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Daily Lesson (Morning) September 29, 2024

Part 2: Baal HaSulam. Study of the Ten Sefirot.

Vol 2 Part 6 

Reader: We are reading in “The Study of the Ten Sefirot”. We are in volume 2, part 6, item 5, the words of the ARI.

Reading: (00:19) Baal HaSulam. "Study of the Ten Sefirot" (TES). Vol. 2. Part 6. #5 – twice 

First, the tastes of SAG were extended, which is AHP through its Tabur. Afterwards, it did not bring out the rest of the phases, since they are clothed inside MA and BON as the lights of the general AB, of which only the Se’arot that are extended from the AB of the general AB became revealed. The rest of them are concealed inside the general SAG.

Reading: (01:07) Inner Light Item 5

First, the tastes of SAG were extended, which is AHP through its ‎Tabur. This means that initially, before the branches of the general SAG came out, meaning the Se’arot of the Rosh and the Dikna, the tastes of SAG emerged, which are the level of AHP through its Tabur, which are the phase of direct light and mercy (see Inner Light, item 1). There is also the phase of male there, whose level is up to Hochma. Nevertheless, he calls the Partzuf AHP, since primarily, the light and the level are regarded as the phase of female, since the whole expansion into the Guf is only from the phase of female, which has phases of coarseness of extension. The female has only the level of AHP, namely the level of Bina, and the reason it ends on the Tabur has already been explained there elaborately.

They are clothed inside MA and BON. The matter of this clothing has already been explained (Inner Light, item 1). The AB did not fill the vessels that were emptied from the Tabur and below in the inner AK once more, since the AB does not have a screen of phase four, and therefore cannot shine from the Tabur down, which is the place of phase four. Thus, the vessels of ZON in the inner AK from the Tabur down remained without light. However, afterwards, when Partzuf SAG expanded, its nine lower Sefirot, which have only the level of the light of Bina, which is a light on which there was no restriction, descended below Tabur of AK and filled the ZON that are there with light.

It is written that it did not bring out the rest of the phases below the tastes of SAG, which are the lower nine Sefirot of SAG, since they are clothed inside MA and BON. This means that the lower nine Sefirot of SAG are clothed in ZON below Tabur of the inner AK, which are called MA and BON. Remember these words, for this matter of the clothing of the lower nine Sefirot of SAG in the inner MA and BON is fundamental for everything that happens in the world of Nekudim.

Reading: (06:10) Item 6 – twice

Then it wanted to bring the externality of the inner MA and BON in it outwards, and then all the phases of the inner SAG, concealed in the inner MA and BON, ascended, and the inner MA and BON ascended along with them. Then, these MA and BON are their MAN, to the tastes of SAG themselves, which are not clothed inside MA and BON.

They are in the role of AVI to YESHSUT, since as upper AVI make a coupling for ZON, and YESHSUT are incorporated with them, so it is here, the tastes of SAG make a coupling with all of AB.

Moreover, the dots, tags, and letters of SAG connect with them and become subordinate to them. Consequently, they do not bear a name, like the above-mentioned YESHSUT. Then they engender the phase of BON of externality and their garment outwardly. Thus, the female was now born first.

Reading: (09:34) Inner Light, Item 6

All the inner phases of SAG, concealed in the inner MA and BON, ascended. The matter of this ascent is as the ascents of the lights in the first departure in the inner AK, and as the ascents of the lights of the second departure in Partzuf AB. It implies a complete refinement of the screen from all its coarseness until it equalized with the phase of the screen of the Rosh. This equivalence means that the screen and all the records included in it rose to Malchut of the Rosh and were incorporated in her in the coupling of the Rosh.

The same occurred in this Partzuf SAG, for after it is present in Malchut of SAG, meaning when the screen had been refined into the level of Malchut, it, too, came from there and was completely refined from its coarseness, and equalized with Malchut of the Rosh, the coupling stopped from the Partzuf, and all the lights departed to the emanator, it is all as has been explained above (Part 4, Chapter 4, Inner Light, item 50).

It has been explained there that the lights leave behind them records during their departure. It has also been explained that the as the screen passes from Sefira to Sefira during the refinement, until it is completely refined and comes to the Rosh, it becomes incorporated in those records. It follows that the lights of SAG that clothed in the inner ZON, these lights that have already been mixed with the coarseness of phase four in the vessels below the Tabur, although they have departed from there, they left behind them records. These records of phase four were incorporated in the screen that rose to Malchut of the Rosh, so when the screen rose to Malchut of the Rosh, it brought with it those records of the inner ZON, called inner MA and BON.

It is written, “In that state, all the inner phases of SAG, concealed in the inner ‎MA and BON, ascended,” meaning the records of the lower nine Sefirot of SAG itself that are clothed and concealed inside the records of the inner MA and BON, which are from the coarseness of phase four. Since the records of the lights of SAG are mixed and incorporated in the records of MA and BON, they ascended and were incorporated together with the screen of SAG to Malchut of the Rosh, and were incorporated there in the upper coupling, as he explains henceforth.

We might ask: It has been explained that Partzuf SAG remained in the phase of permanent present and not present. How then does he say here that in SAG there is also the departure of all the lights to the Rosh? Indeed, you already know that there is no absence in the spiritual, and all the changes we discern in the spirituals are but additional forms, but the previous form is never revoked. It is the same here, for although the matter of the departure of lights occurred here, too, after the lights of SAG mixed with the inner MA and BON, the perpetual form of present and not present still remains intact.

The inner MA and BON ascended along with them. It has already been explained above that the records of SAG were incorporated with the records of MA and BON, and they were all incorporated in the screen and rose along with it to the Rosh.

MA and BON are their MAN. The screen ascends to Malchut of the Rosh to be incorporated there in the coupling of the Rosh, to be renewed and expand from there to a new Partzuf, as it was in the previous two Partzufim, AB and SAG. Thus, this screen has now acquired a new name, which is MAN, an acronym for Mayin Nukvin (Aramaic – Female Waters). This is so for the reason explained above that two kinds of records were mixed here with one another: the records of the lights of SAG, with coarseness of phase two, with the records of the lights that clothed the inner MA and BON, with coarseness of phase four.

It is known that phase two is the first Hey of HaVaYaH, and the coarseness of phase four is the last Hey of the name HaVaYaH, which are two females. When the screen rises to be incorporated in the coupling of the Rosh, it is incorporated with these two females together. For this reason, it is now called Mayin Nukvin, in plural form, since it is incorporated with both females.

Know that this connection caused the making of ten vessels in the ten Sefirot, and the correction of two lines. This is the meaning of the association of the quality of mercy with judgment, since the first Hey is the quality of mercy, and the last Hey is the quality of judgment. Now they came together in the screen, in a single coupling.

It is said, “these MA and BON are their MAN.” This means that they induced the matter of the MAN that was renewed from here on in the worlds, since they are the ZON of the inner AK, whose level is up to Keter because of the phase four in it.

They were incorporated and came in the records of phase two, which are from the lights of SAG, and were doubled together in the coarseness in the screen, and then they were called MAN.

Know that from the moment they became connected, they never parted from each other. The only difference between them is in the internality and externality, that at times, phase four is concealed inside and phase two or phase one are outside, and at times, phase two is concealed inside and phase four is revealed outside, as it was here the first time they connected, as the ARI writes here, “the inner phases of SAG, concealed in the inner MA and BON.” Thus, phase two is concealed inside, while phase four is revealed outwards. This will be explained further in its place.

M. Laitman: Okay, it's 5 o'clock, what else should we do?

Reader: We have select excerpts from the sources on the topic of Crowning the King over us. At 5 we want to move to a social time with the group. Please.

So, we're going to do a little transition and we'll enter a social time between us here. Okay, I won't disturb you. We're moving to the next part of the lesson.

So now we will summarize the key points we heard in the lesson, both the parts, both during the introduction to the study of the ten Sefirot.