Morning Lesson November 02, 2022 Transcription

Transcription is made from simultaneous translation which leaves a possibility for differences in the audio

Part 2:

Baal HaSulam. Peace in the World (Good and Bad Are Evaluated by the Actions of the Individual toward Society)

1. R. (00:18) Yes, we're continuing this article. It's very important because it speaks of the correct structure of society in our time specifically, in our state specifically.

Reading (00:30) “good and bad are evaluated. of the individual .”

R. Baal Hasulam is giving rules. These rules are kept, you feel good, you don't keep them, you feel the evil.

2. R. (03:15) In other words we see the difference between the degree of speaking and the degree of the animate and that all species of the animate, animals can exist alone. They don't need to be in a family or even in a society of beings that are similar, maybe they do, maybe they don't, but a person is created in such a way that he has a great weakness to take care of himself, to exist, to nurture himself. To do it alone he must have more people. He has a more developed will to receive, he is not capable of serving it alone. That's why he must have more people to be around him that he'll help them and they will help him and only collectively they will be able to determine a normal life for the will to receive in the human race.

Reading continues (04:40) "And in our subject, the benefit of ,,,"

3. S. (07:51) It says that a person has to think of the benefit of the entire collective not his individual part, can a person truly understand and analyze his actions before he discovers his egoistic nature?

R. Anyone can interpret it however they want. That's what's happening, we need to reach a state that slowly, through also through external states the Creator shows us to the extent that we're developing in a bad way from one blow to the next, also individually and also generally. We need to finally understand the laws of the system which we are in and not that we are building ourselves these systems.

That's stupidity, to think that that same image that we see for example in all of reality and in all of the universe and all of our scientists went into physics and chemistry, biology, zoology and astronomy and all of these things we have laws and in those same laws we also exist. Suddenly we think that we can stabilize new laws that come to us to each one and each one however they feel like, he wants the world to be like this and no more no less, and it's clear from that only wars will come and problems between people.

Just like yesterday in Israel we had an election day and each one went to elect whatever they felt. What does that point to? That none of us understands what is the correct system of the management of the world. No one understands but each one is like the blind following blindly following and shouting towards one another that each one knows how to build the world. The world doesn't need to be built, it needs to understand how it is already built and to join as much as we can to that same system that exists.

The world acts according to its custom and nothing needs to change only to change ourselves, to suit ourselves to the system that exists in reality. That's the problem needing to change man. To cause the human being to change, not that the world will change, that's the problem. In order to understand this we've been given the wisdom of Kabbalah and why do we need to go through this so harshly, because by starting to reveal ourselves as opposite from the laws of creation the general laws,by that we are were searching and identifying what is opposite from us in reality which is eventually the will to receive.

We cannot correct it in order to join the system of creation in a way that we rise to a degree that is above creation like the Creator "and you shall be as God, knowing good as evil" that is what is says.Then we become limitless in all of creation. I am not even talking about our world, that is revealed in our five senses that we can fly from one end to the other in the corporeal world but also in the spiritual world, everything is ahead of us.

S. Accepting the rule of the upper force, this view of the general system it's not simple, like boom and I got it, it's an extensive educational process.

R. Correct, it is a long process that we need to educate ourselves, our children, and continue for a few generations until we bring all of human society to identify with nature. Still, vegetative and animate do not need to be corrected, they are activated from within nature. We are the opposite of nature and that is why we are causing evil to ourselves and to all of nature. That is what we need to learn the laws of nature and to change ourselves in accordance with these laws that are being revealed.

4. S. (14:04) In our online courses the beginners from our country are asking why is it happening? Why is it happening here? Why is one nation destroying another nation? They have a lot of pain and they don't understand and you have a desire to answer them correctly and not to push them out of our path and to support them. How do you answer them correctly, the beginners?

R. We only learn about the laws of nature and after we learn about them we will enter and start to keep them gradually. When we are going to keep the laws of nature, meaning coming close to connection and love even everyone, which is the highest level of connection. We will begin to understand how much we can change ourselves and by that we will see how nature itself is changing relative to us. It's turning to us in a good, beautiful, and friendly way, and that's what we need to do. Meaning we come to the Wisdom of Kabbalah, we learned how we should change in order to discover the true laws of nature.

S. Why is it? It turns out that we are the nation that is.

R. There are seventy nations of the world as we call them and there's a difference between them and the size of the will to receive, among the 70 Sefirot of ZA so each one has to correct itself in a different way. That's what we learn and we will learn more about it.

S. How can we answer? Is there a direct relation or not?

R. We cannot see the general shape of things, the general form. We cannot see which part of the system, to which part each belongs to and each nation belongs to. Along the way as we learn we discover these things and it becomes clearer. The fact that we're not getting this knowledge now it's because we're not able to use it correctly.

5. S. (17:20) He says here that 'we do not appreciate the extent of evil and he should everyone according to the evil that is harming each of the public and not according to one's individuality' what does that mean?

R. That we cannot understand what we are bad and what is considered good and bad and how to aim ourselves more towards the good, the truth and what's right. We don't know how to do that. Rather we think that good means simply that it's good for us and our ego, not that it's the absolute good that belongs to everyone. Rather for each one individually, that's a problem here.

S. I really liked your opening. You said something about the elections and it's all corrupted and we're not dealing with it in the correct way. I hear you said this for the first time. What does it mean that we're not in the correct system? Every year we have elections here so why is that not good? I understand why but I want to better understand what you mean.

R. I don't know what to tell you. I would have elections every morning or every evening when people are watching the news and afterwards they vote by pushing a button. You don't need a day off or anything. Each and every day a person has to choose what's important to him in life, it's written about it in the Wisdom of Kabbalah, they shall be as new in your eyes.

S. In older times, there were no elections. The Sanhedrin, they were not elected were they? There was a different structure, so what? What does this mean? There were no elections? How were people elected then? Maybe we can take an example from that.

R. They would elect the people of the great assembly.

S. Who are they?

R. The sages, those people who customarily are wise, those were the people of the great assembly, the Knesset and these people built and functioned as the government.

S. It says here 'he who harms the collective is harmed as well' so what, each one can cause harm to a system? Each individual?

R. According to his degree.

S. They can cause actual harm?

R. Yes, as the heart of Kings and ministers are in the hands of the Creator and if it's a bad king or minister.

S. Okay, I understand hopefully it will be good each one will only do good and not bad

R. Okay.

6. S. (21:14) Baal HaSulam says it's crystal clear, however we also see that Jews in Israel and around the world are separated in their approach to religion and society. etc. How can these people feel the mutual foundation?

R. Through your dissemination, why are you asking me? You have the foundations of the corrected society here and you have to arrange it in different text and such that it will be closer to the audience, to the general public and bestow it to them and publish it. This is your work.

7. S. (22:04) In my experience throughout the years I see great success in what we study and disseminate and it reaches people and they don't know where it comes from. They start speaking similar things and they start believing and they act on it. What I haven't seen is the understanding that you need to correct man, you need to build it but the world is actually already built if I understood correctly but they simply need to change themselves and see how it's built, so why isn't that sinking in?

R. To correct the public you also need the proper leaders who are fit for the change you wish to see in the public. Meaning again you begin from the leadership and these leaders are those that we wish to educate here and then for them to go out to the public and try to work with it.

They will then build systems and this is great work. You don't work as you did a thousand years ago or two thousand years ago, among people who don't know anything besides primitive agriculture. uneducated themselves. You're not even working among people from the Kibbutz, you're working among people who are connected through the internet and all their opinions and they're confused and don't know what to do. Just look how their egos are controlling them and confusing them and no one wants to listen to the other and look at the election campaign that they go through, what can you do?

S. In retrospect there's a lot of strength in our society and our world group from us scrutinizing things, stirring them up and working on them and also disseminating and that is how its not syncing in.

R. Okay, so that's how we will continue as much as we can for the time being?

8. S. (24:47) How can we explain to a person that he is the cogwheel. On the one hand the world comes to serve me but I am the cogwheel that's jamming the whole world that's coming to serve me.

R. I didn't understand.

S. Baal HaSulam writes here that reality shows us that there is no one individual that can live alone without working in society etcetera but I don't you understand that I am the cogwheel that's jamming this entire system and that's was preventing me to receive the goodness the world has to offer.

R. Try to reach each and everyone and show them that the correction of the world is up to them and it depends on them.

S. I don't understand that. I'm corrupted as you said before. How can I understand that like you said before I'm connected to everyone and everything and I can talk to people around the world China and Thailand, and Petah Tikva, I'm connected but I'm not really connected I'm actually in a cogwheel that's jamming everything.

R. You're learning how unconnected you are and what's the right way to connect with everyone and how to best activate yourself within everyone and this is called for the benefit of everyone. Then you are learning what does it mean to be for the benefit of everyone? How should we be organized? What should happen in our heads and in our hearts so we will truly do good to everyone and that is the topic of the wisdom of Kabbalah.

S. A person today feels that he is connected but we see that he has been separated from social life so what does the system want to teach us by that?

R. The system wants to teach us that we cannot influence one another. We depend on one another but we cannot correctly influence one another.

S. What should be done?

R. We have to change your attitude, meaning change our egos gradually, remove ourselves from an egoistic connection to an altruistic connection. An altruistic system where we are thinking about the complete system, how all of it is established, is arranged in such a way that its center is the one point that's common to everyone.

9. S. (27:31) These are harsh things that the single cogwheel does not have the ability of motion but he's drawn with the motion of the rest of the wheels. I understand this intellectually but emotionally I feel as an individual cogwheel, when does a person start to truly feel this?

R. If you will try to enter into social work in order to influence the environment and receive a reaction from them the reaction you expect to receive, and then you will feel just how much you are in mutual connections with them. You can influence them and they can influence you and you will know how you need to be connected to them, this is public work as we call it social work.

S. Does a Kabbalist list actually feel that he cannot move freely in reality?

R. Of course, how can you imagine that you are moving freely if you wish to bestow to others to bring them practically to mutual work to mutual connection. Is someone going with you or agreeing with you?

S. Yesterday I went and I elected what I thought or even worse I didn't come to my tens meeting and the ten still keeps still going and I do also separately, I don't feel this dependency?

R. That's the problem, you have to feel the dependency and you feel it through roles, you take a role in the ten and you keep that role, otherwise you will not advance whatsoever. Each one must have and must live in this way.

10. S. (29:47) You said that if you chose, then you chose this form of management of the country that everyday people elect according to what the majority elects. Democracy isn't what I understood from this article, that there are matters that after the majority will be followed and they're matters after the individual should follow. Where does the following of the majority, where is that okay and how can you take decisions according to the majority?

R. I don't know exactly what you're asking but if you're asking how it should be in a democracy, it's when we are constantly checking what is going to benefit the majority and we bend ourselves for the majority.

S. Most people want the prices to go down?

R. I'm not getting into solutions I'm just saying, I dwell among my people, this is what we have to do first. Build such a mechanism by which we will exist among the majority, the majority decides.

S. He determines his need but how to decide to manage say, a country, there needs to be individuals who understand?

R. No, the majority has nothing to do with managing a country, the majority has nothing to do with managing a country. This democracy is completely destroying the foundation of nature. There's no such thing in nature where everyone chooses who will govern them and manage them, it's completely incorrect, we see how corrupt it is.

11. S. (32:23) On the one hand we see how democracy reaches a state of reaching a crisis and we see that the world is being divided in all kinds of approaches to totalitarian leaderships that countries are arriving at. On the other hand democracy, so how should this evolve?

R. We will see it, it's still ahead of us in the future. You cannot have a thousand forms according to the taste of every individual in the society; rather you have to educate them toward the only form that is the true form that fits everyone and we will discover that. We will also try to educate ourselves.

S. North Korea for example, they have a unity in the nation and everyone is working there and marching in rows but the Wisdom of Kabbalah they cannot stay there because their leadership will not allow it. There are other countries neighboring us for example, on the other hand we see democratic countries that have multiple opinions excetera it's unclear. Everything is getting harsher in the world, we need to find something and maybe the middle?

R. Let's read the article all the way through what's it called, Peace in the World, so let us finish the article and then we will discover how to reach such a state.

12. S. (34:54) How can each one maintain their individualism that they got from the Creator in their perceptions and qualities, and alongside of that act according to the law of the individual of the collective as one?

R. In our development we reach an understanding that the good of the individual and the good of the collective should be as one, they cannot conflict with one another, that's what has to be. This is the litmus test for how advanced and developed we are, where the freedom of the individual and the freedom of the collective is the same, the good of the society and the good of the individual is the same good. Then accordingly we will be able to determine that we are indeed deciding on the correct state.

13. S. (36:11) How can you make one understand that his harm towards the society is his harm towards himself?

R. If a person begins to feel that he is part of society, an inseparable part, an integral part of it and that's why if it's bad for him it's bad for the society, if it's good for society it's good for him then we have nothing more to add to it. A person himself will want to keep the laws of society, just understand this is about education. If I show every day how the laws and the conditions of the entire state and how they correctly divide between each and every one then it educates everyone.

It's like in a family you bring a paycheck, Mom, Dad it doesn't matter who else brings a paycheck and then you divide it between everyone and each one can see how much they give to everyone and that's how you live and that's how you distribute it. If you have more than all of us will get more, relatively speaking or the other way around less. If we would divide what we are all earning, how we divide the gas and electric and food consumption, if all of us knew that this is how it is and there was no other way then this would have been the best form of education. Let's hope that we will come to it.

14. S. (38:42) It's hard to read this article without wanting for the whole world to read it too, should women think of how to pass on these articles to the world?

R. Of course, this is the work of women, especially the work of women to publish and disseminate good articles. I'm not certain that this article in its current form is an article you can or should disseminate because not everyone will be able to understand it and read it and that's a problem, but yes dissemination is the main thing here.

15. S. (39:24) Can you describe the action of pushing in the ten of something practical through which we can advance? Is self preparation for the workshops in the ten, is that a crucial part of caring for the ten?

R. Yes.

16. S. (40:10) How to do actions of heroism and to be inspired every moment from the heart?

R. Try to show how much it influences everyone and advances everyone towards the end of correction, then it will be truly felt in a certain action and it's advancing us good towards acts of courage and heroism.

17. S. (40:54) Regarding the dependence on the people in the group, if we are in the group, I heard that you wanted to connect your funds in the ten and Rabash said no because that is not correct?

R. It's forbidden to act in accordance with the ability with the correction and that's what he said. How do you want to unite your paychecks with all of your good intentions if you're still not connected between you into one system. That was the malfunction.

S. In addition we have this organization of Gabai and Shatz and each one becomes responsible for the ten. There's some heaviness and that happens day after day and then it's even harder. If I would be responsible for a whole week, it scares me to think about it and we said that we need to be responsible for the ten every single day and to yearn to be in it our entire life. Is there practical meaning to be responsible for the ten, say for a week?

R. The problem is that we still cannot feel the system of connection between us inside of us in our hearts, we cannot feel it yet. There's a problem here.

S. I could do this with happiness?

R. You have to follow the rule of whether or not the collective is able to withstand it to take that on, to withhold it.

18. S. (43:52) It's a beautiful article and I put it in my Twitter account and I came across questions from people that I tried to explain a certain concept from the article, so he's asking what collective do I belong to and how can that be defined?

R. You have to choose and understand, only you can choose and understand.