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Studying Kabbalah #kab_eng — Sukkot [2026-09-27] #lesson. Machine-transcribed; use the interactive transcript above to jump the player to any line.

Shalom la Kulaam. Hello everyone. How are you? We are very happy to be here. This is the holiday of Sukkot. Very happy holiday. A holiday affiliated with Joy. Or we talk about the building of the screen, the Fetch roof. We are about exiting the permanent residence, which is our will to receive, moving into a temporary residence, the Sukkai's, a temporary residence, something temporary, that being the intention to be stoned. So today we are going to read excerpts together. Today we will try to draw the reforming lights together. We will be very happy to take questions from you on any subject on the holiday of Sukkot, the subject as well as any other subject.

We are holding meals. Now we started yesterday, that was already part of the holiday. But today, Sunday, the weekend will have meals every day. 6 pm is real time. So we invite you to these meals physically or virtually, we can't buy physically, connect virtually meals with a lot of spirits to them, a lot of joy. And the weekend, we are going to have very special events as well. We will talk about it some more later. We have many causes for joy, so we are truly preparing. So that we will be able to approach the very advanced ideas that the holiday of Sukkot symbolizes. We don't want to relate to it as a sort of custom tradition. That layer exists.

That's fine, we respect that. But for us, students of the wisdom of Kobbala Sukkot is very inner holiday, very profound, always affiliated with attack. This goes back to our teachers' combustion. Keshav, it's an inner attack, spiritual one, that we enter together as one man in one heart, trying to awaken the surrounding light. Awakening from below. We're going to have the convention called that in the month, too. So everyone that we can see on screen right now, those who we can't see, were probably connected, probably by phone in transit, perhaps, perhaps with family, whoever in some of the situations trying to put an earbud in and listen a little bit,

you two were trying to create a spiritual environment together. Micheal, do you hear us? He was sick. He still is kind of sick, so we're in two different studios, but we are together. Micheal, to you. Hello, everyone. So we're going to have a chat. Can we have a chat? Yes, we can. Yes, we can. Yes. Yes, we can. I'm going to have a chat. I'm going to have a chat. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. So we will correct that technical issue a little bit.

We want to read together very special exits that we've collected from Babashin Bala Sulaam, and we will get explanations from our love. Perhaps we can start with a clip where Bab will give us some guidance, some meditation regarding Sukkot. And the inner process of Sukkot. So let's watch clip number four, one the matter of faith, and see how this describes the general direction of Sukkot. I think that throughout the study, we will simply know what the holiday of Sukkot is, the customs, why do we do things that we do, what do we get out of the Sukkot? Meaning, what is this stage that now we need to go through?

We said that it is the building of the vessel of faith above reason, that is hinted about in the building of the fetch that is above our head, something that we ourselves make out of waste, that really it's not that the waste itself isn't important to us. There's nothing that we can do it. It shows us that we're engaged in very cheap, not really important things, but we're holding to the precipice of faith, the power of faith, that it doesn't seem to us as something important. I believe, what do you mean by I believe?

And our days, especially, who takes it seriously? Who takes seriously someone who says, I believe that it's like this, or I believe that it's like that? But we take the power of faith. For us, the power of faith isn't the same thing as it is for the day-to-day people, but for us, it is the power of bestowal. And we want to elevate, raise this power of bestowal above reason, to say that the power of giving and the power of bestowal is more important than the power of reception. And this is how we want to live our life, like the power of faith. And even in faith, above reason, and a faith that is above reason. And here's the question, how can we do it?

Because reason is what I know, what I see. How can I do something against reason that it's unrealistic? So, we're told true. And the wisdom of Kabbalah relates to people as serious people. That our judge has only, what does I see? If so, what does it mean that we acquire the power of faith? And so this is something that we need to check. That's the commandment, which we need, that we and us need to build a vessel of faith that everything that we'll do will be in order to bestow, that we will raise the importance of the Creator above anything else,

that we will start to appreciate way, we will be, we will be as mano. Everyone else has a Creator than ourselves to love your fellow man, to bestow to your fellow man, that that for me will be more important than doing for myself, that bestow is more important than reception and short. And only this way, do we all of a sudden begin to feel that, if you set them in the Yudhshunah, we can reach a different perception of reality, in which previously we had no interest. And this called to enter the upper world, the vessel of the stone.

Right, so it's a real wonder to see how the branches appear in this world and express their roots in such a strange way where the fatch in the Sukam, the fatch which we build out of the waste of barn and winery, that's really, it's waste, it's insignificant. To us, it symbolizes the love of friends and connection and our vogue that these are things that the ego disregards and how the catalysts find this comparison between building the fatch and such exalted sublime concepts. And altogether building the Sukam. It symbolizes the building of the vessel, the building of man,

that on the Yudhshunah, the New Year, we've taken a decision that we want to change something and we wish to compare ourselves, make ourselves like the upper, like the creator. This is something that in practice happens on Sukkot, that by these forces called the guests, Ushpizin, seven forces, that help us build the vessel consisting of the seven spirit. And the most important component in this vessel is the screen, which symbolizes faith above reason, meaning the screen is also faith. It's a kind of anti-egoist force that helps each of us balance their ego and as a result, we can come closer to each other. So in passage number two, see what we're bashe rights. In Yanskhaach, uphyenat zila de minumannuta.

Anikra, hinnat, imunale, mala meadat. You said here that the fatch and passage number two is the shadow of faith, called faith above reason. This is opposite to reason. For reason brings an end to waste, to burn, and to winery. That is, from the perspective of reason, the way the corporeal eyes see it, there is room for waste of born and winery. This in itself makes a shadow, and he sits under it. That is, he makes for himself a seat out of all these loaths and worst things and through the waste, observes the mitzala of Sukkot, meaning in relation to the ego, these things like connection, love, faith above reason, are real waste. Most importantly, he drives joy from this mitzala because faith above reason is called joy of mitzala.

It follows that all the kwan, that all the kwanjrees and questions that exist in reality are corrected in the Sukkot, for without them, it is impossible to make a fatch. As Rabat writes, all the problems, all in all, all the questions are corrected in the Sukkot, because the Sukkot is a new vessel. A Sukkot is a vessel with a screen, so once a person has the screen, and he can see all the questions and queries, not through his ego, but, so to speak, through the eyes of the Creator, how these things are really felt only in our ego as the Krasil, the way that they come from the side of the Creator. Because here we can see them as good things, as joyous things, as a mitzala only when we have a screen, that filters these things,

neutralizes the ego and allows us to see things for what they really are. And so the Sukkot, it's a really important holiday or state necessary for our spiritual development, by which a person acquires a screen or faith of a reason, which is that force, which allows us to see the actions of the Creator for what they really are and not the way our ego depicts it. Yes, it's very, very special, because if you consider, Sukkot symbolizes the entire spiritual path, a person's primary effort in this spiritual path is to achieve equivalence of form, adhesion to the Creator in order to bestow contentment upon the Creator. And that is possible only by changing the intention, acquiring the intention

in order to bestow that part called the points of Adam, which we mention in Rosasana, the birth of the point of man, of Adam. We call it the point in the heart, but it needs to continue developing, and that part then becomes the part we affiliate with, through which we live, the main thing that motivates us, while our will to receive the matter, the substance, in which we are, becomes secondary. So Sukkot symbolizes this inversion of importance, from a state where unimportant things, what are the waste of barn and winery? In our corporeal reality, when we build the structure called the Sukkot, we put branches on top, cut off trees,

they used to be on the degree of the vegetative growing. They were cut, now there are branches, it's a kind of other sticks, they're made into fatch, which is kind of waste. It symbolizes the quality of bestow, which we are nature, our egoistic nature, despises. And Sukkot symbolizes this transition, this inversion, where we take something that we don't care for, the quality of bestow, because right now we're in our nature, which is the egoistic culture, we try to elevate that in importance, and that action of raising its importance from a state of, not being important to a state of being important, that is called the building of the fatch, on the corporeal level, but mainly on the spiritual level.

That is the state we're talking about here, in general. We emerge from our permanent residence, of that we say that man's inclination is evil from youth. We were born into the even inclination we want to emerge from that, exceptionally in order to receive, and move to our temporary residence, which is what the Sukkot symbolizes. We want to go to that physically and spiritually. Well, we want to do it spiritually, and so we also do it physically to be more accurate. Now, why is it temporary? Because we can't be completely in the intention to bestow but this process exiting. That is what Sukkot symbolizes, and so we build the fatch roof, which is an amazing idea, if you think about it, inconceivable how Kabbalists close spiritual realities,

spiritual ideas in their reality of this world. And we're not taught that ever. It's only when the point of the heart starts awakening that we begin to hear, we begin to learn and suddenly all these things, appear in a completely different way, inner, spiritual, and then we understand the true meanings of the things that they wanted to pass on to us. So that is the idea, in essence, and today, you would like to discuss a new concept, perhaps, some of you know it, perhaps some of you know it, less so, but it from Latin, the word it's called, well, the word is ouch-pizin, very complicated, juicy word, bim, ouch-pizin, the Hebrew language learnt it from Aramaic. So what are the ouch-pizin guests? Like guests,

which we invite into this state called the Sukah. We have seven such ouch-pizin, Y7, we have not ten. We learn about ten shibots, Y7, where did three go? Yes, the Kumurkov. Right, things are complicated as if on the one hand simple, per-only tense field, but each time we see that we relate to these numbers differently. Sometimes it's five, sometimes it's seven, sometimes it's ten. So the thing is that when we begin to build the vessel from bottom up, our vessel consists of the Rampin and Malchut, the Rampin R6 field. It's chisid, gvot, tifar, nitsa, hod, isod, and malchut.

And counter to that, there are seven forces. It's covered talking in the words of the Torah then these are also names that you're familiar with. Abraham, Jacob, Isaac, Joseph, Moses, Aaron, and David. David symbolizes the Malchut. So we have seven spheroes because there are so consists of seven where the other three, the three belong to the horse, the head of the Potsov. In Kabbalah we draw ten spheroes and the first three they're a part of the horse, Ketokhma and Bina, and the other seven to the goof, the body. So first of all, when we build, we build the body first because the horse, the head is as if corrected. So come seven forces, correct each and every sphero.

Of course, we're talking potentially on a basic level. So as we've built this program, and now because spirituality is above time, space, and motion, so it's not that it happened once, but anyone who enters the system and as if uses these forces, that it happens spirituality is something that, unless you're there in your awareness, it doesn't happen as long as it's like in corporate reality that if you are unconscious, still, corporate reality exists to go to sleep. The world continues, people walk around, the design works, and spirituality, it's not the same. You need to activate work, everything. So when we invite these guests,

each and every day of the seven days, and to the seventh spirit, to correct each and every sphero, afterwards we're already ready for the reception of the light. Yes, so let's read excerpts 13 together, rather 18, which talks about the Ushkizin. You're welcome to send us questions, of course. We'll take questions soon. Let's start with item 18. Abbas tells us in an article called Ushkizin, exactly as he said, he says, and Ushkizin remember the meaning of his guests. Baalusulam interpreted the matter of Ushkizin, the Sukkot guests,

that it is a matter that is introduced in the Zohan, a way by which to pass, what does he wish to say, that it is like a path for the light of Phrukha, cannot shine in it consistently. This is the main point. This is the matter of luck. How does that relate? Let's see that, quote, Sun's life and nourishment depend on luck. That's written in the study of the Tenth Fiat. This comes from the words, water will pour out from his buckets. Pouring means that it is only dripping, meaning it illuminates intermittently. Whereas a stream

means illuminating seaslusting. For this reason, the guests love having a spacious place. But when they come in the place is narrow, they cannot enter. Let's explain this is a bit complicated. This language combines, a remark with the language of the Torah, of the translators, can handle the complexity, we will try to explain these together, these things. What is Abbas saying? He says that, Bala Sulaam, my father, my teacher, interpreted, to be an issue that goes back to the book of Zohal, and had been guests through which the light can pass. Meaning that the guests, the Yushbizin,

come to a state after the vessel is already built, which is called Suka, Suka where the emphasis is the Thash roof. Meaning a spiritual cleat that builds a screen, the Thash is the screen. So, and each one of these forces that we mentioned before, Abaham, it's Khakia, Kovanson, seven forces. Each time one is added to the screen, and each such force is a corresponds to a different day, and so we have the seven guests, corresponding to the seven lower sifirot, Gal, the Roj, and they are taken into account here, they are not part of the vessel. The seven lower sifirot, correspond to the seven guests, each one of which comes to that screen,

has a Gwati, and it's a Haud, and ultimately the feed, which is Malkhuz symbolizing the whole of Malkhuz. Let's continue. Deep, this is the issue of luck. Luck, Mazzal from the word Mazzal, dropping, dripping, drops that fall from above, meaning that there's no screen that allows one to receive a light fully, or permanently, but little drops, little points, which the vessel gradually receives into itself. This is the meaning of luck, that quote, sans life and nourishment depend on luck, unquote. He's quoting from the study of the Tel-Syord part 13, a very complicated part, describing the alihampin and so on. This comes from the words, quote, water will pour out from his bucket, unquote. Pouring, this is what explains here,

that it's only dripping, dropped by drop, meaning only these small, small dripping of the lights, where it enters again and again, again in little portions. Drops, meaning it illuminates intermittently, whereas a stream means it illuminating, it's illuminating ceaselessly. For this reason, the guests, they're schpizin, which you recall we talked about before, enjoy having a spacious place. When we talk about a spacious place, or a narrow place in the wisdom of Kabbalah, this refers to the light of Khassadin. And the spacious wide means that there's already a screen with the light of Khassadin, where the light of Khuchmah can enter them. The narrow means that there's not enough Khassadin to receive the light. So Abaash says here that the guests, the schpizin, these additional parts of the screen,

enjoy having a spacious place. But when they come and the place is narrow, they cannot enter, the light cannot enter the vacuum. And it continues that this means that the light of Mark cannot shine unless by clothing of Khassadin. I assume that you already know the difference. There is no such thing as the light of Khassadin. There is only one light. But we're talking about the vessel, of course. The vessel, when it builds, the screen of reflected light. We say that it's building the light of Khassadin into which the light of the filling of fulfillment can close, which is called the light of Khuchmah. But of course, there is only one light. We're just talking about how the vessel changes each time. So as to be able to be in a quick answer form, and so receive the light. And so we say that the light of Mark is not shining on its narrow, but only with the clothing of Khassadin.

And Khassadin is called white, as explaining the study of the transphiote. And the light of Khuchmah is called the shpizin, those guests we talked about. Therefore, if he has no Khassadin, it cannot be closed. This is a little bit about the matter of the shpizin. Perhaps we'll take some questions. Florida, please. I'm trying to understand this. Yes. The shpizin, the guests, are these types of inner light? Michael? Yes. I'm going to ask you something. Ash-e-Keh. I don't know how to say that. Ash-e-Nehzouh, Ash-e-Gham, please. I'll repeat, next question is, the shpizin. Are those types of inner light that's received into the vessel?

Well, first of all, it doesn't say if it's inner light. It only says that these are the lights that correct the vessel. So it could both be surrounding, also inner, but it doesn't say. It could be that, Avil, maybe if you saw that it, it's about it, some place. Oh, yes. What is inner light, too? Inner light. That's when the vessel builds a screen, equalizes its form with the light that arrives, the surrounding light, closes it, and then accepts it into the vessel. Here we are talking about additional components, parts of the screen, which allow the vessel to advance and develop. It's not necessarily the inner light, the shpizin and the whole of the sukats, it's important to remember.

It speaks not of the light that is received into the vessel, but the screen that the vessel builds. The idea of sukats is the idea of the construction of the screen, the emphasis, is the Thach roof. Everything else is just backdrop. The Thach is the important part, the screen. So sukats symbolizes the building of the screen. So the shpizin are parts of the screen that the vessel summons, that's why they're called guests, because it doesn't have them. He summons them, invites them, during the days of sukats. This is all a grave course. And with them, it's capable of performing, well, using the screen on a higher degree, and the light closes there, too. But the emphasis isn't the filling, but the construction of the screen. That is the focus of sukats. It's called Simhatura, the joy of the Torah,

where we do talk about the filling. At the end of sukats, there is a day, like the apex of it, which is called Simhatura. The entrance of the light into the vessel, that's the Torah, and joy, of course, when the light enters the vessel, that is what we call joy. So there's joy, there's the issue of water involved, the drawing, it's complicated. We don't get into that right now, though. There's a follow-up question, please. So when we talk about the Spirit, the seventh Spirit, he's the Spirit in the Massach. When we talk about those additional parts of the screen, has said, Fuhatifah, Natsah-Hodja-Sod, and in the end, Malkhurt, which is David, yes, we are talking about additions to the screen,

the screen's ability to equalize its form with the surrounding light that arrives. As a result, light will enter it again, but again, the emphasis in sukats is less the filling and more the process of the construction of the screen. The Shpizin, they are guests. The screen doesn't have them, didn't attain them by itself. That's why we're talking about the little drops of luck here. Each day is another little addition that the screen receives, and also sukats is a temporary residence. It's not something that a person builds and belongs to him. It's this addition he receives due to which he can work. Just add that the fulfillment that you're talking about, and I assume that on Sukod, we correct the vessel. But what is the correction?

Correction means that we need a strong screen. Once we have that, we can receive. And if we're talking about the sequence of the cyclical sequence of the holidays, then we receive part of the lights on Hanukkah and part on Puhin. That is really the reception of the lights. Hanukkah, these are the lights of Khassadin. And on Puhin, it's really the light of Khomad of the Sukod is the building of the screen because it is impossible to receive the lights without having a screen simply put. Good morning. Oh, sorry. Good afternoon, friends. Good afternoon, work. If the light of Khomad can only shine occasionally when the place is narrow, what does it mean? What does it mean in practice to make the Sukod wide?

That we are between the 10 so that the light can shine more continuously. Thanks. I have to say that the Sukod is the most important thing to do. Shailai Mikhail, what does it mean to build a Sukod in practice in the 10? How to expand this Sukod in the 10? The Sukod is the vessel building of the vessel. What are we doing in the 10? We build the vessel. We don't each separately build a vessel. The creator is felt in our connection and the mutual vessel that we build. So that's exactly what we do. The building of the Sukod is exactly the building of the vessel that we build in the 10. And then we have a common screen that allows us to be cautious of the inner light or direct light that comes from the creator

and receive the influence or the bestow of the creator, but it to appear through the screen, because the screen balances out the ego not allowing it to exploit the creator to its own benefit. So we have a common screen. And of course, let's put it this way that in the 10, all of our efforts are aimed toward building the common screen and how much, however much you invest in that correspondingly, you feel light. Someone invests less, feels less, invests more, feels more, but it's something common to everyone. As we heard, a great deal on this, and we're watching very special lessons, by the way, if you have the time going to the archive and you can listen to lessons from 2002 to 2003,

or unique, very special lessons from a convention that took place three years ago, you know, a place called Citroen. We hear how La Vex explains how you live within the friend, within the friend's will to try to emerge from my own desire and to try to fulfill the friend's spiritual desire. One of the first stages in this process where we build jointly, that's important. We do it together. The vessel is not private and personal. It's not that each one takes from the ten whatever he wants, whatever he needs, and builds a succo for himself. No, we build a common desire. My small desire is insufficient, insufficient in strength. Also, it's not a desire that I can even build a screen over at all. I connect to myself the desires of the friends, and when I place my own personal desire aside,

taking the friend's desires instead, that is the beginning of well emerging from myself. As La Vex says regarding the prayer of many, it's where I pray for the friends, for the others. The request is never personal, mine. And so the construction of the screen, the process we're talking about, it's a process that the ten does together jointly. The creator is revealed in the connection between us. If there's no connection, where will he be revealed? Thank you. Kab you, please. Good evening. Good to see everyone. My question is, I noticed these holidays, they're very sequential, one after the other, the Montevil-Loule, recognition of evil. Then we have the restriction, young Kupur, so on and so forth, very sequential. But I'm a new student. I just have a point in the heart. I know that the first step is the recognition of evil.

I'm in the preparation period. I haven't detained any of these holidays yet. For the first step, the recognition of evil in the preparation period, does this happen sequentially as well? Is it like you recognize the evil and check that off the box? We did that. Or does it kind of ebb and flow where I reveal a little evil? And then it goes away and then I reveal more. And I guess the main question is, do we in the preparation period? Do we even reach the recognition of evil, the very first holiday, the very first stage? Thank you very much. I hope the question's clear. Can we call it a Karatarah? First of all, the recognition of evil never comes by itself.

It comes. And of course, it always corresponds the greatest of the creators. It's not like I look for where's the evil in me. No, you go above reason, you try to connect, you look for the greatness of the creator and the quality of the soul. Now, while searching for the greatness of the goal, you begin to discover how much your ego slides all these values. So it says that the screen that is made out of the waste of barnwiner, mainly non-important things, you artificially want to elevate them above your head, making them important. That's why I put the fetch about the head. I mean, non-important things like waste, you need to make them important. In contrast with that, you'll see how your negative forces resist it,

and you'll feel the recognition of evil, you will feel that these forces are evil. Why? Because they prevent you from reaching the goal. Your goal is to elevate the quality of the soul above your head. Let's put it this way for the creator to be great in your eyes as the quality of the soul. So again, it's one opposite the other. You're not looking for the recognition of evil, but you're looking for the greatness of the creator in correspondingly it will become revealed to you. Yes, I'm too add a little John, you describe this as a linear sequential process. There is an order to the spiritual process of development that goes through the holidays, a certain spiritual order sequence that the couple is established, and they close that in our holidays, our calendar, ruten branch. There is an order, correct, but it's important to understand that a concept like the recognition of evil,

which you just talked about, and we can explain. There are many levels and layers to it. I discover it. Let's say on degree number two, but on degree number three, there will also be the recognition of evil, much more powerfully, and on degree four, what was called good becomes evil to me because I'm more advanced. For me, it always helped understanding this. You said that you're a new student. You said, although Venus, you've been with us for a while, it's the example of going into a dark room. You go into the room and it looks clean. You light a match and suddenly you see that there are a few big objects in the room, and then you turn on a flashlight, and now with the flashlight you see that the room is a bit dirtier than you thought. And then you turn on a projector light, and now you see many things which before you couldn't see.

It's the same room, but you are changing. And what previously did not appear as evil to you now does appear as evil to you because that scale becomes, it gains quality, and so the recognition of evil, as Balasuram writes, that for the wicked it's as a hair is bred, and for the righteous it appears like a tall mountain. Why? Because the person is on such a degree, for each little action, but in which he doesn't justify the creator, doesn't mistook contentment upon him, to him it seems like a huge mountain, but that's because of the high degrees. So although the process is sequential, it's not linear, it's not that we went through something one time, and so there's no continuation there, it goes somewhere else. No, the blows deepen widen, and it all grows in height as well and so on. Great, so we have some text questions, let's relate. Let's look at those agnash from Women of Vienna, he's asking.

When we go through the process of the correction of the Vaseline support, what is our part of the work, and what does the creator do so that a vessel of Bistavol may form? La Vira Kisaron, Zavodashalan. Don't think we need to bring is the lack. That's our work, we need to bring the creator desire to prove to him that we really want the quality of the stall because otherwise, anyone would just come in, we read this article where it says the creator is the quality of the stall, why not? I went one too. But what you need to do is to really ask from the bottom of your heart for the quality of the stall, you need to understand what it is, feel, experience the opposite states of reception, a state that we don't really understand what that is, etc.

And then, after you search a lot, you reach this request that you want quality of the stall, then the creator early answers. You need to bring the principle to show the creators a desire that we really want it. Afterwards, of course, he's the one who does it, he's the one who gives us everything. A question from Novosibirsk. I'm a person who's asking, but the question is, is it possible to, in some way, classify what we feel to be unimportant as the work of the ten, participating in meetings, taking on duties, having the friends throughout the day, how to classify these things. You're talking about things we've been discussing and you're asking how to implement it in our lives, in the work in the ten.

You're correct, in our lives, we have many things which I know, air quotes, I know they need to be important, but they're not really important. When the friend is talking, do I see him as the greatest of the generation, do I see only his virtues and none of his faults, in the actions that we perform? Do I truly see them as being of utmost importance? Do I have that sense of importance always? Each one can ask himself, and so Sukkot is a very practical holiday. It doesn't speak of something that's somewhere far away from us. It's about taking the quality of bistel or the greatness of the creator, which by nature is not important to us, and to elevate it, to give it importance, to build up its importance, and this series of holidays that we're talking about now.

Actions, it deals mostly with elevating the importance of the King. Who is the King? There is no King, now I've said in the lesson today that I also used to imagine that there's some parents up there with a big white beard and we understand, but we're no longer in such a reality. The King is the quality of bistel. I need to crown him, crown the quality of bistel as King over me. Is it important to me? Maybe right now it is, so I'm in the lesson, I'm hearing about it. There are many friends here that I incorporate with, and their desires affect me, and with that collective intention also sleeps into me. It's important, but in an hour, an hour and a half, I'll be alone, not in a lesson, but with my family at work, somewhere else. Am I now preoccupied with the quality of bistel? Is it the only thing important to me at that time? You understand?

So that is what it's about. That's struggle, these attempts, these efforts, to raise the quality of importance, the quality of bistel, in importance each time. That's what it's about, and I have no chance without an environment. That's much we understand. It's only thanks to love and the texts and the lessons that it becomes important to me, friends. Without that, I can't hold on to that constantly, and so we need all these processes that you're talking about. Why do we take roles in duties in dissemination? Theoretically, we could replace everyone here with, oh, we could replace everyone, but I need this role. I need it, because I need to do a certain thing at a certain time, and it forces me to think about what I'm doing, about the creator, about the ten, and so on, the group. And so we make orders for ourselves, the meetings of the ten, the lessons, it's so important to keep, to maintain these orders, to protect us against the evil thoughts that will come by nature.

If I'm not with the ten, with love, with texts, it's certain that my mind will wander elsewhere. Why? Because I'm being influenced by different environments, and it will influence me for certain, whether I want to or not. It doesn't matter if it's at work, the market, the streets, wherever. Michele, Michele is asking us, our dear friend from Bulgaria. The Etzoglulav, Hadas and Alavvah, the four kinds, do they relate to Sukod, and how do they relate to the spiritual work? The Kashurles Sukod. Right. It's related to Sukod, of course. We're talking about symbols that symbolize the four levels of desire, the four species.

That could be four levels, four states. For spiritual development, we need all of these states. The matter about these symbols is that some of them have both taste and smell. Some have no taste and no smell. Some have taste but no smell. Some have smell but no taste. Of course, in the wisdom of Kabbalah, taste corresponds to the heart and smell corresponds to the intellect. We're not talking about our intellect, of course, but the spiritual intellect. In the wisdom of Kabbalah, we always talk about spiritual states. These four species, it's customary to bind them together, meaning that in the spiritual development, we need all four. So, a person can sometimes go through states where, in the, as if divine mind understands the creator,

but doesn't really feel in the heart, or sometimes feels in the heart, but doesn't understand the mind. In its spiritual work, there's no taste and smell. Sometimes, I need to continue working on autopilot. But we need all of these states. So again, these are as if spiritual things and in our world as a projection of that, there are also different states that we go through below the barrier. Of course, we go through them unconsciously, like many of the things in our world. One person, all together, begins to acknowledge that he starts, that he's developing at the ages of five, six, maybe seven. Before that, the entire development is practically unconscious. We're not aware of these things, something here, below the machsal, the barrier. According to Rudan Branch, when it's things that we do, we don't understand how they work,

but what we hear from our teachers, and especially what Rob explains to us, is that his entire spiritual development is thanks to him disseminating. He started writing books back in 1983. He gave lectures in 1980, 81, after all, and all studying with our bash only for two years. And the haba, shall we stick interest? How is it? How was it? We're simply telling you that it's forbidden to slight these things. You shouldn't slight these things, because who understands what the quality of the stone is? How long will it take me to get there? How long can I hold on to this intention? These are things that in the beginning of man's path are very abstract. Therefore, we exist in this world. And in this world, there's also...

So, a kind of bestowal, so both soon we have the regional congress coming up. And I can take a rule there, if you have the opportunity to invest and bestow upon the friends this way, do it. This is the expression. You can't reach the right intention without doing the deed. You need to remember that there's no entry into the spiritual world, world without this world. It's true that the world is in the heart. But like in our world, if there's no external expression to all of our actions, like I can't sit, someplace, and just say, yeah, I'm making an attempt, I'm thinking about you. But now, if you have the opportunity to do something in this world, you need to do it. And therefore, it's a nation, duties, different things, and this is also why we want for you to meet together.

Because still, in the virtual life, you can acquire knowledge, but to bestow upon each other, these opportunities are very limited. And therefore, we're much in favor of you meeting every time. Yes, so each one should already know what convention he's traveling to. What duties will I have? Do I have any role in the convention? A few days ago, friend talked to me, he said, I really wanted some duty. I wasn't given one, and I told him, don't give up. You have to do something, you have to get something. It doesn't really matter even what a person does. Each person has a different talent. That's fine, but I need a duty. I need it. It's not that the convention needs me. I want to be involved. I want to take part in the preparation. I don't want to wait a month. I want to go into the process of preparation.

So I ask to maybe present a lesson or some gathering or something organizational, welcoming party maybe to organize something, arrange something, doesn't matter. The main thing is I can express my desire for the goal. So I need to know where I'm going to win, how, what I'm going to be doing there. After I have that foundation, as Michele said, now let's talk about what intention I do it with, and why I want to do it, and what I hope for there to happen. Tomorrow morning, we'll be presenting the second part of the lesson. Why do I need to incorporate with others? What do I want to receive from them? Each one should ask himself, I'm coming to a convention. Great, we sing, we're happy, lovely. Wonderful. What do I want to get from this, or what do I want to give? Did I come to take, to give? Maybe both.

These are things that a person, it's very important for a person to ask himself. It's not just that there's a convention, let's go, let's go. That's fine, that's great, and there are many different conventions, not necessarily in the wisdom of God, but we can do that as well. We need to be very clear for ourselves, we need to be clear what my goal is, what is my goal? I came here because I know there's people, there are people here with a desire, great lacks, and my lack is small. So first of all, I want to add my lack also. I hope it's not harmful, right? At least I hope to add it to the great lack in a beneficial way. My little lack added to the great collective lack. I contributed already. I hope not to disturb everyone, maybe to add to them through prayer, through request, maybe through personal example, and so on. I need to think about what I'm coming to give, not what I'm coming to take. God bless, we're always concerned with what we take. That's fine, but also here, what am I going to give?

These are very important things, otherwise it all remains theory. We're talking about some things in the upper spiritual worlds, but where am I? These things have to be put into practice, the connection between us, the work between us. It's very important. Let's watch a clip, you asked about the four kinds, so let's watch a clip or about explains that, clip number one, and then we'll continue. We can more or less understand why are there four species? Because we have the Ud-K, five K, the four letters of the name of the Lord, the four stages in the expansion of the light from above, to us, to man. And therefore, Canada, that they're the four species. All of nature is divided into the root and the four levels beneath it. And that's how it is, everywhere, and everything, all in all, everything is divided into five.

The root and it's four outcomes results, and therefore also on the holiday of Sukkot. Sukkot, where we talk about building, correcting the world, where it already be corrected for it to entirely be in a single mechanism, a single Sukkot covered. We're the single screen that entirely holds the inner light on the inside, in the general soul, that includes all the souls, all the different types of people, why rare, yellow, black, and everyone enter the same vessel under the same, that one's fatch.

And this is how we see our correction in the soul of the demolition, where we go back to that single structure, like it was before creation. But now, already all of us understand and feel, what is our nature and all of us want, and agree with our nature as it will all be in order to bestow, and the creator, he says, I've created the evil inclination, and we elevate this bad to good. And that's how we reach the state of the tabernacle of peace, which is a kind of completion, wholeness, where everyone enters under one fatch, all humanity. This is what the holiday of Sukkot symbolizes,

and therefore this seals all these holidays, and everything ends on the last day after the Sukkot, and it is called the rejoicing of the toa, singhattoa, where the upper light dresses, cliffs, and all the corrected vessels. But in the meantime, we need to nonetheless learn about all the different discernments that we have in these states, and therefore we now have to learn about the four species. Beautiful. What I've explained is the Sukkot peace, peace, shalom from the word shlimut perfection, wholeness. The sakh, the fash roof, takes all these different desires, turning them into one whole.

Very beautiful. It actually completes, perfects reality. Aisha is asking us from Germany. She's asking, why did a basha choose the word waste, that term, that that's what you build the fash roof from? What does it teach us about the spiritual path? So, we talked about this, that the waste of barn and wine are non-important things, and they symbolize the non-important things for our ego, like mutual guarantee, connection, love of others, consideration. These are things that are not important to our ego. Therefore, when we say that,

from the waste of barn and wine, we build fash, that's meaning that it's above the vessel, that the same. There's this kind of like connotation, that we take the non-important things, and we need to make them important, to raise them above our head. So, we want for these things that are not important to the ego, for them to be important for us. I am there you go. No, we do it, we can do it only by coming closer to each other, by the environment that we build. In this environment, you and I, we start talking about it, and we read a bit about it, and we talk a bit about it, and we hear some clips, and this way, bit by bit, we start talking about these non-important things, become important.

And also, of course, with the participation of the creator, with the inner prayer. Because eventually, the ego resists these kinds of things, so we begin to do it artificially, and therefore, we're also in this world, where we have the opportunity to perform different actions. Look, this world is very special. Here, it can perform different actions against the desire, and it's for each other, there's no such thing. Wherever your desire is, that's where you are. Same degree. You have a desire to bestow. You feel the creator. No desire, you don't feel, in our world, as if. We have the illusion of the body, that with the body I can smile, and perform acts of bestowal, anything, even though that's my heart, and intention, and thoughts could be completely malicious. And this is the special state, which allows us to perform artificial actions

from the start. But, to gradually want, that by these actions, we will change our thoughts and our heart truthfully. Thank you. Again, you're asking, from women in the month 67, if in my 10th, the friends aren't enthusiastic about the work. I can't awaken them towards this, to form a connection. What should I do? Should I accept them as they are, and leave room for the creator to act, or should I try to do something? This is, I think, one of the most common questions we get. How to empower a weakened friend? How to strengthen a friend who's moving away? Look, it happens. It happens. We are on a spiritual path,

in which people go through many different states, and in some of those states, they become more distant, and in some they get closer together. That's why we're in an environment. Our job is to build an environment for everyone. It's not always that's what works for me, works for my friends. That's also something important to understand. And so, I need to be, Mechelle and I, when we talk about it, we always say how we need to be artists. I need to develop this artistry to learn exactly what each friend in the 10 likes and especially what he doesn't have. Why? Because I like hugging people, let's say. It's not exactly me, but let's say I like hugging people. So I come and hug everyone. But people don't like me hugging them. It only creates rejection. So what did I gain? I like hugging, so I hug everyone.

But they don't like it. They don't enjoy it. But I'm certain that it helps them. It brings them closer. It doesn't bring them closer to anything. They see me, they move to the other side of the road. So I need to help, I need to think about what helps my friends. Maybe one friend likes being sent something. Or quietly, another thing, another thing a person likes is to be talked with, just discussions. Another one likes song. Another one is, he doesn't like any kind of pressure. Pressure on him, he just shuts off. I need to understand what each one of them likes, like children, like my children, and to try as best I can to influence all of them. So should I give up? No, don't give up. Projects the importance and greatness of the goal through personal example. If the ten is already at the brink of breaking apart,

or you can turn to the social, I don't know exactly you belong to Mark or the North American groups, but turn to someone for help. There are things we can do. But whatever you do, try to do it in a way that the friends like, that benefits them. Dictates asking, do I want the creator, or do I want the feeling of the creator being with me? How can I distinguish between these two desires? Whether I want the creator, or wants the creator, the feeling that the creator is with me. If you can't, sir, I can't. It takes time. Before the person can't discern anything.

And we also heard from our teacher that the feeling is that after the barrier, the feeling is nothing like in any way no comparison to what it was before the Makhsom, before the barrier. We don't have the vessels to imagine, what does it mean to feel the creator, because it's not similar to anything that we have in our world. I even remember that I made shows. On shows, Rob is more open, so he gives more explanations than during the lesson. Because, you know, it's a treat as much as for our public, so he speaks more simply, etc. You can watch science, fiction movies, for example, where they describe aliens, right, or different animals still. It's based on our imagination. It always has a head, hand,

so maybe it has several heads or several hands, but we can't invent anything beyond what we have in our world. To imagine to ourselves what the creator is, this is why Kabbalah said that, it's only out of the precise feeling, precise vessel, and therefore to answer this kind of question, if you can't discern, you can't, and it won't help even if someone will tell you. It's like this or like that. So the solution is simple. What we did not attain is not known by a name or word, so it says, sorry. We're happy to see our friends at Florida getting together for the Yuspizin meal. Happy to see you together, friends. We'll meet soon in North America in the Great Convention. We hope to see you all.

Well, here you've seen an example of a serious group who wants to get together. I'm sure they're feeling that they connect over the Elfood system on Zoom, but they feel the need to be together. I'm sure they feel something different when they're together physically, so they will be with us in the meal, now in the lesson. So happy to see you. Oh, hello there. Hello everyone. Happy to see you, friends. French, please. Thank you very much for this lesson, friends. During the Sukkot holiday, we hear a lot about the importance of the attack, the making an effort. This is what can help us cross the barrier. So the question is,

how can I know what would be the most qualitative kind of effort that will advance us most quickly? Yes, for example, if now I can choose between translating a book or going to the kitchen, and I want to translate the book. So I like it. And I don't really feel like going to the kitchen. Do I still need to go to the kitchen on purpose because it's more difficult and that will be more qualitative? Or it's not early that important? I can't make these kinds of calculations myself. Yes, Michal, what would you like to tell our philosopher? I don't want to go to the kitchen. I want to translate because it makes me feel better,

this, that the right thing to do is to ask your boss. That's right, I think, to ask whoever is your manager at work, ask the ten, probably says the best thing is to ask someone. And you're still young, I'll add one more thing. First of all, you're doing many things, and that's great, that's important. That must never be disregarded. Anything a person does in the kitchen, translation, in whatever way a person contributes to the society, to the group, to the friends, the ten, it's always important to bless the thing, anything. You're here with us, you see, we have people sharpening pencils, simple operation, right? Not so complicated.

Just take a pencil and sharpen it. Even like in the age of AI, it seems very obsolete, but old-timey. But we have friends here, who sit for three, four hours sharpening, a few hundred pencils. For me, this is a sublime. A person is sitting. It's important for him that the friends will have pencils with which to write down the words of five. And the Kabbalists, it's special. And think about how he's incorporated with so many friends through that very simple action. Someone else cleans the kitchen, the toilet, works in the kitchen, as you said. Many friends here will never give a kitchen duty, by the way. And we're going to have a regional conference now. So everyone will get a chance to work in the kitchen. I guess I suppose in most places you don't order pre-prepared food. But rather, you work in the kitchen together.

And it's not the matter of kitchen work. It's about working alongside the friends, incorporating together. There was a lesson a couple of days ago, and Love said, if we don't have enough work to do together, then we'll break one of the machines, so that we'll have some manual work to do together to fix it. Because through that, we can connect together. It's not about the outcome. It's about the shared exertion together. Now, there's a question. What is most worthwhile? It's a question a person can never really tell. How can you best contribute? If you have some special skills, if you're a very talented video editor, or if I can translate as you're doing right now, things like that. It's not something anyone can do. It requires a certain skill set. Now, if the system needs those skills,

then it's better to do that. And not to say, no, I don't want to translate. I'll go into the kitchen, because it seems to me that I enjoyed less. And so I worked harder and so on. But you needed a translate in translation. So what did you do by this? Gradually, a person finds the place in which he can contribute the most effective manner. I heard from a few years ago, very important. He said that it's good to engage in different things. Even if I'm a very talented translator, it's good for me to go and clean a few times, and also work in the kitchen here and there. Not to focus exclusively on my expertise. Are people or experts in something, the technology or whatever they develop this expertise? It's good for them to engage in that, but not only. It's still good to be involved in many different ways with the friends.

And in that way, I built a stronger connection, more connections with the friends. It's important. I'm going to translate to form a room. Come on, Lauren. Hello, dear teachers and friends. Our question is if we build the sugar as our food, as a whole. And the fact that we build it as our mass, that represents our intention to become a food. How can we, from the work of connection in our scene, invite the seven guests. Thank you. Hello, dear friends. If we build the sugar as our common cleave, with the roof represented in the mosaic. Can Latissia be used to build the mosaic? Latissia, you're a professional translator already.

I think you can join the translation team. You see that you have mastery over several languages. Great opportunity. How can we invite the mosaic today? How to invite the mosaic today? I'll try to be practical. Maybe it seems like something very abstract. Let's not go into the different personas from the Torah or forces that I need to draw or the spirit world that exists in me or whatever. Because I don't feel neither these characters. I don't know who or what are Abraham, Isaac, or Jacob. Have no connection to them, etc. I don't feel the seventh spirit in me that now comes some kind of force and corrects them. Therefore, everything is much simpler. We live in our world.

Right now we're advancing without any spiritual awareness. But we have the ten, we have the group, we have emotions, we have intellect, we have congresses, we have lessons, we have a million things. We have a lot of people that are having lessons that we're having now. You see on the screen of view, I mean, two people, that's it, along with that. There are about 100 people right now doing different roles in order for this lesson to be to work. Translators, broadcasts, slides, whatnot, subtitles, and other regional ones have so many roles of people that come, sit down, all of a sudden there's foods, something on the screen, gathering of friends. You know how much it takes, dozens, even hundreds of people to prepare a gathering of friends for it to work.

Therefore, all of these things, if you want to cross from being a student to becoming a partner and this is the building of the screen, it's an anti-egoistic force, it doesn't fall upon us from the heaven. Aside of studying the wisdom of Kabbalah and connecting in the ten, they're serving the group, there's dissemination, these things are very important. I can't say what's more or less important, but on the first of October, we have a gathering, we're inviting everyone, especially friends, physically here from Israel. We have friends in Israel that actually intended for them to come physically here, but it's broadcasted to the world where we will discuss these things. I don't know, but in recent years,

maybe Rob talked a bit less about dissemination. Maybe many people think that, yeah, probably it's either you forgot or something happened. But since we see lessons now, and the more lessons we'll see after 2003, 2004, etc., every lesson, he talks about dissemination. He talks about it very openly that his entire spiritual attainment is due to the dissemination that he did, writing books, giving lectures. So this unity day will be around roles, dissemination. There are many challenges in this realm when inviting everyone, and not simply to listen to updates, but we want to hear you from the ten hours of events, there are five hours of discussions, different questions.

And by the way, we made it so that it'll be divided into many groups, depending on what is a person inclined toward their people that are concerned with disseminating the wisdom to the younger generation. There are people that are concerned about what happens, what's happening with my group, the HIFA group, the New York group. So this what we'll discuss about. There are people that they think about broader dissemination, and they have different ideas in this direction. So they will talk about that. And so we're really asking everyone to join, come, and take part. And this is the only way that you can later really feel, because when we say, I don't feel anything, I've been studying for so and so many years. So Robs and so was always, you have to invest, if you know how to invest in intention and thought, great.

If not, at least, that indeed, and that will affect your intentions. Personally, I don't think that... This, the first day we're inviting everyone in Israel, but all of our friends across the globe are welcome to connect. There will be full broadcast of the entire event. And it'll be very interesting, because we're going to discuss many new processes occurring here. It's not a lesson, there won't be lessons, but it's an assembly where we will discuss our collective future. So if you can, of course, this is a work day, clear. But if you can, during the day, connect for a bit of it here and there, there will be translation as well, and you can participate virtually, and you can, so this will be this coming Thursday from 9 a.m. Israel time, through to the evening, through Shpizim Meal, and regarding that, of course, in half an hour.

For now, we will be holding the meal together with songs and content, all the friends. It's an opportunity to connect, so everyone is welcome to join. Perhaps in conclusion, we'll be some excerpt. Let's all try to connect to the Zohar, a very special excerpt from the book of Zohar, talking about the Shpizim. This will be item 19. Let's hear what they tell us. After all, after all, the talking, the only thing that can really influence us is the surrounding light, the reforming light, so we need to build a lack for that. In the book of Zohar, the portion of the Vyahe, Jacob lived. All of those four species are the guests. They are the seven Spirot, Chessend, Guwah, Diferet, Netza, Chond, Yessod, Malchut.

They mean that the holy people invited on this day, as we pray during the days of Sukkots prior to the meal, and say, come you high guests, that they must be found, because he invited them, and one prays the prayer to the king in them, and he attains them through the four species, which imply these Spirot. So, in half an hour, we're going to have a meal, we're going to connect together, we'll try to invite, to summon that special force, the reforming light, called the Ushbizin, to build a Sukka around all of our friends,

all over the world, a Sukkow peace that connects us all together, with mutual wholeness and perfection. And let's end with the song. Music A broken world no longer stands, we need the glue to make a mess, and bring us back to love at harmony. Collecting sparks to reignite, the flame of love that burns inside, together build a new reality. A feeling last we've cleaned, it's also weeping, feeling gross on ice, connecting parts inside, hiding in your seal, a big hope we bring every morning, to bring every morning. A bigger world is calling you,

to join in and to be in here, for us to join peace and unity. A nature holds us back, that's true, only light can fix it, yeah, overcoming in the group of friends. The feeling lasts between, there's lots of weeping, feeling gross on ice, connecting parts inside, hiding in your seal, a big hope we bring every morning. To bring every morning, to bring every morning, the feeling lasts between, thoughts of weeping, feeling gross on ice, it gross on ice, hiding in your seal, a big hope we bring every morning, to bring every morning. Oh, yeah, not a name,

not a name, not a name, feeling that lies between us, and gross on ice.

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