Part 2:
Morning Lesson September 02, 2021, Transcription
Baal HaSulam, Preface to the Wisdom of
Item 31 (00:01) “The thing is that there is no Partzuf, or any degree at ….”
1. R. (3:40) To understand the matter of cascading degrees by five levels 1 below the other explained above concerning the five Partzufim of AK as well, as all of the degrees appearing in the five Partzufim of each world from the 4 worlds of ABYA through the Malchut of Asiya, action )we must thoroughly understand the matter of the refinement of the screen of the Guf, body's implemented in each of the Parztufim from AK the world Nekudim and the world of correction Tikkun. Meaning, in all worlds and all the degrees, we have the matter of the refinement of the screen, meaning even though the vessel builds the screen and prepares it and puts it in between it and the upper light, that the upper light won't enter the will to receive. Like the guest who sits before the table with the host and the host is pushing and pressing him and the guest says I'm not hungry, even though he really is because he wants to remain in contact with the host not as a giver nor receiver, that's the shame prevents him or something, but that he wants to turn his desires to bestowing to the host.
This is why obviously he is going to receive but only to the extent that by that, he really equalizes to the host, he can bestow to the host, this is why here there is a system, a new relationship which is complex, that it is not just what the host feels like enters the will to receive of the guest; The guest restricts his will to receive on using it, puts a screen, reflected light and calculates as much as he can receive from the host in order to be in equivalence with the host as much as the host wants to bestow to him, and that way by not receiving but restricting himself and then calculating that he is doing it as a favor to the host, by that, he is giving back to the host and they become equal. That is what the guests wants, not to remain in debt, he wants his relation and his connection to the host to be as both equal: the host is giving him pleasure and he is giving him pleasure, they both use different vessels and different pleasures but still they know how to reach a state where each one makes a favor for the other. This is why above the giver and the receiver, this and that and so on, they connect between them and they reach Devekut (adhesion) because eventually each one on his behalf wants to only be bestowing to the other.
2. S. (7:31) After the restriction the way I understand from item 31 there is only surrounding light?
R. We did not talk about that now.
3. S. (7:58) This form of relation between the host and the guest is called the thin line, it is a condition for equivalence of form. Is this part of the world of Ein Sof/ infinity?
R. Everything comes from Ein Sof/infinity.
4. S. (8:21) What can I give the Creator as an equal to him?
R. You imagine being a guest at someone's house and how you organized the connections between you on the condition, that the host really wants to fill the guest, prepared everything for him, troubled for him and the guest is using his will to receive, and all the fulfillments that the host presenting to him then, he plays with them in such a way that it really turns out that he feels the host. Because he restricts himself and starts receiving from the host only under the condition that he knows he's not receiving from him but feeling him. This is why he supposedly becomes the host and the host becomes like the receiver for him. That is why there starts a new relationship between them.
S. However here his bestowal compares...
R. That is not important. I perform a restriction and I tell the host to stop, I will receive from you as much as I can in order to bestow to you, and not to my will to receive to bestow, to take fulfillment but that I am bestowing to You. Meaning all of the pleasure I received, and I must receive and feel the pleasure, I am doing all of this in order to fill Your deficiency. What deficiency does the Creator have? He wants to give, like a mother to the baby. He wants to give, and if we or the baby don't receive then the mother or the Creator suffers and we use that deficiency, that suffering, and we will now fill them. That is the work, think about it more and you will understand that there is no problem in that. You have examples of it in our world as well.
S. When the pleasure comes how can you combine that with the feeling of the Creator rather than the pleasure?
R. You're right, here we first of all have to perform a restriction, meaning to uplift above the pleasures and deficiencies for the pleasures to be above them, that is called, to acquire the force of the screen, then we work with the force of the screen in bestow and faith above reason. This is not simple, it is work, but we get these forces also from above from the Creator, He is the force of bestowal, so we are asking of Him to give us the force of the bestowal that we will have it, otherwise we won't be able to bestow. If this is the way that we turn to Him and really turn to Him in the connection between us in the ten, if we turn to the Creator that we want the force of bestowal, then we’ll receive it.
5. S. (12:36) What gives me the confidence that I am working for the Creator rather than myself?
R. Working not for myself but for the Creator gives me the ability to rise above the feeling of this world to the feeling of the spiritual world and to live above all of the discernment of this world, time, space and motion, and then I, by this, raise myself to the degree of the upper world and also by that I feel the Creator with my attitude and give Him contentment. On the way I connect to the created beings and along with them we come close, all of us together to the Creator.
S. How can I feel that I work correctly?
R. Only by you, annulling towards the 10, you have no other way to check yourself, only towards the 10. That is why the Creator broke the vessel of Adam HaRishon, we still forget what the purpose of the shattering of the vessel was. Because it works against our egos so much that we don't want to remember it. That is what happens, that the Creator created this state of the end of correction and broke it and now we need to discover it ourselves and attain that state of the end of correction. Then we have all of the data we just have to connect it all and ask Him to resurrect it.
Item 31 Again (15:25)
6. S. (18:35) What does it mean from within outwards? What values are there?
R. We will learn this, from the inside out: Mocha (marrow,) Atzamot (bones), Gidin (tendon) Bassar (flesh) and Or (skin). This is how the Partzuf grows horizontally
7. S. (19:04) You have said that we have to build a relation to the Creator like the guest to the host, and the screen is described as a calculation, it calculates how much it can receive exactly?
R. When we reach connection with the Creator, that we have restriction, screen, reflected light, then, we can start calculating.
S. What comes first, the ability to make the calculation or the screen?
R. How can you calculate if you don't have the screen: first restriction then screen then reflected light, where are you calculating exactly?
S. That was not clear.
R. So you don't understand what the restriction, screen and reflected light means.
S. I understand that the restriction should come first but as if the screen is defined with the ability to calculate now?
R. If you have a restriction, after the restriction you open the calculation as much as you can, from easy to difficult and then in such a way you can check yourself as much as you can or cannot.
S. You said a few times ‘through your intellect and work only what your emotion’, so what is this very intellectual process that is described here to examine how much you can?
R. You check these things in your feelings, you calculate in your feelings, the Creator except for the will to receive didn't create anything and the mind that develops, develops next to the will to receive, in order to measure what is desired or not and in what way, and so on.
S. What does it mean to make a calculation with the emotion?
R. In what depth of a feeling can I receive the pleasure in order to not fail, but to aim it in order to bestow.
8. S. (21:21) It's not clear where the inner light and the surrounding light are, what is the surrounding light when you talk about from within outwards?
R. Light comes to the Partzuf, and it still is limitless, no limitations, the Partzuf does not limit itself. Then it stands and does not want to receive and begins to calculate which part it can receive and then starts receiving. The part he begins to receive is called inner light, the part it can't receive remains on the outside is called surrounding light, also in the inner light and surrounding light there are many other lights that are included. What are you asking?
S. You explained as in AK there is an inner light and surrounding light and infinity is the surrounding light of the world of AK, but from within outwards when he talks of Mocha, Atzamot, Gidin, Bassar and Ohr, where here is the surrounding light with Partzuf AK?
R. We are not talking about lights that are in the length of Partzuf but in the width, we're not going to discuss it right now, he just says it exists, he didn't discuss it. Drawing. You have a Partzuf, Rosh, Toch, Sof. The Partzuf receives light through the Rosh, then the light enters to Toch of the Partzuf and is not accepted in the Sof. So here we only have a calculation, in the Rosh / head, there is only a calculation: all the lights are here and you calculate. This is where the Peh/mouth is, this is the Tabur/belly button, and this is the Sium/ending. All the lights are in the Rosh / head, it doesn't mean that we are accepting them, only feeling them and calculating upon them. What we receive is in the Toch, as much as we don't receive in the Toch remains to the Sof, and the Sof doesn't want to receive; so, all of this light remains on the outside, on the outside of the Partzuf and it is called surrounding light and what enters inside, is called inner light. That is, it, there are many things here but we will learn it gradually.
9. S. (26:19) Why did the Creator shattered the Gmar Tikkun (end of creation) that He created?
R. In order for us on our own to reach it and from that we will learn what the vessel is made of and from it we will also know who the Creator is, in order to be able to resemble Him, and to be like Him on His degree. Nice question, to the point.
10. S. (27:01) How can a guest understand how, when to?
R. It’s a calculation that happens in the Rosh (head), we do it in connection with the group.
11. S. (27:00) What is a Zivug (coupling)?
R. Zivug or coupling means connection. Coupling by striking (Zivug de Hakaa) means connection through rejection, that I reject my will to receive and by that I can connect with the light.
S. The light performs the Zivug (coupling) or the light and vessel come together to make a coupling, or what?
R. What did I just say?
S. I heard what you said.
R. What did I just say?
S. You said that the Zivug (coupling) is when. I forgot.
R. You see as much as you listen to me and you want me to listen to you. It’s not the first time but I'm telling you it's the last time. The coupling by striking (Zivug de Hakaa) means that I strike the upper light with my screen, that I don't want to receive it. But afterwards, I calculate as much as I still can calculate in order to bestow and then, I receive that part that I decided to receive in order to bestow. That’s why that’s not just a Zivug (coupling), coupling is connection but through striking, by rejecting and checking as much as ‘yes’ or ‘no’.
S. That's why you confused me. Because you’re saying that you’re checking, you’re examining, you’re performing a Zivug (coupling). You’re not saying the light performs the Zivug (coupling). Here, it says the light performs.
R. Okay, you’re right. Think more, and maybe you’ll understand more. I know you a bit and to philosophize with you isn’t my plan.
12. S. (29:23) The Creator broke the vessel He created and the created being existed already? Did the created being take this decision alone with the Creator, did created being agree or was the Creator’s decision?
R. There wasn't a created being yet. There wasn’t a created being before the shattering of the vessel, the shattering of the soul. The Creator did it all for a need of preparation, that the future created being that needs to come out of this preparation, he will be able to feel and connect, and understand, and build himself as the Creator. That’s why we need to prepare for that created being, all of those parts, conditions, forces, that the created being will be able to take all parts of creation, the shattered parts, that they supposedly have no connection between them and start assembling this puzzle. That eventually, what he feels, what he puts together is a whole world, a complete world, Gmar Tikkun (end of correction). That in it, the will to receive that the Creator created, to begin with, goes through all stages in order to know how opposite it is from the Creator and to build itself as resembling the Creator. You have all the conditions to do it.
13. S. (31:25) Can I ask about the congress? How can we do the work of the connection in order to make sure we are going to have a spiritual vessel?
R. We need to try and be in the lesson every day. After the lesson to meet at least twice with the group, to try and repeat, go over the topic of the lesson. If you have more time and strength, to speak with the group about our necessity to be connected and study according to that, usually, it is Rabash articles of the group and in this way, we can come closer and be sure that we will succeed.
14. S. (33:07) In the restriction we say that we push away the light all together and we're not willing to receive and then, we're saying that in the screen, too, we push away the light back. Meaning in Zivug de Hakaa (coupling by striking) there is also a rejection. Is there a difference between these two actions?
R. Of course, there is. In the restriction, we restrict the will to receive, it’s not called rejection. It’s an action towards the will to receive. Then in the screen and reflected light, it’s an action already towards the host. How we, from rejecting through the restriction, we connect to the host and then we can check as much as we can, activate ourselves, be in reception in order to bestow in connection to the host. Meaning, there are two opposite actions here. There is the restriction that I restrict my will to receive from direct reception, and there is an action of the Masach (screen) that I connect to the host in order to receive from Him in order to bestow to Him. That is why, with the action of the Masach (screen), there are a lot of actions and forces that contradict and lights that expand in the Partzuf from above downward, from below upwards. All this is the work on the Masach (screen). There has to be a restriction before the Masach (screen), that in the desire to myself, I do not use it.
15. S. (35:11) In what is our work different during the day in comparison with the work during the morning lesson? How can we use both the time in the morning lesson, and between the morning lesson, in the most beneficial and complimentary way to prepare us, and to build a form for Ibur (conception) for the coming congress?
R. All of our work is how to reach connection, that in it we resemble the Creator and in such a way we can reach our Gmar Tikkun (end of correction), we resurrect ourselves from the shattering to a corrected state. That’s our work. We talked about it a lot and sometimes we need to summarize. The summary we do in the form of a congress, that we all come together, even those who aren't really with us usually, men, women, and in such an intensity we try to connect. What’s important, in the connection between us in the congress, that in advance we are aimed at accepting everybody, thinking of everybody, to understand that we must keep the laws of Arvut (mutual guarantee) and that is what we will be learning, I guess, about in the
congress. Mainly around the mutual Arvut (mutual guarantee), that we need to connect, ‘man will help his friend’ and we all together are reaching a mutual desire, mutual intention, a feeling, a mutual feeling between us, that in it we discover the Creator in the whole way. In this whole manner there are different degrees but it is already something that fills us. Let's hope that we reach it.
16. S. (38:21) What in your opinion should tens do to be ready for the congress, what actions?
R. First of all, be with us and in all the lessons. Throughout the day, do what you are supposed to do. And in between, the main thing in each and every ten, there has to be some inner connection more and more that they’re feeling that they are coming closer to one another, and the tens are becoming more closed in and in such a way they feel themselves more and more connected, each and every ten will advance towards the congress. The congress, by having many tens, and all wanting to reach connection, it will work even more because the surrounding light works on each and every ten and then, it will really help all tens to advance and every person in his ten. All of our work should be measured as much as I identify with my ten and afterwards, as much as my ten identifies with all other tens. Let's say the ones that are near, ten tens, a hundred tens or a thousand tens, as it is written in the Torah that ‘there was a division in the nation by Jethro’. In such a way we reach the corrections and all the world, and according to that we will awaken. The awakening of the world depends, all in all, on the connection between us. That is all I can say about this.
17. S. (41:00) How can we connect together the action of all of the tens from the word Kli to become one ten?
R. For now, talk about it, be concerned that everybody is in the same task. Through the actions we will reach more closeness and understanding of one another.
18. S. (41:40) What connections between us in the ten should we build in order to be a womb? How can we build it?
R. Rabash writes about it in his articles, all the actions that we speak about all of the time. You have to imagine that in the ten that you want to absorb and to encompass all of humanity, just gradually, from the inner point to more external spheres. When you depict it and do actions according to that, you are doing the right work, that’s all. Tomorrow, like we agreed, we will go to the document called ‘the Creator is revealed in the connection between us. Try and see what’s in there. Read a few excerpts from there, three or four excerpts from that document, you can read it. We will go through them quickly tomorrow and in depth.