Preparation for the Lesson
Rare excerpts from the lessons of kabbalist Baruch Shalom Ashlag, with commentaries of his student and successor Dr. Michael Laitman
We learn: Since there was the breaking of the vessels because there were great lights, and the vessels were unable to receive it in order to bestow, they wanted to receive it in order to receive, and this is called the breaking of the vessels.
What is the breaking of the vessels? The glass breaks; if you pour something, it comes out.
If a will to receive is formed, everything you put in there exits outside of Kedusha [holiness]. Kedusha is called “in order to bestow”; he is called “in order to receive.” Therefore, the light must depart.
What is the corrections of the vessels? To correct it to in order to bestow once more so the light can shine in them again. There is a rule in corporeality; we say, “More than the calf wants to suckle, the cow wants nurse.”
From where does it derive? From the root. More than the lower ones want to receive, the Creator wants to give to them. why does He not give them? it would spoil them even more.
What does it mean “will spoil them more”? In order to receive spiritual things, and spiritual things expand specifically from vessels of bestowal, and there was such a correction, therefore, we cannot be given a degree that is greater than we have, unless we have vessels that are suitable for it, which are called “vessels of bestowal.”