Morning Lesson October 16, 2023
Transcription is made from simultaneous translation, which leaves a possibility for differences in the audio
Part 3:
Baal HaSulam. Exile and Redemption.
Reading: Harmony Between Religion and the Law of Development or Blind Fate.
Baal HaSulam. Exile and Redemption. (00:18)
1. S. (06:19) How does the nation of Israel understand that everything that comes to it isn't by accident, it's from the Creator directed from Above, how does it happen?
R. Gradually it has to be revealed it can't otherwise it comes from an upper source and that's how it has to be revealed to us.
2. S. (06:56) How does such a nation that is in a high degree suddenly takes itself and throws itself into selfishness?
R. The Creator created that against that.
S. What does it mean?
R. He's greater than his friend so his inclination is greater and even though we don't understand how it could be but we look at them with our ego. How can they not overcome but we don't understand how it’s expressed in them?
S. Let's say that we will also taste, the taste of bestowal and we'll also be tempted by the,
in the ego all the time?
R. Of course, it has to be that the Creator created this one against the other.
3. S. (08:00) What is the chance that we will once succeed to go on the path of Torah and not the path of suffering?
R. It's a 100% chance but when, that depends on us.
4. S. (08:32) What is that state of Israel in a person that allows revelation in this world?
R. Yes.
5. S. (08:50) The war between the nation of Israel and then something ancient, external, internal it doesn't end, where does it take place now?
R. What does it matter externally against who it's taking place? The main thing is that inside there's the ego that we need to destroy, to defeat.
S. But it's written here that there were these people that caused the Romans to attack and how now what are the parts in Israel that can connect or is this not an actual problem and everyone needs to connect?
R. You said it correctly.
6. S. (09:40) He writes here the nation of Israel has no existence in exile. It's not like the rest of the nations that mixed with the nations. What does it mean that the rest of the nation's mixed in?
R. That all the nations of the world weren't as they were to begin with but that they have their own roots but everything got mixed up and all kinds of wars and connections and the people of Israel is something special that they didn't mix obviously they mixed, but not in a way that they write.
S. What is this rest that he's talking about? We won't be able to find rest in the nations?
R. That we can't be among the other nations. We will always get blows, will be tossed out, we will never find rest between them and won't really be able to mix between them. It will always turn out that we found, supposedly somewhere convenient and good and after a few years were tossed out of there and that's how it is till today for thousands of years.
S. What about what's happening today with Israel, where we see a lot of support, there's a lot of places in the world that's supporting Israel?
R. You wait it seems to us that we can wait and see it. I don't think it's right.
S. We're still considered as if we're mixed among our nations even if we're here in our own country?
R. Doesn't matter what country it is, it's culture, it's education, in everything we're in. Are we captive or not in foreign cultures.
S. What's the main difference between the cultures? What is that principle?
R. Either egoistic or altruistic. That's what's important.
7. S. (12:23) Is the war against the nation of Israel the nullification of the evil inclination that's in Israel?
R. Yes, usually.
8. S. (12:43) How can we get corrected out of this suffering and for it not to invert our art to be even more difficult like stone?
R. We first of all have to connect between us and then our heart will already be softer. Then we'll start coming close to others and giving them a place in our heart.
9. S. (13:43) What is the meaning of the geographic Israel?
R. We don't learn that now, we have to learn that separately. It's also the geographical Israel that belongs to the connection between Israel and the nations but that's already to a geographic degree.
10. S. (14:23) All the places where they expelled the Jews, the countries fell right away, it's like in Spain and all those other places. In what then do the nations of the world need to find some support and understand that only following Israel can we reach harmony and know the Creator, in what way do the nations of the world need to help Israel?
R. They don't need to exactly help in something but just to learn. Look what will happen with Russia, well we’ll see. Let's hope that everything will be okay, that everybody will reach the complete connection of their ego correction and understand that the main thing is the connection; a good connection.
S. Why is the nation of Israel shattered so strongly?
R. Because they're in a worse state than the nations of the world, a worse state. There's no perception that they have to be together.
S. That the Creator scattered them, there's in each place they feel that, yeah, I'm a Jew and my role in this mission, my role is to connect with everyone, but why did the Creator scatter them all over the world, for them to gather once again and for them to feel this thing?
R. That they will gather together, that before that sow seeds in every nation they are in, in the exile they have to plant the seed that it will start growing.
S. Was that the reason Rabbi Akiva was happy the Second Temple was destroyed?
R. Of course.
11. S. (17:04) Yesterday we did a Gathering of Friends in the ten and a friend raised his deficiency. I hope I'm saying it correctly, he wants to ask: Where's the intensity of hatred and the separation within the nation and also from the enemies and outside, why is it so intense?
R. It's spiritual forces and there's nothing to do against them, only the connection between us, to the point, constant, consistent, it'll gradually help us uplift above the mutual hatred into mutual connection.
12. S. (18:15) We received the privilege to wake up and the Creator woke up our points in the heart and in South America we’re sensitive and we have this tendency to connect maybe because of the language or sensitivity in the heart. What is the contribution that Latin America can do for the world Kli in order to attain the connection?
R. Latin America is a very big country, a very big area, what is there, like 20 countries there and they are all in one language, that's what's interesting. That's why they already have a place for connection. I really respect it. I respect that land, the nations there. I was there more than once. I think the future of South America is good. It will bring to the world a good example for connection. That's it.
13. S. (20:05) The state that's depicted here in the article, it reminds us of what's happening in the corporeal land of Israel now and throughout history the sages stood and did not succeed the temple shattered. What do we, Bnei Baruch need to do, so that this time we will succeed?
R. What do we have to do? Only annul our ego that separates between us and connect to the Creator. That's it.
S. Is it work between us or is it work towards the nation of Israel?
R. It's work between us and then from between us towards the nation.
14. S. (21:15) Is it correct to look at it this way, that what's happening in the world, this last conflict, most recent one that's happening in Israel, it's the Creator as if increasing the resolution like in a microscope and showing me my relations to the ten?
R. Yes, yes, every time increases the resolution and in such a way we see the problems of the past but in greater sizes.
S. So my relations in the ten, what's stopping us there?
R. Your private ego, the same force of bestowal and connection that is in the ten. These two forces contradict each other.
15. S. (22:35) I'm happy to hear how you speak about Latin America and we're really expecting to see you here soon in Argentina. The question: Everybody wants peace, all the nations and we as well but it seems to me that we don’t know what is the peace that we're searching for. What is it?
R. We are searching for such a peace where everyone feels himself that they're included from all people of the Earth and he's willing to hug and connect with them to such an extent that there won't be any difference between them, and this unity he wants to raise it to the Creator, that's what we want to have, we want to feel and discover.
16. S. (24:30) Thanks to this great work of ours, Rav Laitman received extra exposure to 23,000 people which recommended Rav Laitman not because they were searching but because we were doing this work that we talked about, that we are raising contents, each one from his personal feed and adding that #Israel, the nation of Israel and from that a lot of people who don't know Rav Laitman were exposed to him. Basically I want to say two things: First of all, we'll start with the end. All of the guidance was sent but will be sent again at the end of the lesson: two things that can really improve our results. Number one, a lot of friends are uploading the content but they're sharing it and this is not helping this action, we don't want to share, we want to download the content to our computer or our phone and then to upload them by ourselves to our page, to our own personal feed, this is the first thing. A lot of people are doing it and it's a shame to miss out on it. The right way to do this is to download this file onto your computer and then to upload it to your feed, to your social site. That’s the first thing and secondly, a lot of friends are uploading great content but are forgetting the hashtag Israel and they're losing out on our common force; it's a waste. If you are making a post add to that the hashtag.
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