Morning Lesson August 13, 2021 Transcription
Item 28 (00:27) “Now we fully understand the previous words…”
1. R (01:05) Meaning that the same group that became unified in ancient Babylon which was the result of all these different nations and groups and tribes in Babylon, that group essentially becomes the pioneers, the pilots. And they will go forward throughout all of history, and after them, all the others will advance as well, all nations. As it says you will be the nation through which all the sparks of purification and the cleansing of the body will pass through you, unto all the peoples of the world. For the nations of the world are not ready for this because they don't have the kind of desire you have. So you connect as a group. I need one nation, one group to start with now so it will be as a remedy for all the nations. This is the role of the Kabbalists and they have to show everyone the path to the correction of the world.
2. S. (02:32) Those trail blazers, those first Kabbalists, where are they now? Is that Bnei Baruch? How is that spreading out?
R. That's hard to say. Also who’s left from there and who joined later on. What can you say about all the sages that came on later? What can you say about Rabbi Akiva who is the foundation of our entire Torah from the days of the second Temple? You can't say anything. And before him and after him. So each time in each and every generation when people appear with a desire to receive that is drawn to the Creator they are called Israel according to their desire because besides desire there is no other parameter by which we can sort out the people of the world, and so that's how we see, that's what we see. When they all died still their will to receive did its role in the vessel of Adam HaRishon and it integrated and connected with all the other desires. We still don't understand the process that’s happening here. It's like a pot that's cooking on the stove and in it this stew is brewing and cooking and boiling and all these desires, different parts and layers need to interconnect until it all becomes a single desire that the Creator can fulfill, without any limit, boundary.
3. S. (04:42) it’s not clear if a development is as individual people. We see friends from all over the world. None of them were in a group before they joined a group. Why does he write that he needs a nation, a group to be an example, not individuals?
R. What force exists in the individuals? There were times in the history of Kabbalah, in the history of humanity, which is one and the same; the history of humanity is a ramification of the history of Kabbalah. There’s no other purpose for development. So it turns out there were times where there were a handful of single individuals and there were times that they were pairs of people connected and sometimes more and sometimes less. It all depends on the kind of general process that humanity is going through.
S. When we have such a great group like ours it needs to remain in such a way that as individuals will come close and the desire to connect will awaken in them, or we should influence nations now?
R. No. The correction of the world cannot come without each and every one activating free choice to some extent somewhat, could even be to a very small extent. But still each one must choose himself and the world and the opportunities and possibilities at hand, and only then can one come to make decisions and join that group that advances toward the final correction. But there are many other groups and each one is in a certain kind of style and level and degree. There are also individuals who are studying and working on themselves and somehow each understands more or less the path of progress. There's also different methods, that are more or less closer to the wisdom of Kabbalah, some more spiritual, some more corporeal, it's all scrutinies. These scrutinies are gradually evolving. We can't say that something is redundant, unnecessary. It's all the actions of the Creator, the whole creation. So we have to accept everything as something that has a place to be, a right to be, and there is a reason, there is a purpose for which it exists. As it says there are many paths that lead to the source but ultimately we all unite, we all connect and with this method, the wisdom of Kabbalah, is the single foundation that discusses the matter of creation directly without any additions or customs and all kinds of things that simply don’t exist in it, they’re not in it. The whole struggle against the wisdom of Kabbalah was always with those who hold onto certain customs that they want specifically, and Kabbalists only talk about the correction of the heart. And here is the question: do we need the correction of the heart for that, do we need external actions, or is that the only thing we need? And now as we're connecting with all the other nations, we're in this stage of The Last Generation and there is almost no question about this. You see according to the resistance to the wisdom of Kabbalah, and to the inner correction that's coming from all kinds of other movements, that there is no room for that in the last generation. This still needs to become clear to everyone.
4. S. (09:48) You created a connection now between the development of humanity, human history, and the development of the wisdom of Kabbalah. Can you explain it a bit?
R. How else can it be? It all follows the wisdom of Kabbalah which has to permeate humanity, correct it and bring it to the final correction. So how could it be that humanity’s history won’t be as an outcome, as a corollary of the entrance of the wisdom of Kabbalah into humanity? I don't see any other way. How does everything take place and exist? Even the universe, planet Earth, all the geological eras and all of human development that arises and advances in its shattering and it's progress, all of it is in order to achieve correction and resemblance to the Creator, adhesion with the Creator. How else does this happen? It happens to the extent that the method for adhesion with the Creator becomes deeper and deeper embedded, one time on the left and the other time on the right, but it gradually permeates human society and accordingly, human society divides into different factions, nations and groups and that’s the reason for everything happening on planet Earth.
S. We don't see the wisdom of Kabbalah spreading in the world before the past 10, 20 years.
R. It’s true, that’s what we see. However, moving humanity and all of creation closer to that shape, where they’re all as one man and one heart on the human level, which is the highest level in our world, for that we have to go through all of the other stages of still, vegetative and animate. They too have to exist in various forms until they also connect, and then the speaking level which emerges last and also goes through phases of development, until as Baal HaSulam says today we already come to a point where we are ready for the final correction.
S. We see in history that there is a parallel between the writing of Zohar and the rise of Christianity, the fall of the nation of Israel, the writings of the ARI, the period of the renaissance, and the writings of Baal HaSulam and the Second World War Do you see a connection between those things?
R. There is definitely a connection all the time. Sometimes we see it, sometimes we don’t. And what can you do? I don't think it has to happen in this negative way like the examples you were giving, even though it’s correct. I hope that now as we’re in the last generation we are already on a straight path towards the end of correction. We just need a dissemination of Kabbalah as much as possible to the masses so they understand it’s the only remedy to all the troubles that humanity is gradually beginning to face.
S. So the spreading of Kabbalah, how will it develop human history from this point on?
R. When we will determine history. History develops according to the growth, gradual growth of the will to receive. By our work we will adapt, match its growth to spiritual forms. If the will to receive grows along with the connections that we try to do in humankind and especially in us, through us it will also ripple to mankind. Even without success in our dissemination, the upper light does that through us towards everyone, in any case. So if we try to do that, then we certainly won’t need any wars and troubles and things that Baal HaSulam writes about that might happen as well. This is how the world can just move toward correction.
5. S. (15:08) Why were all the prayers written and why were all the rule books written, what's the point of that?
R. There is a correction in that as well.
S. What kind of correction?
R. There are some people that do that and they cause a certain portion of the world that are called the still and they follow these rules and they make that happen. I'm telling you just don't deal with it first understand it and then you can ask about it.
6. S. (16:26) We know that humanity needs a certain kind of pressure to finally listen to the message of Kabbalah, how can we tell at one point our dissemination will reach the correct pressure to avoid the revelation of the other external pressures?
R. Listen, it's a very simple manner, what's before us is connection and no one is the boss of this connection. Anyone who wants to, please, everything's open, there are no all routes or different lanes, different nations, different religions or methods here. Work on connection as much as you want however you want he is talking about Mitzvot, we are not talking about that we're talking about love the friends as ourselves. That's what we want to achieve and that's what the wisdom of Kabbalah is talking about, nothing else. Now certainly there is a manner of carrying about these Mitzvot, I like to say in the wisdom of Kabbalah there is no coercion in that and there are people that feel great doing these Mitzvot they feel great and that they're in their place some people feel that they're in the right place when they do the internal work so there's the Torah for these people. There is the sacred still and there is carrying out the Mitzvot, and there's the sacred people who want to carry it out in their heart. We are in a time that this whole world has enters and joins this that's why Baal HaSulam is talking about the connection of the heart and that's why he explains about all people, he doesn't say anywhere in there that we have to teach the people of the world about the corporeal commandments, that's unrelated. So what you're asking I don't understand what you want from us, why are you trying each time to push this question, maybe if you think about it and then it will become clear to you, how do we need to advance our group. It advances us according to the corrections of the heart as it says did the Creator demand of the hearts.
7. S. (20:06) We've gotten around you with this inner desire, the point of the heart, what is gathering around us for humanity to recognize us as a center?
R. I don't think we need to make ourselves the center of something, it's up to the Creator. We need to work on the connection and what's happening accordingly around the world is not our business. All hearts are in the Creator's hands he holds them, what he does is what he does, we do the dissemination, we invite everyone but we don't pull everyone, you don't pull them in, you just invite, please, if anyone wants to be there is a place without differences between people. That's how we understand the final correction, how it needs to happen, how the whole of humanity like Baal HaSulam writes in the Matan Torah and Arvut. Do you want to ask each and every question that you want there is a place for it and I'm willing to answer it.
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8. R. (22:05) For all the earth is mine meaning all the people of the earth belong to me as you and are destined to belong to me. While they are still incapable of performing that task, I need a virtuous people meaning there is a group who can adhere to the Creator. To be the remedy for all the nations to be united in moving towards adhesion to the Creator, detaching front he will to receive and adhering to the desire to bestow, I command you to be for me a kingdom of priests that will fulfill the final form of love your friends as yourself. So what should we be united about which is the kingdom of priests? Because they exist in love by friends as thyself as much as they enter it, each one who enters this condition is called a priest an upper one and that's the access of all the Torah and Mitzvot, meaning Mitzvot is the correction of the will to receive in order to bestow and they can be corrected by the light that reforms referred to as Torah. A holy nation is the final form of adhesion with him, so what is a holy nation? When we achieve adhesion with the Creator, then all those who enter are called a holy nation, a holy Goy, nation or gentile as every group can be called. Meaning including all the rewards that can be conceived, adhesion with the Creator is the end goal that is where all the rewards are received. These are the words of our Sages these are the words you say to the Sons of Israel these are the words, no more nor less, in addition with the Creator no more and no less this is perplexing, what else it says here.
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9. R. (25:22) What Moses said, he said in wholeness and what they understood is what they understood from him but there is no doubt that that he is the trusted one in all of my house that he was 100% bonded with the creator and he was communicating the method of wisdom throughout the world, the wisdom of Kabbalah.
10. S. (25:50) What is also perplexing is that the Creator has remedy so why doesn't he extend the feeling more efficiently and quickly the wisdom of Kabbalah in the world?
R. How can it be if nobody wants it, the Creator created the will to receive which is contrary to the wisdom of Kabbalah, contrary to the Creator to such an extent that everyone who was in the will to receive doesn't even feel the Creator. That the Creator is concealed from them. So it turns out that there's a disconnection between the Creator and the people until they will acquire at least a small quality which is in order to bestow like the Creator but to be in order to bestow in the condition and that there's needs to be a restriction on the will to receive and above it in order to bestow. Where will you find such a thing, people come to it slowly, gradually according to our importance as they feel it is. That feeling of importance depends on the records that exist in each and every one from the shattering of Adam HaRishon and that's how it unfolds and unravels and gets scrutinized for thousands of years. We think that a thousand years in history is a long time, it's nothing, it's a time of great work which the upper light works on the broken desire. It arranges it, periods of evolution. There is a lot of difference between the still, vegetative and animate until we get to the stage we are in today, each and every moment there's changes and if you have questions ask them, but for me this picture is crystal clear because these are laws.
11. S. (28:47) Baal HaSulam speaks about the nation or the people to do the action, who is this nation?
R. It is that group that wants to reach adhesion with him. I need one such nation that will realize the will implement the laws of love and correction.
S. We are that nation, the few dozen people we have around the world?
R. Of course, what are you trying to say that the nation is millions billions, no.
S. A few days you've been asked about the outer circle is the rest of the world, between us and the world there is no other circle, we have been talking about those living in Israel and that it's irrelevant.
R. It could be but I don't think about it much. I don’t think about the future much, I think about myself today, how I don't want to play fortune telling, it's not the business of Kabbalah. We have what to do and we need to do it. I understand it's interesting for you but I don't think we should engage in it, we don't have any foundation for it as well, nothing. Although seemingly from all the writings and from everything within it's clear to us, but you're so it's not that clear it's a stage in which there are many such things that open up and that's how things develop.
S. So we need to basically disseminate to the whole world, it doesn't matter the people in Israel or not but the next stage, the mess in the world and the pandemic, what should we be pushing or just continue in this message we have today?
R. We don’t need to say something as if we are the center of the world, we have no business announcing to the whole world what's going to be tomorrow, it's not our place. We just need to disseminate to the world that the world is undergoing a process, a serious final process that has a destination, it's coming to a certain serious state. We need to see all the forces that are pressuring us as forces of nature as the still vegetative and animate all these forces are demanding something from us. According to the wisdom of Kabbalah what are the main thing from us is that we will connect into each will help his friend and according to the connection we reach between us everything we go through that we will succeed and advance nicely. That's what we need to tell the world and that's it don't bring them your wisdom, talk of end of correction, no, how we can go through this pandemic with all the problems and troubles that it brings us and all that we have and will come. Explain that to people so that the more you'll be connected and play nice together, nature itself will also relate to us in a better way and we will suffer less, as simple as possible and close to people as possible and they will gradually discover it. That's what we were talking about and the more we talk about it will be easier for them to discover it in life.
12. S. (34:15) To be his servant is to distribute?
R. Yes, by that you are doing something good because you're bringing people closer to the Creator what does it mean to the Creator, to the force of bestowal and love, that's it. You're not demanding anything from them, you don't teach them anything other than the good connection between everyone.
13. S. (35:08) In light of what you said now the topic of anti-Semitism is not clear so if there are no corporeal teachings about Israel what are all the teachings about Israel?
R. I don't see such great connection between anti-Semitism and what we are disseminating, we need to connect people around the world, still vegetative and animate into one system. The anti-Semitism you're asking about where explaining that it is because we are not working correctly for the connection of the world and by that were causing anti-Semitism.
S. But anti-Semitism is directed specifically at the corporeal nation?
R. Because this nation is obligated to disseminate the wisdom of Kabbalah according to its origin.
S. So according to these people of the world as a nation has something unique in them?
R. The only special thing is they are to disseminate the method of correction in a good way to humanity and when we and all of humanity will feel that without it cannot exist and indeed there is a method here for a better life, by that of course, all the anti-Semitism will disappear.
S. Is there no meaning from anti-Semitism to the Jewish people, it doesn't fit to what you're describing the 20 years that the Jewish people have a role and they're not doing it?
R. I disseminate the method of correction to those who seek correction. I don't have a problem with that.
S. The question is what did we do in the last 20 years turning to the people of Israel wrote books, talked about anti-Semitism and now we're saying anti-Semitism doesn't exist, there is no the real people of Israel and they have no goal.
R. This is how it should be the way it comes from 5000 years ago from Adam HaRishon, from ancient Babylon 2500 years ago. The fact that there is no mention of that group of people who wanted to advance towards connection between them in order to discover the Creator between them and that is called Yashar Kel, straight to God and that's something we always spoke about. All these groups that we have today, they started 20 and even more years ago, ask groups for all sorts of places, so don't rush out on us with your anger.
S. I'm talking about dissemination regarding anti-Semitism we did towards Israel.
R. You even understand fundamentally, why are you crying out? Anti-Semitism comes from the nations of the world because they don’t receive in their will to receive the fitting filling, the explanation the purpose of life and purpose of creation and how to attain the highest most important thing. That’s why subconsciously that's how it's arranged in the general system from the Creator, that they feel that there is someone here who is guilty of it, they can’t reveal how they are hating and why, they just satisfy themselves. The reason is it's because you have a group in humanity that has such a great thing called the purpose or the plan of creation, and this group seemingly doesn't keep it, doesn't follow it. It's not just about telling it to everyone, it's about bringing it out to people, you have to teach people. We are called teachers of humanity not for nothing and how much humanity has received from us we have to do that
S. I'm asking why the world is doing antisemitism towards the Jewish people and you said that there is no such thing.
R. It's not the first time we are speaking and you can’t hear, it's just blowing over.
S. It doesn’t fit the system that you've been teaching for the last 20 years, think about it.
R. Don't explain to me about what I'm teaching, I taught and wrote books and you can read it and learn about it. We have never said that Israel is the Jews in this world, Israel is Yashar El, straight to God. A Jew is someone who is aimed at unity, it's not a person who was born to Jewish mother, this is not considered Jewish. Rather, it's a person who has the degree of connection with others and through them the Creator, he is a Jew. That's how it is for each and everything, there's an explanation for it. For some reason today you fell into corporeality and you're asking about this, fine it will be cleared to you some other time.
14. S. (42:47) You said that our group advances in the correction of the heart and everything else dissolves on this background, can we measure the correction of the heart?
R. We cannot measure our own hearts, we cannot feel our will to receive, called a heart in each and every person because a person cannot feel his heart fully. That includes all the degrees Shoresh, Aleph, Bet, Gimel, Dalet, all the degrees of coarseness and in each one additional degrees and connection between all of humanity and to all the still, vegetative and animate, we cannot feel the system how can we even start discussing it.
S. We say that our future state is called the kingdom of priests and that's what Baal HaSulam ultimately talks about bringing us to, how will that Kingdom of priests, how will our corrected heart be seen there?
R. In the corrected state the heart of everyone is connected to the hearts of everyone, he passes through him from the creator the nourishment, all the fulfillments to the other hearts and by that he connects them together, it is called one man as one heart. We learned all these things.
15. S. (45:17) I don't have a question, I want to say something if you agree?
R. No.
16. S. (45:27) The four exiles of the people of Israel that was clearly for the people of Israel but what preparation did it do for the world?
R. They don't have to go through it, because it's only a group, not the entire group. We need to understand that we don't feel the spiritual system and that's what we are thinking about bodies and it's nothing to do with the bodies. Even though these bodies went through this form of exile, we don't understand what the exile of Egypt is, what kind of exile, who was there, how many, how did it take place. These things are completely not the way we can imagine them to be, also other exiles, you see no one wants to come back from the last exile here, this is called exile superficially but there is a true exile is disconnection from the Creator, the spiritual world. That's called exile and there on the way to the connection, the correction and we have four spiritual exiles, to certain degrees before we attain a certain connection with the Creator, a certain world. I attain it through concealment and then I get the revelation strong concealment and revelation these are the stages of attainment of the Creator. So don't jump into things that are not clear to you. We need to scrutinize from where you are in spirituality then they will be clear to you until that point you better keep quiet in an argument as the saying goes.
17. S. (48:11) How does the remedy manifest and does it happen next to the sense of exile?
R. It depends on the kind of remedy that we are talking about, the remedy we are speaking about in the wisdom of Kabbalah is when we connect between us and we come to the connection with the Creator. That's the main remedy meaning from love of the created beings to the love of the Creator and that is to everyone.
Item 29 (49:00) “now we can fully understand….”
18. R. (49:34) When we come to love your friends with yourself in a complete way, this is a state that we call the kingdom of priests.
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19. R. (50:18) He's similarly speaking about history here but it's not history, all these things that are happening to us, all these things that are happening to us. So it turns out that we discover these things on the one hand we see everything before us and go ahead you can learn and hear. On the other hand, until we attain it with our mind, with our feelings, it takes time. Though we are capable of swallowing these lights and these desires and out of these changes we come to a state where we reformat our brains and our hearts. Meaning of feelings in our intellect and then we begin to adapt them into spiritual discernments, it takes time. What can you do but nevertheless we have to come closer to that much like Maimonides wrote.
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20. R. (51:55) Because that kind of will to receive we're not talking about children in age or women according to gender, rather we are talking about the style of perception. Meaning they're still not ready, they're not prepared so it's forbidden to reveal. Forbidden means impossible in Kabbalah forbidden means impossible, it is not something that is prohibited like in this world, rather it's they're not developed sufficiently so we must not reveal to them the clean work which must not be rewarded, as this they cannot understand.
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21. R. (52:53) In truth this speaks of us, the great elder men that we are still like babies and women. That is how it refers to the unripe attitude and we need to turn to people to grow and be developed before you could teach it.
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22. R. (54:26) We cannot explain to people who are not developed enough, it's simply not received within ourselves as much as we see and talk about it, nothing can help, we need to format ourselves with the help of the upper light and then it happens.
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23. R. (56:04) These are additions that Baal HaSulam wanted us to learn about but the main thing that we see from the Arvut article, that only through the connection between us can we attain the purpose of creation, discover the Creator, reveal him and have him fill us and only this way we can advance and we do nothing for a realizing this method as it called the revelation of the Creator to his created being in this world is referred to as the wisdom of Kabbalah.
24. S. (56:52) If dissemination is so important then we need to put all of Bnei Baruch into dissemination or just a small portion is enough?
R. I don't understand all of that, I am not connected with the world, we have a few people that work in it, they are connected to the whole world and they're in charge of dissemination you can write to [email protected] and you can turn to them and then you will receive the full explanation, if they don't know something then ask me.
25. S. (58:06) He's talking about removing yourself from any worldly possessions, as do priests, my questions are what are the worldly possessions that I need to get rid of?
R. Everything that interferes with working towards the Creator, you don’t have to place any restrictions or fasts, just consider what is preventing you right now from being connected with the Creator, being the direction towards him that's it that's simple. The wisdom of Kabbalah is really quite simple, so simple that it's hard for us to see it and understand it as a result of that simplicity.
26. S. (59:21) Why does the Creator limit Moses here in no more and no less when we heard that the process is gradual?
R. I don't know exactly, read it several times, get into it and you become clear.
27. S. (59:49) When we explain that the world is in a correction process, can we say that if we won't succeed in this process our civilization will be extinct?
R. The world needs to reach correction because this correction already exists and all the changes in it that can take place, rather all the changes are that each and every one of us will occupy his own place and do his work in connecting all the vessels to everyone. That's it. The final form exist from the very beginning there is nothing in it, the shattering was only to increase our grasp in this general vessel so we will be able to reveal the Creator from within us but we don't have to correct the world we just have to correct ourselves as until we see the world as corrected. It's all relative to the person who attains it.
28. S. (01:01:18) We just finished reading the article of Arvut, my question is what is the best way for connection in the 10 and why is it so difficult to connect in the hearts in the 10?
R. It's not that hard to connect on in the 10, it's a general task which is hard to connect but the Creator is generous and he is helping us through the Coronavirus, through floods, fires, such type of pressure that shake us up and gradually we come to a state where there is no choice and later we will come to the understanding and then to seeing that the Creator did all those actions in order to bring us to good eternal life and then we will raise our hearts to him.
S. The Creator’s only way is through the blows he gives in order to push us to the right track? Is there no way that can be easier on us?
R. Recommend it to him, I'm not joking, you should recommend it to Him. Start scrutinizing it with him. ‘I have a method for correcting the world that is better than yours’.
S. I'm not saying it to Him like that, but in the 10 we each day we try, ask and beg to the Creator exactly what you said and it doesn't work out, there's always friction and arguments and that is the thing we can't bring a prayer to the Creator.
R. So talk to Him, that He will first change your hearts. That is what it is all about.
S. The hearts are the desire and He gave us the desire?
R. He wants you to turn to Him in order to change your desire. That is why you are coming to a state that you see that everything depends on your desire and your desire can change only by the help of the Creator and by that you can reach to the Creator. That's what the Creator wants. The Creator wants you to come to Him and ask to correct your desire and He will say where were you, you're almost 90 years old, tell me what’s up?
S. That is my question, at this age and I can't connect to Him and I am in the 10 every day. Trust me, every day, praying.
R. That is the system that we’re building. So the system will know how to connect to the Creator. The main thing is the Ibur, impregnation, when you reach the first point of contact with the Creator this state is called Ibur, conception, let’s go. Try more and more to materialize it in our lives.
So we will succeed, for sure, more and more day by day we get experience, we advance through all kind of forms of connections and the Ibur, the impregnation before us. The main thing is to enter into conception, we have to focus all our strength on it, all our energy and try to actualize it, all the best to everyone until tomorrow.