HOCHMA: TIKKUN CHATZOT תקון חצות – LESSON WITH RAV MICHAEL LAITMAN
Lesson on the topic of “Connecting the World in the Last Generation”
Morning Lesson September 14, 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. #20
Reading excerpt #20 (00:19) “The religious form of all the nations should first obligate ..”
1. R (01:18) He is writing as much as our attitude to everyone except for connection from everyone for the benefit of everyone. That should be the general religion. In this way we need to cover all of us. in that each one has to help the others. What we’re trying to do with disseminating the wisdom of Kabbalah even though it’s called the wisdom of Kabbalah it is a religion. That is what he says in the “essence of religion and its purpose”, that the love between all the people is the purpose and that is the “essence of religion,” he explains it. and in this and we need a development and there will be a development and development will end in that too and we are starting it now. That is why we are called the first generation of the last generation
Excerpt #20 again (02:43) “The religious form of all the nations should first obligate ..”
2. R. (03:41) There is two ways he uses the word religion here. The religious form of all nationsHas to be in the connection of mutual bestowal. Then he says except for that every nation can follow its own religion. He adds with their tradition and one must not interfere with the other. Meaning what is in your tradition in every nation that is their business. It’s the inner laws the way they behave. The way they behave between them but eventually one has to reach the general religious form which means that each one is concerned for the other in the connection between everybody.
3. S. (04:48) It is not clear what is the validity, what the inner content will be of the tradition as he calls it here, there’s already a religion of the store
R. What do you like to eat, how do you behave at weddings? There are different kinds of forms of behavior. It will remain, no one will disturb each other. On the contrary, by this we can only see as much as we are different but this difference can bring us to moving us apart. Each and every one is from the different root of the soul.
S. That is clear but today the inner concept of the religions and many traditions?
is a connection with the upper force so if this connection with the upper force which is the essence of the religion and the traditions today is changing with a whole different essence, of love of others and from there to the love of the Creator so what is a left from other religions and traditions?
R. The traditions will stay the way they are and the religions will already understand that they don’t have anything but a tradition each and every one. Because they do not have a connection with the Creator.
S. What is the inner need of holding such external traditions?
R. It’s a culture, why not ? If I have a birthday or a Bar Mitzvah, each and every nation has such holidays and weddings and all kinds of things, why not? It strengthens a nation and gives them a color for their existence. We should not resist that ,on the contrary, what we want is the natioms won’t move apart because of this.
4. S. (07:32) How is it that if a person invests in society he will not enjoy it more than those they invest less?
R. Because it will be for his detriment if he enjoys society more than the one that is behind.
S. But that is how it turns out.
R. Each one will be concerned about an equal level of life.
S. We learned that according the exertion is there reward.
R. Spiritual rewards. In spirituality we always remain according to do the actions as the reward.
S. In corporeality it should not be this way?
R. In corporeality it should be according to what the person demands, what he needs. That’s it. If you need more from your neighbor because you have 20 kids and you are fatter and you need more food so why not give it to you and your neighbor you don’t need because he has 2 and a half kids and he’s skinny. Each one receives according to what his nature needs no more and no less.
5. S. (09:12) When a person attains such a high degree of awareness of love for your friend as yourself what religions can remain at all since the religions lose their meaning?
R. All the religions get a different form of a new kind of form. That is true.
6. S. (09:56) As we know that there’s some religious and cultural practices that have some sort of spiritual root. For example, circumcision even though a person is not religious if a person has a boy he circumcised, has that boy or is eating pork, a person can be secular or religious even turkey. I am secular but it is even hard for me to eat pork. There are sometimes two types of culture. Are we going to separate that from the spiritual root or not?
R. There are spiritual roots but we are now not correcting them or speaking about them like he’s saying each one can follow his religion and tradition and there’s nothing about it. The main thing is to reach a connection between everyone. Each one is free to behave in whichever way he has towards himself but we are all connected to one society. That is actually the rule.
7. S. (11:31) The religion of corrections will advance?
R. Religions need to be kept until we raise the matter of religion into a spiritual high that is will be to love your friend as yourself. That is it. Then in the connection between us of love your friend as yourself, we will see what needs to be kept and what should not be kept and in this way we will grow.
8. S. (12:35) You said the tradition strengthens the country, the nation, is gives it color to its existence until the final correction will every tradition will stay the same or gradually will there be a global tradition?
R. I cannot say what we understand from Baal HaSulam because we are not at the end of correction so I can’t tell you from what I see and understand. I do not see and I don’t understand. I think that it will be revealed and corrected on the final degree where there’s really going to be the Lord will be King over all the land. He will be one in his name as one. and there will be no difference between everyone and everyone’s going to connect in such a way in such a way between anyone. Everyone is going to connect in such a way that each one completes the other to such an extent that there will not be any difference between anyone. Also all these customs will complete each other. That is what I think, not that I know t or understand.
S. The question is this. The trend until the final correction is that gradually we’ll see every nation staying in their tradition and religion ? Or the opposite. We will be seeing countries connecting getting the same characteristics.
R. I asked Rabash that more or less and he said that he cannot say. These are things that will still change in us many times along the way. I understand this as we are coming closer to our root, the one unique in unified and there’s None Else Besides Him, by that we will unite in a better way all of our traditions it will be more clear to us how we need to exist in the seventh thousands.
9. S. (15:20) The question about the work in dissemination and this word communism. This word communism has a negative connotation how can we change this concept, this term when disseminate?
R. This means a society where each one is concerned about the other and everyone is connected and what can happen in society is built upon each and every one as its own. communism comes from the word commune which is connecting many people into one body. Then we all lose our feeling of self and live from the general body in one feeling. That is it. Obviously we will need to adapt these things also the word communism it a word of slander today
10. S. (16:46) This state can exist in the society we’re not all the friends are in spiritual attainment?
R. Of course there are some that have no contact but only through friends through acquaintances and so on. Meaning every style it in every will to receive that exists in reality will have an opportunity to feel himself in the system of the general soul of Adam Ha Rishon.
S. But if a person is controlled by the Creator, why does he care about the Creator and all the other fulfillments except for what he wants to receive?
R. I guess there will be such trouble and problems that he will want to know how to get out of itl.
Excerpt #21 (18: 14) “The rules of the equal religion for the entire world are as follows..”
11. R. (19:54) Those are the rules. Baal Ha Sulam writes about it because he attained that degree that is why he writes it and interprets it for us. We can only imagine how much more time and effort it will take until we ascend to such a degree and exist in it. Still these things need to be in our plan for dissemination and we need to understand that this is what is before us. Obviously it could be through great wars, great suffering. We will try to reach them with all of our attempts. We will still go into all kinds of problems along the way and we can’t run away from them. There is no way to avoid it but that is what is going to be. Eventually we will reach a state that the whole world will receive this form.