TIFERET: TIKKUN CHATZOT תקון חצות – LESSON WITH RAV MICHAEL LAITMAN
Lesson on the topic of “Connecting the World in the Last Generation”
Morning Lesson September 07, 2022 Transcription
Transcription is made from simultaneous translation which leaves a possibility for differences in the audio
Part 2:
Connecting the World in the Last Generation – Selected Excerpts from the Sources. #6
Excerpt 6: (00:12 )The law of development, which is spread over the whole of reality
R. (03:13) Meaning all of humanity is kind of divided into two. It changes each time but there are those that awaken to know the Creator and there are those who don’t awaken. According to how when one awakens those who want to come to the equivalence of form, to the end of correction to the purpose of their life and those that don’t awaken to this life, the life of the animate level, still, vegetative and animate. The degree of speaking to Adam, they don’t reach. We have these and we have those. What do we need? If we have some desire from the degree of Adam to resemble the Creator that’s why it’s called Adam from the word to resemble Adomeh, Adam, then we need to use it and implement it as much as possible. That is our work, that is our method.
1. S. (04:21) When we are reading this excerpt I feel there are two processes within me, one the government of the heaven and one of the earth, not just one, can such a thing be?
R. You can say it like that for the time being.
2. S. (04:47) It says the authorities took this development under their own government. What does that mean?
R. That means there are people that receive a deficiency to come to the implementation of the goal that is before people and they want to advance themselves with their own forces as much as possible to awaken the Creator to help them and that’s how they hasten the end.
S. What is the difference between the authority between the heaven and the earth?
R. The government of heaven where the Creator cares for everyone and no one can come from under his control, or come out of it. The governance of the land is called that the people who are special, that received a special desire to emerge from the governance of the heavens of above and to hasten their development.
S. It says we’re all under the process of development both the earth and heaven.
R. Yes, but whoever emerges out of the governance of heaven is not under the process of development but rather it walks ahead of him.
2 S. (06:17) A question about how much the whole world receives such an awakening
R. Yes.
S. Is there also this reverse dependence on those that didn’t get an awakening?
R. We are all dependent on one another and corporeality and spirituality is connected. Corporality is somewhat operating on spirituality and spirituality on corporeality. Hence, it’s hard to say that we are differentiated from those people who do not receive the awakening but rather in the families, in every single thing we are connected. Therefore we operate upon them and they operate upon us.
S. Now I don’t know if it’s just me who sees this or everyone but there’s truly this feeling that all of this holy, I don’t even I don’t want to expand on this.
R. Everything before it comes to its correction needs to be revealed in its worst possible state, its wildest state. Therefore just like Baal HaSulam writes that I’m happy that the wicked are revealed because this is actually, this evokes joy that they won’t be revealed then they’re already being revealed towards something that is about to be corrected.
S. It seems as if there are two things in the public, on one hand complete despair most of the people?
R. Write about this, please write about it. There is room here for writing beautiful articles in all our ways, all the media, etc. that all the bad that is revealed we should be happy about this. That it was also there also but it was just buried and now it is disclosed and therefore we can destroy it and build above it in an opposite thing.
S. What should be our attitude towards this? Beyond just writing about this and disseminating not from the point of view of dissemination but from our work.
R. We also need to see that when something bad is revealed to us it’s like Baal HaSulam writes, what happened over there. We should be happy, joyous that the wicked have been revealed otherwise they are hopeless if they’re buried inside. This is through one will help his friend we can uplift this way and if we don’t talk about this if we don’t reveal this it’s a problem. We become immersed in despair in this heaviness, yes in this feeling that there is some dark cloud above us.
Excerpts 7: (09:52 ) “All this agony is felt only by the Klipa of our body,..”
Excerpts 8: (12:30) “It is best for us to agree and accept the words of the Kabbalists…”
3. S. (13:31) You said that when the wicked will get revealed we can exterminate them. How do we exterminate them?
R. In our connection, If we pray to the Creator it is certain that He will destroy them. This is called, “put your eyes upon them and they will turn into a mountain of bones.
4. S. (14:07) Gradually, we hear from all the experts that there are negative forecasts and yesterday you gave us a positive forecast from you, that humanity is going towards connection above everything. In your opinion, where is humanity heading towards?
R. Humanity is certainly marching towards correction, and I am certain it is towards correction but whether it is going to be in a good way or a bad way. You have those two ways to attain the goal. The way of Torah or the way of suffering.
Either the path of Torah, meaning the path of light which we will draw from above and thus we will advance this way, and after us all of humanity or through the path of suffering, where we will not be able to lift up the force of connection and then there will be a problem. To the extent in which we around this matter of connection that we ‘love thy friend as yourself’ that we try to connect by that we will assure to ourselves and the world the good future. Meaning that the correction will come forth in a good way, because if not it will come forth in a bad way and in a bad way we read from the prophets and all kinds of sources that it is truly really really unpleasant.
5. S. (15:50) Can you tell me about the last excerpt that it is the best for us to agree and to accept the word of the Kabbalists that nature is the same as Elokim that we need to carry out these Mitzvot, can we say that there are three types of relationships here, that an ordinary person who understand what is nature but is still distant from the upper one, and there is the religious one who is close to the upper one but not to nature, and then the Kabbalists in which all of these things connect?
R. Yes, you said it nice, you said it correctly.
S. We are generally directed toward ordinary people who relate to nature and the upper one?
R. That I already don’t know what you said.
S. Baal HaSulam in his article, The Peace, Kabbalists agree to this but he wrote it to everyday people or for religious ones as well?
R. He wrote it to all of humanity. What he thought today in the connection between us and expansion and to all of humanity, to the extent that we are capable, we begin to implement his dream, where everyone is beginning to understand why they exist and for what they exist and how they reach their purpose of existence.
6. S. (17:35) We know that Elokim and HaTeva are the same in Gematria, the same as nature, beginner students often ask such questions that nature nonetheless was created by the Creator and the Creator is above this, how do we explain this more logically that they are equal to each other?
R. We are talking about the system of laws, forces. A law of forces that operates upon us in this system, that you can call it God, you can call it nature, it does not matter. The system of these forces operate upon us and we must for our own benefit, must learn it and to know how to influence, to bestow upon it in a good way so that accordingly it will address us in a good way.
7. S. (18:48 ) Why does the Baal HaSulam emphasize here that it is important for us to reach this agreement that the laws of nature, the laws of the Creator are one in the same? Why is it so important?
R. This is for us to understand that we are in the system called a Godly system. God, the Creator, he explains to us is Keter, Hochma, Bina, Zeir Anpin and Malchut, are five systems that are actually one system through which the upper light influences us. This is how we are, included under the name of Elokim, under the name of Creator our God. All of this, all these Elokim five influences, five bestowals. These five bestowals are called HaTeva, nature. There is the nature which is bestowa; towards us and there’s a force that is Elokim and there’s other names above this as well, with all kinds of other preparations from the side of the upper force towards us.
8. S. (20:18) Baal HaSulam writes that all of the suffering in our world are just revelations in order to push us to get rid of this Klipa of the body, what is the role of the Klipa, why is it so hard to work with the ego?
R. Without the Klipa without the ego you cannot differentiate just like in this world, you cannot differentiate between light and darkness if you will not have the Klipa of the darkness you will not be able differentiate between light and dark.
S. We need to accept this complete form of the will to bestow, how do you think we can reach this?
R. I do not know about the future and how. That is not my problem, there is the Creator and let take care of this. I’m talking about us and don’t drop on us questions that you can ask of Him.
S. What is upon us to do?
R. For us, it is to try to connect between us and to learn what our nature is, the will to receive and as much as possible what we can have from the desire to bestow.
9. S. (21:40) In what way are we in contact with humanity in our inner work? Can we have some kind of contact with them?
R. There is, first of all in dissemination and secondly that we are influencing them because we are all in one system. It is not important who is drawn towards the revelation of the Creator or not, who wants to move toward in order to bestow or not, it is one system called the Adam HaRishon. Therefore to the extent that we operate between us we also operate upon them. Of course it would be better if more would join us, so we need to try to perform acts of bestowal giving. Let’s hope that we will succeed.
10. S. (22:44) In practice can you tell us why people are more convinced above the laws that are written in the Bible, the Torah and not that it is the laws of nature
R. Only different languages just like Baal HaSulam explain that there is a language where theTorah written and a language for which Kabbalah is written and there are other languages. The language of judgements, the Talmud, Mishna. There are other styles but they all explain the act of the Creator towards the created beings and how the created beings can raise MAN towards the Creator
S. Nonetheless these sources like the Torah are more accepted even though they are more abstract more so than things are more concrete and the religious people hear this more.
R. Of course, because it’s a nice story, it does not obligate you in anyway and it talks about things that are abstract from this world and therefore the main thing is that the opinion of the majority, that’s all of the world or half of it at least, accepts it as a thing as a revelation of the upper force from above.
11.S (24:44) It is written in Excerpt 7, come and see when everyone will agree to have no other desire than to bestow. What does it mean that everyone will agree?
R. They agreed. because they simply understood that they have no choice but to bestow.
12. S. (25:12) In the context of what we read, I want to ask about our prayers that we write, for already half a year the world Kli has gathered for these prayers. At first it felt like a prayer for the world for peace in the world, afterwards we reached a feeling that it is a prayer to unite the friends, question can we reveal a deficiency through these prayers in wide masses towards connection?
R. Yes, because you are coming closer to the Creator through this and the Creator awakened through us to bestow to the world.
S. Do we need an addition to what we are praying more, if we are praying for the connection for the unity of the friends, in order to awaken the deficiency in the wide masses? Do we need to talk about this and give it more attention?
R. You can add another sentence or two for the world truly. We can add.