KETER: TIKKUN CHATZOT תקון חצות – LESSON WITH RAV MICHAEL LAITMAN
Baal HaSulam. Introduction to the Book Panim Meirot uMasbirot, item 20
Morning Lesson August 04, 2022 Transcription
Transcription is made from simultaneous translation which leaves a possibility for differences in the audio
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Baal HaSulam. Introduction to the Book Panim Meirot uMasbirot. #20
1. R. (00:21) Let’s continue. Maybe we don’t remember that much about what he is talking about. Here he starts the results of these two corruptions that come from the serpent, but maybe you don’t remember. Let’s get to know it. The first time we can read it and just to listen.
Reading item 20 (0:49) “As a result of these two corruptions, man’s body was.…”
2. S. (08:47) I have two questions. One is about the analogy of the human body which is a result of the tree of knowledge. The sin of the human body, what is that about?
R. I think everybody understands what it is about, all the waste that comes out of the human body from each and everyone not just from the humans that even those still, vegetative and animated that live and the physical, egoistic, small in to receive in the degree of our world. So some things it cannot correct in spirituality and accordingly he also has that same things that are parallel in corporeality. That is why from each and every one from his body all kinds of waste comes out the feces and urine and sweat, in each and everything we lose parts of the body, our skin, our parts are falling all the time, new skin grows from the internal parts of our body also they also have they always have to renew.
They come out of us, also all those parts that are already dead are extracted when they are no longer in use, that is clear. This is how it is with Earth and the entire universe and whatever. Whatever is in order to receive more over in man which is the most egoistic of them all, he also has ego about the thoughts, intention. That is why in man there is more waste than everything else and all of his life he has to care about how he is holding himself with bringing the waste out of him. Whereas when we reach the complete correction accordingly we will merit discovering that our body changes and as we rise above ourselves, everyone with our bodies to the world of Atzilut, there, there is no waste.
S. So why does the created being receive as it is said the body gets luxuries?
R. The meaning we can get everything that we get for correction.
3. S. (13:00) Why is the sin of the tree of knowledge, the revelation of the will to receive?
R. This is clear, that the Creator needs, if he wants the created being not in the way of the still, vegetative and animate which is like a game when they’re in by their own desires and are not aware and cannot change themselves. That is why there is no judgment here, neither for better or worse so you have to create someone that will be like the verse says they will be as God, knowing good and evil, and here we are talking about the human species.
Even the human species until it develops from the Adam that start to develop, wherever he’s start to develop, until he reaches our degrees and we have all the levels of the will to receive in order to receive and by that we can really correct ourselves and the entire creation below us when we are incorporating still, vegetative, and animate in the world. In the connection between us we really incorporate the whole world and we discover all the forces of nature that act in our world that we do not yet attain but we will discover and we will attain and then we will be able to correct the degrees in which we are.
4. S. (15:14) What does it mean to have the freedom of the environment, the freedom of the choice of the environment?
R. It is when we can, in each and every moment, we can be either a human or a beast. It is very simple.
S. Does that mean that I have that responsibility?
R. Yes, of course. Not everyone but the ones that receive the point in the heart and then they have a connection to a high degree and they have a choice, either to remain as a beast in his degree or to rise as man to a higher degree and that is how it is each and every time. When he walks from one thing into another.
S. Does it mean that if I make a decision and the decision takes me through the Sitra Achra that was my decision right?
R. That is already a question that we will have to scrutinize apart. If you take a decision, it is seemingly your decision.
5. S. (17:00) In part of the Kabbalistic writings it says that the soul, the vessel has sinned just before the Shabbat which is a considered a present that was given the Mount Sinai, meaning that that once we enter the state of revelation then we will understand different degrees what the soul can receive or understand at that moment?
R. Yes.
6. S. (18:05) It says here that all of the surplus turns into waste, that the body needs to emit, how does it emit and make all the surplus?
R. He brings them out from this degree to a lower one.
S. I also wanted to ask, how to differentiate between what you really need, your basic needs and surplus, what is redundant?
R. That is something you have to scrutinize, you have to scrutinize what is necessary and what is not necessary in each and every moment.
7. S. (18:55) Baal HaSulam writes and now we merit to know these two contradicting behaviors and then he adds that self-reception is the opposite of Holiness and we need to pray Etc, what is he talking about here?
R. Can you ask in your words?
S. He says that there is Holiness and there is the impurity and that we need to pray not to receive that which is surplus in life, so need to start canceling all of those things?
R. No, what you need in order to attain the goal, the goal of life, that you need to receive from life but whatever you do not need in order to attain the goal of life do not use it because it simply takes time and strength from you.
S. It is forbidden to enjoy in this world. What can we and can’t we enjoy in this world?
R. That is a different question, please do not jump from one question to another.
S. He talks about the treats that is forbidden.
R. Whatever is related to the purpose of the attainment of the purpose of life you are allowed to and able to use it.
S. All of it without restricting anything?
R. For the attainment of the purpose of life I told you, that means it already incorporates the ability and the duty of a person to use whatever he takes correctly and works with it, he establishes it before him.
S. Are there things in this world that I am forbidden to do?
R. If you want to attain the purpose of life then accordingly you measure what is allowed and what is not.
S. But I know what that is?
R. Well if you do not know just go home and sleep and that is it.
S. Is there a certain formula to it?
R. Yes we are learning that. What is good in order to connect with a friend and through them to connect with the Creator, that is the condition from love of others to the love of the Creator. That you first of all have to do it in the ten and with the Creator.
S. And what about life itself, suppose I want to go someplace, do something?
R. For the rest of your life you live in them necessarily to keep your connection in the ten and with the Creator, that’s it.
S. But I’m allowed to enjoy life, right?
R. That isn’t written anywhere, your pleasure should not be in your life but in the vessel you prepare.
S. It kind of complicates life?
R. I’m not complicating anything for you, it is the opposite. I am putting your life inside clear limits and boundaries so that you do not need to make it complicated anymore.
S. Yesterday you said that you told someone, do not watch, TV do not watch the news, it startled me. My question is what am I allowed to do and what am I not allowed to do, to what extent?
R. Look I am not dictating to you what to do but I have not seen on TV, throughout my whole life, sometimes I do look there, I’ve hardly seen anything good. Sometimes there are such programs about science and not even that, usually it is on the internet,those who know where to search for it they find it, but on TV, what do you have on TV?
S. There is news, things in the world.
R. In order to confuse us and fill our minds with all of the waste.
S. So I have to be cautious?
R. Not be cautious just to cut off, what do you get for it?
8. S. (24:05) What I don’t understand, what is the surplus, is at the Sitra Achra?
R. The surplus means it is not necessary for the goal. All kinds of different types.
S. So what do they exist for?
R. In order for you to sort them and take for yourself only those things with which you can advance and throughout the degrees you can see how much there is no surplus but how you can use each and everything but not now.
S. Eventually are they canceled?
R. No, you will use everything, you will start to see that the Creator did not create anything redundant as he says you have done no more and no less or rather he created everything to the point because it is needed for the attainment of the goal but not on our degrees. We do not know how to use them.
9. S. (25:08) Does this mean that for sure the Creator will give you everything that you need in corporeality in order to reach the goal?
R. Yes.
S. If so then why are there friends, they are not married, they don’t have a family, they are ill and don’t have their basic needs.
R. This all depends on how a person arranges it for himself.
S. So I need to think that the Creator will give it to me all for sure?
R. He will give it to you if you will enter the right society that can support you. You have to enter a religious Orthodox society and participate there in everything that you have and then you will see how much you get along there. I’m telling you this before everyone.
S. I’m sorry, I didn’t understand.
R. That is it we have nothing more to talk about, it is a saame to look at you year after year and you’re not organized.
10. S. (26:37) You said that man does not need to enjoy our world but the upper spiritual lights and here Bal HaaSullam writes at the end of item 20 that one needs to pray for the pleasures of Heaven not to enter his body. What is that?
R. We will reach such pleasures and then we will be concerned about it. I have nothing to say.
S. I mean for starters, you simply need to feel these lights and only then we will somehow know how to receive them?
R. A person should ultimately reach a state where he is sorting, what he can use in order to bestow to the Creator out of everything that he has before him all different kinds of pleasure, food, sex, family, money, honor, knowledge and what he cannot use in order to bestow through the friends to the Creator and if he cannot, then he does not use it and that is it, very simple.
S.. Here we are not talking about these pleasures but the higher, upper pleasures.
R. It does not matter if I receive from someone, pleasure with food, family, sex, money honor, knowledge or with spiritual pleasures, what is the difference? Pleasure is pleasure, the question is only with which intention, with which connection to the Creator I feel it.
S. For example I am with the friends we are connecting at some meeting or a lesson. I can enjoy the action itself but how to correctly relate to the friends?
R. That is the problem, how can I relate correctly to the friends when I connect together with meetings virtual or physical, so how do I connect with them and how do I raise this connection with the level of connection with the Creator, so this is what it is all about and therefore it does not matter what we are engaging in or rather what is important is the intention.