Morning Lesson December 1, 2020 Transcription is made from simultaneous translation which leaves possibility for errors
Baal HaSulam. "Study of the Ten Sefirot" (TES). Part 2. Chapter Four. Histaklut Pnimit #66 (" Now there are two kinds of Eser Sefirot in the Ne’etzal ..")
39A. R. (01:00) So here we are studying elements of the spiritual vessel. It's very important parts because he is speaking about Malchut, Tzimtzum, the restriction, the reflected light which is above it, how it becomes a vessel with direct light all things that comprise our soul components of our soul that in our ten, each one in his own ten we want to connect in such an extent that we'll be able to build such Partzuf. It's the Partzuf of the soul.
Reader Item 66 (00:55 - 2:37)
40. R. I just want to remind that we here have to be with two intentions. One is that we are connecting between us, the other is that with the connection between us we want to draw the light that reforms. From our studies it will help me and our friends and all of us together to be in such a connection that upon it we are reading. What we are reading about. That we will reach a state that we are reading about it. That it will be felt between us, that we will understand the text, not from our mind, but because it will be revealed within us as a result of the connection that the book is speaking about.
S. (03:48) We're learning elements of the spiritual vessel, very important parts because they become the Partzuf of the soul that's what I want to ask about. What is the Partzuf of the soul in the ten?
R. Partzuf that we're learning about that sit spirituals Partzuf it's called a soul, that's it. What can we talk about, you heard about this for years, so that's called the soul and here for now we're studying about elements of the Partzuf and afterwards we will learn that's from the 9th part, 10th part of TES, and then we'll start learning how it's born, how it develops, it gradually. We don't start from the birth of the Partzuf, we're starting from elements what is the Partzuf, what is the world, what is the ascent, descent, Partzufim and so on afterwards when we have all these things because we're in a feeling and in understanding and somewhat on the spiritual world and then we can start learning how the soul is born, how it is developing. Before that we can't absorb any of this, you don't explain to a newborn how to make babies and how they grow, he has to know life, he has to be 20 and then you can start talking to him, how it all happens in our world, that's how it is.
41. S. (05:49) He writes about TES direct light and TES of reflected light. How does Malchut that restricted herself and how did she build the reflected light?
R. From not wanting to receive anything for herself, but what she wants is to connect all the Sephirot above herself specifically from the will to receive that she has from all of them and use her own will to receive in order to bestow and then by this she creates the reflected light and in that collect all of the influence of the Creator towards her called the first nine the first nine Sephirot and then Malchut of Ohr Yashar she becomes Keter of Ohr Chozer.
TES #67 Reader (06:58 - 07:58)
42. S. In the ten how do I feel those elements that are refined or coarser, how do I feel it?
S. I hope the question is appropriate: what is coarseness and is it connected to the disappearance of hatred between us?
R. That is also something we are not talking about now.
42A. S. (09:05) We talked about rising from below upwards and said this is higher and now we learned that the course is higher, what does that mean?
R. With the biggest coarseness we can build the biggest reflected light.
43. S. (09:27) It's a little confusing that 10 Sephirot in the light and in the emanated being, aren't this Sephirot something in the will to receive, how then is there the division into two parts that are light in the emanated being, why are there two distinctions in the 10 Sephirot in the will to receive?
R. There is a difference between what I receive from the Creator and the way I respond to it, so what I get from the Creator is felt in Malchut and in the first nine before the Malchut. That I can't feel anything before I feel it in Malchut, like we learned in the four phases of direct light. The light has to reach the Behina Dalet and the Behina Dalet will start to respond to shame, Tzimtzum, Masach, Ohr Hozer and so on the light reaches Behina Dalet the fourth phase and then Behina Dalet feels that the light came to it from all previous phases. Then then she sees it as the Creator’s attitude towards her, or the host towards her that is the first nine from above downward. Now in according to that that she restricts herself, as much as you can, she performs actions back from below upward and then she can present to the Creator an ability to receive it in somewhat in order to be so and then the 9 Sephirot of direct light clothe in the 10 Sephirot of reflected light in that is already called a Partzuf.
S. So the relation of the emanated being, how is the relation light is the created light?
R. Bestowal, bestowal from each one to each other one, that is called light.
S. But the source of the light can’t be in the emanated being?
R. The Creator gave him an inability to relate to Him back in such a way.
44. S. (12:20) The 10 Sephirot of the upper light that are written here, are the last discernment he fills the ten discernment in the vessel not the light but the vessel that the light passes through the discernments and then you feel it in the upper light that's the meaning of feeling?
R. You can see all that that's okay.
45. S. (13:00) Baal HaSulam writes here, there are two types of Sephirot on the Ne’etzal, what's the difference between Upper Malchut and Malchut of Ein Sof? Is there a difference between Tzimtzum and Masach in these two?
R. Malchut of Ein Sof doesn't feel it, it's something that's above all, that's what Kabbalists write about. Malchut and the Partzuf, we have ten Sephirot from Malchut and that's what we feel and according to that we can behave. Why are you adding an Ein Sof into here? I don't know.
S. What's the difference in the Zakut between the Sephirot from up down and down up?
R. The Sephirot themselves the higher the Sefirah it's more pure than the one below it. That's in direct light, in reflected light it's the opposite because the more my Aviut is greater and from it I can create a better quality of bestowal, so it turns out that the Sephirah is higher in reflected light, the 10 Sephirot of direct light from Keter to Malchut and 10 Sephirot of reflected light from Malchut of Ohr Yashar which is Keter of reflected light, back to Keter of direct light which is the Malchut of surrounding light.
46. S. (15:03) What is the condition from Malchut to discern the ten Sephirot of Ohr Yashar if there is such a thing at all?
R. I don't understand Malchut.
S. What's the condition for Malchut to discern that there are ten Sefirot of direct light?
R. If Malchut restrict herself if you discover that there's light before her, to the extent of the intensity of her restriction meaning up on what she can overcome so that she can discern what kind of light comes to her as 10 Sephirot, but the 10 Sephirot in what intensity Nefesh Ruach Neshama, Chayah, Yechida, it all depends on the Aviut of the Masach in the Malchut.
47. S. (16:00) Is there a special correspondence between the clothing of the reflected light on the different vessels of the direct light?
R. The clothing or the dressing, as we understand, is the way the light clothes or dresses the desire or the Kli, that there's a connection between the action of the created being and the action of the Creator. The Creator bestows light and then created being bestows pleasure back to the Creator, there's two forms of pleasure one towards the other they clothe upon one another, that's what happens. I am for my beloved and my beloved is for me, just what I like we learn from Baal HaSulam gives the example of the guest and the host.
47A. S. (17:07) Can it be said that coarseness is a deeper desire to bestow?
R. Aviut isn't a big desire to bestow; it's the will to receive as much as the Aviut can be converted to the intention to bestow, so the course becomes purity.
S. If they are opposite of the lights and vessels, then there is Aviut from the perspective of the created being and the Creator?
R. No it's not written anywhere, don't bring me any kind of wisdom.
47B. S. (18:03) It is written that the reflected light dresses in the upper light. I don't understand what is dressing, clothing?
R. Bestowing and bestowing as much as the host wants to bestow to me, I want to bestow back to him and then our relationships connect one to the other that's how it works.
48. S. (18:41) All the changes do these depend on the screen?
R. All the changes depend on the Masach.
48A. S. (18:55) Is it clear, the more coarse, it is clearer?
R. The more coarse, it is the more Aviut and i is not corrected.
49. S. (19:16) Can it be said that Binah of direct light and reflected light are the same quality?
R. We didn't learn that yet.
49A. S. (19:31) The reflected light that's dressed on the direct light is the same qualities?
R. Yes.
S. Reflected light that dresses the direct light is there equivalence? Equivalence of qualities here?
R. Yes, they complete each other, they resemble each other just like the host wants to bestow to the guest, the guest wants to bestow to the host and that's when they connect by that, that turns into the inner light of the soul or the Partzuf same thing.
49B. S. (20:17) I see there were three questions about the same sentence, so I want to read the 10 Sephirot of reflected light clothes 10 Sephirot of the upper light, three friends as what does it mean to clothe?
R. It means they exactly fit the upper light but only they come from the guest to the host, that's it. That I received everything in the host bestowing towards me and by this I build my attitude towards the host that it will be in the exact same form just like he wants me to take something from him and enjoy it. I try to build vessels specifically towards this pleasure that the host is expecting me to take and then that way I relate to him, try to work with your feelings more, it will help you advance to building the Partzuf.
50. S. (21:28) According to what you said when I try to clothe and build the same relation to the host as to He to me, I connect to the ten, what does it mean I tried to create the same relation as in to me?
R. The Creators relating to the ten, not to you, he's relating to the ten and general and then you together in the connection in between you can build a connection towards him. The connection between you together will be as Malchut of the Partzuf and as much as you receive from the Creator the feeling that towards you, you from this or building an attitude towards the Creator. From the attitude, the relationships between the friends, the Sephirot, you are also building relationship with the Creator, we will learn that each and every Sephirah also has 10 individual Sephirot and in those individual, it's like that in every friend we have also work towards the other friends in ten Sephirot between us and then when we connect, there is work between us to the Creator. It's all one mechanism that has a lot of relationships, how I relate to the friends, how we complete each other, how we organize all these to be aimed towards the Creator. That's how we build a Partzuf, after we reach a feeling and understanding of how it's built, the way the system is what the spiritual cell is then it will be very easy. That everything will be connected, everything will be natural everything will know what to do, so I don't tell my hand that now I have to send it somewhere and take a pen and bring the pen here, I just do it, that's how we're going to be working with the Partzuf towards the Creator.
S. Each friend in our ten feels the level of connection between us, not all of us together, what does it mean in our connection there is a Malchut that receives something from the Creator?
R. How do you give to the Creator, not receive from him, you hear me, speak in a different way how can we connect between us to such an extent that we feel that we're bestowing to the Creator and until we don't feel that we're bestowing to the Creator, it's a sign that we are still not connected.
51. S. (24:35) What does it mean to work in the feeling in spiritual work?
R. What does it mean to work in the feeling I can't explain it, its feeling and beginners that come to the wisdom of Kabbalah it takes them a few years until they start implementing spiritual actions in the feelings and then we have to remind ourselves that the feeling is the main part because what did the Creator say, I created the evil inclination, and all of creation is a desire and what we feeling. The desire is feeling, the mind only helps us direct our desire, connect our desires, discern desires, but the mind is secondary to the desire, the desire is the creation.
Reader Item 68 (25:43 - 27:20) reads twice
52. R. We don't have anything, just reject what the Creator wants to give us, from this we will have reflected light like the guest and the host. He doesn't want and doesn't want and doesn't want then it's that the same forces of rejection when they accumulate together they become the vessel of reception of the created being to get all the abundance from the Creator. You'll see where it's written, it's in a very nice precise, wonderous way and we need then to understand how we can reach it. That the forces pushing from the Creator on one hand and the rejecting from the other hand, when they reach a certain intensity then from that the condition is created that the created being can receive from the Creator, that guest from the host and it will be counted as giving to the host. Meaning to be so to the Creator we can only under the condition we can receive in order to bestow otherwise it's not bestowal. If we cannot receive in order to bestow, then I'm in a state of preparation maybe of Bina but afterwards I need to add it to my rejection, also the will to receive and to use that will to receive that it will be receiving in order to bestow as much as I received then it will be counted as giving to the Creator.
53. S. (29:08) The guest is opposite from the table, sitting at the table and rejects all the pleasures on the table, what can we reject what is in front of us?
R. That everything in your life you organize it in a way that it will be only towards the connection with the friends, the connection of the whole world in order to bring pleasure to the Creator that for now you are going in whatever you can right now and whatever is revealed to you right now you're going towards the general correction that you'll receive in order to bestow all the way from the Creator to the created beings for now you do what you can do. What can you do, now I'm told I need to start connecting, love your friend as yourself that's the general law in what can I start keeping this law? In connection between us in the 10 and then I can go and do it when I reach the first degree of connection in practice, then I can start seeing in that connection that the parts that reject one another, I'll start feeling in that connection above the rejection meaning that the rejection is the Aviut and the connection is the purity and then I start feeling between the rejection and the tendency to connect between Aviut and purity I will start feeling the higher reality of the spiritual reality the upper world. That is what we are coming close to. It seems to me that we have a problem that during the day we disconnect from the lesson that every lesson I gave a portion to advance by more and more, we are not implementing it the right way, our lessons. So today again let's hear the lesson and connect between us and explain it to one another and hear it again what we had in the morning lesson. The first hour in each and every lesson is the most important. So, try to be constantly with this and don't think that you know and hear it again and again and every time it will be new in your eyes
54. S. (32:26) it's written what return to phase 4 is a small part does that mean that what we receive a small portion of light and what we give is multiplied several times and becomes Keter?
R. No no the Behina Dalet, the 4th phase, receives in order to bestow makes her expand to the degree of Keter, she includes all the other Sephirot in her, the Creator fills her all the way and in the end it turns out that the Behina Dalet is full of all of the Creator and there in the Behina Dalet there's a Zivug. A whole and complete Zivug, Creator and created being, and then it takes place in all of the fourth phase when she establishes the first nine Sephirot, she includes them.
55. S. (33:43) How can we develop spiritual feeling?
R. First of all you need to fix your microphone in the ten we're only talking about that
56. S. (34:17) It's not clear this thing about rejection, technically it is clear, but in our everyday conduct what I feel what is present in my will to receive I want to bring it closer and what I don't like, I want to reject, I don't distinguish between them?
R. That's exactly it, what is pleasant, push away and what's not, try to receive it, do such exercises, it's clear to everybody right? Tomorrow tell us how the world changed, you'll flip the world over by that, your world try it, that's interesting good exercise.
57. S. (35:10) During the lesson we said that now we're going out for the day and we absorb from the world, what should we absorb from the world and can we decide what to absorb and what not to?
R. I am constantly in the morning lesson and I am constantly continuing in the morning lesson and in the background of the morning lesson, I determined what I receive from this broad external world. Just like that, this and this and this, I can let it come into me and what I receive from the external world and what can I expand and broaden my vessel of reception for the world attitude to the Creator attitude to the world. Meaning I have great work during the day that I don't forget the morning lesson on that background, I can also allow myself to absorb all kinds of discernments from the external world. If I can't absorb it correctly, still I only participate there in an external way, I build myself into Partzufim, my inner “I” that is connected to the morning lesson and the group and I don't disconnect from there and my external “I, that I just do things like a puppet towards the whole world, that's it
S. How does this inner I not disconnect from the morning lesson?
R. I am constantly going through the morning lesson inside of me and if I can I also listen if I can't, I listen to songs at least our songs, everybody has music going on in the background during the day everybody does that. That is called normal so you do that at least each one depends where he is where he works, okay?
https://kabbalahmedia.info/lessons/cu/PXrdRD4i?language=en&mediaType=video