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Part 2:
Baal HaSulam. The Gatehouse of Intentions (Chapter 2. #22)
Reading () Chapter 2 - #22 “This requires that we notify you of the meaning of garments and halls..”
1.R. ( 00:17 ) Okay, let's see what we have to add below.
Reading Item 22 (00:27) There are three phases of surrounding vessels and over them surrounding (lights) of NRN…” Twice
2. R. (04:17) Even if it's unrelated to this, this is the division.
Item 24 (04:28) " For this reason, these circles encircle all the phases "
3. R. (05:39) because it is the nature of surrounding light they are going by the width and the straight and the strength straighten the slides they're going by depth.
Item 23 (05:52) Simple Light ...as houses in which man lives, and over them is an illumination of very big surroundings.”
4. R. ( 07:46 ) Yes in this we finish chapter 2. Do we have any questions?
5. S. (07:53 ) What are the vessels of the surrounding light?
R. These are the same vessels they don't have a Masach for the inner light. They are not connected to the inner lights , the inner vessels. The surrounding vessels can use them but later through different actions they can join the inner vessels and receive the inner lights. But for now no.
S. How could it be the essence of surrounding light of straightness?
R. These are vessels that are surrounding, it is not that they by themselves are vessels of straightness but they are circling around the vessels of straightness.
6. S. (09:12) T is said about surrounding lights and inner lights, can we say that in Lo Lishma there's surrounding light and in Lishma there’s inner light?
R. No no no, surrounding light and inner light are only in Lishma.
7. S. (09:40) It sounds like nuclear physics after 25 years I don't understand what’s written here, it sounds like all kinds of vessels that I don't understand anything. What am I expected here to do, what is it that the Creator expects from me from this study?
R. The Creator expects from you that you’re going to want to attain it, attain and not know.
S. What does it mean to attain it?
R. To attain it means for you to feel it in your vessels that desires will be revealed to you in order to bestow and then they will be called Kelim spiritual vessels and inside those vessels in order to bestow the light will be revealed according to the equivalence of form that is in order to bestow.
S. A Kabbalist who reads this feels each and every syllable here or he feels something general?
R. As much as he’s in it.
S. What does it mean?
R. That if he's in the end of correction he feels everything until the end if he's in the middle then according to his place.
S. So it’s basically portions and portions until the final correction.
R. Yes like us in this world.
S. So if a Kabbalist advances he basically also climbs and understands better and better what’s written? I mean feel, yes.
R. Yes like you in this world.
S. I understood thank you.
8. S. (11:34) When we say that the surrounding lights shine from afar does it mean that they shine towards the inner lights inner vessels?
R. They shine toward external lights the surrounding lights, surrounding light for surrounding vessels inner light for inner vessels. Kabbalists feel it they read about it from attainment, it’s not that in physics or in something where there is a lot of things that we think are so, here there’s no doubt they reveal it and so they write it.
9. S. (12:39) Is NRN straightness and ZON circles?
R. What is received in the vessels of a straightness is a straightness and what is received in the vessels of circles are circles, it depends on where we seek.
10. S. (13:06) It says that there’s a great distance between man and his inner vessels. What is man here and why is there a great distance between him and his inner vessels?
R. Because Adam is written in generality the entire structure and his inner vessels are only that are qualities of the degree.
11. S. (13:38) Many times you say that there's no righteous who didn’t first commit sin make a mistake. This balance between the inner light and the surrounding light can a Kabbalist make a mistake there? Does he make a mistake?
R. A Kabbalist has to ascend everywhere, there's no righteous in the land that hasn't sinned first, that means that if he hasn't sinned if he hasn’t made a mistake then he doesn't know what is good and what is bad and he can not clarify scrutinize the vessels.
S. So we can say that he can receive the inner light more than needed and thus..?.
R. That’s right.
12. S. (14:38) Can we say that after the second restriction the vessels that were separated, Zeir Anpin and Malchut, can receive inner light only through surrounding light?
R. Yes, what was surrounding has entered the inner.
S. How does it then connect to the complete Partzuf afterward?
R. Because it relates to the Partzuf, the inner and the surrounding all refers to one Partzuf.
S. How the vessels that separated?
R. They receive a Masach and then they just join the inner vessels and the difference between surrounding and inner vessels is whether they either have a Masach or they don't have a Masach.
S. What does it mean that they receive a Masach, how?
R. Through the light that reforms that influences them and they also want to be in bestowal and then they rise to the upper light who gives them the Masach the resistance to the vessels of Kabbalah and then they work with the force of bestowal in order to bestow.
S. It's only by the light that reforms right?
R. Yes, yes, of course the rules are still rules.
Reading (16:23) Chapter 3 - #25 “Let us explain what was the state of the worlds of BYA themselves…” Twice
Reading (18:15) - #26 “When the Emanator wished to…” Twice
Reading (19:22) - #27 “Indeed, immediately upon the restriction,..” Twice
Reading (20:57) - #28 “It did not take the rest of the place of the surrounding light or below it...” Twice
Reading (21:51) - #29 “When Beria and Yetzira descend below his Raglaim, they did not stand in their proper place…”
Reading (23:05) - #30 “Afterward, an illumination of upper light emerged through the Eynaim..”
Reading (25:24) - #31 “Now that Nekudim separated the internality of the vessels of NHY of Adam Kadmon from the externality..”
Reading (26:24) - #32 “Beria returned opposite the anterior, and Yetzira opposite the posterior..” Twice
Reading (27:24) - #33 “Know that when I heard this fourth reason, I wrote it very succinctly,..” Twice
Reading (28:45) - #34 “These are the words of the copy that I wrote. In the above-mentioned restriction,..” Twice
Reading (30:12) - #35 “How? This surrounding descended and entered between the Raglaim, to Beria,..”
Reading (31:44) - #36 “After we briefly explained the teachings about the circles and straightness in the order of the clothing of all the worlds..”
Reading (33:38) - #37 “If it were said that the Raglaim of AK reach and expand down into its own circles until their Sium and end..”
13. R. (34:22) We don't understand what is going on here but Baal HaSulam wants to explain here why there is such a gap oppositeness between what Baal HaSulam explains and other Kabbalists that think that the light or Ein Sof goes through downwards and there’s a lot of things here we’re not going to get into it but there is some differences in thought, like in any other wisdom you can see it here as well. You can see in some books that there is a line of the worlds is going down from the center of all the circles. We’re going to talk about it when we get a chance.
Reading (35:36) - #37 “If it were said that the Raglaim of AK reach and expand down into its own circles until their Sium and end..”
14. R. (36:22) In this we are going to finish for today and I think we received a big portion of the surrounding light from what we read and heard. Until tomorrow.