Morning Lesson April 5, 2023
Transcription is made from simultaneous translation which leaves a possibility for differences in the audio
Part 2:
Connecting the World in the Last Generation - Selected Excerpts from the Sources. #19
1. R. (00:40) So what can I say here? Let’s learn, let's read what it says here and we'll try to understand the text and also its internality. “The measure of egoism inherent in every creature is a necessary condition in the actual existence of the created being, without it it would not be a separate and distinct being in itself, yet this should not at all deny the measure of altruism in a person. The only thing required is to set distinct boundaries between them. The law of egoism must be kept in all of its might to the extent that it concerns the minimum existence, that's only the law of egoism that needs to show itself that way for the minimal existence, and with any surplus of that measure permission is granted to wave it for the well being of one’s fellow person.” In other words what do we need, what calculation do we need to make when we connect to the others because everything that I need to awaken myself in a way that enables my existence I need to accept, you can't skip that and there's no, and it's prohibited for me to receive too much or to give too much, only to the extent that I can exist in order to serve everyone. To that extent I must take care of myself and receive for myself but again the goal is in order to serve everyone, alright? This is the known law.
Reading excerpt number 20 (03:15) “The religious form of..” Twice
2. S. (05:06) He writes to obligate all nations so the question is how to obligate? Because also in communism they said I'll take care of the others but it didn't work so how can we get there?
R. No we're not talking about today's communism that we're calling it but we're according to true definitions according to the wisdom of Kabbalah.
S. The question is how to obligate all nations? It can only come from inside. How can you obligate?
R. I don't understand you.
S. Baal HaSulam writes in the first sentence that all nations should first obligate its members to bestow upon each other, so what does that mean?
R. We need to reach the existence of bestowal as a law of nature otherwise we are not suited to the nature in which we live in, and then from that we are drawing upon ourselves all kinds of forces that are against.
3. S. (06:45) It's written that without the ego creation can be separated in its own right. Why should a person feel himself that only he exists?
R. Because that is the force that a person must feel as necessary for his existence until he begins to awaken in acquiring the force of bestowal. The ego is the basis upon which we can further develop, without the egoistic force it wouldn't evolve we wouldn't want to pull to draw something upon ourselves.
S. What's the first action that pushes a person outside, that everything’s one, not only that I’m one?
R. No, a person doesn't feel it. You see it in front of you so what's the question?
S. That's what I'm asking; we feel that only we exist. We know according to the wisdom of Kabbalah that it's not right so what takes a person out? What pushes him to understand this?
R. When I was born in egoist and developed as an egoist and nothing is lacking other than fulfilling my own desire, after a certain while then an additional desire begins to awaken in me, a special one, which is to know who I am, what I am and so on, desires which are aiming me towards the upper force that created me, and then I accordingly begin to research reality.
4. S. (09:00) He writes that between egoism and altruism a person needs to put strong borders between them. I personally have a problem with it because I don't want to put imaginary borders.
R. Can you explain what you want?
S. Can you elaborate on those borders how we can do it between us in a group? I’ll tell you where I learned it. I read years ago about Eve and she told the serpent don't eat it or do eat it and I read backwards so I didn't read it, and she put a border on herself. I'm not trying to philosophize I'm trying to see how we put limits like you said in order so we have a clear separation.
R. What separation? Between what and what?
S. Between what we need and what we want to be. What he wrote here that a person needs to put strong borders between altruism and egoism.
R. Yes we need to feel this when we are under the dominance of one force and when we are under the dominance of another force, yes that is true we need to know this to feel to stabilize such relationships that we will know what force works on us every moment.
S. Then we have freedom if we know where the boundaries are.
R. No no, don't be a philosopher. Here there is no freedom there is no freedom at all.
S. Okay that's new for me.
R. I don't want to argue with you. What your problem is is that you're pulling your data from someplace.
5. S. (11:32) What is that structure or social structure that Baal HaSulam writes about here?
R. What Baal HaSulam writes about here is the communism that we need to reach on the condition of love thy friend as thyself, that our nature even though it seems to us right now is completely egoistic but it is pushing us more and more in that direction.
S. We have an example of the world BB coming from around the world, working in the kitchen and participating, each one investing from himself that can spread to the whole world as one big BB?
R. I don’t know. When I started stabilizing a small group, we studied in the living room at home and people came I wasn't thinking of a big future of having thousands of students and sitting in a four-story building and more and more, I didn't imagine such a future, and also now I only think of the quality of bestowal that needs to be revealed among us and then accordingly we will advance and to what extent we will advance in corporeal form that really doesn't matter, it doesn't matter, I'm not thinking about that, I don't appreciate all the buildings and all the tech I only appreciate human beings.
6. S. (14:20) One word came to mind… and I kept thinking about it until you mentioned it in the second except and then I felt I should to ask, what is the right attitude to…. the friends?
R. To feel their desire of the friends, meaning those people that are coming closer to correction to the final correction what desires do they have, in what I can I be with their desires in order to help them, to support them, that is actually my goal because in the connection between us will be able to attract much more of the light that reforms and that will lift us all together.
S. How does …… with the right attitude invoke the faith that we talked about, invoke the force of Moses between us?
R. When I connect to friends by that I awaken in them a force to reconnect also to others to come closer to others and that is why I give an example here, with my bestowal upon them how to behave. This is a very important action, one will help his friend, that is what is called, and that is how we will advance towards the general correction.
Workshop: How do we become one ten in this week, this convention? What does it mean to be one ten in the whole world Kli?
7. S. (19:13) How do we awaken the love of the Creator towards our friends?