Morning Lesson January 25, 2021 Transcription is made from simultaneous translation which leaves possibility for differences from audio

Baal HaSulam Article "Matan Torah [The Giving of the Torah]" - Excerpts

52. R. (00:14) We thought about what we should do before the Congress so that we will advance towards it in a clear way, connected together, knowing what we are connecting for, what this Congress should do for us. That's why we chose first of all to start from the Giving of the Torah and then maybe Arvut and maybe other materials similar to that in order to renew in us what Baal HaSulam wants to give us.

Excerpt 1 Reader (00:50-2:10)

Excerpt 2 Reader (2:26-3:38)

53. R. We cannot reach some match with the Creator if not through love of creatures that we have no choice, rather to reach some spiritual action, we must realize it only within the connection with the creatures, only in giving to them. This is the entire most egoistic influence that we have is that it doesn't let us connect between us and it specifically shows us where we can make some spiritual bestowal.

R. That clear?

54. S. (04:32) Why does it seem to a person that the Creator is putting obstacles before him in all of his efforts one should do in order to love his friend?

R. That's true of course the Creator is placing all of these obstacles, but it is for us to need his aide and then we will find the connection with him otherwise we won't turn to him. He intentionally made this spiritual path for us in a way that is so difficult, it’s not that it's just difficult, we are incapable of doing anything in it, incapable. What can we do? We can only turn to the Creator and ask and in such a way you get into a connection with him and then you have no choice, you turn to him and you find a connection with the Creator, you reveal him, you get close to him. That is how you become Adam, a person, similar in degree to the Creator.

S. Love your friend I see yourself is built on labor and I have found?

R. Yes, you could say so, love thy neighbor as thyself is the end of all of our efforts, all of our exercises, our entire life. Because your friend, love your friend is the Creator, he is just the general, the common of all of the friends, of all of humanity, even now we are reaching a state where if you reach the degree where you love everyone you reach love of creatures then from love of creatures to the love of Creator.

55. S. (07:07) He says that 613 Mitzvot are included in one Mitzvah.

R. 613 desires and I need to direct all of them with the intention to bestow, bestow to who? Through the creatures to the Creator, because the Creator I cannot depict him. He is not in my world, I could just be imagining things. But if I with all of my force and every opportunity I have, I make efforts to make actions of bestowal to the creatures and through this I am beginning to reveal through all of these creatures, together there is the upper force in them that created them and it is called the Creator. It turns out that I thought that I am adding to and bestowing to the creatures, no, I am bestowing and loving the Creator, the force that created them, that is holding them, that is depicting them, is forming them in front of me. These creatures have no meaning, they have no personality, they have nothing. The Creator forms them all before me, all of these creatures in order that I develop a sensation of love towards them and then in general that he shall tie all of these forms of love together and in this I can reach him.

S. I try to love my friends in the 10, sometimes I can’t and sometimes I can. What does it mean in this love I start discerning 613 Mitzvot?

R. We cannot talk about those now because it’s very complex matter, rather we reveal it as such, you go look at the last book of the Zohar and there I give all sorts of calculations there are 613 desires and all sorts of numbers that we encounter.

56. S. (09:36) Don't do to your friend what you hate, it says if the first action is restriction and then loving your friend is active?

R. Exactly correct.

S. Why does he say, in Aramaic, as if something is forbidden but in Hebrew it is positive or opposite?

R. No, In Aramaic and Hebrew are two forms of expressing the same thing rather only through the dark or through the light. Aramaic is the opposite form of Hebrew, that is how it is explained and we use Aramaic as well when it is more comfortable to explain matters of the vessel, but if we are talking about actions of the lights then we are talking about the language of the Torah, Hebrew. This and that, Hebrew and Aramaic are not used as today, here in Israel, how the Hebrew language is used, this language was used usually only for clarifying spiritual matters.

57. S. (11:11) Why didn’t he add love your friend as yourself against the desire? Wouldn't that save us?

R. No, because that is against our desire.

58. S. (11:35) Can you say that loving your neighbor as yourself can only be achieved essentially in the 10 and not where else?

R. ….

59. S. (12:34) In the beginning of the lesson you gave us a task to ask of the Creator, to ask for the friends from the Creator. Now that we see love your friend as yourself is to do actions of the bestowal. Are these two things the same?

R. Actions of bestowal is we make a request in an effort to perform, yes, but for the friends means that I should always have whether I want to or not that I should truly have before me this matter, we must worry for the state of the friends. Forget myself and always remember the friends, it is a great problem, but in these efforts we wake up against this delight, the upper light and he arranges us.

S.You said that love your friend as yourself is the end of everything so what we can do now in the beginning is the request from the Creator?

R. Surely he is writing for you in black and white, what more is there to add?

S. There is no other action?

R. Right there is no other action besides love your friend as yourself and this is also revealed as the attitude towards the Creator.

S. There is no other action to realize love your friend is yourself the only action is to ask the Creator?

R. No, there isn't, that's why it's written afterwards I am the Creator.

60. S. (14:16) In this sentence love your friend is yourself what is the meaning?

R. According to your efforts it is all directed towards ...., all of your nature directed towards self-love ultimately will reach a state where this whole vessel will flip towards love of others. That is called the end of correction.

61. S. (14:54) If we are alway immersed in the will to receive for ourselves how can we avoid doing harm to others, doing what we hate to them?

R. We cannot avoid it, rather only under the condition that each one loves his friend, we must be in 10 and one group, and one society as Rabash says and in this mutual bestowal of good examples towards one another and to not forget the friends. We must use all of our 31 days that we have left to the Congress as we have no choice. We must perform this so that we shall truly have a good gathering, congregation, spiritually. We must feel that these days that we are coming closer to the Congress can also chill us and confuse us and we must be truly alert to it. That if we don't make the effort each time greater then it won't be good. We will not reach corrections. Don't think that day by day it doesn't bring you anything, the sun is like the sun, the moon is like the moon, the Earth is like the Earth, everything is the same. It is not the same.

Everyday we receive new influence and it awakens new vessels in us corrupted vessels and if we don't overcome the connection between us against these vessels, these new desires that are revealed to us from the breaking, then we will not succeed. I ask everyone to be truly aware of what system we are in otherwise all of these days will pass by, they will chill us instead of warming us up. Let us connect even more, we are also talking with respect to the whole world. We are only talking of connection. We don't lack anything else besides connection. Look already what is felt from day-to-day, the states are getting worse, they won't get any better, we will never return to a state like there was. We are really in a descent. The state that humanity has attained and we feel it upon ourselves that we must aide ourselves and everyone, we can do this. Because spiritually, in the spiritual force we are stronger than the entire world, if we want to connect between us, this connection between us, that he shall connect us together and in this we want to bestow to all of humanity, it is in our hands. And now before the convention it is a necessity for us to do this. This convention must be as if bursting into spirituality, we have enough time to form ourselves correctly, into a spiritual degree, the entrance to a spiritual degree.

62. S. (19:05) He writes about the 612 Mitzvot and they only aim to interpret and allow us to observe the Mitzvah of loving others properly, how did the other Mitzvot support us in love of others and where do we identify them in the 10?

R. That was already asked of me earlier today, we can't explain now all the 613 Mitzvot the commandments but it will become clear to us, clarified. All of the desires that you want to benefit yourself, you must think how you turn them around, that by them you will benefit others. That is it. Make the effort to think about this, simply don't do to your friend what is hated by yourself, that is the first stage and the second stage, love thy friend as thyself. Don't harm is first of all and then also you can add.

Excerpt 3 Reader (21:33 -22.16)

63. R. That is called what people were asking me to love your friend is yourself, to fulfill the others like I am going to feel myself.

Excerpt 3 Reader “This is utterly impossible ....” (22:29 -23:08)

64. R. Surely we must reach a state where we love everyone, fill everyone, each one for everyone. How can that be? When the upper light corrects each one with an intention to bestow and a person connects with the entire spiritual vessel, spiritual not corporeal, corporeally we can't approach every person, what are you going to give him? Then we connect to the entire spiritual vessel with the intention to bestow and through it we will fulfill the entire vessel. Even though we are a small vessel, if we take them as the will to receive that wants to receive from us, then even through a very thin line we can fill the entire world Kli, no problem.

65. S. (24:11) About fulfilling the world vessel and caring about the friends outside my 10, the social team got a question about something you said, a friend asked can he help someone outside his 10 and you told him not to do it and if there was a problem outside your 10 you should pass it on to the management of BB because it is seemingly egoistic to help someone outside of the 10, can you explain a bit about it?

R. These laws are actually explained in the Torah, if I have to say, two people that I must help them, then I must aid the one that is closer. It is explained, let's say I live in some city and in that same city there are people who need help but also in a nearby other city there are also people who need help. I must first help the people who are in my city, that is how it is. Why? Because it's closer to correction and by this I will correct the relations with them, with these friends and we'll be closer to one another. We will also later on be able to help those who are farther. It is all a result of the system of connection between us in Adam HaRishon.

S. That is clear but specific examples were asked about, specifically I wake up friends from other 10’s or I don't know if I help a friend change his flat tire in his car or how to relate to the friend's questions during the lesson from other 10’s?

R. Once again I'm not going to go into detail on all of these things. I see them as nonsense, if a person reads what Rabash wrote and executes it then he doesn't get such questions. I must first worry how I build my soul because in my soul, through my soul which is entirely the intention to bestow, not to myself, through it I can fill the entire world Kli, all of those same friends and groups that need help.

S. That is clear, thank you. One more question was about questions from friends from Petah Tikvah. We barely hear them during the lesson and friends from the word Kli feel the lack or at least the one who asks this. We used to have more questions from Petah Tikvah and we don't have very many today.

R. We don't feel them, I don't see them on the screens, sometimes I feel them, Petah Tikvah some number if I don't see them on their screens in front of me it is like they don't exist. Show everyone, this is the screen that I see as well, besides the screen that I have here that I see myself and anyone is asking directly and the narrator this is what I see before me. If I am not shown other groups then I don't see them. They have to work it out with those who do the broadcast.

S. You are not shown because they do not put up question marks.

R. What can I do, we have YH, also talking before and after the lesson.

S. It's not toward you.

R. If it's not toward me let's not talk about it now, after the lesson go to the people in the broadcast and talk to them.

S. The question is why are the friends from Petah Tikvah not asking?

R. They are asleep, there is Hebrew 10 here and a few other groups like we see.

S. Do you miss that? Does that mean that you expect them to take a bigger part in the lesson?

R. Yes but what can I do? You also look at me like I'm some actor, some organizer to wake you all up, that I must perform here some role, not that I am just giving a lesson. Your demands from me are exaggerated, this is not how we learn. I must awaken you and through greater warmth. Are you worrying for those same people who were here yesterday and should be here today also and even more so from day to day. There are ups and downs, now is a time of relative chilling to some extent and we must overcome this, to go against this even that the eyes are closing, I have no desire, I am feeling cold, unpleasant and I have other good serious reasons. But no, it is forbidden, you cannot give it room for the Sitra Achra the other side to operate. That's how it is.

Excerpt 4 Reader (31:52- 34:23)

66. R. Of course, we can't carry this out each one with respect to himself rather within the 10 as much as we make the effort, we draw the reforming light and it changes the connection between us on the spiritual degree, the spiritual level and then we can certainly perform it on the spiritual level.

S. It turns out it is not only a Mitzvah in it, you have all of the conditions of reality folded.

R. Yes there is no more than this.

S. It also explains why a prayer, why you can’t succeed, everything if you open this.

R. There is no more than this, that's why it is called the giving of the Torah, why it is, what is in it, what it has to bring you to all in one sentence. If we make an effort to execute this, to carry this out between us in the 10, it brings us new vessels which we see all of reality, understand all of reality and feel the connection of the Creator with the creatures. Making of us a passage from us to all of the creatures

S. What are all the rest of the Mitzvot?

R. Details, all the other commandments are just details of filling love your neighbor as yourself.

S. These are means and parts?

R. Yes, give them a pillow, a chair, blanket. It is an expression of love your neighbor as yourself. That is why love your neighbor as yourself is a general rule of the entire Torah and within it are all of the relations, the actions of you towards the others. That they already are the details, the actions but the essence of the action, love your neighbor as yourself is like the hat that sits on it.

S. It is as if the shape that these relations exist in.

R. It is the form and also the form of love your neighbor as yourself and it's private form is the expression of love and all of the private details, you bring him a lollipop, pillow, another thing, you pray for him or maybe through others, that you connect the connection with others and through the Creator is also to in order to influence the love to each and everyone. This is how it works, nothing else that we can do, we that feel some chilling, despair, lack of force, I don't have this burning fire in me, I must understand that this is a state between stages. Then we must prepare ourselves in order to wake up tomorrow and feel, this is how we say to wake up tomorrow, that now it should be revealed, the better state, more lively and warmer that will once again be able to take a step forward to hug, to connect, to want to reveal the Creator in the connection between us. Once again we will fall, a new thickness from the breaking that is revealed and once again we will have to feel the chilling and despair, anguish where we are, that it is not in our ability, not in our hands and once again to draw the light that reforms us, not in the Achoraim, posterior but in the anterior to make all of these actions that we will rise in degrees. The main thing is don't be afraid at all, rather advanced on this very narrow bridge.

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