Morning Lesson May 24, 2023
Transcription is made from simultaneous translation, which leaves a possibility for differences in the audio.
Part 2:
Baal HaSulam. Preface to the Wisdom of Kabbalah. (The Second Restriction [Tzimtzum Bet], Called the Restriction of NHY of AK. #56)
1. Rav Introduction: In order to bring the will to receive to identify itself with the Creator to be in an intention to in order to bestow, many actions have to be done with it so that it will be able to turn itself entirely to be in order to bestow, and that's why we see how much the actions are all the time dividing and dividing and going deeper into the will to receive until they really touch the intention in order to bestow how much they come closer to the work of the restriction, the screen, the reflected light, with the vessel, what the desire can perform, and so to come closer to in order to bestow. That's why it's not enough for us to have the first restriction in order to adapt our will to receive for correction of the intention in order to bestow, but rather we need the second restriction.
Reading Preface to the Wisdom of Kabbalah. Item #56 (02:20) “The Second Restriction [Tzimtzum Bet], Called the Restriction of NHY of AK”
Reading item number 57 (04:14)
2. S. (08:00) What does it mean that a person needs to be included from the upper forms which are above phase four in order to be able to do actions of bestowal?
R. Behina Dalet, the fourth phase is only the will to receive and if we want a person to resemble the Creator he has to be incorporated in the Behinot above the Behina Dalet.
S. What does it mean if he’s in phase four included then what does it mean the phase from above?
R. No, he's Behina Dalet the fourth phase.
S. What process is he explaining here? What's needed for it to be included in the upper phases?
R. To connect the fourth phase with the phases above it that are phases of bestowal and then the fourth phase can be incorporated in them and to take part in the corrections in the actions that are in order to bestow.
S. Why aren’t AB and SAG part of this inclusion?
R. The participation is.
S. They don't go below?
R. They're above Behina Dalet the fourth phase, yes.
3. S. (09:28) What are the phases that are above the fourth, above Dalet?
R. Root, 1 2 3.
S. Which are?
R. What do you mean ‘which are’?
S. Can you explain about them a little bit?
R. They are phases of bestowal but they have no connection with the fourth phase.
S. The fourth phase is the will to receive?
R. Yes.
S. So what's root 1, 2, 3?
R. Root 1,2,3 are the discernments above the will to receive, they are the will to bestow.
4. S. (10:12) Until now we spoke about worlds, Partzufim, the processes between qualities, now we are looking for where Adam needs to be. What is this Adam? That you start searching for what qualities does he need to be built of?
R. The will to receive having the basis of it in the fourth phase, its foundation is in the fourth phase, and it has to be made of the discernments above the fourth phase and then it can correct itself. Even though it's the fourth phase it's resembling itself to the previous discernments, previous phases root, 1 2 3.
S. From the beginning of the explanation he didn't say Adam, man at all, he said systems, processes in the Partzufim, what comes from what, discernments etc?
R. Now because the fourth phase which is only the will to receive, it can reach the quality of bestowal in order to bestow by mingling with the previous phases so we can talk about the will to receive that has been done like Adam, meaning it resembles the Creator.
S. In the system of qualities is there a certain combination of qualities that there's also the will to receive and the Rosh and the Guf which are qualities that build what we call Adam?
R. Yes.
S. It's like a set of qualities that are built of phase four and what's above it?
R. Yes.
5. S. (12:38) Phase four is?
R. The will to receive only to receive.
S. That when it was fulfilled with the upper light felt the oppositeness and shame and it did a Tzimtzum, a restriction, and started calculating for the upper light.
R. Yes.
S. To the extent it had the ability, the strength to receive the five Partzufim of AK come out. What’s wrong with that? There’s five or six options of bestowal here, as much as he can?
R. All of these actions are not from the perspective, they don't come from the created being, it's very simple. They come automatically from creation, from the Creator, this is how He created the will to receive, connected it, put it together to be in order to receive, and He gave the will to receive later an opportunity to perform some actions above the will to receive, restriction say etc., but these actions are not yet the will to bestow, these actions are not yet the will to bestow yet. The Creator wants is for the created being himself to choose between the will to receive and the will to bestow so that the created being, that the created being is, he will want to resemble the Creator and may turn to the Creator and ask of Him forces of bestowal, whereas previously, meaning in the Partzufim of AK the will to bestow also comes from the Creator and it will exist in the will to receive as something that's essential, it must be there, he doesn't mean that he chose it, he came closer to the Creator, or prepared himself, prepared himself to identify himself with the connection, adhesion.
S. When does this necessity stop and when does the choice of the created being starts?
R. Whenever there is a disconnect between the upper light to the desire that is formed in the Partzuf of SAG, and that is why after SAG already begins to be a system of connection between the will to receive and the will to bestow.
S. What is the disconnect, what is this disconnection, where does it happen, what is its essence?
R. Rav reading: “The fourth phase needs to be the root and it was all entirely below the Raglaim of AK in the form of vacant empty space devoid of light.” He cannot receive in order to bestow or bestow in order to bestow, “as it would be opposite from the form of the upper light, thus it would be considered separated and dead. And had Adam been created from it he would not have been able to correct his actions whatsoever, since there would be no sparks of bestowal in him at all, he would be deemed a beast that has none of the forms of bestowal and his lives are only for themselves like the wicked that are immersed in the lust of self-reception.” That's why we need to form a special connection between the will to receive and the will to bestow, that in this connection there will be the ability for the structure called Adam and even though he is under the dominance of the will to receive to choose for themselves the development of the will to bestow.
6. S. (18:32) This means that Adam is not born from Malchut alone?
R. If it would be only from Malchut alone then he would not be connected to all of the forms that are above Malchut.
S. In the first restriction he cannot correct himself, Adam?
R. There isn't a person in the first Tzimtzum.
7. S. (19:07) You just explained something that the only thing I could hear is that he decides in his will to bestow, something like that? What you just explained, I couldn't hear it?
R. Well listen again I don't remember exactly what you heard.
8. S. (19:37) We say that we don't have a grip before the second restriction. On the other hand when we learn it seems it's much easier to connect emotionally to the things that happen before the second restriction. There's also the example of the guest and the host. After the second restriction we can understand this in our brains but it's harder to emotionally connect to it?
R. Because we are still not yet developed in order to be in the Tzimtzum Bet, to understand when it's used and how and what Tzimtzum there are here, what the development of the souls there are here, I understand you.
S. So when it seems that we can feel something before the second restriction?
R. We cannot feel something before Tzimtzum Bet. We are a result of the shattering of the vessels after the Tzimtzum Bet, that is why we have no feeling of the Tzimtzum Aleph and we don't live in Tzimtzum Aleph.
9. S. (21:00) The whole process started in Malchut of Ein Sof, right, called Dalet the fourth phase and now we're talking about this place of Dalet which is NHY de AK. What is corrected? Malchut of Ein Sof, is it corrected or does it also require a correction?
R. The Malchut is corrected.
S. When we perform corrections does that make the changes?
R. We say that there is a correction in all of the worlds.
S. It makes changes until the highest place?
R. Until the highest place where the upper light is extracted and we do upon it the Raglaim of AK, the Masach, the returning light, and we determine that it will expand in new laws.
10. S. (22:17) Was Malchut below the Raglaim of AK or below the Tabur? He writes it’s below the Raglaim of AK.
R. No, here we're talking about the same parts of the Malchut which are working specifically in this case Malchut of the first Tzimtzum starts from the Peh of the Galgalta and below.
S. Below the Raglaim of AK is there something, anything after all?
R. Of course there is.
S. A vacant space?
R. A vacant space is the Malchut.
S. We always say that Malchut is NHY from Tabur and below until the Sium of Raglaim, that's how I understood until today.
R. And below that the Sium of Raglaim there's nothing.
S. I don't remember us talking about corrections below the Raglaim of AK.
R. Okay, we'll talk about it.
11. S. (23:26) After the first restriction we said that there is reflected light and the vessel of Dalet replaces the reflected light. Where here is there Galgalta? Where are the Partzufim AB, SAG, MA, BON, etc.? Where is the reflected light that replaces the fourth phase?
R. Instead of the fourth phase which is a receiver we have the fourth phase which does a Tzimtzum, Masach, returning light, and it receives the upper light with returning light.
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13. S. (24:34) Why is the root of correction going from Malchut to ZA to ZAT de Bina, to GAR de Bina, to Hochma and to Keter?
R. I don't know, it's the path of correction by returning light that comes out of Malchut and reaches Keter.
14. S. (25:10) What discernments in the will to receive are about to be corrected below the Tabur? Is there something essential in the will to receive and its connection with the Creator that is going to be corrected below the Tabur?
R. Again.
S. Is there something essential in the will to receive and its connection to the Creator that will be corrected below the Tabur?
R. Of course. There the will to receive is the greatest the heaviest because above the Tabur is the inclusion with the upper nine.
S. Below the Tabur?
R. Himself.
S. I don't want to run away to something, but when you say he himself, that's why the shattering was made that all the connection with the others that’s the discernment of he himself?
R. Yes.
15. S. (26:33) In the beginning it's written that there is not even a root for the four worlds ABYA and also the place where the three worlds of BYA does not yet exist. What is that root that does not yet exist of these four worlds ABYA, what is this about?
R. Where do the Olimot of BYA need to be? They exist below the Parsa until the Sium, the end, of the place of Adam Kadmon, from Rosh until the Tabur, Toch of AK, from Tabur until the Sium of AK is the end of AK. In AK there is no problem, there are desires which can be fulfilled, they have Masachim, they have the possibility to receive the light that reforms however, below Tabur it's already a problem, and that is why there is a place for corrections in order to receive more and more and by the multiplicity of actions to reach the final correction, that all of the upper light will be received in these vessels. That is what we are learning. All of the wisdom of Kabbalah is engaging in how the will to receive that the Creator created will receive all of the light of Ein Sof in receiving in order to bestow. There are many more discernments here.
S. What determined the proportion between the desire of the Behina Dalet, fourth phase, that is in the end of this general Partzuf and all of the spiritual worlds? What determines the ratio between them?
R. The Tabur of AK. The Tabur of AK divides the vessels of bestowal and reception.
16. S. (29:40) What is the second restriction when we talk about the relationship between the guest and the host?
R. It's good if you think about it and answer. If the first restriction that the guest doesn't want to receive anything from the host but only thanks to a form of payment then what is considered here a place of Tabur and Parsa and the place below Tabur it’s how does the guest feel in these parts himself towards the host, well?
17. S. (30:45) What does it mean here that is the fourth phase exactly? The world of AK? What is the world of AK, what he means that there cannot be a root from Adam for man?
R.Yes.
S. Why is it below the Raglaim of AK? Why does he say it has to be there, this vacant space?
R. Because they don't have upon them the desire to bestow but only the Tzimtzum and the vacant space.
S. The Dalet is only the part, it's not all of AK? He means only part of it, okay..
18. S. (31:33) About the example you said the guest and the host, is it when the guest receives from the host, there's two the guest and the host and maybe from the Tabur the guest already wants to cancel the boundary between him and the host so he won't feel that they're two separate entities?
R. Yes, every will to receive wants to cancel its borders.
S. That's the desire that maybe develops below Tabur so that they will feel connected to each other, not through the negotiation?
R. Yes okay I see that you've already lost your...
19. S. (32:37) What’s not clear is how this line can correct the entire will to receive, that we only have a very thin line which is the method, how this whole volume of the big circle goes through this line?
R. The line is, he's giving you an equation here that can come from the Creator to the created being according to this equation. In order to bestow all the lights can pass, can go through. Let’s say that bestowal on behalf of the Creator will be like bestowal on behalf of the created being in every single step and then between them there will be adhesion.
S. But the whole transition of the will to receive to receive the corrections, how does it go through this line if it's such a thin layer of correction that is done every time?
R. I don't understand what you're so impressed by a very thin line that is from one end to the other
S. The will to receive has to receive all the abundance so how does it go through?
R. In this thin line.
S. Yes.
R. Because it's a condition to be in order to bestow with identifying with the light. That is why the upper light, it receives it. The will to receive receives from the upper light in a thin line.
20. S. (35:25) Can we say that what happens in the second restriction is when the guest starts eating the food without having an appetite?
R. No, no such thing never, the Creator will not allow it. Without any appetite detaching, without preparing the will to receive, without preparing the vessel.
S. In advance yes but after…
R. In no place. It will be a shattering of the light, a shattering of the light.
21. S. (36:10) Is the correction of the Raglaim of AK coming out of Kedusha and bringing it back to the domain of the Creator? Is that the second restriction?
R. Yes, we will talk about it.
22. S. (36:36) After the guest received only for payment, now he's willing to receive in Katnut, to bestow in order to bestow and then he's ready to receive with the intention in order to give contentment to the Creator.
R. Excellent.
23. S. (37:17) We wanted to ask you as a part of the preparation for the congress that's up coming on Sunday, The Unity Evening. What we wanted to say as a ten is that we see we feel that there is a state of heaviness. It's very hard for the friends to disconnect from all their imaginary business and to register for the congress and to come so we wanted to ask Rav is what exercise can you recommend for us to have with all the world Kli that will help us to convince the Creator to release all the friends from their imaginary businesses and their heaviness so that they can register for the congress and come?
R. I don't know what to tell you. I would recommend the following: let's say I'm holding a convention, this convention only those who get an approval can come. It doesn't depend on money of course it depends on a person's desire. Whoever will write to me personally, whoever will write to me a letter in whatever language that he wants to participate in my convention in connection to me, then I give him the permission to come. If he doesn't receive from me a response he doesn't need to come and whoever doesn't write then of course not, so you need to write why you're asking to come to the convention.
S. Is it okay Rav?
R. I don’t know if it’s okay but we will check, I will check. If after everything you write if you deserve to be able to join the connection.
S. If I understand you correctly you're talking about the friends who want and they have the ability and the desire to come. What our ten was referring to is the friends that are in some heaviness they don't think they're going to come. How can we help them and what exercise do you give us to engage and so that we can disconnect them from these heaviness and to come?
R. I don't know what to tell you, I don't know what to tell you. I would divide every convention according to different tickets whoever can collect say 10, 20, then he comes closer to the final correction - I'm not kidding, I’m not kidding - it's just to show a person that he's acquiring something. I think that if you can come to the convention and you're not, that is being a traitor because if people are coming from all around in Israel so how could I not come with them? This is the circle that I must be in, from abroad it’s already something else, that’s something else already. I don’t know if I said it successfully or not.
S. We’ll try to talk about it during the day and we’ll really try to awaken the friends so we can all come to the congress with the Creator’s help.
R. I don't understand the same people that don't want to connect. You don't need to come maybe physically but there's no choice that you are remaining in your place and not coming physically but still we need to talk about it. I recommend to talk to the organizers.