Morning Lesson January 18, 2024
Transcription is made from simultaneous translation, which leaves a possibility for differences in the audio
Part 2:
Baal HaSulam. "Study of the Ten Sefirot" (TES). Vol. 2. Part 6. Inner Observation. Cause and Consequence. #10
Reading #10 (00:35) “Thus the cause and consequence through the elicitation of the first …”
1. S. (03:52) In the last line when it said that it is clothed from the Peh of Rosh through its Sium. What does that mean? They clothed upon it, or he does it by the reflected light?
R. Basically the lower one clothes the upper one right? The one who is born now has to clothe the original Partzuf.
S. Here the opposite is written that ‘these Rosh Toch Sof are birth to the previous Partzuf that clothe it from the Peh of Rosh until Sium’.
R. Yes, clothing it means it clothes the previous Partzuf, dresses on it kind of, because it is at a lower degree than the previous Partzuf, the progenitor is more internal and the new one is more external.
2. S. (05:01) He writes that the first cause in the Partzuf is the clash between the inner light and the surrounding light. Can you explain that?
R. All in all what we get from the whole process that the Partzufim go through is lights, which of the light of Ein Sof, which fills all of reality is received in them as inner light, as external lights, surrounding light, etc., because these lights explain to us, talk about the action or the operation of the Partzuf .
S. What happens in that class clash which is the first cause?
R. The clash as the first cause expresses the collision that there is between the Partzuf, the previous Partzuf the previous state, and the next state where the next following state is completely contradictory to what happened in the previous state.
S. It says if there is a vessel that works with a screen and receives the light and there still is no Partzuf but after he discovers that the way he is going to receive the light is not right then the Partzuf is born?
R. Yes this is why it is called striking.
S. But he receives a light, he has a screen, and it is still not called a Partzuf, so what is in that thing?
R. Wait, what state are you talking about? Before the light comes to the screen, before it performs the striking, or after it enters the new Partzuf?
S. We learned that the clash is a discernment that the way that the vessel is receiving the light is insufficient. Surrounding light presses the screen rejects. There are all the components but still no Partzuf.
R. But from where will there be a Partzuf if there is still only the clash?
S. But before their clash there's all kinds of action, there is a screen?
R. No, before the clash there is only the preparation of sorting the inner light from the surrounding light and the contradiction between them where the inner light seemingly draws the general light inwards, the surrounding light repels that light outwards, so between those two lights this is why it is called a clash of inner and the surrounding because there is a clash between them.
S. But if there is inner light so there is no Partzuf?
R. No, no, he still doesn't accept it in practice, receive it in practice. Okay?
Reading 11 (08:58) “Thus, there are fourteen operations before us…”
3. R. (10:57) That's already only a list of operations, yes, so after the clash of inner and surrounding where eventually the screen becomes revealed what happens then, item 13.
Reading Item 12 (11:30) “Now we shall explain the cause and consequence…”
4. R. (13:37) There's actually all the material we have gone through so far.
5. S. (13:53) What does it mean that the surrounding light refines the screen?
R. The surrounding light is all the light. The inner light it’s only that little part that it received in order to bestow so the surrounding light it's actually everything, that's why when it presses on the screen and says, tells the screen, you are bothering me from clothing in the Partzuf and the Masach, the screen stands and says I cannot receive in order to bestow anymore, so it turns out that the screen doesn't have any choice but to exit from this whole calculation and not receive anything more. That is called that it is refined.
S. What happens to it? What does it mean that it becomes refined? What does the screen go through in this operation?
R. It loses its coarseness which was in order to bestow, that is why everything it already received in order to bestow gradually refines until nothing. The screen ascends from the Tabur to the Peh.
S. To the Chazeh?
R. On the way it goes through the Chazeh. First it goes up to the Peh and incorporates in the next coupling by striking and then it can descend to the Chazeh.
6. S. (15:37) There is a sentence here that sounds contradictory. It says about the screen ‘its clothing of the upper light is by striking the upper light which reflects that full measure of light that is fit for expanding in phase four’ backwards.
R. Yes.
S. It sounds like it should say that it is not fit for reflecting it. He says afterwards that it doesn’t let it expand.
R. Yes.
S. It says that it reflects all the measure of light that is fit for…
R. That could expand but doesn't expand.
S. So it is not fit for expanding in phase four, this cis what confuses me.
R. You understand that you are confused, good.
7. S. (16:34) A friend is asking, does the clash bring the created being closer to the Creator or further from the Creator?
R. The clash builds the receiving of the light later on in order to bestow that is why it brings them closer.
S. If so then how to perform the clash?
R. When it doesn't want to receive but only to receive an order to bestow, that is why there is a clash. We have to see Inner Observation part one, maybe two.
8. S. (17:25) Concerning surrounding lights, only the Partzuf Galgalta could place a screen for the surrounding light of Ein Sof?
R. Yes.
S. The found Partzufim already work with the surrounding as a result of the couplings?
R. Yes.
S. Much less?
R. Yes.
Reading Item 13 (17:59) “ The second operation which is the refinement of…”
9. R. (19:22) Clear? The screen rises from below upward, let’s say, back to the Peh of Rosh and then in every degree it comes to on its way so again it meets the upper light that is there in a coupling by striking and that causes it to reject, and reject, and reject, in that way the lights that are received into the Guf he pushes them out.
10. S. (20:10) Is the will of the screen to be refined causing the coupling, meaning the clash of the surrounding and inner?
R. No. The screen that wants to refine does not cause the coupling.
11. S. (20:41) What is the benefit in the incorporation and the refinement if there is already an incorporation in the expansion?
R. Speak clearly and briefly so that you do not repeat yourself.
S. The screen received in order to bestow on every attribute, so it knows the attribute is incorporated in them after that it has another incorporation in the refinement.
R. So?
S. So what is the addition here what does it need to become Incorporated twice? Why is there two-fold incorporation in the expansion and the refinement what does it need to go over the all the discernments until it gets to the Peh of the Rosh?
R. Because they are in the screen if the screen descended received all the light it had in order to bestow and now it goes through a coupling by striking sorry it goes through a beating up the Inner Light the external light that reached the surrounding lights, so it rises until the.. until it reaches the mouth. on the way when it goes back on those same degrees of coarseness when it refines now so it enters a contact with the upper light that is there.
S. Yes but what is the need to repeat the couplings that it made in the expansion?
R. Because it gets rid of them on the way it doesn't want this, and it does want this, and it does want this and in this way it ascends from double to Peh.
S. What is it doesn't want this, and it doesn't want this, and it doesn't want this.
R. It is refining.
S. Why does it need to go through this process from in order to receive.
R. It received by receiving all this degrees of coarseness in order to bestow from the Peh to the Tabur now it is refining. it gets rid of them on the way from Tabur to Peh.
S. Is there a coupling by striking where you get rid of the light and the results of it is getting rid of the light?
R. Yes.
S. But, a coupling by striking is in order for the light to expand?
R. Yes and here too. It performs a calculation in the Partzuf that are called Nekudot Tamim and Nekudot Partzuf of Nekudot…Tamim are from receiving the lights from Tabur to Peh.. Nekudot are the refining of the lights from Tabur to Peh and the records of the Tamim are.
12. S. (24:04) What does the Partzuf learn about the upper one through refinement?
R. Truthfully I'd say there are thousands of actions here, we just can't start getting into them and cook them up, but all of these actions each and every action bears more actions and more actions as results. That is why we have many more Partzufim faces that clothe like overtones there is a general main action and upon it all of these little actions clothe upon it, and they add all kinds of feelings of taste and smell, shapes, forms colors that comes from all of those actions.
S. In our world to see that we appreciate something only want to begin to move away when we begin to lose it actually.
R. Yes.
S. Here as I understand it the whole process of being filled and refined is to study the Upper one to study the qualities of the Upper one.
R. But, here too also here until the Partzuf does not entirely refine itself you do not have any impression from it.
S. Hence the question, how does this refinement give us ,you just said there are many harmonics overtones?
R. The vessel, the expansion of the light and its departure makes the vessel worthy for its role.
S. So what is it about the departure that makes the vessel worthy?
R. The departure of the light reveals what was in the vessel to receive that light and what it is now. It reveals exactly its essence, type, the form in many discernments.
S. Afterwards another such degree and another such degree?
R. The Upper light in the beginning was just shining you could say suppressing the vessel because if you put tea in here you see the tea. Thats why only when the tea comes out you can see the vessel.
S. Can we learn something from this about the relationships and the Ten about the nearing and moving away between us in the Ten?
R. Not yet. Our actions are much more complex, complex, but we will learn it of course. Not now it'll all make us so confused that it's not worth it.
13. S. (28:11) I have a question, and I hope it is pertinent. You said that there are many thousands of operations that take place let's say when the vessel is refined.
R. Yes.
S. We read about a page ago that each Sefira attribute has a Sefira attribute within it and within it and within it indefinitely?
R. Yes.
S. But if there are infinite such Sefira attributes there is no end to it is there an end to this Sefirot constant division?
R. It is infinite, that is what is disturbing you?
S. No, I'm just trying to understand the system.
R. You can't with your limited brain you cannot understand an infinite matter. Let it go. Let it go. That is it, that is the easiest. I cannot attain it that’s it.
14. S. (29:20) Can you perhaps if we can read eleven again can you elaborate a little bit about all those stop the fourteen operations here, things that we've never talked about?
R. No. Read it a few times and see that there is no problem with it. There's no problem so we won't explain exactly what is happening how the screen ascends from phase two to phase one from three to two we are learning we learned once about the whole vessel and from that you can understand that inside its actions that I'd say it is like they are sliced the coarseness changes and the same actions only on the new measure of courses that is what the vessels will go through. I’m that way every time.
15. S. (30:30) I just want to say that when we read item 11 all the items afterwards he begins to describe and explain each operation. So it's only after that we will see the whole picture?
R. Right.
16. S. (30:50) The Partzuf has a Rosh, and it decides how much can light be received and then it generates a Guf and a Guf carries out the plan any discoveries he can only do it to a certain extent and then it goes back and kind of brings information when it discovers you have records and so a new Partzuf is born. What does the Guf reveal the Rosh didn't know in the execution? What does the Guf reveal that the Rosh did not know?
R. The taste Tamim Nekudot all kinds of partial pieces of information that are in the Partzuf that can be revealed in time when the screen is still in the Peh and does not go downward.
S. Normally we talk about the calculation of the Rosh simply it can receive ten%... or can eat only steak if we use the restaurant example. What is revealed?
R. Nothing is revealed in the Rosh.
S. No the Guf.
R. In the Guf is revealed what’s planned in the Rosh.
S. But the Rosh thought to reveal 20%, what else is revealed there?
R. There are many things that we don't know about.
S. Can you describe it in some way that we can?
R. No I'm not dealing with that we are studying the study of Ten Sefirot attributes that is it.
Reading: (32:44) Item 14 “The fourth operation which is the two Upper records of male and female…”
17. S. (34:39) He writes that in order to make a coupling with the upper light it must connect with phase 3 which is like a female to it. Why doesn't he write that in order to connect with the Upper light he has to make the correct female. Why does he reverse the order? It has to connect with the female in order to make a coupling with the Upper light?
R. Because the coupling with the Upper light is the main thing.
S. So what is connection? Why don’t he call it the coupling with the female?
R. He needs to be with a screen that has the contact with that Upper light.
S. So how do we define connection with a female through what is the connection?
R. The coupling by striking.
S. But he writes this part of cause and consequences he writes first it connects with the female as a result of it.
R. By what?
S. I don’t know he doesn’t write.
R. How can we connect only by a coupling by striking.
S. But according to what is written as it seems in order to make a coupling with the Upper light it must connect with a female.
R. Yes.
S. So, first it has to connect with a female before the coupling with the Upper light?
R. Read it again at home and if you need to. So we will learn it separately.
S. The same goes for item 12 because it's clothing of the upper light is by striking the Upper light. So it is similar? Why is the reason the striking and the result of the clothing?
R. You cannot enter contact with something if there wasn't a beating before it because things come close to one another that are not equal, not of the same type. That is why first there has to be a preparation for it, a beating and then after that beating they can clothe on one another.
S. What is the difference between when the screen hits with the reflected light or direct light? The result is this encounter and a clash it is refinement and when the screen hits with a pleasure call direct light the result is clothing and not refinement?
R. Because there is a difference.
S. But it has an encounter with a direct light and as a result it is not refined why?
R. No, no I have to see what you're talking about. I'm not going to let you know whatever we have the least of the lesson from your question that is not how we do it.
Reading Item 15 (38:08) “The fifth operation is two kinds of couplings in this screen of Rosh…”