Morning Lesson August 18, 2022 Transcription
Transcription is made from simultaneous translation which leaves a possibility for differences in the audio
Baal HaSulam. "Study of the Ten Sefirot" (TES). Vol. 1. Part 4. Chapter Three. #11 ("Now you can understand what we have said,")
Reading (00:20) “11. Now you can understand what we have said, that there are four phases in these lights of Akudim…”
1.R. (01:46) So we have Taamim, Nekudot, Tagin, Otoit, taste, thoughts, tags and letters which are the expansion of the light from above and departure from the light from below. It includes these two phases, the expansion of the light from above downwards, like he says that is called taste and the Reshimot ,the records from that are called the thoughts and that is the departure and the light from below upwards and then it leaves the letters.
2. S. (02: 32) The Taamin, the taste of light that enters the Guf of the Parzuf ?
R. Yes of course. From the Peh to theTabur. The light that expands from the Peh to theTabur is called tastes, Taamin. The second light is called tags, the third is the departure, the light that departs, called dots, and the fourth is called letters.
S. What are Taagin, tags after the tastes how does it develop?
R. What do you mean?
S. What are the tags?
R. Tags are the second light in the Partzuf.
3. Rav reading item 11. (03:42) “Now you can understand what we have said, that there are four phases in these lights of Akudim: tastes, dots, tags, letters. This is what they are about: The first light among them is called tastes, and the third light, called reflected light, is called dots, since dots or judgments. The second light, called record, is called tags, and the fourth light is the falling sparks, and they are called letters.” That's how he defines it for us for now so let's continue.
Reading (04:43) Item #12 “This fourth light, which is the sparks, called letters, are themselves the discernment of vessels, as it is known...”
4. R. (05:17) Tastes, dots, tags, letters, actually the letters are the true vessels the result of the four stages of the entrance and departure of the light in and out of the Kli.
Reading (05:36) Item #13 “It appears to me that I had heard from my teacher that there were phases of vessels in them to begin with…”
5. R. (07:17) Let's go to chapter 4.
Reading (07:19) Chapter 4: “Explains the striking and the clash between the descending reflected light and the records, which occurred during the departure of the lights to the emanator...”
Reading (08:57) Item#2 “The second reason that Malchut is called a mirror...”
Reading (09:40) Item #3 “When the light of Malchut rose to Yesod....”
Reading (10:36) Item #4 “The vessel of Yesod was made from the sparks….”
Reading (11:35) Item #5 “Three discernments in the ten Sefirot...”
Reading (13:09) Item #6 “After all the departure the lights would...”
Returning (15:26) Item #7 “The refinement in the departure in Nikudim...”
Reading (16:28) Item #8 “The difference between them is that there was corruption...”
6. R. (17:38) We have more to learn here, to add but it will get clear. It will become clearer.
7. S. (17:50) The order of the entrance of the light into the records through Tagim, Otiot, if this is something that is universal in all the Partzufim?
R. Yes, yes we are talking about the Partzufim that are in contact with the upper light and the coupling by striking they receive the upper light so of course that is what happens to them. But there is also a division in the Partzufim, we will learn about Tzimtzum Bet the second restriction afterwards where the vessels divide and the lights change in somewhat of a different way.
8. S. (18:42) From the previous chapter there's 248 sparks that remain inside the vessels of the world Nekudim. Do they have a relation with the point in the Heart? Is that what these are?
R. No no no. It is not worthwhile to even think in this direction, no. We are reviewing for the first time in such a general way all of this so we can quickly as possible reach the states that we are in, then it'll be clear to us where we are. That's why I allow myself to just run through these things, so let's go to info. But again, what I am asking with regards to the women’s questions, those who prepare them, please prepare them more concretely and clearly. Today it was kind of vague.