Morning Lesson September 19, 2022, Transcription
Transcription is made from simultaneous translation which leaves a possibility for differences in the audio
Part 2:
Baal HaSulam. The Nation
https://kabbalahmedia.info/sources/Zo6BQz8E
1. R. (00:21) I don't really have much to say, let's read the article as much as we can, we can also abbreviate it, it's a very long article, and maybe many things are not relevant to our time even though there's always something to learn from what Baal HaSulam says but at least let's read it by parts, because it's relevant to what our world is going through now that is clear to everyone that our world now is going through some very acute states in light of the Russia and Ukraine war and other hot spots and the world here and there, nuclear weapons and different things, so it's good for us to see how Baal HaSulam sees these things and what he writes about it, about the situation of the nation meaning actually human society as a whole, that this is how he sees its future, its direction.
Reading The Newspaper, The Nation: (01:54) “This paper, the nation is a new entity on the Jewish street ...”
2. R. (04:01) From the times of the destruction of the temple where the Jews began accepting egoistic qualities inside of them instead of a being connected, the temple was destroyed and burned and the people of Israel, and this was two thousand years ago, were banished from Israel and dispersed all around the world in all directions, east, west, north, south, and this is how it was for 2,000 years. After 2,000 years people started returning to this place called the land of Israel and somehow started building here the settlement and so he says that in every place in the world toward 1940 or even before, pressure started accumulating on Jews, waves of anti-Semitism, strong hate. Why is it happening to us, surely it's he's not a historian or sociologist but he wants to show the trend, that what goes on here is that there's a new wave here that is bringing us closer and is actually bringing us closer to the end of correction and this is what he wants to show.
Continues (05:58) “It is clear, save for relying on miracles, however now things are very different...”
3. R. (06:34) Yes, no country in Europe especially, so developed culture, education, and everything, did not want to take in Jews and that this never happened ever, anywhere in the world in the world, started uniting, becoming more global, but in what way, against the people of Israel to completely reject them, throw them out.
Continues reading: (07:14) “It is clear, save for relying on miracles that our existence...”
4.R. (08:48) Meaning there are two paths in front of us now, the one that's leading to destruction and the other by which we can save ourselves if we connect. That's it.
5. S. (09:14) He wrote this in 1940, where are we today compared to these words?
R. I don't think that were far from the situation, I don't think that we’re far, that we have a piece of land, a nuclear bomb and other things, it's all toys, we, according to our correction are not closer but are more distant from what we're supposed to be, from our connection, that only our connection actually can save us from hate and anti-Semitism, from destruction, from being destroyed by the forces of nature through, the forces of the Creator.
6. S. (10:13) A person who wants to go towards connection, what should he do against a person who wants to destroy him? If I want to go towards connection but before me is a person wants to destroy me so how do I work with that?
R. If somebody wants to destroy you then you need to hasten yourself and destroy him, so it says that you should kill him first.
S. If we want to prevent someone to want to destroy or hatred all together, so we have to work in connection and that's the only prevention?
R. Yes usually the only action is our connection but even if we try to connect and someone wants to kill us, we need to hasten ourselves and kill them first.
7. S. (11:15) We see that when Baal HaSulam wrote these days and today that we're at the same point and people say that we have to blend in all humanity and be one with them?
R. We tried doing it in our time in many different such states, do to it the first temple was destroyed, the second temple, all the problems and troubles that we had only because we wanted to mix, but the other nations with other people, because of it we lost the ten tribes. We have no other solution, we had can't be like the other nations, it says so, but it is upon us to actually differentiate ourselves and open our Torah correctly, the Torah speaks about our correct connection with the rest of the world, it’s not that we dissolve in the rest of the world and disappear among the nations, but that we actually pull all the nations by our connection out of the swamp of the ego and therefore save the world from this ignoble life that the whole world is immersed in.
8. S. (12:44) We see that today too about a week ago the generals were saying how our unity is our salvation so how do we really explain this thing called unity, what does it mean?
R. I can't talk about this now, that’s a topic on its own, but it’s clear to us, everything depends on what Baal HaSulam writes and understanding it, disseminating it, and inserting it into the nation.
9. S. (13:26) What is Baal HaSulam expecting of the masses, what do the Jewish people need to do?
R. They must understand that they need to rise, not because they need to, but because all of humanity needs it and because all of humanity is suffering so instinctively they are also working through anti-Semitism on the nation of Israel and the nation of Israel needs to see things as signs, that the nations are demanding correction.
S. Actually it is demanded of all the nations?
R. From the whole nation to each one.
10. S. (14:42) When he published these explanations in the forties, there were very few newspapers back then as I understand there was no TV, his product was well-known, advertised, published. Today there are thousands of news channels, fake news, TV shows, what not and our product loses its importance then.
R. Actually today it's much easier because you don't have to stand on the corner of the street and give out newspapers but through the web, through the internet and all kinds of forms you can publish your things and to actually be in the touch of the hand to each one around the world.
S. Why am I saying this, because here he is trying to build it in some rational way and his explanation is clear also to the common people, do we need to prepare the content with some inner message rationale or just for it to be interesting?
R. All of it.
11. S. (16:22) What does it mean that unless we connect we will be destroyed, then why were we given the chance again, what is that about?
R. We were given a chance and if we won't implement it then we will reach the same things again.
S. What is the root, that unless we make corrections we will be destroyed?
R. Because partial destruction and not total, a partial destruction is also a correction.
S. Correction if we'll be destroyed?
R. Punishment is a correction.
S. It sounds severe to be destroyed.
R. It doesn't matter what sounds to you, leave yourself alone, we are speaking about the laws of nature, that's it, we have no choice, we need to know what to do and how to do it and then you can cry.
12. S. (17:29) First of all, I’d like to apologize, also Baal HaSulam, he called for unity since 1926, Jews didn't do it and what they got was Hitler, meaning unless we do it now we will also get something similar? So it’s extremely important for us to connect.
R. You are right, if not in the good way, what we have before us so we will be advanced to the same purpose, the same goal, in the bad way.
13. S. (18:20) You just mentioned that it is the law of nature, how does it affect the rest of Bnei Baruch?
R. Everyone must perform this, it doesn't matter whether I'm a Jew and you are Latin, it doesn't matter because we all now need to reach one goal, connection, whoever goes towards connection, got a desire from it from above, a bit of knowledge, a bit of connection towards that connection, so he must do it. That's it, that's why there is no difference between all our groups and all these people, we are all towards the correction of the world, the purpose of the world, as one, in an equal manner.
14. S. (19:34) Why is there hate between those called Israel and the nations of the world?
R. Because the nations of the world feel inside that they are dependent on Israel and that their good future depends on Israel and such a feeling exists in every person in somewhat, sometimes it is more clear, sometimes it is less. That's why they relate to Jews, to Israel in a very cautious manner. They don't know exactly what to do with it but the feeling of dependency is there.
S. Is there also hate from Israel towards the nations?
R. Israel doesn't hate the nations so much because the nations do not owe Israel. Israel, their lives do not depend on the nations like the nations depend on their lives, and their level of life depends on Israel.
15. S. (20:57) Where does the measure of anti-Semitism in the world point?
R. Point at?
S. Yes, the more it grows. What does it mean?
R. As much as we advance in years, so it becomes more clear to the nations that Israel is the center that around them the world revolves and the future depends on them.
S. The more the hate grows it doesn't open Israel’s ears or bring their heart, on the contrary there's just fear.
R. It depends how we understand what's happening to us but actually there's nothing good or bad about it. There's a necessity to perform the acts of nature in order to reach a state where everyone will feel good. We are responsible for the correction of the whole world, that's why it is our work.
16. S. (22:15) In the past we knew why the destruction and death came, we read about it. Now I feel that there is complete disconnection after the Holocaust in relation to why all these things happened. What happened to us? To humanity, to us people? Why don't we have the recognition and the understanding of why these things happen?
R. Even after the Holocaust where the nations suffered so badly and lost a third of the nation we still are continuing through our egoistic will to receive and developing in it. We don't want to think of the correct reason of that destruction, the Holocaust. That's all because we have a burdening of the heart, the heart becomes more stiff, more hard. That's why these troubles don't soften the heart because usually that is what it is supposed to do but on the contrary each one just wants to run away somewhere safe and in this way live. If you feel the internality of each and every person you will see that all in all he wants to go somewhere where he can just feel safe that he will have food, a bed, air, nobody will touch him and he will just live in that way. The most convenient possible way for him he cannot ascend above the degree of the beast to a human degree. To think that no one can be like this, we have to go out, to come out of this place, to come out of hiding. We have to connect to everybody. I need to be in a new state in the world, in a new atmosphere, a new light has to come to the world. People don't get to that and the more we try to explain this to them they cannot listen, they don't listen That's why our hope is that we will ask the Creator to brainwash them, make some sort of correction that their heart and mind will receive our message of Baal HaSulam that we must be connected and in then in connection between us even a bit, that we connect the Tens, we in this can make changes in the world. Look what's happening in the universe. What does it start from? After the bang all kinds of particles start gathering until stars, planets are made and so on. We to need to try and gather in such a way that's what we are building as the International Bnei Baruch organization that in this world organization we can all understand that the connection between us can be the central point of the world and around that we can resurrect a positive force in reality and by that we can advance to the correction of the world.
17. S. (27:10) I have heard shells in general that on these shells we feel a strong deficiency coming from people about what's going on in nature and politics, etc. but it still may be our message is still too high maybe in order to narrow down the gap between us and what goes on in humanity and what are we giving humanity and it kind of worries me because I'm thinking whether what we have does it suit the deficiency that people have because this kind of gap. How do we bridge it?
R. Dissemination, dissemination but it has to be from each and everyone. Everybody that you see before me needs to try to do something. To write, translate and adapt things through the internet, personal websites, newspapers, all different kinds of forms, film something. We need to advertise this. The more we can, and we have people that can check all your writing and correct it. There are people who can afterward spread out what you are writing if you don't know how to work online and in this way we have to organize ourselves, so please try.
18. S. (29:22) Precisely about dissemination. What follows is that we came here in order to find the meaning of life and then said that we are responsible for the correction of the entire world and that this is our work, not only connection but actually dissemination. What role should everyone have in dissemination? We are studying in order to disseminate. We are connecting in order to disseminate. What is an additional option that the friends have or is it an obligation for each of their friends to do it? We continue to study with you every day but not everyone has the same importance for dissemination. Maybe if you can give an example of how it was when you studied with Rabash, and did he force you to disseminate?
R. First of all, what I did was in a different time. It was 40 years ago and even more and I started writing, I started writing, I wrote my first three books. I spread them around in all kinds of places and all kinds of countries and they worked. They were successful, even at those things the American Council bought three hundred books from me. A hundred, a hundred and a hundred every book. They got a certain price and they sent it out to Russia. I heard later on. Back then I couldn't do it and so on. Afterwards book number four was already started after Rabash died, after work that's how I started afterwards book number four was already published after Rabash died and so on, but I constantly push at open groups and lessons and this way people came. I started speaking on the radio once a week so people came to that. You need to do something that is our work. It’s not that I am doing someone a favor by this I am correcting my soul, I am connecting through this means of writing or speaking to other souls and then I built from myself and onward a net of connections as broad as I can, as powerful as it can be and that's what works for the correction of the world .
S. Can we say that a student is not a full student sooner if he doesn't disseminate on a regular basis because it is not as clear as reading articles?
R. I think today with the help of the internet, each and everyone can be a source of dissemination.
S. Just to specify, what follows is that ideally a person needs to invest all of his free time in dissemination.
R. Yes
19. S. (33:33) To be really heard do we need to love those that we disseminate to?
R. We have to be responsible for the correction of the world and more than that we need to think that by this we are giving contentment to the Creator. He doesn't need anything except for the created beings to come closer to him in order to fill them with all the abundance and then by dissemination that's what we can do.
S. How do we then reach the love of those souls that we want to disseminate to?
R. By explanation.
S. When we explain then we reach love towards them?
R. Of course, what am I explaining for? to draw you to the source of life, to bring people closer to the Creator so they will be able to fill themselves and more and more in such a way shine on everyone.
S. This is what allows me to love them? F first of all I have to love them and only them?
R. No from your deeds we will know you. You make acts of dissemination and by that you want for their benefit and from that level love will come.
20. S. (35:03) The correction and dissemination, when does the correction occur and then I disseminate and then the person uses the content in what?
R. All of them from those stages you mentioned.
S. Sometimes I hear on the news that terrible things happen in the world and it really hurts. There are moments when it happens, maybe because I'm afraid to be in the situation myself. I don't know why but I identify with the situation. It pains me, is that a kind of correction about it? Something?
R. Yes, but better if we don’t incorporate with us the suffering of the world because by this you cannot make it better and correct but still we work dissemination. How to prevent the suffering.
S. What does it mean to incorporate in the sorrow of the public?
R. In a way that it won't silence you like you are saying but give you an ability to spill the method of correction on you. We tell the doctor what's happening to us and what's hurting us, but I don't want him to feel pain. I want him to give me medicine.
21. S. (36:36) to imagine our ideal state of development as Baal HaSulam depicted it to himself. where all the Jews in the world are engaged in the wisdom of Kabbalah, become members of Bnei Baruch or simply they think about it every day, how can we depict the goal that we need to reach?
R. We are not speaking about Jews, there's no such nation of Jews. There's no such nationality but each one is directed towards the Creator and is called Yashar El Israel. Jew comes from the Yehudi, unity, that they want to unite with the Creator. In Hebrew, Ibri comes from the word passes, that he wants to pass from the corporeal world to the spiritual world. All those words point to a person, that it doesn't matter where he is from or who he is but all in all he wants to reach corrections.
S. We are saying that the Jews they have a special responsibility in this world. Baal HaSulam is turning to us?
R. Everything he wrote was one hundred years ago. That's the first thing and second is that obviously today that we are in the last generation so everyone we already belong to that method, to that going towards that correction. That doesn't depend on where you were born or who you were according to what is written in your passport.
S. Still how should we depict this preferable situation? We are saying that unless we reach a connection that will be at third or fourth world war. For that not to happen, what does it mean not to happen?
R. No, these are external things that people understand that in the good connection between them they can save themselves really from an atomic war and from the end of the world. That has to be clear. It’s not that everyone now will start arming themselves, who is stronger and who has more atom bombs than the other. That will not help. We need to understand that the future of the world depends on the good connection between all nations. That's why, that is what we are publishing and advertising. Even though people don't want to hear it, we still need to convince them that in our times it is impossible. It is impossible to advance to the future world in a good way, in the right way, only through connection as if it is clear and everyone can agree with it, but they don't know how to do it. That's why the wisdom of Kabbalah comes and explains that it is possible to do because you can draw from above the upper force and that it will connect you correctly how to draw them? In the tens, in the connection between the Tens and by this you get contact through the upper force and he organizes you. That's it.
S. Still the world that we come to is that everyone needs to be in tens?
R. Everyone has to connect in Tens, correct because that is the organizing of the new society.
S. Practically what we need to depict is the world being engaged in the wisdom of connection or the reason of Kabbalah in tens?
R. Yes, its structure has to resemble tens. There's nothing special about it. You will start recognizing that the whole world is like that, connected into tens. In all of man's qualities and in the still, vegetative, and animate that everything is organized into ten.
Reading (42:42) “It is also clear that the enormous effort that The Rock Road...”
22. R. (43:31) So again he's speaking about unity that it’s the only salvation.
Continues (43:35) “It is also clear that the enormous effort that The Rock Road…”
23. R. (47:19) Meaning, we have no choice if we unite we succeed and we even draw our enemies into this too.
Reading (47:35) “Moreover, we are confident that if…”
24. S. (49:24) Baal HaSulam writes here as if not from himself but from the perspective of the system, so the question is about this. We can turn to people on part of Him, on part of our organization or from other aspects.
R. I don't know, we have a place you can turn to, whoever writes needs to turn to boadrworldkli@gmail.com, so send to that address what you want to publish and they will check it, correct it and will advertise it, and I'm saying thank you in advance for doing such a thing. That in dissemination we are actually building our correct future.
25. S. (50:52) Baal HaSulam writes that he calls upon all those who have any idea of how to do it, to join, to publicize, so anyone who can offer ideas of how to realize these things or its only according to what Kabbalists write?
R. You can offer any idea you want but we will publish only the ones that go in the direction of Baal HaSulam and Rabash. If you have some idea from other planets so I don't know if it will be accepted. Write to that address and see.
S. The question is not about me but about us who want to include everyone. Do we need to involve all the public with the ideas of how to do it?
R. I don’t know, again turn to all the organizers and do it. I don’t know, I’m not for dissemination, there are people who are in charge of it.