Baal HaSulam. Peace in the World
Reading Peace in the World
Psalms #85 (00:26)
1.R. (02:25) Seemingly He created something redundant or seemingly even harmful although now we discover that things are harmful or just redundant in the world. It's because we don't see the extent to which they come for correction and complement one another or complete one another and specifically upon those corrections, the absolute good grows where we cannot depict it right now, that it's possible to be done in any other way but only rather by the creation of the corruption and gradual correction that is arranged there.
Reader continues (03:08)
2. R. (04:46) We can for the time being take out a few summations from this, one, that everything from the world was created from its final state, its complete whole state and to reach to the creature, other than the Creator, the attainment, understanding and feeling of that final state is impossible unless the creature will go through all the states of development from the completely opposite from perfection, the final perfection, until he develops and attains gradually, slowly, slowly and understanding and feeling and attainment the final complete, perfect form. Therefore we have no point of talking here about what's bad here in reality, rather all the bad in reality is revealed gradually in each and every creature and in all the created beings as well together. To a measure, to an extent in which they will be able to correct themselves and be willing to feel the absolute good that will be revealed to them according to their development in the end.
3. S. (06:15) We know that in any case there are processes that are desirable and those that are not desirable?
R. What's undesirable, towards who are you saying they are undesirable?
S. With respect to the Creator and the created being, the path of suffering, the path of Torah and we can go through processes in a certain way but because we didn't perform corrections on time so we go through them in a path of wars?
R. Let's leave it for the time being, it could be, let's say that you're right for the time being.
S. So why is he saying there is no bad?
R. Since there is no bad there are forces of correction that exist in reality in order to lead us to be good like the Creator and therefore you can't say about those forces that develop us, that bring us to the absolute good that they're bad, they're all good because their purpose is for our complete development. That's how it is to begin with, meaning from the beginning there's the good state and against it the artificial created state which is bad and then gradually from there to the good they have to exist, all those states along the way. You can ask where here is our free choice, if there is or not, can we nevertheless advance in a way in which we choose, according to what can we choose? Well, what can I tell you, we will talk about that in the continuation of the article, there are many questions here. There is a reason why we chose this article specifically, it's very important for us today.
S. If there's no bad in reality then everything that occurs in reality you have to accept it?
R. What, there's no bad in reality? There is only that, this bad, if we look at it correctly towards what it needs to bring us to then that it could be this bad brings us to a good on the one hand. On the other hand, could we have reached that good without the feeling of bad or maybe feel it somewhat and not make mistakes, and not receive a big punishment. What's the difference between that which the Creator is aiming at us and the way he punishes us, there are many things here. But we will progress forward slowly, slowly and advance, of course I'm willing to hear along the way questions from our groups from Ukraine and Russia, of course if they're not asking, and we have Toronto.
4. S. (09:37) This article talks about the revelation of evil that has to be revealed because otherwise we cannot even come closer to the Creator, to know the Creator. How do we prepare for this kind of revelation of evil when it appears even Rabbi Akiva students were not able to handle it, how do we prepare in Bnei Baruch now, and we're not even close to being at the level of Rabbi Akiva’s students, how do we prepare for that eventuality?
R. First of all, I don't think that we will feel that bad, like you're imagining to yourself, like it's above our power . I's all measured according to the purpose of the group, the purpose of a person and therefore you're not given, a person, something that he could not overcome and we thank God, are advancing until today in such a way that we will be ready to receive those bad, seemingly bad things which are the forces of our development actually. We will be able to receive them correctly, there's no problem.
5. S. (11:19) The outbursts of hate that there are in all the different levels, is it correct to see in them attempts to get closer to the others?
R. Yes and no, we need to see them in such a way that it's a form of love that is being revealed in it's opposite way, in the form of hatred and we need to work on this through the Creator. This is called, he who makes peace in the heavens makes Heaven upon us and for us to reach peace we need to first be in war, and hatred. Therefore the Creator evokes hatred and we through our appeal to him, specifically to the appeal to him, not to scrutinize things between us, if I have something if the friends, if there's something between the nations, the countries actually we need to turn to the Creator. He needs to settle the dispute because he arranged the dispute to be between us and he needs to bring between, in place of it, peace, completion.
This is actually the correct way by there being a dispute we need to discover a need for the Creator for the middle line. For him to make perfection between us peace, connection and then we discover ourselves in a connected form and to the extent to which we extend above the disputes, above the hatred, we reveal the Creator. The dispute, the hatred is revealed as the coarseness, the Aviut of the degree Shoresh, Aleph, Bet, GImel, Dalet and the connection between us is revealed as the screen and the reflected light that we want to discover the connection between us. Then according to the equivalence of form between what we attain in connection and between the Creator then we have equivalence and the Creator is revealed within that vessel. A Partzuf takes place there which receives the upper light, the Creator within it and this is how we have unity, connection, adhesion between the creature and the vessel and the Creator which is the light.
S. It turns out that in our work we try to form such a relation of love towards one another, meaning the good intention but because we're all egoistic so it's perceived as not good intentions, maybe somehow we will need to see it as a general problem?
R. You're right, we need to talk about it between us more and do all kinds of exercises until this will really happen and the main thing is the prayer, the main thing is prayer, the request for the Creator to help us to arrange for us to show us how we do these thing upon each and every thing turn to Him.
6. S. (15:09) It's like a fruit that's not ripe, it's bitter and not tasty and its final form is that it's pleasant and tasty. Usually when we reach the states and some roots, some fruits rot on the branch because there's a problem in the roots of the tree. How can a person determine that the fruit will ultimately be ripe and not rotten?
R. We only need to be concerned with praying to the Creator for Him to take care of the growth of the fruit and no more than that, also the tree. Also all there is, is all coming from above. There are 40 different kinds of care for the trees, like we learn in Tu B'shvat article by Rabash and it's truly 40 degrees that there are between Malchut and Bina. Between the still and the vegetative, the tree and we need to understand that it all depends on the Creator only, and we need in order to obligate him in this to just connect. If we connect, with our prayers, with our study and specifically now at a time where we are in separation and resistance, clashing and hatred that is being revealed suddenly. In these and those friends we need to overcome this and again and again try to build and to turn each of us and all of us together to the Creator to help us be in connection above the hatred. By that we will advance greatly and you will see that all this war being extended it’s us, because we are neglecting, being lazy and putting a true powerful prayer for the Creator to at last finally arrange the right connection between us and take us to the next degree. We are actually to blame for that, the war being prolonged, no personal problems and no general problems but rather only in order to awaken us to connection.
7. S. (18:15) If possible, to be more precise, if I see in a clear manner that the friend hates me, what intention should I have at that moment?
R. You need to come close to Him, try in every possible way to come closer to him and to start even from afar or even through a third party to talk about our purpose, our goal and how we get there only as we come closer, embrace and turn to the Creator and the Creator raises us. We have no other form to triumph in all those states that the Creator is awakening, we should understand that without him there would be no war and no problems, only in order to awaken us to correction which is the correct state.
8. S. (19:52) When Kabbalists write that we live in special times, surely they are not talking about the fruit being ripe after everything that is occurring?
R. It's not right but it's coming closer to a state where we can be ripe, or ripened.
Reader continues (20:26) The weakness of world reformers…
9. R. (21:30) According to their opinion.
Reader continues (21:33)
10. S. (23:13) Yesterday was the first time that I saw the connection that ignites the side of hatred where on one hand and an amazing connection in Ukraine, it reminded me of our conventions, on the other hand it seems like it feels like the Creator took the steering wheel from our hands and is putting us into a different movie, it's like you took the control and he is waiting until we connect. Can we ask him for some time?
R. We need to work on what is up to us, what is given to us which is only to develop the connection to the extent of love and what will occur, you don't know you need to accept it as a fact and work on it to connection and to love, that's it.
11. S. (24:18) What does it mean that we're being lazy and in raising the right prayer we're trying every day?
R. We can make an effort to raise a prayer not once a day but each and every moment all the time to turn to the Creator, all the time and each one for all. That's actually what the present state obligates us and allows us, let's see in this opportunity and who knows if it will repeat. If we will have another chance so now that we're in the beginning of the day, so over the course of the day that all the time be ready, truly everyone, everyone together in a plea to the Creator to make a connection between us to the extent that we will reveal the force of bestowal that ties us together and under us all of humanity is revealed in all.
12. S. (25:39) We have a world prayer at 6:30 p.m., men are gathering and women at the same time and hundreds and thousands of friends are being gathered and raising a prayer, p.m. Israel time. Men are gathering in their zoom for a world common prayer and women are gathering for praying and singing, just like you talked about. The question is beyond that there also, tens are to gather throughout the day within themselves, but how to do a world prayer, a public prayer, a global prayer throughout the whole world so they will hold on and we'll beat this inner and external war?
R. I don't know, I think you need to be in a greater sensation than this than me. I cannot tell you what and how to do. I have a few morning discussions that I do, this with the writers, with the people who are in dissemination, but more than this I have no contact with the groups, I have no contact except sometimes people turn to me, well actually daily people turn to me in private emails here and there, different people, but I don't know. I think that you understand and feel it more than me.
S. Is it right that each time a different ten throughout the globe every moment a difference for 20-30 minutes prays for connection in the whole world and every ten we'll get like a half an hour a day like a duty, like our Ramchal duty or everyone just define certain points and we meet together and that's a different direction?
R. I don't know, everything else that you do, try to do like this, try to do like that, each one as much as he wants to join and participate, group or individuals. Try. I'm very happy that in general we see people are awakening to this. I'm also very happy that today we see Ukraine, Odessa, really those are groups that only sometimes appear with us. I hope to see them all the time, on a steady basis.
13. S. (29:14) Yesterday, more than 1,000 women and 500 men gathered and the question, that's also going to happen today and tomorrow, how to prepare for such a meeting so that it will be in quantity we're doing it but something additional, it needs maybe in the preparation for this. I don't know, so it will be, I don't know, open the heavens.
R. Open the skies means to open our hearts, that means to open the skies. The skies are open according to the opening of the heart.
14. S. (29:50) How to prepare correctly for this half-hour as though we need to do it all day long, what will be there in the concentration we can do it even more?
R. In connection of the hearts is revealed the Creator, it doesn't need more other than the connection of the hearts. Because the heart is our desires, the private ones of each and everyone and if we will connect them all together and direct them to him we will reveal the connection between the hearts, their source, their Creator and the goal of the connection which is the creator but in this we do everything. How to describe it to ourselves, how to feel it, how to desire it, how to pray, how to build this state, we need to think. We need to think, at least, that we talk about it and understand it and we need to perform the method of correction is already good. It's already a big thing, it's the Creator giving us a thought and desire for it.
15. S. (31:17) It feels like this situation is catching us individuals, how do we connect the ten to such a state?, meaning, if the ten needs to connect directly to such a state or is it a situation that's in the whole Kli and we need to connect in the world Kli and from there to the Creator?
R. It is desirable nonetheless, as much as possible. It's possible that those who cannot be connected throughout the course of the day, so everyone as much as possible, everyone connect with the other tens and then as much as possible more, that we will raise MAN, raise a lack, a request to the Creator. It's through unique Psalms, it could be songs but truly unique ones, through unique impressions of the friends and in such a manner we will awaken, awaken ourselves but be careful that it should not be empty. It needs to be also with content, nice content and we don't lack material, the opposite, just choose correctly and specifically what will hold our hearts together more and who was ever in this, even though he listens in such a manner that as much as his engagement over the course of the day can be engaged with the materials with the others, even if he just listens to it in the background and still remain with him as much as possible, so the more were connected to it it's good.
S. When I come to such a meeting, do I need to take my ten with me?, or do I connect as, or incorporate inside this meeting?
R. You first of all incorporate with your ten, if capable, and then you enter into the world Kli. I don't know how it's organized according to what codes or wherever you enter in order to be connected together, I hope that I too will receive the password or whatever, the link that I'll get a link and advertise it here maybe, and that's how we'll do it.
S. The meeting is also more internally, how do I need to come to these meetings?
R. We're talking about all the time, what are you asking? how to come to these meetings?, in such a manner that I'm ready, that my heart is open the soul is open, that I want to be connected with them together, that I understand that in this we connect the vessels of the broken vessels of Adam HaRishon, of the general soul to the extent that we connect to ourselves more and more than one vessel, the Creator is revealed in greater and greater intensity until will begin to reveal Him as NRNHY and we will arrive as the vessels of the last generation from the Creator to the created being in the whole manner.
S. Yes, that's the question, do I need to come as part of the ten now?
R. Like I said it again, first you connect with the ten and then from the ten you connect already to some link, I don't know but it's desirable through the ten.
16. S. (35:36) Certain desires are awakening in friends to incorporate in helping as much as possible the resistance, the natural resistance. Even friends that have the opportunity to leave, don't leave, they are not leaving the country?
R. I can't tell you what to do in such cases, I cannot. I also understand this sensation this feeling people don't leave the group, let's say that they're in Kiev or some of their place and although they have an opportunity to go to leave, maybe to go to a calmer place, but they can't leave the group, they must be with them together, they feel that they cannot disconnect, it's understandable you can feel it I very much understand them on the one hand. On the other hand, if you have family, children, a wife and you must because of them to leave the place then do that too. It's not a bad thing, it's not a sin we have opportunities today to be connected and be together in one city. It will help one another. You need to worry also for your safety for the family and for the wife and kids. So nonetheless, I would also recommend worrying for the safety, the security of the family.
17. S. (37:34) My friends are real patriots of their country, right now they're disclosing great hatred with that they're doing great efforts and rising above that hatred. That is how it is also on the other side, there are friends that are rising above everything and that's how we're connecting and raising a prayer. However, there are also friends that are not managing to rise above both on this side and the other side. In the lesson we can feel that hatred has been added, so the question is: do we need now to connect with the friends who are not capable of rising above?
R. We need to worry all the time for the connection, love covers all crimes. It's an obligation that we should do this and I don't care, it could be our friends from Siberia from Moscow and every other place. It could be friends of mine from the place where I live but they may have different tendencies, different records, different past. We need to rise above all those earthly discernments and to make an effort to connect between us, to a connection between us. That's what we need to do, to reach, then we will meet the Creator, that He is one upon all of us. Because, love covers all crimes between friends of Bnei Baruch, it's an obligation that shall occur. That we will rise above the earthly discernment of this world and react only upon what can connect between us. I don't look at the hate, the natural one that seemingly needs to be, and everything that I hear here and there. I only know one thing, that upon this as much as may come to my ear and my heart then I see as much as I am burning against them even. Yes, I need to go along with this, to understand that the Creator is above this, above this, that love covers all crimes that the love cannot be revealed rather only upon the crimes, the transgressions, the hate. Do you hear it, if I am in repulsion toward the friends and hate towards our friends I need to awaken them and awaken myself to connection. That in connection above the hate we will reveal love, truly love and then in this love we will reveal the Creator. That's the goal, and then you tell me at the end of the lesson that we hate even more, I guess I'm at fault and I didn't pass the lesson on correctly. I'm greatly sorry to hear. We'll make the effort, in any case, what can we do? Life will not end till the end of correction and we need to do everything that's in our hands.
18. S. (41:36) Am I already correcting the world if I see and want to change others? Am I called a world reformer if I want to change others?
R. No, not that I want to change others, I'm not correcting the world. I need only to change myself and to request of the Creator that he will correct the world. In me there is no force to correct the others, that's foolish, it only brings corruption to the world. It's like we see also in the previous world war that they wanted to correct the world, to clean it from people who seemingly had no need according to their opinion and to build a new world. The world is clean from what seemingly we don't want to see. We need to reach a state that we turn to the Creator, and not that we do something, and to turn to the Creator we can only do it from the point of love and connection between us, above all differences, above all crimes.
S. The question is about the peace in the world article, about the world reformers who are the ones that don't’ want to correct themselves but want to correct others?
R. Yes, that's a shell, whoever wants to correct others instead of correcting himself, that's a shell because all who sees flaws, sees his own flaws. That's what we learned in the perception of reality: if a person sees something bad in the world, that bad is in him.
19. S. (43:46) It seems that the world reformers, according to the article peace in the world, are redundant creations. Why did the Creator create them?
R. In order that we should differentiate between the good and bad. We cannot become familiar with one rather with what is the opposite of it.
20. S. (44:08) How not to tell the Creator not to do. For example, you brought hatred and now bring us love. What is the correct request?
R. The correct request is that we scrutinize what is opposite from giving and love. What is opposite of the Creator and then we request of Him to correct it and be revealed. Yes, we can request, actually all our work is in prayer and in request.
21. S. (44:44) But what's the difference between asking to change what the Creator brought us and to ask for the right thing?
R. The same thing, if I turn to the Creator and truly turn to the Creator, then I turn to the correct thing.
22. S. (45:05) Do we need to pray for people to hear us?
R. All our connection with people is through the Creator and so we need to really turn ourselves to Him, direct ourselves to Him, and thus, that’s the request we shall do.
23. S. (45:39) How to correctly do the work of raising above the hatred and the clashes. How to raise above the hatred practically and perform correction?
R. By the help of the friends. Begin to scrutinize amongst yourselves and you will see how it's possible.
24. S. (46:02) How do we talk about bad and good when we don't know if this route will be a good or bad result?
R. You're requesting of the Creator that he will scrutinize between us what is good, what is bad.
25. S. (46:26) If the Creator’s in the ten who am I praying to? Do I need to ask at every given moment for the correct connection in the ten or for the whole world? Where should I focus my intention?
R. Through the center of the ten where we all connect together, I turn to the Creator that He is there and that just I don't feel it. In the center of the ten.
26. S. (46:57) If the Creator created the evil inclination so that we will be able to attain love, does that mean that not the evil inclination is the problem but the lack of love in us?
R. One thing, love between us, connection between us, or lack of love and lack of connection, it's the same problem.
Reader continues (47:40) “We must know that the above….”
27. R. (54:42) All right, what do we see from this? I want you to read this again, so it is a clear matter, it's not simple but it's clear. We have two paths, the end of correction, the final goal is directed ahead of time. From it, we've actually cascaded until this state and from the present state we need to return back to the state of the end of correction. We have two paths there. We're actually on one path that we're always choosing, either to make a correct step forward, or not so correct. If we make a correct step forward we do it short, a correct advancement towards the goal and if an incorrect step, then we receive some slaps or something that returns us to the direct path to the goal. That is what we're actually seeing ourselves. We haven't advanced correctly so now we're in the reception of the suffering but the suffering needs to return us to the correct direction, the good direction, which is as much as possible towards correction. We will hope that we will do this, that we will clean all of humanity, on ourselves first of course. From all sorts of bad thoughts, bad desires and as such advance towards the good correct connection. Read this when you have an opportunity, these are things that truly pertain to what is happening with us.