Morning Lesson August 17th, 2022, Transcription
Transcription is made from simultaneous translation which leaves a possibility for differences in the audio
Part 3:
Baal HaSulam. "Study of the Ten Sefirot" (TES). Vol. 1. Part 4. Chapter Three. #1 ("We shall start to explain them from Yesod,")
Item #1 (00:27) Part 4. Chapter Three. #1 ("When Yesod rises, it leaves a record in its place...")
Item #2 (02:05) “The record is a residue of...”
1. R. (02:55) Yes, meaning there are lights that descend from above down, there are lights that rise from below upwards, and in every single state the light that was in it, leaves behind an impression, a record, both from the direct light and the reflected light, and then these lights are called Mercy and those lights are called Judgment.
Item #3 (03:21) “The first expansion of Akudim...”
2. R. (04:13) A very interesting thing, again.
Item #3 (04:15) Again
3. S. (05:04) It turns out that when we discover the Achoraim, posterior, then the degree rises to bring us closer?
R. No, this is only talking about the lights that are operating in the vessels. We don't need to fantasize here that it is us going up and down, this is talking about the first restriction, the world of Adam Kadmon. Let's learn it as it's written, without attaching ourselves to it yet.
Item #4 (05:47) “When Keter ascends to the emanator..”
Item #5 (06:53) “The lights of the face are mercy..”
Item #6 (07:57) “Hochma receives from one posterior..”
4. S. (09:23) Why is reflected light called judgment?
R. Since the Malchut overcomes and rejects it back to the emanator, to the source it comes from, because she cannot receive in order to receive, and in order to bestow also she doesn't yet have any possibility to do so. All that is possible is to push back this light to its source. Soon he will explain this.
5. S. (10:09) What do you mean the reflected light is called judgment? We raise the reflected light, how does it become reflected light?
R. You give back to the host what he wants to give you.
S. Why does it become judgment?
R. That’s why it’s called Din, judgment, because you're behaving this way to the mercy of the host.
S. When I make a reflected light?
R. Where you say that you don't want to receive from him.
S. I don't want to receive from him, in our work are we not returning the reflected light?
R. We give back and what we give back is called reflected light or judgment.
S. What does it mean either-or judgment, what does it mean that it’s or judgment?
R. It is a judgment because I did not receive it.
S. If I were to receive it, it wouldn't have been the light of judgment?
R. No, you're missing a little patience to hear and not to jump with your questions.
S. It's a little bit complicated.
R. We forgive you for the time being.
6. S. (11:35) These are the lights of Nekudot?
R. Nekudot are the lights that depart.
S. During the departure there are Zivugim, there are mating’s, a receiving of the lights of Hochma?
R. During the refinement, no, where is it written?
S. There are mating’s during the departure.
R. Yes.
S. During the mating, they receive the light of Hochma?
R. No.
S. Why do you receive there?
R. Because the whole departure is basically a refusal to receive and all the degrees of departure he doesn't want, he doesn't want, and he doesn't want, that is why you have five portions and you are ridding yourself of all five portions one after another, until you rise to the Peh of Rosh.
S. There are no mating’s in these degrees, where it goes from Malchut?
R. There are but not like you're asking, where it comes to receive the light of Hochma, there is no reception of the light of Hochma with the departure of the lights.
S. So it's only a rejection?
R. Only rejection but in this rejection you’re scrutinizing what you had and what you're truly rejecting.
Item #7 (13:31) “There is yet another discernment...”
Item #8 (14:15) “According to the changes…”
7. R. (15:02) Meaning it's hard to make a commentary or interpret it, but as he says, there are three types, there’s the weak judgment, the medium judgment, and strong judgment.
Item #9 (15:15) “Three phases of light...”
8. R. (16:42) That is how it sorts the lights.
Item #10 (16:49) “The clash of the light...”
9. S. (18:57) You answered the friend before that the process described here is a process that preceded us. If so, what is he talking about here?
R. The desire to receive and the upper light that is operating upon us and the desire is responding to the light. That's it. We are not talking about the created beings. The created being starts from the world of Bria and down. You will learn that. For the time being we are learning only above the roots of nature within which we are later born and emerge and develop.