HOD: TIKKUN CHATZOT תקון חצות – LESSON WITH RAV MICHAEL LAITMAN
Baal HaSulam. The Peace
Part 2
Morning Lesson January 20, 2022 Transcription
Transcription is made from simultaneous translation which leaves a possibility for differences in the audio
Baal HaSulam. The Peace (The Wheel of Transformation of the Form. start with: Rabbi Akiva depicts two kinds of people)
Reading “Rabbi Akiva depicts two kinds…”
1. S. (06:00) There is a desire that I can borrow and there are other demands, who doesn’t have the demand?
R. By being incorporated with everyone and wanting to help humanity to rise to the degrees of recognition, awareness and the right action we can correct everything that is it. Only in this way that is also by dissemination and also by the study itself and also by being organized in tens and thanks to the practical realization of what we are going through. That is what we should try to do with everyone only in a gradual manner, meaning as much as it is possible to be in a subtle way, in a gentle way.
2. S. (07:28) Is it important for us to know which type we are and if so how?
R. We are on the path we are being given an opportunity to correct ourselves and along with the correction of ourselves we are also going to have to correct others which actually seem to us as others. Then we will discover that they belong to the same vessels as we are as we do so there is no contradiction one for all.
3. S. (08:11) When you write such a thing that there is a faithful force that gathers the debt from day-to-day until it is all paid, I want to tell you that it is scary to even take a loan with such rules.
R. Every breath you take you take, with every action you make, every smallest motion even if you do it instinctively without any calculation which is pre-planned, that is also considered that you exist and you owe. You are already born owing after the shattering and all these things so go ahead and take care of yourself but don’t be afraid everything is before you.
S. And if I don’t pay back the debt what happens according to this?
R. So they collect it from you with your reason or without your reason.
S. So what do they take for me?
R. The debt, you are already born with a debt, you are born with a debt, you are born after the shattering, all your vessels are broken and you have to take part in the corrections of yourself.
Why does that seem to you not just or good?
S. There are all kinds of people, some can’t.
R. That is something that you do not know, you don’t know about others you don’t talk about anyone.
S. I’m not successful in this so what should happen to me?
R. It is true that you are not successful because you are lazy.
S. So what will happen to me?
R. What will happen to you is happening already.
S. What do you mean so I am going to get blows from this?
R. Are you afraid of hell, be afraid maybe that’ll help you be a human.
S. What can I think if I’m going to borrow and I’m not going to do what I’m going to do, so what’s going to happen that’s what I’m asking?
R. You in your life demand more than what you have to in order to correct yourself, this is considered stealing, you are taking from the store without an account.
S. And if I succeed?
R. If you succeed you behave properly, like Greta, you will not burn any trees, you will not kill any animals you heard about that right, so you will behave as she does.
S. So you’re saying that the whole world has to go and succeed in the work or God forbid what will happen to you?
R. We have to be concerned about being corrected. Connected correctly and caring about the whole world.
S. Why were we born with a debt if we didn’t take anything?
R. You were born after the shattering in debt of a correction of yourself and the whole world, because why, because it is a fact and you have to do that. You can say whatever you want to the Creator but it is better if you learn and then you accept your duty to correct yourself in the whole world not as a duty but as an opportunity, as the greatest gift he arranged for you. You have no better relation from the Creator than what you organize for you. Because you as the created being can reach the degree of the Creator through that, that is basically something that is unbelievable. It’s unbelievable that such a thing can happen, that someone who doesn’t exist because the will to receive to begin with doesn’t exist that is why it is created then by some actions that the Creator has prepared for him, he may come to the degree of the upper force, the Creator that does exist, the one and only thing that does exist. Here the will to receive was allowed, given an opportunity to reach such a state, so what we learn in the wisdom of Kabbalah is how impossible it is to build the perfect state for the created being that is created from scratch, is created from zero to reach the degree of the Creator it is impossible to do it in any other way. The Creator invests his whole self in that, he is investing himself in that entirely, he is the one who is shattered inside of us and he corrects us and he is the one who fills and raises us to his degree.
S. How could a person who got this gift, this opportunity that you just said is even willing to let go of it and leave the path, how can that be?
R. He doesn’t know the path yet when one enters the wisdom of Kabbalah he could not leave unless there are ascents and descents and he has given such that he has to go and overcome according to his state. You only rise in spirituality, you do not descend but if he doesn’t want to discover it and he is given a group and he cannot connect to it, there are many things. Maybe if he doesn’t use what he has correctly he will certainly fall and become like an ordinary human being and forget about it later and he doesn’t care about anything. I’ve seen such people and they were actually people, good people, ready, worthy of an ascent but look, there are some, there are many kinds. Again there is room in the corrected vessels for everyone, that is it, so he was given an opportunity to give contentment to the Creator by his work, he didn’t realize it, he will give again later, what can you do, anyways it’s a shame, it’s too bad.
S. In trying to repay my debt can I assist my friend and their debt and if so how?
R. Of course, that is considered to be mutual guarantee when I am willing to work for everyone. I want to be impregnated from all the friends and to care for them in all the different degrees and shapes that we are going to go through. That is how each one is for everyone that is how a ten advances.
4. S. (17:23) I see the article in a way that I was given an advance to come to the group and give the debt back, is by praying to the friends, is that correct?
R. Yes, that is correct.
5. S. (17:57) How can I, how can we prepare ourselves to return the debt?
R. That is when I invest in my friends and I advance them towards the Creator, towards bestowal, all of us together. When I want to reach a state that my group will be a spiritual group, meaning everyone will connect and they will only think how from all of us, we can turn to the Creator.
6. S. (18:47) I feel that this obligation is pushing me ahead. It lets me feel by giving gratitude to the Creator that I am in the best place and it just gives me more importance every day, is this the correct feeling?
R. Don’t worry about that, may you have the greatness of the group, the greatness of the Creator and other thoughts and disturbances will also come, the main thing is that you advance towards connection with the group and the Creator as much as possible. Elevate them above your head.
S. Is this debt until the final correction?
R. What debt?
S. That you were saying that I, in advance, already committed to the Creator that I am going to help the friends, that I’m going to do the corrections until the final correction, I’m in this commitment?
R. You are responsible for the whole world, not only just the ten. Later, you will discover that you were in charge of the whole world that is how each and every one of us. Because if I don’t correct myself to serve all the souls then I’m not correcting myself. My correction is to serve each and every soul in a way that I really feel how incorporated I am in everyone and how much by that I enter the Creator, I am Incorporated in him, I’m attached to him, adhered to him because speak Creator is what I get from the adhesion to the souls.
7. S. (20:42) About what you were just saying, how do you make sure that the friends will pay their debt so that they will advance, because you’re sure that you are going to die just like a dog and no more than that. How to make sure the friends are paying and advancing and that he will awaken towards them, is there a way to promise that?
R. Yes, there is a way there is a system and in the system we are all interconnected that is already before us. If I try to carry out what I can in 100% and I could be one hundred percent certain that I am helping them in whatever I can do and then I seemingly, theoretically, I can say that I did my part. Meaning by each of us trying to reach connection with everyone, try along with everyone to reach a form of the bestowal completely with what is before us, by that I perform my role in that is all. We are not missing anything but only to connect ourselves correctly between us because then the Creator will settle accordingly, settle inside of us, in him there is no problem it is only that it is us, we have to build a place.
S. But the Creator didn’t build or create equality in creation,
R. Why is there no equality?
S. We weren’t created equal, there are successful ones?
R. Each one according to his degree, each one according to his nature, each one to his place in the system of Adam HaRishon. So what, it doesn’t matter, what is quantity, is quality, all of these things are ultimately.
S. I’m not a hundred percent, there is no 100%
R. No, but each and everyone has a duty, a role, an opportunity each and every moment and for each and every one his nature with all the internal states and the internal preparations. That is why there is no problem here, all of us ultimately will see that we are all equal, some are more, some are less, smarter or more stupid, weaker, it doesn’t matter. All in all, according to all the opportunities, all the actions we get we later enter a state that we call a sphere, in the sphere there is no up or down, there is no in or out. There is none, it is a shape that only exists in spirituality, it is a form of wholeness, perfection, perfection and you will not have anything you can say about anyone in any state, in the way because in the end you will see that in this way specifically we all reach complete wholeness. In the meantime of course why am I not Rabbi Shimon, why I want to be like Rabbi Shimon, does it suit me or not. Maybe you, maybe the Ari, yes, why not, why can’t everyone be, we are coming towards everyone, all these saints. Truly but once we correct ourselves in the connection between us so that there is nothing more whole than the final correction and we are going to reach that and on the way we are going to have to work and to justify everything above reason.
8. S. (25:49) It’s written that the second type are called those who want to borrow, how to be honest with a Creator and not steal what we are borrowing, not to betray the faith in the Creator and the goal?
R. A person gets this feeling, a feeling of Bina, that is faith, faithfulness and according to that he cannot be otherwise. Just as now he is in his desire to receive and can’t resist it or only behave in the way that the will receive dictates to him, now he will start behaving the way the will to bestow is dictated. That is nature, we think that we can be sacred, how is that, I can be sacred now, no. If you do not get a portion of the light from above that raises you to the degree of the Bina, to some certain state then you could not be sacred and you cannot bestow. So there is a system and there are forces that either raise you or lower you but according to the place where you observe, that is where you are, you don’t have to speak about yourself. It is enough to just see your degree, the number of your degree determines what is good in you and what is bad in you, that is it for now obviously, that’s our work.
9. S. (27:40) About being born in debt, is the payment for the debt keeping the intention throughout the day?
R. Throughout the day we must only have one intention, how do we connect and in the connection revealed the Creator, that is it. You can think about it in any kind of form but that is the problem before us, connection and in the connection between us reveal the Creator. It is the force of love and bestowal that has to be between us and in the way that is between us we start discovering him as if he resurrected from zero. Like he doesn’t exist now, does he exist between us, no, because that is how we are, we are not building him. But if we want him to exist and we try to bring all of our forces to connect between us, so we will see that he exists. Our forces are just in order to reveal him, our forces reveal him, the intentions and otherwise we cannot reveal him. That is called that we give enough forces of reflected light because then the direct light can be revealed between us.
10. S. (29:30) How to be ready to take whatever I want from the shop and not too much of it so that the next time the shopkeeper will give me and let me take more because he is certain that I will bring back the debt?
R. What calculation, I go into a store, I don’t want to take anything from the store to begin with. I don’t want to receive anything, only because I don’t have a choice. I take from the store what we have, a basket of necessities. You know, the government has a basket that each one takes 20 things that each one needs. So I come to the store and I get those necessities, it is written about necessities that you cannot praise them or flaw them, as if I didn’t take anything because I didn’t build myself and the human form that I need food, sex, family, that I need all kinds of things around that and so on. Meaning there are necessities that I need to fulfill with, otherwise I could not exist. Now the question is after I keep that I fulfill the beast in me, the rest I want to receive only under the condition that from this I give contentment to the Creator, otherwise I could not. Otherwise I don’t rise from the degree of a beast but I descend from the degree of the beast even lower.
That is why everything depends on what a person demands from his life, if my life is only in order to give contentment to the Creator then I must receive necessities to myself but that does not mean that I’m going to go on a diet and not that I am going to walk around in rags. It all depends on as much as my intentions are really right, that I am doing it in a necessary manner and the rest where’s my head, if my head, my thoughts are giving contentment to the Creator, so I can use all the money and gold and silver in the world. Anything in the world can be used under the condition that I use it to truly give contentment to the Creator and then we discover that the whole world is ours, destined for us completely, but that we will wrap everything that we take in reflected light with the intention to bestow, the intention to bestow contentment to the Creator. Please do that and you will see if it works and if it won’t then you need to study more.
11. S. (33:15) We are born in a debt to the Creator. Is this debt mutual and the Creator also has to bring you back to him?
R. The Creator must yes he must that is why we can come to him and demand that he correct us, that he raises upward.
Continued reading (33:42) “Thus you see that there is a …”
12. S. (36:22) You said that if you take more than what you need you’re stealing?
R. That is because your intention is not corrected because the corrected intention is that you want to receive everything for the correction, that is why you cannot take anything more than what you are about to correct, that’s clear right?
13. S. (37:27) Yes so, the question is, sometimes it is clear that the scrutiny is according to the intention and the actions are obvious and everything is clear.
R. How can it be that the scrutiny is not according to the intention?
S. Because sometimes things turn around and then the scrutinies are according to the action and not the intention. What am I talking about? When a person starts making calculations with what he is taking from the store, rather than his attraction to the goal, he is thinking, is this essential? Is this a necessity, or not? What is redundant, or not?
R. You mean things that you actually use for eating and drinking, such things?
S. Not only eating and drinking, there are other things, people choose where to work.
R. No, no, no. We are not getting into those things, in the corporeal level. We don’t want to drown in that, we are only speaking about our relationships in the group, the rest doesn’t belong to spirituality, that’s it. Now I’m going to choose my job and where I live and all that, it’s endless, you are just going to get into an area like all those who are wandering and mistaken.
S. That is exactly that, it is a source of mistakes.
R. It is not confusing, don’t get in there, it is not the right place to scrutinize spirituality, there is no spirituality in there. Your spirituality is only in the group, that is it, with people in the street you need to behave like accustomed and don’t make a sacred or a wicked of yourself.
S. When the importance of the goal, the greatness of the Creator shines, it is clear that the calculation is only according to the general, this whole confusion of corporeality is irrelevant, but when there is less illumination, you start dealing with all kinds of nonsense.
R. So that is why I’m saying don’t bring the spiritual world into the corporeal world, don’t do it, completely not. You have spiritual life that is in the group, the big BB group, dissemination towards the world, but actually it’s all in the group and nothing else.
S. If we are giving the Creator contentment by receiving in order to bestow, so in what spiritual vessel besides the will to receive of mine, which is what is that? That is my corporeal desires, right? So what new vessel can I use to give him contentment?
R. I don’t understand, in what new vessel? With my intention.
S. Rav, if I don’t use my beastly vessels to give Him contentment.
R. You could never do that, you give contentment in your intention, that you do what you do no matter what, but for him. How do you know it’s for him? That you can do it through the friends, from the love of the created beings to the love of the Creator.
S. So Rav, yes, please give us one or two examples, what does it mean to do it through the friends? This desire? To pass it through them?
R. No matter what you are building you have to build it in the group, only, because the group is depicting the spiritual vessel for you, which you have to make it, organize it in a way that you discover the Creator in there. Why do we always need to speak about something that is obvious? The Creator is called, come and see, if I’m united with the friends, if I come to a state with them where we are dependent on one another, incorporated in one another, mixed in one another in Arvut, so by this I eventually reveal the essence of our connection which is called Creator, come and see. What do you think, that something else? Some other friend will be revealed and that will be the Creator? The Creator is the essence of our connections, of our tendencies to connect, that is called the Creator, come and see. I don’t have words, maybe you can bring some, I don’t.
14. S. (43:25) Can you explain what is the feast, mentioned in the article?
R. The meal everywhere, means receiving pleasures in the connection between the friends. That means that we connect and we make a Partzuf of ourselves, and in that Partzuf, by an action called coupling by striking, according to our calculation to give contentment above, by this, we, from above, receive by bestowing to the upper light and when it comes from the Rosh to the Guf, the inner light of the Partzuf, the connection between us, that is called that we are in a meal, that’s it.
15. S. (44:48) During the lesson we hear that there are a few ten’s that have the same questions. Is this because they work in the same way in the shop? They have the same intention to reach the king?
R. Eventually they all have the same questions because we are in one system, yes.
16. S. (45:42) What is the meaning of the judgment being true? Should we see all the problems in humanity as a way of advancing towards the goal?
R. No, we talked about this. What to start again on every question? I don’t have the force to repeat everything. Do you listen to our lessons again, at least one more time during the day? You have to listen, listen. So I don’t understand, these things are simple. What are you asking? Let’s see.
S. It says that the judgment is true and all is ready for the feast, does that mean that everything that we see in the world, even though it doesn’t seem like to us as right, is the creator preparing the meal?
R. We are in the final correction all together all the corruptions are only towards the created beings. If you are speaking about the world, the world doesn’t have a form, the world seems like this to us according to the level of our correction or corruption, but the world itself? There are no corrections or corruptions, it is all in us and we see ourselves. Just like reading the perception of reality, that is how it is, we see our corruption and that is what we call this world. That is why the wisdom of Kabbalah, that raises us towards corrections, so instead of this world, we are going to start feeling the upper world.
17. S. (48:49) When we give the debt back do we acquire freedom?
R. Yes
S. So why is it, that actions of bestowal or so difficult?
R. The actions of bestowal are difficult because we don’t agree, because we don’t agree to bestow that is why it’s difficult. Connect with your friends and you will find the forces to bestow and according to that you can open the upper world for yourself.
18. S. (49:42) What would be taking just the necessities in the ten?
R. That more than that you do not need, you just need things to correct yourself in order to give contentment to the ten and the Creator, that is it.
19. S. (50:12) It turns out that on the one hand I am stealing, taking more than I need for correction, on the other hand I’m always repaying the debt, so it’s as if I’m paying double. How can I come out of this closed circle?
R. You look at everything as if you were given a wonderful opportunity to reach the degree of the Creator, that’s it. And you cannot reach it, if you do not see what you are lacking in order to reach Him, so it’s not your problems, but they are directions. It is data for you to know how to come closer to Him, and what is revealed to a person in every moment is specifically the greatest help the quickest, best, for him to come closer to the Creator.
Continued Reading (51:30) “such as that you will also find in…”
20. R. (53:45) You see everything was predetermined, there is nothing that we can determine anything new, completely, or change anything. We can only speed up our development. Instead of the stick coming from behind and hitting us, so before that, we want to walk ahead
Continued reading (54:17) “and now we will see the truth…”
21. R. (55:17) So he’s saying everything was planned out. The path, each one of us, everything, just how do we go through this path, whether quickly or in a long way? With good nice relationships between us and everybody and the Creator or through a longer time and blows? That depends on us but except for that, there are no changes except for that, we are not doing anything but shortening the path and making it better understood and easier and more pleasant.
Continued Reading (56:01)”our eyes can see how the poor sick person…”