WEDNESDAY PRAYER: BINAH-TIKKUN CHATZOT תקון חצות – LESSON WITH RAV MICHAEL LAITMAN
READING: BETWEEN AFTER MIDNIGHT AND DAWN WEDNESDAY
Baal HaSulam. Introduction to the Book of Zohar, item 27
Morning Lesson January 09, 2023 Transcription
Transcription is made from simultaneous translation which leaves a possibility for differences in the audio
Part 2:
Baal HaSulam. Introduction to The Book of Zohar. #27
Reading Item 27. (00:19) “Indeed, there cannot be revival for the dead..”
1. S. (02:45) This whole study brought us to a point where you really identify this will to receive. When you work with it, there is a place where you are able to successfully raise a prayer but still unable to overcome the will to receive. What is missing in that prayer?
R. Help from above; help from above.
S. Is there a way to demand His help?
R. To ask, to cry, to beg with the friends, that’s how it is; as it is written.
S. The friends are helping, they really are helping but there is this certain point..
R. Everything depends on you.
2. S. (03:46) If we correct a desire, is there a way it comes back in a higher degree, comes back stronger or that’s it, we corrected it and we are done?
R. It could be so.
S. Are we able to know if we corrected or didn’t correct or for now suffer corrections?
R. We have to correct each and every desire that prevents us from adhering to the Creator through the adhesion between us that is it; that is what has to be.
3. S. (04:26) It is written here, that in the beginning we have to remove until there is nothing left of the desire to receive and then it says we can come back and receive it in the middle way. What is that middle way that I have to remove the will to receive?
R. To receive in order to bestow. We restrict reception in order to receive and then gradually we open the will to receive in order to receive but in order to bestow.
S. This is the middle way?
R. No, that is the second stage after you came out of all the will to receive for yourself, then you can use the will to receive in order to bestow to the others.
Reading Item 28 (05:44) “Our sages said, ‘The dead are destined’..”
4. R. (08:04) So obviously all of the will to receive and the will to bestow, everything that Creator created eventually is destined to be used for connecting all created beings together and then adhering to the Creator.
Reading Item 29. (08:18) “Now we can resolve the above second inquiry..”
5. S. (12:00) When the will to receive more and more from 200 to 400 and so on, in the reception in order to bestow, does this rule also apply?
R. Reception in order to bestow of course it works. As much as I receive more in order to bestow, I enjoy and I give joy to others and I give joy to the Creator. So there is direct connection between all of it.
S. What is the right way as you say that first we rise above our desire and then we bring it to bestowal. What is the right way to adhere to bestow? To connect to bestow?
R. I do not know how to explain that. We need to uplift above our desires, to check it, to weigh it, to restrict it and then to try and invert it to receive in order to bestow, receive in order to bestow. Okay that is it.
6. S. (14:05) Are we waiting to the final restriction, after we attempt to restrict to disappear all negative qualities one after the other and the final restriction is a result of all the effort that we made?
R. Yes, that is a result of all the efforts that we did until now.
7. S. (14:49) It turns out that we are not allowed to, we need to make, allow the Klipot to work for 13 years?
R. There are no 13 years, it is just written.
S. When are we allowed to impact education and dissemination on a person in everything we do?
R. Well usually from the age of 13-14 you can already tell a person, as his hormones waken up in him and questions, so you can start educating him towards the right form of education that a person needs to overcome.
S. Sometimes there is a feeling that people need to acquire more uncorrected desire to receive before they are addressed?
R. No, you don’t have to wait until a person gets completely corrupted and then teach him about his corruption but it has to go together, together.
8. S. (16:08) What is the meaning that we have to attain the will to receive in all of its measure; corrupted measure. What does it mean that we need to attain it?
R. It grows from itself and in each and everyone has its own size and style but we have to locate it and every time to see how it grows and what it wants and how it wants to control us. And according to that and against it we should do all kinds of actions.
9. S. (16:54) It comes that a person, a regular person, does a Kabbalist receive what he wants when he dies?
R. Yes. He feels himself in all of his desires because he feels himself in order to bestow and then there are no limitations or restrictions.
S. Meaning he becomes happier towards his final days?
R. Yes.
10. S. (17:43) Can I ask about the unity day that will be next week on Sunday?
R. Well, ask if it is for me.
S. Yes, the will to receive as we have studied for the past couple of days, it is like a stubborn donkey and it grows every day. How do we relate to every event as a completely new opportunity for connection and very, very important; significant?
R. We have to see that with such actions we connect between us, come closer between us and truly correct ourselves more and more. I’m happy to hear about such actions that you are waiting for and anticipating it. It is great; that’s what corrects us.
S. We are used to feeling discomfort of sitting next to the computer and maybe it is challenging to start the car and drive maybe a quarter of an hour, an hour and virtually it is like my friend, my heart is with the friends. How do I react to this physical connection?
R. First of all there is a great reward in starting your car and coming within an hour an hour and a half to the place that is one thing. Second, that you see the friends and with them you come into contact, hugs, sit together around one table, eat together, maybe sing together. That is what connects people, that is what we have in this world from the actual practical connection, that is why I’m happier doing this, women and men. We hope that it will happen nicely and correctly and you will be doing it.
S. First, thank you for what you are saying to us. What is the benefit, I am talking about the event happening this Sunday, whose name is, ‘Rising to the Next Degree,’ so just from the fact that the event is happening for the world, that is very exciting. What does the ten win, merit, that the ten is saying that we are signing up together, what does this ten earn?
R. Consider it a reward for a whole ten because one ten towards the rest of the tens that they connect with them too, so that they feel that they embrace and restrict themselves and reach one structure, one structure and in this structure, sooner or later the force that connects them has to be revealed and the force sustaining them together which is the Creator.
S. What do you feel before a session event?
R. I feel great happiness that we are having such an occasion, that for sure the occasion itself, that event, is bringing us closer to correction; there is no doubt about that, no question about that. Obviously, there are many more means and commandments and events. But when we connect men and women into one body and want by this to come closer to the Creator, there is nothing greater than that. There’s no greater and beneficial means than that. So all the best to you all.