Morning Lesson February 11, 2024

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

Part 3:

Baal HaSulam. Foreword to The Book of Zohar

Reading Item 1: (00:19) “The depth of the wisdom in The Book of Zohar...”

Reading Item 2: (1:28) “First, you must know that all...”

Reading Item 3: (2:46) “First boundary: There are four manners in...”

Reading Item 4: (3:45) “Second boundary: We distinguish three...”

1. S. (05:02) To get to the first boundary what is matter and what is form clothed in matter?

R. Well, probably it’s written somewhere about that. Find it later.

S. And according to the second boundary, does it only speak of Beria?

R. Yes

Reading Item 5: (05:28) “Third boundary: There are three discernments...”

2. S. (07:58) It looks like we are speaking of such important things, maybe we should read a few times and get an explanation. The whole foundation sits in a few sentences in so many details, it's completely confusing even methodically. It's a lot of details in one page.

R. That's how he thinks it’s correct, that's how he sees it fit to write it, that’s correct. From the beginning to the end let's read this whole introduction, yes, and this whole forward is not even an introduction and then we will see. Maybe we need to search more, I'm not adding for myself.

3. S. (9:16) Still, Kabbalists have the ability to describe states from above down. Where do we have the vessels to describe it?

R. I don't know, of course from above, more than that I cannot say.

4. S. (09:40) About the second boundary, we read from TES, and I understand that the description starts from Ein Sof, infinity and the Book of Zohar which is the most important book in the wisdom of Kabbalah restricts itself to the worlds of ABYA and what the souls receive from Atzilut. What can we learn from it that you can write about higher states, but the most important book speaks only on that level?

R. I cannot say, I accept what they left us and that's what I'm going with.

5. S. (10:27) This forward is preparing us to read the Zohar, that I understand. When we read the Zohar, we used to focus on thinking of the friends and it says here be prudent, that it only has to do with the reception of the soul. Why without the connection between us we will get confused?

R. We won't discover anything. The Zohar writes only to those that through the connection between them build the correct place to receive the upper light.

S. In my words, a friend in the Ten has to constantly ensure that he’s incorporated in the Ten during the study?

R. Of course.

Reading Item 6: (11:33) “You already know that there are ten Sefirot...”

6. R. (13:33) Okay let's stop with that, and what else do we have today?

Reader: (13:48-22:51) Let’s have a summary in the Tens.