Part 2:

Baal HaSulam. General Preface. #3

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Reading item #3 (00:19) “There are five prominent discernments in the ten above-mentioned Sefirot..” 

1. S. (06:05) Why does he call it the detaining force? After all, detaining means that there is, in the continuation, yes light will be received but it's being detained, it’s delayed?

R. That they do not receive.

S. Not receiving in order to receive but delaying. Detaining, means that we will eventually receiving?

R. Detaining is the condition that if you want to receive later you have to pay for something.

S. Is there a difference between restriction and a detainment?

R. Of course.

S. So why does he write detainment here, I didn't understand?

R. Because it's not a restriction. It's an additional condition on receiving the light.

S. Is this an action that the lower one does? He detains the entrance of the light?

R. Yes, we will see it now.

Continue reading #3 (07:05) “..In the above-mentioned, it follows that the ten Sefirot are really one Kli..”

2. S. (11:58) Baal HaSulam gives these pretty dry details or information. He makes a connection between Hochma, Bina, Zeir Anpin, Malchut and the worlds of Adam Kadmon, Atzilut, Beria, Yetzira, and Assiya. What is the connection between these phases Hochma, Bina, and the worlds?

R. Each and every world reveals some very special phase, special discernment, the main one in it even though it’s included of the Behinot, in all the discernments.

S. Meaning that if we would feel the world of Atzilut we would feel the discernment of Hochma?

R. Right.

S. Is there something that we can depict as Hochma verses if someone feels the world of Beria then he feels Bina, is this how you can understand this?

R. Yes. Whoever reaches a certain degree discovers it from the light that shines from on him from above and that is what he determines.

3. S. (13:22) Can you please explain the incorporation of Malchut in each Sefira in each worlds? It is written the first expansion then the second expansion. What are…?

R. Malchut is incorporated in other discernments that come earlier. The light shines on Malchut through the Sefirot, discernments, degrees, no matter how you call it. So Malchut, when it attains the way the light is shining on it in root, one, two, three, four, that is called that Malchut attains the quality of the light that comes to her from above and that is what we are talking about here.

S. There are things here that at least I don't remember seeing and how to understand. Let's say that the world of Nikudim was included in Hochma. I can understand that in AK, yes, it is in the second expansion it was in Bina but then it says in the world of Nikudim it was incorporated in Bina, that’s not clear, and then Atzilut was in the Keter. We learned that she is incorporated in Atik. Is he talking about that, about where Malchut is?

R. He is saying or speaking which discernment, to what discernment Malchut has to rise in order to reveal the essence of that world.

S. Then he says that, then light of the Ein Sof clothe in the second phase and the word of Beria comes, and then in the worlds he says discernments, phases, are clothed in there, and we learned the Reshimot, records, go and kind of a diminish as, let's say the world of Assiya is the root to Shoresh etc. Here he’s saying that it is clothing on an opposite phase, meaning it's not clear how the worlds of ABYA are created here. How does Malchut clothe in the worlds of ABYA?

R. I don't understand what you're saying. Who can explain?

S. He says.

R. Where are you reading?

S. And since the Malchut was included each Sefira in the world of correction begins, their head of the world of Atzilut. There the light expands in the form of the first phase. So what does this mean in the first phase? Is that the four phase of the direct light from the Ein Sof?

R. Yes.

Reading item #4 (16:53) “First, we need to understand the quality of each of the worlds…”

4. R. (27:17) Silence? So difficult? I think it's just repeating itself all the time, meaning that reflected light and direct light they add or they complete one another. If so, let's go to the next part.