Morning Lesson July 21, 2022, Transcription
Transcription is made from simultaneous translation which leaves a possibility for differences in the audio
Part 2:
Baal HaSulam. Introduction to the Book Panim Meirot uMasbirot. #4
Reading #4 (00:17)
1. R. (08:50) No questions I see right? Because it’s a style that’s not so close to us.
2. S. (09:03) If I can understand correctly he says that now we can reveal the wisdom to the masses because no one is interested it doesn’t fill the will to receive.
R. Well you see it from what we’re doing that it’s permitted to disclose the wisdom of Kabbalah disseminate to everyone with no limitations and you see the kind of people that come to us when you explain to everyone what is the future of the world and how to run the world and how to rise above this life and see throughout all of the worlds no one is so impressed by that and running towards you, you are in a generation that you can tell them whatever you want they don’t hear.
S. So if it’s something that no one is interested in, how can you sell it?
R. We have to do what we can and what Kabbalists advise us to do, and all the rest let the Creator work, that’s it, there is no other choice, that’s the only way we should operate ourselves you have no other choice, tell me what else can you do?
S. I'm trying to understand what yes, so to wrap this merchandise in wrappings that…
R. So explain it through some psychology a bit of history things like that sure even though even though we’re in a very unpleasant state wars are building up climate disasters are happening families are disintegrating and so on and if you try to explain through the troubles which actually touch each and every person and make it easier to explain that there’s a remedy for each and everything but they do not want to hear it still no.
S. If, for us to be able to reach people, if we can wrap this in something that turns to the will to receive where’s the border here still being pure, because there’s an organization that’s all Kabbalah in a way that…
R. No you can do it because the wisdom of Kabbalah ultimately is intended to lead us to the best possible state there is and that is the goal of this wisdom and the purpose of creation and it represents the shattering of the vessel of Adam HaRishon and so forth, everything is in order to advance man toward the highest level of development which is adhesion with a Creator however, what we do not hide is that on the way there we have to rise from the degree of the will to receive to that of the will to bestow and typically usually all other methods whether they are religious methods or anything, it’s not even discussed that’s not what they are talking about because then and then it is clear that people run away from that, and we are saying of course they can run away from it but that’s why people did not discover Kabbalah in previous generations because they weren’t suitable for that but according to the sages of Kabbalah they say we are already in a time where people can absorb this concept somewhat and advance towards transforming their nature from in order to receive to in order to bestow and then they’ll achieve the highest level there is which is the level of the Creator and that’s what in our time we have to start advancing everyone towards, that’s why we’re in what’s called in the generation of the Messiah and we have to explain the wisdom of Kabbalah to everyone in a truthful way that in an our global world that is already interconnected through the internet and all of this global connection and the ego that is hitting us and really is becoming clear as the only enemy that ruins our life and so we have to rise against our ego and doing that is possible only by the wisdom of Kabbalah which brings the light that reforms instead of the egoistic desire it installs in us an altruistic desire and that leads the world towards corrections and great eternal level of life, that is what we’re doing as opposed to all other methods that we have to rise to the degree of altruism or bestowal and it’s not that we are going to just pray from dawn to dusk based on all kinds of methods or do all kinds of corporeal ceremonies, rituals, it’s not going to help it’s not going to work that’s what we’re explaining.
S. You said that we aren’t concealing that, to get to the goal we have to go through the quality of bestowal but still there’s a rule that the beginners, children, women, we don’t tell this, it’s still valid, no?
R. No it’s not that it’s valid but of course we have to make the difference between beginners and advanced and so on, but this is it and he writes it in other places we can open the wisdom of Kabbalah to all.
3. S. (15:50) Baal HaSulam describes in such a nice way our true state in the world that the desires of everyone is full of the glory of the Creator and on the other hand we see that the face of the generation is the face of the dog and rejecting the Creator, so how to incorporate in a state that truly all of the land is full of the glory of the Creator, that’s our prayer?
R. We have to envision to ourselves the state of the final correction and aspire to it as best as we can, and the fact that today we are witnessing the intensifying evil in the world that is natural, this is what we call the wars of Messiah, that the force that pulls us from corporeality to spirituality called Messiah also brings with it a feeling of greater darkness in the world. It’s like how the darkness of the night is the strongest before the dawn and so that’s in order for us to differentiate between night and day and that’s exactly the time we are in now, at this transition point between day and night in human history.
4. S. (07:50) If we could explain just a bit, he says that on the one hand we are preventing the coming of the Messiah.
R. What you understood is good and that’s sufficient, that’s fine.
Item 5 (08:35) “Now you will understand what is written in the Zohar…”
5. R. (19:35) Meaning without attaining the wisdom of Kabbalah we can’t get out of this state, the Creator’s not going to let us go we’re under His control and He’s advancing all of creation specifically towards recognizing the truth that the upper light will govern us in order to bestow according to our desire and our demand.
Reading (20:02) “Although we help for the complete attainment…”
6. R. (20:48) Meaning we have to advertise the wisdom of Kabbalah as much as possible because until it is known and revealed to all and everyone understands, that in a simple way there is the beginning of creation and the end of creation, and what’s before us is attaining the end of creation which is the revelation of the Creator to all created beings, and all created beings then come together and thus attained all of creation in a complete, whole manner. That’s basically what needs to happen, and it will happen, either in a good way or in a bad way.
Reading (21:40) “Therefore we must establish seminaries…”
7. R. (23:25) Meaning in our time you can advertise the wisdom of Kabbalah because no one can use it incorrectly because no one even wants it except for those in whom there is a true connection from within the heart to the upper light.
Reading Continued (23:50) “This is so because there is no longer fear…”
8. R. (24:12) Meaning everyone can enter the wisdom of Kabbalah because those who want it truly will stay there because they feel that it belongs to the fulfillment of the heart, and those who don’t belong to it will just leave it because you can’t benefit from it anything in this world.
Continues (24:35) “Hence, all who wish to enter…”
9. R. (24:48) It’s actually clear what he says the will to receive grows more and more and more people understand they only want beastly pleasures a small part of them just wants to attain higher spiritual achievements it’s really just maybe we wish it’s one percent let’s say of humanity maybe at some point, and so it turns out that we can advertise the wisdom of Kabbalah to everyone because no one from the broad public needs it and we see it from our experience as well and those who really come we have to give them all they need in order to understand what is the wisdom of Kabbalah as much as possible and if they hold onto it and stick to it and don’t escape that means that they are a part of us.
10. S. (26:20) What does it mean practically about the way we disseminate the wisdom? Can we speak about it out in the open?
R. We can speak directly, there are people who are responsible for dissemination, you should turn to them, get some advice and thus advance. They have to learn how to disseminate after all because we don’t want to repel to reject to distance people away from us by incorrect dissemination but we have to try to bring people as close as possible and still know that the people who will come close are rare and even more rare are the people who will stay and stick with the study over time because all of those things are not so simple and the farthest from us is the Creator and that’s why the path is also long and we’ll try to get there even though in our time it’s quite short.
11. S. (27:50) There is a great frustration about Baal HaSulam’s words here that we must open schools and write books in order to disseminate the wisdom.
R. What do you mean?
S. Because it always feels like we are falling behind.
R. No not at all we made a revolution in this, after us all kinds of other circles are doing the same If we wouldn’t have started they wouldn’t have done it either, we gave an example how to publish the wisdom of Kabbalah in the broadest way, to everyone in all languages and the internet we were the first that opens in Israel the wisdom of Kabbalah online in Hebrew and in Russian and English, we today are on all languages all over the world I don’t think that we’re ready for all kinds of dissemination if we only understand where else we could break through.
S. So what’s the advice to still add following this instruction to spread the wisdom of Kabbalah
R. I don't know maybe a few more languages I don't really know, maybe all kinds of other new styles I don't know, still you see that all in all we have a few people that are in the media and as much as they’re successful.
S. This is another thing that as an organization yes we are making a breakthrough but on a personal level if we look at each and every friend in the world Kli I’m not sure that each and every one is at the forefront of dissemination or feels that they realize themselves in that.
R. We have to work on it, we have to try, except for that as much as people try there’s still the matter of time, look at Baal HaSulam’s life as much as he worked and sacrificed himself for this and still what did he get from it, I'm speaking about dissemination in his time, what did he see? Twenty people, his students, that's it.
12. S. (31:20) When can we begin talking to a beginner’s group about love of others, connection?
R. I can’t say because you can’t know it in advance, a person who takes care of that group has to feel, whether he already starts explaining these things and also in very small portions from a distance to explain it as a system what it means to work together in one system, as an engine with all of its parts and so on, meaning this is something a person has to prepare for and learn how to do it from others and then go and disseminate.
13. S. (32:18) You said we have to attain Torah in completeness, what does that mean?
R. In all of our vessels.
S. So he says on the one hand the generation is as the face of a dog and on the other hand everyone will be criminals chasing lust will leave their honor and all that, so how do you see it, what else we need to do that we haven't done and what does this state depend on that it will happen?
R. Transition from receiving to bestowing happens by the light shining more and by that we feel that we’re a greater in order to receive, from that there’s a big intensity in the will to receive, in our ego and then in the world all kinds of wars burst out, all kinds of occasions it’s called the wars of the Messiah meaning Messiah is the force that pulls us from in order to receive and brings us to such wars and disputes on one hand, on the other hand that we want to get out of it and we don’t know how to so we can then help everyone and explain how to do it. Only through connection.
S. What you said that everything basically depends on Bnei Baruch you said, if you don’t connect between you it’s very difficult to bring the final correction, like it says here, so what are we missing lacking to do in our tens or disseminating Kabbalah?
R. We need to try and connect and only in that see our future.
14. S. (34:39) When I try to speak to people, people feel that we talk to them from top down, they don’t want to be saved or cured from something. I want to ask this, whatever you say how can you speak to people so they don’t look at you from, that you’re coming from the top down? How do you communicate such a message? I want to do it like you not from to teach them from top down, from what point do you approach them?
R. I can’t tell you how to talk to people but you have to go down to their state and in somewhat, just a bit to be a bit above them to still be able to teach and not too exalted and high and give them all kinds of guidance for life for a spiritual life but to work along with them you need to go down to them you need to hug them and along with them rise. That’s what you need.
15. S. (36:29) Even before the covid I taught in campus and people came, some of them psychologists, cultures, teachers, and they each took something from Kabbalah and they implemented it in their profession, can it be harmful?
R. There is no benefit in that, that we connect to the wisdom of Kabbalah all kinds of psychology, philosophy, and religions and so on, nothing on the contrary it’ll just deviate us from that path and confuse us.
S. [missing translation]
R. I just told you what we need to do. I am very precise about this, we don’ connect to anyone except for the wisdom of Kabbalah, you saw it with me, learn that.