Morning Lesson July 24, 2021 Transcription
1. R. (01:14) These are very important pages that are worth concentrating on what's written in them, because they are actually speaking about what is relevant to our times.
Item 61 “Accordingly the questions arises….”
2. R. (01:17) We see especially how clogged we are, we don't want anything about spirituality, we don't care about internality, just give me what you've got and I'll fill myself and accept that I don't care about anything. All our qualities, the tiniest egoistic qualities, like children, we just want to be sufficient with a bit and not too look far ahead. The more humanity advances it becomes less and less meaningful. That's why the question is, the book of Zohar, the greatest book of the Kabbalists that was revealed in last generations, why weren't there revealed to everybody, only just revealed to a few single people and in our times as much as we're publishing, nobody wants to come close to these sources that are speaking about the essence of life, the purpose of life. More than 200 years ago there were people that were interested in it more than us, today they're nothing, so what do we do?
Item 61 (03:00) “For now the question is why the……”
3. R. (03:51) Meaning that all in all our spiritual development of the world includes 6,000 degrees which are called years and in these 6,000 degrees there is a division into 2,000 x 3. Now he explains: it's like one Partzuf that is HBD HGT NHY, we are at the end of all this development, the end of the NHY of the whole Partzuf of reality, of the world.
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4. S. (08:48) What is the meaning that in the time of the ARI the wisdom has been revealed?
R. Baal HaSulam writes to us that the world consists of 6,000 years, during this period the world goes through development of the ego, the ego grows by the light that bestows upon it from above. That is why throughout the 6,000 years of development each generation becomes more and more egoistic and that is why it supposedly is further away from spirituality. That is why in the first 2,000 years we had little development, but naturally people were closed to spirituality, and in the next 2,000 years the wisdom of Kabbalah, the book of Zohar, is revealed, and in the final 2,000 years, our time, we see that the will to receive lessen in people, they yearns for the tiniest things, there are not great Kabbalists, only few like; Baal HaSulam and Rabash and before him the Baal Shem Tov and the Ari of course which he is the foundation of our current wisdom of Kabbalah.
Item 61 (11:28) “accordingly the questions arises…”
5. R. (12:53) Meaning this whole process is divided into 6,000 years, from first man to the end of corrections. 6,000 years that is one Partzuf; Rosh Toch and Sof, he starts counting these years from the Rosh which is the first 2,000 and then the Toch is the second 2,000 and the Sof is the 3rd 2,000 inside the Partzuf of the Neshama.
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6. S. (17:43) The corrections that happened in the time of the Rosh and Guf from what Baal HaSulam explains, happen to the whole of humanity or only to Kabbalists, according to the order of these periods?
R. Of course, all of humanity is included in all the corrections and each and every one by participating, even if they don't exactly understand what they are doing. Everybody’s advancing towards the end of correction/Gmar Tikkun.
7. S. (18:35) What is the inverse relationship between vessel and light?
R. In the higher vessels the small lights enter until the coarse egoistic vessels appear in the Partzuf, then the higher lights appear but they appear in the higher vessels. Let's say, we have coarseness of the root, so the light of Nefesh is revealed, then the coarseness of phase 1 is revealed so the light Ruach is revealed. But now that the light of Ruach is revealed in Malchut that invites the lights, but the light of Nefesh will be revealed in Malchut and the light of Ruach in the new vessel that was added to the Partzuf, that will be the light of ZA. Meaning, there is an opposite value between lights and vessels, because in the vessels clothe the higher lights to the higher vessels, that are more refined and that's why even though the lights are drowned by the coarse vessels the reception of the light is in the refined vessels.
8 .S. (20:24) How will the words of Zohar be revealed to the nation?
R. I don't know, they were not revealed yet. Revealed means that everybody feels importance in those topics that the Zohar is talking about. It's not that the book itself has to be revealed, the book was written in a style that maybe isn't suitable to the current generation, but we are speaking about the topics that the book of Zohar speaks about revealing, of divinity to the souls, the modern humans, that's how it will be revealed.
9. S. (21:47) As far as I understand from the article there are three phases of correction revealed?
R. No, he is saying that we are already at the end of the 6th millennia and now we need to go through the final stage, where the big will to receive is revealed and against that, the high upper light and we reach Gmar Tikkun, that is why we are called ‘the last generation’. We don't need to go through the whole path of 6000 years / 6000 degrees. Now, we still don't know, we don't understand and we don't feel what the souls before us have gone through and more refined the souls are they made their corrections in the previous generations and we are left with this, to do what we need to do, that will be the last state. You, finishing, signing and sealing a 6,000 years process.
10. S. (23:18) At the end of the 6th millennium are the heaviest vessels and that's where we begin our correction. Is that correct?
R. Yes, for now that is how it is.
11. S. (24:00) What we read in item 61, humanity existed for more than 100,000 years from what we know, here we speak about 6,000 years. So it is the will to receive and the Creator and according to humanity it reveals as only 6,000 years, that the Kabbalah talks about?
R. Yes, and before that they advanced from the degree of the monkey to the degree of Men and today you see that humanity, even though they look like it, are they really, all Humane? Everything depends on the inner development of Man.
S. I meant in the question that basically the Creator as if created the will to receive and Men 6,000 years ago and until then, is this function towards the created being didn't exist?
R. Correct 6000 years ago or a little less, we count our years with a Hebrew calendar, it's a bit less than 6000 years. Those are the years from Adam HaRishon, he was the first one who discovered this process, he told and wrote about it and that is why is called Adam HaRishon. He was really the first one, the dam, the one who connected to the Creator.
S. It's like until then, the Creator didn't want to bestow on the created being?
R. I don't know these calculations, wants or doesn't want? I am speaking from reality;
12. S. (26:10) What can we learn about the light from this division?
R. That we are in the final last degree and the light that needs to be revealed and is a very big light, it’s a light that needs to be revealed in all of reality. That's why we need to be responsible for the correction of the whole world.
13. S. (26:38) If the lights that appear now at the end of the 6000 years, the great light, and it basically reaches the highest vessels, there is an inverse reaction between the lights and vessels. My question is how is it that the higher lights appear in the lower vessels?
R. In the refined vessels.
S. But we are the heavier vessels,
R. There is an opposite value between lights and vessels. You need to go and study about it.
S. Right but the first vessel was the first millennia or two or second two millennia. We are the last and heavier vessel so how did the light appear there?
R. No. The big lights are revealed in the light, the refined vessels and all the souls that existed in the 1st and 2nd millennia. Afterwards there is the end of corrections where all the vessels connect between themselves to one Partzuf and then everybody becomes from the Partzuf of 2000 x 3 into a circle, just as we have circles and straightness, the straightness becomes a circle. Then we discover all the lights and all the vessels, all of us together. That is another great correction to connect the square into a circle from all the little squares, where we correct ourselves. We have to connect into an integral, where all the little squares, all of them together connect into a circle and then it's a completely different light, a general light and a general desire, where it’s all felt as one big common vessel and the Creator can be revealed to everyone.
S. So the light of Zohar that will be revealed will be the end of correction?
R. Yes.
14. S (29:18) In the last generation it’s open for everyone, the opportunity to study Kabbalah, is this because of the desire of the general Kli or because of individual conditions to take into consideration?
R. You can always study the wisdom of Kabbalah, there was limitation so people won't get confused so they won't ruin the wisdom of Kabbalah they won’t make religion out of it. Anyway you see what we have, where did all these religions come from what we have, it’s because the wisdom of Kabbalah was revealed, people started revealing it before due time and they started speaking about the next world and all kinds of things and ghosts but actually it all came from the corruption. Baal HaSulam explains it, he says that there is not only bad in the revelation but there was also a correction in it, that's called he swallow and then vomited it, that's why everything that's been revealed has been revealed and it's ready to the end of correction.
15. S. (31:13) He says that the things that were written in the book of Zohar will be revealed and new?
R. All these things that we die and live are not taken into account, they're not in the wisdom of Kabbalah.
16. S. (31:49) When I start to learn about these lights do I have to be in an acknowledgement of what can a light affect me?
R. The more you study the more you start revealing which light affects you.
17. S. (32:17) Each time we say that these years are inner degrees internal changes but on the other hand it seems like there is a connection to the astronomical cycles, are we talking about 220 years more to the corrections according to astronomical times or inner degrees.?
R. I don't want to put it in order. I don't want to confuse you. I just recommended you only look at NRNHY KHBZON, our work. How can we put all the NRNHY and into all the five vessels of KHBZON.
S. So from another direction… (Cut off by Rav)
R. There is no time do you understand? If Einstein wasn’t enough, I am telling you. There is no time it is all our imagination, we don’t want to be connected to time, motion or place these corporeal ones. In order to take an example from it we use them but there is no recollection of spirituality in them?
S. So time is just a corporeal experience of people who live at this corporeal level?
R. To someone who is not really in spirituality, time is only according to his bodily egoistic life. How much did I get yesterday and how much I'm going to get tomorrow. If he's in spirituality and as much as I bestow today and as much as I want to bestow tomorrow, so the attitude towards the actions is completely different also towards time.
S. In the first periods that we went through so far, the first 2000 and the second 2000 was that in due time or hastening time? Because he writes that we went through their degrees and now it is time for the choice.
R. You don’t have one without the other, they both exist together, sometimes more or less it is all depends on the period the souls are going to be corrected and don’t think that you really determined what times are, whatever happens, happens. We just need to invest in it as much as we can and not to ask is this in due time or hastening just invest in it and that is it , for us there are many causes that can confuse us.
S. So basically have all the conditions to reach the end of correction and we only need to focus on that?
R. You need to focus on the end of correction, that you can reach it today, do you understand that, reach that today.
17. S. (35:48) What is the meaning of the previous souls to correct and what is up to us to correct?
R. This is the same vessels from Adam HaRishon that have made corrections and we don't need to correct them. We are correcting the vessels that are being revealed in us.
S. We are talking about HBD HGT NHY and there are other places where it talks about CHB HGT NHY?
R. It doesn’t matter, same thing. There are people count the Sephira of Daat, there are those who don’t, it depends on the way you want to count it usually we count it when there is work of our own.
S. How can we prevent confusion between corporeal desires and spiritual passion?
R. Make a simple calculation: pretend that you're dead, what do you have after you die, that is called spirituality.
S. How do we promise that we remain modest against our pride?
R. Don't worry the Creator is stronger than you and all of us and He will make of you what He needs, if not in the path of Torah then in the path of suffering and it will subdue you and bring you to correction and let’s hope it happens in our days .