Morning Lesson January 06, 2024
Transcription is made from simultaneous translation, which leaves a possibility for differences in the audio.
Part 2:
Baal HaSulam. Disclosing a Portion, Covering Two, #3.
Reading Item 3. (00:33) “The Counsel of the Lord Is to Those Who Fear Him…”
1. S. (08:56) In the first paragraph it says they watch His glory with all their souls and hearts as never to commit any manner of blasphemy. What is blasphemy?
R. I cannot provide a definition for it. I don't know, I don't know, there are many like that. Meaning people write and don’t intend to honor the Creator as He deserves, I don't know.
2. S. (10:14) What can we learn from such an article for us?
R. That not everyone certainly were given permission to reveal something from the Creator and speak in such a way as if they have revealed Him and this is what Baal HaSulam wants to warn us from.
S. We're here, we're following Kabbalists, we’re following you, we don't have a doubt with what was given or not.
R. It doesn't mean anything.
S. Do we have to look at every article we’re reading and ask ourselves what is given and what isn’t? How do we use this article for the work, in what way?
R. For the work? If there have been several Kabbalists over all the generations, throughout the generations who could take upon themselves this role of revealing the Creator to all the created beings as much as possible with the laws and the guards and they did it, and we are following them.
S. This is the question, we always say that not allowed means you can’t reveal, that you don't have vessels but here he’s saying that there are actually things that you’re not allowed to reveal. What does it mean on our behalf?
R. If you received the vessels or the instruments to reveal the Creator for yourself it doesn't mean you can reveal him to others. You need to nevertheless receive permission from above.
S. When we engage with things on the outside there are things we’re not allowed to reveal?
R. No, we haven’t come to that.
S. Is it just our connection to Baal HaSulam and the Kabbalists?
R. Yes.
S. On the outside, you look at Kabbalah books and altogether the world is full of garbage, anybody can publish whatever they want. Is there a way for people to know what the truth is or not?
R. No there's no way.
S. Is there a way to overcome this mess? Each one just publishes and vomits out whatever's in his stomach.
R. No, I don't know this method, how to clean up the world from all the trash.
S. People ask, people want to come close to the truth, so it’s only what they feel in the heart and the teacher.
R. It's a way from above, the Creator intended for him and brings him to the right place. It's not like a person himself chooses or does something, no.
3. S. (14:12) Baal HaSulam in attainment, when he wrote it he puts the reforming light inside?
R. Yes.
S. How do we draw it between us in the best way?
R. By having vessels that can receive the light. Meaning, that by being connected as he writes with the laws of the Ten and we are drawn to Him and this is how we come to states where we can receive the upper light that will correct us, connect us, and accompany us.
S. That's what He's concealing, and He wants us to reveal every time more and more?
R. Yes.
4. S. (15:32) How correctly when we turn to people, to reveal one portion and conceal two?
R. No we can’t, we don't know what a portion is, what are two portions and what to reveal, what to conceal. We have no possibility in that, this is why we do not behave this way.
5. S. (16:16) How actual is this article for us, to reveal a portion and conceal two if today we can just advertise everything with no limitations so how relevant is this?
R. Everything, we disseminate is permitted.
S. What is the article about, and why do we need it?
R. It's an article by Baal HaSulam, what he left for us, and this is what we use.
6. S. (17:19) We wanted to give an announcement about the Congress. Hello everybody, we wanted to give an update that we're going to have a Congress called “Living in the Ten,” on January 27th, and 28th, it's going to be Saturday and Sunday at the end of this month. It's a virtual Congress. There will be a lot of gatherings around the world and also here in Peta Tikvah. It’s important to say that because of the security state here that the Congress in Israel is only for whoever lives in Israel, we cannot have visitors from abroad this time. Visit the website https://convention.kli.one, where you can find all the details about the Congress.