GEVURAH: TIKKUN CHATZOT תקון חצות – LESSON WITH RAV MICHAEL LAITMAN
Lesson on the topic of “Everything is Obtained By the Power of Prayer”
Morning Lesson February 18, 2022, Transcription
Transcription is made from simultaneous translation which leaves a possibility for differences in the audio
Part 3:
Everything is Obtained by the Power of Prayer – Selected Excerpts from the Sources.
Excerpt 9: Baal HaSulam, Letter No. 34
1. R. (00:20) We have talked about it; we see how this is our work. That we need to understand in a very clear way that except for prayer, nothing can help us. So, let’s concentrate on this, each one will feel oneself that he is responsible for everybody, and that he is praying for everyone when he prays for all our community as one big ten, and the private tens inside it, and all of humanity is included in this. Let’s raise all our prayers from all of us together to the Creator, because that’s what our future depends on. No Matter what only on that, we study, we are smart, we know, we know all the books, but all in all we are learning all these things in order to reach a deficiency the right deficiency in order to connect to the Creator, and to demand of Him and ask of Him to ascend to his degree, to adhere to Him, that’s it. Like we learned now on the second restriction, everything depends on the subjugation towards the upper one that the upper one will take us in His hands, and raise us to Him, and from that height we will be able to see reality and adhere to the upper one.
Excerpt # 9 (02:25) Baal HaSulam, Letter No. 34 twice
2. S. (04:40) He says beautiful words take no rest, because the Creator does this to give you power afterwards. What does it mean not to keep quiet, too act, what does it mean?
R. Act in all you might.
S. What does it mean to act with all your might?
R. Everything you can do, everything in your powers to do, do it.
S. You said we have to reach the right deficiency for us for the Creator to hear us. What is that correct deficiency?
R. That only the Creator can do it and he’ll for sure the moment you can activate your desire correctly.
S. Right and that’s my question, how can you reach the right deficiency, what does it mean?
R. That’s called that you really yearn for the help of the Creator.
S. How can we come to that longing is what I’m asking?
R. Each and every day tell yourself that I’m reaching a state that I’m convincing the Creator to help me and that’s how it should be from day to day more and more not to break.
S. I have to feel bad to reach this deficiency?
R. Depends what you mean by bad.
S. To feel bad, to feel pressure, suffering.
R. We need to develop a deficiency that is more and more correct, that whatever I didn’t gain yesterday in some lottery or something and I didn’t win the million dollars so that could be a deficiency too, but we need to work on the right deficiency.
S. So everything we see in the world today, all the troubles we see, it’s created for us to reach such a deficiency to pray to Him, that’s the problem?
R. No, we’ll want to reach a state that upon all these things we will want to give contentment to the Creator from praying for the whole and peace of the world.
S. When there’s trouble, we pray for world peace if there’s no trouble, that’s why I’m asking, if there’s no trouble then we what…
R. So it means that you don’t see, talk to people today people for sure a few people will say that there are no troubles and no problems.
S. Today we’re looking at World War three, it’s horrible.
R. We’ll all see it soon with practice.
S. Do you think that such a disaster can actually happen?
R. It’s all ahead.
3. S. (07:53) Rav good morning. No further translation.
R. You have to understand that what is happening is done by the Creator, and whichever way we can convince him that’s what we do. So try as it’s written makes your desire as his desires so he can make his desire as your desire. That’s it. I have nothing else to add.
4. S. (09:29) What does it mean when he says to rather give you the power to stand afterwards in the King’s palace with no blemish what kind of power is needed?
R. What are you reading?
S. It’s there, the last sentence, this is not what the Creator intended by his silence but rather to give you power to stand afterward in the King’s palace when you have no blemish. What does it mean afterward?
R. Afterward when you reach a state that you will truly not have anything to pray for and you still see that you do have that for which to pray.
S. So what kind of power is that power of prayer?
R. Power of the force of prayer even though really you don’t discover any reason for it. We’re going to bump into this many times.
5. S. (10:38) You said before we also have to have a prayer towards the world, humanity, we also learn about the prayer to fulfill everyone in the world Kli, prayer for the friends, how to organize all of that, it opens up more and more in the ten we have to aim high what?
R. Everything concentrates on one-point central point that he wants to aim towards the Creator and specifically give him contentment and all other problems and troubles he feels on more external circles is so he can aim his deficiency to the Creator in order to cause pleasures to the Creator in order to pray for him in order to see in all these things that are being revealed in the world in the group and himself that it’s all revealed only in order to aim him to bestow to the Creator.
S. But when we approach even now just reading the excerpt and raising a prayer together that for which do we aim?
R. We aim all in all how to give contentment.
S. Through which circle that is?
R. Through the ten, no more or less, only the ten.
6. S. (12:10) Many times we heard and read as “the yearning is the face itself”. Can you explain this more?
R. Yearning for the Creator comes from Him shining a special illumination on a person and a person feels that he yearns for him so what are you asking about that? A yearning is a result, a person thinks that he yearns, no the Creator is the first he awakens the yearning in a person.
S. Does the face come as a result of the yearning, or the yearning is the result of the face itself?
R. No, the face is a result of the yearning, from the Creator shining a person starts discovering the yearning for the Creator, that’s called his face.
S. So yearning is not the result this way.
R. Yearning is the result of the Creator illuminating. It’s a result. The Creator is always first, I was first, that’s what it says anywhere because even in the biggest, best vessel nothing can feel or move if the Creator didn’t awaken it doesn’t shake it up.
7. S. (14:03) The fact that I can’t pray for the friends, what does that indicate?
R. A sign to indicate what? That he can’t pray.
S. Yes, to pray for the friends.
R. Only to the friends or the Creator too? Anyway it means you’re not thinking about it enough. You need to think what I need to do in order to reach revelation in the Creator, adhesion to the Creator I can only reach through my request. I have nothing else to do towards the upper force only by request, only requesting and if I can’t do anything I have to pray to the Creator why doesn’t he give it to me, give me a deficiency to ask, why do I not know, not feel who I can turn to and so on and so on. In our mind, can we write it down before us on a page, can we? And then read it a few times a day. That’s how we start and afterwards we reach a desire and a prayer and a prayer from the bottom of the heart and that’s how it’ll be.
8. S. (15:42) If you can explain it’s still not clear what does it mean that the Creator is silent. What is that silence?
R. The Creator isn’t silent but if we can’t awaken him so we can’t hear that’s it. That’s a problem in us and not in him he isn’t proud, or he’s doesn’t do it on purpose that he’s quiet, that’s what’s written, make your desires his desires if you work on equivalence of desires and deficiencies between the Creator’s and yours then you will discover that he is always ready and prepared.
S. Yes, you said longing is a result the Creator is first he awakens it but what precedes the longing what have we done that awakens the longing?
R. The Creator is still the first.
S. One step before, where is us, where are we?
R. We are always the result, it never starts from us that I initiate anything. The Creator is always initiating I am first, and I am last and what it seems to us that we are first it’s all because of lack of revelation.
S. Where are we, he initiates, he awakens, he develops our yearning where do we merge with him and get in there?
R. By you adding from yourself.
S. What else do I have to add?
R. That the awakening he awakens in you will be yours.
S. What does it mean that it will be mine?
R. That you’ll feel that you belong to that deficiency.
S. What does it mean to add of myself, what am I adding here?
R. Inspiration, excitement, connection, and addition.
Excerpt # 10 (18:08) twice
9. S. (19:54) Rav it is written the Creator is the first and the last one so what’s for us is just the efforts right to connect?
R. To ask and to connect it’s already a condition for the right request. We need to ask in order to ask correctly in the right forces, that’s how we connect.
10. S. (20:30) Rav it says that the answering of the prayers only happens when there’s a vessel. It’s in the prayer itself a vessel?
R. Yes, if the prayer is complete, you don’t need anything else it includes everything in it.
11. S. (21:10) How do we convince the Creator to help us?
R. I think that women should know that better than the men. They have patience and an art to demand what they want and receive. You have to be persistent; you have to have nerve and ask correctly in the right state especially. It’s a profession, how to go and ask and demand but it justifies the existence of the whole vessel.
12. S. (22:14) Our whole foundation of our work is to bring contentment to the Creator. What to do if we have no such lack? How do we attain it?
R. I can’t say, just speak about it between you, try and share advice, get inspired by one another, try and in this conversation between you to annul the pride and bestowal incorporated between you, and you will see how suddenly a warm heart opens and yearns for the Creator. Just even a bit to annul our ego and we’ll already feel how we can all be aimed toward the Creator. And there’s no more than prayer. All this wisdom we are learning that after prayer we’ll advance and attain it practically, but actually everything comes from the right prayer. The problem is the right prayer, otherwise the whole world for a long time would already go into spirituality and we see that only individuals in every generation it’s because reaching the right prayer and receiving an answer or response that’s not simple. That’s why let’s scrutinize exactly how to ask from the Creator. That’s an art.
13. S. (24:15) Is very hard to turn to the Creator, like you described yesterday the baby that exerts in suckling and loses strength. How do you get strength to turn to the Creator if it’s also hard to see an example for a prayer from the friends?
R. There is no such thing that it’s difficult from the friends or it’s difficult but it’s possible that’s the only thing possible, no choice, you want to receive it? please there is only one way, to incorporate in the ten and from them you get a desire and forces and a tendency to connect to the Creator. Only that way ladies. I’m sorry but we don’t have any other way. Let’s make an effort and break through the Machsom, the barrier. Let’s break the wall between us and the Creator and see how much he’s helping us, how he is opening our hands. He wants to receive everybody and hug everybody and everything will work out.