Morning Lesson January 07, 2024
Transcription is made from simultaneous translation, which leaves a possibility for differences in the audio
Part 2:
Baal HaSulam. "Study of the Ten Sefirot" (TES). Vol. 2. Part 6. Inner Observation. #6
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Reading Item #6 (00:18)
1. R. (02:59) I think it’s clear, there’s no innovation here.
Reading Item #7 (03:07)
2. S. (09:35) That's clear, yes? These things, there’s nothing new here.
Reading Item #8 (09:50)
3. S. (13:02) About the placement of MA and BON, sometimes we say that they’re above the Tabur and here he’s explaining that they’re below the Tabur, if you can explain the placement of these two Partzufim?
R. Not yet, not yet.
4. S. (13:27) He writes here that in the many Partzufim and souls that is how the expansion from Tabur and down takes place. What does it mean the boundary expands, what’s happening?
R. The more the Partzufim and souls multiply, the more the light expands in the vessels that are getting corrected and that are ready to receive in order to bestow. To that extent the light descends until it reaches the Sium, the line in the end.
S. Until here there’s a restriction?
R. Until then the boundary is in the Tabur.
5. S. (14:28) Are MA and BON the only ones that have free choice?
R. Keter, Hochma, Bina are Partzufim that belong to the first restriction, and they don't lack any vessels, they don't need to correct anything. Rather they need to correct according to the MAN that is coming up to them from the Partzufim of MA and BON but in and of themselves Keter, Hochma and Bina do not require correction, that's how it is.
6. S. (15:35) I want to ask about the sentence: “every lower one discovers a part of this light that is rejected due to the screen of Tabur of the upper in a manner that the more the Partzufim and souls expand, this boundary from Tabur below expands.” Can you explain what it means that the light that is rejected from the screen of the upper one actually goes and is revealed in the lower one, what does that mean? The upper one rejected the light because it probably can't receive in order to bestow, and it’s being revealed in the lower one and there as far as I understand there's even less possibility to receive it in order to bestow.
R. According to the simple explanation you are correct but what is he saying actually? He's saying that when the upper one receives the light in order to bestow, he organizes for the lower one an opportunity to also reach its degree, to be incorporated in the coupling and to be in order to bestow.
7. S. (17:10) Can you explain the last paragraph, it says that only the BON remains as the female and I didn't understand the whole matter of the GAR, the upper three associated with the MA because if it doesn't go down?
R. I didn’t understand.
S. If you can explain this part where MA and BON in the last paragraph, in those last few lines where only the BON remains?
R. That's the world of Nekudim that the ARI discusses. Here are the first MA and BON that appear in the worlds. It is called merely BON because all that remains from it to come to the worlds ABYA is the aspect of female called BON as the male that draws the Mochin, meaning the GAR is called MA and the female that receives the Mochin is called BON. What are the questions?
S. I understand that division, but I don't understand how it's expressed. What is this MA and BON, is it the part that I don't understand why only the BON is depicted, I don't understand that, why it only remains. Can you explain this paragraph, these last two lines?
R. We will continue soon because the whole matter here is correction because it's happening below the Tabur.
8. S. (19:18) I would like to scrutinize the matter that always jumps up, how the lower one which is actually weaker than the upper one is capable of drawing more light. Can it be that it is weaker and yet the variety of things that it can reveal is more and it can do more scrutinies and more precisely, is that right?
R. More scrutiny and more precise scrutiny, yes. In essence you are correct, it can perform a more accurate scrutiny but on its level. That’s why there’s another plan in place for the shattering of the vessels, there’s another plan here to shatter the vessels. We’ll learn about it later and understand more.
9. S. (20:45) I have an example and I want to see if it's right or not, what the lower one contributes to the upper one. The upper one is like you’re filling a vessel with water, there's no empty space but you fill a vessel with marbles, there’s room between the marbles. Is that the right depiction of how the upper one is filled with a certain resolution and the lower one can fill those gaps between them?
R. Interesting, it could be a nice example.
S. And another question, he explains that the fourth phase which mixes with the second phase it doesn't contribute its coarseness and therefore the coupling remains only on phase two, raising the level of Zeir Anpin. What does it contribute actually?
R. Which coupling?
S. He explains in what we just read in item 7 that the mingling of the Nekudot of SAG in the fourth phase with NHYM raises the records. Also from the fourth phase they both rise and also the records of phase four, but he calls it not being used in the level of Keter. What does that record of phase four do, what does it contribute?
R. The record of phase four awakens everything in the beginning and then later he gives permission to work with that part of correction.
S. What does it give that it’s giving permission because you said that it doesn't deal with that coarseness right now?
R. Correct.
S. What does it mean that it’s giving permission?
R. Meaning it’s not giving it permission to use the fourth phase but anything below that. You didn't understand, we’ll learn it.