Morning Lesson July 13, 2022, Transcription
Transcription is made from simultaneous translation which leaves a possibility for differences in the audio
Part 2:
Baal HaSulam. The Meaning of Conception and Birth (The Birth to Father and Mother)
Reading from heading (00:05): “The Birth to Father and Mother - At that time…”
1. R. (00:33) Note that he is addressing the togetherness, many people that gather together.
Continue reading (0:41) “first the kingdom…”
2. R. (01:48) Meaning we cannot connect all these things together the way it was described in the exodus from Egypt and on Mount Sinai and this whole process that we barely maybe heard about or read once but rather we see that these things are explained in several methods on several levels several languages there is the spiritual language which is the language of Kabbalah Sefirot, Partzufim, worlds, etc. there is the spoken language which is the biblical language which talks about the whole process where some ancient nation went through a certain process, exiting Egypt exiting Egypt and after Egypt the reception of the Torah where it is explained to them that if you’re going to connect you will become by this something holy, something holy meaning differentiated, as the groom says to the bride you are sanctified upon me where now you belong just to me. Holy means that you are differentiated outwards towards belonging to someone and that’s what the Creator’s saying, you are holy and belong to me now. This is after you have connected in Egypt, and you have come to Mount Sinai meaning willing to rise above the Sinaa the hatred between you and therefore you will be to me holy and sanctified and you will be called a holy nation. Holy being a nation that belongs to me, being on the same level of connection, the same adhesion, we are found to be connected to me now. and that’s it. This is actually what he’s saying.
3. S. (04:10) What is the state where a soul is born?
R. The clothing of the Creator in the created being is actually the disclosure, the revelation of the soul where there is already a desire in the created being which is completely whether it’s small or great it’s not important but that it is in order to bestow that’s called the feeling of the next world, the feeling of spirituality, the feeling of the Creator connection with Him to a certain extent at least to a small extent and this is called the soul.
S. It has a mother and father?
R. Those are already the forces that are revealed in the soul it’s all attained from within the soul, just like a child who’s born then from being born and developing from within himself he starts to attain that he has a father and a mother.
S. What is the mother and the father of the soul?
R. Forces that operate together in the soul and stabilize, establish the soul as it is the force of reception and force of bestowal that connect together and in their connection stabilize the embryo.
S. There is some relationship with these forces?
R. On the side of the embryo of the child?
S. Yes, the newborn soul.
R. Yes, yes of course.
S. What is the relationship between the grown soul and…?
R. Well sir I'm not going to talk to you about this right now it’s a system, this is the system it’s the building of the recognition of coarseness, the screen, the reflected light, relations, intentions all that there is this is already life on the degrees in degrees of nearing of incorporation.
4. S. (06:37) Can we say that there’s two degrees, the kingdom of priests and holy nation? One is to bestow in order to bestow and then receiving in order to bestow?
R. Yes.
Continue reading (07:03) “Posterior and Anterior - Man's eyes are before him…”
5. S. (09:37) Why here in the beginning of the paragraph he talks about conception?
R. Because that was before a person was born to this world where the forces that cascaded from Above downwards until it began to establish it as one that’s born in this lower world.
6. S. (10:18) Why is it important to know about conception?
R. Because this has to do with attainment, attainment of a person we need to attain it all everything that the Creator did for us both for the past and the present and the future we need to attain it all why, because by that we grow our soul we intensify it and we become more adhered to Him therefore we need this we must have this, you are right what do we need that for why all together do I need to attend something, I need to let’s say to know that I’m in the Creator and to nullify before Him in every possible way as a point as of Black Point within the white light no, I must obtain all the light all the attitude of the Creator towards me and to unify and adhere to Him
S. Just to clarify the question he asked about why is it important to understand the conception that we’re talking about here?
R. Because without that I wouldn’t know what the Creator wants for me, I won’t know Him.
7. S. (12:01) We learned that you can’t look backwards but only forwards and he talks about it here.
R. Not true not true you’re not looking backwards you’re progressing forward and by that you’re attaining what’s behind you the questions right it’s correct but that’s the answer.
S. So I don't understand what he says here, he says that man’s eyes are before him this implies that he can only look to the future in the manner of growth from below upwards however he cannot look behind him, what does it mean?
R. That we need to advance forward and by advancing forward we can study or investigate the path just like in us in our world the scientist by advancing, and science is progressing, we nevertheless we are going through the digs that we’re going to, all kinds of studies also in space of what was there billions of years ago and also within the ground and all these kinds of ways this helps us to understand the present and to be more connected to the force that's operating on it.
S. I remember you taught us for years you said stop looking backwards like a fool sitting in his own lap eating his own flesh, so I always relied on the past on the troubles I went through so how can you forget about these things, I would sit and eat myself up and you would say stop doing it.
R. That is correct that I said that to you and I'm saying that same thing to you again stop eating yourself up over your past everything that happened until this moment was nevertheless under the control of the Creator only you can say, but now if I were to do something the next moment after that next moment I will also be able to say that this all came from the Creator? Also, but now I'm about to do certain transgression, no you're going to do, go and you do it, it’s the Creator that will do it through you.
S. So you're basically saying forget what happened and just forget what happened just because if you always hold onto what happened my head is there.
R. That’s the fool who’s sitting with his hands folded over and is eating his own flesh.
S. So what do you recommend doing in these cases? The past could be very rich with even sins.
R. It’s not important sinning or not sinning, you think in the next world when you come to the court and the judges will stand there they’ll look at you so they will judge you for all the transgressions and crimes that you did in this world in this life upon earth, to who will they turn to who are they going to look at you who are you what are you with all the strings that you are being operated upon like a marionette, yes it all comes from above you’re a puppet on strings what do you think that the upper judges are going to look at a person and attribute to a person everything he did, who is that person what is he the Creator an angel?
S. So according to what you say everything I did in the past I am not guilty?
R. You didn’t even do it you don’t belong to that you weren’t even living in it.
S. So everything's from above even if I do something bad?
R. There is no good or bad because it is all kind of being cascaded before your eyes it's rolling before your eyes.
S. So you're saying there’s nothing evil a person does, everything he does is from Above.
R. He also doesn’t do good.
S. Doesn't do good?
R. Yes of course he doesn’t do good.
S. What is good and what is bad?
R. He doesn’t do not acts of bestowal and he doesn’t do acts that are against bestowal all that he does is only in order to know how to get to know his good inclination and evil inclination after this corporeal development when he will be more developed, we are now in our world are beginning just to come to the time that’s why it is called the last generation where we have developed thus far in a sufficient manor the initial primary first step in getting to know the force of bad and the force of good in creation that’s it, from here onwards we will start.
S. It comforts me according to what you said so if I did bad things in the past so there's no punishment basically.
R. Who are you, there's no you, the will to receive without your governance was operating in you and you did what you did and then you did, none of that is counted or considered what is there to judge a person for?
S. So it shows that I wasn’t even the one doing all of these transgressions.
R. You see where the wisdom of Kabbalah begins, it begins from a person going through a restriction a screen reflected light and then begins to develop and before that before that he’s immersed in his will to receive and the will to receive is completely in the hands of the Creator there is no handle man in it and to extend in which a person acquires the restriction and the screen then he also begins somewhat who enter into the system of the heavens to the holy to the sanctified system.
S. So you're saying only when you attain something then it’s called a sin or punishment or something of that sort?
R. Not sin and not punishment or anything everyone resembles a beast an animal and only with the help of a screen we are talking about the fact that there is a created being an Adam one that resembles the Creator according to the extent in which the Masach the screen operates in him.
S. By the way, the first time I hear it it's very comforting.
R. So all the transgressions that you've done as if you didn’t do them you've been forgiven.
S. It's comforting in short. I really hope that’s the truth ultimately.
R. Look what content I gave him look how happy a person is he thought that he’s got hell before him that he’ll be burnt there and what will not be, and now not, just like that.
S. I was certain that that's what it was.
R. The only thing that will tell about you here is that here is where the dog is buried.
S. I hope you’ll be next to me and comfort me as well.
R. I will also be next to you, and they’ll say the same about me.
8. S. (19:52) The ten, when does the ten begin to be aware of its work in ten people?
R. When it connects to ten people to the ten when it connects or it connects at least partially two it’s also already a group it is also a ten even though it’s power is very small but the more you’re close to ten that is how we grow.
S. Just to refine the question when is the ten becoming aware of its conception as a ten?
R. The moment they begin to see themselves in their eyes and their corporal eyes as a ten they already enter into Ibur into conception, and it is desirable for them not to forget this and to hold on to this as much as possible as much as they’re capable and then by that they also operate the upper force that begins from this moment onwards to operate them and care for them.
9. S. (21:26) We more or less understand what it means to look forward, you mentioned what it is to look backwards but according to the text we it says that we need to look forward. What does that mean?
R. A person looks within himself inside his desires his impressions his Reshimot his records and by that he can both investigate his past and his future.
10. S. (22:07) How to perceive the next state? Supposed to be relieved from the ego.
R. Friends I just want one to tell you one thing we are reading articles of Baal HaSulam but are not articles they're not written for the broad public he wrote this as a draft for himself so that maybe later at some point to expand on it and write a whole book a long book so from these short paragraphs it’s very hard for me for us to learn a lot and I also don’t want to confuse you. We are here reading about spiritual degrees, upper degrees let's say we have before us now to read about the 50th gate, the 50th gate is a very exalted high spiritual degree well how can I explain that to you?
Reading headline (23:20) “The Fiftieth Gate” - “ This is the meaning of the verse ‘You will see my back, but my face should not be seen’…”
11. R. (24:07) Until the highest possible degree that’s called the 50th gate.
Continue reading (24:14) “Since the level of Bina is 100 gates...”
12. R. (27:54) Well these are such concealed matters that we cannot philosophize about them I don’t think that it is suitable to us we just need to hear what is written and for the time being we will try to come to it at some point of course we will get there but now to understand them well, let's see what friends want to ask.
13. S. (28:28) I wanted to be precise, it says here that Moses asked to see the glory of the Creator. What does that mean? What is that request?
R. That is to probably reach the revelation of the bestowal of the Creator in a complete manner to all of the created beings to the revelation of the Keter.