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

Lesson on the topic of “Pesach (Passover)”

Morning Lesson April 22, 2022, Transcription 

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

Part 1:

Passover – Selected Excerpts from the Sources. (I am He, and Not the Messenger #247)

1.Rav’s Introduction: This is precisely the topic of the lesson I am not a messenger that we have to gather all of our impressions from life, from the presence of man, the society, the world and ascribe all of these things only to the Creator that it all comes from Him and He is the one who executes it and arranges everything around us he is the world and all of us exist inside of him and as much as we depict to ourselves in that way and we try to see him in each and every action each and every place and deed then by that we come closer to a state called the ‘exodus from Egypt. The moment that we try to identify that there is None Else Besides Him and in the good and also in the bad and both the bad and the good actually start becoming connected seemingly. That they’re coming from a single source in that we come closer more and more to a connection with the Creator and His rule over us. Let’s read the excerpt and let’s see how much we are arranging ourselves in a uniform corrected way aimed toward the single force in nature and how much He and only He is arranging us from both directions. From the bad force and the good force and He does one opposite the other in order for us begin between the two of them to find our place, our correct place and us to determine our direction, our order because we as created beings don’t have that but rather only from the two opposing forces there we can establish ourselves so please. 

Excerpt 247 (02:35)  What Does It Mean that Before the Egyptian Minister Fell, Their Outcry Was Not Answered, in the Work?”

2. R. (03:20) This means as much as we try with each and every detail in our life to see the upper directed hand and to ascribe ourselves to that and to respond correctly towards that, by this we actually prepare ourselves to the Exodus from Egypt to exiting the single force and entering the one unique and unified force. The fact that we once existed in the feeling of the egoistic force that only it works on us and controls us that too was that one single force that there is None Else Besides Him but we need now to want to determine that there is the opposite force, the bad force and the good force and the good force is actually in the foundation of our reality and it creates the bad force as it is written, I have create the evil inclination. Now we want to make an effort in order to determine that there is no bad force in the world but there is only a single force which is complete whole, and it brings the whole of reality also to a complete form by showing all of us how much it only exists. When we correct our impressions from the bad things and we bring them to the revelation of the good so that everywhere, wherever I see that it seems to me that it is bad, people, nature, I myself those who are close to me or far away from me wherever I see that towards me or in general in the world there is bad behavior I nevertheless need to tie this to the There is None Else Besides Him and to the good force. The fact that I see the bad is because I am yet not corrected, and this is what I have to correct. We will learn these things even more and we will enter into this whole work in detail in order for us for it to be more clear to us where we exist and how the Creator is influencing us so that he is actually the good for us but he is awakening here and there all kinds of discernment that are opposite of him so that we will do the opposite we will search for how instead of whatever appears to us as bad we can bring these states to good, we can connect everything to Him. We will see this, we will try to do it together, but this actually brings us closer to the Exodus from Egypt. What does the Exodus from Egypt? That we will discover that There is None Else Besides Him, and I am not a messenger that the world is all good and all the bad exist only in us it all happens only inside people. 

3. S. (06:55) Rabash writes in the article the redeeming force for his concern for us is that I need to discover that it’s me and not a messenger that there’s no other force than the Creator so why did they have to create Egypt?

R. If you inside of Egypt can discover something you’re wrong. You have to run away from these forces that rule over you This is called The Exodus from Egypt it’s not a physical exit. There is no place but rather the fact that you become under this evil control that speaks inside of you that there is an evil force and in order to determine the correct form you have to come out of to distance yourself to run away from the rule of that force this is called the Exodus from Egypt. You don’t physically move; you move internally in that you don’t want to accept him as the one who rules over reality.

S. When you can relate in such a way to this force it means that you are discovering  the good that does good?

R. Yes certainly, that There is None Else Besides Him. That inside Pharaohs existed the Creator and he was managing him, organizing him in order to create all kinds of discernments and desires  and thoughts in order to arrange our mind in such a way that there are two authorities. First, one authority which is Pharaoh and then two authorities, and then only a single authority, the Creator, By that he prepares us for His revelation

4. S. (09:01) What is the action that I have to do in order to correct a desire, what is the principle?

R. In order to correct the desire you have to reach a prayer to the Creator that he will correct the desire because everything is in his hands in order to come closer to the Creator and to ask of Him to correct the desire you have to be in a group and more or less together with the group or out of the group at least you turn to Him, and you ask.

S. What about the desire that is hard for me to distance myself that I keep fighting for years from this desire? Do I have to pray for it?

R. Believe me that you don’t have such desires that you cannot distance yourself from them. It will happen, it will happen.

5. S. (10:39) I see bad things that are coming into the world, and I’m supposed to depict how the good intention of the Creator behind it is? How can I see these things are coming from a good place that the Creator wanted to do good actually do I have a chance all together to do such a thing, to manage such a thing?.

R. You have to try all the time to bring the Creator into your picture.

6. S. (11:15) It is written that a new king rose upon Egypt, and he enslaved Israel in a matter and bricks is the meaning of bricks and mortar the left and the right?

R. Why do you care about that right now? The fact that you are asking about mortar and bricks we didn’t read about for the time being here. We are discussing something else. What kind of confusion are you now creating in the heads of the friends?

S. Sorry I thought that it was inclusive in the material.

R. You have to be a bit more in control about  what you are asking and how does it affect everyone. You are already a veteran, and you have to think about the general perception. You can ask one thousand and one things here but the fact that you are not talking about them right now then we’re not talking about them that’s it.

7. S. (12:31) If a state of I and not a messenger and the Creator comes and operates, so why does there still remain a transgression, why are there still degrees of evil after that?

R. Because not everything is revealed, everything is revealed according to the degree, according to portions, portions, and portions, this is how it is. Therefore whatever you discover in them in the present degree, and you summarize it, it’s just a reason for the next higher degree to be revealed to you and then you discover that you were entirely not corrected. This is the nature of the degrees. This is how we advance because what we correct today, what we went through today somehow, this gives us the possibility to be on a higher degree. Maybe it seems to us as though it’s the same but no, it is a higher degree, and we have to cope with it as though yesterday nothing happened. Sometimes new things are revealed to us as disturbances and sometimes it’s the same as they were before but it’s not the way they were before, every day a person is a new person.

8. S. (14:07) it seems like maybe we don’t understand all the way what it is to exit Egypt. What does it mean?

R. We don’t understand what it is, actually to exit the control of Pharaoh means that you discover that there is no other control in the world but only a single one and this is the upper force that was operating on you seemingly from both directions and now he is revealed as a single force. We will learn more about it but actually roughly this is how it is. Therefore toward the Exodus from Egypt we begin already to see that we have before us, it becomes revealed more and more this single image which is the Creator. He does everything, he carries out everything and we have to turn to him to be dependent on him even though sometimes behind the scenes we discover that there is also something else here that is pushing us and really knocking us, pulling us to all kinds of actions that are against the Creator’s desire. They’re not actions of bestowal, not actions of connection but in that we discover that we are already truly in actions that are opposite to the Creator.

9. S. (15:58) How to sort it where it’s written “I and not a messenger” and it’s also written “leave me and keep my Torah”?

R. That we have to keep the laws that there is None Else Besides Him established in reality and it is all in order for us to discover him in all the details, but incidences and also in general, using and keeping these laws bring us to the understanding and the feeling and the adhesion with the Creator.

10. S. (16:55) It’s not clear whether the Exodus from Egypt is a short period of ego that’s increasing or a moment of exit and then it comes back to being concealed in two forces? 

R. We can’t talk about that in a priori, it is desired that it will go over us a little bit and then we will see the process itself. The process is actually that something and its opposite are revealed like all of the spiritual phenomena, spirituality cannot be revealed without the opposite of what is being revealed as the advantage of light out of darkness. First there is darkness and upon it there is the advantage of light, this is how we discover it and so we need to be patient, keep our connections meticulously and all the time to think that the Creator is before us and that we are yearning to reach him. He more and more enters in our mind and heart; He controls us, and we are ready for that control, and we want to lose ourselves inside of Him. Meaning to keep the laws of connections and mutual bestowal in our group as much as possible, and even more and in this way out of that, out of our subjugation, we will start to discover how he is working on us. We will start out of the will to receive that was controlling us earlier, we will start to discover the force of bestowal. This is how the Creator is revealed and then we will see how much of the bad force that He created, it was all the right infrastructure in order to discover Him, Himself.

S. We have no concept of what the Exodus of Egypt is so what shall we depict, there’s all kinds of these things to grip onto?

R. To be in the exodus from Egypt means to be in the force of bestowal so that He rules us, that we are drawn to Him, we are also afraid of Him, we are fearful of Him, and we reject Him a little bit, but we still are drawn to Him. To see that all of the forces of nature internal ones inside of us and all the external conditions they actually aim us toward exiting our ego and becoming incorporated in the friends and that’s coming out of exiting Egypt to Israel. 

11. S. (20:22) To continue your words and what you said before we are supposed to be aimed to the Creator by both directions and actually find our own way. What is to find our own place each day anew?

R. That I want to be in the center of the group and then for sure I’m advancing toward the Creator, that is all. There is no more practical form than to do it.

S. How is it, that I am not a messenger does not erase the existence of Pharaoh but leaves him and I and not a messenger comes to Him?

R. Pharaoh accompanies them until the Exodus from Egypt and then he shuts the door behind them, they work together, Pharaoh and the Creator.

S. If everything is from the Creator and there’s only None Else Besides Him in every state, how does Pharaoh remain existing?

R. Pharaoh is an assisting force to the Creator because without Him the Creator cannot rule in the created beings because the created beings exist in a will to receive which is completely detached from the Creator and through Pharaoh the Creator can rule the created beings.

S. On behalf of the creature when he discovers that there is None Else Besides Him?

R. When he discovers that, that is something else already, we are not talking about that, but he discovers it. We are talking about the created being, beginning to discover that there is a positive force in creation and how does he accept this positive force on top of the negative force, maybe he’s confused between the two of them.

S. Is it just the beginning of some positive force there or is there the Creator and Pharaoh below him?

R. No it is revealed in such a way that the created beings have to sort all of these things, but they become clarified, they do become clear. Just continue in the direction of connection between us and towards the general force of bestowal, rise above me. Each and every one should rise above himself as much as possible and live in that inside of our great group, and this already brings us out of Egypt.

Excerpt 248 (23:24)

12. R. (24:00) This is the most important point that on the one hand a person discovers that he has a very big desire to exit in order to receive because it is not truth, it is temporary, it is a form of development that I went through. I already attained that this is just the first part of my development the revelation of evil, the revelation of the evil inclination and now I have to establish myself to some extent in the good inclination, in faith above reason, in the connection between the friends. I feel each time being pulled in the opposite direction, I want to move forward, and I feel myself being pulled backwards and I am not capable of exiting towards connection with the friends. It says it is unrealistic, he will have the strength to overcome the will to receive which is my nature but only the Creator can give a second nature.

Reader continues: (25:35)

13. R. (26:23) This means that we have to work in that to put in forces, as much as possible to try and exit to the force of bestowal as much each one of us can imagine to himself what is the force of bestowal and then we reach a state where we are not capable of it but it is through a great effort and this revelation that only the Creator can do it. It is not a simple revelation, I can’t just sit and say oh the Creator is Almighty, there is none else besides him, he is good and doing good, the Lord is one, and so on. This is not enough for me just to hear all of these slogans but rather I have to reach them as a result of my exertion, that I exerted, I labored and I found, this is what we call that I discover that the end of my exertion, that only the Creator does it and if I will not reach this despair and the necessity on the other hand, that the Creator must help me then I do not run away from the battle, so I don’t run away from the campaign even though I’m certain that I cannot do anything in it. On the other hand I’m certain that the Creator can do it, it’s just that I have to reach the final despair of my own forces and then it happens so this outcry of mine, it gives the Creator the push to help me, that I am ready for his help. 

14. S. (28:16) What is the meaning of exiting Egypt and entering the hearts of the friends, what is the action that allows us to get together between our hearts?

R. What is this action that we speak of Arvut, if the most important is the Arvut, that each helps his friend. We should think about each and every one of us is he connected inside of the society and disconnecting from himself and connected to the society, so that the society, his group is his heart, his mind, his head, and he becomes incorporated there and on his own he has nothing besides whatever there is in the society is the common mind and heart. Ny that he annuls himself towards the society and through that he becomes as one man with one heart. Such exercises each and every one has to do by himself, with himself, how much he doesn’t have besides the common heart and a common brain of the society he has nothing. Only by the attaining of the single mind, single heart for everyone do they come out of Egypt and then they start to correct their minds and hearts outside of Egypt through all kinds of actions. These are already details about how to tie themselves together and reach the system of Adam.

15. S. (30:30) My messenger is you. So what should be my position to my messenger and the Creator?

R. You should listen to what I say, you should read what Baal HaSulam and Rabash write and with all of these things you have to arrange your appeal through the friends together with the friends to the Creator. All in all this is what we have to do.

16. S. (31:25) In what do we determine there is None Else Besides Him, in action or intention, there are many actions that we do, and I discover that my intention is always corrupted, there are many stages to do, the deeds, the intentions?

R. I don’t know how you divide it, or others divide it but there is None Else Besides Him will be determined, it will be determined there is None Else Besides Him, that’s it, there is nothing else besides him. As much as I am broken and scattered, well each one imagines to himself whatever way it comes to him but the most important is that the force that works on us, that we have to reach, from all the different cells, the different hearts, the different forces, all of our thoughts, it should all be as there is None Else Besides Him as one and this one is a force of bestowal.

S. Is that the expression between us through the actions that we’re doing all day long from the morning lesson to all the actions that we do. The very fact that the person does these actions does it show that he is deciding there is None Else Besides Him?

R. Well that too is something but the most important is which actions, internal ones, or external ones, does he try to perform these actions in his hearts or are these only physical actions and that too is good. We need to see how much our actions work on our hearts, that I more and more lose the feeling of my individual heart and I depict to myself our general collective heart, our common desire that it is truly working with heartbeats of its own and in its filling there is a relation to a single Creator out of our one heart and out of this heart we begin to yearn to the Creator and we receive a response from him.

S. How do you coerce the heart? How do you coerce the heart to feel what it should?

R. Only through intentions, thoughts, persistence. It’s a desire.

17. S. (34:30) In our common heart that we’re discovering between the friends, what is the response of the Creator to which we expect?

R. We want to discover in our common hearts an attitude, a relation towards the Creator which is common and that each one adds to the friends and that we help each other to bring together all of the circumstances, all of the supporters so that they’re all directed together in the connection between us and towards a single Creator. To make out of our hearts like a bouquet, a collection of our hearts that gradually merge, they gather into a single heart and that heart we want to serve it to the Creator. This actually is our action.

S. Does it mean that we want to present it to the Creator?

R. It means to be as one man in one heart and that heart is the desire that we want the Creator to manage this desire, to organize it, to format, to fill it.

S. And how does he control this desire?

R. The way that he manages our heart we don’t know, and we don’t care about it, what matters to us is the result that we want that our heart will be in his hands and that he will make out of all of our hearts, all of our desires by gathering them and connecting them and correcting them in a single force, into a single desire, this is the desire to be together in bestowal towards him.

S. And we can really come in the ten to this common desire, to truly have the same desire commonly?

R. Yes, certainly. This is called as one man and one heartbeat; they are not just some nice words but rather it’s an action.

17. S. (37:20) If we will take all of the contradictions into a single place will that become this one heart?

R. It could be that yes but that is something the Creator does, we don’t need to start collecting all the contradicted desires in our hearts and try to arrange them as each things in different ways that are corrupted to start with, after all everything is corrupted to start with and therefore we ascribe everything to the Creator this is called he who makes peace in the heavens shall make peace upon us. He will bring us the connection of our hearts to perfection, to wholeness. How is this possible? That I don’t know, I just know that He is capable of doing it and will do it if I truly ask. I need to ask despite the fact that I don’t know how it’s done, how He does it, I have no forces or intellect for this. When He does this then from his action it’s called from your actions we know you, then I will scrutinize it and examine and understand what is done here and I will incorporate with those corrections. Therefore to the extent in which our hearts are different, alien, contradicted with greatest desires that are contradicted, we will see how they can connect together and actually complete one another. This is not our work; our work is just to pray for this to happen. Our war is not between us, our war is the evil inclination of each and every one to raise the prayer to the Creator to connect our hearts.

S. At that moment when this inversion occurs can we call it judgment to a certain degree?

R. You may be right, but I exactly do not know. At the same time that it happens, what inversion takes place, I do not know. The question is not clear.

S. When the heart becomes a loving heart?

R. I also didn’t understand, say a sentence from the beginning to the end that’s clear.

S. What I wanted to ask along with another group is at some moment the heart inverts into a loving heart, there is a certain measure, a certain extent where the effort of the person reaches a state where it inverts the heart? The heart transforms into a loving heart? 

R. Yes of course that is called the quotient. Where a person comes to a measure where he realizes he cannot do anything, and this happens. This happens, it certainly is happening this way. This measure is called the quota or the whole measure in which we cry out and the Creator executes.

18. S. (41:38) What is the meaning of repentance in the work of correction and if I recognize there are no messengers and including the evil inclination is the Creator?

R. Then we need to continue, we need to continue where it’s not quite clear enough what is good and bad in our work.

19. S. (42:18) A friend knows that now he’s in a state that’s not easy but nevertheless he wants to show an example to the friends that he’s succeeding in holding on to, There is None Else Besides Him, what should he make an effort to pass on to the friends, what kind of example?

R. We don’t need to start digging into the details of each friend like that and enter him like that, we just need to take him and pray for him, strengthen him even physically strengthen him as much as possible.

S. But what should that friend show the friend in that state, how can you show them that he is holding onto There is None Else Besides Him, what kind of an example?

R. We need to accept him to start with, even preemptively and that the Creator is with us, and He is with us, and he is trying as much as possible In None Else Besides Him.

20. S. (43:29) Is there such a Kli, or a means by which I lower Pharaoh and all of his other messengers, and I elevate the Creator?

R. In my efforts I need to not lower Pharaoh and not relate to creation in a higher or lower way but rather just raise the Creator above them all. To the extent in which all those details other than the Creator begin to take on their true place. That they exist only in order to build the image of the Creator before me. It’s only it all exists towards me and truthfully there is nothing but me and the Creator. 

Excerpt 249 (44:37)

21. R. (45:31) Meaning that all of our preparation for the exit from Egypt is for us to prepare ourselves to see there is but one upper force in reality and that there is None Else Besides Him.

Reader continues: (45:58) “And when rewarded with the…”

22. R. (46:36) Again.

Excerpt #249 again (46:37)

23. R. (46:58) This happens to us day after day where we discover each day some new level of lowliness more than ever before. And then these measures are added up to the true measure of lowliness, yes. 

Reader continues: (47:17) “When he sees that…”

24. R. (48:41) In no matter in any state possible, if the Creator doesn’t do, doesn’t build, doesn’t uplift you, you remain a zero and don’t understand are incapable of anything.

25. S. (48:54) At that moment when I feel lowly towards the friends even towards the whole world, what is the most correct thing to do, to keep praying for the friends or praying for my own correction?

R. That’s a question that awakens in many people. It’s written about that one who prays for his friend 

merits first, is rewarded first. You have external vessels and internal vessels and your external vessels you feel the world as more external, and in your internal vessels you feel yourself. It is desirable to start with the external vessels. The concern for others will establish you correctly to build for the Creator and also for yourself. And slowly slowly, gradually you will see what you need to do in truth and receive from the Creator in truth.

26. S. (50:18) It says here that serving the King is an immeasurable pleasure. What is this pleasure of serving the king?

R. Where we discovered the desire of the Creator in a true way, according to our degree of course, and we can serve this desire to exist then we begin as a transition towards the upper light that will bestow through us to all the created beings, and this is how we observe the desire of the Creator to fill all the creatures to reveal himself to all the creatures. We truly get along in this way with Him together. We are truly Incorporated with Him.

S. We become Incorporated with Him as some kind of a force that is between us?

R. Without us he cannot transfer his good bestowal to all the created beings, we are on the way each of us is a small conduit, a small pipe through which the upper light like blood in the body cannot stream or flow toward those cells they are not capable of being otherwise connected to the Creator.

27. S. (52:06) What is the process in order to see our lowliness?

R. Just work, work, and try and try to be the connecting force between everyone and the Creator and between the Creator and everyone, and then you will see how capable you are and how incapable you are, and you will recognize the measure of loneliness.

28. S. (52:42) What are the things that we gain from The Exodus of Egypt?

R. We take from that state called Egypt all our desires in reception and we take them from Egypt. We can collect them, we can accumulate them, we can put them into a box or a sack of ours, not associate ourselves with those desires completely but rather to know that they belong to us that we are exiting Egypt in order to correct our attitude towards them and upon this new attitude of mine towards them of attaining the Creator and being the Creator’s servants, therefore we need all these desires which are the desires of Egypt and take them with us. Outside of Egypt we attained all the restrictions, desires to process, the desires of Egypt and this is how we bring contentment to the Creator and reach the degree of the Creator. Therefore in all the good actions that we do outside of Egypt we say in remembrance of the Exodus of Egypt. Where the foundations, like after the shattering, we discover the shattered pieces, correct them through the restriction, the screen, the reflected light and fill them with the revelation of the Creator in the upper light. This way more and more until we come to a state by which from above there is an action called Rav Pealim Mekabtziel which collects all of them together and then we come to a complete redemption. The complete redemption from Egypt we’re at the end of the exit from Egypt, it is at the end of correction.

29. S. (55:16) If we ask all those who call themselves a student of Rav we will say that Rav succeeds in giving a perception of None Else Besides Him, why don’t we manage to see each and every friend this way as we see Rav?

R. I don’t think that we have friends who are not as an example of the force of bestowal, connection, and concern and at least less than me, I actually don’t feel that I’m more than you. I’m willing to learn from you more and more, so it’s simply the ego, your ego that’s in you as usual it corrupts it but it’s not that in each of you there is, Rabash writes there many sparks of sanctity in each and every friend and if only we gather them together we already come to great corrections. So we need to work on this.

30. S. (56:40)The transition of getting to know, is there a difference between passing through and cooking out of Egypt? 

R. We can’t talk about that for the time being, no. The exit from Egypt we are not standing in front of a wall, but on the contrary, the door is open to us, and they are letting us leave. we need to scrutinize these discernments.

Excerpt #250 (57:50)

31. R. (59:15) This was written with a different style, so maybe you should read it again. 

Excerpt #250 (59:30)

32. R. (59:45) Meaning all his actions, all the phenomena toward them it is all called Torah.

Reader continues: (59:54) “Accordingly, it is not enough…”

33. R. (01:00:57) Meaning we need through revealing all the Torah, to know all that’s there also as far as the vessels, as far as the lights and also the connection between them, in the nearing and distancing between them. Meaning to know the whole system that the Creator made from its disconnection, from its disassembly and reconnection and all of the results that are there in the desires, in the intentions and the actions. This is called the knowledge of the Torah. We’re within all of this, we attained the Creator fully.

34. S. (01:01:41) It says in the last excerpt that everything is in the hands of the Creator, but it also says it is in our hands. So where is the effort that we can make in order to connect? Are we passed that, and we just need to want that the Creator will do that for us?

R. We are certainly in need of being with all our energy and force to effort in order to obligate the Creator to do for us. You heard? We need to do all the actions possible so that the Creator will do everything for us. We need to connect between us, appeal to him, do all that is possible in order for him to want to connect us, and correct us.

35. S. (01:03:08) Why does he call here to the signs from the Creator, he calls it wholeness?

R. The knowledge of the Creator is called that we know the lights and the Kelim that fill all his actions and that I cannot attain the Creator unless I attain unless I can only obtain his actions toward me therefore the Creator is called BoReh, come and see, that what you can grasp that what you can understand, feel and understand, this is called that you know the Creator and not that you attain some upper force as it is on its own, not in relation to you. That you will never be able to attain. We only attain the attitude of the Creator towards us, that’s it just like a baby doesn’t know what Mommy is, a little child doesn’t know what his mother is, he just knows what his mother is towards him. That’s how we are towards the Creator therefore we called him BoReh, come and see, to words, very precise definitions.

36. S. (01:04:41) The attainment of the Creator is what the Kabbalist attains before us, and we can follow them? 

R. The attainment of the Creator is according to the council of the Kabbalists that have already done so we try to do it to continue with our will to receive which is different and we are living in a different period of time. Meaning in the general revelation of the shattered system of Adam HaRishon and we therefore discover him in a different way than before. I would say any more shattered way but with that we discover greater corrections.

37. S. (01:05:47) If behind the friends is the Creator, this concept of the unique messenger, doesn’t lead us to the annulment of the importance of the friends?

R. Again.

S. The concept of the only messenger, does it lead us to bring down the importance of the friends?

R. I can’t tell you; I understand that we’re all created beings, we are all zeros relative to the Creator. When we connect together we can be in the intensity, in the power, like him. Since we’re operating against forces of rejection that he created and receive forces of connection that emerge from him and then by that we become like him and attain within us some part of the essence of the Creator. The power of the Creator in states and effort of the Creator.

38. S. (01:07:42) Earlier you gave us a recommendation to start to work with the external vessels for the friends and this is a better way to reach bestowal, that’s what you recommended. I wanted to ask about that when I try to bestow to the friends, to give them forces of bestowal so that they will be bestow towards, I can do it for the time being. Not because I truly love them but maybe I see them as small or something that’s more convenient for my ego to ask them, is that okay to ask for them even if it’s for an egoistic reason?

R. Yes of course it is you cannot ask from any other point but the state you are in.

39. S. (01:08:46) I didn’t understand something. Maybe you can help me. There is one state where, as you said, we’re going towards connection and the Creator pulls you by your feet. You feel that this is good, it’s an opportunity to go above reason, above the ego to ask for help until at the end each and every time until the quota is full. Then we cry out to the Creator, and he helps. There is a second state that’s what I’m asking, where in that state we are now coming out of Egypt, completed our first state and I have to come out of it and serve the Creator in a different ways. Is this what you said, is that what you intended?

R. Yes.

S. So that’s a state which is coming out right now, when we come out no matter what happened before as we learned that the Creator covers everything and we simply come out, is this our state right now?

R. Yes.

S. You told the friend that it’s a different state, that it’s not now but rather now they’re showing you the opening and then we have to come out. How do you recognize the opening?

R. You simply need to, how many times have you read the excerpts that we are reading in the morning lesson, answer.

S. I read them throughout the day, we hear the lesson all the time, I don’t know exactly what you’re asking.

R. The question is how many times you have read all the excerpts.

S. Yesterday at least twice.

R. Continue that way and we will see what to do. I cannot discover what you want to ask, you have a deficiency, implement it, you don’t have a deficiency try to have one, you are with the group, with the studies, so there’s nothing to do, just to show your willingness more and more for connection.

S. I’m trying to ask practically how we come out of the state where we are used to receiving coarseness, rising above the ego, and asking for help and connection to the ten, how do we come out of that state where seemingly you’re collecting penny by penny waiting for the quota to be filled. How from that, to exit to a state where you are now exiting Egypt and now we’re coming out, now I have to serve the Creator in a different way?

R. A person must depict to himself at all times as if today he is exiting Egypt. That’s it, try. That’s one thing, the other thing is stop thinking about yourself sometimes at least sometimes think about the ten.

40. S. (01:12:23) How to come out of every lesson with the feeling that we have implemented in the ten the rule that there is None Else Besides Him because I feel that sometimes we missed out that I didn’t do enough?

R. It’s natural according to the materials that we are studying now what does this matter the materials have to stabilize as toward the None Else Besides Him therefore it is giving us all kinds of forms to the left or to the right from this direction of None Else Besides Him so it could be that still it’s kind of giving us and showing us instability.

S. And all these opposite sensations actually direct me to that goal?

R. Yes. 

Excerpt 251 (01:16:26) 

41. R. (01:16:49) This means we have to take from our state, from today’s state, all the desires, all the thoughts, all the accusations, everything we have to the next state. We need to correct all these things not to say that something was redundant that the Creator organized things as they are redundant and we have to throw them away but all the qualities, the thoughts, the intentions, what each and every one has will all be completely corrected, and we are going to have to connect between us in all those forms of connections, negative connections we right now have with rejection hatred unawareness when we are ashamed of each other we can’t come closer to each other, all these things. We ultimately come to the corrections, to such corrections that all the evil becomes good, all the rejection misunderstanding will become connection and so we will become connected in a complete manner. Therefore our flock will also be with us meaning all the livestock all the discernments except for the highest ones will also go with us. We’re taking everything with us even if they’re not corrected, we’re carrying them with us, and we’ll correct them outside of Egypt. Meaning it’s not that we come out of Egypt clean white everyone is only to bestow no but rather as we are, like livestock a flock, we are ready for connection whatever happens whatever we are we are ready for it with all each and every one has, with all the horror everyone has, that’s how we come out. Where all the discernments of these vessels, of the Egyptians, all the livestock the cattle the lowest discernments in us that are lowers the man’s level, and also man’s degree when we are slaves basically, there is nothing in us that really makes us worthy of redemption, no we are not worthy of redemption, but it’s just about time that some part of us can come out. All the rest of our vessels will take part in this work to a certain extent so the Creator opens the door for us, and we enter the world of bestowal according to our qualities but of course not we’re not ready for it, however what he does he give us the light that reforms that cover and so we can come out under his screen. But we are ready, we aren’t ready even though we can’t, we are ready to come out and run away from Egypt.

Excerpt 252 (01:21:00) “Our livestock will also go with us ..” Twice

42. S. (01:23:15) Is it possible to intentionally leave some vessels like livestock in Egypt?

R. Nothing is left in Egypt. Egypt is the intention in order to receive you don’t want to leave there anything. From above you get the Upper light that helps us even with the uncorrected vessels to come out of Egypt. Even in the animate levels, meaning the levels that are lesser than man, than the Adam. There are many questions here, but we will scrutinize them. It is all ahead of us..

43. S. (01:24:21)  Can we incorporate in the general state of the group even though we don’t feel so close to what we’re talking about?

R. Yes, of course we can. It is not for no reason that it is written that we all come out of Egypt, the men the women the children the elders the babies, and even their flocks everyone comes out of Egypt everyone. What was what was related to that vessel in all its levels from above to below, everyone can come out.

S. No translation.

R. Keep on as we are as much as we can and everyone together. Hold on to each other and everyone together is trying, trying to come out, to come closer to the exit in order to bestow and to connect between us.

44. S. (01:25:41)  What is the difference between the not corrected desires in me that I take with me when I exit to the Egyptians that remain?

R.  The Egyptians that remain after the exodus of Israel from Egypt are those desires and thoughts actions that were never in connection in order to bestow. They are not incorporated with these actions of Israel, and this is why they have no relation to the exit, they don’t feel anything about it. This is considered the Egyptians that used to be in Egypt, and they stay in Egypt. Later in other sources it is written that some joined the exit of Israel from Egypt. We will learn this but let’s first read, let’s learn what is related to the ones who do want to come to the purpose of creation on their own, they are called Yashar Kel, Israel. So what’s going on with them? How did they come out? Later we will learn about all those who can accompany them.

Excerpt 253 (01:27:43) 

45. R. (01:29:58) This means that we don’t have such a big disturbance from the wide world, all its businesses, confusions because they’re engaging in what seems to them would yield profit for them, yes. However there are those who are called, “Those who fear the Creator and serve Pharaoh,” so who are they? The ones who are on the one hand in fear in fear of the Creator, on the other hand they are servants, so Pharaoh and they are around us, around the ones who want to reach the final correction, the true of the soul.

Reader continues: (01:30:55) “Pharaoh is as the Ari said….”

46. R. (01:31:59) This means we can see about people they’re observing everything the Torah says externally according to their clothing and their behavior, whatever you can see on the outside, in a real wonderful way, very meticulous about everything. So we think that inside they’re also with their intentions that are in order to bestow, and everyone is observing the internal rules the laws that a person should observe in order to come closer to the Creator but internally they’re not doing it.

Reader continues: (01:32:44) “and yet internally….”

47. R. (01:32:52) Meaning  internally they are enslaved to Pharaoh meaning they are not correcting themselves in order to bestow with their intention and desire but rather they remain as they are, only externally with respect to others they show themselves that they are seemingly keeping the Creator’s desire by their clothing, by their food, and everything.

Reader continues: (01:33:19) “meaning the only aim is to…” 

48. R. (01:33:38) This is why we must distance from them and be careful of them because to us it seems they are stronger, they have a great strength, they are many. If you don’t fight against your ego you can do anything and you can even do it by the name of the Lord and they will agree with you that the secular the religion everyone can agree to that because the main thing is not to change your nature, that’s the problem.

49. S. (01:34:28) We also talked about this yesterday in the ten and we got to a conclusion that to begin with all our desires are like this because this mixed multitude, that it is that’s how you start the work externally and doing everything and coming to the meals, the lessons, studying, but in the beginning you do this all only in an external way and part of this desire in Egypt so how do I sort it out, how do I scrutinize it gradually, can you explain all this?

R. We will continue more verses and then we will see.

50. S. (01:35:22) How can I discern in me if I’m really yearning to the Creator by being the Creator’s servant, the Pharaohs servant, how can the friends see it in me?

R. These are very good questions. I cannot give much of some advice here, but you have to make the scrutinies on your own. Really this is a big problem. If only one thing is clear to us that what is required of us by all kinds of religions, beliefs, habits of all kinds have nothing to do with us, with the Wisdom of Kabbalah. The only thing that’s relevant to the Wisdom of Kabbalah is what the hearts desires, demands. The heart demands connection with other people and dissemination. Until you reach love between everyone this is what we leave to ourselves, that’s our work, all the rest is external things that’s why we don’t invest in that, but only what the environment, the society requires. That’s why what Rabash writes in this excerpt that we went through, the name of this excerpt is Concerning the Environment, we will examine this.

51. S. (01:37:17) Should we search outside of us for those who fear the Creator but serve Pharaoh or each one search for this inside?

R. Outside of ourselves we need not search for anything, on the contrary our whole work should be concentrated in the ten and outside of it in other tens in Bnei Baruch. 

S. What is this inside us, those who fear the Creator but work for Pharaoh? 

R. So we will discover that in each and every one of us there are such desires.

52. S. (01:38:10)  We can be confused with this multitude, but the Creator doesn’t skip over their houses?

R. No, it is not the Creator’s work to take care of these mixed multitude and the Egyptians but only on the ones who want to be Jews, meaning Yehudim, to unite, and therefore come out of the separation between them to the unity between them. That’s the meaning of coming closer to the Creator.

53. S. (01:39:09)  About the actions that we do, prayers or meetings, how can we check where we have actions that are just formal and we have no inner force that should be in them, that’s why they become like religion, that  we supposedly, we read a prayer…

R. We are not a part of all these things so much. The main thing for us is the connection between us to such an extent that in the connection between us the Creator will be revealed, that’s all. Not about all the external actions, religious actions.

Excerpt #254 (01:43:36) “When they work as Pharaoh servants…”

54. R. (01:43:25) Okay I don’t see that there are questions and also I agree with all this part in general, all this parts are more about the ones who are among religious people or some who are confused about all kinds of other theories, actions about spirituality or something, and that’s why it is written for them. We just need to know one thing, nothing of what we do in our hands or feet in all our actions doesn’t affect spirituality but only what goes through the heart and towards connection alone.

55. S. (01:46:23) We see that also we have friends that after years of being here somehow they are drawn to the externality?

R. To externality, yes that’s clear, because they still have such development that they cannot come out of that this development of the still, vegetative, animate, and speaking is gradual, it goes through the entire humanity. Even those who maybe they are already, they have been in a previous development, a previous incarnation or something, they’re still not out of it and they’re drawn to that. Besides that, it is according to the root of the soul after the shattering of Adam HaRishon all the souls disconnected from each other, they became separate so if while they are in the system, this whole system is governed by the higher soul, the head of the system. 

Whereas when they come out of being connected together to the head of the system, then each and every one has suddenly his own direction, that you cannot say about him that he’s right or wrong because he acts as we say, anyone who judges does it by his own flaws and so we see how much then we have collisions, we can even say that the same times that we are in the exodus from Egypt by them going through the sands in the desert and they used to go to all kind of wars between themselves, that’s why because they are not yet connected by rather discovering the disconnection between then, and that’s the problem what happens to them, and that’s why there’s nothing to do about it, it’s a process we have to go through, revealing the evil and connecting to the good, and then when we now come to good things that they Creator enhances the lights that bestow upon us.

Then these lights nonetheless enhance the desire of each and every one and they awaken the connection of each and every one with the general Rosh in the direction of the general connection so each and every one understands he has his own way. That’s why there are so many ways and so many different paths and look at how many political parties are in this nation we call Israel. If you give freedom to each and every one each and every one will be the head of its own political party, that’s clear. That’s because on the one hand they have the light that reforms shining on them, and on the other hand the ego is awakening, and we can see this in the world. Where, when do you ever have such a thing? There used to be a time that there was a King, the King would say something, you wouldn’t hear anyone not agreeing with the King and not because they were afraid, it because they were not developed, and now too you can see many nations that someone becomes like the prime minister or the president or something, and he’s used to everyone agreeing with him, in more developed countries to some don’t agree, more or less and there are different groups, different parties, different political parties, but ultimately we see that the way to correction is through the recognition of evil, to what extent I don’t agree with the goal.

Our problem is that in our world in general people don’t understand what the goal is, but the goal is to nonetheless be all of us connected together and even though there are those who get something from this goal they accept it in order to rule. They say, “Yes, yes we are headed in the same direction, and we know what to do and we’ll walk this way,” and we have already seen how much these things are wrong. That’s the whole problem of the corrections that we have to try, to try to determine to ourselves the system that prepares us as much as possible to the revelation of the correct path. And here we see the beginning of the problem, that all the exodus from Egypt when they were under control of the will to receive as if there were not.

Here and there Moses would jump but if it is irrelevant, but when you come out of the control of the will to receive and you are in between the two controls, the will to receive and the will to bestow, the Creator and the man who has the force of Pharaoh, then here starts the problem of the scrutiny and the correction. This is why we have to pay attention to what’s going on with us as well. We, between us we go through the same path that the entire humanity has to go through, however, when we go through it when we collect these things and humanity will really be able to go step-by-step after us and they will join us in the degrees where we have yet to reach, and when we reach connection we can throw, we will throw a ladder to them or however you want to call it, a thread, a rope and they can climb to us, there’s no problem.

S. So what should we be careful of or be cautious of, except for those who, the externality is the main thing for them, what should we be careful between us?

R. Besides the of the purity of our path we don’t need to be cautious about anything, we have nothing to be afraid of because there is None Else Besides Him, as much as we are in him or more certain that we are on the right path and I don’t know, all the problems are problems that appear in a friendly way to show us where we still need to add to the connection between us until we reach the complete system of Adam HaRishon.

56. S. (01:55:01) What is the advice nonetheless of someone who has to be in such an environment, how to guard himself?

R. It is a problem, it is a problem. Try not to be in an environment like that. Try somehow to shut  yourself in a way that what they do isn’t interesting to you or something like that.

S. Can I do this internally somehow, an internal guard?

R. As much as it helps, as much as it helps. The best thing is to just distance from such a place. Internally there’s nothing to say about it but externally it is also better to keep your distance.

S. It is felt that most of the wars that are going on today are being revealed as a result of religions, so what is the reason of Kabbalah here?

R. The wisdom of Kabbalah doesn’t have to touch any of that, it doesn’t belong to any religion and no nation. It needs to be completely above all those discernments or those habits or customs that people have determined to themselves in this world, not Judaism, not Christianity, not Islam but above them in connection between all of them. That’s the wisdom of Kabbalah that’s why Kabbalah has nothing against one and not pro anyone.

S. Is there a correction to these desires or what is going on with them?

R. What correction?

S. To all these desires, the ones that fear the Creator and serve Pharaoh? Do they have any correction, or…?

R. Who are you speaking about? I don’t understand. The ones who fear the Creator but serve Pharaoh, we are speaking about those who want to come out of Egypt and that happens to them on the way.

S. So what is with them, what goes on with them?

R. They remain.

S. In Egypt.

R. Yes.

S. And in the final correction do they have..

R. In the end of corrections Gmar Tikkun everybody gets corrected, there’s a correction for everyone but those who fear the Creator but serve Pharaoh they do everything that the Creator is demanding externally but actually what they understand is that it adds to their ego more and more discernments they get a reward, a greater reward, this world, the next world, everything is for them, everything is for their good.

S. So what is the purpose of them for us, what is that come to symbolize for us, what should that give us in the work?

R. For us, nothing. We have to be outside all these things, we have to be careful not to get in under this feeling, that discernment. The ones who fear Pharaoh but work for the Creator, fear the Creator but work for Pharaoh. I receive everything that religion demands of me, and I hope on each and every action that I perform that I get a reward for it, a reward in this world and the next world. That is called those who fear God but work for Pharaoh.

S. So they simply place a border for us, so we have to stay away from, and we don’t come close?

R. We don’t come close there because we don’t want to be working for the will to receive and with the will to receive as if to correct our connection with the Creator.

S. We take vessels from the Egyptians, so we don’t take anything from them, we just run away from them, is that the purpose?

R. Of course that we only run from them. They are very dangerous, that’s why he says, he writes that the main problem for Israel.

Excerpt # 255 (02:01:11)  “In an environment of an affiliated…”

57. S. (02:02:16) In order to be precise about those actions that you are meticulous about and there’s also this verse that hearts are attracted after the actions?

R. I think the hearts go after the deeds, correct, that’s what we have to be careful, also the deeds we do, that they can get into our habits and also work on our minds, and we will start sanctifying such deeds.

58. S. (02:03:11) Can I ask about the scrutiny? When should we act like everyone else and when shouldn’t we?

R. We always need to run from all types of different people and into the group. That’s the only place where I can feel myself secure correctly in a state in a corporeal state which is closest to my correct spiritual state. That’s it. From this world my group is like a bubble that in it I am in the spiritual force.

59. S. (02:04:29)  The matter of the customs that are related to us that we intentionally keep uniting with the Creator it’s related to this problem of the religion?

R. Why don’t I hear something clear from you? Can you open your mouth? You hear that I’m speaking clear, right? So don’t swallow your words, repeat correctly if you can, if not so no.

S. The matter of the customs that are related to us that we intentionally keep we maintain them in order to unite with the Creator,  is that related to religion anyway?

R. I don’t know. I know that religion is as Baal HaSulam says, the essence of religion and its purpose, it’s the matter of connection between everybody until we discover the Upper force in  there is called the Creator, come, and see, BoReh, in such a way. The rest isn’t accepted to me. The fact that you are in all kinds of other societies, and you don’t know exactly how to connect the behavior there and the behavior with us so I am saying do it if you can, otherwise be there as observers, that you are there and you leave, you are there and you watch because you have no choice. But heart and soul you are connected between you and your tens. That’s it. And that you have to take it as a correction, that in this way the world behaves.

60. S. (02:06:39) Usually we say that in these excerpts that we learn everything is about internal states. What is the internal state in us of fearing the Creator and serving Pharaoh?

R. That he has both of those discernments. That on the one hand there is fear of the Creator on the other hands he is still under the control of Pharaoh, he is between the two in a state of transition. 

61. S. (02:07:55) It is written in 247 that all the work of the Creator was only to show them that there is no other force, “It is I and not a messenger.” Why does the Creator show us an illusion of many different forces if he wants us to discover that there’s None Else Beside Him?

R. But we can only see one discernment because we are created beings we always measure one against the other. That’s why we need two pieces of data and then we can discern, we can determine the discernments between them. Otherwise we won’t have any discernments, just like you can throw a person into space and there’s nothing around them, complete emptiness and black what can you discern there? There has to be one, it’s clear it’s you and a second it’s clear it’s something outside of you, then you can compare between one and the other and start measuring distance, relations, that’s how we are built.

S. It is said that the darkness, it is also only revealed this way because it’s being compared with the light so what comes first? How can I feel darkness if I can’t feel light?

R. Correct, there is no such thing, no darkness without light or light without Darkness. They both come together they appear together towards a person, especially in spirituality. I cannot discern between hate without love and love without hate.

62. S. (02:09:55) What is the quality of bestowal we come out to? Who do we bestow to if there is None Else Besides Him?

R. In order to reach bestowing to the Creator we  first have to bestowal to the created beings and through them we bestow to the Creator. That’s why first the ten and through the ten we know how to stabilize ourselves, how to make a focus in our spiritual eyes towards the Creator.

63. S. (02:10:34) If someone rejects the feeling of loneliness what is the advice?

R. Only through coming closer between us. That’s the only way. You need to discover that you have no problem and no confusion but only you don’t want to acknowledge the only action that is before us which is connection between us is closeness between us and the more the better, open your heart towards one another and the Creator in that mutual heart will be revealed.

64. S. (02:11:39) In 249 it is said that where you have the work of Lishma, for her sake, you have nothing to be proud about because you see it’s only the Creator gift, it is not by my own force. Question. If the Creator gives everything how can a person reach equivalence to the Creator from that ever-growing revelation of his own lowliness?

R. The creator reveals everything and gives a person a form which is relatively complete in a person’s will to receive as much as forces can be revealed inside him that are pro and con and according to that he can start discerning things. The Creator won’t let a person see all the discernments in all his will to receive but only a certain measure, a certain fragment, that a person won’t get confused and will be able to advance, just like us with children.

S. So from my own lowliness I can achieve the Creator?

R. Of course, yes, the low will see.

65. S. (02:13:04) Also about 249, it says that he feels his own loneliness, how to serve the king and it becomes a wonderful pleasure for him. Why does a person feel that he’s low if he feels that serving the friends and the Creator is the greatest pleasure?

R. The low on the lowliness that he discovers towards his egoistic desire and through that he can come closer to the Creator.

66. S. (02:13:36) The revelation that there is a positive force in nature is only possible after we have made one aware movement?

R. Yes, if you take one aware movement, even one that is enough for you to discover a tendency to the Creator and to grasp onto this motion with his own motion. The Creator doesn’t come close to you before you attempt or try to come close to him, measure against measure.

67. S. (02:14:19) In the end of 252 it says that everyone grows with him, and it is all by being through true adhesion. What does it mean to be in true adhesion?

R. We don’t know the measure of truth is concealed from us for now. It is only revealed in Gmar Tikkun, but we need to try and adhere as much as possible between us, that the force of the Creator can appear in us, between us, that there will be such relationships that the Creator will be revealed according to our relationships, that he’ll have a place to be between us.

68. S. (02:15:13) About the ones who fear the Creator but serve Pharaoh. If my yearning to the correction of the soul is small and it’s all enveloped by my intention to receive abundance for myself, how can I be aware of the environment of those inside me?

R. I think that we were saying now we need to try between us to put together such relationships that the Created will be able to be revealed. That’s it, try. When you turn to a friend you want that between you you’ll have such relationships that in them the Creator can be revealed, it has to be very close here  between us, between me and the friend. So if that’s what we discover, so what is the problem? Let’s discover, let’s correct, let’s warm up the relationships between us in such a way that the Creator will be revealed in them. What is the difficulty? It is only in our desire we need. We have to ask to correct that area between us in a way that he can be revealed in it.

69. S. (02:16:44) What should we do with the desires that we identify that serve the Creator when we find them inside us?

R. Everything we need to do is to build relationships between us from our will to receive that it’s actions of bestowal. My original desire I have to restrict and start relating to the friends in a way that we need to bestow to them and love them and bring them closer and connect them to me and in this way I build a correct net of connections between us that in it the Creator can be revealed. We build between us, like a system Keter, Hochma, Bina, Hesed, Gevura, Tifferet, Netzah, Hod, Yesod, Malchut, connection between these ten Sefirot I build it and then in them the Creator can be revealed. I don’t need to know exactly where all these Sefirot and what forms of connections they need between them, I just want to build a connection between us that will entirely be from support and love, and then gradually I can start seeing how these forces  change, move, the Creator organizes them, and then reveals himself in them. Then more problems come so the connection as it was disappearing, gets confused and I need to make more efforts to bring it to another connection, love, completion as much as I can because these efforts for me are a prayer. And then I ask of the Creator, “Make a connection between us,” and he makes the connection. Number two more powerful, more internal, and he’s revealed in this connection in a clear way and then we get everything we are talking about, the light of Ruach, first it was Nefesh, then Ruach, then Neshama, until we discover that we are all connected together, that’s why the light that’s revealed is the light of Yechida and then our ten is whole. Then on  the next degree the same thing, and we attain in the connection between us the light that light that fill it, that fills that connection called The Creator, and then we the created beings that are connected together are called a Kli or vessel or soul, and the light that is revealed there it is also called the light of Neshama and in this way we are already start discovering our spiritual states.

70. S. (02:20:19) Why along with Israel do the mixed multitude also come out of it?

R. Because it is part of the correction. It is not that we cannot leave them in Egypt after us, this is what we need in order to cleanse ourselves and keep performing corrections outside of Egypt. In Egypt we cannot correct them. What is the mixed multitude? It is that I do everything that Pharaoh does to me, and I do everything that the Creator is demanding of me, that is called they fear the Creator but work for Pharaoh. Meaning, that I’m willing to connect even love, even all kinds of actions of connection between us, but I do it in order to gain something, in order to succeed, so I will feel good, my Pharaoh I still cannot come out of its control. That is why part of the state I’m in it is called those who fear the Creator, so that’s outside of Egypt, and part of it which is called workers of Pharaoh is in Egypt, and it is like a transition that we still have not completely gone out of Egypt, and this transition takes time. It continues until the parting of the Red Sea and the reception of the Torah at Mount Sinai and onward. We will see how far it goes and it could be until these days as we read a few excerpts.

71. S. (02:22:36) You said we are not worthy of redemption but it’s about time so we should come out. How not to wait but to act so that it will happen? What is the precise action the whole group should do?

R. To connect the one desire that we need to be connected as one towards the Creator. Without connecting between us we can’t connect to the Creator. Without connecting to the Creator we will not come out of Egypt, and we will remain as beasts. We want to be connected to the Creator called Adam, that resembles the Creator. It’s only if we connect between us, even to the smallest degree.

72. S. (02:23:24) We do sometimes keep customs like on Passover. We learned at Baal HaSulam used to keep it. How to relate to that correctly?

R. We need to perform the signs to us staying away from in order to receive. According to the sages, that determines according to the connections between this world and the spiritual world and what these signs can symbolize our will to receive to uplift above our ego. That’s why the signs  of Passover, not to do this, not to do that, it only symbolizes externally that we want to come out of the desire to receive, that’s it. So whoever can let them, something, whoever can’t doesn’t have to do it. The main thing is the work in the heart.

R. I wish you all the best. Repeat the questions, the answers, the questions, the materials, prepare ourselves.