Morning Lesson November 07, 2022 Transcription
Transcription is made from simultaneous translation which leaves a possibility for differences in the audio
Part 3:
Baal HaSulam. Peace in the World (The Condition of Life in the Last Generation)
Reading (0:57) “First everyone must thoroughly understand that the well being…”
1. S. (01:45) Meaning that we need to come to a state in which each and every one of the members of the state must know how this state exist, what it is existing for, how it needs to exist, how it can, that there is no other way, there's no other way to exist other than the way we exist and advance through where according to all of the laws of nature that operate upon us from all sides we know and advance with our eyes wide open towards the correct purpose of our development, very simply there is no mistaking here we just need to check how we are advancing and how we do not err. That is it. That's why he says that first everyone has to understand and explain to his surroundings that the well being of the society which is the well being of the state and the well being of the world, that they are all dependent on one another they are completely interdependent just like we are seeing right now and what shattered state we are in all of us also the states and also the world and everyone in each and everyone we are completely interdependent.
Because as long as the laws of society are not satisfactory to each and every individual in the state where there still are people who are not satisfied then they leave a minority that is dissatisfied with the government of the state and this minority conspires under the government of the state and seeks to over through it. Meaning that for sure those people who are unsatisfied, dissatisfied, they will want to overthrow this country and there's nothing to do but to explain to everyone that there is only one way to correct the world otherwise we will constantly stumble upon the same problem of wars.
2. S. (04:00) How can a minority reach a state that they do not want to overthrow the government because we do not see such examples in the world where countries kept this condition of the peace of the world.
R. That is why the dissemination of the wisdom of Kabbalah which explains about the world, about the structure of the world, about the purpose of the world, about the ability to reach this goal only in a very special way of connection that is more mutual between one another, of everyone, the dissemination of the wisdom of Kabbalah with all of those details that it explains is the main thing.
That is the main thing, there is nothing that we can do about it. Until everyone understands each according to his intellect, his soul, his ways but for everyone to understand that there is but one way for us to exist in a correct way and not just that we will exist and later be what it may, who cares, after me maybe even there will be a flood, who cares, but rather that we in this way prepare for us an eternal life, eternal, no one dies. There is no death, there are changes in our existence and we each time come to new forms of existence in many incarnations.
S. We cannot explain this to the public.
R. Why not? Anyways everyone is talking about this and want to hear about it. They are closing their eyes about their short lifetime and that short life is all so miserable, which comes upon a person and inevitably you live whether you like it or not and die the same way so why not explain to everyone?
S. The thing is that many people use this faith that…
R. Is that because someone decided from above that you have heaven for this and hell for that?
S. No, from propaganda.
R. So why should we talk about what people invented?
S. That's why I'm asking, how to approach people? How to explain that we are trying to connect things that are so far from one another, eternal life? It is like they are all very far from one another. How do you explain this to people that the peace in the world or the peace in the country is their destiny, that it is all connected?
R. How to explain this? Maybe I'm not so successful at this but we do not have a choice and to the extent to which people are in a problem, in trouble and all kinds of problems then it is easier for us to approach them and somewhat try to explain because this is what their lifetime depends upon, their death, their destiny so you have to try to explain. If you were in their place wouldn't you want someone to give you some explanation about the possible way to come to the good?
S. Yes, especially when you see how people are living now you do not understand how they are dealing with reality without a ten, without lessons, I couldn't even imagine. How can you tell them that there is an alternative?
R. I think that specifically in such cases, well first of all you don't immediately need to be put them into a ten, when you put people into a ten you're putting them into some sort of spiritual actions. They are still very far from that but to explain that we can nevertheless just like Baal HaSulam writes in many of his articles, that we must start to come closer to one another because otherwise we will not have any future for the world. It is too bad that we even live, it's a waste having children, it's not worth working, earning, existing, we do all that because we have no choice, we are worse than animals.
Animals do not feel that they are going to die at some point, they do not have this plan of living and succeeding and so on and we do and despite that we feel, that we see before us death, we nevertheless continue and walk towards it. There is nothing more despicable, well it’s just abnormal and therefore we could nevertheless come to people and explain, we have to explain that there is life, there is life after death, how the universe is eternal and endless, it is boundless and we will stop to live as materialist and communist and all kinds of people who decided that there is no life except for our beastly life, rather this beast dies but all the rest of us remains and that is the spirit of man.
We need to explain it and we need to slowly, slowly, advance people to the fact that we can correct our soul, the internal part in us, the I. The I of a person does not disappear and we, when we explain this to people, they will be ready for anything in order to correct the I in each of them and to belong to internality, anyway a person is eternal, a person doesn't die, the body, our beast dies, this clothing, but the inner force of ours does not die. That needs to be explained to each and every person and it does not matter who. It could be white, red, black, yellow, all people. That is what is in each and everyone and all together in everyone, not only in people, the eternal part in a person which is called a soul, also in animals.
3. S. (12:34) In continuing the question, if each and everyone needs to be explained on one hand and on the other hand it is written that the angel of death doesn't come unless the sword is in and a person opens everything and he swallows and dies; meaning it’s kind of like nevertheless a person is given some pleasure and they sell all of our explanations. Meaning the Creator did this matter of not allowing us to explain because you will choose something egoistic. How to open someone’s ears?
R. Where are you so smart from? I'm amazed. The more you study, how come you become dumber? I am saying this to veteran students that have been here for a long time, so don't get insulted. Why are you taking these things and saying them before everybody? The angel of death is an allegory, something you have to explain. Why are you taking some excerpts from somewhere and making a novel of your own out of it?
S. No, but in a simple way how can you open someone's ears, pray?
R. Pray? A lot of people in the world are praying, so what? What does it help that prayer?
4. S. (14:18) Yes, so Baal HaSulam says that the well being of the society and the state and the world are dependent on one another and then he comes and says that there will always be those who are unsatisfied. I want to ask you, is there a must that there will be a right side and a left side and if not how do you know if there's a right and a left?
R. We must explain to everyone where the world is headed to. We think that people see things but we have to explain to them where it's coming to, to a state that is so bad that you will not be able to stand the point that you are in and it'll be like eternity for you until you reach another point in time and again and again and it'll just stretch out endlessly, an endless nightmare but still you will not be able to get rid of it, you will not be able to come out. Those are the laws of nature, they must bring us to the recognition of evil that from it we need to reach the good.
S. Yes but we need to have both sides in order to advance in the spiritual world or all of a sudden you will see that you are on one side and that is where the story ends?
R. It depends on how we realize the advice of the Kabbalists.
5. S. (16:02) About this matter that it is written that you said that Adam, the person, does not die. I wanted to ask about the Kabbalist. The Kabbalists that is in the spiritual worlds and his body in this world dies, does he know this I of his? Can he attribute his I to the one who lives in this world or the feeling of the I that was in this world is no longer?
R. He disconnects from that feeling.
6. S. (16:46) Baal HaSulam tells us here that we need to explain what is difficult for us to receive even though we are studying for ten years…
R. Keep it short.
S. How do we get to a point where we disseminate in a gradual way where we do not bring this most difficult state to the people that are not capable of understanding it?
R. If you can explain it in a simpler way, please come and do it.
7. S. (17:25) I have a stupid question but why when a person tries to change his state its considered to receive for himself when he does not agree to remain in what he is in?
R. It has nothing to do with receiving in order to receive.
Continues (17:54) “If its power is not sufficient to fight the…”
8. S. (20:35) I think what he wants to say is this, if we were to explain out in the open without hiding anything from anyone if we would show them what possibilities we have before us that it will be clear that if you do according to our original egoistic nature we will revolve into a complete total death and we will have no way to prevent ourselves from it, to avoid it, so we would be able to convince people to go to the other side that here there is no choice, death and here, the contrary calm quiet life even though you do have to still fight against your ego, but you’re fighting against your ego for life, in exchange for life, and if you do with your ego you are descending into the abyss.
9. S. (21:58) You said that the “I” of a person doesn’t die, what is this “I”?
R. The “I”, the me, is the divine part from above called the soul that is man the rest is a beast it’s a wrapping that we see it in our senses, also the question of whether it even exists just as our world it’s called the imaginary world so is our body it’s imaginary except for that inner point which is that divine part from above, because the Creator is eternal so is that part.
S. And desire is part of the Creator, is the Creator?
R. Our desire is part of it. The Creator is above everything but towards us He reveals Himself as the desire to bestow.
S. I want to understand if this “I” and the Creator are the same thing for us?
R. No, I guess you need to study a lot more you are lacking some of the foundations.
10. S. (24:16) What Baal HaSulam is actually saying is that until everyone agrees there will be wars and no one will be satisfied actually.
R. I don’t know, until everyone agrees maybe not but still we have to explain it otherwise the world is just playing out like now in all kinds of directions that aren’t at all towards the truth.
S. But even if there’s a part that are advancing in the direction that Baal HaSulam is suggesting if it’s not for each and every individual like he writes they are still going to be dissatisfied.
R. They won’t be satisfied until it happens gradually, what do you think it'll all work out in a second?
S. No, I'm trying to understand what the wisdom Kabbalah can offer to…
R. Advertising disseminating the truth the plan of creation and what we can do.
S. And this truth like you said before that without concealing anything, that’s anyone can agree with this?
R. Of course they’ll agree.
S. Why?
R. Because it’s according to the thought of creation. He won’t need to fight himself because he’s going to get pressure from the others and they’ll press on him and obligate him to accept the thought of creation as the plan of his life.
S. I don’t understand, there’s what in what we’re explaining will simply cause a person to agree to live in bestowal to one another.
R. Yes, of course.
S. What in the explanation touches him in such a way that…
R. Because through us he’s going to feel the light that reforms. Of course it’s not us we are a conduit a passage.
S. What do we need in the explanation on our behalf to do so that he will feel the reforming light?
R. I do not understand.
S. They're saying that the explanation, because it’s coming through us, he will feel the reforming light by that and will agree to become in bestowal towards others?
R. Yes, because we are connected to the Creator on one hand and to the person on the other hand and we are as a passage, a pipeline that we pass to him the essence of the correction.
S. Is there a certain quantity that needs to move to him as a…?
R. Of course, quantity and quality we have to work on it.
11. S. (27:26) According to the measure of singularity in each person how is it that there are groups of people that gather?
R. I do not understand the question.
S. If in each of us there is that matter of the singularity in him?
R. So there are groups that gather according to the singularity in them that they’re similar.
S. In what are they similar in their desire?
R. In their observation about life, the way they feel life, the way they feel the solution of life and so on, yes. But the more and more we disseminate the matter of the wisdom of Kabbalah and the correction the only possible correction so more and more of those groups will disappear and they will connect into bigger groups until all in all they will be one big group because there’s one truth and there’s one source and the force that is working as one.
S. These small groups will they cancel out?
R. Of course, where will they have forces from? Where will they have any foundation to develop for more and more?
S. So what the differences will disappear it’s not clear.
R. Differences will disappear and people will gather more and more into bigger groups until there will be one big group because the Creator will be closer to everyone and then they will be drawn to Him.
S. And that will flatten all of the differences? It’s kind of what, it will assemble all of the qualities in a person, what will it do?
R. It will gather all people into one body, that there’s no more than being in the connection between us and with the Creator.
12. S. (30:02) How does the understanding that we have eternal life, how can that make people happy in the world?
R. It’s not only eternal life, eternal life and happy with knowledge mind and everything, that we start attaining the reality, the Creator actually, and so we fill our vessels our deficiencies our desires that we have no more than those places that have to be filled. That’s why we reach this, the ideal state.
S. What’s the truth that needs to be sounded now in our generation?
R. That there is an answer for each and every one and everybody together how to advance in an eternal complete way, to understand to feel to discover.
S. You also said at the beginning of the lesson that the situation is changing a little bit today and also women are joining the study also the young generation is joining more in the study. What is it capable of hearing? What should we sound to them is more correct to ask.
R. Man has to sound to them that he has vessels desires that are limitless and also there’s laziness and weakness and that’s what closes him down, but if he’d open his vessels he’d see how much he wants to swallow all of reality and really he has an ability to swallow all of reality and t’s not on the account of the others, that he’ll be afraid that they’ll take something away from him, but for everyone, everyone, everyone, like Baal HaSulam writes there’s a whole world before him.
S. What is the opening of the vessels?
R. The opening of the vessel that I'm connecting to everyone.
13. S. (32:26) What conditions do they need to be on behalf of humanity, on our behalf behind the Creator so that people will hear us?
R. That we will want it. That we were want to be the conduit from the Creator to all the created beings
S. So it all depends on us?
R. It only depends only on us.
14. S. (32:55) Will be able to pass the message of the Wisdom of Kabbalah to the nations without talking about what threatens the world if a person does not correct himself?
R. Yes, yes, yes, we can also speak about the good life that is on the horizon and not the bad things. Of course, why do we need bad things?
15. S. (33:34) If we're talking about eternal life doesn't it sound like two people talking like in a religious matter?
R. No, its eternal life, just like galaxies in the universe and everything is beyond our limitations this eternal
16. S. (33:55) How can we explain to people that the benefit of a person in the benefit of the collective is one? What's the proof and what's the law that it demands of a person?
R. We will prove it.
17. S. (34:14) People want to see a true example of "love of others", what's the true example that we need to give in love of others to the whole world?
R. An example, an example to show everyone that we want to live with everyone no matter who with everyone together, in one hug and one world and to eternity.
18. S. (34:45) How from all the religions in the confusion of the world will one way of correction be built?
R. Because there is one path, everyone will gradually come closer to that path. There's nothing else, but only to be above our ego and by that we already open with that key, we open the eternal world.
19. S. (35:16) We see today that even the laws of nature, even the most basic laws of nature, a person is in contradiction and cannot accept them. How do we get to a state where everyone will be good with the laws of society in the country and state?
R. Again through seeing that it doesn't depend on us, on human nature, but the world has a different nature and nature of bestowal, connection, and love and that it's eternal and whole and complete and we need to connect to that.
20. S. (35: 56) There is a question that you related to in TES that changes a long time, if we will need in the future to change the study because of a different need of students that will come, what conditions should we withstand that are unchangeable?
R. We will need to learn something from the structure of reality which is explained in The Preface to the Wisdom of Kabbalah and we need to study articles or essays of Baal HaSulam like Matan Torah or Arvut, that kind. We must study articles from Shamati, and that's probably all. obviously there's more parts from the Zohar and that's already an addition. The main thing is what I said.
Reading (38:15) “Pain vs. Pleasure in Self-Reception Thus, when we examine and thoroughly grasp the above plan, we will see that the whole difficulty..”
21.S. (41:36) From what we are learning and see the world actually the impression is given that we are only talking about advancement and descent but when we are in shattering and falling then the result of this corrupted observation of things so why should the will to receive that is descending and getting closer to the Creator?
R. You are right. Both things are right physically there is a deterioration but the awareness is lifting.