NETZACH: TIKKUN CHATZOT תקון חצות – LESSON WITH RAV MICHAEL LAITMAN
Lesson on the topic of “Everything is Obtained By the Power of Prayer”
Morning Lesson February 21, 2022, Transcription
Transcription is made from simultaneous translation which leaves a possibility for differences in the audio
Part 3
Everything is Obtained By the Power of Prayer – Selected Excerpts from the Sources. #14
Reader starts excerpt #14 “The primary goal should be….”
1. R. (00:21) That is done by the mutual work between us and the Creator. That is why in this work we are called the “Servants of the Creator.” He starts the work of building the system, corrupting it, shining in us, bit by bit to shine the corruptions, to illuminate the corruptions and we should ask for the correction of these corruptions. He has prepared everything in the situations that change and we have to distinguish between the corrected state, we have to ask for everything to be corrected by the upper light that fills the entire reality. That is why the primary goal should be to be rewarded with Devekut, adhesion with the Creator. When we are in equality with Him and the work, he does a part and we do a part, he does a part and we do a part, and then we have to reach a state where we force Him like a child who is pulling the grown up by his side saying, help me, do something for me. So, that is how we should be with the correction of the world with the Creator.
Reader continues “Since the reason objects to this…” Twice
2. S. (04:36) He says that every prayer has a special work. How do we know and all the states that come, which prayer is the most correct and precise for that state?
R. Whatever you depict in your heart. MAN is what you feel in the heart that you are lacking in the spiritual work. That is your MAN.
3. S. (05:40) He says that this is called the work in the heart. What is the difference between the heart and the brain?
R. Because everything is according to the feeling, a brain only organizes our feelings for us but the whole scrutiny is in our hearts. We need the hearts and we need to connect between the hearts.
S. He says that all of the organs resisted so?
R. The feeling is in the heart, you yourself said the feeling, the feeling is the heart. The brain only has to organize and connect these data that the heart gives. The brain is no more than a computer.
S. He writes that the brain and the heart are in the opposite, so?
R. Ok, but read it again.
Reading item # 14 again (06:27)
4. R. (08:10) What does it mean to serve the Creator in the heart?
R. That all of your desires will be aimed only at connecting or being unified with the Creator, being together with Him, the one system with the second one. That He will control you and you will be in Him and all the thoughts and actions desires, everything you have to be connected or aimed only at bestowal, only to fill the entire reality only in your will to bestow. That will be expressed by you wanting to reveal the Creator all over reality. That is it. Annul yourself to His will to bestow. This is the meaning of making your desire like His.
5. S. (09:27) Out of this inner dialogue do we also monitor these things, check ourselves to see how much we are in it or not?
R. No, we have to talk with ourselves to feel what’s going on with us, how much we agree or don’t agree, our thoughts, our desires, we have to be in that. Until we reach a stage that all my bones shall say so. Bones mean the foundations of all of our desires that will also be in order to bestow.
6. S. (10:29) It says that I have this feeling that when I go deep into those conversations with myself these are actually the descents, the declines that separate me from this emotion where we come back to the right intention, So?
R. No, no, this still needs, seems to be a confusion. First of all, I do not feel that it is disturbing, on the contrary it helps to scrutinize myself, how I am part of it or not, am I straight or crooked? If I compare myself to the path of bestowal which is through the general correction which is the Creator. So, my dialogue with myself is when I scrutinize all the time it is actually helping me without that, you cannot, there are no scrutinies without it.
7. S. (11:41) If during the lesson I draw the light, so automatically it passes on to your friends, to the group or do you need to somehow direct it?
R. If I extend a light from above and I am connected to the friends, to that extent the light expands and fills the friends as well, and each and every one, it will be felt to the extent that they are connected to me.
8. S. (12:22) Why is it considered praying against reason a special action?
R. Because I am asking for something that my will to receive does not want. I am asking for something above the desire. Supposing connection.
9. S. (12:54) How to correctly use reason, intellect, when we do the work in the heart?
R. The intellect should be there before we do the work, intellect is for scrutinizing what is going on with me, in what form, in what relation between the desires and intentions, for that you need intellect. If we would only feel something we would be like babies. They don’t have the intellect to process the data. All they have is a system that feels, and then they are in all kinds of actions and states until they feel something, stop feeling and they throw it away. We are not that way, we are also incorporated with an intellect. That is why we are both in the emotion and in the mind. The spiritual work should be such that both the intellect and the mind and the emotion work together and through them we will reach the goal. Try to scrutinize things both in the emotion and the intellect, how much we are opposite or in the same direction in both and accordingly decide what else we are lacking so that all the hearts and all the brains will all connect together, aimed at the Creator.
10. S. (14:53) To continue the question many times in our practical work we stumble across a state where our mind is like a broken radio, there are all kinds of noises and disturbances, it absorbs everything from the world around us. So, how can we reach a state where we have discipline, where the brain is disciplined so it helps us in our work. That it will only be helping us in our scrutiny?
R. Only by the connection between you, only through the connection between you, and the connection is the same goal to which everyone wants to reach then through the intellect you can activate the emotion. When we want to determine a state when we are reaching a connection between us, we have to reach a connection between us, and then by the intellect, we decide this way and we start scrutinizing what we are missing still to have such a connection. We scrutinize and the Creator organizes such emotions, such discernments by which when we connect, we come to one vessel and then we discover the Creator in this one vessel.
S. Can we make it more precise, please tell me, the influence of the external world, is it something that comes through the heart or the intellect which is not so clear yet?
R. We do not have a pure heart or a clean intellect. We are completely stained and we have to take that into account, that is why you cannot make calculations here from psychology or philosophy but we should do exactly what our article says, and then you will not be mistaken.
11. S. (17:05) Practically, how to decide how long in the meetings of our ten should we invest in building a common prayer or should we dedicate the entire time to that, because we forget about it sometimes but when we have a few rounds of discussions and build a prayer it feels like it starts to come from the heart, so?
R. This does not depend on time. It is not about time here.
12. S. (17:43) Is the main discernment whether or not I have the desire to bestow, and if I don’t, do I ask the Creator for the desire to bestow?
R. Yes, exactly you said it right and nicely.
13. S. (18:17) If our work is always in faith above reason, how does it work with the fact that we want that the brain will clothe over the heart?
R. The mind it’s something we need in order to aim the heart but as we aim the heart to the Creator and the heart gets the light from above that corrects it, the system of the heart, and then we are connected between us and the Creator. We need the brain to give us direction, to give us a place, to organize everything and that is done by the intellect but after we organize everything and the light comes and corrects us then we work according to the light, according to the heart.