Morning Lesson August 23, 2023

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

Part 3:

Baal HaSulam. The Writings of the Last Generation (start with: I know there are ways).

Reading Article (00:30) “For example one does not move his hand..”

1. S. (04:50) What is the work above the will to receive or despite the will to receive that we need to do regarding the public?

R. It's not clear to me. The whole work we need to do in order to come to pure bestowal from the individual to everyone else is the work that we should do; that's called the work of correction.

S. What is the difference between our work which is above reason?

R. Oh, you're talking as if we are in the work above reason?

S. Yes, when we will get to that level of work, as opposed to the work that we will, that the public will need to do?

R. The public won't have to reach the work of above reason because they'll understand that for them it's more beneficial to work in mutual bestowal within reason, what they are capable of doing.

S. For that they will have to have love for others?

R. No, simply out of lack of choice as we read in The Last Generation, in general, that there will be such disasters and such pains felt throughout the generation that they will want to do everything just to escape these torments.

S. So that'll be some sort of corporeal kind of cooperation in order to receive?

R. Yes, we will see that.

S. So how will they discover Godliness?

R. They will discover Godliness because they will not want to be part of in order to receive.

S. But they are in bestowing in order to receive?

R. They will be in bestowing in order to receive, to prevent catastrophes, to not suffer.

S. We say that bestowal should not be in order to escape suffering but to greatness of bestowal, which is different work. So I'm trying to figure out: What's the difference between what the broad public will need to reach and what we will need to reach?

R. The broad public will have to reach all these things in order not to suffer, and we want to come to that in order to realize the purpose of creation.

S. So where does the Creator step into the work of the public?

R. He is in the work of the public, He has to hold it, the general force of bestowal, He has to hold it. Things that we learn in several places already about the last generation; it's still on the path.

2. S. (08:41) What you're saying is that in the future, the public, the sorrow that people feel will be attributed to the quality of reception, meaning they will want bestowal so as to escape the sense of suffering, of sorrow. So there's going to be a connection between reception and suffering, and bestowal and good, and that's exactly the gap between us and the public today. There's enough suffering but no one relates it to being in reception and not in bestowal. So how will that transition take place?

R. Our whole work is to shine the Upper Light in the qualities of bestowal and the opposite is in the qualities of reception.

S. Meaning it will happen with our help?

R. Yes.

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