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

Lesson on the topic of “Pesach (Passover)”

Morning Lesson March 20, 2022 Transcription

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

Passover – Selected Excerpts from the Sources. #12

1. Rav’s Introduction: Yes, we are learning about the entire process each of us has to go through as we exit will to receive where we were born and grew up; we received a clarion, an invitation, a calling from above to come out of this, to want to come out of this, a certain impulse, a certain traction and this is why we came to this wisdom of Kabbalah. It is not something a person chooses by himself, he is being led, but along the way they also give him places where he has to add something of himself. And the more he advances along the path he is getting more and more opportunities to participate in his advancement according to the desire he has to add, somehow, by being Incorporated in the books and the right people along the way who can assist him and the study, different times, different states.

So in addition to being awakened he adds certain exertion that can awaken him even more. In addition to the light that shines to him from above, he, himself awakens this light from above in his participation; and then through this awakening from above and awakening from below, by this a person advances until he begins to feel that his will to receive is something bad, it disturbs him, he wants to get rid of it to such an extent he tries to get rid of it but he sees that he cannot until he feels that for that, he needs an environment by which he will be impressed, activated and he can add his exertion, his desire, his pull forward because ‘envy, lust and honor take a person out of this world’, out of his place, out of his degree and raise him to a higher degree. And also by investing more, understanding and feeling more, making those scrutinies and in this way he advances.

This path is not simple, it is long. If we were studying something external, we would be much more advanced than how we are, here, because learning external things like science, psychology or something, we ourselves would not need to go through these things but here we ourselves have to go through those states and this is why we are confused. I cannot experiment on myself and be both under this experiment and also to study this from the outside, just like a scientist studying these things objectively. This is where our problem lays, we are reluctantly subjected as we go through different states and we don’t know which states we are going through and we also want to know about them: what are those states, how can we influence them, how are they influencing us. And this is the problem, to learn about ourselves this is very difficult for us because we ourselves are going through all those things so how can we study it?

If you tell this to any scientist they tell you this is impossible because you do not have an objective point from which to see these things from the side, to make one parameter constant and to learn about other things, yes or no, what we do in science, typically. For that reason, Kabbalists are saying we have such a possibility to do this under the conditions that we enter a society, a ten, and when we enter a ten we can realize our progress objectively. I look at others, I see how they look at me, we take care to be more and more connected with each passing day, to feel each other deeper internal, not like regular people, but to unite our desires for the Creator, our intentions to the Creator in such a way that we try for our desires and intentions to the Creator to come closer to each other.

We do not care about whose desires, whose intentions as long as it clothes in each and every one and all of us together. So we do not want to make these scrutinies of who owns these desires and the intentions, thoughts; and in this way we come to a state where we come to a state where we can advance, we can sort out our desires and intentions, and we do not care about it, it’s not important who they belong to but only that they would grow and become stronger and more unified, more as one as they connect. This is the path until we reach one desire, one intention until we can feel ourselves. Each one does not think about himself but rather each one is thinking about the group and I am incorporated in it. It cannot be that there is me and someone else and another someone. There are no friends, there is only the group and in it, in that intention, this desire we live and we have to stabilize this together as clearly, as sharply aimed at the Creator so that the tip of our advancement, this spearhead is aimed at the Creator, we want to reach Him.

Meaning we need to restrict ourselves, our tendencies and feelings, intentions, thoughts so they would all connect and acquire the form of the Creator, and that is really our work. In a sense we come back to the form of Adam HaRishon from that he fell and shattered, the Creator arranged this for him, and we have to return to that same state but with an additional desire, an additional egoistic desire that separate between them and together with this separation, we want to take everything that separates us and embrace it and connect in spite of this separation so that this separation would obligate us to unify ourselves to such an extent that the power that used to separate us will enter into the connection and will be used as a foundation for our connection just as we learn about it in the spiritual Partzuf.

The coarseness is there, it doesn’t get purified rather it works that we would connect above it, perform a restriction over it, screen, reflected light, and connection with the upper force. This is our work at this point, at this stage, later we will continue to connect between us and start to reveal the types of connections between us, how much you can more and more unify those states between us, how much they can more and more all help each one another, ‘each shall help his friend’ in such a way that will connect more and more all those tendencies, inclinations, desires, passions, all those deficiencies, everything. May they forget together both negative and positive things so you would know how to work with everything and then eventually all those states, black and white, from that we begin to discover the Creator.

The way we do this in our feelings we will come to a state where we begin to see the Creator, His form, His image, from where? From the connection we made, from our connections. Hence, we will begin to identify the Pharaoh more as the force that interferes with our connection but revealing the Creator. This is the Pharaoh, the back side of the Creator, that in this way precisely He is helping us to reach the recognition of the Creator, His revelation and so from a thing and its opposite, we come in our life and quickly to the revelation. This is the purpose of our connection, the purpose of our life, and let’s hope we do this firmly and quickly.

2. S. (13:37) You said that we have to restrict ourselves, that the aspiration of the work will be the revelation of the Creator, the soul of Adam so how to restrict ourselves to do this?

R. This is what we learn from the verses: we will wish to restrict the ego that separates us and depict to ourselves how we can connect above the ego, this is the first stage, to connect above the ego. Despite the forces of separation which we do, we understand, we are not running away from them, we also know we cannot run away from them. They are together with us and we are making all kinds of efforts so they won’t interfere with our connection, this is called restriction. The restriction that we have to perform for the time being, and later we will use these forces of separation, of distance, hate, rejection, specifically through them, we specially reach more exalted degrees. Meaning, the more we use them in such a way that we use them to climb above them, by this we will connect and make higher Partzufim in our connection and our connection will be at a greater height.

3. S. (15:32) Is it possible to say that the whole work is the study is the cumulative experience and the empirical data we have to accumulate to return to Adam HaRishon?

R. Correct, we need to collect all the instances that come to us, that all of it comes from the Creator and try to connect above them, so that everything we feel in our lives will be like a correct infrastructure for connection, and we will see that there is nothing in all our lives that is redundant. Rather each and everything has its place only on the condition that we place the connection between us, and with the Creator as the way to stabilize the shape of the Creator in our connection then we can use correctly all the events in our lives.

4. S. (16:53) In relation to the revelation of the Creator the individual is completely nullified and the whole calculation is with the group the person is in.

R. Yes, the calculation is with that Partzuf of Adam HaRishon which we can arrange in the connection between us. Of course each and every one needs to be nullified there, to to be swallowed, to be connected, to be participating as much as possible in the connection between every one, since only in the connection with every one can we measure the contribution and the work, an individual work of each person, how much he cares for the connection of every person.

S. So what is it that the thoughts, desires, intentions we have don’t matter but it is enough that it exists in the group and already contributes to everybody?

R. Only such thoughts and desires that you can attach to the group, and in them, to push the entire group to the Creator. Only this goes into the spiritual work in practice, everything else for the time being, around it, surrounds it positively or negatively; but they also assist somehow but the main thing in our work is the connection between us. What can we collect for the ongoing connection between us

S. So the question is: from the explanation it follows that it does not matter even if I have a desire for spirituality or not, if this desire exists in my ten and I somehow incorporate it, this is what is important?

R. Yes, so incorporate in it like a baby in this world, newborn. How is he incorporated? He does nothing, he does not know where he is but they take care of him and that’s it. But because he is nullified towards the society, to the grownups, the more he grows up he begins to demonstrate his independence, his self, his character, to that extent he also consider more, on one hand, and we also care for him less because we give him room for self-expression.

S. So my annulment transforms me to the result of the ten with respect to the Creator?

R. Yes.

S. And how do I intensify their thoughts and intentions to become the form of the Creator?

R. By annulling yourself and wanting to be Incorporated in them but when you annul yourself, you annul your self, meaning your own unique form and unique way, and you annul before them and you adhere to them also in a personal, special way. In other words, you complete them and each one does the same, he annulls and he adheres to the others and in total this is the group, this is the ten which is preparing itself in this way for annulment in the brain and in the heart, in the thoughts and intentions. Then, in this way, by this, it is making itself into matter which the Creator can clothe in and can shape the upper light and works on it because it is ‘like clay in the hand of the potter’, like dough.

S. So all the addition that I add to them is only my annulment, by this I push them?

R. But the form of the annulment is what you add and when each one adds the form of their annulment we come to the first degree, relative to the Creator. Later the will to receive grows in each one and everyone together, and we enter certain fights as the Torah is telling us was happening all the time between the children of Israel. Then they have to work even above that and this is how they advance more and more, on top of these fights and that separation the Creator awakens. It is happening from the nature of the creation, the will to receive, and you attain a certain form above it that is similar to the Creator, coarseness, Shoresh, Aleph, Bet.

Accordingly in the will to receive there awakens a feeling that is also opposite to the Creator, that it is a different, so on, so forth, the feeling of coarseness that is greater and this is how they work each time. Until they begin to ascend and descend, and separate from the Creator and come closer to the Creator, start and stop, these kinds of movements. By this they begin to feel themselves a bit more and the group a bit more, and each one subjugates to the group, annuls before it as they advance and each one separates from the group as they go on a descent and a fall. And in this way from the light and the darkness, from these two opposite states, we begin to acquire spiritual feelings, spiritual minds. Although it’s not spiritual yet, but it is a beginning, and after several actions, we begin to understand that there is a special process that we are learning about, the process of learning as the light excels from darkness. So the more the darkness will be, the light will be greater or the opposite, or left and right, we cannot say that this is what’s happening, this is the study.

S. So what is it for a ten that already somewhat builds their form of the Creator? Is it something we hold onto, this form of the Creator?

R. It depends on the state and the degree from which we are speaking. Also in this world, every one is somehow present in this world and we somehow arrange ourselves, we’re in it. There are those who understand more and there are those who barely exist. They know this is my work, this is my life, I need to do this, this is what I eat and this is where I sleep and this is my world. There are those who are above this, we do not use other things that people arrange next to us, but there are other people who give what they can but they themselves also participate in life. Just like we see how they arrange things: they manufacture things, they build new things. This already depends on the person, how much he is developed from the side of nature, by nature and we need to see this in our inner work. In our building in the group, how we can actually arrange the spiritual world? How much can I add from myself in the connection between us? How much by this I can arrange, I can stabilize the spiritual world?

S. So the first grip on the Creator happens as the result of the ten’s work or that each individual in the 10 holds on to it meaning the first contact with the form of the Creator?

R. The first contact with the form of the Creator is when I start to feel that I add consciously to the ten and by this I bring about the revelation of the Creator to the created beings. This is generally speaking.

5. S. (27:02) This state you describe of connecting about the ego ,above the forces of separation requires how high willingness of the friends. How to overcome the fact that some of the friends in the ten are more ready and some less?

R. Through example. Envy, lust and honor, they exist in every one and we have to use these characteristics and qualities because each one has a tendency, deficiency for envy, for lust and for honor. We need to see how you are connected more, how from disconnection you speak about more higher, exalted things, how you understand better, you feel more and how much you invite them. Do not reject them rather you invite them to connect to you and this way you are pulling them inside.

S. What is the responsibility on those who are ready for this kind of work?

R. Anybody who is in it, even to a small degree, must participate in order to draw in the others, truly. There is a silent prayer, some action that he demonstrates without words, all kinds of states that they arrange between them and this is how they need to awaken others in higher degrees, in common actions, do not be despaired, this is our work. First of all, we have to receive each and every friend which was given to me from above, and I have to both suffer and see that, by that, he is helping every one and also me personally.

S. How to make sure there is no separation?

R. There can not be any separation because the Creator arranged the ten and He placed every one in the ten. That’s why we have to accept every one as parts, pieces that make up the vessel for the revelation of the Creator. Only on the conditions that the person in the ten interrupts us, truly, and we have to decide seriously if he’s interrupting or not. Then we have permission to remove him from the ten, it’s on the condition that he is deliberately throughout, over time, sowing separation between us, as if on purpose. It is also possible that he does not know that he’s causing separation; in this case we have to tolerate him and work with him and complete this work for him according to how much time he needs to grow up and understand and participate with us together.

S. How do those friends who weakened help us to shape this form of the Creator, what is there the role?

R. By growing weaker but it’s on the condition that we together, all of us, perform various actions in order to bring them back to the desired action, the desired state. There is a lot to do, here, this is the main work that is before us. To constantly maintain the wholeness of the ten, ten, five, it does not matter. But it has to be wholeness, every one should participate with everything they’ve got in order to maintain this vessel as whole as possible, intact. Then we will begin to feel that this one is coming out, this one is going down, but in total these ascents and descents help us and make room between us for the correct use of every one.

6. S. (31:59) Many times we see that a friend who is more advanced and makes discernments can not understand the friends who are falling behind. And many times that friend who is falling behind does not have the same level of importance. Many times when we try to do something for the friend who is falling behind, it becomes uncomfortable for that friend. How to do this correctly?

R. I think that here it is ‘love covers all crimes’. First of all, I need to see the following: all the friends in my ten, the Creator brought to me. It is not like I choose them or that the person has a chance to choose anything because if he sees the end of the path and the general vessel, which parts need to come to Correction and through which accumulation, this is not possible. So the Creator arranged all those things; therefore I need to accept every one as much as I can, and I have to help them and specifically in our help to each other there we will see our progress. Our progress mot towards some far away goal, although it is far, but our progress is toward the center of the ten where we connect together, truly into one point. This is called, “as one man with one heart”, the singular point of desire and there we reveal the Creator. So there is not much to do here, other than connection as tight a connection as possible and this we’ll advance.

7. S. (34:36) It is said we have to be patient in this work but I don’t feel any patience on the contrary, I feel very impatient and very angry. Of course, I want to hug my ten, I want to cuddle them, I want to serve them, I want to delight their vessels with all the upper bestowal, that’s what I want. On the other hand, the question is should I be patient on this?

R. You need to understand, how to say, the correct attitude towards the friends is shone when you approach them with love. When you cannot do it, when you just begin because they’re only the forces of separation at work, but nevertheless, we must come to a state where I receive support from the environment and each time I will get an example how every one is being more patient to one another and only I should feel myself as neglectful of every one, how do I disregard every one, how I am that last, the least.

How quick I am to get angry at every one and these feelings need to accompany me all the time, on the one hand; and on the other hand, I have to constantly try to cover them with the connection and love in a state where I have no choice, I will not make it to the goal. I have to reach the goal on two lines, the hatred and love, left and right, otherwise I will have no success. I must use this force of nature, the ego that the Creator created with everything I have and I have to draw from the Creator the force of connection that will cover my ego. In this way, to have the good force dominate the bad force but the bad force should remain. It will be used as a foundation, as the back side of each degree in every state.

S. Also, there is a certain impression that I saw something from me in everyone, it is like everybody in the ten carries something from me but when I love them, do I love myself inside them or truly love them, this is confusing me. Do I love myself inside them because even when I look at you, I see myself, you are reflecting me to myself, it is like a mirror, everything. So do I love myself in others or I truly love others?

R. Only your part. For the time being you only love your part in us but it’s good. Gradually these things will change.

S. So how can I clarify what is not me?

R. This will come on the path, along the way you cannot depict it artificially it will come as you develop internally and you begin to relate differently to yourself and to others, and also objectively, you look at yourself and others. Gradually you will come to the degree of Bina, Bina is the most objective thing that can be. Nothing is near, nothing is far, it’s called, “a free land”, you’re free from the will to receive and free from the will to bestow, it is a very special thing and it will come.

8. S. (40:32) I heard at the beginning of the explanation that there is such a state where we do not want to clarify whose thoughts and desires and intentions are these, but that is important is the internal connection.

R. What difference does it make in the ten who’s desires or intentions or thoughts there are. We work accordingly and we have to arrange them this way and that above them we connect. The connection above all the thoughts and intentions, we only seek the unity between us and the higher light shines to the point and then he arranges such a state then we begin to see that our connection is the highest thing. This is called ‘ love covers all crimes’ . There are many thoughts, many desires,opposing and different but the connection between us is what is very important. This way we surrender before the unity

S. I want to ask about this state, in such a state what is the place of my work opposite to every friend specifically and this picture where I do not care about desires and intention the friend

has?

R. I cannot give you complete advice for the moment but the place is such that you cry for whatever is happening in the group between the groups and interrelations between the groups and together with that together you serve them as much as possible. Many crimes will be revealed between us and as we advance we will feel them more and above that, we have to limit the fact that they are revealed and we see them and regret them. On the other hand,we have to cover them with happiness and joy. This is something natural the Creator is revealing because it is the evil inclination that He created. Together with all that we cover everything both negative and positive with love.This is how we cover everything.

S. Practically speaking I see that sometimes there is a period when you put a lot of effort into working towards individuals and then sometimes more towards the public and so on. How do we not put our attention into the wrong place ? What is the advice here?

R. Our work, generally speaking, is to be with the collective, with the whole with the ten, in such a way that all the details which we can magnify in the ten. We can do it but everything, nevertheless for the sake of the te. The important thing is to maintain the ten. This is a must until the entire ten appears to you. It is very small, very restricted and each time you need to examine iit and get more and more different discernments in it. We will advance and we will see, for now read for us something from the exile.

Rav added comments;

9. R. (44:54) After we are in a state where we try to scrutinize between us different forms of advancement and we hear and understand, maybe to a small extent we feel, that our acancement can only come from the connection between us by attaching everything together internally with our thoughts. We begin to feel the place of the desires as one heart. The place of our thoughts, the one person, the one brain,after we begin to feel somehow that this is the beginning of the connection between us. Then we come to a state together with that we also start to recognize the forces of separation that don’t let us connect our desires and the hearts and our thoughts together. We can not, and each time they are a bit more and a bit less in the connection.

Each time we must, we have to see, how tight we are towards one another with our brain and heart We have to feel how much it is not yet, and not yet and that through all these different modes of the work, in these states, where we are struggling how to connect our brain and heart into one, for everyone. This is called the work in Egypt, where against our egoistic desires that separate in our brain and heart, we try to be connected. When do we enter Egypt ? When we feel our work is in connection, in the desires and in the thoughts. Our thoughts should be aimed only at the Creator until we reveal something between according to how tight we keep them together. This work is hard labor. Our egos constantly throw us off, confuse us and takes us out of the states that we attain and all of our efforts that we attain connect us more and more. Our failure to do so is called the exile in Egypt.

Excerpt 12 (48:16) Joseph and his Brothers – I Seek My Brothers

10. R. (48:52) What is he talking about? We are starting to feel the importance of the connection. That specifically, in the connection between we attain spirituality. We approach spirituality at the very least. This is why there is a question? Maybe it is not so clear between us but we must connect in my ten. I seek my brothers and for the time being we see ourselves as wandering on a field. We still cannot find the connection that tight connection between is working towards the goal.

Reader continues: (49:46) “A man wandering in the field”….”

11. R. (50:20) This means that our work is there to shorten the distance between us. Meaning when we are looking between us, meaning internally, we are looking for an internal contact in our brain and in our heart so that our brain and our heart would be aimed at the Creator. That is why it says, “I seek my brothers” and so I do not know exactly where they are. Where are they feeding this flock? Where are they on this field? This is a virtual field, it is a spiritual field and the work in the field is very difficult. It is work in our desire, we have to plow and sow and reap just like we work that land and this is why it says about it ” that is why they sow in tears, and they cry in this work. Later on they come to Joy and they reap in joy.

Reader continues: (51:39) ” a person wandering in the field….”

12. R. (52:08) ” As an ass wandering in the field,” or Hamor in Hebrew.  Which comes from the word Homer or matter of creation, the will to receive that does not know how to advance.The will to receive by itself can not show him the goal.

Reader continues: (52:17) “he comes to a state where he thinks that he will never achieve the goal.

13. R. (52:56 ) Yes because the will to receive is from the person. The person is completely made of the will to receive because the person is not able to reveal the goal and to come to it, he sees himself completely confused.

Reader continues: (52:45) “the man asked him, saying,….”

14. R. (53:18) Only this way can we reach the Creator on the conditions that we are in connection between us and then this connection more and more accumulates and it is organized and aims us towards the revelation of the Creator. Only this way, when we are on that trail that leads to the house of God, meaning to the degree of the Creator.

Reader continues: (53:47) “This trail is called “a path of bestowal….”

15. R. (54:17) Meaning we cannot advance on this trail unless we help one another. Where each one can help his friend and must help his friend and only through the help of the friends each one can advance otherwise he can not take even a single step forward.

Reader continues: (54:43) “Rashi interpreted that they had departed….,”

16. R. (54:54) Meaning that they did not want to bond with you. Along the way the will to receive grows and prevents us from connecting between us and aiming ourselves to the Creator.

Reader continues: (55:05) “This, in the end, caused Israel’s exile in Egypt….”

17. R. (55:16) The group becomes organized and feels that instead of advancing it is actually retreating, it is going down. Before it has a goal, a desire, a direction and suddenly it feels confused and does not know what to do. Why? Because they’re not connected between them. They did not know that through the connection between them they have to reveal the Creator. Specifically in the connection and then they begin to work on the connection and that it seems impossible and they have rejections from each other they are repulsed. It is not that we are now going to advance now and reveal the Creator. On the contrary, the more we look at each other we cannot stand each other. Each time the connection between us becomes more and more impossible.

Reader continues: (56:20) “to be redeemed from Egypt, we must take it upon ourselves….”

18. R. (55:26) They feel that they are in Egypt in exile and in slavery that the will to receiv rules over them and does not let them to do anything. Nothing relative to the connection and to the Creator and then they are in Egypt.

Reader continues: (56:45) “we must take it upon ourselves to enter a group….”

19. R. (56:48) Each time to arrange ourselves in the group that is more tight, more unified .

Reader continues: (56:56) “that wants to be in love of friends….”

20. R. (57:00) Although all the forces that work reveal to us that we are entirely opposite from that.

Reader continues: (57:08) “and by that we will be rewarded with Exodus….”

21. S. (57:19) What will appear in the end thanks to our efforts? In that field through the harvesting and the reaping  and sowing, and everything, are we making attempts to make the place as heaven or we are already there?

R. We will discover that all those things already exist but they exist to the extent that we wish to keep them, to uphold them. This is how it works out. We need to make exertions in everything that is on the one hand and on the other hand, anything that you will reveal already exists. We only need to give a prayer and the strength that is required from us but when we give this prayer and we will see that it already exists and it comes because the future state that we have to reach already exist and nothing is lacking accept our desire for happened and if our desire will be in wholeness, then he can see this through pictures.

22. S. (59:03) We learned that only I need correction and the friends are already corrected? Here it says that they already departed, hence they don’t want to connect?

R. Okay we will reveal both of these things. It’s not important. All the states  that we can reveal along the way .we will have to perform those connections in them. There are many to be revealed, they are ongoing.

23. S. (59:45) How to find the brothers in the field?

R. By connecting in our groups the groups will be assembled. These groups are seemingly accidental, but forcefully we begin to connect more and more in order to build the connection between us so that in connection between us. Specifically there, we will reveal the Creator as a result of correct connection. This way we advance.

24. S. (01:00:36) How to create a field that is blessed by the Creator but with the friends?

R. Alone we cannot find it. We can only look for the field. We can only find the field but my brother’s I cannot find. It is only by working together in a certain trajectory between us we will connect and reveal the Creator between us and then each will help his friends. By that we connect, we come closer, we reveal ourselves. We create opportunities, it can take a long time but eventually we discover these points of contact, these points of nearness. We stopped seeing one another through our corporeal eyes. We see one another with our hearts. We connect the hearts to some extent points in the heart and then we feel a connection to your heart, we begin to put together the picture of the Creator. This is the meaning of ‘the picture the Creator he will see’ This is how we reveal the Creator.

25. S. (01:02:22) What is meant by the work of plowing?

R. The work of plowing is when we plow our will to receive and turn it from the will to receive to in order to bestow the intention to bestow. The will to receive, when we give it the intention to bestow, and it is willing to assist somewhat to the actions of bestowal, the forces of bestowa then we are able to connect between us in mutual bestowal to one another. This is the work of plowing and by connecting between us we revealed his points of contact we call sewing. By connecting between us, we begin to reveal these points of contact called sowing. When we continue to work on these points of sowing, we come to a state where we begin to see how the crops come out of the land, out of the seeds that we sowed and we come to reap and other types of work that we need to do, until we enjoy it and we we make the bread.

26. S. (01:04:11) In the beginning of the lesson you spoke about one desire and one intention. How do we check that in the ten we have one desire with one intention?

R. When you realize what is written between the connections between us. It is not to run away from the connection between us. The wisdom of Kabbalah speaks to the connection that exists between people. It starts with an egoistic connection until we take these scrutinies, and critically until we turn those things like I’m plowing. We turn things inside out and we come to a state where from these desires when we turn them inside out and we invert them the crops can come out of it.

27. S. (01:15:15) Do we enter Egypt and exit Egypt several times a day?

R. It is not exactly this way but you can say that. Yes, we are in exile and it seems as if we are coming from exile. We perform all those actions. We feel that somehow come out and we are back into it again. That is what is happening to us. Coming out of Egypt is one final exit where we begin to exist outside of it, above it. This is the crossing of the Red Sea and go into the desert of Sinai. These states, we have to go through, it’s not a problem. The main thing, the important thing is the first few points, how can we feel inside of us these desires? How are they arranged for us? How are we looking and this forces and arrange them correctly between us.

We will go through, don’t be afraid, not so difficult. The important thing is those first few actions as women. You know that there is a big challenge to conceive. It is a connection of two opposite forces. We are going to connect them inside that first cell of life, the first living cell. That is why in our world, with all of our technology and knowledge, we try to help a woman who cannot conceive. The connection between these two opposite forces with which corporeal life begins, it’s not simple. It’s really above nature. Will it happen or will it not happen? Therefore, we have a problem.

All of our mothers that they talk about in the Torah, all these forces that are the foundation. They are all barren. It is not just a story because it is a big problem to connect two opposite forces into one cell that will begin to arrange itself, solidify and develop. We will do it we’re going through such states where we are arranging the group from all those forces that have to come together into one goal.

28. S. (01:08:57) How to know how much to ask from friends to come to the lesson for that spiritually forcing them?

R. We need to try and bring them our desire to be because in the morning lesson together. We have to understand that each and every one has difficult conditions. It’s not simple, also the nature of each one. I saw such examples in life. It is unbelievable how difficult it was for certain people to wake up to the lesson, to stay up during the lesson and so on and so forth. It’s very difficult, very very difficult. Try to awaken, but it’s not too bad. It’s not mandatory for women. It’s not obligatory if you can’t do it because she has a lot of work around the house. The woman is busy around the clock so, only support her.

29. S. (01:10:22) What scrutiny do I need to make when the friend leaves the path?

R. Did I do everything in order to keep her in order to help her, strengthen her on the path because after all we all have to go through it so it’s a shame if she has to miss this incarnation this lifetime.

30. S. (01:11:00) What protects you from negative harmful envy?

R. We have to try nevertheless to set an example of good envy. If we see bad envy, we should set a good example without shoving it in their face. We just set an example based on good envy. How much you envy him, how great he is in your eyes and how by being great in your eyes he is helping you to advance. You tell others about that.

31. S. (01:12:00) When sins appear between us do we need to clarify them, do I myself have to rise above whatever I experienced in my feelings?

R. Of course if I feel sins, I have to rise above them to such an extent that I will not feel them but will also turn them into their opposite, into something good.

Excerpt 13 ( 01:13:13) RABASH, Article No. 71, “The Meaning of Exile”

32. R. (01:13:43) These are already very sharp discernments. When do we feel the exile? When we want to come out of it, in order to bestow, we aim to bestow. Meaning we do want to achieve connection between us through the connection between us we want to connect with the Creator from bestowal through the friends to bestowal upon the Creator who is at the center of the connection between us. We feel suffering from not being unable to do it. The suffering we feel is called exile. What do we feel suffering from? From not being unable to give mutual support between us and from the mutual support between us to give contentment to the Creator, so the Creator will delight in us like a mother delights in her children when they play among themselves nicely, when they’re connected and they help each other. By this we bring contentment to the Creato. The Creator is complete. He does not need anything from us. He wants us to get along in this simple natural way that everyone can understand.That’s what we have to understand the situation.

We cannot be just like children and discover they can not have good relationships between them because of their ego. Their will to receive is bursting from within them and does not allow them to connect in any way. We are older children already and we have to deal with our will to receive which pushes us apart and to try so nevertheless get closer to each other above it and not fall into the will to receive but constantly stay above it in connection between us. This already will give the Creator contentment. Try to create this picture before us as much as possible and keep it before us all the time as something necessary and then it is considered that we are somehow advancing toward the goal in practice.

33. S. (01:16:57) Why isn’t it called prayer, this state?

R. The state itself is not called a ‘prayer’. A prayer is how a person who wants to come to connection with others and from the connection to connection with the Creator and he cannot do it. So what happens in his heart with respect to the Creator, the request that he creates when he understands that only the Creator can help him position himself correctly through the love of people to come to the love of the Creator, this is called a prayer.

S. What is the addition? Why is it not enough to suffer torments, why should it become a request?

R. What request?

S. He wants to love our friends, it’s said, “he wants to come out of self love and reach love of friends, work for the sake of the heavens, and he suffers from it”. So what is lacking so it becomes a prayer?

R. We have to turn it into a prayer.

S. Prayer is from the heart, it seems that the heart is very scrutinized. He wants to work for the sake of the heavens and suffers because he can’t. This is not a prayer?

R. I’ll call it this way, I don’t want to get into it, it is still far from actually making it a prayer but whatever, let’s say you’re right. So what are you asking?

S. I’m asking what else should he add, what should a person’s response be on this exile?

R. The feeling of exile, itself, is not enough. We have to establish the exile within us. Why is it, for what purpose, from what am I disconnected, who might help me, etc.? In other words, we have to position all these elements together and turn them to the Creator, ask and demand, and then it will be called ‘a prayer’.

34. S. (19:19) Is it more important to work in the ten in order to fill our hearts or to work on ourselves?

R. I do not see a difference between those two things, they’re interdependent, interconnected, you can disconnect them from each other. How can it be that I’m working on myself and I’m not connected to the ten? So what am I working on, you understand? My whole work is how to connect myself correctly to the ten so as to together with everyone has one man and one heart we will lead to the Creator.

S. This sensation of the exile it’s not only in the ten it’s also relationships between people?

R. No, we sealed the exile only within the time inside the ten you cannot feel any spiritual discernment outside of the ten. Not that you feel the whole world that is suffering all of humanity that is not spirituality. Spirituality is what happens only in the ten. This is why we have to position ourselves very sharply through the tens of the Creator. The ten can expand up to the boundaries of the world of Bnei Baruch but it still contains those people who understand that they have to achieve unity among them so as to out of the unity they would relate to the Creator and to discover the Creator as the force that unites them connects them and is revealed in them within the ten and the ten can incorporate all of the reality of Adam. This is the ten and it can be each and every part.

S. With these sensations in reality I can do with other people I have to relate to it also in the time or just not to deal with these things?

R. I am not exactly sure what are you asking. Are you talking about relationships with humans?

S. I’m saying that this conviction of the exile and the person who wants to use the will to receive in order to bestow I want to use it in reality and not to be condescending towards others, also want to treat others without my ego?

R. You have to conduct yourself and behave only in the ten and see yourself as realizing yourself realizing yourself only in the ten. That is it and drop the whole world and all the people and I don’t know what only in the time inside the time there you should see how you establish yourself you have to come to state where you’re connected to the Creator when you can ask him when you can receive from him these things that are only inside your ten if you do not have a chance then you are lost until you find the end. zjust as he explains in the article of Arvut, mutual responsibility about the beast wandering in the field until a person wandering in the field, until he finds his brothers who were also like him wandering in the field and then they connect and out of their connection they are already called Adam. Man.

35. S. (01:24:22) In the daily meeting a friend asks what we are lacking in order to keep good relationships between us and reach the final connection and the other friend answered him why don’t we reach it right now? What are we lacking in order to have good relationships in the ten so we can reach Egypt and the general connection?

R. We’re not lacking anything only to reach it, we need to connect between us as much as possible and through it we come to states where we don’t want to, we hate each other, we don’t want to go into Egypt as it is written in the story about Joseph with his brothers. This is how we go into Egypt into the governance of our ego more clearly and we developed through our ego more and more until we come to the states where we are facing Pharaoh who is landing on us all kinds of blows and problems until we nevertheless, through our connection increase and connection in the time we elevate ourselves above all the troubles above this ego, this Pharaoh, he’s doing to us. Until we, with the help of the Creator emerge from the governance of the ego. This way we shift from exile to redemption when the Creator is revealed and we come out of exile.

36. S. (01:26:35) If everything happening in the ten is the most important thing and also the rest of the world we don’t have to take them into the considerations so what is the reason to disseminate then?

R. Right now we’re not talking about dissemination, drop it, we have to think about ourselves now. Immerse yourself in the material we learn now we’re not talking about the dissemination, it is not our concern now is how to connect in the ten and it’s in the ten that has the right to exist in the spiritual world, this is what we want to build out of our tens.

37. S. (01:27:41) If we feel that when we reveal we are in exile it is a huge blessing, most of the time we are not aware of it. Also one point that I want to say is that I never know how, when I look at myself from outside of me there is no more bigger pain than that, to see myself from outside of myself, all the ugliness of evil it is not revealed to my eyes. I can’t see when I am in my vessel but when I look to myself from others and it’s all the bad smell, all the evil, that ego is being revealed and without before the Creator shows me that I have no place to turn to him. I don’t even know that. It is not our fault to be in exile, it’s the Creator’s action?

R. Yes of course we’re not to blame for anything other than not connecting in order to learn correctly and quickly where we are.

S. Why is it not revealed inside the vessel, why do I have to climb over myself to see myself?

R. Because you do not have a vessel, you have a small will to receive, spoiled, corrupted will to receive in which you cannot find a spiritual discernment because you do not have to forces there between which you can scrutinize everything you have only one tiny egoistic force in which you cannot make the descerments from anything. Only on condition that you acquire some quality of bestowal with the respect of the relationship, the quality of bestowal and the quality of reception it will be in you then you will be able to scrutinize things.

Reading Item 14 (01:30:40) Twice

38. R. (01:32:10) We see in our world that there are billions of people that do not have the spiritual feeling but they do not suffer from it so you cannot say that they are in exile, they are happy. There is no such thing as exile. Exile is measured by the suffering of being in our states and I called these sufferings as being in exile.

Reader continues: (01:32:45) Then because he is tormented….”

R. (01:32:48) His egoistic will to receive that enslaves him.

Reader continues: (01:32:53) “and they must do all that is demanded….”

R. (01:32:58) When he feels that they are enslaving him, turning him into a slave.

Reader continues: (01:33:01) “and he has no right to do….”

R. (01:33:32) Meaning there cannot be redemption, exile, exit from the exile before we feel how immersed we are in our will to receive in order to receive and it enslaves us and it turns us, it does with us whatever it wants and we agree with it and even if it disagrees with us, it still wants and does what it wants. Meaning the more we advance there’s several stages in exile, the exile is long, so the more we are in exile and begin to feel how the will to receive controls us, as we begin to resist its control and we do not want it to govern us and we begin to struggle against it and we begin to suffer from its governance over us to a point where it might give us the best things because Pharoah, what did it give? What did it give the children of Israel who were in Egypt? He gave them abundance, he gave them everything: the best piece of land, freedom, let them do whatever they want to and they grew and grew until they felt after the seven years of satiation, seven years of hunger. Because it’s the same years of satiation that continued but they begin to recognize that they are being controlled by their ego and then they felt that it was no longer a good time but a bad time because they cannot come out, I cannot emerge from myself and then this is called this is regarded as feeling of exile.

So here we need to calculate, are we feeling ourselves outside of spirituality, outside of the force of bestowal, love of others, connection and we are outside of it but are we suffering because of it? Because we’re outside of it or not? If we are suffering, to the extent of our suffering we can call it an exile, if we’re not suffering it is not an exile. When we develop to the point when we suffer when we having no love of others and we will start crying out to the Creator to bring us out take us out of the exile because we want to come to the love of others, to connection between us to the mutual bestowal then our outcry will activate the upper force which will deliver us from exile and not before. In the meantime let’s approach this thing which we still don’t really want.

39. S. (01:37:23) When we feel corporeal deficiency it feels that we are enslaved by the will to receive so how do we come out of the slavery?

R. By going into the group and see among the friends how much they’re trying to come to the spiritual desire nonetheless.

40. S. (01:37:54) What to do, there are two camps in the ten and it keeps causing separation?

R. I do not know, for these things we have people who are in charge of the tens they should deal with. I cannot answer you like that but camps in the ten, that is the worst possible thing. We’re not parties, liberal parties, what do you mean camps? They have a different ideology, something else from Baal HaSulam who tells us what to do? I do not know, you need to finish it.

41. S. (01:38:47) When their friend discovers unfounded hatred and problems in connection Kabbalah explains it is records being revealed?

R. Everything that happens to us, Reshimot, our records that are being reviewed and we cannot overcome these records, that is the problem. But what is revealed in us is certainly rebuilding us on the path toward correction, the question is how do we accept it and how do we realize it?

S. How do we implement it in the ten,in the group of friends?

R. We have to sit and discuss it in an acceptable manner, everyone together, they should have a meeting about it and see that there is not such a great distance between them.

42. S. (01:39:48) A question that keeps coming up in the heart, how does that feeling of pain and suffering come? From what is the result, of what from the exile?

R. In other words how does the recognition of exile come?

S. The recognition is there, but the pain that we’re in the exile is not sufficient to really want to come out of it?

R. Through our intense work in the group, when we want to connect among ourselves and awaken the power of connection, through it we can rise to a higher level meaning to come out of the exile but we can’t and then we cry out and ask.

S. It brings a bit of a different result and it’s been a while that we are trying to pray and come closer and it’s just taking us further away. We are in a state that it’s even hard to overcome and to find the forces to pray like it used to be. Maybe it is an advanced state but from the lack of these forces it’s also hard and it’s written that we have to pray and pray but it’s like we run out of forces. Where do we get new forces from?

R. A new force is the Creator turning to the Creator is on us and there is nothing here that can help our than trying to nevertheless submit yourselves before each other and all of you submit yourselves before the Creator and then you will receive the strength.

S. I feel we’re getting a lot but along with that we are getting a lot from the Creator and it comes together with complaints to the extent that I feel the complaints I also feel the revelation of the Creator between us. Meaning His revelation comes with a complaint, so I see myself a lot of times that I am complaining, but if I look at myself on this side I see it comes with a lot of good that I received. Do I always have to overcome these complaints and see that we are getting good and do these always come together?

R. Not always, but ultimately yes, it comes this way. We have to unite it into one force, this is certain that we have to do it and then turning to that one force we establish ourselves.