TIFERET: TIKKUN CHATZOT תקון חצות – LESSON WITH RAV MICHAEL LAITMAN
Lesson on the topic of “Connecting the World in the Last Generation”
Part 2:
Connecting the World in the Last Generation – Selected Excerpts from the Sources. #27
Reading excerpt 27 ( 00:15) Baal HaSulam, “The Writings of the Last Generation”
Neither bayonets nor education or public opinion can change…”
1 .R. (01:44) Yes, Baal HaSulam speaks about a very big, very deep thing. He says that after this stage we are going through Kabbalism and Socialism all those stages of development you cannot go to any more organized form in humanity is really in state for the stages is very quickly and we have come to a state where people in this world still live like in the Stone Age, the Iron Age, until the the times, the modern times that we have today. Nevertheless, how to advance? We have no clue, we cannot because our problem is that here we are hitting a barrier, the limit of our technological development. The relationships between us that is what will generate for us the development of life.
We are now hitting a state where there’s nothing to do if we want to improve as we see today in countries such as Russia. Why didn’t they changed over the past hundred years? Why did they went through such critical stages? We see that the form of connection between people in society is completely inadequate relative to our technological, cultural and education development but rather from within society itself. From within the people comes a certain inner pressure and it demands change. We see now as well. We are in the state where each and every state, nations of the world, in each and every country whatever they might be, more or less, there is again great pressure to change the relationships between people.
They do not fit the form of light, the form of connection between us, technological degree, the degree of technology in our society and that’s what’s happening here. We need to understand here that the next change should come not through a war, it wouldn’t help us. We can see the example of the latest war between Russia and Ukraine and all those things are working towards a state that has to bring us to a decision that we need to change people and not all kinds of external frameworks around us. Not in the form of connection between us. Rather, if we don’t change the person itself we have no way of succeeding in peace and quiet. We’ll do it again.
Reading excerpt #27 (05:38) Baal HaSulam, Neither bayonets nor education or public opinion can change…”
R. (05:39) He will remain egoistic like before.
R. (05:50) That’s only that should be in future correct, future society.
R. (06:15) Meaning there is no choice but to add to each and every person an attitude towards the purpose of society so he will see himself as participating in something that belongs to him and for him to connect to himself with all the nation’ and and the public.
Reading excerpt #27 ( 06:47)“ Baal HaSulam, Neither bayonets nor education or public opinion can change…” continues…
3.S. ( 07:37 ) What is the reward and punishment, spiritual reward and punishment that is within a person?
R. Satisfaction, from being connected to everyone and he gets his reward from above and place of corporeal reward and his ego. He feels that by that he’s rising towards the Creator and he gets spiritual reward.
S. How he writes through education and you’re talking about connection with the Creator what stages does humanity need to go through to reach that state?
R. This we learn throughout the time, it is education like you are saying. He writes about it in many places, we read about it and we have to pay attention to it. Only education. There’s no greater problem in this world than education. We need, as he writes, to sit down on a school bench and study. Also, to carry out it is not just to listen to a teacher but to actually implement those things in practice between us and learn from it how from the connection, how do we learn about those changes that are happening to us.
4. S (09:57) How do people need to change so that they will stop fighting? In countries, for example?
R. First of all they need to see that wars bring no solution. Number two, they need to see sufficient explanation so that they will see that the plan of creation is the purpose of creation,the structure of the world, the force of nature that dominates the world goes against wars. Although created in this world and through opposing forces, rivaling forces but he did it so that these opposing forces will reach completion, completeness, specifically above the opposition between them. Although there are two forces of connection between them of connection and distancing of minus and plus, if they will build resistance between them they will be able to receive all the upper power that will be revealed in them and and between the stars and you use it for the sake of humanity, for the benefit of humanity.
Truly this is something enormous that all the good forces and the evil forces can connect through the resistance to the will to receive and through the connection through the will to bestow. It is simply the true plus and minus that we can sustain in the connection between us. Accordingly we will rise to the height of the end of correction. We can imagine it, it is like all these stars in the worlds, all these huge forces that we have in this upper realm all of it will work in one direction in order to give us the strength, the energy, the strength, the energy, the power to understand, to perceive, to control a great will to receive on which we reveal the result.
S. (12:32) So where will this quality in a person go to because it’s always within that nature to rule?
R. Of course, of course. Everything remains except that which remains, positive, negative the way it appears to us, all of it will acquire a positive form. You will control your will to receive to such an extent that he will want to serve the others. So each and every one until all of us connect in this system, you’re building a system. Let’s say when you are constructing a radio system or something, you have many components, many many components and each and everyone of them works in its own unique direction. But all together what do they discover? Mutual work and then eventually you can listen to the radio or something. That’s how we need to be connected. Normally we need to find between us all these forms of connection for each one to bestow to the others in such a way that although I have such a character and he has another character it’s all okay. Like the capacitor and the resistor and the coil, all kind of components that are all connected together in one mechanism.
Although each and everyone works in different direction, the form of the work, the style of the work, it’s all different, that’s how we combine the system that is actually working. In order be in connection with one another, that’s how we need to build human society as well. So although each one is different from the other he sees himself as able to enter and participate with everyone, and it will be this way eventually. Look at this latest war that is revealing the lack of connection between people and also that we must come to some sense of completion. Although at this particular moment what’s revealed isn’t between such close nations like Russians and Ukrainians. There’s such a huge difference in how we perceive it, the attitude, the expression of one another to each other and to the world, to religion, to everything and anything. So we need to see this is an example. Where are we? How should we work?
5. S. (15:46) It says that human nature can obtain the source of education, there must be an education. What sort of education does change human nature?
R. Normal education certainly doesn’t change human nature. I see people coming out of schools and they don’t emerge with a good character and good corrected tendencies because they’re not being taught. No one comes out of prison as an educated person although these places are called places of rehabilitation, correction. So it turns out that we need to change the entire system. What do we need to prepare people for? What’s the connection between them?
For the understanding of the general system of humanity, that we can’t be without each other except through the correct completion. Until then we will have problems, troubles, no one will have a good time. We need to show everyone how much each one is suffering and how much each one is not getting what they deserve, the upper world, true humanity, that can rise to the degree of the Creator and see all of reality, all the worlds. We need to find the words, and it’s a process to explain to a person. But we have no other choice, that’s what we have to do.
6. S. (17:46) How does the technological advancement of humanity serve the spiritual advancement? Where does this program need to be aimed?
R. Technological development is there, it’s what we attain through the connection between people but computers,mobile phones, all kinds of instruments of communication are good and efficient. People now need to reach this level of connection in a good way not in order to profit off of each other, suppress and confuse one another, confound one another, education is greatly behind all these technological phenomena.
7. S. (18:55) I wanted to say a few words with your permission on how much the prediction of Baal HaSulam that there are 10 million unemployed in the US and at the same time there are six million open positions and even though all of those unemployed work,they still have 14 million unemployed. The question is where are all the workers? The answer is there all in social media and looking for “likes” trying to develop their connection online and it’s amazing that people have stopped working. There is a group on a website and the website is called ‘I don’t want to work”. It has developed from 200,000 to 1.4 million over a year. There is some movement here that we cannot ignore that is very in line with the words of Baal HaSulam.
R. You can bring many more facts. It is all included in general of all the problems of this world. Of course it will only grow and there will be more and more. Until humanity, humanity is searching but it cannot arrange things in such a way that everyone will have their place and everyone will have an inner reward. It is not a matter of external rewards, it is a matter of internal rewards.
8. S. (20:45) He writes here in a matter of reward and punishment the spiritual, that this has to be the measure of the collective and we see here that in the world religions brought people to a place of certain faith that if I go left it’ll be good, if I go right I’ll will be bad. How do we align with what Baal HaSulam wants to share with what is happening in practice?
R. For all these things you have only one answer, to publicize and advertise the wisdom of Kabbalah in the correct way. We are still not ready for that, not entirely ready. This will give you the answer for everything. Whatever you want to tell me about this and that, a thousand problems. Of course there are those problems and I agree in advance. The solution is only going to come from advertising one solution. The one and only solution that fits all the problems.
S. It is clear, the question is those inner calculations. How do I make this calculation that an action will lead me to either punishment or the reward?
R. According to what you are choosing and what you are choosing, it depends on your studies and your education,depends on your preparation. In other words, the extent to which Bnei Baruch can provide the whole world the method of correction, in all places,in all languages and everything is possible to all the media forms. We have to reach each and every person in a way that fits him. What does it mean to the world? What does it mean for correction? This is the only path to happiness.
9. S. (22:58) How do you depict this state where the people all work for spiritual rewards and punishment and not today as it is written from obligation?
R. We need to see those things more simply than you think about it. Why is a person working right now? He is not working for money, whoever must have money is going to be to fulfill him. He is fulfilled by illumination or some light that fills him, an inner pleasure that fills him, if he will feel that he can feel him fill with the inner pleasure, more from connection to others and bestowal others, then more is revealed to him then this means that although it will be in order to receive, it will nevertheless attract him.
Attract him forward, draw him forward. We are not going to change the whole world from in order to receive to another to bestow, no. We want to simply tell them that there is a way to work for the connection of the world and not work, not through hard labor. No on the contrary, we need to engage mainly in the connection between us and the rest of the things. Very little, very few types of jobs that we have to do in order to provide ourselves with basic necessities. We will talk about it. It is a shame that we got into it. Let’s continue.
Excerpt 28 ” (25:13) “There is no other cure for humanity but to assume the commandment of Providence to bestow upon others in order to bring contentment to the Creator …”
10. R. (27:00 ) We see that here Baal HaSulam speaks like Marx, like a Communist. He relies on the laws of nature and not like the Communists that insisted on terror, bayonets, forcing and and coercing everyone to work until they will see that it is good and worthwhile. There is a big difference between the regime that coerces and obligates and the regime that educates and raises you
11. S. (27:55) Lately I have this feeling I started relating to everything with respect specially nature. Nature has changes in seasons, people have changes in opinion, for us everything is static.
R. And? There’s no problem. You are in such a period that we call between heaven and earth. Soon it will pass.
12. S. (28:45) Tension of war between countries causes borders to disappear and cultural differences to shift. The question is how do we explain this situation to the public?
R. How do we explain this to the general public? That’s what we have to think about. We have to think about setting up discussion groups perhaps and then to find certain ways to discuss them until you come out to the general public because making mistakes is a problem because you repel a lot of people from the correction. You have to build your system of dissemination. I understand that it is not simple because I was in it for many years and also today today to some extent but there are many people for it and people who will gradually know how to connect to the system. It is not simple.
13. S. (30:17) How can we reach this state that a person labors as Baal HaSulam writes to bring contentment to the Creator?
R. Bring Him as a partner of all the work you do.
S. How?
R. Always be next to Him, always consult with Him. Always make actions that he would like.
S. How? This is the most complicated problem here. To receive from here even a response, even in actions that are near Him like dissemination. How do I take Him as a partner and be with Him in some way?
R. You wish to acquire the connection with the Creator, the moment you cannot find connection on your behalf. On His behalf connection is ready but on your behalf it’s not, from Him there is reflected light and from you there’s not reflected light. That’s why you cannot feel him. What can we do? Try to come to the quality of bestowal.
S. How do I align the returning light in the work whatever it might be? What does it mean to build and construct these returning light?
R. I cannot explain this to you. This has to be revealed by itself.
Excerpt 29: ( 32:18) “The tough, egoistic resistance among people, along which international relationships deteriorate…”
14. S. (34:32) The peace, world peace and the knowledge of the Creator are one and the same.
15. S. (34:49) He writes about peace in the world and something bothers me that in dissemination we speak about connection of the world and revelation of the Creator between us but he writes clear that there is no answer here ‘ to bring in the heart of the labor the faith of reward and punishment. How can we bring the faith of reward and punishment in the heart of the people?
R. For now we need to speak to them at eye level. They see right now what is important to them, that is to live in this world in a good and correct way, for them to feel warm in the winter, have everything they need in their fridge, to have a car, job, kids, kindergarten, school. A person should have everything he needs for the family and he can see that in the future everything will work itself out.
Everybody wants to come to it . We see how it’s becoming more and more difficult to come to against all the logical development of humanity. Let’s hope that we are able to explain that we can reach all of this under the condition that we reach a state where nothing will help us, not adding more machines to our lives and other instruments and so on, and devices, nothing. We need to add to the relationship between us the good force, the force of connection, the force of the bestowal. For is now being revealed in the world as necessary, the central thing. Let’s try to explain that, we need to write a lot about it.
S. Is there another stage where people automatically arrive in the spirit of reward and punishment?
R. We begin to see that being spiritual is not the same as we think that it is. They think that spiritual means that they live, they receive some blessing, everything works itself out and there are no wars and gradually they come to a state that this is the blessing. Later and more people will connect with us. We will talk about it.
16. S. (37:56 ) The heart receives what Baal HaSulam writes, it just enters inside, our mutual work in the lessons that even if we may not understand but really want this type of life, does it bring creation towards it?
R. Of course, absolutely. The positive force that we generate, to whatever extent, that anyone who participates in that measure is truly of influencing the world, bestowing to the world. You will see how much influence we can really influence the entire system of creation really. It will all become a parent to you.
17. S. (39:16) First to bring the Creator as a partner in your work, the question is, How do you consult with the Creator? How do you consult with the Creator?
R. Try to establish your relationships with Him. How do you come to his level? To connect with Him, to bestow to Him, to receive from him? You are performing certain mutual actions with Him. Try to constantly be in mutual actions with Him regardless of what you are doing. Where you are. It doesn’t matter where you are, the important thing is that you are doing these actions with Him when you are a present in this world, with some corporeal actions with your friends at work, everywhere, in the family. But try, the main thing for you should be which action with the Creator that you are doing with each and every corporeal action you are doing.
S. I need to come to a state where I need the Creator in every moment, that I can’t do anything without consulting the Creator?
R. You are in contact with him all the time. This is not for you to determine, this is given, rather it was given to you to react to it correctly. That you do acquire the connection between you and for yourself.
S. This connection is an obsessive connection to always depend on HIm? This is the right connection ?
R. I wouldn’t say obsessive but consistent on your part. That you always want to be with Him. This is the meaning that “you will pray all day long”.