Morning Lesson September 08, 2022, Transcription
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Part 2:
Connecting the World in the Last Generation - Selected Excerpts from the Sources. #9
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Excerpt 9 (00:27) “ Nature like a skillful judge..” twice
1. S. (04:11) He writes here you have a scientific empirical basis that is His providence. sorry that f we can see that to the extent that humankind develops, the pains and torments obtaining our sustenance and existence also multiply. Why do we need to receive these torments and pains?
R. It's because we're not keeping the laws of nature down to the measure in which nature advances. Our desire to receive grows and we need to be more connected, at least according to the growing will to receive not even to mention that we need to correct that from before, so it follows that we suffer more and more.
S. He says that as long as we are idle in performing it to the fullest then He won’t stop punishing us and take its revenge, what are we saying we’re lazy?
R. Yes we're idle and we're lazy.
S. What does it have to do with anything? What does it mean that we're being idle?
R. You need to understand that suppose a hundred years ago and now, since then humanity has advanced towards becoming more egoistic, more egoistic and we have not corrected this ego and that’s why it is working against us.
S. Because we're not advancing it's because of our idleness?
R. It is only because of our idleness
2. S. (05:57) Who did Baal HaSulam write this for, this text?
R. I don't know if he wrote it for everyone, for all of mankind.
S. We can take this out to the broad audience and speak it in our own words?
R. This is something that needs to be translated, converted, arranged, so it will suit the broad public and only then publicize it.
3. S. (06:37) Why does the will to receive grow? When it grows it requires the bestowal of the friend upon him, but actually our will to receive is growing and everyone sets himself in his own corner.
R. You can't arrange yourself in your own corner because in the measure to which the ego grows in each of us, also the ties between us grow where we become ever more interdependent, you see how much the world today compared to a hundred years ago suppose, how much the world today is a very complex world, and then what can we do? We need to learn the way it's built and in the measure to which we can live in this network that ties us together in a way that will be good for everyone, and you really need to learn how to do it's not simple.
S. The will to receive that grows, it makes our connections between us more complex?
R. Necessarily. Because instead of being a billion 100 years ago today it's eight billion and we're interdependent, very much, something that you don't have before even 50 years ago we had plenty of people that lived in their own house with their own piece of land and that's how they made their living and everything was fine, today you can't do that anymore, today without electricity, oil, natural gas, without being connected with others, it's impossible, it's simply today we're in a situation where we're totally interdependent and, all in all, in all of our day today actions, activities this is what brings us closer to understand that we are in complete, total interdependence .The problem is that this total connection between us we learn about it through wars, through different problems, different problems between us, that's the problem.
4. S. (09:08) To what extent does nature force us. push us to unite? Are we supposed to unite only from this force of pain and not from within love?
R. Out of the power of pain because first of all we need to understand that we are the opposite of the goal. We are the opposite of connection and only then develop, left right, recognition of evil and the attainment of good, recognition of evil and the attainment of good.
5. S. (10:12) What does it mean that nature will ultimately defeat us?
R. Creator in Gematria equals nature its numerical equals nature, of course the Creator will defeat us. No doubt, He has a plan, He has the forces .Everything is in His hand and He is teaching us and to the extent that we are stubborn it will not help. We will just get more and more blows, or we will use our intellect and will save the blows and we will get there more quickly more conveniently to the goal but the goal is there it exists and it must be the connection between all of us and everyone will come to that goal.
S. Will we also be aware at this time if it happens God forbid that the Creator rules everything and everybody will understand this at that time?
R. Yes, of course.
6. S. (11:30) A question from a friend in the Ten, so if we don't actually connect and we're talking about these tortures in the Ten that's something that's working for our good?
R. You have to talk as Baal HaSulam and Rabash tell us about and only this kind of talk will help us, and not that here you need to invent something new.
7. S. (12:15) Where are we advancing here towards the upper force here it's only through suffering?
R. True, I agree with him, this time I agree with him.
S. We are not coming close to the upper law or it's coming against our will?
R. In the meantime we're running away from the blows and if we connect in a group and we act out of the force of connection then by that we can strengthen ourselves in a way that we will already get on the right track and not that each is drifting away with his ego in some direction. In our connection there are two things. First of all we don't allow each other to escape in the direction of a person's particular ego, that is one thing. Another thing is that in our connection we can find the general force of a bestowal, the general law of bestowal and that is how we will advance in the right direction.
8. S. (13:38) The conclusion from this passage is that nature is going to have to force us to connect and when this plague began people began to listen and pay attention to it, agreeing with it and we saw that it helped people connect all over the world. In Israel they close this off. They put us off as quarantined so it sounds like we're going backwards?
R. It's an order for us to think how do we ourselves want to advance? Do we learn a lesson? Did we learn something from what we went through? If we didn't learn anything, then everything will repeat itself and in the worst form.
9. S. (14:36) Let's say out of the press of a button, you could have, they would have greater connection and even strongly connected. On one hand you have all this weaponry and on the other hand you have people with a connection, how could it be that they have more. Why can't we just destroy them?
R. The forces and laws in nature are hidden and we don't know why they work one way and not another. Like Baal HaSulam says if we are to eat something kosher and he'd be healthier and someone who'd eat something that's not Kosher he'd suffocate and die, and he choked on it then everyone would be righteous right? It doesn't work that way but in order to allow a man free choice. leaving him room for Arvut, You can give me excuses that won't help.
S. Those small ones who are connected between them they're stronger? I can't even grasp this in my mind , how can they be stronger and more powerful?
R. You can put your head aside and listen to what Kabbalists say, connection is the strongest thing.
10. S. (16:31) According to logic it seems like the more we develop than the connection has to be at a higher degree, why does he write here that the only thing would be in our existence and our sustenance?
R. No, the gap between us will also be greater accordingly and that's how we will advance on both legs, and one does not cover over the other. Which means that if you think that towards the end of correction we will be stronger and more understanding. it won't be that way. In order to really allow us to feel how opposite to the Creator we really are, how ignoble we are, that is the goal in order for us to understand that only adhesion with him in the whole and complete way is the only thing that can help us.
S. This is exactly what I am asking, why then is the more that we are developing then the connection is made to the lowest possible degree, the smallest agree?
R. In order to give us the ability to enact the force of Arvut and that our connection with the Creator will be the main thing. First to annul towards the Creator from the lowest point not that we have more forces but that we have less forces, less understanding, less of a feeling, precisely that.
11. S. (18:34) Why is the purpose of creation concealed from everyone and together with that people don't understand or receive that goal that everyone needs to suffer. If humanity doesn't understand where it needs to advance, why is the Creator punishing us for that?
R. I don't understand your question.
S. Why is the purpose of creation concealed from all of humanity?
R. I don't know that's a given; the Creator wants it to be revealed in that way. Why doesn't he open it to everyone and gradually probably there's something about it. This also is how we see in general how people develop. How many people did you have a thousand or two thousand years ago , people who were illiterate? They lived in caves, in some small shacks and now more and more that's how the world develops.
S. Also, you can demand from a small child that he doesn't do the things that he is supposed to do but here the Creator is demanding from everyone but it's not even clear what we need to do?
R. The Creator is not demanding of everyone but only to the measure of humanities development to that extent he demands of them to understand and come closer to the good.
12. S. (20:46) Why does the Baal HaSulam, why does he want to explain this from the scientific side as if we are only developing from harm?
R. Because here we were talking about the laws of nature, the laws according to which we exist, Creator and nature are one and the same, but He hides behind nature then we don't talk about someone who governs us, we talk about the nature that we live in. That nature obliges us, compels us ,that's what he wants to explain. It's more convenient and comfortable for him and for us.
S. Who needs to get this from a scientific approach we do, or the rest of the world does?
R. The entire world why not. The entire world needs to understand that we are in a system of laws and that these laws work on us and we cannot escape them.
S. We see that if we don't receive blows then a person doesn't develop he doesn't raise his ear?
R. That's why there will be blows.
S. This empirical scientific explanation, that a person will be able to receive them in his vessel so it's only after these blows for a small window of time where it just needs to be something revealed and one time to all of humanity.
R. It'll be a general trend.
Excerpt 10 (22:32) “ I have already said that there are two ways...” twice
13. S. (25:47) According to the passage here all the wars in the world, the atomic wars can occur because people are working above their necessities?
R. No, it's not that bad but surely by that we distort the balance that needs to be in nature.
S. What does it mean that they agree ,where he says the nations of the world will agree to it and not to work more than necessities?
R. In order to keep nature and balance, no more no less. That's called that a person starts feeling nature and becoming compatible with the actions of the Creator that comes out of adhesion with him
S. No translation.
R. It's fine, it's fine then we'll all see how the Creator acts and how we act and will be an adhesion, in balance with Him.
S. We see now that the state is a little bit tense so how can we explain that to people what do I need to say in the words of the Baal HaSulam, what do I need to say that they need to not work more than what's necessary for them?
R. No you can explain it to them as a law, that in nature this exists as a law. That now we are in a special very corrupted form, that it's very bad and very far from balance, that's clear to us, but if we start coming closer to a more balanced form then we will need to keep this law of not talking from nature but talks about it, not to take from nature more than what we need. Nature is arranged in a way that if that's how we will behave with it, towards it, then we'll have enough of everything.
S. Actually it's not that clear what's the secret here of balance where you have people going to war with each other and they're using these atomic weapons and I got to say to them, yeah we got to reach balance but it's clear to everyone to live in peace and everyone's for that but what about if they don't understand?
R. Through the dissemination of the wisdom of Kabbalah, we need to reach a state where everyone will understand that we have no choice. Either we are going to destroy ourselves and only a small number of people will remain in the world that will start developing once again for millions or billions of years until once again there will be some kind of mankind on Earth, or we will have a good one of the two.
S. What's the addition here that the wisdom of Kabbalah adds, what will happen let's say in humanity if they will begin to learn this wisdom?
R. They'll understand that they're going against the laws of nature and therefore have no chance of doing what they want inside their ego but that anything they can do and the only thing they can do is to learn the laws of nature and adapt themselves to them, that's it. To be in compatibility with the laws of nature.
14. S. (30:06 ) We're here right now with the friends in preparation for the KabU students, it's very exciting because a lot of friends are coming and they're coming to serve and they're flying from here and driving long distances to really serve. We are about to meet with 300 students, some physical and other 200 virtual and we really, really, want that the Creator will be with us in this action. We hear from this passage that Baal HaSulam writes here that he's really screaming through his words how much the world needs connection and it depends on everything that we do. We really want to be a channel for this message from Baal HaSulam. How do we do this correctly? If you could maybe give us some recommendations, how do we name ourselves to be the smoothest and cleanest channel so everything can flow correctly.
R. Help the friends open each other's hearts, and this can be done only by talking to each other. ] Also explain to them that they're good future is in their own hands now and they see the situation, the complicated, dangerous situation that we are in and really that it would be better for us to understand that the force of good in the world is only the force of connection, which we can accumulate in our hearts. That's it. Explain that and that our common heart is what we need to put together. We need to keep together our common strength that we want only to be together and for this common force for it to unite all of humanity and this way all evil will disappear from the world.
15. S. (32:25) It seems like this is a warning when t Baal HaSulam writes here in this text and I wanted to ask, according to how we can connect here in Bnei Baruch, only if we do this then we will end the wars or we also need to increase our quantity and numbers in Bnei Baruch, we need to grow in order to not to reach the third or fourth world war?
R. We need as many new friends to join Bnei Baruch possible for them to connect with us, not necessarily within us and our inner framework and everyone to know that the future of the world depends on its connection .
16. S. (33:45) Maybe we can go deeper into what you answered to Kiev, and Columbia, there was some politician that was says we need to grow in more the financial state and there was a strong reaction here in the country so how can we bring this message out to people without having such an aggressive reaction to that?
R. Pray to the Creator, I have nothing else to say. Pray to the Creator that you want for our message to be correct and to be accepted by the public in a good way. Good willingly.
17. S. (35:10) Some time ago you used to explain Kabbalah in a more scientific way in a scientific forms and today we have friends that have academic degrees, so do you think that it would be right to disseminate through friends with academic degrees, to disseminate in circles of scientist and talk about Kabbalah as a scientific thing that can support humanity?
R. I don't think today that humanity respects science, so to bring Kabbalah through science we also are doing it but more than that I don't think it will help dissemination. We need to see what people want to hear and where they are, and in that style we need to explain it to them.
18. S. (36:44) The question is forty or fifty years ago there was the exact same, now suppose after the fourth world war we will remain only a handful of people, what does humanity need in order to start hearing it and to start changing or what will appear after the fourth world war?
R. Now there is the force of the group, and this force of the group needs to act on the Creator, and then the Creator will arrange things. Everything depends on the prayer the request and today there is already a great mass of people with a bigger desire more clarified, they already learn and understand. We need to wake in ourselves our hearts, our mutual hearts that way we'll awaken the Creator and then we buy that we can make the greatest corrections in the world, everything is attained only in this prayer by the force of prayer.
19. S. (38:30) Every scientific work bears a good goal to begin with and gradually turns into a weapon of mass destruction, why?
R. Because our nature is ego and we want by it to take advantage of the entire world, for the good of our ego and that's it.
20. S. (39:18) What's not clear is what is Baal HaSulam trying to tell us here, how could it be that the Creator would bring humanity to corrections by way of suffering?
R. He'll press on us in a way that will want to get away from this bad and then of course we will then want to we'll be trying to look for where this bad is coming from and then we will reveal that it's coming from our ego. That we by ourselves are doing to ourselves all kinds of sorrows and troubles. Imagine yourself now, let's say the same wars are occurring now if those people would reveal that all the evil is coming to them and all the bad that is coming to them is coming from their ego and no nothing besides that they'll have no choice they'll be speaking in a different way. The main thing is the recognition of evil.
S. That's why what's unclear is how could it be just out of pressure because where is man choice there?
R. Man's choice is to connect with others and then reach a state where the connection will bring a person to this broadening of his knowledge where he can rise above his ego.
S. Why was it impossible to do until now, why couldn't humanity cannot come to it without the Creator forcing it that they have no choice?
R. We're also now not in a state where we are able or want to and can do. Who knows how much longer it will take but regardless we are starting today we're already on the first degree where we can understand all of the entire history in the geography this whole process they were undergoing that we can explain it to everyone and more or less everyone can understand it and receive it and accept it
S. From what I see in history and in general from our work to is that as long as the light doesn't shine it doesn't matter what troubles comes to man he can't get out of the situation, it doesn't seem like pressure and suffering works there are people that get suffering and never learn anything from it but something needs to shine on them so they could move. Here Baal HaSulam, he doesn't write about it being dependent on the work of Kabbalists or the work of the people that do the work in the heart but on external suffering, it's perplexing
R. Listen, he's writing this to a broad audience. It is not going to say that it depends on how much you draw the correcting light from above, he can't speak in such a way, but it will happen. That's what's going to happen too.
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Morning Lesson September 08, 2022 Transcription
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Part 3:
Baal HaSulam. "Study of the Ten Sefirot" (TES). Vol. 1. Part 4. Inner Observation. Chapter Two. #16 ("You must understand")
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Reading "Study of the Ten Sefirot" (TES). Vol. 1. Part 4. Inner Observation. Chapter Two. #16 Chapter Two. #16 You must understand here that we have no perception… 00:32)
1. S. ( 04:00) It's not really clear what he says from what I understand he's talking about the reflected light building the Malchut
R. yes
S. Then he says that the reflected light as if arranged has the Malchut and further he says that what we attain is the direct light that enters the body so how did these two things coincide on the one hand the Malchut arranges the reflected light on the other hand the reflected light is closed in it and enters the body, Guf.
R. The reflected light is the same reaction of Malchut that it wants to return to the Creator, to become similar to connect to the Creator this is called the reflecting light that comes from inside After it does this then connection is made between the attitude of the Creator to the creature and the attitude of the creature Malchut to the Creator and this is how the Toch inside of the Partzuf is filled.
S. These parts of the Malchut, Rosh, Guf, these are all parts of the Malchut actually?
R. For sure all we are talking about is Malchut, Roch, Toch, Sof everything that there is. We are all talking about the will to receive how it feels itself and arranges itself in contact with the light.
2. S. (05:53) What is there from the Tabur down?
R. From the naval down there's a Malchut that cannot receive to bestow it does not have the force of the Masach.
S. Why is there room for in the Partzuf because the Guf calculates only what it can receive the Rosh
R. To receive an order to bestow cannot do more than from Peh to Tabur.
3. S. ( 06:28 ) What comes first, the screen or the expansion of the Guf? Inside the Guf?
R. For sure the Masach without having a Masach in the calculation of how much Malchut receives in order to bestow there cannot be any expansion of the upper light into the will to receive inside this body, the Guf, that's one thing. The second thing is from the Tzintzun Aleph everything that happens with the will to receive and the light, it only happens only by the decision of Malchut. The decision of Malchut it cannot be that without any reason and without some kind of coupling and striking and without some kind of resistance and without the calculation without all these actions of many actions, that some action will happen from the side of the light and the Kli and from the Kli to the light and everything has to be calculated.
S. What's not clear is what he writes the lower learns from the upper meaning what?
R. Usually the lower learns from the upper it means that these low small actions that we can learn about to the intention of the Creator.
4. S. (08:08) He said that the Masach and the Kli of the Malchut strike the light, what's the reason that repels it and rejects it?
R. This is the returning of the light to the emanator. It's an action inside of the created being who wants to make the same action towards the Creator like the Creator does towards him.
S. When can the light continue and not be rejected or repelled is there such a thing
R. If there is no Masach and it's smaller than there's no reflected light.
S. Meaning the condition for revelation is that there needs to be Ohr Hozer?
R. Yes
5. S. (08:56) He writes that we have no discernments in the 10 Sefirot of Rosh, but only after it expands in the Guf, what are all these actions of the rejections, the restrictions,the Massach, the Ohr Hozer. we don't don't discern any of these?
R. We discern within them actions that have to be arranged to accompany the created being tto the Creator, to match
6. S. ( 09:39) What are these ten parts that are corrected by the light?
R. Ten Sefirot that have a Tzintum on them rso they don't receive so they're just ten spaces.
Reading item 17 (09:59 ) “The seventh kind is the reflected light that remains …"
7. S. (12:48) Where is it in the 12 types of reflected light in the world of Adam Kadmon are they like the blueprint of the following 12 Partzufim of the world of Atzilut?
R. No no no don't be a wise guy learn what's written here and that's it, you can connect it with another thousand things.
Reading item 18 (13:29 ) “the eighth kind is the above reflected light..
8. R. (14:17) We also need to understand that besides what Baal HaSulam says about these different types of lights, direct light, inner lights, returning light, there are many more types that he does not speak about, because you cannot speak about everything but there you could say hundreds if not thousands of types of lights and vessels that we are not able to from our, we have this weak communication between us to speak about everything but when we reach them and practice these things then we feel that it becomes part of our livelihood and then we learn them on ourselves.
Reading item 19 (15:17 ) “The ninth kind is the reflected light that ascends
Reading item 20 ( 16:08 ) We might ask: but there is expansion of direct light
Reading item number 21 (18:38) 'it has been explained that even though
9. R. (20:10) Meaning again he's explaining the inverse relationship between lights and vessels, next
Reading item 22 (20:08) “This above matter of inverse relation
Reading item 23 (21:25) The origin of these two values has already been explained