Morning Lesson November 11, 2021, Transcription
Transcription is made from simultaneous translation which leaves a possibility for differences from audio
Baal HaSulam. The Freedom (Four Factors)
Reader reading The Freedom, heading Four Factors “Bear in mind that every emergence occurring.”
1. R. (03:08) Meaning there's the initial source, the first matter comes from nothing, from not existing. That is the first initial matter that is what happens that is what it's called the first reason, the source.
2. S. (03:30) It is not clear when he says in the first condition that it is an entity that it took another form from its previous one, what was the previous form?
R. Everything that we see there's something that came before and caused it to formulate it. But there is a certain matter called the first reason, the source that he is the source, the first matter, that is it. We will learn that it is the will to receive, that it came into existence from absence. Why, from what absence. Because there was before no will to receive and it just formulated from zero, from not existing. That is why he says the source means the first matter related to that being for there's nothing new under the sun and anything that happens in our world is not existence from absence. Like it happened with the source but existence from existence. It is an entity that has stripped off its former shape and takes on a different form and that entity that shed its previous form is defined as the source. And it lies the lies the potential destined to be revealed and determine the end of this formation in its emergence that it is clear you can consider this primary cause that is the source. That is how it is in each and everything. How do we learn about it in the 4 phases of direct light? There was something, some desire that is somewhat different from the upper light in the quality of bestowal and that difference caused the emergence of the first four phases of direct light and the final degree is the will to receive.
Reader continues (06:23) “The Second reason: Cause and Effect that stem from itself.”
Reader continues “The Third reason: Internal Cause and Effect.”
3. R. (09:39) So these are already alien forces, alien causes.
Reader continues (09:44) “Thus we find that from one stalk of wheat.”
4. R. (11:46) That is how it works on the source of the wheat when it starts changing.
Reader continues (11:56) “The Fourth reason: Cause and Effect through Alien Things.”
5. R. (13:55) So that is the final cause.
Reader continues (14:10) “Hereditary Possessions. The cause of the first reason.”
6. S. (19:39) We are talking inheritance that is not given?
R. Where did you see anything about spirituality?
S. Are we talking with physical pictures here?
R. The Torah does not go in inheritance. The fact that Baal HaSulam had such a special son like Rabash or Rabbi Shimon had such a special son, it is as if a coincidence. But actually it doesn't have to be that way, completely not.
S. [no translation]
R. Here we have to understand that if we are talking about spirituality so a father and son are cause and effect, it is two states, this could be in one person or it could be two people that have no physical connection whatsoever not like a father and son in our world and so on. If you are speaking about corporeally, it is corporeal and spiritual is spirituality. You have to approach it every time corporeal through corporeality and spirituality through spirituality.
7. S. (21:18) He writes here something that could be very confusing without your explanation. When he says that not only the corporeal possessions come to us from ancestors but also the spiritual but you just explained it.
R. That is one thing and second thing is even if something comes, we will learn what could come in the corporeal way, it doesn't obligate anything because the freedom of choice remains, it exists in each and every one.
S. So what is corporeal and spirituality in this text? What does it mean that corporeal possession comes to us by inheritance?
R. In corporeality it is clear that yes, usually we see it in our lives. A painter, musician, all kinds of special tendencies towards something. It is not because he got educated at home but because still it goes through the genes. You can see there are whole villages for instance that make something, create something, paint something even in the atmosphere of nature influences that. Everything around in spirituality, no, it has no effect on spirituality, nothing. That Torah does not go through inheritance. That is a law. If you want to give a child obviously you want to give him some special preparation for spirituality so you raise him and you teach him, by him really accepting it and continuing it, we have more examples that it does not work at all. Compared to the good example supposedly. Meaning there is nothing spiritual that can go through corporeality. But if you have a father and the father had a child so now the child got something spiritual from the father but by coming out of his seat. It is just Idol worshipping.
S. When he says that even spiritual states pass on spiritual attributes, here it is cause and effect?
R. Completely not corporeal and then all Torah is completely ruined if we think about it in such a way. It all depends on the father and the grandfather and the rights of the father's love for us, the rights of the forefathers is something completely different. That is clear. That is why you should not feel sorry for someone who is not a grandson of the great spiritual people.
8. S. (25:06) Can we say that all of our advancement, the advancement of the wheat is only to discover the source, the origin?
R. Eventually yes.
9. S. (25:19) So it turns out that a person that is climbing on the degrees he has to live by the rules of our corporeal world and our spiritual world and they are not connected?
R. Yes.
10. S. (25:45) We say that there is no corporeal, that everything is spiritual so what do we learn from this article so what does he want to tell us, I don't understand.
R. He wants to tell us that there's such a disturbance in our lives that we call them corporeal. Corporeal it appears and the fact that is coming to us from a spiritual root that includes everything. But don't ascribe corporeal things to spiritual things because it all comes from the Creator. But it is not talking about you. You need to accept these things and behavior within the Kabbalists tell us. We will keep reading and you will see what is happening. There you see the next title is the influence of the environment that corrects actually everything and by spiritual development with all the friends, by our connection between us by this we reach a state that everything organizes out. It all depends on the person wanting to resemble the Creator, that is, the rest comes from above, we everyone, we are as beasts.
11. S. (27:28) From what father did we get the seed of this spiritual potential?
R. That is from the upper force. Ask the Creator if you want to get an answer for that, why you got the awakening and your neighbor didn't.
12. S. (27:49) We have some confusion between this, the form and the qualities. Can we define that a spiritual form is the collection?
R. No, the spiritual form is only revealed through the connection of the coarseness and the screen.
13. S. (28:25) Throughout the day when we come out of the lesson, what is our free choice?
R. Now in the 2 minutes that we have to the end of the lesson you want me to explain what is the freedom of choice? Our free choice is to constantly prefer the connection with friends and through the friends to the Creator. That is it. The rest go and study.
14. R. (29:09) I'm asking you to go through the articles we read in the morning that it will be really understood from the beginning to the end and from end to the beginning, in two directions because it is an article that has a lot in it and if you take it of something fundamental it will help us open many more things. By this we will end.