Morning Lesson December 28, 2023

Transcription is made from simultaneous translation, which leaves a possibility for differences in the audio.

Part 3:

Baal HaSulam. Introduction to the Book Panim Meirot uMasbirot #18

Reading Item 18. (00:35) “Now we come to the heart of the matter…”

1. R. (12:15) What is the impression? 

2. S. (12:39) It seems that according to what we are reading that we need to correct this, what Adam did. We are the sons of Adam, so it means that we have a part, a responsibility, to correct the system.

R. Yes.

S. Can we make that connection?

R. You can do whatever you want.

S. Okay, so our role now like the sons of Israel is to give an ability to the Creator to fill with His light on all of creation, on everything He created. So, that is what we have to think of? I don't know how to say it. I just want to say that I feel great pressure that we have a very special role to do towards the whole world. Everybody has to feel this because sometimes it gives me a rejection because I see that people don't feel this. I also want to disconnect from it. I also don't want it, so what is my role?

R. In other words, should we accept and assume the goal and assume it the way the Creator wants to give it to us, or can we say it doesn't quite belong to us, it doesn't quite relate to us?

S. I feel like that officially we know what we need to do. I think I just want to share my responsibility, it's all inside. How to suffer the pressure that I feel that the whole world is dependent on me?

R. I think you do not need to suffer. We need to do as much as possible every moment we feel pressure. So, I thank you very much that the Creator is pressuring you and you understand that now you need to do something, in order to bring all the creative beings to their root, to the Creator.

S. I got that. What is my role right now?

R. Only to create a connection between all the created beings and the Creator. Everything else he will do. This is his duty. To bring them, the people in the world to connection with the Creator, this is on us. This is our duty.

S. In order to do it we have to really be close to one another?

R. Yes.

S. Because we have to be able to suffer the pressure?

R. The pressure from the distance?

S. Right, because when we go towards our goal, we feel that we just can't be together.

R. Yes, it is our ego. This is when we need to annul it. This is why we need to annul it.

3. S. (17:38) What does it mean that Adam ate from the Tree of Knowledge?

R. The Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil? Well, because then he came to a state where he could distinguish between Good and Evil. With his intellect, he could say what is good and say what is bad.

S. And what is the second eating?

R. That is still ahead of us.

S. What happened after he ate?

R. It is still ahead of us. 

4. S. (18:42) What I understood from what is written is that to stay away from self-reception is something a person could do on their own and the environment could help, but you can’t also do it alone and that’s the correction of creation. But the purpose of creation can’t be attained without an environment?

R. Yes.

S. What is the difference between working with the environment towards the correction of creation or the purpose of creation?

R. The correction of creation is to come out from under the will to receive in order to receive. Afterward, he also has to come into actions that are in order to bestow.

S. But it is the same environment, the Ten remains the same.

R. But the forces that are operating and the forces that operate them are different forces. Higher ones.

S. What are we doing in the Ten in order to go from correcting creation to the purpose of creation?

R. Let's think. The correction of creation is to move away from the intention to receive. The correction of creation is those desires that currently do not have the intent. Now that they don't have the intention to receive, we will use them with the intention to bestow.

S. I'm trying to understand the differences.

R. The difference is that we shift the will to receive from one end to the other.

S. For what is the crane that changes now?

R. The crane, the lever, is the Upper Light. Which influences us and helps us do these things this way.

S. Do we decide in the Ten that we have done work in order to move away from self-reception and now we want to go to bestow contentment to the Creator?

R. You decide.

S. If we decided it would really be a different type of work?

R. You will see, you will discover.

5. S. (21:31) He says that everything that we can experience is the sweat of life. How can we depict what life is?

R. Life is reception of the Upper light, in order to bestow.

S. Yes, and we need to discover it in the Ten?

R. Yes.

S. What does that mean in the Ten, life?

R. The life of the Ten? The ten Sefirot, of the Partzuf of Kedusha of Holiness. That can function internally in order to bring contentment with its function, it can bring contentment to the Creator.

S. Can we imagine it, on what a feeling it has?

R. No I can’t. I cannot. Such things to describe them, I cannot. 

6. S. (22:45) Is the Tree of Knowledge the light of Hochma and the prohibition on it is the second restriction?

R. The Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil, is engagement to work with the light of Hochma, and the restriction on the Tree of Knowledge?

S. And making it forbidden is the second restriction?

R. Forbidding it? Why is it the second restriction?

S. Because that’s what they asked.

R. It is the first restriction.

7. S. (23:30) Why, after the first eating didn’t he understand the greatness of reception because he already received and tasted it and should have understood how to keep going and not eat for the second time.

R. This you will read again, and everyone will talk about it.