Morning Lesson January 24, 2023 Transcription

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Part 2:

Baal HaSulam. Introduction to The Book of Zohar. #68

Reading item #68 (00:15) “Do not be surprised that one person’s actions bring..” twice

1. S. (03:34) The collective can’t be revealed but only after the particular revealed, what is that Collective the general he is talking about?

R. He is talking about the existence of the conditions of the Creator towards the Creator beings and the created beings towards the Creator and the connection between them will be mutual connection corrected and fulfilled whole.

S. But he says the quality of the particular what does it that mean, extra connections or less connections. The quality means connection?

R. Yes.

S. And then he says the actions of the particular can declined the general, How can one raise or lower the whole?

R. If this is the system that every single details there can cause harm to the entire system, do you understand that or not?

S. Yes, but how does he damage?

R. But the fact that there's not any connection between all those that received towards the giver also from the receiving side and also from the giving.

S. How do I know that I am damaging in the 10 or giving contentment or what?

R. Even if you do not feel you need to hear what Kabbalah say to you because they say these things to those that still do not yet feel but soon they will keep it and feel it.

S. How should I behave in my 10 in order to not raise and lower then me personally?

R. How to behave personally in the 10?

S. Yes towards the 10, how should I do it?

R. I need to tell you in this day how to behave, with love with absolute love unconditioned love.

S. What is unconditional love?

R. That you love everyone more than you love yourself.

S. You understand that sounds a bit, it’s a difficult to..

R. We are not talking about you are an exception.

S. No but how do you reach a state that you can love the friends?

R. We're saying with the Torah demands.

S. Those are the demands?

R. Yes

2. S. (06:28) We learned that ascending the spiritual degrees happens that there is no righteous unless he sinned unless he falls first but here it says that studying The Book of Zohar is what will bring us out of Exile. So, it turns out that we don't need the ascend and descend but the study of the book of Zohar will cover all the entrances and exits?

R. I do not think so, I don’t think so. I think one thing that you need to think more before you ask questions. You want to receive immediate answers for what awakens in you and that is not correct that is not correct. Look how others are asking, how they do it less frequently and how they think before they ask.

3. S. (07:50) He writes that the particular and the general are equal. I understand that in the internality in the will to receive in the system they are equal but how?  Because in my eyes I do not see equality, how do I know that what I'm doing determines to the good or to the bad to the whole world, it’s like it stops you?

R. You need to believe in that, that is how it is that when you look at the entire system integrally then you can depict that it is this, that way that the individual, the particular and the general are the same. Let's say, what if the general integral system that every piece, every part is connected and belongs to everything else then there's the same importance between one part in the other parts, is there? So, if this part breaks nothing else works and it is correct if it is fixed then everything will work. So what is the question then?

S. It paralyzes you, you cannot move, you do not want to?

R. You have to be responsible for yourself.

S. Okay I'm responsible about myself and I hear from Baal HaSulam that there is a deed that according to it I lower or raise the whole collective. So how do I know what the deed is or its value?

R. It does not matter you have to remain on guard to not cause any pain, any harm in even with the smallest action.

S. And only damage that I can cause, how?

R. That you forget for a single moment to support the others.

4. S. (09:49) The wisdom of Kabbalah spread out and with us it is the whole world . So how can it be at the time of Baal Hasulam there were two wars and such things that are happening now? So, what does it mean that a person that in my deeds I am causing the decline or ascend of the whole world? What does it express the externality of the world or the internality of the world?

R. If you are connected to everyone then in your good deed you raise everyone in your bed deed you lower everyone.

S. What is an ascent and descent in everybody?

R. In the quality of connection between you and then the upper light accordingly can fulfill you or empty you.

S. And how does it express in the whole world?

R. The same accordingly they feel themselves in the ascent or descent even materialistic.

S. But we supposedly see only more trouble in the world falling apart?

R. Because the world from moment to moment is receiving an additional will to receive on one hand and on the other hand it is not attaining these corrections.

S. That means that we are negligent even though it’s expanding the wisdom in the whole world and there was never such a thing that?

R. That does not matter the fact that it is spreading it does not mean that we are succeeding. There is nothing to add we need to more and more and more according to what we reveal to add strength towards connection.  only on that our future depends.

5. S. (12:01) I want to scrutinize what is the quality of our actions in the 10?

R. The sign of the actions of success in our 10 are the actions of our connection to the extent that we are connected and the upper light can fulfill us accordingly and show itself through our connection. Nefesh, Ruach, Neshma, Haya, Yechida, the upper light is revealed that way in accordance to how we are connected to one another tightly meaning that each one wants to help each other, help them fulfill their desires to help one another.

S. Could I say that the quality of our actions speed up the times?

R. Yes, of course.

6. S. (13:25) Does my intention in my actions in the outside world also determined my right path? Should I check my intention in these situations?

R. It's still nevertheless, it is you doing it you need to check how your actions will be directed towards the final correction. They will advance you to an extent.

7. S. (14:12) Question from a friend who cannot ask. You said that if a person discovers that he's distant and he hates the friends it's good because it's revealing the truth but if he says the evil in him that he is causing a decline to the world and it brings him to despair. So how should he relate correctly to the revelation of evil?

R. Until one doesn't make all of his friends connected according to his ability, his desire, his actions then he cannot say that he didn't do. He did, he caused some descent to an extent of all of the reality of all the world of what he feels. We need to understand that what a person feels is only a small part of what can be revealed and what is shown to him. He sees only that same frame of the entire world then what he needs to see when he's able to see his own vessels.

S. He's asking how can the 10 ask, help such a friend?

R. The friend he's can open his eyes close his eyes the 10 can lift him lower him the 10 can do anything. The 10 are the nine Sefirot that surround him and he is the Malchut of the 10.

8. S. (15:59) I wanted to ask from the moment I started studying instead of revealing the Creator only revealing my ego and how far I'm from the Creator. Now I try to help a friend reach revelation of the Creator but it is always calculating in ego. I can never come out of it. How can I love a friend like myself if I am all ego?

R. You need to depict the state that you pay attention to every friend as you would to yourself and that is in fact to the desired state the fact that you're not in that you're not. You are still in a disconnected state from them, if you don't feel with the friend feels that is a sign that you still have not reached corrections the correct corrections. Don't worry the time will come and everything will change everything will change.

9. S. (17:50) Good morning world 10, it's fascinating topic the integralness of the whole world and the need for the 10 to correct itself it’s clear that it will affect the state of the world. Do we have to work only in the 10? And also the parts of reality will correct are only parts of the whole, so how do we make this transition from the connective tense of the BB to the whole world it is a huge gap at least in quantity if not quality?

R. You will see how easily according to what's corrected in the 10 how it will easily spread to the entire world.

10. S. (18:48) Is the connection between us built through unconditional love?

R. Is the connection between us built from absolute love? what connection is there between you you have already attained connection we attain the connection from feeling that there is lack of connection and then we pray to the Creator that will connect us. And then the Creator connects and we can can exam and can check the lack of connection that we had before this disconnect and the connection that there is and the gap between them we feel our Kli that we have attained. And in the Kli from this difference of potentials between empty and full we begin to feel the flow of light and that is called revelation of the light revelation of the Creator to the created being.

11. S. (20:24) How do we know that we come to a common state in the 10?

R. That is only through the influence of the upper light. It's not we who do it he covers us and then we feel as one man in one heart, one Creator all of the reality is one and then we reveal its general state for now. That is how it is each and every time.

Reading Item #69 (21:27) “From the above-said we can thoroughly understand…”

12. R. From here it becomes a bit difficult for us to scrutinize but there is no choice. We will still try. First of all I don't see any questions now. What? You have before you! Okay, let's start from questions. It is easier than starting to.. please.

13. S. (26:30) It seems according to this excerpt, wow that it is development of anti-Semitism in the world, all of the hatred to us, everything that is happening?

R. That's obvious. That's clear.

S. How are we supposed to respond to that, on the one hand in the previous letter we read it depends on the individual that there is no difference that he determines the state. You see that no matter how you move they will come and they will eat you.

R. Whether someone eats me or devours me that's not the point. First I have to scrutinize on a global level in a way that's doesn't depend on me. I have to be disconnected from self-interest. Otherwise, I won't be able to scrutinize anything correctly.

S. Right. How to look at this?

R. I look at this in a simple way. Nature gave birth to many people that exist on the speaking level. Stil, Vegetative, Animatel are the degrees that came before and the speaking level is already a degree that belongs to man and what should you do with them? How can we relate to them? What is the difference between man and a beast? That they are wiser, that they are more organized. That if we go and see all kinds of animals we will see that they might be smarter and more and more.

So the question is how do we organize our life as humans that we have a mind a feeling and a force that we can overcome and with our mind control almost the whole world. So he says that in our will to receive we have abilities to uplift above our selfishness, above our nature and not to follow our instincts, our nature called the will to receive that constantly demands in each and every moment that we do what makes it feel good. Look how you are sitting.

Look how you are holding yourself. What are you doing? It is all for the benefit of the body and if not for the benefit of the body so it's because you do not have a choice that you don't have any other way to do things in force and in this way we constantly work. No matter what we do the biggest things or the smallest things, we always do what we can do for our own benefit. That means that what determines all of our behavior, all of our actions is our selfishness and it doesn't let us go for one moment that even if I forget about it, but I feel its commands and I must implement it in each and every moment. Clear right?

S. It is very clear. The question is how can I, from this place from working from the ego that I'm not supposed to work from, how am I supposed to look at the system and work correctly in it? I have a contradiction here?

R. This is what we will learn. For now, let's answer a few more questions.

14. S. (31:40) Those who engage in the external truth will always be greater than those who engage in the internality. How will the world reach balance or is it destined for failure?

R. I don't know. It's a question we still didn't address. What we're talking about you're not asking about, that's why we will go to the next question.

15. S. (32:17) To raise the internality of the Torah to over the externality of the Torah. How do we do it in the 10 among the friends?

R. The internality of the Torah talks about the connection between us. The externality talks about the knowledge, what's written in the book. Either we teach our hearts to love the others or do we teach our brains to remember all the rules that are written in the books and like a student at school come to state that we just remember what is written. That is the difference between the internality and the externality or we correct the heart or that we correct our minds.

So there are such that go through all the books of the Kabbalah and from that correct their hearts, that it becomes connected and directed towards the friends and the Creator and there are such that only study what is written in the books of the external Commandments. External means that it doesn't correct his heart, but it corrects his hands and legs and mouth and tongue and so on and that’s his concern. So there is a matter of internality and externality, the internality is called the heart, the externality is called the mind.

16. S. (34:19) In the second paragraph in the middle there is an excerpt there when the nations were taken and brought to their land and Israel dwelled on the land of the Creator. Let's say that their place is clear?

R. We didn't get there yet. We are still not there.

17. S. (35:06) Yes, you said a few minutes ago that you need strength, you need to receive strength to do this work the forces of connection and it reminds like a generator to activate generator you need like a spark to activate it. This spark is what I'm looking for. Where do I get this spark from? Do we activate this generator to have the strength to connect to my friends?

R. Around you there are many sparks in each and every friend.

S. How can I identify it?

R. You don't want to receive that igniting from them.

S. What does it mean?

R. That’s how it is.

S. So why am I sitting with the friends just to engage in the externality of the Torah?

R. Yes.

S. That's what you're saying to me?

R. Yes. I can bring some tree to the fire but the tree won't ignite, why? Because I'm not placing it correctly or putting it in the right place the wood that's how it is.

S. If nevertheless I succeed I didn’t come to waste my time, everyone is nice I am sitting here at night. How do I succeed to see this spark? Where do I get it from? From the friends I understand but how do I make it happen? How do I make this spark happen?

R. Open your heart and connect with your heart to the friend's hearts.

S. I understand. I understand that.

R. Alright. So the rest doesn't depend on you.

S. The question is how do I do it?

R. I don't know. Pray to the Creator to help you.

S. Got it so I got to pray in short.

R. Yes.

18. S. (37:17) I heard before that you said we haven't attained any connection in our ten. What is an internal connection?

R. Heart to heart.

S. How can we be more sensitive to that?

R. Through prayer.

19. S. (37:42) We feel the pain for what is happening in the world and we also feel responsibility. What is our daily effort? Where do we need to add in order to raise the world?

R. For now we will learn it. We learn it every day but for now it is only to connect and pray. As much as you are different and still want to be connected in one heart in one feeling in one prayer in one Creator. That will help.

S. If I may, you said that we teach our hearts to love. Is it us who are teaching or is it the light that is bringing it to us if we want it? How to reach a state of love one towards the other?

R. To love one another, that's a problem but we have to learn how to do it. The Creator will show you.

20. S. (39:48) The question here in the text he says in the article of the guarantee that Israel are the doers of correction from them the sparks to the rest of the nations will come and here he says explicitly he's talking about the Redemption of Israel from the nations of the world, if you could explain that?

R. I do not understand again.

S. In the article of the guarantee he says that Israel are the correctors, that through them sparks of purification will come to all of the nations of the world and here he says that the Redemption of Israel is from the nation's meaning only Israel needs to be redeemed?

R. There is no such thing, Israel. Each and every man who has a tendency towards the Creator straight to the Creator according to that definition he is considered Israel. It has nothing to do with the nation or a gender, a corporeal gender it means it doesn't belong to anything.

S. But how does the corrections spread to the whole world?

R. The desire which is general to the whole people in the world that includes all of the people of the world in it, it passes like in a virus. It will transfer these desires from here to there. That is why in this way, it passes it on so just like in a disease like what we just went through we transfer all these things in our world how? in all kinds of forms like fashion or other things. We look at one another and we want the same things as the other because we're searching for pleasure, for fulfillment. We see that if something fulfills someone, so we also want that fulfillment and then this way we start working with our desire to give it the same direction in order to enjoy as the others enjoy. So from here on we advance.

21. S. (42:40) The desire and deficiency of Israel is to reveal the Creator and give Him contentment. What is the desire and the direction of the Hassids of the nations of the world?

R. We still didn't get there we’ll check it soon.

22. S. (43:03) If someone awakens from certain degree, let's say from Hassids of the nation of the world, and they start asking about reality, can they rise from the nations of the world to turn to the externality of Israel and internality or is their role to remain where they are and to be the best where in their place?

R. We need to scrutinize these things. We haven't got to it yet and you are already getting into a scrutiny that is on the side. I'm not ready, I don't want to do it, people won't understand either.

23. S. (43:56) Question from the ten. Internal is heart and external is mind? The love that we want to build between us, it needs to be also on the degree of the mind and the heart or do we also need to learn to show it one towards the others?

R. We need to scrutinize our desires in the heart that the heart understands and not the mind to reach a state that will understand through our feelings from the feeling of the heart we will understand where we are. That is the inner degree. For women it's easier to feel like a mother feels her child, the baby, that first is inside her then it's born and how then how she feels him, she doesn't feel separated from him she feels that she's actually connected to him just as he was inside.

24. S. (45:51) What to do so that an external environment won't influence us in such a way that it will cause detattachment in the friends under ten?

R. Be more connected and what the external environment can affect you, that is clear?

25. S. (46:15) When will the Creator receive a prayer that will free me from hatred towards my friends?

R. It all depends on you, it all depends on a person. As much as a person wants to reach prayer that the Creator will release him from the hatred that he feels, that is how they relate to Him.

26. S. (46:53) The writing here says that we can cause harm in our thoughts but if there is a demand for connection are we still causing harm?

R. The request for correction isn’t correction it's just a request. We need to make efforts in increasing it until we get an answer from above and then we can be sure that if we keep that answer we will keep ourselves from the corruption and the correction will come. It's things that are… it has to come to us one after the other.

27. S. (47:45) We always talk about the connection, prayer, to open our hearts, so will it be good to talk about that in the ten and to do exercises of exercising feeling the heart of the friends in order to not stay in theory?

R. Of course it's good the main thing is not to be passive.

28. R. Okay friends, I see that you don't have any more forces or questions so let’s end the lesson and tell us maybe some news or something.