Morning Lesson January 25, 2023, Transcription
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Part 2:
Baal HaSulam. Introduction to The Book of Zohar. #70
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Rav’s Introduction. (00:20 ) This is a very important part, everyone gets stuck on all kinds of commentaries on item 70
Reading Item 70, twice. (00:46) “This is what is written in the..”
2. R. (02:41) There is a part of Malchut which is worthy of correction and according to its closeness to correction it is called Yasar Kel straight to the Creator, and on it we need to pray we need to try why to have that part rise for correction. Why? Because it's the purest and easiest to correct, that's why it is the first that must undergo correction.
Continuing Reading ( 03:23 ) He brings evidence from the text…
3. R. (03:36 ) Meaning you have to ask that all those parts from the general Malchut that are worthy to be corrected first, to try to ascend and correct themselves.
Continuing Reading: (03:49) But the Shechina says ….
4. R. (04:19) What does the Shechina say? I cannot bring up to myself these flawed souls that are in order to receive. They are devoid of a desire for connection rather they just want to fill themselves even more than what they have and for this I am not capable. My part in creation is for me to collect souls and then they will be filled as a result of their correction, and not that I will fill them myself. That is the problem. She says, "they are beasts eating grass and hay, meaning they observed the commandments mindlessly like beasts. Even if they do certain acts they pride themselves that they are more than other people. Although it is the other way around, regular people don't want to receive anything from the greater and those who do these acts, they expect even demand a certain additional reward from the Creator.
Continuing Reading : (05:46) "Every mercy they do, they do for themselves.."
5. R. (05:59) They have no intention to do them even though they say that they want to do it to be good people they only want to do it for their own sake so they will feel good. In this world, in the next world heaven and so on and so forth. They have nothing you can say about them that they are doing good deeds from the heart bestow to everyone.
Continue Reading: (06:25) Meaning that in the commandments …"
6. R. (06:45) Is that clear?
7. S. (06:49) I saw that you spoke about the sentence that they have an empty heart that they should be returned even though it's within you. On the one hand it says you have everything, on the other it says you have nothing, what does this actually mean? What does this sentence mean?
R. You demand that which you do not deserve. You want to receive a certain fulfillment now that will be in order to receive and you prepare your restriction, your screen, your reflected light. No he did not, so in which vessels are you going to receive, that you are asking for it?
S. It is actually as if we have it and we need to attain it
R. The fulfillment, the filling is prepared and destined for these vessels but, the vessels remain without correction, without equivalents of form with the filling in order to bestow, that is what it means. Hence, why are you even asking? It doesn't even fit you, that is what the prophet tells them. Every mercy that they do, they do for themselves, for their own say. Meaning that they have no intention in the commandments that they do, meaning in order to bestow, that is the meaning of commandant that would be in order to bestow contentment to the Creator but rather to observe the commandments only for their own benefit.
S. I wanted to ask something about the Zohar, you once said that the Zohar was an interpretation of the Torah, you can draw the light that reforms only through the Zohar, so what's the deal with the Torah? Why do I even need an interpretation for the Torah and when we read the Zohar?
R. I don’t understand what you are saying.
S. You once said that the Zohar was an interpretation of the Torah.
R. That's what it says in the first page of the book of Zohar. That it is an interpretation of the first five books of the Torah so what are you asking?
S. Right
R. What Are you asking?
S. What do I need the interpretation of the Zohar for?
R. Ask Rabbi Shimon.
S. You once told us, and I can't remember what you said.
R. The Zohar is the interpretation of the first five books of the Torah.
S. Yes, but to draw the light that reforms is only through the Zohar
R. No, there are many interpretations other than the Zohar. Aside from the Zohar there are other interpretations.
S. To draw that light that reforms is the most powerful in the Zohar ?
R. Most powerful, it is not only. You see how you go down and you go sideways.
S. I am just trying to understand,
R. What are you trying to understand?
S. When we read the Zohar every morning is that the most powerful way to draw the light that reforms or are there other alternatives?
R. There are other alternatives of course. It is not just the Zohar that reforms, but the Zohar is powerful. I am not saying this is the most powerful or not. I think that it is, but that is what I think. There are those who think that there are other books aside from the Torah that are as beneficial as the Zohar attaining the goal. As it is written there are many paths to the place.
8. S. (11:13) In a text here it says, that everything I do is about themselves because they know that to bestow is a very complex action and it can't be done you need to gather or the generality to do many actions here
R. Because it's difficult to work in order to bestow, we are not going to do it, but we will do it in order to receive, to go against the law of nature because it is tough. That's what you are saying.
9. S. (12:05) Item 70 weeks he speaks of adding internality or intention to externality, do we need the externality? Maybe we should focus on the intention, and only be internality.
R. No we cannot do it. We need to learn as much as possible about the actions of the Creator and from that to understand that they are only in order to bestow, in order to raise us from this world to the degree of Bina, the next world. Only with such a study we awaken upon us the light of Bina, the reforming light and it corrects us, and it raises us through the entire ten Sefirot.
10. S. (13:11) From what I understand from the text, anyone who does not study the wisdom of Kabbalah is to blame for all the harm in the world and anyone who is likely me, is ok. Is it correct to understand?
R. I wouldn't say that about yourself.
S. At least I'm on the path I am try.
R. With your thoughts you will always remain outside of what is important ( Rav smiling). I am telling you. To calm yourself down. That you are on the path and that you are ok and studying the Zohar, and the Introduction to the Zohar. Oh boy, I have nothing to correct.
S. At least I am not like the religious ones.
R. Yes, but you can't tell if you are more or less. You cannot tell. Where did you get the idea to say that you are better than those who are not studying the Zohar for example. I don't think that you have a foundation on which to base what you are saying. At the very least I wouldn't feel so proud as you do. You see how many people who are just quiet only you are such a hero.
11. S. (14:49) She sounds so disappointed. What can we do to help her to raise her from the dust?
R. The Shechina is extremely disappointed with people, with the lower ones, with us, who need to awaken her and perform these corrections together with her and we are still not capable of doing it. Let's keep going and even those exert.
Continue Reading (15:58) " Even all those who exert.."
12. R. (18:15) Meaning those people who received from above from birth a certain spiritual charge, that they have a certain attraction to the revelation of the soul to the Creator, discovering the truth, the power for which they live, in all kinds of ways. All those people who received from the Creator a certain impulse, they later disregard and squander that impulse. They do not develop it and let it go, come what may they will do what they want, and the problem is with them because they received, bestowed this role, to pull after themselves all of humanity but they do not do it. They simply do not do it .They are the ones to blame for the fact that the Creator is not revealed in the world.
13. S. (19:44) For a long time I have the following question where is the balance between patience and lack of patience, in other words, whoever isn't expecting for revelation of the Creator today, where is the balance between our balance and gratitude for being along the path and the demand at every moment?
R. The balance is found in each and every person according to the root of his soul. According to how much awakening he received from above, according to his environment, the way the Creator made him and according to how he responds to all of it and even with the help of the environment he accumulates more and more forces in order to perform by himself a certain action outside him. Because it's certain that everything inside of a person the Creator brings him and what the person is trying to develop towards his lifetime and to activate himself, this is already the person who is doing it and that is accounted for him, so you need to try.
14. S. (21:24) This disregard that you just described sounds horrible, how can we even prevent something like that? How can we work with something that awakens?
R. Each shall help his friend. We have nothing else to do, we have to give examples to one another.
S. If there is no respect to the friends in the study
R. This is our purpose so you would develop it yourself and you can see where else you can add.
15. S. (22:34) It says that there's an action that a person does. Where is the border between what a person does and what the Creator does? Where is our individual work or action?
R. What depends on a person is to only add to the awakening that he receives from above. The Creator is always the first and we need to follow in his footsteps, if he gives us an awakening we need to accept this awakening, amplify it and grow it and develop it as much as possible and correct ourselves in each awakening and return all the way until the Lord your God, as it is written that is what we have. That's what we have to do.
16. S. (23:26) I felt that what is written is about me. I saw myself in the text and then I see that it's written about those same people who are called Israel, the question is every person or every nation or country need to reach a state of recognition of evil because it wasn't written for no reason by Baal HaSulam, we need to recognize that I'm in the state.
R. This is written in truth for each and every person. Gradually it gets clarified in all the people in the world, and one more and another less and another, not for now completely. We are in the first generation of the last generation. The last period of the development in the correction of the souls is called the last generation and in this generation there are stages. We are part of the first stage of the last generation, we are the pioneers who come to correct ourselves and as much as possible to bring the whole world with us. Therefore, the more we explain and we give examples and we do those corrections by ourselves, the entire world will advance and we’ll give contentment to the Creator.
17. S. (25:22) This scrutiny is difficult because the question is what is the addition that needs to be done to not be distractors in our work. We also recognize that eventually all of our actions are for self-benefit even though we try to do Lishma and try to do it to reach bestowal, what’s the difference between what we do and someone that is truly destructive in their work?
R. In each and every action of the Creator on us if we awaken, we need to awaken towards connection. This comes very slowly to a person, not all at once does a person become ready for this exalted correction rather only good and mercy shall pursue me all the days of my life. We should try more and more and eventually with each passing day we grow stronger and even though there are those among us who grow weaker and cooler, that too is for the sake of correction. It'll all be good. The important thing is to keep going.
18. S. (26:54) He writes here, the entire land will know the Creator but the spirit has left and does not shine light in the world, Baal HaSulam is angry, what is he angry about? As if he happened already and we could have attained it?
R. It can be attained every single day. There is a voice that awakens and comes to us from Mount Moriah and so on and we don't pay attention.
S. He continues, woe unto him who caused him to the spirit of Messiah to depart from the world and to return, where's the confidence that we will attain it?
R. Our correction is cumulative that every generation and every period and every nation and every person and every time we bring our exertion in more and more into the general Malchut then it gathers them and connects them and accordingly we advance.
S. I am asking differently, was it possible to attain the Messiah before the last generation or is the last generation on condition?
R. Everything is possible.
S. Was it possible to attain the generation of the Messiah before the last generation or the last generation is a condition?
R. Condition, he writes that the generation before the generation of the Messiah only individuals can attain adhesion to the Creator, complete adhesion, and in the generation of the Messiah then everyone.
S. This is an incorporation of the entire world, the generation of the Messiah.
R. Yes, eventually of course all the vessels that are included in Adam HaRishon. They will need to connect between one another and to reach a state of complete final correction where we are all connected to the Creator.
19. S. (29:44) What is a person who received an awakening? What separates him from regular people who believe, who pray to the Creator when they feel good or bad?
R. He sees from one end of the world to the other. He sees what these corrections are for, he sees the high souls, the low souls, the souls of the righteous and the wicked. He sees in front of him the entire map of the upper world, and he works with all of those people that are doing the actions of correction and that is how they advance.
S. Baal HaSulam speaks to a certain section that is obligated to make those corrections and what you describe, are they those people?
R. I don't understand?
S. Who is Baal HaSulam addressing here?
R. Baal HaSulam is appealing to everyone because everyone needs to be included in that same state of the last generation. In the same state of the final correction everyone has to return to that same place and the soul of Adam HaRishon, the first that single soul, just as he was before the sin.
S. Out of everyone, say those who have to start it in practice, how does a person know who he is?
R. Anyone that feels that they can, that's how it is, anyone. They must correct themselves if not in this generation then in the next. Each one according to their place that awakens. But you'll have to make this correction to all of the souls. It won't take a long time.
20. S. (32:05) Baal HaSulam writes that all of the problems here are because we cannot make the actions with the condition to give contentment to the maker, so I place for myself everywhere, in the car and the phone, I have a note to give contentment to the Creator so this will remind me of the intention. The question is how can I do this thing before the action and not retroactively after doing something. I see that I stole for myself and no, I have to do it for the right intention.
R. I don't know what to tell you, find it.
S. What does it mean to give contentment to his maker?
R. That you're constantly thinking for the benefit of the Creator, how can you assist?
S. I can't see. I always see what I always take for myself. What kind of prayer can I raise here?
R. For the Creator to help you.
S. To be in this demand constantly?
R. Okay yes.
S. It's still unclear.
R. To demand the Creator will help you.
S. But even this I steal for myself to help me.
R. You're right I understand but I have nothing else to answer you. Take a few more friends with you and agree among each other that you demand of the Creator constantly the single demand that it will bring you closer to giving contentment to Him. That is all.
21. S. (34:01) Baal HaSulam reached the end of the correction?
R. Yes
S. Is there no direct correlation between the correction of the soul and the physical body?
R. There is no connection.
S. Because you could have lived longer and give us more.
R. I don't know these are not our calculations.
22. S. (34:47) We learned that the Creator is modest or humble is a server and concealed even though he's doing everything, we have to be proud that we rewarded with the reading of the Book of Zohar and we have to yearn for that same humility if our goal is to reach equivalence of form of the Creator?
R. To the extent each and every one can imagine for themselves, that is what you need.
23. S. (35:32) They're the ones who make the Torah dry and they only do the practical part of the Torah and do not want to understand the wisdom of Kabbalah. The question is, if we observe these kinds of friends that only offer physical instead of connecting with the Ten, they think they're doing bestowing to the Creator, what is the right approach?
R. There is no such approach. You shouldn't come close to them; you shouldn't be in any contact with them. Simply according to the development of the soul within a person that is how they yearn for either corporeal actions or spiritual ones or even corporeal ones depending on which ones exactly also for spiritual ones. Depending on which actions he tries to be a person and so on it all depends on the soul of Adam and that's why we cannot interfere here. We cannot passively, just like you say, we can try and spread the wisdom of Kabbalah. Also not the name of the wisdom of Kabbalah of course that will help a few people to read about it and to find themselves and by that to come closer and bring the whole world closer to correction.
24. S. (37:24) If we focus our prayers and our actions on strengthening the connections and the Ten and between us, is that the mechanism of bestowing contentment to the Creator and for focusing our intent on bestowing contentment towards him?
R. To what do we need the connection in the Ten for? I am asking.
S. We want to have the connection in the Ten to reach equivalence of form
R. Okay good, so we wish to see, to connect between us and such a way that and no other way that he will bring us to the Creator, it will bring us to the Creator and together with the connection between us all of us attain connection with the creator. That's what we wish to attain.
25. S. (38:40) We learned the wisdom of Kabbalah and we said that we have to in dissemination we can disseminate without saying Kabbalah if we're not doing it and we have the capacity to do and we don't is that a sin?
R. No there are no sins, even if people will simply know that there is a method like that, there's a study like that without even a word about Kabbalah or anything or anyone that's still good.
26. S. (39:41) It says openly in the Book of Zohar that in this composition the people of Israel will come out of exile and Baal HaSulam also said in the introduction and elsewhere. He says, ‘the internality of the Torah that's what will bring correction especially in our last generation" is there even a place for arguments that there are other ways to reach the goal and pass to the Torah?
R. I don't know but it says only to the Book of Zohar, but you see how they treat it. Even the people from Israel don't respect it. For 2,000 years they have not been appreciating and valuing it because this speaks about the correction of the soul and not the correction of the body. Do this and this and that with your hands and your tongue and this by this you'll acquire the next world, rather you have to do it with the heart and with the heart we cannot. It's difficult, and seemingly impossible.
S. Is it true to say for us there is no other way but only the Book of Zohar can help us?
R. There is no other way. You have no other means that works with the surrounding lights that you can awaken that works directly on the desire of a person, on his soul, on the corrupted desire.
S. A person that's attracted to correction, is he attracted specifically to the study of the Book of Zohar and Kabbalah?
R. To the wisdom of Kabbalah certainly, but the Book of Zohar he has to get accustomed to the language, to the approach.
S. It says that his heart will grow high and proud and the ways of the Creator, should we be proud that we are on this form of study and correction?
R. Only to the extent that up to a certain level that we do not contract any viruses from the outside, only to that extent. On the other hand we have to be prepared to serve them and the entire method of correction in the best way, in the most convenient way possible.
27. S. (42:22) About the Congress, this one mass that we all need to connect into and all the Tens need to be one, how do we start this? How do we come out of the personal Ten, how do you start this process?
R. Look, the action itself is very beneficial for connection because we come out of our area, in a path that isn't, hasn't been nurtured as it said and I think it can help us. That is why there are people who are ready to come and go to the desert. The place isn't really ready for it, but there are many people coming, and other than us you should know that the place is a place that has high demand. A lot of people are coming there to spend two or three days there, and we also want to experience the same, I hope I will see many people there. I'm not inviting and not pulling and it's just for men. Women who come to Israel will be able to stay in our center, and we need to take care of where they will sleep, where they will eat and so on. We have the same problems here as we do in the desert, we have the same problems here in our building. That is it. I think we will try and give conditions for connection between you, and the best possible way, not in the matter of comfort but it will be so comfortable and good and soft and nice and warm and so on and so on. No, that you will be able to warm up from the friends and together with the friends, you'll be able to overcome all of this unpleasantness that there is. I'm talking first and foremost to the men, if women want to come, that's not really my role here.
S. Up until the Congress in the Ten we support one another we work with one another but there's no feeling of the world Kli, like the feeling, do we have to start doing it or we have to do this work in the congress?
R. No, I don't think it's really possible to come closer to the world Kli, holding on to the Ten. It's t it's possible if all the Ten will enter the world Kli. Try doing that. Try.
28. S. (47:10) About the Congress, what is this event, this occasion where we walk and go to the desert? What is that?
R. It's like what it says, go follow the desert until land.
S. What does it mean?
R. That without any preparation, without any plans, and walking with our feet and not with something else, not with some carriage or something at least. Meaning we need to try and be ready for walking in the desert, and the fact that there is no path, that we can see every moment and every point there can be a fall and no one will help in a land that is not being seeded but after in the desert that after the Creator that I'm going to search for him, where when I am in the force of the desert, I feel how I am dependent on the friends. That I have nothing as a support supporter but besides from the upper and only to the extent that I grab onto the friends and that we hold on to one another, by that we advance. If we are certain that that way there's the Creator between us, that our connection is so strong that the Creator is being revealed to us that it is considered that we are advancing in the right path. Then we reach the goal.
S. What is this called by the Creator who says, 'follow me into the desert', what is that calling? Why is he calling us into the desert?
R. That is the stage that we need to do the action of correction, that we have nowhere to run to. It is really the same degree that we never really reached, not us and not anyone. It's the final correction that we want to attain and it's something unique, it's something that there are no other examples of.
S. What depends on our ability to hear the calling of the Creator to follow him into the desert?
R. It depends only on the friends only on the connection between us
S. What does it mean that there is nothing like it before? There's nothing like this before?
R. No, we went towards the correction that we wanted to adhere to one another and reach correction, to the soul of Adam HaRishon, as it was before the shattering and to connect that way with such an amount of people that we have now, we didn't have this.
S. Also historically
R. Historically too you know the history.
S. No, for example the children of Israel who walked in the desert?
R. No they went from shattering to shattering until they reached the land of Israel, and then they continued shattering from the first temple to the second temple, in the wars and this and that until they reached exile and they were driven away from the land of Israel.
S. It's happening for the first time in history if I understand correctly.
R. Yes
S. How can we know to follow the Creator in the desert? How can we manage to do it if we don't have an example for it?
R. We will search it and we'll raise it and we'll place all these things where they should be according to what we pray and ask if the Creator will see through it.
S. If you can summarize what is our work, you said that together with the friends we will be able to hear the Creator’s calling, what is our work to be able to hear the Creator's calling?
R. All of our work and all of our advancement is only increasing connection, from one that's being sanctified more and more, that is our advancement that is walking until we reach a state that that's it. We see within us, the force that's revealed that unifies,, that stabilizes us as one man and one heart and the Creator fulfills this force with its internality.
29. S. (53:11) What is the inner role of the women in this congress?
R. The internal role in this convention is to be together with everyone, to connect to unite around the men, and to help them without drawing their attention. On the contrary, to pressure them silently, that the women are waiting for the connection that the men need to stabilize and the women support this with all of their strength. With all of their strength.
30. S. (54:33) I'm asking myself what is the correct connection between, let's say it this way, we are used to investing a lot into the ten but now ahead of the congress we have this idea of what is the world Kli, I have a feeling of it, but when I got to work with the women from the world Kli and one and one or small teams I discovered things that I can't even describe, some Impressions these huge women.
R. I understand. Both men and women from the world Kli they have a deficiency an inclination to correction, to adhesion, to the end of correction, towards everything, much more than what we have. Yes.
S. And there is potential here, huge potential, for connection that is not even realized. So about the congress we want to open up this great thing to become one world group. What is the correct connection between each one of us in the world Kli? What is the connection? Let's say for example I see on the screen Latin 15, I see Piter, I want to feel these friends, how to do it? How can we realize it?
R. I don't know what to say to you, I really hope that you will feel the hearts of all of the friends from all around the world, I felt that now in Turkey when I was there, and we really have friends with very warm hearts, very directed towards correction and connection, and I truly hope that we will already reach some results from the convention that is upcoming. So thank you all and until the afternoon lesson good luck and a lot of love.