Morning Lesson January 16, 2022, Transcription
Transcription is made from simultaneous translation which leaves a possibility for differences in the audio
Part 2:
Baal HaSulam. Articles "The Peace". (Subtitle: Necessity to Practice Caution with the Laws of Nature")
1. Rav. (02:56) That is why it is no wonder we are suffering. We do not know the laws of nature. We go according to what we believe, each one according to what he sees and every time we are in struggles between us until eventually, we are building this chaos in our life and our whole life is how to run away from this chaos that we ourselves are establishing.
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2. R. (04:02) So we have no one to turn to and complain but only ourselves, because we are in an ideal system and if we ruin it with our relationships between all parts of nature in an egoistic way, we get all these things that we ourselves are establishing. It all comes back to us, and we cannot turn to anyone with a complaint that we are unsatisfied, or we want to change something, change please, change your behavior to the good and it will be good. For now, this is what we have.
3. S. (04:56) About there being nobody to turn to nobody to complain to, in the past you have said that…
R. You for sure have no one to turn to, we know that you are constantly in complaints, and I told you what your solution is and today I was speaking about it to everyone. This solution is to know what to do and to do it and not to constantly ask about it. Understand? So do without asking then we will see what comes out of it and you constantly just want to ask, and you have nobody to turn to. Nobody wants to hear your questions or complaints, no one, there is no such thing in the world that somebody can hear this.
S. I understand, you are right.
R. I understand you are right. Also, the Creator will not care about this because it is him putting these questions in you that is why there is no reason to ask him but if you will do what you should do. After that from studies from your correct connection that you invest forces and it from this you will be able to ask only. That is it.
4. S. (06:27) This is really unclear. He says you have no operator without the purpose, so it turns out that anyone who breaks the law of the nature, he corrupts the purposeful purpose. What is the law of nature that I am breaking?
R. The entire nature is one system still, vegetative, animate, also man is part of the animate that is why we need to keep the laws and observe them. The laws of the still, vegetative and animate they have a form of behavior and natural behavior that is why instinctively they work correctly, they do not corrupt anything in nature, but they are in the laws of nature, still, vegetative and animate. Man, himself is a special creature he comes out of the nature part that is activated by the laws of nature, there is extra thing called an egoistic will to receive, man's ego. That by that he is disconnected from the still, vegetative and animate and becomes a special creature called Adam, man. So, there is a different calculation with that man he needs to learn in what he needs to correct himself. The rest, no other creatures need to correct themselves, only man is corrupted there is the corruption in him to begin with, it came from the Creator, but it is not a complaint of man. There could be only a question, help me understand how to correct myself. That is the right question a person can turn to the Creator with.
S. There is an option not to create corruption in nature? How do we do it?
R. Only the option of correcting himself.
S. Each one individually?
R. Each one it does not matter; we are talking about what man needs to do.
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5. S. (13:42) Why does Baal HaSulam connect God with nature?
R. Because it is the same thing and there is nothing but that, the nature, the upper force, God, call it whatever you want, what is outside of man it is all one.
S. But how can the person feel that nature is God? How can he grasp it?
R. Each one according to his degree, there are people that feel that everything is the Creator except for my point that from it I feel my existence, me, the disconnect one from the Creator and they are those who think otherwise. They are all kinds, there are different degrees of perception. God is nature, is the upper force, is the Creator, it is all that is above man and that is how he receives it, all the reality is divided into two: me and the Creator. That is it and all of humanity, it does not exist only in my shattered vessel. If I correct my vessel, I will see it. I will see that everything is None Else Besides Him. Simple, and what I see afterwards is because I am shattered, what I see now is because I am shattered, so my desire was shattered and in the shattered desire I see all these things that are divided. Still, animate, vegetative as the Creator is also shattered in all those parts but the moment, I organize it and I say that it is all towards me that the world is there but what the reality is all the Creator, which is what I feel and there is no more. So, it turns out there is me and the Creator and nothing but that and the rest is incorporated in those two discernments. What did we learn in the perception of reality? Okay? Except for man there is only the Creator.
6. S. (16:54) It was said that we do not need a great attention to the quality of reception because the punishment because of it is immediate, does that mean that we know how to receive correctly automatically?
R. No no no, incorrect. We cannot receive correctly either because our will to receive is completely not in control, it will not give us a right discernment in what we are right and what we are not. We cannot judge our form of reception because against it there is no form of bestowal, we in our form of reception connect to whoever gives, whoever fills, whoever builds desire in us and fills our desire. We are in the middle, between the Creator who created the will to receive us and between the Creator who is filling us, that will to receive and we are not relating to him, we do not know why he created us and why he is filling us in such a way. That is why we do not receive correctly what you want to say is correct. Our vessels of reception do not work correctly, look at what is going on with us, that is why we will die the moment we receive because all of our reception in order to receive and that is a form of death, we are just not aware of it to such an extent we are in a lie. If we could see the truth, we would not receive anything, we would right away restrict ourselves and develop a desire to bestow and now only to the extent that we can convert our reception into bestowal, to that extent we can receive because by that we will bestow to the giver pleasure and we will only do things to bestow pleasure to him. I am not receiving anything in any other way if we truly understand.
S. So what does it mean that we do not need to examine the commandant of reception because the punishment is immediate?
R. We just do not really understand it, we are willing to receive and receive, either it is given to us, or it is not, but the calculation takes place on nature's side instantly.
S. In other words we are being cooked in the heinous turmoil because we do not know how to receive because we do not know how to give?
R. Correct on both those directions, on this side and that side, we are losing, you understood correctly.
S. We need to turn our attention in the work to build these elements, to restrict reception until we know how to bestow?
R. Correct, you are right.
7. S. (20:51) Baal HaSulam described very clearly the benefits from joint living, this law of collective living, can we use it for Bnei Baruch and the whole world?
R. No, there is a big system of Adam HaRishon, and we are in it, and we are working in it and in this system, we must reach a corrected state. It is constantly activating us towards the correction, the complete correction and to the extent that we participate, and it is whether in a positive or negative way and according to that, we receive a response that it corrects ourselves in a pleasant way or not, but it aims to reach correction that is what we see. Meaning all of our life when you do understand that it is a response from above of the upper force to the way we are working up to now in an incorrect way and also maybe in the correct way, but I do not really see things like that. I do not see that we have worked correctly in anything, but we did all kinds of actions in connection between us, but we did it because it was necessary still it is taken into account. The upper force or the upper forces take that into account as much as we will be drawn to connection as it is our purpose to bring us back to the system of Adam HaRishon, to be as one man in one heart and according to that we can feel our state as corrected, as heaven, paradise just like the Garden of Eden.
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8. S. (25:09) He writes here that nature is as a skillful judge who punishes us according to our development. It is some smart system, it does not seem that way to people, if we take into consideration the state of the world, it is falling into chaos. How do we breach the contradiction to people?
R. If you show a machine to a child and that child will get some kind of blow from that machine so it is natural, he is going to kick that machine back, he is afraid of it, he is mad about it. That is how man is also related to all kinds of forces in nature around him, that is how he is also relating to other humans in life, he does not understand what awakens them, what activates them, it is always like that so what can you do? The concealment is the reason for everything we are lacking in the world. That is why we need to discover the good that does good and everything there is and then we can really determine that it is the good that does good. That there is no other force in nature, but it happens after we discover it. So, what can we do? We can only learn how to do it and teach others.
S. You also said in the first part of the lesson that we have to explain to the people about the right form of the world. It is not clear what is the right form of the world because how can you reveal that the good who does good?
R. I understand it is difficult also for us. We want this, it is also difficult, but you are in front of a problem which is very serious, and it will not disappear on its own and not only with that desire about through us, but we also need to discover to all of humanity where we are. Then we will see that this reality that we are depicting is not there, reality is completely different, we just need to connect with all of humanity and humanity by this will see what we see, what we are revealing to them. Through us all these forces are going through, the upper forces and all in all, it is one force, we need to reveal this to humanity, humanity will not be able to do it alone. It is only we need to do it, and above us there are more great Kabbalists, many parts that have corrected themselves from the vessel of Adam and we already joined them in somewhat at least a bit of recognition of evil. Soon we will reach a state that we will be able to do good, so move away from bad and go to the group and this way we will correct ourselves, connect to the corrected system and cause it to take another step ahead and after us we will draw all the people in the world, all of humanity and take another step ahead and that's all of us together in this chain of actions chain of souls.
S. Is just what we are talking about in our world, we connect with faith above reason and rise above the state of this world and by then we can discover the good who does good. How can the whole world discover the good who does good?
R. No, we do not need to speak about bad things, we do not wish anyone that, we want to incorporate them inside us as the AHP that is incorporated in Galgalta and by that we can raise them with us. The moment you open, and you will be able to do it, the moment they want to incorporate in us because it will be worthwhile, problems, troubles, man will not want anything just to stop feeling bad. The moment they will want incorporation in us there are no more problems. We will include them together, that is what Baal HaSulam writes in the end of the introduction to the book of Zohar and everybody will be included in us, and we will all rise to final correction. The nations of the world will have to incorporate in us because without them we will also be lacking the big vessels of reception so our vessels of bestowal will be able to incorporate their vessels of reception.
The AHP will incorporate in Galgalta and through Galgalta they will receive the lights of correction because they will get it at once, we have to go a long time to acquire and organize these things because we belong to Galgalta, but they belong to AHP because as Baal HaSulam writes about it it's written, and they receive it at once and that is how the correction will take place. That is why, do not think it will take thousands of years, it is nothing, these small desires, it can easily be corrected. The light shines on them if it is and they will be ready to do anything. Look at what they are addicted to, look at the small pleasures, little drops of lights. The main thing is our correction and then through us it will bestow upon them and then quickly they will come closer and enter Maltikkun, the final correction this is how it is going to be.
S. There is no correct form of the world without being incorporated in us? Let us say they live in friendship and connection if they are not incorporated with us, they will not be corrected?
R. All nations of the world, all of humanity no matter who or what they are they will need through problems troubles from no choice they will to come near to us and us from being connected to the upper force will want to come closer to them and bestow to them and then we as Galgalta and Eynaim as AHP together will be able to rise and incorporate in the upper force, that is it end by that we will end.