Part 2
Morning Lesson December 18, 2021, Transcription
Transcription is made from simultaneous translation which leaves a possibility for differences in the audio
Baal HaSulam. The Love of God and the Love of Man
1 S. (04:13) How can you all together love your friend as yourself for me to love him to love the friend like myself like that sounds like delusion like a fantasy?
R. That's right, you're right, what can I do that is what is written so that there seems to be some means to reach a state where you don't feel who you love either the whole humanity or yourself, it's literally all the same, no difference ,no difference between your children, yourself and your neighbors and people who are far away from you, you love everyone.
S. In my place it sounds like a problem.
R. This is a condition to return to the system of Adam HaRishon before the shattering before the sin.
S. What does it mean?
R. We're all connected in a single desire, single Kli and we feel ourselves that the connection between us is everything and outside connection there is no life.
S. We are talking on a level that is the end of correction.
R. That's right, they are discussing the corrected state.
S. Absolute bestowal?
R. Yes.
S. Are there degrees in love your friend as yourself?
R. Yes, there are degrees towards it but they're talking about the corrected states.
S. Total?
R. Totally corrected state.
2. S. (06:05) How do you connect between the person and the Creator?
R. How to connect a person to the Creator? By coming closer to the created beings, to the friends and inside the friends you find the connection between you and the Creator that the Creator designs your ten you discover that gradually and when you yourself design the ten there was a certain set of conditions, incidents where you begin to feel each other. Where on your end to your building the ten and you begin to feel the Creator sustains the ten from the other side and then inside the time you begin to meet you and the Creator.
3. S. (07:11) How can it be the feeling of love which is something that you either have or don't necessitate a person to go through so many details?
R. That's what we need to go through until we correct ourselves from one end to the other.
Reader continues twice (07:37)
5. R. (11:50) Meaning that we are not talking about philosophy, psychology, some poetic things that we can talk about it, we're talking about things that arrive to us as orders that we have to follow that is why the world that was created and we need to follow it carry it out in every sense we can and even more than that we going to learn later that everything that happens to us is to the extent that we carry out this condition of love your friends as yourself . If we do carry it out things will be better, if not things will be worse, very simple conditions we get, nothing we can do to change them.
6. S. (12:50) To love our friends as ourselves, do we need to learn how to love ourselves first? How do we if I don't love myself how can I love the other?
R. You want to say that you don't love yourself basically, meaning you need to discover that in trying to love others when you tried to love others, you discover on the way that you are not engaged in anything besides loving yourself. In a total manner you can't come out of it nor do you want to come out of it and you don't intend to try, that's what you are supposed to discover. Until you try to come out of self-love you don't know that you are immersed in self-love, you see the whole world, everyone is blaming everyone for being an egoist but no one is saying about himself that he's an egoist, me? I love everyone, look at what I'm doing, who did I ever hurt and the whole world has the demands from one towards everyone else but towards yourself everyone is right, I am a good person. That is the problem, so we are going to have to clarify that if you think you are righteous, start doing actions towards friends and you will see you have no desire and no ability to do that because you are not to blame here, that's how you're built by nature to begin with, you are built this way. You will discover it and as a result you will see you have no choice but to change yourself if you want to achieve rising above your nature.
R. It was a beautiful lesson, especially the part that came from women's questions. I enjoyed the lesson. I hope I have provided some answers. We need to better understand that our correction is only in rising above our nature from hate to connection and that's how we will advance that is all I can say.