Part 2:
Baal HaSulam. "Study of the Ten Sefirot" (TES). Vol. 2. Part 6. #32 (*In the beginning of my studies with my teacher,)
Reading #32 (00:44 - 06:11) “In the beginning of my studies with my teacher, he would conceal, cover, and clothe the matters..” twice
Reading #32 Inner Light (06:25 - 11:24) “Partzuf Atik Yomin was made only from first three Nekudot..”
1. S. (11:32) Can you explain, I think it’s Chaim Vitale saying he had a question about his teacher, can you explain what the question was and what does Baal HaSulam answer?
R. He's asking in regards to these Partzufim that come out now in the world of Nekudim for the first time, that’s it.
S. What doesn’t he not understand, I didn’t get the question that he's asking above in thirty-two?
R. The first three Nekudot from which Partzuf Atik came up; the order of the emanation of the Partzuf in Yud, Hey, Vav, Hey, how it dresses in Partzuf Nekudim, this is what he’s explaining.
S. “In the beginning of my studies with my teacher, he would conceal, cover, and clothe the matters as I did yet not know the beginning of the matters.”
R. So you’re reading thirty-two?
S. He said that “I didn't understand what he explained, maybe I'm writing it, maybe someone will come and explain it”.
R. Yes?
S It seems that it’s contradicting, what is the contradiction here?
R. No, unless we read again.
2. S. (13:24) What are Nekudot?
R. Nekudot, dots, are Taamim, Nekudot, Tagin, Otiot, tastes, the thoughts, and flavors.
S. He's talking about the world of Nekudim, right, these Nekudot?
R. Right.
S. So what is a Nekudot, it’s a vessel and a light, it’s a Sefira, what is it?
R. Nekuda, the dot, is a Kli, the vessel, the world of Nekudim is already vessels that are beginning to emerge in a process from Galgata.
S. These Ten Nekudot are ten vessels?
R. Yes.
S. It’s also connected to something in the Tanta, how is that connected?
R. TANTA is Taamin, Nekudot, Tagin, Otiot, the flavors and dots, and tags and letters, it’s the expansion of the lights from above downward, from below upward by which the vessels are born.
S. It’s the same Nekudot in the TANTA and in the world of Nekudim, those two Nekudot, Nekudim, Nekudot, it’s connected?
R. Yes, Nekudot are the vessels.
3. S. (15:02) In thirty-two he states that the lights that remained in their place in Atzilut, what lights is he talking about that remained? Because in in every state there’s a clothing of the light and here he states it as?
R. In the world of Atzilut, we still don’t have completed vessels because it’s the is the first world from below Tabur, and therefore, of course there, is also TANTA there but the vessels incomplete. Complete vessels after they are mixed with Malchut in a degree and as a result, they go up and draw lights in order to complete the vessels, and this is how it’s done only in the world of Nekudim.
S. So it’s only NRN, what was with the clothing?
R. Yes, only NRN, Nefesh, Ruach, Neshama, we scrutinize how they clothe in the vessels and Haya and Yechida have no vessels.
4. S. (16:52) How can it be that the vessels are in Atzilut, why are not all the lights in Ein Sof?
R. Np, it's not like all the vessels are in Atzilut, it’s the beginning of the vessels.
S. Sorry, why are there lights in Atzilut?
R. In Atzilut, it’s called, …., in His domain or area, there, there are all the lights that should afterward spread and expand in the worlds BYA, Beria, Yetzira, Assiya. ANd in the worlds BYA is where the receivers of the lights come out.
S If there are no vessels, he writes that “all the lights remained in Atzilut with no vessels at all”. Why does he say that the lights were in Atzilut and not in Ein Sof because Atzilut is?
R. Atzilut already receives these lights but it still doesn’t have the vessels so it can work with them.
S. So what does it mean that the lights are in the world of Atzilut with no vessels because the lights should only be in the root? How could it be that there's a clothing of lights are they’re supposedly waiting there?
R. Because it’s in the root phase, in the root phase, there it is still permitted, possible, for it to happen.
Reading #33 (18:47 - 19:37) “It turns out that the Partzufim AA, AVI, and ZON were made of these phases in the..”
Reading #33 Inner Light (19:41 - 22:00) “The Partzufim AA, AVI, and ZON were made..”
Reading #34 (22:18 - 23:40) “It is known that the upper one expands in any lower one..” twice
5. R. (23:42) Yes, so Atik expands in the lower one as much as it can.
6. S. (23:57) He emphasizes in different variations that the first three and seven bottom ones.
R. Because it’s the difference between the Rosh and the Guf, the head and the body.
S. He says it a few times how the upper three expand below, and supposedly there's no expansion from below upward, only from above downward. So what’s so important in that, why does he emphasize it so much?
R. What do we have from the expansion in Atik in Arich Anpin, what from Arich Anpin we have in AVI, from AVI in YESHUT, what all these Partzufim can receive from above and what they can attain by themselves. Soon, we will have it, there’s no Inner Llight even on this, about this and about thirty-six.
Reading #35 (25:30 - 28:02) “Indeed the upper Emanator wanted to create those kinds..” twice