Morning Lesson September 13, 2022 Transcription
Transcription is made from simultaneous translation which leaves a possibility for differences in the audio
Part 2:
Connecting the World in the Last Generation - Selected Excerpts from the Sources. #17
1 R. (00:20) Yes, really a very important topic: connection of the world in the last generation. How connection of the world requires us to bring the world to the states of the last generation.
Reading #17 (00:44)
2. R. (00:15) Well that's clear to us that this is how we have to behave, if everything was created for me, meaning for me not in the way that I'm the king of the world and everything belongs to me but rather the whole correction of the world belongs to me, depends on me. That's why I need to do everything in order to bring the world on my behalf, on my efforts to correction. That's why a person should feel that the world is waiting for him, the Creator is expecting him to take upon himself the correction of the world and will awaken the correction, force of correction is certainly in the hands of the Creator, however opening the correction, meaning the necessity. obligating it to start and carry out, this is our work. So let's hope we can force the Creator to correct the world.
3. S. (02:27) It sounds so important and fundamental that it is strange, I don't understand why they put it in a way that we could understand it in two ways?
R. I can't hear.
S. You said that the whole world was created only for me, not for me but for me to bring the world to correction, not for me egotistically, so here is he saying why is this true meaning concealed under such a work for me, why are we confused, why is it so concealed?
R. Look the wisdom of Kabbalah is being revealed gradually to people, humans to people bit by bit it is being revealed, according to the stages of correction they are going through, they are improving, starting to get interested in the reason they exist, everything starts from the animate but then it becomes vegetative, animate, speaking until the person comes out all the degree of the living state and see how much it's still before us, this transition.
Each and everyone of us has stages of the living degree, animate degree that have not yet reached the speaking level, that is why we advance gradually, that is it. Each and every one, if he reaches the states that he says the whole world was created for me to correct myself that is why the world exists for me to correct myself then I can correct the world, turns out that the world is created for me, have to contemplate all the time about the correction of the world.
For all times satisfy the needs of the world and pray for them that is what we need to do. Let's hope we will come to that, to be responsible over the correction of the world, each and everyone has to say if I'm not for me, who is for me? Only I can correct the world and no one else. This is why I have to dedicate my whole life to that as much as I was given. I have to give my beast minimal essential things for its existence and then I have to give as much as I can to my spiritual life. All the way.
4. S. (06:07) There is a lot of people, friends end circles around us, they see the lessons, they come to the lessons, they do all the activities with us but let's say a congress comes or gathering they don't have an ability to join. I wanted to ask what should we do in such a state, if we should open ourselves to whomever wants to who can just come and get in without going through any course?
R. Look, the connection between us is the essential thing, I remember that I used to come to Rabash when I was still living in Rehoboth. I came over there to study and sometimes I stumble upon the situation, that there is no one there, where did everyone go? They went to the Yeshivat Haverim. I did not know what a YH is.
I came to learn from the book by my teacher for him to explain to me what is written in the book, to ask him, you see the Yeshivat Haverim is that more important than studying with you? How could that be? When I'm sitting with people like me and I read with them, speak with them or I sit by your side and you are reading and you're teaching the lesson and he says you cannot compare the importance, all of the connection between yourselves to what I can give them. I cannot do anything instead of them, compared to what they are doing in the connection, I certainly did not understand it but I heard it. Okay, I understood that there's this white spot here and I cannot yet put any picture there, it is just a white spot for me later I will see and that is how many months went by.
I saw that time and again sometimes break out of the lesson, go outside sit and even drink and eat something there and we, the beginners, me and a few more we were sitting with Rabash and learning until I asked him maybe I can also join them? And he said no, you should not, for you it's better, but still I put pressure on him and once he told me okay go sit with them and look what is going on there. So I went over there, I was sitting with them, I was drinking L'Chaim, I ate some cake, then I sang a song with them and then I went back to Rabash and then I asked him so that's it? That's the Yeshivat Haverim? He said I told you you should not go and that is how that is how it happened, what am I trying to say? Until the true Yeshivat Haverim took place if we can say so, a long time has passed it took a long time and Rabash didn't go into that, he wouldn't manage it.
Only after 2 years maybe 3 years maybe, when I brought new students, the groups were formed in a way we started studying about with Rabash wrote about love our friends, about the connection between us and we started carrying it out. Then we really came close to a state of today, today it's really, we were talking openly and truly about the connection between us, about what we need to attain. This is truly a big thing, it is a great thing even though it's not high, it is true, it is the truth and that is important, meaning it is not that there is between us something false,everything is revealed. I want them in order to attain the Creator, they want me to attain the Creator, we have to support each other and that is how we will advance. That is all.
S. So these people that are around us that didn't go to any campus or anything, do we need to open all our systems for them? Let's say if someone like that wants to come to morning lesson physically or virtually?
R. Guys, I think it is best not to keep on going with this lesson this way, you should read, you should speak and I will try to hear you as much as I can, we are a small group here because we can't hear you, we are in the storm there are thunders here… there are thunders here, lightning, so let's hear so you should pass on the lesson.
Reading Excerpt # 18 (13:32)
5. R. (14:25) Look, this means says Baal HaSulam what he says the first and only Mitzvah guarantees the achievement of aspiration to attain Lishma to resolve not to work for oneself oneself apart for the necessary works merely to provide for one's sustenance and the rest of the time he will work for the public.
What can we see here? How much we need to restrict ourselves at least in this concern that we care about ourselves and only to depict to imagine, means to be caring only for the essentials why? Because that's what a person thinks, that's what it is. Doesn't matter how much I have, I don't have, rather how much of my time I perceive with my mind, my emotions, my efforts in order to be connected not with the Creator but with all kinds of means that's the problem.
Reading 19 (16:00) “The measure of egoism inherited in every creature…”
6. R. (17:05) Yes, this means that seemingly egoism and altruism can co-exist together one by the other. It is only that a person has to determine where the boundaries are between them. The boundary should be as much as I need for my still, vegetative, animate for my beast I have to give it in a way that is not praise nor it is condemned. All the rest above my beast is for the degree of a MAN, I have to give everything and Adam is the one who is able to resemble the Creator.
7. S. (17:59) What is the salvation that every created being needs?
R. It is not for no reason he writes about the salvation, it is for him to exist in a beastly way but also to advance in a human manner. Meaning, to live like a beast, he has to, that's not condemned or praised but living as a human, Adam, that he sees development before him to resemble the Creator that's also when something we need to provide to everyone.
8. S. (18:53) What does it mean that a necessity we need to give to the others, I see this thing in the world that many people want things that are not necessary, all kinds of pleasures and they remain unsatisfied. So, what is the necessity of the body?
R. Can you explain this question?
S. We cannot hear questions good, so I will read the questions in the system.
9. S. (20:17) When we say that we need to correct the world it is a responsibility to bring the correction. How can we cause the correction only with dissemination and prayer?
R. We don’t need anything beyond because the upper force, the Creator is nonetheless the only force that exists in reality and there is none else besides Him. Now we need is to bestow upon that upon Him to perform the correction because He won’t, He will do nothing if we do nothing if we don’t demand it, that's the condition, that's why we need to aim ourselves to Him and as we ask for corrections to be ready for that.
10. S. (21:10) How to explain to a simple person that has to bring the world to correction and not that the world was only created for him?
R. That’s a very big problem. Women are asking very difficult questions. How to explain to a simple person? That's according to his deficiency. Let's say now there's a problem of a difficult winter, many people won’t have heat this winter to heat themselves, maybe there's going to be a shortage of food, maybe here and there there’ll be wars and we need to explain to everyone that these things are being revealed because we are not revealing the good forces.
We’re not revealing the good forces and this is why we need to try to explain for ourselves and also for the whole humanity because everyday our world becomes more oppressed from all kinds of sides, temperature, hunger, thirst, some diseases, and thus, and this is why we have no choice. Instead of all these things we have to awaken the good force between us and the good force is something that we can awaken only by the connection between us, there is no other way to reach correction but by connection. We tried everything, let's try that, because according to the law of nature everything depends on a good connection between humans.
11. S. (23:44) From yesterday I'm confused. Is the creator correcting our intention or the desire or both?
R. We still can’t distinguish between a desire and an intention but soon in a few months we can start discerning these things, where the desire is, where the intention is, and how the desire affects the intention and vice versa but the question is right.
12. S. (24:25) Everything is corrected by the connection between the friends, the connection between us and open the heart as much as possible. What's an open heart?
R. An open heart is that I want to bring all the friends into my heart, that's called an open heart.
13. S. (24:49) In exit number six what is a flesh heart and what is a pure heart?
R. A heart of flesh is a heart that understands the good and bad on a corporeal level and a pure heart means that he reached the state where he can see in the whole world only purity, only the upper light.
14. S. (25:27) Does the Creator give a new heart when I understand that I act within my ego?
R. Yes that's called that He gave us a new heart, that the will to receive, the heart, is the will to receive, that it starts recognizing the forces of bestowal to respect them.
15. S. (25:52) What should I do with a friend that refuses to receive love of friends, refuses the gifts they give her?
R. I guess she's afraid that she has to do the same thing that's why she won’t accept them.
16. S. (26:13) If I feel I can’t connect that to a certain friend in the ten even though I'm making many efforts, many attempts, how can I connect with the rest of the ten is it possible?
R. Yes it's possible. Connect to the rest of the ten then with the help of almost the whole ten you can also connect to that one that rejects your connection.
17. S. (26:42) If my heart is bigger does that mean that I have to connect to more friends to correct the common parts of the soul?
R. Again.
S. If my heart is bigger does that mean that I have to connect to more friends to correct the parts of the common soul?
R. Yes.
18. S. (27:22) What is the mechanism that helps us going to the heart of the friends and what is the first point of calibration?
R. These are things that I won’t need to explain actually, not for now.
19. R. (27:54) Okay so I'm sorry that we have all the lightning here so we hope in the day it wouldn’t be so bad but right now it’s just wild weather, we’re high up in the mountains so, anyway it's a good state what we have a bit of connection so I'm hugging you all and I will see you tomorrow in the same hours, all the best goodnight, goodbye.