Part 2:
Baal HaSulam. Introduction to The Study of the Ten Sefirot. #68
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Reading Item # 68
1. R. (02:25) In other words, they were all created for one purpose and it is impossible to obtain this goal completely unless we all connect together and each one does his role completely. In this way we both learn from one another, support one another because we are in one system where everyone is connected to each other. This is why each one can say the world was created for me because if he does not do his work completely, no one achieves the end of correction. This is why each one should also think about everyone else and the Creator, all in all.
2. S. (03:24) You teach us the Creator wants our heart, the tendency of our heart so what is all this introduction that he wrote, that we have to understand, that all the tendencies in a person?
R. I do not understand your question. There is the will to receive which was created so that we would be able by correcting it, know the Creator and this is what we learn, how to do it.
S. What are those attributes or tendencies?
R. The attributes or qualities are how the will to receive corrects itself, adjusting itself, adapting itself to the Creator, these are the qualities of bestowal that the will to receive has to take upon itself and we have to come to a state where it is similar, there is nothing new here, this is it.
Reading Item #69 (04:31)
3. R. (05:22) This is an introduction, he goes deeper afterwards in other words in order to obtain complete quality of love we have to go through four stages.
Reading Item #70 (05:36)
4. R. (06:44) Yes, these are the first two states, the first measure is that before that they were completely opposite from one another, they were causing each other trouble and problems. The second measure, that they did good and benefit one another and there is no memory of any harm between them. Of course there is room for the first measure and room for the second measure, this is how we advance, it's according to how be revealed these states as necessary for the wholeness, completeness. The fact that we once were in mutual hatred and rejection and in any negative possible situation, as it is written love will cover all transgressions, all crimes. When we come to the quality of love we see it's impossible to reveal it unless on top of those states we went through and this is why there is nothing bad in that quality, it's actually built entirely on the prior hatred.
5. S. (08:03) If it depends on the previous hatred in the second measure he says that they benefit one another?
R. They attain, you're right, that even though they were in the states where they were fighting one another and hated one another, wanted to kill one another now they attain that all those things that we're given to them from above so that on top of it they would have established the quality of love in the second measure.
S. What about the hatred?
R. The hatred was a necessary foundation in order to establish on top of it love.
S. Now after the first measure they covered those crimes and reached the second measure which is good to benefit one another, what happens to the hatred, to the crimes?
R. They all will become love.
S. How can that be?
R. Because the Creator gave these qualities, they worked on them and this is why he came to the second measure and without the first measure you cannot reach the second measure, that's why they respect the first measure as the right necessary foundation for the second one.
S. What stays from the crimes that are the first?
R. They have become the great benefit.
S. But we always say that we need them both?
R. Of course, because the will to receive exists in its fundamental form and the Partzuf of Kedusha, Holiness and without it, it's impossible to build the Partzuf. Actually the more crimes there are, the more egoistic the will to receive and relations of hatred. Above that you can build the tower of love.
S. How do they annul, how does the hatred know itself?
R. Hatred remains but we relate to it as to a necessary foundation without which it is impossible to build a tower of love. Because we are created beings, we cannot feel love in itself, love in itself is the Creator. When we come to reveal the Creator we need the opposite quality from his so that we would exist and attain something that is opposite from us. This is why we need to be, all of us, made of hatred and there is nothing more hateful to us than the quality of bestowal, which is the Creator, the force of love which is the Creator and we rise above it and build the form of the bestowal on top of the form of reception. The form of love on top of the form of hatred. Because I see that I am built this way and I build the love on top of the hatred, for me the hatred too becomes a necessary foundation for building love. This is why I relate to it and I love this oppositeness because without it I would not be able to attain the Creator and be like him. Because I, the created being has to consist of two layers. You can also see it in our world in our technology and everything. We use the opposite in order to get to something, in the electronics, or anywhere. We always have minus and plus all kinds of opposite operations that we have to perform, we can't have built something that is only good, we have to have there opposite forces in operations that work so that they will work in the right way.
S. Yes, but how does hatred become beneficial and good?
R. Because on top of it I build without hatred I cannot feel the reality. The whole reality is I feel first of all have to attain it in my ego and then I invert what I have attained in my ego through the restriction, screen and reflected light and by this I build the form of bestowal, by this I build a image of the Creator, by this I become similar to the Creator.
S. That is understood but the first measure but the second covering the hatred becomes a benefit so how can love exist?
R. The second measure is that they have always done good to one another and there is no trace of memory or harm between them ever.
S. It cancels the love?
R. No, because without it there won't be the second measure if they want the first measure. The first measure is, again, the first is conditional love, it means it is because of the great goodness, pleasure and benefit one receives from one’s friend, he clings to him with wondrous love this is the first measure, when he feels.
Reading Item # 72 (14:23)
6. R. (15:53) In other words he has no place to criticize or anything, he recognizes that it is complete, that his relation of his friend to him is complete. Perfect.
Reading Item # 72 Continues: (16:08)
7. R. (17:07) Yes.
Reading Item # 73 (07:15)
8. R. (18:04) It is already not towards him but in general he is a friend to everyone. He recognizes that there is never anything bad in him, does that mean that his friend is one hundred percent good, absolute good. It might be only still according to his own vessels even though it's towards everyone but this is how he checks it. There are still questions here, let's continue.
Reading Item # 74 (18:46)
9. R. (19:00) To the Creator.
Reading Item # 74 Continues (19:04)
10. R. (19:59) Okay, here it is telling us about the degrees that are ahead of us, let us hope we will be rewarded quickly.
Reading Item # 75 (20:09)
11. S. (22:12) In the corporate world when it says go and make a living from one another, is that the first principle of love? What does that have to do with the corporeal world?.
R. There are no consequences, about these things I don't recommend to do this because you're confusing yourself and others. Learn what is written here, this is only about a personal spiritual advancement or otherwise you will be confused. You start creating philosophy, psychology and all these things that have no foundation.
12. S. (23:32) Can you explain once more the difference between the two parts of conditional love and one that is unconditional, can you explain about the relationship between the friends?
R. No, I want us to stop with it and you will read it throughout the day, let's say how about this love, 1, 2, 3, 4 from Item 70 until 75, it is 5 items. When you repeat it then tomorrow we will be able to hear and speak about it.
13. S. (24:35) In Item 75 uses the expression by which engaging in the Torah and work in choice, in choosing to do it comes before concealment, so engaging in Torah and in choosing, what does it mean?
R. By studying and connection in the group and implementing what we are learning in the group even in states that we don't see anything before us and it specifically because we work in that way that we don't know where we have to go but we support each other. Then together, specifically by connecting between us, we establish that direction of development from small connection to a great connection. As much as now that way we are between us, with the lack of the right connection and as much as we put before us our goal that will be revealed, that should be revealed with extra connection between us. That's what we want, more of a connection between us and that's what we are advancing towards. That's why when we work on the group advancement is clear to us, where we should reach and we can’t and we are not able to and we turn to the Creator. So we have a place to pray but actually the advancement from one place to the next it is clear to us, that it should be from the current connection to a greater connection. This is how we develop. That's why in this we don't have anything that is too concealed, we always are in the state that our form of advancement is before us.
14. S. (27:11) Can you be safe with that with every hatred that has a special work and it is appropriate for the hatred that is revealed?
R. Yes, of course.
15. S. (27:28) Is there a connection between revealing love between the friends and the connection with the Creator? Can a person go to the second measure of revealing love between the friends if he hasn't revealed a connection with the Creator?
R. No, we are supposed to be play-acting it but to really reach it we can because he has no foundation for it.
16. S. (28:08) Can a person be in absolute love if he hasn't discovered the other side to the fullest meaning absolute hate?
R. No, a shattered vessel is being revealed to us and we need to fill it and upon it we try to reach the correction. Only in that way.
17. S. (28:43) Can I change the word hatred with helpmate against him in order to advance?
R. Let's say so.
18. S. (28:58) You say that hatred, this is a foundation for building love and we have to build the form of love on top of the form of hatred?
R. Yes.
S. I sometimes feel envy toward friends, that it seems to me that you really appreciate them and this hate becomes a trait that is stronger than me. How do I work with it and from where do I get the strength to turn the negative envy to positive envy and hatred into love?
R. That you are able to advance, as much as it advances you.
19. S. (29:48) What is eternal love?
R. I don't know how to answer that. Can you even explain what love is, no. You can just feel it.
20. S. (30:15) We don't belong either to the Creator nor, not to humanity, that we exist as an adapter between the two. So, what is the pleasure intended for us, how do we feel it between us?
R. We have double joy by serving the Creator and by serving the created beings. When we connect the two and pass from the Creator to the created beings and from the created beings to the Creator. That's why we have to be included in both and we have much more duties we have to perform. It is written that, be a nation of priests from the holy nation. It is written in the whole Torah and in many places that by us having to incorporate from the Creator and the created be the passageway between them by these we are performing a duty that is none as important like it, we are representatives of the Creator to humanity and we are presenting humanity before the Creator. That's our work and our incorporation is in both of them. That's our essence.
21. S. (31:52) Is it possible to compare love and connection?
R. Can you compare love and connection? Let's say love is the highest degree of all the degrees of connection.
22. S. (32:20) Although we in the ten want to accelerate progress in the work, the more we feel we have to be careful so, God forbid, we should awaken and vex the ego here, is that correct and how do we work correctly?
R. It all depends on how we connect between us. That before us we don't have any action come that we can still do to benefit ourselves to our advancement but only more connection as much and more internally we all connect.
Reading item # 76 Twice (33:12)
23. R. (36:33) Wait, wait, wait, we have questions.
23. S. (36:43) Why is love such a difficult and unclear condition while I hate it a clear condition for progress?
R. Because from your will to receive that is our nature, obviously to hate I have no problem. I was born in hatred towards others and what's outside of me, except from what's in me behind my skin, behind my body, behind my perception, it could be outside my home, my family, what we called mine, me, outside of that I don't care about anything. I care about one thing as much as I can grasp it like a baby wants to receive and grab, as much as I can receive and grab I enjoy. That's why because it is my nature, so this is how we should learn how we can change this nature, make it opposite and from it assemble the image of the Creator that he is before us but opposite. By Him being the Giver and I the receiver, how I, the receiver, make it to the form of the Giver that's actually the whole wisdom.
24. S. (38:20) What is the difference between seeing your world in your life and receiving the world in your life?
R. See is an attainment and receive is already to the extent that I included it, am incorporated in it. You will see your world in your life, so you will see it, you can see it. I don't know how can I say, like in a museum, you come and you see and it is still not yours. To receive in your life, meaning, the vessels and in these vessels you can receive and be incorporated in it, that you build yourselves according with what you receive.
25. S. (39:33) Through one’s desire to believe in the Creator and his guidance every moment in his life and therefore he can do his will only by concealing the face of the Creator. Why is there such a necessary condition for the face of the Creator?
R. The Creator being concealed me gives me an ability to be free of him and to assemble in me a system called the Creator, come and see, that me myself I resemble the Creator, that I from all my qualities that are opposite to the Creator, I made qualities that resemble Him in an external way, external expression there are qualities that resembled the Creator. That's why I will be called Adam, man who resembles the Creator. That's why I have no choice but to be in concealment to receive from the Creator all kinds of different influences, by these influences to make of myself something that resembles the Creator, that's our work.
S. What is that precious gem that he's talking about?
R. The precious gem is in which way we can resemble the Creator, dealing in the egoistic desire between us, how from processing our matter, the feeling of reception, from processing it in a certain way, we start feeling we have a gem from it. A precious stone, where does it come from, from processing it. Just like, where in our world, by pressure we receive from coal, how can we get a diamond right only by pressing on it. Then it becomes something rare.
26. S. (42:37) Did you just say that we can be at a certain degree and feel it in ourselves, or look at it as a museum. How can you look at it if you are not in those same qualities?
R. I don't understand what you're talking about, what state?
S. You just explained to the friend he asked the question, I'm sorry nevermind.
R. When you remember you can ask.
27. S. (43:43) We previously learned about the four stages, two stages of concealment and two faces of revelation. Four degrees of love that we read about now. Where are they in relation to the four degrees of concealment and revelation?
R. I don't know, I don't want to start confusing, I see now the audience is confused in all directions. Do not want to put more discernments to this.
S. Seeing and attaining does it depend on the Rosh and the Guf?
R. Seeing and attaining, seeing means from below upward as reflecting light and to attain is already inside, that what you attain with the reflecting light, it expands in the Partzuf in the will to receive and builds the Partzuf, establishes it in the way you attain. Meaning in the image of what you are attaining, the image of the Creator is already clothed in you and formats you.
28. S. (45:24) What is the difference between seeing and attaining, following you will see your world in your life? You talked about a museum. Why see and not receive, it is as if you are in a museum where you watch something?
R. That I'm still not a painter, that I see an image, I am just the viewer. I can't stand it more or less but it is not mine, I am not formatted yet in such a way. But if you receive that is called that I already made a restriction, screen and reflected light and from myself I establish in that form of reality that I just viewed before. It is these things they're not near us yet. We're not through it yet that's why it's hard to depict.
29. S. (46:34) He writes you will see your world in your life. Why is the emphasis that and not the revelation of the Creator and the created being?
R. I can go into this and start scrutinizing it, but you are just starting to touch a little bit, take some time to get a bit more information and from this you will start connecting it all together and discovering.
30. S. (47:13) How can I see something that I still don't have the qualities for?
R. You cannot, you cannot, that's why now we are also reaching states that we are studying things that we still don't have in us. That is why it is hard to advance. So, should we keep going into the Introduction and or save it and continue let's say in a few months from now. Then a few months, after in order for us to learn more practically, more emotionally and more tangible. Now it's a place for confusion, we will check. Read it for sure because on our desires we don't even feel it a bit, we are drawing a little bit of light that reforms and then we will see. That's why I recommend reading it.
Reading item # 77 (48:31)
Reading item # 78 (49:35)
31. R. (50:58) That in that way we advance.
Reading item # 79 (51:03)
32. R. (51:58) Okay, why do I want us to read a little bit forward, read ahead. So, we can see how it works in the first stages and it is not worth getting confused by as much as possible to implement what is in our hands then we reach the states, that we will be able to talk about it from our deeds, from the deeds that we find it and not from philosophy because there is no place for philosophy here. He speaks in a very clear way here. If you attain that's what we do. That we have it in your hands we should do how to perform the actions.
33. S. (52:48) What is the opening of the eyes in the Torah?
R. Opening the eyes of the Torah is that in my reflected light I will be able to see all the actions of bestowal from the Creator.
34. S. (53:13) How can we find confidence that our efforts to connect can truly correct the situation in the world despite our unsuccessful attempts as they seem to us in the ten and the meetings in the tens. Another war is beginning between Armenia and Azerbaijan, hatred and deceit is only increasing in the world. How can we feel the power so we can come out of Egypt and bestow love upon this world?
R. I am sorry to hear that another war has started, that there is some place for it. We need to understand that as usual, the ball is in our hands, and we need to connect more and more between us and what is happening in the world is a copy of what is happening between us. Between women and women, men, men and women and as much as we connect between us in the world Kli by this we will bring peace and wholeness in all nations. Also, now we are in a state during the connection between us, some kind of upper light depends on us as much as comes and actually spills from above on this world. It all now comes through us if we all connect between us more of the upper light will appear in our world and bring our nations to peace. So let us not run from our duty even though we don't understand or feel it, but still let's try to connect and ask the Creator that in our connection they will be able to pass the good and the upper light to all.
35. S. (55:37) Beyond the prayer that we do, do you recommend additional actions, additional activities among the women in the world Kli?
R. The women need to do more actions that actually the general state of the whole world depends more and more on the connection of the women, specifically for the peace in the world. Try more and more and see as much as possible according to what is revealed in the world, it is a sign for us to try and tear all these evil forces and move them away and make room for the light to appear in our world. It all depends on the extent of the connection between us, and you see as much as suddenly all these places for war and trouble appear and they are dormant, these places. Here it is concealed and suddenly revealed and again and again reaches some kind of outburst, and it doesn't happen by something that happened, by an event. It happens because the connection between us, the lack of the connection between us, that doesn’t come at the right time, the revelation of light in the world, it causes an outburst of war in the world.