Morning Lesson August 11, 2021, Transcription
Baal HaSulam - The Arvut (Mutual Guarantee), #24
1.R. (0:16) I’ll remind you again that this article of Arvut, Mutual Guarantee is a very important article. Baal HaSulam wrote it as a continuation of the giving of the Torah, Matan Torah. The revelation of the method is the giving of the Torah and the revelation of the method is the giving of the Torah. The revelation of the method. The attainment of the Creator of the revelation of the Creator to the created beings. The method on the side of the created beings that is already the article of the mutual guarantee. That the Creator broke the will to receive that he created and broke it into parts and he gave all of these parts the ability to feel being drawn to a certain goal. This goal is clarified in everyone in a manner that people yearn for money, respect, pleasure, all sorts of things pleasures that gradually developed from generations to generations, through all sorts of reincarnations they reach a state where they are forced to think about these higher goals, scrutinies made of themselves that they will to receive operates in them and scrutinizes itself because of the force of the light that operates in them. Through this we reach the state that we have reached from a few thousand years that we have been privileged with these as human beings desiring money, honor, sex, and knowledge. They began to desire a higher degree, for spirituality, thus they came to us and reached us and the wisdom of Kabbalah for connection and in this connection, we reach the other fulfillment. Here we are with you and the article of Arvut, we want to know the kind of connection that needs to be between us where we will reveal the upper world, the upper light for that purpose of life and existence, which is all before us. We are all together in this unique time where we can realize it. We hope we can find within us enough mind and sensation to place this before us as a necessary thing from all of the other obstacles that the will to receive purposefully does so that we can rise to the true goal.
Item 24 (03:32)” Because of the above necessity the Torah was given specifically….”
2. R. (05:10) We have already spoken a lot with you simply from within the total of the desire to receive that exists in reality there is a desire to receive that belongs to the upper layer that is also greater in intensity and more egoistic. On the other hand, besides the corporeal ego also it has a tendency for more egoistic tendencies, it is called Israel, the part in this world that desires to attain everything in this world and it also has a part above this world that wants to attain what is there in the eternal world. From within this, that he desires for both the worlds then he finds himself that he can progress in this and in that and this is what we see, that this group of people to begin with, is comprised of all of the nations that came out of Babylon and from there were 70 nations of the world and from all of these nations emerged people, that what Abraham said as a Babylonian priest, a type of spiritual person, these people emerged that wanted to go after him. They made themselves the unique group called Yashar Kel, Israel, direct to the Creator and this is how it is to this day. This group that divided and disconnected from the rest of humanity along the way lost many of its friends and today it exists in such a manner where they have nothing, they don't remember their history. They don't remember their source or anything. Even today you can say it is not important, it's not for nothing that it is revealed this way as the world today entirely is drawn to correction from lack of choice and are drawn to the same goal, we have many people drawn to the same goal in the world as we see from our example and there are even others who are progressing and soon more will connect to us. In total the entire world just like wasn't possible in Babylon, now we are in the general end of corrections that the nature will manipulate us in such a manner that we won't have a choice and we will need to reach a state that everyone connects and everyone begins to build of us a mutual vessel for the revelation of the Creator for everyone you. In this general vessel there is no greater or smaller, it is a round vessel and there is no difference between the nations, there's no difference in anything. In total everyone is Incorporated in this like spiritual integration between everyone, that the Creator can be revealed as one force in everyone.
3. S. (10:06) Baal HaSulam writes in the rule of your friend as yourself this is where you can find love for the whole world, why on the one hand in this hard work?
R. You can't get rid of the desire to receive that you have now and now you want the pleasure in the spiritual connection, the spiritual pleasure, you won't be able to get out of this to get close to the Creator it will turn into a shell. If now it will be revealed to you pleasures that are greater than the framework of this world, there is no choice. You must first of all overcome what is here, that's your entire existence in this world is only in order to rise above it and onwards. If you place the spiritual work higher than this world in your desires, meaning giving to the friends and to the Creator outside of you, that each will be more important and greater in action, actively, more than you draw to your body and your life then you will begin to rise and spiritual degrees and not otherwise.
4. S. (12:02) Why do the corporeal people of Israel, why must they keep the Arvut and they're punished if they don't, even though they're not aware of their duty? While we, spiritual people of Israel learn about it for years only to reach a portion of this Arvut?
R. It all depends on the souls, higher souls, lesser ones, do you understand? That it is not a matter of who doesn't really belong or who does belong. We had many Kabbalists who didn't come from this group called Israel. It is all dependent upon man's desire and also, we see it in the Torah that it is written, where did the House of David come, the King of Israel. He came from a nation a completely different nation. Read what is written in the Torah about him and then also all sorts of others and in general we have at the time of the first and second temple, that they were here on the land of Israel, the nation of Israel where they used to come many people to learn. The ancient Greeks wrote about what they learned from the prophets in Israel. We have their writings. You can enter the archive and see it.
S. Rabbi Akiva, Onkelos.
R. Rabbi Akiva who was the foundation of the Torah also was not from Israel, he came from Babylon and Onkelos we have his commentary of the entire Torah which was found like that. He also wasn't from this group called Israel. Many people to begin with this group was composed of and received into it many people from all sorts of directions. Only after the destruction when they ran away from the land of Israel, they needed to isolate themselves as much as possible to conceal themselves that others won't come and beat them and this is how it is. There was never a problem with accepting people into this method, into the wisdom of Kabbalah. Kabbalists never oppose that. You need to learn all of these things and this happened over thousands of years of history, it's not so simple as there's a lot of spirituality and corporeality involved here is very complex, we will speak about it and gradually you will be able to understand and feel it.
S. The corporeal people of Israel don't know what they're supposed to do and they are punished for it?
R. Yes.
S. For us to feel this responsibility for the whole world is a high degree.
R. We don't talk about this like that, today the corporeal nation of Israel needs to be an example for all the nations and draw them to Israel. This is a large desire to receive in them and they are very stubborn, it is written about them at the heart of and it would be very hard to move them towards the end of correction. We will do this in a form like it always was, it is called who is to the Creator to me, meaning whoever has the tendency, who yearns for the Creator will come and whoever doesn't will come later. I don't think that there are many Israelis today in every place in the world who will come to the wisdom of Kabbalah as it is not the calling of the time. Specifically, by all sorts of people from the nations of the world, they will feel that this is the opportunity to understand the purpose of creation and they will come. Israelis with their large egoistic desire to receive will only come at the end, it will be hard. At the end will come the religious Jews that is how the correction goes.
5. S. (18:59) You said in this time there's no difference between the nations and everyone is integrated so how can we explain an excerpt 24. What is written that because of the above necessities the Torah was given specifically to the Israeli nations as the descendants of Abraham. Isaac and Jacob and it's inconceivable that any stranger could take part?
R. You explained this in a spiritual manner, what does this have to do with corporeality Abraham Isaac and Jacob are 3 lines that whoever feels himself drawn to this is drawn. A person doesn't even know what he is being drawn towards just that he does, he has something in his life that hypnotizes him explaining many things in his life and we will talk about this with the Jews throughout the world. They don't want to hear about it so much because their corporeal desire to receive is the opposite, it stops them and burdens them.
S. What does it mean that he says that no foreign will take part in the act?
R. Just like it was in the days of Abraham, whoever doesn't feel this tendency to the purpose of creation and doesn't have this and doesn't get close to it.
S. The people of Israel if we take the percentage there's more people than compared to humanity or has nothing to do with the region?
R. I don't know, it's not important to me. I don't measure it. Whoever wants to come to the revelation of the Creator can come and learn the method how to reveal the Creator.
S. Is there no place for Jews?
R. Of course there is a Jew called anyone who has a desire for unity with the Creator beside the point in the heart to drive him closer to the Creator?
S. Is it still the Jewish people in Israel in this area?
R. Torah does not pass by inheritance, maybe you have such a thing in the organization where you were.
S. There is no connection at all?
R. No. Specifically in our times when everybody already needs to come and get into motion to reach the goal and in the goal that everyone connects. All will know me from the smallest to the greatest and my house shall be called a house of prayer to all the nations. That is, don't confuse this anymore.
6. S. (22:28) Why does the Creator need all of these things called Israel he can awaken everything?
R. There must be a group of pioneers, a group that goes forward and bursts through, leading the path drawing the others to them and to the purpose of creation and they are called Israel, Yashar Kel, direct to the Creator.
S. Why does the system need this part by which the Creator work directly on the vessel?
R. The light operates as such through the vessel he must have representation, it is all through angels and profits as it is written, through something.
S. Why is it this way?
R. Because the will to receive when it is broken, it is round and now it is broken and shattered and the incorporation of one in the other and from the shattering it needs some force that draws them on. The force must be tied to the Creator and to the created beings, the force that connects them and the Creator says you shall be for me as the connectors between Israel and the rest of the nations.
S. The correction doesn't have to happen first in the corporeal Israeli nation?
R. I don't think so, I think today we have reached as Baal HaSulam writes, that we are in the last generation and the last generation is that everyone is drawn and as much as they are they can enter the method of the revelation of the Creator to the created beings.
S. What has changed?
R. This is the time of the last generation, the time that the Creator is revealed to everyone and draws everyone.
S. So who will follow Bnei Baruch, the whole world?
R. Not after us, those who are drawn to the Creator make a group of themselves called Israel, direct to the Creator, Yashar Kel, they make of themselves the same passage and transition between the Creator and the rest of humanity they cannot of themselves, they can only be as Baal HaSulam writes to be connected to Israel like a buffer, something that organizes them and is drawn to them.
S. After this internal group of Israel, who is the next circle after it?
R. More and more people who join from all over the world.
S. From all over the world?
R. From all over the world, everyone, in general this is called the end of corruption that the upper light operates on the entire broken vessel and then in the entire broken vessel according to the influence of the light that each and every part of the broken desires, that these parts will begin to rise and descend, each one according to the shattering in them and accordingly they advance.
7. S. (26:29) In the end of the first verse that talks about the sparks of purity what is this?
R. The sparks are called what is in the desire to receive, some part of the upper light that was in him in the corrected state and this spark draws the broken desire to receive to correction.
8. S. (27:06) According to what measure and quality is the spiritual group of Israel chosen?
R. Only according to the desire of the intention to bestow a connection to the revelation of the Creator to bring him contentment. It was like this then and it is like this now. That is clear, if you look today at the generality of the world you need to choose that Yashar Kel, direct to the Creator is only those who truly receive the method of correction and the connection between them, through this the connection with the Creator as there is no other discernment. This is how it was. nothing has changed seemingly, just beforehand it was closed in a small group and today it is already the general end of correction. It is written about this in so many places, there is nothing new here.
9. S. (28:22) What is the importance of the corporeal land of Israel, for the spiritual people of Israel?
R. The land of Israel is called desire, that is directed to the Creator and that is what is important for the spiritual nation of Israel, the spiritual land of Israel. That is, it. Any more than this, I don't want to say because I don't want to say more.
10. S. (29:08) There is a quote from Yohan, Dutch philosopher from the fifteenth century, he says my teacher, the father of philosophy, did not receive his teaching from the Greeks but from the Jews, he was the first to translate the word Kabbalah. Unknown to his contemporaries the Greek word philosophy.
R. Yes, there are lots of things like this, besides a lot of Greek philosophers learned by different prophets and Israel that were back then in the time of the first and second temple, many of them see, it is written.
Item 25 (30:07) “Now there remains to complete what we have said….”
11. R. (31:44) We have a question here from Baal HaSulam although bear in mind these measures are evident to every educator.
Item 26 (32:04) “Bear in mind that these matters are evident….”
12. R. (33:58) We are lacking conditions to receive Torah.
Reader continues: (34:03) “but here in these two verses we seem to find neither….”
13. R. (37:25) We read here all sorts of things that we don't really have any matter in them and we don't understand what is so difficult here and this entire part here I can just leave and understand that there are many things that are not understood even for us. For the great ones there were questions and they weren't all in one agreement as Baal HaSulam explains to us.
Item 27 (38:09) “However, by all that we have explained from the beginning of….”
14. R. (39:44) We need to reach a state where although there are priests everyone needs to be like them to connect to the Creator, priests meaning teachers of the nation's that they needed to be teaching everyone how to reach as it is written a nation of priests, that everyone would be like that.
Reader continues: (40:15) “no person should have any other engagement in it….”
15. R. (40:29) How to reach this that everyone cares for everyone, that everyone will have everything that they want oh, that is what the priests teach a person to reach such a degree.
Reader continues: (40:48) “So that no person will need to have any worry about him….”
16. R. (42:29) The entire Torah was given to correct man and his ego, to bring him to identification with everyone and the Creator.
Reader continues: (42:46) “Which is the purpose of creation and that reward is expressed….”
17. S. (45:03) In the excerpt he mentions a few times that the priests have no property, no lot, and he also mentioned about the sacrifice, what does this mean?
R. The sacrifice is from the word 'close' in Hebrew Karov, it is the same root, it means come in closer to the Creator and by this that you sacrifice more of your will to receive and more and more, that you cut from itself to the others this is called that you are sacrificing on the altar.
S. The fact that they didn't have a 'lot’ means?
R. A person who is called a priest to a degree that he doesn't feel that he has something at all in this world. That he disconnects, it is a spiritual degree that he has reached such that he has nothing in this world, he is not connected to this world and this is called that he is forbidden or that he doesn't have any property in this world.
S. What is this expression, this word that has four interpretations?
R. Baal HaSulam gives it an importance because he wants to manipulate us to a state that all of the Torah talks only about 'love your neighbor as yourself ' and of course all of the religious people don't agree with this, maybe some of them but as they truly don't carry out or Implement these things, it's not that there goes in line, it is not what they learn. It is not what they teach each other the same in all religions, sometimes they speak about it but to practically and actively love each other as we see it has never happened because no method, no religion has a method of how to correct the ego and make of it instead of it and egoistic desire to receive to make an altruistic one, instead of hate to bring love. The contrary, we see just how much to this day the entire world is in conflict and the foundation of this conflict is usually religion.
S. We choose for ourselves the interpretation which is love your friend as yourself?
R. That is what he wants to prove here because that is what is written in the Torah and the Torah only intends this. This is what Rabbi Akiva meant in ‘” love your neighbor as yourself” as the great rule. Only by the love of others do we reach the love of the Creator.
18. S. (49:04) Baal HaSulam in this article puts our attention to the fact that there is no deficiency in the friend's desire.
R. I'm not certain what he means here as I don't remember those precise words, but that we are obligated to reach love of others and we need to make effort to reach a state that I don't make any criticism of the other, rather I make an effort to fill the desire of the other and this I give an example to the other and we connect. This is called “love will cover all transgressions.”
19. S. (50:29) The end of Item 24, he writes, then they will understand the scale of merit and the side of sin will be eradicated from the earth. What does this mean?
R. There shouldn't be management of the entire desire to receive by those, by punishment because the will to receive will be corrected and everyone will find themselves in the form of a circle and only in such a manner will they have a connection with the Creator. The Creator will be revealed as a king in all the land, that he manages the entire desire to receive, the Creator will be one and his name one meaning all will reveal him in the same intensity if with the same method and the same form. That is the form that's revealed at the end of correction.
20. S. (51:48) We have a month and a half until the Congress in September and 2 days ago you had a meeting with the content team that asked for the instructions and advice of how to prepare properly. What you did was you sent it to scrutinize with ourselves and the world Kli to read articles and we are asking why do we need before the Congress, what are we trying to attain?
R. Correct, I myself don't do anything. I need you to choose topics for the Congress. Do some materials for the lesson, which different formats you want to have and you have to do this because you are progressing along the path and steps along the way we have congresses. You need to scrutinize where you are and what is more suitable to you. If you ask me, I don't belong to this.
S. Maybe you just answered this feeling of responsibility for all of the tens that we're looking for a way to pass it on to the 10's so that every 10 will feel that this is their responsibility to do.
R. Talk as much as you want but it has nothing to do with me.
S. I'm asking how we do this?
R. I don't know, ask yourself, you're learning with us for a few years, you read the sources or in connection between you, ask yourself what you want. Not that I organize it as I am not some nanny so, please it is all in your hand.
21. S. (54:03) You said we should prepare ourselves during the day and this preparation should be repeating the previous question and preparing for the next one. What is the preparation for the next lesson externally or internally?
R. You don't have the material for the next lesson?
S. In the evening we get it.
R. So you need to read it, see the next excerpt and to be better prepared for the lesson. That you're already coming in and internal preparation of what we're talking about and what for, this is called preparation. That you discuss amongst yourselves and scrutinize what Baal HaSulam and Rabash want to explain to us before I explain to you that you make an effort to explain among yourselves.
S. You said a friend has to be in the lesson with his heart and his brain. I understand what it means intellectually.
R. That depends on the preparation, but I reach the lessons specifically in connection with the friends I can rise to another degree and another spiritual degree, that each degree is more connection between us and more connection into a mutual desire and a deeper connection with the Creator. That is called preparation with the lesson that we connect more and more and more, and in the lesson, we connect more with the Creator. There are many groups around us that do preparations like this and in this way each one will help his friend and we reach the lesson. Go over the lesson and prepare yourself for tomorrow's lesson.