Part 2:

Baal HaSulam. "Study of the Ten Sefirot" (TES). Vol. 1. Part 1. Inner Observation. Chapter 6. #26

Reading #26 (0:20) “All the worlds in the thought of creation..”

1. S. (02:00) Malchut of Ein Sof is filled with the light of Ein Sof?

R. Yes.

S. What is that reality that all of the receiver is full of the light of Ein Sof. That's the internal, endless state or it's like a moment that happened and afterwards?

R. It depends what we are talking about and where you are leading. It can be a completely calm, permanent state, unchanging, and it can be frequently changing. I don't know what you intend here, what you mean.

S. I don't know anything about it. I just want to understand how to relate to this, how to describe it to myself?

R. We depict it to ourselves this way, that the desire to bestow to the Creator created the desire to delight, to enjoy in the created beings and filled it with what the created wanted to give, and that's where everything starts. That's called the Malchut of the world of Ein Sof.

S. It's written that it's the general of all receivers, so can we depict it that if all the created beings connect they will get the light of Ein Sof?

R. Yes, of course. The desire of all the created beings that were created and the desire of the Creator to fill them are identical.

S. What does it mean to all of the receivers?

R. The souls.

S. Everyone now is more connected and animals and plants and all of creation, can we see that as connection?

R. That's not taken into account, it has no importance whether it’s still, vegetative, animal or human in nature; it's all, how can I tell you this, these are just biological devices.

S. We as a group, as Bnei Baruch, what's our attitude towards the world of Ein Sof?

R. We are in the center, on the apex, depending on how you speak of Malchut of Ein Sof, and we are taking upon ourselves the revelation of the Creator in order to resemble Him, in order to collect Him within us and to be collected within Him.

2. S. (05:08) The sensation is completely different than what I thought in my thoughts, so what does it mean to do good to His created beings?

R. I don't understand what you're saying, you said half of a thing.

S. In order to give joy to His created beings, the Creator doesn't want to receive from us, and my feeling when we read this is completely different than all of my understanding of giving joy to His created beings. Can you explain it?

R. The Creator wants to delight His created beings, meaning He created in them a desire and eventually wants to fill this desire until there is no place to fill it.

3. S. (06:05) How on one hand where the creature with the thought of the creation is directed towards degree to degree, on the other hand we can ascend to a degree that we grab all of the thought of creation that we see from one end to the other?

R. What's the problem?

S. Either you are in the process or you can supposedly ascend above it.

R. Both this and that.

S. Is a certain state of adhesion, of connection with the Creator something that is more exalted in the thought of creation because it's already something of the created being?

R. The thought of creation is the highest and all the discernments are below it.

Reading Item 27. (07:20) Twice. “Although only phase four was restricted..”

4. S. (11:18) What does it mean decorated herself to resemble the Creator?

R. It means that she didn't have a desire, a true desire that stems from her, from within her but rather only a sort of secondary desire to be adorned by it. That's the meaning of this change in us.

5. S. (12:03) In the previous excerpt it said that the expanding Ein Sof from His self includes all of the development until the end of correction. Could we say that Ein Sof is also in the thought of creation?

R. All is in the thought of creation; nothing new is appearing.

S. So our goal in other words is to want to follow the Creator and those changes He wants to perform on us and ask?

R. Yes, yes, you said it right, you said it nicely.

6. S. (13:08) Can you explain how it could be that your will to receive wants to be restricted and that's not even greater will to receive? I don't understand how a will to receive that wants can restrict itself?

R. Where did it get the desire to restrict itself?

S. That's exactly what you said. How does the desire to get restricted come, meaning there is a greater desire than his desire to receive that he starts working with. So isn't that just a greater will to receive?

R. That's the desire of the Creator, that's the desire of the Creator. Otherwise, the desire to receive would not feel that it exists outside of the Creator.

S. The restriction is an action that the Creator performs, I don't understand?

R. Then who?

S. It is written that the emanated being wanted, how is it written here, it wanted to decorate itself, meaning it's an action that comes from the created being?

R. No, no, no. There's no such thing. Everything comes from the Creator, stems from the Creator. The emanated carries out these actions and then discovers that he has to restrict himself.

7. S. (14:58) I wanted to thank you that you started teaching us this study of TES because it adds a lot of internality and heart even though we don't understand it and I wanted to ask if a true desire on behalf of the created being is what cancels the shame when there is a true desire?

R. Yes.

8. S. (15:32) What does it mean that even though it didn't diminish the desire the spiritual nature is that it doesn't divide into parts?

R. The desire to receive is all one and even though there are different actions upon all of it, they are all impressed by all of them together.

9. S. (16:23) It says here that although phase four was restricted the light left her first three phases as well so my question is, we learned that everything cascades gradually from one to four so what happens with the first three phases they disappear?

R. They don't disappear, they actually are sustaining the fourth phase holding it.

S. But they don't receive light anymore according to what's written here?

R. they didn't receive light before the light just went through them if you could say it that way because they don't have the desire.

S. What cascades?

R. The light cascades but it's cascading from the desire of the upper one not from in each place there's a desire that's drawing it.

S. But if it comes from the upper desire, what this phase one give to two to three and to four until it comes to four where it's the peak of development?

R. It transfers the light.

S. It absorbs the bestowal and light?

R. Yes.

S. Here it says she completely stopped receiving so what then doesn't it directly go from the Creator to four and bypass the first three

R. No, no there's just no desire there to draw it there's no desire to pull it. The desire to truly draw it is in the fourth phase.

S. There's no direct connection between the light and the desire and the process.

R. No, not yet.

10. S. (18:35) How can the will to receive perform the restriction on itself?

R. The desire to receive decided to restrict itself when it sees that from the act of reception it enters into distancing and contradiction with the Creator.

S. The will to receive constantly demands something so how can you restrict something that is constantly demanding?

R. The fact that he is restricting himself opens for him the ability to even more reveal himself.

11. S. (19:46) It's not so clear because in spirituality all four phases exist in parallel not like in our world where there was some face that came first and then it disappeared.

R. It doesn't disappear but it begets a new discernment.

S. But in the first phase there is no difference between the light and vessel so it turns out that if the light comes out the vessel stops existing, so if I will not make efforts now in order to receive the light so the desire itself disappears or not?

R. No you don't need to think in such a categorical manner, you don't need to.

S. How to depict all four phases existing together in parallel? There is like the example of the meal before the Creator. There's something gradual happening. What does it mean that all the four phases at the same time?

R. We cannot imagine that to ourselves we cannot depict that because then we lose the reason and the result.

Reading item 28: (21:30) Afterwards, the light of Ein Sof extended once more.. 

12. S. (23:39) What is that state, that light is drawn into the restricted area?

R. That's what they can receive with that void or that space like you're saying when the fourth phase is restricted.

S. How can you depict it?

R. I can't tell you it's in the spiritual world, not in my world. He's depicting for you some similar thing like this but nevertheless depicted this way to yourself.

S. What does it mean a line of light?

R. Ray of light that moves from its upper source through all the discernments until the lowest experiment positive that's what happens.

S. Why does it go to the lowest degree if it's restricted?

R. He writes to you that the fourth phase remains void nothing enters there.

S. Who receives that line of light?

R. The desire to receive that the Creator created draws to it this ray of light that stems from the Creator that's filled by it, and passes this ray of light through it and works according to the rule that is between the light and the Kli.

S. That happens selectively in the line.

R. Of course there are laws according to which the light needs to be submitted to the light in the light needs to be similar to the plea and only in such a case that they feel that they're filled and impact one another.

13. S. (26:07) Why in one place we learned that the reason for restriction was a desire to be  concealed and at a different time we learned that it's a shame? If the desire to steal or hide is in a need but shame is already equivalence?

R. We will see that practically it's the same thing.

14. S. (26:50) Could you tell us again what's the difference between Malchut of EinSof and Malchut of Malchut? Is the difference only in the Creator's perception?

R. Malchut of Malchut is the Malchut of all the 10 Sefirot. What is he asking about it?

S. What is Malchut of Ein Sof? What's the difference, is it the same thing?

R. You could say it's the same thing. Yes, only that he means something else, the general Malchut, I don't know.

15. S. (28:05) Does Ohr Hozer originate in this empty space by slowly collecting and completing the creation?

R. Yes.

16. S. (28:44) Can we say that scrutinizing the intention starts from the restriction of Phase 4

R. Yes.

S. That's towards the Creator, towards the emanator, the work later on?

R. It's towards the emanated but it's towards the Creator so he will aim himself that way.

S. Can we say it's a created being in that moment? How does it happen? Where does the intention start from?

R. The intentions certainly starts from the created being where he wants to understand the extent in which he in the precise manner comes closer to the Creator.

S. That defines the matter of reception that it receives from the Creator.

R. Yes.

17. S. (29:46) Can you explain what happens in Phase 4 because there's like three parts inside that are filled and emptied and only one quarter remains empty all the time? What kind of process is this? It's from 0 to 70% or from 0 to 100% and goes back to zero. What's the problem with that phase four?

R. The problem is that it's the big desire to receive that wants to receive the complete light of Ein Sof in order to receive on one hand. On the other hand, works in the manner of in order to bestow and in this fourth phase all the essence of it of creation is then completed.

18. S. (30:45) Where did the created being get an example on working with the line?

R. Where did the created being receive the desire to work in the line?

S. No. not that whole style of working in the line?

R. I don't understand what he's saying.

S. In the four phases there's not an example as much as I understand on how to work with the line, suddenly there's no reference they're just started working and it completely different man

R. That's from the restriction that's in the fourth phase that's restricted and doesn't want to receive anything for itself in order to receive, and besides that it's going to receive only in order to bestow from that restriction onward we're already talking about the line.

S. Until the restriction it's clear but this creative work and working with the line where from?

R. I don't know. Creatively working.

S. With the screens to work in the line where?

R. She learns from the previous phases 0 1 2 3 4 how they work the fourth phase which receives the light from them also receives this style of reception and giving of the light.

19. S. (32:36) What differs phase four from the first three is that it would draw the light and it will never receive any light?

R. Yes, let's hope that we will nevertheless understand this more.

Chapter 8 item 29 (33:22) Malchut of Hochma became the first substance in Bina..

20. R. (42:15)This is not simple for the beginners.

21. S. (42:32)The question connects the fact that I have not changed my essence and Atzmuto does not change. We see that he's talking about upper waters and lower waters and in the article we read yesterday that will bring him closer to his will there were questions about their needing to be the upper one to awaken and so that the upper one will act?

R. Yes.

S. I wanted to understand how this works out with the two things. Actually there's the upper one, the upper waters, which he does not change. Still in our world we feel that we need to operate in order to activate the upper light. How does this work out between the two things? Are there worlds in between how this happens?

R. The upper one is the upper one that's Keter That from it the light comes to us.

S. They say Keter does not change light of Ein Sof in front it comes the light of Hochma come on

R. You can say it like that.

S. If the upper ones do not light the lower ones do not come down so what the upper light doesn't lower the light or does he?

R. The upper one lowers the light according to the ability of the lower one to receive the light and perform the desired action with it.

S. Okay, let's hope the Creator arranges this worse than right way for us to scrutinize it.

R. for sure the Creator will organize everything but we also have to come a bit closer in what we have to do.

S. Which is what?

R. Connection and prayer.

22. S. (44:38) Why is there a necessity for additional overcoming towards the created beings, not just the second phase bus also ZA. Why is the emphasis on that that the reflected light have to be included of two parts?

R. Where is that written what are you

S. It's written that there's the second overcoming that at first there was a coarsening and then that's been and then another ever coming which is ZA that appears

R. What item can you at least say that?

S. I'm not following the text on the screen. I'll ask differently what eventually after all the reflected light is for the created being in order to implement the plan of creation.

R. Yes.

S. This division to several parts of the reflected light, why does he describe to us that the reflected light is broken into several parts How does that serve the Created being in the future?

R. Repeat again.

S. The author is describing to us that the reflected light is broken into several parts. to two parts, It's made complex, the force coarsening then the second coarsening and eventually this is all to delight the created beings so why does he open this to in such detail here?

R. What he's trying to explain here we might discover in 2,000 pages.

S. If you could simply explain this?

R. Ask briefly and concretely.

S. The thought of creation, the thought of the Creator is to delight his created being

R. Correct.

S. Here the reflected light is divided into two parts the first coarsening and the second coarsening in the continuation where the Creators being served receive delight. What does this add?

R. To the same extent that we can give light back to the Creator to that extent We enjoy our actions when relating to Him.

S. I'll think about that.

23. S. (48:00) There is something that seems opposite. On one hand there is an addition of abundance on the other hand there's less and less light so how is there an addition of abundance and on the other hand less light?

R. Could be.

S. What's the addition of abundance here if there's less light?

R. Where is that written?

S. In item 30 it said each time there's an addition of abundance and the light awakens to receive more abundance to increase the abundance by which light of Ein Sof it goes down to Hochma has to be less and less light we're in abundance it seems opposite.

R. No, it's not the opposite because still he's awakening to bestow more.

S. With less light there's more bestowal?

R. Yes.

Item 31 (49:03) The four phases …..

24. S. (52:20) The question about the previous one but it leads to this one. All the actions that are carried out in Bina so my question is is there an addition of light and coarseness below where does the will to receive have the ability to overcome itself and to reject the light in order to create the light of Hassadim that's described here, that's in the actions of the upper?

R. That's the nature of Bina already, that's the nature of Bina already.

S. It acts as part of the Bina because the created being doesn't have Bina at this?

R. Yes.

S. It all comes as the upper show us the way that we're supposed to go from below upwards?

R. We can say that.

S. Is there something else that the will to receive has the ability to go in there without the warning of the upper one?

R. No, of course there isn't but there is bestowal directly and indirectly and that's why of course with the lower one .does he only does it from bestow whether direct or indirect towards the upper one there is nothing to do otherwise he's not the Creator it's the created being.

S. Yes, continuing that question actually leads to the light of that created in such a way it's what the creator creates also right? The lights of Hassadim through rejection that are built in such a way does that only buy the upper system by judging the parts of Bina that are operating there.

R. Yes.

25. S. (54:46) Why in every expansion of light the desire to receive has to go through the four phases until it reaches the disparity of form?

R. How will it change otherwise? Can't be, it's going to change if it doesn't go through all the four phases and that's a different light already not what was there before and then he works in a new way.

S. Actually this whole process is for the will to receive so it will be able to have two discernments: light and Kli?

R. Yes.

26. S. (55:43) How does the will to receive that wants to bestow get corrected together with Sefirot through prayer? How does the desire to receive that wants to be still get corrected together with the Sefirot through prayer?

R. How does the will to receive, by changing through the upper light it comes from the will to receive to the will to bestow.

S. My question was when the Ten gathers and prayers, how is the will to receive corrected through the Sefirot.

R. The will to receive, the forms of light that work on him constantly receives a new form.

27. S. (57:37) A separate that the created beings discern is there something whole that it contains all the elements or by its parts

R. They attain it as something whole, something complete. It's a system that starts from the Creator and ends at the depth of creation.

S. How can you attain it as something whole?

R. A desire that changes under the control of the Creator. That's all we're learning about. We're learning about the desire that the Creator created and how he is bestowing upon the desire until it comes to the best state.

S. What does a Kabbalist start the attainment of HaVaYaH. how does that attainment begin?

R. Attainment of HaVaYaH. begins when a Kabbalist melts into the HaVaYaH., dissolves in there if I can say that. I don't even know how to say it. I'd like to express it emotionally somehow when he understands that all of his attainment equalizes to dissolving into the HaVaYaH.

S. What does it mean that he dissolves inside the HaVaYaH?

R. He understands that everything in him was created by the Creator that he got it from the Creator and in him there is nothing of himself.

S. How to say develop you're saying there's nothing of himself how later instead of that does he discover all of that is the structure of development of the desire from the Creator to the created

R. That's what the Creator shows him as much as He was created opposite of the light of the Creator and in those two ends he can attain all of creation. For the Creator you don't need light and darkness but for the created being for man it's essential.

S. Meaning all the intermediate states are developed between him and the Creator?

R. Yes. She absorbed what I said today the lady from Turkey.