Morning Lesson January 04, 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. #4

Reading. Part 6. Inner Observation 4. (00:19) “The matter of the screen of the Tabur…”

1. S. (02:48) I don't remember that there are two points. The points of Yesod and the point of Sium Raglaim. I always thought that there was a Sium on Malchut but here he adds something.

R. This will be clearer later, yes.

2. S. (03:10) This expansion, from the Tabur to the Sium, that's the entire correction we could say?

R. It's the main place of correction, yes from Tabur to Sium.

S. Can I ask something about the last phase?

R. Ask. I don’t know, we should learn this. What do you want to know?

S. In the previous excerpts, we say that in the refinement of Tabur of AK, so the last phase is lost.

R. Yes.

S. We say it's lost because it realized itself and then we go to a lower coarseness?  

R. Yes.

S. It has realized itself we could say in bestow in order to bestow, no?

R. Well.

S. The whole realization from now on and all the development is below AK?

R. This we still do not know; we are learning what we are learning. There is a development from the Rosh of Galgalta to the Sium of Galgalta which ends at the central point. 

S. Phase three, which supposedly develops in AB, it was realized in AK, in the Guf of the Partzuf, right?

R. Because the screen was refined from Tabur to Peh in AB and Galgalta then afterwards a screen comes out with the next phase which is AB after Galgalta.

S. There is Rosh of clothing and Rosh of coarseness, he's using what he implemented already?

R. No, he doesn't take the Rosh of clothing and the Rosh of coarseness from Galgalta he makes a calculation and builds the striking and builds the Rosh and the Guf of the next Partzuf of AB.

S. In the refining itself?

R. In the refining of the Partzuf Galgalta?

S. Where does the Rosh of the clothing come from?

R. It's in the refining of Galgalta from the expansion of Taamim, flavors of Galgalta. Now they are refined and Partzuf Nekudot of Galgalta emerges on it.

S. Okay, thank you. So, there's no connection about the clothing of the light in the Guf?

R. Between the clothing of light in the Guf and what?

S. In the Guf of AK, there's no connection between that and the building of the next Partzuf?

R. The next Partzuf is not around, it's not present, and doesn't exist.

S. I understand but we say that the refining builds the Rosh of Hitlabshut or Aviut, coarseness or maybe I don't understand?

R. The refining builds the preparation for the next Partzuf, yes.

S. And everything he attained in the Guf of the previous Partzuf is not relevant for the next Partzuf?

R. What he attained in the previous Partzuf, all of it now becomes for him the foundations of the next Partzuf.

S. From the refining of the Partzuf?

R. Through the refining of the Partzuf.

3. S. (07:21) He says that only when Partzuf of Nekudot of SAG goes below the Tabur so we can keep bestowing under the Tabur, the process continues there?

R. Yes.

S. What do the five Partzufim of AK help that are above the Tabur, what does it give?

R. No, the Taamin, Nekudot, Tagin, and Otiot, all have to come out. Each and every phase has to realize itself, otherwise it doesn't bring out, it doesn't show everything that's in it; on what it performed the Zivug de Hakaa, coupling by striking.

S. It's like we look at a process and its purpose is to conquer the whole desire and allow bestowal there, so Partzuf Galgalta attained it to the Tabur and then the Nekudot de SAG continues it. So, I don't understand what the rest of them do, even the MA and BON that is above AK?

R. All the Partzufim come out because another phase, another discernment remains on the screen, and it has to realize it.

S. What does it mean that he has to realize it?

R. Because there's coarseness, there's a desire that he wants to realize, to implement; it wants to be filled with the upper light, with the screen, without a screen never mind but it wants to realize himself.

S. But these Partzufim have a lessening coarseness they don't add?

R. First of all don't think that it's small, and second, each of them still wants to realize itself, for its big work, it's a big role.

S. When you're describing it, it sounds almost egoistic that the purpose of the Partzufim AB are part of Holiness.

R. They feel that they have the strength to bestow, and they want to bestow.

S. In what way does AB bestow that Galgalta couldn’t, and how does it contribute?

R. AB bestows in lower things than Galgalta and fills those desires and those spaces which Galgalta cannot fill.

S. What does it mean lower ones? It's the lowest discernment, what lost, no?

R. Nothing was lost.

S. We're saying that the last phase was lost?

R. Disappears.

S. Disappears?

R. Disappears is something else, yes. What it can fill it fills, and likewise all the Partzufim. Otherwise, the latter wouldn't exist, and it wouldn't come to states where it's no longer possible to continue the ladder, and then they feel that there is some sort of a malfunctioning here.

S. I still don't understand what AB adds to the process that Galgalta could not. You said that it is filling lower places, so I didn't understand why they are lower. What's lower?

R. Lower in discernments and scrutinies and fillings and in expansion and refinement; it is all, it all happened in all of the Partzufim until they came to the final stage.

S. And then they discover that they cannot bestow?

R. They discover that they no longer have the strength and the power to bestow.

S. Even after Nekudot de SAG goes down the process keeps going with the upper MA and BON, so what is their purpose? What does that give?

R. The purpose is that there are still desires that want to realize themselves. The desire is the animate level; It wants to satisfy itself.

S. I didn’t understand.

R. When AB comes out from Galgalta, does it want to realize itself? 

S. It wants to be filled, is that what you mean?

R. You can say to be filled, it doesn't matter, yes, to be filled. To realize itself means that aside from it being filled, It also fills Galgalta.

S. AB is different from Galgalta in its resolution, in what is the difference?

R. Of course.

S. Is it more delicate, what is it?

R. It is more, it is weaker than Galgalta on the one hand, on the other hand, it takes upon itself to fill such levels in the will to receive that Galgalta cannot.

S. What's the difference? What can it fill that Galgalta could not?

R. Galgalta had big lights and big vessels, and in AB it is less so. This is why it gets into doing such things that Galgalta could not get into.

S. So, it's working more delicately, I don't know, Galgalta works with a bulldozer and AB works with a shovel?

R. Yes.

4. S. (13:07) The ten Sefirot of the Sium, what is that? 

R. The ten Sefirot of the Sium.

S. What do they end, that part of the desire that can’t be used?

R. Yes.

S. What is an ending of a bestower compared to an ending of a receiver? Yesod and Malchut?

R.  No, no, you cannot ask this way.

S. There are two parts of the Sium, the Sium in Yesod that we learned is the bestower, it has ten Sefirot of Sium, and Malchut which is the receiver also has her own Sium so it’s interesting to ask about the Sium, the ending of a bestower, its ten Sefirot.

R. That he can no longer bestow.

S.  I understand. Another question is the filling that we are advancing on the path in our current state, we are attaining on something we corrected. Inside it is there an ability to bestow to the Creator on the next degree?

R. Yes, usually.

5. S. (14:25) What is the difference between Masach of Rosh and Masach of Tabur?

R. The screen of the Rosh is a screen that decides to receive the light in order to bestow and builds the Partzuf from Peh of the Rosh downwards. The screen of Tabur is the screen that begins to end the Partzuf, it does not decide anything; it is a result of the screen of the Rosh. The main thing is the Peh of the Rosh, it decides everything that happens in the Partzuf.

6. S. (15:15) Can we scrutinize the matter of how the next Partzuf adds the bestowal that the previous Partzuf couldn’t?

R. Because it brings smaller vessels which the previous Partzuf couldn't work with due to their smallness of these vessels and for this reason, it seemingly adds to the upper Partzuf, the bigger one, certainly more important, adds his own tiny vessels.

S. What does it mean that the upper one cannot work with the small vessels because of their smallness? What disturbs them?

R. That it cannot, it is not built to be in a state where he can work with the vessels of the lower one. You can't bring to a university professor children in first and second grade, they will not understand each other. In other words, the descent has to be a gradual descent. 

Reading. Item 5 (16:48) “We have yet to understand what is brought…” 

7. R. (23:15) Well, that is also something we talked about here and there.