Morning Lesson August 02, 2022 Transcription
Transcription is made from simultaneous translation which leaves a possibility for differences in the audio
Baal HaSulam. Introduction to the Book Panim Meirot uMasbirot. #17
Reading Item 17 twice (0:14): “Now we can understand…”
1 R. (3:57) This means the serpent is entirely the will to receive in order to receive that is the force of nature.
Reading Item 17 (4:04): “It started with…”
2. R. (7:25) So there is a problem between a man and woman meaning Adam and Eve. We don't know these forces are in us and we can't distinguish inside each and every person especially men and women, as if there is a difference between them, so in the meantime let's get to know the text. I do not have anything to explain here. From Adam we did not hear anything and from the women we heard only what she claims.
Reader continues (08:10) “We Must Make the Precision...”
3. R. (09:30) Meaning to really reach recognition with the Creator is given to you what He's doing to you, you have to acquire all the opposite discernments and then you can choose everything from it’s opposite and you can understand creation is against it otherwise you have no grip in creation because you can only feel one thing. When they created being only feels out of the opposite that is why the Serpent here is a force first of all it has to be there in man's creation.
Reader continues (10:19) “For In the Day You Eat...”
4. R. (10:34) Good and evil that is the main thing. Yes. How can you create someone that knows both good and evil if it's not the Creator? Only under the condition that will go through one state and know something of it, start getting to know the opposite state in contrast and then with good and evil he will climb the ladder with both feet.
Reader continues (11:12) “This Means as it is Certainly Sweet...”
5. R. (11:36) When you can't get to know or taste Eden without its opposite and you will reach a state of both good and evil will become good to you.
Reader continues (11:49) “It Is Still Possible to...”
6. R. (12:43) Everything depends on the intention. If the intention is in order to bestow, it can be sweet and wonderful the true fruit of the tree of the Garden of Eden but if your intention is not correct it can be like a tree of death.
Reader continues (13:05) “Hence He does not Need to Let You Know...”
7. R. (15:46) There are few things here that are still difficult for us to discuss. Now, what exactly confused the woman, what was she missing? That on one hand she was smarter than the man, on the other hand through her the will to receive in order to receive, entered and controlled man and then comes a special correction through Adam through the man and to the woman also. There are a few things here we need to understand. The truth is it keeps on going actually I would keep on reading.
Reading Item #18 (16:50) “Now We Can Come to the Heart of the Matter...”
8. R. (28:19) These excerpts are really not simple and it keeps on going until we finish all this introduction. We will go over this a little bit and we will see that there is a story, a true story here as much as we can understand it in the meantime Clearly this is about two forces of nature the will to receive which is the created being and the will to bestow which is the Creator and how the Creator already from prior to creation, before creating humans he prepares inside us, in our nature also the forces of bestowal.
That we will start feeling what the force of reception, the force of bestowal is and distinguish and examine what is between them, this is how we advance in developing the force of bestowal between us. Meaning it's not the matter of meeting the start from Ein Sof or from scratch to start implementing or realizing the force of bestowal in us, it is near all we need to do is a choice, also the choice comes in a gradual manner. The more the will to receive is increased in us to have the ability up on the height of the will to receive to prefer to be in the will to bestow, where from on what account, how can the will to bestow is better than the will to receive because it's in the Creator it is the opposite.
If it's in the Creator I am supposed to grow further away from it because then it turns out that I'm going in order to receive because it is in the Creator. There are many things here that we still need to understand this system, bit by bit it is being revealed gradually and then we will, without making it too simple, I would say it’s simple this and that. On the contrary, to open it more and more like you open some system with many connections, connections connections that are short-circuited and bit by bit when you see what every force, every quality belongs to and that is what we will do. Well I can let you ask even though it won't give much.
9. S. (31:52) It is interesting how he describes the mutual influences in the will to receive…
R. We can't summarize things now from what we read. We're going to read, we need to read more and more and more until this story will be more or less clear to us. What is written, not what is inside. Only the words that are written. After that we can start scrutinizing how much it belongs to us before creation, during the creation, after the creation until this day and what we should do for each and everyone and all of us together as a system. We can't learn it in parts. Bit by bit we will open it.
10. S. (33:02) Good day, I have a question about the previous item: The force of scrutiny, what is it? The force of scrutiny in a man and how does it help us?
R. I don't know what you're talkin about. What is that?
S. He's asking about the force of scrutiny.
R. According to this introduction?
S. Yes, how does it help a person advance?
R. That's the main thing and you should be like God knowing good and evil, knowing good and evil and knowing that they come from one source and how they act in us. That is my distinguishing between good and evil. In truth and false and all those things. We do not ruin anything, all we do is place them correctly one in front of the other and by that we aim ourselves to the Creator. In order to be like the Creator we need the evil inclination and we need to care about that no less than we care about the good inclination. Because if we suddenly don't feel the evil inclination we don't have work to turn to, we have nothing to do, we can’t exist. That is why this is considered to be the saying: twice this is good. The day that death is created is actually a good force. When we stand on it, we don't lose it, we are aimed at the Creator and we start to get to know the Creator in the right way. We will talk about this, the question is correct.
11. S. (35:22) At first everything was determined by bitter and sweet and then something happened that the creature was able to choose bitter. What exactly was that?
R. That is something we have to learn that the will to receive seems to us either as bitter or sweet, the will to bestow also seems to us either as bitter or sweet, we scrutinize it by our sense or by truth or false. There are many things here we should establish in the right way.