Part 2
Morning Lesson November 25, 2021, Transcription
Transcription is made from simultaneous translation which leaves a possibility for differences from audio
Baal HaSulam. The Freedom (The General Shape of the Progenitor Is Never Lost)
1. R. (0:19) This is a fundamental article and we are not through with it yet. It is a very long article. Baal HaSulam usually when he starts a subject, he usually wants to realize all the way. To talk about it from all the different angles and cases. Here too we see that we are through with the first part and now we are starting with the second part.
Reading (0:50): The Freedom “The General Shape of the Progenitor Is Never Lost”
2. R. (02:36) Because each and every one of us has a different root and this determines already that no one resembles the other. But there is a difference in their role and duties accordingly, and the goal is accordingly to the final direction for each and every one. Meaning that no one can replace another. There's no one that can connect to someone instead of someone else or to help someone. Each and every one is very important. The truth is that there is no difference between humans in their importance. We talked about it. The way you feel and think about it, but the truth is that with respect to the general vessel, with all the different parts that are necessary, accordingly we cannot say the one is more important or less. Rather everyone is the same in importance. The fact that one is correct the first and the other later and their roles are different, this is only on the path on the correction that is revealed to us. Ultimately when we all join into one vessel there is no difference between one man and other.
3. S. (04:20) This state, this condition that no one resembles the other, this is something that comes from the shattering but it is the work of the Creator and no part in no way will resemble another part. Is that why each one is so different from the other?
R. Each one has to be different from the other because these are complete ten sefirot and a special incorporation for each and everyone. That is why to begin with it is clear that there is nothing here. What is the meaning of resembling another? You may resemble one another but no one can compensate or correct another. Or can be instead of someone else, this is more correct. No one, because each and everyone has a root, a source, a special incorporation with different alien forces. That is why there is no state but rather we are all special. Each and every one is special. No one has what the other has. That is how we need to relate to all the friends and in general to all the people in the world. And from here we have many laws of how we should relate to the still, vegetative, animate and how we need to keep a good relation and good attitude, with mutual support for each other. If we use some part of nature, we eat, or drink, or use something, it certainly has to be in the direction of the necessary and the good. Only in the direction of correction.
4. S. (06:40) If each one is different, there is at least one thing that is different from someone else, so what does it mean to connect? How do you connect?
R. We connect in this, just like you have connections in your car. I think you understand about the parts in the engine. How each one of them is different from the other but are they connected? Do they determine the different states for each other? That is how we are. Each one has its own character. In spirituality the difference between each other is very prominent. Because even if there's a small difference in a partial sefira, it changes your whole behavior. Specifically because these forms are so different, later we get completion and then the correction comes.
S. So the main thing we need is to put an emphasis on connecting like parts in an engine or the compensation between us? What is the main part?
R. Let's see what he writes and you will have more words and it will be more clear to you what he means. I will tell you just one thing. We do not go into the individual work for each and every one. Rather we only hold and strengthen each other to hold and to reach this compensation, this completion. Here it is only to what extent each one can compensate for the other and complete the other. Meaning, what the role of the other is, by integrating as much as you can and by that you do it. But certainly by that you do not erase yourself and do not move to the different, other, side. It simply uses this compensation. It's very hard to express is by words. Let's see what he writes.
Reader continues (09:12): Heading of “The Necessity to Preserve the Freedom of the Individual”
5. R. (10:41) This means that it is clear that it reached compensation. It cannot be that it hasn't reached. But it requires a lot of time and effort from the system.
Reader continues (10:57): “accordingly we must understand that when a particular.”
6. R. (12:48) This means that our world advances specifically by the strong nations overcoming the weaker nations. Oppressing them, using them, and exploiting them. Certainly, this world cannot advance this way. We still have great corrections to do in order to correct this distorted nature that we have.
Reader continues (13:22): “hence it is clear to all that peace cannot exist in the world…”
7. R. (16:42) This means that still this beast which is us, our body, in its intellect and its mind which is entirely in order to receive, and its emotion that can’t distinguish if it's receiving or not. In this whole structure there is something that has a spiritual root. Why do we exist specifically this way, and why do we develop on to become spiritual people.
Reader continues (17:22): “Perhaps these interpretations could ease the mind.”
8. R. (18:12) Until this day, we are in a state, a picture, where all the scientists on the less are looking each in his own science where is there a spiritual core, where science is growing or men, be it psychology or whatever, everything you have. The answer for that is given in the next part, ‘The Will to Receive—Existence from Absence,’ that there is no connection between corporeality and spirituality in any which way. Neither in the physical external way where we want to connect it to certain internal qualities, this form of Adam, nor in the inner qualities in his mind and emotion, no connection to spirituality whatsoever and there cannot be a connection, only if we go deep and develop what we call the point in the heart.
Reader continues (19:42): “The Will to Receive - Existence from Absence”
9. R. (22:16) That is a thing that is clear to us somehow, we heard about it, we read about it, and we also feel it about ourselves.
Reader continues (22:36): “Two Forces in the Will to Receive: An Attracting Force and a Rejecting Force”
10. S. (24:08) In the ten we are obligated to reach the freedom of every individual?
R. I do think we can discuss this now. Rather, we need, on the one hand, to give each and every friend in the ten the freedom to develop, on the one hand. On the other hand, we need to help each and every friend to develop. That is it. And not to limit, not to talk about him being wrong somewhere, unless he is really disturbing the life in the ten. We really need to be careful here.
11. S. (25:04) What does it mean that there can never be two people with the same quality?
R. It is because each one grows like two hairs, he says, they do not come from one source. Humans, too. Even though we can say that it is as if from the same egg to hatch, and then there is no difference between them theoretically, like with twins, you can’t distinguish in any corporeal qualities. If you examine everything, everything is really the same. It doesn't mean that they have one source, and they split into two. There is no such a thing. In their source they are also two. How it turns out, what falls into place, we will see in the future, on the way from corporeality to spirituality such things happen.
12. S. (26:27) What is the difference between what Baal HaSulam describes and all the other wisdoms, or the other methods? What he writes here that we only need the wisdom of Kabbalah.
R. Because other methods can’t take into account the difference in the root of men, which is the soul. That is why they can bring humans closer, but this proximity is not beneficial, it is harmful. The main thing for us is not to use any method because we disrespect it, but rather because they all come out of the human research which is certainly with a false base.
13. S. (27:29) Throughout the day we chew on the lesson, and speak about it, and see the friends and remind each other in Zoom and workshops. Now, during the lesson it is as if the lesson goes by and nothing. It is like you do not remember anything of it, at least I don't. Is that normal?
R. If it is normal, then the lesson is normal or not, or you are normal or not normal. Is this your question?
S. Is it a state?
R. The fact that you didn't hear me now, you also didn't hear me before. I will tell you just one thing. The fact that you do not hear or you criticize is you should start thinking - what is going on, what is the difference between this lesson and previous ones, does this depend on you or not? Because it is written to us to advance, ‘’any flaw you see is your flaw.’’ Maybe others or someone has a great inspiration and you are like a dead person. So it depends on your internal state. We read an article by Baal HaSulam, from ‘Shamati,’ we read two parts of ‘The Freedom’ article, it used to be called ‘The Free Choice,’ it doesn't seem to you that you get something out of that. So it all depends on the vessels of the receiver. There is nothing here that you can drop on me, or your friends, or anyone in general. The material is opened before you, and you say it's not something, something is missing. So why don't you think that it is missing in you?
S. I pay attention throughout the day when the friends repeat the lesson, we speak, it goes in. But during the lesson, when you speak, it is like it just goes by me. I write stuff down, but I cannot remember anything, what was in the lesson today. We even read the article yesterday, and we read it before the lesson today. When you speak I can’t.
R. There is no doubt that when you read with your friends, and together you want to find the content of the lesson, and to annul before the lesson, it is much more beneficial than you are learning in the first time you hear it in the morning lesson with me, together. There is no doubt that everything depends on how much you put each other into it. That is the most beneficial.
14. S. (31:12) (NO TRANSLATION)
R. So what is the question?
S. (NO TRANSLATION)
R. They are incapable of doing that because they do not have the vessels for it. Do you understand that they do not have the microscopes, they do not have the telescopes, they do not have the tools, the instruments to research the wisdom of Kabbalah. They do not have the ability to show to themselves and to the world what this wisdom is about. They can’t put the will to receive on the table for you, to make all these scrutinies and examinations, and to stand before everyone and to explain - they don’t have it. The wisdom of Kabbalah is a science, such that you have to reach in special instruments. If you do not have restriction, screen, reflection light, a connection in the group to do it, a method that helps you, that gives you opportunities how to advance in actions, one by the other, you can’t do anything - both to yourself and to others. For others, you can only do that to the extent that they want it. Meaning, that they have the point in the heart, the beginning of the spiritual vessel. Then, to the extent that you awaken them, they can perform actions, and so continue working. But if they do not have this vessel, you can’t do anything. That is why we learn that it doesn't matter what state a person is in, and who he is. If he invests in the wisdom of Kabbalah, he nonetheless comes closer to the purpose of his life, he is advancing towards the purpose of his life. That is the meaning of ‘’From Lo Lishma they come to Lishma.’’ There are many things here but putting the wisdom of Kabbalah into the form you have in school that is something we can’t, because no one has a grip on it, no one, you start to open things to them and they can feel it somehow, they can’t - they can’t feel it.
15. S. (34:46) How can we still convince the public to take the wisdom of Kabbalah, if the corporeal world doesn't help at all? How can we bring them into some kind of process, I am also asking myself.?
R. I do not know. If you are asking me, I do not know. I asked Rabash, as well, more than once, and he also said that the generation is probably not ready for us to succeed. Still, you see, you are here, and you have come to this place out of some publicizing that we made, Bnei Baruch, about the wisdom of Kabbalah, and still somehow you are advancing, you are taking steps. Each one of us has a part of the next world, that is how we call it, both for the men and for the women. This is very important for me. I can’t tell you about all the things I heard from Rabash, but still great work is being done in the framework of this organization, and you can’t say that there is something that stands by that if you compare importance all over the world, in the whole reality. No. In our time, we are doing great work, very important, and all of us are really special. The Creator has created, He drew us, He organized us, in this organization and everything in order for us to make a very broad dissemination about the wisdom of correction all over the world. We really have to try to appreciate it, and to advance this way. That is why I am proud of you when you are still doing your duty to a certain extent.
16. S. (37:24) The influence of a ten on a person in the ten is that a spiritual or a corporeal effect?
R. Spiritual.
S. How can it be if the spiritual and corporeal disconnect it?
R. The fact that we don’t feel it doesn’t mean that it doesn’t exist. We are in the world of Ein Sof [Infinity], in the final correction, we ourselves feel ourselves the opposite. This opposite we also don’t feel.
S. What makes a ten something spiritual?
R. The connection. The connection between the friends.
S. Many times you said that there is connection in other places like the group of thieves.
R. I am not going to talk to you now about the spiritual connection or corporeal one, connection between a man and a woman, and one thief to another - is this what you are pulling me to talk about?
S. I am asking because the article is speaking about this crevice between the corporeal and the spiritual. How do you jump over it?
R. Until you let go of all of your philosophy and you really go into the connection between the friends in the ten, you will not understand.
17. S. (39:12) In the previous text when it spoke about generations and the attributes, what is ‘tendencies?’
R. We have egoistic tendencies, and altruistic tendencies. We have to sort them out, and to see that all of them are in order to receive, and to start organizing them from the light to the heavy so that they are all in order to bestow. How to do that? Connect to your ten and start sorting out these tendencies from the light to the heavy, and in the formula each one helps his friend, you set an example, you give exercises, and you do exercises. By corporeal actions, when you start them from far away, we awaken the light that reforms by the Arvut [mutual guarantee] which we build bit by bit. That is how we come to a state where everything comes to correction.