Part 2:

Baal HaSulam. Peace in the World

1. R. (00:20) This is a very broad article and it includes in it many things, we should learn it, also we need to understand that these things are very relevant in our world, especially what we're experiencing today in the world. We're going through a transition of a world that existed in the 20th century that's now going towards a new structure, a new era of the 21st century. And there we will see what our history is, what the process humanity is going through and where it is taking us, where it is taking us to. We think these things are not really influencing our own individual lives but that is not true we will see how this is related to each and everyone individually, so let's read and scrutinize.

Reading peace in the world (01:51) “Scrutinies and inquiries..”

2. R. (02:29) Yes and what is implied in the Book of Psalms.

Reading continues

3. R. (02:43) That's what's written in Psalms, what does King David want to say to us here, let's see.

Reading continues

4. R. (05:40) It's clear just like the title, everything is evaluated not by its appearance at any given moment but according to its level of development, and if we see that something isn't functioning correctly beneficiary and holy then likely it hasn't yet completed his development and therefore we cannot speak of it of what it is and how it is and how it should be.

5. S. (06:17) You said that now we are in the beginning of a new world order that not each one of them will feel the changes individually. Here Baal HaSulam writes it's all the results of the development, so where is all of this going, where are all these dramatic state's developing towards?

R. I don't want to talk before the wise that speak here Baal HaSulam excetera therefore let us read. Of course we are developing and that is why we mustn't speak concisely it's this or that, we need to wait. And to the extent the world will change and people will change and Nations and countries and then we will see where the Creator is leading us to. But it's clear that you don't show a fool something that is in the middle of its development, that only a wise one, what is wise is considered that he sees the entire process from beginning to end and then he can say about all states regarding this matter.

6. S. (08:04) In the first excerpt it is saying that everything, even in the more harmful, has a right to exist and we can't eradicate it but we need to correct it. What's the difference between to eradicate the evil or correct it?

R. Bringing it to a form that it participates with all forms of creation mutually correctly.

S. And what does it mean to complete the eradicated and that's forbidden?

R. That you're not allowing it to develop, you're finishing its form of development in that way because the state for now seems to you as incorrect. That is why according to the current state you're thinking of it and that is how it will also be in a future state. He gives us later on examples, an example with an apple and all kinds that it's bitter in the beginning of its development and then it becomes sweet.

S. What we need is to correct the evil?

R. We mustn't think that is evil, it is something that has not yet reached its full development and that's why it seems to us as bad. We need either to correct our vision or we need to wait until this thing will develop and show us its correct form.

S. These words that we need to correct it and bring it to the good, what does that mean?

R. That we need to wait and help it develop, not that now I speak of it saying that I slander it. Eventually everyone reaches the end of correction, everyone reaches the correct form, but what is the correct form and how do we complete each other, I don't know. We need to study and participate in it. I too need to change, by looking at everyone in seeing them also worthy of correction.

S. (10:58) On one hand we can't say anything until we understand where things are developing, on the other hand we have to live here and now?

R. In other words that is why each and everyone of us needs to be worthy of the correction get the chance to be corrected.

S. Can we say it about something now that is evil?

R. No, that it seems to me as evil because I myself, to start with, am not corrected.

8. S. (11:40) What happens with the evil that is being eradicated or destroyed, is it reborn?

R. That's not a correction, that is why we need many incarnations to bring it back to its corrupted form in order to be corrected.

S. When we look at the state of humanity it's like an unripe fruit, so what should we do with it not interfere to wait for the fruit to be right or should we interfere, what do we do?

R. We need to interfere and help it correctly ripen, like he says that you add to the tree to the fruit all kinds of additives that help it grow correctly so that it will not be eaten by pesticides or to add all kinds of substances and so on. That is what we need to give each and every one, just like we do with all kinds of nations in Africa or Asia like it used to be, we advance them towards development.

S. When we see wars like they are in the world now what should we tell ourselves, that's a process?

R. That it's a process which is incorrect, and it's incorrect because we're not completing each other so we're extending the suffering and we're increasing the sufferings and it will take a long time until it will calm down.

S. Why do we say it's a wrong process we won't say about an unripe fruit that it's a wrong process, there is a process that it will be ripe soon and we can eat it?

R. When all of the forces of nature are working on it in order to make it grow to bring it to its healthy form to its ripe form. However here we are killing people, we are pausing the development of the souls within them, I don't see any positive development.

9. S. (14:08) What is the attitude of a Kabbalist towards killers or people who harm on a corporeal level, how does that work out that you can't disregard them?

R. We need to help everyone regardless of who they are and what they are. We need to help them understand what the purpose of creation is and what the goal of creation is and we can help everyone reach the purpose of creation swiftly and positively.

10. S. (14:54) If we or all of creation needs to come to the good and the Creator guards all parts of of creation, is there even an option to eradicate, and we see that humanity is only using that way of eradicating in destroying?

R. We need to see this as one of the opportunities for correction, yes to correct. That if someone is killed, if their livelihood is stopped on the animate level then the created being is given the chance to do something else instead. I cannot explain it, it's something very profound and it's not really related to our topic. You won't be able to understand that now what the benefit of death is, and that of course is a benefit.

11. S. (16:11) I heard you saying that we have two possibilities to relate to reality or to wait for the fruit is ripe or to change our observation, so what's the difference between those two paths and what's the one preferable for correction?

R. The preference is to advance mutually supporting each other on the level of the speaking that we complete one another and then all of the forces will be aimed towards the purpose of creation. That is preferable.

12. S. (17:07) When it becomes right is that something private for me or everybody has to reach the final correction?

R. No, you need to arrive at that.

S. It's all I need?

R.To the extent that you can aid the others, through dissemination.

12. S. (17:35) The Creator wants to give pleasure to the person, the person wants to get out of his control. Should one reject what the Creator wants to give, what should we do with this situation?

R. We need just like the Kabbalist write, to try and be more connected more and more among us until the single force will be revealed through the connection between us in a single reality called the Creator. That is all we need.

13. S. (18:31) It's still early to talk about what's happening in the world, so what can we say about the last 80 years from the second World War or even from the first?

R. Humanity learns nothing from the past on the one hand, on the other hand they do and there is some learning, that it's being pushed again and again to enter those same turbulences as we had in the past only this time it's much more severe and tragic. We had the atomic Wars and this is what we need to see.

What to do, well, what can we do? We need to reach a state that is impossible for a person or a group or a Nation to devour a different country and that should be prohibited and there's no justification for that. Everyone needs to come to a simple state and it's also written in the Torah that you don't raise your arms on the other, that's the problem we need to reach that. All the laws and the forces they need to be without there's no justification that allows us to use force, any kind of force. That's a problem that we are still acting like savages, like animals

S. Only in the final correction we will discover everything?

R. Yes, yes, likely.

14. S. (21:05) If we were saying about death is something that nature brings we can't resist it, there's a sentence saying that if someone comes to kill you you should rise to kill him before, so we're going against what nature is telling us?

R. This is one of the laws of the Torah that we need to do. Yes, there's no contradiction here, of not raising an arm on the other, but if one does raise an arm on the other than he deserves to receive it back.

15. S. (21:57) What he was saying was that if someone comes to kill you, you should do it earlier. It's opposite of what he's saying here in the article, that you can't eradicate him even the worst there is, so why can I kill someone who's coming to kill me first, I'm even commanded to do it?

R. Because he is the source of that same action that he wants to kill, so that same source I want to eradicate from the world.

Reading continues (22:33) “ The Weakness of World Reformers...”

16. R. (23:41) It sounds good, right, seemingly according to our own eyes our understanding we see all of humanity that saying, this needs to be killed this needs to be destroyed there is no place for this in the world. What's the problem, didn't we read about this a few minutes ago?

Reading continues (24:10) “But Because the Creator Meticulously Watches..”

17. S. (25:52) I'm trying to understand those three options to see that the Creator, is the reality is like the Creator planned. Either I'm corrected or the fruit becomes ripe or like you said that I add the materials in order to see that it's not corrected yet but it's going into the good direction, is that right to say so?

R. I don't know, here he didn't write about that.

S. I'm trying to understand what's the differences between what the world reformers are trying to do to bring back the bad qualities back to the good, it sounds like they should just do what they want to be good. What's the difference?

R. It's true that's why he says these are called the world reformers.

S. What's the difference between the world reformers to correcting our observation?

R. Is it a correct action that we are correcting what we see as bad.

S. How can we determine that?

R. That is the question, there is no answer yet he's only clarifying and scrutinizing to what we ourselves are constantly discovering our corruptions without knowing how to correctly treat reality.

S. He writes what the direction of reality is, that it's just me correcting myself or can it be something outside of me?

R. Even if you find that you have something to do the question is, are you committed to do it?

18. S. (27:55) When reading the article you think it's about someone so it's all good, but when we discover that the world reformers are in you, meaning there's qualities in the friends that are wrong or the Creator, so it is unexpected. How to come out of it and how to correct it?

R. You have nowhere to run to and you need to find a way to correct reality, yourself, the world, maybe the Creator, I don't know. Something needs to be corrected, what we find in the world is that the world is bad, it's corrupted, the entire world seems as a rotten fruit so what do we do?

S. That's the question, it's like a dead end?

R. It's like a Garden of Eden and in it there is a tree of knowledge and on the tree of knowledge there's an apple and this apple is constantly ruining and rotting more and more. It's becoming rotten so what do we do? That is what we want to think and under the tree there are human beings seated and they want to correct the state because they see it, they see the situation as being bad. Let's continue, let's just make sure the question is clear.

19. S. (30:12) It's not clear who are the world reformers because it's something that comes from the Creator, so why do we need to make them disappear?

R. Well I can't answer you, world reformers are those that think that something can be reformed and corrected.

20. S. (30:55) He says until he becomes ripe and then the bad qualities themselves become good, this is the Creator's thought. You're saying everyday, friends be careful soon this whole world is going away?

R. No no no. If there's a final correction then what end us there to the world, so what are you saying?

S. Because there isn't the end of the correction, you see everyday is getting worse, how do you see the final correction happening here? And here it says it's going to end and when is that going to happen?

R. He says that if we won't make corrections then they will come from nature which is called Creator and they will force us to undergo corrections gradually and forced.

S. I'm asking you, do we feel Providence, do you see Providence and everything that's happening?

R. Whoever feels it, feels it, whoever doesn't, doesn't.

S. What do you mean whoever feels it, feels it?

R. I don't understand what you are asking, you're jumping from one question to the next.

S. I'm saying people see that in the world it is becoming much worse from one moment to the next?

R. Correct.

S. How do you see that everything is going to be inverted?

R. In order to awaken us towards correction, that is how the world seems, it is getting worse every single day.

S. How can such a horrible thing be corrected?

R. It is pressuring us to such an extent that we really think about what we are doing.

S. What should we actually do?

R. First ask.

S. I'm asking you what can we actually do to see that everything stops and becomes better?

R. Learn in the Wisdom of Kabbalah that everything depends on us, on our correct actions.

S. In the connection between us?

R. In order to reach connection because in this connection we truly revive all of reality.

S. With Gods’ help, thank you.

21. S. (33:46) When he sees that it's corrected in man, so what way is that we see the evil isn't disappearing it just goes to a correction, so what form is it that evil?

R. The evil is entirely in the egoistic will to receive in order to receive for myself and even to cause evil to the others that too I enjoy within my ego, and to bring that to the form of the bestowal that I enjoy only to the extent I enjoy bestowing to others.

S. This evil that got the form of bestowal, what form is it in? How does that person feel the evil that was corrected, what is its form?

R. The form of bestowal.

S. He doesn't feel the evil at all?

R. No because everyone bestows on everyone, everyone is thinking of everyone.

S. That evil that you reached bestowal from, it remains as a record, a Reshimot?

R. Both are not done the same way. Imagine that you have a system a closed system, complete and every part in the system is connected to the others in order to supply everyone through it this force of livelihood, the upper light.

S. If someone feels the evil inclination within him that means he hasn't corrected it and needs to work on it?

R. Yes, so we need to keep correcting it, meaning the system and the right correct one works in a complete way where each and every part in it passes the upper force, the force of life that comes through him, he passes it to the others. In this way each and everyone, until everybody enjoys it.

22. S. (36:13) He writes here, similar to a fruit on the trees that is sitting and counting the days and months that it must wait before the completion of its ripeness. He describes it as something very passive about sitting and waiting for it to be completed. We also learn that we can also take an active part in the process?

R. Because we're not fruit like the example, why are you using it in such a way?

S. Because he compares the process we go through to a fruit until it will be completed?

R. What do you want to ask?

S. Let me rephrase it, how do we take a more active part in the process?

R. Either you hang yourself on the tree like the fruit and you can wait or you do it and it active way, that you pass the upper force through you, the force of growth to everyone.

S. Active is connecting in the ten?

R. Yes.

Reading (37:29) “Rewarded I will Hasten it, Not Rewarded...”

23. R. (40:10) The will to receive can develop much quicker if it's with the correct participation of man because these things our sages said:

Reading continues

24. S. (41:48) What does it mean to be completely free from the chains of time?

R. That you're not working according to the time that you have in each and every moment facts are brought from you from above but you activate reality you determine the pace of development and the form of development that's called the government of the land, okay? If we exchange one to the other it will be okay.

25. S. (42:55) He says here if they have been rewarded in this time and if not and it's due time. What is the reward here that he writes about?

R. Whatever is a reward, what are you asking about?

S. What does it mean rewarded?

R. Rewarded that they can change their destiny.

S. Have we been rewarded? Can we say that?

R. Ask yourself, why are you asking me? Us, who’s us?

S. The house in general, we come every morning to study.

R. Yes, we’re already rewarded somewhat, there's still work before us.

S. So that’s considered in its hastened time or not yet?

R. To a certain extent we are hastening the times.

S. Great so we’ve been rewarded?

R. Rewarded but not all the way. We haven’t reached the purpose yet, the goal but rewarded and being on that train that is drawn towards the goal.

S. We're on the train?

R. We're on the train, yes.

26. S. (44:22) When I read the article I'm following Baal HaSulam and when I finish I mediately want to go and correct the world. When I read articles is that educating my mindset? My second question today I heard if I read alone or with a friend my ego without your explanations will it ruin the article or not?

R. Read.

27. S. (45:17) You said before that there needs to be a general rule in the world that no one should attack anyone else, right? If you take two kids and one is attacking the other and you ask one of the kids what's happening why are you attacking the other than what will he say?

R. That I have an evil equation I cannot calm myself.

S. That's not what they say to me, they say to me he started. So anyone who attacks, like a child to a grown up, they have a justification that they started, so what does it mean that you shouldn't attack, what does that mean?

R. I don't know about the law. The law in the Torah says that you cannot in practice jump the other.

S. But if you attack the attacker feels that they are defending not make-believe. Every attacker feels that I am defending myself, he started it.

R. Mister, who gave the first below? Can you determine that or it's endless? You can determine, so determine it. What can you do here we're also not in such states you with little children I understand but with the big kids let's say in the wars of today so everybody knows who started it and who did it and it doesn't matter how much we we’re talking between them but it's important who started in practice that's it. I don't want to talk about it because it's not for our benefit. But soon it will be revealed.

28. S. (47:12) In order to understand what Baal HaSulam writes here in the article do you have to be on the degree of Baal HaSulam?

R. No, he's writing it for us.

S. What can we understand within our own mind?

R. That eventually when we come to the end of the article we will know in what the peace in the world depends on. Just like the article itself.

S. Why is the answer to the second question, why was I able to comprehend that intellectually when you answered I was really trembling?

R. I don't know exactly what you're talking about.

29. S. (48:33) It seems like there's acceleration towards the path towards the goal.

R. Right.

S. It seems everything is clear I'll reach my goal quicker and according to what we learned in the first part of the lesson that we are going from Lo Lishma towards Lishma, that it seems that this is an outcome, it's like it all disappears. So hastened time, is that in fact an accelerated path towards the end goal?

R. It's sped up. You want to receive everything in an answer without working without actually doing the deed.

Reading “but if they are not rewarded..”

30. S. (53:17) Baal HaSulam writes here the ability to cut loose from the limitations of time depends on two things according to the action according to attention, what are these two things?

R. That we need to try and pay attention put forces on those two things.

S. What is attention in the work?

R. To pay attention about it.

S. Pay attention to what?

R. Pay attention to us needing to connect going towards connection you keep forgetting that our purpose is to correct the sin of the tree of knowledge, the sin of the tree of knowledge you cannot run away from that, if you pay attention you will see as much as each and every person and all nations and all of humanity are revolving around that correction, and soon we’ll discover such things that every force every action of an individual if he wants to succeed it must be according to the sin of the tree of knowledge.

31. S. (55:18) There are two paths here towards the end of correction, in its due time and hastened time. The question is in the final state, the final correction, is it different if we…?

R. No, even on the way it's not different. What's the path of hastening or in its own time? Is there a way, there's only one path either you advance through blows in any step you take or you advance by scrutinizing the forms of development each step every detail and help yourself advance through prayer and friends towards the same place, but it's not really two paths it's just called that way it's like two possibilities.

S. But the option of in its hastened time, if a person realizes his freedom of choice he’s actively participating in the process so accordingly the final results should also be.

R. No, you go somewhere either you're in the right path or the wrong path and so on but once you get there you get to the same goal.

S. What's the point in the split between the two paths?

R. What's the point?

S. What's the thought behind this?

R. The thought behind it is that you will have freedom of choice and you’ll agree with the Creator to walk this path not through blows but through your freedom of choice that you limit yourself and put yourself into an order to bestow and working in Lishna and you give this additional forces of prayer and not that it all happens because in every moment you just want to run away from it, and go back to the egoistic development.

S. If I take myself and divide myself into two, one using freedom of choice and arriving through prayer through working in the ten, and the other is disrespecting it disregarding it and reaching the same result through…

R. What’s the question?

S. What’s the difference in the final destination?

R. In the final destination you still reach the same result the same goal, but either you got there through receiving blows and you ran from it a thousand times let's say bad people, or all kinds of cases of death or whatever or you go on a nice road in the Mercedes and you reach a good nice state that's the difference. Also the goal you get to it seems different you receive it in a different way and not through blows.

On the good road you correct yourself more and more towards the goal that in every step on that good road you adapt yourself more to the goal meaning you change. On the bad road do you resist it and resist it more and more until you reach such pain and suffering that you'd rather be dead than alive and you're only asking for death, you said oh death okay we’ll give you death to your will to receive here and then you reach the correction. You can ask about quantity of pain or quality of pain in the hastening it or in its own time, is there a difference, so there's an essential difference because if I want to reach the truth and I'm willing to suffer for it, so that's not suffering anymore.

S. But it turns out that maybe qualitatively it's equal but in terms of the process it's different in its essence.

R. Yes.

32. S. (01:00:52) There are eight billion people in the world and it's clear that everyone needs to reach the final correction in order for everyone to be corrected, it's clear that only and it's due time according to the laws of nature. The question is can a relatively small group of people, let’s say Bnei Baruch, can we bring all of humanity towards the end of correction in its hastened time?

R. Even one person is enough. How? Because there’s a point of connection between the speaking degree to divinity to Godliness there’s a connection and that's enough.

S. And the correction of one person isn’t individual?

R. No it's not a correction if he does it privately.

S. One person arrives at the end of correction.

R. So he reaches the end of correction for all of humanity.

S. So it's possible?

R. Yes.

33. S. (01:01:58) Today in the world there are many people who are suffering, wars, economy, et cetera so I have two questions. One, why did the Creator build create these two paths towards the end of correction, and two why does the Creator awaken only part of humanity's point in the heart and the others are not?

R. The Creator awakens all of humanity but gradually according to the root of the soul in each and every part and that's how they advance that's one thing, the other that everyone is coming closer according to the plan of creation that's why in this we shouldn't get in there and start complaining but we just need to try and aide more and more to disseminate to give an example, and the main thing is to correct ourselves that by this we influence the whole world. That's how it is.