Morning Lesson January 18, 2022, Transcription
Transcription is made from simultaneous translation which leaves a possibility for differences in the audio
Part 2:
Baal HaSulam. The Peace (Clarification of the Excerpt from the Mishnah: “Everything Is in Deposit, and a Fortress Spreads Over All of Life)
1. S. (04:37) What does it mean that the souls are always the same, the same soul from the beginning to end of creation?
R. The spiritual Kli that the Creator has created and even though as divided and comes to us in parts souls from one soul called Adam HaRishon, but there are no other changes to it whatsoever besides that. They form for us, within us in a partial way but actually it is the same soul, and it exists in everyone only that it manifests itself in a different style, way, in each and every person called the soul of Adam, a person's soul.
S. The fact that we are always more people, and we only take a part of the soul, how does that relate to us always being the same souls?
R. The desire created by the Creator, all in all, divides into different parts and to the measure to which these parts can better express their ego, the more egoistic they become, then the more they can divide in some more souls, more parts. Suppose a thousand years ago you had in the entire world, a billion people and today you have eight billion people, what does it say? That the will to receive has grown so we need to divide it into smaller portions, so that each and every part will have the ability to correct itself; that is how it works. Therefore, see what goes on, sometimes you see that the amount of population decreases, sometimes it increases, sometimes wars, different natural disasters, things like that, it comes due to only one reason for the correction of the soul on each and every person.
2. S. (07:42) Can we say that the souls of Bnei Baruch were connected in the past in some way?
R. Yes, we can talk about it, but we can say that all the souls of course were included in some way together when, what and how, we will see. In the meantime we cannot talk about these things, not in terms of time or place, it is a problem. When we are in spirituality, we will talk about it differently.
3. S. (08:37) It is written that the souls do not change but we feel that a lot of the changes that we feel in our work are the results on the corporeal body in the process we go in, though, how does it work?
R. Everything is interconnected. We will discover it; we are still in the process. We cannot scrutinize it, the influence of the corporeal body, the corporeal world, where they disappeared, does it exist, does not it, how it does it influence the soul, we cannot scrutinize it, it will come.
4. S. (09:33) If I correctly understood the quantity of the parts of souls that are growing is easing the correction?
R. Not exactly, it is according to quality and quantity, there are many conditions, but yes that is how it is actually.
5. S. (10:02) So what is the difference between one generation to the next if Rabbi Shimon and his friends already corrected themselves why do we not feel it now?
R. It is felt by whoever feels it, there is no difference in terms of time, in terms of nothing. There are those who it is felt in them, and they are those that is not, we will rise in the spiritual degrees, and we will feel them all.
6. S. (10:45) They keep demanding back, what actions that we do create a debt?
R. What actions?
S. Yes, what actions create our debt?
R. Unless we reach the connection next time it comes as a debt.
S. How do you pay it out?
R. The Creator has given us conditions, for us to invert them to in order to bestow and if we do not do it turns into a debt, that we have to roll it onto the next degree as if you need to pay back your debt with interest.
S. If I do not pay it back it is taken forcefully?
R. I do not want to get into these things. It is irrelevant to the article; how do you not understand?
7. S. (12:21) A person living in this world a few dozens of years and dies, he never heard of bestowal so what does he add to correction?
R. Because he suffers as a result of his suffering, surely, we talked about billions of people that exist in each and every moment, so nonetheless the suffering amounts to correction, but not that we encourage these things, as it is said about it. It is not good in the eyes of man and not good in the eyes of the Creator, no, it need not to be that way. We need to reach a place where we enjoy life and we need to bring ourselves to a state when we enjoy life to add to that in order to give the Creator contentment by it, but still to enjoy is already good. If it is possible to cause any person whoever that is, pleasure instead of suffering, it can say yes but suffering will advance them to correction, that is not of your business but to be like the Creator who is good and that is good, you should do that too in every possible state.
8. S. (14:00) On what does it depend how many times, how many times will we keep reincarnating from body to body?
R. Today your questions, it is something interesting, how many times does the person need to reincarnate. So you can say that in advance because it depends on the person's effort. It could be that he does the entire way in the leap, in one leap and it could be much he reincarnates many times. In the meantime we are not studying the Gate of Incarnations, Shaar HaGilgulim, Torah of Incarnations, Torah HaGilgulim. Let us first achieve birth, Katnut, Yenika, Gadlut, something from spirituality.
9. S. (15:06) Why do souls reincarnate if their essence and does a soul need a body for its correction?
R. Yes, our body has a role. A very important one and that is why we feel that we feel ourselves as existing in this world in a special way, specific way because all corrections need to go through the suffering body. Our entire world, still, vegetative and the animate, it all becomes a part of correction, nothing happens without a reason and without a consequence.
10. S. (16:12) I wanted to ask what is in that store, that spiritual store that I can go in there and borrow? What is it?
R. Anything that you want to get in life exists in that shop, so if you want to receive something from the shop you can, but know that it's only a loan and you will be demanded to return it and you have to return it and therefore take into account or make a serious calculation before you receive anything. This according to the general law of creation, the law of preservation, of energy, the different laws that we have in reality that we learn about that nothing disappears and does not just appear, but everything exists in a closed system. Therefore if you really want to reality as an active part of reality and this is necessarily how you are built, that you're born and your grow at the expense of someone but afterwards you need to understand that you owe the world, you owe people why, what, how, this all advances you toward your inner development and you need to enter a special system of connections with others how much to give, how much to receive.
S. But we are speaking about something spiritual and that is something that I really buy and corporeal world?
R. Why not corporeal?
S. Because what we are reading in the Peace article, it does not matter food, sex, family, money, honor, knowledge, there is something above it.
R. In regard to these things you can do whatever you feel like?
S. Of course not but I want to know what I want to buy in the store that I later have to pay back.
R. Everything you need in your life you buy there, and you need to do the math, whether by taking from the shop will you be able to give back, you give back everything that you have taken besides what you need in order to exist, that goes without saying. But besides your basic needs about which is said neither praise nor condemned so besides your basic needs, necessities, you need to turn everything towards others and through others to the Creator.
R. So it says both in the Arvut and Peace of the World and all these articles.
11. S. (20:10) What are the discernments that remain in a person from one reincarnation to the other?
R. We're not going to talk about this now.
S. Will the person lose that feeling of himself in the Gmar Tikkun?
R. No, and also these questions are not to the point because it is not something about which we can talk. You lack the discernment for me to say a word and that I will precisely convey this word from my mind to your mind, this is impossible, how can we talk about it?
S. It is weird to live in a life when you do not know where you came from and where are you going?
R. It is a good question. It is a question that I want to hear. I live a life in which I have no idea where I am from, where to, how, what for and that is why you were here in order to find out, and everyone wants to do it so there are those who go to the university and study something there about the world, the laws and there are those who come to the wisdom of Kabbalah, and they want to learn about the general things, what is all this from.
S. Why is there such a concealment on it?
R. Nothing is concealed, you are just saying, you are hiding it with your own mind, you are concealing it with your own mind. Everything is open, you do not want to say concealed, why don't I see, feel all of reality from the start, this is your complaint, this is what your complaint is about, that is your complaint, why am I not attaining everything? Then you are going to ask my opinion about it, about who I am, demand something of me, but why am I not attaining everything first? That is the question. Do not worry in short, you will get everything you need.
12. S. (22:44) If we look at human history in the way of the will to receive that develops, so if I understand correctly the Creator is pressing on the desire so you receive the process of correction?
R. Right.
13. S. (23:12) How can I give back everything I took?
R. That says about it that you need to reach in order to bestow that everything that you receive in thought and desire, that you will do it all to the benefit of others, through the love of man to the love of the Creator. Then you will see how from the Creator only comes love and that it passes through all created beings and reaches you. Then you will really see what you have seen, as it says an upside-down world and then you will truly see the real spiritual world.
Reader continues: “And there is much evidence….” (24:15)
14. S. (28:07) About the parable from the Mishnah, everything is in a deposit and the fortress is on our whole life. Can you explain these terms? What is the store that is open and who is the seller?
R. I think more or less everyone understands that this talks about our life. That our world is like a shop, and that we go into this shop as if you can take everything you want from there. The entire life’s spread out in front of you. Of course there are special limitations in terms of how was I born, to whom, what did I get from my environment, from my parents? But in short everything is given to us. How do we relate, refer to reality? This is what it is about. Can I relate to reality openly, as though I am really in some kind of supermarket, and I can get anything from the shop? What do I feel like according to my ego? Then I take the entire shop home with me. Or do I take only some of what I need? I will take a part of what exists there, what I really need. It depends on my attitude. It is not about how much do I take but how do I take it. Meaning how do I use it for my life? That is the question. Here we need to scrutinize what really does our egoistic desire that the Creator created in us to begin with demand of us? What does nature demand of us, other people, humanity, and what is the Creator demanding? How do we need to change our attitude toward life which is like a shop? Suppose everything spreads in front of you. Take whatever you want, but at the end of the store is the register and you need to pay. So how will you know throughout life, from what we take from shop and in what way we take it, that we will know how we are supposed to pay for it and to whom? For what? Maybe we go through the entire shop and take everything that there is, and it is not bad at all because we are thinking about giving contentment to the shopkeeper for example. That is so far from how we relate to life, and we do not know about it. We go into this big shop, and we take, and we take, and we want even more, but we cannot take anymore, we are not given any more, and eventually we did not perform any purchase correctly, properly. We need to know in short.
15. S. (31:59) What does it mean “and the judgment is true, and everything is prepared for the meal?”
R. That eventually all of us come to the end of correction. No soul disappears, no soul is lacking, and there is a happy end for everyone because it comes from the Creator who is good and benevolent. But on the way He wants to make each of us, men and women really suited to the good that does good, that in His eyes is the absolute thing.
16. S. (32:46) How can we calculate what we took from the general store and what do we owe?
R. This is what we learn in the wisdom of Kabbalah, how to receive, how to buy, how to receive from the store. This is exactly what we learn in the wisdom of Kabbalah. You can take everything, but for everything you take you need to put a label on it. That this is in order to give contentment to the Creator, and then you can take it.
17. S. (33:23) How to buy correctly in the store of this life?
R. I just answered that. You can buy in the shop, the best way to do it limitlessly, if you come with your friends, your ten and all of you say unanimously, better to say in one heart that we want to make this purchase in order to give contentment to the Creator. We ourselves, we do not need it, even though we want to, but we would not buy it. Only in order to give contentment to the Creator we will take it now from the shop so that He will receive pleasure. This is the correct, good, true, real purchase that you get a bonus for. But this is something we cannot talk about yet.
18. S. (34:28) The loans we take, do they have interest?
R. The loans bear interest yes, but of a kind of interest that, it is in the same style. Meaning with the same intention in order to bestow, I will need to nonetheless work with heavier vessels.
R. (35:10) Let us be good kids and let us reach the cash register in the right way in tens and let us say we want to give the Creator contentment. That is why we buy, and not for ourselves in any other way. Even though we need these things, we need these purchases. But really the only thing that we want is to give contentment to the Creator. But because we have no choice, we need to exist, therefore we are willing to take something from there. So that something that we take is not considered, as it is called “neither praised nor condemned.” Meaning the measure to which a person needs for his existence.
19. S. (36:09) How can we put more emotion in this term to give contentment to the Creator?
R. Now, that is beautiful. Contentment to the Creator. If you want to go into the ten and you cannot because it is repulsive, it rejects a person from connecting with the friends. He can be with the others, but it is all artificial, it does not touch the depth of the heart. So what do you do? Nothing you can do. The Creator forms such a stone in man's heart that you cannot melt, that you cannot do anything about it. Therefore, these things either to connect with the friends or connect with the Creator, it is one in the same, only we simply do not know what the difference is. There is no difference. What to say? About that it says: “what the mind doesn't do, time does.” A year goes by and another one and another one, and this is how it is. The world changes. Can you compare the world from 10 years ago? When did you come? 15 years ago? Even earlier. Today look at how much the world has changed, how much more connected it became. Everyone has the same troubles, the same things. So we are advancing toward it but nonetheless we will feel the answers from within.
20. S. (38:49) Even if I do not get anything in the corporeal world, I am not chasing any pleasures, but even now at this moment I am getting air, I am getting internet. So what, I am constantly taking from that store, even the air? I need to reach a state that I pay back for everything.
R. Can you imagine to yourself that animals come with you to the job? Of different kinds. Different little bugs and big animals like elephants, big fish, whales, I do not know what. Why don't they need it? Meaning that which has to do with your sure existence, what is necessary in order to sustain the human race or the animate, you do not need to pay for that. The way the Creator created you He must also provide you with your basic needs. However if you want to be an Adam then that shop is for you, it exists for you. Meaning this shop is not for all people, it is only for those who want to buy a special attitude toward the Creator, but not for the others. Take whatever you want from life. Do not think about it because you will not have hell or heaven for it, you will have nothing. The calculation is on a completely different level. Therefore the main thing for us is nonetheless that we are going back to the same. The ten, in the ten to reveal our connection, and in our connection to reveal the Creator. That is it.
S. So I can say that of all the billionaires, it is not them that are paying a bigger percentage but the people in the tens?
R. Sure, let us take Elon Musk for example. They are making and earning plenty now. We have less and less, and they have more and more, and it has nothing to do with the correction. All these things are just in order to confuse us, and later on we will see how it all works out. I do not want to talk about it now. They are enjoying life, they are enjoying corporeal life, their body. There is a kind of, we will see the calculation. You will be in a situation and a state that you will not want to switch with them in any way.
21. S. (42:27) Do I have to buy by deferred payment in that shop because the Creator wants my exertion. Why do I have to do it by deferred payment?
R. You behave in the right way, and you will see how things happen. We are not done studying this.
22. S. (42:50) I go into the shop. I go in with my ten. So how can I pay the Creator if the only thing that I have is my desire to receive?
R. As much as you can be connected to the friends and bestow to them, be concerned about them, that is how you pay the Creator.
23. S. (43:31) So I understand that when the body and spirit are one, they will be able to reach the Gmar Tikkun. Is this correct?
R. The body does not need any correction. We are only speaking about the will to receive. The will to receive needs a correction, it needs an intention to bestow. That is it. The will to receive with the intention to bestow is called a soul, Neshama because then it is ready to receive the revelation of the Creator inside it or the upper light, according to its level of correction.