Morning Lesson August 31, 2022 Transcription
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Part 2:
Baal HaSulam. Introduction to “From the Mouth of a Sage”
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1.R. (00:13) It is the book Baal HaSulam wanted to compose but then he left it behind and he went to more advanced texts. But nevertheless when he writes something it awakens him to write more on a higher degree, a more inclusive degree. This introduction although it's not an introduction to such a book from the mouth of the sage, we don't have such a book, but let's see it nevertheless because he wrote it and there are a few things that will help us advance correctly, let's go.
Reading (00:56) Introduction to “From the Mouth of a Sage”
R. (01:13:) Meaning anyone who yearns to reach the Creator called Yashar Kel, Israel can attain it only through the Wisdom of Kabbalah.
Continues Reading (01:22).. Introduction to “From the Mouth of a Sage”
R. (02:03) Meaning there is an obligation for a person who wishes to reach the correction of his soul, the revelation of the Creator, the upper attainment, and he must if he wants to obtain it, he must study the Wisdom of Kabbalah, without it he cannot correct his soul.
Continues Reading (02:22) Introduction to “From the Mouth of a Sage”
R. (03:20) Meaning it won't do a person any good no matter what he does if he doesn't study the Wisdom of Kabbalah, he cannot reach the correction of the soul, that's the gist of these words.
Continues Reading (03:39) Introduction to “From the Mouth of a Sage”
“And feeds your kids…”
R. (03:51) Meaning a person has to go and study and he reaches what he needs.
Continues Reading (03:55)
R. (04:48) Yes, the main thing is to aim one's heart to heaven.
Continues Reading (04:56)
R. (07:26) Meaning the problem is as follows, spirituality is not received in our regular vessels we can't weigh them, we can't measure them, we can't place it in a box and measure how much it weighs, how big it is, how small it is in spirituality. Hence, how can we even be in contact with it and how do we grasp it, how do we pack it, how do we weigh it? Seemingly there is no way, just as we are look at our universe right now.
Everyday we discover more and more states and places but it simply says that we're so far away from it we're not able to grasp it with each passing day. We see our nothingness relative to this form that is revealed to us and the same goes for spirituality much more actually but let's say that this is the same. We don't know how to define spirituality how to receive it because it has to be for us that spirituality enters certain predefined shapes and forms and then we can talk about it. We can feel it, perceive it and that's why he says we will not be able to define it by name and a word but we need to give it a name at least what is it? If we don't have such an internal feeling, how will we call it, what will we call it, what word, it's a problem.
2. S. (09:48) What is included in this study of Kabbalah, like when he says that Israel must study Kabbalah? Is it TES, is it everything that we study, is there a mandatory?
R. Let me tell you, every person has an inclination towards discovering his soul to some extent, who am I, what am I, where am I, where am I from and so on and so forth each one according to the questions he's asking himself. The simplest person, the least educated one, nevertheless he's asking, so each person has a certain attitude, a certain approach toward the spiritual world and we need to find people who have a strong tendency, a purposeful one.
They want to know who am I, what am I, where am I, from why, what for, what state do to reach, who's managing me, how can I manage my life, what happens above my life beyond my life and death and so on and so forth. Such people wish to find out the meaning of their lives, meaning to be to some extent above their lives or in other words to get to know who is managing their lives. Such people are called Israel. They wish to discover the source of their lives and there are those who live and they don't have it. It's like children you see they live and they have no relation to it and what's important to them is what enters their field of vision.
Hence we need to locate such people and allow them to get to know the source of their life, who is managing their life by what and together with that how can they change their lives and connect to the force and through that to change themselves and their lives. That is the topic the main topic of the Wisdom of Kabbalah, in that you discover everything through the Wisdom of Kabbalah, the entire general force that surrounds the entire world and humanity as the central part of this world, and you begin to feel these things truthfully correctly, not according to your five corporeal senses but according to how it truly is in the system of general nature. What the wisdom of Kabbalah talks about, that's why it's open to everyone but ultimately only people who care about knowing this are drawn to it out of their inner desire, that's what they wish to attain.
S. Does TES help me understand who it is that who manages my life?
R. No, by studying the Wisdom of Kabbalah in general you begin to learn how to connect to the upper force, you bestow to it so it will help you develop.
3. S. (14:14) What does it mean that a person who does not study the Wisdom of Kabbalah and studies all of the Torah and has other qualities?
R. There are people who study all kinds of books in addition to the Wisdom of Kabbalah, meaning they don't care about the upper force, but whether they care about what the upper force is telling a simple person in this world who is not looking above his life. Then he reads the Torah, the Bible, he reads this book in its original form perhaps. We know that all the great scientists like Newton for example, they studied Hebrew in order to read these books in their original form.
What did they find there, they found an explanation for how a person should live and keep his life on a basic level of necessity, and these laws that explain to him how to exist, are the result of spiritual laws but what are the spiritual laws, lets not explain rather you can only explain how to keep a copy of these spiritual laws in our world. From that we get all kinds of laws, and this is forbidden, this is permitted and so on and so forth because this is how you explain to a person what he needs to keep in his corporeal life in order to resemble the spiritual life.
S. It turns out that only through reading in the book and from what youexplained a person can come to better qualities?
R. No, they used to live in such times where even if they read books that explains things simply, externally, they would still understand that it's discussing spiritual matters because their ego is much much less than ours.
4. S. (17:17) With your permission it's written here that actually light that we receive from these essence is actually what we received and define as creator meaning that there is some differentiation between his essence and in this world we will never succeed at his degree so how do we receive the thought of creation if we don't attain His self?
R. We cannot attain His essence because you cannot come out of your will to receive. You will simply adapt your will to receive through the intention to bestow and by that you begin to understand who is the Creator by building in you his image that's why it's called Bo-reh come and see, Creator you come to his image in you and by that you see him seemingly attain Him. You attain in such a way that according to how much you resemble yourself to Him.
S. How does the thought of creation come to our feelings?
R. That's how you get it and you feel like it's enough for you.You want to be exactly like the Creator or similar to the Creator, you are a human, Adam you have to be similar to the Creator Adam, to the upper one similar to the upper one try to reach that.
S. We become the Creator when you combine these two qualities but Himself, that is the meaning actually. What partitions between what we do all the work until the end of connection we still won't.
5. S. (19:28) Intention and attainment is it the same thing?
R, Intention and attainment no. Intention is your instrument, the means you use to reach attainment, it is not the same. The intention is an instrument or a vessel and the attainment is the light that you receive in the vessel.
S. Where should we aim?
R. To resemble the Creator, to resemble the bestower, resemble the equivalence of form.
S. Can we say that the intention is only built by what I actually read and what the Kabbalists write and can try to understand what it is?
R. Of course, if you come to an attainment it opens up all the senses to you.
6. S. (20:38) What does it mean when he says that there for himself we cannot even contemplate we can't even talk about it but rather there is only abstract aspect, what is this prohibition about not talking about him?
R. Because you cannot. Forbidden means impossible, to write it on the side there. Forbidden is prohibited and is equal to impossible because it is impossible to think that is why they say it is forbidden.
S. When will it be possible? When you are in attainment?
S. When?
R. To truly reach the name of the Creator is impossible.
S. Does it mean that only by His lights spread from Him?
R. What comes up for Him to us is what we receive that we can explore, investigate and understand, because we receive these things in our vessels according to the equivalence of form.
S. What did you mean that the Kabbalists are not allowed to engage in that?
R. Because it is impossible it's very simple.
S. What does it mean Hisself His essence?
R. His essence is him without any contact with the lower ones.
S. It's not possible to attain?
R. It is unattainable, whatever can be attained is only in the vessels of the lower ones.
7. S. (22:45) Is reaching similarity of form loving your friends as you love yourself?
R. To reach equivalence of form, it is an expression of love your friend as yourself. To the extent that I'm in the love of the Creator, I reach equivalence of form with him.
Continue reading (23:40) “Any beginner in learning the wisdom…”
8. R. (25:34) Meaning those who yearn for the Creator, relative to them we learn how the lights come down to them, correct them and raise them back to the Creator.
Continue reading (25:49) “This is so because the soul...”
9. R. (27:55) Meaning that eventually all the study is arranged so that we will come to know the upper force and integrate in it and rise into it and enter it.
10. S. (28:20) What is a body that the soul clothes?
R. The ten Sefirot, the soul is the inner light that enters the vessel which is the ten Sefirot. There is nothing outside of that, what we think that there is this corporeal world that exists with still, vegetative, animate, speaking that appears to our five senses in the wisdom of Kabbalah, this is called the imaginary world. We imagine it in our five senses but it doesn't really exist. Because we are organized that way in our brains, that is how we think. But in truth only the spiritual world truly exists, the world of truth. We will discover these things soon enough.
11. S. (29:30) What does it mean to know the upper force?
R. To identify with it as much as possible, for me to resemble it in such a way, in such a measure. I connect with her and I take upon myself its qualities this is the meaning of getting to know it and I clothe on it or it clothes on me. There are several forms of connection here.
S. Let's say, we are connecting with the friends in the ten, we are trying to build, to establish this force between us so how do we as a ten enter into this force.
R. As a ten we begin to receive the upper light which changes us more and more and more, connects us through various forms between us, it influences us from outside and we become not bodies or friends but qualities. The important thing is our qualities, how we can add ourselves to one another more and more until something whole comes out of our connection and inside this whole thing we discover our upper root called Creator. Okay?
S. What does it mean, our root?
R. Our upper root from which everything comes. The light comes to us and develops us, that is the root.
S. Meaning everything begins from there, from the center of connection between us?
R. Yes, you have seen our symbol which is a tree whose roots are up above and its branches are down below this is the true form of the world.
12. S. (32:03) You said that the spiritual world is something that we did not get to, we did not enter yet. What is preventing us from getting there if we are in the only world that exists?
R. We do not exist in the only world that exists, we exist below the spiritual world and we need to acquire the qualities that will allow us to live in the spiritual world and then we will enter the spiritual world.
13. S. (33:07) The fact that it is written that everything comes down from the Creator to us according to the law of cause and consequence. I wanted to ask, when we are advancing in attainment we rise in this logical chain from the end to ourselves, to the Creator?
R. Yes.
S. If the Creator Himself we cannot attain, He, Himself is not something that can enter our intellect, our logic, only our phenomenon. Where does our logic begin? Where does it start from, what thoughts, what desire that we have to…?
R. From our desire to bestow. We understand that if we are in the will to receive, we are inside our animal, our beast, just like all the other animals. If we wish to rise about the degree of the animal level we need to reach the desire to bestow. This is what logic starts from, the spiritual idea.
14. S. (34:37) When a person starts to engage in the wisdom of Kabbalah does his perception change? Does it mean that this world disappears from the five senses or is there an additional sense, how does he perceive the world?
R. I cannot explain it to you, I'm sorry, and I should not even try to do it but you should yearn for it in order to attain it.