SUNDAY PRAYER: BINAH-TIKKUN CHATZOT תקון חצות – LESSON WITH RAV MICHAEL LAITMAN
READING: between after midnight and sunrise of Sunday
Reinforcing Ourselves with There Is None Else Besides Him
Morning Lesson February 09, 2023 Transcription
Transcription is made from simultaneous translation which leaves a possibility for differences in the audio
Part 2:
Preparation for Opening the Heart at the Congress – Selected Excerpts from the Sources
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ctvR-0t3yKZIjqdg_jODV-b-2dq7B5Phcdn9VY4BbVU/edit
1. Rav’s Introduction (00:19): Yes actually this is the main thing for us how we come to our correction to our final correction how we advance on this path how we support the friends feel one another. All of this is only by us coming closer to one another. Yes, and this nearing needs to be in our heart and It’s not from us gathering some specific place but being in this corporal world we mainly need to feel how we can be in our feelings in our thoughts in our results in all of that that we can talk about past present future, and how we can have all of this in order to bring us the connection to connection. No matter how we spin matters we need to perform correction upon the shadowing of the Adam HaRishon. Therefore, if our friends are preparing the materials, it will be ready in a minute or two and in the meantime we will read.
2. S (2:54) We are just going to read excerpts in Ein od Milvado, how do we really transcend in Ein od Milvado? How do you justify him for all the actions he does in the world for the good and the bad? How do you do it?
R. We need to understand that our world is very special and our existence is very special. It may seem to us that we exist in some reality in some permanent reality and this reality is an existent reality with a form and certain forces. It is not that way, rather we need to understand that all of this is only because it seems to us this way, hence we need to prepare ourselves for the true perception of reality. As we will change our quality to such an extent in which we will be able to move to the true reality from our imaginary reality as we will see that we were as dreamers and reveal ourselves as in the right correct way, so let’s see.
Reading #1 (05:20) “ It is written there is none else besides them..”
3. R (06:54) This means that is the main thing is to understand where we are mistaken on the path and that all these forces that by which we air come from above and the Creator sends them and it’s not that it depends on us rather only the Creator guides us through all the mistakes from which we will receive a complete desire to exit them correct ourselves. And it is not that we are correcting ourselves but rather we are appealing to the Creator demanding demanding for him to correct us until he corrects us and on the way we discovered that we are turning to the Creator to the extent that we which we are in the bad state as much as we cannot help ourselves in any way. And that other than help from the Creator nothing else can help us and what do we need to do so that we will finally receive help from, and we will be safe from all those holes problems that are on the path ahead of us.
4. S. (08:35) You said something interesting, he said that there are things in the world that came to begin with the intention to reject the person from the right way. What is the reason to divert the person from the right way?
R. The reason is that the Creator created them on purpose and that is called I have created the evil inclination. That we will against the evil inclination discover or search for the good inclining which is called Torah as a spice and then by this positive force we will correct the negative force and benefit twice.
S. I am asking because we do work, much much work for years and we are not successful?
R. Don’t tell me that you are doing work for years maybe you’ve did completely wrong work I don’t know but it is written that way like here and it is written in all the sources that the Creator created these bad thing so that you so that you in order for you to overcome them you will need his help. And then you will receive his help in the new correct form not the way you dreamed and expected it but rather something new From you a new person emerges.
S. What is the result? That the Creator will really be able to divert me from the right path from the right way? What do I need to do for him to put me in the right time because I’m not very successful?
R. You are not succeeding because you do not know how to ask.
S. Great, I remember you are saying that Rabash said why didn’t you ask, and I think that we are asking so why is it not working?
R. Beside the fact that you can cry out let say every 24 hours, but you are not crying out correctly?
S. What is the right cry out?
R. We need to know how to address him and how to ask how to pray.
S. This is my problem.
R. That is the problem because by that you will create the vessel in this vessel is actually what brings you closer to the Creator.
S. What do I need to do to create this vessel this Kli? So that I can ask for the Creator to really put me in the right path on the right way on the right line?
R. To turn to the Creator.
S. That’s what I’m asking: how do I turn straight to the Creator?
R. It is called connect to the friends as much as possible together as one man with one heart and to ask the Creator to give us this one heart . And that in that heart we will want one thing, adhesion in the Creator.
S. Yes but unfortunately how can I explain to you I don’t think this is happening?
R. Those are already other complaints you ask.
S. Only ask?
R. Yes.
5. S (12:20) What is the left rejects and the right brings closer?
R. From the side of the Creator there are two discernments that operate upon us advancing us on the way to the correction left and right. So the force of the left is considered that is rejects us pushes us towards the corrected recognition and the right is one that adduct us bring us closer to the right recognition and that’s how we advance, we have these two contradicting discernments and then between them we can choose what the path is in the middle line in the direct way.
S. How does it appear in this world the left and the right? And what is it expressed ? How do we recognize it?
R. Start working and you will see that one rejects and one attracts and one brings closer.
6. S (13:34) How important is the construction of the right intension before the Congress or is there anything else that we need to think about like actions or something?
R. To build the right intention before the convention is the most important thing.
7. S (14:08) We studied in the first lesson, in general we understand that fear is like a medicine for us remedy if we have fear of all sorts it helps us to listen better and help us in all. And without really we cannot attain so as if releases us from ourselves. But we cannot come out of this by ourselves so what is the remedy? Because it says everything is up to heaven other than the fear of heaven so do we ask for heaven to give us fear?
R. That is only in the real collective prayer of yours if you address the Creator together.
S. But together it also depends on the fear?
R. Well look for something you have to start. You see that we are starting nevertheless they are writings that we learn there is a certain fear of this world that we understand why it needs to be this fear as far as corporate fear and this is how we can come to the spiritual fear.
S. Yes it is as if you need to scrape it all the time in small doses until you can get a certain portion.
R. One will help his friend show one another that in each one of you there’s a little fear.
S. In the example before us, thanks.
8. S (16:05) You said that the person needs to connect with the friends and ask for the Creator. This is the center of the friend that I turn to the Creator through. Now throughout the day when I’m not with the friends physically if I imagine every friend in my mind and I’m hugged with them and turn to the Creator in Dvekut this is called connection ?
R. Yes that is with certainly no less than when you are with them and seeing them with your physical eyes.
S. And I have to try throughout the day to always hold the friends in the mind?
R. In your heart
9. S.(16:52) If only the suffering of Shechina is the room for mourning of a dead friend?
R. The sorrow of the divinity is the main thing for us since we cannot feel the will of the Creator in our yearning towards Him. That’s the main thing all the rest is becoming closer and further it comes and goes.
Excerpt #2 (17:42): “It is a law that the creature cannot receive disclosed evil from ….”
10. S. (19:20) What does it actually mean exactly the sorrow of divinity? Is it a metaphor to mean something or is it literal that the Creator feels pain like a dad feels pain but he has to reject his child’s demand to not to spoil him?
R. The Shechina is what we feel as the bestowal of the Creator upon us. And we need to come to a state in which it’s the bestowal of the creator to towards which we are adhered and in complete adhesion nonstop. That’s it. And all those things we attain specifically in not so pleasant states. Against the rejections against the darkness and the lack of feeling, we nevertheless bring ourselves closer to the bestowal of the Creator which comes from him and we’re ready to be connected to him even in these unpleasant states.
11. S. (21:07) In the beginning of the excerpt he writes that it cannot be that he receives the evil from the Creator in a disclosed way, sometimes you do feel that you do receive evil, so how can this sit with the fact that the creator doesn’t give you evil in a disclosed way?
R. We don’t feel directly from the Creator anything. Rather it all goes through our system, if our system isn’t aimed to adhesion with the Creator, then I feel opposite states from him, and then I discover him as far. If I am the opposite of that then I feel myself close, but again because all the changes can be only in us, and the Creator is always the good that does good, and I have not changed my essence meaning none else besides him the good that does good always. Therefore the changes that I feel in him related to us to me all depends on my vessels as they are constantly changing. And here I need to pay attention to how I stabilize my vessels such that they will constantly be aimed in a direct manner towards the Creator such that there is no good, there is no bad, but rather it is all simply none else besides him. That is our work.
S. So when I feel bad or evil and experience bad and evil so what is that?
R. If I feel something bad it’s a sign that corrupted vessels awaken in me and in them I feel bad. As the influence or bestowal from someone.
S. And his action is never evil?
R. It can never be, how can it be that he causes bad to anyone? If he is all good in his essence.
S. So what are the opposites if the creator never does evil?
R. In us as we are opposite him.
S. When we do corrections we can see that it’s not evil and even when you see horrors in front of your eyes how do you relate to them?
R. Also when I see disasters before my eyes and all kinds of problems before my eyes I need to say that it’s all happening in the vessels of the world and the vessels of the world are my vessels only that they are external vessels into the extent which I relate to them with love I won’t see them this way.
S. What is this addition of relating to love with everything to everything you see?
R. That I have to correct myself such that I will only see good things, where my vision will be corrected.
S. But when I look through my eyes do I still see the disaster?
R. No
S. Why not? There was an earthquake there suddenly won’t be an earthquake?
R. No we won’t see that.
S. Why?
R. In the corrected state we will not see the disaster because the disaster is happening in us in our shattered vessels. If we correct them in order to bestow then we will see only good things in them in place of all those disasters that we have seen and felt, we will see only the love of the Creator increasing love of the Creator.
S. What do we see in the corrected state?
R. Only Love
S. That a Kabbalist sees the world looks at the world what does it mean that he sees love?
R. A Kabbalist sees in the world in his vessels that everything is in the love of the creator towards him towards everyone. And well this is like you see that a child receives a punishment from his parents, so you can see it through the parents and the extent in which they must give him a punishment, and how much they themselves are crying from it. You can show it through the child and the extent with which your child cries and says daddy’s bad or mommy’s bad, and it all depends on you.
Of course the picture is much more complex but for the time being this is how it’s explained.
12. S. (27:40) One thing is that I simply say to myself this sentence there’s none else besides him and another thing is where I can actually connect with the Creator and seemingly advance with him meaning observe his direction, how to nevertheless come to there’s none else besides him to be in the feeling and be part of reality not just a saying?
R. This is how it will be slowly gradually, where we reveal to ourselves that there’s none else besides him the good that does good to the bad and to the good, and of course to each according to his vessels according to bring them to correction, and this is what we will discover this is how we will advance.
S. Continue Roy’s question: how does a Kabbalist come to such a feeling that even with such suffering and different states that were discovering we nevertheless see it? How does he do this guidance upon what we feel in this world?
R. I didn’t understand.
S. Let’s say there’s these earthquakes like Roy said, how does a Kabbalist come to the fact that he’s above them or behind them or simply separately see the perfection of the Creator’s love?
R. This depends on what state he is in. how much is desire is corrected his vessels. How close to the Creator he is. It is like in our world we don’t need to be in the spiritual world for that. If you understand what is going on then you see that the parents are punishing the child. We have an article where the kid wants to scratch an Itch in his eye with a needle and the child is screaming because the dad took away the needle. So the father explains to the passerby’s look what he wants he wants me to give him the needle because his eye scratches. You can’t do that so there are things that we don’t understand there are things that we cannot explain.
S. Meaning we need to understand the Creator to justify him?
R. We have to by default except that the world is built by a good force and let us figure it out as if it is built by a good force. And the Creator is the good that does good and if we see that it isn’t so then we write it off on ourselves because our eyes are not corrected. Because we have bad hearing, bad vision, to that degree that we are relating in good to each other to one another meaning will be able to correct each other to the love towards one another, to that degree we will correct our attitude towards the world. Imagine that a person has to undergo a surgery for the eyes, for the ears to be able to hear and see well, in the spiritual world it is the same thing you need to do a surgery you need to undergo a surgery on the eyes and the ears and then you’ll be able to perceive everything correctly. To hear and see.
S. Will be assembling for the convention soon we’ll come to such connection such love is maximal possible one, so what we will not see all the corruptions of the world with that state?
R. Maybe you will see but you will not attribute any meaning to them. It’s like seeing that a father spanks his son or doesn’t and ignores him and the son is screaming he wants ice cream but he has a sore throat and let’s say that he is not allowed and so the father doesn’t buy him ice cream. kids are saying to the father why are you such an egoist so cheap, buy him the ice cream. the father says no I can’t the doctor said no so does he love him or not love him? so this is how we look at everything from the side on everything that’s happening let’s be a little wiser.
S. Will we feel the love of the Creator in that we won’t we’ll also be able to relate to the suffering world like the child with the ice cream?
R. In this already you are trying to do some number eight. if I had known you’re saying if I had known and if I had seen then of course I wouldn’t relate to it as that. This is not correction is when you accept the guidance of the Creator with faith above reason. Not in your egoistic understanding, but in your altruistic. A little bit more a little bit more it will be clear for everyone.
13. S. (34:55) Does the perception of pain and suffering increase the closer we get to the final correction? And therefore should we embrace it?
R. Yes yes, also the sense of suffering will grow because everyone who is greater than the friend is desire is greater, and towards the final correction there will be bigger challenges, and together with that in accordance with that we grow. we are able to understand how to properly relate to everything that is happening.
14. S. (36:02) Lately everything is moving fast for me, the phone is writing all kinds of announcements on itself and I can’t control it.
R. Throw it out, throw it out.
S So how can I connect to the Ten?
S. The computer is doing the same thing to me?
R. I don’t know we have a problem.
S. Help me please.
R. I am not going to help anyone. That’s it, don’t think that someone needs to help you first help yourself.
15. S. (37:13) We learn that the apex of all of humanity is Beni Baruch and the attitude of Beni Baruch to everything defines everything that happens in the world etc. So when there are such global sufferings that are happening that are coming from the Creator like an earthquake boom and then it happens. And it’s as if nothing can change but our attitude of the Beni Baruch and all of humanity to justify or not justify the Creator. And there are sufferings that are Dynamic like all kinds of global conflicts. Here too everything depends on Beni Baruch whether they justify or not. What’s the difference between these two actions of the Creator between boom and happened and those that are dynamic?
R. It differs only by the individual and collective attitude of what is happening. Meaning we have to try to understand that the Creator is raising us, teaching us in this way. And in no way does he take our individual states into consideration but only how he can bring us closer to the collective and to the general correction.
Excerpt by Rabash: (39:20 ) “One should always sell the beams of his house.”
16.S. (42:59) What needs to take place for a person to move from a state in which he maybe does not blame but doesn’t understand the absurdity of life, of the world? In that state where he justifies what needs to happen.?
R. This is already raising of the individual of a person to the next degree you see. First he sees the world as it is, most of the people don’t even think about that they just exist. It’s like the animal exists; they exist, it doesn’t think about existing. There’s the I there’s me and I exist, I just exist.
S. It’s like I’m fed up of being in that state all the time?
R. I understand you but I am explaining to you in general, there are people that exist like that because this is how they exist, like animals, like a chicken, a dog or a cow it doesn’t matter, they exist and they don’t ask why, grew up got married had kids working, they exist until they die.
S. The development of a person needs to take place somehow in a change towards that state?
R. Of course what kind of question?
S. Why does that happen, sometimes you care, sometimes you justify it but I don’t enable myself and I’m not working the left line but I just received it as if?
R. This is you haven’t formulated your final attitude towards the Creator, it appears to you that you can relate to Him one way and relate to Him another way and this is your choice, but we are studying and look at our lives differently. We can of course critically relate to life, to ourselves, to the Creator, to our perception, to our reaction. The fact is if we accept the knowledge of the Kabbalists even temporarily just to see how much we have to change ourselves, then we put ourselves in the position that we live in a world that exists as a strictly positive force, strictly positive. And this force is raising us, develops us, and if we want to be maximally close to this force and develop fast and quickly under its influence, then we have to with all of our efforts with all of our strength to be as close to it as possible. Meaning to perceive all of its actions as positive regardless of how negative they may appear to us and then we begin to feel and understand and perceive that everything that exists only for our positive development, positive development includes in it also the negative development meaning the left line. Which gives us a variety of negative influences, and we have to receive them as necessary for our growth and feel them and sense them as positive. For now this is our work for now how to receive the influence of the Creator on us, maximally correct respond to it, that in the positive connection with the creatures, I can come closer to the Creator, begin to properly sense Him, feel Him, build His image, and begin to come closer to Him.
S. If so it’s better to not silence these states but just admit that now I’m in such a state in which I see bad and it’s bad for me and I see the state is bad but I want to rise above it.
R. Correct, that’s why you need the group so that you can in leaning on them you’ll be able to see the correct attitude of the Creator towards you.
17. S. (48:44) It turns out that we nevertheless see what we see and in faith above reason we can justify what’s happening and has to do with the attitude what’s happening?
R. We don’t change anything other than our attitude, our relation.
18. S. (49:18) None Else Besides Him and He is Good that does Good. When we don’t feel it what should be the prayer for us to align ourselves to the Creator’s work so that we don’t just say it but we feel it and we give strength to the vessel we give strength to the friend we give strength to Turkey so that they can feel it that indeed this is the truth. Because the sages have given us and we should hold on to this no matter what. What should be that prayer?
R. To understand that we’ll need to read Excerpt number four, how to properly correctly relate to life.
Excerpt #4. (50:35) “First Thing In The Morning…”
19. S. (52:47) I feel that there is a hastening of the time and a bigger gap between the feeling of pain and adhesion. How to deal with such a state?
R. Try more and more and more to repeat the lesson questions and answers, even if you find it a little hard until you understand them and feel them, there is no problem. I don’t see that there is a disturbance other than having to invest more, invest more. Don’t think it will come on its own, and not to place before the Creator conditions, that this is how I want to advance and this is how I don’t want to advance.
20. S. (53:58) When there is such a negative kind of false attitude towards the corporeal world can I turn to the Creator and ask for a correction or does it need to come as a result of the spiritual work?
R. To the Creator you’re able to turn always, for any reason and better if you align yourselves to such a degree to the Creator that you never disconnect from Him, you are always in contact with him. it is said about this, may you pray all day. You don’t need to pick a time or a condition, you need to constantly incessantly turn to the Creator. The most important thing is to not let go of Him from your site, not let him go from your site.
21. S. (55:24) We know that what the Creator does is always good, when we receive what we think of as pain or punishment it really isn’t, but when we complain or say something bad about the Creator can we say that within it is the truth of justifying the Creator?
R. Yes.
22. S. (56:07) There is a saddening state that I see with my corporeal eyes and I see a sorrowful State. The fact that I talk about it positively and justify it with the friends, is there any value to it and if so is there any value to it?
R. We will talk about it.
23. S. (56:41) How did Rabash relate to situations like we are in right now?
R. Just as we relate, just as we relate. Over the time that I was with him many states have passed, difficult, unpleasant, but we went through them because we exist in this world not to go through corporeal states but to rise above them to spiritual states. Everything is yet ahead of us which is why may everything be for the benefit of the Creator, and we try to turn every single thing to raise Him above us to a worthy place that He is worthy of.
24. S. (58:24) All the bad a person sees is only in his corrupted vessels. The question is whether the correction of the vessels doesn’t cause the fogginess of the senses and some indifference that takes place in him?
R. The opposite, the opposite, as much as a person develops himself, his senses grow sharper and sharper, more delicate, in tune, receiving greater and higher resolution. We see that as we develop over history, for example with musical instruments and more. Yes, so don’t worry we are evolving and growing closer to the final correction and all of this is ahead of us and close.