NETZACH: TIKKUN CHATZOT תקון חצות – LESSON WITH RAV MICHAEL LAITMAN
Baal HaSulam. Preface to the Wisdom of Kabbalah, item 162
Morning Lesson February 21, 2022, Transcription
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Baal HaSulam, Preface to the Wisdom of Kabbalah, #162
1. R. (00:11) So we will continue and if we need to we will go a little back. All in all do not be frightened from the fact that the system is not clear. It takes time for it to be clear. That’s a long time. But all in all what we have learned is that we have five worlds here that all come out of Malchut of Ein Sof where the will to receive in order to receive has been revealed and the restriction was made upon it so there won’t be reception from the point of Malchut of Ein Sof. From there on the worlds start spreading. What does it mean? That Malchut of Ein Sof restricted itself and it starts absorbing force from the light that bestows upon it and from the absorption of this force it starts to develop. Meaning it starts building from its matter, from its will to receive, all sorts of forms of bestowal and from its actions, the forms of Partzufim, Olamot come out and all kinds of desires that have a form of bestowal, every time a different form of bestowal, as much as it can, the maximum it can perform an action of bestowal. That is what Malchut of Ein Sof does. Then this is how the world of Adam Kadmon are made and then the world of Nekudim, the world of Nekudim breaks and on the remnants of the shattering of the world of Nekudim as a result of it the upper lights come and correct the shattering of the worlds of Nekudim. Meaning desires to receive that remained in order to receive after the shattering of the world, and they are correcting them so that they become desires in order to bestow from the light to the heavy, that is how all corrections happens, and this is how we get parts to build from the shattering world’s Partzufim, Sefirot, and from there ha Olam Atzilut was made, the world of Atzilut was made. So let us read item 162.
Reading Item 162 (02:54) Twice
2. S. (05:00) According to what is written here, the lower ones can affect the system so much that they can spoil things?
R. Everything depends only on the lower ones because in them all of the shattering are revealed and they feel these shattering. As much as they feel a shattering, to that extent, they can ask for correction, and that means that they correct. Meaning that they are asking for corrections, and corrections come and correct them but because they start the action by their request, by identifying the deficiency and raising it upwards. That is your whole work.
S. What does the feeling of the shattering depend on?
R. When we feel distance between us like a mismatch, lack of love, lack of connection, until the highest degrees of connection. We are missing it from the lowest, most crude ways of connection, and all the way up the ladder, and accordingly we ask for corrections. Besides that, we are not correcting anything. The whole reality of this world shows us how much we are incapable of performing any correction. All we can do is discover the corruption and raise MAN, a request for the Creator to correct and nothing besides that. That is why do not be broken or be in some depression, despair, that we can do nothing because of course we cannot do anything, nothing, anything good.
The Creator did not do anything good as well. He says, “I have created an evil inclination” that is all. That is it. That is why what is upon us to do is the opportunity He gave us to ask and then He will do good things, He will correct. What we have today, up until today, everything is only bad that is being revealed every day and we are just coming close now to a state that humans in this world that will connect somehow will try to connect, and of course they will not be able to, and I am talking about us, they will try and they will not be able to but they will ask and the Creator will perform corrections, he will ask again and again corrections, ask again and again corrections. That is how when gradually more and more corruptions appear and we will ask gradually for corrections and the Creator will correct. That is His whole work. That is why we are giving the Creator work, and by that we are called servants or workers of the Creator and by that He corrects the shattering and that is His work, the work of the Creator. That is all.
3. S. (08:37) What does it mean that the MAN is spoiled? How can MAN be spoiled if I have a deficiency? Do I not have one?
R. We will work on that and we will talk about it. You are never asking about what I am talking about, you are asking what you want to ask.
S. It is about the text.
R. About the text, yes of course.
4. R. (09:08) Rav reads 163: Now you can understand how the actions of the lower ones cause ascents and descents in the upper Partzufim and worlds, specifically the lower ones, us. This is because when they improve their reactions and raise MAN, request to the Creator, and extend abundance from above, what they get from the Creator, the correction, all of the worlds and degrees through which the abundance passed from above downward grow and ascend upwards because of the abundance that they pass, by that all the worlds rise as much as they pass the abundance downwards they rise from one degree to the another Nefesh, Ruach, Neshama, Haya, Yechida. That is how it is in all the worlds. When they corrupt their actions once more the MAN is spoiled and the Mochin depart the higher degrees, too, since the transference of abundance from them to the lower ones stops. They descend once more, all the degrees of the worlds, descend once more to their permanent state as was in the beginning. Clear?
5. S. (10:45) So, actually, he is speaking about two states here? One state are those who raised the MAN and continue the abundance, and then, there are the ones who spoil the MAN. So what does it mean on the one hand that they raised the MAN and on the other hand they spoil it? Do we spoil it?
R. If you do not use the corrections, the opportunities, to correct properly then you spoil the MAN. It is the right question.
S. What does it mean to spoil MAN?
R. It is as if the MAN is there for you to ask for correction for it, that you will raise it upwards, and when you do not do that, that means that you are spoiling the MAN. You are not using the opportunity that the Creator gave you.
S. So, if today in our work we have an option that we ourselves are spoiling the raising of MAN in the work?
R. Of course, yes. The fact that you are not using it properly means that you are corrupting and spoiling.
S. What does it mean to use properly?
R. You are not performing a prayer out of that. How can you not understand? Look at what you have in the world, how many sufferings you have in the world, how much suffering, how many people are suffering all over the world. That is on the one hand, and on the other hand, how much suffering that the Creator has from the lower ones not connecting to Him asking for corrections because without that He cannot correct them, He cannot correct without them asking. It is a law. That there is no connection between the lower and the upper one if the lower one does not ask.
S. So, you think that we are not doing it?
R. You are not doing anything. We are not doing anything. We are not connecting this world with the Creator, through us.
S. So what does it mean that we are not doing anything?
R. On what does it depend? On the fact that we, not in our mind nor in our heart, do not feel the state that we are in and what we can reach, and that everything depends on us.
S. So, if I am summarizing what you are saying, you say that we are not connecting and annulling towards the group enough?
R. You can explain that in a thousand and one different actions that we are missing, but this is certainly a lack of connection to the group as well.
6. S. (13:50) The correction of the lower ones that they will be able to pass the abundance like the upper ones, as their correction?
R. The upper ones pass on the abundance according to their degrees because it is already in their nature. All they need is the deficiency from the place where there is a lack, and then they pass it.
S. What is the correction of the lower ones?
R. The correction of the lower ones is that they feel the deficiencies and accept them as their deficiencies and raise MAN.
S. It sounds, according to the subject, that the system exists to pass abundance from one to the other. What is in this?
R. From below upwards MAN is raised, and then from above downwards abundance is lowered, is passed, and then a lot of abundance is revealed in all of the worlds.
7. S. (15:05) If we won’t feel the suffering of humanity what MAN can we raise?
R. We will not be able to raise anything. That is why when we go out to dissemination we are gaining twofold; we are disseminating the wisdom of Kabbalah, the knowledge about the Creator, the ability to be in connection with the Creator, and on the other hand, we get the deficiency from the lower ones, with what deficiencies they are lacking, and then we are connecting the upper deficiency with the lower deficiencies and we are passing one to the other. It is like a pipeline raising the deficiency from below upwards and through us in the same deficiency we raise, that we have built this conduit, the abundance comes down from above downwards through us to all of the world.
S. So we’re in this process. Is there a minimum in which we need to feel the suffering of humanity?
R. Humanity is suffering enough. That is why we have come, according to the general work of the system, to the six thousandth, the last generation, and we already should practically work with all of humanity. That is it. We have come through Hesed, Gevura, Tifferet, Netzah, Hod Yesod, and now we are already truly in the six thousandth.
S. But it is not felt that we are at some end of the suffering of humanity.
R. The end of the suffering? I do not want to talk about that at all. There is such suffering that barely anyone can stand it. It is like the verse that says that mothers cook their own children and eat them. It is a person who loses any form of human being and goes down to the beast. The suffering can be terrible, that is why we do not come to that. We should try to feel the suffering before that, to the extent that it does not really touch our flesh and paralyzes us then everything will become in a way that it is as if it is absentmindedly, and we become like people who only run away from all kinds of suffering in any way they can, they only just run from the bad feeling. So we should, even before that, start acting.
S. What action can we do, what chance do we even have, to raise MAN before such suffering?
R. Perform dissemination and by dissemination just as Baal HaSulam explains to us in the article The Arvut, Mutual Guarantee article, or in other places as well. By actions of dissemination we are incorporated in the deficiencies of the world, and the world is incorporated in our relations between us and with the Creator and by that we already open a path through the conduit. Then there is bestowal from the degree of Bina to the degree of Kingdom.
S. What relationships are there between us and the Creator if we are not even on a degree?
R. There is always a relationship. If you try to do it you will see that there is a connection. There is a passageway. We are able to act this way and connect the entire humanity to the Creator.
S. Can we use this connection with you, Rabash and Baal HaSulam?
R. Everything is prepared. Everything is prepared. Only, do not run away. Just do it. The main thing is the prayer.
8. S. (19:47) Many times you’ve told us that we need to connect as if our prayer will not reach the Creator. Is the unified prayer in order to raise man for humanity and then they can get an answer for the prayer?
R. If we are Incorporated within the entire humanity and we all know what we feel what is going on, and it is not for no reason that there is media and the connection between all of humanity together has been developed it is for us to be able to be incorporated everyone with everyone else. Raising this suffering as a deficiency for the Creator and us only we can do that. That is why we have to do that.
In order to do that we have to connect to the entire humanity and the connection is done best by dissemination. On the one hand I bestow that I’m caring about everyone knowing about the role of the world and the future of the world. On the other hand, accordingly I have a deficiency and with this deficiency I feel what they feel and think what they think, I do not need to do. That is how it’s done. Then it rises to the Creator.
S. Does it depend on our prayer being united internally?
R. As much as possible. But that is what we should do.
9. S. (22:06) I heard you say that we should try to feel the suffering and I see friends and it seems to me that they care a lot more than I do and I want to know how to feel the suffering and how I can feel the suffering?
R. Try to come closer to them and to see how they are incorporated with a general suffering and then you will see what is going on. That is it. Rabash every hour would turn on the radio. I would do that for him. I would turn on the radio for two minutes to hear the news and believe me that was not for himself. He did not need to discover anything there but by that he would connect to the deficiencies of the world. Two (2) minutes. Just the true news and then they started saying this Minister said something and then I had to immediately turn down the radio. That is nothing to hear about some Minister saying something. The news themselves. what happened everywhere, this and that, something every hour for two (2) minutes. That was very important for him.
S. You are saying that I should come closer to these friends that I see seem to care more?
R. Yes, we should be closer to the friends that care about dissemination. We live in the 6000 (year on Hebrew calendar 5782) and soon it will be moving on to the 7000 (years). We have to be ready for that attentive alert and Incorporated in that.
10. S. (24.39) After we incorporate the deficiencies of humanity, we raise our egoistic desire upward. What is our action here?
R. We will see these actions. Let us start connecting this world with the Creator and then we will start getting from the Creator MAD coming down from him to us. Then we will see exactly how to connect the MAN and the MAD together and we will start to connect the two lines together. That is still before you. That is true special spiritual work that is there and it is waiting for us. Okay?
Reading Item 163 (25:44 ) Now we shall explain the order of the ascents Twice
11. S. (29:10) What does it mean that it is circled and clothes inside of it?
R. That is how it is.
S. To what extent?
R. The extent is according to the vessels but that light it also clothes in internality and everyone.
S. (29.28) The light of Ein Sof is the greatest light. It does not have a form and then it enters a line and can see it is a thin line that we go to the lower ones until this world?
R. Yes.
12. S. (29:46) What does it mean that Galgalta ends above this world?
R. It does not touch the point of this world because the point of this world is the desire to receive that the Creator created and Galgalta is in order to bestow. That is why the end of Galgalta has not yet touched this world because this whole world is only a desire to receive. After all the corrections as it is written that these stand, will stand in the future, that his feet will stand on the Mount of Olives. Meaning that Galgalta will touch the point of this world and then all of the light of Ein Sof can pass from one end to the other, from the Rosh of the line of Ein Sof until the end of Sium the ending of the line of Ein Sof.
13. S. (30:47) He writes something interesting that the three worlds of BYA and YESHSUT are in their constant state in the 6000 years before the Gmar Tikkun. Did you say that we have to be ready for the 7000 and that we might not be ready for it?
R. If we are not ready for it, disasters will come, torments., and problems that will prepare us .
S. There is such a state that we will not be ready for it?
R. What do you mean? There is always a choice if you prepare yourself, through corrections, we will be OK and if you won’t, corrections will come in an unpleasant way and will prepare you.
S. Do we know what the 7000 could be?
R. The 7000 is something terrible. It is something where the upper light has to be revealed from one end to the other. Before an entire reality goes back to being a circle. That is why if you are not adapted to that you will get terrible torments compared to the ones who are adapted to it who are suitable for it but it is still on the line towards the 7000 and in the 7000, everything goes back to being a circle.
S. Kabbalists said that they did not want to be there?
R. Yes because before the last corrections if we are not ready terrible disasters will happen in the whole world in order to force people to run away from an order to receive to an order to bestow.
S. Do you think we are advancing?
R. What I see is that you were going to get such blows that all you were going to think about is how I could do such good things to other people and the Creator will be happy from my work.
S. Is it a result of the little blows that we are getting?
R. Don’t worry about it
S. Can we do that?
R. We can do it. We can do it. Go ahead and do it. How to do that? It is called how to bring the remedy before the blow.
S. That’s what I’m doing every day.
R. Then I don’t know.
S. Are we advancing towards there?
You’re okay, you’ll get wise, everything will be okay. You will make it.
S. Really what do you think about the students today? About the state today?
R. On the one hand, I am pleased because the truth is we do get more and more of a form of a union like a connection we have here, and everything we hear is accumulated in us. We are still lacking practical work. In practice, we do not yet know how to do that. What can I do? We used to have connections so what should we do? We should have meals and meetings? How can we, between us, be so connected that it will give us a true feeling of connection? Here it is a problem.
S. We know but we are a bit afraid of doing it. We run away from it. It is hard to do what we know. We have the knowledge but we are afraid to do it. That is something I do not know how to overcome.
R. You may be right with what you were saying but I have a feeling that’s still we do not know and we certainly are far from performing a connection of the hearts. Not physically, that I will stand by your side and hug you. How do we pass this hug to become a more internal hug or embrace?
S. Maybe we could have more workshops about it?
R. Well. How?
S. Come back to workshops. People say they want more workshops.
R. I understand. Let’s have a workshop. We will have a workshop sitting together for two or three minutes and thinking, how I want to embrace everyone, not my ten alone but everyone from all of Bnei Baruch? I want to embrace everyone together to such an extent that everyone will feel the warmth from our whole general and embrace, man aside, women aside. Let’s do that please.
Workshop Question: ( 36:52 )
14. S. (40:16) If the lower one is the reason but a result. So how can they cause any emotion?
R. There’s an expansion from above downwards till the lower world, from the upper world to the lower world, to us, and there is raising MAN from us to the Creator. So, we have to be activated by bestowal from above downwards and to give the raising of MAN from below upwards to get MOD back from above downwards. That is how we should work, in the mutual connection. “I to my beloved and my beloved to me.”
15. S. (41:03) What is the meaning according to item 162, of the falling of one Partzufim from the upper world?
R. Meaning of the falling of the Partzufim, and the worlds falling, where is it written? The Descent of the Partzufim maybe.
S. The descending of the Partzufim and the upper worlds.
R. Yes, a descent is by not asking for what you can ask according to the situation, it causes a descent of the Partzuf because of the Partzufim because they are not doing their destiny to pass on the lights from above downwards. We should activate them, we pass on the lights through all of the worlds, we ignite and light-up the light in all the worlds.
16. S. (42:01) Should we gain stability in raising MAN, so the spiritual worlds and Partzufim should always be in an ascent or are the ascents and descents the constant dynamic of the upper worlds?
R. There are no dynamics that are always that way. Everything is all about us. We’ve learned that a long time ago from different sources, everything depends on the actions of the lower ones. The Creator awakens us. We are going to see all sorts of flaws and corruptions, and then we are going to ask Him to correct us, to correct them. That is why it is our role to be in between the corrupt and the corrected state that we will demand correction for all of the world’s.
17. S. (42:58) What is the connection between spoiled MAN and revealing new records from the shattering?
R. New Reshimot, new records, recollections are revealed by the order of the degree. If we correct what we should correct then we cause by that, an emergence of new Reshimot and then we have work.
S. Is there a connection between the corrupted MAN as it is written when they come back and spoil their deeds, the MAN is spoiled?
R. If we do not raise our request to correct what’s being revealed, then by that we corrupt the MAN. If we do ask as it is written the work will be for the Lord and He will be king over the whole land.
S. Who decides if someone is upper or lower?
R. Where the deficiencies are being revealed that is called lower, and where the lights come from and correct that is called an upper.