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

 March 4, 2024 (Morning)

 Part 3:

Baal HaSulam. From My Flesh I Shall See God 

Reading: (00:26) Subtitle, The Essence of the Intellectual Perception “You already know that…”

S. (04:49) What type of recognition do we have to reach between us, the friends? What do we have to know in the friend? What should the friend know in us? 

R. That we can add to one another. What I have, I can add to the friend and what the friend has he can add to me. That way eventually, we come to complete awareness.

S. I need to feel the friend's internality and he has to feel my internality?

R. Yes. 

S. What does that mean? 

R. What does that mean? I can't explain to you but it's clear that it needs to be so.

S. I understand what it means that I feel, I can understand what it means that I feel my thoughts and feelings. That's my internality, right? 

R. Yes

S. So, that's how the friend has to feel my thoughts and my feelings, and I have to feel his thoughts and his feelings, just like I feel myself? 

R. Although eventually yes, but it's not that we're working on that now.

S. Although, eventually yes, but we're not working on it now. Now we're not working on it. 

R. No.

S. Why not? 

R. We're not capable of attaining it. 

S. That's where we have to go to, right, as one man in one heart?

R. Gradually but for the time being, no.

S. What's the next step that is relevant toward us to come closer to that state? 

R. Love. Love. 

S. Is that something external? 

R. No, it's not external but through love, we will be able to come closer to one another, and then we will be able to get to know what's in the heart of a friend, what's in his decisions, slowly slowly, gradually. 

S. This love, how do I depict it? 

R. How do we depict love? 

S. Yeah.

R. Connection. 

S. What connection? Connection is that I feel…?

R. We each are incorporated in the other. 

S. Meaning I feel?

R. Yes. 

S. But we said not to work on that yet. 

R. Okay, but you're asking me in general when it will be.

S. No, I'm asking how do we come closer to that connection? If I understand correctly, the connection is that I feel the thoughts and desires of the friend and he feels mine, just like each one feels himself. 

R. Well, that's a very exalted matter, yes. 

S. We are close to love from that?

R. What is love? Love is incorporation. 

S. That's a result of connection, isn't it? 

R. Yes.

S. I'm asking what the means is. I understood that the first step towards connection, what is that?

R. The first step towards connection? 

S. Yes.

R. Yes. The annulment of the existence of a person.

S. What do we work on? What is relevant for us? 

R. You're jumping from one place to another, from one discernment to another. What are we now, what do we now need to see before us? 

S. Yes. 

R. That's something else. We need to see before us a state in which we are all connecting. 

S. What does it mean to see? 

R. To try and connect. 

S. Meaning to depict a connected state?

R. Yes. 

S. And what to accept it, to expect it, to yearn for it? 

R. Make practical actions.

S. That should bring us to?

R. That are meant to bring us to connection.

S. For instance what actions can I do that will bring me to connection? 

R. Anything that can lead me to the feeling of the friends, for me to feel him as a part of me and that's how it is with everyone and to the extent in which I expand my boundaries, to that extent more and more I feel in them the power of the Creator. 

S. Thank you. 

S. (10:37) Maybe to continue, he writes that the advantage of man over the beast is that while building man there's such an organ which is willing to gather spiritual beings into him. What is that organ? 

R. That we can incorporate with everyone, with everyone, in order to come to a state of being as one man in one heart all together, in one desire. 

S. Every man has an organ that..?

R. Yes. 

S. That fills the entire soul? 

R. Yes.

S. When we work in the Ten with the friends, so.

R. We're developing it but the truth is that it belongs to everyone. First, those that have the merit for this, that's called Israel and after that, the others, and the fact that we're not doing it in time we discover the hatred towards us, the natural hatred towards us. 

S. In the development of the world to feel that organ that feels everyone together.

R. Yes. 

S. All problems and troubles is because we don't feel that organ. 

R. Yes.

S. That's something Israel must... 

R. Yes, that depends on us.

R. Yeah. Okay.

 

R. Let's continue. 

Reading: (12:45) Subtitle, Extensions That Gather in Man’s Mind. “Know that the…” 

R. Okay. We’re tired for some reason, so much so that it's... 

S. (15:33) What determines what that child will like? 

R. Probably the records. 

S. It doesn't depend on him?

R. No. 

S. No, really? 

R. No. The natural forces we receive from birth by what do we determine these? We can determine these only later how we implement them. 

S. One implements himself in maximum reaches he likes in order to receive a reward and one implements himself to the maximum not in order to receive a reward? 

R. We'll see. We'll get to the world of truth and there we will see.

S. Thank you. 

S. (16:40) Before we’re talking about it so the child doesn't have a decision. So, what can the educator do for him that will direct the child and extend the good creations as he writes? 

R. The educator needs to give a child possibilities to develop. That's it. 

S. He's saying look, that here he is drawn more to knowledge or money so what inspires him more becomes his mind?

R. It could be, yes. 

S. Can I influence him that one will be more important than the other? That's the work of the educator changing values.

R. Yes.

S. (17:36) About what a friend asked, a person has to change himself or correct his values? 

R. A person needs to scrutinize his tendencies and develop them as much as possible and later check to where, nevertheless, in what direction he is going to develop.

S. What's considered what we should do? What is a correction of my values, that my values change? 

R. Yes. 

S. Why is it called a correction and not a change? 

R. Well you're using it, it's called a correction. 

S. Does the initial value stay or does it change completely and then he sees what he developed with and looks at it as if it doesn't belong to him anymore? 

R. No, there's no such thing. Nevertheless, the same initial tendencies remain in a person.