hands of the Creator. When it disappeared or was revealed, it’s all in the upper providence and that’s how we need to accept it. It disappeared, it disappeared, it’s revealed, it’s revealed. Not to make of this some huge problem. Rather what the uper force does He will do and He will bring to our hands what is needed and take from our hands what is not needed. So let’s work with what we have.

20. S. (01:07:01) If we go back to the change he made, you said the transition was from a story like, fable like thing to something more scientific. Did he increase the weight of the mind over the heart? Can explain that?

R. You could say that beforehand it was more depictive and later more scientific.

S. So he made it approachable to the intellect more?

R. Yes, it was made more intellectual.

S. So where is above reason here, how does that work?

R. Above that is called above reason.

21. S. (01:07:54) About the relations between Ramak and the ARI that you mentioned we know the Kabbalists have the biggest ego. So is it a rare phenomenon among Kabbalists that a known Kabbalist is willing to be a student of someone who is less known than him?

R. They were already at such a level where all the corporeal things were not playing a role really.

S. So a Kabbalist who identifies another Kabbalist on the higher degree is capable of nullifying before him, there is such a thing?

R. Yes of course he’s capable and if there is a need for it. It’s possible that there is a greater, bigger Kabbalist but there are all sorts of other conditions, I don’t know. But usually yes.

Reading (01:09:16 – 01:09:42) “The Ramak about ARI”

22. S. (01:09:50) Such a great soul as the ARI, does it relate to higher degrees we have to reach and if so, I would ask you what does it mean that the soul of ARI was clothed in Baal HaSulam?

R. I cannot explain it, we will advance and we will reach it, these questions are not to the point. We do not understand these things: soul, clothing and another soul, we do not understand these things. You will just begin engaging in your imagination with this and nothing good will come out of this.

23. S. (01:10:52) I have a question about the word ‘Torah’: we say ‘the Torah of the ARI’, ‘the Torah of Baal HaSulam’?

R. Method, method or how else can we say, like in science, there is such an approach, and such an approach, and such an approach.

S. Can we talk about Torah in the abstract way meaning not in the form of someone’s attainment?

R. Of course, I don’t know, you have Torah, it’s the wisdom of electricity, of other things. The Torah, wisdom, is just a collection of things that connect to one system.

S. What is then the ‘Torah of the Creator’, is there a such a thing?

R. There are many such Torot, methods, wisdoms, the Torah is the system of knowledge.

S. So, we can talk about Torah only when it’s clothed in attainment in this world or something?

R. Do you understand, I’m telling you that Torah, let’s say the wisdom, method of electricity, you understand what that is?

S. Yes.

R. So there are such methods of electricity, of medicine and then there is the general Torah which talks about the entire system and how it is managed by the upper force which is above it snd that is called the general Torah.

S. So I’m asking, is there such a thing that the Torah that is, say the ARI attained the upper force in a certain way, so is there something beyond that certain form or it’s only in this or that or the other?

R. You are asking, I mean I understand that you don’t understand but I also don’t know what to answer you. What the ARI attained, the ARI attained and he attained in his soul, what he received from the Creator, part of the general attainment. That is how all the Kabbalists attained, gradually the get closer to the end of correction, the desires get closer, they grow, they connect and then it is revealed the system in a manner that is clearer and clearer, more people can attain more in connection between them that’s more intense and as such, slowly, gradually they attain the whole system, in sum total, what do we need to do? We need to reveal the general vessel in which all the parts are connected on the intentions of bestowal and the upper light, according to the equivalence of form, fills this vessel, that is what we want to happen and that’s what will happen, and we are advancing towards this.

S. You talked before about ‘the Torah of RASHBI’, of The Zohar which was more figurative and then the ARI came and made it more scientific, so I’m asking is, there is something that includes everything, an attainment that includes everything more broadly?

R. Attainment that includes everything is Moses and his Torah and his school.

S. And more than that, no?

R. No, there isn’t.

24. S. (01:15:16) I heard you say that there were times when Rabash said something you didn’t understand and you asked him and he said “well, let it go out, it doesn’t matter”. And I understand that too leaves some imprint?

R. There is a matter of a Kabbalist speaking before an audience so his words will come out of him and even if the audience will listen and not understand, we have such things, but what does that have to do with us? There were such things that Rabash said and I heard, and I remember but I can still barely interpret them, understand them.

S. And the difference between those things and, let’s say, what he wrote, what’s the difference between him saying it?

R. I don’t know, I don’t know, sir, what you are asking, why are you asking about it specifically, I’m telling you, I don’t understand? I do not attain it so also you will not attain it or understand it. And if yes, then it will come a time when it will become apparent to you. We wish to reach an understanding of the spiritual system with corporeal vessels, it will not work, it can’t.

25. S. (01:17:17) Until ARI there are also great Kabbalist, you said that Moses is the peak of the peak but none of those great Kabbalists were given such nicknames like ‘the Godly’ or ‘the Sacred’, why the ARI, specifically?

R. No, it is not only towards him but to him especially because what he did was reveal to us the upper system, the Divine system in such a way that wasn’t previously available to us. He’s the light on a threshold between the dark world that was before him and the world that began to be revealed after the ARI especially through the Baal Shem Tov, all kinds of teachers and Rabbinical figures that appeared especially in Eastern Europe. Various forces and Kabbalistic groups and Hassidic groups were established and they started to open up the spiritual matters for themselves and for others.

26. S. (01:19:01) You mentioned a few times Baal Shem Tov as completing the ARI, what of our studies is part of Baal Shem Tov’s?

R. ARI for us is in The Study of the Ten Sefirot by Baal HaSulam, there we learn how the upper system is built: Sefirot, Partzufim, Olamot, all the interactions between them, that is the ARI. Baal Shem Tov we learn from the articles and from the letters of Baal HaSulam and Rabash which discuss our inner work through which we attain the Creator, the spiritual world.

27. S. (01:20:14) At an earlier stage you answer a question from Turkey that we should not praise the person when he is on his corporeal life, my question is why don’t we commemorate the day of the passing of ARI?

R. This was customary, Baal HaSulam’s and Rabash’s and in general many places in the nation, the day of the departure of the ARI, we commemorate those that day, it is important that such a person, such a soul had visited, let us put it this way, this world and left us a great part of the spiritual form of reality and we can attain that form and reach the end of correction. Just imagine if we didn’t have Rabbi Simon, the ARI, Baal Shem Tov, Baal HaSulam, with what could we attain spirituality? Of course, the people of Israel ‘are not widows’, as the saying goes, but we would be left entirely like animals.

S. Can you give us some sort of guidance as to what we can do in the meetings today in order to enhance that link to the ARI?

R. I think that we have a great document before us, four whole pages, try to read it, ‘it will cast light at your feet’.

28. S. (01:23:12) I heard that what is important is correcting the heart. In what do Rabbi Simon’s and ARI’s writings help to correct the heart?

R. It is mostly about the heart, what else do we need? The heart is the desire, we need to correct the desire so it will be with the intention in order to bestow. The desires themselves we do not touch them, we only touch the intentions that are above them, all the intentions that are revealed are all only in order to receive. We need to correct them so that they will become in order to bestow, this correction from an order to receive to an order to bestow is done by the reforming light. We can draw this light only through our special study which comes to us from the writings of Baal HaSulam and of Rabash and that is what we are engaged in. We bring about the correction of all of our desires, the intention to bestow, this state is called the end of correction.

29. S. (01:24:42) What is special about our generation, the last generation, what is special about us that we can really receive everything they wrote to us, what is special about us?

R. According to the advancement of the vessels from that system of Adam HaRishon we are coming to a state where more and more vessels are awakened and we have to connect them together and invite the reforming light, then these vessels will be sanctified. And together with these vessels that will be connected and be sanctified we have only those vessels of Galgalta Eynaim, only those who were attracted to spirituality like us in all the places, all over the world. But all the rest, then after us, together with us a little bit, but after us we will work with our power, with our light, also on the heavier souls which would also want and understand and be drawn to the correction. That is how it will be and it will be very short, very quick.

Quote 3 (01:29:12) Baal HaSulam writes “There are not enough words…”

27. R. (01:30:39) Yes that is how everyone who lived in his time related to the ARI. They’re all located around the city of… it’s a small town in the northern part of Israel and that’s where they all lived and it’s truly beautiful, you see true Kabbalists don’t care about the fact that they are great and respected, venerable, venerated if there was someone greater than them they would accept them and bow down before him and make them into students before that great one it was revealed.

28. S. (01:31:35) If we’ll be able to be connect to those Kabbalists what should we ask for, that they will lift the Creator or that they will help our mutual prayer to get there?

R. I think you need to connect between you directly to the Creator, directly to the Creator, and in those exalted souls that bestow to us, the bestow, they … influence, either way they influence us.

S. … of the Ari, Chaim Vital, Baal HaSulam, Rabash, Rav Laitman, they have the same root of the soul of the need to disseminate the wisdom of Kabbalah?

R. The need to disseminate the wisdom of Kabbalah comes not from a desire of a person but because he sees he must do it, how do we live in a different time it wouldn’t be revealed this way simply that time works in this way we live in an age where we must publicize the wisdom of Kabbalah and by that we reach the end of correction we give contentment to the Creator and if it was a different time possible that we wouldn’t be doing it, in other words it’s not according to a person’s desire but according to a need from above. Clear?

29. S. (01:33:38) Why do we celebrate the departure of a Kabbaist and not his birthday and what’s so special about his departure?

R. The Memorial Day the day of the departure is the day of the ascent of the soul. The soul seemingly rises ascends and it disconnects from everything it has in the lower world and it rises to the upper world. I can’t explain it anymore because it’s too early for us to speak about such discernments it’s not something you’ll be able to depict correctly, so I’m trying to be cautious not to confuse you, not to leave you with an incorrect view of reality.

S. Before the language of the Torah and the Haggadah so there was another language I guess of Kabbalah that developed at the time of the ARI, why was that?

R. I don’t want to get too much into those things. The struggles that were, yes no, there are different kinds of souls those who are drawn to … which is the everyday law and those that are drawn to attainment and those are paths different paths towards working for the Creator.

S. There was a period of time that the ARI and a student sat there and he told him and he started crying, you mentioned that he is going to die and he said how I failed that I didn’t understand what I taught you, what did he mean?

R. It’s the ARI told Chaim Vital his students that they should not continue to engage in the wisdom of Kabbalah because you didn’t understand me and only Chaim Vital can alone engage in it, therefore when he when he passed away immediately after saying these words Chaim Vital continued to work on his texts and the rest of the friends gradually distanced themselves.

S. So what was special about Chaim Vital that wasn’t special in the other students?

R. The soul, there’s not much to say, the soul. According to the depth of the soul the quality of the soul he was able to attain what the ARI was saying the others couldn’t attain it.

S. His students were also Kabbalists or only Vital?

R. I can’t say about them, Chaim Vital of course the others I can’t say, according to what is written I don’t think so, they were all beginners.

Quote 9 (01:38:17) Baal HaSulam writes “At the time of his passing….”

30. S. (01:41:14) Where did the sacred ARI study Kabbalah?

R. He learned it from his uncle who was also a merchant and when the ARI’s parents died he remained an orphan, his uncle took him in as a son and raised him along with his kids.

31. S. (01:41:53) How can I respect the Creator with the recognition in the ARI?  Why do I feel that I don’t appreciate his greatness?

R. The fact that you don’t feel his greatness that’s your problem, you do not recognize and understand those things so that’s not too bad you will come to see how great it is according to how advanced you are. If they tell you now about a musician or composer that he’s great you also won’t be impressed because you have nothing for it but speak with people who are in his field and you’ll see how impressed they get. It all depends on the recognition, so it will come.

32. S. (01:42:51) Why is the soul so special like the ARI comes back as impregnated in Baal HaSulam after he attained so much?

R. All the souls are in a state where they ascend and return and they clothe in various different forms we will learn about it in our next step next stage.

33. S. (01:43:29) In excerpt two it says that the ARI and others save us from the lower world. What does it mean that the lower world is more difficult than death?

R. Our world is called the lower world because it’s harsher than death because we live in such a low egoistic form, they leave, when they leave this world they feel how all these states and everything was just for nothing without any benefit whatsoever, that’s how it happens.

34. S. (01:44:30) We always say that a Kabbalist has no connection to religion so why did so many Kabbalists come from Orthodox backgrounds?

R. There was no other background back then it was always like that, that’s one thing the other thing is that religion itself stems from a desire to attain spirituality to connect to Godliness. People who don’t attain it and clothe it in different forms corrupted it to various foreign external forms, ceremonies, rituals, but in truth in the beginning it was out of the desire to attain to connect to the upper worlds. This belongs to all the forms of humanity developing, and dance around the fire somewhere in South America or Africa, so what, that’s also a desire to connect the upper force except they don’t know how so gradually it’s becoming apparent in our world more and more. According to the generation it appears also in such a way that you must come to know that the upper force in His actions and how to understand Him how to connect to Him how to ascribe ourselves to him how to be together with Him in these common actions. Baal HaSulam was rewarded with being conceived with the soul of ARI.

Excerpt 10 (01:47:04) Baal HaSulam writes “Know for certain that since the time of the ARI…”

35. R. (01:48:10) Why did you receive the soul of ARI, the conception of the soul of ARI.

Continues (01:48:13) “Why have I been chosen for this wonderful soul…”

36. R. (01:50:05) Because each generation reached the state where they needed to open up for the wisdom of Truth. That is why he was rewarded, through him the wisdom of truth will come to this world like clothing in his books and his method.

37. S. (01:50:36) Could there be a few Kabbalists that lead generation in one generation and if so are they in connection with one another?.

R. Yes and no, they typically understand one another but each and every Kabbalists has the possibility of closing himself and not opening himself up to others. I remember I went to Rabash to go visit several Kabbalists and I sat next to them when he would go in and I would drive Rabash around, drive him to see Kabbalists. Back then there were a few who engage in it seriously and I remember one time that I came out from one of those meetings and I asked him if he was at Kabbalist and if he understands. Rabash said yes, he is but I could not understand how much because he closed himself. A Kabbalah who was able to close himself from another Kabbalists so he will not understand what level he is on, okay?

Excerpt 12 (01:52:36 – 01:53:51)

38. S. (01:53:56) About Baal HaSulam being with the impregnation of the soul of the ARI, what is the difference between understanding words of Kabbalists or attaining their roots?

R. You can understand with your external mind, your intellect, you could take The Study of the Ten Sefirot and study it and know what each and every page says. From that you’re not going to become a Kabbalist rather as he writes in a few places, “you are counting pages in a book”. But the content, true advancement toward the understanding of the essence, this is lacking so there are all kinds.

S. Does that show about a special connection they had between them, the ARI and Baal HaSulam? This understanding of the depth of things, how Baal HaSulam understood them, does it tell about a special connection he had with the ARI?

R. Of course, I do not understand what you’re asking?

S. Where is this thing that he attained, the impregnation of the ARI’s soul, it shows about a special connection between these souls?

R. If he is inside the soul that attains the soul of the ARI then of course he receives everything that was in the soul of ARI, I don’t understand the question?

S. I’m just trying to understand about the connection between Kabbalists and how they understand each other so much.

R. You will understand it and don’t say you want to understand because that’s foolish.

S. We have a desire as students to connect to our teachers.

R. You cannot do it, only in the way they are telling you about it: if you connect and reach a state where you connect with the Creator with the upper light that you draw, that you awaken upon yourself, yourselves, you will reach a state where all of the barriers between you will break down and then you will connect. Then in the connection between you, you will attain a portion of the soul of ARI or Baal HaSulam, of Rabash and that is how you will advance more and more and more, there’s no other method for it.

S. Can we say that Baal HaSulam completed what the ARI could not do in his life?

R. Each and everyone continues this work, each one.

39. S. (01:57:19) You said you used to go with Rabash to a few Kabbalists and you said how one of them closed himself from the Rabash, why should that even happen, why shouldn’t Kabbalists connect with each other?

R. There are many things about it but it is not like we think about it in in our world, all kinds of calculations, but other things, more exalted spiritual things. It is possible that one doesn’t want to harm the other that is why he closes himself, like a great one or grown up relative to a little one. You don’t let the little ones attain what they are doing because it might harm the child. All kinds of reasons, don’t take all these calculations from this world and project them onto the spiritual world.

Excerpt 13 (01:58:48 – 02:00:15)

40. S. (02:00:19) What is the difference between writing from the side of the lights or the side of the vessels?

R. From the lights we cannot really write because the lights are what comes and what happens in the vessels, it all comes from above downward. But from the vessels that come from below upward from people, as much as they make efforts and cause the creation of the screen and reflected light, that is in our hands, that is why all of our work is in reflected light.

S. So what does it mean here that, “they will write but from the side of the direct light and the innovation of the ARI is from the side of the reflected light.

R. Yes, because they were all speaking about the ARI, how the lights cascaded from above downward because they did not have a big will to receive yet, the vessels would not reveal in such a way that they could attain them in our selected light with their work from below upward.

S. When it is expressed in a language, what is the difference between the language in the lights and the language in the vessels?

R. A huge difference, because it either comes from above downward and they just, you write about what you reveal, or you write in reflected light from below upward that you already determine what you reveal and what you do, and you have contact with the upper light by giving and receiving. It is completely different, it is practical Kabbalah.

S. It is hard to understand it.

R. Why? It depends on your vessels.

S. S. Also, the revelation from above down, what they wrote was in their vessels, no?

R. No, it expands in a way almost without even acts of people, with no restriction, screen, or reflected light.

S. The restriction, screen and reflected light?

R. It is not that a person does actual actions from his own self that is why, well, he receives, he feels, it is little things, it is times of Katnut, it’s like children when they receive they can tell you what they have, when they attain something, but don’t attain in their own vessels, that they establish these vessels and attain it and receive it and feel that they have a connect between the coarseness and light that clothes in that coarseness.

S. This is true about all Kabbalists that this was their state?

R. As much as we understand, yes, but that was the time for it, it was a special time. Let’s say the students of Rabbi Simon, they were in completely different degrees, they were really in attainment and reflected light and everything. But afterwards there was a descending of the generations until the time of the ARI, it was a very dark period and the ARI established the entrance to a new period. From the ARI onward the Kabbalists started multiplying, put up classes, teaching and so on. Time does this, it is not that the ARI did it or someone, or Baal Shem Tov, we say it, we can say it, but it was a period that the upper light that came from above it establishes it there.

S. So why didn’t the ARI write about the connection and love of friends, he didn’t speak about it openly.

R. They did, they talked about it, it wasn’t still so necessary for those vessels used to clothe in the bodies of this world, it was not there yet and you see that after a while, it came from Shem Tov, it is also difficult to connect this with that, it’s not simple.

S. What?

R. Even when I reveal the upper system and I know that through the work with my ego, only in that way can I reveal the system, so still for it to be actually revealed in me in a way that I know how to work in the connection between people, and being that connection bring them into a higher spiritual system, that is like putting one world into another world. It is not so clear, that is not attained, it is not felt. Talk to a person today and you’ll see they don’t understand what you’re saying but today at least you have many who what to understand this.

S. This is what Baal HaSulam and Rabash did mainly?

R. Yes, time did it.

Reading 14 (02:07:10 – 02:07:44) twice

41. R. (02:07: 47) Yesod, Joseph, is the point that from it all the light goes to Malchut. Yosef is the Yesod , that is why he could reveal all of this, on one hand; on the other hand, it was still not revealed in the vessels and that already came at the time of Baal HaSulam and our times it takes place.

Reading 15 (02:08:29 – 02:08:57)

42. R. (02:09:00) That is why we learn Zohar and what was written 1500 years after was the books of ARI.

Continues 15 “If the same words that were said about the Rashbi…” (02:09:11 – 02:11:01)

43. R. (02:11:07) That is how it is.

44. S. (02:11:09) We see that the ARI preceded Baal Shem Tov and Baal HaSulam and Rabash, so there’s a feeling that the opening of a system for the mind, for the understanding, allows for the following generation to open up the feeling.

R. I do not understand.

S. The ARI proceeded the Baal Shem Tov and similarly Baal HaSulam proceeded Rabash, when such a Kabbalists appears or when the system opens up intellectually there’s an understanding of the system that also enables an emotional opening.

R. First intellectually then emotionally.

S. Why did the Kabbalah of the ARI allow for the Hassidic movement?

R. The Hassidut is part of the Kabbalah if you’re speaking about the true Hassidut, I do not know about all other styles and things, but the Hassidism, the Hassidut is the wisdom of Kabbalah that speaks about man’s behavior, the correct behavior in order to reveal his forces in order to bestow. If you take the foundations of the Hassidut, that’s what Baal Shem Tov taught and he only taught how to reach bestowal.

S. The question is: if I understand correctly, the Hasidic movement speaks about the emotional connection between the person and the Creator?

R. Not only directly to the Creator but also to the created beings to the love of the Creator.

S. So why was there a need for the ARI’s seemingly technical explanations in order for the Baal Shem Tov to appear, I’m asking systemically?

R. I do not think, I, me, not that I know about it much, I think that it is part of the wisdom. Also, on behalf of the system that we are learning about and also on behalf of the feeling that we are talking about, there’s mind and there is heart, the two parts in man, mind and heart. So, in the mind we can understand what is written in the books of, let us say the ARI or in TES of Baal HaSulam, and for that you do not need to be a Kabbalists and work in the heart but only in the mind. I knew people that knew what was written in the study of TES in a way that it was their hobby. They used to engage in it but not actually correct themselves, just study it as a wisdom and there are people that, the opposite, they cannot really stand studying TES and they are more immersed in working on their qualities, that is the work of Baal Shem Tov already, how to connect to people, how to speak to them, how to help them in a more Hasidic way, so there are those two types of people.

S. So, when the ARI opened the wisdom to the mind, as you say, he gave for the first time a scientific explanation, in what way did he also open it up to feeling?

R. I do not know I was not in his students, I cannot tell you, but I think that after the mind of the ARI stands as emotion, as feelings, and a person who studies it correctly wants, especially, to open especially his emotional: his desire to receive, restriction, screen or reflected light, and feel the Creator, the upper light. It is all what a person develops through the study of the ARI and the method of Baal Shem Tov. Baal Shem Tov also did not write anything, also the ARI and also Baal Shem Tov, they didn’t write anything themselves, you see? Because they taught people in such a way from mouth to ear, that is how it works.

45. S. (02:16:32) In our work we pass the correction only to the states that are revealed or can we work with states that have not been revealed in our feeling through prayer. For example, telling us to pray for the world, so on and so forth.

R. I do not understand what you are asking.

S. When the feelings that we discover, the states that we go through and we try to move them to the side of correction, we work only like that or when you say that we have to, for example pray for the world and pass it as well as towards correction, it is abstract, we don’t have the feeling of the world. How to work with these forms that are absent from our awareness?

R. No way, like you imagine for yourself so, no, what can you do?

46. S. (02:17:59) Permission was given to the ARI to interpret, it was given directly to the ARI or it was a time to give permission to everyone?

R. I cannot answer you.

47. S. (02:18:29) About excerpt 13, how can it be that Kabbalists before the ARI attained ten Sefirot of direct light and couldn’t express the ten Sefirot of reflected light, one depends on the other, no?

R. It has nothing to do with one another.

S. What does he mean?

R. That you can attain spirituality also without screen, reflected light, you get some sort of gift from above, there are more possibilities, not for us but there are. In our times it does not exist anymore.

48. S. (02:19:15) In item 11, it says “I am happy that I was created, born in such a generation where it was permitted to disclose the wisdom of Truth”, so first of all, why, why was it only ago 500 years ago was it permitted to publicize it, and why this, period of thousands of years you couldn’t reach connection? Why did the people suffer if there was no way to reach correction, I’m also asking that?

R. Very important question and very serious question, please raise it even higher.

S. What does that mean?

R. To the Creator, what do you want of me?

S. No, it was a question, only five hundred years ago I was permitted to disclose.

R. I heard what you’re asking, it is not for me.

S. Why?

R. I do not know and it is not important for me, I’m working with what I need to work with, what I have, you see?

S. So, you’re telling the friends that we ask the Creator for the answer?

R. I’m teaching them what to do because, also in them, such stupid questions like you have are revealed. There are things that you do not ask about, that’s what was given and that’s it. That was already written for Moses or many other places. Shut up, that was by my mind.

S. So, they’re asking what’s so special about the method of ARI that it is higher than all the other methods?

R. That he worked with reflected light.

49. S. (02:21:29) Is that wisdom, the light that came from the ARI through Baal HaSulam and all the Kabbalists, are we, Bnei Baruch, the only way for the light to continue forward?

R. Yes, only.

50. S. (02:22:07) How to feel the greatness of the Creator in a lesson dedicated to the greatness of the ARI since There is None Else Besides Him?

R. As much as you can respect ARI, Baal HaSulam, you, in that will also feel the greatness of the Creator.

51. S. (02:22:41) What is a true spiritual connection with the teacher and how is it different today than if during the time of Chaim Vital?

R. The teacher is the pipeline that through him the student receives abundance from the Creator, that’s the teacher. Except for that he teaches him how to connect to the pipeline, he in short organizes all of his spiritual life.

52. S. (02:23:28) In excerpt 9 it speaks at the moment of departure of the ARI. Should we make sure that before you leave us you’ll tell us that we didn’t understand anything and you’ll tell us not to engage in the wisdom?

R. No, you don’t know what happened back then first of all. Second in our times no one needs to let go of the studies and advancing to the purpose of creation. Because we are already in the last generation and you all have a place there and each one can already reach it in this life, can reach the goal.

53. S. (02:24:19) How is it that the students of the ARI agreed to stop engaging in the wisdom of Kabbalah?

R. Because they listened to their teacher. That’s it, they listened to their teacher.

54. S. (02:24:41) Continuing the same question the ARI them if you will be rewarded I’ll come and teach you. The question is how will they be rewarded if they don’t study the wisdom of Kabbalah?

R. There are still many possibilities whether they keep what the teacher is saying; even by really wanting to study and not studying that is enough in order to receive revelation through him.

55. (01:25:16) Many of us learn for many years. Not all of us will probably reach the greatest attainment. The Kabbalists bring us what makes us engage in this wisdom with adhesion with devotion and not to let go?

R. We are revealing the general assistance and bringing ourselves closer to revelation and in our times already it has to be revealed. That is why it’s not like they had a thousand or two thousand years ago, it’s something else. It’s like Baal HaSulam writes that we are in the generation of the Moshiach, the Messiah. That’s why go ahead, come on, it’s all before us. I thank the women very much and we still have this evening a meeting between us everyone. So we will hear about it in a minute and that’s it, so we will keep talking. We will keep talking, good luck to you all, all the best, thank you.

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56. S. (02:27:24) Can you give us a summary?

R. I think of the evening we are still going to engage in this so for now whoever wants you could read this whole document we have in the morning, and we will keep doing it in the evening what we didn’t read now and we all prepared. Okay the main thing is to understand what was at the time of the ARI and as much as we all are standing on his foundation’s. That he did it, he opened it this whole matter of the restriction, screen, reflected light, the work from below upward. Because that’s what had to happen according to the cascading of lights and vessels that from him and onward there’s the matter of working in the restriction, screen and reflected light from man towards the Creator. That’s what’s important for us, that’s why the ARI is so important and his book the Tree of Life that was entirely written with the restriction, screen, reflected light and Baal HaSulam that followed accordingly, and elaborated on it, we owe them everything. So good luck and we’ll think of our spiritual father, the holy ARI.