TIFERET: TIKKUN CHATZOT תקון חצות – LESSON WITH RAV MICHAEL LAITMAN
Baal HaSulam. The Freedom
Morning Lesson December 02, 2022, Transcription
Transcription is made from simultaneous translation which leaves a possibility for differences in the audio
Part 2:
Baal HaSulam. The Freedom (Influence of the Environment)
Reading (00:14) The Freedom, from heading ‘Influence of the Environment’: “The second reason is an unchanging…”
1. R. (04:50) There are no questions here because it is not so clear so read it again please.
Reading again (5:03) from heading ‘Influence of the Environment’: “The second reason is an unchanging…”
2. S. (09:44) What is the importance, or the goal, that is in all of these tendencies from the forefathers? What’s the purpose of nature here?
R. The purpose is to develop to the purpose of Creation. Still, vegetative, animate and speaking have but one goal to reach the final purpose that was pre-prepared in advance.
3. S. (10:19) There will be many new friends in this Congress, a new meaning for the first time for them is in a Congress. What is this new environment for those new people in the Congress? What can we give them, what special example in the Congress?
R. You are right the influence of the environment on each and every one of the participants can be huge and according to the importance each one has for their environment that is how much they will be impressed by them so we can acquire additional forces, great forces in addition to what we had and we can also receive changes on the path in our appreciation, how we value things, which will change our path towards correction by a great deal and I truly hope that it will influence everyone strongly and in a good way and this is how we will advance. Everything depends on how much a person surrenders, how much a person surrenders to his environment.
4. S. (12:18) The article states that there are inheritance tendencies that we do not change. Are these the egoistic qualities that we inherited from childhood that we have to build love on top of?
R. We will learn to what extent they change or remain unchanged, the things that we learned in childhood. Until what age we can say that we were born with them although we acquire them and from what age we need to accept them as something that we actually acquired. We will talk about it.
5. S. (13:28) What does it mean that the absence is just as inheritance as the presence?
R. Because it does not matter, we are, if we are activated by more information that influences us or less information the importance is which one is influencing us.
6. S. (14:25) According to this article we are always acting in the form of resistance but still we have this illusion that we have this freedom of choice or something different. How can we escape this and truly become aware of all this without being governed by this force that comes in resistance?
R. One more time, the question.
S. According to this article we are always behaving in the form of resistance so accordingly we have this illusion, we illusion in ourselves that we are free but we still behave in the form of resistance. How can we become aware of it rather than resisting, not from resistance but out of understanding?
R. It depends on the environment. I need to learn from the environment, how much they are influenced by the environment and I should look at them and surrender myself to the influence of the environment. Only in this way can we actually change in our favor, this is truly great work, truly special work.
7. S. (16:42) When you participate in this Congress from your home through the internet we are accustomed to that, the work is clear but when you come from a far to such a wonderful place and see these friends that you haven’t seen for years, they’re probably going to pour us some wine, so how can I work with these pleasures correctly?
R. I don’t know how. Pour some wine, we’ll drink it until it all runs out. What can I tell you, I will be envious of you and not only I but we will all be envious of those places where people gather
S. We are 120 students here.
R. You see, it is a special number like that.
8. S. (18:13) How can we combine in the right way the points in the hearts inside of us?
R. We don’t know what is the correct form, that’s what the Creator does. If we want to connect in order to be incorporated in Him then everything works out and He arranges it correctly, meaning we wish to be connected in order to be incorporated in the Creator that’s it. We just need to start the work and then it says the Creator will finish the job for me.
9. S. (19:05) The source of the point in the heart and source of the nations of the world is that the same? Because they receive it from the Kabbalists, the nations of the world receive it after Israel receives it as I from the environment.
R. It’s not important. Everyone will have the same state, and everyone will know Me from their smallest to their biggest.
10. S. (19:51) It is as if the traits one inherited from one’s ancestors do not fundamentally change. According to the article the effect of the environment has the effect of causing the change in heredity characteristics. Can you explain this more?
R. Yes, the influence of the environment can change everything, everything. I will tell you more than that, look at the evolution over thousands of years, how through the influence of the environment people change, animals change, plants change, it’s all the influence of the environment.
11. S. (21:15) When we correct these past tendencies in ourselves are we correcting for our future generations?
R. Yes, yes, but we should not think that we are correcting anything in the future, we are the last generation we’ll talk about it.