SHAVUOT - [1988 CLIP] - "Up All Night"

SHAVUOT - [1988 CLIP] - "Up All Night"
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- Description: An unedited clip from The Rav on Shavuot titled "Up All Night" 
- Date: May 1988 
- From: Rav Berg 
- Length: 12 minutes 
- Location: Queens, New York, USA 
- From: The Rav's Zohar Session on Pidyon HaBen 
- Sources: The Writings of The Ari 

Transcript

SPEAKER_01 0:05

It is not by coincidence that we are now just before Shvot. And as you have uh learned, on Shwarot we have the opportunity to achieve a connection with a state of consciousness of revelation, which meant Bilahamavitlan which meant that death was eternally going to be vaporized and death no longer would exist as something that was familiar with the humankind and for the whole world. In other words, there would be eternal life. That's what happened on Mount Sinai. When we say revelation, when we say revelation, some interpret revelation meaning that was the day the Jews received the Ten Commandments. The Ten Commandments were revealed. And according to the Zoha, the importance was not the fact that the Ten Commandments was revealed, but that the Ten Commandments were only a channel for something more important that took place on Shwarod. What was that aspect that took place on Shwarod? That death would come to an end. Death, as we know it, would come to an end. What was the channel by which the creator could accomplish that fact for humankind, that death no longer would exist, by creating a channel, by his light, his or his energy, his beneficence becoming manifested in this world, because as of now we know that the light or the beneficence of the Creator is in Sim Tsum. It is restricted, because if the Creator's light was manifested in its entirety, then there should be no death, no illness, no misfortune, no poverty. All of the ills that surround mankind shouldn't exist if God, because God is good, and if he is good, then there should be only beneficence. So we learnt in the uh in the Ari that Hashem, also, because of the aspect of free will, we should have an opportunity to choose between good and evil, he had to restrict the flow of his beneficence, the flow of his light, and therefore, because he restricted the flow of his light, there was room for darkness. Darkness meaning, darkness meaning death, ill health, poverty, and all of the other ills that befall mankind. So revelation on Mount Sinai, and the significance of revelation in Mount Sinai was not the Ten Commandments, was not the Ten Commandments, but the significance was the revelation of the light. Was the revelation of the light of God. That means it was only good, his entirety of goodness became manifest in the world. How did it become manifest? Through a channel called the Ten Commandments, which we also know in Kabbalah, why were there ten, not seven, not ten, eleven, not fourteen? Because the ten represented the ten speed off. This is the way the beneficence of God comes through. In other words, if there is evil in the world, some would like to say, God, where were you? And we say we demanded from God that he keep his distance from us to provide us with a choice of good or evil. If his beneficence shined all the time, there would be no choice. There would be no choice. Everyone would be fulfilled. So why would anyone want to steal if he has money in the first place? This happened on Mount Sinai. And so on Mount Sinai, there was total revelation, and then we know came a golden calf. How could a golden calf come about when already the entire revelation took place? Where was there now room for a golden calf to come about? A very significant question, of which I unfortunately did not find an answer that is directed towards that question. But if the way the Zoha describes the importance of uh Matantura, and this is why people there are still some people who are up throughout the night on the night of Shwarat. Unfortunately, we'd say about 90% of even those Jews who do adhere to the uh uh the holiday of Shwarat don't stay up all night. It is only a very small handful of people throughout the world that somehow have found a significance in staying up all night. However, to achieve that level of consciousness, that level of of uh God, that light of God, one must be up all night. If he is not up all night, then he has not achieved that aspect of which the Zoha tells us that you have bought life insurance, at least until Rosh Hashanah. You have bought life insurance, but not the life insurance that pays off when one dies, but you have bought life insurance. You are insured that if you stay up the entire night of Shabuat, you will not die, and no uh no uh misfortune of any kind will befall that individual.

SPEAKER_00 6:24

What is it about staying up online to guarantee that gives the power for that?

SPEAKER_01 6:30

All right. A good question. I I I didn't want to address myself to that question, but while it's here, what does it have to do with being up all night? What does it mean when the Yari says that whenever someone is up all night studying uh Torah, he removes a caret. A karet is uh is uh some consider to be the punishment of some very severe um sins or transgressions. So as not to uh bring that kind of wrath, that kind of punishment, if one is up any time during the year, the entire night studying Torah, then he removes one of those punishments that ultimately must befall, whether it's at age 30 or 40, or usually at age uh 59, if you will, and I did that for a while, if you will notice in your if you ever think it it's important to you to uh observe the obituaries in the New York Times, I say the New York Times because that's where most obituaries are placed, you will notice that most people, most ages of people who are dying is at age fifty-nine. The aspect of cadet usually is at age fifty nine. It brings debt at at age fifty-nine. I I'll get off the subject, right? I I that's why I don't like to address myself. But in any event, being up all night is something that like fasting goes very much against the grain of of the body. We know that fasting, which we will be discussing tonight as well, is uh is one of the mediums, one of the uh methods by which uh through the Ariz Sharuha Kodesh, that we can remove much of the ill that uh befalls mankind through the aspect of fasting. Now we uh we have spoken on many occasions the importance of fasting, and that is because the natural instinct of the body is a desire to eat, and when we restrict the body, we have in effect been placing a tremendous energy infusion within the body's negative energy intelligence of the desire to receive for oneself alone, because it is only the body that actually provokes us into evil because it has and it is the seat of the desire to receive for oneself alone. So when one fasts, he in essence is bringing about a restriction. And when you bring about a restriction on the body, you then permit, like the bulb, a flow of energy. What does what does the what happens in the bulb? The filament restricts the flow of electrical current, and by virtue of restriction, we know the rule that when you restrict the paradox of nature that when you restrict, you get. So therefore, when you fast, you also achieve a circuitry of energy. The body also must sleep. The body must sleep. It is not the soul that needs sleep. In fact, the only reason that people fall asleep is because the soul says, I need a little freedom, give me a few hours of respite. Because the if an individual is is uh not conforming to the natural laws of the universe, he is not he is performing activity in a negative way, the the soul, the internal aspect of the individual is suffering. And therefore, it needs this little freedom. But the body requires sleep. And now what we're doing is going against the grain of the body by going against the natural tendency of the body, because the soul does not need or require sleep. So it's another demonstration of restricting the activity of the body. The body needs sleep. So when we're up all night, we are in effect performing a a uh a an activity of restriction. That's the connection. And therefore, because there's a restriction on the body, the soul, while it is within the body, is enjoying this freedom that it always seeks by another method and by a person simply falling asleep. All right, therefore, on this night of Shivot was the uh the uh the uh finale of death in the world, and yet we know that the Arab Rav created the golden calf. And because of the golden calf, everything that was already accomplished on Mount Sinai did not become manifested, and so we are still here suffering all the ills of of individuality, individual suffering.