Morning Lesson January 31, 2022, Transcription
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Part 3:
Baal HaSulam, Preface to the Wisdom of Kabbalah, #117
1. R. (02:18) I will read it again and then you asked about whatever was not clear. Rav reads: Thus we have learned how the world of Nekudim was imprinted from the world of AK, initials for Adam Kadmon. Meaning whatever was in a world of Adam Kadmon was copied to the world of Nekudim into new conditions, conditions that are below the general Tabur. Similarly the fifth Partzuf of AK that is the new MA was entirely imprinted from the world of Nekudim although all the discernments that serve the Nekudim were broken and canceled there they were renewed in the new MA. This is why instead of the shattered world of Nekudim the new MA came which is called the world of Atzilut, this is why it is considered a separate world, also it is called the world of Atzilut because it ends completely above the Parsa that was erected in the certain restriction. It is also called the world of correction because the world of Nekudim could not persist, meaning it cannot correct anything, it cannot fill that whole area from Tabur to the Sium Raglin of Galgalta because of the revoking and breaking that occurred in it. Only afterward in the new MA when all of those phases that were in the world of Nekudim turned and came into the new MA they were established and persisted there, this is why it is called the world a correction. For indeed it is the actual world of Nekudim the world of Atzilut, like the world of Nekudim but here in the new MA it receives its full correction this is because through the new MA, the posterior that fell from AVI and YESHSUT to the world of Nekudim through the Guf as well as the anterior and posterior of all the ZAT the seven kings that fell to BYA and died to the place below the Parsa and died. So, all those vessels reunite with the GAR and rise above to Atzilut. Maybe there are a lot of questions about it, but we have to understand one thing from it. I do not want to start drawing because I already told you a few times, I used to draw for many years, a lot of sketches and gradually when I come to the new correct form of perception of reality, I see that supposedly there is no place for drawings. It has to be emotional, internal in every person that is why I have to bring the person if I bring him to a sketch and connect him to a sketch it is as if he becomes a wise guy and not a Kabbalists. Meaning depicts spirituality on a piece of paper and not on his heart. That is why, let us try still, not to be artists, painters, or sketchers.
2. S. (06:57) What is the difference between Atzilut and Tabur?
R. The Tabur is the point that from it and downward there are no more vessels of bestowal. That is why the upper light cannot go there because it only expands in the vessels of bestowal. So the Tabur is the border where the upper light can go through but afterwards, we perform corrections and can bring the upper light to that area too.
3. S. (07:50) What does it mean, can we do this scrutiny where I scrutinize, how can I elevate all of my desires from the level of this world to the level of Atzilut. Is that possible to do that scrutiny within myself, within the ten, or should I not relate to this whatsoever?
R. No, what we are learning in the text and what you can do, there is a difference, you still cannot do anything, but we do have to reach this, how? By getting forces of bestowal which we do not have, we do not have. We need to bring the forces of the light, the forces of bestowal, through it we can perform the restriction in us and the correction of the will to receive. That is what we need, that is what we are doing. Now we are studying how the upper light organizes the vessels, its own vessels from above downward, that will be able to descend towards the lower ones. That the shattered vessels, these shattered vessels he broke them in the world of Nekudim on purpose so that they will mix the vessels of reception and vessels of the bestowal together. Even though a big corruption comes towards the vessels of bestowal from it afterward when they mix, the light can shine upon them on all of them from afar. Then these vessels, because in each vessel there will be a part of the vessel and bestowal and part of the vessel in reception, they will be able to be corrected. Then the vessels of bestowal which were corrected first and next to them the vessels of reception will be corrected, that is how the correction is.
This is what we have to learn on ourselves, the way it happened. This correction takes place and each and every one and all of us together, but the method is simple, shine the light from above on all the shattered vessels that the shattered vessels are the vessels that inside of them, they are desires to receive and desires to bestow. They are all in order to receive and first the light shines on the vessels that have a bigger desire to bestow and awakens them towards correction and by the vessels that reach the correction first, then they can correct vessels that still have not reached correction. In this way the process takes place, also Kabbalists, where do Kabbalists come from? They are also people like us and they were all corrupted, but they belong to souls that were corrected earlier, earlier than us and then they reached recognition of the Creator.
They turn themselves from vessels where the lights can shine into lower shattered vessels like us, that is why we are learning from them what to do and they are passing the lights through them, all of these lights are coming to us from above, from the Creator. Meaning between us and the Creator are all the Kabbalists, all the souls of the Kabbalists, their vessels. They are passing it on from the Creator, and downward and downward towards us, until it comes to us. That is why we have to take into account the main thing that is closest, which is Baal HaSulam and Rabash. From them we can receive the lights for correction. That our intentions will be entirely in order to bestow and then fill our desires that will all be in receiving in order to bestow to give contentment to the Creator. That is our work, which is our correction and by this we are included in the Creator and become like him, that is it.
4. S. (13:13) What changes are there in the discernments in the different worlds?
R. We will learn about it. It is not for now, the changes between the worlds, it is still far from us. We just need to know that we are in a shattered state, above us is the world of Atzilut and it corrects us. That is it, that is what he is writing here.
5. S. (13:56) He said the world of Nekudim is completely imprinted from the world of Adam Kadmon. We can learn from the world of Adam Kadmon, from the world of Nekudim?
R. No, don't be a wise guy, that is the same thing, it is not the same thing but those five parts that we have in the world of Adam Kadmon; Galgalta, AB, SAG, MA, BON, they are also in the world of Nekudim, in the worlds of Atzilut, Beria, Yetzira, Assiya, that structure where everything is made of five that comes from those five phases of the world of Ein Sof that is it no more.
6. S. (14:59) Why do we have to distinguish between the upper GAR and Atzilut and ZAT of each degree when the ten acts as a whole and not as broken parts?
R. Good question, because in every GAR we have the ability to correct it to be so in order to bestow, receive in order to bestow. Meaning to resemble the Creator bestowing in order to bestow which is called Katnut or receiving in order to bestow which is called Gadlut so there are states that we cannot perform the full correction, which is why we correct them partially.
7. S. (16:09) From the excerpt we understand that the world of Atzilut is from the Tabur of Galgalta and the Parsa of the world of correction that has the light of Hochma, my question is how can that be?
R. What do you mean how that how can that be why there is a whole world there because Nekudot of SAG shine below the Tabur of Galgalta and add the desire to receive in the lights of Bina, which is Nekudot of SAG, the light of Bina reaches that. That is why there can be vessels there with lights that is what gives the world of Atzilut the ability to be built below the Tabur to the Parsa.
S. We can understand and feel it gradually, what is that feeling, what did they give us the feeling that it is happening gradually?
R. What does one belong to the other I do not know but let us say, it is a question that completely does not do anything. Throughout all the worlds in there it all takes place, it all expands in a gradual way from above downward and that stems from the four phases of direct light, that it is all gradual. I do not understand the connection between what you were saying with the world of Atzilut before it was not gradual and from Galgalta, AB, SAG, and so on, that is not gradual.
S. It is always happening gradually the question is what is this understanding, this feeling giving us internal scrutiny?
R. I do not understand you; you scrutinize your question exactly and feel. I do not know, what does it give you? We are learning the structure of the worlds, what does it give us, it does not give us anything, so nothing, whoever wants to know, okay. We want to learn how we rise through all of the worlds until the world of Ein Sof, until the place where the light comes out of the upper source the four phases of direct light, which is what we want to come to.
8. S. (19:16) We learn, or I thought that the corrected form is complete equality, the Creator relates to everyone with complete equality and that is how you need to relate to the friends?
R. Of course, but when will that be in Gmar Tikkun, where they upper light fills all of reality, where there are no differences between everyone. Because everyone will be incorporated in everyone else, the Incorporation that is what you forgot probably, the incorporation of everyone and everyone else. So each one is included in everyone else, you can say that there is still a difference, who determines who is secondary and so on. So the incorporation also has differences in each and every one is in corporation, correct but this incorporation remains, if we can say it. I am not sure because we are speaking about the Gmar Tikkun, such things that are completely who knows what other laws are revealed there. In each and every one each one will be ashamed of his friend's canopy, so some differences somehow remain and then they incorporate, I do not know, I could not say anything about the Gmar Tikkun.
S. I am asking because you said this today in the boat there are souls that are heavier. Meaning they have a more important role in the system of Adam HaRishon.
R. We see it from reality and that is what they write.
S. So, what is it correct to think of reality as a circle and when as a pyramid, a hierarchy?
R. Reality is always revealed before us in a form which is convenient for us to correct ourselves, sometimes it is a triangle, sometimes it is a square, sometimes as a circle. There are all kinds of forms that Kabbalists depict for us. Let us say that the Ari, in the Tree of Life, he adds a lot of depictions there, but it comes from, it is easy for us to depict reality in such a way that supposedly exists in such a way that is how we depict the forces.
S. If in our attitude towards humanity we need to think that we are above them in the pyramid?
R. We, let us say now, Bnei Baruch we see everyone here on your screen, how many people do we have now?
S. A few thousand.
R. Three-thousand, five hundred, is what we see before us and there is even more that are just watching and not identifying, they are a group that is above humanity if you are asking.
S. It is tough because we are used to the reality of this world. If you are above someone you are better, you are more important.
R. You are above, and you are more important because in you, the correction of the world depends on you and you must, you are going to give judgment about the whole world, do not worry. The fact that you want it or not, the upper degree determines the order of the rest of the degree that is why they are going to ask you about it.
S. Sometimes you say I think only the connection between you and today you spoke about a responsibility towards the world.
R. It does not belong to one another, obviously it comes from one another, but we must first prepare ourselves with the right direction between us because from us and onwards we will have the ability to bestow.
S. It is clear the correction begins from us, but the feeling, is it correct to hold both, to try to feel the suffering of the world or our accountability?
R. We need to feel the suffering of the whole world that is true, like parents feel the suffering, God forbid, of sick children. We have to incorporate in that suffering in order to continue the upper light on it, the light that corrects and a light that fills and then we will bring it back to them. That is how we learn the connection between the vessels, the upper and the lower one.
9. S. (24:46) How does the world of Atzilut correct our vessel?
R. That is great wisdom. That is the entire wisdom of Kabbalah is actually there in the world of Atzilut. The world of Atzilut is above the Parsa and below the Parsa there is the world of Beria, Yetzira and Assiya. In those worlds there are vessels that, all kinds of shattered vessels, and man sorts the vessels that are in all of those worlds of BYA and raises them to Atzilut. For that we need to learn the structure of the world of Atzilut, the structure of the worlds of BYA, the relationships between them. Except for that, under what conditions we can raise the shattered vessels from BYA to Atzilut. Whoever raises these shattered vessels from BYA to Atzilut, are the souls of men, we, us. We need to incorporate with all sorts of intentions and desires, shattered qualities and raise them to Atzilut. To the extent that we incorporate in them and bring them together in the connection between us. That connection between us. Let us rise from the worlds of BYA to Atzilut like a ball, like a balloon. That is how we raise them. In the word of Atzilut they get corrected and by them we also get an addition of the abundance, and they are corrected somewhat and in this way every time we take parts from BYA to Atzilut. That is the work of the souls of the righteous. We will learn about it; it is a lot of material.
S. The world Atzilut corrects this corrected desire that the ten raises. How does it correct them and why?
R. In order to cause a general correction in the vessel to give contentment to the Creator. The Creator is the upper light that is about to be revealed in all those souls and the souls need to connect in order to give the Creator a possibility to fill them. You will gradually accept this whole picture. It has to live in us, you have to feel it, the way it exists, the way it lives, the way we perform it, the way all of humanity also comes closer to all of these corrections. How we can enter and be partners between the Creator and the whole of humanity as a passage, which is our role, he writes about it. That we need to be a passage, which will all happen.
10. S. (28:58) Baal HaSulam writes that all the discernments of Nekudim although they have shattered, have canceled, and returned into this new MA. First of all, why did the world of Nekudim break, what is the reason for that?
R. Go study do not ask.
S. I am asking you that you said that they were shattered and then renewed, what is the meaning of the renewal?
R. That you should also go and read about.
S. Is There no answer for it?
R. How many times did you go through the Preface already here?
S. We learned a lot about it, but he writes about here that it why I am asking.
R. So all of the vessels that were shattered in the world of Nekudim and fell, then now we are learning how all of those vessels, how they put together the worlds of Atzilut, Beria, Yetzira, Assiya and how those worlds after they come out from Galgalta Eynaim in the vessels of bestowal, Keter, Hochma, Bina, but all the vessels are reception ZA and Malchut are shattered. How can we correct these vessels of reception to be above the Parsa where the world of Atzilut is and correct them in the world of Atzilut? We are speaking about all of the souls of all of the created beings that need to perform this correction, part of them do it by helping the shattered souls correct and part of them are just the shattered souls but they all must rise from below the Parsa to above the Parsa and there connect to the form of the whole complete ten Sefirot, like one ten.
S. Meaning it was shattered to correct the souls, to help them rise?
R. Of course, yes, that you are saying right, now you got it. That is the preparation for Adam HaRishon, for him to be able to shatter and then there will be a system prepared to fix it. Good. you see gradually how it goes through us, and all these things we are studying about, it takes time, you will see.
Have a good day everyone and have some good hours where you can scrutinize all these things before you, live through what we are studying and pass it through you in some ways. Whether you understand or not it does not matter, the main thing is to be connected to it and from this you will succeed for sure. We are already, it is written our success, we still have to add the force of participation in this. I am really happy we have groups that, I guess they still cannot show up here, but it is very nice. We are actually one humanity; we are the representatives of humanity and in this way, we will advance to the general correction of Adam HaRishon. Adam HaRishon includes all the souls in it, and we will correct it together, thank you all, see you tomorrow.