Part 3:
Baal HaSulam. The Peace (Necessity to Practice Caution with the Laws of Nature)
(00:19 - 11:14)
1. R. (11:20) If there are questions, please, I think that here we actually have a summary of all our work and all our efforts and the entire demand on behalf of the upper one and all our demands towards Him.
2. S. (11:47) We learned that the Creator is the Good that does good and the Merciful?
R. That's not now, according to our feelings but rather according to his goal.
S. How can we, because also here he writes it, that “there's no mercy”?
R. Meanwhile, of course there's no mercy, you remember yourself when you came back from school and you used to curse the entire school and the teacher and everyone for pressuring you, that you don't want to do anything that they're demanding, well?
S. Yes, I remember, so how can we adapt ourself to this state of development?
R. Well try, say that you're a child first, second grade or third grade, and you want to justify the school, what would you do? You don’t know what you're acquiring by continuing this way, you don't know what forces you can receive in order to continue, you have nothing along the way that can justify the path itself, what to do?
S. Really what to do, because we see that everything that we do there really is no mercy, nature punishes us for everything?
R. That's our attitude towards the Creator in accordance with how we are in our evil inclination, it is in us, how we receive Him, accept Him, yes, well what to do?
S. How can we come out of such a state, we don't see anything else from it?
R. Poor thing, no, we need to receive guidance from the Sages of Kabbalah and to say that this state is not the final state but rather it's along the way, and we need to receive it and continue onwards all the way to the north!
S. And what is the victory?
R. The win, the triumph is where we take the victory we receive that we were born with and invert it by the upper Force, which is called ‘nature’ and ‘truth’, the Creator, in Gematria, in numeric value is ‘nature’, is nature, and we are receiving it correctly in bestowal and love and connection.
3. S. (15:30) First of all, it's really an amazing part, he said for four times, he said that “you won't be merciful for the ones that isn't performing the commandments”, so what does it mean that “he's not merciful”, it’s externally, internally, what does he mean? And why not to be merciful because we read a person’s confused and doesn't know when he's performing things or not, so what does it mean to be merciful?
R. Well, say you have a family and everyone has mercy on their child, both the father and the mother, and they don't obligate him to scrutinize and carry out the commands of the teacher that's giving them homework, well, so what to do?
S. How does it work in a Ten if a friend doesn't come to the lesson or doesn't perform the commandments in the ten, how are we not to be merciful for him?
R. You need to gradually show him that this is not acceptable upon you and to obligate him this way to receive upon himself, to take upon himself what appears to you as correct, if he wants to be in the ten he must accept the laws of the ten, that's it.
4. S. (17:17) About accepting laws in the Ten, there's surrendering towards the ten and connecting with the friends in the ten. Can I subjugate myself without being connected to the friends, as at the first state at least?
R. How, towards what are you subduing yourself?
S. Towards what the ten decides?
R. But you're connected to them, how do you know?
S. I'm saying, does it mean that in order to be subjugated I need to be connected to them?
R. Yes, of course, otherwise there's no connection between you.
S. And if we have this connection and I am connected so is the subjugation important or is, specifically, the connection more important?
R. Only the subjugation, only the subjugation.
5. S. (18:16) How can I teach myself to be afraid of it, people aren't afraid of anything not commandments, not laws, people do whatever they want?
R. Because we're coming to such a stay in human society where people aren't afraid of anything, they don't want to accept anything to their attention, they have no limitations and no guidance is that they're willing to work with. There it is and that's what will be, ‘what I have now, it's good for me and that's it and later whatever will be, will be”. In essence it's very close to the Providence of the Creator but the wrong governance.
S. What can I do, how to learn and teach; so it said, “not to be afraid of anything that they know” but is it going to be worse, so what do you do?
R. Consciously observe the commands of the Creator, Mister, is that not clear? You constantly fulfill the commandments of the Creator, or not, but nevertheless observe these things as you're close.
S. After twenty years it's clear but how to explain it to people?
R. To people it's a problem, to explain this to people is hard, you say you're doing it for twenty years, I'm doing it for forty years and you could say with the same results. Well, we will later discover from the Creator how He appreciates the work and our efforts and our lives altogether!
6. S. (20:47) A person is the will to receive changes and whoever changes his nature to bestow can get joy from it and that's only in Kabbalists but whoever hasn't changed his nature, and remained, all of humanity remaining in their original nature, so they'll never be able to accept this law of of bestowal because they'll be suffering, it will always be coercion.
R. Yes?
S. How can there be a state where the masses will take upon themselves in any way this law of bestowal because they're just suffering?
R. Through the suffering.
S. But they're going to remain in the suffering?
R. Why?
S. Their tendency will always want to come out of it because they're suffering?
R. No, but they will want to run away from the suffering and that's how they will have to run away from, in order to receive.
S. It's like now, there's trouble so people are leaning towards bestowal but with God's help the trouble will go away and they'll go back to their nature. How can they constantly be adhered to the quality of bestowal because once the suffering is done their nature is going to obligate them to go back into reception?
R. I would recommend to all of you to enter into a workshop: What exercise can you give to all of humanity, all of humanity including all the people, all the parties, no matter what, who, such that they will understand that they have no choice but to conclude in a certain way with all the suffering. What everyone feels, only each in his own, ‘why because I didn't kill him, he because he didn't kill me’, all of us together we're not stealing this, and like this and like that. In short we are all in a complete lack of wholeness but how can we depict to ourselves that we come to equilibrium, to the middle line here, and into a good state? Please talk about it between you.