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

Baal HaSulam. The Peace

Morning Lesson June 9, 2022 Transcription

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

Baal HaSulam. The Peace (00:28) (The Wheel of Transformation of the Form. start with: “Thus, one must wonder, who would compel”)

1. R. (03:45 ) Meaning that we cannot achieve any correction if we do not perceive the corruption and try to rise above it, correct it, feel that we are incapable on our own turn to the Creator and then the Creator corrects. In small corruption’s we do not need to turn to the Creator we cannot yet we are not yet in such development that we turn to him but rather it is even sufficient for us just to suffer and the suffering itself corrects. However, meaning it directs us to the correct things but in spiritual development when we are already in spiritual development it is insufficient for us we do not need to suffer, we just need to recognize that the Creator is not with us, how much we are not aim to him and therefore the recognition of the Creator is required and thus we advance.

2. S. (04:53) What does it mean that the Creator corrects as a result of our prayer?

R. All in all, he shines a bit more with his light and then we see the world differently and then we can connect between us and thus we advance to good. All of the states that we need to advance are already ahead of us. We are just not seeing them and therefore by Him shining on us that unlocks another stage and another stage for us and that is how we advance.

S. What’s Baal HaSulam writing here is that the Creator lends, He lends all of the pleasures that a person feels?

R. What does it matter to us? There are details here that have to do with our inter connection and connection with family and a thousand different things I cannot tell you. It also does not matter to me. What he gives and what he doesn’t give. What matters to me is how I aim the states that I am in towards the Creator towards the final correction.

S. That is exactly the question, I mean to aim myself to bestow to the Creator, to pay that loan so that it is on all that is revealed to a person? Everything invited by the Creator?

R. Basically yes, but mostly what I need is solving all the problems through connection between people and also connection doesn’t need to be with everyone only in the Ten

R. 3. S. (07:01) The corruption that is revealed in the ten and outside of the ten, small,big, you said the small ones, you just need to suffer and not ask for it to be corrected by suffering. What corruption are we speaking about? What is Baal HaSulam talking about?

R. The main thing are those problems that appear in connection between people, connection between the friends and the ten because the ten is essentially the model of the whole of humanity. If inside my ten I try to bring everyone towards connection then through my ten I bring about the same form of the whole of humanity. Now it is not that I am going to see exactly one opposite the other how we organize ourselves and the whole of humanity has organized but certainly this is how we nevertheless influence the forces of nature.

4. S. (08:26) How can we determine if it is a small or large crushing?

R. That is not something that we can understand right now. It is only when we are in the systems of how much I am working with the will to receive of the group in connection with screen and coarseness, then I can really tell where we are based on the degrees that we attain.

5. S. (09:00) Baal HaSulam writes that the store is open and the shopkeeper isn’t there and a person does not take whatever he wants but he doesn’t pay but in this world a person pays for every pleasure even a heavy price.

R. I do not understand your question.

S. What does it mean that the store is open and we just take?

R. No, no of course in our world and and spirituality you’re going to have to pay but it seems to you that everything is open and you can take the whole world that is in front of you, it seems to you that way but each and everything you must pay for both in this world even though I don’t know, let us say that everything is open to you the whole world there is no one there and you just are like a kid in a candy store there is no one there you can take whatever you want. There is no such thing in reality. No one has anything of that sort, no animal, no one it is all one single system and everything is nevertheless paid for because it is a single closed system that brings itself this way to the final correction but it appears to the person as if everything exists in just a way that why would I not take?

Why should I not just take and that is the whole issue. That is where the wisdom of Kabbalah comes in and explains that there is no such thing at all. Nothing is given for free. Everything needs to be paid for. The general payment ultimately you will know that it is by restriction, screen, and reflected light over the person’s will to receive and then he comes to a state where he transcends the laws of nature by the force of bestowal that he acquires and then this way he arrives at the degree of the Creator and then he has everything for free. Why free? Because you have restrictions, screen over all of your coarseness, will to receive, and then you only want to give, and there is no limitation over that.This is called, ‘I saw an opposite world and upside down world in the spiritual world you are free.

6. S. (11:51) Baal HaSulam says that every good state is a result of the previous bad state. On the other hand, you say that we do not need to suffer in this process or how can you explain this? That without the blows you cannot advance?

R. If we understood how the laws of the world arrange us we would keep them then, and we would not suffer, we would not suffer. Our whole effort in our life is to know the laws of the world and carry them out, to keep them, to not suffer and even take advantage of them to our benefit. That is how we develop science and everything that we build is only to take advantage of the laws of nature to our advantage.

S. But if I’m not doing bad to anyone why should I get blows, I do not get it?

R. Even if you do not do anything you will do harm to everyone because you are not participating in the system that you are still a small component in.

S. What does it mean not to do bad to the friend and participate? What do you mean?

R. The thing is that between yourselves or building a society that wants to resemble the Creator and only in such a way, based on the law of equivalence of form, you then discover your society the upper light, the upper bestowal.

S. What you are saying is that even if you do not come to the morning lessons and the zoom, you are not doing your work and you are bringing trouble to yourself?

R. Of course. of course. of course.

S. Why of course?

R. Because you are not in the final correction. Where you are already interconnected with everyone and carrying out the law of Arvut, you are not there.

S. If I do not come to the morning lesson I am pulling trouble on myself?

R. Of course.

S. People do not know it.

R. People don’t know because people are not obligated to do that, it just depends on each and every one’s development. We are all on different levels. If I do not carry out something that depends on who I am, is my soul already reach a state where it has to take care of its correction through connection with other souls or not yet. Maybe it is still maturing, ripening and in some state. That depends on the ladder, where’s my soul on it?

S. So you are right, you said in the beginning of the lesson that the more we advance the last we suffer and now I clothe this correctly, if you participate in the lesson, come to the zoom, events in Bnei Baruch so we are actually lowering the suffering from ourselves?

R. That is right.

7. S. (15:31) Are we going to pay with the right connection that we will build between us for the deferred payment. Can you explain it more?

R. Again.

S. Are we going to pay with the right connection that we will build between us for the deferred payment, can you explain it more?

R. That is right, in the connection between us we have to rise above our egoistic personal will to receive of each and everyone and rise above the mutual rejection between us that is two, and do that, that is the main thing and do it for the sake of making room for the Creator to be revealed and fulfill in order to bring him contentment if we follow these actions by that we are truly paying for our good state of correction in a complete and correct way.

8. S. (16:57) On one hand if we build a screen and reflected light so everything is free, meaning that I take the minimum of what I need on the other, hand the more actions

R. I do not know what you were saying. What do you mean that you are buying and that you buy, I don’t understand. I know just one thing, there is a will to receive if I bring to that will receive a correction so that I use it only in order to bestow it to the host. Then to the extent that my will to receive, receives that it will not be reception it will be bestowal, it is not that I buy something in the shop and I then receive something and pay with money. It is a little bit different, just understand that my intention is not to receive and fulfill myself although I am paying just like in the shop in our world. My intention is to give it to the host. The fact that I receive is just also I’m receiving because otherwise I cannot give to Him, if I do not receive from Him then how will I give to Him? He will not feel that I am giving Him because his pleasure is when I receive, my pleasure is when I give.

9. S. (18:50) Theoretically can we just not take anything?

R. If you don’t take anything then how will you bring Him pleasure? You have to give Him pleasure. His pleasure is that you receive.

Reader continues: (19:20) “Indeed these values of good and bad…”

10. R. (21:30) Meaning that we cannot come to anything good if the bad does not appear first and we can actually feel it, it is not that there is a commandment to suffer, it is not that we have to feel all of the bad in a way that it is revealed in full intensity and extent but to some extent we do have to feel the state as bad and then just a sting it could be enough. It is like a wise person who sees just a hint and that is enough for him. He already moves away from that state and for a fool you can beat him up and still he does not get it. That is how we are. The wiser we get the more we learn the more we can identify these things very fast in our life and advance towards good.

Reader continues: (22:36) “Meaning that all of the exposed evils…”

11. S. (24:11) So eventually we have to build a state that is stable to reach some stable place where there will be equivalence, where we can show or reach equivalence of qualities with a giver and give him contentment?

R. Certainly until we have the opportunity to build the state we have to continue to incarnate until we do.

12. S. (24:53) So the calculation is general and there is no private calculation?

R. There is a calculation for each and every one, for each and everything if it is with regards to our but if it is an individual person, he just has a state where he flows with a general current even though each and everyone does have his own unique point.

S. A person that wants to be wise and understand that the evil deeds are forcing him to change himself so he has to wait for some general calculation to come for him to change or can he just understand it from his evil states?

R. From his bad state he cannot understand much because the whole process is in it connecting himself to the public and from the public he understands what he needs to do. How can an individual person in this world understand something that has to do with the essence of creation itself if it all has to be realized in a great whole.

S. So if you can summarize the picture, how does the decision take place towards the individual or the collective?

R. We will wait for the end of the article.

S. Because he says that the right hands are all the evil that accumulates to a sum that the public could not remain in. Meaning that even if an individual comes to horrible suffering from his ego and he understands that it is not worth using his ego, it will not help him.

R. It will not help him, it will not help him of course, that is why this state is called the final correction which is general for all the whole of humanity.

S. What is it in the tens that you said before that in the ten we have?

R. Because of the ten we determine laws and relationships similar to all of humanity and the final correction. We cannot achieve that in actual practice but to some extent between us when we discover that in the spiritual form that is possible. In the final correction everyone attains it both in actions of connection including in a corporeal level.

S. We in the ten can reach some kind of agreement that this calculation happens quickly before everyone?

R. What are we doing it for? In order to achieve corrections right now, in our time and our state to show the whole world that it is possible. In the final correction, this whole world rises to a spiritual degree. We begin to feel through this world the spiritual laws because everyone comes to a state. I am talking about human beings in this world coming to a state where they are willing to be in mutual bestowal and then it turns out that that is how they are willing to coexist. Okay?

13. S.(28:34) What changes between every round when the book gets filled?

R. Everything is moved to a new account.

S. How does one Incarnation differ from the other?

R. You mean between incarnations?

S. Yes.

R. The times and conditions are changing. The conditions are changing. Meaning the same states where individual Kabbalists exist, or groups of Kabbalists, they change. Look at how the situations in our time today are different from Kabbalists who lived one hundred or two hundred or a thousand years ago or two thousand years ago and so forth, very different times with regards to the people who want to attain the upper force, it is a very different state.

S. And the rest of humanity?

R. The rest of humanity does not understand where it is because they do not measure themselves towards the final correction. They measure themselves towards what they have in their pocket or not. That is it. How to bring joy to their beastly desires and that’s how they measure themselves.

14. S. (30:05) The process he is describing of developing through states that become unbearable and then you move to the next state. Is that also all of humanity?

R. Yes of course, that is how it is on a small scale so to speak but that is how all of humanity advances . Otherwise what are the changes you see in human beings even in their personal lives.

S. But in this way to understand humanities development?

R. Only by the blows. Yes.

S. Now we see that there is suffering and there is an accumulation of suffering so what is the next state that humanity has to reach, not Maltikkun, the next close state?

R. That it will come to a state where it decides we cannot continue to move forward this way, to live this way if we have to change something and then bit by bit from the troubles that will increase, they understand that we must change relationships between people without that we will continue to suffer. We are in such a stage where we have everything. We can do everything from nothing to infinity. We can ruin everything or turn this place to heaven or Earth. We really can. The only problem is the relationship between people, the connection between people and so then we have to move ourselves away from technology, science and culture and everything and just focus on changing the relationship between people, the connection between people. If we do that, then our whole life will change and we will learn and use all of the natural resources and Science and Technology and everything we have for the benefit of people.

That is what we are lacking. Just taking care of the people and then according to that inclination they will come closer to us, closer to the Kabbalists and they will understand what we are talking about. That we really do have to bring people together, closer to being as one man and one heart, work as much as possible on connection between people and how to do it? By the tens, by the method that we are using, by connecting to each other in the correct way, we can use the positive force that lies in nature because when we are separated from each other we perceive only the negative force in nature. The positive appears only on the condition that we recognize that negativity between us. Then it turns out that we are in a transition phase and humanities still needs to suffer, Baal HaSulam says that even in the third or fourth world war that we are in such states to recognize evil and that there is no choice but to achieve connection and how to do that then they will see that we are talking about that point.

S. There’s a billion people when you say this expression where humanity needs to decide what do you mean is it quantity at a critical mass?

R. It is a spirit that everyone can more or less recognize that this is about the correction of human relationships and because we are going through such states called world wars that we are in conflict with each other we can also see that everything depends on connection and mutual complementation of each other. That is it.