Morning Lesson November 05, 2023

Transcription is made from simultaneous translation, which leaves a possibility for differences in the audio

Part 2:

Baal HaSulam. "Study of the Ten Sefirot" (TES). Vol. 1. Part 1. Inner Observation. Chapter 1. #9

Reading Article. (00:26) “The issue of the restriction explains..”

1. R. (02:17) If the Creator is the source of everything, the origin of creation, the center of creation, the end of creation, He is everything, then everything in us, everything we can point to as good or bad and so on and so forth, it all points back to Him. The question is: how can we say that all the deficiencies and restrictions and incompleteness and imperfections in our world also come from Him, everything that we feel and see? That is the question and it's only a question at this point, he's not answering it. Is there anything to add?

2. S. (03:16) We ascribe the restriction to the created being, that the created being, I want to restrict myself. But also that isn't the thought of creation, that there will be a restriction so why don't we ascribe it to the Creator, that it came from Him?

R. Because the Creator started creation and according to His decision, His laws, His qualities, everything exists, so how can you say about creation itself that it's doing something independent?

S. This is what I'm asking. We’re saying that as if the restriction, because of it. He also wrote in the previous excerpts, that the restriction came from the created beings so don't say that the Creator is good or bad, the Creator is only good?

R. He writes in the header the matter of the restriction explains how an incomplete operation emerged from the perfect operator. Although the Creator is complete, an incomplete action, operation comes out of Him, that's what we see. The question is here: how can that be if He is a complete operator and a perfect operator He can have an incomplete operation? He's only asking that question, he's only posing it here and soon he's going to get into it and explain.

3. S. (05:01) There's restriction because the light and darkness were created together. Is the darkness the stage of correction of man?

R. Certainly, you are correct. Later we will learn that without darkness there can be no correction.

4. S. (05:47) Does the Tzimtzum Aleph protect him from the filth?

R. Yes, correct.

5. S. (06:08) It's written that the restriction clarifies how in the wholeness something incomplete came out but then he doesn't explain how an incomplete action belongs to the restriction, he just writes that it’s against the Creator. But it all comes from the Creator so how is that connected to the restriction?

R. I don't know, we’ll learn about it together. I don't have to know that which you still haven't learned.

Reading Article. (06:55) “Now we shall come to clarify the thought..”

6. S. (10:33) He writes that we call it the thought of creation and understand this thoroughly because he was instructed to be concise. What does it mean instructed to be concise?

R. Because we can't really pick too much in this place because we have no preparations for it.

7. S. (11:06) Why is it important to know that everything came from the thought of creation?

R. Because before the creation of created beings, the upper light would fill all of reality and that is the thought of creation, that's the origin of all the actions.

8. S. (11:40) Is our thought to bestow the same thought of creation?

R. It's a part of it, yes.

9. S. (12:06) How does the Creator want to give pleasure to the created beings and what is the source of love?

R. How the Creator wants to give this pleasure to the created beings I don't know because He Himself is the light of Ein Sof and He can give us, He can send part of it to us in some form, that's what He can do. Ultimately when it opens up to us it means that we reveal the light of Ein Sof.

10. S. (13:03) Is the thought of creation the goal that the whole creation is advancing towards or is it a thought that is in every moment and every state?

R. Both. It’s both the thought of creation to form, to create the created beings, to eventually fill them with the upper light, to help them attain the degree of the Creator and in this way they attain their wholeness.

S. In every state of creation there's a part of the thought of creation like in every thought or desire of man?

R. Yes, yes, in each one and in everything because all of it comes from the decision of the Creator to create creation.

S. How can the created being separate the thought of creation in every state?

R. You can't do it, you have no foundation for it yet.

11. S. (14:24) He says, know that his thought works instantly, it is not a human who is impelled to act. The question is with equivalence of form with the Creator, will the created beings still need a vessel or can it be as the Creator in his thought?

R. He must reach the degree of the Creator, the same state in which the Creator exists.

S. Then he won't need a vessel, he can only work in thoughts?

R. Of course, that will be the deed, the action.

12. S. (15:13) Malchut of the world of Ein Sof, can we say that it is a contradiction that can work infinitely towards the bestower?

R. Yes.

13. S. (15:38) Can we correct the black before it comes with our thoughts and if so how to do it?

R. Only through connection between us.

14. S. (16:09) It seems that the only thing that we need to do is to shape our thoughts to be similar to the thoughts of the Creator. Is prayer the tool that we can use to shape our thoughts to be similar to the Creator?

R. Yes.

15. S. (16:50) When we want to decide something in the Ten and we have different opinions, when we reach some kind of common reason can we say that that was a thought of creation?

R. No, we’ll get to it, don't rush.

16. S. (17:31) How can we understand that once the thought of creation ends it works immediately because the thought itself is realized. If so, where is man's choice?

R. Man's choice is that he wants through his friends to approach the Creator, that is really his choice. From all possible directions he chooses only that.

17. S. (18:36) If the end of an action starts with a thought, could we bestow in a good way to the world with our thoughts?

R. Yes, we must try and bring the world to the general correction, to the end of correction only through our good thoughts.

Reading Article. (19:28) “The will to receive is necessarily created..”

18. R. (22:34) What’s he telling us? He's telling us that everything depends on the deficiency, on the desire. If there is desire, appetite, deficiency then we can say that a person is ready to receive. When there's no desire, even if he's hungry, maybe he didn't eat for a long time but he doesn't have the desire, he's not in the mood, he's feeling down, then we can say that he doesn't have a vessel of reception, he cannot receive. It all depends on the desire and not on how empty or full is his stomach.

19. S. (23:32) When we want to do an action for the sake of the Creator what should we ask for, the will to receive or..?

R. We need to prepare a place, a place that the Creator would want to fill. What does the Creator want to give? He wants to give you wholeness, adhesion. Therefore you need to build between you a common place to all of you, where you’d want to receive wholeness from the Creator. In that same place, connection, unity, feeling love, such a place, such an adhesion for it is something that you need to develop and to present it to the Creator.

20. S. (24:40) Is the tipping point in the Masach a contact point with the thought of creation and from that extends the will to bestow and the will to receive?

R. Correct, correct.

21. S. (25:05) When there's a yearning and a desire but we’re young in the group, we’re young on the path, how do we combine these two things? We have more of a desire, we’re like children. There's a desire and..

R. With the help of the connection between you you can locate the mutual desire, present that to the Creator and not be afraid. The Creator will accept it with love because you will do it out of the connection between you.

S. Even though each one is still in a different place and we don't have the concentration? Let's say part of the people have the concentration, is it enough for the whole group?

R. As much as you can.

22. S. (26:24) How can we understand better the dynamics between the will to receive of every friend in the Ten, what he brings with him and the general goal of bestowing and connecting to the Creator?

R. You need to talk to each other more. What’s ahead of us, what state we need to come to, what state in general are we in, where's the imbalance between us in order to reach one heart? In this way we’ll understand more and more how we can connect all of us in one center, in one point and with one Creator.

23. S. (27:45) Is the purpose of our goal to increase our desire and present it to the Creator?

R. Yes, yes. We need to reach equivalence of desires and intentions with the Creator, equivalence of goals so all of it will be included in the adhesion between us. Okay?

Reading Article. (28:41) “The will to receive contained in the thought of creation..” Twice.

24. S. (31:55) How can we aim the result of connection between us to the Creator and what is the transition?

R. The transition between what?

S. From the connection between us to the Creator, how to aim it to the Creator?

R. If we connect, in order to connect we have to rise above all the differences between us because each one of us is slightly different than the other, otherwise we would not be separate individuals. If we connect, when we annul the differences between us, then by annulling or cancelling the differences between ten people we become similar to some extent to the Creator on a first degree. There are additional degrees later on but at least to a certain extent according to what the Creator is presenting us we enter a connection between us and then connection with Him, that's the first degree. We reveal the essence of the degree. Later on we have greater burdening of the heart, differences between us, the ego in each and everyone grows and we enter the state of imbalance. Once again we need to connect, we need to adhere between us until we reach the connection between us and connection to the Creator on the second degree and this is how we ascend. We ascend up the stairs, each and every degree is more connection between us and a greater connection to the Creator.

25. S. (34:26) In corporeality, if we don't eat we become hungry, so could we limit our desires?

R. No, but we will learn what to do with our desire in spirituality.

26. S. (35:03) It is written that there's a new form that came out, there's a form and there's the content that fills the form, so why is it the form and not the content?

R. Because we are speaking about the will to receive and not the fulfillment.

27. S. (35:30) How to make the friends' vessels as my own vessels of reception, how to turn the vessel of the friend to my own vessel of reception?

R. For that we need to approach the friend, we need to love him, we need to feel that we are together with him in the same desire.

S. Earlier you said that we need to prepare a place for the Creator and develop it, what does it mean ‘to develop that place for the Creator’?

R. To expand it, to deepen it, to uplift it higher.

S. How do you do that?

R. It is a result of our coming closer between us, we will talk about that, gradually, we will enter a state where we can begin to correct our desires.

28. S. (37:02) In the text, the desire is called Ein Sof, I guess we are not speaking of the size of the desire, so what does Ein Sof here mean?

R. We still cannot understand it, ‘all the way to Ein Sof’ means that it's not limited.

S. That there’s adhesion in qualities?

R. No limit of the qualities.

29. S. (37:41) It seems that the will to receive is included in a light, is it our job to find that place of transition and put a restriction on it, where it is going into the will to receive?

R. Translation?

S. The will to receive is included in the light, how do we make the change, through the restriction?

R. We will learn that later on, it's still far away, we still do not know that.

30. S. (38:39) When we cancel all the gaps between us in the ten, we begin to feel the desires, each other's desires, yes?

R. Yes.

31. S. (39:09) What does it mean that “the will to receive brought it out to Himself”, what or where is this agency, this force, this uniqueness, of the will to receive that can bring something out of the Creator?

R. He doesn't come out of It self, it doesn't just come out of nowhere but according to the Creator’s desire, the will to receive was formulated in the light of Ein Sof. And to the extent that in the light, there is a will to receive, so the light can come out Ein Sof and start expanding and all that will to receive which is already called ‘creation’. It comes from the ‘Bar’ in Hebrew which means outside, outside of the light of Ein Sof.

32. S. (40:34) When we advance from degree to degree, I feel that it is as if we need to raise between us the importance of the goal and a parallel deficiency grows.

R. Yes?

S. And that gives us the demand for the Creator, to come closer to Him and ask Him for that help, that's our reward?

R. Yes.

33. S. (41:12) What's the difference between the connection between us and the connection with the Creator, can there be a connection between us and without connection with the Creator?

R. Yes, in general that exists, too, the Creator exists, but not in a clear way because every connection His force has to exist.

34. S. (41:53) It says, what does it mean that “the desire to receive is in the full measure of the light”, the light is in the full measure of the vessel”?

R. Because that’s how it has to be, there's no otherwise because according to the vessel the light comes and fills it. Just as let's say you have a cup, you cannot fill the cup more than the cup can be filled meaning the vessel determines as much as filling can enter into it.

35. S. (42:59) How does the intensity of the desire grows after the restriction increases?

R. They decide after the restriction grows because it feels the lack of feeling that it has and that is what we will learn.

36. S. (43:30) How can we annul the differences between us, how is the action realized?

R. Again?

S. You said earlier that we cancel all the differences between us, how does this actually happen?

R. We try and connect to one another, we try to complete one another, and then from all us, one whole vessel comes out of that.

37. S. (44:16) Can we create a question for some who's not asking, let's say, for the nation who do not know how to ask, can this vessel convey a question that was not asked?

R. You said it very nice and we are doing it, we are doing it! And we are putting together a special prayer for that, for everyone!

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