TUESDAY: HESED-TIKKUN CHATZOT תקון חצות – LESSON WITH RAV MICHAEL LAITMAN
READING: between after midnight and sunrise of Tuesday.
Baal HaSulam. The Freedom
Morning Lesson June 25, 2023
Transcription is made from simultaneous translation, which leaves a possibility for differences in the audio.
Part 3:
Baal HaSulam. The Freedom. (Two Discernments: A) Potential, B) Actual)
Reading (00:17 – 09:01) “Two Discernments: A) Potential, B) Actual”)
1.S. (09:09) What helps us when you have such a quality as ‘force’ if it doesn’t have a reality before it’s revealed in the form of an actual desire?
R. And still we can feel it, where it comes before the desire.
S. What I understood is that if it is not revealed in action, meaning in the form of the desire, not simply decided but a desire that can imagine what it can dress in, then there’s no existence in reality for this force?
R. Yes?
S. So what is the use in it?
R. It’s all with respect to us, this is all with respect to us.
2. S. (10:10) The whole world Kli is working like a hive of bees ahead of the upcoming Congress in order to produce this honey of love, so dear Rav, how can we increase the importance of the Congress with the connection between us among each one of us ahead of the coming Congress?
R. We think that a congress is some kind of a festival, right, some happy event and that’s all; no, a Congress is a serious work, not that we need to be so serious. Rather serious work, we have to relate to it with all our heart, all our soul, and want to receive benefit from it, big benefit. That’s it, I really hope this will come to be, because we come, we learn, we go, we come, we learn, we go, and this is how it’s been for months and years, and the Congress may add to it an inner source, an inner connection. And then we feel and understand how much we are seriously advancing.
3. S. (12:10) What are you expecting from this coming Congress?
R. I’m expecting for us, first of all, to wake up as we are in a coma, spiritual coma and that’s for sure, but we are all or we are also in a corporeal slumber, that we don’t open our mind and our heart to clearly perceive as clear as possible so that everything will go into our heart and brain. Everything will connect and we will feel the reality open without boundaries, without limitations, without any tiredness, that’s what I’m expecting from the Congress.
S. What will wake us up from this coma, this slumber?
R. Only a prayer, only a prayer, we have no forces in us, it’s not that I’m saying we have no forces in us so we can shut our eyes, ‘okay, so I don’t have any force, okay, so I’ll go to sleep’. No, we have to demand!
S. How to open the heart and the mind in a more clear way?
R. Only through the connection between us, only ‘each one can help his friend’, and even if I see my friends, they are also falling asleep just like, no it doesn’t matter. When we connect together it’s a different state altogether.
S. So how in the remaining days before the Congress can we prepare together better for this global prayer?
R. We have one week before the Congress and it’s enough for us, we need to write an address to all the friends, men and the women, and to show them how much we are concerned about it, how much we are responsible for it, how much we understand what great things depend on this Congress, and to ask for their participation and help.
4. S. (15:31) What we read now, there are questions, will we be able to read it again in the next lesson?
R. In the next lessons.
5. S. (15:49) You just told a student that we have to demand, I guess we have to demand the connection between us all the time, but how not to place a condition before the Creator, we learned in the previous lesson that we should not put conditions before the Creator in our prayer, how to demand correctly?
R. You can demand from the Creator, you can set a condition to the Creator, but the question is how serious are you about it? How much are you acting out of the recognition of necessity; if it’s true demand. That’s called ‘My sons have defeated Me.’
6. S. (17:00) Following the question of the friends, how, as the organizers of the Congress, how can we truly help all the friends feel this importance awaken for the Congress, because we feel throughout this preparation, we feel great importance, great obligation. How can we transmit that in the remaining week to the rest of the world Kli as you advised?
R. We need to really organize ourselves for a prayer, a request, a demand for a state that we are begging. Meaning from all sides, how come we turn to the Creator? They say that ‘there are seventy faces’ to that, seventy sides to that, and maybe there’s more! This is how we should turn to Him so let’s scrutinize: in what relations what addresses can we turn to the Creator with and how He will be impressed by us and open Himself up before us!
S. So, if I can mention, that throughout this entire preparation there are a few tough moments, we don’t know exactly how to advance from it. And we saw that only when we are in the toughest point, from great difficulty you can turn to the Creator, so please, friends, during the final week let’s make that effort, let’s connect all of us around this burning desire to raise a prayer that would strengthen the entire world Kli, L’chaim, together!
7. S. (19:37) Just to update, as part of our preparation for the Congress next weekend, tonight we have a Preparation. We have a global Gathering of Friends that will be broadcast in the Arvut System and also take place here in our meal hall. We’ll have a huge circle of friends, friends will speak and we’ll go deeper into the topic of Everything Is Achieved by the Power of Prayer, we’re going to turn this Gathering of Friends into the ark that we learned about today in the lesson in which we’ll enter the Congress even deeper. So tonight, 6:30, come with an open heart!