Morning Lesson October 19, 2022, Transcription 

Transcription is made from simultaneous translation which leaves a possibility for differences in the audio 

Part 2:

Baal HaSulam. The Gatehouse of Intentions (Chapter 2. Simple Light. #16. start with: "By this we thoroughly understand")

Reading Chapter 2. Simple Light. #16: "By this we thoroughly understand"

1. S. (09:26) He describes here collaboration between inner light and surrounding lights and in each degree there is a surrounding light that fits the degree. How to understand this logic and how can the kabbalists speak of surrounding life if you can only measure inner lights?

R. The Kabbalists also feels everything that they write about, Baal HaSulam, Rabash, and more Kabbalists before them from the time of the Ari and onwards they all attained it themselves, they felt it themselves, as Rabash writes what Baal HaSulam speaks about it's only from the internality of attainment. He speaks only from having attained it and felt it and knowing and researching these things and that is why he wrote about it.

S. How can a Kabbalist measure surrounding lights?

R. He has the vessels, the vessels. You are saying how can we measure the surrounding lights? So there are such lights, surroundings and internal. There are internal vessels and inner light and there are external vessels for outer light and at the end of the day he measures them, yes, he measures. I can't tell you and I can't convey still how it is done but there are tools just like you can say this part of the sky is lighter and this part of the sky is darker so you attain it. You might not be able to precisely measure it, that's why it's called surrounding, we will soon reach it and it will be clearer.

2. S. (11:40) If I understood correctly after the second restriction the inner lights disappear and I wanted to ask, this process by which the inner lights disappear, Kabbalists experience that dramatically or is it like an inner shake up or is it a harmonious process?

R. Everything is in upper harmony and nothing disappears and the lights that depart they do it from the inside and they are outside and that is an order to awaken the Kabbalists to perform corrections and to bring these lights back into the inner Kelim, inner vessels.

S. You can say that the Kabbalist goes through it consciously?

R. Yes. of course.

3. S. (12:45) According to the text Hochma and Bina have inner light but no surrounding lights, but ZA and Malchut have surrounding light but no inner light, shouldn't the entire vessel have both inner and surrounding light?

R. All the Kli, vessel, should be in inner light without any surrounding light, that's how it should be at the end of correction that all the vessels will be corrected and they will all be internal vessels but for the time being that's how it is from the inverse value of the lights in the vessels.

4. S. (13:32) He says after the two vessels of ZA and Malchut will return and connect as in the degree of the first restriction, they were connected in the first restriction ZA and Malchut?

R. They were all connected within the Kli, vessel, as internal.

S. In the first restriction?

R. Yes.

S. The Nefesh will go down to the vessel of Malchut, and Ruach to the vessel of ZA and then Neshama will be able to go down to the vessel of Bina. I thought Neshama was made of Bina and Malchut but suddenly he says that Neshama can go down to the vessel of Bina?

 E. The light of Neshama, there are NRHNY so these lights of NRNHY they come from their own vessels and then all the Neshama clothes in the vessel of Bina and the light of Ruach in the vessel of ZA and the light of Nefesh in the vessel of Malchut.

S. What is the light of Neshama?

R. Don't imagine anything. There's NRHNY and they are now going back to their vessels.

5. S. (14:51) After the second restriction where the inner lights are not in their place, is it felt in the Partzuf, face, as a big flaw?

R. It cannot be as you think of it. The ear cannot clothe in the eye. We're speaking here in relative form, that is the smaller light reaches the larger vessel but that doesn't have a screen, it has a lack of the screen and that is why it clothes that way and let's say the ear does not hear well and the eye does not see well. So we say that the light that comes to the eye now comes to the ear and that's how we talk about it but of course what will be felt in the eyes is only in the lights of vision and in the ears only light of hearing.

6. S. (16:25) Nekudot of SAG descend below the Tabur of AK and mix with the NHY of Galgalta, is this the second restriction?

R. That's not the second restriction, that's an action. How is that related to the restriction? It's not related to the restriction, at the end of the day this causes the restriction but it's not that the action itself of Nekudot of SAG going down below Tabur of AK, it's not that it is the second restriction, no it's not, it's not a restriction it is the lowering of the lights into the vessels below the Tabur of AK.

7. S. (17:09) He describes here a special situation where Bina is giving Malchut vessels of Haya and Yechida and also her lights of Haya and Yechida. What is that state?

R. Through the light of Bina influencing ZA and Malchut their vessels expand, and they can receive the lights that they deserve Nefesh Ruach.

8. S. (17:43) Regarding the ear and the eye, I thought it was a stupid question, but I'll ask: lights that do not fit the vessels, where are they absorbed?

R. We're only speaking relatively, that what took place before in say that eye is now clothing in the ear or vice versa from the ear to the eye. We're not speaking of the same light we're speaking of that intensity. If there would be light of Nefesh now the light of Nefesh is in the eye for example, it's all relative, of course it's not possible that the light that is felt and belongs to the ear will be felt in the eye, it's not possible.

S. Missing translation from Russian

R. Of course, of course, otherwise he can't feel.

8. S. (18:49) What does it mean that Bina, vessels of ZON expand from her and then it draws also the lights of Haya and Yechida?

R. I don't know what you're speaking of, maybe you'll find it in the book?

S. I can read it: It says there are two vessels ZA and Malchut in each degree even after the second restriction, but they are not of themselves but as result of the expansion of Bina because the vessel of Bina expanded to ZA and Malchut.

R. Yes.

S. So ZA and Malchut separated from the degree, where did he get new ZA and Malchut?

R. Because there aren't the true ZA and Malchut, they are only the ZA and Malchut which are  expanding from Bina which are addition.

S. But Bina is also in second restriction meaning all degrees separated from the ZON?

R. No, I don't understand your question, where exactly are you, where is the text?

S. On page 234 in Hebrew.

R. I have a separate document.

S. It says: “We could ask why in the Tree of Life gate forty” paragraph “the thing is, in truth…”

Rav Reading: The thing is, in truth that there are two vessels in ZA and Malchut in each degree even after the second restriction as well. However they are not from their own phase but from the expansion of Bina since the vessel Bina itself expanded to ZA and Malchut too. Since the ZA Malchut are not original but are from Bina, now too you should not count more than three vessels KHB in each degree however this expansion of the vessel of Bina to ZA and Malchut made it possible for the two lights Haya and Yechida to clothe in the Partzuf as well; however, they do not have a designated vessel and they clothe inside the light of Neshama. For this reason, the lights of Haya and Yechida are not in their completeness as when they had five designated vessels for clothing, hence considering the degrees of AK when they were five vessels in the Partzuf, the lights of Haya and Yechida are completely absent after they separated and became surrounding of garment and Hall so what's the problem? So the inner vessels already don't exist and the vessels of third and fourth no longer have screens on them or reception of the light, they are now on the outer and they act as vessels for the surrounding lights.

S. In the second restriction the degrees separated from the vessels of ZON. Now in each degree there are five discernments and five phases and in each phase, those that remained KHB separated from the vessels of ZON, so where does Bina who separated from ZON have ZON to receive Haya and Yechida? It's part of the same restriction after all.

R.  Bina, yes, it has vessels that it expands from itself outward because she has where to expand to. I don't understand what you're asking about here.

S. Bina is in Katnut, smallness, how come vessels of Gadlut expand from her?

R. He says that the expansion of the vessel of Bina to ZA and Malchut made it possible for the two lights Haya and Yechida to clothe in the Partzuf as well and you're asking about before this how does Bina have this ability to expand, so he says that he should not ask why in Etz Chaim, the tree of life, there's 3 internal and 2 surroundings and they're actually five internal and two surroundings in every degree also after the second restrictions so it also exist after the second restrictions, ZA and Malchut however they are not from their own phase but from the expansion of Bina, since the vessel of Bina itself expanded to the vessel of ZA and Malchut also, is that what you're asking about? How can Bina spread to ZA and Malchut, Bina begets them, what’s the problem? ZA and Malchut they come out of Bina to the second phase, ZA begets Bechinah Aleph and they’re already in Bina that Bina stabilizes but from the expansion of the Bina because the vessel of Bina itself expanded to ZA and Malchut too. Since the ZA and Malchut are not original but are from Bina which begets them, now too we should not count more than three vessels KHB in each degree, however this expansion of the vessel of Bina to ZA Malchut made it possible for the two lights Haya and Yechida to clothe in the Partzuf as well but they don't have a special vessel, they clothe in the light of Neshama and this is the reason the lights of Haya and Yechida are not in completeness because they don't have the designated vessels for clothing. Hence, considering the degrees of AK when they were five vessels in the Partzuf, the light of Haya and Yechida are completely absent after they separated and became surroundings of garments and hall.

S. I guess it's a matter of my understanding.

R. It's possible that we're missing something here that you're asking about, I’m not sure.

Reading item 17 (26:50) “Between those two…”

9. S. (27:27) Meaning the last Bechinah of the vessel.

Reading continues (27:30): “...the surrounding light is…”

R. (27:52) If in the inner light the surrounding lights are bigger, then in the surrounding lights, the more surrounding they are, the bigger they are.

Reading continues (28:08): “The surrounding light in the garment…”

11. R. (29:01) And the greater, the more external it is. Okay, these things are clear even allegorically speaking.

Reading item 18 (29:18): “For this reason…”

Reading item 19 (29:52): “However, after we explained…”

12. R. (30:30) And that's how it is: ten by ten by ten.

 Reading item 20 (30:37): “The ten Sefirot of…”

Reading item 21 (31:30): “likewise the roots and bodies…” 

13. R. (32:31) Yes, that form is always kept.