Part 2:
Baal HaSulam. Peace in the World (The Attribute of Singularity in the Egoism Affects Ruin and Destruction)
1. R. (00:28) What can I add here? This is certainly the attribute of the singularity. It is actually a very good attribute. When a person feels himself that he is standing in the middle of the world, Maybe he has a mission and he knows how to perform it and if he doesn't he cannot attain it because the world has been created for me. That is how each and one has to say and that the Creator is aimed at him, and he feels unadapted and he is aimed at the Creator. Meaning that here there is a kind of a very exalted saying. Here he looks at it from the opposite angle. The attribute of singularity in the egoism that is the question, affects, ruin and destruction. Meaning if it is not in the egoism, this attribute of singularity if we take it and develop it but disconnect it from our ego and it will elevate us until we reach the Creator.
Reading Peace in the World (01:45 ) from “The Attribute of Singularity in the Egoism Affects Ruin and Destruction”
2. R. (05:09) Yes, here we understand that the attribute of singularity maybe both in a good direction and it all depends on how the person manages it.
3. S. (05:25) Suddenly the picture disappeared on the internet. He says that the desires are the root of the mind and the mind is not the root of the desire. Can you explain that?
R. Desire is an internal thing. When there is nothing more internal than the desire, only the light that begets and sustains the desire. The desire begets the intellect. There's a small desire but it is more intellect in order to attain what the desire wants. If the desire is greater than the intellect, the mind should be greater to attain what it wants. Is that clear?
S. Its clear but then he says that the equal parts of all l creatures is that each one wants to take advantage of others. Meaning we are all egoists. How do you switch it.? How do you twist it upside down?
R. How do you twist it? How do you flip it? By the upper light that creates the desire and sustains desire and doesn't give this desire any opportunity to run anywhere, it's always holding it by hands so to speak. The light holds the desire, it created it and if we can bestow on the light, we can't affect our desire but if we can affect the light then the light will affect the desire and we'll change it in all the required directions.
S. During our time are we more egoistic than in the past? As you said the Avut is greater in our generation?
R.. I can't say if we are more egoistic. It's complicated. I can't say it in one word more or less.
S. They say that as you come closer to Gmar Tikkun you get more Aviut?
R. You get more coarseness, this true.
S. Meaning the more Aviut, the more egoists ,the more challenge we wear
R. No, I wouldn't say that. Look at the desires people are struggling with, what they're fighting for, what they have and what they are attracted to, what small nonsense. I wouldn't say it grows and it brings us to the peak of the ego, no.
S. I laugh because I remember when he said that the people I see who are suffering, I essentially am building myself on top of my friends suffering. This is unclear because what dp O care that somebody is lowly and bad and that for better it is better?
R. No, we should see reality. We are in this sphere of the will to receive at the Creator created and we have nothing more to be impressed of. That's why when we look at our relatives or people that are far away or the friends or the ones who resist us, we measure ourselves with respect to them. Where are we?
4. S. (09:39) There's an impression that the quality of singularity is ruined. What about the 10% altruists?
R. The feeling of this personality is not good or bad. It depends on the way you use it. Maybe you are doing very good things to humanity, maybe you are inventing very special medicine or something else that you can't use in a bad way, only in a good way. That's it. Not necessarily this quality of singularity acts in a bad way. Usually it does because we use our ego always in order to elevate ourselves on the count of others.
5. S. (10:51) The events of this year, the contradictions that exist within us are so polar opposites that they're just like plus and minus, that if it appeared that somewhere in the past the friends we're having some differences now we see that only our path and our mutual work is able to unite us and it seems that in the world that oppositeness needs to reveal itself naturally just that people are coming with one another. This difference has to come to a maximum.
R. Yes, it is only that this maximum when it comes i shouldn't come and break the human system to us because it may be everything you understand? It is written that the Creator creates many worlds and destroys them. So we shouldn't reach a state, once more, where our world will be destroyed again and new degrees and states will come again rising from complete destruction and start developing like the year of the dinosaurs and more and more.
Today too, in archaeology we are discovering all kinds of phenomena that seemingly we're in the past forms of life on earth, it's not that we are the first ones so what's the benefit? To start over with this correction to the Creator? The Creator has no time, He has no feeling of time. He wants to leave creation to the perfect state but it is on the condition that the creation wants it, that it chooses it, uses it. Let's hope that now we are in a state where we will choose it, having only one path before, between us, when all of creation will reach wholeness, completion but it may be that something else will happen as well.
14:05
S. Everyday we are making this choice in the Ten and in the group and the prayer that showa to connect does it influence ? Does it bestow?
R. Yes, it really makes a difference in a good direction for the correction of the world. But we have to try and connect to that more and more. More parts of that soul of Adam HaRishon. But it is written that the Creator created worlds and destroyed them and it is not only about the world of Nekudim that broke but who knows what He wants more. We will learn.
S. Tell me please, today in our current state of connection without the goal of revealing the Creator is it harmful or for the benefit of creation for people? Just to connect to survive and to make money?
R. If he doesn't come at the expense of anyone it is certainly good even if it's without the Creator without the purpose of creation.. If it doesn't harm anyone, the connection that your suggesting then it is certainly good.
6. S. (15:54) You mentioned that there were likely a few cycles before we advance, what is this cycle in which we are now? How do we come to the state where we wouldn't have to go through another cycle? What is it about today that allows us more to succeed or what do we need to do to succeed?
R. We nonetheless receive some very special development when we come to acquire the upper force, the upper light and by connection we can reach the correction of the world. That from now at least until the final connection the way we depict it, when it's the connection between all these desires mutually in order to bestow, we do understand the path. And we are in this method that can lead us to realize it, let's hope that we will realize it.
S. But first we are still a small group?
R. It has nothing to do with small or big. The quantity here doesn’t play any role in spirituality.
S. So in previous cycles there were none who revealed the force of the Creator?
R. No, probably there wasn’t any development towards connection.
S. What is unique in what is happening to us today?
R. We have received all the methods, in favour and against and we can scrutinize from them; that only connection between all the people in the world will ultimately lead us to the real goal. That's being revealed more and more and becoming clearer every day.
7. S. (18:24) In my nature I'm an egoist automatically because this is my nature. How can I be more aware not to do bad to the friends and not to humanity?
R. You should be in at ten that is entirely yearning to connect and its connection should be real. They want to discover in this accumulation between you a joint force between you that will become the Creator. And as a result of their connection they start seeing that from their connection something is coming out that created them, it's not them that creates it, that builds it. That's what they should discover. Then the force of connection between them and the force that created them connect to one image, one figure. That's called adhesion of the Creator and the created being and adhesion of the created being and the Creator.
8. S. (20:07) Would it be correct to say that a person uses this attribute of singularity correctly if he sees it in others or there's no connection?
R. There is no connection.
9. S. (20:24) The Creator wants to bring creation to wholeness and he puts righteous in every generation, the ARI, Baal HaSulam, Moses. So why doesn't he prepare the created beings to be able to receive these things? We see that everything that happens today doesn't help humanity sober up. It’s still dwelling in its egoistic desires and continuing to advance in the same way.
R. I will tell you. The connection between the desire to receive and the desire to bestow is impossible. The chasm between them is endless and as much as we can build a bridge with the intention in order to bestow with the desire to receive we come close. But as we draw closer the desires that are revealed that we need to correct in order to bestow become more and more sharp and opposite. And this is what is spoken about in the words of the Messiah, that it’s not towards the direction of the good as it seems to us but all corrections are from the light to the heavy. Here it is also and this is why we will need to change in having to gradually flip/change in our approach in rising above our nature. And it will happen, it will happen. We know or we don't know but the process will change us and it will happen soon. You will see, your entire life will flip upside down, partly for the good partly for the bad in order to position us in a sharper way.
10. S. (23:30) Tell us please what is the difference between working with people and exploiting them, how to not be mistaken? How to not to be such a terrible egoist?
R. Both have to be in order to bring us to balance.
11. S. (24:06) Connection the way I understand from your words is only possible if we rise above our nature. Because if our nature is made of 4 attributes there’s no change that the friend and I will be in some equivalence of form even if we’re sitting the the same lesson, reading the same excerpts. Each one interprets reality by his states so we can’t reach equivalence of form or connection if we don’t rise above our nature.
R. Yes.
S. When we rise above our nature what do we come to? I understand I have to let go of my nature so what nature do I come to? What nature do the friend and I have to reach?
R. To be included in the nature of the other.
S. Let's say I have this tendency towards justice and my friend has a tendency towards injustice, for truth and we have some dispute and we’re trying to understand how should I go into his nature or should he go into my nature or something new?
R. Yes, yes, exactly.
S. How do I leave my own nature and go somewhere else?
R. You cannot come out of your nature, you cannot. Even if we say that we restrict something in us you cannot do anything. You can only be included in the other and receive the nature of the other to rule over your nature, that is possible. And then all of us are included from everyone.
S. How is it possible to let go of your own nature?
R. This is what Rabash writes about, you have to make a zero out of yourself compared to others.
12. S. (26:29) What does it mean creating worlds and destroying them, what is that?
R. That all sorts of forms, all sorts of forms of connection that existed at some point in the development of the world. These forms existed and disappeared and just like we have in the example of the world Adam Kadmon and then the world of Nekudim. Nekudim was broken and after comes the world of Atzilut. And we no longer speak about Nekudim of Adam Kadmon but only about Atzilut.
S. And in our time or does it only speak about spiritual roots in our world?
R. It is possible.
R. Reading (27:39) “Using the Nature of Singularity as a Subject of Evolution in the Collective and in the Individual…”
13. R. (38:58) This is very interest what he's saying, maybe it is worthwhile and possible in our generation, to try make an attempt to resemble to the form of the sad life, meaning the last generation.
14. S. (39:21) We read here we got some acquaintance with this flannel form o bestowal but there's probably some intermediate state that you were talking about, where for their upcoming time we are being separated, so I'm going to good qualities and some in bad qualities. If I understand correctly, this is preliminary stage before we reach the final point he wrote about. The goals to reach balance in the end so the next state we are expecting where we all separated, so what's our mission to build this balance, what's expected from us?
R. I think what we need to go through is the recognition of evil, what we learn about, the connection of evil in our own nature, the egoistic nature in a variety of forms, this and that and other and another, but everyone has an ego and each has to familiarize with his form of ego as negative, and come in comparison with connection with everyone. So we need to reveal the yearning, the leaning towards the connection as a part of our natural inclinations and this is what needs to be revealed in the world.
That we don't have a choice so we have to be in a good, positive connection where each reveals and that otherwise we reach the general ruin and this is what's ahead of us, this is what’s ahead of us, simply we do not have a choice, only to reach connection. Who is right and who is wrong, who is this way or another over history, it doesn't matter, we are looking from this moment onwards, how do we need to structure, to do each with himself and each helps everyone in a mutual connection, the whole mutual connection and this is the only thing that needs to happen.
Let's hope that at least this problem that is ahead of us we can reveal and recognize, feel and try to realize it. But all of this is only through everyone depicting to himself as Rabash writes in the ten that everyone has to depict himself as a zero to this friends. Even in he's really as Rabbi Yossi ben Kisma, he is still positioning himself as a zero in front of everyone; and if we understand that specifically in this form, in this opposite form from what it is now, we want to show ourselves to the other, then we certainly have the hope for peace and we are able to reach wholeness, whole peace.
S. This world has a very serious task, how can we come closer to that?
R. Yes, this is why all of the actions that are now revealed between people, between countries and nations, these are all in all conditions through which we have to come to subservience through annulment towards one another, consideration towards one another, some mutual help, nearness to one another from where we are.
15. S. (44:37) What is this quality of singularity at all, where does it stem from, the light is One?
R. From the Creator, from the Creator, that He's one and only, and There's None Else besides Him. This is why every single person thinks about himself that way and even though he may be the lowest of all, he still depicts himself that he is the only one, this is from our ego, the egoist quality.
S. The root of this quality we say it is the Creator but in general to what extent this singularity can be separated, what is the smallest part of this singularity, what is the quant of the singularity?
R. It has no measure, it is a spiritual measure.
16. S. (46:40) In order to reach peace in the world, must we connect the two opposites or we should simply reach peace?
R. We don't need to connect two opposites, this is later, the main thing for us is for each to annul himself to the other and from this point begins that connection. Each side annuls himself, cancels himself in relation to the other side and from here connection starts. This is the point of the initial connection and from then there is a variety of connections and separation and all personal forms.
17. S. (47:43) If you can please help me with this specific example: I'm a citizen of Israel, I live in Israel before I left Israel, I've seen a lot of corruption?
R. This is the problem in you.
18. S. (48:14) What is Baal HaSulam intend when he's talking about the last generation?
R. He means people who decide to rise above their own ego and connect only through mutual bestowal towards one another, that is all; That each is ready and willing to bestow to others, this is called the last generation.