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Daily Morning Lesson: February 23, 2026
Original lesson date: 01/01/1980
Reader: We will study from The Study of the Ten Sefirot with Rabash. We will read from the book, Volume 2, part 5, page 323 in the Hebrew version, Item 39.
RABASH (Source Text/Commentary): (00:28) So, we're reading item 39. Let us return to the matter that when it returns to being not expanding in Keter, it is then expanding in Hochma. Meaning the light departs from Keter, and light of Hochma descends in it. In the vessel of Hochma. At that time, the seven sons in Bina are grown and do not need their mother. Meaning they have learned that Bina has phase two of clothing and phase one of coarseness, and at that time,
Bina ascends to Hochma due to her desire to adhere to her. This is called not expanding in the light of Bina. It seems from here that it was not expanding in Keter but expanding in Hochma. Then it became to not expanding in Bina. Then Bina connected with Hochma because she has a desire to adhere to her. This is called not expanding in the light of Bina.
After that, the vessel of Bina turns her interior downwards, and the seven lights in her descend, and all are given to Hesed face to face. So, what is the order here? We need to know what the meaning is that Bina turned her interior downward and became face-to-face with the vessel of Hesed.
RABASH (Source Text/Commentary): (02:48) We will see below, Inner Light, Inner Light 39, not expanding in Keter. It is then expanding in Hochma, and light of Hochma descends in it. This is because the coarseness of phase three of the female of Keter was refined once more. At that time, the vessel of Keter turns its interior downwards and becomes phase three, phase two again. Then Keter gives its residue once more, meaning phase three, phase two, to Hochma, to the vessel of Hochma as before. It follows that the light of Hochma descends once more as in the beginning. Moving on. Then he says, he says the seven sons of Bina are grown and do not need their mother. At that time, Bina ascends to Hochma. Meaning, after the light of Hochma descended to the vessel of Hochma, this illumination reaches Bina too. Why? For the above reason that Abba and Ima come out as one, meaning they emerge on a single phase of coarseness. Hence, they stay as one, meaning their level is equal, it's the same as above in the adjacent discourse in the section that begins with "and the light." This is very difficult, we will see soon. Since the illumination reached Bina, it receives the light of Hesed too, phase one that exists in the vessel of Hochma. For this illumination of Hochma, and at that time, it attains its phase of Gadlut, meaning the phase of GAR of VAK, GAR of ZA, Hochma for ZA. He writes.
RABASH (Source Text/Commentary): (05:38) Then the seven lower ones in Bina are grown and do not need their mother.
Previously, when it was not expanding in Hochma but expanding in Keter, so expanding in Bina, and Bina had phase two of clothing and phase one of coarseness. Phase one of coarseness cannot give him Hesed. Why? They are called a baby that needs his mother for the light of Hassadim, light that needs illumination of Hochma or illumination of Bina.
Therefore, illumination of Hochma was not there, because it was not expanding in Hochma. So, they had to remain in Bina so that they would have at least the desire of Hesed of the mother, as he says here. Unlike now, when it became not expanding in Keter and expanding in Hochma.
Then the light of Hochma, which is phase two, illuminates to Bina, which is on the same level, phase two, let's say. Therefore, the sons, phase one, who have Hochma, already have illumination of Hochma and can already go outside. To whom? To their place, phase one, because it already has illumination of Hochma.
But what's difficult for me is what it says. When I say expanding in Hochma, then expanding in Bina makes no sense. They both are on the same level. Why are they on the same level? It is phase three, phase two, even if we say phase two and it's phase two of clothing, it tells us that they come out as one and stay as one, as the section says in "the light."
Here it seems, why does he say that Abba and Ima come out as one and stay as one? So he says, why? Meaning they emerge on a single phase of coarseness. So, we need to say that although we learned that the vessel of Hochma had its phase three refined, and the vessel of Hochma remained with phase two of clothing and phase two of coarseness, and there was a coupling there of phase two.
These two phases, called male and female, and a new level emerged on phase two, and we learned that this phase two of light is given to the vessel of Hochma, thus they are on the same level. But afterwards, we learned that also phase two of Hochma was refined, and phase one remained, and this phase one is given to Bina. And Bina cannot give this phase one to Hesed, because they are small, there is no Hochma there.
RABASH: (09:10) Now, when we say expanding in Hochma, so what do we learn? That phase two has not yet been refined to phase one. It seems from here that otherwise, this would not be one level. So we have to say, at the time when expanding in Hochma, even if we say there are two phases, there is Hochma illuminating to Bina, Hochma. So, what is there in the vessel of Bina? The phase one that we had before, this phase one receives Hochma. How is it called face-to-face?
This is a bit difficult. It could be that in this level that receives Hochma, Hochma is given to phase one that it has from before. So, what does he add here? We need to see another passage soon. Here he says two things. Since now expanding in Hochma, there is light of Hochma.
The question arises, when is it not expanding in Hochma? It seems that as long as its phase two of coarseness was refined, there is still Hochma. Therefore, it illuminates to Bina. Because the light of Bina that is in the vessel of Bina, the light of the male, is the light that emerged on the two phases that were in the vessel of Hochma. And this still remains to it. From this aspect, they are one level. But now that it became expanding in Hochma again, the light can illuminate now to Bina, unlike before. When Bina received phase one, it had to be previously not expanding in Hochma, meaning the phase two of the vessel of Hochma had to be refined. But now, phase one already exists in the vessel of Bina, so it doesn't need to be refined.
Therefore, at the time when Hochma has two phases and has the light of Hochma, if the light of Hochma illuminates to all that is phase two in the vessel of Bina, and there is also their phase one of coarseness from before, then the seven sons, they receive Hochma. Then this Hochma that phase one has, called Gadlut, can already go outside.
RABASH (Source Text/Commentary): (12:25) Now, what does it mean that Bina ascends to Hochma? Let's see. What?
At that time, Bina ascends to Hochma.
He writes: Then the seven sons of Bina are grown and do not need their mother. For once they have attained the illumination of Hochma, they have become grown since they have acquired the phase of Rosh. This is why they do not need their mother. He explains to us that prior to that, when it was not expanding in Hochma but only expanding in Bina alone, the VAK were the phase of light of Hassadim without any illumination of Hochma. Hence, they had to receive their sustenance from the vessel of Bina, which is in the phase of the desire of Hesed, which is the phase of GAR and of Atzmut, Hochma, two things. They could not separate the VAK from the vessel of Bina to the vessels of VAK, because of the lack of sustenance. As there is no sustenance in Atzmut itself, except in the phase of Hochma, which is their place. However, now that they have attained the illumination of Hochma, they have become grown and have a standing stature and the power to expand in the vessels.
And this is no novelty here, as we learned before. Let's read forward.
At that time, Bina ascends to Hochma. Why? This is because then it is impossible for the upper one to bestow upon the lower one, except by turning the Panim, the interior, meaning to be in equivalence with the lower one, which is regarded as close to it and giving it its residue.
Thus, Bina ascends to Hochma, meaning the male and the female of Bina, we learned, is the light that emerged on two phases in the vessel of Hochma. And the look of Bina, he explains before, is the record of phase two of clothing called female, because this is only a record compared to the light. It becomes refined, they become refined from their phase two to phase one.
And now at Bina, phase one has become the face, the interior. By this, the vessel of Bina is found face to face with the vessel of Hesed, as they are now both from the coarseness of phase one, which is called face to face. It turns out then that the male and the female of the vessel of Bina depart and rise to the vessel of Hochma. Hochma and Bina are then found in one vessel of the phase of Hochma.
And now there is the control of the vessel of Hochma in the Partzuf, as it's written. We have reached a state… we will learn this, then we'll argue. That comes, the expansion in Keter, phase four, phase three.
Regularly in the first stage, not expanding in Hochma yet. Keter illuminates. How can Hochma emerge? And afterwards, we learned there was an internal... a clash between the internal and surrounding light, as we learned in phase four over phase three in the vessel of Keter. Say, it was refined. So, what remains from the vessel of Keter? Phase three over phase two.
RABASH: (17:08) Another point we need to learn from this is like this.
After the lights departed in Partzuf of Galgalta, he says the order of the ten vessels. In each vessel, there remains a record, and the last phase is lost. It turns out that in the vessel of Keter, there is phase four over phase three there. Phase four was previously phase four of coarseness.
Now there is phase three of coarseness, and phase four is only for clothing. And the vessel of Hochma of Partzuf Galgalta remained. What was previously phase three became phase two of coarseness. And phase three is no more than clothing. And the level of Bina of Partzuf Galgalta had phase two of coarseness there.
Phase one of coarseness remains, and phase two remains only in clothing. What happens with phase one?
Also, there also needs to be a descent. We'll see. He doesn't tell us. Up to here.
First of all, let's understand what he says, and then we'll think about what he doesn't say. Afterwards, he says that a new coupling is made in the Rosh of the level of the degree through the screen of the Tabur of Galgalta that rose to the Rosh of Galgalta, and the light comes to bring out the records.
Previously, Partzuf Ta'amim emerged, called vessel of Keter on phase four over three. Then afterwards, the vessel of Keter was refined from phase four over three. What remained? Phase three over phase two. This corresponds to the vessel of Hochma.
And now the upper one gives to the lower one. It must be face-to-face. There must be equivalence. Therefore, it gave to the vessel of Hochma.
Now it's phase three. Phase two has equivalence.
And afterwards, we learn that Hochma was refined and gave its illumination alone to Bina. Then he explains that phase three of clothing was refined and became phase two of clothing. And the illumination of phase two of clothing was given to the vessel of Bina.
As we learned before that, from Bina remained phase two of clothing and phase one of coarseness. It gave it to phase two. But phase one, it still did not, hasn't given it to the vessel of Bina. Why? He doesn't say?
And afterwards, he says, what remains now in the vessel of Hochma, phase two of clothing, phase two of coarseness, a coupling was made there of these two phases called male and female.
And a new level emerged on phase two. This phase two was given to the vessel of Bina. But the difference is that for the upper one, there is GAR of this level. And in Bina, there's only VAK of this degree. On which degree? On phase two.
Since this is light, the Rav calls it by the name of light of the male. Unlike the record that is there, phase two of clothing, he calls it the female, the quality of female.
RABASH: (21:19) I see another point. Since he says that the male, which is the light, he calls VAK. But the record that's remained from the first expansion, he calls it GAR. Except that the aspect of female is only a record. Therefore, he says that the male is the quality of VAK, and the female is quality of GAR, but it's the quality of a female.
Why did it happen this way? We'll see later.
Afterwards, we'll learn that phase two of coarseness in the level of Hochma was refined to phase one. Then he learns that, then he says, the teachers, that phase two and phase three rose together to the vessel of Keter, and they expanded in Keter. Why? Because not expanding in Hochma, then the record rose upward and received their light again, as it was before.
We'll learn this, and we'll learn it again. It becomes, it expands in the Keter and not expanding in Hochma. The meaning of this is not expanding in Hochma. I'm learning now about the vessel of Hochma. Taking now in general way that the light of Keter that stands below Malchut of the Rosh of Galgalta, above Partzuf AB, there is a vessel of Keter rose at the time when it has only phase four of clothing, lacking phase four of coarseness, only VAK of Hassadim, and not Hochma either.
That's at the time when we say that it's not expanding in Hochma, that phase three over phase two was refined to phase one. It gives to Bina, and they made their expansion there in Keter. It had such a state. But if we say that Bina also gives phase one to the vessel of Hesed, this cannot be, because the light of Hassadim, the light that needs the completeness of illumination of Hochma, as we learn in the Panim of Direct Light, or if not yet, they still remain in Bina, called the baby that needs his mother.
Therefore, Bina has not yet given the seven sons phase one to the vessel of Hesed, and we finished one stage. Afterwards, it returns to the third stage. Here we learned that there was stage one expanding in Keter, stage two not expanding in Keter, expanding in Hochma, third stage now expanding in Keter. Perhaps expanding in Hochma, or expanding in Bina, and Hesed, not yet.