HOD: TIKKUN CHATZOT תקון חצות – LESSON WITH RAV MICHAEL LAITMAN
Lesson on the topic of “Connecting the World in the Last Generation”
Morning Lesson September 09, 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. #11
Reading excerpt #11 (00”13) “We must thoroughly know the proportional value between..” Twice
1. R. (02:29) In other words it lives and is nourished by its environment.
Continue Reading excerpt #11 (02:36) Twice
2. R. (03:54) In other words our work is to feel and understand, to reveal the general system of all humanity, how dependent we are and connected and it is not like if we think that Australia or North America disappears or some other countries in Europe or Africa. With respect to the whole world we are arranged in such a way that there is a connection between everyone, we cannot reveal or see this connection but everything that exists in the world is arranged in the complete way and in fact that we are constantly killing each other and beating each other up, do not see that we have good connection and to have a society that is circular as planet Earth, this is our problem. To that extent we are far from our correction, so from the good state we attain the good that does good, the upper force in nature. Therefore, on the other hand, we have to take into consideration the law of nature, that we are all dependent on each other, we are all connected to each other, we must all care, each one for everyone, for all the people in the world.
Until we come in practice to implement this to such a connection, we will suffer, as long as we reject this form of connection we will suffer more and more and more. So the more we develop because on one hand we think it will be better, right and we are developing technology, in science, culture and everything, but if we do not organize the connection between us, we will not be able to do any correction in our connections, in our relationships and will constantly fall into worse and worst states. To world wars as Baal HaSulam writes, a third world war and fourth world war which will be nuclear wars, to not come to it we should hurry up and advertise to the whole world that the corrections are only in a good connection between us.
3. S. (07:12) No translation
R. Everyone who belongs to this must come to a state that he is a servant of the Creator and draw the light and pass it on to the all the pieces of the common soul and those who do not understand and do not belong to it should function in a good manner, good human manner because they understand that the good future of the world depends on the good connection between people.
S. People understand this in principle that good is good but there’s something internally that forces them to act otherwise?
R. Correct, it is written about it, I have created the evil inclination and respect to that I have created the Torah as a spice, this is why we need to connect into such a way that the upper light passes through us to all that created beings and fills up every single soul and we are responsible because we have a connection with the Creator, some connection. The more we connect the more connection we will have with the Creator and the more connection we will have with the created beings, they are dependent on each other. Then we will be able to be a conduit as Baal HaSulam explains to us, which is the role of Israel, Yashar Kel, straight through to the Creator which we built in order to be a passageway, from the Creator to the created beings by the created being revealed to everyone.
4. S. (09:29) I see a direct connection of the first part of being a conduit and being happy, if someone fills me with happiness my need to share it, increase in the group is automatic, so when I pray for one, I’m actually not praying for one, I’m praying for one, for humanity, is that the direction?
R. Yes, that too along the way that is not the end of your development but it is already a good state.
5. S. (10:23) How can I open my desire towards the friends without causing damage between us, my corporeal desires?
R. If you want to a connection between them and the Creator, if you want to be a friend among everyone, if you want to constantly increase the importance of the Creator in your eyes just as Rabash writes in his social article of these first articles which he wrote in order to solidify, establish the society, so read them again and you will see that you will discover many more things there.
6. S. (11:15) On one hand in the world we live in today, in order to survive we depend on the millions, maybe billions of people everything that I use, all the systems but there is a disconnection in the person’s understanding that on one hand I am depending on everyone and everyone is actually serving me. Or I feel independent, I am an egoist, I only care about myself, on one hand the gap is growing. What will wake a person, wake up from this lack of awareness?
R. We need to come to a state where we discover the connection between us, the right mutual connection, is necessary for us to exist, so this situation should gradually be clear, it has to become clear. We are approaching a very complicated critical states, with wars against climate which is beginning to come down on us and wars between countries and many more things, there will be hunger. We see that even now all these plagues, blood, frogs and lice, all the things that happen in Egypt, are becoming revealed to us as well. We are facing states that all these plagues and blows will bring us to a state and we will not only suffer but through them we have to discover that the solution to emerge from this suffering is only connection, support, mutuality. Let’s hope we will discover it, attain it, explain it to everyone and in this way emerge from the danger of the third and fourth world war.
S. This state that we see does it mean that we are failing in our dissemination, that what we are doing is not helping?
R. Of course we are late, we are late in dissemination, in the connection between us and in the connection between us and the Creator and in the connection between us and humanity, we are in between and we are the source of the trouble.
S. Dissemination does not depend on the other side will want to listen to it also?
R. You have to find a way in which to reach their ears.
7 . S. (14:31) It is written a person cannot exist if he was isolated without a sufficient number of people around him to provide for his needs. What is the criteria of serving and helping?
R. We will talk about it later, you need to ask more concretely.
8. S. (15:14) Is the world Kli a conduit in a certain way between the Creator and the created beings?
R. Yes.
S. We have many prayers for many months already, are we passing light through that?
R. Yes.
S. How to make it more effective, to add or change something?
R. It does not matter how many months you are in it, if we need to do this work, you need to do this work and you don’t need to constantly check if the work we are doing if it is enough or polish it more and more but there is no doubt, the connection with between us and the prayer with the Creator, we need to check it and each day to polish it more and more and in this way we will advance.
9. S. (16:29) If a point in the heat awakens a person and from that moment on is there a meaning of investing a part of your energy in some benefit in the world or except for what he can do for his ten and become a spiritual conduit?
R. We see from the writings of the Kabbalists that we need to direct all our energy, all our powers and prayers only to the connection between us, to draw into our connection the Creator and then together in the connection with the Creator, we bestow upon the world, there is no other way to correct the world.
10. S. (17:27) Why did Baal HaSulam write that his generation was the worst of all the generations so things are getting worse?
R. So what, can’t there be a worse state? I don’t understand.
S. That is my question?
R. Every state along the way until the end of correction is worse than the previous one, until we come to such a state that we cannot live in it anymore and then we break through and rise to the correction. It is not like we come in the ascent and to the end of correction, we descend lower and lower because any increase in Upper light we discover ourselves further from the end of correction more and more, Then we leap into the end of correction, the final correction, we rise there immediately, this is called the coming of the Messiah when the great light, a very great light, operates on us and we rise to the final corrections.
We correct ourselves at once but before that we need to prepare all the broken vessels, everything that there is, it is not a correction that goes gradually and becomes corrected. We see it in our world that this situation is constantly deteriorating, it is getting worse and worse and the state before the final correction will be the worst. It is called the three hour prayer for salvation, a prayer on Sukkot, that precisely in the states before the final correction will be the worst, most difficult. Let us prepare for everything, we have no choice, humanity whether it want it or not is deteriorating towards it but we can shift everything from the material feeling to the spiritual and in this way we will come to a state where we do attain this great corruption in our attainment, in our understanding, in our awareness and it will be enough for us to want the final correction.
11. S. (20:47) You said you were speaking about the workers of the Creator, this work where we need to annul and connect and raise the mutual MAN, this happens till the end of correction?
R. Yes.
S. In what is the happiness, in the opportunity to turn to the Creator?
R. Delight the Creator.
S. He is happy when we are doing this?
R. Happiness, I don’t know.
S. What is the happiness or fulfillment of the Creator?
R. It is to please the Creator to delight the Creator, to bring the Creator to a state where he is happy with us.
12. S. (22:15) I don’t understand, the closer we get to the Gmar Tikkun, the states in the world become worse?
R. Yes, because precisely from the lights that we draw, bigger broken vessels are revealed which we have not corrected.
S. How to relate to the development of the world, so if I look at the world it’s a good thing, the more wars and diseases we’re getting to the final correction?
R. We are approaching corrections from the perspective of the broken vessel, from the perspective of us not being able to correct them yet, to raise MAN from these vessels, this is too called the end of correction but in a negative way.
S. Should I hope that this should be a peace in the world, a good connection, it might not be a good sign?
R. No, you’re right, we should still have hope for peace in the world and we should pray for it because if we cannot reveal now with our preparation for it, with the light that we draw from above the broken vessels and our broken desires and our inclination to correction then we will do the correction now. We do not need to wait passively until all the terrible worst states are revealed in the world, we can depict them, we can picture them within us, this is called…, we can identify these things in advance the wise his eyes in his head and he does not reveal these things in practice it is enough for me to understand that this is how it should be like and then I correct it already.
S. What peace in the world can there be before the Gmar Tikkun?
R. There cannot be peace in the world, peace in the world means the complementations of the vessels and their correction and their filling.
S. What can we do now?
R. Ask for all these vessels to be revealed in us which also depends on how much we can tolerate the broken vessels and that we will correct them and pray that they will be fulfilled with the upper light, with the presence of the Creator and the Lord will be king over all the earth. We don’t have to wait till we deteriorate the final point, it is written in the Prophets that merciful women cook their children, we do not need to come to the states.
We want to understand now what is the process that we need to go through, if we are already discovering all the deficiencies in the current states and we do not need to discover them in practice, in corporeality. We will rise from their spiritual revelation in a spiritual degree, we will raise them towards correction. We do not like anything but other than to pray and to bring everything to the end of corrections. If we, in our development in the light that shines on us we can discover how much we are in the lowest despicable degree and we have no choice but to correct ourselves through the light of the Messiah who will pull us, Nimshoch, from our current state to the end of correction.
13. S. (26:43) What of the strongest things that happens is the sensation of responsibility from the morning to now, how do we use this feeling of responsibility to work more because it causes actions?
R. This we need to talk about among ourselves and study the writings that we are one man with one heart, all-in-one vessel, we are all like as Baal HaSulam says, cogwheels, interdependent, where each one operates everyone else and if one stops the whole system feels this stop, although we still don’t quite recognize it and that is it. That is a situation that we need to be in.
S. My personal responsibility as a person in the group, in the world, what is the most important thing for me to hold on to, its that is not me, I come and I go, we know that there is a plan so what is my most important responsibility?
R. You are not coming and you’re not going, you are in the world even though there are two states states of corporeality and spirituality and therefore you do not disappear rather you continue on the same path and in the same connection and even more while you are separated from your body which limits you tremendously, but we try we should try while we are here in our bodies, we need to try to come to a state where we demand our correction from the Creator, we demand the correction from the Creator that he will shine for us and show us what is the right activity that is ahead of us now.
S. My responsibility is to be open to receive a message from the Creator who will show me what I’m supposed to do?
R. Yes yes, it’s mainly about how to connect with the friends and direct all of us to the Creator so that we will be incorporated in him.
Reading excerpt #12 (29:40) “Do not be surprised if I mix together the well-being..” Twice
14. R. (31:09) This is clear, this we need to take a take upon ourselves each and every day, this rule, just like when a person gets up in the morning he has to organize his relation to the world so one of his conditions is that because the whole world is in mutual connection and I am a small cog wheel in this whole system, so I have to care because of this for everyone in practice too not just that I just said it and that’s it now I am relieved.
15. S. (32:03) What should humanity learn from the examples of hate toward this or that nation?
R. We need to understand that we must see ourselves in the end as overcoming all of our differences and seeing ourselves beyond that, after we rise above all the differences and connect even though we are very different. So just like in the machine where all the cogwheels turn in their own pace and direction but they each have a role in order for the machine to work and the main thing is that we do not cause damage to one another but in the mutual way we want to activate this general mechanism, that is something that should be the main law of social existence. That is how we reach the final correction and in that final correction each one is revolving in a different direction, each one with what he has expresses himself completely towards all the others and then this machine can reach the complete connection.
We need to speak about it, write about it, to publish, to advertise, that is why the correction of the world is not by each one fighting with another, not by each one defeating the other but that each one defeats himself to connect to the others in a nice way, completing each other. So according to that we need to see as much as we advance towards the front correction. I have a lot to say about this but not right now, we need to think about it and discover it. As much as every country, nation, every person wants to connect to the other in order to be in the work, daily work with them in connection. Well let’s say in trade, industry, helping each other, why should we fight if we can by investing forces and money and materials, we can be connected to one another. Let’s reach a state that will supply each other with what we need, with what we are lacking, the wars do not do anything good to anybody but here we actually need to fight the world.
16. S. (35:40) How can I awaken the longing for the connection with humanity and demand in the connection, also how to awaken the desire for distribution of materials?
R. I think we do not understand that dissemination is our weapon against all those that are disturbing us from reaching us Gmar Tikkun, it is just standing in our way, we just need to drive it out, the disturber, only by dissemination. That we need in all languages and all styles to explain what the system that the world takes place in, how it can advance correctly, nicely without the wars, without problems, without trouble, without all kinds of death and hunger, things that we see that are happening more and more. It all depends on the good next connection between us, we think that by connecting we will see there would be better trade and industry.
That is what our eyes think but actually what is happening is that through the connection we are awakening the upper light. It starts working and suddenly from a little piece of land we can get food that will supply the whole world, it all depends on the blessing as we say and the upper light that works, that affects our work, that is why we need to give that a lot of strength to the closeness between us. Because only through that we reach a blessing. We see how much area Russia has but what comes out of it as Baal HaSulam says, they have so much natural material that is way beyond all of Europe, so what, it all depends on the attitude, the connections between people.
17. S. (38:60) Why is it with all the problems in every house, there is no awakening of the question of what is the meaning of life?
R. That is the darkness that has to come before Gmar Tikkun and we will see more and more as much as people become blocked and clogged, that they are suffering and they really do not have possibilities to make their life better but on the other hand we do not want to see it a different way. It is such a clog that comes before the solution in order to emphasize the solution, that is how we need to see that everything comes, the darkness comes before the light.
Reading excerpt #13 (40:13) “The benefit of each and every person within his collective is evaluated..”
18. S. (42:08) In dissemination, we have to approach people who influence the public greatly?
R. Obviously they could have done something on one hand, on the other hand we can see that the public already are more studied, and they are smarter and don’t really pay attention to those public people, you couldn’t hardly listen to them and you don’t have to respond to them. We have reached a stage where no one has any respect, that is why I think that through government and public people, that we can go through the right calling for corrections.
S. That is exactly what I’m asking, on one hand these are people that we listen to the least but on the other hand they are the most influential.?
R. But again I’m saying they’re spiritual and corporeal influence, I do not think that all these people that have forces on behalf of the government that this force has any effect on the public, no one pays attention to it so they talk a lot and make noise on the media but more than that it does not really penetrate into the public, into the people. That is why we don’t really need to pay attention to what they are talking about, the world keeps going as it was, there’s nothing about it.
We see especially in Israel, we like to listen to the news and we think that it all depends on the daily events but I don’t think so. That there’s any great influence from it, it is as like out there in the air, no more than that, this is why true influence, true bestowal is something that we can do because we can bestow through the upper light that will affect everyone including all those public people, chosen by the people.
19. S. (45:12) You described the situation that the more the world deteriorates, the more people will recognize and then even a small field will give a lot of crops, why is this considered correction because through connection we will see results and it’s the will to receive getting the satisfaction it wants and will work in this way?
R. I do not understand your question.
S. If humanity sees that through connection they get crops and everything that they say, why is this regarded as correction? We connect only to get corporeal results.
R. I did not say what we are connecting for but the connection causes an addition of food that they will see but that will not be the meaning of the connection, will it be the result or the reason to connect.
S. How do we work on the reason? How can we change the reason so it becomes the right one?
R. I am working with a connection to reach adhesion with the Creator, to this end we come close to this connection with the Creator, we will feel, we will discover good results in everything that we do but now that for that we will connect.
S. Is it upon us, this intention is only upon us?
R. The intention is always upon us.
S. I’m asking with our Kli to all humanity?
R. Especially, the intention is in the Rosh, the head.
Reading excerpt #14 (47:08) “In our generation, when each person is aided for his..” twice
20. R. (50:10) This should be clarified to each and everyone, just as I am now dependent on the relatives and friends in my work and my country, maybe more countries in the world, for the good or bad that are next to us. That is how we need to understand that we need, we are dependent on everyone and there is nowhere to run to but only to make good connections which, with everyone, that is what is before and that is where the Creator’s pushing us to.
21. S. (51:01) What am I supposed to do as a regular person with this information?
R. There is no simple person, it is the most destructive words, there is no simple person, each and every one must see himself as a little wheel in the big machine, if that wheel will make a corruption the whole machine will feel it.
S. Not corruption, I am trying not to make corruption but how do I move in the right direction?
R. Learn about what your right role could be.
22. S. (51:44) There is such a concept like personal complete personal correction, the end of the correction of the ten, the world or is it all the same?
R. If you’re in one machine and the cogwheels are billions of people, how can you organize everyone, everything in a way that the machine will work correctly if you do not correct all of the wheels. Through the light of reforms we can bestow upon everyone because most of the wheels do not have any free motion, they do not have it, they just turn in any way they are directed. We say that they only dependent on our dissemination.
As Baal HaSulam writes in the end of the Introduction to the Book of Zohar, and whoever the correction of the world depends on, there are people with a big will to receive, big egoists that are drawn to study Kabbalah and they are in connection with us. Then we need to awaken them more and more, just us now what we are doing now, to awaken them for corrections and that they will not run away into all kinds of other kinds of business.
S. You said there’s no such thing as a simple regular person, I’m just a cogwheel in the machine. It is clear how eight billion cogwheels force me to move, but how can I force the rest of the eight billion cogwheels to move, that is not clear?
R. The thing is there are eight billion cogwheels that are revolving and above them there are a few thousand which belong to the Rosh, the head of the Partzuf which is us. And we choose how to turn around and in which direction and together, and we as the Rosh of the Partzuf determine to all the other cogwheels that are in the Guf, how they will behave. That is why there is no problem, if the Rosh is corrected the Guf will also be corrected. The tail follows the head, we have examples from the Zohar and from many places.
S. When I look at past Kabbalists, I see they already rose to the upper worlds and from there they bestow upon us and when I look at us it seems like our work will end at best, at the end of correction, and maybe not the too. So what is the difference between the Kabbalists of the past and our generation?
R. Great question but wrong question. We are all in one system and we are all dependent on one another. And in our small work we are raising the great Kabbalists, the big souls even higher up. The final correction is not the end of the path. We will speak about it afterwards. Don’t start building a system as if you have all the information in your hands and you know everything.
23. S. (56:44) To understand this mechanism thoroughly, throughout time there were people who passed away from the world and departed from this society, this is why they didn’t need anything from this world. Can you explain this mechanism where one cogwheel just leaves the mechanism?
R. Today also you have people that do not want to have any connection with the rest of the world, so what? How do you know if they are disconnecting themselves or not? What are they disconnecting by, what connections do they have with the world? If they do not use radio or TV or power or water, does that mean they are disconnected? There are thousands of types of connections between people and that is not called that they are disconnected. Disconnected means that he stops receiving from the world spiritually and starts giving to the world spiritually and also that is through relationships between people to the world as much as he feels and understands and not how it really is. We shouldn’t read all kinds of stories and think that we understand anything about them, leave it alone. Speak about what we are reading in the letters and the articles of Baal HaSulam and Rabash.
24. S. (58:32) What is a good connection between us? Is it something internal in the heart or are they physical actions between us as good actions, good deeds?
R. Both external actions and also connections in the heart.
25. S. (58:52) When the whole function malfunctions, is it revealed in the connection between humanity and nature?
R. Yes.
26. S. (59:05) How do we shift all the words of the Messiah into inner words, the hunger, climate problems, is it through the thought?
R. By us wanting to correct everything in thought, as it is written everything will be clarified in thought. In the end after all the suffering and pain and problems, we still correct everything with thought.
27. S. (59:35) Our understanding that we are dependent on each other, does it depend on education?
R. Yes, as much as we educate ourselves and as much as we educate the younger generation and all of humanity, it depends on our correction as much as it will be smooth, and as much as we can gradually rise all the way to Gmar Tikkun smoothly. It all depends on us, only in our attitude.
28. S. (01:00:07) How does a person harm the public and how practically does a person do good for the general public?
R. Only if he thinks for the benefit of the public or doesn’t. By that he either causes good or bad to the public.