LAG B'OMER - [1986 #4] - "The Omer Tape Set"

LAG B'OMER - [1986 #4] - "The Omer Tape Set"
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- Description: LAG B'OMER: Concluding Monologue: Concluding Monologue to The Rav's "Lag B'Omer Experiential" 
- Date: 1986 
- Track Number: 4 of 4 
- From: The Rav (Rav Berg) 
- Length: 30 minutes 
- Notes: From The Rav's "The Omer Tape Set" (Track 10 of 10) 

The Omer Tape Set 
(10 tracks) 
#1  - THE OMER - [1986] - "The Omer Tape Set" - 42m 
#2 - 7TH DAY OF PASSOVER - [1986 #1] - "The Omer Tape Set" - 20m 
#3 - 7TH DAY OF PASSOVER - [1986 #2] - "The Omer Tape Set" - 45m 
#4 - LAG B'OMER - [1986 #1] - "The Omer Tape Set" - 17m 
#5 - SHAVUOT - [1986 #1] - "The Omer Tape Set" - 60m 
#6 - SHAVUOT - [1986 #2] - "The Omer Tape Set" - 60m 
#7 - 7TH DAY OF PASSOVER - [1986 #3] - "The Omer Tape Set" - 1h&25m 
#8 - LAG B'OMER - [1986 #2] - "The Omer Tape Set" - 31m 
#9 - LAG B'OMER - [1986 #3] - "The Omer Tape Set" - 1h&32m 
#10 - LAG B'OMER - [1986 #4] - "The Omer Tape Set" - 30m 

- Additional Notes: The Rav's "Lag B'Omer Experiential" was recorded later, and was not included in the original "The Omer Tape Set" but was subsequently added in later versions 

Transcript

SPEAKER_00 0:06

Now, for those of you who are going to come into connection with this tape at some later date, you might ask of yourselves of what purpose and to what purpose and what benefit is the listening of this tape or these tapes, which have already long passed, insofar as its cosmic timetable is concerned, I'd just like to assure you that we have much to be thankful to technology. Inasmuch as the fact that there is no disappearance of spirituality, and that whatever we have captured will always remain with us. When you feel that there is a time and a need for a spiritual uplifting, listen to that experiential. Because all of the tapes of the research center of Kabbalah and all of its activities go far and beyond the physical reality as we are accustomed to understanding this aspect called physical reality. You know what they say about weed killers. If you're interested enough to know about weed killers, you ask a weed killer expert. That's what experts are for. To keep track of all the stuff that the rest of us can't keep track of. By the same token, if you're curious about the physical reality, you know, all the stuff that goes to make up our world of matter and energy, you're supposed to ask a physicist. But a very funny thing about our physicists, there is so much wild conflicting interpretations of physical reality, and more particularly of quantum mechanics. That's the branch of physics that deals with the behavior of subatomic particles like electrons and photons, you name it, they've got it. The trouble is nobody really knows too much about the sumatopic world of quantum mechanics. And sometimes, even for the physicist, it's strange, weird, and maybe even crazy. In their experiences, they describe a single particle which can apparently exist in two places at the same time. You know what that sounds like? Metaphysics. But don't tell that to a physicist, because he deals only with the physical reality. He wouldn't be caught dead exploring metaphysics, or when he observes an experimenter who can apparently influence the behavior of particles, not only in the present, but you know what? Let me in let me let you in on a secret. They can even explore the past, and everything seems to be flying all around towards each other, away from each other, possibly even faster than the speed of light. What does all that mean for us today? It indicates that at a certain particular level we are dealing with phenomena which does not conform to that illusionary natural law of time, space, and motion. Rabbi Shimon, on this day of Logbohmer, when he passed on, from that day on, the world was never going to be the same again. With the material that he supplied the Kabbalist, the Zohar in particular, he taught his students how they can forget about the illusionary physical reality that even today most people are caught up with. But he went far and beyond and said, let's get to the fundamental of things. Let's get to the root of things. Let us understand true reality. Log Boomer, a day that meant so much for the Kabbalist, has now turned into an exposition of bow and arrows, or of a social dance, but be it far from the actual reality that this is an important day in our cosmic timetable. I cannot stress often enough that because Lagba Omer meant that the spiritual timetable, that timetable which deals with metaphysics, became accessible to not only the metaphysician, not only to the Kabbalist, but to you and I and everyone who has a sincere desire and yearn for the real reality that governs our daily lives. I know for a long, long time this aspect of Kabbalah, the aspect of Jewish mysticism is still something for most peoples in the world to be shunned or by even some outright rejected. And due to this ignorance, the Bible, with its multitude of myths and even hoax, have left this world in a position of calamity, in a position of stress for almost all of humankind. When we explore the medical profession, we find the situation becoming hopeless from day to day. Where? Where are we going to begin from? And the answer tells us the Kabbalist, start from its source. Don't be involved in environmental factors or in polluted air. But get to the heart of things. Get to the root of things. Get to the cause of why we are all going through the enormous pressures and even calamities that befall our civilization from time to time. It is only not too long ago that there appeared a sinister bright morning in January of 1986 where the Challenger, the catastrophe of the Challenger just overtook the entire world. We viewed the catastrophe of Challenger as merely one more spectacular engineering failure in the trial and error history of technology. To be sure, the history can be devastating. Witness the recent meltdown at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant near Kiev, Russia, and the mass casualties that have followed. And this was not limited to the Russians. As I've stated previously, things that happen in China affect all of us, all over the world. They couldn't face the hard truth. Where does that all take us? That failure must occur if we are to continue exploration and investigation. But I think something more important emerged from both the Chernobyl incident and the Challenger catastrophe. Bickering, self-justification, or even moral cowardice often plays a key role in any truthful accident report. And in the final analysis, most technological disasters kind of teach us the need to overcome egoism as well as bad engineering. The Bible has long been the world's best seller. Can you imagine? With so few people even understanding its deeper meaning, it still remains as a leading literary document. There must be some hidden power that draws so many people, century after century, into exploring its inner depths. The answer is Ain Mugdam Umucha Betorah. That is a Talmudic expression which says that within the Bible there is no past, present, or future. What is to be explored in this course of history is its inner meanings. There must be a redirection. And on this Lag Boomer, that powerful day when the secrets, and I say all the secrets, of metaphysical thought became revealed, and I say metaphysical thought, because that's where the fundamental action takes place. And never forget that even within the physical reality realm, a conscious person thinks first and does afterwards. So why can't we take this opportunity and begin to question every physical reality with a determination that the answers to physical reality do not lie within the physical reality realm? The moment we begin to question the facts, states the Kabbalah, that is the moment you have to ask why it is here in the first place. Rather than taking the attitude of conventional physics and pursue the effects that appear on a physical reality realm, I appeal to you on this particular day, Log Baumer, the revelation not of the physical Bible which took place on Shivot, but the revelation of the inner, deeper soul meaning of that Bible that followed is where we have to direct our attention. In fact, what came first? The soul or the body. From the Kabbalistic point of view, the physical reality realm was the last in the rung of evolution. Not only can I prove to you that this must be so, because in spite of our acceptance by the majority of us that the physical reality realm is the real realm, ninety-nine percent of that physical reality realm still remains ninety percent illusionary, deceiving, separate and distinct from physical reality. And therefore, Logboomer, the day when the Zoa finally became manifest for all to enjoy, for all to explore and investigate, it preceded the revelation on Mount Sinai. But then again, for those of you who might question, but Shivuot, the time of the revelation on Mount Sinai of the Bible, preceded Rebishimon and the Logbohmer cosmic event. And my answer to you is you already have forgotten what the Kabbalah really teaches us. Yes, it is true that Rabbi Shimon followed the revelation on Mount Sinai. However, you have also learned that according to Rabbi Isaac Gloria in his gates of Rabbi Shimon Bayochai, that Rabbi Shimon Bayohai was an incarnation of Moses himself. And we all know that Moses had no purpose in being incarnated again. He had accomplished the purpose of his return during his lifetime. He returned to correct the faults of Abel, of which he was an incarnation. Without going into how and why and what were the events that surrounded Moses' purpose and incarnation, suffice to say that Moses accomplished and completed all that his incarnation warranted. Therefore, when Rebishimon made his appearance, it was again to bring to the physical realm that which Moses at the time of his appearance was not necessary. And that was the written part, the written part of metaphysics referred to as the Kabbalah. To be practical, let us not be confused when we cope with our daily living existence. All too long, in fact, for 300 years, has Newtonian classical physics made its impression upon all of mankind, and I must say, is a direct influence and cause to man's regression and in his endeavor to achieve the well-being physically and mentally that he so often seeks. Ribishimon, as I have explained in Kabbalah for the Layman, makes it very clear that man is the ruler and controller of the entire physical universe. And as a result, if he pursues a course of negative human activity, then catastrophic failures, which seem to be the norm of our civilization, is a direct result and effect of this human negative activity. It is there that we as human beings must pursue. We must pursue a redirection in our thinking, in our observation of the physical reality as we know it. That Rebishimon has provided us with that most important question of why I am here. There is nothing more important that one must begin questioning how many people have come into this planet Earth and have so disappeared as if they never existed in the first place. Is that the kind of existence and purpose that an all-embracing unified creator had in mind for us? I'm addressing myself now to those people who still cling to some form of religion. Could you believe that there is no further purpose than just to have the Lord make manifest our universe without a specific goal in mind? While Einstein might have declared that he could not believe, because of quantum physics, that the Lord played dice with the universe. But that doesn't say anything. So the Lord didn't play dice with the universe. What did he really want with the universe? And once we have even explored and maybe come to some conclusion or some answers, that is not enough. If thought, as Rabbi Shimon, in his legacy to us, was the most important aspect of creation, to the extent that there is nothing more than thought intelligence, then we must make every effort to achieve an altered state of consciousness, to achieve a direct connection with that internal reality called thought, by which our perspective of the universe and ourselves becomes fully understood. Without which history and the people who inhabit this planet will merely continue to exist, pass on to be incarnated again without purpose. But I want you to understand at this moment that Kabbalah is not merely for the purpose of amassing information. It has a very specific thought in mind. It is to provide us with the proper channels by which we can assure our mental as well as physical well-being. All aspects of science, and I say all aspects of science, have not brought humankind together as it should. In fact, a fragmented universe seems to be the rule of the day. And therefore, it was Rebishimon Bayo High on this powerful, powerful day of the cosmic timetable that brought revelation to mankind again. And let us hope that with this awesome power that we have tapped today, we shall achieve that altered state of consciousness and peace on earth and goodwill towards all fellow men. Thank you, and may the Lord bless all of us. Good night.