Part 2
Baal HaSulam - Shamati 69. First Will Be the Correction of the World
Shamati 69- First will be the correction of the world. Twice (00:18- 03:29)
25. R. (03:35) We will scrutinize this article.
Rav is reading the from article 69 Shamati 69 First will be the correction of the world,
with his commentary.
Baal HaSulam says that: First there will be the correction of the world, then there will be the redemption, Meaning, two stages, first the correction of the world and then it will reach a state of complete redemption. Which is the coming of the Messiah. The upper light does all of the corrections and all of the desires until the complete form of in order to bestow. Which is the secret of your eyes shall see your teacher, to the most revealed form and the whole earth shall be full of knowledge. Earth is desire and to be filled with all of the upper light called knowledge. Meaning of the desires will receive an order to bestow the revelation of the Creator. That first the interior of the world will be corrected and subsequently the exterior of the world but we must know that the correction of the externality of the world is a higher degree than the correction of the internality. GE is called Israel. They have the inclination to come closer to bestowal, to the Creator, only the AHP disturbs them. The main correction to correct the nations of the world.
And the root of Israel is from the internality of the worlds. This is the meaning of “for you are the least of all the peoples.” Only GE, small vessels. It's not a matter of quantity, it's a matter of quality. The desires are only Shoresh [root] and Aleph [one], and the nations of the world are Awzen, Hotem, Peh [ear, nose, mouth] - AHP. Those are greater desires, bigger desires, 2, 3 and 4, as we count them.
However, by correcting the internality, the externality will be corrected, too, AHP. Though in small pieces. To the extent that the AHP can join the GE. That's what we do through dissemination through various actions of ours. And the externality will be corrected each time until many pennies accumulate into a great sum as it's written until all the externality is corrected.
Then it's called the end of correction. There is nothing more to correct. The main difference between the internally and externally is for example when one performs a certain Mitzvah, meaning and action in order to bestow and not all the organs agree to it. It is like a person who fast and we say that only his internality agreed with the fast but his externality is feeling discomfort by the fast. Because the body is always in opposition to the soul.
The will to receive AHP is always in conflict with the GE. That's the difference between Israel and the nations of the world should only be in concern for the soul because Israel is the one who's feel in the vessels of the GE and attraction and inclination towards the Creator and the nations of the world are those who lack this disposition. Sometimes those are found in GE with this inclination towards the Creator and other times the others and vice versa. Meaning it's not counted, it's not calculated, considered according to the Guf (body) who belongs to Israel, who belongs to the nations of the world but only according to the desire. What is its disposition? If we have a friend who is not Jewish but he has an inclination towards the Creator he belongs to Israel. He is our Kabbalistic definition and not how it is customary in our world.
In our world it's all one big confusion. Concerning the body, they are the same Israel in the nations of the world. For the body of Israel cares only for its own benefit, it’s the will to receive except if it's corrected with the intention to bestow it becomes Yashar- El, straight to the Creator, and if it lacks the intention to bestow it belongs to the nations of the world. Hence, each and every person is certain that he is like the nations of the world, like everyone. Later he receives an awakening and works on himself. Through the reforming light he receives the intention to bestow to the Creator then accordingly he is called Israel. Accordingly he establishes his degree.
Hence, when individuals in the whole of Israel are corrected the whole world will naturally be corrected. Meaning if Israel, those who are drawn to the Creator will correct the AHP, since through their AHP they bestow to the whole world then the whole world will also be corrected, that's what he is saying.
Hence, when individuals in the whole of Israel are corrected the whole world will naturally be corrected. Because through this AHP Israel is connected to the whole world, to all the other souls.
It follows that the nations of the world will be corrected to the extent that we correct ourselves.
This is the meaning of what our sages said, “Rewarded—he sentences himself and the whole world to the side of merit.” They did not say, “he sentences the whole of Israel,” but “the entire world to the side of merit,” meaning that the internality will correct the externality. They did not say he sent the whole of Israel but the entire world to the side of merit meaning that the internality will correct the externality. The GE will gradually correct the AHP.
Reading again: Shamati 69- First will be the correction of the world (11:34)
26. S. (14:58) I see that you devoted your whole life to dissemination. plans. books and studies
R. Is there something more important?
S. What brings us closer to the general correction. The internality, connection to the ten or external dissemination to the nations?
R. No, we need to correct ourselves and to try. Nevertheless to raise ourselves because by that I give contentment to the Creator from the GE as we just learned. By disseminating it to the whole world and trying to through the articles and books and all sorts of things to disseminate the knowledge of the Creator in the world this is a different kind of work. This is work through the AHP of the world. Those who don't even want and are not drawn to it but it's interesting to them they have a certain disposition they show up a certain interest.
S. So we have to combine in order to?
R. We must disseminate, especially now in the last generation. This is the most important thing.
27. S. (16:36) Sometimes we say that we blame people for not connecting, not influencing the correction but there's nothing to expect from them, only we can correct. From the article, I see that the correction comes from the internality and we can't expect others to do it?
R. No but in a sense, people need to understand that external connection without the wisdom of Kabbalah without giving contentment to the Creator without all of that should also bring humanity good results. Look how Baal HaSulam writes about it in his articles. We do not understand how much he labored in order to connect people. Baal HaSulam traveled to Poland before the war, the Second World War. He traveled to Poland in order to disseminate the wisdom of Kabbalah over there. Just imagine what that entailed for a Jew from the land of Israel to travel to Poland and talk to Polish people about the corrections and that they have to connect. He was not a naive person he knew and he understood from within nature the internality of nature. How opposed it is and he was going there and speaking to them and he did it and we'll talk about it at some point.
S. He tried to convince the Polish themselves or just the Jews?
R. The Polish people
28. S. (18:54) What does it mean that the correction of externality is on a higher degree than the connection of the internality, shouldn't it be the other way around?
R. The correction comes through the internality through the GE head but it comes to the AHP (will to receive) and the main thing is the correction of the AHP, that is the main thing, because the GE does not exist. The people of Israel seemingly do not exist for themselves. They have no place in the world if not for the correction of the AHP. Hence, all the AHP, all the nations of the world think that Israel has no place in the world. What for? It is a result of spiritual discernments. Why do they exist if they do not keep their destiny, their purpose of their existence. They should not exist. The nations of the world should exist, each and every person has a place in the world but Israel does not. It is the GE head and they can exist next to the AHP only on the condition that they bring the upper force to the AHP. The purpose of creation, the correction of creation, the force of correction but if they fail to do it, they have no right to exist in this world. That is according to the wisdom of Kabbalah or to the structure of reality.
We must understand that the attitude of the nations of the world towards Israel is justified based on Israel's actions. Whereas if we do not correct ourselves this is how it will be. The hate will only keep on growing until we understand the source of the hate and not specifically or necessarily because they hate us and wish to escape the hate but because we wish to reach the end of correction. Even that, not only to be at the end of correction but to give contentment to the Creator. There are several stages here where we have to rise above them above the egoistic level in order to be in the corrected vessel
29. S. (21:48) As much as we learn we say that the correction of the GE and the Creator wanted not only one nation but the Creator wanted all nations of the world so the Creator shattered us and intermingled us with all of the nations of the world. My question is, if we are the souls who shattered and intermingled with all the nations of the world and our destiny is to rise within the, what is the benefit of that?
R. In truth we do not know the entire system of the souls which is a single system. Hence when we correct even a small part in that system, hat small part influence has all the parts in the general body of the souls like in the human body if there's a malfunction in one place the entire body knows about that place in about this malfunction and it harms the functioning of the entire body to some extent. You cannot have it any other way. Baal HaSulam writes about it so it doesn't matter when it took place. There is no time, it could have happened a minute ago or a thousand years ago. There's no difference. The system is one whole system. There's no concept of aging that this happened such and such many years ago. We feel the passage of the years, we have this mechanism of the access of time and we work without time as time is running out but not in spirituality what happened thousands of years ago is still there's no difference of time. Only our physical body did fix were us physical distance and physical time
30. S. (24:17) Why did the Creator scatter the system of Israel between the nations of the world?
R. You simply don't understand the fundamentals of the wisdom of Kabbalah, how it explains what's happening. You probably did not read our books or do not understand. There was no Israel or the nations of the world, everyone we're just humans, just people. Later, through the growing of the ego, the scrutinies started. From these scrutinies in ancient Babylon, there started to be clarified those who are more egoist and those who are less egoist, and they started to divide into levels according to their ego. Before that, everyone was as one bundle, it's written about it as well - one nation, a few things, a few words. Later, according to their ego, they started to move apart from one another, divide themselves into different parts, to different sects, different castes, with this special scrutiny that belongs to an ideological scrutiny with Abraham and his father Terah. Through that, we got a very clear division, as we discussed in the first lesson. For those who follow the will to receive and wish to attain spirituality in the form of reception follow the method of Terah, and those who wish to reach spirituality in the form of bestowal and wish to rise to spirituality, to connect to spirituality, to experience spirituality inside of them, this is from Abraham. For that, they have to correct their nature. This is the origin of the wisdom of Kabbalah. This method is certainly a difficult method because it speaks of love of others, rising above the will to receive, but this is called the method of Abraham. That's what we're talking about. Now, we are in the same state, nothing has changed, and we have to talk. We don't care about Russians or Germans, or anything. You can divide humanity however you want, it has nothing to do with their internality. The internality is about desires to receive that exist in all the nations, and there are different forms for that desire but, it is the will to receive. What's the difference between a Russian and a German, or someone else. There is no difference, it's only the external expression of the will to receive in each and every one. But read our sources. If you have questions, I'm happy to answer them.
31. S. (28:14) Can you give an example for the correction of the internality, and the correction of the externality?
R. The correction of the internality is when I want to bestow to a friend in such a way that I give him. This is the correction of internality in GE, let's say. What I have, I pass to him. The correction of externality, I take what the friend is lacking, I take his vessels, I add them to my vessels. With my vessels, I seemingly wrap around his vessels, I correct them and I fill them. This is called the correction of the AHP. For that, I must use my AHP and I correct his AHP as well. We will learn about this.
32. S. (29:52) How by working in the ten, when we want to reach an emotional connection with the whole world Kli, how practically can this work affect the disasters in the world? How does the system work?
R. I don't know. The question is clear to me, and the answer is also clear. I don't know. For that, we need to know about all the vessels, what state they are in, how they are connected to one another, very very clearly. This picture is not revealed to us yet. We can only say that for the time being the world is deteriorating because it does not come to connection. Rather, it came to connection but through the recognition of evil, which means through suffering and torments, and not because it is worthwhile to connect, even without reaching the bad state, when we listen to the direction of kabbalists the way they wish to accompany us. So there's a problem here. The world is still deteriorating in such a state that it comes to blows, into troubles.
33. S. (31:46) Is there internality and externality in the ten as well?
R. In the ten there is also internality and externality of its own. Everything includes internality and externality, always.
34. S. (32:06) How can we detect it?
R. That is not the matter now.
35. S. (32:12) You said first there will be the correction of the world, and then the complete redemption. Does it mean that until we correct the AHP inside of us, we will not reach redemption?
R. Of course not. The full redemption is when all our desires are corrected, that on every desire till the last details, and all together, there will be an intention to bestow,
36. S. (32:40) What kind of internal effort and special correction should we do in order to prevent the war that is being cooked up right now?
R. Only in the connection between us if we connect more and more and with the intention to prevent disasters and also in the vessels of the world. So by this, we can aid and actually determine what will happen. It depends on us.
37. S. (31:12) In the last paragraph it says, when the individuals in the whole of Israel are corrected, the whole world will naturally be corrected?
R. Of course, because GE and AHP of Israel connected to GE and AHP of the whole world. If we correct our GE and AHP, obviously by this we are correcting the whole general vessel that the Creator created.
S. If that is the intention, how can it be that a person judges the whole world to a scale of merit?
R. That's called that he determines it by correcting his whole Partzuf - his ten Sefirot, the ten Sefirot of the world.
39. S. (34:02) If we are small vessels, why do we say that the Bnei Baruch are the most egoist in the world?
R. We are small in quantity, but we are very very great in quality.
40. S. (34:20) What is the secret of or the meaning of the coming of the Messiah?
R. The coming of the Messiah is the upper light that bestows upon all and corrects everybody.