HOD: TIKKUN CHATZOT תקון חצות – LESSON WITH RAV MICHAEL LAITMAN
Baal HaSulam. A Handmaid Who Is Heir to Her Mistress
Morning Lesson August 21, 2022 Transcription
Transcription is made from simultaneous translation which leaves a possibility for differences in the audio
Baal HaSulam. A Handmaid Who Is Heir to Her Mistress (The Externality Are the Nations of the World)
Reading (00:25) A Handmaid Who Is Heir to Her Mistress (The Externality Are the Nations of the World) “The branch that extends from the externality…”
1. R. (01:06) We know that the structure includes GE end AHP both in spirituality and in corporeality, GE is a small part designed only to connect to the AHP to the upper degree and correct mostly the GE and the AHP joins the GE and the entire degree enters the complete correction. Therefore Israel needs to be, to function as the GE with vessels of bestowal and later the nations of the world will join them as vessels of reception and they make the correction together. What else to say here? Of course, we see it in history, first Israel has to reveal the method of correction and be in it and later the nations of the world above the correction itself.
Of course the correction that is made by the nations of the world is greater because Israel is only the connector or the adapter between the nations of the world and the Creator and therefore the entire main work is the correction of the AHP through the GE because the AHP has to correct because the purpose of the creation is the correction of the AHP. For it to connect as the correct vessel of the upper light and the GE and Israel are only in order to make that linkage correctly. To draw the lights into the AHP and the AHP to receive in order to bestow and that’s what you can say here.
2. S. (03:44) Can the AHP awaken without any awakening from the GE?
R. No, they cannot,we also see it in history, this cannot be.
S. There’s no possibility, that somehow they will awaken the GE?
R. I don’t understand, speak word by word.
S. Can the GE awaken, if they don’t awaken, can the AHP come to a correction without the GE?
R. Of course not. The AHP cannot unless they are connected to the upper light and can only happen through the GE, you don’t understand the structure of the ten Sefirot.
R. Of course not when AHP cannot make any connections.
3. S. (05:07) Disseminate the wisdom of Kabbalah, does this mean to connect GE to AHP?
R. Also yes, all of those are already in the wisdom of Kabbalah, they are called GE and those who are not, can be called AHP.
S. Whatever we are disseminating, does that mean that we are making a correction or that we are preparing the place for the reception of the correction?
R. We are preparing the place for receiving the correction although it is a big part of the correction itself.
4. S. (06:07) You said that GE, they need to bring the light to AHP?
R. When AHP joins GE, they gradually turn the relationship between them to connection, to the extent of the connection, there is a common meeting of the striking and from GE the light passes down to AHP.
5. S. (06:44) Do the AHP need to form some kind of intention for why they are connecting?
R. AHP cannot build an intention. Simply to the extent that it grows, it is like a ripe fruit that is ready to connect to GE to begin to receive from there certain illuminations, certain things and then nurse itself on it and grow more and more until it begins to connect by its own strength of GE and reach a mutual connection and then you have 10 Sefirot. We need to understand that the main thing here is the AHP from the point of correction, of course GE are responsible, they are the ones that carry out the correction because they are connected to the upper light. As far as what has to be corrected it is the AHP, if not for the AHP then you need nothing. GE doesn’t really need to be corrected. They were from the beginning only vessels of Hassidim. It is clear, yes?
6. S. (08:18) You said that the correction AHP is the connection to the right Kli. What is this right Kli when you say that we have to connect it to the right Kli?
R. The right Kli, I don’t know what I meant back then, but the connection of GE and AHP to ten complete Sefirot, the Partzuf of Adam HaRishon.
S. Afterward you said that we had to bring down this light to AHP, are you saying that we need to do that? Do we even have the possibility or chance to do that to reach this right Kli?
R. We intend to reach that and we work in that direction, we disseminate the wisdom of connection throughout the entire world, the wisdom of Kabbalah, and we talk about how we all need to connect, we all need to work together in order to draw the reforming light because GE will not be able to draw the reforming light, GE will not be able to do it for the AHP unless the AHP joins its deficiency.
Then the deficiency of the AHP to the deficiency of GE to bestow to the AHP and the efficiency of the AHP to receive the light of correction and connection and fulfillment from GE, all the deficiencies together have to rise to the upper one, to the Creator. The light comes and gradually correct the connections between GE and AHP, and make GE more dedicated to bestow to the AHP in the qualities that it needs to bestow to the AHP, and the AHP that will join the GE will be better organized and in this way will reach a state where the entire vessel will be corrected together and reach the complete correction.
S. Meaning the process exists, it already happened right?
R. The process is already underway, yes.
7. S. (10:52) Who is this handmade that works for the mistress, it’s the nations of the world that work for correction?
R. The handmaiden that helps her mistress reach the appropriate correction is really the GE who help the AHP correct Itself by establishing this bridge between the Creator and all the nations of the world. All of the vessels, the true vessels, the harsh vessels, the true egoistic vessels are in the nations of the world, in Israel are vessels of bestowal, so they need to reveal themselves as a conduit from the Creator to the nations of the world. Those who are drawn to it are called Israel. It is not according to how he was born but according to the inclination of his heart, and in this way we reach the complete correction.
8. S. (12:28) The nations of the world, they are qualities that we need to correct?
R. The nations of the world are the greatest desire to receive, that is in the general vessel of Adam HaRishon, the AHP as we learned about it. The GE from the vessel of Adam HaRishon, are desires that are in bestowal, that is why they are called Israel. That is how they are organized.
9. S. (13:24) When the nations of the world receive, let’s say the dominion from their root, let’s say from the upper root, how could it be that they destroy the virtues in the children of Israel and they cause suffering in the world, can you explain that?
R. Because they are opposite to one another, the desires of the nations of the world are only vessels of reception. The desires in Israel are both vessels of reception, so they will have the ability to connect with the AHP, and also vessels of bestowal, so it will have the opportunity of connecting with the light, with the Creator. That is why they are in the middle, Israel, facing both ways.
S. What is this upper root then which is influencing the nations of the world, how could it cause suffering if it comes from the true upper root?
R. No, it comes from the ego that the Creator created, later comes from the shattering of the vessel of Adam HaRishon, where everything was intermixed, both GE and AHP. The shattering in Adam HaRishon not only separates between GE and AHP, but rather inside GE and inside AHP and between them, everything gets mixed up, everything becomes such a mix that it necessitates the action of scrutiny and selection and only later the corrections and the reception of the light in order to bestow. There are many stages here.
10. S. (15:31) Can you say that this global prayer that our friends are undergoing two times a day, this is called that the AHP are coming closer to the GE, is that some kind of connection between us?
R. Maybe there is something in it but the main thing, the main correction is through dissemination. It is to disseminate the method of correction that comes from the connection between people, although it seems sounds Marxist, Communist, it sounds in this way, but what can you do? There’s nothing you can do, this is the call of the time, and that is why it started with Marx, and even before him there were these Utopians who wrote about it, but that’s how it is. We need to explain to everyone and perhaps to ourselves first, that to the connection between people, like it or not, this is the form of correction, the future form of humanity.
11. S. (17:08) Can you tell us what the difference is between my personal ten and the Creator that the ten has revealed mutually between us, what is the difference?
R. Of course there is always a difference between the appearance of the Creator in each and every degree. The source, which is Him, we do not even ascribe any words because every word is a restriction, a limitation, but when we say about the Creator, Him, we want to say that it is the upper force that is revealed relative to us as a force of bestowal and it fills all of reality and all of reality is in it, He is the place of all of reality. That is it, that is how we relate to Him.
12. S. (18:15) The connection between GE and AHP, it needs to be both ways, meaning we are impressed by their deficiencies and raise them to the Creator, and then also they need to receive something from us?
R. Of course GE and AHP complement each other, AHP joins GE and gives it its power, the will to receive, and GE that joins AHP, pass to the AHP the ability to work with vessels of bestowal, which they lack. Then this mutual form, the mutual connection will connect in such a way that they will receive in their complete form, in their 10 Sefirot, the upper light, revelation of the Creator fully.
S. If they receive from us some kind of understanding about what their purpose is, what their goal is, how can their representatives from the AHP, how can stay the AHP, that they by themselves understand this whole process that they are undergoing?
R. Why? On the contrary if I have big vessels of reception because I’m the AHP and as AHP, the greater I am, the heavier I am, the coarser I am, then I can work on myself in order to bestow and cause the revelation of the upper light in a greater manner. He who is greater than his friend, his inclination is greater. To the extent that you understand what is happening, you won’t want to change places with another, you will just want to see yourself as helping and supporting one another.
13. S. (20:30) It is written that the nations of the world, they are the ones that are giving these qualities to Israel, how can we ruin those qualities?
R. When the nations of the world resist Israel, they help Israel spread out. Because Israel does not have great forces, they are GE after all, so by entering, penetrating Israel and truly blowing it up and confusing them, mixing them up, by that they help Israel be in each and every part, every individual part of the AHP, the nations of the world, to incorporate in each and every individual part of the AHP and to help each of those individual parts to correct itself. And then in this way it works, it swallowed it and then it will vomit it out, we will learn about it.
S. Can you narrow that down a little bit? So it is the will to receive that disturbs us on the spiritual path?
R. Yes they arrange and they amplify the forces, because again, Israel is something tiny compared to the nations of the world, it is like a tiny grain that is connected to the Creator on the one side, and the nations of the world on the other side, so the addition of the will to bestow that exists in Israel, comes to him because the nations of the world add to them, on the one hand and to that extent they need the Creator to add to them and that’s how they grow. And that is it, ultimately the correction, the entire correction has to take place in the nations of the world.
Reading “A slave and a handmaid” (23:16) “The upper roots called externality..”
14. R. (23:54) We need to see the form of our work for the time being, let’s read it again.
Reading “A slave and a handmaid” again
16. R. (24:42) Meaning that we should not look we should not look at the external form of the nations of the world and of Israel, that are seemingly performing good or bad actions, correct or incorrect actions, everything comes to them and awakens them from the nature of creation, and there are true actions, it is like he says, that they do not intend to harm at all as it may seem a superficial observation, instead they serve the internality like a slave and a handmaid serve their master. Meaning they have to be revealed to us how much they, all of those good actions, or bad actions of nations of the world that worked on each other and on Israel or the other way around, how all of those things were necessary, all of those actions, so that every nation and every part certainly the GE, Israel and the AHP, the nations of the world, will all reach their true work.
17. S. (26:35) A question that we are really asking in the world, why do we see that all of the people we blame and then they ruin our lives, and in the end we say, no it’s only according to the I that we see it like that, why do we say that?
R. Because what we see in our will to receive, if you rise to the will to bestow, you will see a different world, I’ve seen an upside down world.
S. Meaning that all of our work is to invert it to the way that it should be?
R. Yes. Let’s continue.
Reading (27:11) “The externality rule when Israel do not demand in their work..”
18. R. (29:01) Meaning the control of the externality is because Israel did not demand depth in their work, those who have the tendency for the Creator, can not try to reach adhesion to the Creator so much because they are connected to the AHP and the AHP grab onto their legs and do not let them rise, on the one hand, that is what has been going on for all of history, throughout all of correction for us, we call it history, but eventually it is also for the correction because that is how it is happening in reality, it works out later that from this intermingling, because one is holding on to the other, they reach the correction together, that they see without Israel they cannot reach the light and without AHP they can also not reach the light, it has to be here somewhere in the middle, a transition, a conduit which is Israel, a transition between the nations of the world.
19. S. (30:22) What does it mean when he says that a person God forbid says all of the evil revelations
R. The will to receive, but in the end it is more or less the same, they are also incorporated in one another, especially today we see this mixing of one and the other and in this way we reach the general correction.
20. S. (30:59) Sorry for the question, maybe it’s a little straight, but everything that is happening here in Israel is connected to AHP or GE, what do we relate it to? The corporeal Israel, everything that’s happening in Israel.
R. I do not distinguish them at all.
S. Israel is Bnei Baruch, what is this Israel that he is referring to in this world?
R. In our life, Israel is the one who has the tendency towards connection with the Creator, not that it’s written on his ID card that he lives in Israel or that he is even a Jew who lives in America.
21. S. (31:57) If the externality and the nations of the world is the great will to receive, why is it written that Israel is this roughneck, very stubborn, they’re the worst.
R. Because they cannot have the power because their egoistic powers are not enough, on the other hand when they receive these powers from the nations of the world, they absorb these forces but not too much. They can use them in the direction of bestowal, corporeally, and that is all of their success, it’s rooted in that.
S. Israel has like its own work besides that?
R. To prepare themselves for dissemination to the nations of the world.
S. In connection between them?
R. in connection and all kinds of things but preparation for the continued work among the nations of the world.
S. What’s the preparation?
R. To be in connection, understanding, to advance, to advance towards disseminating the wisdom of connection. All of the wisdom of Kabbalah is the wisdom of connection between the created being and then between the created beings and the Creator.
22. S. (33:38) “The externality rule when Israel do not demand depth in the work”, what does it mean “to demand depth in the work”?
R. To demand depth in the work means to demand deep connection and great wisdom, the upper light to be revealed in all the vessels. Israel cannot do it, they do not have sufficient vessels of reception in order to reveal the light of Hochma. It has to be revealed only in the vessels of reception but these only exist in the nations of the world, they are not revealed yet but when they are we will have it.
S. How can a person correct this rejection and this negligence that a person has within him?
R. Because that is how we correct the world, that is how we bring the entire world to connection among us and from between us to the Creator. So you want great blows to come to the whole world to humanity, they are fast approaching, these blows. And they’ll come, if not this way then another.
S. So we need to look at the blows that come to the world and be awakened by them?
R. Typically that’s what you do, what else? If you don’t do it in advance then it comes to your doorstep.
S. This is how he awakens himself, how he corrects himself?
R. Yes, this is how it awakens himself. How will you do it, do you know how many problems are about to reach humanity if we do not take that into consideration? We will come to states, to blows. We won’t disappear from the face of the Earth, as they say, or we won’t kill one another completely, no, we will bring ourselves down into very difficult states.
S. This will make some kind of inner correction to awaken and we’ll get out of this laziness, this indifference?
R. Yes because a person is after all only a will to receive and the will to receive demands from a person that it will arrange a good, pleasant place for it.
S. And if we as a society want to awaken more towards dissemination, have this responsibility towards the world, how do we do that?
R. We must talk about it, we must try and correct these things because it depends on us, it depends on us. We do not care about anything anyone says about us, this is the message that Baal HaSulam gives us and that is what we have to realize.
S. So usually we are speaking about this indifference? [Translator issues]
23. S. (37:41) Continuing right now the discussion about dissemination, I wanted to update that this afternoon, we are going to have a special lesson about current events, it’s like a little pilot episode, everyone is invited. We have invited all of the content team and we will ask about these problems that are global problems and not just them everyone is invited to ask. We wanted to clarify more and more how to disseminate more correctly to humanity, this ideology, so how can we bring this, how do we work through this process of correction more as a Kli, world Kli?
R. We cannot disconnect ourselves from the world and imagine ourselves as if we do not belong to anything. We are in the last generation in the state of the final Correction and these things are unfolding very quickly, although it seems to us if it is not so. So it is truly worthwhile for us not only to discuss it but be incorporated in all these things in which we need to be.
What is it the dissemination of the wisdom of Kabbalah to all of humanity in order to reach all people and explain to them that connection, that is the wisdom of Kabbalah is saying, that connection between us will bring about the connection between all of us in the upper force, doesn’t matter how you call it, the upper force or nature. If we approach it even to a small extent in our life then our lives will be good, if we are standing in place or God forbid we move further away from it, our lives will be bad and we should explain it to everyone, the future of the world is for all of us to connect together.
S. I’ve heard a few times, like from friends what’s said, “sometimes it feels like we’re sitting in the ten of Rabbi Shimon and I don’t need the rest of humanity, between us we will reveal, correct, arrange”.
R. What will you correct if this is the end of Correction, you have to correct all the AHP, we have to pull all of humanity to connection. It won’t help me now to sit somewhere and say, “I am looking after myself and not interfering with anything you do”, no I must be the active part.
S. This intense work we have in the ten, one hundred percent that you’re giving everything within you and if it doesn’t bring the correction of the world?
R. No, that is not enough, look what Baal HaSulam did in his dissemination. We must disseminate the wisdom of Kabbalah and also those simple explanations as much as possible. We give this an opportunity to each and every person to at least know a little bit what is the future of the world, the role of each person and so on and so forth, as it is written “and they all shall know Me from the smallest to the greatest”.
Reading “The reason for the concealment in Kabbalah” (41:50 – 42:33)
Reading “Teaching the Torah to Gentiles” (42:36 – 42:48)
24. R. (42:50) What does it mean: AHP who connects to GE, of course they can learn, learn meaning to correct themselves because there is no problem with a study, you can get into any store and buy all the books. To study means that you are correcting your vessels and you discover in them, the upper light. This is the study, and he says, “that he retired from idol worship”, meaning from in order to receive.
Reading from superstition
25. R. (43:41) Meaning continues in order to receive.
Reading and wanted to know Israel’s law and wisdom
26. R. (43:56) Meaning how can I connect with the upper light and receive it in order to receive, not in order to bestow, in other words.
Reading you might say why should we care if this Gentile
27. R. (45:47) Meaning there is nothing special here except for the fact that it may hold back the entire world from reaching connection, and that is why it was forbidden to publicize the wisdom of Kabbalah until recent times until more correctly the days of Baal HaSulam.
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