Part 2:

Baal HaSulam. A Speech for the Completion of The Zohar

Reading ‘A Speech for the Completion of The Zohar’ (00:32) “It is known…”

1. S. (17:47) Today we have an afternoon lesson, we meet here, and that is the focus and the extent. In each ten we’ll read the article for tomorrow. Tomorrow we stand before you, we stand all of you before, and we received an assignment from Rav, how do we stay on the path, how do we advance on the path, hold and support one another which is merely through the connections between us. So we have an assignment, an exercise for all of us.

R. So we have more settled discernments, more precise discernments. This will really advance us now.

2. S. (19:02) Maybe something new. In equivalence of form there's a quality of brain and quality of heart. Please help me understand what is the difference.

R. We haven't read it yet. He only said that there are two discernments, mind and heart in equivalence of form.

S. So what is mind? What is the problem that a person thinks?

R. This we will have to read later. We haven't read it now.

S. We just read it, no?

R. So what are you asking?

S. I'm asking, he says he doesn't think by himself if he's there or if he receives his creation and if a person thinks like that it's a problem. Why is that a problem that a person has such thoughts, do I exist or not? What is the problem there?

R. I guess it bothers the will to receive. It disturbs the will to receive from being adhered to the Creator in this way.

S. These thoughts he says in mind, if a person thinks of himself if I exist or not, but the Creator doesn't think whether or not He exists.

R. Yes.

S. So why is that a problem? It's natural for a person.

R. If a person wants to be adhered to the Creator it separates him from the Creator. I'm not talking about the article itself, but in general.

3. S. (20:40) Maybe nevertheless before we end the assignment the friend described, maybe we can clarify it. What are we leaving for the day with?

R. This is for you just to decide. Should I tell you what to think about, what to feel, what to aim for, no, you have to decide this. Each one should check within him what is important to him, what is important to him, what is important specifically today, this, we need to think about each day, what is important for me today.