Morning Lesson January 26, 2022, Transcription
Transcription is made from simultaneous translation which leaves a possibility for differences in the audio
Part 2:
Baal HaSulam. Disclosing a Portion, Covering Two
1. R. In our course of the wisdom of Kabbalah we want to go over all of the writings of Baal HaSulam gradually thus we begin from these articles that are for beginners and are relatively short. So, until we will receive already, experience and knowledge to go on to bigger articles and more serious ones, mainly to the Introductions and then also to TES. Once again, the approach needs to be that we need to learn these with the approach that it is not just a remedy that will give us the ability to advance to vessels of bestowal. That we somehow feel and understand what faith above reason is, what it means to be vessels of bestowal and then we can learn everything that TES is speaking to us about in spiritual actions in a matter we will also feel what it is talking about. In the meantime, then we are also learning preparations for that, these short articles like the one before us.
Reading: “There is a medium among sages….” (01:48)
2. S. (03:15) I wanted to ask as far as not saying and saying?
R. No, the problem by them is that it is forbidden to reveal to a person things that he still cannot understand, attain, misunderstand, and understand them incorrectly. The study must be dust to direct a person to the building of the vessels that he later can attain and the attainment he attains helps him, raises him a degree, that we are not just developing vessels for, just intellectual vessels like in this world, we want to develop spiritual vessels. Thus, Kabbalists throughout the generations, thousands of years, there are people who have attained the Creator and the first to attain the attainment of the Creator was Adam, the first was Adam HaRishon, the first Kabbalist. They were very strict about it, that in some total they want to reveal to us things that will help us raise us to spiritual attainment and not just give us knowledge from them that we will not just benefit anything, what we get from that, philosophy?
They were very careful and thus they said that if you reveal, reassure that you were reviewing it for the benefit of the people and so reveal it and if not, then do not. The word like the word that you use, that it is one day worth $1 and this day you do not reveal it and it is worth two dollars It is more worthwhile and better to not reveal. Not that they want to conceal it but rather they want to just prepare a person for the correct state because otherwise why was the wisdom of Kabbalah concealed, why did Kabbalists want to not advertise the wisdom of Kabbalah. To this day the people talk about that because if a person is not ready, then from these books he could not understand a thing. In our times it is not working so much, not effective so much because we are in such confusions now at the end of generations. The truth is that was a true fear of the Kabbalists that people will begin to build instead of the wisdom of Kabbalah other methods and that is actually what did happen. These methods of rose, existed, and acted in humanity even thousands of years. Only today they are beginning to go down in importance and remain as some culture and not more and so then it is allowed then for the wisdom of Kabbalah to be revealed more.
3. S. (07:25) It is talking about rocks here; I do not know what a rock is in spirituality, but I know what a rock is in corporeality.
R. Like a type of coin. Let us continue to read.
Reading continues: “Three kinds of concealment in the Torah” (07:52)
4. R. (08:40) Meaning, we have three parts in the secrets of the Torah each part has its unique reason it is concealed. What are these concealments and what do they operate, what types of matters and what levels of matter, on what do they operate? Maybe on some type of unique human beings? What is happening here? In the meantime, he is simply explaining to us that these parts are called the “unnecessary,” the “impossible,” and “the Council of the Lord is to those who fear them,” he will explain them.
Reader continues: “This means no one will benefit...” (09:23)
5. S. (10:52) There are a lot of questions here, what does it mean that he is not accepting his students, who is he accepting, and he was not, on what level. If we are talking about the level of degrees like in a school or university, my grades, then of course you can sort them and say who can say or behave as such and such and then they do not enter some class or some course in university and so on that we can understand. But how they behave as such we do not know the Kabbalists but really there are stories about this that the Kabbalists and sages in general, that they will accept would accept students who ever already passed many discernments, that he learned from someone and that he is given some agreement about him. Meaning known, the world was not so big as it is today with all the traveling from place to place and so it was more known each one is and where he comes from. The main thing that we need to know, the matter that is unnecessary, meaning what does not belong to attainment of the goal, the spiritual goal, we do not engage in it. It is simple, we do not engage in what does not belong to the attainment of the spiritual goal and it is a matter that is very important because all of us engage in a lot of garbage.
Things that are so what, do not have any importance and to sort and arrange oneself that is directed correctly only towards the goal and only, all day in each minute to engage in what is before a person. To attain the correct goal, to be like that it is not simple you need a lot of force, force of the environment and only in such a manner, you could reach the goal. It is not important also how much time we give to it but rather how much attention, our how heartfelt attention. Like Rabash would work over ten hours of physical labor in construction or paving the roads but he knew what he was doing it for, why he is alive. In his mind there were always thought about the goal and so all the time he would engage in attainment of the goal. What is unnecessary he would place aside and engage only in the necessary, it was mainly work in the mind and heart and what they are engaged in the mind and heart of man.
6. S. (14:37) Baal HaSulam writes explanations to writings of Holy Ari but I am curious that he did not write any explanation to the worlds of Klipa. Baal HaSulam says that it is unnecessary, but my question is if that is unnecessary when the Holy Ari wrote it, if the holy Ari wrote it is necessary so why did Baal HaSulam not write an explanation to it?
R. Surely it is unnecessary to whoever does not attain spirituality, meaning for you to be interested in the worlds of Klipa, it will not give you anything because you are well below the shells. So, you do not have, shells are like the Holy, these are spiritual forces, not something easy and close to you. To the extent that a person attains Holiness he attains shells, this compared to this the Creator created. You have a lot of questions, and I am not against that, it is good, but it is better if you arrange them correctly and put them in some box whenever you open it and learn.
7. S. (16:33) You mentioned now. In the past there was a certain selection to be accepted into the study but today to be accepted into the ten is it also worthwhile to do a certain exam to check that a person is ready to invest? Because it is like an elite unit and if one is not capable then no one can attain the goal.
R. Doesn't work now like it did before, where we are a unique group that needs to attain the goal within it in itself. What was before now does not work because we are in the last generation, in a process that is already going towards the end of the generation and people must retain and everyone must work and no. There is no check, but it rather is open to everyone.
S. So who do we take an example from, it is open to everyone who ever is not married, not working. From you it is hard to take an example and surely not Rabash so each one into himself?
R. Each one should build a form of what he wants to achieve, attain.
8. S. (18:23) Things that are unnecessary are self-defined or by the goal?
R. That they do not lead a person to the goal.
9. S. (18:40) It is not clear that ‘so what’ is considered like the worst by the sages, why the worst?
R. Because it deviates a person from the path and there is no end to it. It does not leave the person to a place where the person says, ‘oh I have reached a dead end and I have to go back and find a path’ there is no such thing. ‘So, what’ does not lead to anything except for to fill himself and today our whole world, look at the media and everything, it is only an order to fill a person until the end of the world, to the end of his life.
Reading continues: “This means that the language does not…” (19:33)
10. R. (20:28) Meaning there are things that you can come to, not everyone, but those who truly have an inclination and a desire, certain preparation, a belonging to reveal that root which is called the impossible and to them it is possible and impossible becomes possible.
Reader continues: “This matter is explained in the book…” (20:52)
11. R. (25:53) Meaning it could be that there were great sages and knew more than the Ari and Rabbi Shimon, but we do not know. We do not know about them because it was prohibited for them to reveal and therefore it could be that they were great in attainment more than anyone, but they did not write or speak. It is all the secret of the Lord shall hide a matter. How many do we have from Moses except from that he wrote the Torah, how much do we have from King David and King Solomon, what do we have? We have very little writings all together even though they knew several folds, what all those Kabbalists later did. Meaning, we need to understand that every single Kabbalists discloses what he is permitted to disclose and when he gets permission from the heaven, meaning that the Creator himself seemingly gives him permission, says reveal this and this not. Therefore, we cannot in our intellect with the books at each left behind according to that measure the Kabbalists, this is more of that is less. It is completely not possible with our intellect, and we should not, God forbid, relate to these people in such a way, they serve according to a different criterion, to the extent in which it is beneficial all together for all the souls to reach the end of correction.
12. S. (27:59) What characterizes the relation to the surrounding light?
R. When you will be in degrees of surrounding light and the inner light and more than that then you will know. Now we have nothing that we can discover, we just know that whoever enters spirituality starts more or less to understand slowly, slowly, like we are in this world, what it is all together. Later what he belongs to and how much of a role he has in that and one's role of revealing or disclosing or not, nevertheless the sign for wisdom is silence. Meaning first of all we are silenced and then we talk, and we talk only about those things that you can for sure benefit the correction of the souls with. It depends on time on a period of time, it depends on many things that we will then know, okay?
13. S. (29:22) What is the difference between an explanation and a hint?
R. The clarification and the intonation, it is just signs.
14. S. (29:39) There are those who do not have permission and they still teach Kabbalah.
R. In our times that is no longer in validity, all those things were until our time until we entered about a hundred years ago, I do not know exactly, it seems to me maybe a little bit before that, where we entered the last generation. When we enter the last generation there are no limitations to anyone, anyone who is interested can do and that is different, he can do what he thinks. No one criticizes the other and everyone is allowed to disclose and moreover as it is written, it is a great reward to one who reveals or discloses.
S. It is significant, I need to clarify?
R. There is no longer such a thing, do you understand? There used to be a special agreement beforehand special permission, a person receives such permission from above that he had some sort of a special connection with the Creator, then he could teach others. In our times already not just in our times but for some time now, it comes down from the point. It is not that oh we are such great people are not and is not about the small ones. It is because we all must now in a whole mass of humanity of souls to approach the end of correction.
S. So I can learn anyone who calls himself a Kabbalist?
R. Anyone without any limitation, anyone.
15. S. (32:36) We heard that there are Kabbalists, the surrounding light, and the inner light.
R. That does not belong to us now how can you not understand, you hear just one sentence out of ten sentences. He explained to us there was once a great difference between the souls but today all the souls are already connected from above to start with to the purpose of correction, so there is no limitation on anyone.
S. In principle what is the difference?
R. When you are a sage you will know, when you enter spirituality you will know, it does not belong to you to understand now, what do you have to do with souls? It is not for us now for the time being, understand that. Why am I answering you this way, we need to advance and then we will know how to act in a way of how to operate here.
16. S. (33:54) What is the purpose in all of the revelations the Creator gives to Kabbalists they cannot give to others?
R. That goes to the general soul of Adam HaRishon, this is what was before the shattering, which is within that soul, and that shattered soul and we are correcting it.
17. S. (34:37) Revelation itself is already called correction?
R. Even personal revelations are corrections, the Kabbalists do many revelations, many corrections that we do not know or do not know about. It does not belong to us, when we get to our souls with such corrections then we too will be incorporated in that and to the extent in which we rise in the degrees of correction, we will understand that there are jobs that are like this and like that, work that you do here and there. Just like a little child, he does not know that there are laboratories and factories and all kinds of mechanisms that engage, no, for him that does not exist. He does not know where everything comes from, this car that he sees on the shelf and the toy store that he comes to, he does not know anything, that is for him and that is it. The older people, they know where it comes from and that there are all the other things that come with it, and we will get there. Kabbalists write in such a way that it is clear to us and therefore what is revealed we can learn and there are also such books that do not have to do with the correction of the souls actually.
18. S. (36:14) Why do Kabbalists like Abraham and Moses are more connected to the nation, in more direct contact compared to Ari and Baal HaSulam, it looks like they arranged all these writings, but they are really not in connection with the nation?
R. It probably had to be that way, each generation and its sages, each generation, and its behavior according to the root of its soul. Certainly, all of these things are managed by the upper light and if we do not understand yet the general form of why we are arranged this way, the Universe, the Earth, our history, and the history of each and every one. We do not know yet because you could not grasp it, you cannot grasp it yet with your intellect, with your nice and correct approach you cannot. You do not have that approach, that access, how can you ask about such global things and also about the Kabbalists, what do you understand and the perception and the work of a Kabbalist that you are asking about that. It is like a cat asking about the life of a person, he has questions like that about it. We will develop, enter spirituality, and deepen into spiritual actions and then accordingly we all know how to ask and how to receive the answer until now there is none.
S. So we do not need to think that if there is a Kabbalist he will come and help the nation. It could be that he will just complete something in the system and the nation will reach it later?
R. Let it be that way, it is hard for me to understand your way of thinking.
Reading continues: “From this reason, from the writings…” (38:38)
19. S. (39:27) That should be clear to us it is not worthwhile to run around between all the writings between all kinds of things I had when I did not have that before I came to Rabash and to the writings of Baal HaSulam. I had so many books that I bought in every place and from Jerusalem, from all kinds of places that sold these kinds of books. I could truly just fill garbage cans with that. We need to understand that what he is writing here truly should be for us the right direction, the writings of the Ari, meaning the Zohar and the writings of Baal HaSulam, these three sources besides that nothing.
Reading continues: “The counsel of the Lord for those who fear him…” (40:31)
R. (41:20) All the red strings of different kinds.
Reading continues: “And the mystics who used…” (41:25)
20. R. (47:15) He concludes the short article of his called, “Disclosing a Portion and Covering Two” he gives us a little to feel what states Kabbalists are in and what they are going through, what concerns them, and we will see.
21. S. (47:43) You said on Shabbat if we do not open our cameras, it is harmful, right?
R. I see many black windows before me and it was explained to me that this is a person that does not want to be seen, what does that mean for him not to be seen?
S. It is not always the state, there is a whole scrutiny in and of itself.
R. Why does he close himself?
S. A lot of people say their internet is weak in some place.
R. So it is not letting the picture to be seen.
S. Or let us say someone that is taking care of kids, or a person is at work or someplace that he cannot open his camera and he wants to be connected, there are a variety of reasons.
R. Okay so let us say it this way, that each person needs to say that if he shows himself, he is participating in all that he is capable of, possible with his friends and that is a must for him. If you have no choice and if you are coerced from above then you do so, if you are not able and you do the work and can only hear or is taking care of the children or something else is happening, then he does not put his picture up there. So, we know that this person is with us that has a problem and the moment he can, or she can, he will show us that he is with us and participate and share.
S. The impression is that this is suggested to women?
R. No, this is not for the women, I talked about this one maybe when women were there.
S. I guess that is why there was a misunderstanding.
R. No I mostly meant the men, women are void of anything that is related to that, each can disclose herself or reveal herself however she can because women have other matters at home where they have to take care of their families and take care of their children maybe and it depends on maybe her hairdo as one way or another, I don’t know. There is scrutiny in every way, and I will not get into that, mostly this is with the men.
S. if there is an opportunity to listen passively on Sviva Tova and not in the Arvut system at all or is it better to be in the Arvut system sometimes with the camera closed?
R. I should leave this to each of you, but each should know by that each of you is strengthening and sustaining one another and if you are not capable under the conditions that are given to you then what can you do.
22. S. (51:07) When your students engage in dissemination what are the chances….?
R. If you think about the benefit of a person and how this can benefit a person then you cannot harm him. That is it.
23. S. (51:35) How do Kabbalists determine if there is a need to reveal the wisdom of Kabbalah or not?
R. How do they decide, according to what they felt from it from the upper world, from the Creator. When we enter the upper world and to the degree, to a certain and specific degree then we will also know what the will of the Creator is and what we will need to do with each and every desire of ours in order to be in equivalence and closeness with him.
24. S. (52:19) How do we yearn correctly, cleanly for the whole correction for the revelation of the wisdom?
R. Only through connection with others that is the safest way and the most correct way, if I do not love my friends, don't want to come close to humanity, don't want to come bring humanity to correction for the benefit of everyone then for sure I am not in the right way of wisdom of Kabbalah and I have nothing to do there.
25. S. (52:56) At the end of the lesson some of the friends do not say anything in the summary, sometimes they say that they do not want to confuse one another, what should we discuss at the end of the lesson and what should we not?
R. I do not know with Rabash we did not have any summary at the end of the lesson but here I think it is worthwhile for us to do this from time to time at least so it will arrange us better, so it will help us be more stable and aimed to the goal.
26. S. (53:52) What do you mean sometimes? I know all the tens; we always have a summary after the lesson.
R. If there are tens that cannot, I know sometimes they could not because of a lack of time or interest, I do not know why. But if I hear such things that I just want to say that it is not too bad if for the time being you are not doing it two or three times a week and not every day even though it is best to do it daily. I will tell you what is good about the summary, you know why you are there and what to demand next time. You are learning from one another and altogether from the group summary how to approach the lesson. This evokes general good scrutiny and criticism and a stable approach towards the group, towards the purpose of life. Therefore, this summary is the main thing, what did you get, what do you have from this. Did you have something you wanted to attain and then you got it or not, or what do you mean from that, what did you intend. What all together are you continuing with, summary is a very serious thing, but I am not pressuring each and every one that he must and if you cannot, if one cannot, as it is written so open for him, help one another how you are coming to a summary. Do a general summary with your ten so that we will all learn and tell us later what your summaries are. In short, I am hugging you all, have a good day, a good continuation to the day and the main thing is health, both corporeal but mostly spiritual health. A lot of light, goodbye.