BINAH: TIKKUN CHATZOT תקון חצות – LESSON WITH RAV MICHAEL LAITMAN
Baal HaSulam. The Arvut (Mutual Guarantee)
Morning Lesson March 18, 2022, Transcription
Transcription is made from simultaneous translation which leaves a possibility for differences in the audio
Part 2:
Baal HaSulam. The Arvut (Mutual Guarantee). #20
1. R. (00:12) It completes everything we are learning as you understand, it all completes each other until we get a complete relation, complete approach to our life from beginning to end through all generations through all the worlds. We feel our souls included in that thought of creation and that’s how we discover all of reality and the upper force, so let’s keep going.
Reading article #20 (00:47)
2. S. (03:51) You explained and said, that in me there is a part that I am in charge of its’ correction and that part exists in all the people of the world. Can you explain more about that?
R. On one hand it is like fragmented, that I only perceive a fraction of the world on one hand, on the other hand that part isn’t a part. Each part includes everything, he explains it in a few places that each one explains all, includes all, that’s why the correction of the world even though each one of us does it on his behalf as much as he can connect to his ten, as much as his ten connects to all of humanity, so this is how he performs the correction. We think that we do it from our individual correction like a personal action, but it’s not like that. It turns out that we do general actions, and we reach the general correction.
S. In our ten or in any ten if I don’t like something about the friend it turns out that this part in me that I don’t like, is what I have to correct and then I won’t see it anymore in him?
R. I cannot answer it in such a way. The fact that you see in your friends something bad, something unpleasant, not nice you see the Creator. Because you haven’t corrected that part yet, so you see something bad in him, and in this way the Creator is revealed. He shows you that you have more to correct.
S. It turns out that because of me, because of me the friend cannot reach connection?
R. Of course each and every one is included in everybody and if I don’t correct myself, by this I stop everybody’s advancement, that’s called Arvut, Mutual Guarantee. To begin with we belong to one vessel of Adam HaRishon, we are guarantors to one another and each one is responsible for the other. There’s nothing you can do, that’s the system and now we are more and more in our times when we are in the period of Gmar Tikkun, this is what we have to attain and discover.
3. S. (07:50) Is the Arvut between us just a stage of the Arvut of the whole nations of the world and for the sake of all the nations of the world?
R. Correct.
4. S. (08:20) He says that this is what our sages call, the shifting of the balance to merit. Meaning that the necessary way that the purity is achieved, they compared it to weighing it on the scale with the shifting of the balances of that achievement of the desired weight. What is it that he says, the shifting of the balance to merit?
R. They have scales, one to the good and to the merit and one to the bad. Even though you didn’t put your little sesame on the good, so the whole world is lacking from it and feels troubles and problems because of you.
S. Is it the amount of people that is important?
R. Let’s say amount.
S. Because that is what he says, shifting the balance to merit?
R. Let’s say it is the amount, you have to work in quantity and quality.
5. S. (09:10) Is it a boost of connection between us or should we do it bit by bit?
R. I didn’t understand.
S. Is there a way to boost the connection between us?
R. Like a hit, a blow.
S. A blow of connection, is there such a thing?
R. Yes, we can, and I talked about it once when we asked the Rabash, what should we do? On the holiday of Sukkot we were in the Sukkah, and it was like a great awakening. Everybody was sitting there in the Sukkah, and I asked him, what are we lacking? And he said attack, attack. The Creator likes an attack. That you attack Him, you demand of Him, that you cry to Him but not like children. We know how to gather all desires, all intentions together and to come to Him in a prayer and a cry, that we can do. Organize it please.
Reading article #21 (10:45)
6. R. (11:33) We have to reach that state as quick as we can, so it all depends on as much as we connect and as much as we turn to the Creator and cry out and ask. Together we do these two things: connection and from the connection the plea.
Reading Continued (11:56)
7. R. (12:33) Yes, but it’s also attained in the plea to the Creator that he should perform corrections upon us. That we will perform corrections and then turn to Him and from that His light itself will perform corrections on us.
Reading Continued (12:58)
8. R. (13:41) We need to connect in our efforts and then we can reach the great cry and then the Creator can help.
Reading Continued (13:49) “Similarly it is said…”
9. R. (14:02) This is especially speaking about us. That we now can be presenting the Creator with all the problems and troubles of the world that can be expressed correctly and we absorb all these problems and deficiencies, blows, suffering from all people on the earth, from all of humanity and we raise it all to the Creator. In what?, by us asking for the force of bestowal, that He will activate that force on us, the upper light and by this we will ascend above our forces of reception, and we will be able to adhere to Him.
10. S. (14:51) Let’s say we are incorporated in the deficiencies of the world, and we raise, and we correct the feeling of pain, torments. How can the correction pass on to the whole world?
R. Through the Creator, everything through the Creator, we are in Him, in the system.
S. What I am saying is, are we correcting it in our vessels?
R. Who?
S. Bnei Baruch, Israel.
R. Let’s say our vessel, our vessel is not disconnected from everybody. It is like only in a pyramid, not in a circle. If we correct ourselves, by this we are bestowing on everyone. All the world.
S. How is that feeling of correction?
R. The feeling will come later in the end of correction, Gmar Tikkun. People who are now disconnected from the spiritual process that don’t prepare themselves, they will not be able to feel the process of correction, they just feel the end.
S. What is the force of bestowal we are asking for from the Creator if we want to bestow to others. What do we bestow to them?
R. We are bestowing our forces of correction that we are doing. It is going through us through them.
S. How do they feel it?
R. Suddenly, they feel themselves that they understand more. They feel they are closer to the general system; they feel that the world is changing, anyway they feel the world is changing. They are used to the world changing quickly, so they will feel that the world is changing. Today we have a new mind and a new feeling, we have to behave in a new way.
S. All of a sudden there’s no pain, and they flow with their life to the next thing?
R. I don’t know it will happen with them but just like us. A moment ago you were in that down and now you are up high, so what happened? You yourself you don’t know.
S. I can say that it is the light, it is the lesson?
R. Same here, is there anything else bestowing and changing things? Only in that way.
S. Will they start looking for what it did to them? They don’t know, they don’t have the vessels, they don’t know that something worked on them.
R. They will gradually start attaining that there is an Upper Providence working on them, yes. They will also start understanding that it’s coming through us, and they will want to incorporate with us, as Baal HaSulam writes “that the earth dwellers will come and take them on their shoulders” and so on, in Isaiah the prophet. The prophecy of Isaiah.
11. S. (17:50) When in our world a person goes into an attack he cries out from the deepest place. How can we reach such a place in the ten?
R. That’s what Rabash answered me. That you’re not lacking anything except for an attack, perform an attack. The attack is on your will to receive, that won’t give you enough forces to connect and from the force of connection you will attain, you will need to turn to the Creator and to attack Him back.
S. How can we do it from the depth of the heart?
R. Ask for that too. Ask for it too. Also, on that you need to turn to the Creator and say that you can’t. You must discover everything, also the good things, also the bad things and ask him for all those corrections.
12. S. (19:17) When you see something bad in a friend you’ve seen the Creator showing you what you should still correct. Did I write your quote correctly?
R. Yes, correct.
13. S. (19:43) How not to be despaired from the work? It seems that every year it becomes more difficult and more difficult.
R. Of course it is more difficult but where are you going to run to? From ear to ear you also have more of a mind and feeling to understand that this is the system, and this is how it has to be revealed and you have to hold onto the ten and the Creator and in such a way you move forward to the right goal.
S. How not to lose faith if you’re trying something many times, many times and nothing happens?
R. But along with this you acquire a mind and feeling through spiritual illumination that a light shines on you a bit and that’s why you are not running away. You are held here by above.
S. This work of holding from above, is that something that should happen in the ten. Is this help we give each other?
R. Yes, as much as the ten connects more there is more of an illumination from above and then they know how to hold themselves that is called Arvut.
S. Is it possible that such a force that you get from the ten and not from the Creator confuses a person and he switches?
R. No, you get it through the ten, but you get it from the Creator. That’s the matter of Arvut. Arvut is that you bring your guarantors, but the force you get from the bank, from the Creator.
S. How can you make sure that there will be an additional force for a long time because?
R. It all depends on the ten. It all depends only on the ten. The ten obligates the Creator to pay, to cover it all, to make you all whole, complete, that’s called to pay.
S. You said previously that we don’t understand how close we are to spiritual states, but we can’t go into them because what we are missing is the connection between us. All lesson long you’re just saying, attack , attack, go into an attack for connection. What exactly must we do? What attack? How?
R. The Creator disturbs us from connecting because He made the shattering and He put this force in between us. That now upon this force of the shattering that He discovered between us He needs to perform a connection, “He who makes peace above will make peace on us.” Just as in the corrected system or the upper system that what He has to do upon us.
S. The most important question is what are we missing? Because we’ll tell you what we do. We know what we do. But what are we missing to go into connection between us?
R. We lack mainly prayer. Mainly prayer. Prayer has to be the goal before us and now from that we take one step back and see, what do we need in order to reach that prayer. What feelings? What thoughts? What connections? What do we need? What components? That’s called the carriers of the prayer, what do we do?
14. S. (23:51) How was the force of the address to the Creator made and why is the process of unity gradual?
R. It’s gradual because we can’t at once jump to the end of the ladder. We have to climb rung by rung and every rung is also a small ladder, that on it we can climb. We have to connect between us desires, intentions, thoughts and pray that they will take place through the upper light and when the creator organizes us we need to advance in such a way.
15. S. (24:41) If a person or ten or Bnei Baruch want to decide or shift the balance to the side of merit, what is this point of shifting?
R. Connection, if we connect as essential force of humanity so all of humanity will eventually be drawn to us and connect to us. That’s why we build that force of connection between us, without any differences between us, only one thing, unity above all. The rest of the things aren’t important to us as Baal HaSulam writes it’s not a person’s color or any quality, special quality, these or those, or his nationality, or anything else, only the heart, that even just a bit, just a bit wants to be connected to the others in order to discover the Creator.
16. S. (25:44) The moment I understand that The Creator shows me my lack of correction or a bad thought of a friend, how can I ask for the correction of this state?
R. Again connecting together that is the correction. What else could be? That’s why we need to reach a state that even though we don’t want, and we’re blocked, we can’t hear, we can’t get inspired or excited by it, but still we want to approach it and attain it. To obtain connection in the hearts in our inner desires, it’s above us being men or women these or those. In the points of the heart we want to attain the connection and through the points in the heart that we put together the connection between us so in that, in that connection we feel the Creator, that He created and stabilized these points together, He broke them so He can connect them again. That is called that we reveal the Creator you have made me.
17. S. (27:15) I heard that we have to raise the pain of the world to the Creator, but I can’t feel the pain from the world, how to absorb, all the torments, the pain from the world so that I can pass it on to a Creator?
R. We don’t need to feel the pain of the whole world as if it’s our own. No, that we’re not able to do and we don’t need to do, by us climbing the ladder of the degrees and have the force of bestowal more and more by that, by the force of Bina, we will also be able to feel the greater force, also Malchut and Keter, and that’s how it happens that Bina is the force in the middle between Keter and Malchut and when we connect Keter and Malchut we want to connect them together then it turns out that we are in the force of Bina and this is how we advance. That’s why we can suffer and include all this coarseness from Malchut and all the great light from Keter.
18. S. (28:49) Every evening there is a world prayer from the women for the peace in the world. How to relate to this as the most important moment every day and not get used to it?
R. Each and every day brings new corrections, new problems, new achievements. That is why we need to think about them and understand that every day is not like the previous one. In this way we need to relate to our prayers.
Reading Continued (29:57) “This is because when the matter ends…”
19. R (30:03) That is on us, each one of us that we belong to this direction, this group called Yashar Kel.
Reading Continued (30:09) “This is because when the matter ends…”
21. R. (30:56) It depends on what time, what states but really everybody has to reach a state of mutual guarantee, Arvut, entirely. We are now in such a state that the whole world will need to enter the mutual guarantee, Arvut. There would be a lot of processes, arguments between nations and countries and what not. We have to be prepared for it and understand why it is happening and to try to be ready to explain to all of humanity what they’re going through.
22. S. (31:49) We like to get to a state that connecting to our ten, eventually is no longer a struggle. I get to a phase or a state where I get excited to meet my ten and sometimes it is the opposite, where I struggle to even come out in my ten in the morning, in the evening. It is just like an up and down situation. Do we really get to a place where there is no more trouble? It is like getting up in the morning and meeting my ten like I’m having breakfast, lunch and so on?
R. There’s always going to be a struggle and even more. As much as we advance we are going to see how difficult it is to be in connection. As Rabbi Shimon’s students wanted to kill each other when they came to the morning lesson, and this struggle will remain until Gmar Tikkun, and before Gmar Tikkun there would be the biggest struggle. We are going to hate everybody, and we are going to kill everybody, and along with it, obviously, it is the Creator doing between us. Along with that, we’ll anything we need to overcome with the good force upon the bad force and we’ll have a general correction of the whole world. What is that? Why is that happening?, because we must correct all the nature, the still, vegetative, animate and even speaking all of humanity and all the desires. We need to correct it. Please try to understand what our purpose is. As much as we now need to be in this duty, in this responsibility, please think about it, talk about it, and the main thing is not to be afraid at all. What’s before us?, that it will be. We are under control of the Creator, we are in His hands, we are His partners and with Him, we will reach everything, and the Arvut, we will get it for Him. He is the guarantor that all these things will reach the final correction, and we just need to help it happen, as His messengers in this world.
23. S. (34:59) The process of globalization of the world, the egoistic mutual interdependence. Will that end or increase?
R. Obviously, it would be more, according to what the world is demanding to see that it is connected in a way that no one can disconnect from the other, no one can jump on the other, no one can go into wars or create problems. The scrutinies must be how we, just like in a family, just like in a family how we organize ourselves in the family. That is what we have to get to. You will see how it will be.