Morning Lesson August 8, 2021, Transcription

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Baal HaSulam - The Arvut (Mutual Guarantee)

1. R. Even though these articles of MatanTorah and Arvut seem to us like for beginners but weunderstand that there is not sooner or later, there's no beginning or end. Everything is important as one, because we're speaking about the ways the Creator is revealing himself to the created being and that’s why we have chosen to read this again, to go over the matter of Arvut because it can be that while we went through everything just now, we might take this more seriously, what this article is speaking about. This is actually speaking about the connection between the desire to receive and the desire to bestow in each and every one of us in order to connect us to one system of the soul. Let's say that same 10, so 10 people that when they will know how and why to connect and what the purpose should be in the connection between them in order to establish the net of forces and thoughts and tendencies, desires and qualities that in them the Creator can clothe the vessel for this mutual annulment between these people. That all in all, they annul the force to bestow on their behalf towards the Creator. This vessel that is in mutual bestowal and mutual connection above the ego in each and every one, above the forces of rejection between one and another, if they succeed to cause some kind of connection between them, that this connection shows that it has a mutual force of bestowal above the ego.

Then in the gap between the ego that is revealed in each one of them compared to the others and the connection even though there is an ego in each one of them towards the others, by this we can measure the intensity of the vessel. As much and even though there is a mutual will to receive, a big rejection from one another and they still overcome it and want to connect with one another because they want to resemble the Creator, to reach him and by this to give him contentment that they will give him a place that he can be revealed in, by this we can measure and weigh the intensity of the vessel that they have built and that is called the size of the magnitude of the soul. Let's see what is written about it and all of the forces that they can establish between them, is called Arvut. This is the main thing that not only do I connect to the other and I'm willing to connect to him, this is not enough. It has to be a web of connections, that in all of us we are connected to the other and that is why it is called Arvut that each one is for the other. He must be as if he would be instead of each and every friend, in the good, in the bad, meaning that he has to be greater than everybody and has to be smaller and lower than everybody as Rabash writes in the Articles of the Society. In that way we can organize this vessel called soul, meaning the desire to receive that will be adapted to the qualities of the Creator and then the Creator clothe in it according to the equivalence of form.

Article The Arvut (04:46-05:18) “All of Israel are responsible for one another this is to speak of….”

2. R. This first sentence that all of Israel are in Arvut to one another, that is in the Talmud and in other places, meaning that from thousands of years ago after receiving the Torah that they started using it, realizing it, then they started discovering all the different manners that the Torah demands of us in what connection and how we can be connected. This is how the wise ones, the sages wrote this.

Reader continues: (06:01-07:39) “The Torah was not given to them before each and everyone from Israel….”

3. R. (07:41) Meaning why do we need the Arvut? Because without reaching such relationships called Arvut, that each one is ready and able to be, instead of each and every one, in order to complete each and everyone, then each one feels that he is free from everything the desire to receive can demand from him and putting limitations and obligations on him, he feels free. Then in such a way he can be completely available to bestowing and not being concerned of himself at all.

Reader continues: (08:34-10:44) “With this collective responsibility each member of the nation….”

4. R. (10:45) That means that we see here specifically a very important condition that if I am still troubled from my existence, my corporeal existence and even spiritual and I think of myself in some thought even in the smallest thought that I can't make myself available for actions outside of me towards everybody, I can’t. I must reach a state that I don't know in what way but that I will be certain that I have no concern for myself from here completely. Then in such a way I will be free to perform the actions of bestowal to others and if I still didn't come to a state that I am not concerned about myself so nothing will help me. I still cannot perform actions of bestowal which are real and true, unlimited towards the others. That is just simply showing us the law, if I have the desire to receive and I still have in it some kind of desires to fulfill from me, then I can't think of the desires of others to fulfill, I can act with it as much as I want, play with it but it is still not the truth. Meaning that the law is, the nature is that I must be filled in all my desires no matter what way and why and how, but after when I will be filled, only in such a way that I can serve others in an unlimited way. A very egoistic condition but understood.

5. S. (13:35) In the second paragraph it says once the whole nation unanimously agreed and said we will do and we will here, why do they say we will hear?

R. I don't know, they can perform actions of bestowal briefly, if every nation is in such a state that they are satisfied in their desires they can perform mutual actions of bestowing with no problem.

6. S. (14:26) We're talking about how we're not supposed to be concerned about corporeality because it obstructs us on our path, so is this a place of prayer because the Creator gives us this corporeal life and then it says don't be worried about it but you can feel the ego trying to struggle, so is this a place of prayer because there is a strong pull there?

R. All of our spiritual actions usually are in prayer, by a cry to the Creator to perform corrections. It's not regular prayers that the masses do in all kinds of religions and faiths, our prayer means the plea to the Creator to correct us and with such a cry to the Creator we will try to be in it day and night, constantly to him and constantly requesting. Our requests have to be true and as scrutinized as much as possible.

7. S. (15:44) He says they weren't ready to receive Torah during the time of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob until they came out of Egypt, what does it mean they came out of Egypt?

R. That means that until they came out of Egypt, it is not the geography of Egypt but until they rid themselves of the egoistic desire to receive that they had. Let's say now, you are in Egypt and the desire to receive is in control of you and you just want to enjoy this life, to enjoy the spiritual life that you want to enjoy. Your intention is not to reach a state that you fulfill the others and by that you enjoy, no, the Creator is doing this, he is fulfilling the others and enjoying it and you don't want that for now. For now, you are built in a way that you enjoy yourself being filled that is called that you are in Egypt.

S. I'm asking because in the beginning of the last time you said we have to establish a network of connection that everyone is connected in the good situations and in bad situations and that’s the way we can make a vessel so are we already in a situation where we can build this network or not yet?

R. We must connect ourselves in a net called the vessel of Adam HaRishon which is corrupted but it wants to be corrected and we are all connected to each other. We want these connections to tighten and to be able to use them more and more this is called, Man will help his Friend and to awaken one another as is written in the articles of society, that We will strengthen one Another and then turn to the Creator that will give us the help, that will give us the forces and correct the connections between us. The Creator starts connecting the connections between us by showing us how we are not right with one another, that we will want to organize the right connections between us from indifference and hatred, rejecting all kinds of things between us that we will try to reach. From all the incorrect forms of connection between us to good ones. The worst connections are when we feel that we are in indifference, in a lack of feeling that we are together in a group. Let's say I have in my group a few friends that I don't feel that they are present. I don't care about them whether they come or not, whether they influence me I guess I don't influence them. That is the worst thing as it is just like a disconnection. Imagine to yourself that you live with your wife and you have such relationships that you don't feel each other.

S. So what do you want us to do, fight all day?

R. No, not that you fight but because of the fighting and all of the little collisions that you have that we can locate through them what we need to correct and instead of the arguments and collisions we will have love and connection. If we don't have a connection, that is the worst, we have nothing to correct.

S. That's what we are afraid of, fighting.

R. No, you don't have to be afraid of it, if we grab the Creator and we are certain that with Him we can correct everything so we just have to bring Him a place of disconnection, a place of argument and He will correct it, He will correct it. But if you bring him something that there is nothing there, there is no desire, that there is no connection, then what can He correct?

S. What does it mean to give the Creator a place to correct if we are fighting?

R. That I am seeing that I have a lack of the correct connection between the friends and I don't know which way to connect to them correctly.

S. I don't understand what it means correctly?

R. I don't either, the Creator needs to know, it doesn't matter to me and it's not important I don't know, I'm not dictating to Him what to do, I'm just telling Him to fix it.

S. To draw the reforming light while we're fighting?

R. Yes, he should help me do that too.

8. S. (21:47) How can we rise above the egoistic self-care to care for our 10?

R. That too should happen through praying to the Creator, also that meaning all the corrections, even the smallest correction that you want to happen, you have to turn to the Creator and the more people together. Together doesn't mean that now you're standing and praying, but that you discuss it throughout time and in that time, in that day you are concerned about it. That is called a prayer, a prayer is raising a deficiency, raising MAN.

9. S. (22:50) How do you connect the zeros in the 10?

R. That is not our problem, that is the Creator's problem. You don't organize the corrections, don't be the spiritual work manager. Turn to the Creator that he will do what he needs to do. If you feel a deficiency and if every few more friends feel it then turn to Him and He has to do it. As if you correct something in your life and succeed. Don't do the same thing in spirituality, it won't work never as there's only one force, one system that can correct everything and that is why it is inviting opposite states in us, corruptions so that we can locate those corruptions and ask the upper force that is above the spiritual system that He will work, that He will bring that spiritual system closer to us and the spiritual system will get closer to us and we will feel ourselves compared to it very unpleasant because we are in an egoistic connection between us below. From above it is a spiritual system and then it turns out that those two systems will be working in such a way that isn't good or pleasant, this is what we feel in the world today. Floods, temperature changes, pandemics, fires, all kinds and more will come, all kinds of problems. This is because the two systems are standing in contradiction to each other so that we, from the lower system will ask to be adapted to the upper one, the upper system. Then according to the prayer, we raise the deficiency, we raise according to our prayer, so the upper system except for getting close to us, it can also start adjusting the relationships between the two systems, the corporal and the spiritual and in that way, we can eventually reach the correction. Otherwise, it will be much worse, and that is how we are here too, that everything depends on the mutual guarantee between us.

10. S. (26:00) Normally we say that if we are low spirited and are immersed in the ego, what we can do is disseminate, bestow upon someone else and here it says, you can't really bestow unless you come out of the ego?

R. We are in our ego and we are hoping that by our prayer our ego will become the good force.

11. S. (26:38) I didn't understand the condition that if I am still troubled by my corporeal existence or even spiritual then I can't come out of myself to others, is there a situation where I'm not troubled?

R. I didn't say that that is what the Baal HaSulam says, it is clear that if I am in the will to receive and in here a negative feeling appears and it is lacking, I can be concerned about something that it will be good to others if it is lacking to me. We are in a net of nature, a net of the desire to receive and that desire must supply itself with what it needs and only when it has what it needs it can be corrected. Let's say that it has nothing but it is satisfied, it doesn't want anything else, it can behave and work. In spirituality we say that the light of Mercy comes and feels the vessels and those vessels don't want anything else because they feel good to be in bestowal, the Bina covers Malchut, Malchut rises to Bina, but if there are no such corrections on the Malchut on the will to receive, so the will to receive demands, these are laws, there isn't something that happens with no reason from itself.

S. How is it possible that a person will not worry about his existence as the Creator gives us health, financial and family problems?

R. We are now in lesson number two, in lesson number one of today, we were speaking about annulment and in that annulment, we were saying that we can probably annul in such a way to the Creator that it doesn't matter what He does to me, it doesn't matter as I will be annulled to Him towards all of His actions. What does this mean that I am annulled, what do I feel in this annulment, do I feel good or bad or I don't feel anything? I feel good. My action to annulment towards the upper one is not my action, it is the upper one that is doing it, but I want it and agree with it. It is my partnership with the upper one, it is the measure of my mutual guarantee with the upper one, this is called conception impregnation. Then I allow the upper one to do with me whatever He wants, that is called the embryo in his mother's womb.

S. The Creator sends me thoughts and disturbances and what do I need to do?

R. Of course, in every moment you have to agree to receive it and you ask the Creator for the corrections in order to relinquish more and more egoistic desires that are revealed in you and to get the Creator's control over you. This is called that you are growing as an embryo from day to day.

S. Why should I ask for corrections if this is what He wants to happen?

R. Because he wants it, not you. You need to grow inside of Him, meaning everything that you received from him you should take it as a blessing but you get things that are opposite of what you want to begin with, against your desire to receive, they are opposite.

S. Is there a connection between annulment and mutual responsibility?

R. Through the mutual guarantee you can reach annulment and without it you cannot reach annulment towards the Creator.

S. First there is mutual responsibility and then annulment aren’t they the other way around?

R. You can say both as they are constantly changing.

12. S. (31:55) We say a person has to be concerned with sustaining himself to not be a burden in society and on the other hand we say that we should not worry about our own needs or corporeality. What is the point of connection between the two things?

R. They have to become as one, not to be adjacent to each other like two circles that have a point of connection but that they have to be as one. Everything is expressed in the embryo, in that desire called the embryo, the desires to bestow and the desires to receive, the intentions to receive, the intentions to bestow to connect, all forms of connection between the Creator and the created being, all of these things builds the body of the embryo and after that body, along with the body they also build the point of a brain and a heart and eventually in that body, the mind and heart start being established, that they control the embryo itself. In every cell there is also a part of the heart and a part of the mind.

13. S. (33:48) Concerning relationships should I accept everything and annul and is this also before your mate or is this only relating to my 10?

R. We're not speaking about what's going on in our world, we are learning about a spiritual embryo and how we reach a state of the spiritual embryo.

14. S. (34:43) A person who commits to the mutual responsibility, does he commit to taking all of the corruptions of the friends on himself and if a friend shows you, he's not in Arvut with you, you have to be in Arvut with him right?

R. It will gradually be revealed on the way and clarified, don't jump on everything, let's learn how to approach this correctly. You see how we are studying and coming close to this and we are doing these things in order to be the first part, the pioneers that stands and brings all of humanity into connection with the Creator.

15. S. (34:40) Can I enter into conception if the friends are not keeping me in Arvut?

R. It is hard to say, what does it mean to keep or not to keep, you have to work with what you have and to try and bestow to them in such a way that they will enter Arvut. There has to be attendance in the lesson and if the 10 is not present in the lessons you can say that they don't have a chance a to advance. This is why I really don't have what to say, try to get organized in the right 10.

16.S. (36:53) It sounds like what's been given to us in corporeality the intention gets inverted instead of worrying about for myself but to see these things as a way to correct or a set of corrections that are given to keep moving forward on the path so the intention changes?

R. The intention changes, the desire changes, the condition changes in each and every moment, yes.

Reader continues: (37:39-38:20) “Thus you evidently find the giving of the Torah had to be delayed….”

17. R. (38:21) Meaning of all kinds of business spiritual, in the group in the 10 in Bnei Baruch. They have to be completely isolated from our other life as we cannot speak about it, it is not worth bringing strangers into our spiritual advancement but to be connected as much as possible between us only. To the direction of the center of the 10.

Reader continues: (39:08-39:55) “It turns out that even after the reception of the Torah….”

18. R. (39:56) We have to isolate ourselves in Bnei Baruch all of us entirely and there we have to develop connections of friendship, love and support as much as possible. Furthermore, it has to be in each and every 10, there it just has to be till we feel the hearts of each and every one that is willing to work with all of his heart for the 10. And whoever can't doesn't want to, let him leave. What can you do as there are a lot that fall from the path, we have seen this and I guess this is the way, afterwards they reach other stages and they join back. Maybe not to us anymore but to those who will come later.

Reader continues: “These rebels cause those who observe Torah to remain in ….”

19. S. (41:40) This is the same law of mutual guarantee that I have to be responsible for the friends?

R. Yes, the same, yes, the law of connection between everybody.

S. If I am responsible for the friends, I see everybody is already in this responsibility?

R. No it is you who is responsible for them, you by this are bringing them into the mutual guarantee. You are giving them conditions that they too can enter easily with your help to a connection called Arvut, but not that they are already in this connection from your efforts. There must be a participation on their behalf as well, personally and as a group.

S. So this is not the same as annulment when I see everybody else is already in annulment as well?

R. That is something else, also in annulment it is two different forms of observing reality, he who flaws does it in his own flaws. If you annul yourself and you think everybody is annulled and that is correct in general. But on the private side of each and every one they are not as each one is in their ego. The fact that they are performing all of the work that the Creator is dropping on them, that they are doing it, they are not aware that they are doing it from the Creator's desire upon them, they think they are doing it from their own will to receive. The whole world has a will to receive that the Creator created and this whole world is performing in the will to receive everything that it needs to do. It also comes from the Creator. This is called the evil inclination so you can say what do you want from the Creator, they are doing what the Creator is doing in them. We are saying that the created beings reach an understanding, a recognition of what their nature is compared to the Creator and what they have to do with their nature in order to resemble the Creator and come close to Him so they can connect to Him. This is what we are speaking about.

S. If I am responsible for the friends there is still no mutual responsibility because everyone has to be responsible?

R. Right, of course, obviously it is a law on everyone, each one is obligated to do this.

S. But how do we know if everyone will respond in the mutual guarantee or not?

R. You will know as everything will be revealed. Even if I am in mutual guarantee with others on my behalf and willing to work and wrap them with all of my forces, I also see as much as they are trying it and whether they are in it or not.

20. S. (45:20) What does it mean we will do and we will hear?

R. That in spiritual existence we can't come to understand the actions, the essence of the actions before we perform it and by performing it, we start discovering and feeling the essence of the action itself. This is why it is called we will do and from doing you can attain the essence of what you are doing which is called you hear.

21. S. (46:09) Is there a certain amount of responsibility that we have to come to so we can maintain bestowal in the ten?

R. Yes of course, we have to reach a state that we have to connect between us in the 10 on the degree of root and then on the first phase and when we reach a second phase, then we are already in Lishma. We will go through all of these stages and you will see that each day we go through more and more topics, actions, understandings and thoughts and this is how it is. You can't hurry, you can't give a baby some kind of steak, it’s poison for him. In every measure of development, you need a special portion, a force that develops and a force that corrects and a force that fulfills and this is how it goes stage after stage.

22. S. (47:49) We must achieve Arvut in the 10, but this is all my perception, on one hand I have to bestow, on the other hand I have to see bestowal in others and it is all in me?

R. Everything you discover, feel, and understand is all taking place in you this is what we learned from perception of reality. There are things here that we can't connect and settle yet, but don't worry, naturally we will come closer to it and start to understand how it all combines together. You will see all of creation, this world, the spiritual world, yourself and everybody in the imaginary world will all be revealed to you in a calm manner that there won't be any problems, everything that the upper light will control everything, the Creator, it will cover all the differences and all the gaps and all of the problems and you will see how good it will be.

23. S. (49:21) Those who are not keeping the Arvut should the society cover for them or are they thrown out the minute they do not observe the Arvut?

R. There is nothing automatic here, we are all developing in different values and each one in a different style, this is why nobody is like the other in this is why we need to support each one as much as we can. We don't toss this one and the other one, no, we keep everyone and we carry everyone. Everything except for leave as we say, if a person in no way doesn't want to participate, then go, but if he does and he wants to help as much as we can, then you will see how much they advance. The truth is there are a lot of great people in their soul, that their path, their first stages are very difficult, it is very heavy for them to start ascending on the first degree and there are such that get it quick and easy but that they don't advance too far. Those who are deep, big souls, their difficulty is very big. A soul still needs to be corrected to a small extent but you have to go through all of these changes that a person doesn't understand, doesn't agree and everything that happens, I felt this on myself, it is very difficult. This is why we just need to be patient towards each and everyone.

S. So Arvut is a gradual process?

R. Yes, you do what depends on you and you see that you might not need anything else, the mutual guarantee you will see whether you need it or not.

Reader continues: (52:04-52:18) “you therefore see that all of Israel are responsible for one another….”

24. R. (52:19) Meaning everyone who desires to be towards the creator has to be in Arvut to everybody in order to connect all the desires and thoughts and only in such a way they can attain their goal.

Reader continues: (52:32-53:26) “On the positive side if they keep the mutual guarantee to the point….”

25. R. (53:28) There are still places for a lot of corruptions, that were, and will still come, also in our way and we need to be aware of it and we will learn how to go above it, that builds us, it's not that they aren't needed. Nothing that comes to us on the path is not needed, it builds us it specifically builds us.

26. S. (54:04) You said before we have to isolate ourselves and I feel that when I finish the morning lesson and we do this summary that I come to my job and it's crazy there, how do I manage between two worlds?

R. It is written about that, that you need to put a form within a form, meaning you externally behave towards your workplace and internally towards your internal life and there is no problem with it. The Creator did this on purpose that we can learn from those two forms that we must exist in, how we should advance in spirituality and also in two forms. You will see soon that this is what we are going to learn but for now there is this world and there is the upper world and you exist in those two worlds.

S. So should I do a reset?

R. You don't have to do a reset, you just have to be with it. Let's say I go to a place of animals with a few friends, with my friends I am connected with the humans, even a spiritual connection and with the animals we behave according to the way of the animals. If they need treatment, or help, each one at his place, just like you relate to children or to other people. There are a lot of different levels of connection in your life where you relate this way or that way to everybody. There is no problem in this, you have to be flexible.

27. S. (56:26) What exercise do you recommend for us to do today?

R. We today started, that there's no other way in all of the spiritual path but because the Creator is everything and fills everything in there is None Else Besides Him, so we just have to be annulled towards Him gradually, meaning to the extent that all kinds of desires are revealed in me, egoistic, opposite the Creator, how can I annul them in order to connect to the Creator? That is actually my work. That was the topic of the first lesson and onward the Arvut, that we, between us in the group to try to start building such connections that we help one another support one another, each one and the other for example, in help in all kinds of states. We also need to show this help to the others, that I am helping because it brings peace. I give an example and the others get inspired and they start doing, it doesn't have to be something hidden or concealed but it has to be an action of support and help, a desire and interest between man and his friend in the group in a clear way and in this way, we will advance, that was actually our lesson today. I really hope that you understand how we are advancing from one lesson to the next and that these stages are very important and that you, throughout the day will go through them and implement them. Each one in himself, each one in his group and in this way all the groups. You will succeed, I hope you have a day of advancing in annulment and in Arvut.

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