Morning Lesson January 17, 2022, Transcription
Transcription is made from simultaneous translation which leaves a possibility for differences in the audio
Part 2:
Baal HaSulam. “The Peace - Proof of His Work by Experience” (00:13)
1. R. (06:25) I do not talk a lot here because we see what is going on. We are all educated and understand what is going on before us especially lately maybe a few dozens of years ago we thought we are headed in a good way but today we see that the world is standing still or even regressing from all the good things and that there is no hope for something good in the future and no one thinks that the generation that will grow up in 20 or 30 years will be more happy or more successful than we are but rather it is clear that until humanity get some essential change and it's character and its essence and in its mind it will not be able to change. These changes will not come to humanity on their own, on man's development on his own. Only on the condition that he is walking, or he is going to change himself as the wisdom of Kabbalah explains to us. That is why after we suffer, and besides our suffering, we have to accept some method of correction, some right guidance and that is already seen. We see that we are already coming closer to the state on the one hand there will be a large organization that will be able to publicize to the whole world what the method of correction is and the whole world along with that will also understand that there is no choice but rather that we have to reach corrections. This is how we will meet somewhere. We are equipped with the method of correction, and they discover that they lack this method of correction, and this is how we will compensate each other.
2. S. (09:03) We learned that everything that changes, all the changes, everything with respect to us is the Creator and there is None Else Besides Him and when do we make this switch from the friends to the Creator or do, we need to build it like this to begin with?
R. We have to work on both. We have to work on the connection between the friends so that we will be aimed at reaching a connection with the Creator.
3. S. (09:46) That same thing needs to be true with society also towards them. Do we need to explain that it is not just love between people?
R. No, here it is a different problem. I cannot talk about it now. We just talk about the framework of what he is saying and later we will ask that. You are talking about the method of dissemination already. Here there are many things because what you may explain on one place on Earth, in a different place you have to say it differently in a different manner because now you are addressing the people so you have to talk to them in a way that they will agree and understand. You have to talk to them in their own language. We will talk about that separately.
4. S. (10:53) It is not clear why they relate in a good way in Russian but to receive the benefit was for nobody not even for the society. The fact that the Creator was not included, it did not go through. What is the difference? They were in a good relationship between them?
R. First of all, there were good connections but in an egoistic way. A small egoistic way because everyone was poor and they lived in a very low-level way, but the moment you start working hard and each and everyone starts receiving differently from his friend. The moment there is some difference between them and their power, in their work, in their salary, in all kinds of things, then starts changes of form in a way that they do not know what to do with that. Then starts the tear in the fabric of society and that is what happened in Russia. Besides that it is about the character of the nation and the managers at that time it is hard to talk about it. We cannot go into Russia as a true example for everything because the conditions were very special.
5. S. (12:54) Baal HaSulam writes that one sin the Creator will not forgive them for. Why does this nation need to answer for this sin?
R. We are not learning in the meantime, and we do not know about the destiny of each and every nation of the nations of the world. That is why it is hard for me to talk about Russia. It will require hours and hours of conversation about it, and we have to have a special preparation for that. I do not want to go into that at all. It will be revealed as we advance. It will become clear to each and every one where it stems from. In the meantime, we should just keep on going as we are. We cannot now start explaining. He is touching on a few points and that is it. They had a tendency by nature to come to the bestowal of others. They could not realize that and that is why they fell drastically in a different direction. Instead of climbing the mountain ultimately, they fell off his mountain and everything turned around on them.
6. S. (14:33) One of your students here in Israel, decided to imitate what he writes here. To try to make it that everyone has no worry but only for the benefit of society and worry for the others. We tried to imitate this here and Israel (talking about the Kibbutzim). Where did we fail here in Israel? There is more hate for others than in Russia.
R. I cannot say that in Israel there were better conditions because it was mingled with the Jewish ego, which is the worst and highest of all humans. We could not succeed to begin with as well. In Russia, somehow maybe, if they would really try throughout the generations to have organizations like in Israel, Kibbutzim, they could succeed because they had these educated and cultured qualities, but Jews did not. They only succeeded for a certain period of time because they wanted to run from destruction from all of their problems from the riots they had over there. No one had any tool of work to develop the private lands. When they made the general lands to process and to grow things and they got some money from abroad and from the country for a short time it did exist, but it was egoistic and all they had was fights and quarrels there and nothing besides that. I do not see any establishment of this state, anything that can succeed that could have succeeded.
S. You do not think that maybe in time to enjoy some Kibbutz, with some discussion about it?
R. That was something else. That is something that Baal HaSulam wanted as well. Baal HaSulam wanted that as well. They did all kinds of things there. He used to bring machines to process leather from Poland. He wanted to make some factory here so that they could live as a commune, work together, and learn together before the work time, a bit before work time and after so that they will have enough to sustain their families and to study.
S. What was missing here in Israel for success? Jews are not suckers. They are smart. What was missing?
R. Their wisdom is related to their big ego. That is why they have no chance of succeeding but just to be a bad example for the entire humanity that neither intellect nor money can help. Nothing can help such a group that will suffer as much as it takes if it does not take the right route for development which is bestowal and show everyone that that is the example.
S. So if we had all learned the wisdom of Kabbalah we would succeed?
R. Not to learn it but to realize it. They are going to have to do that.
S. Does it remain today?
R. I am not saying that it has to be this way. It may be a totally different way. There is no choice and humanity understand that this is so. It comes with this pressure on all these people that are called Yashar Kel, Israel putting pressure on them especially our international organization and we will have to realize that.
7. S. (19:39) We spoke about the seemingly but what does Baal HaSulam talk about here? What did we have to do differently in Russian society? How could it have worked correctly?
R. History cannot be changed. History is not given to us to learn and to do differently but rather to learn that it was impossible to do. That it is impossible for us to do as they did. That is it, no more. They wanted to build egoistic communism which was not for the sake of everyone aimed at all human beings but rather it has to be aimed towards the Creator as well. What is the difference between bestowing to people and bestowing to the Creator if I am bestowing to the entire humanity? If for me there is no difference between nations, races, nothing, and I see everyone in a straightforward and equal way, that is not enough. No, their relation has to be in bestow and we do not understand here but we can already understand that the relation has to be in this true spiritual bestowal, spiritual. Spiritual means that we can rise above a reason. That we will acquire the quality of bestowal which will work in us, instead of the quality of reception. This is only possible under the condition that we will observe, and we keep what the Kabbalists have told us. Being in a Kibbutz is good but what is the intention? For us to be good, to feel better? Whatever we do, ultimately, we will turn it around with an egoistic intention. Whereas here, the intention has to be to bestow outside of me. That is what humanity has to come to, adhesion with the Creator. That is why without the wisdom of Kabbalah, without conditions that we have to keep so that the upper light will come out to us, we cannot come out of that.
S. There's no component there with the study of Kabbalah?
R. Yes, at least that. It is not always studying the wisdom of Kabbalah; it is also realizing it. We have to do everything in order to draw the light on us so that it will change our nature. We have to reach a state that the upper light bestows upon us and obligates us to change our perception of reality when I see reality before me. That I want to give, to bestow, to be outside of me, and all these communist ways are the opposite. Let us close ourselves, let us gather ourselves inside and let us be strong against everyone else. It is a completely opposite approach. It is as if we are inside some place that is closed, and we want to stay in it and protect ourselves from everyone else.
8. S. (24:11) He said that Russians ascend, that the bestow needs to be for the sake of the Creator that the Creator itself needs to be the purpose of each worker so it is like in a corrected society all people need to be in some sort of recognition or awareness of the Creator up to some extent?
R. Yes, that everyone has to be in recognition of the force of bestowal, each one according to his measure, and his place and the system of Adam HaRishon, everyone has to be in mutual bestowal.
S. Even if a person’s deed is not the correct, punishment comes later, so it is not correct, so how do we reach bestowal with the Creator?
R. We have to learn this ourselves that each and every step we walk, we passed through faith above reason, we walk with faith above reason, and that is how humanity will follow us in all these steps, but there is a difference, we do it step-by-step and a gradual way in small portions. Whereas humanity will go through that in a quick from one place to another, from one state to another not gradually, step to step but rather enlarged leaps, without really understanding, but it will occur in them as a result of our work.
9. S. (26:17) Understanding that all people, all human beings will need to reach this faith above reason, to be incorporate this inside Him?
R. They will get it from us, of course everyone will get it, everyone will rise to a spiritual degree and without that you will not exist is all, because in our world our state only exists for us, to take from it the desires and elevate them to an order to bestow. That is why everyone, each and every one, there is a hero in quantity, and there is a hero and quality. We are heroes of quality and the entire humanity, billions of people are the quantity, and there lies the intensity.
10. S. (27:05) He says each one in society was in fear to perform the deed from the Creator “love thy equivalent with all thy soul and thy heart”. You said, and just a few years the benefit of society will increase very quickly so why is he saying, they will be wealthier? because he is also talked about the will to receive?
R. The will to receive is filled according to the will to bestow is called wealth.
S (27:51) Is He not referring to spirituality as well?
R. It does not matter, we will talk about that later. Does this wealth exist and in what way? We are in a concealed place.
S. Can we tell people that if they will work for the love of the Creator, they can reach wealth?
R. I recommend not to talk about that at all. We will talk about it later.
11. S. (28:25) We see that even in the world, let us say with the exact example of China, it continues the communistic path, and they are succeeding in its way. Can we maybe add something?
R. I am not dealing with that, do not bring me all especially when you talk about names of countries and superpowers. Forget about that, I am asking you to lower yourself from your fantasies. We still need to learn a lot.
Reading Peace (29:10)
12. R. (35:41) Did we understand it. I do not know but the picture he gave may be short, but concrete for us and correctly.
13. S. (36:01) What is in the work for the Creator that gives us fuel?
R. Receiving for the sake of the Creator.
S. Yes. That is not clear, where does the fuel come from?
R. The fuel comes from the Creator. I am answering you precisely as the question. if you want to ask something else, then express it in words.
S. He says that as long as you work for the sake of unity you do not have fuel. If you would work for the Creator, you would have fuel.
R. Right
S. So, what I am asking.
R. What you can describe yourself not for the benefit of humanity, but the benefit of man. I want to determine that I am right, that I am great that I will be the manager and so on, and that is why I work, and I say it is for the sake of humanity, but it is not, it is for the sake of myself. If it were really for the sake of humanity then I would need the force of bestowal, the force of the Creator. Thus, anyone who says they can work only for the sake of society that is a lie, he is a liar, and he does not understand what he is saying.
S. (27:37) So for the sake of it for himself, he has no fuel to work?
R. For himself there is no fuel to work because that is it. Before we reach such development of such states that we have all developed on our own egotistically, and now we need to reach our development by connection between us. It is like we see in nature in general that they would develop ameba all sorts of little parts, particles they reached atoms, atoms to molecules, from molecules to even greater structures to bodies that have minds and sensations, and that there is a division of roles, inside there are connections and so on, and in such way, they reach a state until it is made of a body.
S. So where does this edition of fuel come from? When it comes from the Creator, where does it come from?
R. This way we begin to feel that we lack forces in order to maintain ourselves, and we make an effort to receive them from nature egotistically, and we are incapable, so we are raising our hands yielding. There is nothing we could do, what will be will be. Here we need to reveal the wisdom of Kabbalah that all our development that was beforehand was an order to reveal zero that there is no correct goal or forces to obtain any true goal. We do not have it, and now we need to recognize it to begin to recognize the truth of creation.
S. What does that mean that if they could picture the Creator as the goal, as the target, what is this addition of by man? What is the addition, working for humanity or working for the Creator?
R. We work for the sake of the Creator, it means that he needs to rise above himself, to work for the sake of humanity also you need to rise above himself, because he does not feel what humanity is. For me it is some concealed force, I do not have the vessel that is called humanity that is felt, but family yes, money, food, but yes, I am willing to work for that but for humanity even the nation I cannot really say barely I have some sensation like that. It needs to be in egoistic sensation that it is in me to understand, and then I can work, then I will work but if there is no such sensation, how will it work? Let’s say the nation of Israel, they have no sensation as a nation because they don't come from one group that grew and it was established as such in nature, thus, it is not a nation, it was never a nation, rather, if not for all the pressure and hate from all the world this group long ago would have been erased from all. They would have just dissolved from the rest of the nations but rather it was all anti-Semitism which has kept this nation in existence.
S. (42:14) Baal HaSulam says that the entire success is in this addition for the Creator’s sake, so if we are talking about the farmers working for the Creator. What does it mean him adding this for the Creator?
R. “For the sake of the Creator” is something that is above reason, a connection with the upper force that you can receive it, by this that you are revealing the upper force and to reveal it you can only do this by equivalence of force with Him, otherwise no. This is seemingly the small addition but after this addition, the whole world is open before you, the spiritual world the true reality.
S. Exactly when he describes the results in a huge scale, but the Creator is gone so what does it mean?
R. You need to build Him, He is not outside of you, there is no Creator without the created being let us talk about this point specifically for a few minutes, how do we reveal the Creator? How do we build Him? Why the Creator is called Bo-Reh, come and see that does not exist.
Workshop (44:06) “How do we reveal the Creator? How do we build Him?”
14. R. (47:01) Meaning we cannot reach revelation of the Creator if we do not reach the form of the created being and the form of the created being is the ten the group. First of all we make an effort in some extent to be incorporated of one another, that is the meaning of there is no Creator without the created being. That this is the general force that fills all of reality and the extent that you specifically build the created being called a ten, to this extent you can, according to the force intensity of the ten according to its character, you can reveal the sum total force that is abstract of all on the one-handed fills everything and on the other hand it is not felt by anyone, but rather for each one whoever forms that correct vessel for his revelation. We are always encountering the same point, getting stuck on it, that we must be connected that we must reach a state that we are disconnecting from our egoistic self, we are incorporated in that which is not felt in us at all, what is this term we us and this we this us, this is exactly the quality Bina, the quality of bestowal. That we disconnect from the me, from the Malchut, and we all make the effort to reach Bina, and there we connect by that same force of Bina, light of bestowal light of mercy Hassadim that it helps us to annul one before the other. That is it and from this moment onward we are called created beings. Is that clear?
15. S. (49:58) These are questions about the article. If all of humanity will unite in order to give the rest of the people will that be automatically for the sake of the Creator?
R. That is true there is something to that because humanity in general if it would be in the mutual tendency towards one another in order even to be saved from some blows like Kabbalists describe to us like what troubles, the troubles that we get up ahead of us the crises and then maybe we can even see some benefit from this but only from this that we want to run away to flee from the bad, because it is talking about very small discernments and very small vessels of human beings, but actually billions of people are in this.
16. S. (51:15) What is the message we have to pass on to ordinary people out of the peace article we are reading?
R. I do not think we are ready to pass this on to other people but slowly it will be understood to us that only on the condition that we connect do we reach correction and get farther from the blows; we distance ourselves from the blows.
17. S. (51:52) We learned that from Lo Lishma, not for her sake we come to Lishma for her sake, so why not start working on connection for the sake of the society?
R. You could just for us it would not be so suitable because we will immediately reveal that that is not the goal, which is not the goal.
18. S. (52:26) Why in the story about Russia, Baal HaSulam writes that the Creator will not forgive them, they had no freedom of choice?
R. Freedom of choice, we need to speak separately, that there is or is not freedom of choice that it is not by us or with respect to us, but rather every degree has its own level of freedom of choice. Russians had the opportunity to work on the intention to bestow. They could not perform it of course because that is how you could say the Creator played with them, but there is the truth before the action and the truth after the action and thus whatever they did they did out of their nature. You could say the Creator did all of this and there is nothing that they could do he brought creation to life and there is nothing you could do, you could always speak this way. But what will we get out of it? Only the summary that whoever works for the society without reaching the intention to bestow, that is called for the sake of the creator, here even egotistically we are ruining the very essence of this sentence this verse. That if not for the sake of the creator that not good. For the sake of the Creator means that if we do not attain the true quality of bestowal above reason, if we don't accept this force from above that helps us to perform actions entirely not for our own benefit for the benefit of our ego that is the meaning, and thus that’s how we need to understand that that’s why the Creator will not forgive them he writes. Why in our words we can understand that they were not yearning for the intention to bestow truly, for faith above reason to rise above their vessels of reception. They only wanted to do good to one another and not to work for the force of bestowal. They were not working to rise above the general ego and to exit to the nature of bestowing, bestowal, to the degree of the upper world. They did not want it they did not understand it they were not meant for it and thus they were not capable of it. Rabash told me that Baal HaSulam after the revolution in Poland there were some riots chaos, so he traveled to Poland he wanted to try to get involved and explain here how to work. He knew Polish, Russian, Yiddish, and Hebrew and he thought maybe like this he could speak with them and explain to everyone how we can change the situation because otherwise they will reach a crisis that will last many years forward, but did it work out? He returned from there and whatever happened, happened and this was before World War Two. That is the difference, and were they working in order to connect in order to reveal something or in order to truly bestow to rise to Lishma? Once again, the same point that we are always in comes back, are we reaching Lishma or not? If we do not reach Lishma everything we build is some communism socialism I do not know what, that ultimately is destroyed because the Creator will not allow to build anything less than the end of correction, that we will all be in the force of bestowal the true force of bestowal, the spiritual one.
19. S. (57:41) Is our explanation to the people of Israel about love your friend as yourself, does it need to have an additional Creator?
R. There is no difference between the nation of Israel and the nations of the world, today we are all in a direct line to the end of correction, direct lane, so there is no difference between each and every person in the world if he can accept these matters of correction and realize them in advance.
S. (58:17) In our dissemination for, do we always have to add for the sake of the Creator or otherwise it will be a failure?
R. For the sake of the Creator you can say it as much as you want from the mouth outward, but to work for the Creator is already something else. This that what we learned already what it truly means to be on the intention to bestow in faith above reason, meaning we accept we acquire the true quality of bestowal, and we will do all sorts of actions and according to these actions we will come closer as long as it will take but we will make the effort that it will occur
20. S. (59:06) What will help Russia purify this sin its nation has done?
R. All that we have gone through whatever we have corrected according to opportunities we have done they will need to also correct Jews and Russians; it always is like this. You have to reach the whole correction of the will to receive, it will be entirely on the intention to bestow to everyone and through them to the Creator.
21. S. (59:45) Can we expect that ordinary people, for them the article was written, will correctly understand the meaning of we are serving the Creator?
R. It is written simply all shall know me from the smallest to the greatest and my house, meaning the general soul, will be a house of prayer for all nations, and it cannot be otherwise because one depends on the other that all must connect all must be corrected all must be connected in mutual bestowal and then the force of bestowal will be revealed in them and its entirety.
22. S. (1:00:29) What is the covenant of the servitude of the Creator throughout the lesson that we have to take upon ourselves?
R. We need over the course of the lessons especially lately that we will also continue. We are beginning to acquire to get closer to faith above reason. We need to always hold ourselves such that our work our effort must be very serious that each one will always be thinking about the connection between us in a simple way through the ten as much as possible, but it is an obligation that it must be.
S. (1:01:23) How to adapt oneself to the fact that through studying such an article like The Peace the upper light comes to correct. Does it happen through the connection with our author?
R. First of all it occurs in connection between us that if we want in the connection between us to reveal what the author wanted to send us then we reveal Him as a sending to us. There is no corporeal death separating between us that is nonsense not at all, there is no matter in it at all. There is no distance between us and the author, rather in the extent that we want to receive what he is writing and to realize it upon ourselves and to that extent he is in us.
23. S. (1:02:18) Does each one reveal his own Creator?
R. Each one of course reveals his Creator, but through everyone. Because, if I am in the general system, I am some small private vessel there but there I receive from everyone in the extent that I connect with everyone, and how do I connect with them? in the extent that I want to bestow to everyone. Then it turns out that I receive from everyone, and I bestow to everyone, and that is my private point in Ein Sof, infinity.
24. S. (1:02:57) Baal HaSulam writes that the Creator will not forgive Russia. What about Israel with all the Kibbutzim? Will he not forgive them?
R. He will not forgive the Jews in Russia either, because they are the ones that cooked up this revolution. If all of history was revealed to you, you would see what was happening with Columbus and everyone you can think of, and things that it is just unbelievable what is happening, next to Hitler, next to Stalin every matter. This matter is not up to us.
S. There were Jews there, that is the business.
R. Every place. The souls that received the connection with the upper light and broke shattered, then out of the shattering they can rise and begin to work, they are called Israel direct to the Creator, and out of this they rise up and they do. This tendency exists in all sorts of people throughout the generations.
S. (01:04:30) His calculation saying not forgiving Russia is not with Russia, rather with Israel being in Russia.
R. Yes, what is to blame that same person who is suffering. The suffering is because we do not receive the method of connection, and to realize the connection already belongs to those who once may be received sometime or can receive maybe. Let us say that each one of us today that they can come to us in a demand. It does not matter which one of us is a Jew or not. Why are we? this is the form of the judgment that the soul is judged, why did you not cause correction according to what you received?
S. (01:05:32) What about today, if today we will be judged?
R. For us better that this trial will be delayed. We have yet what to do. I do not see that we are coming out not guilty.
S. Why?
R. What have we done?
S. We do, we work.
R. In each and every moment if you stop and do the math, I do not think you come out. It is coming out to our benefit our good, but truly we can succeed, every day we have new vessels, better ones that are in greater understanding sensation and connection, thus we can advance today as well.