Morning Lesson November 22, 2020 Transcription is made from simultaneous translation which leaves possibility for errors.

Connecting the World in the Last Generation, #13

45. R. What can I say we are in the last generation. Let us learn about ourselves. What we have to be, how we have to be, what we have to yearn for, what we have to achieve. It is about us, let's go.

Excerpt 13 Reader (00:30 - 03:00) reads twice

46. S. (03:02) What does it mean that you measure each one according to the measure by which he gives service to the public in general?

R. We can't measure it. That's our problem. It's only to the extent that we are in spirituality, we will be able to measure it. This is why in our world we don't know the value of each person. People evaluate themselves by how much they stole from everyone and achieved with their ego, but with their desire to bestow we can't measure it, we have no tools for it. Even if afterwards they donate some of the amount that they stole, that is not regarded as a contribution to the collective. This is why only in spirituality can we see these things. Baal HaSulam gives you the conditions here that it doesn't matter if we measure it or don't measure it, understand it or don't understand it. But our value with respect to the general nature which is called the Creator. Nature checks us and weighs us and allots every person his own future, accordingly.

S. So we measure according to how much it serves the public in general. In a different place it says it's according to the exertion, is that the same?

R. Yes serving the collective, that’s obvious. But how can you measure the service to the public: according to one's labor, one’s effort. In other words, without having the same spiritual vessel you can't know about a person, a person may have contributed only a little bit but because he was so far from the center of the Kli, from everyone his contribution will be very real. It is not about how much one gives, if one gives 10 million and another one gives $0.10 it is not any measurement to what each one of them gave. It is always with respect to the ratio between them and their place in the general soul. One may be very external that it only gives a few pennies with his labor to the common Kli but it's very substantial for the correction of the entire vessel.

47. S. (05:47) He says that the individual, the one who benefits takes part in the benefit and one who harms takes part in the harm. What is he trying to tell me?

R. I'll tell you what he's trying to say, we must always weigh everything with respect to the entire Kli, the entire collective not with respect to the individual or some part, but with respect to the general vessel. How is it rewarded through each one's personal work?

S. Yes but we see today nothing good comes out of it?

R. Today, we can't see anything because no one in the world contributes anything to the common Kli.

S. So how do you invert that?

R. Through dissemination of the wisdom of Kabbalah.

S. Then everything turns upside down?

R. Yes.

S. If we can't measure the service to the public, so what does it mean that now we want to organize for the public correctly?

R. This is why he is telling us how we should arrange these things and after we arrange them, organize them and somehow begin to work correctly, we begin to feel the general Kli and then the contribution of each one to the common vessel, but otherwise we can't.

S. And until then what should we say and how can we measure or judge our exertion or someone else's if we can’t. So, what should we do?

R. Until then, it is called, he who faults, faults in his own faults, in his own defects. How can I see your contribution to the common vessel? The common Kli, common soul you are certainly a part of it, that is for sure. But how can I measure your contribution for the general correction of the Soul? What is your part in Adam HaRishon? Let us say that you are one cell in Adam HaRishon, what does that cell come from, the hand, the leg, the back, the chest, the head, I don't know. I can't say and also how much do you contribute, I can't say, how important is your contribution to the correction of the entire body of Adam HaRishon, I can't say, I don't know anything. I only try to judge everyone favorably, in a merciful way. to try and support each one and everyone together towards the general correction and I understand the general correction as a general connection. not more than that.

S. With Mercy, what does it mean, that they serve the public 100%?

R. As much as each one can, yes.

S. And I can also not measure my own actions, so how can I do so?

R. You can't. Moreover, you may be in a descent right now, but that descent is so meaningful, more than all the other ascents, you don't even know that. This is why in every situation you have to go and faith above reason. That's the way it is.

48. S. (09:49) So when we come with this principle, how is that expressed with respect to the general public, when we try to explain these laws?

R. What’s the problem with the explanation here? What is difficult to explain?

S. To the amount he serves the public, we can’t say.

R. We have to warm and awaken each one to contribute to the connection of society so that everyone will be mutually supportive, but we can't measure these things. Without entering the system and knowing it to some level, how can you say about each one how much he contributes to the general system. You need to have a very high degree for that.

S. When we come to build the groups, to work with the groups, one of the causes of central conflicts is the calculations of who served the general public, did everyone do their best. What can we explain if we are blind?

R. I have to see myself as the smallest, as Rabash writes, that is it. I don't calculate, I'm greater or I'm like this, I'm like that, I have a special soul, I'm a bigger egoist, and how it's much more difficult for me to perform an act of bestowal, and if I contribute $1 it is much more than if you donate $100,000. I can calm myself down this way. But I really can't. We can't judge every person. Whatever a person does with respect to himself, that’s how he advances, meaning what I have to reach 100% realization of my will to receive working in order to bestow and not to look at others.

S. That is clear, but why must I be at the smallest as the result of this law? How is it that I’m the smallest?

R. The way Rabash writes that in this way I can receive from everyone’s strength. I can envy each one, envy how much they bestow. So, I gain both the lack and the strength and this is how I advance with respect to the desire to bestow to have a good desire to bestow I have to feel the smallest

S. He who judges does it according to his own flaws how do you realistically explain this?

R. If I am in the will to receive even to begin with without looking or calculating, I immediately want to disqualify everyone, to cancel everyone, my ego is built this way. I have no doubt about it that my ego is built in such a way that I look at everyone and disrespect them. This is my work and this is where I begin.

49. S. (13:22) How to connect properly to feel a part of the general Kli?

R. Diminish yourself, as much as you can. Just lower your head, bow your head as much as you can before them.

Excerpt 14 Reader (13:44 - 15:03)

50. R. (15:06) I hope that maybe once the United Nations will be speaking about it and knowing about it and they will think about it and want to implement it. For now, it is still far but it is not that far because now we are going to experience general blows that the whole planet will experience, both in terms of the pandemic, climate, the ground beneath us that is burning and we'll soon see it exploding, ready to swallow us. From Above we will see things. In short, from every direction we will discover we are all dependent upon the good connections between us, but good and correct relationships between us. This is what we, first of all, have to feel. And then it will be no problem. Because one millimeter of nearing between us, chases away all of the external harm doers. We just have to know that it depends on it.

51. S. (16:30) What did you mean when you just said that the UN will also talk and think about it? Think about what?

R. That all of humanity will discover that it’s good future depends on the connection among everyone.

52. S. (16:58) In the excerpt he said that we cannot make the right conducts in one country. What does Baal HaSulam talk about, what are these right conducts?

R. He wants to say that you won't be able to distinguish, isolate countries in order to create in each country, good and correct orders. China, America, Africa with its countries, Russia Israel, Europe, you can't build walls around each country and build within each country a good life. Also, you won't be able to do it by controlling other countries. Only by building, between the countries conditions, balanced mutual relationships that come nearer and nearer to mutually benefiting. We will have to learn it in the next phase, in the phase that we are now approaching. We are thinking America is falling, Russia is gone already, China is rising and who knows what is happening with everyone. There are already some connections between other countries, it is all only the way it seems to us. The world will have to recognize that you cannot build anything good in any country as is happening in America, which now gave us an example. It will be like it was in Europe, it won't be able to happen there as we will soon discover in the European continent with respect to other continents. We will see that Peace in the world depends upon the well-being of each and every person and a peaceful connection among everyone, but we are already in this direction. This is why from day-to-day those who go along with it will benefit, those who try to want to engage, to insist on their individualism, will lose.

53. S. (19:46) Even though we already do it or are trying to do it, how can we aid those groups, those tens in countries where their state is difficult?

R. How can we help our groups that live in countries where the economic, political, security situation is not good? We have to see, what we can do. Maybe we will be able to do something, but let's start thinking in that direction. First of all we need to organize some sort of group that will take care of it, not a group from our groups but a mechanism that will know in what countries there are groups that have to be under confinement, under great pressures and how we can help them and with what. Perhaps there are situations where we can help them with money, maybe there are situations where we can help them with medicines, maybe we can help with pulling people out of there from one country to another. Let's start feeling it, discussing it. If they are friends who are truly in our group so we can maybe use some of our strength and help them.

S. We had this fund call help Haver, when we went to Congress's maybe on the basis of this fund in the new conditions, we can change a bit?

R. I agree with you 100%, please check with regard to this fund and we can strengthen it and continue to collect donations and increase it until we can really act and help friends who are in distress perhaps. I am totally in favor of it so please check it and organize it and try to revive these things.

54. S. (23:05) Should we follow the political state in the world in general?

R. No, we don't need to follow all of the political changes in the world or the economic ones or nothing, we don't need to care about that. It will unfold to the extent that we try to achieve correction. This is what will happen, but the general picture still has to be clear to us because we disseminate and we live in the world. So a few minutes a day each one should be connected to the news, it is very questionable whether there is any truth to them but somehow, and this is how we should advance, but really what is important is the connection between us and disseminating outwards. This is becoming more and more important each day.

55. S. (24:19) How to relate to this message of unity that Baal HaSulam is talking about? It's been used by the biggest cons and destroyers in the world who have the same messages?

R. It has always been like that in the world all the most beautiful principles and words were taken by people who were dirty, proud, and liars. They use them, in order to mislead people and confuse them, we see it especially in the presidential election, we still have to go with what is ours, what can we do? We needn't criticize those liars who are using it in this way for their own benefit. We need to continue on our path and not connect to any other false form in the world.

56. S. (25:48) You said the world is heading towards revelation and only by good connections between countries can we succeed. Do you see this first happening between the leaders, this understanding, or first the public?

R. No, I think that as usual, the world will feel descents, falls, blows, and then maybe it will understand more together with dissemination not only in corporeality but in spirituality that each will get an internal understanding that the world depends on connection. That advancement is dependent on connection.

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