Part 3
Morning Lesson December 08, 2021, Transcription
Transcription is made from simultaneous translation which leaves a possibility for differences from audio
Baal HaSulam. Peace in the World (Practical Difficulties in Determining the Truth)
1. Rav’s Introduction: (00:15) We are learning here by how we can come closer to our correction, to the end of correction, to the state, which is above our life, our world, to the ideal state that we could come closer to it by the correction of the four qualities, Chesed, Emet, Tzedek, Shalom, mercy, truth, justice and peace. Truth is we are in it but to know how to use them correctly and if we use them correctly then we will truly be able to come to an end or our correction. We should know this and it is good for us to know this. We see these things especially, not in our private inner work as much as we see it in our human society, how much it is in these four qualities, the four attributes, either for the positive or for the negative and fulfilling it or not and accordingly it causes all sorts of the following states either the good or for the bad.
Reader: (01:47) “Title: Practical Difficulties in determining the Truth...”
2. R. (02:08) Good attributes means something that we can take and use them and not something philosophical but rather we can use our corrections in order to reach the degree of the best state possible in our life. He says we have no more than the degree of truth, why?
Reader continues: (02:39) “This is because all the good...”
3.R. (02:50) The connection between them will be as good as possible.
4. R. (03:10) That there is a mutual understanding Between the collective and the individual between man and society and that they understand one another and support one another and influence one another, supply one another, everything that is needed and it is truly a balance between them.
Reader continues: (03:31) “All of this is but the truth….”
5. R. (04:13) Meaning that we have a difficulty or hardship to accept this rule of the truth, the correct relation between the society and the individual that we cannot accept this rule, no, but if we could see each one would worry for the collective and the collective would worry for the individuals the connection between them would be in a nice mutual manner. There would be nothing better and we could arrange our life as such in this world. Along with this we can add that in such an event we would reveal the Creator dwelling among us because the relations among us would be open and nice.
Reader continues (05:08) “When you closely examine the above-mentioned truth...”
6. R. (06:08) Here surely, we encounter the ego of each and every one of how much no individual can do something for the other and he is ready to relinquish everything from lack of choice that he is ready to do something for the other to receive from him and see something worthwhile in it. Other than that nobody wants to do anything for the other in this is called that he doesn't want at all. Such to determine the form of truth in the relations between us is impossible.
Reader continues: (06:49)” But how do we think that we can scrutinize that….”
7. R. (09:38) This is called that there is the brave in quality and quantity and there is always the tenseness between them and misunderstanding but it is not a matter of misunderstanding or the suspense but it is a matter of difference in nature, that there is the lazy, those who work harder and the wise and those who are not so much and the ordinary. Ultimately in our society we reach a state that managers are those who to begin with have the forces, the qualities to advance things, to scrutinize all of such qualities and the masses are such more passive and ready to go after those same ones who overcome and come to manage them. There is not more to do as this is from the side of nature. The matter is not to correct the nature as we cannot be equal in any case, this comes to us to begin with. In the end we reach a state that is specifically, this difference between us operates to our benefit. For the benefit of the attainment of the Creator and to resemble Him. In the meantime we need to scrutinize in what manner we can be tied to one another in order to bring from these connections between us, not suspense that brings us to war and revolution in such unpleasant and not good events like we see now in the world again and again. Rather that we reach a state where we can enjoy from the difference between us even though he is a fool and he is wise, he is strong and he is weak, one is successful by his luck and the other one, no. There is a birth in such a family, in such a nation and in some place on the earth that is unique. How will we make all of these differences that we reveal them from nature’s side, that they come to us from the Creator that we don't fight against these differences but rather we understand that in the correct use between them we will be able to specifically reach the greatest correction. It will take from each and every one both the strong and the weak, from the smart and the foolish, both the successful by the luck and also the one who is not successful. We will take from each and everyone its collective benefit for all such that everyone will be the best possible state. That is the question, not to bend the reality that we were born in but the opposite of how to connect between us in order that in the connection between us, we will reach a state that is the best for everyone. How is that possible, not one on the account of the other rather specifically in such a manner that the Creator created it and we don't know how to take advantage of this in all of its differences and all of its changes, we reach the best possible state.
Reader continues: (13:43) “You see that the above-mentioned basis….”
8. R. (14:36) According to the degree of truth, according to the requirement of truth that we have to be connected with complete supplies for our life, we cannot reach it, organizing our life this way, so how can we reach it?
Reader continues: (14:58) “Furthermore there are even greater difficulties….”
9. R. (19:47) We see here that we are standing before a problem which is unsolvable because a person cannot by his nature to be above nature and to agree to what is rooted in him, the will to receive wanting to enjoy everything and he is told that you have to rise above that, how can a person rise above what he is, how can you demand such a thing from a person? We saw that they tried to bend people in different shapes like in Russia to make of him a bestowing man and thinking about the collective, we see that it doesn't work, you can’t. All these things have already a few dozen of years, they are gone from the world except for somewhere in North Korea they don't even talk about it. Whereas these things, there is nothing real here. Still from the perspective of nature itself, this law exists and we have to be above our ego connected together with complete wholeness, complete participation, so how can we complete and connect these two opposite things, our nature which is the opposite of connection and the thought and feeling of the other as itself. Still we have to reach such a result and in what way and by what? Neither hunger or torment or anything as they don't help people, we have seen that from our experience throughout history. We are incapable of reaching that and no ‘Marks or Lennon’ theories or socialism cannot cause people to come closer to each other as it is only our ego that works and acts. Where do we take the strength to reach the right combination between humans something fantasized, not theoretical but in practice where everyone can stand this and everyone can enjoy it. The weak, the strong, the wise and the fools, everyone. How can we come to this state where everyone is pleased and capable of holding equality or a connection, but the state where we feel ourselves receiving fulfillment by their vessels. It’s a problem. Well, let us see what is going on here.
10 S. (23:06) When we look at what is written according to the point of perspective that the weak and those behind in society can reveal the aspect of truth?
R. How come, why should the weak or those who are not developed show us the direction of the advancement for society, how can they? First of all they don't have it, they agree to work, tell them what to do and to earn their bread and they will do it because they need the bread. Nothing more than that, they can't even plan their own work for themselves, all kinds of things as we are talking about the most simple people that all they can do is work according to what you tell them to do. A bit above them also. Each one has their own level and it is the same with the managers in the work, how can you, with the rules in your workplace, demand the same supply from everyone? How can they earn the same? From the perspective of truth everyone should earn the same, this guy worked two hours but for him it was like eight hours and this other guy, he worked according to his office where he used to manage thousands of people but for his nature that is normal. Are you paid the same? No it is different and why is it different? If I was born smart and he is a bit less smart, I deserve more than him, not less. Because my birth and my quality do not depend upon me so why should I receive greater salary, greater compensation for that. But this is how it works in our world, we see that we cannot reach a quality or social success if each one receives what he deserves by nature the way he is built in the degree of the intellect or the strength. The strength to keep on going or physical strength according to his qualities, how can we reach equality? We never reach equality between two people. Nothing is equal between two different people so how can you make us a happy society, not according to the rule of reception if we measure each and everyone but only by the law of bestowal. If we elevate each one above the egoistic force that he has, then this way he can connect to everyone in his desire to bestow according to his ability to others then we can be connected and we become one society. In this one society as much as we are connected, we can bring all of the goods to everyone for their enjoyment, what they need. Soon we will see that.
Reader continues: (26:55) “In the absence of the ability to establish the attribute of truth, they try to establish the basic attributes.”
11 S. (31:21) The more that I learn the more I hear the same things from you,
am I really emerging confused?
R. Why?
S. He writes, would I be able to go by the path of Truth in this society that is increasing the weak?
R. The more that you go with a public the more you ruin the public because then people understand that they can work less and to give less, to put more of their own pressure on the masses because the weak are of the majority so they can put pressure on the government or all kinds of organizations and to get what they don't deserve actually. What they should do is give society because they are the majority and they have these elections and all of these false things, that we can put pressure on the government because of what they have, all they have and receive what they don't deserve according to the truth.
S. How can you explain what he writes here, to go after the many because the weak are always the largest amount in the society and it all comes from nature as you said. The difference between us is that it will operate to our benefit. How is that possible?
R. If we place everything that we get from nature and its right way in the right relation to the other group, so there are the wise ones, the strong ones and there are the weak and the fools. How can you connect everyone together so they will both be better off and feel good. In the meantime the question still stands.
S. You don't feel that in such a state there's exploitation at the society?
R. What state?
S. That the stronger are exploiting the weaker, what is happening here?
R. Of course it is, but the solution is wrong.
S. What’s the solution?
R. It's not by you following the majority nor is it from you following the strong and the rich.
S. So what is the solution?
R. We are going to learn the solution, how we can reach the solution but until we make it, the society will not know any peace, tranquility or balance and a good life.
S. You and Baal HaSulam are actually saying until everyone has learned Kabbalah seemingly, there won't be correction and we won't be able to do this at all?
R. They need to carry this out and this is why it is called the final correction.
10. S. (34:48) How according to Baal HaSulam we didn't kill each other yet, because according to the law of singularity I exist and so I have to destroy everyone else and that’s it, right?
R. Destroy, no problem go right ahead. Some do wake up and start doing that until they are killed or secluded. A person can't live without the others as he none the last does need a society, there is no choice. The fact that he wants to be the manager to be above everyone else that also is not really for each and every one. First of all he can't but also why do you want to manage billions of people, what kind of pressure puts on me, a load on me. There is a problem of how to organize society so that everyone feels good. In the meantime we see that with these four attributes how much we cannot, by these four attributes that are naturally in us, it is like 4 degrees of how we cannot buy them, we cannot manage ourselves. We talked about truth and we now talked about the quality of truth and now we are going to talk about the quality of Peace. In us, we do not have these qualities that we can develop and by them, govern reality. Because there is no choice after all of our frustrations and bitter experience in human history, we are going to reach a state where we have to get this for us from above. This is why only the wisdom of Kabbalah is what we all need.
11. S. (37:01) It is written that the quality of Truth, what’s mine is mine and what's yours is yours and on the other hand I need to connect to the quality of the friends, is there a middle point that I can understand about both these approaches?
R. Not yet we are not talking about being able to do that. These four qualities you cannot live both in tranquility and each and every one on his own to govern a society in the right way. In the end of this article we will see how we should organize ourselves and this article is completely relating to society. Baal HaSulam writes this because he is concerned how society, how humanity can exist, come closer to its correction. To enter a state where there is connection between everyone because that is the final correction. This is why he explains this to us, he is not a socialist or that he engages in human society, he is not a scientist in that or anything, he is just explaining to us from the perspective of the forces of nature, we have no choice. In a simple way what we should do, once we are in nature as this is the highest framework acting on us.
12. S. (30:03) In a corrected state there's no room for Mercy Justice and Peace, rather only Truth will exist?
R. No, in the corrected state all these discernments have to take part but each one in its style in the way he considers or takes into account the other qualities, we are going to learn it. Don't jump ahead.
13. S. (39:42) I just want to scrutinize if I understand correctly there are difficulties in measuring the quality of Truth is not really clear, what quality of Truth is he talking about here?
R. What is the question?
S. What is the correct quality of Truth, you can’t really measure it, right?
R. I am not sure of their qualities. If we want to divide what each one needs to provide for each one what he demands naturally, we will never be able to give everyone what they are requiring because they will be opposite to what others want, that is according to the equality of Truth.
S. If I understand what he is writing here, you are saying that the individual has to reach its whole function to the collective and the collective to the individual that each one receives what he needs?
R. Suppose this is the way it is, it is like the socialists say but they don't take into account that the person is an egoist and he won't be able to do that, we should read what Baal HaSulam writes a few times and you will see what is hidden in these words. Much more as there is great wisdom here even though it seems to us that these are trivial things and we understand this from our own life but this is not correct.
14. S. (41:25) All that is written here about us, that we have to reveal in the ten is that the ten helps the development of each and every one and each one pushes to ten?
R. Incorrect, we don't need according to what you are saying or reading from one page in the article to go to the groups, let’s start observing this page, this is not how to do it. We have the principles of a group that come to us from the articles of Rabash, this is what we do have to carry out. These articles are general articles about society and a person inside society and we have to learn them in a theoretical manner, and then to see how we combine them with our actions in the group that we have from the articles of Rabash.
S. That we perform the work in the ten but ultimately?
R. If you are asking me, I don't know and I don't want to know about that. I do according to what I have now. I don't plan a few steps ahead because in the meantime in these steps I am going to change as well and I will understand it correctly and I will do it correctly and differently. That is not the way to relate to things, it's not that I read something so I'm going to go and do it. That is not me, it’s in the ten. How can you allow yourself to do whatever you feel like in the ten, in the ten you have commands of Bal HaSulam and Rabash. They wrote them intentionally for you, for your ten and not in any other way. It's not that now, you, with your intellect you start connecting all kinds of theories and starting to realize them in your ten, no. You must not. Besides, what you are saying is incorrect, we'll read about it in a page or two and you will see how none of these attributes are possible to carry out. How much humanity suffered in order to exist and live according to these qualities, to let go of things, to renounce things and let these successful to govern reality and the weak ones below or maybe the way it is naturally or the opposite then you have revolutions. No, we must not do that.