Morning Lesson January 19, 2022, Transcription
Transcription is made from simultaneous translation which leaves a possibility for differences in the audio
Part 2:
Baal HaSulam. The Peace (The Wheel of Transformation of the Form)
1. R. (00:15) Here Baal HaSulam wants to really explain to us in what form of relations we are with all of reality, meaning with the Creator and what we need to do to change our relations to our benefit in order to get to know all of reality, what happens to us why, we each time come from blow to blow, failure to failure, and then here we can understand what our success depends upon.
Reading “The Peace” (00:56)
2. S. (07:12) There's a certain attitude where everything is by deposit, what is more suitable here?
R. Each one and everyone together.
3. S. (07:36) In what can a simple person that is in the ten, in what does he pay in efforts or torments?
R. We do not need to pay in torment, torment is not payment to the Creator which wants everything for benefits and pleasure and so we need to pay the Creator in this that we enjoy from his providence, meaning his attitude, his relation towards us. That is our payment that we are in gratitude.
S. It is not talking about simple people here.
R. No, all people who are in the street in the meantime pay in torment, their torment later we will see that these torments bring them to great payment, it is like everything in our life corporeally a person wakes up in the morning, he doesn't want to wake up, he goes to work, he doesn't want to work, he works each moment in which he is cursing his life in which he has no choice and he must. Later on he must deliver more, he must acquire food to bring home to cook, to organize everything for the family and all of his life is in labor, more worries, for what, in order to maintain life? It is an engagement that has no use, that I am living just to live, it is something that you want to cancel ahead of time, but this is how we maintain ourselves because otherwise we suffer and, in our lives, we cannot receive any justification.
S. That one that engages in correction so in addition to those efforts that you described like going to work, do I also need to add efforts by receiving pleasure from being under the providence?
R. The person who begins to reveal by the wisdom of Kabbalah a reason the world was created as such and the goal why he was created as such, then a person already looks at life differently, he begins to scrutinize the program of creation, the purpose of creation and in this he is incorporated with the Creator. Meaning we say that he justifies the Creator but in sum total he himself is incorporated in this entire process and he goes through it from the beginning to the end and he justifies, in that he becomes a witness to what occurs.
S. Meaning if I can justify the Creator by that I pay Him in the store?
R. We do not need to pay Him, you can say such, but it is not nice because it is not true, it is not truth. The truth is that if I reach a state that I see the creation from beginning to end, directly and in the opposite, back and forth. Then I reach a state of “complete righteous” where I justify the Creator from all directions and in this, I reveal the truth in creation, that I am incorporated in it. I reach a degree like the Creator spread over all of creation and I am as such too. The matter is not to justify the Creator, the matter is to recognize all of creation and to accept it as it is; from all the desire of the corrected man to support creation, meaning to be a partner to the Creator. We will talk about this more.
S. With the example of the store, from my primitive understanding we are talking here about “I for you and you for me,” everything is in deposit. Is it not like I need to pay for something that exists here?
R. No, the math is entirely in higher degrees.
4. S. (13:43) When he talks here about the law of development, he explains that every single state is just for a certain time and it is enough for growing the evil in him and then the public cannot exist in him and the public must destroy it, collect, assemble around it, and arrange themselves in a better state. So the law of development is always like the organizing is what destroys itself as if to get along in a better state, is it always upon the destruction of the previous states.
R. It is not physical destruction, it is that you are annulling at the previous degree in order to rise to a higher degree, in your eyes it is annulled, you have already used this will to receive for the intention to bestow and now you rise to the next degree. Your will to receive is already canceled, you have already used it, you rise by it, meaning the previous degree is in the posterior of the next degree.
S. So if we look at the period of today that we are living in, the public cannot deal with it and it appears that they want to destroy the previous state, what state are we in today?
R. We today are in recognition of evil, humanity is gradually approaching recognition of evil more and more asking about the purpose of the bad, why is it always mistaken, why is it always entering crisis, what is the reason for this that we are not learning from the state we are going through. This is the matter of the recognition of evil and we hope that we will be privileged to see how the entire world begins to understand that here nothing will help us, and it is a waste of all of our efforts. If we do not find a method for fixing this bad, this evil which is our ego and then we will need to explain that there is only one method that can correct our ego. It will not help us all sorts of forms that come to us from some nice environment, nice stories, culture, education, nothing will help here man's nature is only what needs to be changed. So man must come to such a recognition of evil that they will understand that it cannot correct its life and correct its state but rather only by correction of the source of life, which is our ego and for our ego nothing, no means will help us. That humanity has used over thousands of years of its development that it wanted to make itself nicer, to paint itself in different manners, nothing and not build anything, only one thing, all of us belong to one system, round, everyone must be as one man with one heart. Everyone must be connected to mutual support and only in this way we must approach because everything else will just bring us troubles and what I said, one vessel. Everyone as one, which is possible only by the upper light. Everyone by the upper light and the upper light can only be by this in which we realize the wisdom of Kabbalah and that is how we will be, there is no choice, there is no other method because it comes from nature itself.
S. What does our method help in the process of recognition of evil for the broad public, it is clear we have the system, the Creator, we have laws, we are engaged in it, what process in recognition of evil will humanity go through except for the destruction of the previous state, what is the correction?
R. We do not need more than that. We also had the inner destruction of spirit, and we came to the wisdom of Kabbalah, and we are still in the destruction of spirit, but we are hoping to come to correction. Humanity has no choice rather only to recognize that it is incapable of reaching good, rather only on the condition that it will connect to us that, we as GE and they as AHP and as it is written in the introduction to the Book of Zohar. There is no choice because there is GE which is connected with a Creator and there is AHP where we can only connect with GE but in AHP is the force because it is all the mass in GE have no mass and a very slim coarseness to connect with the AHP only and GE are vessels of Bina, bestowal and us, they first enter spirituality and later after them, already all of humanity.
5. S. (20:09) What is the real essence in corporeal action, in humanity towards advancement in the work?
R. Corporeal action the purpose of it is to reveal the Creator dwelling in all the worlds, in all the degrees, that he is one. By this, that we reveal that he is one and we are all made as one, as round, as a sphere, a vessel and that is it. This is how we reach wholeness; this is what is called the end of correction. The end of correction of the ego, which is in us to begin with, there are other egos, but they are already beyond the seventh millennia.
6. S. (21:16) When we want the dust if I understand correctly, we correct the high and low in our intention and desire and then darkness will shine as light?
R. Yes, in the meantime that is correct.
7. S. (21:45) What is considered doing that is written there in this book, which deeds?
R. Connection, what more is there but correction.
8. S. (22:01) It says that the ten is developing the law of development of the Creator and imprinted in which they move forward and reveal ego, tell me where is love your friend as yourself, to be good, here all the sudden he inverted the whole Torah and its place?
R. I do not know what your criticism is.
S. He tells us to be nice to be good we need to be nice, so how does that work?
R. Upon the bad you need to be good, what is the problem?
S. You say just be good.
R. You want to say the Creator created the evil and I need to resemble the Creator, so I need to not create at least to support.
S. Something like that.
R. The Kabbalists explain to you why he created evil called BoReh, come and see, and why upon the evil we bring the light to resemble Him.
S. What does it mean to correct the evil?
R. To give the bad the opportunity to be as a light, to be the bestower, connected
S. How is that done by us?
R. By this that we to our will to receive we will connect with the intention of the will to bestow.
S. So it is all a matter of intentions?
R. Yes, but everything is dependent upon intention, it changes the quality of the action. The will to receive remains the will to receive, there is no change in it. Just that we use it on the intention to bestow, that all that I have to receive I invert it to bestow to the others.
S. If through behavior there needs to be a certain behavior to be like the Creator?
R. Of course what I am flipping myself like clothes, inside out, inverted, that is how you are doing to yourself.
S. Also in behavior and also an intention?
R. Yes of course, intention is the main behavior.
9. S. (25:05) I want to know if I understand the text right, to me it seems to be saying that the situation itself does not matter and does not need to be labeled, it is just for the purpose of the system to go to the next degree.
R. Yes, correct.
Continued reading “So the states clear up one by one…” (25:39)
10. R. (27:15) Meaning ultimately all the bad states direct us to the end of correction and the good state but on the way when we go through them, we say nothing good behind us and nothing good in front of us, we are always under pressure in bad states, but their goal is to develop us too good.
Continued Reading: “and these are the words of Rabbi Akiva…” (27:44)
11. S. (31:36) I did not understand for what and with who is the calculation, yesterday he writes here also that the whole calculation is for him not to bring contentment to the Creator, it doesn't work in the purpose of the essence, yesterday we said that the whole calculation is only in the ten and not for this world?
R. Working at ten is not the goal, the work is to reach adhesion which we reach through equivalence of form, which we reach through bestowal. Through bestowal to the Creator we reach by this how to bestow to one another through the ten.
S. The question is whether it is a calculation about this world or not?
R. In what exactly, nothing in this world we have any calculation, on the one hand you can say yes, because each detail people suffer, they do not understand why and not just them, still, vegetative and animate these are also created beings and suffering in something. Also in the form of the will to receive and what the demand is for it and this is what is measured this suffering and also this there is corrections and also that is the people who don't reach intention to bestow but rather who are activated according to their regular will to receive and also in them there is a purpose because they are suffering from the same will to receive, boundaries of still, vegetative and animate and in this they are justifying the creation or the opposite.
S. Was there a calculation or not for this world?
R. Of course in everything there is a calculation, it just depends on what form, what state and what degree. He cannot say that there is no importance, significance, calculation, or something. What does it mean that there is no created being, the will to receive is called created being and if it exists in something, if we can identify it as something in this world then yes it exists, and something enjoys and suffers and that is how it is? It is desirable that they should not suffer because in this that they suffer, they are cursing the Creator, not aware of course, they do not understand it. Just like that we traveled to the stadium, a soccer game with Rabash and he said that you need to respect this place. How can it be that we respect this place where they are playing soccer, right, he says a lot of people come here and receive pleasure and thus, that they receive pleasure, the pleasures come from the Creator and we need to respect them, such places.
S. But if the calculations like here he writes the essence and purpose, how can it be that there is a calculation in this world if the purpose and the essence are concealed?
R. It does not matter that it is concealed or not even before Rabash would say you need to respect the soccer field, yes, it was also concealed. Also this world, you have not yet revealed the reason for each and everything why it was created as such and exists and what it truly helps whoever is tied to it to reach the goal.
S. Why did the Creator put an obstacle before blind man?
R. That is something else you are asking already about the providence, why the Creator did it in more or less concealment and the entire world is called Olam from the word concealed. That is a question, how much each one of us is far from concealment.
S. We have to steal from the store and to suffer from the shopkeepers because we have no knowledge of this?
R. By these things you are coming closer to the purpose, to the true reality, do you understand that? Thanks to the collectors you reach the recognition of what is worthwhile and what is not, the collectors are like parents, like teachers at school, which is what they do.
S. That is towards the world and towards us that we already have work in the ten and it is clear to us where we need to advance towards and where we have a choice so what is the account with us?
R. With us there is the calculation to the extent in which we will get to know the means through which when we can between us, we can unite our forces and to certain multiples increase our bestowal upon the Creator. Altogether we need to respond correctly to what he awakens in us, if I do not connect to the friends then I am not responding correctly. It can be called anyone like a voice who was crying out in the desert, it will not help me. I must reach that form from which the Creator receives, that form is called the ten and this is the only way that we can respond to him. It is like in our world, I cannot measure anything unless I have something against it, something in contrast to it, only through a thing and its opposite, only that way I can come to some feeling, some measurement.
S. So what did you mean by this that there is no consideration with this world who was already in the ten?
R. I do not remember the context it was but actually if someone is in a ten, he already has the means in his hands that are different from that which is in this world. He is already in a degree of the next world and can bestow and influence upon the spiritual world upon the forces of bestowal.
S. In this world there is some consideration with someone who is already learning in the ten?
R. No, we need to try to influence everyone everything through the ten, it is much more beneficial, and it is not even suitable to us anymore. If you rise to the next degree to solve problems by being in it, you cannot come down below and start to make from yourselves as if you fell from fourth grade to third grade. It cannot be, it does not fit you anymore and it will not be accepted from you.
S. What is not suitable anymore?
R. If you are in the ten and the Creator brings you to the good faith, put your hands on the good fate and says take then you need to take it. We cannot operate degrees that are lower than us, we need in accordance with what we are given, where I am.
S. On the other hand we say that in this world we must operate not now to mix up, what does it mean to solve them on the level of this ten and not in the level of this world?
R. Anything that has to do with spirituality I solve in the ten, I have no possibility, I come to a state where I am already incorporated into ten and through it with my pressure upon them with receiving their authority upon myself, by that I need to change every single state that is spiritual and higher and higher degrees than there.
S. We are not going to solve corporeal problems on a higher level?
R. What corporeal problems?
S. It is confusing, so I am trying to clarify, I am not going to solve problems of suffering in this world like my connection to ten?
R. Not true, not correct, I can change the state of the world only through our connection in the ten and all the other things if you start to do then you will be like the wise of the world and will not succeed in anything in that.
S. Today at the beginning the friends asked, I have problems in this world. How can I tie it with the understanding that the solution is in the ten? How do you say not to connect them?
R. I am afraid that he will get confused if he is having problems at work if he is getting into a quarrel with his boss and he will start to correct it in the ten and not to correct it with his boss.
S. So please arrange it for me, fix it up.
R. I cannot make order in this because each of you is in a different state but what has to do with this world we try to correct in the vessels of this world and what has to do with spirituality we try to correct it in spirituality.
S. The consideration is with us as much as we pay attention to spirituality?
R. Upon the calculation with us where I first of all talk from the spiritual degree where I can solve problems and the fact that later from the spiritual degree you go down to the corporeal degree and begin to relate to all sorts of people not in the group, to all kinds of jobs that I have in this world and then I'm ready to relate to them in a spiritual way but first I did the spiritual preparations in the group and now I relate this way also in a corporeal manner.
S. We need to learn this, it is very confusing.
R. It could be, so we will talk more about this.