Morning Lesson July 1, 2022, Transcription
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Part 3:
Baal HaSulam. "Study of the Ten Sefirot" (TES). Vol. 1. Part 3. Chapter Ten. #1 ("Now we shall discuss each of these Olamot,)
Reading (00:18) “Chapter Ten. - 1. The root, soul, and bodies are in adhesion with each other…”
1. S. (02:23) What does it mean that between the bodies and the garments there is the place of the shells?
R. He says that the root, soul, and body, that is the entire body itself and then there's something outside of it and that is called a garment and a hall. Just as we are in the root, soul, and body this body and upon it there's a garment and a hall a house, so he says that between the person himself and between his garment and hall there is an area called Klipot, shells, meaning desires that are uncorrected and they still remained in order to receive.
S. So that relates to an external state?
R. It's just desires, desires that are corrected and uncorrected.
S. This division to the Shoresh, the roots, soul, the garment, the hall, is that like ZA, Malchut?
R. Yes.
S. Previously it all seemed as cascading from above downwards and now it looks…
R. Correct. From inside outward root, soul, body, the area of the Klipot, shells, the garment, the hall, correct.
Reading (04:38) Item 2 - “The root, soul, and body are inner vessels where the.…”
Reading (06:21) Item 3 - “When the Partzufim of AK and ABYA clothe each...”
Reading (07:47) Item 4 - “The root, soul and body of AK are clothed inside....”
2. R. (09:27) I drew this in my third book that came out in 1975 or 74. It was a good drawing I made, an illustration I believe.
Reading (09:52) Item 5 “AK and ABYA are incorporated in one another…”
3. R. (11:22) Even though it is spirituality being clothed later on below in a person, but they are called by different names it depends on what world it gets that internality from.
Reading (11:38) Item 6 “ Man incorporates Nefesh, Ruach, Neshama....”
4. R. (13:28) Everything it's important according to which degree of light he receives from. So, let's keep going to the end of this chapter and we will answer questions.
Reading (13:52) Item 7 - “It is possible to be rewarded with Nefesh of....”
Reading (14:27) Item 8 “Four letters HaVaYaH in the four worlds....”
5. S. (15:42) From above downwards why the ten Sefirot of the upper one dresses all the time to the ten Sefirot of the lower ones? What is the connection?
R. That is the structure of all of reality that the upper one gives birth to the lower one and clothes in it. In order to shine in it, and that's how it is organized. Everything according to those principles of lights and vessels.
S. What does it help us to achieve from below upward?
R. When we ascend from below upward, we ascend upward from externality to internality. That's why there is an ascent in height and an ascent in degrees from external to internal. That's how it happens because that's the nature of the degrees. Maybe I do not understand your questions but how else could you ascend if not joining a higher degree. That's called an ascent?
S. The more we go above, the more we acquire vessels to go inside, the more we attain a deeper perception of reality and more connection with the Creator?
R. Yes.
6. S. (17:54) We learned in the past that uncorrected desires are in the heart and hear you describe a section of the shells as having the uncorrected desires, are the hearts and the shells the same?
R. God forbid, the heart is the internality of a person, it's a person desire.
S. There was a sequence of clothings of three places from one world to another. When there is such clothing, is there a section of shells between the worlds
R. The sections of the shells as usually as he writes between Keter, Hochma, and Bina, the inner vessels and Zeir Anpin to Malchut, the external vessels.
7. S. (18:56) What is surrounding light and what is inner light in the ten?
R. If the ten tries to connect and to keep their connection, then they can already feel the internal things that are connected between them and those that aren't connecting between them yet. In this way they start sorting these discernments, until they start feeling what they really are connected to and what they are not. Between the part that is connected and the part that isn't connected. In general in the ten, there are old kinds of doubt, bad thoughts and so on. It is like a section of the shells.
S. How to preach external and internal?
R. First of all, make sure you have it, scrutinize it and then you will have practical questions and then we can talk about it.
S. Can we say that first we rise, and the surrounding light goes into it? Where does it come in?
R. First, it is not called surrounding, but first you scrutinize, you connect to the surrounding and then you connect to the internal one. The definitions are not exact, you can make a mistake about this.
8. S. (20:48) What does it mean when he says first the external is more important why is that?
R. Greater coarseness.
S. Is this more important?
R. It depends on what he is speaking about now.
S. He says that even though it is not completely clothed because it's impossible to be clothed in him until he's corrected, what does it mean? What is this process? Completely clothing
R. That the Partzuf gradually refines itself and ascribes the degrees of coarseness more and more to, in order to be so..
S. Is this the order of the work for us?
R. Yes, what is the problem?
S. I thought that it is either closed or doesn't close.
R. No, we are in a dynamic process. That’s why gradually from below, upward ,from outside, inward, we formulate and connect and scrutinize our discernments and that's how we ascend.
S. We don't feel what he mentions here, these emotions. We don't feel them yet?
R. You are right, you still don't feel it.
S. Only at the end of the process all of a sudden it is revealed.
R. No, not at the end of the process, on the path soon we will start discovering this.
S. Will we start filling it?
R. Of course.
S. With God's help. Thank you.
9. S. (22:44) My question is about item 6. He is told that a gnat comes before us is this gnat a mosquito? Do I have a choice?
R. I see you got stung by the gnat, that it is more important to you than yourself? What is bothering you here?
S. It bothers me because we are a different structure. He has a certain software, and we have freedom of choice, to choose.
R. But I guess so you are not using that freedom of choice that's why the gnat or mosquito didn't get the opportunity to rise, to the next degrees so he's more important than you because he said he's a hundred percent doing what the Creator inserted to him and you are not even doing 1% of the of what the Creator gave you an opportunity, so the gnat is more important than you.
S. The gnat will now have six hundred and twenty more times?
R. II don't know what is going to happen later. I don't know what is happening right now in practice.
S. Thank you.
R. For what?
S. For telling me that I am less than a gnat.
R. If you agree to that, it will be a good start.
10. S. (24:15) What does it mean to be a vessel for surrounding light?
R. What?
S. It said that the third and fourth phases are a vessel for the surrounding light? So what is a vessel of surrounding light?
R. We have root 1, 2 and then 3 and 4. Keter, Hochma, Bina, Zeir Anpin and Malchut. Zeir Anpin and Malchut, the true lights do not cloth in them but only a part of the light, but on Keter, Hochma, Bina, the real lights cloth in there. That's how we divide the Partzuf. There are internal and external vessels.
S. What do you mean a part, there's a screen that Malchut doesn't receive? How does she have light all of a sudden?
R. There are vessels that you can actually scrutinize. The vessels of Keter, Hochma, Bina, and there are vessels that you cannot scrutinize but only parts that work as we saved in VAK. They ascribe that to external vessels and parts of the then there is a grasp on the Klipot. That's why there's a difference between the inner vessels of Keter, Hochma, Bina, and the external vessels Zeir Anpin and Malchut, that's where the will to receive is and that will to receive has limitations because his below Parsa.
S. Is this surrounding light an inner light? Because this is not something I remember we’ve defined.
R. What is the surrounding is?
S. Yes, we said the surroundings are always outside of the vessel, not in the vessel.
R. No, there are a lot of surrounding lights. You are right, we didn’t learn about it. It’s surrounded because it exists outside of the vessel. There it’s inside of the vessel around the Partzuf, and here also supposedly around the Partzuf because the vessel isn’t receiving it internally, he’s receiving an illumination.
11. R. (26:50) We got to chapter 11, and we will continue tomorrow
12. S. (27:02) Can we say that the inner vessels are the created being, and the external vessels are the Creator?
R. No no no. All the vessels are the creation, ADAM. The Creator is above that, it’s a completely different degree. Keter, Hochma, Bina, it’s not the Creator, it’s the vessels of the created being where he can resemble the Creator. But on the vessels of Zeir Anpin and Malchut until Gmar Tikkun we can’t correct in100%. They always remain as an addition to the spiritual degree. That's how it's going to remain until the end of corrections.
13. S. (28:20) He writes here that a man of God is called the husband of Shechinah. Is this our first revelation?
R. I don’t know, you’ll reveal it and explain it to us afterwards. first. That's what’s concerning you, that you’ll get some kind of symbol, some badge, a man of God.
S. I’m impressed from the writings.
R. Okay let's end here. Today's Friday and tomorrow we have two lessons. So try to connect during the day, read the materials for tomorrow. Also you see as much as these excerpts in the beginning of the lesson are special, and that's it. We have to think what we are going to study after..
S. After fear? After the excerpts we’re learning in the preparation or are you talking about the second half?
R. No, the second half.
S. What we’re now planning after the essence of the wisdom of Kabbalah, from the love of the created beings to the love of the Creator.
R. Okay, we’ll go through it easily and quickly and then we’ll have to see. All the best to you.