Morning Lesson December 16, 2020 Transcription is made from simultaneous translation which leaves possibility for errors

Baal HaSulam. "Study of the Ten Sefirot" (TES). Vol. 1. Part 3. Chapter 3. #1 ("You should also know that in order for Ohr Ein Sof ..")

Reader Item 1 “Ein Sof shines in Olam Atzilut by clothing....” (00:01 - 01:47) reads twice

20. R. The light and Keter is called Atzmuto which is how the Creator shows himself still without any changes later, as a result of his clothing in the Sefirot and this is why he is called Atzmuto, the light in the Keter. Later in Hochma it is the light that comes from the Creator to the Kabbalists to those who received, to the vessels, to the desires since Hochma is already a certain desire and then it is revealed and it is called Atzilut. Hence our study is not the world of Ein Sof or Adam Kadmon all of our work is to rise to Atzilut because this is the world of Hochma that is how we attain the Creator. We cannot in the world of Adam Kadmon we cannot attain him rather the clothing of the upper light Atzmuto, the world of Atzilut has also a division of where is the light itself, where the vessels, where are the created beings, how much they attained and by what. There are degrees and means for attaining the Creator how to adapt ourselves to the Creator. All of the work is in the world of Atzilut when he says like that in the Ein Sof shines in the world of Ein Sof in the clothing of Hochma.

Reader Ohr Pnimi Item 1 ”In order to understand the Rav’s words ....”(03:38 - 07:44)

Reader Ohr Pnimi Item 2 “The measure by which the intensity....” (07:45 - 10:01)

21. S. You said the Creator clothes in the Sefirot, how does this take place in our work?

R. How do we attain the Creator, we don't attain anything, only when it is clothed in our desire what is a Sefira? Our desire that we process above the restriction in order to bestow in some way, some form in some level in order to bestow accordingly, we attain the Creator, according to equivalence of form, according to the attitude that we arrange on our part towards the other, by that we reveal the Creator. That is the law.

S. How do we process the desire?

R. By the work in the ten and then we turn to him and we ask of him, that we received the light from him that corrects us, that gives us all the conditions and through these conditions we connect more and more being more confused, connect more move away from each other, connect again and this process of back and forth we find a certain form that we can say about a we have reached a certain connection over a certain degree of coarseness. Down below is hate and above it is love what we have done means that we have reached the image of the Creator that we established between us and in that image that we are establishing which is probably the quality of the Creator, bestowal in us only it can be above the hate, the rejection, to the extent that we have reached love and connection, bestowal above the opposite qualities if we build it correctly it just called you have made me. The Creator is clothed there as Inner Light. This is how we work.

S. As what does it clothe?

R. As filling, as fulfillment the relationship we built between us is a relationship of bestowal which precedes us this is the force that sustains all of creation and when it clothes in our desires we come from the desire from within the desire we can relate in bestowal to one another and the Creator clothes in these desires that are mutual bestowal to one another in the ten clothes as a filling to give us the feeling of where this is coming to us from. What are we attaining through this connection between us and then we attain his degree. Not the connection between us or the relationship between us, better or for worse, but rather Him which is a higher component which exists above all of creation and this is how we attained Him. Each time this is what we are doing between us is giving him an opportunity, a possibility of revealing himself but we also are determined seemingly in what way will He be revealed. This is why it is written “you have made Me” because without giving Him the possibility to be revealed he can't do it, he can't do it by himself he needs a vessel to be felt by the lower ones, by us. So by the extent that we establish the force of bestowal between us, we give him the opportunity to clothe in this force of bestowal, one corresponds to the other.

S. The fulfillment that comes to the ten the clothing of the Creator is this something greater than the love that's revealed between us?

R. I don't know what is love, each one now depicts it subjectively, what is important is for us to try and do it. What is actually there we will discover and see, taste and see that the Lord is good.

22. S. (15:17) When we speak of revelation of the Creator in some way we speak of lights and we also use the word form or image, is it correct to use this name image or form for the Creator?

R. Yes, because the vessels give shape to the light otherwise we can't reveal it, we can't discover it in any other way. We discover the light or the darkness that corresponds to it only in the changing of the states, the changing of the qualities that exist in both, we can't discover the quality by itself we always discover that the light excels from darkness.

S. How does this image, our form fit in?

R. His image is also there, the boundaries between the light and the darkness give us an understanding of that image there is no more than light and darkness we attain the light itself and the darkness itself it's the difference, the contrast between the light and darkness of all of the possibilities that can exist between them, these transitions, this is what we call an image.

23. S. (16:45) What does it mean, the Ohr Hozer turns only to Hochma if our work is to rise to the world of Atzilut?

R. Keter is the appearance of the Creator himself all of the qualities, the lower nine to look at them is a result of how the Creator wants to clothe in us, we will attain him, when we attain him from our Malchut then the degrees of bestowal we establish from Malchut from below up this is how we build the Keter. The Keter itself does not appear only under the condition that we do the work from Malchut above it through all of the Sefirot above it.

24. S. (17:59) What is written here that it clothed in the degree of Hochma in the 10 Sefirot of direct light then going down, how ....

R. We are talking about it from the side of the Kli, the Kli discovers the light and then the vessel determines from its qualities what happens with the light. The light is also a phenomena in the vessel we should not relate to the light existing in and of itself, the light that exists of itself is Atzmuto, it is unattainable. When we speak of light, we speak of a certain phenomena in the Kli just like when you are speaking of electricity, do you know what electricity is? No. It is something that points to certain phenomena called energy and the flow of electrons, there is a reaction and these reactions by the vessels, you call those electricity. That is it. But what is electricity in an absolute way we don't know. Hence, we can't speak of any phenomena in nature, even in what we are, whatever we exist in daily I can't say much about it I only know what I reveal by my vessels.

S. In the Masach there is coarseness or there isn't coarseness if there is then you are seemingly advancing if there isn't then it's like you're not advancing, so do I cause the coarseness in the group or not?

R. Don't confuse many things together we're talking about 10 Sefirot and that's it.

25. S. (20:21) During the lesson do I need to think of the states I go through are positive or negative or just a flow with whatever comes?

R. During the lesson you need to learn with us what we are learning from the text, that is it to understand it as much as possible in the simple mind, in the intellect. If above the mind you can bring it into your feelings but first observe it with your brain, with your mind.

26. S. (21:13) Is Ohr Hozer in attainment the result of two friends connecting?

R. Yes, reflected light is born out of efforts of two friends who want to connect, maybe they are confused when they are connecting, it doesn't matter but the Ohr Hozer is born of that, born of two friends who wish to connect.

27. S. (21:50) In the raising of the returning light to Hochma and the Keter is in the internality of the Hochma?

R. Because we can't attain the Keter in an overt way, don't philosophize getting lost in the examples we will reveal this understanding from the study.

28. S. (22:28) It is written that Ein Sof can shine in Atzilut and it doesn't need to shine and doesn’t need to clothe in Hochma, is this correct for all the Partzufim?

R. Learn and understand, how can you ask when we just got to it, to ask about Atzilut and all of those things, a little patience, flow with him. If you have a question write it down because you're starting in a big system you can't understand the integral system that they told you about one certain component in one line. You have been through a university and other places you can be more prepared for the study.

Reader Item 2 Ohr Pnimi “It means that Olam Atzilut is regarded as the ....”(23:25 - 26:33)

29. S. He writes here that there are different degrees, what do they happen as a result of?

R. Only by overcoming the coarseness, the disruption how else can it be? To overcome that which is the ego, that which disturbs us between me and the Creator I don't know, the Creator for me is the friend and behind every friend stands the Creator. If I will remove the barrier between me and the friend I will come closer to the Creator. This is happening each time more and more and inner barrier, and emotional barrier where I am and to the goal which is right beyond, behind the friend, I go through the friend. Through the friend I travel to the Creator and this is how it is which each and every one as I see in them the means, parts of myself, when I go through the friend I am integrated in him and this is how I come to ten Sefirot in my integration with the friends and this is how I reveal the Creator.

S. What is that same required level of coarseness that has to be overcome for the degree of Hochma to be revealed in the friends?

R. If a degree of the will to receive that you have to turn into in order to bestow and then in your intention in order to bestow we discover the quality of Hochma Bina and ZA all of those qualities are the sum total that give you the feeling of the Creator this is how it works.

S. If we don't discover it at certain times does this mean we're lacking coarseness?

R. They don't give us a greater degree of coarseness because we can't overcome it, it all comes gradually.

30. S. (29:23) Why here he is saying the light of Ein Sof is included in the light of Hochma?

R. The light of Ein Sof includes everything in it, including all of the lights only later do different modes appear in the lower Sefirot.

31. S. (30:13) What is the Mountain of Olives?

R. The Olive Mount is called Malchut the spiritual degree under which is the corporeal world seemingly, when his legs stood on the Olive Mount this means we reached all of the desires to receive are corrected in order to bestow.

32. S. (30:43) Why do we not attain the world of Adam Kadmon if it is the concealed Malchut which raises the returning light to the fourth phase, why doesn’t the restricted Malchut attain something?

R. The restricted Malchut attains only the degree of its restriction and acquires the qualities of the reflected light, accordingly it comes with it's reflected light ZA, Bina either to Hochma, Keter, it all depends on the reflected light.

S. Why is the Keter not attained in the world Adam Kadmon?

R. I said it before, you didn't hear me, we'll talk about it later, you don't attain the light of Keter it is Atzmuto, you attain it through all the other discernments how it shines in the first nine then you attain accordingly in the lower nine of yours.

S. But it comes in comparison to the fourth phase, why should we not attain it if it's Aviut that exists in us?

R. Reach Aviut Dalet in Phase 4 and you will attain it.

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