Part 2
Morning Lesson December 02, 2021, Transcription
Transcription is made from simultaneous translation which leaves a possibility for differences from audio
Baal HaSulam. The Freedom (Criticism Brings Success; Lack of Criticism Causes Decadence)
Reader begins: Criticism Brings Success; Lack of Criticism Causes Decadence
1.R. (02:11) Meaning the more criticism, the more disagreements, the more scrutiny there will obviously be more opportunities to advance and reach some kind of better results. Just as we see in our world, if countries, dictatorships are limiting freedom, so they develop very slowly and they have all kinds of problems from countries that have more freedom.
Reader continues: (02:55) “evidently the whole basis of physical ….”
2. R. (04:30) That is clear. But if it will already be open in a clear and revealed way, this whole reality let's say, so what criticism or disagreement can be? or do we artificially need to live through some disagreements, different perceptions? Let's see.
Reader continues: (05:01) “this is the proof of the obligation….”
3. R. (05:43) Meaning not to annul the will to receive or to blur it out, but on the contrary, to let it grow increasingly more and more. It will grow and we always need to give gratitude that thanks to it we have the disagreements; and that is why we are also constantly developing.
4. S. (06:08) It says that unity and the lack of criticism are the source of every failure, so the Jews that were united back when, is this what caused them to have hatred come between them, is the lack of criticism?
R. It depends if they were holding on to the goal or not. If they were holding on to the goal that one goal for all would strengthen them together and they would keep the circle and the connection between them, and if they lost the goal so the connection between them would become a disagreement and wars and big problems. It all depends as much on as they are connected to the goal; the goal has to justify and unite everyone.
S. So what would cause them to lose the goal?
R. They stopped adhering to the Creator on the degree they were on. They started falling from that degree and then the Creator disappeared between them as the force that is connecting and uniting; and that love started becoming hatred, and that caused great wars.
S. So it doesn't have anything to do with the lack of criticism?
R. Yes, but the criticism stopped, they couldn't remain in being in the correct criticism in order to advance that you have to check the state you're in, see what you didn't attain in your state and go and attain and advance to the next degree and they stopped it. That is why instead of that, they went to a negative criticism of what isn't right in the other, and that caused the shattering.
5. S. (08:48) The positive criticism is about myself and negative criticism is about others?
R. Actually, yes.
6. S. (09:04) It's really not clear when he speaks about the criticism that will cancel any advancement and the source of knowledge will be dried from the world. Personally, I learn not to be in dispute so there won't be any hatred?
R. Criticism in the name of the above, did you hear such a term? The criticism, the disagreement is for the sake of the heavens, that means to scrutinize the middle line more and more, that includes everybody together. But it includes them because it connects all the forces and all opinions that are contradicting to attaining the Creator; in that we don't have any disagreements but everyone connects in completion.
S. When Baal HaSulam talks about the future or what should I call it, or it seems to him that we can come to this in our days?
R. Each and every spiritual degree has to be attained or can be attained only through that tendency: that we can overcome the disagreements and it is not that there won't be disagreements, but that we reach a principle that is above it and this is what we hold on to, and the disagreement remains as our foundation. That is what he writes that it cannot disappear but on the contrary that we want to make certain it doesn't disappear, otherwise what will we be left with? That we will just agree with everything? That is not good. That is why all the negative things that you see in humanity and especially in the people of Israel, that they can't agree with one another, look at our government and everything going on. It is all correct. It should be this way, just above it we need to build the connection. The connection needs to be entirely based on the disagreements. So again go to the government and start organizing it correctly.
S. I thought we had to be nice and good?
R. No it won't be good, it will only be good under the condition that we can deal with the evil and it will always be there. The evil will always be in our foundation and upon it we have to stand and build the good, which can only be through the bad. If the bad disappears the good will disappear, we won't be able to feel it, the strength in it, nothing. We need our ego, as without it how can we hold on to anything? None of our senses will work if it doesn't work against the ego “the advantage of the light from the darkness.”
S. How do we come to that in our country or in general? Or only the wisdom of Kabbalah brings that?
R. That we will talk about later on, how it works in the country and the world, we will be concerned about it later on. We are laying a foundation for this. We and the next generation will come and everything will work out; we will see the beginning of it, of the right path.
7. S. (13:18) A few years ago you said that there's going to be a mess in the world and we won't understand what is going on. Today we can see what is going on in Australia, just as it was in Nazi Germany, you see video of a child 12 years old and he is being beaten up and sprayed all over his face and what you said is happening, your prophecy has begun. What do we need to do now in order to organize these difficult things?
R. We shouldn't look at these things in Australia or anywhere else or get excited by them. We have to do what we can, which is connection between us only; and the whole world will follow us if we will be connected correctly, that is it.
S. The problem is between us in the group it's not outside?
R. Yes, better to say all the problems are in you.
8. S. (14:28) Many times in the tens we don't open up our disputes because it's not clear how to approach it, many tens feel that they don't advance because they are not facing the disputes and they don't even talk about the things that disturb us. Can you give us three or four steps on how to open up a dispute, how to take care of it?
R. I can't answer this now in such a way. I think that a group needs to connect meaning together. physically and to read Baal HaSulam or Rabash articles, especially Rabash on the society and to discuss them, as to why we can or cannot keep them. That is what needs to be simple, to the point. How can we not do what Rabash writes? Rabash is a necessity and he writes it for the beginners, and we still can't do it. So let's see what he is demanding and how can we, in this next week, perform what is written in this article? And day to day, did we keep it, did we not, did we do it or not? and then we reach the weekend like a week from today, we will see that we attained it; we’re able to do what was written in the article. Then we start the next Rabash article and so on. Meaning the Social Writings: we summarize them and do them, and we stay openly, what we did or what we can't and what we need to do. Try to do this, otherwise we will completely not advance. There is something blocked, that we don't think or we think we can advance without keeping these things; so where will the light come and where will the Creator be revealed if not in the connection between the friends.
9. S. (17:11) Is criticism required in the ten, when the criticism is always a sign of shattering in the spiritual work?
R. Criticism is not a sign of a shattering, it is a checking of how to make our current state better. it is not towards the shattering it is for correction.
10. S. (17:26) How should a ten criticize its own state?
R. Speaking between them and discussing it openly and thinking for the benefit of the state that we are in, that we need to be more corrected, more connected and to advance. This is what we have to discuss: what we are lacking in order to be connected in one vessel and the Creator between us will be revealed then.
11. S. (18:27) We would like to ask please about the advice you gave us yesterday, if we may? You gave us advice to start scrutinizing a prayer that will be accepted by the whole world KLI.
You suggested that if we could open up a page in a language that is clear to all, to organize the system where we can all integrate in all languages, men and women, how do you see this page and what did you mean?
R. Open a page and start writing. Start writing each one, even not the group but each one; what he thinks we should bring to our prayer.
S. Each one will have access to go to the page and look and read?
R. Yes.
S. Each one will have access to go and read what thousands wrote?
R. Yes
S. This has to be translated so everyone can understand?
R. Yes
S. What should be the result of this action?
R. That I will get inspired by what everybody is asking for, by what everybody is expecting for.
S. What should be my attitude when I read the prayers of my friends?
R. You will find out, and afterwards you will tell me what your attitude is. I'm not dictating your attitude, that depends on you, from the way your heart responds.
S. How should we relate to the matter of the prayer being in the ten, that I should write from the ten? How to put the ten into it?
R. Look at what is written there and start relating to it. Still it will cause some mutual understanding; maybe a connection or maybe the opposite, but it will make you connect with others, positive or negative, it will still do something. I'm just afraid that our study will become something formal.
S. Wait a minute, how can that help us to make a study not formal?
R. That we won't open our hearts. I need to feel that I depend on this connection.
S. What does it mean to scrutinize the prayer that will be accepted by the whole world Kli?
R. That, we will see afterwards. Let's start getting inspired by what people write, but briefly. Each one, one or two sentences maximum.
12. S. (21:44) I wanted to share the realization of the Rabash articles reading in our ten. Once a week we write a letter summarizing what we had during the week. We try the whole ten to write this letter together, not each one on his own and it's a wonderful feeling of mutual dependency and connection. Maybe we should write letters to each other in the tens?
R. Let's start with what I said. Maybe the fact that you're writing a letter to a person far from you it's nice that you do it together. I am with you.
13. S. (22:48) How is it that the whole foundation of success is unity, how is it that unity is the basis of failure and the dispute is the basis of success?
R. Because of the dispute we can scrutinize what else we need to add in order to reach unity and if we don't take care of the increase in unity so for sure we are descending and losing the foundation that we started from. That is why you see that the countries where we have inner scrutiny, even wars inside people left right, socialist, all kinds, that they will gradually build themselves even though the work in their path is not simple and the countries where you have an oppression and they are not in scrutiny. They descend from their assets, spiritual and corporeal and all together they deteriorate.
We will end here and I am asking to go at least one more time and read the article except for that read tomorrow's article.