HESED: TIKKUN CHATZOT תקון חצות – LESSON WITH RAV MICHAEL LAITMAN
Baal HaSulam. Introduction to the Book Panim Meirot uMasbirot, item 11
Morning Lesson July 28, 2022 Transcription
Transcription is made from simultaneous translation which leaves a possibility for differences in the audio
Baal HaSulam. Introduction to the Book Panim Meirot uMasbirot. #11
Item 11 (00:28) According to these words, our eyes have been opened concerning
1. S. (07:00) About those loving faithful people, we gathered here the ten of Almaty and we feel complete emptiness, lack of understanding, we are praying for one another a long time and we cannot feel the greatness of the Creator. What should we do so that each one of us will feel this taste, of the greatness of the Creator and his presence every day in the ten?
R. Only to connect between you and make yourself smaller the way you are towards the Creator nothing else. That is basically what you need to do in practice.
S. We feel the emptiness of one another. We pray for one another. What still has to be there, that demand for the ten that he will always have confidence?
R. If you pray that way you will achieve Arvut and in the vessel of Arvut you can attain everything to the end of connection.
2. S. (08:23) He is actually speaking about the perception of reality here right?
R. So?
S. He says that we have to understand these two conducts before our eyes and nose are opposites in them. That is one question, what opposites is he speaking about?
R. Make sure that all of reality will be sustained and developed and so on and he loves and cares for it and one and on the other hand he develops it by whips and blows.
S. Then he says you do not have the right to exist without suffering first.
R. Yes, that all progress because they are all from the will to receive the advancement by the blows.They will feel bad here, and here, and how to do this and that, that’s the only way they rise.
S. There is no ability to advance without the blows?
R. It depends on how you receive the blows and on what level. If a person is already prepared and one shall help his friend, then they will help each other, learn from each other and then it will be just a little sting, ” ouch”, a person could say and then will correct all of creation like that.
S. What are the blows in spirituality that we talk about?
R. It Is the descents of the will to receive opposites to the Creator.
Continues (10:24) “On the other hand when we were guarding the order of…”
3. S. (11:49) In this period of our spiritual development what depends on us? What is our task in this world?
R. We develop from the will to receive, from literally zero. Then more and more will to receive unfolds and in it we discover and we reveal reality and that is how we evolve. Generation after generation. Meaning stage after stage, different stages until we come to a state where we feel that we can develop in a special way through connection between us. Not connection so as to receive more in order to receive, but so as to attain a desire with an intention to bestow. Meaning our desire remains but we install an intention to bestow and then we begin to grow in intention that is basically our work, in our development.
4. S. (13:41) There is a feeling that there is a double action in our work. You didn’t even have a second to thank the Creator for getting everything to Him to just take everything into the connection without scrutinizing too much.
R. This is incorrect. Everything that we receive we cannot determine whether it is good or bad before we examine the phenomenon, new incident inside of the ten and if it is for the benefit of the ten we continue with it and if it is not for the benefit of the ten, we get rid of it. Okay?
S. How can we check because we still get everything through our vessel of reception?
R. It does not matter, we connect to ourselves whatever new phenomena we have and we see whether they help us hold the ten or more time or intensity towards the Creator or not. as much as we can. We are not commanded to do more than we can and thus we advance.
5. S.(15:53) You said that we can shorten the time of suffering if you only get a small pinch and go on. What does it mean to shorten it and it’s just a pinch and I can advance?
R. About this he writes,‘The fool sits in his own lap and eats his own flesh.’ Meaning we do not need to sit and eat ourselves up. Rather as quickly as possible process each and every state in a practical way, in a purposeful way and that is how it works.
S. I do not understand the answer, how to process it and in what direction exactly?
R. That direction of connection each and every moment I think about the connection between us. If I leave the intention of connection between us my scrutiny is already false and egoistic. Is that understood? If you leave that you’re already out of the ten and not in the right direction and nowhere.
6. S. (17:30) It says in the excerpt if we speak about humanity?
R. It means that the human is the created being with the greatest ego and it is only up to the human to correct himself, only him. He has to correct himself and then, everything that is under him, all the forms of life of still vegatative, animate will also become corrected.
Item 12 (18:32) “ We Discern Two Opposites…”
7. S. (22:46) Is this clear? The excerpts are very juicy, there is a lot in them, is it clear what they say? Otherwise ask, we will clarify and maybe read again, it doesn’t matter as long as you understand a little bit of what is happening here. The way he writes here, he doesn’t write in the same style anywhere else and it should be relatively clear.
8. S. (23:14) How does the spiritual structure of the Partzuf solve the issue of the contradiction in reality?
R. What contradiction?
S. That on one hand sustaining reality is a failure but existing is a success what he describes.
R. By the restriction screen and reflected light. That is how both differentiates and connects.
S. Can you explain how it solves those two opposites in one?
R. The will to receive and the upper light are opposites, by restriction and screen they make connection in the action, where they aim towards connection and to benefit each other, the Creator towards the created being and vise-versa. Me for my beloved and my beloved for me, and that is how they work.
S. What was lacking in the structure that was not in restriction screen and reflected light?
R. We cannot do anything opposite, nothing besides receiving and even in that you cannot receive because there is a prohibition on that.
S. He still writes that the first nine in the Partzuf and Malchut that has nothing, so how is that solved?
R. No, that is in the Partzuf because the Creator already directed the Partzuf to work that way. That there is nine Sefirot and then there is nothing in Malchut, but in order to balance the Malchut with the first nine Sefirot so that it is a vessel of reception for the first nine Sefirot. The Malchut is given an opportunity to rise by reflected light from herself to the first nine Sefirot and build within the first nine Sefirot the influence of the Creator, build her Kli there too, which is the nine Sefirot of reflected light and then the nine Sefirot of direct light connect in the nine Sefirot of reflected light and they come to a coupling in connection and expansion of one inside the other.
S. What does it feel with all the emptiness that was in her?
R. She feels that now she can bestow with all of her might to the Creator and the Creator accordingly can bestow to her and as a result they have adhesion.
S. Where is the emptiness in this state?
R. There is no more emptiness, the emptiness played a role before there was a connection.
S. Why does he write that the two opposites can be in one place?
R. They neutralize each other. You don’t understand?
S. I think that the whole spiritual patent is that they can be in one place.
R. It depends on what opposites you are talking about, the will to receive and the will to bestow. In the will to bestow they can both connect where each actually makes room for the other, so the more they want to bestow to each other they also open their lack for each other. We will think about it more and then talk about it.
9. S. (27:01) If I understood correctly there’s a restriction on Malchut and the first nine and those first nine are neutral until the Malchut can return that light, once it can return the light she instantly sees them as bestowing?
R. Right.
S. Until it happens as long as she did not give the light back, so she and her first nine are opposite to the Creator and are not connected to it. It turns out that everything depends on Malchut and not the first nine?
R. Right, it’s not exactly what you’re saying but that is correct.
10. S. (27:56) In the last excerpt we read that a person starts from smallness and the Sitra Achra, and then the greatness He already builds the intention to bestow and resembles the Creator. What is this process? How do we reach smallnes and greatness to reach equivalence of form with the Creator?
R. Until you have restriction, screen and reflected light you are only filled by a very thin light that sustains you and grows you and develops you in a corporeal fashion. Throughout the generations you advance that way and you absorb various impressions through the corporeal world until you come to a state where you begin to be ready for spiritual development. That’s how it is.
S. See greatness here speaking it out here that we reach the equivalence of form.
R. The greatness that we begin to develop from a point we call it a point and a heart and we need to … And we begin, to our participation and your efforts with the Creator then begin to expand this bestowal between us more and more and more until we begin to grow that way.
11. S. (30:01) He writes that in the restriction a place was made for the Sitra Achra. Can you explain that?
R. No, we will learn that later that is already about the shattering, it is not for now.
12. S. (30:19) I’m not sure that we understood that’s why we are asking you. Is the ten Sefirot of Kedusha opposed to Malchut which is only a reception? Then there is no possibility of uniting them. Is this right?
R. By restriction, screen, and reflected light Malchut connects to the first nine Sefirot and then they become ten Sefirot, a Partzuf
13. S. (31:59) You mentioned that he writes that two opposites cannot be in one topic unless there is an additional cause, so who is that additional cause, if it is impossible?
R. I don’t understand, where is that?
S. It is impossible for two opposites to be in one place unless there is an extra cause that will be involved?
R. Yes there has to be something in between them, between them because one is receiving and the other one is bestowing, they are two opposites. They need to reach a state where they are both bestowing to each other.
S. The Creator isn’t there in the middle?
R. Involved, but he is bestowing, so what is involved?
S. But I can obligate Him to do the work between the two opposites?
R. He can’t do the work in two opposites. You have to be one of them.
S. Then how will we be involved?
R. He follows your request.
S. I see, thank you.
Reading (32:24) This is the Meaning of the Existence of time…
14. S. (33:19) Is it right to approach this in a way that the right connection is a source of the right intention?
R. It is the opposite. The right connection comes out of the right intention and not that the right intention is a result of the right connection. Okay?