Studying with friends [2026-04-16]

0:00We're moving to studying with friends led by USAIDs and Francisco. Shalom, dear friends, it is our pleasure and honor to host this session. We are given a topic of covering the most fundamental, most important pillars of Rebauch's path. And we've had this great lesson coming out of this great lesson with our teachers in the cleat. We now get to work in the crucible, the laboratory that Rebauch's set up for us, and the creator's created for us, which is the friends. So for now, let's take a few moments to just feel the gratitude that the creators brought us together for this important work. We've heard the wisdom of our sages, of our teachers, or Rav, and now we have to practice that. And we're going to do that by going through each of the principles starting from appreciating

1:01the friends. Justifying the friends, we're going to go through the entire entire cleat, almost the entire path in one small segment with these very powerful. So with that, let's take a moment of gratitude that we're with these great points of light and doing this work. And we're going to be starting with our accepts now, Eugene. Okay, friends. So yeah, we have 30 minutes to clarify the principles of our spiritual work in the ton. We'll do this through reading excerpts, clips of Rav and workshops. And we'll jump into our first excerpt now and we'll read everything slowly, absorb every word, and everybody follow along. So we have Robosh, Article 17, concerning the importance of friends. If one has love of friends, the rule in love is that you want to see the friends merits and not

2:05their faults. It is not a sign that his friend is a fault, but that the seer is a fault, meaning that because his love of friends is flawed, he sees faults in his friend. Therefore, now he should not see to his friend's correction, rather he himself needs correction. It follows that above said that he should not see the correction to the correction of his friends faults, which he sees in his friend, but he himself needs to correct the flaw he has created in the love of friends. And when he corrects himself, he will see only his friends merits and not his faults.

3:05Robosh, Article 17, concerning the importance of friends. If one has love of friends, the rule in love is that you want to see the friends merits and not their faults. Hence, if one sees some fault in one's friend, it is not a sign that his friend is a fault, but that the seer is a fault, meaning that because the friends is flawed, he sees faults in his friend. Therefore, now he should not see to his friend's correction, rather he himself needs correction. It follows from the above said that he should not see to the correction of his friend's fault, which he sees in his friend, but he himself needs to correct the flaw he has created in the love of friends. And when he corrects himself, he will see only his friends merits and not his faults. And as we read this text over and over and over again, every day for the last couple

4:06of weeks, washing ourselves with it, the excerpts became so relevant to our work. It was probably the most intense work we have done, maybe in the last 10, 15 years, as a 10, and the principle that we extracted from this, that all the flaws are only in us. The correction is in us, and how do we bring ourselves to the state? We went with the help of Raab, holding the hand of Rabash, and we thought of the times that Raab got these articles extracted from Rabash. The times social writings were born, specifically when groups were made, when tens were made, and every ten, like Tony said in the preparation, every ten, it all comes from the center of the ten.

5:11The preparation we feel, in the heat of this work, is when all these actors become relevant. So please, friends, pick a practical example, a practical, something specific that you're working with, maybe with a specific friend that you want to correct within yourself, and on the ways we prepare for the convention, and the heat of all this work, when the tens start to crystallize, let's apply these principles together and follow, follow our teacher's words. Let's listen to Raab, explain this principle to us. A targil, milikati, exercise to begin with when I see the friends, and I try to see the creator behind them, the creators behind the friends, meaning I have to see each and every friend in the ideal way. Of course, I see in each friend some flow naturally,

6:19because there is, there is in each and every one, but I have to bring myself to a state where the flow that I see, that flow is in me, and this is why I see in the friend a projection of myself, and this is how I correct myself, until I see each friend as a person who is completely flawless, everything is good, therefore all the friends in front of me are there to help me correct myself, and in this way make myself compatible with the creator, this is why he said that we read it many times, that behind each and every friend stands the creator, so if I correct my relation to the friend, so I see no flaws in him,

7:22no faults, and I want to connect with him in everything, then I reach the creator. This is what stands before us, therefore initially the creator created one man, broke into many pieces, which are contradictory to each other, distant, in all kinds of ways from each other, they are removed from each other, and we have to change our relation towards the friends, so we don't see in them anything bad, but rather everything I see is only good and all those bad things I see in them are in me, and this is why we come to a state where I am the only bad person

8:23in the ten, flawed person, and all my friends are actually ideal, they are completely faultless, I am speaking about the friends in the ten. Absolutely, great clip to hear Rob point out to this little action when seeing the merits of friend gets us to a completely different world, a world that is filled with joy really from giving love, and as we truly learn that love is not love until we learn how to give it, and seeing the friends of merit enables us to perform these actions and really feel the true qualities of creator, and as we all know that we are the only ones

9:23perhaps to reveal this in our work in the world, and we couldn't have a greater guide and confidence that the wars that we hear from Rob. So dear friends, we have this workshop question that was prepared, and then this workshop question we try to understand really how to our loneliness we begin to understand exactly what needs to be changed. We hear there's so many times, but we always try to find out exactly the points that enable us to really make a change. Next workshop question is how should the one correctly understand the Rob's words? I am the only bad person in the 10, and all my friends are actually ideal. How should one correctly understand Rob's words?

10:27I am the only bad person in the 10, and all my friends are actually ideal. We hear confidently how Rob is presenting this to us. This is the help. This way very clearly, we can see the gap, my gap, my opposite state between me and my friends who are working persistently, and this is the place to ask the creator for help to give us the strength to come out of ourselves and build the intention to bestow.

11:27Continue Avi, my friends are ideal means this is the place where the need for correction is revealed. They show me where I have to demand help for them, where I have to give more efforts and demand. They work like the creator toward me, giving me the place where I can bestow through them to the creator. In order to bestow to the creator through them, we have to understand that all the spiritual forces of the understanding, everything that comes to us comes from the friends if I am now before them. And I, as a black point, I can never acquire spirituality on my own, I don't have it. No connection there, only through the friends that is connected to the creator because it is behind them.

12:27I have to understand it, even if we don't understand, we have to accept what God says. That's one of the ways to look at it. Sometimes we hear from other ways to look at it, so this is one of them. Maybe to understand, in such a way that outside of me there is only the creator. So what the creator is good and does, right? So that is leadership the way he leads all created beings is correct. So if I don't say that, I am basically placing the fault in the creator. Why this perspective? That's a different question. I naturally see an opposite of reality, everyone around me, bad and corrupt and only I am ideal. And Ramav is describing the true reality from the point of view of the creator. As we heard this morning, everything was created perfectly exists, perfectly flawlessly.

13:30And this gives us an opportunity for correction to ask, to start seeing reality in its corrupt form, but in its true form and to think about what can change us. We're talking about one of the stages in our spiritual path to see ourselves in loneliness and the friends. Actually, truly in the light of bestowal, that's a desirable state that we have to constantly aspire for and see it as one of the stages on our path toward correction. To understand it above reason, to take it to work, because naturally I don't see the friends in this way, but to try to overcome, to make efforts.

14:30So, as I describe everything that I see, in me, I am not corrected. They are corrected, I am not corrected, and this is how the creator relates to me that I need. He shows me what I have to correct in me, because the creator stands behind every friend. And that's how the creator appears to me in this flawless form. That's the work, and that's a constant work in overcoming. Yes, Yakuva adds to feel the difference between the present state and my ideal state. This gives room for prayer, for help from the creator. I will add that, as I've said in the first lesson, you need to completely delete the program you have, you're attitude to the friends, and build it in you each time, and that's to help the creator gives us all the time.

15:36I will direct myself toward him, only with these exercises the friends will help me. A more and more toward the quality of the soul. Okay, welcome back. Okay, now that we have melted with each other's words, and our hearts have melted, we're going to now melt with the words of great catalyst for a Bosch. And truly, his words are like remedy that washes over us, and heals our nature. So, we're Bosch, article number 30, what to look for in the assembly of friends. When the person makes the effort and judges him to the side of merit, it is as gullot, the remedy, whereby the toil that a person makes, which is cold and awakening from below, he is given strength from above.

16:36To be able to love all the friends without exception. This is called by yourself a friend, that a person should make an effort to obtain love of others. And this is called labor, since he must exert above reason. Reasonably thinking, how is it possible to judge another person to the side of merit, when his reason shows him his friend's true face, that he hates him? What can he tell the body about that? And why should he submit himself before his friend? The answer is that he wishes to achieve viku, adhesion with the creator, called equivalence of form, meaning not to think of his own benefit. Thus, why is subduing a difficult thing? The reason is that he must revoke his own worth. And the whole of the life that he wishes to live will be only with the consideration of his ability to work for others' benefit, beginning with love of others, between man and man through the love of the creator.

17:45Hence, here is a place where he can say that anything he does is without any self-interest. Since by reason, the friends are the ones who should love him, but he overcomes his reason, goes above reason and says, it is not worth living for myself. Once again, Rabash, what to look for in the assembly of friends. When a person makes the effort and judges him to the side of merit, it is a school law, a remedy. Whereby the toil that a person makes, which is called an awakening from below, he is given strength from above to be able to love all the friends without exception. And this is called by yourself a friend, that a person should make an effort to obtain a lot of others. And this is called labor, since he must exert above reason.

18:45Reasonably thinking, how is it possible to judge another person to the side of merit, when his reason shows him his friend's true face, that he hates him? What can he tell the body about that? Why should he submit himself before his friend? The answer is that he wishes to achieve viku, adhesion, with the creator, called equivalence of form, meaning not to think of his own benefit. Thus, why is it doing a difficult thing? The reason is that he must revoke his own worth, and the whole of the life that he wishes to live will be only with the consideration of his ability to work for others benefit. Beginning with love of others, between men and men, through the love of the creator. Hence, here is a place where he can say that anything he does is without any self-interest. Since, by reason, the friends are the ones who should love him, that he overcomes his reason, goes above reason and says, it is not worth living for myself.

19:56There is friends now that we all figured out and clarified for ourselves that there is no one really to blame outside. The opponent is only one, it's within me, myself, love, my nature. And, within reason, it looks like the more effort you make, the more deeper you get into your nature, and there is nothing really that can help. Although, I'm looking at my friends, and I've seen they're already enjoying the unity, and I have, with every second, with every effort made, less and less strengths. And therefore, we have a question to ask for everyone to come up with a solution, to come up with the advice. Maybe tricks, how to outtrick body, how to outtrick the everything that self-love nature tells us.

21:02The question is, for the workshop number two, from where will we draw the power to rise above self-love? From where will we draw the power to rise above self-love? The ten who completes answering, please put your question so that we can share, and then we'll have a round throughout the world clean, so we can inspire each other, friends. As we need help of each other on our own, we cannot do that. So let's use this exercise as an attempt, as an opportunity to share with everyone this great inspiration, and finally, we'll find the solution, how to outsmart the tricks of our nature to self-love. Once again, the question is, from where will we draw the power to rise above self-love? Thank you.

22:06The power to overcome is a two-step process, first of all, you need the power to exert, to make efforts, and the power that comes from the friends. When there are examples to overcome and love a friend, and then the creator loves the effort, that's what robustness gives you the power to overcome. We turn to a force to the reforming light, only towards influence. We will be able to continue building a vessel that's directed toward more mutual concern, and not let the ego, as self-love, the personal considerations lead us.

23:09One more robust influence of the light, and one more overcoming, will bring about the corrected states we want to be in. Just like in the previous question, where the place for correction is revealed there, specifically, I need... to work and to exert, because I was given an opportunity to overcome, they gave me an opportunity to arrange my attitude to the friends to work on the intention. There, specifically, is the work with the friends and the creator. How do we rise above self-love by being drawn to the light and not by fighting self-love? And fight against it, and come to it forcefully, but ask for the power of the light to lift us above it, and be under its influence, just like sitting and waiting for the sun to shine on you.

24:12Likewise, you need to constantly be under the light, to make the light work on us, that's our force, and in this way, persist. The answer is that he wants to reach adhesion with the creator called the equivalence of forming, and not to think of his own benefit. So, the importance of the goal, the importance of the creator, this is the fuel, and then a person feels that if he makes such an action toward the friends by that he gets closer to the goal, it's important to him. We haven't the strength to rise above self-love, we cannot draw this force, we can play, we can act like we love the friends, and as a result, the creator will turn our act into reality.

25:13Yes, so it's suggested to us, and be less than honor, by which, through the correct work and the environment, we can rise above the ego and be drawn to the quality of Adam. Overcoming is by constantly awakening the greatness of the creator between us, and that becomes the force. And that helps us relate to the friends, justify them, see them as great, and in this way, overcome and continue. Yes, of course, as examples from the friends, when we care about each other and we make efforts day by day, and each day, I will add that it's simply to see it from the point of view of the creator.

26:20The creator is making many efforts to bring each one of us closer to him, and in these actions, we should see the creators calling us to him. If the creator is taking care of me personally, how can I not come and reply and answer this call and receive the power for this? Maybe there's one picture that is suitable in our society. One complaint that there is in our society, which is that the friends didn't awaken me. Just friends, I hope you were able to find this answer altogether in a moment once again.

27:23We're reminding, we ask friends to put their question marks on the screen, we need the support of everyone. From above, we're given everything, all the best conditions, creator gave us points in the hearts, creator gave us great plays where we can realize this mission. Let's go around the globe and share this great advice, this tactics, how to raise above our self-love, above our nature. I see Florida raised their questions, so we choose that lucky one to inspire us. Peace. There we go. Thank you, friends. Okay, it's great. From the 10, from our friends, we have prayer, and then the creator helps us.

28:27The creator comes in and helps us. We rise above the self-love, and we rise above reason, and we adhere to what the Kabbalists tell us. We have faith in the sages, and we have envy for our friends. I want to be like my great friends. We agree and defend that above the envy we need to persist when our work of connection with desire, without desire, just to persist, persevere. But insist because the power comes from connection, from searching for the connection with the friends, and that's how we come to prayer and to accepting this power to come out of self-love.

29:40Thank you for these great workshops. Thank you. Nothing to add to what the friends said other than, without the group, a person cannot take one step. And you pray for the friend, and when the prayer is for you, you compliment each other. Yes, friends, here also the power to come out of self, comes from the 10 where I can now be for his greatness. Peace be upon you, Kasha. I want to draw light, the strength to rise above self-love.

30:41We learn that the greatness of the Creator, if we establish the greatness of the Creator that is so strong and attend, then a person wants to actually reveal the love of friends, which is the only great huge vessel for the revelation of the Creator. So the more we establish the greatness of the Creator in the 10th, and we in our 10th network, inspired by the friend from San Francisco, we said something we actually wrote down, love is not enough, unless you give it. And that's a trick, Kabaush tells us that if I see that the friend seemingly doesn't treat me nice or something like that, even to the point of feeling that he hates me, but I give importance and greatness, and I pray to the Creator that I don't have any self interest. And that's a trick we really go for.

31:42Thank you all, great friends for those wise words, raw truly, raw truly disciples of Rabosh. We are going to have one more excerpt, hopefully this, we kind of traverse this path that Rabosh has set out for us through love of friends starting from gratitude. We heard about struggling inside the 10 and knowing ourselves. We heard about building imports of the Creator. We heard about building gratitude and also working with the 10s and justifying the friends and seeing them as the greatest. And we've found to find the strength, which comes from the 10s, and we've all incorporated and earned the wise words of the Klee and inside our 10s ourselves, the 10s themselves. So keep in mind that, you know, our next step, it's all about preparation, our next step together as a Klee is the Congress, which is about working in the 10. And so we want to leave this last excerpt, which is hopefully a prayer that settles in us as the words of Rabosh.

32:50And we'll finish up with a task for the day. Through the wearing out of the hearts, even of the strongest ones, each will bring out warmth from the walls of his heart, and the warmth will ignite the sparks of love until a clothing of love will form. And we'll be covered under one blanket, meaning a single love will surround and then fell up the two of them, as it is known that the court adhesion unites to one. And when one begins to feel the love of his friend, joy and pleasure immediately begin to awaken in him for the rule is that novelty entertains him. And because he knew that he was the only one who cared for his own well-being, but the minute he discovers that his friend cares for him, it evokes within him in measurable joy. And he can no longer for himself, since man can toil only where he feels pleasure.

33:56And since he is beginning to feel pleasure in caring for his friend, he naturally cannot think of himself. With that, we have a final task to hold on to for the rest of the day, as as preparation for our next step. I read it twice, task for the 10. Every friend should think about one thing they heard in excerpts or workshops where they feel they need correction and ask the creator to help them in that today. Thank you, friends. Thank you, San Francisco. Thank you to San Francisco, 10. So, ten.

35:01One short excerpt from the wonderful lesson they gave us, excerpt number one. If one has love of friends, the rule in love is that you want to see the friends merits and not their faults. Hence, if one sees a fault in one's friend, it is not a sign that his friend is a fault, but that the seer is a fault. Meaning that because his love of friends is flawed, he sees faults in his friend. Therefore, now he should not see to his friend's correction, rather he himself needs correction. The follows from the above said that he should not see to the correction of his friend's faults, which he sees in his friend,

36:06but he himself needs to correct the flaw he has created in the love of friends. And when he corrects himself, he will see only his friends merits and not his faults. I'm going to update from Ryokoka. I'm going to give an update on several things that are happening, and then by work today, if you get to be in the ground floor, you see that the friends are doing a lot of work as part of the building of the Visitor's Center here at the center. So, first of all, we're asking for everyone's thoughts because it's a very complicated project with many subtleties and needs for it to really be the high quality we wanted to be.

37:10And perhaps we will also ask some of the friends to come and take part in the work during the lesson. Anyone who is asked to join, please do it, we need you, so that the heart and desire of the group will be in this activity. Of course, it is approved by the management, approved by Mushi on the CEO, so we have the blessing to go ahead blessing. Another thing, next week, we're moving into a new process of how we are charging in terms of the monthly fee. Until today, we paid monthly fee to the other system, now we're moving into what is called tuition. We talked about it many times over the past year, but now we are really ready to move into the first phase of the tuition.

38:16So, if we can look at the presentation, so why are we moving into it, first of all? For several reasons, the first and main reason is that our group is grown significantly from a small group that we see in the recorded lessons where there were small nucleus of friends, small group of friends starting around half today, we are tens of thousands in Israel and all over the world, hundreds of tens, huge systems all over the world. And infrastructures that must be provided for them. And so everything has changed in how we conduct ourselves. Additionally, when a group was small, there were no questions, it was very clear that everyone does everything. And in those days, everyone knew that when the monthly salary comes in,

39:17you pay your Marcel, you're trading. And this way we could gradually build ourselves over the years, it got blurred, and not everyone pays Marcel. That's fine, everyone makes his own spiritual calculation, but because we've grown and the expenses grew, we have to create an economic model that gives us stability. So that if a person decides to pay Marcel or some donation, or if he doesn't, we have to enable our association to conduct itself on an economic model that is not dependent on contribution and donations and Marcel. But on a person paying for pain is due, and if he decides to pay Marcel, that's his spiritual consideration.

40:18So what does the tuition include? First of all, it covers several areas in our life. It covers the broadcasts and technology here in the association, our ability to develop apps and broadcasts and upload new signs, the study material, and the content including translations and live lessons that we give each day. Creating content in all the languages in every area, it also covers that. It enables us to maintain the building to pay for its expenses, as well as legal expenses that the association has. And it gives us the ability to accompany our students' community in Israel and all over the world in a way that each one has everything he needs in order to develop spiritually from the first moment he starts until he crosses the barrier and enters spirituality.

41:28Right now, I'm showing a presentation in Hebrew because the first phase of the tuition will impact Israel, all the other countries that I'm pointing out now are not affected right now. The United States, Canada, Russia, Ukraine, Europe, and Brazil. This whole population at first is unaffected. Everyone I didn't mention is affected. So when we come to the building, we pay maintenance of 65 check-ups. This we continue to pay. Why? Because we're paying for the needs we get here in the lesson. Coffee, tea, water, and the minimum needs to enable the lesson to take place and for a day-to-day conduct in the building.

42:28What is the cost of the tuition? The tuition is built in such a way according to the cost of living. There is high medium and low tier, which are 180 check-ups, 90 and 60 check-ups. In Israel, we belong to the 180. How will this happen? I'll show you in a minute. The tuition happens like this every month when we come to pay. Anyone who pays Marcel or gives some donation and his donations have crossed the level of the annual tuition. That money will get a discount. In other words, people who will be granted discounts are those who pay Marcel or donations or those who ask,

43:35I help cover up for assistance. And new students have a scholarship. How can you be given a grant when I'm charged at a specific month? They checked 12 months back. If you're in those 12 months, I crossed the level of the annual tuition. At that month, I get a discount of 55%. So, in terms of numbers, I'm student in Israel. I come to pay 180. They check if I crossed. If I paid more than 2, 21, 60, then I get the 55% discount and I pay 80. If not, I don't get the discount, and I pay 180. Why is there a discount to those who donate? Because we have no reason to take from friends more than what they already donate. They already pay their part.

44:40Again, this method does not come to take from those who already give. It comes to complete to complement what the association needs in order to cover its maintenance. Again, donation and Marcel is something spiritual. It's a calculation you need to do with yourself. Will you pay Marcel or not pay Marcel? It's your own calculation. That's it for any questions. Write to help at Clea.1. To answer everything, and we will accompany everyone in the process, the Haim Nebohr. We're in Israel, Michelle. We're in Israel, Michelle.

46:07We're in Israel right away. We're in Israel right away. We can dance through the star hands together We're in the dawn. We're in Israel right away. When a reason can't be found in all these love When the fog is falling and it's blinding I've read a light that pulls us through the dark A broken heart that is waiting to be like the way Oh, wait, wait, wait, wait Oh, wait, wait, wait And we can dance through the strong hands together We're in the dark Oh, wait, wait, wait, wait

47:18Now love is calling a place we belong There's myself in you You were there all along You're like the way you were Oh, wait, wait, wait And like the way you were Oh, wait, wait, wait Eh, we can dance through the strong hands together We're in the dark Oh, wait, wait, wait And we can dance through the strong hands together We're in the dark Oh, wait, wait, wait You