Morning Lesson March 16, 2022, Transcription
Transcription is made from simultaneous translation which leaves a possibility for differences in the audio
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Baal HaSulam. The Peace (The Wheel of Transformation of the Form. start with: "These are the words of Rabbi Akiva:")
1. R. (03:55) This is why we see that in our world there's a small group, even individuals who are willing to take upon themselves this matter of taking from the world exactly as much as they can return. Meaning they use the conditions there are in, in order to reach equivalence of form with the Creator. There are those who don't feel it at all, nobody told them, they don't know about it. Some try to do it, and some already have reached it; their attempts and according to the way they try to do it, they are in equivalence of form with the Creator in different spiritual degrees.
Reading continues Rabbi Akiva (04:55) “Rabbi Akiva depicts…”
2. R. (06:39) Meaning here there are two kinds of people, of course most of them don't understand what it's about at all, they think the shop is open and they can come and use the entire creation as much as possible, as much as they want. That's both in corporeality and spirituality as much as they understand in each of them, they simply exploit the whole earth and themselves and the relations between them as much as each one thinks it will do good to him, according to his small ego, his corrupted ego. There are those who don't, they already understand that there is a calculation by nature there, just as we now start, the whole world starts to somehow take in this direction: that you can't take whatever you feel like rather you have to reach a state where we'll have to return, we'll have to pay back; otherwise we'll reach a state where soon will have nothing to live off, our Earth is not infinite. This will teach us that we need to relate properly to Nature and later to the Creator. This teaching will be hard but there is no choice. That's how humanity will reach a state where it will start understanding that we have some calculation; very, very strict, harsh calculation, and it belongs to us. It's about us, we have to cover all that. Whatever we use, in everything, we have to give in return.
3. S. (08:48) From this article, how important for us in the ten to write everything down? Should we print it, is there something we need to put into letters and words?
R. Whatever you agree upon yourselves. It doesn't necessarily have to be written down, your agreements. Even if you talk about it, because it's not important how much is written. Then you'll start to scrutinize each one what you meant when you wrote that down? No, you shouldn't do that. It's best to always go by small things as much as you understand them and then decide about them, not more than that. What you can't in the meantime will be still under dispute, so don't do it. That's how you will advance.
4. S. (10:18) He's saying that there are two kinds of people: those that want to borrow and take the owner into account and those who don't. What are those two types of people, who are they?
R. There is one type they are Kabbalists; because they feel they received everything from the upper force and by receiving from a force they have an opportunity to come into contact with the upper force and in equivalents of form. Just as you asked when you go into a shop, you ask how much that cost? and you're willing to pay and then you receive it from the owner. Then, there's a connection between you; He gives you what you want, and you give Him what He wants, so under these conditions we can be with the Creator. When we receive from Him what we think is good for us, and we're willing to pay Him; what's going on here is that we're paying the Creator by exertion, against our ego and we receive forces from Him that we can work above our ego: A Masach, a screen.
S. Who Bnei Baruch belong to, which group?
R. Of course we want to be in connection with the landlord, the store owner. Because the other half don't even feel that there's a store, that it's open, that you have to go in there and that you can get stuff there, and whatever you get you have to pay for. Meaning to complete your reception, people don't feel that.
S. He claims here that if you take out a loan you have to repay. What does that mean to repay the loan?
R. That you can receive, even though you don't have what to pay with, you are obligated to pay later.
S. What do I return that’s the question?
R. You're asking for forces to bestow, that with them you'll be able to perform actions of bestowal, so you give them back to the Creator, you aim towards Him.
S. Anyhow will we be able to repay the loan?
R. Will give it back, there's no problem about that. The question is, how much do we agree according to the development?
S. What? What did you say? What do you mean we'll agree to return the loan?
R. As much as we, according to our development, are willing to agree and to get forces from the Creator; by then to perform actions of bestowal.
S. There are conditions to that?
R. They are conditions. Otherwise the Creator doesn't give us the force to bestow.
S. What is the basic condition?
R. Whatever I do with the force of bestowal that I receive form to the Creator I'll use it in order to bestow. That's the force of the restriction, screen and reflected light; and then I can give back to the Creator what I perform upon this force.
S. That’s it. That takes time you don't need to immediately repay the loan, it takes time?
R. You can say so.
5. S. (14:14) In the store you can get both, pleasure to bestow and torments?
R. Yes let's say. One group buys, well they don't buy, they take pleasure. And, the other group takes forces to bestow and perform actions to bestow. Meaning, in the store there are two purposes, for whoever goes into the store: one group takes for himself as much as possible, and thinks he can take from all the shelves, everything they can until the group he’s in allows it, and the police, the court, all limit him. The second group is the Kabbalists, they only want forces of bestowal and by these forces of bestowal they already perform a calculation and give back to the landlord, to the store owner.
S. The first group that takes the pleasure and thinks that you can just take the pleasures. Is there a difference of cause and effect regarding nature? Is there a way for them to understand that they are in a shop, and there is a shopkeeper and a book?
R. There is, they gradually receive such knowledge and through blows and all kinds of work on is just like you, like all of us. We all come from a group of criminals and gradually come closer to the understanding that there is a store and there is a store owner.
S. The question is if we can understand this without suffering. I see that sometimes you talk to people and if a person hasn't suffered enough it is really hard to talk to him?
R. We are speaking about two groups: One group is Bnei Baruch, which understand this and want to use these things only by receiving and giving back. We want to get force of bestowal from above, from the Creator and with the force of bestow we can work with our will to receive in order to make it a system that bestows, that’s what we have. The second group do not know and don't understand, they think they can go in there and suck everything out of the earth and whatever is in there, it’s all ours. They have no calculation with the store owner, and the Creator organized it in such a way so they can grow and gradually come closer to Him.
S. We in Bnei Baruch and the Kabbalists, the ones who want the force of bestowal, our final goal is to come into the shop and come out of it or to keep working in the shop?
R. Until everything that is in the store you can buy in order to bestow.
S. This is the goal?
R. Of course. The goal is to use all of reality; this world and especially the spiritual world and use it all in order to bestow. Just like the Creator bestows upon you through all this reality, you bestow back to Him through all this reality.
S. Meaning the ones who steal don't even come to accept the good things from the shop, they just take the simplest things.
R. Yes, just in order to fill their ego. Only with the lowest, tiniest things.
6. S. (19:03) In the ten the temptation to love the friends along with the rejection and the ego is this a payment for the shopkeeper?
R. Partially, we will see more payments soon.
S. (19:22) How do we reach a state that we want to borrow?
R. I want to get forces to bestow, that is called that I want a loan. What can I take from the Creator from the shopkeeper? Only what He has, and He has the force of love and bestowal. In the whole store that we have here, so I see all the pleasures of this world that I can receive egotistically. Meaning one goes in and takes everything off the shelves and fills his basket and leaves and the other does not search for all these pleasures of this world to fill the basket with. He's searching for forces to bestow, how he can acquire them and then the Creator gives it to him.
S. How can I feel that it is all right to take from the host to borrow?
R. That is according to your intention. What do you want to take from the shopkeeper? You take things that are necessary in order to live and on that there's no calculation. Because according to the beast part of you, you are not in charge of that. It is the beast that has to exist under the framework that is necessary for it so you can take and there is no calculation about it. if you take beyond that there is a calculation even though you're taking it to your corporeal life. And above that there's a calculation with the shopkeeper whether you want the forces to bestow.
S. How am I making the right calculation that I am not taking that too much or that I'm not stealing?
R. It is according to your intention whether to receive or bestow.
S. How do I scrutinize this intention that is truly correct, that I'm truly taking the exact amount for me to have bestowal?
R. If you can, along with your actions still be in adhesion with a Creator, so your intention is to bestow.
S. Through the ten, how does it happen?
R. Through the ten, through all of reality of course.
S. (22:09) What is the Arvut, the guarantee that we will repay?
R. The Creator's the shopkeeper and it turns out that don’t just go into the store and take something. When you are before the store outside of the store and wherever you are, you are in His store completely, you cannot run away from Him. That is why in every moment in any place you're either stealing or paying and he's doing a calculation with you.
S. In our world if we take there is a feeling of shame, how is that in spirituality, is it also working this way?
R. The main shame is revealed in the spiritual world. In our world it’s not shame, it is fear that someone will catch you stealing. It is not the shame we're speaking about in spirituality.
Reading (23:43) “And if you say…”
R. (25:41) Meaning we have no choice we are going to have to pay this and that. The question is about the person Himself as much as he, even though all the calculations and the Creator is the shopkeeper and sees everything and manages everything, we are speaking about a person with his conscience with his point in the heart as much as he organizes himself with the Creator in a direct true way and constant. That he does not run away from the Creator under some states and times as if the Creator is not in charge and then He is in charge. That is our work precisely.
S. (26:33) Missing translation
R. These are the laws of nature that work on us and obligate us, either burden our hearts and by that they help us, or they burden our hearts, and it doesn’t help us, but it works on our heart that we will want or not want to advance this way or that way. Either in order to receive or in order to bestow.
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S. It simply turns out that what Baal HaSulam writes here is that I have to pay for everything for every pleasure in this shop. It's not the same thing as what the collectors seemingly collect because I have to give the Creator.
R. The forces of nature that work on us perform the commands of the Creator and in such ways they bring us closer to in order to bestow. That is it and this is how we advance.
S. (27:53) Let's say a day has passed and I got something. How can I know that I paid for it?
R. Only according to the intention and what is revealed to you in your thoughts and your desires. According to that you can see your attitudes toward the Creator.
S. Missing translation.
R. Whatever isn’t revealed isn’t revealed. From us we are demanded to work according to what the Creator is revealing to us.
S. (29:08) What does it mean to be ready to receive from the shop?
R. To pay, to pay for what you are getting. Meaning you get forces and then use them in order to bestow.
S. (29:33) How can we in the group relate to someone fulfilling his needs on the account of the group?
R. If it's like a baby, a new friend so we need to wait until they grow. If it's not a baby anymore it is not a new friend, so we need to demand of him, like in a new group, demand of him to participate in the group correctly. By that he becomes a friend to everyone and connects to everyone.
S. (30:22) People who suffer much, is that because they have a big debt to the shopkeeper?
R. Not specifically. We don't know how these calculations work.
S. (30:40) Can the shopkeeper cause you to pay first in order to see how much you can receive from the shop?
R. There are such states that we obviously need to prepare ourselves before we reach calculation with the Creator. That we need to prepare ourselves of course in the connection between us, in the concession to the friends in the group to connect between us and the group. We prepare ourselves for the plea to the Creator. Without that there is nothing to turn to Him about. He does not see you. If you don't use the condition He put before you, that you need to be connected with the friends and then come to Him, if you do not connect with your friends, so you have nothing to come to Him with. You have nothing to come to Him with. That is why there is nothing to do here. There are clear laws.
S. (32:04) How can a group examine itself if it is taking the shopkeeper into account?
R. A group that understands and knows they're good and they look at the host so they can connect and from the connection they turn to that shopkeeper, ask for forces and with these forces they turn to Him again and ask for connection and ask for advancement and ask for work. That whatever they need to do will be revealed between them in order to come close to the Creator together.
S. (32:49) Right now in this moment we're asking for the prayer of the World Kli for peace, the bombs in Kyiv have increased right now.
R. We need with all these people that are under this pressure from the war, we need to try and be with them in heart and soul for both sides suffering from everyone suffering from the war. Our organization needs to think about the general peace that will be for those two parts of the war that they will not be contradicting but only to the extent that they can rise above this contradiction and be connected and in this way we will be able to aid on our behalf to that state. Let's hope it will end quickly in a way that both sides will be whole about it.
Reading (34:29): “However there is a great difference and distance…”
R. We talked about it a lot that there are two types of people, types of souls. Parts that are ready for their correction and advancement according to the laws of nature and the part that is still activated by their egos and that's how they advance. So we are in the middle, we are coming out of our ego gradually. We want to awaken the upper forces of nature upon us and that they will help us advance as much as possible and let's hope that in such a way we will be incorporated in spiritual forces and that they will work on us, bestow on us, and correct us and this way we can connect and change.
S. (38:00) How can I repay for something I bought if sometimes I don’t understand what I bought?
R. You have to keep going according to your group. You don't have a calculation for yourself only to the group and in the group as much as you turn to the Creator, which is what you have to measure, what you acquired and what you didn't.
S. (38:30) How can we pay? What is collected from us and in what way? Are we talking about suffering?
R. We're paying with mutual bestowal between us and our friends. In this way we are continuing the forces of the Creator to bestow to our friends with the same forces that we can help each other resemble the Creator. That is actually our payment towards the Creator that we want to be like him. According to that we will be called Adam, man who resembles the Creator.
S. (39:06) How can we summarize at the end of the day how we applied the lesson? How much we repaid the debt?
R. That as much as you bestow upon one another you can come closer to one another. You feel that you are in one desire in one heart and in this way you can summarize what you did.
S. (39:36) What is the definition of the members of the ten in this shop?
R. It is those who connect together and from our mutual desire we reach that payments towards the Creator and receive his revelation through the restriction, screen, in the coarseness that is already aimed in order to bestow. That is our mutual payment, so in short we call it restriction screen and reflected light on our behalf and then the Creator is revealed as the reward, as the payment. That is our work, which is our action.
R. The summary of the lesson is that we have to try to scrutinize between us how in our connection we build our mutual desire, that by it we reach the Creator and to such an extent that by participating between us and the Creator we can reach in order to bestow or the Kli to have the forces to bestow so the Creator can shine on us and from that illumination we, from that, reach a spiritual action. That the Creator clothes in our bestowal towards Him and that should be the summary from the lesson or from our day, always. What did we attain by building a new vessel for the Creator to reveal himself?
Love will cover all crimes.