YESOD: TIKKUN CHATZOT תקון חצות – LESSON WITH RAV MICHAEL LAITMAN
Baal HaSulam. Introduction to the Book Panim Meirot uMasbirot, item 5
Morning Lesson July 22, 2022, Transcription
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Baal HaSulam. Introduction to the Book Panim Meirot uMasbirot. #5
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Reading Item 5 (00:17) “Now you will understand what is written in the Zohar…”
1. R. (00:40) The very important sentence in the correction of the Zohar, meaning the part of the Zohar is the Zohar is the book of the wisdom of Kabbalah and there this is written as a condition, as a law that should not be breached, that only through the expansion of the wisdom of Kabbalah in the masses and not in the few and in the masses we will be revealed and have complete redemption.
Reading continues (01:14) “Our sages said “and the light in …”
2. R. (02:29) Meaning we must advertise the wisdom of Kabbalah, to truly spread it out to each and every one as much as possible where each as much as he is capable will be able to incorporate himself in what is written in the wisdom of Kabbalah because within this, he connects himself with the upper light and call can already, with all of reality, to start moving towards the upper light.
Reading continues (03:01) “Therefore we must establish seminaries….”
3. S. (05:40) What does it mean the majority of the nation, the masses that will now enter the morning lesson, what is the masses?
R. It’s hard for me to say, I don’t know, I didn’t receive any commentary on that, and I also didn’t ask. I know that we need to try, meaning what is this give me, the multitude of the people, the majority, not the majority, who yearns, how many, I’m not going to count, I know what I have to do. To disseminate the wisdom of Kabbalah as much as possible upon to all the members of my generation and all the directions and in whatever way I can reach everyone and then it should be dependent on a person. The Creator wants a person to rise and awaken, he will, I continue this action of dissemination of dissemination of the Creator, that should bring to a person some awakening and bring him the opportunity and the means to connect to the wisdom of Kabbalah and to the Creator through the books through the internet. This is what I am doing and what is from them, I don’t exactly know what is happening, I don’t know. I can know in general but really you see how you can say that is what happened in the days of Baal HaSulam, a World War and all those things, in what that did that help him. Who could understand him, who wasn’t interested in what he wrote, nothing, nothing and that is how it is with many kabbalists throughout the generation? Therefore I look at what I am capable, where I can, what I must do, I am not the Messiah, wherever it is possible to bring forth the dissemination of the wisdom of Kabbalah, I do. I think that is all our work even though we’re already in the generation of the Messiah but practically for this time, for the time being, where we can contribute to this, we must and that’s it.
S. You’ve been teaching us for years. I do have a question about that, I understand our work, simply trying to understand what will be the indication that we are coming closer to that state that he’s describing her because he’s not giving us any discount here. Saying that people want to just hear about the wisdom and can truly enter in the internality and its secrets. This is what I’m asking about, we will do our work.
R. What else can you do, what else can we do?
S. I don’t know, I heard from you over many years that what we need to do is to disseminate the message of connection, that this is enough and the message of connection, it’s not the internality of the Torah. Internality of the Torah is thousands more of things and hours of studies that I don’t know if anybody else can do it besides us.
R. That is after you reach Lishma what else can you do rather you can study the study of ten Sefirot but all together until you enter into the internality, and you are in a state of from Lo Lishma coming to Lishma then you learn some kind of external technology. Therefore we learn it for the sake of evoking and awakening the upper light just like he writes there in the study of ten Sefirot, item 155. I have awakened the surrounding lights that surround one’s soul which come and help us connect, yes.
4. S. (10:20) The expansion of the wisdom in the nation, can that happen in the ten?
R. We learn that after the groups of students all kinds of groups come to us, you don’t have some selection, whoever comes, comes and men, women and you teach them generally. Later you have to keep on learning and on the next step and the person level then it’s best if you divide men and women apart, when should you do that? You should see it from your practice. Can you divide or maybe they won’t like it and they will leave and maybe I truly will hold them and that’s how we start after maybe a year, have been learning, getting all this knowledge, how it happens with you, you should know it. I’m not going into that.
S. I’m not asking about that specific action, how it happens in the studies, but it says it’s only when the wisdom expands in the nation the full redemption will come. So what is the difference between expanding from the wisdom to connection in the and to actual dissemination and status and publishing articles and books.
R. When you publish books, is that disseminating the wisdom of Kabbalah? You have to explain why and what for and that only comes through that. When you bring them to the study. It doesn’t have to be a study when they come to a lesson with their body in some place, he can be through the internet as we do it but without you teaching them for a year, suppose a year, about the wisdom of Kabbalah you cannot start because in the beginning they won’t know the language they won’t know what it’s about.
S. So we have to teach them virtual or whichever form, it can’t be they get it through other pipelines?
R. What other pipelines?
S. We say that everything is in the ten, so is the nation also in the ten and the expansion of e wisdom can happen in the interconnection, it can also spread to them.
R. First of all we see that even Moses organized the nation by tens, it is written in Yitro portion, this one thing and this is how Rabash did, if you are talking about people you are already teaching them the wisdom of Kabbalah, it has to be something some relative group where they can realize the connection between them, to understand how difficult it is on the one hand, how desirable it is on the other hand, they have to feel it, that this is how it is done. I just as you do it in your ten, this is how the whole of humanity has to be.
5. S. (14:20) It is written here that the Messiah, the son of David will come in a generation where everyone is worthy, and people will stop chasing after honor, but we still have to see how everyone is chasing this car and money.
R. As much as I can hear what you are saying I didn’t hear well but it seems to me that your question is when can the Messiah be revealed? So it is written either in a generation when they are all guilty, or in a generation where they are all innocent. You have to understand what it means. Either there is a full revelation of evil, that means they are all guilty or a generation where maybe they corrected itself, so they are all innocent. So it is one of the two. There the Messiah can come. Meaning the upper light appears over humanity. The Messiah is the upper force that draws us from our ego, from your order to receive to in order bestow to the connection. Either in the generation that wants it and comes to that or in a generation that they are all guilty. Meaning they discovered that they are in the will to receive in order to receive and that’s their whole desire. It is one of these two. We have to come to that. When do we come to that? When we place all our strength to connect, then we discover we don’t want or maybe even we do one, but we can’t. Meaning we have to reach some end and then we cry out to the Creator for help. Then comes what we call the Messiah, the Mashiach the force that pulls us from this world to reality. Then we enter the upper dimension, when we start to feel reality as you feel it now, the corporeal reality, atoms, molecules, of these bodies. Rather you go into a system of spiritual forces, not physical as we now are in. Rather forces of perception and bestowal, the combination of these two forces that truly hold the system of the true reality.
6. S. (17:45) What does it mean that students who are not ready? What does that mean?
R. The ones who learn that want to use the wisdom of Kabbalah for their own needs.
S. They don’t want to connect and bestow?
R. It is not for the sake of others.
7. S. (18:21) We know that the process of correction is completely different for people with points in the heart and for people who do not have the points in their hearts.
R. Yes.
S. We are turning to all layers and our language has to be different. What is the many of the nation? The people with the points in the heart?
R. We have to open the wisdom of Kabbalah for everyone because we cannot sort out and divide the general public, the world public into two kinds. Rather these people themselves start to see where they are. How much they belong to the internality or less. They are here more aware or less aware, but everyone is nonetheless a part of that flow of humanity when all humanity has to connect them bring themselves to one system for the Creator to be revealed in the connection of all people.
S. Not to sort out the form of dissemination according to the audience?
R. Why? Why, I didn’t understand you. We have to relate to everyone as much as we can openly. We cannot sort them out in advance. Let’s still have this and then those. Rather we have to open up the Wisdom of Kabbalah to everyone in general. As much as they can use the wisdom of Kabbalah in connection to Arvut and to reach connection through the friends and through the Creator. They will discover the upper reality, that is revealed entirely in connection above separation. This is how we will draw everyone. Ultimately everyone will come.
Some are drawn out of their desire that this is latent in their heart, and some don’t have this desire. After all kinds of events that will affect them, with trouble. Yes, I asked Rabash, what can I do? As much as we disseminate the wisdom of Kabbalah nothing helps. He said there is still trouble missing. How can you affect this will to receive this beast? Only when the trouble arises then they start looking for a way how they can run away from these troubles. In the connection between the trouble and then running away, they start discovering that the true running away, the true exit is rising above the will to receive. Then you can be certain that you run away, away from all your trouble.
8. S. (22:10) Rav, about the Mashiach it is written that we wait for my Mashiach every day and He would arrive but there are some that say that I want my Mashiach to come but not until we leave this world. There is also a longing and there’s also fear from the judgment so what is the judgment that the generation will face with the revelation of the Mashiach?
R. We have to rise to a degree that is entirely in order to bestow. That is called Messiah son of David. David is a symbol of Malchut for us. That’s why it’s called the king and for that reason there has to be a revelation in the will to receive in Malchut. The feeling that there’s no chance for correction but that comes specifically after we almost reach correction on our own. Then in the shift between there is no possible correction and there is a possible correction that’s called the kingship of David, Malchut of David. The fact that is written that many people didn’t want , or don’t want to live in the revelation of this kingship of David that’s true because all the gaps between the will to receive and the will to bestow will be revealed. These things are written and there’s no reason to be afraid of that. We shouldn’t let them stop us, let’s advance and pass it. Whatever happens and what is before us is only the revelation of the kingship of David. Meaning the revelation that the Creator is shining all over His creation and He’s revealed.
S. In the writings of Baal HaSulam he talks about a righteous nation that will awaken the revelation of the Mashiach can we say that in this generation of Bnei Baruch is that righteous group or nation?
R. We should nonetheless make an effort if not to be an example or not to be a structure of Justice and the last generation to at least try to reach it, to somehow be aimed at that. I do not think that we are in such a degree. However, just like children let’s say we are dreaming of it, but the creator will make us such a society an organization such a nation so to speak, a collection of people that will resemble, to a certain extent a system that resembles the end of Correction. It all depends on how much light is bestowed on us from above.
9. S. (26:30) Our sages said that the Messiah son of David will co0me at a generation that all is worthy or completely worthy. What are those two opposites?
R. If we are ready or worthy of the upper light then it will come and sanctify us and raise us to a higher degree. Then we pray, we draw it, and He comes and does this action. If we are not ready we will discover that we are not ready, that we are the opposite then we will cry out for him to come and correct us, and by this correction it will raise us and fill us meaning, the result should be the same for the vessels to be corrected and the light fills them, and this whole point should be either by us, all of us feeling that we are incapable and then the upper light corrects us or we already come to some correction between us and the upper light only compliments our correction
S. Could it be like in the study of TES when he speaks about the two opposites to reach connection?
R. That is possible.
Reading (28:06) “With these words I am buying myself from a considerable complaint…”
10. R. (31:20:) This mean that he’s trying to say that seems or even after the words of ARI and his students that arranged all of the words of ARI as much as they did he can already engage in the wisdom of Kabbalah as the age of the Messiah when on everything depends on us and we are allowed to do everything.
Reading (31:50) #6 “And now sons do hear me: The wisdom cries aloud outside…”
11. R. (36:05) This is a great thing he’s telling us about, meaning, as much as creation has to be around meaning, all the rules, the tendencies, the forces upper and lower are opposite but how to make them come together as one? Both the plus and the minus everything acts for one purpose, one goal that is above the plus and minus and above all the forces of Creation that is why we do not know, do not discover the same purpose of connection and that is what we should actually discover.
12. R. (37:24) Yes, he writes here that the wisdom…how can a wisdom like we have call people that cannot hear us.
R. That’s true but we have no choice. We should as much as we can reach the broadest dissemination as Kabbalists tell us and they understand that, they feel where we are regarding the lights that come from above from above, from the upper world through the upper system to us to in this world and that we are probably ready to really relate and connected in spiritual forces and to rise along with the whole world to a higher degree. Meaning, in our intellect, in an emotion, everything we have in this world for a higher force, a connection, a need will be rebuilt that we will open our eyes, we’ll open our intellect, our brains, our emotions so we will see where we exist. We will be like small kittens when they are born; they don’t see anything, they don’t understand anything. That’s how we have to try to reach the entire humanity and to show it that it is about time. We are on the verge of and in between two possibilities on the atomic world war as Baal HaSulam says that the next World War will be nuclear, or we can reach the correction so this dangerous has to push us forward and to bring us to correction.
S. We really feel that we are in a special time. Let’s say here in Ukraine there is fourteen million refugees. It is unbelievable, all these people standing around the city. What can I explain to them so that they can reach some kind of conclusion?
R. I don’t know how to answer you. I don’t know what to say. I have no words. I think that we need nonetheless but in a subtle way, in a gentle way. When people are in such a states they are very sensitive, so we have to come close to them in a very slowly. I think that you in Ukraine really can open the dissemination of the wisdom of Kabbalah on the internet where that reaches and other possibilities and so to at least prepare yourselves for dissemination in this country. This war will certainly end and let’s hope that it does soon and after that we will be, there won’t be any more missiles or this situation that is now present and in this sensitive states people are in we have to try to bring this method, the right method to when coming closer everyone will save humanity as a whole but first of all of this country, this nation it will save you from the trouble and when we start engaging in that disseminating the method of correction then we will start to understand why this trouble is upon us specifically. I’m talking on behalf of the Ukrainian people. They will understand why they come to you rather than someone else and you will see in the past what you have done a long time ago and just a while ago and why you have to suffer on the one hand, and on the other hand, you will reach correction I do not want to up in that too much because other things will be revealed and we can talk.
13. S. (43:17) Don’t you think that we need a miracle like the miracle of coming out of Egypt?
R. If you pray for a miracle there it will be a miracle, go ahead.
S. Because what I see here is not good, not to either side so will the Creator get into this, intervene in this?
R. The Creator is always in the mixture, in the center of things but it’s our problem to try to rise above our nature, to ask from Him to raise us above our nature. When we do not want to stay in our nature, but nature will bring us corrections in to our will to receive. How can that be? What we need to ask from him is to ask above our nature; from in order to receive to in order to bestow, from separation to connection, from dejection to connection then everything will be fine.
S. So everything depends on us and our connection?
R. Everything depends on us.
14. S. (44:45) He writes about the allegory of man that is comprised of the upper and lower. Can there really be a state like an innovation in the creation of the Creator?
R. I did not understand. Man resembles a Creator be because he’s made on the opposite of the Creator and the point of bestowal that come from the Creator From these two points, these two opposite forces that’s what makes a person Adam, human, that’s why all that is upon us to do is a scrutiny. Who do we want to be with?
S. What’s the innovation that we are adding to Creation?
R. Our choice. When we, in all the order to receive that we are in by the connection between us and by the light that reforms we start to understand that in order to bestow is a desirable, nice goal we have to reach.
S. It is something that wasn’t there before?
R. Right, no. By the lower one’s choice it never happened. The Creator created the whole person who was Adan HaRishon prior to the sin, you didn’t feel the sin or anything. It was like a baby being born.
S. How, on the one hand, the Creator didn’t complete creation?
R. That is not His work. By us competing creation we discover creation, we go into the composition of creation, we can feel it from the inside.
S. On one hand we say that third state is already existing?
R. It exist on behalf of the Creator, it has to be but, it is not on our behalf, not from our side.
S. So that the question; is that really an innovation in creation?
R. It is an innovation for us for sure. It is like a little child, and you want him to have this and that and he does not know about, but you lead him to a state gradually until he comes, and he is there, changed.
15. S. (47:30) He says that everything that the Creator did he did it for himself. So the Creator suddenly is the biggest egoist?
R. The Creator only does that because he wants to draw the entire creation to Him. You can say it is the biggest thing but why does He do that? For us we need to rise to the peak of the entire nature and we the entire nature will be around us, both the will to receive and the will to bestow. We will be in the degree of the Creator, when all our nature in order to receive and in order to bestow will be below us and we like the Creator will be above even the will to receive and the will to bestow. That’s what He wants to happen. These are things that maybe we don’t really understand; think about it
S. But these things between the lines always felt in the background that we are doing everything for His benefit.
R. It is not that we do it for Him and because of it although that is what is seems. The fact that we want to do it for him is in order to disconnect from our will to receive.
S. Everything is clear, but it is only rarely speaking about this. It is written it is like the donkey, the ass, in front of the Creator, like the Creator before a person so it doesn’t seem that what is written here is that the Creator created us to give us pleasure?
R. The Creator created us in order to raise us to his degree so that we will enjoy the fact that we become like him, on the one hand and on the other hand the state of being like the Creator is truly the opposite of what he made us and then it turns out as we come to Him we elevate ourselves in our free choice, in our free choice to the degree that we do not want to be connected to in order to receive, few don’t want it to be connected to us. We want to adhere to the Creator and to simply disconnect from what we used to be. There are no words here. We need to try to think about it more and more and it will become clearer to us.