YESOD: TIKKUN CHATZOT תקון חצות – LESSON WITH RAV MICHAEL LAITMAN
Baal HaSulam. Newspaper “The Nation”
Morning Lesson September 21, 2022 Transcription
Transcription is made from simultaneous translation which leaves a possibility for differences in the audio
Part 2:
Baal HaSulam. The Nation (The Individual and the Nation. start with: “Therefore, it is a must for every nation” )
Reading The Nation: Therefore, it is a must… (00:10)
1. R. (02:05) Do you understand what he’s talking about here? He is saying that we need to be connected, all of us like parts in our body, only the parts in the body are connected instinctively and working naturally. That no one is thinking of any action that he needs to do for himself, that they’re already built that way from their mind and from their desire and from the general plan.
That’s why there is no problem that the hand moves or the leg moves or there are all kinds of things moving and all of that is in order to do a certain action for the well-being of the head for example. Every single joint does not feel any difficulty in that because everything, everyone feels if it’s needed or not, if it’s wanted or not, meaning the connection of the different parts in the body is that every part doesn’t have any calculation for itself but they’re all connected for the well-being of the body. However among human beings we are separated by each and every one’s individual ego, the individualism.
That is why we have a problem here. which is correcting the connection between us. How can we rise above our ego, above our laziness, above our difficulty to move, where will we get this energy from this motivation that he speaks of here? In order to bring the parts closer, the bodies, to think of something or someone but even if I do think of someone I immediately think of myself. To what extent will it help me, what do I need to do and how will it get back to me in here we need to be connected in a completely different way like parts in a single body, that part does not have its own calculation but the only calculation for the body that is how we need to be connected that all of us will think only of humanity in general and not of one’s own self benefits, is that even possible? Oh, well continue.
Reading The Nation: This does not mean… (05:16)
2. S. (07:06) When we talk about a nation, our perception of it could be the ten, the world Kli, whoever has a point in the heart?
R. Not everyone, the nation is a collection of people that has some sort of connection, some sort of relation and then you want to take this connection and see what connection above the natural connection. Let’s say it’s a village or a kibbutz and then you ask okay according to what can they be connected? So here he’s speaking of the extent of connection between them which is called mutual guarantee.
S. Yes, so in a familial connection there is a blood collect connection.
R. Yes.
S. Later when it becomes a village or a country, the connection is considered….?
R. Yes it’s falling apart already, the connection is falling apart, it’s not like it’s in a family and that is why there is a problem. That there isn’t really connection between people, so it’s done in the connection between them that we build a wall and they put on, they make someone in charge and they say now you are responsible for one another, so in the family it’s the head of the family and in the city at the head of the city and that’s how they existed.
S. But the Israeli nation never existed like that, it is not based on families?
R. True, if you already speaking of this group called Israel, Yashar Kel, straight to the Creator, that was always the direction.
S. So that’s what he’s talking about here, he’s talked about the Israeli Nation here.
R. Yes.
S. So what’s the connection here families?
R. No he’s explaining in general, where are you?
S. On the line, However as the generations….
R. However as the generations evolved we’re already societies connected under the term state go ahead and read.
Reading continues (09:43)
3. R. (10:29) Okay that’s clear this is how we are built today, it doesn’t relate to family or even to nationality or anything like that. It can be red, white, yellow, it doesn’t matter, whoever lives in the country as long as they pay taxes and they use everything that’s it.
Reading continues (10:54)
4. R. (12;29) There needs to be a natural connection on behalf of nature.
Reading continues (12:36) “However domination based on….”
5. R. (13:51) Yes so what can help us here is only one thing, that there will be in relations of love otherwise there will be no relation just like in a single body.
Reading continues (14:05)
6. R. (14:50) So we now don’t feel that we belong to a single nation.
Reading continues (14:58) “Even what we have left of the….”
7. R. (16:51) In other words we have to find in us, in all of humanity that we belong to let’s say Adam HaRishon, to the structure of Adam HaRishon, and that is for this sake we need to exist around, that we need to unite and understand that there is no choice and we must live on the same planet, with the same desire, with one body, with one culture. It doesn’t mean that we need to learn from each other’s cultures, but a new culture, a culture of one world as one man. Well we’ll still talk about it. So what does he say here that there is no point in going back to what there was because it will not exist and we see to the extent that it cannot exist.
Reading continues (17:54) “In that sense we are a pile of nuts….”
8. S. (19:06) How all together can we depict this national love inside a country, on one hand the country holds people..
R. Here it’s the opposite, here love means that everyone is aware that they depend on one another, they’re all interdependent because it all starts from the Arvut, from the sense of mutual guarantee that we are like parts and a single body we cannot supply anything to anyone unless we are caring for everyone. This feeling and this understanding and this education, it gradually penetrates into each and everyone and we understand that we exist in this time, where the law of social existence is now taking place in society without which we cannot exist, we will not exist.
So we accept it and we see that this is the only way we can reach something correct and true otherwise all over the world still, vegetative, animate, speaking on all levels there, nature exists in its proper dominance and proper connections, its relative harmony that it had and it will start going wild and we’ll be caught in the middle. In everything, we see now only begins, hurricanes and floods and earthquakes and whatnot and all levels of nature from the levels of nature to Atomic Wars, that’s how it will be.
9. S. (21:25) He writes here that after the individuals can connect to a certain extent in order to keep a nation then organs can exist there in a not complete way?
R. That means that if there is a good group, good society then it can accept some friends which are not corrected and she’ll be able to properly educate them and process them and connect them to her and by that also become stronger.
10. S. (22:15) I wanted to share something about something I saw on the ten, maybe you can interpret it because I want to reconcile this, so considering this Mutual Arvut, in the ten I feel that there are deficiencies that are expressed. The friend of saying we’re talking about camaraderie and sharing the difficulties of each friend but when a friend raised as a certain difficulty and we don’t relate to this difficulty that we continue to talk about the daily prayer of ours, everything and in that we are not working according to the method of Abraham who opened his tent to everyone. Rather, we each continue with his own cold-heartedness and it’s kind of … so how to relate to this, so as a matter of personal perception or is there a problem here?
R. They need to discuss it in the group and the group should listen to what he has to say and respond, either it’s his own individual state that he feels that way and the others don’t or the group does and there’s some problems that they’re not taking care of. It’s a group matter.
He’s complaining to us regarding what he’s not getting helped or service or support from the group and we cannot go there unless all of the group says they need help then we have friends and we have people, like the heads of the department. They have Gill who’s now translating and he will take care of them and tell us and we will also connect, and start taking care of him as well. Not that we will discuss these things in the lesson; this is something internal for the group, for the ten. So let us hope that they will discuss it, all of that group and later on maybe we will hear that everything fell into place and if not then how do we continue how do we continue the care.
11. S. (25:54) Today the nations are very polar but they have one for that unites them but the force of unification is egoistic. How can we evoke feelings of love, something that will not appear as something ideological or philosophical or some political tendencies? How can we work with that?
R. We cannot, we can work, we need to work on it so that there will be a connection of love among nations, it’s not easy, how is it possible. I don’t even see any nation loving any other Nation, there is no such thing, also between human beings, that there is what we call egoistic love but that’s instinctive. We don’t take that into an account, there is no such thing as love in the world, it is non-existent, to the extent that it would exist the Creator would be revealed, because that is the foundation of his revelation, the degrees of love, but it’s non-existent, because how can someone love someone else and feel longing and depending on him and willing to do everything for him with nothing in return but what, by loving them, so that I’m doing it like I’m doing it for myself. That’s because I have such a connection like a mother and her child, that’s something else, but to have such a connection to other people after the sin of the tree of knowledge, after we are both broken apart there is no such thing.
That I am connected to others in such a way that I love him as myself and I take care of him accordingly, no, there is no such thing. I don’t have any ability to feel that way towards the others and for that we need to try as much as possible to be close to one another as much as we can in the state we are in our world and one shall help his friends. We need to attract the light that brings us back to good, that it will influence us and it will tie us together as we were tied together as we are connected in the soul of Adam HaRishon. Gradually, not all 620 organs, all of the different forms of connections, no, but at least in one form of connection that we will feel connected. Like two different forms that are still connected in In the coarseness of root between them and by that we will be able to come closer and feel one another and then I will not feel that between my friend and I, there is any difference on any level, whatever I have, he has, that’s it, it cannot be any other way and then we will advance that way.
12. S. (30:07) What we’re reading here now, where it’s kind of like there’s no such a way for us to come out of the state but what’s happening today so he’s actually writing and says we are very similar to a sack of nuts that are united to one body from the outside and this does not unite them as one. So I’m asking myself what can unite us as a united body internally?
R. The Creator, he needs to be revealed and unite us, there is no other force, the force of unity is the only force of the Creator.
S. But how can this happen quantitatively like the whole world needs to work internally? It’s still not clear to me I cannot see such a thing?
R. You don’t see and I don’t see it, it’s not happening in the world yet, but that is what we need to enter. That is called the last generation that we are reaching a state that we are reaching an area where everyone will be and connect.
S. Are you talking about dissemination?
R. Also dissemination, also awakened through prayer and also realize that and apply it in our actions.
S. Besides dissemination is there something we can do?
R. Yes, first of all we have to do it in our ten.
S. So first in our tens, then we go and disseminate?
R. You need to disseminate together and spread it out as the general conditions are supportive of this from the outside.
S. You’re talking about the troubles on the outside today?
R. Yes, yes the troubles too.
13. S. (32:25) Baal HaSulam is writing, the state from its general need to control all the individuals in it in absolute governance based on love and devotion, instinctive from the individuals to the collective, what does he mean, can you explain that?
R. Yes, all of the people in the nation need to be connected to one another, they need to care for one another, so that all of us will have it more or less equal, what everyone else has, that’s how it will be and the nation needs to care in general for fulfillment, for supply, for all the desires, for all this spiritual and corporeal, that’s how it needs to take place.
14. S. (33:27) We see throughout the last 4 years, 100 years everything that he writes here in the development of the generations of cell transition but the only thing that we still don’t see is the existence based on social love, what is social love?
R. Social love is that I understand without you, I cannot reach the end of correction and you see that without me you cannot reach the end of correction and that is why we are egotistically connected to one another and coming closer and closer to others too, and by that we feel that no one can move without the other, and by that we will come closer to each other.
S. How do we, because what he describes as something that’s happening but on the opposite side, from the time of need, just like he writes here, brothers and the state of danger, how do we make it from national love and not brothers in the time of need?
R. That’s through the light that reforms, that we feel like we have no choice and that’s called brothers in a state of trouble and for not for the Creator’s sake, we advance to working for the Creator sake, that by wanting to advance and through the light that reforms I suddenly realized that I have a different approach towards the others.
Beforehand, I thought that I have no choice, I had to be connected to them and I will care for them and otherwise I will not have anything to eat or how to exist. Now through the light that reforms, not through just acting, there is a matter here that the light reforms that is what makes a difference, in that does make the difference, that if I awakened and I awaken this light, that it’s not just that we’re maintaining this mutual responsibility, to be nourished by everyone, to have services for everyone, water, electricity and so on, but by for caring for everyone each and every one, by that we awaken the force of the Creator that is already coming closer to us and wrapping us and then we feel that we are one man in one heart.
S. He writes here and the extra, the whole deficiency is for the inner unity, in this natural unity, he’s calling that the Creator?
R. Yes of course and by that we enter this wrapping that cares for us all.
15. S. (36:49) He also says here that the moment there is a healthy part in the society, that kind of sustains that tissue together, it can also sustain those droopy organs as well. There’s no desire there, they are weak, so how can they?
R. They have external desires which are not yet connected to using and serving the group but the fact that they do have external desires by that they are still connected and added to the group and they gradually get from the group their participation that’s why they change that’s called education, what is education you penetrate someone and you add change their system.
S. Meaning because of their suffering on the outside they’ll be willing to go through an internal process?
R. Of course, it’s all because of suffering.
S. So they’ll be one part that will do it from taking the lead and one part that will do it from suffering?
R. Just like little kids, first forcibly and then later desire and through desire that’s how it is and that’s how the ego works.
16. S. (38:30) There is a feeling even in Israel of life being cheapend, how in such a state can you explain the importance of the life of a person, in what can help us truly appreciate the value of a person’s life?
R. That is only by publishing the laws, the true laws of nature, by explaining them, and by showing them in such a way, that without them we are not able to exist whether we like it or not. No one asks us, we are being told by the laws of nature, you want to live so you need to do this, you don’t want to live so don’t keep this. That’s up to you and that’s freedom of choice, to live or not to live, to keep this or not to keep this, that is all, the Creator has no other calculation, he is given a law and this law shall not be passed, shall not be broken. He needs to bring humanity to the state that he thought of in advance and that is why and how we advance so to the extent we will spread and we will publish the purpose of creation and the correction of creation, so accordingly, we will understand what the essence of that same upper force is, that wants and demands from us.
17. S. (40:54) The medium and manipulation, social media manipulation plays and acts as a part of the Creator, they tell us what to think and by and what to go as a human being, how to unite correctly if all being controlled by these systems?
R. We are in a state, that is not exactly as you say, we are gradually coming out of the influence of the media, and also many people who already have had enough from the media from what they see in here.
So there’s nothing else to say here that we are brainwashed or slaves of the media, today people can be approached and can be spoken to in a very, you could say independent way, independent of media. Because today the time has come where people really aren’t bowing down to the media, I’m not talking about everyone but many people today already understand that we are being brainwashed and that we need to change our attitude and also the turbulences that the world of facing in all kinds of levels, in climate and supply of necessities and everything, they will also give a person the ability to not really be dependent on countries or the media and people will have a lot more freedom of time.
18. S. (43:24) How can we understand this article correctly as he’s telling us about specific countries or nations in the world or about the correct connection in the nation of Israel?
R. There is no nation of Israel, there is a group like Bnei Baruch, that is going towards the direction called Yashar Kel, of straight towards the Creator, Israel and all the rest are what’s called the nations of the world, including the same Jews that live in Israel or America or Russia, it doesn’t matter. What we are talking about is that same group, Bnei Baruch, that it will scrutinize precisely, as much as it can our path, to the extent that is correct more and more and more connected to the Baal HaSulam and to Rabash and that we will follow them as much as we can and that’s what we need.
19. S. (44:42) What is that new world culture that will take place?
R. That we will all feel that we have the same fate, that we all belong to the same force, the Creator and therefore we don’t really need to have any kind of division because we all belong to one nation and we all need to keep the single law of mutual guarantee, Arvut. All of that will bring us to love, to strong, powerful, instinctive, connection just like a single body of all of us together, not each one in order to receive, that he is going to profit from it somehow but only in order to give to everyone else, that everyone will want to be and bestowal to others and that is what we need to reach.
20. S. (45:57) Can we advertise parts of the nation to all of humanity?
R. Of course, you can only carefully, I recommend to discuss this with the heads of languages the departments, because we don’t do not want to confuse people or push them back, we don’t want them to think that we are weirdos or living in some fantasy, but that we are talking about solutions in the difficult state that our world is in especially towards the years ahead. That it will come upon all of humanity in a way that is not simple and we want to ease these things, we want to show them where we are evolving towards and by that, it will make it a lot easier to exist and to build themselves.
21. S. (47:20) Can you maybe summarize the lesson because in the first part we talked about us needing to build Adam HaRishon between us and the second part about the nation needing to truly feel as one and you see a connection between the two, a summary between these two?
R. It all ends up connected together and we need to learn this and all of these things and how they connect, and this will be in each one in seeing the world.
S. Is there a difference between what we talked about in the first part and the second part or is it the same thing?
R. I don’t see differences here, I see our life in our current state and how we need to advance all of Bnei Baruch and then all of humanity towards unity, towards connection until the upper force, single to everyone, will be revealed to all within that unity. That is how I see the process.
22. S. (48:48) This sack of nuts that kind of shakes up the whole world this way, will it melt from the love that we are creating between us?
R. Yes of course, eventually everything will become, I don’t know how to say, like jelly,
S. You said it like a gel, a mash-up of sorts?
R. Yes, like a mash, like porridge, that all of us will be so included in the others that it will become like that’ll be like NRNHY, the lights and we’ll be like the white light, I don’t know, there are no words for these things, we’ll see how it will constantly change and advanced towards the white light.
S. Can we say that the development of the world in a good and beneficial way is truly dependent on the efforts that we are making to connect in the ten?
R. Most important is connection the ten, that is where we need to scrutinize many more details, many details, that is the main thing connecting in the ten. We will start between us more and more and you will see how everything will change, how friends will awaken, and friends that have left and are not studying for many reasons will also come back, you will see. The light will do its thing.
23. S. (51:15) Do you think that the necessity of survival without the unity, there will be no survival possible?
R. Yes of course, out of lack of choice, out of no choice, what is a necessity is the desire that through a directed desire correctly stabilized, accordingly people connect and unite and come closer to each other, and that’s how it works. That’s how it works, in addition to that desire, to that deficiency, it’s done through intention, the Creator didn’t create anything other than a deficiency, through which we can aim ourselves in all forms.