Morning Lesson March 5, 2022 Transcription
Transcription is made from simultaneous translation which leaves a possibility for differences in the audio
Baal HaSulam. Peace in the World (Practical Difficulties in Determining the Truth)
1. S. (06:16) Baal HaSulam says that the truth obligates us to equalize all the individuals according to their labor. What does that mean one sees it this way, one sees it the other way.
R. Not sees, but if we had an instrument that would show as much as each one put his efforts, his exertion. According to that, we would know as much effort that they invest and then we could give each and everyone and altogether a unified demand that this is the way that we are supposed to work and then there would not be an issue. If I could work for 10 hours at a certain work and you could do that same work in five hours, what should we do? Why should it be the same number of hours for everyone? I will work for ten hours to do something and you could do the same work in five and rest. Is there justice here or not? On behalf of nature we are all different.
hat is why we cannot determine the state according to the external facts, only according to the efforts that everyone gives but we cannot measure efforts. You see that everyone works like 8 hours and everyone has to go through the same test. It's like keeping the law. I cannot hit people but I am a person, you see like children. I hear from a kid and I want to hit. Next to him there is a child, a calm child according to his nature. He just wants to play quietly, even alone. He is obligated to play with others and to be a cool guy and why? Each one is different and we do not have a way according to any criterion. There is no way to measure them that we have to measure and compare them. We understand that everyone is different but how can we equalize them in something, and some kind of equality? It is impossible. That is why we can only understand one thing, that in the connection between us above the differences. Now to understand the differences, you will see more above the differences between us. There we could be connected in a correct way, a just way.
S. What is still not clear is that he says the only real basis you just explained it but what does it mean the true basic part of it?
R. If we could measure man's efforts so that would be the truth but because there is no way. To begin with as we learned from Kabbalah, each one was created from a different will to receive, different. You cannot compare them and measure them in anything. There can only be an equalization above the will to receive where each one overcomes it and connects to the others and through that connects to the Creator. We will learn that. You will see that this approach is the only way that nature obligates us. Nature is God, right? The Creator. He obligates us to accept the method of bestowal instead of the method of reception.
Reading (11:16) "Furthermore there are even greater difficulties here"
2. R. (15:40) Meaning is clear to us. He wants to tell us that the ego controls everything and that we can't go around it in any way or mitigate it. We cannot do anything with it. He gives a solution later on what to do. To receive this egoistic form that it should grow more and more until each one really wants to swallow all of the reality that is a natural thing that comes to us from the beginning of creation.
Even though we know the truth is that if we could measure each and every one as much as he exerts, then according to this instrument. Let's say we would get out of a person's heart or his mind some piece of data as much as he gives his effort. According to that or according to his natural qualities he was born with laziness physical powers mental powers all kinds of information about psychology and mentality and physical and if we take all this data and according to that we would be able to make some formula to measure a person's efforts above his ego then we would get the true measure of a person. According to his mood, according to his feelings, his health, everything.
Adam, in short, if we could measure the man in him, then we could really relate to each and everyone according to this natural state. We are not able and we will never be able to measure these things. Because every moment a man is a new man. That is why it turns out that we don't have a way or such an approach that we want to compare everybody, that we want to determine some measures on people that you have to do it this way another way. It is a completely wrong approach because of the ego, we relate to human nature in such a way that there is no chance that we can in any way be scientific. We can never compare between people and demand them to be as one. That they will understand that they are equal or similar or they have to receive the laws of society in a certain way and so on. That can never happen. That is why we must, I guess, have to reach a different direction. That, not according to the will to receive that we can work on it but according to the will to the bestow.
In the will to bestow, we can do such efforts, such corrections, that each and everyone gives according to what he can. We can check a person according to what he can bestow, according to the extent he can love, according to the extent that he can connect or be above his ego. There we can check a person according to his abilities. That is why we have an ability to reach an equal measurement, where everyone is equal, where everyone is connected, where everyone is in equality and love. Because the measurement isn't according to the forces of the ego but according to the forces of the bestowal. Then you can say that in the forces of bestowal we are also above our ego. We discover love over hatred, bestowing over reception.
We are basing it on our nature correctly in a relative way. Because as much as I am an egoist I can develop bestowal in me, except for that obviously we will not be equal like one and one and one. We will all be there friends but we will be equal in the relative force that each one gives to overcome his nature. In that we can be equal. That the small one is like the small one the big one is like the big one and they will exert in their own style. We check things compared to his coarseness or refinement, just like in a spiritual Partzuf. We will learn about it and we will see how true and correct it is.
3. S. (21:54) From what you said, I understand the complexity of the Kabbalistic rules that we have and the Maaser and the lesson and the combination of all of that and also that the person has to work and be married and all of that. This whole combination keeps us in balance in relation to our spiritual progress. Is it correct to think like that?
R. For now.
4. S. (22:37) What is the connection between the truth and measuring the truth? Does this have to do with perception of reality?
R. Yes, obviously it's part of perception of reality to the extent that as we come closer to the truth we have a truer perception of reality.
5. S. (23:22) Baal HaSulam writes here that we have clarified that there is no reality to bring good orders to the life of the individual and the public according to the measure of truth, but we say we respect the truth, we look for truth. Why does it say there is no hope to use it to bring order?
R. Because we are all in a lie. We cannot understand that we're all in the real lie. That is why we think that we can reach the truth and then we will see the world in a true way and according to that form we will be able to behave according to the attribute truth. Here's the opposite, we have to correct ourselves in order to reach the attribute of truth, then we will see the right way to observe the reality of the world. To that extent we will be able to incorporate the truth.
S. As long as we're not corrected there is no reason to search for the truth?
R. No, what can you do? What can you do? The truth is before you but you do not recognize it. You see it in a twisted way because you're looking through your ego of the truth. Try and do something against your ego you see you can't. Everywhere you go you will always relate in an egoistic manner to anything and even if you want to do it in the opposite way it will be in an egoistic way. That is all it is until we do not correct ourselves. That is why you see how the whole world is mistaken.
6. S. (25:30) The approach that Baal HaSulam represents is revolutionary. It looks like all our education for generations was incorrect?
R. Correct and….?
S. Because the basis was to try to equalize everyone. First, how can society make such a change to work not according to equality.
R. That is actually our first action in educating towards connection. To open our eyes that whichever way we go, the way we are, we will not be able to touch the truth but we will always be incorporated with it in our ego and turn ourselves around inside the ego only, and it won't help us Until we can truly do actions that we can uplift about our will to receive only then will we be able to start revealing the truth and behaving according to the truth. From our ego the truth can't grow out of it, only above it.
7. S. (26:54) Following that is there something in our educational system that we can do?
R. We have to learn how to do it, for now we cannot. For now we always just wander around like a dog after its tail and we want to grab our ego. Only in the opposite way from all kinds of forms but these forms are also egoistic.
8. S. (27:30) There are people who are very active in society, others are slower. It seems like he writes that they don't contribute equally?
R. No, they contribute but they contribute through the will to receive in them that is pushing them to do all kinds of actions, social, dissemination and all kinds of things. We have to use them. We have to respect these people because the Creator gives them such tendencies, such impulses but along with that we need to understand that the real successes that we do it according to how we really need to do it and not according to what we feel like in nature. On behalf of nature, we want to do it. Success comes through overcoming ,overcoming our qualities and desires and not from having an inner impulse because my ego is pushing me.
S. How will a person be measured? How to be correctly measured in the last generation?
R. He can measure himself as much as he can do, but even on the side of the ego.
9. S. (29:00) We learned that in the corporeal world we can't realize the principle of truth. How about the work in the spiritual connections between us ? How do we measure it there?
R. We will learn it. We will learn it. I'd rather this question remains.
10. S. (29:33) Is everyone's ego separate or?
R. Obviously his own.
11. S. (29:45) Is striving to truth mean bestowal?
R. Trying to find a truth that also comes from our ego, that's how the Creator is aiming it and then if a person really invests forces above his nature. Where can he take forces above his nature? By connecting to a society then he gets forces from society and he can fight his own ego.
12. S. (30:23) How will society come to prefer connections on top of equality to everyone? How will society prefer connection on top of trying to make everyone equal?
R. By the light that's reforms. That we work and in our actions as much as their above our nature, in the framework we're given we awaken the light that reforms. It is in each and every action just a very small measure and by a specific action and will help his friends we can awaken in each and everyone a greater measure of light and it will start helping a person and the person will advance.
13. S. (31:22) There is a prayer from the women's organization about the prayer they are doing around the clock. It started in the beginning of the war, Russian speaking women in the war areas, from the situation they started organizing prayer around the clock, reading Psalms and there are always a few dozen women there. Then it expanded to the whole world Kli world and today the women's organization has organized a duty all over the world so that it is 24 hours a day. There are also women who are connected reading psalms and connected together. In light of what you have said in the lesson it is not worthwhile to do these duties but maybe to focus on gatherings during the day?
R. For the women it might be worth it, for the men that might be a problem. Women can do it. They have extreme forces and they are not afraid of the work. Look how a woman is at home, she's constantly busy with children, the husband, the home preparing food, organizing things, always always. That is why if you give them another thing to add to that concern around the clock, you do not break them byit. You just organize them. More so that at all times they do all kinds of work at home. They can also decide to also do these prayers. The man cannot do that.
R. (30:33) I want to tell you that I really respect you and I value you. I have no words to explain how much we feel that our world organization is so strong and helping all of us. Again I am repeating what I was saying at the beginning of the lesson, about two hours ago or more. That we as an organization are willing to give attention to whoever needs it and help in the mutual way. These to those and let's connect and with responsibility ask for support. What else is everyone lacking to be in the connection with us. To strengthen the connection between us. Don't be embarrassed if you really need support and help. We will get to each one who needs all kinds of forms of support , so write to us.There is going to be an explanation about it so let's see the explanation.
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Rav: I don't have anything to add. I really hope that all these things will be used in the right way in order to unite us from the point of connection between us. That is where the right success will come and the victory will be, that love will cover all love will cover all crimes. That is what we need to see as the true victory. Okay?
14. S. ( 37:40 ) Will learn from the article that we have no way to measure the effort that we put in, on the other hand we also know that joy is an indication of good deeds. There is an impression that overcoming awakens joy even if it is temporary. Why can't we use joy as a measurement?
R. Joy, Kabbalists say, is a result of good deeds. If we check that our joy is truly from a good state, good means that it advances reality towards correction. That is the only thing that you can say is good if we do such actions that help all of reality advance to the end of corrections. That is called a good deed and let's rejoice from such actions that is it.
15. S. ( 38:48) I okay to ask a question from the ten about the topic just asked? What is the actual degree of truth in our work in the ten?
R. As much as we connect and discover love and in it discover the Creator.
16. S. (39:16) What is it about bestowal that enables comparison to measure the effort in a relative way? Why can you measure it in bestowal and not in reception?
R. You're right. It's a problem. What is the difference between reception and bestowal? They are both based on our will to receive. Just here we learn in the will to receive your pulling according to the will to receive and in bestowing you activating the will to receive that it will be in order to bestow. Also according to the magnitude of the will to receive. The difference is that in bestowal you determine what size of the will to receive you can work with. That depends on your overcoming above your nature, according to the measure of your connection with the Creator. It turns out that your work and the force of your connection with the Creator but there is a difference between people.
There are such that have a small will to receive and they do not need to connect to the Creator so much according to their nature and there are those that really want it. They are really cruel in their will to receive and if they go and connect to the Creator it is a strong connection. He, who is greater than his friend, his inclination is greater. How can we measure things here?
Because it happens against nature, opposite of nature, opposite, opposite of the will to receive. Meaning the small one, is small one and a big one is the big one, A small egoist and a big egoist. If he wants to reach truth and according to that he has to neutralize his ego and work above it to get the forces of bestowal above it and then he is rewarded with the state that the small and big are equal.
S. How does he do it?
R. In this work, in bestowal he neutralizes the ability that there can be differences between a small ego and a big ego. Think about it, I see that it is not really understood and that is good. Think about it and we will keep going. We will keep going tomorrow.
17. S. (42:10) In the prayer that we build in our meeting of the world Kli o build the prayer there two parts. The first central part is that we ask the Creator to connect us, to create this big unity above all the disagreements, fear. shame, whatever. All the lower levels. The second part which is clearly more difficult but the first part is done by the second part is the unity of the whole world Kli, to ask that the world Kli will be a conduit for the world to fulfill the nations, the world's deficiencies for peace, how do we build that second part correctly?
R. We have to build it to begin with because the end of the action begins with the thought, You can't demand to be together if you do not know for what and more and more it must be clarified to you. To the extent that you want to be connected, you must know what you need to be connected for and to ask that you connect for this and that. That is how it works. It's not that you get a half of something and you don't know how to use it. On the contrary, you need the final goal that is what you are demanding the correction. Otherwise the correction is not correction, it is corruption. We are going to meet you today afternoon.