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Daily Morning Lesson: April 20, 2026

Part 2: TES Lesson With RABASH

Baal HaSulam. Study of the Ten Sefirot. Vol. 2. Part 5

Reader: We are going to learn from a TES lesson with Rabash. We're going to read from the “Study of the Ten Sefirot,” part 5, “Inner Light,” Item 43. We're going to read before the lesson. We're going to start from reading item 43. 

Reading: (00:40) The Study of the Ten Sefirot

43. After that it returns to being not Matei in Keter and then it is Matei in Hochma. It is also Matei in Bina because of the Hesed there “because He desires mercy.” At that time, it is also Matei in Hesed, for then Hesed descends to his place, and then it is not Matei in Gevura because Gevura ascends with Hesed. At that time, it is Matei in Tifferet and light descends in Tifferet. Then it is not Matei in Netzah, since the light of Netzah ascends with Tifferet. At that time, it is Matei in Hod, since then the vessel of Netzah turns its anterior and gives the three lights to Hod, at which time Hod turns its anterior to Yesod and shines in it.

Reader: Let's start the lesson with Rabash.

RABASH (Source Text/Commentary): (02:20) Now you can clearly understand the difference between the light of Daat, which is the light of Zeir Anpin, and the light of the above Hey, which is the light of Malchut, meaning according to the illumination. Now he wants to explain to us what the changes are in Zeir Anpin, which he considers Hesed to Hod, which is received from the Hey, light of phase one. So he says, here he emphasizes that this light does not come to VAK before the seven lights come through simple refinement. Before the vessel of Hochma refined on phase one, it gave its light that comes out on the coupling of the vessel of Bina. As The ARI wrote before, the reason is that if it came, the fifth light before the refinement to phase one, meaning before the time of the descent of Hesed, the male of the Bina, before it refined in the vessel of Hochma, then the degree of the Hey that was in phase two. Why? Because it still did not refine to the coarseness of phase one, when? Only when the giving of Hesed to the vessel of Hesed. That's what The ARI emphasizes, because there wasn't any forces in Hesed and in VAK that get such a great light, the light that came from the coupling. Because how could the light of the degree of phase two clothe in the vessels a VAK of phase one? Because Bina had to refine before from phase two to phase one, that then also the light of Hey refined to phase one, meaning the light of Hesed and the light of Hey came to the vessel of Hesed, where that was phase one. That Hey went from vessel to vessel until it reached the vessel of Yesod, where was her place. Meaning before that, I learned that the upper phase shines and doesn't get a name. Now you can understand what The ARI explains there, and he says that Hochma could illuminate to Bina the light that came on phase two. It was two phase two before she refined to phase one. He wanted to say that the Hochma emanated and gave the male of Bina to the vessel of Bina before it refined to phase two, like the degree of the male, or the degree of the light of Hochma, and did not need the Hochma to refine till phase one, but Bina for the vessels of Hesed and the rest of the VAK that were the vessels of phase one. How could they receive the light of Hey when there's still a degree on phase two? And that they said that the Hod changes his face to the Yesod and illuminates it because it was clarified that that Hey was the light of posterior in VAK. Why? Because it was born from Bina. And then since it's face of the Hod or the illumination of GAR and cannot bestow the light of Hey, which are the light of posterior, if not by facing downward and posterior upward. Meaning that her posterior that bestows VAK and prevented GAR would now be bestower. And it bestows the light of Hey to the Yesod.

RABASH: (06:54) So what does he explain here? Why does the Hod turn its anterior? The lights that it wants to give the Hey is called posterior, which is VAK, which comes from VAK of the male, which is called VAK of Hassadim. Therefore, when it wants to give, how do you say it? This Hey to Yesod, it turns its interior. But who says it must give the Hey? Why do we learn this way? We say a rule: where there are GAR and VAK, when the VAK connects with GAR, why does Yesod not connect with Hod and needs to receive the Hey? If I say because of the refinement, this is called there's no choice, what can it give? Only Hassadim. But it says, where there is Hochma, Zeir Anpin connects to GAR. Why does Yesod not connect with Hod, that it needs? We still need to understand this. So, let's continue. Let's go over it again briefly. When he says here that expanding in Hochma, then he says sometimes the expression expanding in Hochma and Bina, because Bina, which is VAK, connects with the GAR if there is Hochma. And afterwards, expanding in Yesod, because it has phase one, because it has the quality of Zeir Anpin, that is the vessel of Bina, is already has Hochma, and then the Hochma, then the light of Hesed already descends to the vessel of Hesed. Only what did we learn in between? That before it was refined, the two phase twos that are in the vessel of Bina became Hey. And this Hey is called the light of quality of female. And it turns out that now the vessel of Bina, that must give the vessel of Hesed phase one with Hochma, because Bina connected to Hochma. And also there, there's a Hey, it could bestow on phase one and become face-to-face. So also Bina was refined to phase one. As soon as she was refined to phase one, she gave the phase one, which she calls by the name the light of Daat, together with this Hey. He tells us that this phase one, which he calls by the name the light of Daat, is an offspring born from two phase twos that were in the vessel of Hochma. Therefore, he calls it by the name light of male. Unlike the Hey that was born from two phase two of Bina, it is called the quality of female that emerges from the quality of VAK, therefore it is called Hey. These two, the light of male and the light of female, he gives to the vessel of Hesed. Afterwards, he says that it descended to the vessel of Hesed. He gave the first preface that Zeir Anpin divides into Rosh, Toch, Sof, and every quality, both in the Rosh, in the Toch, and in the Sof, divides into GAR of VAK, meaning Hesed, Gevura, Tifferet, Netzach, Hod, Yesod. He gives the rule, when GAR shines, the VAK does not merit a name. The VAK connects to the GAR only when VAK gets a name, when there is no GAR in the degree. We must remember, GAR, he calls there by the name of the light of Hochma.

RABASH: (11:37) Now we learn that Bina was refined and gave the Hey, which is the light of the female in phase one the light of male, to Hesed, so Hochma shines now. Therefore, Gevura connects to Hesed. And the residue of Gevura, the turning of the interior that was Hochma that connected in Hesed, now expands to Tifferet. It turns out, expanding in Hesed, not expanding in Gevura, but expanding in Tifferet. Now we learn at this stage that the VAK, which is called Netzach, connected to the GAR, and now turns out that expanding in Tifferet, not expanding in Netzach, and the residue of Netzach that came through the turning of the interior of the force of Tifferet, of Hochma, shines the Hod. Already there in Hod, also Hochma. Now he says, Hod turns to its interior and gives to Yesod. What does it give it, he says, before the Hod was refined? Because here we must remember, he calls it by the name expansion. In his interior, where the light of Hesed in the vessel of Bina, it turns out that the light of Yesod in the vessel of Hod. It turns out that phase one of coarseness finished at Hod. And Hod must bestow to Yesod, Yesod must be called by the name the light of Malchut, meaning coarseness of the root. There should have been refinement from Hod, from coarseness of phase one to Yesod, to coarseness of the root. So he says, before Hod was refined, which is phase one, to coarseness of the root, which is the quality of Malchut, it gave this Hey what it received from Bina, and until the Hod did not merit a name, because the light of the male and the light of the female, the light of the male was created first.