Morning Lesson August 25, 2022 Transcription
Transcription is made from simultaneous translation which leaves a possibility for differences in the audio
Baal HaSulam. 600,000 Souls
1. R. (00:18) Yes, all in all what we have is 600,000 souls meaning 600,000 pieces of the general soul of Adam HaRishon from which there are more and more pieces so that each and every person has a piece of that soul of Adam HaRishon and all pieces have to come together and reconnect to that single unified soul of Adam HaRishon.
2. S. (01:00) Yes, if I can finish my question from excerpt 15 from the previous set, is that okay?
R. No, no, no and by no I mean do not do this again. We already entered into a new topic and if he wants to clarify something from before, by that you are disrupting everyone. What kind of egoistic attitude is this to life, to ask like this? I just want to make this an example. We never ask about something that not everyone is engaged in right now .
Reading (02:02): “It is said that there are…”
3. S. (02:29) Yes, it is truly a problem. How can there be a soul that is a part of God above and the Creator being one and the soul that comes out of Him is also one, a complete structure, how can that complete structure suddenly be divided into pieces? To begin with that is opposite and contradictory from the root from which it comes because if it comes from the Creator then how can it divide?
Continues (03:15): “In my opinion, there is indeed only one…” Twice
4. R. (05:49) Meaning that if man would not be broken he would feel only a single soul and a single light filling that soul. That is it. But because he is broken then his desire divides into 600,000 parts and so he thus feels that the world is full of individual souls and that is what brings him to see the world the way it is, the way it appears to us now but if he is going for connection, connecting, then gradually he comes to a state where all of those pieces he sees in front of him are coming together, right? and then again he accepts all of them as a single soul and the filling of that soul is a single light.
5. S. (07:15) When we correct our soul our perception of reality also changes?
R. Of course, yes, because all of our reality is perceived through the soul except for how we see the world right now through our beast.
S. Then we perceive the worlds through our desires, not just through our senses?
R. What is the difference? It is the same thing, desires or senses. Yes, seeing, sight, sound, smell, touch so what are these? These are desires organized in such a way.
6. S. (08:15) He says in the beginning the body denies him of the radiance of the soul. What does it mean? Why does it stop as if it stops spirituality from me and makes this partition between me and the upper world?
R. In order for you to make an effort and achieve spiritual forces in order to bestow and accordingly enter the feeling of the upper world.
S. But that's the opposite of what needs to be, is that correct?
R. I don't know what you are saying.
S. Meaning instead of helping it is as if…
R. The Creator, to begin with, set up your conditions. If you want to be a created being on the one hand and on the other hand feel reality as the Creator does then you have to be comprised of two discernments, both the created being and the Creator and that is why he set up those conditions for you and helps you in that. Think about it.
Continuous (09:38): “For this reason two discernments were made in the…” Twice
7. R. (12:47) So in short if we reconnect to a single soul then we attain the same light that filled Adam HaRishon before the sin. Not only that but 620 times more because we organize ourselves despite the shattering and this is a matter of 3 times, right?
8. S. (13:15) There is a soul that is included in the generality of Israel. What is that part that is included in the general part of Israel?
R. All together there is the vessel the Creator created, the will to receive, the broken will to receive, this is called Adam HaRishon after the sin and it has to be corrected. When the will to receive corrects itself it receives an intention to bestow. The will to receive remains the way it was but the intention and how to use the will to receive is in order to bestow. Let's say a person in this world, he has an intention to do all kinds of things that are good for himself. This is a natural intention because he is a result of the shattering of Adam HaRishon. If he corrects himself in order to love the others then he will be corrected and then he will be filled with the same force of the Creator. That is what it is about, that is the correction we are talking about, understood?
S. (15:24) According to what you said now, this is the purification?
R. Yes, yes. That we don’t want to work with our in order to receive but work with all our desires in order to bestow. This means we are going through refinement and correction.
S. What does it mean that according to the level of my refinement, more and more, what depends on me?
R. All the work depends on you. That you ask for corrections.
Reading (16:14): “This is the meaning of the three times…”
9. R. (16:30): This is the first time, next.
Reading 2 (16:38): “A particular soul, one part out of…”
Reading 3 (17:06): “Subsequently he approaches wholeness…”
10. R. (19:03) Meaning that all of the souls are interconnected and even if there is one flaw in a single soul that flaw is felt in all of them and there is no wholeness.
Continues (19:15): “And when a single soul from Israel…”
11. R. (19:52) Meaning that all the souls are connected to each other and the integration, incorporation of the souls is infinite. It becomes like a sphere from an individual structure or a detailed structure and the content of the words…
Continues (20:14) “The content of the words is unanimously…”
12. R. (23:24) This is what Baal HaSulam writes not to the broad public or to beginners. He writes it to himself really to organize these matters. It is a problem, it is a bit of a problem, these things are not difficult. It is understandable what he is talking about but to go in-depth here is very difficult. Let's talk about it as much as we can.
13. S. (24:02) What he wrote previously, my question, we are almost in the Congress and in order to gather in it what do we need to do, in order to attain the sign that we are able to feel everyone, all of the friends and that one's soul?
R. Our single soul is called Yashar Kel, straight to the Creator, Israel.. Meaning aimed at the upper force that we want to attain. That is why we can come together,unite and that is our goal. To achieve such a connection that the upper force called nature will appear in us. Elohim, which means God in Gematria is equal to haTeva, nature. Elohim is five letters representing Keter, Hochma, Bina, Zeir Anpin, Malchut , Elohim five letters and we wish to reveal the Kli in its complete form filled with light. That is the whole purpose of our work, our life. We all have to connect between us. Hopefully we will achieve that in the Congress will give us a great step forward even a leap towards it.
14. S. (26:18) It sounds like what is written here is that in each one there are six hundred thousand souls so is this personal work? Personal and general work?
R. Yes, there is individual work which actually itself is collective work because in your individual work what you want is to bring together all of the souls. Each and every part in such an integral manner when you think about it and they can act and there is no difference between the individual soul and the collective soul and the individual work as a collective work.
S. He writes that it is only through the force of each person's body.
R. This means desire ,each and everyone says desire. Where we are seemingly divided and yet we want to bridge or correct that separation that our will to receive produces and we want to achieve connection that is above the will to receive.
S. But is there a connection that is as if I'm doing it within myself and then there is something as if everyone needs to reach the same measure?
R. Yes, until there is no difference between the particular and the collective, the individual and the whole.
S. The moment I correct myself, I will see that everything is already corrected?
R. That's you, that you will see that everything is corrected.
15. S. (28:14) What is a bad.soul? How do we discern it and how do we relate to it.?
R. A broken soul or a vessel meaning it is still in order to receive, under the force of the ego. Ultimately they all become corrected and achieve the final correction and no flaw.will exist.
16. S. (28:48) Does that mean that in a generation of Moses everyone had the potential to attain a Moses degree?
R. No, no of course not. Moshe, that's part of the soul, from all of the souls was such that it was able to unify all of those souls and lead them towards the correction. It's as if he was chosen by the Creator to lead the nation because his soul was such a unique soul. That he was able to unify every one. There was such an example in history and so each and every one of us will also achieve that soul. Try to do the same .Everyone can achieve the degree of Moshe, it is written.
Reading Continues (30:18 ) " All of Israel are sons of kings.
17. R. (37:07) Meaning that ultimately everyone, each and everyone is equal. There is no difference. Everything depends on each and everyone to the extent to which they realize the opportunity they were given.
18. S. (37:35) How do we develop the sensation that my friends depend on me?
R. That's a concern for the friends. How do you see your progress? tTo the extent that you can help them. That is your whole progress in the group, the Ten, life, this incarnation, anything. What is to say here? The more each and every day you help them more, and more and more, understand it and feel it and discover that you are not doing it or you are doing it everything with respect to this diagnosis. In that you advance to spirituality there is no more. What other data ? What other indication of progress do you have? It is the extent to which you push others to correction. That is all.
19. S. (39:10) What is the difference between correcting a particular soul and the general soul?
R. That is with respect to the person, how much he differentiates himself and sees that he has an individual soul or he is already connected to the general soul and corrects himself this way.
20 S. (39:49) In the article it speaks about the soul of Israel. Are the nations of the world included in this soul?
R. Israel means one who was aiming towards connection with everyone and the Creator. Yashar El, straight to the Creator. It is not what is written in his ID or passport or whatever. It is all about man's intention in life.
S. He is asking if the nations of the world are included in this one soul?
R. The nations of the world receive an illumination from all the corrections done by those called Yashar El ,straight to the Creator, Israel and accordingly they come closer and then they also go inside. Meaning if you read the Pentatuch, theTorah. Then you will see how many people came to the group of Moses and afterwards and before that from all kinds of Nations and peoples and they didn't even know where. It is not a matter of whether you are born from Jews, it is about what you are aiming for only, and being Jewish is not a nationality, it is not a nationality, It is man's direction in life towards correction with the upper force. The fact that it was later distributed to different nations and religions and so on that is later, but originally there is no such thing. As written my house shall be a house of prayer for all the nations and so forth.
22. S. (42:04 ) What does it mean to depict this Nefesh, what is the difference between the Nefesh and the desire and how to work with a high and low Nefesh?
R. So we'll to receive the plain will to receive is a beast that will to receive that has some connection with the Creator is already progress even though it is in order to receive it wants to receive and do something for itself still it is some direction, it is already facing that Creator, demanding from the Creator and so on and advancing. That is the difference across the souls and that is how we advance.
Let us go to the third part because we haven't done it for a few lessons and who knows if we will have time tomorrow.