Morning Lesson July 15, 2021 Transcription
Excerpt 14 (00:20)
1. R. (01:29) Baal HaSulam writes that in the corporeal body two discernments were made: The first discernment is when he feels his soul as a specific item not understanding it is a whole, the whole soul, he feels alone. The others are others, in other words he still doesn't have a real perception which we don't understand, it is like Einstein's theory, that we don't understand it although we talked about it. Here also with respect to the soul we don't understand how much our perception because we are in the desire to receive, how it is called a perception of the imaginary world as it seems to us there are billions of people, still, vegetative, animate, all kinds of things like that, that we see all of that in our a broken desire to receive. That is why it seems to us like many people, many animals but in truth when we begin to correct, begin to connect, this is what he says that one feels his soul as a unique organ not understanding that this is a whole of the common soul, but when he corrects himself he comes to a state as it is written as one man with my heart. That there aren't many, there are no parts. It was only divided according to our intellects, our mind which was spoiled and broken, corrupted. But when the mind begins to connect into one desire, one goal, one source that brings its one light, the closer we get to the light, Yechida, from the word Yichud, one, unique, we begin to attain more, that there is only one. That there is no plural here even though it appears to us in our intellect and perception as many parts, pieces, still, vegetative and animate and speaking. In each one there are many discernments but there is no such thing as they all connect into one. The first discernment is when he feels his soul as a unique organ and doesn’t understand this is only how it seems. The second discernment the true light of the soul of Israel does not shine on him in all its power of Illumination but only partially by the measure he is purified himself by returning to the collective, to the extent that he approaches the collective, to the extent that he connects to others, to that extent he feels more and more that they belong to one system. The sign that the body has been fully corrected is this, when he feels his soul being in each and every one, that there is no difference and everyone is in him, he is in everyone and he really becomes one in each of them. That is why if he feels himself as an individual because one depends upon the other, at that time he is complete and flawless as he doesn't feel the difference between himself and the others, feeling everyone as one collective. The soul truly shines on him and it's full of power as it appeared and Adam prior to the breaking.
2. S. (05:49) The second discernment is that it doesn't shine on him but only the soul of Israel, only to the extent he purifies himself. What does this mean part of the light?
R. He feels that he is still divided, not whole, and there is the matter of the general soul, his private soul but he already feels the gap between one and the other but this advances and pushes him to correct himself and obligate him to reach the end of correction.
S. According to what he writes he started building the vessel already?
R. Yes, Yes this is called by returning it to the collective.
S. This is what they asked before to pass the Machsom?
R. Of course, we are talking about high degrees of correction.
3. S. (07:04) The feeling of the general soul of Israel, is that something only felt at the end of correction or before?
R. It is felt close to the end of correction, the general vessel of Israel that says the entire group of Bnei Baruch which is aimed straight to the Creator, it is not a nation it is a group that Abraham connected just like we have learned from ancient Babel from all the 70 nations that lived there, he connected a group whose purpose was to attain the Creator. They called themselves Israel, Yashar Kel, direct to the Creator. We continued their path.
4. S. (08:30) That means that one is an egoist then wants to receive only for himself and the second two discernments means he can be refined and he doesn't feel like he exists that it all exists in the others?
R. He still exists as a private, but understands that he is part of the general.
Excerpt 15 (09:11)
5. R. (09:27) It doesn't matter that they have feelings and desires, perspectives on reality that are different, of course everyone is different because everyone is the result of the unique Reshimot from the breaking, the shattering. Along with this they have one go through connection to build such a result that the Creator will build and be revealed in His entirety. The Creator is the force and they want to make up all of the broken desires as one force and it turns out that specifically because they connect from broken desires to be as one, to reveal the Creator than they reveal him 620 times more, this is how we say it but it really is billions and billions of times more we can't really give it a quantity. The more the Creator could have revealed and then revealed in that one will to receive. So that one will to receive blew up in shattered and is found in a mutual distance and hate into each part, when they overcome over the differences, the repulsion what there is between all of its parts that are ready and willing to connect as one man in one heart than that same Creator, the upper light that created the desire is felt within this desire to receive a billion times more, meaning in the same intensity as the Creator himself. This is what we attain and the creation goes through the state of the shattering and correction.
Excerpt 16 (11:36)
6. R. (12:03) Meaning we need to return all of the broken parts to connection that should be precisely like that same initial form but because we are returning them against our desire to receive which is repulsion, pushing of all of those parts away, then we are working above a desire to receive that grew above the shells and obstacles, that we reveal the Creator in NRNHY, 620 times more than what was beforehand. How is it possible to describe this? I don't know. Let's say from that initial small spark that was in the creation of our universe that says, to the stage that the universe is almost formed and reaches the entire opening. These are things that have no quantity, no measurement, we don't understand it to be able to grasp it but we have to expand our vessels to such an extent to attain all of reality and then we attain internality.
Excerpt 17 (13:42)
7. S. (14:35) If I understood correctly when we are speaking about the collective, it is faith above reason but when I say that if I feel the collective so I was included in the AHP of the upper?
R. Well, let's say that we can say such, on the way that it is but after it is AHP of the upper will be felt in a spiritual manner and not socially like you are describing it now.
8. S. (15:41) The Creator broke the vessel of Adam in order to give us the freedom of choice?
R. There are many discernments of this that the Creator attains by the shattering, that He gives us free choice, opportunities to build ourselves to expand our vessels to feel something which is outside of us because otherwise we only feel ourselves. The shattering makes it different between me and what is outside of me and then between this I begin to receive new senses. As it is written, you shall be as the Creator knowing between good and evil that is all by the breaking, that by the shattering I attained something opposite of the Creator and from this oppositeness can attain Him Himself. By the shattering that is been made before me, a ladder, not even one but ladders, the differences between all the forms and sensations, mind and discernments, scrutinies, that I can measure and build them ourselves of how to progress in this form or the other, the shattering builds before me many opportunities, possibilities. Rather before the shattering I couldn't grasp, could not navigate in the reality that was before me. Like a baby so the shattering was obligatory in this very unique venture as it is truly against his nature but it is an obligation so we shall attain His nature and uniqueness.
Excerpt 18 (18:12) Twice
9. S. (20:08) How to correct him, bring to the good what does this mean?
R. We are not in corporeal connection between one another like you are now. By this, that we make an effort to connect between us in corporeal matters, simple things of the connection between us somehow. Even that we are not in corporeal connection between one another like you are now but by this that we are in any case connected and drawn between us to feel ourselves together because we have one goal together, we have the means and by this we are weakening the light from within the goal itself that illuminates to us. That we want to advance towards it to get closer to it, so it illuminates towards us and that it brings us closer between us, making of us a single desire in something each time more and more. Because he is one and we get closer to his qualities, this is all of our correction.
S. We really correct the evil by it. How do we feel it's corrected?
R. We feel this at least in this that we have more consideration of one another, that we get closer to one another although once in a while we feel that maybe we are even worse, more repulsed from one another and alone with this we feel at times that we are dependent on one another, close to one another and as such we advance. Right leg left leg, right leg left leg, but we get closer to the goal.
9. S. (22:36) How in this world can we go against what is going on but still keep the mercy in the heart?
R. I don't know what you mean by this world. I look at this world and I see that it is entirely suffering, that people don't know why they are alive even though they may be very successful and all sorts of corporeal manners. They are so sorry as all of these things pass over them, like the Creator is playing with them, confusing them and what do they have in them that is so good. My perspective on the world is like people that we need as much as possible to explain to them what is the correct form of life that we need to see from this world as a corridor in which we correct ourselves in order to enter internality, wholeness and not reincarnate again and again.
10. S. (24:11) The person that has a bad quality I have to correct myself towards him or I help the others correct their flaw?
R. You need all the force to show a person how much you are giving him an example that you won't feel that you are purposely giving him a good example but you need to act and play and do something before him.
11. S. (24:56) The pandemic that is coming back with a lot of power, humanity is trying to eradicate this. What does it mean you're not allowed to eradicate but you have to correct, what is correction in this state?
R. Our attitude to what is happening, meaning that we will understand that all of these things come as a result of our inner corruptions, only in our efforts to correct our attitude from each one towards the other and by that we will be able to correct the pandemic and all of the other crises that are in line to descend down upon us.
12. S. (25:45) How not to be confused and not to follow external success, how to ask the Creator not to get confused?
R. I don't think such a prayer would help so much, I would help more if you will request a prayer for the friends and that it will protect you. This that you are with the friends and even though they are small and may not understand anything of themselves like Rabbi Yossi ben Kisma with his students but that you are requesting to be connected to them, that you are not requesting of them as you see them but with their internality, with the Creator as he relates to their internality. It turns out that you are connecting to some internal, spiritual vessel and you will advance.
S. This is how we work in connection but the Creator puts opportunities before you?
R. He wants you to advance. How do you do this with your kids when you want them to advance?
S. That is clear but how do we hold on to a certain extent?
R. You will do what is up to you to do and the Creator whatever he sees that you need. According to your preparation and readiness with you and the group as much as you arrange your manner and in the lesson accordingly, He will give you the capability to progress.
13. S. (27:52) There must be an upper system that reveals and connects all organs. How can we reveal and be a part of this system?
R. That is what we are doing, to reveal the upper system I need to connect with my friends. They shall be connections between us that each bestows to the others and then we will feel between us the revelation of this network and the Creator will begin to be revealed between us. That is how he reveals, that is how it is written and all of the verses, only in connection between us do we reach a system that reveals to us the Creator. In the work between us we begin to work against the Creator, meaning the opposite of Him and reveal Him more and more inviting Him to be revealed and He changes in us all sorts of states, different elements and we react in the connection between us to reach Him, this is what happened.
Excerpt 19 (29:28)
14. R. (30:41) Meaning of course whether we want to of ourselves, nevertheless, we advance towards the end of correction, but that there are forces that activate us and give us opportunities to determine a connection, the pace of our progress that we hasten ourselves. That way truly reach the end of correction quicker so that we save ourselves of all of the negative forces that would obligate us to advance at each and every step. It is worthwhile for us to listen, to start, the Creator is sending us and what He wants from each and every desire that we will begin to feel Him that we will be able to react properly to His call to advance along with Him. This is exactly how to walk in identification, even that we won't go, that way you won't walk we will advance until the end of correction as promised to be. Our work is that we want to show that we ourselves are drawn to the same goal that the Creator has found ahead of time.
15. S. (32:23) Both the authorities complete each other for each one is separate and can we choose what authority will work on me?
R. Yes, both governances, as one is of the country and one is of the upper, the heavens. Both operate on us and we need to make an effort as much as possible to be under the governance of the heavens as it raises and brings us to the end of corrections speedily. Rather in the governance and authority of the earth is like in our evolution that we go through still, vegetative, animate with billions of years of life and death, life and death with much confusion and despair, crisis of nature that it builds in us such scrutinies that we reach a state where we can be equipped in spiritual scrutinies, discernments, that we have reached the state of the beast that is already in the passage to be Adam, as similar to the Creator. Then it turns out that we here receive the opportunities to advance onwards, to be similar to the creator also in our participation. Not just according to the governance and authority of nature, but if not the end of correction is promised to us and we will reach it by both these authorities.
Excerpt 20 (34:35)
16. R. (36:49) Meaning truly by suffering we will want to disconnect to distance ourselves, to rid ourselves of our ego, the desire to receive for itself, because the suffering obligates in this as we have seen it on ourselves. By the light that reforms, we can be drawn forward instead of running because of the blows from the back, that we advance much faster without suffering saving time in the blows. That it is worthwhile for us to advertise the wisdom of Kabbalah that more and more people will come to connect to the program of creation in a manner that is understanding, awareness that we will quicker reach the end of correction.
17. S. (37:40) I'm a bit confused between the two authorities. Can we say that the authority of above is Beito and of the earth is Achishena?
R. The authority of the heavens is the Creator and the authority of the earth is you, is that okay?
S. So our efforts?
R. It depends what efforts.
Excerpt 21 (38:15) Twice
18. R. (39:04) Meaning, none of us according to the structure of the entire general salt doesn't receive anything for himself, rather only to pass on to others, to everyone such that each and every part of the general soul what it receives, it passes on to others. Each one passes on to others and to others and in this we rise entirely above our nature, our egoistic desire to receive, then we feel the upper force that dwells in us, the Creator. That we make Him, by this, that each one receives and gives, received and gives and in such a way no one received but rather will give, because whatever we receive is only to pass on and then it turns out that we are building this essence, the Creator, the force of general bestowing which is called that you made me and then the Creator is truly a result of our efforts.
19. S. (40:24) When we make efforts in the ten in order to be and resemble the thought of creation that wants to benefit its created beings by this do we hasten the correction in the world?
R. Of course, as much as we make an effort to cause correction even in the ten and even more so between the ten and in our dissemination to the whole world that we advance the whole world to correction and in this we are rewarded from the Creator with a unique attitude towards us, that if we draw after us all of humanity, and such the attitude from the Creator towards us is made very unique.
Excerpt 22 (41:40)
Excerpt 23 (42:46)
20. S. (44:02) A person needs to pray for the whole general world?
R. The whole world is the whole vessel, and whoever is now in this life is a whole vessel that is working now and this vessel is constantly throughout all kinds of connections of this and that, that people are supposedly born, they are dying, we will see this later on how it is actually happening. But all the time you have changes in the Kli and as much as we caused connection into that Kli, by this we help in advance towards correction and by that we are rewarded with a special relation from above.
S. We are always requesting connection in the ten and we're talking about the whole vessel?
R. That is true we are supposedly now that we only want to gather into a ten but that the ten is actually that same smallest framework that you can't have less of. It also resembles itself, connect to that general vessel that is why if you take care of the ten and you engage in the ten in the connection with all of the friends not that it is enough, you still have to think of dissemination and how you eventually connect with all of humanity, but it is enough for you to still advance on the degrees of ascending.
S. No, it is not clear, in the past the ten would reach a degree where we would pray for the whole world?
R. As Baal HaSulam writes, only we are in the last generation, before that there wasn't that kind of work. People would connect, study a little bit not thinking of dissemination, in our time because we are already in the last generation and it is written about that in the writings of the ARI from the 16th century he said it should have started already. So we need to disseminate the wisdom of Kabbalah around the world and try to connect all of them, to show everybody what the correction is in order to go towards that goal on the good path and on the bad path. How can it be otherwise? If we don't activate ourselves, that we pull the whole vessel into correction, the bad forces will start working that will push us into the correction but on the bad side.
21. S. (48:00) In the excerpt that says as He is merciful you be merciful also what does it mean to be merciful?
R. That you will have a wide heart, good, feel the sorrow of others and participate in it.
S. If I am merciful then I am acting in bestowal?
R. Of course, from your broad heart.
22. S. (49:07) Before you said our efforts create the Creator are we really talking about there's None Else Besides Him?
R. I don't understand, of course there is None Else Besides Him and in that way we build ourselves to discover that there is None Else Besides Him in all cases. When we work, we work from our desire to receive. What is our desire to receive? This is where the Creator is not revealed, this is why we activate our desire to receive in a way, that in it He can be revealed as much as possible, but there is None Else Besides Him and those desires to receive will be in order to bestow like the Creator. After the corrections they will connect between them to be as one man with one heart. Think about it and ask.
Excerpt 24 (50:26)
23. R. (51:19) That is philosophy already, this is in the style of the Zohar, how he says it.
Excerpt 25 (51:31)
Excerpt 27 (52:34)
24. R. (53:27) That is the main thing especially for ARI as he was the one who revealed the wisdom to the masses so it was important that the masses here, what truly is the realization of the wisdom of Kabbalah, that is much as we move away, stay away from each other not wanting to know each other so the wisdom of Kabbalah says the opposite, that we have to come closer and connect in order to discover in the connection between us the higher system.
Excerpt 28 (54:18)
25. S. (55:08) The excerpts talk about praying for the whole of Israel and I am wondering why we would pray for the whole of Israel vs. the nations of the world?
R. The general of Israel means those people who want to reach adhesion between them and adhesion to the Creator, let's say Bnei Baruch as you see them on the screen, all of the countries and states, from all of the world this is called the general of Israel. Meaning the general, collective, that desire to reach connection with the Creator to reveal Him. Don't look at the Jews in the world as we mistakenly think it is a nation and it is not, you see how many parties and divisions that they have and as much as they can't be together because they don't feel nature that they belong to one nation, they don't feel it. One could live in one place and another in another place and that they shouldn't be long to each other, only if they are pressed do they connect a bit. In the connection it is clear that it is easier to survive the difficult times but it is not a nation and that is a big problem in the world that people don't understand who they are dealing with.
It's not a nation, it is a group that is comprised from many nations of the world, from all of them. that is why when we relate to Israel we also relate to a group but a group that has a goal and that is the opposite of the Jews, opposite of the nation of Israel, that nation is called the nation that desires to reach the Creator, that's why there's a very big difference even at opposite between Israel according to the spiritual definition of straight to the Creator. The corporeal nation of Israel that doesn't have anything but a few thousand years ago that their forefathers came out of Babylon came out of Egypt, the connection itself does not exist because there is no biological connection. It is spiritual, that we used to be together and for now no connection remains between us. That's why it was always like, easily used to go from one place to the other to disconnect from one another.
S. Why are we praying only for Israel and not all of Adam HaRishon?
R. Meaning because the whole vessel won't hear us, humanity, they can't advance on their own but only that group, that desires or the end of correction to reach connection between them and the Creator so we pray for them, we pray for the group all the rest will come and only after. That is the correction that first comes, that group that are drawn towards this and they already spread this word and the forces from them come to the rest of humanity and from that humanity can advance. Like Baal HaSulam writes in the end of the introduction to the Book of Zohar, go to the end and you will see it there like in the last 5 or 10 paragraphs from Item 66 and read it. That is why the main thing for us is as quick as we can to come as close to the Creator and with that to be connected to all of humanity.
26. S. (01:01:25) In passage 27 something is not clear about the gradualness, each will want to love each of Israel as his own soul and from this the Creator rises from all of Israel it sounds like cause and effect, how can it be that we build the intention and then it brings prayer?
R. Because prayer isn't that you are standing and praying like you see people during prayer, or to go down on your knees in prayer, it doesn't matter in what form. To pray means that you turn from your heart to the Creator to give you forces of connection and bestowing.
S. That's called that he directs us?
R. Yes. He is activating an intention.
Excerpt 29 (01:02:52)
27. R. (01:03:16) That means that if we reach a strong connection between us obviously from the Creator all the best will come and we can connect between us and bestow what we get from the Creator through us to all of humanity and by that we reach the end of correction. Now I would give you 15 minutes to discuss what we have spoken about in the beginning of the lesson, that we didn't read but that way try to remember and to get into it again into the same things. What does it mean within reason, above reason and the relationships between us and the group and as much as in reason when I see the friend as good, it is more important than seeing him above reason.
S. Can we read the excerpts again?
R. Yes, then a workshop.
S. It is clear now as he explained the difference in the article in the difference between, above the knowledge of the Creator and the friend.
R. Talk about it, what is within reason or above reason in the connection between the friends and why we need to reach within reason, that will be one vessel, talk about it as its important.