Morning Lesson November 20, 2020 Transcription is made from simultaneous translation which leaves possibility for errors.
Connecting the World in the Last Generation.
Reader. Excerpt #9. Baal HaSulam. The Peace. Reads twice (00:28 - 03:39)
61. S. (03:44) Why does he write that we see in our eyes that humanity is developing and the torments grow in attaining our existence, because we are working less now, so in order to exist we need less efforts.
R. You might have the wrong translation. It is about people investing more and more time and resources in order to supply what they need, because their will to receive is growing. That is why it becomes more difficult for them to fill it. If people used to work less hours a day, not speaking about the industry that started to grow about two or three hundred years ago, but before that people didn't used to work so much. They worked and much of their day moreover their evening, they had some free time because their desires weren't so big because they settled for less and they had a lot of free time. It's not that we think that they worked 20 hours a day in order to supply what they needed. You can also see how even today in primitive tribes there are some tribes still here, they don't work a lot. We arrange the life that makes us busy every day tonight and we want to supply desires that we have no real need for, that's what we're doing with the fashion and the changes. Things change and you have to go abroad and time again...Now we're abstaining from all of those things and bit-by-bit there is a falling off by this coronavirus. It is a big help what it's doing to us and by that we are returning to a more correct life, proper life. We won't have to run after things that we really don't need to have a happy life, it will be enough for us to fill ourselves with food and education and culture especially with the spiritual advancement we need enough for everyone and it won't be forcefully, we simply lost the direction.
62. S. (07:13) On one hand he says that nature takes care of us according to development and on the other hand he's saying punishments. What are the punishments?
R. A punishment is anything you do not want or keep the laws of nature in the right way, then you get a correction of direction. That for you is considered a punishment but there are no punishments basically there are only corrections.
63. S. (07:54) Baal HaSulam writes that no one will work less than what is needed for society except for connection in the ten is there anything else that a friend has to do for this purpose?
R. No, everything is expressed in the ten and from the ten it is dissemination, to a more external shape that the ten itself doesn't have to exist there it only exists in order to make the line as we have learned. From the Creator to the external ones, the ones who cannot organize, cannot feel themselves, can't connect to the Creator. This is why and how the work is in the ten with the Creator and the public. The truth is the fact that we connect between ourselves and the ten is not enough yet, we have to connect to the Creator but the truth is the connection to the Creator also can't happen unless we connect to the external public because the reason you exist is to bring the deficiencies from the public to the Creator. What you bring from yourself is only the force of bestowal, the force Bina. What you bring from the external public is the force of the reception, Malchut and these two forces you raise to the Creator gives you the strength, a bigger strength for Bina and light to correct Malchut in to fill it. And that is our work.
64. S. (09:58) As long as we are idle in performing our roles to the fullest nature will not stop punishing us and take revenge, what does it mean to be idle?
R. It is when you are not drawn to the Creator to receive the force of correction from Him and to pass it on to the world, this is our role, this is our duty, we are the ones who connect the Creator to all the created beings, we are in charge of the entire correction of the world.
65. S. (11:24) He says that our eyes see that humanity is developing and the torments will grow, so they want us to stay primitive?
R. No, for you to correct humanity according to how much it is developing.
66. S. (11:55) Can we say that the growing of the will to receive is the reason that time is felt as if it's going quicker and there is a feeling that there is no time?
R. Yes, you are correct.
Excerpt 10. Reader (12:18 - 13:46)
67. R. This is what he sees that has to happen according to the plan of nature and you cannot run away from that. As much as we learn about it it is some kind of advancement the more we try to carry it out, then we will really be walking along with the Creator and to that extent we will discover that He is a partner and we ourselves as His servants and this is how we will advance.
68. S. (14:18) In this work that we are partners with the Creator, we have to correct the external circles or we just have to put them under our screen and they live however they want?
R. We have to receive the deficiencies from these external vessels, the round vessels, we must bestow upon them and bring them as close as possible to be partners of ours even passively. To that extent we raise their deficiencies through our deficiency to the Creator, like MAN when you raise it from the AHP through GE to Keter to the Creator and from there we receive the fulfillment, the force that corrects their desires. By that we also correct our desires, the GE that are capable of giving them. Similarly, to the way a woman bearing children so she has milk, she has these abilities to take care of her baby. This is how we also are starting to get this feeling of it with respect to these external vessels. This is the entire humanity, millions and billions of people and this is how we should see our state, our role and by that they connect to us. As much as I can to enter the vessels of Adam HaRishon according to the role in this system of Adam HaRishon. But each of them, each one has his own place and his own role in this complete system and if he's not in his place according to his duty, the system won't become whole. That's why it's not just like that, we get some deficiencies from them, we fill them, we throw them away, no. Everyone goes into an order; everyone is in place according to the predetermined state as determined in creation to begin with. All we do is push these things to organize them as much as each and everyone can be connected to the Creator and each and every person in the world, doesn't matter his color who he is or what he is. I'm talking about the souls, each and every soul we will discover its connection to the rest of the souls and the Creator. And everyone shall know me from the smallest to the biggest and my house, meaning this whole big Kli, will be called the house of prayer to all nations. That's the way it is.
69. S. (17:52) How to get the right impression from people suffering in order to raise the correct prayer to the Creator?
R. All kinds of things make people cry, whatever they feel they are missing makes them cry. We understand that all of the flaws, everything and the only thing that is missing is the connection with the Creator and the forms of connection with the Creator that are being revealed are being revealed through all kinds of things, food sex family money all kinds of ways. So it is best for us to explain to them that basically if they have just a bit of a tendency towards the upper force, if we can all go together we will get a fulfillment and everyone will feel good, there will be no wars, no problems with health or with anything. This is what we have to try to explain to them and try to incorporate in them to raise these deficiencies to the Creator. Bit by bit we do this because basically we are the first ones to perform this. It will happen.
Baal HaSulam. Peace in the World.
Reader. Excerpt 11. (19:39 - 21:21)
70. S. (21:22) Rabash is speaking about a third world war and atom bombs and afterwards those who will remain. According to what values will they be chosen?
R. This is something I don't know, speaking seriously and I don't want to know about it. I know that it's not upon me to yearn to avoid an atom bomb, atomic war but to reach the correction of the world. This is what I think and this is what I should develop in me each and every day a feeling of responsibility, I am responsible for the correction of the world. That it is not about the punishments or these atomic war, nuclear wars, I don't take that into consideration. I have to reach the correction of the world, meaning that the whole world will reach correction. That is the way all of the system of my life should be ordered and organized.
71. S. (22:33) How can a person find his place in that machine?
R. I don't know what is wrong but half of your sentences I can't hear.
S. What is the advice for the individual to find his place like the wheel serving the general machine?
R. Start disseminating as much as you can to the broad public that is the advice.
Reader. Excerpt 12. (23:25 - 24:56) reads twice
72. S. (24:57) You were speaking about the responsibilities of the whole world.
R. Yes.
S. Even though I'm studying with all my friends and tens from around the world, it feels huge. How can you even approach it every time?
R. You have to. I'll tell you even more than that, imagine to yourself the world being a sphere and each and every one of us has a special desire that is called the root of the Neshama, the soul. We have received this as an awakening to the connection with the Creator and so you have to connect to the Creator with your desire, your personal desire so that through it you will fill the entire globe, all of humanity with the upper light. This is how each and every one is. Each and every one of the people of the world has to perform this role. Meaning through him, through the root of his soul to develop a connection with the Creator on the one hand, through the ten and with the entire humanity through his ten, also in order to pass the upper light through him and through his ten to humanity.... it doesn't matter if it's not part of BB or doesn't belong to anyone this is how each and everyone will have to do it with or without his awareness. But he has to do it. There are many steps and degrees to it and we are going to have to acknowledge this.
73. S. (27:23) You gave a beautiful example that humanity that is in all of these desires it’s just desires that the Creator is sending, but actually all of these people are like hypnotized and it is very hard to move them out of the place that they're in, how can we bring them some electrical shock?
R. You don't need an electrical shock. You must just awaken them through good things, that you have what to hand out to them, you give a box of chocolates to each and every one of them, you have something good to bring them into good places. So, they may have good things and this is what you should publicize to them, God forbid no electric shock. So, you have to get used to relating to everyone through love otherwise you don't resemble the Creator this is how we will have to function.
74. S. (29:03) Why is Baal HaSulam describing our role as one becoming a slave in serving the whole of the collective? Why does he use that term slave if our work must be in joy?
R. The servant of the Creator is happy. When I serve the Creator I am in adherence and loyally I want to do everything that He wants, my whole desire is to be a part of His desire and this is called being a slave or a servant which is a very high degree. A servant of the Lord, Moses is called a slave of the Lord. Let us hope that ultimately, we all reach that. Are we clear about what we're going to do today, remember what we spoke about in the lesson that we will be connected between ourselves that we will go towards Friday where we will learn the portion of the week on Shabbat. All the best.
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