Morning Lesson May 11, 2022, Transcription
Transcription is made from simultaneous translation which leaves a possibility for differences in the audio
Baal HaSulam. "Study of the Ten Sefirot" (TES). Vol. 1. Part 2. Chapter One. Inner light #100 ("We must be very careful here,")
Reading Item 10 (00:23)
Reading Item 100 (01:44)
1. R. (02:34) This means there's a difference between vessels of Egulim, of circles, and vessels of the lines, the vessels of the circles there's no screen and the light comes according to its nature being round there’s no degrees, there relates to everyone equally, spread in all directions, connects to the vessel in a way that it doesn't matter who and what happens to the vessel and what's going on, but rather when in the vessel there's the feeling of the will to receive different from the light then the vessel performs a restriction, a screen, and reflected light and starts responding and then we get all kinds of other shapes, except for the circle, but from above, from the Creator there is good relation to everyone small, big, small, older, younger, everyone is completely equal before him, absolute complete love comes from the Creator to everyone and this way we have to, this is the form we have to reach on our behalf.
2. S. (03:52) Why is there a collaboration here between the circle and the line? Why does there need to be this feedback from the side of the created being?
R. The created being has to reach equivalence of form with the Creator, has to resemble the Creator, wants to be like the Creator, to reach a degree like the Creator, that's what we're talking about, this is the whole Wisdom of Kabbalah, otherwise why are we learning? If we won't feel the difference we wouldn't feel any need for actions on our behalf, we would be like the still vegetative and animate, they don't feel the gap between them and the one who runs them, they don't feel who manages them, and that's why they don't do anything to compensate themselves to compliment themselves, whereas man, you are called man who are you? Whoever feels the gap between him and the Creator and wants to fill this gap so there won't be a gap. By what? By relating to the created beings like the Creator. That's our whole work.
S. It turns out that in this work of ours we are actually bestowing, according to what is written here with our line upon the general providence.
3. S. (05:39) Can we say that our work as Bnei Baruch is to make it so that the round light will become a line so that the records will be connected to everything that we have to do?
R. Our work is to extend the bestowal of the Creator as much as we can upon all the created beings, everyone. When we can incorporate everyone in our world, all the created beings, all the egoistic desires, to embrace them, to cover them with our relation, with love, with connection, and then they will also be ready to receive the illumination from the Upper light and then to change to improve that's how we all reach the final correction, this is our work. We're coming close to that, we're coming close, I'm telling you, you don't understand how much around us the actions even though you don't see that in corporeal eyes, a bit above you can see how much our world is coming close to correction. Look at the correction that's being done by this war in Ukraine by all kinds of action that are taking place in all these states, with the oil, with the gas, all kinds of International trades and everything, it’s all giant steps towards the right connection between people, between countries, we are very close to corrections. Now we're going to have to go through hard times of big restrictions of all kinds of countries, generally, and personally, and from that will be able to understand how much our connection is a solution, it’s a remedy to all the problems, to all the problems, truly, and by that we have to see and we will see how much are organization, our society, our method, is the only one that can help everyone to come out of our narrow ego, the wars, the problems, in a way that we will reach the true vessels, the right relations, it's all before us, and soon. That's how it is seen, I see it this way.
S. Can we say that the light that shines upon humanity and the world is the round, the circle light, and we have to disseminate this love like you're saying?
R. Yes, of course. We are in a shape like in the final correction, where in the state that we're all under the Upper light the only question is how much we identify it, accept it, to what extent our shape resembles the light or not. We have to bring our vessels closer to the nature of light and then you can be certain that everything will fall into place in a very nice way, we’ll enter an internal world, a complete world without life and death, no problems, only connection between us in the Creator. That has to be revealed.
4. S. (10:14) The light that is straightness, what does it mean that it came back to being circular?
R. That after this line bestows as a line, meaning in a limited purposeful way, then it becomes around again. Why? For what reason? Who's to be blamed here? Who causes this? we’ll learn that, and then again, the Upper Providence becomes a circle meaning it's equal for everyone from above without a difference in the degrees, then again it's restricted becomes more scrutinized and gradual, and again becomes round again, it's like a point, meaning a circle, line, circle, line. These are two discernment from the Creator to the created beings in order to shake the created being so that they’ll jump, so that they’ll understand a bit more what's required of them, but from the Creator there's always circles, he relates to everyone the good the bad it doesn't matter to him, the truth is you can do nothing bad for the Creator, to the Creator, because everything that's in you is done by him, he did everything, but the extent that you want to reach him, it's like a baby with his mother, he looks at her and wants to be like her, he wants to know what she wants from him, he throws his hands and feet but he doesn't know doesn't understand what she wants, that's how we should try to understand what the Creator wants from us and accordingly we will grow.
S. The line which becomes circular does it become a circle or is it something different from a circle?
R. On the Creator’s behalf it's a circle and in the connection between the Creator and the created being this circle becomes a line and then again a circle and then again a line. It's a matter of the Sefirot, the way they expand from above downwards, these discernment from the Creator that gives from him a feeling of bestowal as a circle, then to promote the created being, to advance him, to organize him, to establish him, he bestows through the line. Meaning in a limited and pin point way, clear way, there are Dimin, judgments there, the circle becomes a line, Dimin, and these judgements they bestow and establish the will to receive in a way that he gets closer form to the light, that's how it goes on, there are many things here.
Continues Reading: (13:40) “Bear in mind that although there is no screen in phase four…”
5. R. (16:22) This is how it is; it comes from above; it comes and gets round. It comes and gets round, it's still without the restriction and the screen and the reflected light which limits the Upper light and imprints the Upper light only according to the response of the lower one, it’s still not like this here yet.
Reading Item 200: (16:50)
6. R. (21:02) Wait everything's okay with the Hochma, yes, where it sees what we got here, he sees the whole path of what's happening from here till the end of the result, that's called wise, or Hochma, in the quality of Hochma, and from here…
Continues Reading (21:24) “From this you come to know the true meaning of the…”
7. R. (22:12) He doesn't want to explain here about the third phase which is Zeir Anpin, he also doesn't want to go too much into Bina, he only explains how they're connected to one another somewhat, that's something we learn, we’ll flow with him.
Continues Reading (22:28) “Now we might ask that Bina comes before Hochma…”
8. R. (23:37) Meaning we always cascade, understood, not understood, not understood, even more than what it was understood, we investigate, we discover, understood about what was misunderstood, and after that it's revealed an even greater misunderstood, and that's how we review from filling to deficiency, from deficiency to filling, and that's how it is along the way and here we still have three lines and we will scrutinize all these possibilities in our cascading from the beginning of creation to the end of creation, but it's already on the path that we're going through. Even though we don't quite understand yet how we go through that but we're already on the way and we are coming close. Along the way there are several stages just like we say Shoresh, Aleph, Bet, Gimel, Dalet, root, one, two, three, four, and now we're on the degree of being something that's being born doesn't know quite know where he is but needs to participate as much as possible in his development.
Reading Item 400 (24:53)
Reading Item 1 (25:36)
9. R. (26:51) This is where they’re not in the vessel apart and not in the light apart but rather together.
Continues Reading (26:59) “However a vessel with the light is not called by that name…”
10. R. (28:10) Meaning Malchut is the most important Sefira from all the Sefirot even though she's the lowest one because she stops the light, rejects it, and through the rejection she imprints the light in the Upper nine and by her the light is revealed. If it weren't for Malchut the light would not be revealed in the rest of the Sefirot, meaning if it weren't for our work in our egoistic will to receive which we perform a restriction, a screen, and reflected light upon, we would not be able to reveal any degree of the spiritual reality. Hence anyone who is greater than his friend meaning a bigger will to receive then his inclination is greater than him and therefore he is greater than others, meaning don't be sorry that you have a big egoistic will to receive, be sorry that you can't yet correct it and invert it in order to bestow, but when you make it in order to bestow you will reach great achievements, great attainments. Therefore our generation which is more egoistic than all the previous generations put us in a state in which to reveal the upper light and the Creator in such a way that it is not to be anyone from before us, therefore let's try and reveal and whoever comes after us will reveal even more, will they stand on our shoulders and get even further, and that's how it is with every generation, more and more.
S. There’s also one last line, “For this reason Malchut is regarded as being all light.”
R. Yes.
11. S. (30:28) What does it mean that worlds clothe on the world of Adam Kadmon? What does that mean, what does that word clothe mean?
R. Clothing meaning in the light of Adam Kadmon there's a light without a Kli, without a vessel there, there’s no deficiencies there, they are ten Sefirot of the world of Adam Kadmon, they’re still not prior to the shattering and therefore Malchut does not reveal in her will to receive there, and therefore there are no creatures there, and it's all light, only that this light is arranged according to the Partzufim, Galgalta, Ab, Sag, Ma, Upper Bon, and that's how it's arranged but not that there's a place there for deficiency that they can be creatures, created beings. There's no room for the created beings in the world of Adam Kadmon, that's why it's called the world of Keter, that's it. There it is the preparation for the worlds Atzilut, Beria, Yetzira, Assiya.
12. S. (31:49) Malchut in the ten, should it be revealed as a common Malchut?
R. Malchut in the ten, I don't know what you exactly mean when you say Malchut in the ten. The Malchut in the ten Sefirot is revealed as the result of the Upper nine and it performs upon itself the restriction, raises reflected light, and thus imprints her desire in the upper nine and reveals the light that's in the Upper nine where in the reflected light of Malchut it is revealed the direct light from the Creator.
13. S. (32:29) How will our method help all the world come out of the ego?
R. We don't need to correct the whole world, however by us correcting ourselves we are causing all the vessels of the whole world to be corrected because we include within us desires, deficiencies of the whole world and then it turns out that if we transfer the whole Upper light from Creator through us to all of humanity then all of humanity will be able to receive it, correct it, and be filled with this Upper light, meaning altogether they don't need to correct themselves but rather they expect and await for us to correct them. Therefore our work is so important to all of reality and to the Creator.
14. S. (33:40) How to prepare our senses in order to discover everything we cannot perceive at the moment?
R. By us connecting between us and trying to come close between us we perform the work and the work is called to the extent to in which we will be able to overcome what we couldn't so far, meaning let's say I, today, in the middle of the day discover that I can do something more towards connection, towards coming closer between us, so I perform that action in me, I talk about this with my friends, and thus I cause correction and it's not small correction because we belong to a very special group in the world, there's none like us, there are groups that study but not that are connected in this way or trying to be connected like us, and especially where there's, where there are these groups, these groups don't have this form of the end of correction where everyone is connected like we are willing to bring closer and accepting to all the people in the world. It's not important according to the age, race, nothing, just that we want to come closer to one vessel of Adam HaRishon, and therefore we really have great help from above where the Creator is arranging us in such a way. We need to help him and answer him correctly.
15. S. (35:52) How can we examine the efficiency of our actions with respect to the ten and should we examine it?
R. They're our thoughts and our actions, desires, and actions, so it's desirable for our thoughts to be lowered to words, or to actions, to deeds, such that also the friends will feel this, and know about this, and be impressed by this, and respond correctly, because this increases and intensifies the connection and peace, so it's worthwhile for us to do this daily. At the end of the day I need to do a calculation whether I have caused somewhat more connection relative to yesterday for the group, for my friends, that's how it is.
16. S. (37:20) It is written that all these degrees are not because of the vessels but because of the light of the line that we receive. How should we understand that if the line is the relation of the created beings to the Creator?
R. To the extent that we can work through the group to the Creator as it is written, Israel, the light and the Creator are one, from the love of the created beings to the love of the Creator, if we work in such a way it is called a line, the work in the line, and then in my attitude towards the Creator to the extent in which I try to connect myself with the friends and connect to the Creator if I am drawn that way towards him all of us then I can feel in return not immediately, this comes after efforts from me, but it comes out of me discovering that here the Creator relates to me in such a way, meaning I to my beloved and my beloved to me, that’s the law. I need to reveal my attitude towards the Creator in order to reveal his attitude towards me. That’s written in the form of make your desire as his desire, discover his bestowal through the friends to have you can't because you have no grasp of the Creator, the Creator is a force that is revealed in friends, in the society, therefore relate to the society in such a way that you're expressing your attitude to the Creator and you will see in that environment in the group the response of the Creator to you.
17. S. (39:30) You talked about the expansion of the light as circles and lines. How can a Kabbalist attain from above downwards the way the Creator acts upon him?
R. A Kabbalist doesn't attain from above down, he operates from below upwards, but a Kabbalist attains this to the extent in which he raises his reflected light from below upwards.
18. S. (40:03) From what world do we get the information about the wisdom of Kabbalah? Where do we get the connection?
R. Directly from the Creator through all the worlds and it is revealed mostly in the world of Atzilut.
19. S. (40:22) It is said that there is no coercion and spirituality however the light of the Creator forces us to advance without any stops so should we relate that way to a friend the way the Creator coerces us?
R. We need to try to be with the friends and with the Creator in the same line, in the same form of relations, not that with the Creator so that I have fear how relate to him and with the friends it's not too bad I'll get along with them, rather there needs to be a truly form of attitude to the Creator and to the friends as much as possible and to understand that it cannot be any more or less. I cannot love the Creator and relate to him nicely more than the way I relate to my friends, it's not correct, it never works out because there's no light without a Kli and I must turn to the Kli through my attitude to my friends so through this connection with the friends I have to build such relations in which I address the Creator, only in such a way it works.
20. R. (42:01) Thank you very much to our women. Very beautiful questions and let us try throughout the day to implement something from what we learned also in the first part, also the second part, and we'll see what we do. I want to receive more responses from you about the study, address the department heads, pass it to them and they will pass it to me and by that maybe we will improve our lessons, the connection between us, and how we will advance. I am really satisfied with you both from the men and from the women, in our form of advancement becoming more serious, more internal, it truly is a feeling that we understand a little more, feel a little more, give room to the Creator to dwell amongst us, and really thank you very much. All the best to you and throughout the day we will go over our topic as much as possible and intensify the connection between us, that's the main thing. Good luck. Rav clarifies to address the department heads with feedback.
21. S. (45:16) Is there a connection between what we learn about colors in the book and what we learn in TES like the restricted Malchut is like the black in the book?
R. Of course, there's a connection, what the connection is we will see later.