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

Baal HaSulam. The Teaching of the Kabbalah and Its Essence

Morning Lesson August 10, 2022, Transcription 

Transcription is made from simultaneous translation which leaves a possibility for differences in the audio 

Part 2:

Baal HaSulam. The Teaching of the Kabbalah and Its Essence (Necessity and Unfolding of the Expansion of the Wisdom)

Reading Necessity and Unfolding of the Expansion of the Wisdom: (00:07) “Since the whole of the wisdom of Kabbalah …” 

R. 1. (02:34) Meaning anything that’s in this world even an atom or doesn’t matter a molecule anything that there is, there is nevertheless an upper force that sustains it and aims, that guides and manages it, governs it.

Continues: (02:54) “Thus the world and merge imprinted on one another…”

2. R. (03:22) There’s nothing from our world that doesn’t come from above, it all comes from above and first settles and comes into from above, from the Upper force to bestow in the form of absolute bestowal. This entire system in which is accumulated and established in absolute bestowal descends down words that cascades and inverts down with such forms that we can reveal here already.

S. So each and everything there was an action that came first an angel came and told me to grow, so what am I?

R. Of course, you are that object upon which that angel is beating his action and he is compelling you to do that action.

S. So also the response is another blow?

R. No, here’s the matter where there’s another agreement with it where the Creator has given you a blow of sorts through the angel and you begin to feel this is good this is bad, and the order went and we’re between the two whether it’s pleasant or unpleasant truth or falsehood and then if we raise the truth above what’s unpleasant then we advance towards the truth or the opposite of that.

S. That place is a vacant place or it’s also a response?

R. This is where your choice comes; your choices is to choose the environment that will help you to hold on to the truth is the truth, free choice that’s what we learn.

S. Straight as out of pure clean choice of mine or just to agree?

R. No, just to agree, the Creator will do whatever he has to do with you, but you can hasten this path. Hence with your agreement, you’re hurried or rapid agreement with what the Creator does, and this rapidity or speed depends on how connected you are to the society, to the environment. The environment helps you understand that it’s worthwhile to go together with it and with the environment and you establish in the environment such a mutual power with which you can advance. At first it appears to you as some kind of game and gradually this begins to take on certain spiritual support and then through the group, where there are ten egoists like me and we alter the game between us, come to a serious spiritual life.

S. What is that mutual force that becomes spiritual? What does that help us for advancement?

R. By helping one another, we act towards one another, we’re not serious, on the other hand we are nevertheless, supportive of one another.. Also through envy, lust, and honor, it’s kind of a lie upon lie equals a truth, it’s truly so. A group of liars, egoistic liars, that want to just, each for his own benefit, when they connect together and begin to each act towards the others, it’s kind of sold-out game, of course the lie becomes the truth.

S. You said that it’s difficult to act with love towards a friend but it’s something necessary and also today it’s difficult for you, that it’s the most difficult thing to work to express love towards with friends. 

R. Yes, yes, but we also need to understand that we are in a group that we can do this towards the others as seemingly proud of it each that is engaged to towards the others we are in very interesting matters here that the connections between us, the egoistic connections, we come to true spiritual discernment of love and mutual bestowal It’s very interesting, it’s called that eventually the angel of death will become and be called the Holy Angel.

S. The special forces in the acting that suddenly, it becomes real spiritual, from acting to truth.

R. It’s not that we’re acting but it’s because we’re doing bestowal and the influence of the light from above.

S. Where in the point from acting do we ignite the Creator within us?

R. In the equivalence, just like a child from what place tell me for what place it starts to be from his game starts to be serious enough to where they start to actually build him but we this way, see things.

S. Okay so to speed it up, I’m trying to find that point where the game becomes reality. What’s that moment?

R. It’s to the extent that everyone that has to do with support, it doesn’t have to do with the act of the game itself but with the support that there is from the people, therefore it is in the multitude of people is the glory of the king.

3. S. (10:35) Why do we only know the language of pressure to advance?

R. Because we’re egoists, don’t you understand this on yourself? We’re egoists, we cannot stand being pressured and this is a problem. Look at yourself, look at the people around you, no one wants to feel the pressure.

4. S. (11:16) How does a Kabbalist clothe the light into words?

R. Light and words, I don’t understand.

S. Like when we disseminate, it’s not just words that are in the books and also when you explain along with the explanation, as a teacher you also passed the light that is clothed in the words?

R. That depends, I can’t explain that for the time being, we don’t have a common feeling for the time being when it comes to that but of course after every, behind every bestowal of a person upon another person even between not spiritual people, who are not in spirituality yet, nevertheless the bestowal between them, the influence between them is somewhat spiritual somewhat. All together there’s nothing in our world that appears as corporeal connections, it’s all spiritual, it just is measured in every minute measures, we will talk about that.

S. It’s written that the wisdom will be revealed in our days that even the children will learn it. How can we give the foundation to children of the wisdom of connection?

R. Other than connection there is nothing because we are correcting the shattering that was prepared for us by the Creator in advance and in the connection that we connect more and more just like a Lego or blocks that we built together a building or a picture, by that we begin to understand the Godly mind, his intention, what he wanted why he did it.

5. S. (13:44) We don’t have appreciation of acts of bestowal, love, so what will give us envy and takes us out of ourselves?

R. We need to try and appreciate these actions of connection and love, of mutual support and if not then we receive blows from above and then we can appreciate more the mutual support from the friends, and this is how we learn. This is how we learn.

Continues reading: (14:35) “Thus it is easy to know that we can speak of the upper worlds….”

6. R. (15:16) Well, he’s explaining things here that we’re not drawn to that we don’t understand, for mostly it’s the language of Kabbalah.

Continues reading: (15:25) “Thus it has been made clear that the revelation of….”

7. R. (15:55) Thus cascading from above downward and also in the rising from below upwards, in all these degrees we need to acquire, to receive to absorb them because this is altogether called the revelation of the Creator to the created being.

Continues reading: (16:15) “It is like a person….”

8. S. (18:25) It’s written and my question is, how is this pyramid structure expressed in the way that Baal HaSulam writes, that man has to reveal everything that we’re built as a pyramid, one is at the top of the pyramid, one is at the bottom so how is it expressed what he writes here that everything has to be revealed to a person but we’re different?

R. We are different but when we connect together, we complement, complete the lacks that each of us has and we can’t depict how we complete one another. Because if and the corporeal connection we connect in such a way that each one kind of inhales from everyone to kind of absorb into himself this way, of course that’s a limited and not whole. So in a spiritual manner I connect by going outside of myself towards everyone and then everyone is me and then I attain and feel what’s in everyone and therefore there will be no limitation in attainment of that.

S. And then the pyramid becomes a circle?

R. As a sphere, yes.

9. S. (20:06) He says that revelation of the Creator doesn’t happen once but it’s something that goes through a gradual process, until all the degrees are revealed. We learn with you that all the revelation is the first blow, meaning the first revelation is that is the revelation of the Creator and here it’s written….?

R. I didn’t say that way, why are you saying things that I didn’t say that. That’s not how I said it. I said that the first revelation is the most difficult one for the one who’s attaining. that’s it/

S. That’s what I’m talking about, here he says that it’s not once but it’s something gradual.

R. Correct, until the end of correction and that’s the whole ladder of degrees.

S. So my question is so, isn’t the first revelation, obviously it’s the beginning but it’s the first revelation where the Creator is revealed to the created being in a small part.

R. Yes.

S. So that’s the difficulty, afterwards it’s easy then you said it already happened on its own.

R. No, it never rolls on its own like that it’s a ladder and it’s a hard ladder, but you become accustomed, you get to know what’s happening, you understand. It’s like I entered school, so you don’t know what’s happening and what’s going on and what they want from you but afterwards you get accustomed to it, and you know that this is how you have to behave, this is how they’re behaving with you. It’s not that it’s become easy, it even becomes more difficult, but you’re used to it already you’re learning this process, it’s already in you.

S. Why is the first revelation so difficult that it is almost impossible?

R. Because it is new, because entering from Lo Lishma to Lishma, is a new thing, it’s a very important but it’s very difficult because through this a person replaces, in this he replaces his inclinations. 

S. His perception.

R. Not just perception, his inclinations, it’s deeper than perception.

S. Why is it so difficult to attain that first degree? Why is it so difficult?

R. So that it will necessitate help from the Creator for the Creator to help you.

S. For the Creator so how do I reach the Creator to help me?

R. Therefore he needs to make it difficult for you, so you will demand, so he will open the gates for you. 

S. Through the friends, you don’t have any other way?

R. Correct, that’s why we need to break ourselves and connect with a friend and it’s very difficult, anyone who is greater than his friend, his inclination is greater than him. Where it is very difficult to connect with the friends.

S. How do I make it less difficult?

R. Close your eyes and enter with your eyes shut, as it is written, truly just do and don’t think. 

S. To annul before the friends?

R. Annul yes, towards the situation and the state will start operating towards you and after it works on you you’ll understand that it’s correct..

S. And suddenly the Creator will be revealed?

R. And then we’ll see if it is suddenly or not.

10. S. (24:36) How did the forefathers relate to the fact that in the last generation we’re going to need a new language, did they make preparations for this?

R. I didn’t understand you. Could you explain who the new languages are and who are these patriarchs?

S. I think he means the forefathers. 

R. The patriarchs, there’s no issue of time, they are already at the end, and they see from one end to the other end, that’s why all the problem’s for us, it’s a problem but not for them and they explained it like a teacher in school, that she knows how what the child needs and what he needs to absorb. She tells it to him in a way that she knows it’s better for him and she adapts these things for him, into pictures and words, fairy tales and all kinds of…. until he grows and he starts entering it in a better or in a more serious way, natural way that’s how we are.

11. S. (26:36) He writes for us here that the Upper worlds are the main ones, and we attain them at once because there’s no difference between them. What does it mean we attain them at once?

R. When we reach an upper degree, we start understanding the method and the approach and how we go through it. We become experienced, we have forces and vessels, that’s why we attain them in a different way, we’ll learn about that also in TES, that’s not an issue. The main thing for us is as Baal HaSulam writes is the first degree. That’s where the main difficulty is that we need to understand what they are expecting from us, how we can go through from one degree to the next, how we climb. That’s a problem. The main thing is the first degrees.

Reading Spiritual Expressions: (27:50) “The spiritual has no image …” Twice.

12. S. (39:43) Why is it not important what we attain with the mind but it’s important to attain the essence and then either the mind and the body will attain the complete form, what is the meaning?

R. If we understand what we’re talking about and what we need to reach, even if we don’t attain these things in a clear way, individually we already reach this general perception that we are entering a state as if we know it all, that’s the important part. Because if I’m in a state, a general state which is familiar or at least I accept it as something friendly towards me, it helps me in heart and soul to connect to it even if I don’t understand it, just like a baby. That on behalf of nature he’s adhered to the mother even though he doesn’t understand why he’s adhered to her, he’s dependent on the mother even though he doesn’t know why he is dependent on her, but this feeling is actually, this deficiency is what nature awakens in him. Meaning everything above us that is activating us, that actually lets us connect to those higher degrees and advance to knowing them and adhering to them. That is very important and this approach from the Creator towards the created beings testifies to his love towards the created beings, that he wants to bring us into him and in such a way raise us, that we will want to be inside him. That’s why all of our work is to gradually receive the qualities of Lishma. The qualities of in order to bestow, of connection, different forms of annulment from us to the Creator that he can take care of us in a complete way, and we also annul to him also in the complete way.

S. Does this also imply the importance of the Creator above everything we feel, we don’t understand, we do understand, is that correct?

R. Gradually, that is what we need to bestow towards the friends, to influence the friends, the importance of the Creator, there’s nothing more than that. If the Creator will be more important than our ego, that itself keeps awakening all kinds of forms in us so upon those forms we will have to appreciate him more but that he helped by one thing and its opposite so we can ascend more and more and enter his treatment.

13. S. (44:03) Replacing every state from reception to bestowal already needs to be in the quality of bestowal?

R. We receive all these forms of bestowal upon us, it’s us adapting ourselves to the Creator in order to incorporate in him, be inside of him, that he himself is all of reality, all of the reality that you can even imagine to yourself for not imagine, it doesn’t matter. It’s all the quality of bestowal of the Creator and also the quality of bestowal in everything because it’s being revealed towards you, but the Creator is way above it. It’s where the Creator there’s no you or someone that the quality of bestowal can be revealed towards you, there’s no need for that. That’s why we need to enter the Creator and let him work on us, organize, and stabilize us and in this way we will discover his uniqueness and his wholeness.

14. S. (45:37) I guess the spiritual has no image and he repeats it later, what does it mean?

R. We don’t need imagination for spirituality, we have all the corporeal vessels, friends, books, our actions for connecting surrounding light that we awaken by it, we need to see in our work, practical work. According to our efforts as much as they become internal, external, by this we awaken the Upper force against us, not that he’s against us, but he works against that and works for us and in this way we advance.

S. And why are there images or imagination and corporeality and not in spirituality, how to use this corporeal imagination?

R. It’s written that spirituality is above all imagination, it doesn’t require imagination, you have to reach it in a way where you feel it in all your senses and especially in your senses that there’s no question about them. When I start feeling the Creator I have no question about it. I feel and I reveal in a way that it’s clear to me that he exists and it’s clear that it’s him working and it’s against me, working with me as a partner and I have no question whether he exists or not.

S. So what were we given an imagination for, in corporeality, we have this phenomenon called imagination?

R. So we can rise from one degree to the next, between the degrees we have to use the imagination and if you remember we were speaking about the stages of concealment and state of revelation, there’s four stages, so yes, we need to.

15. S. (48:02) If so we’re entering these states through the study of this article?

R. Yes.

16. S. (48:32) In science in our world, the advanced science, let’s say those who are studying the brain or biology, physics, quantum physics, scientists have reached such a perception that there’s a certain awareness that depicts the picture of reality but they can’t attain it, it’s beyond the borders of their attainment and what we learn in the wisdom of Kabbalah is that specifically that part we learn, which is a wisdom of the perception of how awareness works.

R. That’s why the Wisdom of Kabbalah is called the wisdom of receiving how to receive the revelation of godliness in our world and how to feel it, how to feel Him and grasp Him, that we will be able to also give Him to other people, the next generations, yes. That’s the perception of Kabbalah, the wisdom of Kabbalah, how to receive that reality that can be clothed, that can be felt, that can be clothed in our five senses where humans work and if it can’t be clothed there then how can it be clothed in our brain?

It can’t because our brain, our mind is a result of all our feelings that we feel from in our world, that develop in our world and by that we are building and building and building in our ways all kinds of forms, discernment, images, connections, all those synapses and so on. That’s why we can’t perceive the spiritual world so what do we do? So what can you do? So we reach this state that we must develop something new. What is that new thing?

The connection between us that will be and teach us what it means to discover in us these new connections in our mind and in our heart that man doesn’t have but we can perform it and if we build them gradually, these connections, so they are like the synopsis in our minds, in our brain, that they connect all kinds of things that are direct and opposite in all kinds of forms that they are actually the formulas of connection in material and in distance in the environment and everything there is and by that we build vessels inside us to perceive these things that are above the corporeal mind and feeling and in this way we bring ourselves to an ability to perceive spirituality I don’t have words we will get there. The words will come. When you’ll be ready, I’ll be ready.

17. S. (53:03) According to the example in the text that you read he demonstrates this matter in this text. You can think, you can observe, you can maybe understand it with your mind or even the text itself is meant to…

R. Read it a few times and you’ll see as much as there are more and more things that are clear and unclear, and it will help you establish yourself in a new perception.

18. S. (53:50) From what I understood from what we read, In spirituality also the baby and also an old person attain the same world, but the old person sees all its expressions and can use them in the right way and the baby doesn’t yet understand but maybe just kind of feels it somewhat?

R. That’s like in our world. We see the world like children, but we also understand from what we see much more than them, the connections between the things we see them much more.

19. S. (54:32)  No translation in Hebrew or English

R. Of course it depends on as much as we connect between us. That’s clear.

 20. S. (54:56) How can we advance to adhesion with the Creator in the best, most effective way? How can dissemination support this?

R. You supposedly understand the questions and the answers so why are you asking me? Obviously, it’s only through connection, that’s the answer.

21. S. (55:25) The spiritual father and mother exist also in the corporeal world?

R. No, they are all spiritual qualities that are above man.

22. S. (55:45) Is the connection between causes and consequences on the corporeal and spiritual plain?

R. Yes or no, yes or no. If it’s towards the group so it’s more correct, if it’s towards an individual so it’s less correct. That’s it.

23. S. (56:16) Is it correct to say that the form that is obtained from an action is like from your actions we get to know you?

R. Mostly yes.