Morning Lesson December 11, 2023

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

Part 2: 

Baal HaSulam. Study of the Ten Sefirot. Vol. 2. Part 6, item 45

Reading Item 45. (00:15) “This is the meaning of what is written in the Tikkunim…” 

Reading Inner Light, Item 45. (01:31) “Ani Yeshena [I am asleep], corresponding…”

1. Rav Intro: (01:25) He explains it pretty simply, yes. So, next. 

Reading Item 46. (3:00) “These Nekudot are the phase of the kings…” Twice.

Reading Item 47. (04:45) “In order to understand this verse…” Twice.

Reading Inner Light, Item 47. (06:33) “Top discernments, which are the punctuation…”

2. S. (08:47) He writes that the GAR of the root has no AHP, then he writes how can the GAR be the AHP of the root? 

R. We don’t know. Where is it written?

S. In Item 47, he writes, that the first Rosh is only the root of Nekudim and even during the Gadlut it does not connect with the AHP which are the GAR of Nekudim. How can the GAR be the AHP? GAR is always the lowest.

R. No, where did you get that from? Here we are dividing the Partzuf Nekudot of SAG and from it all the other Partzufim emerge including the world of Nekudim which from all the consequences, all the results emerge. Where did you get that from?

S. There is Rosh and Guf.

R. What Rosh and Guf?

S. He says about the root.

R. Where are you reading?

S. Item 47.

R. Yes, Rav Reading: Top discernments, which are the punctuation of Holam, and middle ‎ones, such as Shuruk, while the rest are at the bottom. This is because three lights operated in the first Nekudim: the vapor of the Tabur, discerned as the Peh of the first Rosh, called YESHSUT. This light is called Holam, for it shines above the letters, since the first Rosh is not considered actual light of Nekudot, but only as a root. Even during the Gadlut, it does not unite into one with its AHP, which are the GAR of Nekudim. That’s it, so ask.

S. How can GAR become the AHP?

R. It depends on how we divide the Partzuf. I don’t understand him.

S. GAR is always a root, isn’t it?

R. Not always, it can be the Rosh, or it can be the tail. It can be the root or the tail of another Partzuf. It’s only towards its Partzuf.

Reading Item 48. (12:19) “Now, all of the last seven dots have the form of Yod…”

Reading Inner Light Item 48. (13:42) “All of the last seven dots have…”

3. S. (23:49) What’s the influence of Nekudim on the letters, sorry, Nekudot on the letters?

R. By the expansion of Nekudot the entire process is more clarified.

S. We know that without the Nekudot we couldn’t read the letters. 

R. Well?

S. We also learned that the letters are created from the Nekudot, that’s how it is, right?

R. The letters are like lumps and Nekudot brings them to life, they are conducting them.

S. Question: He says that the Nekudot have forms of letters too, and that the Patach is like a Vav, the Kamatz is like a Yod so also the Nekudot themselves are forms of letters?

R. Well, well.

S. What does that mean?

R. There are Nekudot that are close to the Otiot and there are Nekudot that don’t belong to the Otiot, but they have roles that are more distant, more remote.

4. S. (25:28) The Nekudot are like a resolution on the state we are in, or is it like a doorman, like an addition?

R. The Nekudot are the Kelim, the vessels, without which you could not have any onward expansion of lights and vessels which is the process creation needs to absorb, include.

S. Is it like an intermediate process because what I have learned now, what he wrote here, it’s something that was described in the previous letter, but he gave like another angle on the process of the expansion. So, you can’t understand its expansion without the Nekudot?

R. No, no, imagine to yourself if we wouldn’t learn what Nekudot of SAG is, the world of Nekudim. What would we understand from the wisdom? That all real vessels come from Nekudot.

5. S. (27:02) The one who attains, first attains Taamin of Nekudot and then, in the end, the Nekudot? Or first the letters and then the Taamin?

R. It depends on what level he is at and what exactly he is attaining. Actually, there is a combination here between what he attains and how much he attains.

6. S. (27:38) The lower Nekudot, and the upper ones, and the middle ones, what is it, is it lights, is it fulfillment, is it the vessel themselves?

R. Yes, these are lights. Lights that enter the vessels, that is in the vessel, and that emerges out of the vessel.

S. Why are they around the letter Vav?

R. No, they are actually around all the letters. We simply don’t use them that way. That’s how it is, they are being used only in the place that cannot be discerned in the matter.

Reading Item 49. (29:02 - 30:43) “It is not surprising that the vessels…”