Morning Lesson February 7, 2022, Transcription
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Part 2:
Baal HaSulam, Preface to the Wisdom of Kabbalah, #127
1. R. (00:15) So we have learned that the cascading of the worlds and now we are learning how these worlds clothe each other, or one within the other. What are the connections between the worlds? Having the will to receive that the Creator created, how was this will to receive organized in order to pass on the upper light through it until the lowest degree from which we will have to grow and cultivate towards the Creator.
Reading Item 127 (00:54)
2. R. (03:15) I will read it again. Rav rereads #127 - The order of their clothing all these Partzufim that emerged from SAG and on the order of their clothing of each other and on Partzufim of AK meaning Galgalta the Partzuf of AK is what is that Partzuf of and spread down below the general Tabur although it emerges from the general Parsa of… but only about below the Tabur. Usually we learned that the next Partzuf clothes on the Partzuf from which it was born from the Peh down, it clothes on it, and here no we see it differently, this Partzuf Atik clothes from the general Tabur and below. Since, above the Tabur of AK it is considered first restriction which is called Akudim since Partzuf Atik is the second restriction does not control it so it should have been worthy of clothing above the Tabur of AK.
Since the second restriction cut, already been strapped, established meaning it is not because this Partzuf is not under the restriction of the second restriction of the limitation of the second restriction, but it is under the second restriction in order to pass lives to all… that is why it is called Atik. Atik is from the word displaced, it is still displaced from the second restriction even though it has the form of the first restriction and the form of the second restriction. That is why it is the one that passes on, projects all the lights that come from above the world of Adam Kadmon all Galgalta, AB, SAG, MA, BON they all come, all of these lights from the Partzuf of Atik. Atik receives them in his part the first restriction passing on his part called the second restriction and from it, it performs bestowal on all the Partzufim of Atzilut that are already in the second restriction.
Meaning Atik is the one who broadcasts, he is connecting between the two. That is why he says that he could not clothe below the Peh of AK below the general Tabur because it is not true that the Partzuf of Atik because it is the first of Atzilut the restriction and to it is not true that the Partzuf of Atik because it is the first the second restriction does not control it and that's why it is worthy to clothe above the Tabur of AK, like all the Partzufim.
Since the second restriction is already in its Peh of the Rosh, not for itself from it and down from below. Therefore, it can only clothe below the Tabur of AK. The level of Atik starts from the Tabur of AK and ends with the Raglaim of AK. Meaning he goes through all the Partzufim and all the limitations that are the first restriction. It is as if all of these limitations of the second restriction do not belong to it, are not relevant. It shines all the lights from the general Tabur to the general Sium and that is why it is called Atik because it is displaced from the second restriction and all the limitations. Meaning about the point of this world. That is where it ends and that is due to its own Partzuf as belonging to an Atik. Because of his connection with the other Partzufim of Atzilut, in the second restriction whose perspective is regarded as consisting of the second restriction, with respect to them. He clothes in the form of the second restriction, to bestow them to be connected to them so it is considered that it is Raglaim and above the Parsa of Atzilut since the Parsa is the new Sium at the second restriction. Clear?
3. S. (09:06) A Partzuf that passes on the lights, what is the difference in the way it brings onward if it belongs to the first or second restriction?
R. It is relevant to what it is passing on how much it passes, what kind of light it has receive, what kind of light it has to process inside, to what vessels does he pass this light onto, what is above it and what is below it and what connection it should give between these Partzufim. The goal of each and every Partzuf is to pass as much as it can all the bestowal from above downward so that by that he will awaken and give the forces to the lower one to adapt itself as much as possible to the upper one, by that he gives contentment to the Creator.
S. Except for the difference in the types of light is there a difference in the way that it passes it on between the first and second restriction?
R. Yes, we will learn that there are many things there, we have to learn that more than the practical form then you will see.
4. S. (10:35) How can it be that Atik is in the first restriction below the Tabur?
R. Below the Tabur, yes, it is on the one hand, on the other hand it is as the first restriction where it is place should be above the Tabur and that is because it is from the first restriction to the second restriction, Tzimtzum Aleph to Tzimtzum Bet, and itself belongs to both restrictions that has two forms. It is like you, supposedly you play with your child with respect to yourself you know you are in Gadlut, in the first restriction and in regard to the child you talk to him like a child so he will understand you that is the second restriction.
S. But we saw that like the Nekudot of SAG they are not working in the first restriction, also the Keter of Nekudim is not working in the first restriction but Atik does?
R. Atik does, because it is revived and it is entirely from below upwards meaning it is entirely in bestowal, it does not have to receive an order to bestow only to bestow in order to bestow, that is why it is the first restriction. There are many things that we will have to learn, your questions are correct, but it is not for this course, we cannot start scrutinizing them one by one.
5. S. (12:20) Can you explain what is Raglaim?
R. Raglaim means the bottom third of the Partzuf, literally means legs, usually we ascribe them as vessels of reception, the Rosh is the intentions, the Guf, the body besides the legs, are they vessels that can work with the intentions of the Rosh in order to bestow and the Raglaim are desires to receive that cannot take part in actions that are in order to bestow, it is called Rosh, Toch and Sof.
6. S. (13:10) From the last excerpt we read I do not understand how Atik ends?
R. That is correct, we will learn that, intentionally he is not precise here, but the truth is that the Partzuf of Atik goes all the way and the point of the Sium it touches, and it does not touch, you will see that.
7. S. (13:40) You said that Atik because it is disconnected it has moved from one place to the other, the question is where it has moved to?
R. No, it has not been moved, why are you giving your own interpretation. Atik means Neetak because it is disconnected from the will to receive, it is entirely in bestowal.
S. Because Neetak is like you move it from one place to another?
R. No it is not from this word of the displacement, the Atik means severed, cut, it is not connected.
8. S. (14:28) He says that because the second restriction was corrected in the Peh of Rosh?
R. For the rest of the Partzufim of Atzilut.
S. Where did that come from for the rest and not for itself?
R. Because in itself, is the first restriction for the rest of the Partzufim of Atzilut is like the second restriction, he gets the light of the first restriction, organizes it according to the second restriction and passes it onto others as a second restriction.
S. So why can only be below the Tabur if it is like that?
R. It is below the Tabur because it has to serve all of the rest of the Partzufim of Atzilut to be a passageway from the first restriction to the second restriction.
S. Then it ends equally at the Raglaim of AK?
R. Yes it has to illuminate, we will learn this, hold on we will learn how much Atik acts within its different illuminations in all the Partzufim of ABYA, Atzilut, Beria, Yetzira, Assiya even in the Klipot do.
9. S. (15:57) So Atik resembles itself to the lower Partzufim?
R. Of course all Partzufim do that Galgalta, AB, SAG they do it this way but in Atik it is special because it is the first restriction and makes of itself the second restriction in order to serve the lower ones.
S. When the lower Partzufim changes, if you can say that in our work, so it also resembles itself with all of these changes?
R. Of course we can also say that they cannot change without it changing them. Do you understand all of these changes are from above downwards?
10. S. (16:53) Also in the same direction I wanted to ask, you are saying that Atik starts from the first restriction and brings itself to the ten to serve the lower ones?
R. He performs the second restriction upon himself, he organizes his Partzuf in shining to all that lies within the Tabur of AK, the world of Atzilut, Beria Yetzira, Assiya the Neshamot, the souls, everything that lies there. He organizes himself so that he will illuminate to every part, every Partzuf, every world in a way that aids them in functioning correctly. Because they are all the second restriction, and he belongs to the first restriction. Meaning above all the limitations he has the order and the Partzufim of the first restriction, I do not know how to say this. It is above all of the limitations of the second restriction, above all of the lack of forces, intentions, it is as if he is omnipotent, he is disconnected from them by being connected to the Creator in everything that is why it is called Atik Yomin, but within itself it also has a system where it divides itself to the order of the second restriction and it can relate to every Partzuf and every world below the Tabur of AK in a way that is adapted to that Partzuf or Olam. That is all the role of Atik.
S. The first restriction is when he says that I do not want anything for myself and a second restriction in this case?
R. No the first restriction means I do not want to receive anything for myself but as much as I can I want to bestow, to receive in order to bestow and to bestow in order to bestow, that is the first restriction that can also receive in order to bestow and bestow in order to bestow. The second restriction is when you are only able to bestow in order to bestow, only bestow in order to bestow, and Atik divides these things to everyone, as much as they can and organizes them. There are many more things that I am holding myself. Because first of all do not confuse the students as they are confused enough. The main thing is to sit on it without disturbing us, how much we understand and how much we do not but rather how much we will know how to develop our hearts, which is the main thing. As much as it comes closer to bestowal, to connection, that eventually will determine when we start feeling what we are learning in practice, in the heart. Patience and keeping on.
Reading Item 128 (20:47)
11. R. (21:54) Rav reads: The second Partzuf of the world of Atzilut in the new MA called Arik Anpin, it's because Arik it's long, from the place it comes out, from Atik and until the end of the Sium of Atzilut until the general Parsa which was emanated and emerged from the Peh of Rosh of Atik, Partzuf Arik Anpin came out of the Peh of Rosh of Atik and its level, meaning it spreads from the place of its emergence has meaning from the Peh of Rosh de Atik, and clothes the ZAT of Atik, meaning all the Sefirot from Rosh and below of Atik which end above the Parsa of Atzilut this is about Partzuf Arik Anpin, Arik from the word Aroch, long and Anpin is from the word Panim, meaning face. Panim is where the light shines so a long Panim, a long Partzuf where the light shines that is called Arik Anpin. The third Partzuf called AVI of the world of Atzilut which were emanated from the Peh of Rosh of Arik Anpin, as usual from Peh of Rosh, they begin from the Peh of Rosh of Arik Anpin where they were made, and they end above the Tabur of Arik Anpin. That is what he says about the Partzuf of AVI later the ZON comes out, Zeir Anpin and Nukva, and begins at the Tabur of Arik Anpin and ends equally with the Sium of Arik Anpin meaning about the Parsa of Atzilut.
12. S. (24:40) What does it mean to correct yourself?
R. We are not talking about that now.
S. You said we have to arrange our hearts towards the study in the correct way so perhaps we are not arranging our hearts in the correct way, it felt to me that you were speaking?
R. We would like our study to correct our hearts, yes, that within our study there is light that is called the light that reforms we want it to correct us. That all of our heart, which is our desires, they will receive the intention to bestow instead of the intention to receive and to the extent that these desires will get a desire, an intention to bestow we will feel the upper world, the Creator eternity, the wholeness of creation and also, we will belong to that. Otherwise we will stay in that black point.
S. We do not correct ourselves; we submit ourselves to the light that reforms, a request?
R. As much as we learn and we want to resemble the nature of the upper Partzufim, it is considered that we are correcting ourselves.
13. S. (26:20) Baal HaSulam goes into little details in the system of the world of Atzilut, can we every so often, zoom out of the system, because right now it is all about these details?
R. I do not want to draw this on purpose, but I will draw it. I do not want you to settle for the drawing, I want you to pass it on to a more emotional shape. Let us say we have the beginning of the Partzufim that come to us from the Rosh of the Galgalta then AB, SAG, MA, upper MA, upper BON, five Partzufim of the world of Adam Kadmon. Is this all clear? AK, then from SAG we get the Nekudot of SAG as they start to purify, they come down filling the NHY of Galgalta and from there you get bestowal of the Behina Dalet, the fourth phase. Out of that they are also restricted, the fourth phase bestows upon them, so we control below and the second restriction controls above from that place- sorry the second phase Behina Bet is controlling above from the place of Parsa. This all happens in the Nekudot of SAG, which is Behina Bina and now what we have, we have a division pf this place below the Tabur that has to be filled with the upper light and then there will be the Gmar Tikkun.
It is divided into two, here is the control of the Bina which can receive the lights in order to bestow, below is the control of Malchut which cannot receive anything in order to correct this whole place what the Creator has to do is to mingle, mix the fourth phase having no intention in order to bestow, with the second phase which is entirely in order to bestow. Then they can correct this whole place in order to bestow and then will be the Gmar Tikkun where that light will come from Ein Sof until the Sium. This happens by building a system called the world of Nekudim. So here we have Partzufim that come down over the Reshimo and they come from Tabur and below, yes, and the which are the Partzufim of AVI of the world of Nekudim and they break and AVI and merge and YESHSUT, two Partzufim that break and here they are become Malchut. Because here below we have Malchut so as Malchut mingles with all of these Partzufim that is why they are called for us, four and four which is eight Melechim from the word Malchut where Malchut mingles they break and they die now we have eight kings, Melechim four times four, which is YKVK, discernments in each one which is 32 Melechim which we have to correct.
When we correct these Melechim by shifting them back to the Rosh of SAG and from the Rosh of SAG we start building all of these Partzufim, SAG actually starts building everything is done by SAG in general and it starts building the first Partzuf is the Partzuf called the Atik that is how it is called, Atik, and the second Partzuf from the Peh of Atik emerges until the Parsa of Atzilut is called the Arik Anpin, the third Partzuf called AVI. The fourth Partzuf is called YESHSUT one more Partzuf is called ZON. Later we will see why and how they are organized this way. That is it, so all of these Partzufim are called the five Partzufim of Atzilut. Five including Atik. This is the world of Atzilut, Olam. That is it.
S. The question is now we are going deeper into the world of Atzilut, so what is the difference, what is the main difference between Atzilut and Nekudim, like take a zoom out because you started from the beginning.
R. The world of Atzilut is a world in itself and that is the main world by which all the corrections are made what comes before the world of Atzilut we barely learn about that, we learned that as a transitional light of Ein Sof how it bestows upon the light, from the world of Atzilut we learn how they bestow upon the souls which is in the world of BYA. These worlds we also learn a little bit about them because from them the souls come up to the world of Atzilut where they get the correction meaning our whole work is in the world of Atzilut, from above it comes to light of Ein Sof and below it receives the Neshamot, the souls, and in them it corrects the souls by the light of Ein Sof that is what happens to us. That is it.
14. S. (36:27) What is the difference between the birth of Partzufim in AK and the birth of Partzufim in Atzilut?
R. There is a big difference. Because in the world of AK these Partzufim are born whole not partial. They are only born from the smallest and larger, seemingly and they are also born not in Katnut and Gadlut, it is born whole already. As if in our world a whole person would be born. That is it. That had nothing lacking and only in the way that it can bestow to others it grows because it lacks nothing for itself, only to bestow to others. These are the Partzufim that are in the world of AK, in the world of Atzilut it is not this way anymore. There the Partzufim are born to bestow to others as well, but their bestowal depends on their correction and their correction depends on how much they connect with themselves the Partzufim that are in BYA. That is it. In the Olamot of BYA there are great scrutinies and very special ones but the main thing for us now is only to know what the role is, function of the world of Atzilut, what is the world of Atzilut itself.
S. What does it mean that they connect to themselves like the emotive power for the birth of the Partzuf?
R. Yes, the Partzuf usually needs nothing for itself but only to bestow to the Creator, in order to bestow to the Creator it has to mingle with the corrections that are below it, the lower ones and to accept them and raise them to correction. That is called to give contentment to the Creator. You elevate hearts to the Creator for him to correct and fill and because the will of the Creator is to bestow it is for him the form of pleasure correcting and filling the broken vessels.
S. So can we say that a deficiency of the lower ones is the reason for those Partzufim of Atzilut to be born?
R. Of course everything is in order to bestow and if the lower ones ask from the upper ones, give birth, fulfill us, correct us by that they give contentment to the upper ones, contentment to the Creator. That is why if we ask correctly from the Creator, correct us so that we can bestow like you, so we give him contentment.
15. S. (39:57) I understand that Arik Anpin is not the first Partzuf of AK so are all the Partzufim later on, where is the light that performs all of the couplings because only Atik is Rosh of SAG so where do the rest come from?
R. All of the couplings take place at the palace of the Partzufim because each and every coupling you need a new deficiency for Ein Sof so it doesn't matter where the coupling takes place it could be anywhere here, but still the deficiency ascends all the way to Malchut of Ein Sof incorporates there, awakens it and Malchut of Ein Sof it brings the light of correction and fulfillment back to the same place it should be. That is on each and every detail the smallest one so if we do any work, by that it is written down in Malchut of Ein Sof and we already have an address. We determine a state and a place and from there we already start receiving the lights of the correction of the scrutiny and fulfillment.
S. Basically here all of the Partzufim emerge in AK like in the Peh of the previous Partzuf?
R. That is always like that that the relation between the upper Peh and the lower one they change, sometimes we call the Peh Tabur or something else, we will see but it is always called Peh, the place of birth and pregnancy.
16. S. (41:57) The light of Ein Sof comes out of the Rosh of the Galgalta until the Sium, is this the Creator?
R. The Creator is what the souls attain called, come and see, then it is a partial attainment and some kind of higher bestowal that towards the lower one is called Creator.
17. S. (42:28) What is the role of Atik below the Parsa of Atzilut?
R. Atik is the one who connects, adapts between the worlds of ABYA and the souls and everything below the Tabur with the Partzufim that are above Tabur and Ein Sof.
S. That is like?
R. Because it is divided into two that can be in the first and second restriction so in the first restriction it is connected to what is above the Tabur and in the second restriction is in contact with what is below the Tabur, that is its main duty. But every time according to its role it gives birth from itself to new Partzufim, new forms of connection to above the general Tabur to below the general Tabur.
S. According to its connection below to the Parsa it gives birth to the Partzufim above the Parsa?
R. Yes, both. we will learn about it. Do not jump.
18. S. (43:54) Why doesn't the second restriction spread and activate over Atik, it is below the Parsa?
R. Because it is born before the second restriction controls.
19. S. (44:12) If a Partzuf is born from the Reshimo of the second restriction, how can it eventually spread below the Parsa?
R. It rises to the world of Atzilut above the Parsa that is where it spreads, below the Parsa there is none, all of our work is only to raise all of the Partzufim, all of the shattered souls from below the Parsa to above and here to incorporate them in the light of Ein Sof.