Morning Lesson August 12, 2021 Transcription
Item 28 Twice
1. R. (03:17) Meaning there's a part of this excerpt that we understand but in the end with Moses and all those things completely not understood, what are the doubts in Moses that he was so faithful to the Creator. Meaning, he reached all the degrees from here to the end of correction. We don't have any profit, meaning he is in the highest degree of adhesion with the Creator and nobody was like Moses, so what is he writing here exactly? We cannot understand this yet, maybe we should read it again.
Item 28 reads again (04:00)
2. R. (04:59) Meaning it's clear from this that this whole process of ascending to the degree from the degree of bestowal, Bina to Keter to adhesion with the Creator, to correct the final correction of man is a process that is ready for all of humanity, as he writes, but for now there is only this group that has gathered from all nations that were in Babylon and connected, that group connected around Moses and that's how they went forward. We do feel inside of us a desire, a pressure to reach through the connection between us to adhesion in the upper force, to revealing the upper force. The rest aren't in this desire yet but of course, the way he writes that by this the sparks of purification will come and pass to everyone else. He said you will be my Segula, my remedy. Why do you exist? The sparks of purification will pass through you to all the nations of the world and that's what we need to see in our group.
The reader continues (06:40)
3. R. (06:58) Meaning at some point everybody needs to reach adhesion with the Creator that is the process we are going through.
Reader continues (07:07)
4. R. (07:17) Meaning I need some group that will go through this process and then through them I can bestow to everybody that's what the Creator says.
Reader continues (07:27)
5. R. (07:53) Meaning you must reach ‘love your friend as yourself’ in the final way and then through you, I can bestow those principles to all the other nations.
Reader continues (08:10)
6. R. (09:06) So if Moses is so straight in doing everything that the Creator is dictating to him and then he feels and understands the path, why is there any doubt that you can make a mistake and lead the nations behind him in the wrong direction and not in the right stages. What is going on in this last passage, we don't get it? He writes this is what the nations will, you will speak to the nations of Israel, say no more and no less and it is perplexing what is how can you say that Moses would add or take away from the words of the Creator? Meaning, not tell them exactly what the Creator is demanding of the people, to the point that the Creator had to warn him about it. We find how can it be that there are any doubts from Moses to not say exactly what the Creator is telling him and he doesn't pass it to the people, but maybe he can corrupt something here, that he won't say exactly what came from above. That it is perplexing how could you say that Moses would add or take away from the words of the Creator to the point that the Creator had to warn him, that we didn't find such an example in all of the Torah. On the contrary the Torah says about him for he is the trusted one in all of my house so how could it be that he will not do exactly what he got from the Creator and understood from him why is this question even here? Here in Item 29 he will explain it.
7. S. (11:20) This concept of Segula is not so clear. Can you explain?
R. I can't explain this is something we have to understand through our ascent to Gmar Tikkun, what it means to be a remedy the nation is a remedy first of all its building systems of bestowal like the Creator than bestowing from us to the whole world, that they will understand that only in such a way we can reach unity between us and the Creator. That's called to be the remedy, Segula, comes from the word Segol in Hebrew, its three dots that appear in the Hebrew alphabet that, the three dots, show us that Israel, the Torah and the Creator are one.
Item 29 (12:18)
8. R. (13:12) Meaning we already see the reason here why there was a fear that Moses won't pass towards the humans all of the severity of the work of in order to bestow and love of friends and so on. Because it is very difficult and from it being so difficult and so distant from small people. So even though he can do it himself he feels how hard it would be for them and that's why he wanted to find other ways to give it to them in a different way. For instance through religions and all kinds of philosophies and styles. That is really the main point where all of these methods came from, that have grown from the wisdom of Kabbalah, it's because of the weakness of man to keep the adhesion with the Creator. That we too, when we explain it to people who come to us also we explain it in a way that you know it's not bad, we can't give them all of the severity of the path that we are demanded to do. Also us, we are taking it we aren't taking it but only in a gradual way. Will you think of here soon something is going to come from ahead and every time we get just a bit more that has opened up and that's how it is you cover once and reveal twice, so in this way we advance.
Reader continues (15:20)
9. R. (16:04) Meaning don't reveal it at once and in a way that you have to reveal it, it's in order to bestow without receiving anything, no calculation for himself and everything above reason, but from the fear that they would not want to detach themselves from all material possessions, they will not want to let go of it. They will shut their eyes. We don't care about spirituality whatever happens - happens, and devote everything to the Creator to be a nation of priests, a kingdom of priests.
10. S. (16:50) Tell us please can we say that the state of Moses is a result of a complete annulment to the world and to the Creator?
R. Absolutely.
11. S. (17:14) Is it safe for us to treat each other on the potential level and to reveal only goodness and not hold onto anything else?
R. Eventually everything comes from the desire of the Creator to do good to His created beings. and in order for Him to be able to benefit His created beings, He created the will to receive with all of the conditions, that He wants to give him that good, that's it, that's where it all stems from, that. Let's say like parents who really want their child to grow and be educated and smart and known and healthy and strong. He needs to be everything so they try to give and give and give and that's how they want him to advance. There is nothing you can do. We have to do what the Kabbalists tell us and not stop in the middle and understand that all philosophies or faiths or religions have grown because people couldn't really discover what in order to bestow was and how they can be sufficient with all these little things. So that's why it is written, 1000 enter the room and one goes into the light. Because it is really, really difficult if you don't keep these conditions to be in the group and in the studies and then we advance. We have no choice, we are in a world that is entirely in a tendency towards the Gmar Tikkun and we are the first, we are the head of the whole group that is advancing towards the end of correction and we will need to reveal the correction quick, the results of it and explain it to the whole world and draw the whole world behind us. That is our role.
12. S. (20:13) You just said but you answer, in order to reach the state of being a remedy you had to uproot a group of people from Egypt and to wait until the generation of slaves died and then they were born free?
R. What are you asking?
S. How from all of this integration, how can we still help each other somehow?
R. I don't have answers for that, man shall help his friend, to do everything Rabash writes, he elaborated all these things in detail. What we never had before until now all of these thousands of years Kabbalists opened everything more and more and more until we reach the last generation and Rabash wrote everything in a clear and revealed manner and that is it. What else to discover, what else to reveal? I don't know, we just have to do what he wrote.
S. The thing is that here this picture that is now, you can't see, is that this whole explanation does not help us, everything that we are doing.
R. Correct, correct. Only annulment towards the group and towards the Creator and that you also are hearing about for a long time already.
S. I do hear.
R. You don't hear.
S. I do hear, the thing is in particular we get all this having us as a student of yours I feel the whole world on my shoulders and also in my physical life really until I am every time I'm getting more and more at work and with my family and here. It's not only that what saves me is only holding on to the 10. The smallest thing is we'll just drive me away. That's how I feel so how do we hold our friends so they won't leave?
R. That's the whole point that the main thing for us is, if we were connected in a true correct form as one man in one heart everything would be solved and by this we would reach impregnation and the end of correction because everything is measured according to the intensity of our connection in the 10. To the 10 more and more connect until all of this humanity what is this humanity? According to its will to receive it is a little pebble, until this we bring it into the Creator and go through all of those degrees of Ibur, Yenika, Mochin and become like Him and by that we reach the end of correction the general end of correction.
S. In order to reach the state of being a remedy to receive the Torah we bring them to a state where we understand that here's the place of the burial, this is the place of our burial?
R. Yes, and we reach it too. We will stand before that place, that here I can be buried or I enter spirituality, one of the two, each one will have to feel it and stand at that point.
S. I feel I am buried Rav, how are the desires of my friends in the 10, how to join them to be one?
R. You will see that it is possible it will happen on its own. We still anyway don't do anything the Creator is advancing us. We have to try to connect as much as we can and pray. We have nothing but connection between us against our will to receive, and see that the salvation from the Creator is in the blink of an eye.
13. S. (25:42) You said all the methods rose from the weakness of a person to keep the adhesion with the Creator. What about the method of connection to the world? What do we teach, where is that with relation to adhesion with the Creator?
R. What method of connection to the world? I don't know that.
S. That we call humanity to connect without talking about adhesion with the Creator only to connect between themselves.
R. Why are you calling it, Marxism and all the methods, Socialism? Why do you do it because you understand that you have to give humans a bait to have a good corporeal life and that's why it's worth connecting and so on its own.
S. Ok, so this bait if we call it the method of connection is this the preliminary stage to the work with the adhesion to the Creator?
R. No, to begin with no.
S. So this means that not everyone will work with adhesion with the Creator?
R. Why?
S. So again I didn't get it. We say that all the methods...
R. All methods will show as much as they're not aimed towards the right goal. That's why there are so many of them because it goes according to corporeal qualities that are in each and every one and in each and every nation. Then after a general crisis that will happen to all of humanity, it will cleanse it like a big tsunami, it will cleanse their heart and mind and they will understand that we must exist above what we have on earth, above this earth. Then above it is called to live in different qualities, in the quality of bestowal, that is the blow that we are now going towards which includes a few blows but all in all it is the below and it will awaken us.
S. Then they will turn to the work with adhesion with the Creator or they have a different method?
R. No, there are no other methods, it will be clarified from everything that humanity is going to go through because there is no other method except for existing in mutual bestowal and true love for everybody, for everybody, for all Earth dwellers.
S. So everybody is going to study the wisdom of Kabbalah?
R. No, they're all going to do natural actions in order to connect their hearts together.
S. Naturally?
R. Yes, naturally. If I see that a tsunami comes so all animals run away from the tsunami into the land and none of them devours the other, why? Because life is more important than me eating some rabbit on the way out. They don't eat each other on the way out and that they don't help each other but humans will help each other because they'll feel in such a way that we can save ourselves from our Titanic.
S. This is a connection at times of trouble?
R. Right, trouble. What do you think and we don't bring ourselves to troubles to a narrow place where there's no mercy and then only then can we choose the right path?
S. To what extent humanity is aware of the adhesion to the Creator that stems from the connection?
R. Adhesion that stems from the connection, it's not clear if they will know about it like the Creator but it will be clear that the upper force of nature that is working on us. Will be revealed as the Creator because God in Gematria is nature. Not like you imagine the Creator to yourself it will be revealed to them in a true way that all of nature that everything that determines and burdens us that quality is called the Creator and that general law is demanding connection between us called love. We aren't just saying love that it's something in society, it doesn't belong to society, it is the general law of all degrees of nature in all worlds. It is connection, mutual general connection that is adapted to the upper force and in that way material can resemble the upper force.
S. In this they will feel in their gut out of the connection without an intention into that?
R. Yes, of course you can bring a person a lot of knowledge or you can give him a few blows. We need to bring them the knowledge and we need to bring the message of correction, the explanation on the beginning and end of creation and whoever can do it will and whoever can't we'll do it through blows.
S. I'm asking about us, the ones who study Kabbalah. You said that we also bring ourselves to this narrow place without Hassadim and we generate imaginary troubles to strengthen the need for a connection between us?
R. Yes, we bring ourselves to very narrow states, that in them we will feel that we would rather be dead than alive and there is no choice. I can't run anywhere, because in these states we can really take a step towards ‘in order to bestow’.
S. But where is that?
R. To raise above reason isn't something we can do but only through very unpleasant pressure on behalf of nature of course, the Creator.
S. Can we rise above reason out of importance rather than the narrow and pressures of the state?
R. It's the path of Torah or suffering or usually it's in the middle as he explains to us in Matan Torah I think he explains it that there's a third path which is in the middle.
14. S. (33:39) In this article it says a few times that the Creator asks the people of Israel do you agree to that, where each and every person in Israel was asked, and you also said that, the revelation is gradual and every morning you come and tell us a certain portion. Should we agree to each of these portions and what does it mean that we agree to it?
R. You cannot agree, every day I am releasing another portion that I think that through these portions we can advance and I remind you about it, every morning, that throughout the day you will try to swallow this portion to digest it and be prepared for the next portion. Whoever doesn't do it or even resists it, so he has to check. Maybe his resistance is also a correct response of his body and that's how he is advancing and maybe he is just canceling this thing as if it doesn't exist and then he is just studying our method as philosophy and it doesn't go through him internally, emotionally and practically.
S. This agreement is personal; it is mutual how do you measure it?
R. I don't measure your agreements and what you are going through, I just know what I need to give you, that's it. I'm not teaching you according to your advancement, I'm serious, even if you don't advance let's say I will still try and every day give another spiritual portion from the method, and if it's not for you, it'll be for the group that comes later. That's how I'm relating to this. I cannot live according to your pace and your desire, even though I really want to. I want us to work together okay.
15. S. (36:20) In the beginning the Creator says to them, He talks to everyone and says, now if you will hear my voice and then he ends with words to Moses; It's as if in the end all the success depends on Moses, why is this so? Why is all the success dependent on one person?
R. Because Moses must explain to the nation the whole process of correction, with everything included there. You see that he doesn't tell Moses you must teach them and you must reach a state that they learn and know and do it but Moses’s role has ended when he passes them the method. And practically we see how it happened and how it keeps happening that, a few years after that the temple shattered, the destruction and then the second temple’s destruction, meaning, every time they wanted to build connections that weren't exactly like they got from Moses; they were many wars, in order to bestow, above reason, that only a small part of the nation of that group, that was burning to work in order to bestow, correctly, in adhesion to the Creator and the others were in all kinds of forms all kinds of other methods: Building the Temple, for what do you need the Temple? Praying in a certain way, studying in a certain way, meaning, people started to make a method for the masses out of it. There are no masses in such a group; the entire group has to be adhered to the Creator and that's it. That's why because they didn't follow this path they disappeared. They shattered and finished themselves, that's what happened and is still happening until today. let's hope that we, that are already as Baal HaSulam writes in the last generation, we will be able to resurrect ourselves in a way that it will truly be a group and after that as he writes, we will pull the whole world through problems and troubles and suffering through all kinds of things that will escort us to; That we will all connect and ascend to adhesion with the Creator quickly, in our days, it have to really happen in our time. Let's hope that we will all reach it and see it.
16. S. (40:14) Moses a man that knows about faith above reason, at the end even though he has good reason and good intention, here he wants to change the words of the Creator so this story could have gone…(Cut off by Rav)
R. We can't scrutinize what happened there. It is a very long and complex story. I don't want to get into it. What happened, happened, we need to speak about what we have today, sorry.
17. S. (41:08) When you answered one of the questions of the friends in the lesson you told him that the spiritual work doesn't take much time, it requires the heart.
R. Let me correct myself, spiritual work can take place and be realized in man, 24 hours a day. But in practice connecting in the group, sitting to study, we don't need many hours for that, but afterwards a person needs to live this, he needs to live this, this is like a mother that has a baby at home and she has to leave and go to the store and work maybe, or else, she is constantly thinking about him; that is how we have to constantly be in our spiritual work, no matter what we're doing.
S. Now, each one of us goes his way, one person goes to work, the other goes to sleep and my thoughts will be at my work. How can I hold on to these thoughts in my heart? I understand the example of the mother and child but I'm not a mother so it's hard to understand this.
R. Try to constantly be in connection with your spiritual path and with the 10. If the friends all think how we are demanding and concerned and in mutual concern, not to disconnect from the spiritual work then, man help his friend and you will feel that you can easily be in this.
I just want to ask one thing, if Maurice will not ask a question now, can he live until tomorrow? Good.