Morning Lesson January 29, 2024
Transcription is made from simultaneous translation, which leaves a possibility for differences in the audio
Part 3:
Baal HaSulam. 600,000 Souls
Reading 600,000 Souls Twice (00:42 ) It is said that there are 600,000 souls.
1. S. (08:47) We can understand it as man's attitude towards the Ten, first he feels nothing and then he feels himself and then as part of the Ten until ultimately he and the Ten and all of Israel are one.
R. Yes.
S. He really talks about us and this article it's not something general?
R. No history or geography, this is us.
2. S. (09:25) What is the first state he writes about here that that one feels one soul as an individual and he doesn't understand it's the whole of Israel?
R. That's how a person starts yearning to understand who am I and what am I and what a soul is and what the Creator is and so on. In the first phase he's still feels his soul as a unique detail, and he doesn't understand that that is the whole of Israel, that he has a connection to the collective of the whole spiritual vessel. That is now starting to be revealed to a person and that is a flaw, because it comes the feeling of the soul as something that is sliced from the collective as something individual.
S. Why does he say that he feels his soul meaning he already has some feeling of it?
R. He feels that it's his internality that he still doesn't feel it as a part of a collective that he's connected to the collective. He feels that he has in him as a soul, and he lives and exists supposedly outside of the others.
S. In the second state where it says this true light of the soul of Israel doesn't illuminate in all of its power but only partially. What does it mean partially a part of the illumination that shines?
R. He writes keep reading.
S. By the measure he is purified himself by returning to the collective
R. Yes, as much as he connects to the collective in such a way to that measure he purifies his soul, and he feels that he is part of that collective.
3. S. (12:08) In the Congress we really felt the Ten in different opportunities it was especially powerful in the social time we felt like we were rising with the Ten but I want to ask about outside, if outside people connect in times of trouble soldiers in a battlefield and they describe the state to me sound spiritual does that touch upon the states we're working with?
R. It could be that some kind of refinement takes place in them, that their souls are getting purified, and they feel for maybe a moment usually then it passes because life comes back and turns it out but there are times that they actually feel it.
S. I just want to say thank you to everyone for this Congress into you for the forces that you invest in the Creator that allow us to feel love in Israel here in such a complicated time thank you.
4. S. (13:29 ) What does it mean the state described here, that the soul appears in all of its power as it appeared as in Adam HaRishon?
R. I don't know that state itself I don't attain but according to what is written, you can say that by man doing that him connecting to the upper root, he can reveal that light that is extended upon him from above.
S. When we connect with the friends with the points in the hearts, do we connect with individual souls or a single soul?
R. We connect with individual souls between themselves and the more we connect, we connect them into one whole collective whole.
S. The common part is that some part of the soul of Adam HaRishon?
R. Yes of course.
S. What does it mean 600,000 if there's only one soul?
R. We've learned it and we will learn more about the shattering of the Partzuf that is put together from six parts like ZA, that's why it was shattered into 600,000 parts.
Reading continues (15:44 ) “This is the meaning of the three times of a person…”
5. S. (32:16) It is written according to the measure he was purified the common soul shines on him. according to the measure who is purified, what is the measure of purification?
R. Corrected its coarseness, Arvut?
S. Then what happens?
R. Then more light can come from surrounding light to Inner Light.
S. Then the general Soul can shine on him?
R. Yes.
S. There's also an expression here that Collective of Israel what is that Collective of Israel the general soul?
R. There's no other division besides the vessels that are working in order to be bestow according to their intention their direction they're called Israel Yashar 'El straight to the Creator that's it.
S. The individual that purifies himself and comes closer to that collective, there's a collective soul there's collective of Israel that individual starts purifying when he…?
R. Accordingly that's how he enters the whole, the collective.
S. That force of the whole.
R. Those who already corrected themselves in the intention to bestow and they've entered a single force with the Creator.
S. That structure of the collective that he's already won, he's already in unity with the Creator so that one that wants to purify, in what what's the line that brings him to incorporate in this corrective thing that he's already united.
R. The root of the soul, the root of his soul.
S. Let's say now in the convention, some collective was felt, what is that force of the collective that is huge?
R. It's a force, what's a force? A force that attracts towards the Creator, the final correction, connection between us, all of it is a force.
6. S. (35:21) What is the matter that he writes in one requires his whole world in one hour?
R. That he receives a response right now in that response he receives from above allows him, enables him to make the final correction.
7. S. (35:54) First of all especially today it feels like what about Baal HaSulam writes in this article and gratitude that we have such a righteous image in the generation who knows the entire soul and conveys it in such way that there is someone who knows everything it's something very unique and he also knows how to deliver it in a way that in our generation we can feel that.
R. Yes, Baal HaSulam was rewarded with all the degrees.
S. Yes, it's felt everywhere, and I wanted to ask he talks about the individual who begins to return to the collective, so it seems like there are two aspects here according to the article and also feeling there's the individual who feels the whole of Israel, and basically where is why is there a Ten in the way? It feels like it has to be there so the person can return to the collective but it's unclear where is it on the way technically speaking. Like a person must have it but it's unclear where it is between the individual and feeling the whole of Israel. to its generations.
R. The individual who listens to the advice of Kabbalists about how to return to the whole, that he has to bring himself to an intention to bestow as one man in one heart and so forth, so that individual returns and that is his correction.
S. What is the structure of the Ten that he's in that maybe it is but where does the general soul shine on him specifically during the Ten, through the Ten.
R. Yes.
S. How does a person feel the collective of Israel in our generations through the structure of the Ten, doesn't it restrict him?
R. We don't understand how the Ten which seems to us like a something individual and temporary and coincidental that's most important, That's what it seems. We don't see that it can actually bring each and every person to the goal. To a connection to bring him to his place to his true final stop.
8. S. (39:02) What is Baal HaSulam’s method? what is the essence of his method?
R. The essence of the method is truth. That there's nothing besides a force in man, a force in the Creator and the connection between them. To the extent that one can use his force and the Creator's force, that is bestowed upon him that shines on him, according to that a person advances towards his source. that's it.
S. Yesterday when we read None Else Besides Him it's clear Baal HaSulam created it, but it says our sages said, they wrote it's like he gathers a lot of things, TES, Shamati all those things it's like they concentrate a lot of sources that already exist. What did he add into there that makes it a method his method because you feel that there's something in him?
R. Look Baal HaSulam only worked in the 20th century. Before him, many Kabbalists were active also in his generation there were a few. So you can't say that this is the one and only Kabbalist sent by the Creator and that's it. However, practically what's unique about him is that he received permission from above and opened to us a very important part of the wisdom of Kabbalah that discusses man's correction. Which before Baal HaSulam was very difficult to understand, to attain and people had to go through like he explains in one of the sources you don't remember?
S. The seven wisdoms.
R. The seven wisdoms, all kinds of things like that it's not simple and for us essentially basically everyone can come closer and reach it.
S. We actually took the whole path and inner work, and he took the essence of it into something very precise without all the.
R. Yes, yes, if you read him word after word in trying to feel these words a bit from within then we see he wrote this to those who wish to feel because the most important thing is feeling. Some people it's very hard for them to rise above their feeling.
9. S. (42:49) I want to ask, because maybe we can learn from this if you are willing to tell us. We started the lesson and you said that you didn't sleep all night because of the convention and
R. I am really broken, at the end of the Congress I got to a point where I don't know how I keep holding on.
S. You said that we should wait you said we'll wait. Maybe it's a beginning of our next stage our next development, it's not that you're not it's not that you have seeping sleeping problems. it's the beginning of the next thing. I want to learn from it. I guess we're all going to go through all states everybody's going to go through everything what's the way to relate to a state that you can't sleep, and I didn't see you sleeping in the lesson to the contrary, I don't see anybody more alert than you in this lesson. How do you relate correctly to such a state that you get?
R. I don't know it's not up to me, doesn't depend on me. I don't have an answer, but I truly didn't sleep. You don't need to learn from that. Today we have to conclude the lesson. Today we have to conclude this holiday that we have and prepare ourselves for tomorrow morning. Still we can say now thank you for the Congress and we will keep going. Perhaps well we don't want it to become routine, but such conventions can maybe happen four times a year. All right think about it. Do you agree?
S. There is already a date for the next congress and that is what we are really going to do.
R. When?
S. The 4th and 5th of May.
10. S. (45:33) Should the Tens conclude the Congress they went through?
R. It's desirable. It’s recommended to discuss in the Ten what we went through and how we came out of it and what are we doing next to make it clear to everyone.