Morning Lesson August 18, 2022 Transcription
Transcription is made from simultaneous translation which leaves a possibility for differences in the audio
Baal HaSulam. The Teaching of the Kabbalah and Its Essence (The Meaning of Unity)
Reading (00:21) “The Meaning of Unity - The greatest wonder about this wisdom is the integration in it:“
1.S. (07:13) Yes this part of the article is called ‘The Meaning of Unity’ he writes here about the ten Sefirot as a universal structure of everything. Why is that the meaning of unity?
R. Because there is one source from which the upper light emanates bestowal and this bestowal passes through ten discernments and this bestowal divided in those ten discernments into ten special bestowals,influences and it comes to the matter the will to receive that they sustain and from this will to receive they construct all of the reality all of it, not talking about this world and the planets and the stars and what we have here still, vegetative, animate, and speaking, but we’re talking mainly about the degrees and the spiritual discernments. All of this is constructed out of the main ten Sefirot from which these forces that build all of reality and all of its laws emanate the laws of this reality upholds that's it,
2. S. (09:05) The fact that the Kabbalists hid the Wisdom Kabbalah very wisely does that have to do with this stage on the path?
R. Kabbalists hid the wisdom of Kabbalah because they wanted to conceal it, on the contrary they didn’t want people to get confused, humanity, confused even when he doesn’t understand what little it has in it for its own spiritual development. Even before the wisdom of Kabbalah look at what they’ve done look at the religions, beliefs, thousands of them thousands of things what they’ve done, killed one another through all kinds of religious wars and so on and so forth, so consequently Kabbalists hid the wisdom of Kabbalah and there was no one to serve it to and they waited for humanity to develop enough.
3. S. (10:36) In all the years that I am here that I'm in medicine, I understood that in starting to understand the wisdom of Kabbalah I understand a lot more. Why is it so hard to explain it in our dissemination?
R. Because this isn’t transferred egotistically into people. People don't understand they’re going to get out of it on the contrary, they feel it goes against their feeling against their intellect so they don't want it and if they’re interested a little bit it’s because it’s slightly interesting but the minute it comes to such stages to where they have to change themselves that's it, they don't want it and they stop and they flee. That's what it's all about, the minute they are already in a place where they have to decide I’m going for bestowal or not, on this it’s written a thousand enter the room and only one comes out to teach.
4. S. (12:13) When Baal HaSulam writes ‘our world’ can we say he's talking about the world which results from Adam Kadmon that includes the world of BYA and this is our world?
R. We have to see what he’s talking about, sometimes he's speaking about this world, this world, the corporeal world and other times he refers to something else.
S. Here in this excerpt now he said that our world, meaning the result of everything that results from under the world of Adam Kadmon, can we say it's our world with all of its laws?
R. Of course we have a result of the spiritual world but not a direct outcome there's an inversion on the way here.
5. S. (13:23) He says here that when we know the whole wisdom thoroughly then we can see our relationship that the whole body is made from and then he says that we’ll see the whole earth as full of the glory of the Lord. What does he mean?
R. He means that we’ll reach such corrections where the Creator is going to be revealing all those things both the direct ones and the inverted ones. Let’s read about that and giving permission.
Reading (14:00) “Giving Permission, I'm glad that I have been born in such a generation when it is permitted…”
R. (16:49) Which is the generation that is ready to rise to a higher degree and that is why Baal HaSulam was given permission from above to disclose the Wisdom of Kabbalah to the generation.
6. S. (17:13) Will there come a state where humanity will recognize the connection between all the troubles and blows and natural disasters and so forth and the connection between us. Will there be such a state?
R. In the connection between us and the humanity itself?
S. No, connection between people, just connection itself.
R. Of course we have to write about it all the time, I talk about it all the time with our contex team, I don’t know what they’re writing but this is the main thing.
S. The question is whether humanity will understand it, whether the ordinary person will understand this is the issue.
R. Of course, of course, this is what we have to write about, of course in general I want everyone to join our talks, they’re held once a week between a few people, a few writers and from that everyone should try to write everywhere, wherever they are, their impression, the way they understand about human development today. By all means I'm inviting everyone. I don’t see from those few writers who hear me. I don't see a great outcome from that.