Morning Lesson June 5, 2023
Transcription is made from simultaneous translation, which leaves a possibility for differences in the audio.
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Baal HaSulam. Preface to the Wisdom of Kabbalah. #68
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Item # 68 (03:55) “ZON of the Guf called……”
1. S. (05:49) Why in Nekudot that descend, the light of Nekudot that goes below Tabur turns into a Partzuf and not just goes through coupling?
R. They're vessels in it, expands in the vessels.
S. Okay, but why not Partzuf? Why the light that descends doesn't just couples everywhere that he can, why doesn't it become a Partzuf?
R. The Partzufim come from the existence of a new desire. In the Partzuf it refines itself and the screen reaches its purification so on the way it builds a Partzufim of Nekudot. Those are the lights that expand from below upward.
2. S. (07:01) What does it mean that the Sefira of Tifferet broke?
R. Tifferet is similar to Bina. It has part of the GAR and part of the ZAT, that's why it's divided into two pieces, the upper part resembles vessels of bestowal and the lower part resembles vessels of reception.
S. Yes, but it sounded from that point there's already a different form that the Partzufim are expanded?
R. Right.
S. What is the difference? Because there's always a part of the vessels of reception and the vessels of bestowal?
R. No, it doesn't control like in Tifferet. In Tifferet the Malchut is starting to be revealed from the half of Tifferet and onward the Malchut is starting to get revealed, that's why from Tabur and below there are different laws to the way the light can expand.
S. The place of Tifferet and Nekudot of SAG begin to combine with NHY and be influenced by NHY of AK?
R. This begins to be influenced by NHY and thus the Keter of NHY.
3. S. (08:31) How will we turn the Sefirot to letters?
R. We did not study this.
S. Okay, I’m sorry. Is Bina coming down to Malchut in order to teach it how to resemble Bina?
R. Yes.
Item # 69 (09:15) “The Katnut and Gadlut initiated in the world …”
Item # 70 (11:07) “Yet there is another issue here, …”
4. R. (12:25) Here he's not really explaining he's just saying that something is happening in a certain way.
Item # 71 (12:35) “Thus, the matter of Katnut…”
5. R. (13:14) He's saying that there are two actions happening here incorporating these in those and those in these.
Item # 72 (13:30) “You should also know …”
6. S. (14:38) What is it that the screen is included with two Reshimot?
R. There were two types of phenomenon. That's why the screen that ascended from below the Tabur includes those two kinds of records.
S. Why is he included from, from what impressions?
R. From the impressions that received on the way and it's two different forms, one is from the first restriction one from the second restriction.
S. The example of the host and the guest, we know that there are portions he knows how to receive whatever he can in order to bestow.
R. Yes, here it's the same thing. Let's say you have two meals, two portions, two dishes, you want to take from the first one and from the second one as much as you can in order to bestow.
S. What he takes from both meals, from both dishes, at the same time?
R. Why does it bother you?
S. Because in the one dish he knows he cannot take everything in order to bestow.
R. Not everything. He doesn't need everything only as much as he can in order to bestow. He calculates as much as I can receive as much as I can bestow to the host and according to that he receives. It's actually not reception it's bestowal.
7. (16:19) Are these two different couplings?
R. It’s two different couplings that happened in the Rosh of SAG and bestowal in the Tabur from where the records rise.
S. This happens one after the other in parallel? It's not clear.
R. Yes, first the Reshimot in Katnut and then on Gadlut. That is something that we will learn afterwards, it's soon, okay.
8. S. (16:50) It says that purifying is happening in the Tabur, but we know that Nekudot of SAG is below the Tabur, the Parsa, there's no Bitush there?
R. Why shouldn't there be a Bitush there?
S. Because it descends below the Tabur, it's not in the Tabur itself. So where is there Bitush?
R. The place they are that's where the Bitush the beating is, there's a collision, there's a resistance.
S. Yes, but he's saying that striking is within the Tabur and here it says it's below the Tabur and there there is no Bitush that’s striking.
R. Why? I don't understand. You are speaking about Nekudot of SAG, of SAG itself.
S. No. In SAG there was Bitush, there was a striking in the Tabur, that's known, but in SAG it went lower to the Parsa, so how did it purify in the striking and not in the Parsa?
R. Nekudot of SAG refined themselves because, no. You are speaking about Partzuf Nekudot of SAG. Where does the Partzuf start from?
S. Nekudot of SAG begins from Tabur until the Parsa.
R. Well, let's say and then?
S. The striking always happens in the Tabur not in the Parsa, so how did it refine if there was no striking in the Parsa itself?
R. I don't understand. Partzuf SAG expands from Peh of Rosh of SAG.
S. Until Tabur?
R. Nekudot of SAG?
S. From Tabur to Parsa?
R. To Parsa, okay, and?
S. The striking is always in Tabur not in Parsa, the Tabur, so how did he refine from the Parsa and upwards? What pressured him to refine the surrounding light as if pressured in the Parsa? This is what I understood.
R. But the Parsa is in the end of Nekudot of SAG.
S. Yes.
R. So?
S. The striking happens in Tabur, above the Parsa even.
R. What do you call Bitush, that beating?
S. Striking, the beating, is the surrounding light pressuring the rise for the Tabur to rise, to refine, because he can't receive anymore?
R. That's the surrounding light pressing on the screen so he takes it more inward.
S. Yes, but first he refines and then there's a coupling above.
R. How can you obligate it to rise?
S. It obligates it to rise because he does not receive anymore, so he pressures it to receive more and then he refines because he cannot receive more?
R. But the light actually presses on it to receive.
S. Yes.
R. It doesn't obligate him to refine himself, it obligates him the other way, open itself more and receive more.
S. Then he can't so he refines because he can't receive more because he understands that he will receive in order to receive?
R. Yes.
S. Then he refines and in Nekudot of SAG he descends even lower than the Tabur and he can receive him more but the pressure is in Tabur, it's not in Parsa, so what causes him in Parsa to refine?
R. Because it's the Sium or it's the ending.
S. There's no pressure there because the pressure is in the Tabur. Maybe I'm not explaining it right.
R. Does another student want to ask something?
9. S. (22:02) I understand this question. When the Nekudot of SAG go below Tabur they expand.
R. Yes.
S. From above downwards how do they refine? How do they stop being there? What causes them to stop being there? Because he says essentially on the refinement, where is it as a result of the striking, as a result of the.., what causes Nekudot of SAG to stop expanding and to ascend back to the source?
R. Nekudot of SAG needs to start refining the themself and coming back to Peh of Rosh because they can't receive any more than they already did.
S. Yes, but where is the place of decision?
R. In the Peh of Rosh.
S. Usually the place of decision to stop receiving is in the Tabur as a result of the Bitush.
R. It’s always in the Peh, well, never mind.
S. When they expand downwards something causes them to stop expanding downwards and to ascend to the Rosh, what is this?
R. A will to receive awakens here that doesn't have a screen, it's ZAT of Bina, that's why no ability remains to keep going but only to refine themselves. If they would receive more there would be a shattering but they see that they have no vessels and they'll be a shattering so they refine.
S. What you are saying is that this is the first time, this, such a thing is happening because before that there was a Bitush of below and this is the reason why they don't have the strength to expand?
R. Yes, but they see in advance what can happen, what could happen.
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