HESED: TIKKUN CHATZOT תקון חצות – LESSON WITH RAV MICHAEL LAITMAN
Baal HaSulam. The Arvut (Mutual Guarantee)
Morning Lesson March 20, 2022 Transcription
Transcription is made from simultaneous translation which leaves a possibility for differences in the audio
Baal HaSulam. The Arvut (Mutual Guarantee). #25
Reading Item #25 “Now there remains the complete…”
1.R. (01:37) We see that these things are clear although he asked we haven’t heard these things, so how can it be? From where does a person feel the question if it needs the Torah in order to receive it? What is the Torah we still have to clarify more and more, what is the preparation for the preparation of the Torah, what should the Torah bring to a person, what is it? It’s the upper light that should tend to us, that should elevate us to a level where we see the actual reality where we are but this reality is still hidden from us.
Reading (02:31) Item #26 “Bear in mind…”
2. R. (03:43) Yes, this is what’s written.
Reader continues: (03:44)
3. R. (07:19) We don’t really understand what he wants here, he brings all kinds of philosophy here and from that it could be these experts of languages and grammar and all kinds of things. Maybe it’s interesting to them but not to us. This article is actually, as he writes in the introduction of the book he wants to publish, it is for everyone in the nation. He wants to advertise it to everyone, so why does he go into all these little intricacies, for what? Baal HaSulam altogether does not like going into all this, so why is he doing this? He’s doing it because there is a tendency to religious people to delve into all these philosophies and leave the main thing aside. That instead of correcting the heart they correct all kinds of actions with their hands and legs and they think that this is the main part, that externally the will to receive doesn’t disturb there, it even supports and justifies there, so in this way we will keep the Torah. In an internal way we have to correct the heart, that we don’t need to do, that’s redundant. That’s why he wants here to reach an explanation that goes deeper and is more true, what the nation of priests means. That these are those same people that correct the desire of their heart to be in order to bestow the desire of the heart. Not all kinds of actions that in their life, and their body they can do, and that will be enough for them. That’s why here, he goes into all these turnarounds inside. On one hand not to go against what is custom in the nation and on the other hand, to explain to them that the main part is the work in the heart. Not in external actions with their hands and their mouth.
Reading Item 27 (09:59)
4. R. (11:21) Priests are part of the nation that have nothing on their own. Everything they have is on the account of the state and belong to the state and they themselves belong to the state, in those days as it was. They are all above their will to receive and all their work is in the temple.
Reader continues: (11:53) “No person should have….”
5. R. (12:38) Meaning, the intention to bestow sanctifies anything a person does and makes his work the holy work.
Reader continues: (12:48) “How is it different if….”
6. R. (13:14) That each and everyone, if he aims in order to bestow, by this he becomes as the most important, greatest, most exalted in everyone.
Reader continues: (13:26) “Moreover, it makes sense….”
7. R. (14:17) Meaning each and everyone, if he works in order to bestow contentment to the others and through them to the Creator, because you can’t give anything to the Creator only your intention. Your action that you do along with the intention, it goes together, then the intention to the Creator, is the action to the others. Then you resemble one who does the most exalted work that could ever be to man.
Reader continues: (14:57) “That reward is expressed….”
8. S. (17:11) How do we learn to build an intention in such a way? That all the daily things would be incorporated there?
S. The fact that from your whole life you want to reach in order to bestow and by that to resemble the Creator and adhere to Him, to give Him contentment through you wanting in what you are doing to give contentment to all created beings. Then it turns out that your whole life is Holy, is exalted, by this you became a part of the Creator and then you feel how through you, from the Creator all His forces go to all of creation, to all created beings and you become a part of Him, connected to Him in all His actions.
S. How does it feel in practice?
R. You start feeling as much as you’re connected to Him. In desires, in thoughts, in actions, in everything. That all of creation starts being for you as if it’s here before you. By this you feel yourself working in all creation and along with the Creator and that you are included in Him and in all actions and in everything there is, that’s what you do. You became the Creator’s partner, that is called, the complete adhesion in the Creator.
9. S. (19:13) Basically wherever we go in the world you hear love your friend as yourself, everyone uses it. Here he writes that the whole Torah is expressed in love your friend as yourself. Is it even possible to do?
R. I don’t know, let’s try and implement this and then we’ll see if it’s possible or not.
S. This concept of love your friend as yourself, can you love someone else like yourself?
R. Yes.
S. It’s possible?
R. Yes, so.
S. At what point?
R. Stage of correction.
S. At the point of correction, right now we can’t use it?
R. Right now you’re opposite you’re opposite of it.
S. Right, how do you invert it?
R. By the light that reforms that comes to the center of your ten.
10. S. (20:16) Why did the Creator promise an inheritance of the land if the Kingdom of priests had no part, no possession, no corporal possession as he wrote?
R. Because specifically in that way, you can spread on the entire will to receive and conduct in order to bestow by you staying away from in order to receive. The desire isn’t refined but you start controlling it in order to bestow. Meaning by love of others or through love of others or by implementing the desire for the others, you realize all your desires in a complete way.
S. Why was there a need for this whole tour in Egypt?
R. For you to reach the necessity to come out of in order to receive to in order to bestow.
S. If you abstain from the will to receive, why do you have to get all of it?
R. No only from in order to receive, not from the desire itself, only from the intention. We cannot stay away from the desire, we are in it but we just want to receive a force from above to use the desire to receive only to the extent that we can use it for the benefit of the others. In order to bestow.
S. Is this called a free land?
R. Yes, free from in order to receive.
11.S. (22:29) What does it mean to make an offering to the Creator in the work between us?
R. Offering is from the word Korban. Every action that brings us closer to the Creator is called an offering Korban, that’s what we do between us. If we come closer between us by this we are coming closer to the Creator. This is called that we perform offerings or sacrifices, actions of sacrifice from an egoistic will to receive that upon it, we will come closer to the Creator.
12. S. (23:25) Do we need to do this role of priests now and what will be the role of priests in the future?
R. There is no future past present. It all depends on what we’re in and what we determine. As it is written that Israel is above times. Meaning that whoever raises himself towards the Creator doesn’t have a past present or future. Wherever he performs the action, that’s where he determines where he is. On that ruler of the times from here till Gmar Tikkun. That’s why the main thing for us, is as much force of bestowal we can attain, that by this, we advance to Gmar Tikkun along the timeline.
13. S. (24:37) What is the holy nation and what is the difference between the holy nation and Israel?
R. It is called the nation, the people that’s called Goy. There’s nothing good or bad in it. It’s a name, every nation can be called Goy. Now a sacred nation Goy Kadosh, what does that mean? Sanctity or holiness means in order to bestow love to the others, whoever reaches that quality, he is called sacred or holy. When a group corrects itself and reaches a state that they are entirely connected between them in love between them and the Creator, that is called a Holy Nation. If it’s aimed towards the Creator even though they have not reached a state that they really bestow to the Creator, they can be called Israel because their intention in the future is to come and bestow to the Creator. That’s why it’s called Israel, Yashar Kel, straight to the Creator. That is its plan supposedly, its goal. That’s the difference between a nation and a holy nation and Goy and Israel.
14. S. (26:20) Regarding the reception of the Torah. Does a person ask his innermost desires if they are willing to subjugate before the Creator prior to receiving the Torah, or is it more about people advancing toward the purpose of creation?
R. I didn’t understand anything, again.
S. When we are standing before Mount Sinai and we are asked if we are willing to receive the Torah, does a person ask his innermost desire if they are willing to submit, to subjugate themselves before the Creator or is it more about the people who are advancing towards the purpose of creation?
R. Everything in the Torah speaks about a group advancing in its connection and between them to the Creator. That is the only thing the Torah discusses, it is not just stories about people.
15. S. (27:22) What does it mean that their Creator becomes their possession, what does that mean?
R. That the Creator becomes our possession, that he lowers himself to them, fills them and they become a vessel where the upper light, the Creator can dwell between them and then they are also called the holy nation. That the Creator fills them in sanctity, in his will to bestow and then they feel that this is what it fills them and what works in them, that they also want to bestow.
16. S. (28:14) Although intellectually I understand that I must aspire for connection. In my feelings I enjoy separation and hatred. How can I begin to suffer from separation in my feeling and not in my intellect?
R. That we will advance and you pay attention that there can’t be love without hate, we have to advance in both. From hatred we run away and towards love we advance but there can’t be one without the other, there can’t. Just as there is day and night we always have a plus and a minus in everything, and in each thing, there is a thing in its opposite. Because we are created beings opposite the Creator and only by feeling ourselves and the Creator, wants this, wants that, only in that way can we advance.
17. S. (29:29) How do we start suffering from being disconnected?
R. We need to ask that the Creator will show us where we really are and even if such a state will show us or bring us an unpleasant feeling we will still be happy of the revelation of the truth. There is truth and there is pleasant. These things don’t necessarily come together because if I am in the egoistic desire I only suffer from the truth, but I’m willing to be in that feeling of suffering in order for it to show me where the truth is. Then I need to get support from the group in order to not run from the truth and be strong and hold myself, and in this way to overcome specifically upon the truth.
18. S. (30:38) They heard the word commandments. What commandments should women students of Kabbalah do?
R. Love your friend as yourself in the group, and disseminate to the general public the commandment of love your friend as yourself as much as possible, there are no more commandments. All commandments are included in that one commandment, love your friend as yourself. That’s what is written in the Torah. That’s what we need to do and not to exchange this commandment to corporeal actions with your hands or with your mouth, only do this. The commandment is in the heart, that I have to reach a feeling in the heart that I love my friends in the group, and in all Bnei Baruch and then in all of the world. All the commandments in the Torah are only in order to correct the heart, onnly to correct the heart. We need to understand this very well, not to forget it and to do it and to advertise it. Now discuss it between you.