Morning Lesson March 30, 2022, Transcription
Transcription is made from simultaneous translation which leaves a possibility for differences in the audio
Part 2:
Baal HaSulam. The Love of God and the Love of Man (One Mitzva [Commandment])
1. R. (05:37) So In short, everything he writes here, it's also not a complete article, he wrote this as a brief draft to himself that I guess later he wanted to complete into something bigger, but he never got into it. The summary is short, we all need, does not matter what nations or what they belong to, what cultures, everyone needs to engage in love their neighbor as thyself. We all need to begin in this work and engage only in that, you can be in different religions and all different things that you want, go ahead. The main thing is that connection between everyone into one group where there is no difference between human beings rather everyone is in connection between them and reveal the one upper force equal to everyone.
2. S. (06:44) Well we can take out of here that we will yearn for connection, and this can be expressed that you need to feel everyone like yourself?
R. Yes of course, if we eventually connect with our desires and there is nothing but the desire. The Creator has created one desire, this desire he broke on purpose to many parts, many pieces so that we will connect these pieces once more to one desire and from this we will have the feeling of the reality, the feeling of connection between us which is the Creator of otherwise we could not reveal him. The fact that different desires come close and try and connect between them, this gives them the feeling of the force that created them and shattered them and then brought them closer. It is through this that they attain a thing and it’s opposite, both disconnection and connection and through this, it is enough for them to know the attitude of the Creator, the relation of the Creator toward them to reveal him, this is how they come to the Creator, this is what we need to do. It has nothing to do with anything that we developed here in this world and all kinds of religions, faiths, science, nothing has to do with that, you can do with whatever you want. The main thing in the connection between the two of you, between us all, because through the connection with everyone you reveal the Creator, the force that is above you that is it. The entire Torah.
S. In this general sensation, how does the upper force need to express itself?
R. When you connect with others slowly, slowly, when you truly connect with them, you discover the Nefesh, Ruach, Neshama, Haya, Yechida, five degrees of the upper light of godliness until you attain it fully.
3. S. (09:46) Five degrees of the light that we reveal in the ten what is it actually?
R. That is according to the coarseness that we reveal between us which we perform a restriction, screen and reflected light, we attain the upper light, the upper Force, the Creator, and he is revealed in us as the internal light.
S. What is that same coarseness that is revealed between us?
R. Rejection, hatred, lack of understanding, lack of feeling or the desire to connect that is the coarseness, where does it come from? Since we come from one root, we come from one root and then through the shattering we feel the extent to which we are different. Meaning that adhesion that is in the root, in the Shoresh, is revealed in the opposite way and how distant we are. The point of unification is revealed in all kinds of contradictory forms between us and so if you want to connect despite the resistance, despite the repulsion we attained the upper root, we simply build him in us.
S. Simply, if to look at our work practically in the ten then there are times that we connect, there are times that we are forgetting, we did not invest in the forces but there are some accumulating processes…
R. Don't say, don't say, if you are advancing you have to say you have the greater coarseness and with that you have a greater yearning and you have greater disappointments and you also have greater inclinations towards the Creator. That is how it is revealed also like this and also like that, like this and like that, it is still the first steps, but it will happen soon in a manner that will be clear.
S. By the way, yes, especially now during the holiday Passover there is felt even additional hardening, it is not so easy to connect with the friends and focus, that's the addition of coarseness?
R. Which is because each time a greater degree of coarseness comes to it not necessarily because of Pesach, let's say it is, it doesn't have to be because of that, it can also be in a different time in this world as well, although there is a general support here from the world upon our internality.
S. Nonetheless the lights along with the additional burden, what is it called to reveal to light?
R. Now that we have greater coarseness we want despite this coarseness we want to reach a fusion with the Creator, so we want to evoke upon it even greater light that bestows upon us, brings us closer and feel ourselves higher up. Then a greater degree of coarseness comes and distances between us and once more we work on the separation between us and invite the reforming light and on purpose or even if it's not on purpose and that is how we grow.
4. S. (14:00) Is it correct to think this way that six hundred twelve Mitzvot?
R. No, no. Why are you starting to immediately build some system of your own?
S. I’m trying to understand. In the beginning it has been said that what's been hated upon you don't do to your friend, that's felt as self-annulment, right?
R. Well let’s say, when what?
S. Then through self-annulment we reach love thy neighbor as thyself, thy friend as thyself? Meaning first we stop and flip ourselves a hundred eighty degrees and then make connection?
R. Yes, that's right.
S. So the question is in each step it is felt that there is a correct way to carry it out in an incorrect way. In the beginning we don't know what the correct way is but through the work, through the ten they're showing us from above that this is correct this is not, six hundred thirteen commandments, we can't even describe that to ourselves. How do we reach that?
R. Look, I don't want to confuse you. There are some things that you are saying that are correct, let that remain and some things that are not correct let's leave it. You'll get to it, and you'll correct it later.
5. S. (15:54) What are the poor ones that there should be others and not anew?
R. How do they translate the poor? The poor is one that doesn't have anything, yes the poor. It’s a poor person, he doesn't have anything.
6. S. (16:27) There are six hundred twelve Mitzvot, many books, many details, but if there's only one Mitzvah then what do we need all these numbers?
R. That's in order to interpret this one Mitzvah, this one commandment. You understand altogether you have in nature plus and minus, yes, let's say the electron and positron maybe neutron also but look at how many things you have from that because it all comes from connections between things, but in order for that has to be a connection there has to be different things, so you have the desire to receive and the desire to bestow and something neutral between them, and from these two opposites everything is made up of that.
S. So sometimes we will reach use of all these details, or we’ll just attain this one Mitzvah and that’s enough?
R. It's enough to attain that one Mitzvah.
S. So why does all this exist, all these books, all this detail and depth?
R. That's if you want to attain all the particulars on the way and not enter them into them spiritually but corporeally, then please.
S. No, not corporeally, spiritually.
R. In a spiritual manner there's nothing for you to do except for love thy friend as thyself, that's considered to go on one foot, don't do what to your friend what is hated upon you, just like Hillel taught.
S. The Mitzvot, it’s a rule of the Torah all the six hundred twelve?
R. All the rest of the Mitzvot explain to you how you need to observe this rule in every particular state but if you interpret it correctly. If you do the washing of your hands act, then you need to know that that’s a vessel of reception and you need to purify them before you do a certain action. So what does it mean the act of ceremonial washing of your hand then you're doing an act of reception and doing an act of bestowal in them by dipping the water in them in a certain way so in our world the Kabbalists wrote about it in such a way as if it's the wiping of your hands take a cup with a certain way certain amount of water in the right hand and dip forward three times on the right on the left and one way the other way and then bless it and it’s all to give a person the possibility to perform a certain action that is corporeal because he can't yet get to the spiritual action.
S. Internality of these other six hundred twelve mitzvot is revealed after attainment of love thy friend as thyself?
R. If you're talking about revelation all the commandments are revealed only under the condition that a person does them in the spiritual commandment of their sense. In a corporeal way nothing is revealed, no matter how much you observe them.
Continues reading: “And to adhere to him…”
Continues reading: “Even if we see there are two parts…”
7. R. (32:37) I also Imagine to myself that these things are clear things, they're not clear for action but according to what's written we read, and we talked about this a lot.
8. S. (32:57) In many places in the world now there's a sensation of lack of security, safety in Ukraine, now there's a new wave of terror in Israel. How do we deal with the sensation of fear that's in the streets?
R. I think that this is in order to shake people up as from above it is done according to the general state the times and calculations that come from above whether we respond or not and that's why all these things are added to us. Now they will see that we're not awakening enough then we will be brought once more to the spread of Covid and something else and that's how it will be. After all we need to shake ourselves and reach connection in which the Creator is revealed and to live that way as one man and one heart between us all that's why to feel that we're not in the state and we get all kinds of suffering because of that this actually advances us towards that.
S. Why is the reaction from above in fear and murders?
R. Then what do you want for them to give you candies in order to come closer together? If the whole point is to raise you to connection with others so that you'll be raised toward spiritual vessels and feel the internality and the purity of creation and not just to go around like some baby who's just sitting there and being silent.
S. The question is do we turn the fear into more internal and they should not turn to be something external as murder?
R. That can't happen because you are relating seriously to some external fear to the possibility that God forbid you'll be killed or to be sick or even die relative to reception and bestowal which you don't see any loss in or even any reward or profit, no not that much. If you were to relate to reception like death and bestowal like life and certainly you wouldn't have to go through all this study, through these blows.
S. The matter is people don't know what's going to be at any moment things can change at any second.
R. Excellent, excellent this is what's good. They're truly feeling the state they are in. Maybe we're missing to feel that we are under the care of the Upper and really that at any given moment he can drop us, raise this, and do this and that so that we will annul our ego and stop controlling our lives and whatever the Creator does is all for the good and let him do it.
S. But what exactly are we being shaken up for from above?
R. So that we will get rid of the will to receive and come only from the Creator that is grabbing his mother's hand and just like a baby holds on to his mother strong and by that feels himself with what can be done here.
S. So what's the solution?
R. Just like a little monkey that's holding on to a big monkey you saw how they hold on and the big monkey, he does what he has to do, and the little monkey just holds on to him just sees his life and holding on like that.
S. How would you explain to every person what it is to hold onto the Upper one?
R. To hold onto the Upper with all the senses, with all the thoughts, with all the intentions, with all that, I want to be dependent on him this and there's nothing here that will aim me correctly to this or not other than fear.
S. To hold on to the Upper one is this a solution for Kabbalists or for every person in the world?
R. For every person in the world. The Upper is the ten, through the ten to the Creator and this is how we come to a state where we are certain that nothing will happen to us.
S. The person who has no ten, what's the Upper for him, how does he connect to the Upper?
R. He will find the Creator and will arrange his Upper for him.
9. R. You see, despite the fact that the world is under all kinds of states, there aren't a lot of questions.
10. S. (38:45) How to feel and validate during the work with others that you’re actually working for the Creator?
R. There's no difference whether I'm operating for the Creator or operating for humanity. If my work is to really to bestow then the Creator or humanity is the same thing. I can't be aimed to the Creator; I can only be able towards the Kli which is actually humanity.
11. S. (39:20) What does it mean to be nourished from the love of others, and why is a person ashamed by the work of others, and why is a person ashamed to look at himself?
R. That's because he sees himself as lesser than everyone, dependent on everyone, that he’s receiving bread that he's not worthy of, that he's looked at as a person that has nothing, that's how it is, that's our nature that is built in such a way that we then feel shame.
12. S. (40:11) Why is it important to see yourself as half worthy and half not?
R. That's the best thing to be. That’s where I see myself half owing then I feel myself that I owe something and I must do something in order to raise myself somewhat in the eyes of others, in half having is that I have some sort of incorporation with the group, with the connection and I can receive forces from them that way and it's the most productive and beneficial way in the advancement of a person. There's a lot in this, we will talk about it.
13. S. (40:59) In what is the prayer of the one thousand or so women who are gathering everyday influence on the state of the world?
R. The more powerful is what they are praying, there's nothing more powerful than this so get stronger, pray and the fact that they're not feeling the results is because, to give you the ability to get even stronger and continue forward. Thank you, you're doing very good and great work. I, in the name of all the men, are, I really appreciate this, respect this, and I'm telling you all thank you very much to our women.
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Special Comments from Rav after Info on upcoming convention:
Rav: I am really excited that is for sure, but it’s also clear that without this work it is impossible. You must start functioning on your own and I am with you of course. But there is an age in which a child has to go to school and function there on his own and answer questions and hear and participate with others and in such a way you need to do so as well. That’s why I am looking at this whole process in a very beautiful way, in a very good way. I have no doubt that you are ready for it and more than ready, we even should have started prior to this. I am with you, I am watching over you, but the work is to try and support each one that is at home, somewhere, wherever you are, on the other side of the world. You're constantly searching how you can participate heart and soul, with your mind, with your heart and with your feelings in what is happening. To the extent in which you participate in this, you will receive through this general convening that I am also in. You will also receive the reforming light which will be something that is very powerful. I would really recommend not to miss every single moment of the convection. I will keep my presence and the presence of each and every one and I will know. We need to give all possible seriousness to this. Good luck to you. I am certain after the convention you will appear completely different. I will tell you about it. All the best.