Morning Lesson September 03, 2022 Transcription
Transcription is made from simultaneous translation which leaves a possibility for differences in the audio
Baal HaSulam. The Importance of Dissemination - Selected Excerpts from the SourcesIntroduction to “From the Mouth of a Sage” (start with: "Since we have already proven")
1. R. (00:21) We read together, a lesson or two ago, The Introduction to the Sages’ Mouth. Baal HaSulam talked about how he came to Jerusalem, he hopes that he would find people there who study the wisdom of Kabbalah truthfully, he will connect with them and get into the study and the scrutinies and he found nothing. And even the best and the greatest of them told him that there's nothing to learn here except to simply repeat those written words and who knew about it? Moses and Elijah, since he was an angel, and that sort of thing but about a person, for the person does nothing to look, for nothing to discover or reveal. Ultimately, we need to repeat the words and read it, that's the commandant. Of course, he did not agree with it and he left them and from that time we the students of Baal HaSulam and his eldest son Rabash a feeling of the importance of the dissemination of the wisdom of Kabbalah, the true wisdom, which is the means for the revelation of the Creator in this world. So let's see what's written here.
Reading Item #1 (02:16 - 03:09) "The end of the correction of the world" twice
Reading Item #2 (03:18 - 06:42) "In our generation.." Twice
2. R. (05:03) Because everything is sorted from above down; first the highest souls, the subtlest souls, more special souls are sorted and then coarser and coarser souls, down to our time today where it's certain that what's revealed today are very lowly souls, very bad, broken souls.
Reading continues
3. R. (05:50) Specifically these lowly souls, egoistic, the worst of them are the ones who complete the Partzuf.
4. S. (06:49) It says that the end of Correction of the world can only be when all people of the world will become workers of the Creator, is this the mission of Bnei Baruch?
R. Of course, of course.
5. S. (07:23) I can't fully understand the work that comes down to bringing everyone to serving the Creator or loving each other, it's divided for me?
R. I did not understand.
S. What exactly is my work in terms of dissemination: to bring everyone to loving the Creator or loving each other?
R. It's one in the same, if people love one another then their love in total is aimed at their source, the Creator who created them this way, hence the love of the Creator the love of the created beings and the love of the Creator are equal, they’re one in the same.
6. S. (08:31) When you said that these people are the worst are you talking about those people with the point in the heart or people with no connection to the wisdom of Kabbalah whatsoever?
R. No, we're talking about people who have some connection with the wisdom of Kabbalah because without the wisdom of Kabbalah they cannot perform any correction for the connection between them and the connection between them in the Creator. So it speaks only a people who have some tendency towards the wisdom of table and because they have such special souls they yearn to reach the wisdom of Kabbalah as a method of connection. They feel they will have fulfillment, advancement, a purpose in life.
S. How do we connect with these writings that all the souls choose to fall down very low? The fact that we still have the heavy souls, is that related to what the Zohar says that the greatest souls had to choose to fall the lowest, is there a connection?
R. Yes, the highest souls also fall the lowest, the deepest, because one corresponds to the other; if he doesn't have a screen, he's the lowest, if he has a screen, he's the highest, yes, that’s correct.
7. S. (11:19) Can you please repeat the definition of a soul in this context?
R. A soul is a divine part from above, a vessel, a corrected vessel of the will to receive in order to bestow. This is called a soul.
Reading item number 3 (11:54 - 12:19) “The disclosure of the wisdom of the Hidden..” Twice
8. S. (12:22) Meaning without the wisdom of Kabbalah, without its revelation to the masses as he says, we will not reach the complete redemption and the end of Correction, all the good and abundance to everyone. Rather we're going to get stuck in great sufferings, world wars, all the stuff we would hate to have. And it's all because we resist the dissemination of the wisdom of Kabbalah in the masses.
9. S. (13:01) I'm noticing there are thousands of people in the world who want to be happy, they don't understand what it depends on, whether it's money or something else. But I barely find those who actually, consciously, look for the meaning of life understanding that this is what their happiness depends on?
R. We don't need this, we need to publicize and advertise to everyone as much as possible in all languages all over the world to all the creative beings that the future of the world is when people reveal the upper force that covers them and this is possible only through the connection between them. And the more they will advance towards it the happier they would feel themselves, we need to make these things known using all means, in all languages across all media. Photo, videos, newspapers, internet, it doesn't matter what.
Everyone should know that this how it should be and we are advancing towards it very quickly, so we should not remain so indifferent and each one is in his corner like we were fifty or a hundred years ago. The times are rushing forward and those who are in sync with the times and care about his correction and the worlds accordingly and his reward will be according to that. And those who don't will wait until the negative forces in the world will be revealed and obligate him to do it in a very unpleasant way, there is nothing we can do about it.
S. I'm really bothered by this and concerned, there's a great deficiency in the world but how will this deficiency be aimed at happiness, being in connection, where is that turning point?
R. I don't know, I just think that we need to advertise those things as much as possible and all the rest is up to the upper force to do. Of course, no one wants to connect and no one understands that the complete redemption lies in the connection of all humans into one image, one form. It's impossible to depict that but together with that we have no choice, we have to go forward and it whatever will be, will be.
S. What, what should I want?
R. You should want that all people, all over the world, will know what is the purpose of life to which we are advancing, like it or not and that it is attained in the connection between us and so all those stages of the end of correction as we enter this period will work to forcibly connect us. The more we will be against it the more difficult will be our connections and painful and as much as we understand that our connection is necessary and is desirable, to that extent we will enter it in a desirable and easy way. And it all depends on our dissemination and the dissemination is all on us.
10. S. (17:59) Do the general masses need to start connecting, is that how the Partzuf is fulfilled with the greatest lights like Haya and Yechida?
R. Yes, of course, but at the very least it needs to know what to do and it's an order, there's a center of Bnei Baruch, and they are talking about it and they are disseminating it. And in general Kabbalists are thinking about the connection of everyone, everyone together above all the differences of nationality and age and gender and so on, so forth.
S. When they start to connect and complete this Partzuf, will the masses feel those great lights of Haya and Yechida or is that only felt by the great Kabbalists?
R. Gradually all of the lights from above through the Kabbalists will descend gradually, slowly from the degree to degree, down to the simplest people, we read about it in the writings of Baal HaSulam.
11. S. (19:38) We bring the people the information of the Kabbalists and we don't expect any results because everything is in the Creator's hands, everything has to come from Him and not us, but our role is just to give them the information?
R. Yes.
12. S. (20:22) I remember you said that you asked Rabash “why don't people listen so what should we do for them to listen?” And he answered you, “suffering is still miss saying”; on the other hand, we learned that we have to go through the smooth path, the easy path without suffering?
R. It's not speaking of us, it's speaking of humanity, what's Rabash said that they have no desire to know about the corrections, the future of the world, it's because they have no lack for it, they have no problems, sufficient problems, to make them think about it. So, it's not speaking of us, we yearn and we wish to reach it, but we need not wait for more deficiencies and problems in the world until all these sufferings will come down on each and every person, rather we have to proceed the blow with the remedy, and as much as possible to nevertheless bring the world better states, more advanced states.
13. S. (22:01) How does the correction of my desires influence dissemination?
R. No, it is an incorrect question: “what does it mean dissemination of your desires”? You need to advertise the purpose of creation, the plan of creation, what belongs to everyone not your desires.
S. Maybe the question is when I correct my desires, how does it influence?
R. Of course it influences because your desires are included in the desires of the world, and by correcting your desires you are correcting their dissemination, their spread throughout the whole world and all souls, to some extent you are correcting everyone.
14. S. (23:15) What are the means we have in the ten to disseminate and cause adhesion in the masses?
R. We need to disseminate the words of Baal HaSulam where he speaks of correction of the world, how the connection between people is a necessary thing and it doesn't depend on us, it simply comes from above. And in our time it comes from above in the form of a demand from the upper world towards us and if we don't keep up that demand of the upper one for connection between us, He will bring about such great, terrible suffering that we would want to correct by ourselves in order to simply escape the suffering.
So it is better for us, before we receive these blows which include also world wars, nuclear world wars, even a third and the fourth world wars Baal HaSulam writes, so before this happens, we had better connect. . . . . says “only a handful of people who will remain after these wars will keep the connection and it's enough because out of the grave deficiency, the great suffering, they will be able to accumulate inside of them such a great source of connection that will be for all of humanity that’s, in the time being, will be will disappear from the Earth.
15. S. (25:29) You said before that by connecting my desires I contribute to the correction of the world; on the other hand, you said we have to disseminate in the world the words of Baal HaSulam and Rabash. In our time, can a student of yours attain spiritually without engaging in dissemination only by working in the ten and participating in the lessons or he has to actively participate in the dissemination?
R. Look, I don’t know, you have people who write, those who write songs and melodies, those who translate, those who do all sorts of things. There are those who have a tendency towards dissemination and there are those who have no tendency for dissemination but they have the time. They're not busy with all the other kinds of work, jobs that we are all busy with inside the organization, so we need to choose such people as they have the tendency, an inclination towards dissemination, the ability, and for them to engage in it as much as possible.
Dissemination is the main thing that we have, how would I put it? We don't have more than dissemination, that is what the Creator is expecting of us, that we will disseminate in our world His great name and we have to do it. So out of all the different jobs that we're doing, dissemination is the most important action, but because without this filming and scripting and writing all the melodies, we have to do other things around it and then disseminate. So we need to divide ourselves into such groups and roles. But the tip, the spearhead, the purpose of all these actions is the dissemination of the wisdom of Kabbalah, the connection of everyone to the whole world.
S. In the system you described now which contains a lot of things, if to me Kabbalah student, if I have no role in this system, can I be calm about my spiritual development by just studying and connecting with my ten?
R. It is completely insufficient only to study, completely, you must engage in dissemination in all forms of it. You could be writing music that’s being disseminated or something else but you must participate in dissemination.
Reading Item #4 (31:58 - 32:25) twice
16. S. (32:35) Can all of us together ask for a deficiency for them so that's all their desires for money and other things will be felt as empty?
R. We need to pray for the whole world so the Creator would awaken in them greater desires, deficiencies than what they have for corporeality. We can take care of it by our prayer, this is called ‘a prayer for the well-being of the world’.
17. S. (33:25) Question about dissemination for the masses: I once heard that if you bring people closer to each other you also bring them closer to the Creator. Can we expect the masses to develop a deficiency for bestowal or bringing contentment to the Creator?
R. By wanting to bring them closer to the Creator and by praying for them, we awaken the upper lights which influences them through us. They awaken and out of their awakening according to their great masses that they have, they can begin to influence us and this entire mass that we are at those who yearn a little bit to know what is going on, and this great mass that yearns for nothing, everyone begins to approach the tip, the source of the origin of the light, the Creator, that is how we will see the correction.
S. So their deficiency is expressed in being, wanting to be in adhesion with the upper force?
R. Yes, also they will eventually have a desire to so the upper force, except they’ll say as they told Moses, “you will talk to the Creator and we will stand here and wait”. They can't be in the place of the more advanced one, everyone will know their place in the ladder of degrees and they will gradually climb eventually all will be as one man in one heart.
18. S. (36:06) The masses were talking about is not one thing, there is the masses of people who are addicted to hatred and envy and so on, and then there is a part of the believers that think of the upper force and how to worship Him and they think they know the correct way; and then there are people who they have their own free opinion. Who should we direct our resources towards, our powers in dissemination? The free people whose head seems more open to hearing or just focus on everyone or what?
R. There are many people among us who can write to all the layers in the population, both to the simplest people and highest most intelligent, most special people. There are those who are emersed in culture, education, in science and in politics and every area. We have people who can find themselves destined to write to each and every part in general humanity. So we should locate them and we should put this work on them.
S. So we should direct our forces in an effective way?
R. Correct.
19. S. (38:05) When I look at external people, I see they are already connected, even though forcefully, so it seems like they only lack the knowledge of what connects them, how will that reach them?
R. I don’t understand what you’re talking about, where do you see people connected, were we don't have to bring connections to them?
S. Well, they’re connected just not, let’s say, through work, family? I
R. Are we talking about that kind of connection?
S. There needs to be a different kind of connection for people who don't study Kabbalah?
R. People need to connect with a good attitude to one another, and from the connection between them to connect also to the Creator, that is what we need.
S. All the people in the world?
R. Eventually, ultimately all the people in the world have to be connected, they will feel that their connection is there a salvation.
S. But people who have no interest in the wisdom of Kabbalah?
R. So through the suffering when they feel lack in their lives, they will understand that they can obtain the fulfillment only through the connection with the others.
S. But what's changed, the world continues as is, it will continue?
R. It won't behave the way it was because people will be lacking important things essential for their survival. We need to publish a few more articles by Baal HaSulam and Rabash because I see we are missing such things. When you speak suddenly it is revealed how much, how you suffer from lack of knowledge.
S. How will they say, let’s say now they suffer blows, how will they relate to the upper force?
R. Gradually, that's why the blows come in such a way the person begins to see where they're coming from, why they're coming to him, what is he missing. And he gradually grows smarter and wiser through the blows, he doesn't just get blows, he doesn't just get hit by rock from the sky for nothing. He understands the reason more and more and then what should be the results so he won't get hit again over his head. This is the education that the Creator is applying on us, it will be revealed soon but we have to be ready for it. I hope we are discussing now will be heard by our friends and then we will learn it, they will bring us the appropriate material.
S. It seems like if we want all of humanity to be connected as we are but it just seems impossible?
R. No, it shouldn't be connected like us, rather it should be connected but with the goal of succeeding, of escaping the troubles, according to their desire that is how it will be.
S. What does it mean ‘with the goal of escaping troubles’?
R. For us the goal is to reach the revelation of the Creator above us, to climb up the degrees of attainment, of feeling until we reveal the Creator we can cleave to Him and reveal Him. They don't have such a thing, they are on the very lower level of the desire compared to us, and hence they need that which would provide fulfillment for their desire.
S. So how will they discover the Creator, there?
R. They will discover it gradually but I’m speaking from the state where they begin the revelation. So they begin the revelation with simple things that in the connection between them, they’ll get bread and in a greater connection, they will have butter and so on and so forth. Until they begin to come to state where they have those things but then they will be missing the essence of things: why are we doing this, what for, what can be a good in this life? Meaning their deficiencies begin to grow qualitatively and then we begin to ask, well, how do we do it and this way begins to come and I know the upper force that’s playing with them.
S. And then they will reach us?
R. Yes, eventually.
20. S. (44:21) What kind of caution do we need in terms of dissemination of Kabbalah today, so that the masses won't deal with engage in idol worshipping?
R. We need to explain to them as simply as possible that the connection between us brings with it the good forces to the world and that is it, nothing besides that. It has nothing to do with idols and belief systems and religions, nothing. It's simply that advancement, the nearing of people between themselves causes the good to be revealed in the world. Other than that, say nothing.
21. S. (45:37) You said a few days ago that Rabash too said, “people will listen to us only when they’ll feel the hard in life”, but we can’t pray for that so what can we do?
R. We need to try and draw bring closer into this world, bring closer to this world, the upper lights the sources of the upper light, and when they come closer than those who belong to them will feel better and those who doesn't belong them will feel badly. And then either through the attractions are good or by escaping from that everyone will advance towards all those lights, the same lights.
22. S. (46:34) Recently we've put more emphasis on dissemination, why is that? Are we negligence in this dissemination work where there’s a new stage required of us in dissemination?
R. Well, we need to grow stronger dissemination, period.
23. S. (47:05) Is giving the tithing helps dissemination?
R. Tithing is a necessary thing because this sustains the dissemination, it supports it. We use it to maintain our servers, all of our systems, the videography, everything. So tithing, and tithing is also commandment were both Rabash and Baal HaSulam and all the Kabbalists and even now in general. All the religious societies they all give tithing, it's a law from the Torah because in each one his soul includes ten Sefirot. So the tenth part that belongs to Malchut cannot be corrected we can only restrict it and corresponding to this restriction, a person has to give the tenth part of what he is earning and give it towards dissemination, the correction of the world. Neither in such a way that he uses it rather for the whole world to use it.
24. S. (48:43) What to do if you have no importance of dissemination yet it's clear that it is a big part of our spiritual development?
R. I understand this but we can do such actions that are around it, there are many people who are active by disseminating material but that’s without going out even of their place, they translate it, they process it and so on and so forth. It doesn't have to be that you go out and give talks and teach classes to people, no. Talk to people who manage the dissemination and see there is room for everyone. But know that participation in the dissemination is participation in the correction of the world.
25. S. (49:52) We started clarifying this issue that until there is enough suffering people won't hear, and still you said now that some will come in a good way and others will come through suffering. Can we really bring the world through a good path?
R. Tell me please, what are sufferings? Suffering means that I want one thing and they receive something else. It is written in the Torah that “the one who puts his hand in his pocket intending to take out one coin out of his pocket and instead he takes two coins, is that suffering or not?
It is because he wanted to take out one coin and he took out two. Meaning sufferings can have different forms as long as it is not according to your desire, and you by looking at it from a different point of view of your desire, you begin to think ‘what am I doing that I'm not exactly managing my own desire’? So there is the path of Torah and the path of suffering and on the path of suffering their many such stages, such paths, trails I would say, all kinds. As long as we don't lose sight of the goal then all these trails will always lead us to the goal.
S. Can we offer the path of Torah to people, meaning speak to them through their desires so they feel that the connection completes their desire?
R. Try, except don't say it's coming from Judaism or Bible, all kinds of things. Talk about it in a human way.
26. S. (52:35) You said that we need people to know that by coming together they do good. We learned that only through the expansion of the wisdom of the hidden in the world, so it seems like a big gap between the hidden wisdom that we learn and the simplicity of just ‘be good to each other’, how do you bridge the gap?
R. Because it depends on who you're speaking to, mister. We’re talking about people who don't know about the revealed, the concealed, they have no sensitivity to it. That's why we tell them simple things in the connection between people, which is the truth. In the connection of people in that you reveal all the sources of the good abundance from above.
27. S. (53:35) What is dissemination in its essence?
R. I can’t talk about it with you, we have no time for it, but we have a big department, if you connect to that even in Moscow where is see you’re from, if you connect to it, you’ll see just how much we have to say on that, how much material we have, how great that is – the system, places, rooms – you will see what our role is, you will get to know the system because I don't understand about it anything.
S. I didn't mean that, I mean that my inner state, do I connect to the Creator through dissemination?
R. What are you disseminating, disseminating the name of the Creator in the world. You’re doing something great here, there is nothing greater than dissemination when you're bringing people closer to the Creator.
28. S. (54:58) Now as in the example you gave, that you put your hands in the pockets and you get take out something different than what you would like in your life, so we say, they'll still get what they want out of their pocket or something completely different?
R. Each and every one according to how much he brings himself closer to the others and to the Creator accordingly he will begin to feel himself better either corporeally or spiritually or both.
29. S. (55:51) Do we need to see ourselves as just a few steps ahead of humanity and always be close to them or we have no connection with them and we just have to look towards adhesion with the Creator and advance just decisively?
R. We are in the middle, we connect humanity with spirituality hence the more we will carry humanity behind us, accordingly we will enter spirituality. Because we are in the last generation, we can't reach the top by ourselves, right now, and just be there and look at the lower degrees of all the worlds, rather it's on the condition that we serve everyone, Baal HaSulam and Rabash write about it in many places as well. Only in our service, only relative to humanity, we can be awarded with a great upper corrections and that is it.
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R. (59:20) I get daily all kinds of emails, addresses, questions and it’s hard for me to handle all of it, I’m telling you this seriously. After all, I’m getting older, I’m not eternal, that’s clear to everyone, so I want our system to have a group that will take care of this entire system in my place. That is how I see this ideological team, that’s it. So I asked to gather these people, it's not mandatory for this people, to be in it, you can perhaps change it and decide differently.
But for now, for the time being, I think that this team is a good team; they need to know how to work with one another, of course, but if they come to a decision that without coercion and pressure but through good relationship is between them, then this decision will be the right decision. There is no one who is greater or smaller in this team, everyone is equal, the secretary is the secretary but there is no one person who is managing it. They all manage it themselves and ultimately, ideologically, they need to manage the world widest organization of Bnei Baruch. And if you have questions simply turn to this team and if there is a need for it, I will respond to questions as well.
30. S. (01:01:34) We’ll remind again that we did receive many turns to us and messages to us, and again, you can send any message to boardworldkli@gmail.com and we’ll discuss with Rav if there is a need.
R. Good luck to you and don’t be ashamed, don’t hold back, turn to them, pressure them, ask for answer, ask for changes, everything is in your hands. In setting up this INFO, this ideological team, I would like to enliven, revive, rekindle our inner life. Everyone will be connected to everyone and we’ll all have questions and answers and so life will be a bit more on fire. Good luck, all the best!
31. S. So how do we conclude the lesson?
R. As usual, a lesson, another lesson, another portion or measure of closeness that we went through, good luck.