Morning Lesson February 02, 2024

Transcription is made from simultaneous translation, which leaves a possibility for differences in the audio

Part 2:

Baal HaSulam. The Essence of the Wisdom of Kabbalah

Reading: The Essence of the Wisdom of Kabbalah. “Before I go about elucidating...”

1. R. (01:54) Meaning because many people entered the study all kinds of things that belong to the Wisdom of Kabbalah or near it close to it and only enter into great confusions and leave without any benefit. That is even those who enter this and want to know don't understand what they are doing or what they are learning about.

Reading: (02:42) What the Wisdom Is About. “This question comes to the mind of …”

2. R. (03:37) That's the definition of what the Wisdom of Kabbalah is, what its purpose is and actually that it is meant for the created beings, probably all the creatures he doesn't say anything else here. It’s like physics, math, like anything else. No matter what for each and every person in the manner of which one wants to know about the upper roots and how they manage him here in this world that he is in. 

Reading: (04:16) And here there is a conduct of general and particular: “General...” Twice

3. R. (05:11) This is as far as the general, meaning in general and its general manner he obtains the upper force in all that he has, in all that the upper force has.

4. S. (05:24) Can I ask about the definition?

R. Everything that we have read so far you can ask.

S. What is a sequence of roots that hang down by way of cause and consequence?

R. That from above there are some roots, some forces, that besides these forces there's nothing to talk about. That these forces come and cascade down from their roots somewhat and come to our world and impact us, bestow upon, us influence us.

S. This means that it was already decided for the person?

R. I'm answering you; it is not written.

S. What is this thing called from above they have decided, what does it mean?

R. They didn't decide, where are you reading that?

S. If you can say again that's what I heard?

R. I didn't add one word here.

S. If I heard correctly there are forces from above?

R. The forces from above that operate upon us and we as a result of that are operated. 

S. What are these forces operating on us and as a result are operated?

R. That's what I see I don't know, don't jump ahead this is what he said so far.

S. It's just interesting because that's our life?

R. That's not justification to ask for things that are not written here.

S. Can I ask about the laws and the fixed determined laws that he’s talking about?

R. No we didn't learn about them, did you learn how to study something?

S. I study all the time even now.

R. Learning all the time that doesn't mean anything you can learn about what is written.

S. If a question awakens in me?

R. That can happen to anyone but not out of place because then you're bothering everyone.

S. I ask permission?

5. S. (08:09) I want to ask about the definition because when a person looks at the definition it's not always obvious to a person what he is learning, there are many conditions in this definition. In a sequence of roots that are handed down by cause of consequence following fixed determined laws, it looks like a lot of conditions that all of them together really is the studying the Wisdom of Kabbalah. I wanted to ask can we take all these conditions because many times it seems like things are missed. If you can explain it to our 21st century person what are these things?

R. He is telling you that there's a force from above that also perhaps splits into several forces, and it acts on the matter in this world and activates it. We have an upper force that descends into our world, and it works here, and we wish to learn it and it's worthwhile for us to learn about His actions.

S. The more we read it seems very accurate, it's an order of roots that hang down, but we have cause and consequence meaning it's very very precise. Can we take this general thing, I think we all understand that we are studying the upper forces but to make it precise?

R. What do you mean to make it more precise? We haven't gotten into anything yet, you're just saying that that force cascades from above down and it works in all the details, all the elements and it moves them towards a certain goal.

Reading: (10:49) “Particular, that even before the perfection of all humanity…”

6. R. (11:58) Particular they say there are general and particular, we learned about the general and particular but even before we reach the summary, the conclusion of our development through the influence of the upper force. In each and every generation there are individuals who discover the upper force and are developed by it, and they reach certain things that the Creator, this force has prepared for us. This is the meaning of the revelation of His Godliness to His created beings in this world.

7. S. (12:43) Why do we need these details, these particulars, what benefit do they have in the system, in the end the Creator will call the general to reveal himself to all those. Why do we need all these particulars and each and every generation works and does?

R. I guess it's all connected to the thought of creation the purpose of creation, the reason behind it all.

S. I understand, I'm asking you if you could illuminate that a bit. What's the reason for it, what do we need all these particulars for, what benefit do they have for the system?

R. In all generations the upper force is revealed through all of his different actions and its actions act on us and awaken us to reveal it and in this way we begin to develop. It speaks only about to only about us who are operated on by these forces, various forces of nature and by that we begin to know Him more and more until we reach the general. Where through incorporations and connections we reach the recognition of the upper force called to benefit His creatures.

S. The general is also upon us?

R. What do you mean-us, we already have to attain it.

S. If we understand, we are in this category of particular as I understand?

R. Yes.

S. General means that General of humanity?

R. Yes.

S. I'm trying to understand again what's the point of these particulars who reveal beforehand something of His Godliness?

R. I guess that's how it needs to be from the cascading from above down. You have in each and every wisdom that all the wisdoms are fractions of the knowledge of the Creator, medicine, engineering it doesn't matter physics, math and geology, biology it's all in general and in total it's the knowledge of the Creator. 

8. S. (15:47) When the particular attains is that also the general attain at the end of it all?

R. I don't know, you're asking me as if I'm sitting next to the Creator and I see from one end of the world to the other end.

S. What do the particulars attain, what do they need to attain?

R. This general and the particular will eventually attain all of creation from its inception until its very end down to the very last details and also in one general.

S. What particular will attain before the general?

R. It all connects because these are the parts of the general soul that appear in each and every one in this way.

S. At the end of the correction the Kabbalists the prophets, these particulars do they have some kind of advantage over the general?

R. I don't know what to answer you, what are you looking to hear, what do you mean by that?

S. At the very end.

R. At the very end there's no difference, there's only difference on the way to. If you're looking at our body then of course what certain cell in the human body attains you attain something that belongs to it. If you talk about the creation in general then of course each one shares his attainment with the other and everyone connects and the upper light that created the general will to receive, fills the will to receive without any limits which is called the general attainment of the upper force.

S. The path of the particular and the path of the general are these two different paths?

R. It's a different path for each and everyone.

S. What is the difference in the path of each one?

R. According to his own personal data.

S. The exertion of the particular, is it different from the exertion of the general?

R. Certainly.

S. In what?

R. That particular exerts from his personal deficiency to reveal the Creator to cleave to Him and then the general does it for the general deficiency.

S. Despite the exertion of the particular is greater, that is what I hear?

R. Why?

S. That's what I'm asking?

R. Why?

9. S. (18:50) The Wisdom of Kabbalah as it is written here speaks about this path of development or does it explain to us how to go on this path? What is the Wisdom of Kabbalah in this way?

R. They both explain to us and help us develop and walk on the path and also bring us to the goal and tie us to the goal, it does everything.

S. How does it act, because let's say if you look at physics it depicts a certain static state?

R. You can't take a certain science of this world and based on that give an example about the Wisdom of Kabbalah.

S. What does act on because it seems as if there is? 

R. On a person's consciousness and awareness.

S. And when a person's consciousness works on the Wisdom of Kabbalah it receives knowledge, what else does it receive because here there is an order of laws then it says there is a goal?

R. An order of laws that work from above down on each and every detail, particular detail in creation individually in order to bring all of these particular details to a state where they are connected, and they receive everything that's needed in the end of correction.

S. Which part of the Wisdom of Kabbalah does a person receive the knowledge on how to walk on this path?

R. What do you mean on which part, the Wisdom of Kabbalah is not a wisdom that's divided into parts.

S. There is for instance what is written in the Book of Zohar, there are the writings of the ARI, does it matter to make that division or whatever you learn?

R. No anyone who learns and attains can explain the wisdom from his own point of view.

S. Meaning for us it's right to say that the Wisdom of Kabbalah are the writings of the ARI and the writings of Baal HaSulam and that's the whole Wisdom of Kabbalah for us?

R. I don't know, why are you putting things in this way, what does it give you? Someone else who takes the ARI and Rashbi and something else. What are you getting out of your explanation?

S. If the Wisdom of Kabbalah acts on a person's consciousness and we say that what Baal HaSulam wrote and Rabash wrote, is adapted to our generation, so that is the form by which we can work in this thing. Otherwise I'm just getting some knowledge if the person goes and reads in the Zohar he's just getting some knowledge he doesn't know how to work with that. I'm trying to understand what Baal HaSulam is writing here, what is he intending and what is he directing us to?

R. Baal HaSulam directs us towards attaining the purpose of creation. 

10. S. (22:03) What is, “your teacher will no longer hide himself and your eyes will behold his teacher?”

R. That everyone who attains, attains like everyone. 

S. What is the matter of seeing your teacher and afterwards seeing that your teacher hides himself, what does that mean?

R. When a person reveals the Creator he also learns about the laws of concealment of the Creator, and it adds to him.

S. What's the matter of your teacher which he emphasizes here, and your eyes will behold your teacher?

R. We'll see it later I don't know.

11. S. (22:47) The Creator always wants to benefit me. Before the point in the heart was born I lived this routine life, home, work, rest everything was quite calm and peaceful. Why does he put me onto this path where I feel more emotional where all my emotions are burning and then I'm always asking myself, why don't I relate this happiness to myself? I try to give it back to the Creator and everything that comes to me I try to give to Him. How can we live with such intent sensitivity?

R. You live. If you have to attain more you have to run around more.

12. S. (25:30) Are there other particulars in the end of correction in that whole perfect state, are there particulars?

R. I don't know.

S. Is the soul that the Creator created for instance, it has arms, legs and head, maybe it seems as if there's a difference between the parts?

R. I don't know, I think it'll be all round.

S. What is the difference between the parts of the soul? In general from the beginning, what does it mean that there's one part that's differentiated from another part? Why should that disappear, those differences?

R. [missing translation]

S. Will it be in order to hold on to the Appalachians and names and everything that the Creator wants to show to us, so there needs to be some difference between the parts. Then it's unclear how we can all feel everything if we're differentiated from each other?

R. Look I don't know, I don't even want to think about such exalted things because I saw how this changes in each and every turn, at each and every turn.

13. S. (25:42) There's this matter of the general, that everyone will attain as general and there's the matter of particular. I as a particular, it's written that in each and every generation Abraham Isaac and Jacob will reveal I'm part of this generation. Should I reveal Abraham Isaac and Jacob in this generation during the process of development?

R. In total and in all the vessels of the generation there's also a revelation of those desires called the Patriarchs.

14. S. (26:47) Are we considered the particular in relation to the general? What is our relation to the whole general? 

R. You're right to exist.

S. Why were we chosen to be particulars in relation to the general?

R. We will attain it later, for the time being we attain nothing, but will attain it later why and each and every one is a will to receive that is being moved by the upper light and is looking for its balanced place among everyone.

S. Is that our role in this world to find our balance to place among everyone?

R. Yes.

15. S. (27:37) What is his Godliness and how is his Godliness related to the connection between us?

R. The upper force there is None Else Besides Him and he wants to bring to each and every one the feeling of wholeness.

16. S. (27:55) What does the study give us about the order of roots and where is a person's participation in this order of roots that we study?

R. By studying we reach the end of the development of each and every one, and by that each one reveals the end of his development and that has nowhere to develop to, and by that he attains the purpose of his existence.

17. S. (28:32) What is consciousness?

R. I don't know, yet.

18. S. (28:47) Is the role to bring the Torah literally or is there a danger of losing the essence?

R. I think the essence will not be lost and we have to try as much as possible to advance according to the recommendations of Baal HaSulam and Rabash.

19. S. (29:17) How can we help each other reach the spiritual roots?

R. Through example, through help, mutual work. 

20. S. (29:38) Thanks for such a strong and wonderful lesson. The question is, in the world we live in the feeling of the students of Wisdom of Kabbalah, your students are doing something in the direction of the purpose of creation and the correct direction of the world's correction to reach the purpose of creation. Can you give us some kind of direction so that we can start in the work and head in the correct direction and towards the purpose of creation?

R. You have no promises, no guarantees, no directions, there’s no policeman standing here telling you which way to go. You only have a group and relative to the group you have a system of connections of laws, carry it out and you will see.

S. We are in that we are carrying out actions together?

R. Okay so what else do I have to tell you, keep going and continue, there's nothing else to say this is the only way to attain the spiritual goal.

21. S. (31:14) In relation to the future of the wisdom of Kabbalah the close future of the next few years. Do you think the Wisdom of Kabbalah will be more and more requested or do you think the contrary, that it has already gathered its mass and in the end it will just reveal a few more points in the heart here and there, but it'll be a more restricted closed group that will engage in it?

R. I see that it will develop and gradually cover the whole world, not at the expense of religion and sciences and all those things but rather it will assume its place, relatively a restricted place but one that's gradually expanding.

S. Expansion of the Wisdom of Kabbalah and humanity will that be preserved as it is, this authentic Baal HaSulam way or will it acquire new forms in humanity?

R. No, I can't acquire new forms because its development depends on the execution by the lower ones. They have to unite connect and execute the wisdom, realize it so I don't think there are any other actions besides acts of connection and from the connection to learn about us.

S. The execution of the acts of the humanity will that be in different levels or is there a certain level that everyone needs to reach?

R. No, that's according to each and everyone's nature.

S. Meaning we will engage in connection in the Tens and humidity will engage in connection in a different way?

R. No, not in a different way, in Tens. Tens, hundreds, thousands. 

22. S. (33:27) Why does a person, why is he measured according to his modesty and his ability to annul toward the creation and the Creator?

R. I don't know.

S. If I now say to everyone that I love them will that bring the redemption closer?

R. It has nothing to do with what a person says but on how much he carries it out.

S. Let's say I carry that out, will that bring the redemption closer?

R. I don't know.

Reading: (34:26) The Abundance of Partzufim, Sefirot, and Worlds. “According to the...”
Twice

23. S. (38:16) [missing translation]

24. S. (39:17) [missing translation]

25. S. (44:36) [missing translation]

R. There are an infinite number of details, and you don't know what to do with them except for that you take all of them and you tie them with one law.

S. Does the Creator do that?

R. Yes he does that, just keep it simple.

26. S. (46:07) I'll ask about the general and the particular that Baal HaSulam speaks about. Israel and the  Nations of the world it is written that the wisdom and the Gentiles believe, what do the nations of the world see as God in our society?

R. I don't know these questions, I don't know I didn't scrutinize them. I have no answer for them. 

S. What from us students of the Torah can come out to the students of wisdom who believe what can we do to adapt it to them?

R. It is the same question that you asked about how to create this equivalence between the integral and the one who does it in a discreet way.

S. For a moment this sense that the nations of the world see in Israel, and they receive it through anti-Semitism, is it something that we are not giving to them and is expressed as an attitude that is very strong of anti-Semitism towards us. What should we who are there inside that we wish to give, what do we give them that they will invert that attitude as it is written?

R. We provide them with the perception of reality in a place where they can receive and that they are not small but rather like everyone else. No nation, no one is less than or lower than the others from the other nations.

27. S. (48:53) In the usual science a person understands and accordingly researches and reveals. Whereas here they revealed everything beforehand, and processes are the opposite, that the more that we develop there is more and more concealment. How do we work with that before us that everyone reveals everything everywhere, for example Baal HaSulam and all the Kabbalists?

R. Yes but it doesn't mean that we reached the complete world but rather we are still in the shattered world with those great ones who attained it, but we have to advance and specifically through the connection between us, between these small parts who are us, we can draw the entire world to the right role.

S. Do we need to see our role as complementing this whole process?

R. Yes as is the conclusion of it. 

Reading continues. (51:17) “Two conducts from…”

28. S. (54:06) He describes here a process of gradual ascent up the path towards the revelation of the Creator so what does it mean that the salvation of the Lord is as a blink of an eye?

R. That in every place a person expects some solution to happen to him, so his salvation is close to him.

S. Because sometimes you might think that we are talking about general salvation?

R. I don't know, here you can interpret it however you want.

29. S. (55:06) He says that according to the refinement of the attainer the one who attains is revealed the degrees of the Holy Spirit, what is that refinement that we need to attain?

R. So that we will not be partitioned toward the influence of the Creator to his created beings.

S. What does it mean that we attain degrees of prophecy in the Holy spirit?

R. We attain if we are not this partition, but we let all the Creator's actions be observed in the created beings, and we participate in that as much as possible so then we become like them. 

30. S. (56:00) If I may continue the question that he asked earlier about the expansion of the wisdom, something is very very special about Baal HaSulam, I think unprecedented and was never done before. In his article to these fundamental articles in these intros, he presented an entire logic of the Wisdom of Kabbalah in this package of study. That the whole world is the will to receive and what is the purpose of creation. It is presented in a coherent orderly manner. I hope it is okay that I'm saying that and also what you have done in your language. It helped to make it easier to digest today and in the past 20 years we have known how to create a course and give a person this entire picture from A to Z. I want to ask about this entire curriculum, this picture of reality that we have thanks to Baal HaSulam. Is there something that only users like us, those with the point in the heart only those needed, or is this sort of a study packet that all of humanity will eventually have to know this picture, this mental image of how reality is built?

R. I think that everyone will seek it because humanity develops, and it has before itself now a big leap in its development. We will feel a deficiency to attain the depths of all of the Creator’s actions, the essence of all the Creator’s actions and accordingly we will need the whole of the Wisdom of Kabbalah to reveal it in us. Yes.

S. Meaning it is not clear how you say but you see it in such a way that eventually it will reach all the layers in the population?

R. Certainly every person who has some measure of the point in the heart to the extent that he belongs to the level of human he will attain it.

S. Meaning it is part of the revelation of Godliness that we will begin to understand who we are, what are we, the will to receive, the purpose of creation, equivalence of form, where it is all going, and we need to try and advance this, help it along?

R. Yes that is what is called the revelation of his Godliness to his created beings in this world. It all enters the framework of the Wisdom of kabbalah. Yes.

31. S. (59:15) These created beings, those people could be animals as well, other animals. What are His created beings?

R. I cannot say more than what is understood by us. That created beings, his creatures or His created beings means that the will to receive feels itself as belonging to the Creator.

S. The individual or particular who lives here for 70 years, is he a part that attains the entire system and he attains himself as part of that system?

R. Yes he attains himself as a part of the whole system and they will all know me from the least of them to the greatest of them.

S. Then all the other creatures created beings I don't know how to call them, all the layers also still vegetative animate, he sees it all as created beings or he sees created beings as only as people in the heart, with the point in the heart.

R. To a certain extent they will also receive this influence from what human beings attain, which is the work of the Creator in a passive way.

S. Back to the beginning of the discussion everyone will attain everything on the same level that is what we said in the beginning? Here there is a feeling that not everyone will have a piece in the will to receive the same attainment, the same connection as Godliness on the one hand, on the other hand we say that everyone will attain everything.

R. There's a question here about the deficiency or according to or an equal way with everyone, I cannot say.

32. S. (01:01:30) On the expansion of the wisdom and its derivatives, it's been about more than 15 years when there was a state in the world that brought out of you the need to express the Wisdom of Kabbalah in the form called integral education. My question is how do you relate to this concept, this wisdom called integral education today?

R. I don't know. Today I don't feel that I have the strength to really invert the world.

S. At that time when this thing was born we needed a great crisis, a financial crisis and lots of layoffs and everything that he talked about came to be it was very tangible. I think the situation today is better but what has changed?

R. I don't know, it seems to me that people became more amorphous or sunk into what they had and do not want to raise their heads from the place that they're in.

S. We see that our dissemination focuses on the Wisdom of Kabbalah and less, or practically not at all. In integral education what used to be was very big back then. Why is it so why does it unfold in this way?

R. It is because we do not feel that there is much demand, that there is no demand that the public is not demanding. In general I don't manage the situation; I expect it from you.

S. Do you think in your opinion all those thousands of hours of talks that you gave on the integral education will have a buyer so to speak, someone who wants to see them and they will come to be?

R. I think that there will be yes. I think in any case each and every person in the world will need to absorb something that relates to his correction.

33. S. (01:04:50) What does it mean when you say, “I don't feel in me the power to transform the world”?

R. I don't have the strength to initiate some new directions, some new things.

S. You don't feel a deficiency, any deficiency, what does it mean about us?

R. That afterwards we can do something with it and awaken something with it.

S. We awaken the deficiency in the public?

R. Yes.

S. How?

R. Start awakening, explain to them what they can have and what can be in them and according to that they start awakening.

S. Even when there is pain in the public like now during the war?

R. It is an individual pain, and it is very small.

S. Even then the people don't want to hear even during a time of trouble they don't want to hear, so what kind of deficiency do we need to awaken in the public?

R. It seems like that trouble is insufficient.

S. What do we have to awaken from our side so that trouble won't come but there will be a correct deficiency for correction?

R. I don't know, it's not for talking about it now. It really requires, I don't have the forces, I don't have the ideas. I feel that the public is incapable of receiving what we throw at it, ideas that are spiritual and new. We will wait a bit longer.