YESOD: TIKKUN CHATZOT תקון חצות – LESSON WITH RAV MICHAEL LAITMAN

Baal HaSulam. The Arvut (Mutual Guarantee)

Morning Lesson November 25, 2022 Transcription

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Baal HaSulam. The Arvut [Mutual Guarantee]. #28

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Reading item 28 “Now we fully understand..”

1. R. (01:24) Yes so we will give an example for the connection in the nation.

Continues reading (01:31) “Meaning all the peoples of the earth belong to me…”

2. S. (03:27) Whoever is sitting here today, whoever you see on the screen, can you call them the nation of Israel?

R. Of course, anyone who is aimed to reveal the Creator out of his heart, not because he wants to discover some forces by which he wants to control the world, but rather each one has a tendency to discover the Creator, and he agrees even though he doesn’t want, but he agrees to be in connection with others in order to reveal the Creator. He is called Israel, Yashar-El, it’s not a nation, but rather it is a direction of development.

S. It turns out that 90% of everyone sitting here, they can say that they brought him here?

R. Yes of course.

S. But it’s written here that the Creator requests an agreement from the nation of Israel, can you explain that?

R. No agreement comes later, agreement is later, now you are given an opportunity to rise above reason, a corporeal level to the spiritual one and then to be Yashar-El in practice and then you need here through your desire, your necessity, your forces and to show that you really want to be part of the nation of God ,so to speak, the nation of the Creator. There is nothing here that belongs to nationality or being a Jew, or someone from the world that is completely, completely two degrees of development, and we are reading how much everyone will also need to rise to all these degrees, all human beings, until everyone connects in the Creator and becomes again as one man with one heart.

3. S. (06:30) Question that we had in our ten yesterday, yesterday you said that a person cannot reach the end of correction until the whole world reaches it, you said that in relation to Israel and the nations of the world, however beforehand, you said that the ten can reach correction before the end of the world can you explain that?

R. He explains that there is a general final correction and a personal one, there is a final correction of the ten, etc. It is like you put a system together, some parts are corrected and even if you put them in the system they cannot work yet with the whole system because the whole system is not yet balanced, it is not interconnected. The final correction is with all the parts until the last one, everyone knows his role, and that is why they come to a state where everything is organized, the final correction. So there is a general final correction, there is the personal, individual final correction, and he writes about that. It’s the introduction to Pri Haham, where there is a thousand, sixth, seventh, and eighth millennia, and we have to rise to these degrees.

4. S. (08:38) This nation chose because it had yearning or did it have fate, it was its destiny, to be this light unto the nations?

R. I didn’t understand the question.

S. Was it the destiny of the nation, and the Creator chose it because it was determined from the beginning? They had yearning within them and that yearning caused them to choose that or was it in their destiny that they had to turn out that way?

R. Until we rise to faith above reason, coming out of the boundaries of time, motion and place, we cannot answer your question. We will always be bound to time, motion and space and that is why your question remains.

5. S. (10:26) Is it required in the Rosh for Israel to become a Segula for the whole world?

R. This we read about in the articles about the group. It is very simple, if we keep in our groups Arvut and by that we carry out the first step of the correction of the world, and the whole world will also come closer to Arvut after us. And we already see how mingled we are with all of the nations and different people, meaning if we keep on advancing this way, I think basically that is the group that leads the world to the general correction.

6. S. (11:45) What does it mean that Moses can add?

R. What is he asking about?

Reading “these are the words that you’ll say to the children of Israel..”

R. He says what does it mean no more or no less. That we can not add or subtract from all of these conditions that are required to take place in the complete and corrected vessel.

7. S. (12:59) What does it mean that we will be a kingdom of priests?

R. That you will show everyone how to serve the Creator, it is very simple.

S. How can we show that it’s such inner, deep work?

R. [no translation] This is the work of the Creator, we cannot do much here, we all need to be an example in our connection.

S. How can I show an example to the external public and to the ten?

R. It is still early, but after our tens will be connected and each and every ten will have a desire, a burning to bestow to each other, then will be able to show it to the whole world, or the whole world, on its behalf will also feel what we have for each other, then we, by that will help the whole world advance.

8. S. (15:14) We feel great appreciation and honor for the group of Israel, and sometimes we get confused and we feel that we do not do enough to support the friends. What is our approach together with them, shoulder-to-shoulder, together?

R. I cannot know this because I’m not part of this work, and I do not go into it, and I am not in charge of it, that is why you have to scrutinize on your own. Each person in every group, how much you can be connected to the group of Israel, and to the people that govern and manage Bnei Baruch and as much as possible to learn what you can do to push this whole system to correction and everything depends on you.

9. S. (16:46) It seems like only we, Bnei Baruch, need to correct ourselves and no one else does, what should I do with that feeling?

R. That is correct, that is what you should do and then you will see what is next.

10. S. (17:18) Arvut feels like a very high level of connection, how do we avoid working in self-love so that we do not ruin the entire purpose, as it says in the passage?

R. By us being connected between ourselves, and if we become more connected, then we will guard each other. It is like when one wants to stand on a system that is unstable, so I need a few points that will be somehow balanced and connected to each other, in a stable manner and when we stand on this system then we can aim ourselves not to fall. That is basically what happens to us in the Arvut in the group, none of us alone can keep this Arvut, but if I’m thinking about others, and each of them is thinking for the ones who are outside of him in the group, about the friends, then we can maintain the balance. But that is under the condition that I’m not thinking about myself, but rather I am thinking about the friends.

11. S. (19:06) It’s not so clear, how everyone now?

R. Don’t you remember in the past, once we went to Citron, many years ago, and we had to go through many states.

S. I was in the last ones.

R. We had to make this transition through all kinds of things, with our eyes ties, and I told everyone, if I am thinking about who is behind me, and I hold tight to the one that is before me, then I can be certain that others will pass. That is how each and every one is, that is how we did it.

S. Is this Arvut?

R. Yes, that is Arvut, in corporeal in a simple way, I took Bensi and we climbed with him in all kinds of things that you cannot do, but this way, yes you can do.

12. S. (20:44) What a beautiful explanation you give us about Arvut. Our question is in terms of our connection, can we, Bnei Baruch, if we succeed to connect towards this Congress, will we be an example of a holy nation towards the other nations?

R. We need to set an example, the example is simple, to the extent that we are connected to each other, and then we show the connection between us to everyone, and by that, we want to awaken them, and they will see us, that we are connected and accordingly they will come closer.

13. S. (21:58) We see from our practical experience that the will to bestow is like dust to the will to receive in its importance, why would bestowal become important and how can we take that?

R. Out of despair, from their efforts, when there is nothing to do, we’ve tried everything and we do not see how we can succeed anymore, and before us, a path that really shows us how we are deteriorating, we’re falling into an abyss.

14. S. (23:09) I want to relate to what I am asking, they say that they are still not worthy for that role and they need a holy nation and if you will be worthy of it I need a holy nation for all the words and then we’ll be a kingdom of priests and to do the work of love of others, are we a holy nation today, are we a virtuous people?

R. Certainly not, you just need to understand what that means. I’m a Segula, a virtuous people, what is that? It’s a group of people that wants to resemble the system of Adam HaRishon, which is corrected, that is called I am a Segula.

S. I want to ask you what is happening in Israel, you can get stabbed at supermarkets and in every place they want to beat you up, and I’m saying we are opposite of being a virtuous people?

R. That is correct but if you are talking about the revelation of truth, we are advancing.

S. Can you explain to me how we progress?

R. More and more evil is being revealed in the connection between us as opposed to the goal that we need to attain, then we are in a state and we need to ask ourselves. where are we headed?

S. Exactly, so how can we change that, I don’t want to continue this way, no one here wants to be stabbed until he agrees.

R. But you do not want to listen to the advice that can lead us to correction, you do not want to act.

S. That is unclear to me, what are we doing here, 400 people doing here, just coming to sit here and read and listen to you and answer our questions, what are we doing here?

R. We are learning how to reach correction, and humanity will reach connection only under the condition that he connects as one man with one heart.

S. What else are we lacking?

R. What do we lack?

S. Yes, this group here of 300, what do we lack?

R. An internal connection between everyone.

S. Can you tell me what internal connection is among everyone?

R. Internal connection among everyone means that everyone wants to help the others to reach complete correction.

S. Sorry that it’s very unclear, does it start from annulling to each other, helping each other, what is it talking about?

R. Yes, it starts from annulling, it is like Rabash writes in his articles about the group.

S. And then there is a chance that everything will invert?

R. It is not a chance, you can be certain that we will succeed, but we will only succeed if we keep the laws of nature.

S. What are the laws of nature?

R. Laws of nature are connection above all rejection.

S. To know them?

R. Yes.

S. And as much as we won’t be in above reason, are we progressing?

R. We are progressing but it’s through evil, even if it is sadly, we do learn something, we are learning, humanity is more intelligent and it’s wise, knowing about the ways of correction.

S. Kabbalists in the past, they said could you live in the last generation, and they said no, they don’t want to do that.

R. Yes, I know that, because this state, this collision between the good and the evil forces, when the children of light and the children of darkness, there are stories about the wars towards the end of correction, it is terrible, Armageddon stories, and that is under the condition that we do not do things on our own, that is theoretically, it’s to explain the system to us, but when we talk about corrections, the corrections are nonetheless both from the left and the right, that is why I have great hope that we will rise to these corrections and that the Creator will make it our favor, the whole system is built this way, so let’s do it.

S. We will do and we will succeed.

R. I thank you also for not being despaired, you come to the lessons and you take your part.

S. They threw me out of the house.

R. They threw you out?

S. I come and I go back, and I come and go back and I understand it’s the Creator doing.

R. Yes, these are the corrections when you’re despaired but you nonetheless come back, these are the corrections.

S. You tell me that my wife is an angel, what do you want?

R. Yes, yes.

S. Angel of death.

R. No, not an angel of death.

S. That’s what’s happening.

R. No, she helps you to put your ego to death, so she is the angel of life.

S. You know how hard that is?

R. That too, is a correction.

15. S. (30:05) At the beginning of the item, he writes about the covenant, what is that covenant?

R. The covenant is when we have to reach a connection between us with the Creator and bring the whole world to that.

S. Is there a difference between two different covenants?

R. Yes. The level, at each and every level of the keeping of the covenant, keeping of connection, the laws are different.

S. What are the laws to keep the covenant here, how do we keep it?

R. Mutuality, each shall help his friend, we start from that and then we move on.

16. S. (31:00) Why does the Creator need this thing called Israel at all, why do we need that in reality, why not bring down the correction when it is required?

R. You should ask before that, why did He create the world? Why did He create the world? The answer is simple, that you can understand that, and the sages say in order to please or delight the created beings. We do not know, these are things that are beyond our minds, we cannot digest the thought of creation. Even now, where we do not understand the systems, the upper systems, there is a lot we do not understand, these are the systems of the still, the still matter, which connect in all kinds of ways, according to valence, plus and minus, in each and every part, and in that everything is done and beyond that, we do not know anything.

S. There is no excuse or reason why we need Israel in the system?

R. There is none, it was his desire, he wanted to create, and he created. What does he get from that, we do not know, to play with the created beings, that is what is written, that there is a whale and he plays with it, like a child in the bathtub with his toy in the water. We do not know, we do not know that. We are so small, we are so limited that we cannot understand more than what is revealed to us, the purpose of creation, the thought of creation, how can we reveal that?

S. The truth is that’s not the direction that I wanted to go, if we ourselves do not know why we need this thing called Israel, how would the world accept this body, we ourselves don’t know why so of course others will want to destroy us, to make us disappear, who needs us?

R. No, we understand our purpose, we are here in order to connect and to give the world an example of connection, where by that we succeed, not to enter into wars and to bring human society, all of humanity to an enlightened future. That is clear, it is clear to everyone that if we would be connected in positive forces between us, then we would survive and would reach a good life, and we will have a plan on how to reach that, and we want to propose that plan to the whole world, to the whole of humanity.

S. Will there be a point in time where the understanding of humanity will be that Israel are the ones that we need?

R. Yes.

17. S. (35:05) You told previous friends that agreement comes only after you were brought here, my question is the agreement of Arvut is what causes the screen in the group, because Arvut has stages and so does the screen, and the screen is a force?

R. We observe our destiny only through the Arvut.

18. S. (35:45) When a person learns Kabbalah, he discovers his evil only in the ten or with respect to the world?

R. Mainly with respect to the ten. It’s hard, with respect to the world.

S. If a person discovers his evil outwardly, what do you do with that?

R. If he reveals his evil outwardly?

S. Yes, his ego erupts.

R. He’s like everyone.

S. What to do with that?

R. There is nothing to do with that until the line that reforms will illuminate on him and that will help him to reform.

19. S. (36:39) Many of the friends have come from all over the country and the atmosphere is very warm and everyone has the same goal, when will we be asked if we agree?

R. Agree to what?

S. Agree to what the article says, the Arvut, to be as a virtuous nation, a Segula, when will we be asked?

R. Do you think they are going to ask you like in the elections where you went to vote, each and every day you are being asked at every single moment that transpires, whether you are ready for connection, whether you are ready for Arvut, to strengthen that, to strengthen the friends together with you etcetera. They ask you that each day, and you in the end, agree a little, don’t agree a bit, and all of your works are registered in the book, and it will happen no matter whether you want it or not, through the system of Arvut, meaning the establishment of a mutually connected system where you observe that.

S. And what is it that he asked everyone together, everyone was asked together and they all answered, together, so what does it mean, we are all here together, so what does it mean that the Creator asks everyone not only me?

R. You cannot observe Arvut without being connected to everyone, you need to feel everyone, as much as you reject everyone, or that are a part of them and you’re ready to connect with them and connect with other parts. As much as you rise above your ego and do not judge everyone according to your ego, but to good and not to bad. Then accordingly, they bring you closer to that.

20. S. (39:09) He writes that a holy nation which is the reward in its last form, which is to adhere to him, why is a holy nation the reward?

R. It is a spiritual degree, there is a degree called a kingdom of priests, that is the degree of Bina, where the priests have nothing for themselves, all of their property is the Creator’s property, and there is a degree called a holy nation. Holy means detached from the created beings, it is Keter. Therefore, we need to reach those two degrees, and that will be a kingdom of priests and a holy nation.

S. So a holy nation uses the desires to receive to correct them?

R. Certainly without the will to receive you cannot reach such degrees.

S. But uses the will to receive.

R. Uses the will to receive, the will to receive does not dissolve, it continues growing until the end of connection and then it continues.

S. What depends on the nation if I understand it’s not being in the land of Israel and doesn’t want to bestow. So what does not depend on, that he will become holy?

R. That it will receive the light that will purify and correct it and then it will rise from Malchut to Keter.

S. Where does he get that light?

R. In the ladder of degrees until he reaches the end of correction.

S. In his vessels of reception of bestowal?

R. In his vessels of reception that turn into vessels of bestowal.

S. How can we make an effort to hold this gap?

R. In that gap, he holds on to the reflected light, the restriction, screen and reflected and holds Malchut in connection with Keter.

S. Here he has to believe in above reason that it’s giving contentment?

R. No, he reveals it in practice.

S. Is this the last degree?

R. Yes.

21. S. (42:02) What does it mean we shall do and we shall hear, what exactly do we need to do and what are we supposed to hear?

R. We need to connect and correct our connection which shattered as a result of the sin of the tree of knowledge, and then in our connection, we can reveal the outcome, the fruit of the tree of knowledge

S. What does hearing mean, what do we hear?

R. Hearing is the degree of Bina that reaches the degree of Hochma, and then the revelation of the light of Hochma in the light of Bina, is called the complete revelation.

S. Do we truly hear our connection with our Creator there?

R. Yes we hear, we feel, we see, we are adhered. Meaning we integrate in that connection, we ourselves become that connection, we ourselves become that system.

22. S. (43:26) In our days we see that most students of Kabbalah are women, the majority, in the past I do not remember women sitting in tens, learning together by the books, it used to be more than men. What does the Creator want to show here?

R. He wants to show that it is impossible to correct the world without females, without the deficiencies of the woman, in any case there is a difference, in corporeality we see that there is the physiology between men and women but in spiritually there’s a big difference.

S. We are required to sit together in the ten and learn, I feel there’s something else that puts pressure on us to carry out, to execute, what else is required except for this connection in tens and dissemination, is there anything else?

R. No, women do not need to study like the men so much, only the principles of connection.

S. If I just look at the situation in the world, why did the Creator bring this mass of women, there is a mass of women from all over the world, what do we need to do?

R. You need to perform a correction.

S. A correction.

R. Correction of the world, women need to do that. Are you not ready for that?

S. On the contrary, it seems to me that we’re really ready. It’s like a huge army of ants, that really wants to go out. I hope we’re doing the work.

R. So do that, we’re waiting and looking forward to it. The men are in the waiting room.

S. We will try, it is not so clear for me what we need to do.

R. It is clear that with loyal women such as yourself, we will attain the correction.

23.S. (46:06) I see the world, in the Ten I see myself. How do I discover in me that last part that I need to correct?

R. Through connection with friends. That you annul yourself completely and fall on their arms. Meaning you are ready to help until your last drop of blood with everything that they want.

24. S (46:47) We learned that when we connect, when we are able to connect then we will reveal the Creator. This is a very exalted reward. It feels impossible to work for the benefit of the rest of humanity as a world Kli and not expect some kind of reward, not expect adhesion or revelation with the Creator. How are we able to do that? To work on me for the benefit of others and not expect any reward whatsoever?

R. Only through the lights from above, that will come and correct us according to our request. We need to request corrections and expect from the Creator to give the corrections, and that is all.

25. S. (48:18) You said that we are not successful yet but at the same time we should try to accept it, so how if we are unsuccessful yet?

R. Through that in which we are connected together and we gave each other the Arvut. I cannot be in my correction with all the friends, with all the nine friends. If all the nine friends tell me that we will do that instead of you then certainly I do not need to do anything just to demand and care about annulling myself toward them.

26. S. (49:54) I’m very excited and it’s been a long time that I’ve been wanting to ask this question so I’m asking for your patience and I immediately want to apologize to my dear ten so that they will not think that there is some complaint, but I’m asking out of a scientific experiment. In science if there is an axiom and we examine some hypothesis and the experiment fails and we were wrong. Let’s say we have three songs we sing during the lesson. I am incorporated in these songs because I do not think about the music, I am thinking about the connection so we will feel we are together and not sitting in front of our TV’s somewhere.

For three years I’ve been doing this and I’m incorporated in every song and I see this example does not work with my friends at all. I’m sitting during the song, with such faces, I would understand if it’s not working for a week or a month but for three years I see it does not work. Am I doing something wrong, I do not understand. It turns out that I lose this faith that it does not work so I might do something wrong and I do not understand. It turns out that I lose this faith that an example can be effective and can work?

R. Not all your examples can be beneficial and effective. Therefore you need to be more flexible and try a different example to change yourself a bit, not to be with one example and that is it.

S. Why what’s wrong with that?

R. I cannot explain to you my dear one right now, you have to enter with what you have there.

S. Am I doing something bad by this?

R. You’re not doing anything bad.

S. Can I continue?

R. No, inquire about it with your friends.

27. S. (52:47) How should we pray to reach Lishma in the Congress, how can we advance the fastest?

R. Think about that, discuss it and decide.

28. S. (53:20) You said that the question of whether we are ready or not, it is a question that is asked every second. Is this a scrutiny of a prayer when it is written that a whole nation has been asked this question. This is probably the prayer of many?

R. It is talking about the life in the prayer.

S. What is that?

R. Think about that.

29. S. (54:23) You said that we have to fall into the hands of the friends and suddenly I understood that I’m looking at it egotistically. I guess you are talking more about a more spiritual degree. Will it be correct to think that I just need to understand this spirituality is something that I’m getting from the friends. What does it mean to fall into the hands of the friends not egotistically so that I can understand it correctly?

R. I need to end the lesson now, I’m glad that everyone woke up.