Morning Lesson Transcription is made from simultaneous translation which leaves possibility for errors.
Morning Lesson November 9, 2020
Baal HaSulam - Peace in the World (In the Absence of the Ability to Establish the Attribute of Truth, They Tried to Establish the Basic Attributes)
68. R. We see how much this article is profound and how relevant it is to our times and we really should go through it more and more, plow through it, because from it so we can understand better what is going on with us and also to come out to all kinds of places to teach and to spread out this knowledge to everyone. The article is very deep and wide, I recommend for you to go back and read it as much as you can, more and more you will discover deep things within it.
Reader “Now Let us turn to the remaining three...”(1:07 - 3:44)
69. R. However, when we use them, we can also see that by them we cannot govern the world correctly.
Reader continues “This is what caused Society to divide into sects...”(3:55 - 5:11)
70. R. I think you should read it again. Listen and hear more and more, to ask about it, these things are very profound but we have to know and feel them, to see how in our society, in our world here and now all of these things appear before our eyes. Please.
S. Can you say where we see this today in society so we can depict it correctly?
R. What he's telling us is what's happening in nature and according to Nature we, the people of the world organize, some go by the measure of truth, some go according to power, some according to bestowal, he calls it a different name, these initial qualities. It is clear that we cannot behave by truth and instead of that we behave in a different manner so we organize systems that help the weak, we give differential payment for mothers with children, for young couples, all kinds of things. Meaning we want to compensate, compliments what the Creator has not done in a good and nice way, it is as if He corrupted the world. We see that the world is corrupted to begin with, but we don't understand what is the correction and we wish to perform corrections outside of man instead of correcting inside man this is our whole problem. This is why if we could go according to truth, we would have to correct each and everyone but rather and we correct the connections between us and that is a whole problem. Let us read it again.
Reader reads again from “In the Absence of the Ability to Establish the Attribute of Truth, They Tried to Establish the Basic Attributes” (7:44 - 9:03)
71. R. Here is my question, do you understand what the quality of truth means? Does it seem to you that they do or not?
S. I don't think so.
R. Okay, so we will go back and we will try to read it to the previous title “Practical difficulties in determining the truth.”
Reader “Practical difficulties in determining the truth” (9:30 - 13:41)
72. R. Up to here is it clear what is going on, does anyone want to ask about what we just read?
73. S. (13:58) If you search in the given truth that it is difficult and the human eye cannot understand this, what is he trying to say here that it is impossible that the human I will even understand what it is talking about?
R. He wants to say for us it is very difficult to identify the attribute of truth.
74. S. (14:35) It seems like he measures truth according to the amount of effort, exertion that a person puts in, why?
R. How else can you measure?
S. According to contribution to society.
R. How do you do that? Can you measure the internal forces of a person, that if I exert in 5 kilos and you exert in 20 and our exertion is equal? Because I by nature will invest the same forces as you did but you are stronger, you are faster, I'm more lazy and more weak. How do you measure these things?
75. S. (15:25) I understand that each one receives according to their work and there needs to be some kind of balance between what a person works and a person receives, this society doesn't understand, what is our role here as Kabbalah students?
R. We should take the inner forces of man into consideration where each and everyone is making equal efforts to others, so if I am strong and you are weak you may do your work by your forces twice as mine, but it will be considered equal to mine because that is what I can do by my forces and you have to do double the work, but it will be equal. That's how it will be considered.
76. S. (16:41) Can you explain in more detail, he wrote here that the truth...?
R. It's not the time it comes from the right desire, the truth comes out of the land, from us using the land, meaning the desire, Eretz is from Ratzon, if we use our desire correctly we find the quality of truth there and we use it properly.
77. S. () To ask about the definition itself why does he speak about truth, he speaks of justice not truth is what it seems like?
R. I can't talk about it right now what the difference between the two is, and I don't think that justice, we have to go into it but don't be confused here it is best to think about it this way in the meantime.
78. S. (18:04) Why does he write here that the brave are exploiting the weak if that is the force that we are given?
R. That is the force that was given to them and who says the Creator is right, the Creator gave each one different qualities and each one according to his qualities is more or less, people are not equal that is why we have problems, who says everything is created with justice, everything is created and complete unjust so that we our will compliment it to become completely just. Truly. We will add a few to each and everyone so that it will be equal to everyone else.
S. So why are they exploiting this?
R. The strong ones of course exploited because in one hour of their work they do more work than the weak.
79. S. (19:14) Is truth absolute or is it subjective?
R. Truth is truth but it's with respect to the will to receive that the Creator created with all of the corrections.
80. S. (19:38) What is the relation between these qualities of the will to receive and how does it relate to the spirituality?
R. They all ride on the will to receive.
81. S. (19:48) In that case what is truth and why do we need to learn about it?
R. Because we cannot reach Shalom, peace or wholeness if we do not keep this quality of truth not as it is in itself but in its initial form.
82. S. (20:34) We need to reach the absolute truth in relation....
R. No we have to reach a state where everything is clear to everyone else how much each one has received by Nature from the Creator and how much he received as a compliment from the vessels and how we all reach equality.
83. S. (20:59) It turns out that as of now those that are more spiritual that give the most benefit to society and Society doesn't understand it?
R. Yes.
84. S. (21:26) Is anti-Semitism related to truth?
R. Anti-Semitism is the forces that promote and push Jews toward correction because there is a method of correction in them and they are lazy in activating it, they themselves don't really know how to do it but it's in order to awaken them.
85. S. (22:00) Can truth be kept only on the condition that each one feels the internality of the other one?
R. Yes, we should through the connection between us and with the Creator we have to discover the force of connection between us where each one bestows to others with all of his heart and soul and then we reach the degree of truth. We don't take into consideration who is more or who is less each one gives 100% and then we reach the truth. It doesn't make us equal by that but we connect this way and it all falls into place, there are two conditions here each one gives everything he has, everything in his ability to the general connection and then we complete each other, we are like ants, for instance like how they do their work.
86. S. (23:10) The ten as a foundation for society can there be some kind of place where we search for the truth in the ten or not?
R. In the ten you cannot find the truth unless the ten connects to the Creator and discovers how it illuminates in the ten, the revelation of the Creator in the ten is called truth.
87. S. (23:49) Does the Arvut, mutual guarantee we need to reveal, does this cover up all the differences that lead us to truth?
R. Yes, according to the action it is this way.
88. S. (24:07) How does the revelation of the truth affect all of reality?
R. The revelation of truth leads reality to a round shape or a sphere shape where we are all incorporated between them in the way of the quality of the Creator and that the force of the Creator is revealed, by this you reach wholeness.
89. S. (24:51) If we will learn to manage the right and left line by that we will be able to evaluate...?
R. No, right or left, this doesn't yet lead us to wholeness.
90. S. (25:19) Faith above reason is that the only thing that can bring us to truth?
R. Yes, that is the means.
S. What is faith above reason simply?
R. Simply speaking, it is faith above reason you should read what we read and to try to go into it as a result of this exertion, what he is looking for is a short sentence so that he will know, it's not about knowing, but by the exertion when you want to feel and to understand, by that exertion you open up inside a new emotion, a new mind, a new intellect where you can start understanding what faith above reason is.
91. S. (26:21) Only in a corrected society do we stabilize truth and then until then we can't even talk about it, so why is it called truth?
R. According to these definitions you have to build society, that is all.