TU B'AV ENGLISH
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Welcome to the 15th day of the month of Leo
We are here in the land of Galilee in northern Israel
I hope you can see what's going on here
This magical beauty
And we've decided to travel to Galilee
The place of Kabbalists, Shimon Bar Yochai,
Rabbi Isaac Luria, Rav Berg and many others
that lived and revealed their insights
To the coming generations and obviously for us
And today is a very special occasion
We are exactly in the fifteenth day
of the month of Leo
Tu B'Av, The day of love
And those who have been longer in the centre
Know that the first 10 days of the month of Leo
Is considered to be negative
A time of judgement, a time of a lot of negativity
There is potential, obviously the light is great but too,
due to the actions of people in the past
This negative energy was established
But we were talking about the full moon
Of the month of Leo the energy is completely different
And we know for instance on this day
A lot of people travel to the burial site of
of Rabbi Yonathan Uziel
You are going to see pictures from there as well
Rabbi Yonathan Uziel lived 2000 years ago
He was a student of great Hillel the Sage
That was the greatest of his students
It says that he was so connected, with such affinity
With the life force of the Creator
That when he was studying, if there were birds
Flying above him they would burn, they were cooked
Like a grilled chicken falling from the sky
But what it really meant was
That his light was tremendous
He promised to the people who were coming
On this day of love to his burial site
That they will find their soulmate
They will find their love
Now when we talk about love what is love really
Why is this day connecting us with love
What is so special about the full moon
There are a lot of questions to ask
But the main answer
as is usual in Kabbalah is very simple
We know that every month, every day, every year
carries certain very specific gifts
The month of Leo,
the month that is influenced by the sun
As the Zohar is explaining
The Sun, it represents the energy of "Zeir Anpin"
The six Sephirot, the six spiritual channels
For the life force of the Creator
The light of mercy that flows
Towards our world, the world of action
Is bringing this energy of love
Now there are two things
that today I would like to share with you
First of all what we can gain on this day
And second we will read something from
Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai about love
And this may be the gift
And the connection that we would like to carry with us
Through the year because
The connection of today will provide us
With very special gifts that will be able to help us
All this year until the next 15th of Leo
The first idea, it says in the Talmud actually
About this kind of weird custom when
Un married ladies, girls in the time of the second temple
Used to go and dance in their white clothes
In the vineyards of Jerusalem, in Galilee
And it was kind of a matching situation as well
Well young men used to come
And pick themselves one of these girls that they would like
But Kabbalists explain to us that this is just a code
Because what these white clothes are all about
It says the reason why they were wearing white clothes
because there would be poor or rich girls
From different social classes
They would all be the same,
all coming from the same place
These white clothes
But the lesson is much deeper
This very nice idea, a very beautiful idea
Of human dignity and sharing
The deep secret is, that we know
That the white clothes are the secret of our souls
That we can connect with on this particular day
We know that we are all going
through the process of correction
of work on ourselves of improving ourselves
And we know that we need special support
From time to time
When we can connect not something new really
But if you study Ten Luminous Emanations in the centre
you will know that actually we are coming originally
before the “Tzimtzum” (the Big Bang)
From the perfect place
When the light and the vessel were together
And as well the Time
in which all this world will be corrected
is already in existence
It's called the righteous within us
This state, this position is actually already there
Its actually waiting for us and the only thing
we should do is simply eliminate the space
And get there through our proactive work
But according to the Kabbalists we don't need
To wait until this moment will come
Basically at any moment we can tap into this state
Specifically when we're standing in front of people
When we need to share with people
When we need to support people
When we need to give love to people
Sometimes we feel empty we feel depressed
We feel down in Energy
I hope you know what were talking about
It happens to me many times
So what do we do?
My teacher, Rav Berg also Karen Berg
Many years, many times used to tell us
You know guys when you go from door to door
Looking for people interested in Kabbalah
That if you're in your lowest place
You're standing in front of one human being
And we have to share with this person
Connect to your corrected itself
Connect to these white clothes
Each and every one of us have without connection
Where we are in the process of correction
And it will be there
If the purpose is sharing
If the purpose is love
If the purpose is to give support and help to another person
We will definitely be able
To connect to this potential and this is
The secret of this day, this day
The 15th of Av is also called little Yom Kippur
Exactly like on the 10th day of the month of Libra
We are connecting to this tremendous light of Chochma
That cleanses all our negativity
On the month of Leo, on the full moon
Actually having the same energy just on one condition
We need to connect and express two things
To connect our potential, to this perfectly
Even if I don't understand what it means really
Even if I don't imagine that I can fix
What I consider is unfixable
This is one and in order to accomplish it
I will need to prepare to love within me
I'd like to share with you
two small portions from the Zohar
Something that Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai is sharing with us
This is in the prologue
Of the first volume, where it is now in English
It is actually verse 200 and 201
I will read in Aramaic first
To make a connection
Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai obviously would
like this amazing place
This Energy that we can feel here
Just to remind everybody it says
That in Galilee, the energy centre of air
Just by walking, breathing
Automically its elevating your consciousness
And your spiritual level
And so I'm reading versus 200 and 201
And obviously you're more than welcome to take the Zohar
And read the entire section
[..... in Aramaic ...]
This says why we have learned
That the love of the Holy One Blessed Be He
Is explained in two ways
He who loves him because he's rich
His length of life, his children around him
He rules his enemies
And he succeeds in his ventures
Because of all these, he loves him
But if it were the opposite
If the holy one, blessed be He
Were to turn the wheel of Fortune
Against him and replace this with harsh judgement
He would then hate him and not love him at all
Therefore this love is not a love that has a base
201 [....Aramaic....]
The love is called, how is the love
That is included from both sides
From both Judgement, Chesed and success
He Should love the Holy One, Blessed Be He
as we have learned,
even if he were to take away our soul
This is the perfect love that includes both aspects
Chesed and Judgement
The Mercy and the Judgement
And because of this the light of
the acts of the Creation
Was revealed and then hidden
When it was hidden, harsh judgement came forth
And both aspects, Kindness and Judgement
Became united and reached perfection
This is proper love
Obviously, the Zohar continues
But what is our point, what is so special about today
Love is not just when it's comfortable
It's great that we're successful, it's amazing
There is no contradiction, but we have to remember
That life sometimes presents us with challenges
With uncomforabilities, with sometimes even abuse
suffering or pain but this is what it's all about
It's about perseverance on our spiritual work and path
Because even if it's dark and difficult
The light force is there
And this is why we have to waken our love
It does matter what happens
I wish you an amazing day of love
Chag Sameach everybody
All the best