Part 3:
Morning Lesson September 28, 2021, Transcription
Baal HaSulam, Preface to the Wisdom of Kabbalah, #53
Item 53 “And now we shall explain the order of the clothing of….”
1.R. (03:01) Rav drawing: We see that we have the upper light which comes to the desire and the desire beginning here from the Peh of the Rosh that the upper light wants to enter the desire for but it can't because there is a screen here. This place is called Peh, now the screen that stands here, rejects it, this is the direct light, this is reflected light and then he sees how much he can receive in order to bestow and then he receives, this is called inner light, when he receives a part of the direct light and then what exists, what remains outside the surplus remains as surrounding light and it pressure is the Partzuf from outside to receive it from within. This pressure that exists from the surrounding light and the inner light on that place called Tabur, this pressure the Partzuf I cannot stand it and then it purifies. then just like here there is in the Rosh, there is a Ohr Hozer, there is the ascent of the light back to the emanator, the departure of the light from within outwards and this departure goes through all of the states, 4,3,2,1 root until the whole screen is purified and then the screen that stood here below in the Tabur it goes up to the Peh of the Rosh. This way it expels all of the desires from the Peh to the Tabur, all of the lights that filled the desires and then it comes back with all of the records that it existed that it had here in Partzuf goes back to Peh of Rosh and is included in the upper light that is always included there and it starts a coupling by striking, the next coupling.
Instead of the coarseness level of 4 that it had now it is coarseness level of 3 that becomes revealed, then he makes the coupling by striking over the coarseness level 3 making the calculation so there is a calculation here, the direct light and the reflected light this is called Rosh of the Partzuf meaning the next portion that it is going to receive in order to bestow, this is the Peh and all this is called Rosh Then he received as much as he can in order to bestow this is the Toch, just like there is Toch here and here as well, all this is Toch and it expands until the Tabur. Then it purifies again by the Bitush of the inner and surrounding light rising to the Peh of Rosh and goes on to the Partzuf and this is how the Partzufim are born from one to the other. We can give examples from this world that let's say yesterday I could do something to bestow to someone today I can't really do that so I do less, but each time I try again and again to make actions in order to bestow as much as I can until we come to a point where if we had 100% of the possible screen, just of the potential screen not that we actually have a screen over the whole desire. It was only let's say for 20%, the screen, from the hundred percent that we had, (drawing) okay not to confuse you from 20% that we had all the way to 0% the screen this is the ascent of the world, AK Atzilut Beria Yetzirah Assiya and when the screen ends then there is a special shattering here that is also called this world. I will even draw this as a person, a human being so it is clear to us there is no screen here, it is a certain kind of existence that would call it biological, we will talk about that later.
Item 53 Again (09:59)
2. S. (12:42) Why is Partzuf AB not using the Rosh of the Partzuf Galgata?
R. He has nothing to do with the Rosh of Galgata as there are much higher thoughts and desires by AB, it is like a little child who cannot understand what the mind of the adult is.
3. S. (13:15) How can it be that from the state of Ein Sof it moves to Galgata where it received 20% if it had a hundred percent before?
R. In Ein Sof it received just for itself and then it feels at this kind of reception pushes it away from the Creator so it stops receiving, this is called restriction and then he decides that he can make actions in order to bestow to the Creator just as he felt the Creator bestowing to him in Ein Sof that he makes the calculation and the Partzuf Galgata emerges and the shame that we spoke about is what stops him and directed him to do actions to bestow.
4. S. (14:22) The Tabur of AB relative to the Toch of Galgata where is it?
R. We can't say, we don't have the discernments.
5. S. (14:48) The fact the Partzufim AB SAG emerge in the framework of the Guf of Galgata, what does this mean?
R. Galgata is the Partzuf of Keter and on it all the other Partzufim from all the other worlds are clothed, they all take from Galgata desires and realize the desires that Galgata could not do because she is only working with her greatest desire.
6. S. (15:29) What does it mean that the coarseness from the Guf, that the recognition is very important here?
R. Because yes then the Partzuf understands who and what he is in regard to receiving the light in order to bestow and by that he better understand in what coarseness and this is why next time he receives less than before. Because for him the desire and thoughts and everything that happens is greater than what it used to be. Partzuf AB Is much more materialized than Galgata.
7. S. (16:30) The direct light that the lower one performs a coupling on the Rosh where does it receive it from?
R. He receives it through the upper Partzufim but it was never apparent in the vessels, it only appears in him now.
8. S. (16:54) Is it possible to explain why the third phase of coarseness is equal to the point of Chazeh?
R. The aspect of phase 3 of coarseness, how AB stands in the Chazeh of Galgata?
S. It might be clearer.
R. It can’t be how you are asking.
S. The screen did not remain other than in the third phase of coarseness and it is called the point of Chazeh.
R. You cannot compare between the upper and the lower Partzufim. you can say that the Peh of AB clothes the Chazeh of Galgata externally, we will learn what this is. Bit by bit you will start seeing what happens here in the Partzufim but it is not that we can stick one to the other and compare them as each and every Partzuf is a whole world of itself, it has its own desire to receive and if Galgata is working it's not AB in terms of lights are vessels or desires or screens.
S. The Rosh of Partzuf AB sits between the Rosh of Galgata and the Peh of Galgata, why is this so?
R. That is how it is according to the degree of Aviut in AB versus Galgata?
S. Why is the third phase Galgata called Chazeh
R. That is what the Phase 3 of Galgata is called the Chazeh, there's also Phase 2 and 1 and Root and they all end at Tabur of Galgata from Peh to Tabur, the inner discernments of Galgata, the lesser discernment of Peh of Galgata is at the Chazeh.
Item 54. (20:02) “Hence, the Masach of the new Partzuf descends to the…. “Twice
9. R. (25:34) Rav drawing: The upper light enters the desire and reaches the Peh of the Rosh it takes the coupling by striking in the Peh of Rosh and then the screen that stands in Peh of Rosh goes in backwards, meaning it doesn't want to receive anything. From beginning to connect with the upper light here at the Rosh of the Partzuf it starts understanding that the desire of the upper one is to fulfill it, to give it everything and that is why it makes the calculation and receives from the Peh to the Tabur as much as possible that is, it sees how much it is capable of and then it receives in order to bestow. This is called Ohr Pnimi, inner light at what remains outside is surrounding light.
From the Tabur comes the Bitush of the inner and surrounding light and then it purifies back Peh of Rosh with all of the Reshimot that it has in Rosh so it is in Peh of the Rosh with the records that it has in the Guf and it goes to the Peh of the Rosh to make a calculation what it can do, it decides it's going to receive in order to bestow in this is what happens next. That he lowers his screen to a smaller degree if it was on level four now it is level three and this place is called Chazeh and here is the new Peh of AB, Partzuf AB and this is Galgata, this is how he makes the coupling by striking over AB and expands only to Tabur it can't go backward or downwards because not even Galgata has the power to receive an order to bestow, so here remains a vacant space, empty of light so AB the second Partzuf only spreads to Galgata after that also comes Bitush where it didn't receive forcing it to purify back to the Peh of the Rosh and that descends to the Tabur of Partzuf AB and the new Partzuf is now created called SAG which receives in order to bestow as much as it can so Peh of Rosh of SAG stands exactly at the Chazeh of AB and so it is with all Partzufim, Galgata AB SAG there is also MA BON we will learn that.
Item 55 (30:05) “As has already been explained regarding the order of ….”
10. R. (31:29) This is what he wants to tell us and no more we need to attain that between us in all our spiritual work, as much as we can learn from the book, we need to feel how these actions happen internally.
11. S. (31:51) Is there an experiential difference in how Rosh and Toch experience the light, it seems in Toch there is some sort of manifestation which action of bestowal can be performed?
R. Truth is that all the action happened at the Rosh of the Partzuf. The Guf performs it but the connection between the Partzufim is actually through the Rosh. everything is clarified though, as it's written.
S. What is the sensation of the upper world that is revealed? Can we say it's revealed in the Toch or this is completely the wrong question?
R. It is a correct question but I can't answer it yet. No one who is listening right now has the exact revelation of what is Toch and Sof so it might only bring confusion, so I'm very cautious here not to say redundant things. Technically I can explain 1000 things here, you can see from the books, for my previous lesson, everything that I have written. But the problem is I don't want to confuse you and I also don't want you to go too deep into the technicalities, as it's not going to help you if you're not going to do all of these actions in the group, otherwise everything that we learn right now will just stay on the digital screen; it has to be written on the tablets of Your heart, meaning that desires. you have to actualize it and the amount of knowledge doesn't help you get closer to bestowal.
S. The Nekudot and Otiot represent the state of Toch In the restricted form or is this a different system?
R. The TNTA, that is about the data that we get after the Partzuf purifies, before that we don't see anything related to TNTA. Because there is still light and TNTA are Impressions from what used to be after the light Departed.
12. S. (35:30) This purification, I understand it well and when you spoke about it on the flesh and then it purifies from 4 to 3. But here it is written that 10 Sefirot emerge in the Rosh, is this the calculation that causes me that now I'm going to go eat a salad and because of that I'm coming with the third coarseness in the screen? The sefirot that are emerging in the Rosh, do they cause me to decide that now I need to lower myself and only eat the salad?
R. Of course, the records come to the top of the head of the new Partzuf and integrate with the screen, giving data to the screen and accordingly the screen decides how much it's going to receive in order to bestow now; and according to the records that remain from the previous Partzuf, it decides. Everything is according to the records, if the records disappear from the Partzuf, the Partzuf would not know what to do. It's like if you take a person and zap him with electricity and let's say it burns all of his memory from his previous life, he wouldn't know what to do or even how to carry himself around or hold his hands or legs. Everything is only happening according to the records.
S. It is written that when the screen comes to the Peh of the Rosh again of the previous Partzuf, their 10 Sefirot are created in the Rosh. So how is this connected to the salad and the meat and the moment when I decide with the 10 Sefirot, now I am going down and trying to do this in a lesser coarseness? Is this what causes everything?
R. What you have from the previous Partzuf, only according to this data you are now taking decisions. You don't find these things out of thin air, it is the upper light; it doesn't do anything, it only activates you, but what it activates is what you have from the previous Partzuf.
13. S. (38:38) That upper light that comes to Partzuf AB is this the surrounding light of the previous Partzuf?
R. No, we will talk about it. It doesn't matter to us whether its surrounding light from the previous one or not, of course it goes to all the Partzufim, but still remains the abstract upper light. it is a good question, you still need to think about it.
14. S. (39:22) Would it be the correct and suitable example to say that the order of emergence of the faces says that in the head of the Galgata you make a calculation of what is in the future and in AB is a calculation of what happened practically?
R. Each head Works according to the data that is in it, from itself and what it feels from the upper light and it decides what I can do in order to bestow and how much can it receive and identify with the upper light. The problem is that the request here is very simple: How much can I identify with the Creator and how can I bestow to Him, what He wants to bestow to me? That is what is in the head. This problem is what it wants to solve.
15. S. (40:45) We will soon build a prayer after the lesson and It's not always simple. How from what we just learned I use practically in the 10 to build the prayer, let's say, with the Peh and going down to the Guf; how do we implement it practically now as we build the prayer?
R. I wouldn't do that, it will confuse you. It will pull you away from doing actions in your heart, in your desire, it'll just take you to the drawing. You are not building some machine, you need to connect your hearts and Minds together to bestow it to the Creator. You don't want to do this, you still don't have the feeling of what each and every element from these drawings is called, it is a lot more complicated just like our life is, so this is a billion times more complicated, I wouldn't tell you to do it like that. Typically, people who do that just stay in engineering, they become engineers and nothing more. We need to receive it within our desires and only in an inner practical way to realize it. Don't think about the Partzufim too much, think about how you make it happen in the group, otherwise it's going to be that the knowledge is greater than the Deeds.