Morning Lesson February 02, 2021 Transcription is made from simultaneous translation which leaves possibility for differences from audio
Baal HaSulam. "Study of the Ten Sefirot" (TES). Vol. 1. Part 4. Histaklut Pnimit. #7 (We find twelve kinds of Ohr Hozer in the Rav’s words)
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40. R. In general we understand the reflected light is the reaction of the created being for feeling the bestowal, the influence of the Creator, and that reaction is to the extent that the created being is incorporated in the Ten Sefirot, meaning different desires as we learned in the four phases of direct light that from the root, the Creator’s will to bestow we get the will to receive in the created being which is the first phase, Hochma, and the desire to bestow, the second phase, Bina, a desire that is common to both Hochma and Bina is Zeir Anpin ZA and they already build the will to receive which is the created being itself and that’s called Malchut. This gives us five discernments and out of these five discernments when they come to feel who they are, what they are in Malchut herself then Malchut performs a restriction on her desire, she disagrees with how she was born opposite from the upper light and in her actions, she wants to be similar to the upper light. Therefore all of its work, her work from below upward is in however she is built, precisely out of her structure specifically out of that to bestow upon the Creator as he bestows upon her, that desire to give back to the Creator all of the discernments that she feels that the Creator awakens in her, and that she is called the reflected light. What she receives from the Creator is called the direct light and what she gives back to the Creator as a reaction for feeling the host who gives her, is called reflected light. So here he tells us that it isn't just reflected light just like that, but that there are 12 kinds of reflected light that come from the created being to the Creator so let us see them.
Item 7 “The general Ohr Hozer rejected from Malchut becomes ....” (02:44 - 04:18)
41. S. (04:28) How do we reject the light?
R. By not wanting to be connected to receive the light directly because we don't want to be opposite from the Creator, but rather we want to be similar to the Creator through the feeling of shame as we learned in Malchut of Ein Sof and the restriction we come to the rejection of the upper light and not just rejection but after the rejection when I come into some similarity with the upper light, where “I am for my beloved and my beloved is for Me” as the host wants to give me I don't just repel him, but I want to relate to him as he does to me. How do I do this? By turning my will to receive with the intention to bestow and then I turn from a receiver into a giver. This is called rejecting, repelling, that form of reception that appeared before me previously I repel it and I say I don't want to use the desires and forces that are revealed to me in this way, I want to use them only for giving in the opposite way how can I establish my bestowal upon the host as the host does to me. From this I understand that I have to do the restriction, screen, reflected light, the calculation of how much I can give back my relation to the Creator, with what can give him back? By receiving from him, but if I receive after having decided not to want to receive for myself, so afterwards reception is in order to bring contentment to please the host and then I do this. So there are several operations here because carrying out my new approach to the Creator where I have to stop the reception of the light as I did before, position myself opposite the Creator, visa vie the Creator and check that I am not receiving any pleasure from him for myself, but rather that I want to check now how if I receive pleasure that it is only for him. That the host tells me, do me a favor, in order to do me a favor I have to use my will to receive but on the other hand I do this for his pleasure, for his delight, to delight him and he agrees to do this. I receive and enjoy the fact that the host receives from me and enjoys and we both enjoy. I have to therefore enjoy the reception of the light in the way that it came to me because if I don't enjoy the light how do I please the host. So I have to enjoy with the pleasure that I enjoy now, I enjoy 600 times more than before because I do it both because I appreciate the host and how great he is in my eyes and how I can please him now and this is why I do it, so I elevate myself to a level where I become similar to the Creator and that is an addition that is called 600 times greater, elevating myself to his level. This is called receiving in order to bestow, the Creator wants us to enjoy like him because the pleasure from bestowal is unlimited.
S. The Creator presses the created being through the light. You said that the created being sort of rejects the light and yet becomes equal to him on reception?
R. The reflected light comes from the created being to the Creator when the created being wants to bestow to the Creator by restriction, screen, reflected light by that he connects to the Creator in a mutual way, I am for my beloved and my beloved to me. They both start being connected in such a way, then there are a lot of kinds of pleasures that are revealed here, new ones that are not only enjoying the reception from the Creator because I can't not enjoy it otherwise I'm not doing him a favor, but I am enjoying that I am receiving and enjoying it and that’s what the Creator is enjoying and I'm also enjoying that I'm giving to the Creator all of these pleasures and also he enjoys it, I enjoy being in equivalence of form between us, because we are coming closer, we are partners. There are a lot of pleasures that are expressed in the NRNHY that is revealed.
S. I can't understand where does the created being engender the ability to love or bestow upon the Creator it's opposite to do something for the Creator?
R. When Malchut connects to the first nine and in those qualities when she connects to the first nine she feels that she receives the pleasure by wanting to bestow the pleasure. If I am not in a group I cannot reveal that they are bestowing to me, and then I don't have any impulse to bestow back to them. Everything is built upon the feeling of receiving and the feeling of receiving has to be in the 10.
42. S. (11:32) Before we feel the Creator by what force does one stop ones will to receive?
R. He can't stop himself because there aren't real pleasures before him, spiritual pleasures don't come to him, corporeal pleasures he takes them but gradually he loses appreciation for them but more by participating in the ten he feels as much as he is receiving and from the shame he can somehow stabilize himself.
S. How does he do it, before a person comes to the revelation of the Creator his work is focused on the 10 but from where does he get the motivation, what gives him the strength by which he creates the inversion and begins to work in the opposite way, is this something only the friends can do or that the Creator is behind it?
R. That is the Creator and the point in the heart in the man, that man there is a special desire called a Divine part from above that it used to be connected to the Creator and now it is awakening and demanding that connection with the Creator, so he has a special response from the Creator, bestowing upon him. This is why man doesn't feel as usual in our life, that we say that we feel ourselves, but he has suddenly special qualities that others can't understand, that he wants to attain and he wants to connect and he wants to bestow back, that he has shame. that is the point in the heart starting to respond.
43. S. (14:35) What does it mean that AK contains all of the lights?
R. AK contains all of the lights is a higher system AK is the first world it is called Kadmon ancient because it has all of the vessels, all the desires all the qualities, but they still weren't revealed because they're still isn't a created being there and then what the Creator wants to give to the created thing to be revealed later on it is all in Malchut of Ein Sof, the world of AK is just the details of Malchut of Ein Sof that in this way we discover what is in her, NRNHY in all of the vessels. But not those lights or those vessels, they don't belong to the created beings yet, the created beings only come from the second restriction and the connection between Malchut and Bina and in that connection and to the extent of connection between Malchut and Bina, in Malchut there is the qualities Bina and she can make efforts to resemble Bina, according to that she can attain the Creator. The qualities of the Bina in the Malchut.
44. S. (16:40) Two kinds of reflected light we have to understand when is the general Malchut and the light that clothed in Malchut is this what happens in our tens, that the reflected light doesn't clothe?
R. We don't have anything that is written here, that is one thing, the second thing there is reflected light that the pleasure that comes to the will to receive, the will to receive rejects it instantaneously not wanting to receive directly like we do, that I wish some pleasure could come and I take it and I enjoy it. Here first of all it is the screen that I don't receive anything, it is like a shield that I pushed back, reject, all the pleasure and then I start calculating how can I with this pleasure, that obviously I get it from the Creator, how could I work with this pleasure in order to bestow to the Creator, to give contentment. Then I calculate what systems I have to build, the system of connection between me and the pleasure and me and the Creator in order for the reception of the pleasure that I don't have a choice. But that I can be connected to the Creator only by receiving from him, but if I receive from him in order by that to give him some special state, some pleasure from me, that is called a mutual form of connection and that is what I have to build inside of me.
S. When the light is repelled from clothing in the vessel of Malchut what prevents it?
R. I just told you.
S. What prevents it?
R. I just told you.
S. I didn't understand.
R. So go back and listen to it a few times.
S. Is there a difference in the light that doesn't come to them?
R. Of course we need to get a strengthening from each 10 and every 10 itself in order to respond correctly upon the upper light.
S. What does that mean?
R. Toward spirituality first of all we need to be connected, the vessel of Malchut is a result of all the previous qualities that is why we need to be connected between us in order for us to know how to connect correctly to the Creator, to the upper light. If we connect between us and before us we feel that there is some kind of actions that work on us, bad comes, good comes, this and that, but we constantly want to be together and to respond, to protect ourselves, to protect everything coming to us, then we are already called to that extent we are called a 10. Then we need to understand what should we do? Meaning everything that is revealed to us from the Creator we first of all restrict, after the restriction we put a screen, we calculate how should we work with this pleasure above the rejection and then by this we start relating to the Creator. As it is written in the book.
S. When you talk about restricting you're talking about annulment towards the group?
R. Of course annulment towards the group but not towards the group but towards the pleasures that come, the restriction.
45. S. (21:04) How do we obtain the shield so not to fall into the will to receive?
R. Only by mutual rejection towards the pleasures that come to us and a mutual connection between us that we will help one another, how we can receive what comes to us in life, that it all comes from the Creator, none else besides Him, everything is the good that does good. We need to reject everything that comes to us, we need to calculate why it is coming, who it is coming from and how to respond to it together. Even one gram that we will try to receive in order to bestow, meaning to receive it together, that already brings us a feeling of the Creator that in him we are connected and something comes from him. The concealment and something disappears and we feel the source of our filling, who we are dealing with. We are entering this, don't worry it won't run away, we just have to relate to all of these possibilities seriously.
46. S. (22:38) What should we do to come to ....
R. Only connection between us in the 10 to feel that we are before the Creator to depict that he is giving us, organizing us, teaching and wanting to fill us and how we according to that should respond and whether we understand or not, we always have to turn to him. Constantly turn to him as it doesn't matter what I feel whether it's right or not, whether I understand or not, I along with the friends have to turn to him. Once we start turning to him together, we will try feeling what are we getting back, until we're going to have a conversation. “I am to my beloved and my beloved for me” as we say, then we will start advancing. We are already starting to reach spiritual discernment, that they are not really spiritual yet but we are starting to build an infrastructure with our connection with the Creator. These are good states that we are going through and look as much as we hasten, I thought at least 6 months from now we would start talking about this, maybe towards the summer and we see, no, there is something in us and outside of us that is pushing us ahead to implement more advanced things practically in the connection between us, through the connection between us and the Creator. Afterwards except for that to the world Kli, to humanity.
Item 8 “Ohr Hozer that clothes the Ohr Yashar ....” (25:17 - 26:57)
47. R. We have reflected light that doesn't want to be in contact with the giver and reflected light that has already entered some kind of general connection with the giver.
Item 9 “There are two kinds of Ohr Hozer ...” (27:15 - 28:49)
48. R. There is reflected light that doesn't take into consideration any of the phases above it but is rejected because the Malchut rejects to begin with and after that there is such reflected light that are in accordance to each and every discernments, every phase that the created being reveals by the Creator’s attitude towards him and because of that he doesn't want this or that in this way or that way, he starts responding upon it, why? Otherwise, he won't know the host, he won't know how to relate to the host, why did the host respond to him in such a way? Why is the host bringing him such pleasures in these and in those, even more why did he create such desires and thoughts that he will feel his attitude in such a way? It is an interconnection that the created being understands that he is entirely a result of the host’ actions, because the host created him, gave birth to him in such a way.
Now I can respond from the way that the host made him, meaning from his natural rejections according to his nature, that he wants to receive but now he wants to reject. He starts attaining the host, and from doing the opposite of what the host did to him he starts feeling his nature and why did the host do this to me? What did he want from me? How should I respond, how should I understand him, this is called from your deeds I will know you. Then the created being from calculating what desire the Creator created in him what rejection does he feels in this desire how he responds to the host contacting him, all of these actions that he feels are all the host, the Creator, inviting in me. So how should I now understand the Creator, feel him, understand what I'm supposed to do according to my nature that he created and then according to what he created above my nature, such qualities that I have acquired from him and then I respond differently so the created being start seeing himself as comprised by a few layers of this desire and thought. Then he can stabilize himself in such a way that he reveals that he has an opportunity to resemble the Creator because he is in the will to receive. The Creator created in him and the desire to bestow that he got from the Creator’s attitude towards him like a copy from the Creator. How he can combine these two opposite qualities, the will to receive and the will to bestow in him and in this way start relating to the host. Meaning he starts working with his mind, above the will to receive, with the mind of bestowal, of understanding, knowing and this is only the second reflected light that awakens in the created being towards the Creator. You wait and see what is coming afterwards. There are huge things that are happening to us. We start feeling that we are receiving from the Creator and what he wants from us and what we can demand from him in order to realize his desire. This is called make your desire as his desire and then he will make your desire as his. Meaning here we are exactly in the participation, a partnership with the Creator.
49. S. (33:51) What does it mean layers of desire, layers of feeling?
R. We will learn this, you see how many types of reflected light you have? According to that you will find how many kinds of direct light you have, It stems from the desire to give him the desire to receive, but you will see as much as the creation is infinite in all of its interconnections.
50. S. (34:28) What helps the created being scrutinize with which desire it can work with the Creator and which desire it can't, who scrutinized is it?
R. The created being scrutinizes it. Within the 10 from all relating to what they receive from the Creator they need to discuss this, speak about it, man will help his friend and in such a way each and every one and all of us together reach the structure, the correct infrastructure, the software from which within they connect to the Creator. It is like writing a manual inside themselves, in their mutual hearts, their mutual desire they write it down as a manual, this is called carving it on your heart. In such a way they start advancing and each one sees how he advances personally and generally in the 10, that there is a connection between one another increasingly more. There are so many details here that you can't even speak about them, only feel them.
51. S. (36:25) Make your will as his will so he will make his will as your will is this the order of the work and the mutual incorporation between my desire and the desire of the 10?
R. You can say that but usually we are speaking towards the Creator as much as you relate to 10 to the Creator and that you see in them that there is a connection and you against the connection or through it that you work with the upper force, so that it is right. That is still before us.
S. How do I understand what you said in the beginning of the lesson about what we said about the incorporation that I want the friends desire to be revealed to me so that I will implement understanding that my desire only if my friend takes it then it can be realized, it what comes first in this work?
R. On everything you can, what is in your hands to take the friends longings to the Creator and work with them, do you understand that it is the Creator working with them in such a way organizing them standing behind the friend and this is how you acquired the spiritual qualities in such a way.
S. What about the work of opening up toward the friend that he will feel my desire should that worry me as well?
R. By wanting to receive their desires for the Creator to take them into you by this you are giving the friend an example and he is taking these examples from you and he works with them. This is man will help his friend.
52. S. (38:38) He writes that there are two kinds of reflected light, inner and surrounding, previously we divided it into two and now he calls all of it reflected light.
R. I don't want to get into all of these explanations that will be a lot of words and confusion, you try everybody should try to understand it the way he understands it now, I promise you that it will change so much every time, I am not getting into all of these stories. You have to understand how to learn what he writes, it is not difficult. Again and again read it, speak to the friends a bit and by that you will see that you can unlock the sentence.
53. S. (39:46) What do I want to do with desires I'm not aware of, where is the work with them?
R. They are your desires, they awaken in you, the fact that you got them from something or not doesn't matter. Right now, they are your desires and by this you got permission to work with them, check how you can, by certain types of work with them that you can come close to society and through them to the Creator. The Creator should seem to us as a summary of my relationships with society, otherwise it is not the Creator, it is some hallucination, some suitcase wandering through space. The Creator is the future corrected form of society with all of the intensity of the vessel and form of the light and that's how we need to see it because there's no Creator without a created being. We can't imagine some force that doesn't clothe in something, it is very important that we will try to locate him and expect to locate him in a corrected society and except for that not to imagine this force disconnected from clothing in society ever.