Part 4
Morning Lesson June 27, 2022 Transcription
Transcription is made from simultaneous translation which leaves a possibility for differences in the audio
Baal HaSulam. "Study of the Ten Sefirot" (TES). Vol. 1. Part 3. Chapter Six.
Item #5: (00:14) “It turns out that we can call it Ein Sof and emanator…”
R. 1. (01:41) It's written in a vague way. There's a lot to speak about but actually to scrutinize it we don't really have what to do so let's see what he says.
Item 9: (02:00) Called Bohu, for it is already called the Rosh of the degree.
Item 10: (02:18) “....relates to the beginning of the matter…”
2. R. (02:29) He's not adding much we’ll see it he actually explains that in his articles.
Reading Item 6 : (02:40) “Keter Contains Two Phases……..”
Reading Item 7: (04:32) “The Phase of the Emanator in Keter …”
3. S. (05:35) Atik and Arich Anpin what is that?
R. Atik is the top part of the Keter and Arich Anpin is the bottom half of the Keter they're both connected together in one system called Keter and that system connects the Creator to the created beings.
S. What is Ein Sof in this whole picture?
R. It's a quality and not a Sefira, Ein Sof isn’t even a state it's a quality but towards a created being that's what that state is called let's say Ein Sof that's what the created being attains that for him it’s something unattainable that's why it says Ein Sof no limits because Sof or limit means the end of perception of thought and if there are no limits so there's no perception that’s called Ein Sof infinite.
S. Keter in these parts of Atik and Arich Anpin are something that there’s limit for the created being?
R. We’ll learn about it I don’t want to say that we do attain or not in somewhat yes and in somewhat no and in what conditions and in what vessels.
4. S. (07:25) He says that in this lower degree if Ein Sof it has everything that is above it, it received everything meaning Malchut receives everything and this lowest degree, it says that Malchut is the most important than all the other Sefirot is this what he's trying to say?
R. Yes.
S. Why is Malchut more important than everything else?
R. Because in her is felt everything that is before her and she is the one connecting the first nine through her to the will to receive of the created being and that’s why in Malchut there is the attainment.
S. So only one thing is not clear to me, why does it say it has all the root of all the created beings, where does that come from?
R. Yes.
S. What does that mean?
R. Malchut is the root to all the created beings because that’s the will to receive in nature on the degree of the Partzuf of the world.
S. It has the root of all the emanated beings? What is this concept?
R. An emanated being is called Malchut.
S. But of all the emanated beings he says not one emanated being so I don’t understand.
R. In the general Malchut we have the root to all created beings.
5. S. (8:57) We read that some Kabbalists say this, some other Kabbalists say this, there's some dispute here.
R. Yes they wrote one way or the other and I need to go through the middle and….
S. It’s Kabbalism so what did he say, some say Ein Sof, some say Keter, what.
R.There is a part of attainment that isn’t attainable and it’s clear that it’s not attainable so if it's clear so it’s clear that’s it there's a part that we do attain but it's not clear we do attain and there's a part that we do attain but it's not clear in what vessels to attain it that we can’t scrutinize anything there and so on because we're speaking about Godliness that is before us and as much as yes or no, Kabbalists are people that change themselves correct themselves in according to Godliness and then and according to that they can attain Him in all kinds of ways and then they discuss what they have what they write about they write one to the other there's no concealment here the concealment is to those who can't attain so they themselves perform the concealment on the Godliness.
The Kabbalists want to help and open these things to everyone and between them obviously so there are such that attain Him in one way and some in a different way and you can't say that this is the truth or that is or that's less and that’s more that it's two degrees so there are some like those and some like those until today in the wisdom of Kabbalah in attaining Godliness on very exalted degrees you have doubts you have all kinds of Kabbalists that they’re like scientists they have collisions between them lack of agreements between them.
S. Will we attain things differently too?
R. Each one attains something a bit different than the others but it will not disconnect us from one another. We will see according to our attainments how we can connect these things together as much as we can. We will just leave it until the Messiah comes.
S. How does the attainment of one connect with the attainment of another?
R. Through the first nine Sefirot in attaining godliness we also connect and we feel that there is a difference in the connection.
S. Then we acquire each other's attainment?
R. Yes, we try to connect between us through change and connect in our attainments one towards the other.
S. And that is our common attainment?
R. Eventually, it will be but that’s only in the end it’s very interesting it just shows as much as the wisdom of Kabbalah is a wisdom and not a religion and that we need to advance in this, and specifically in our generation there are more possibilities than the previous generations because the will to receive is greater and the vessels are greater and people get into this.
S. So, there are things that others will go through that I won't but I will achieve their attainment?
R. You will be included in them, you do not even need to acquire them we’re all incorporated in one another in the last generation and that’s why it turns out that each one who attains it’s already in the general vessels of everyone.
S. Our attainment of Bnei Baruch, in the future it will spread in the world and the world will get from us, from our attainment?
R. Yes, of course along with all of the Kabbalists that came before us and everything that was revealed in our generation us and in the next generations it all comes and connects and connects until it will be a vessel that will reveal the Creator in all His Greatness.
6. S. (13:55) How is it that Kabbalist are engaged in Keter and things like that because we are not dealing with GAR right?
R. Wait you wait, we’ll see right now we are not talking about it you are right our attainments and our corrections are only in the ZAT of the seven lower Sefirot but we will see there is the matter of GAR of Atzilut the matter of doubts all kinds of parts in the wisdom of Kabbalah that we didn’t read about yet there's the matter of the corrections of the great corruptions the Klipot and then by that as much as you work with the worst vessels you also discover the most exalted degrees.
Reading 8 (15:05) “These two faces, the Ten Sefirot of direct light …”
7. R. (16:42) That is interesting according to the law that has to be a coupling of striking equivalence of form from the upper one to the lower one here we say no the last discernment in the upper world jumps as if descends and breaks through and enters the lower degree and there it expands. It is Malchut of Malchut on the upper degree it performs it descends and builds Atik in the lower world. The last phase of the Malchut of the upper one becomes the Keter of the lower one.
Reading 1: (17:38) “I have found …....”
R. Yes, keep going.
Reading 2: (19:36) “At first the Beria was as big…..”
Reading 3: (21:32) “Malchut remained as Atik..”
Reading 4 (23:23) “During her diminution the other nine points…”
Reading 5: (23:53) “Just as the point of Malchut….”
8. S. (25:28) When the upper Malchut descends into the lower one and becomes the Keter of the lower one is the Keter of the lower one less refined than the Keter of the upper one?
R. That’s the Keter of the lower one of course it’s different it’s the opposite.
9. S. (26:16) Is attaining one degree bring joy to the Creator like attaining all of the degrees because there’s no division in spirituality?
R. It gladdens the lowest gladdens more than everything else.
10. S. (26:46) It is written in item six that the lower degree emanated the second which is the highest degree of all the other emanated beings and it has the root of all the emanated beings and she bestows to everyone, could you explain what that means?
R. The upper degree is a root to everything beneath it and that is how it is with every degree so what is the question?
S. That the root of all of the emanated beings.
R. Emanated beings it doesn't matter created beings emanated beings whatever usually it’s divided according to the worlds the emanated beings are in the world of Atzilut the created beings are in the world of Beria it’s the same the upper degree in relation to the lower degrees has no name but it’s the Creator they can’t attain it but in that it bestows upon them and so that is how it puts everything into place.
11. S. (28:05) (Question translation missing)
R. We by nature are against the attainment of the Creator we do not want to attain the Creator as it says what we want is that I shall rule that we want to rule the whole of reality no matter what and we do not want to exert forces we don’t want to put forces into that we have no interest in that by nature but according to the point in the heart that pushes us forward toward the Creator to that we can add our forces to some extent each of us and all in all, all of us all together to want to ascend to the Creator.
S. (28:56) Missing translation of student and Rav.
12. S. (29:15) What is the right way to ask for attainment?
R. Through friends what we ask for together is accepted above for sure for sure and therefore it says that you cannot destroy a remote city that if there is a ten and they are all wicked in that ten but if they are connected and they ask together the Creator hears them and does what they ask because if people are connected in order to turn to Him then that is the law of creation Keter can’t deal with the first nine and can’t go against them.
13. S. (30:04) Where do the screens of the worlds of BYA from come from?
R. The worlds of BYA these screens consist of the upper light through the raising of MAN.
14. S. (30:29) What does it mean that Hava was the tail to Adam?
R. That it’s the Malchut that Adam is the first nine and Hava is the Malchut Eve.
15. S. (30:46) If Keter belongs to the root and the forcefield of direct light when does it divide into two parts, in the world of Atzilut?
R. We will learn about it.
16. S. (31:00) I heard that you said that we have two routes, reception and bestowal, why is the root of bestowal almost not expressed in our world? Why is it weakened during the cascading of the worlds?
R. In order for us to attain it ourselves in order for us to attain it ourselves.
17. S. (31:31) From above downward and below upward is that a process of the development of the soul that’s what we are talking about?
R. Yes from above down is the descent of the Partzufim, Olamot and Neshamot and from below up it’s the ascent of the Neshamot of the souls all.
18. S. (31:57) It is written and from here you can understand the many complexities of fibers and paths that need to connect in order to reveal the goal. If there is a will to receive and a will to bestow so all those many complexities results of the relationships and actions between the will to receive and bestowal?
R. Of course yes very good obviously that is how it is that’s all there is in reality the Creator’s desire to bestow that created the desire to receive and is connected to it is in a kind of connection with it.
19. S. (32:44) Can we say that from above downward the Creator is making efforts to conceal Himself and that the will receive responds towards the Creator and from below upward the created being is making efforts to reveal the Creator and He is responding to the effort of the created being?
R. Nice, women wrote that way to go.
20. S. (33:09) The process from above downward exists. Are we just revealing it in our efforts?
R. Yes. Only in our efforts can we discover that everything already exists that there is nothing to do we’re just building our vessels for the revelation but on the outside that’s the upper light.
21. S. (33:41) In our ten the friends are dealing with very difficult corporeal obstacles and our ten decided to start our daily meeting from prayer, from the prayer book in order to strengthen our connection. Is that a good decision?
R. Yes possible it’s better if you put together something yourselves from the Siddur it is good but someone wrote it and what if I will tell you this entire prayer by heart what will that give you however if you ask from the heart and first you feel it in the heart and then you express it through your mouth that is something else.