KETER: TIKKUN CHATZOT תקון חצות – LESSON WITH RAV MICHAEL LAITMAN

Baal HaSulam. Peace in the World

Morning Lesson June 5, 2022 Transcription

Transcription is made from simultaneous translation which leaves a possibility for differences in the audio

Baal HaSulam. “Study of the Ten Sefirot” (TES). Vol. 1. Part 2. Inner Observation. Chapter Seven. #83 (“The reason for the absence of Hochma from this new degree…”)

1. Rav’s Introduction: Yes, we have to discover in ourselves, each person inside himself and also in our connection, in our social life these four attributes and after that to see how much we can join them together in a way that instead of that we come to a new state, into a new society, new connection between us and then these relations will already be spiritual ones.

Reading Peace in the world (01:27) “Therefore in our generation when each….”

2. R. (02:20) This is what we see today in this world, it is more and more revealed to us, for the first time it is revealed to us through this problem between Russia and Ukraine for example and the crisis that is done, we see how much we are all part of it, we all belong to it, all the countries, it touches everyone so if we want to come to a safe and the good life we have to find that key, the right connection that should be between everybody so our life would be good, full and safe.

Reading continues: (03:10) “Therefore the possibility of making good….”

3. R. (04:05) This means that we shouldn’t see what the trend that the worldwide development is, it is coming to show us how dependant we are on each other that even what is necessary for you, you cannot have the necessities one would not be able to sustain his own life unless you are in the right connection with all the people in the world, all the people in the world, truly.

Reader continues: (04:45) “Although this is in fact….”

4. R. (05:00) Philosophical speaking if we can see this from the outside.

Reader continues: (05:05) “Still the people in the world ….”

5. R. (05:11) Practically we are not receiving from that yet, we can even say this intellectually but not that we want this to happen this way, we already know this, we do not bless the connections between us that from nature we discover this. That we depend on each other ,what we find by nature in the levels of the still, vegetative and animal levels of nature the more we evolve we see how much we are more dependent on each other. This dependency only grows everyday, especially lately because we are starting to progress in a more qualitative form, one with respect to the other.

This is why soon we will reach situations where one person is doing something and the other feels how good or bad it is for him, how much it is harmful or supportive for him, truly. Each we’ll see about the other even if he is a far at the other end of the world, we will feel it in the system because the system is revealed not the distances between us, this is not important the system is being revealed, we discover the system of connection between us in a way that there is nowhere to run, nowhere to escape to. This is why we really have to talk about the right connection between us, otherwise mankind will go into such great frustrations that it could be a world war that will cause, who knows, maybe even human extinction.

6. S. (07:13) In the text he says that the countries are dependent on each other but in practice we see that some countries influence the world more, Ukraine influences more than other countries like Yemen for example where there has been a war for some time?

R. Yes, it is revealed through the system not every part is equal, like in the body, in the body you have many different parts and not all parts are as important equally, some more and some less. Regarding their roles and the functions the body has to carry out, this is how it is and we do not really feel these things in mankind yet but this is how it is going to be revealed. This will be revealed this way but it does not matter, we are coming closer to unity, to connection, to a state where we can see everybody in a single body and then we will discover the necessity, the need for each and everything and each and everyone. To such an extent that to the final correction we will see that nobody is more or less than the other, everybody is as important as everybody else as one.

S. Is this also true for the friends in the ten, some friends influence more, some less because in the body there are systems that if they do not work the body cannot survive but if the heart or the brain stops working we cannot survive.

R. Yes it is correct, we have the same here, in the human society but at the end of the way we will all have to fulfill our roles in each in a complete manner.

7. S. (09:27) Baal HaSulam writes here that these principles are known to people and yet people do not internalize them. We have been through world wars so it is obvious that everybody depends on each other.

R. Look at yourself how much during all the hours of the day and night you are thinking about yourself instinctively and you’re making calculations only for your own personal benefit and how far you are from making calculations and to be close to the whole world. There are more things here that have to be revealed in the connection between us and then the connection between all the human beings into a single system. When instead of thinking about ourselves, we will think about the whole system because the truth is that we depend on that and this is why intellectually we can talk about it. That is also not that simple, it is also a great merit for us to be able to read and discuss the connection between all the people of the world into a single system.

However this is not yet practical and the if we are talking about what is between us it is still very far from other people. This is why we will have to publish these things more and more and talk about them but do not think that this is far from us or from humanity, these things are being revealed in an exponential way, this is how they grow, this is the graph. This is why we did not think it would be revealed in the year or two ago and now we start to see it practically being revealed. In the upcoming few years we will be able to see humanity connected and feeling that it is really in a single system and then there is no choice, we have to adapt to it. We have to agree that this connection exists and to exist accordingly. This is how the Creator forces us to be in Arvut, in mutual responsibility this is the form of connection we have to keep it between us and it already exists in nature but it is still concealed. It is being revealed bit by bit but we practically can start to see for better or for worse that we are in such connections between us that we have to keep this law of Arvut okay, and then from that peace comes already, the mutual complementation.

S. How long does it take us to do this in the ten, we are trying to implemented in the ten and also into the world Kli and you say that we cannot even feel this work to the world Kli, so how will this expand to the whole world, to the other people who do not even know this method?

R. We do not think about the whole world as a we are thinking about the ten, it is completely different, it evolves differently and from that all the rules of the general system that the Creator created develops from that. This is why it is not in a linear way as much as we invest into the ten, so how much should we invest into all the tens which is all humanity. no. this is not how it works. For us it is enough to make some small movement in the connection between us and the whole world will follow with great changes and that the changes that the world is carrying out externally will affect us and push us to increase the connection between us. as we see now. Specifically, the forms of connection, positive or negative, are being revealed between all the nations in the world, these forms help mankind to progress very much to connection, we see this together. It will happen soon, really before our eyes.

8. S. (15:15) That connections between countries are quite developed on the business level only so that each country would be able to exploit another country to the maximum.

R. This is about the law of nature, by the law of the desire to receive which is revealed for the time being until we reach the recognition of evil and then we learn what it means to be in a good connection.

S. So how will the mutual responsibility be?

R. We are already learning this mutual responsibility between us as a result of us all discovering our dependency on each other we already are discovering the Arvut, dependency, that mutual responsibility. We have a surplus of crops for example and I need that and then there are other countries and cases that do not let us connect properly and to enjoy what you have and what I do not have. This is how we are learning how dependant we are and how much we need this responsibility and the truth is what does the Creator want from all these things, he wants us to keep the connection not because each one wants to profit from the situation but to keep this connection as a result of each one wanting to be connected to the others.

Meaning about the intention for us to be connected, not so much about the action, of course the action is important but above the action we need to build the intention. We can put it this way, I have something I want to give you and you have something you want to give me and the Creator wants us to aim ourselves at each other so each will supply something important to the other, something good. This intention is basically what determines the connect between us and then when we come closer, to a certain extent, to keep this intention to be for your sake and you are thinking about me then the Creator will give his approval and then it will happen.

This is why we have to discover the form of connection between the nations of the world, the countries in a different way than it is now. To us it seems that these ones do not let the other ones to connect or to exist or to do commerce with oil or gas or crops and other things which we need to pass on from one to the other, it is not like that. What we need to do nevertheless is to advance to a state when we are suffering but this suffering leads us to the right decisions that we want to be in a mutual connection with each other, mutual connection and then the ability to be in the right connection will open, this is all.

S. This formula when we are connected and we are depending on each other, this is egoistic?

R. Everything grows from the connection of the ego, everything depends on the egoistic connection this is very it grows from from Lo Lishma to Lishma, from the desire to receive until we get the intention to bestow, you will see that the people will start thinking that the good result does not depend on how much tons of crops one is giving to the other or anything at all. Instead, how much in the intention we want to give good to the other, you will soon see how much this war will become a more and more spiritual connection. I am not sending missiles to you and you to me or something else, it is to the contrary, we will see how much the relation between us will determine our future. Later we will start thinking that why should we be in a connection it is for us to elevate ourselves to the degree of the Creator to bestow contentment to him, so then suddenly it will be revealed in humanity in such a silent way, this won’t be so obvious where it comes from and why. This is how the Creator is arranging things, he is teaching us how to build the connection.

S. So what is this intention that all the nations will start thinking about for the benefit of others?

R. When I am thinking about everybody else, for the sake of everybody so from not for her sake to her sake, we will come to it bit by bit.

9. S. (21:48) In the ten each person has his own qualities and function, what are we lacking in order to recognize this system and make it work in the most integral way?

R. To look for a tighter connection between the friends and this should be in each and everyone to the extent each wants to build from his emotion and the intellect a system, a group connection and along with it to see how dependant he is on everybody else and how much is ego is playing with him and pushing him to a more qualitative connection with all the friends and this is how we discover it.

10. S. (23:10) I read your book and it really inspired me and that I wanted it so much so that in one of the zoom meetings I read an excerpt of the book and saw how much of the friends also deeply became impressed. I highly recommend to everybody to read this book “Always with me”, in every word there is this sorrow of his departure but after finishing reading I came to a clear result that you have a connection with him and I am so happy about this. This is what I wanted to say, there are many books and you know you will get back to them one day and read them but this book specifically, there is a great desire to read it again. It is not a story I did not get it as a novel or biography, how you came to the wisdom of Kabbalah, it is really learning material.

R. Thank you very much.

S. There was not one page that did not impress me there in that book. I really recommend this book to everybody to read it and get to know it.

R. Thank you.

11. S. (24:52) About the connection in the ten, that we have to identify every second how much we are moved by a desire to receive and only think about myself, I only think about myself and there is no exit from there, no escape. I want to ask about the process, when does the inversion happen and you come to a resolution even if you came to a resolution how then it changes when you actually think not to think about yourself, this process, because we are at this point all the time and it does not shift to the next stage?

R. You cannot cause this to happen by force, only through prayer every time that you are sorry that you fell again into your desire to receive on one hand, on the other hand you have to thank the Creator for falling into the desire to receive and you receive new work. You want to come out of this and you want to cling to him more, that everytime these degrees lead you to the goal of life, the purpose of life. This is how it happens one-by-one, this is why there is no room for despair, only to see how much it is a progress and this has to be the spirit in the ten that holds everybody this way.

S. Every stage when we discover that you seemingly, you read the text and you are in the system, you understand that you have to move on to the next stage and it does not happen and the prayers they also go through certain stages and then you again discover….?

R. It is possible that you are demanding and I do not know how you imagine the next state, the next state is demanding less for myself and more obliged to work for the ten, for the society, for others and ultimately for the Creator, that’s the next step.

S. This is what I’m asking about because this concern is motivated again by the desire to receive.

R. Of course, every time you need the new Reshimo you have to realize a new form of work, that penny and penny adds together to a great amount, you have to add these small amounts and realize them and connect them, this is not a problem, but to do this in a fast and efficient and beneficial way, in a pace that you are helping their friends and they are helping you.

S. I am asking about this point as he writes in Shamati that there is no end to these things, we don’t see the end of our effort and also the prayers are like this and that but you don’t come to actually thinking more than those few seconds during the day, thinking about the others.

R. I am sorry but I cannot give you beyond but the Kabbalists left for us and as much as we understand what they write there and to realize it. I think the problem is more about the realization, how to implement it, how much time of the 24hrs a day we dedicate to scrutiny and prayer.

S. What does it mean to dedicate time for scrutiny and prayer, of course, that’s what I’m asking about the implementation?

R. The implementation, this is the problem, the more you connect and you’ll see that you are not connected and you are asking the Creator for that, all in all the work has to end in the prayer every time, each time, the entry into the prayer and you’ll see that again you have to pray again with a little change and more and more and this is how the correct our state until we reach a complete and whole prayer.

12. S. (29:42) You said that the ego pushes us to connect so does it mean that the ego is pushing us away physically so we connect more in our heart ?

R. Yes of course, this is the role of the ego, this is the meaning of the verse “I created the evil inclination and created the Torah as a spice” so you demand correction on top of the evil inclination that increase is the distance between us and the connection between us will be one when the upper light will be revealed.

S. So we have to be happy with every disconnection because it helps us to make a connection even deeper ?

R. If you correctly imagine the network of connection between us, the way the field where you are of course you have to be happy .

Reading again (30:40)

13. R. (31:24) Meaning it is upon us to continue and the path itself that we have to relate to everytime in a more and more pinpoint way and more purposeful way, more together each time we talk each time and we collect ourselves to become in a single system, in a single group, this is how we progress to implement the goal.

Reading (32:00)

14. R. (34:11) Meaning why is mercy not enough for us, the attribute of mercy in the connection between us if you were on the degree of Bina.

Reading (34:19)

15. R. (35:27) This means that not even that he wants to guarantee for himself his own existence and the future but not to fall onto the hands of the others because by not caring for himself he is seemingly forcing the others to take care of him is this true, is this just?

Reading (35:51)

16. R. (36:16) Because he is obliged to them, to his relatives.

Reading (36:22)

17. R. (37:18) But in truth why is it their fault if the Creator made them with such a weak desire to receive, not being so successful.

Reading (37:28)

18. R. (38:41) This is what we see in human society that millions of people come marching saying and yelling we deserve this, we deserve that. Why, because we are suffering, why are you suffering and this is how it is, we cannot, but other people can, they can make money, they can succeed, they can organize everybody else, they can convince others to work for them. How come you cannot do that, well go to the Craftsman who made me, that Creator is at fault, he arranged human society, it is true that the Creator arranged human society for us, as it says go and provide for each other. With the right connection in society we can reach at state there there would be nobody who is failing and nobody is successful at the account of others but instead everybody would be in a just division but to find the right approach, to agree to this just division, this is our work.

Reading (40:10) “Therefore there is no hope for the peace….”

19. S. (40:30) Why does he associate the attribute of truth with what is mine is mine and what is yours is yours?

R. Because this is the truth, what I deserve according to that I gain and succeed that is mine and what is yours is yours. I do not look at you, I look at only myself and you also should only look at yourself. This is just, this is the natural inclination in each and every honest person, in every person will do that which is right in his own eyes. I do not demand that which I do not deserve, I do not come to steal something that belongs to someone else, instead I want everybody to have what they deserve out of his work and his own success and effort, with his qualities that he received and fate that he received from the Creator and with the luck that he has each day.

I do not complain to anybody, each one who lives in the Creator’s world behaves according to whatever he received from nature, from the Creator, from God his own qualities and from everything that happens to him. We disagree with this, we do not agree with this because behind all of these philosophical calculations we see that the world is truly, not only there is no just division but any division that takes others into consideration. So what can we do, some people are starving to death, some people do not know what to do with the money with they have.

S. I am asking about that, he writes that the peace contradicts justice and then he write in order to have peace in the public the conditions have to be in a way that the nimble and the smart would make money. Is this the way to make peace?

R. Wait, we haven’t come to the solution yet, actually it is the ego that is revealed in each and everybody, this is what brings us to peace and correction.

S. Okay, I just did not understand what he explains that peace is when the energetic takes his share and take it from the negligent so I do not understand why does peace contradict justice ?

R. If we wanted to go by justice we have to give each one what he got because from the Creator s perspective we are not equal and through our correction that we want to establish, we want to complement the injustice and the inequality between us and then we correct creation.

20. S. (44:10) In this text he describes a state that the attribute of truth claims that I have to accumulate assets for myself and for my relatives, for the future, but we read in The Arvut article that the land of the priests is just the Creator, so there is an abyss between the two different states. I don’t even know how to ask a question but I just don’t understand the contradiction.

R. So wait, you’ll have to wait my friend, we are learning how to reach a connection that is a complete and just and general correction and the most importantly the purpose of the correction is for us to elevate ourselves to the level of the Creator which we do not know what it is yet. It is not about handing everybody the same candy or making sure that everybody’s happy and giving them some pill to keep them happy, a good mood pill. But you are right, from here we still didn’t understand how to come to the perfect state so peace in the world as he tells us in this article peace comes from the word complementation, wholeness,when the Creator is revealed in everybody. We still have to understand under what conditions it can be.

S. I am trying to ask from the depth of my heart, there is a point I would like to add some more certainty to, what gives us confidence and then security in our daily job is that the day begins and I have somewhere to find food from. I’m not thinking about tomorrow because when tomorrow comes I will think about it. When I get older everything will become much harder and every day I have to give more to my group and to look for a place where I can cut off myself and give it to the ten but the problem is that these thoughts, I have every day. Maybe I will not be able to survive when I am old because I’m caring about the ten, what can I do with these thoughts, to keep living with them?

R. You will not be able to get rid of these thoughts, they will come to you in all kinds of ways and these thoughts come directly from the Creator, by this he is forcing you to check your situation, what state you are in and where you want to go, where you should go, where you have to go and the opposite that you will see two states. The present state and the desirable state in the next minute that you want to switch to and this will build in you and cause in you the right prayer. But insecurity is a fundamental thing that has to accompany us because otherwise we will not want to attach to the Creator. We will have to read that again later that there are several articles about security or confidence and faith and confidence. We will do that, nice, what you said and do not be afraid to talk about it with everybody in public because we are all in the same states and feeling. So anybody who speaks helps the others understand what happens to them inside because what you just said now, I see that it also exists in me except that I could not express it but now I feel I also think so.

S. Thank you very much, it is truly like this, what I want to ask also, what is on us is to see the picture in such a way that the Creator is caring for us and giving us the opportunity to find faith?

R. Yes and he also adds to us such states that he can see more and more that only through the social connection can we look at life correctly in our situation. He is teaching us how much Arvut is necessary for life.

21. S. (49:59) I learned that the Creator cannot find a better vessel to keep abundance than peace but I also understand very clearly how peace contradicts with justice because…

R. Wait. We have learned these things, right? We still have a few more pages to learn and then you will see what is the connection between all those four attributes and how we can come to the right connection between them, a certain connection between them into the completeness of the Kli of the vessel in general.

S. There is a point that if we forgive and make peace, that being forgiving towards the aggressor, it will be brutal towards who is oppressed. This is the problem for me.

R. We will need to learn how to relate correctly to one another, this is correct. So we will learn and from this you will see.

22. S. (51:49) To continue with the friend talking about his fears, necessities and all kinds of things, I remember that you told us about the Baal HaSulam that he would waste his daily money, so he would start every day anew. He would bring himself to a state of insecurity. What should we learn from this story?

R. No, no, no, don’t do this. This is for very special high souls in special states and they can do that, we are forbidden to do that. We have to live according to how we live today in our time, in our society like everybody else, and not otherwise, not otherwise.

23. S. (52:45) You said after we read by the rule of providing to each other that we can reach the right connection in society so nobody would lack anything and you said that what stands in our way is that we resist this just division. So what exactly is our work in order to reach this point?

R. We will learn this soon. It is down the line in the article, it is better if it comes from the Baal HaSulam and not from me, okay? So let’s read.

Reading Attribute of singularity (53:31)

24. R. (54:15) In other words these four attributes are in collision between them and a person cannot organize them.

Reading (54:26)

25. R. (56:43) This means that he is a bigger egoist and he cannot equalize himself with others and take others into consideration, this is how it is. What can you do? The solution will probably come later but the quality of singularity in the ego does harm and ruin. So the more one is special the more he can harm others as we can see in our world. Therefore we have a need for people to first of all be connected correctly and then later that they will grow. That their growth will be in connection with others, for sake of others, without the quality of uniqueness, singularity.

26. S. (57:52) The quality of singularity when it settles in the narrow egoism, it is the same quality that Rabash writes about, that the person should acknowledge what each friend is lacking and keep this question open?

R. We will clarify this much broader than what you are saying. What you are saying is partially correct, so let’s continue.

Reading (58:34) “Using the nature of singularity…”

27. R. (01:06:05) Yes, we can understand something from it although he wants to open up for us very broad and deep things, matters. But still we can still take something and drink.

28. S. (01:06:29) We are divided into 600,000 pieces so how can we build a system of peace and justice?

R. To the extent that we want to be connected together as Adam HaRishon which is one system without any parts in it but only one thought, one desire, one action, which consists of many parts. But all of them are connected, each one in itself to the others, connected to the Creator. So we all connect and become as one man, as one man with one heart. This is what we have to come to and then you can imagine the connection that will be among all the people. How all of us in our minds and our hearts will think about one form of life, one way of life, each one from within his own nature. We don’t erase the uniqueness of each one.

On the contrary each one wants in his singular, unique way to give to everyone, and by this he actually expresses himself, by this we come to the structure of Adam HaRishon. When all of us intend for one goal, to be together in one desire as one man with one heart, in one thought in order to bestow from us to the Creator, and the Creator is what we build, that system. So it turns out that this whole system itself which would build out of the connection between us, this is called the upper nature or the Creator or us, we all come to that form together. That’s it.

29. S. (01:08:50) The attribute of the singularity that the Creator created is what only in this way can I reach bestowal and love and someone else won’t be able to use that unique form to bestow? That is why to reach wholeness each one has to have his own singularity?

R. Yes you’re right.

S. No one else can compliment me if I’m in that.

R. No one, correct.

30. S. (01:09:44) What does it mean, it is very strange when he talks about the two sides of the coin, he described about the two points of development of creation that brings everything to completion. According to what he says there’s no reason to cancel inside of the coin?

R. Of course not. Everything the Creator did, everything that exists in each and everyone of us doesn’t erase any of it. We already learned that you need to only bring through the connection with everyone, you need to bring every quality, every thought, every desire you have to complementarity with everyone else and by this everyone comes to one wholeness, and that wholeness is the Creator that we build.

S. That’s a question: how a coin with two sides can reach completion when there is a contradiction between the two sides?

R. What else?

S. How can you reach this wholeness?

R. Because both cancel themselves and connect to everyone, support each other, then we come to a complete system. We don’t need to create anything, other than understanding connection is above all of us and only this is what we have to reach with all of our negative and positive qualities, never mind. This is the point, just understand the Creator did not create in any of us and in all of us together anything that is redundant. We only need to know how to connect things. But if I take some minus from one side and plus from the other side and I short-circuit them nothing comes out of it, only corruption. So we have to know that we try to connect, we understand, we feel that we can’t and we ask. We ask the Creator to connect us. This is called He who makes peace in His heaven will make peace, complementation between us. This is what we need to do, nothing else. Don’t bring any innovations into this world other than invite connection which the Creator organizes. He sets it up, you only ask.

S. So is this a new kind of connection, something new appears?

R. Yes, the connection is new. It’s as it happened in Adam HaRishon before the breaking but now it is an addition to the deficiencies that we add. This is why it’s called 620 times greater.

31. S. (01:13:04) Baal HaSulam wrote these articles in a time where the Socialist ideas were popular in the world, he was also claimed to be a socialist. What has changed today? People look at life differently and this idea is already bankrupt in the world. How can these ideas somehow be accepted by the international community?

R. Many phases of development, humanity went through many phases of development, slavery wars, all kinds of forms of freedom, revolutions. But in the end we have to see how people are impressed by it and to what extent they are willing to accept the method of connection as the only universal correct method which brings us into mutual complementation. Peace comes from complementarity, from the quality of complementarity.

So it doesn’t matter if there were times when someone had a disposition to socialism, communism or capitalism or feudalism or you name it. It is not about the human development which goes through these stages it is a matter of knowing the evil by which we can come to the right, good state. To what extent each one has to bow himself and agree. Now we come into equal ground. Even today you have the whole world going against this method because it goes against the general ego that is in everyone. But the Creator is showing us, revealing to us such states where we have no choice, but we have to accept the method of mutual responsibility by which we come to peace, to complementarity. It will happen very quickly you will see.

32. S. (01:16:01) It is really wonderous because this was written a long time ago and it’s happening now. I just want to continue the question and see if I understood correctly so we won’t have a short circuit in the system like you said. The singularity is the most important, it annuls the other attributes and it’s the only thing that determines what will be with humanity, is that right?

R. Nothing will happen with humanity. Humanity will make of itself one body, one vessel, one system in which the Creator will be revealed, the one upper force which is our root, the force that created us and we will come to a state where we want it to clothe in us and govern us.

S. That depends on quantity or quality or no?

R. It depends on both, we will learn that.

S. Because it’s happening now. The richest person, the most wealthy person in the world is 29 years old, so is it like …?

R. No, it doesn’t depend on who is rich at all, it has nothing to do with it. How much they donate, no, it depends on consciousness the consciousness of human beings. How much they understand that their connection, not a big donor, what do you get from that? No, it doesn’t come from that. It comes from connection between people who want to achieve Arvut, a reciprocity, a complementarity, mutual aid, and the more internal the more that it needs to be only that.

33. S. (01:18:12) It seems to be peace is above reason and justice is reason. Because injustice that I can see who is right and who is wrong according to my eyes, my will to receive but when I am above myself there is no guilty or there is no one wrong or right and it’s all love. Can we say it this way? Because there is a crisis in Ukraine and Russia and maybe we will have war with Greece and Turkey and whatsoever. But should we relate to this above reason with peace, beyond who or what is right or wrong?

R. We have to see these things in a more general way not how things happen in specific countries, Russia, Ukraine, Greece or Turkey or many others other focal points of a conflict, no. We need to see these things only from within the correction of the world. We will talk about that.

S. About singularity I want to ask because when we try to love one another it’s actually my qualities that I seen the other and I love my qualities. Let’s say when I look at you I see that ,okay, Rav is thinking like me, he is feeling the emotions that I feel. So when I see that I feel close between me and you, so I love myself and my singularity works in order to bestow?

R. In the meantime that’s how it is, but it will change. You will begin to better appreciate what is in the group and not inside of you.

34. S. (01:20:28) When I listen to you speaking about the two sides of the coin I remember sci-fi movies that I watched, that they filled their ships with matter and antimatter and it reaches the light…

R. I can’t hear what you’re talking about, it is very difficult. You should change your microphone and change the frequency to a higher frequency or something.

S. When I heard reading about the two sides of the coin I was reminded of the sci-fi movies I watched where they fill their ships was matter and anti-matter. Can we learn anything from that? Could you add something about it?

R. No, for now I can’t add to this, I don’t have what to add to this. We will talk about that more.

35. S. (01:21:38) What is the connection between the singularity and the ego, I don’t understand?

R. The singularity is the foundation of our ego that man feels himself as the only one who exists in the world and every other one who exists only exists in order to serve his ego. That is the this form of Singularity that exists within us from nature. And where does it come from? He explains to us that it stems from the Creator Himself, that He is the only singular force in the world. And according to the plan of creation a person has to come to identify with the Creator, and that’s why each and every person has this quality of singularity. That I am singular and I don’t know about others but I am unique, and that is something that exists in each and every one.

36. S. (01:22:47) The question about the text. We learned that in spirituality nothing disappears, everything the Creator created was for the good. But here Baal HaSulam says that people use their singularity just to bestow to others and not at all for reception for themselves. So in the corrected world is there a place for such a quality?

R. No, everyone is for the sake of everyone, that’s it.

S. But they say nothing disappears in the world that everything the Creator created…

R. The intention in order to receive is not in use. Because everyone comes to a state where they see how harmful it is and they do not use it. That’s it. What does it mean that don’t use it? It remains in use as the posterior of the upper spiritual Partzuf, as its coarseness.

Reading “The condition of life in the last generation….” (01:24:39)

37. R. (01:25:25) This is something we see very clearly in each and every country. There are always some groups in the population that are in contrast to save the government, right? Therefore until everyone is happy in the well-being of the state, of the nation, a country is fluctuating.

Reading (01:25:58)

38. R. (01:28:10) We are moving towards a state where it becomes clearer and clearer to us that just by our nature we will always be in conflict, hatred, wars, problems. We can’t sit still, we’re like little kids always looking not to play together but how to be against each other, just like our egoistic will to receive forces us to act towards each other. There is a problem here, that the conditions in which we evolve, and especially in our time, these conditions are very, very bad. We as if see in advance that this world the way it is will never come to some state where people live in balance, peace and tranquility, and use the natural resources peacefully and whatever they have they do it all for the benefit of everyone, for the good of each and everyone. Thus we’ll have a good kind of existence, it’s not going to happen like that. Our development by itself will always be bad.

Even though we think we are providing ourselves with more and more fulfillments as it seems in all kinds of egoistic forms, ultimately all in all if we look at all the periods of human history and look at human development in kind of a retrospect from afar, we see that there was never anything with humanity in the world that was actually a positive development. Because everyone only tried to escape from worse troubles to smaller troubles until they grow, and then again and again. That’s essentially human development. It’s not being drawn towards good but it is escaping the bad, not by the positive force that will connect us and bring us to some higher better state, rather also just escaping the bad. And therefore essentially as we advance we use all our kinds of progress and medicine technology, whatever it is, we use all of that in order to corrupt each other’s lives. And that is essentially how we develop. In truth good cannot come from that.

39. S. (01:31:53) So this paragraph , what does it start from? It says to explain to the environment that the world and society are interdependent. What is the base to that explanation?

R. This stems from the general system itself that everyone is included in everyone, we just don’t see it. You can’t come to humanity and say that’s how it is, because they don’t see what you’re trying to explain to them. Therefore what are you trying to say ultimately? You’re trying to say that I want peace, which means a whole state in my country. So what does Baal HaSulam say? He says if you want to actually attain that then you want to bring all the world to that state and then in your country too that whole state will happen. Because the particular and the collective are equal, and we are all interdependent. The more we develop the more we go into that system of mutual guarantee; more and more countries in the world, more portions of society, families and so on to the point that we are all interdependent. So if you want to talk about peace in the world as the article talks about, as the title of it is, it is possible only if each and everyone understands the value of peace and wants to carry it out.

40. S. (01:33:49) He says that the peace of the individual causes the peace of the country, Wha tis wrong with that? All sinome Russia they use it, that the individual causes the peace of the country. If it’s good for the citizen why is it bad?

R. I don’t understand your question.

S. What Baal HaSulam says is that the peace of the individual causes the peace of the state. What is that about it?

R. It’s not bad, it just obligates us. He talks to you about the laws of nature, that is why you can;t say that they are good or bad. It depends how the person uses them, how the human uses them for better or for the worse just like in any natural phenomenon, Everything depends on how we use it in each and every phenomenon.

S. The peace of the individual does it cause quiet and calmness and certain countries Russia as well it doesn’t matter or is it something negative?

R. Of course it’s not negative with your brother needs to understand that the well-being of the collective and they will be end of the individual and interdependence and one obligates the other and if we don’t come to the well-being of the individual there is not going to be the well-being of the hole because the whole depends on the individuals.

S. How do you connect collective and individual?

R. The connection of the individuals brings about the whole.

41. S. (01:35:38) I wanted to ask, we hear a lot of complaints of each one towards everybody. I wanted to ask if it is right before every action I do to constantly include the Creator and every action? To hold that inattention.

R. If you don’t connect the Creator to what you’re doing that’s means you are not doing a complete action that you are not aiming for or intending to build a complete system and make it so that one force works in it and then you are not in the true form of this spiritual system both the spiritual and the corporal. nThat’s why from your actions nothing good can come. That’s what all people of the world are doing. What they’re engaged in the result is almost nothing in the end.

42. S. (01:37:00) On one hand, I’m the corrupted part of the system, on the other hand, the peace in the world depends only on me. How to build myself to not fall to helplessness and pride on the other end?

R. What can make you prideful, I don’t know. The fact you’re part of the system, that is clear, that is still doesn’t give you the power of pride because the fact that everyone else depends on you that is true but for now you are not adding anything to them, so what you can add is only the positive force and then you connect to this society and bring about its connection as much as you can, that is your contribution to the society.

43. S. (01:38:11) It is amazing how in this article Baal HaSulam just points to a few essential issues in humanity and they just encompass everything that it’s hard to add anything. The question is can we depict how our small group can understand it, that a small group can see it and understand that this is how it should be and agree with it? But in the current conditions in the world and socialism, capitalism, that the mixture between them the way we live, is it possible at least on the level of one nation or one state that somebody can understand this and agree with this and aspired to this, or is it a new regime for the next generation and our children?

R. No, if the same Baal HaSulam writes we’re already in the process called last generation, that we are already moving towards the final correction, then we probably should accept it as so because he understands and sees all these matters. And so we have to act as if we are in this process toward the final correction and behave that way towards each other and everyone; and advertise to all of the humanity that what is the form of the connection that needs to be between us in order for us to be to discover the true nature that we are in.

44. S. (01:40:12) What does it mean “to take upon oneself the way of life of the last generation”, what changes are ahead of us?

R. That’s what he writes about, the conditions of life in the last generation which is mutual guarantee, Arvut to the extent that we can each give our shoulder to the other. We can read this a few more times, in general this whole article it’s desired to go back to again and again.

Reading (01:41:14 – 01:43:59) “Pain versus pleasure…”

45. R. (01:44:04) Meaning that it is worthwhile for us even in an intellectual calculation to move from self-serving to serving society because by that we certainly come to higher eternal whole fulfillment. And so even egotistically if we are talking in such an approach to life, it is still worthwhile for us to develop this observation on our egoistic development, and so we will be able to explain that it is actually not in contrast to what Kabbalah says. Kabbalah only explains to us the right form of reception in order to truly receive and not just waste all of our energy and power in dying without any good, correct result. So we should think about it, each and every one should perceive this correctly, that all in all what Kabbalah is presenting us with is guidance on how to properly use our powers in order to take advantage of the whole world for our benefit because ultimately one comes to the final correction of his will to receive and the final fulfillment of his corrected desire. In no other method one can hope for something to actually come out of his effort of his labor.

46. S. (01:46:18) Are we currently in the preparation or the last generation? Because just before you were saying that we are in the last generation and I was feeling that we were still again in the preparation?

R. Yes, yes you are right.

47. S. (01:46:48) We see that, like now in the conflict between two adjacent country so such a depiction arises that as much as the whole world is mutually connected and these financial connections are really accented it was never like this in any conflict, but now what is happening between Russia and Ukraine we see how the whole world is connected. How in this area, this territory, there was an attempt to build a socialist environment but there was no Creator in it. Is there a connection between that and the fact that again through these two countries something is revealed and what can we build as a result of this, what is the future society if there is any connection?

R. The fact that it happens between two countries who are connected in the construction of socialism and all sorts of other attempts to build specific, socialistic, communistic connections between all the members of their society, that is not by chance. If we saw the whole of human development throughout the world and with regard to Russia and the Ukraine we will see that, indeed, big changes are happening in the human species. It is not by chance that these nations are today in a scrutiny and conflict between them. I’m not justifying or blaming any one of them, who am I to do that?

I just think that we have been given an opportunity to learn from these nations and see what is happening in each and every one of us. When I look at the whole world I essentially see my replica, that this is how I am integrated with the whole world. That I am integrated with, let’s say the Russians and Ukrainians, and what can I do about it? And so each and every one must be concerned about how much he internally wants to correct himself and in such a way he will advance also in correcting the world, that is it, that is what I can say. Maybe you want to ask something else, go ahead. If not then next.

48. S. (01:50:20) Good morning everybody, the only thing that remains unclear is that if the Creator did not create.

R. What do you mean, the Creator created all the evil in the world, all of it was created by the Creator as He says, “I created the evil inclination”, the Creator did it. There’s nothing bad in the world besides what the Creator created.

S. I mean that He did not create anything redundant in the world but only in the right combination. Kabbalists that understand the whole system can behave correctly and use it correctly. That these people are a minority from this new generation that will be built according to this, do they I have to understand this system or maybe it will be in certain laws that we can keep so that maybe then we can Implement them?

R. If we decide that we have to get closer to each other because that is how the general system is built and we will activate all of our systems towards getting closer, connecting, helping each other in this mutual form, by that we will cause the world to go back to the system of Adam HaRishon which is its correction, but it goes back to that system of now that the Creator created, Adam HaRishon in a new form where all of the evil that has appeared is now included in the system as well, and then the system by the force of the ego that has joined it, it now becomes much more powerful, greater, that is what we call, ‘620 times more’, more than what it was before.

Now 620 is just a number, it indicates that all of the will to receive is now working in order to bestow, the will to receive that has appears in Adam HaRishon and caused the shattering of Adam HaRishon now as its pieces are coming together again, that intensity of the distance between them and the connection that they now make by our work that we want to connect all of humanity as one that intensity, that power that we will get from our connection will reveal the Creator to us, which was just as a point in the beginning of creation with regards to us or even not sensed at all. And now it will be fully revealed according to how much we can compress together, we can connect together, that is how we reveal Him that He fulfills us without any boundaries. clear?

S. What was I planning to bring this to? Should all humanity have the attainment of the system or will this minority be the ones in attainment of the system and the rest will just do it?

R. It says that “they shall all know me from the least of them to the greatest of them”, meaning the Creator dresses into everyone, meaning fills the heart and mind of each and everyone, everyone, and everyone will as it says “on that day the Lord is one and His name is one”, meaning Him and His name were first to both the Kli being complete and the light that fills the Kli, the 10 Sefirot, is also complete to all. All of us will be interconnected in a single Partzuf, ten Sefirot, all of humanity, all the soul and we will all be filled with the upper light and then from our incorporation of all of us together, the upper light will fill us all equally and then we come to complete equality, complete fulfillment and complete identification and connection, and this is called “the adhesion of the created being with the Creator”.

49. S. (01:55:54) As much as I understand this article, Baal HaSulam writes “that even the egoistic calculations show that actions in Arvut and bestowal are more worthwhile than working in reception for myself”.

R. Yes

S. So that is the way correction will be, that Humanity will see the best thing is to bestow to one another?

R. Yes.

S. Our dissemination could take this as a basis and explain that it is more worthwhile to be a bestower than each one thinking about himself?

R. I do not think it is possible to explain it to each and every person individually but parts and other parts that are bigger parts of humanity accept these things that Arvut is good for everyone because we have no other choice and we must reach a state that if we want to live we have no other choice. We will soon feel more and more, as much as the connection between us gives us a simple way to live to exist, and without this mutual responsibility we will not be able to exist. We will start discovering the correct spiritual connection between us as something essential just like a person feels whether he is healthy or not so when he is connected to the others he will feel that by this he is healthy and can exist, okay?

50. S. (01:58:13) How do we compensate people for investing in bestowal where you don’t feel direct pleasure like in reception?

R. That is something we have to learn.

51. S. (01:58:34) Baal HaSulam writes about a psychological change: does it happen by the light that reforms?

R. A psychological change is that we actually need to understand that these things are very close to us and they are taking place in our desires, and what happens in our desires is psychology.

52. S. (01:59:07) A question from a friend: why does Baal HaSulam write that ‘it is possible to intellectually understand the calculation of pleasure and suffering’, does it not prevent the progress in faith above reason?

R. We need to make a calculation if we continue egotistically, our state will become unbearable.

53. S. (01:59:41) A few questions about the quality of singularity: is it correct to say that the quality of singularity is parallel basically to the will to receive?

R. The measure of singularity is parallel to the will to receive, yes. But it depends on what singularity you are speaking about. You could be speaking about singularity that you can bestow to everyone, that you can help everyone connect, that you are coming closer to a person, that is also singularity. It depends how you use it, that you are the one unique like the Creator.

54. S. (02:00:28) Is there a need to look for this uniqueness and or singularity of each friend and help directed towards connection?

R. Yes.

55. S. (02:00:46) In order to succeed in dissemination, do we need to achieve a clean intention towards others so that the quality of singularity will not grow?

R. Of course yes.

56. S. (02:01:03) How can a person who has everything in terms of his necessities advance the world with his quality of singularity?

R. He uses all of his forces in order to bring himself to such a necessity that only the connection with the others becomes his necessity because by that he discovers his connection with a Creator.

57. S. (02:01:34) Whether concern for others and not for himself in humanity will be activated by force from above or does humanity have to accept it with their own desire and reason?

R. Both, both.

58. S. (02:01:53) Sorry but the connection between nations sounds imaginary today. The strong countries take power over the weaker countries, use their resources and so forth, how will this connection happen?

R. After we recognize the evil, we have recognition of evil that we cannot reach any correct orders of life between us and we cannot escape it. We cannot escape to any other state, then from lack of choice and afterwards from the desire, we’ll bring the connection between us and discover the force of connection. We have no choice you, see eventually it can come to a World War, the third and fourth, that the Creator will obligate us to still reach connection and to express the measure of Arvut correctly. But I think we are coming close, we are advancing to states that are more advanced and we won’t need the wars and the third and the fourth but we will learn from all of these things, the small things.

59. S. (02:03:23) Can we say that the root of all the troubles in the world is the principal that the desire is the source of the intellect and not vice versa?

R. No, our mind does not usurp us, where we usually make the mistake is we do not use our mind but from the desire.

60. S. (02:03:46) When he writes a bit before that we see in the world a small quality of people in bestowal, who is he talking about?

R. About you and people like you that are already thinking, speaking, learning about mutual bestowal and how by developing it you can reach a state where we really bestow to one another; and discover the Creator and the bestowal between us. That will be revealed between us to everyone and through us to all of humanity.

61. S. (02:04:42) The only method for control that humanity knows ‘is divide and conquer’, how will humanity come to the opposite desire to that?

R. We always speak about this, now you are asking? We are always speaking about it, now you’re like waking up and asking, “if the whole world is an egoistic how will he be corrected?” That is what we are discussing.

62. S. (02:05:21) In relation to what Baal HaSulam said about psychology: therefore why pray to the Creator to make a change in me in order to bestow if it is all psychological?

R. Psychology is the inner state of a person, it is not what we understand or not or make all kinds of different forms from it. But psychology’s translation is ‘the knowledge of the interstate of a person’s soul’. So if we are speaking from the wisdom of Kabbalah and from our experience in life in a direct, healthy way, then we can use it, that is what he means by psychology. He calls it ‘materialistic psychology’ meaning that it comes from scrutiny and checking the way we are in nature. We have to go to the women.

63. S. (02:06:58) We read in the article that only actions will push humanity forward, we said so far that the main thing is intention to connect with others, so?

R. The intention is that the spiritual deed is the intention.

64. S. (02:07:22) How does studying and discussing this article can help you understand the process of development and make practical actions with an intention to bestow?

R. When we speak about it between us and want to advance even to just understand or even though implement something from the corrections, by this we bestow upon one another, and it starts working in spirituality. Just understand that in spirituality there are two forces, one is the Creator, the general force, and we are in it as much as we can connect ourselves, even to that connect, already bestow on the system.

65. S. (02:08:15) The world is so dismantled, so far from mutual connection, how to not fall into despair?

R. I would be happy to see the world even more divided, even more despaired, even more in separation and shattering, as much as possible. The more opposite it will be from the final goal, the final state, the corrected one, the better. There will be more and more chances for recognition of evil.

66. S. (02:08:59) From the ten, today people are repelled by interdependence. How will they be thankful of It?

R. When there is a big problem before you, you want to feel you are connected to others, because then you have a feeling of confidence.

67. S. (02:09:28) How can Bnei Baruch help push this transformation of being grateful for the rejection?

R. To the extent that we advance, we will discover that the rejection that comes to us from nature, from the Creator, that is help that awakens us to advance.

68. S. (02:10:00) If the truth is, mine is mine and yours is yours, what is mercy?

R. Mine is mine and yours is yours. it is the egoistic truth. Also in its initial form. because afterward the truth for the ego is, mine is mine and yours is mine. So there is no true form and all of the relationships between people, but only to the extent that we feel ourselves in Arvut, that the Creator dwells between us, then to the extent that we adhere to Him, that we are incorporated in the truth. Before that we cannot determine the truth.

69. S. (02:10:58) What is mercy?

R. Mercy is that everything I have I am willing to give to the others. That is the measure of mercy.

70. S. (02:11:16) Is the evil in human society, does it need to be fully revealed? Most importantly is to reveal the Creator’s Hand behind all that?

R. That is the question, what does it mean the evil that will be entirely revealed? If I am in a society, and I want to connect to them, so I discover the evil in me, in society. In a way that society increases my evil, it increases it. Then I can have revelation of evil in a quick and an easy way.

71. S. (02:12:02) Is what’s important about it is seeing the Hand of the Creator?

R. Yes, that is very important that I can see that in my connection with society, the Creator is then revealed, and wants to speak to me from within society.

72. S. (02:12:26) Why specifically from Arvut we come to mutual completion?

R. Because in the Arvut we want to help each other, we discover the willingness to connect and then, what is in one we want it to clothe in the other, and in this way this mutual way, him in him and him in him, that is called man will help his friend, and then in such a way we reach a state that we all want to be included in everyone.

73. S. (02:13:10) What is the contrast between peace and justice?

R. What is the contradiction between peace and justice? Peace is from reaching a mutual completion through the connection between us. That is why it is the name of the Creator called peace, and the justice is already what appears before peace, that is according to the attribute of judgment that we discover.

74. S. (02:13:51) You used to give a negative example of the development of Israel and then America, and now Russia. What is common to these examples, what is the essence of these negative examples?

R. I get a lot of emails from America, Russia, Israel, France, from all countries. I sometimes speak about them not so nice, or that I criticize, and people don’t really understand that all in all, I never relate in a bad way to anyone, and any nation. That there is no such thing actually. Only the revelation of the evil that is happening in the world now. It is helping us advance. That is why, really I look at everything in a really completely different way than a regular person. In my eyes there is no evil, it is all good because how, with all this evil, how can you discover the Creator? You can’t.

That’s why, all in all. in our attitude toward that evil we turn it into good. And he writes about it, Baal HaSulam. It’s called the recognition of evil. By this we pass the bad into the good. That’s why I do not have any problem with it. Just speak about things. When I speak about the good and the bad, let’s say Russia and Ukraine, I don’t need mean, God forbid, anything about anyone that is good or bad, I’m just saying that the forces of nature, that are clothing in humanity, and the way He wants to teach us, how to come close to Him. That’s actually my attitude towards everything that is happening. That’s it.

75. S. (02:16:45) What allows the right use of the quality of singularity?

R. The quality of singularity, the measure of singularity, it’s something very special, as much as a person feels the singularity he becomes more responsible about his role in the world.

76. S. (02:17:10) What does it mean that my singularity disappears in my connection with others?

R. I don’t think it disappears, but it receives a new form which is more exalted.

77. S. (02:17:32) How do we in tens can make sure that we are built not by the ruin? Is that possible?

R. Yes. We are advancing to states, that with them, we will scrutinize ourselves more and more, and discover ourselves before the Creator.

78. S. (02:18:07) What does it mean that the quality of your singularity settled in our narrow egoism? Does it have to do with the point in the heart?

R. Yes of course, it is all in the point in the heart, that’s where we feel our ego, and as much as we are close to the Creator or opposite of the Creator, the point in the heart is a microprocessor, a spiritual microprocessor, that with it we scrutinize who I am what I am.

79. S. (02:18:47) What is the difference between singularity and egoism?

R. Egoism is nature, the qualities in us and the singularity is that we already feel, from our ego, that we’re special, that we’re unique, that I can’t feel the others and accept them, and bring them closer like I am close to myself.

80. S. (02:19:28) What does it mean to use one’s singularity for the benefit of others?

R. That I start seeing myself that I could serve the others, and by that I am unique.

81. S. (02:19:53) In our efforts to connect and raise a common prayer over this helplessness in connecting, do we bring the Creator to complete influence over us?

R. Yes.

82. S. (02:20:13) I heard you say that in terms of the Creator we are not equal. Why then did the Creator make us this way if it brings so much suffering and damage to the world?

R. Specifically by not being equal we can complete one another, to put together that puzzle between us, and then that same form of the puzzle that we’re putting together, that exactly will be the Creator.

83. S. (02:20:53) We all have different qualities, we imagine the right connection, each one in his own way, so how can we unite in the right way if even the connection itself, we look at it from a different perspective?

R. That specifically gives us an ability to mix and connect, and in this way we can reach the whole state.

84. S. (02:21:30) If we, Bnei Baruch, are drawn to good will then all people in the world be drawn after us?

R. Yes for sure, if we connect between us then for sure that we will awaken our roots, that we are in all nations of the world and we are representatives of those nations, so we will pull them into the connection between us.

85. S. (02:22:06) What is the message and dissemination for the broad public in our time based on this article?

R. The message in this article is, that we, through the Arvut, we reach mutual completion,and by that we bring the whole world to the state of peace. Peace is the general name of the Creator, the upper force, and then we discover Him, reveal Him to everyone.

86. S. (02:22:53) What is the connection between connecting to others and bestowing to others? Why one depends on the other, why you can’t bestow to others without connecting to them?

R. How can you? You have to enter contact with him, you have to incorporate with all his Sefirot, your Sefirot and his Sefirot to complete one another. So how could you do it if you are not incorporated? There is nothing to do.

I think that we also need to end these things here. I I thank everyone, especially the women, and we’ll see you again today.