HOD: TIKKUN CHATZOT תקון חצות – LESSON WITH RAV MICHAEL LAITMAN
Baal HaSulam. Matan Torah [The Giving of the Torah]
Morning Lesson May 23, 2022 Transcription
Transcription is made from simultaneous translation which leaves a possibility for differences in the audio
Baal HaSulam. Matan Torah [The Giving of the Torah].
Item 15 (00:18) Now we can understand the words of Hillel HaNasi (Twice)
1. R. (03:06) Which means that there is nothing in the Torah besides advice for how to reach ‘love your friend as yourself ‘. That this is actually what all the laws of nature and the whole of nature and the Creator because Elohim is God in Gematria, is nature. He is actually nature, all of it is all aimed only in order to bring the created beings closer because we all in our egoistic desire in mutual rejection to each other to bring them to nearing and to adhesion.
Reader continues: (03:49) “ And even the Mitzvot between man…”
2 R. (04:30) I was asked yesterday also why does it say nevertheless, Israel. Israel is real means those who yearn to reach connection, adhesion, the revelation of the purpose of creation they are called Yashar Kel. Yashar means direct and Kel is the Creator. So one who is aimed to reach this force, this revelation, they are called Yashar Kel. This is why the Torah was given to them, seemingly. Meaning if you want to advance towards discovering the upper force, the center of nature, then you are called Israel and you can do it. You were given this commandment, this directive. This means ‘love your friend as yourself’, otherwise it is impossible to reach it. To reach this goal. You won’t be able to reach the revelation of the Creator unless it is through the love of people to the love of the Creator as we call it. Only through this stage will you reach a connection which is clear,certain, tight with others. The love of the Creator in connection with the Creator is revealed only inside of your connection to the created beings. There you’ll meet the Creator.
Reader continues: (06:05) “ but one must not wonder why it was not defined..”
3. R. (07:15) The person knows precisely that the way is to love people to the love of friends that it won’t give him the possibility to turn himself to all kinds of directions. philosophical one but rather for certain he has this before him as the great problem that he has to reach love, with the friends inside of the group, it’s not expressed by some external for maybe but rather in an inner disposition that this is how we need to feel each one of us inside of himself. That connection with the friends in order to attain the Creator, because this is where we achieve that same degree of connection with the Creator this is actually our direction.
4. S. (08:25) What is the balancing point with relationships for people who are not on the path? I feel it’s something very sensitive to me. How do we relate to others who are not on the path? What’s the balance?
R. I need to be with them simply as an ordinary curious person, one who doesn’t of course doesn’t harm anybody else. I seemingly relate to them, I do not relate to them. I don’t want to say that I relate to them like animals because God forbid he will think that I’m being proud. I see myself as higher than them but I simply feel towards them only it anice good attitude. It’s not that I yearn to come closer to them. If they are not in the same connection, if they are not in the same disposition with me in the same group, in the ten, in the same organization that I have then I have no relation to them. Besides that I want to and I have to be obligated to help them understand where the purpose of life is but besides that no. Besides that I don’t owe them anything. To publicize the purpose of creation, the knowledge of creation, the knowledge of the Creator that yes, but to relate to them as to my friends in the group that we are together on the path, all of us together or my ten, no. I cannot relate to them this way and I should not relate to all the people in the world like that.
5. S. (10:54) You defined straight to the Creator,Yashar Kel as those who are aiming for adhesion with the Creator. There are many people in the world that think they are aiming for adhesion with the Creator.
R. I don’t have them in mind the fact that each one has his method, that’s his business.
S. Right, so I’m asking if you can better clarify the definition for Yashar Kel because he said it was those who are aimed at adhesion with the Creator.
R. Adhesion for the Creator is according to equivalents of form. We talked about it thousands of times. that it is as the Creator is good and doing good for the good end for the bad as the Creator is revealed in the connection between us if we intend towards connection with us and in that mutual connection we and intend to rise above our ego and there to get to know that point of connection, then from that point of connection onward we start to know the Creator.
S. People that have this awakening of the inclination straight to the Creator they’re aiming for equivalence of form?
R. No, not immediately. They have to scrutinize it.
S. But it’s a tendency that exists in them.
R. In them? Who do you mean?
S. I’m asking about people in whom the tendency awakened which you call straight to the Creator Yashar Kel, people who are inclined towards Creator equivalence of form?
R. Maybe you’re asking about it without any material without any bases, how can I know who you’re talking to about?
S. How do you know people who belong to Yashar Kel, how do you determine that?
R. I don’t determine it. They need to determine it for themselves if they want to advance, if they have such a disposition it all happens according to their inner disposition in the heart if a person yearns to reach that source of creation the foundation of creation. Then he begins to search for it and to come closer to it. By what? The upper providence brings him already to the group. The Creator takes man’s hand and puts it on the good fate and says take that and then we begin to build the group and inside of the groups we start to attain the upper force, the connection with him and this is how we advance. You are seemingly flying in the air asking someone about something. That’s not, you can’t determine anything this way.
6. S. (13:49) How can I verify the progress of the friends in the ten towards connection and adhesion in relation to the study material in the lesson and all the actions?
R. The more I appreciate the connection between us over the forces that try to separate between us so much so that there are times when we are in disconnection between us. Just like the students of Rabbi Shimon who wanted to kill each other and also that we make efforts and we do want to connect between us towards the goal in order to attain the Creator. That is not for the purpose of any other goal so it turns out that in those states one opposite the other I can measure how much we are advancing truly to the true form. That we will have great coarseness also but also great refinement. These are the indications of the measures of the spiritual.
7. S. (15:28 ) From the perspective of ‘love your friend as yourself”‘ can we say that egoism is the matter of the substance that we do this work with?
R. Yes of course our ego is all our material that we work with. Yes.
8. S. (16:00) It says here in this excerpt above the Lord your God with all your heart and soul and all your might and it says this is because of the rule of love your friend is yourself because the person who is inside the nature of creation this is still in the nature of creation what does it mean he’s in the nature of creation and that the love of the Creator the love of friends is one in the same I’m not sure I understand this paragraph correctly.
R. We have to work on loving the created beings, see how much it is not in our nature but the other way around and that’s because it is a direct result of the shattering of the Kli of Adam Harrison and we mustn’t forget that. The more I discover hatred rejection distance between me and the friends, and yet I understand that the correction is in connecting between us, then I put in front of me a condition that comes from nature itself from the Creator, that I gave you this difference this distance the shattering between you and the friends and you have to clean to them so much so that there will be no difference between you as one man and one heart. This thing is impossible in our understanding and in our mind in our essence, but the Creator can do it and this is called a miracle.
A miracle. What is the miracle of the exodus that we exit the separation between us when we are completely cut off from each other distant from each other and we emerge into a state where it is possible to make the connection happen, we go through What’s called the Red Sea, there’s no longer this border that separates us and we enter stages and states where we can come closer. And feel that we are in a common space and in getting closer between us, we achieve that condition where the upper forces are revealed and we come back to the same system called Adam. Then the more we get closer to being Adam in that system of connection between us, we discover what is called the soul of Adam HaRishon and the Creator that fills it. The inner light that fills the vessel is called the Creator in the vessel itself is called Adam. Similar to the creator of the vessel or the light becomes similar the vessel is the will to receive but with an intention to bestow it is similar to nature the light that fills it in order to bestow.
S. Love the Lord your God?
R. Yes yes yes, that’s already the end of the corrections. Well said.
9. S. (19:46) What exactly is this common space you talked about what we’re not yet able to connect where this is the place where we start to connect and seemingly there is this thing?
R. That is outside Egypt.
S. What is that place, that state?
R. That place is getting closer to the land of Israel to a desire that is completely aimed towards the Creator straight to the Creator and it can be corrected. Egypt is the overt ego. The ego that can’t be corrected. That’s why there is a commandment you never go back to Egypt which means to the will to receive in order to receive, in its raw form. But the whole process we go through from the Exodus onwards these are corrections bringing us closer to the intention to bestow which is called the land of Israel.
S. The ties between us through the state because we did not receive Torah yet?
R. Everything is a single desire but in the will to receive there are stages, Dalet ,Gimel, Bet, Aleph, Shoresh. Then that is how we advance.
Item 16 (21:20) ‘In the above words, we find a way to… “
10. R. (22:10) Meaning that we have to go from a will to receive in order to receive completely opposite to the Creator, according to the intention to receive, according to the desire. We are not detached from the Creator, we are not opposite to the Creator ,the desire is the desire. That’s how we were created but the intention being in order to receive that’s a problem. How am I using the desire the Creator created in me? Here I have to see how this intention pushes me away from the Creator. We also see it from our life that we measure everything by intentions. What do you intend for, what do you want?
The most important thing is man’s intention. How does he want to use anything in life? The main thing is correcting the intention. So because in the general Kli of Adam HaRrison ,in the desire created by the Creator, there are different levels of desire, Shoresh, Bet, Gimel, Dalet, root, one, two, three, four. in order to make it possible for each and every desire to correct itself and reach a correction resembling the Creator. All of these desires in order for them to have equal opportunity to reach the Creator, there was a shattering maybe between them which means each desire is incorporated with all the other desires. Even those who have a deep, heavy great will to receive are incorporated with lighter desires and the other way around.
Those with lighter desires are incorporated with coarser desires, and so after the shattering of the vessel of Adam HaRishon, and this mixture that happens over thousands of years, which implies many actions that humanity has to go through. Ultimately, it shapes up towards a single education, a single culture, a single set of problems beginning to better understand each other, and in obtaining egoistic goals and desires. We see how our world is becoming more and more round. We are perhaps not understanding this,that we don’t want to understand each other, but in fact we are becoming similar. There are external changes in our culture and education between Japan and Europe and South America and Scandinavia. Sure yes, but it’s actually not something that disables us from getting closer to each other. Therefore, all of humanity ultimately comes to some stages of mixing together and becoming incorporated with each and every one. What is interesting. What we still don’t see completely is what happens with that group who went through shattering, the group called Israel from ancient Babylon to this day and how it’s mingled with and involved with every piece, every place in the world.
We don’t yet understand what is happening here how by being intertwined with everyone, and going into each and every place, we will see how that group actually, it has to penetrate each and every layer of the will to receive of humanity and bestow their something from that general connection the Kli of Adam HaRishon. We will talk about these things that still have to be well concluded and then will better understand what is happening with us today as well in this whole mixing and mixture that’s happening now in the world. We don’t yet understand how it works and how it defines the destiny of each and every family and each and everyone and how we are being where we are being pushed by these actions from above that the Creator puts us through. Soon we’ll be able to talk about it more freely and will also have the inner ability to understand what is happening with us and all of humanity. These are very interesting things. All in all it’s the preparation of the Creator to correct his general Kli.
11. S. (28:24) I want to hear more about what you said now. That as a result of this group, it was created in Babylon, the way it controls the world and what it does?
R. It’s a group that works and navigates inside every nation, each part of humanity. They have to do some actions they don’t even understand what they are doing and the Creator who as if puts them to sleep and then puts them in each and every place. By that he activates these actions of correction in all of humanity and the results will, bit by bit,we will see how they unfold.
S. What is the role right now in the system?
R. They don’t know what the role is? The role is to be the passageway at it is written that the people of Israel was made as a passageway between the Creator and all the nations of the world because this group called Israel to begin with is comprised of all the qualities of the world which still comes from and it began in the ancient Babylon and that’s how it exists. Inside that group as well because it comprises all the qualities of the nations of the world, that’s why you see in that group itself there is no calmness, no tranquility, and no connection. It is very difficult for them to be connected and they can’t connect. They always contain many opposite directions and endless upheaval. Why? Unrest, because they include all the desires of humanity and therefore what they have results from the differences in opposites between all people in the world.
S. When will they come to this kind of unity and, when will they calm down?
R. When they understand their role and begin to take care of the connection between the Creator and all created beings then they will know how they can be organized today, in what way for what goal, how they need to be connected to the Creator. That’s the role and for that goal they will connect and rise above their ego being the greatest egoists and the most scattered.
S. Where is Bnei Baruch in relation to that group? Who are they? An internal part within them? What is that?
R. Bnei Baruch is a group that is already in the phases of correction, it’s not literally inside the group of Israel it’s already beyond that and it includes in it, anyone who wants to join the correction of the world. Therefore we are essentially a simulation of the future world, the future humanity. We want to build the form of the future humanity from within us from the connection between us.
S. The form of the future humanity that Bnei Baruch will establish, why isn’t it enough for the correction of the world? Why do we need Israel to spread all over the world?
R. No, that group of the people of Israel today it’s basically some sort of a foundation that still exists. We will expand even more but the most important is how a group like Bnei Baruch how it becomes broader and able to bring into itself more and more people from all nations and cultures and that’s how we will achieve corrections.
S. Can we say that the world vessel is the new Israel?
R. Yes of course I don’t want to call it this way because we already had these names before but yes it is really referred to as today’s Israel. There are other groups that will also come together. I hope that the Creator has many paths so to speak that will connect with some others as well and fine connection between us and the Creator.
12. S. (33:43) You said that this group, which is today’s Israel, was supposed to penetrate all the levels of desire. Is there some meaning to this? Are they supposed to correct all the levels of desire?
R. Who are you referring to the original group of Israel or Bnei Baruch?
S. The original Israel, the Jews all over the world who are successful in all areas of life, why is that?
R. Well, the fact that they’re successful in different forms of life areas of life, that’s a different question, but why does this group exist, because we see that the fact that they’re successful in different forms of life areas of life that’s a different question, but why does this group exists because we see that from this group each time humanity absorbs new discernments. By which the people in that group begin to determine the main trends of human development. We might not be so aware of it or conscious of it but when there is someone special that determines something for humanity in this world, if you examine it deeply and you’re able to do it, then you’ll see that it probably comes from that group of Yashar El because otherwise he would not have that direction to get closer to the Creator and thus bring humanity close as well.
S. Well for us for example, the Jew is the president, he is already in the government. Is there some special meaning that is supposed to be like that, some special correction?
R. Yes probably probably yes it’s a wonder that it happens like that but it’s truly interesting, How in such such a anti-semitic country you have all the managers so to speak are Jewish. On the one hand, on the other hand it does give hope that you will succeed. If you don’t kill them, if you don’t take them then you’ll achieve something.
S. Well, my question is always about the desire, this original desire and which Israel is in. How is that supposed to work or are they supposed to perform some corrections to these desires or are they supposed to give up all the desires of the world?
R. No, we’re already in the last phase of the correction of the world and therefore we are mixed with everyone in all of reality. Do you see what’s happening in the world? You should see everything that’s happening as corrections, it’s all corrections. Therefore this is the mixture that’s already in the world even though it happens through wars but on the other hand by wars by the eruption of the ego we can see that the corrections are very fast .Therefore in this collision between Russia and the Ukraine I do see fast progress of all humanity towards correction.
Many things are being clarified throughout every one, Europe and America and just wait and see what happens to the world economy, with other eruptions in the world around it. These are big things and we don’t pay so much attention but there is a collision, in the collision between Ukraine and Russia ,there’s a collision here between not just nations but its cultures. It’s a different form of human existence. Russians are presenting something completely different than the Ukrainians. They themselves don’t understand it. The Ukrainians feel how different they are from the Russians, the Russians don’t feel that different from the Ukrainians and it depends on the level of development. What do I want to say without passing criticism on anyone, you just have to see that there is now a deeper scrutiny that’s happening in humanity. Where are we from? How do we advance?How should we connect? That’s the main thing. Not who is right and who’s wrong and each one putting pressure on the other but how will we search for a way to connect where we will surely succeed and otherwise we’ll just keep fighting and there is an end to it but I don’t think that it’s worthwhile to go there. Ask, I’m not so hasty with these scrutinies because I don’t want to be misunderstood here.
13. S. (40:06) The Torah forces me to the love of friends but I feel within me that everything is against this Mitzvah and mostly I feel that every effort is empty and I will never ever enter the bestowal. I feel that is a nature completely opposite to mine,impossible to achieve. Is this a matter of doing a jump? How can I do a jump?
R. In such incidents I would say that towards the Creator he would tell me now you are a rag like I am. Until the final correction, until the very last action which we still don’t know what it is. until the very last state, we are in states where we are opposite to the next corrected state. Each time we fall and rise, fall and rise and thus we advance. So do not despair and understand that each and every moment corrections are being made and there are such small corrections that we can’t follow but it is always happening. The main thing is that we are all together marching forward, holding on to the same system with the same intention and one who falls from it then is carried by the friends as we learned from the mutual guarantee and that is how we advance. The result of our life ultimately is that we moved forward towards connecting with the upper force.
14. S. (42:27) Is Bnei Baruch a part of that regional group of ancient Babylon?
R. Today’s Bnei Baruch are the same souls that belong to the exodus from Babylon and close to them and close to them. Otherwise they would not awaken these souls because the awakening begins from the central point and expands and like a spiral shape further and further.
15. S. (43:15) You said that later on additional groups will join us. What groups did you have in mind?
R. I am talking about all kinds of people who connect and study all kinds of things. They think of as spiritual some are just like we are following the method of Baal HaSulam or close to it and I think that in the future we will be able to able to overcome all kinds of conditions and differences and different calculations and we will understand that the connection between us in order to overcome all kinds of external disturbances of connection. We will be able to overcome that and connect.
S. Many times you warn us of coming closer or collaborating with other groups.
R. It will come, it will come naturally. Of course we have to just stick to our path and especially that we do not want to take on any other external shape. We want to look like normal people without any character of religion or any kind of thing like that. On the one hand and on the other hand we only have to care about the inner connection. Meaning what is generally customary in the world and humanity accepted as the general general desire of the Creator. That this is how we dress and pass our time and work and life and family and so forth so that in this way we will only be moving towards interconnection between us and connection with him?
Item 16 (45:52) “In the above words we find a way to understand…”
16. R. (46:42) This is the question that we are facing. If each member of the nation agrees to this exalted work? We are not talking to any nation of humanity yet but to our small tens, our groups.
Item 16 continued (47:04) “and once each and every one in the nation…”
17. S. (49:57) When we discover that it is impossible to be corrected like a friend from Italy asked?
R. Then you are happy when you discover that you cannot correct, then you are happy that you have reached the truth.
S. How is it possible to be happy if you discover you cannot correct yourself but still you are looking forward to the end of correction.
R. No, to begin with we are not going to connect anything. It is a big mistake. like little children who think they can do something on their own. The world is filled with these corruptions where everyone thinks that they can fix the world. There is even such a term that is used by World Reformers. You cannot reform anything on your own because you yourself are broken and you are the source of all corruption.
S. They feel that everything is corrupted but we will not reach anywhere.
R. You can only raise your hands. It says that he raises his hands towards God and nothing but that is needed just to ask the Creator to correct us to fulfill us with his light with his presence. That is all. By the Creator taking control over the us we will be able to connect our desire can then be connected because the Creator is in control and in his light, in his power even the great egoists who hate each other will be able to connect above their ego and then they will be like, like a cake where you have layers layers of the great ego wherever ,what is there in that dark place and above that we will cover it ,we will cap it with love between us and we will take control of each and every element of hatred with love because we are created beings. We can’t exist and just one quality. That is why the Creator deliberately initially created the Kli in his force and then broke it and so these qualities exist within us, both hate and love, and we have to clarify them and connect them correctly. We are going to do that. That’s what we’re going to do.
S. How could you do it like you said a few days ago I cannot even give a friend my pillow. How can I come to love of others?
R. This is called recognition of evil that you truly are incapable of it, and you don’t want it and you will never want it. But if you connect with the friends and you are waking I’m on you the force of the creator that is hidden in the connection between the friends, and there isn’t an ounce of the bestowal in any one of you. The quality of the Creator does not reside in any of you, only a spark but if you connect you can extract this power of the Creator, scrutinize it and work with it. That is what it is all about.
S. I still don’t understand how we can reach it if I myself won’t give a pillow. So my friend will give me a pillow? I don’t understand.
R. None of us has a pillow. None of us wants to do anything good to the other but by connecting, by asking the Creator to give us this ability, to give us this quality, this nature. We receive it from him. It does not exist in any of us.
S. I don’t know if I can take it upon myself.
R. Don’t worry about it, leave that to the Creator. On that it says he who makes peace in the heavens, he will make peace on us, he will come down to us, connect us ,cover us with the force of love and bestowal. That is his job. The Creator will have to work and on that day his name will be one and his name as one. Don’t worry, if you want it, it will happen. Our job is to want.
S. How can I do it if I already do not want it?
R. They were forming light. How can you draw this light? How can you draw this light, this reforming light? They also don’t want it but they are looking at one another with envy, lust and honor. There are all sorts of negative things. They start with this envy, lust, honor, each one evolves into the other. Then with this negation they draw the upper light on to them. They can’t understand why the other is better than them. They understand how from negative things you get positive. How does the mother say to her child look at this other kid, how is he successful? How he did things right. Look at him. Do the same thing so but awakening and him envy, lust and honor she helps him in advance and become greater. That is how it is.
18. S. (56:33) Continuing the state of security after 20 years living in the Middle East and coming from the ex-soviet union union and China can you express your opinion about this whole state?
R. I do not understand what you were saying.
S. 15 years ago in the Middle East was a security state.
R. I do just don’t understand what he’s saying.
S. I think they are describing some state that happened fifteen or twenty years ago, some state of security that is affecting China and Russia.
R. I still don’t get it.
S. I mean the whole state of security in the world.
R. No, I don’t agree to talk about such things right now. I don’t understand what you mean and we are not even talking about politics. We are talking about the correction of the world. I’m sorry. Ask the friends to help you ask correctly and ask again next time.
19. S. (58:15) Receiving the Torah in a collective manner, how can we depict that between us?
R. I also do not understand you.
S. We already went into this date of receiving the Torah but every time it also changes, the desire, the vessel how can I depict this between us?
R. Every day there is a giving of the Torah. Each day a different vessel, a different light, new conditions and you need to accept it each day.
20. S. (59:15) Can we say that there is an egoistic connection and there is a connection of egoists, like a place and a fulfillment. You can fix the fulfillment but not the place?
R. Yes.
21. S. (59:36) It says in the article that our forefathers were not given the Torah. Can we say that Bnei Baruch is enough of a quantity to receive the Torah?
R. When you speak of a quantity it refers to the size of the will to receive in them. When they came out of Babylon you can say that if you can refer to a geographically or historically across a timeline they did not have a large enough will to receive that they had to work on. They didn’t have mutual hate between them for which they needed to receive the method of connection, recognition of evil in their unconnected state and so on and so forth. They needed to reincarnate from that state called Babylon to the state called the land of Israel, and then to that state called the land of Egypt. the deserts of Sinai.
When they go through these stages, not by walking on the face of the planet from one place to another but rather in their internal efforts. They are going through those phenomena that the Creator is giving them, then they come to a state where they begin to understand that the purpose of creation resides above this life that they do not live as animals locked in this kind of life. Rather they have to rise above, since a person has to live for an eternal goal, to be incorporated in eternal life and they do not depend so much on the = corporeal state. All of that requires development, even now we are in this development and many people from many nations around the world are going through this development one over the other.
S. Can we say that in Bnei Baruch we have this desire?
R. Whoever comes to our organization, to our studies and remains in it of course he has those questions about the purpose of creation, the purpose of life, and those are deep questions. He might not even feel it but those questions grab him and do not let him leave the path before he finds a solution and although he sometimes falls suddenly he rises, it is all along the way because 1000 times a righteous person will fall and then get up as it is written.
22. S. (01:03:06) Why is it written the purification of the body instead of the purification of the will to receive?
R. It is the same in the wisdom of Kabbalah we say that the body is the will to receive and this body can be corporeal, spiritual, it does not matter but it is always the will to receive is the body.
23. S. (01:04:03) It is written in excerpt 16, it teaches us the whole Torah while standing on one leg and they say in love of friends, because the purpose will be quicker and you will save yourself from mistakes. What does it mean that there are no mistakes if you work in love your friend as yourself?
R. If we wish to carry out all of the commandments, meaning all the commands that the Torah is telling us to do in order to correct our soul, then we have to work with all of the types and modes of all the will to receive that exists in each and everyone. In other words we need to apply the intention to bestow on top of each and every desire in us so that nothing will remain for himself.
S. What does it mean no mistakes?
R. Then we will not be mistaken.
24. S. (01:05:18) It is written in excerpt 15 ,you love your God with all of your soul and with all of your might. What does it mean with all of your essence?
R. Everything I can imagine to myself that belongs to me in short. In every desire of yours, every thought of yours, all your intentions, everything you’ve got. You need to fill all of these tendencies with love.
25. S. (01:05:56) It is written in excerpt 16, that the Torah was not given to our forefathers Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. What does it mean? What was their work back then?
R. That they couldn’t open up the vessel up their soul, truthfully because they did not have enough individual circles in each and every soul, rather only a large number of people in the general development of the will to receive there were a large number of people in each and everyone then we come to the opening of the true will to receive that we can correct.
26. S. (01:06:56) According to 16, if each and every one in the nation agrees to work in this exalted work so what is this state that we become a nation and what is that agreement we have to take in order to receive the Torah?
R. We have to reach a state where we all understand the goal. Each one according to his or her level. We have to reach a state where each one agrees to advance towards the goal. Each one according to his or her own level as much as they can and the main thing they need is to agree that without mutual support where each one obligates, commits for this mutual support with everyone, without it we won’t reach the goal. That I attain the goal, that I attain my goal only on the condition that I help others. All my friends in the ten.That through them reach the goal. It’s like it or not it is like being in one boat and being with one responsibility, one kind of mutual guarantee.
27. S. (01:08:30) How to reach greater purity when I discover more hatred towards the friend?
R. Excellent, if I reveal greater hate for my friend and then I need to understand that this is exactly the condition, the opportunity that the Creator is giving me now in order to come closer to the friends by revealing the hate and rejection.
S. She adds that she says it is not mutual.
R. It does not matter if it is mutual. I’m correcting myself. I show it as an example to the friend.
28. S. (01:09:20) It is written in 16 that they came out and were a whole nation of 600,000 people from 20 years and up.
R. Meaning that they are able to understand and feel the relationship between them and the relationship of the Creator to them. 20 years means 10 Sefirot of direct light and 10 Sefirot of reflected light in the spiritual Partzuf of each and every one.
29. S. (01:09:56) Who are the friends that I pray for? What should they feel? Do they feel something in this action that I am making an effort in?
R. Even if they do not feel it is working in them. The feeling in their emotion will come later, it is possible that right now it is not felt.
30. S. (01:10: 23) To be happy in the evil that is being revealed and to want to correct ,to ask the Creator I understand but there is only a concentration into the ten and there is hatred to other tens, is that also on the path? Is that okay?
R. It is all on the path and it is okay but I do not understand why it is revealed so much and why it is worrying you so much. The main thing is for us to be connected inside of the ten.
S. Maybe they mean hatred between tens? Because of the war?
R. In the state of the war, we need to be careful that all of those conditions that are now revealed between the warring sides, in the corporeal war, that they will not influence our spiritual states. This is truly a state where love must cover all crimes. Love must cover all crimes. We have a very special and a very important exercise ahead of us.
31. S. (01:11:42) Why is there a feeling that I am always In a descent and my state is getting worse?
R. It is an order for us to relate correctly to the passing state. They come from the Creator and for us to rise above the feelings of rejection that we will reinforce the connection between us through mutual attraction.
32. S. (01:12:12) The correction of the world depends on our unity or dissemination?
R. The correction of the world depends on the connection between us and the connection of the whole world. Of course, it has to do with dissemination. It depends on the dissemination, the connection of the entire world depends on our dissemination.
33. S. (01:12:46) How can we awaken someone in the world to listen to us when they’re first awakening comes from above? Do we just prepare the area for the one the Creator is awakening?
R. Correct, good you said it correctly. We disseminate the material but the one who actually gets it is the one whose heart was awakened by the Creator.
S. Is dissemination a commandment towards a person and a place or person to his friend?
R. Both and dissemination explain how we need to be connected between us in order to reach connection with the Creator.
34. S. (01:13:33) Questions about the preparation, is the right intention before we study that we want to learn for Lishma, for her sake to reach bestowal?
R. I did not get it.
S. Is the right intention before we study is that we want to reach Lishma and to reach bestowal?
R. Of course.
35. S. (01:14:00) Kabbalists pray for two hours before the lesson in order to scrutinize what prevents them from turning to the center of the ten. How could we scrutinize it if only a few people come to the ten, one or two?
R. That is a problem if out of the entire ten only one or two are there at the beginning of the lesson then you have no one to pray with, so pray by yourself. When you wake up and you are alone in the lesson pray for the whole ten that will also help you and help them
S. I understand that we have to sharpen Our intentions for our studies. Do we have to keep working on the intention during the lesson?
R. Yes of course during the lesson we are talking about it.
36. S. (01:15:17) You said something basic about the state that is taking place now. It is not just a dispute between nations but it is between cultures and civilizations. If I understand correctly the main dispute is between the conservative values in the east to the West.
R. I do not think this is a problem and we should not get into this discernment of culture and philosophy and the characteristics of a Nation. It will not help us if we will not be able to scrutinize it because we do not know the foundations which exist in people. This attitude will not help us. Rather for the time being we need to understand that it is not as we had initially thought about it but there is one people but rather there are two people, two nations, Russians and Ukrainians and we need to let each one exist without obligating it by the other. Since oppression is the worst thing there can ever be, it does not go hand-in-hand with the correction of the world. It cannot be. When I hear someone say they want to obligate someone for peace it sounds like the worst thing possible. How can you obligate people to be in peace? Tell me? Love is something that has to come from the heart, Shalom, peace is Shlemut, wholeness, it can be only from the heart. How can you apply pressure and beat up people and get it to a state where they love you?
No, it can be such a love where a person does not want to come to blows but he will never be able to love the one who is beating him. It is not according to the nature of our will to receive. It will be a lie and each time it will pop up and reveal itself differently. You should not do it and in general you need to understand that we live in the time where it is impossible to obligate one another rather only through explanation where we teach a person how to open his heart to the upper force, to the force of love and bestowal, Only by bestowing to one another. Not teaching each other war but on the contrary, we come to a state as it is written in Isaiah, ‘we shall not rise brother against brother, nation against nation’. We have to understand in our time as much as we are capable of it as much as we are capable of fighting with one another we are not capable of correcting anything with that in that.
37. S. (01:19:20) In 16 and says that with a small amount of people you can’t start the commandments between man and his friend so the question is why can we do it with a small quantity we are in tens and it is even written that you could do it between two
R. Here it is talking about the giving from above down. You cannot give to a ten from above you cannot give a ten a certain Torah if there is no foundation around this group. There has to be such an atmosphere surrounding light which surrounds this ten and in this way they can advance otherwise they can’t. The purpose of humanity is to apply to everyone, as he is saying that It doesn’t matter, black, white, red they should all enter the same connection of love between everyone to go back to the form of one man.
38. S. (01:20:38) About the number of people needed to receive the Torah, do we have enough of those people in Bnei Baruch?
R. Let us hope that we will.
39. S. (01:20:50) What obligation has to awaken in a person,while receiving the Torah?
R. Obligation? Through the studies a person awakens within him the fundamentals of nature there is nothing artificial here. Rather we awaken the light that is at the foundation of nature, the center of our spiritual galaxy and that light influences all of us and it pulls us towards connection towards our center, the center of all of our desires in fact in the Creator.
40. S. (01:21:46) You said you could not be obligated to love but it feels that the Creator is obligating us to love and every moment otherwise how can we explain the suffering we are getting from him?
R. At first as it says first by coercion and then by desire, willingly.
S. What do you mean?
R. Meaning we cannot obligate one another to love that is clear but through the opposite actions below his troubles we can explain to each other that we have no choice but we must come closer to one another in love.
41. S. (01:22:26) According to what I understand from the article in order to reach the state that we can work with the Torah we need to reach a state of readiness of Arvut and the recommendation here is first to engage in the commandments between a person and his friend meaning in the relationships between us before we start dealing with the Creator.
R. Yes.
S. Now we are investing a lot in trying to bring the Creator into all kinds of actions with the intention to bestow and so on, how do we combine correctly?
R. If you are talking about the correction of the intention then certainly for that you need the Creator since without it you will not be able to correct the intention you cannot correct the relationship between you unless you could include the Creator in it.
S. But as he writes here in excerpt 14 that when I search for the Creator so there is no one to do it, meaning that I do not have the same criticism like before the friends.
R. But together working on such things you gradually begin to feel how you support one another. How you obligate one another.
S. Correct in that is the Creator?
R. Yes.