Morning Lesson June 1, 2022 Transcription
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Baal HaSulam. "Study of the Ten Sefirot" (TES). Vol. 1. Part 2. Inner Observation. Chapter Five. #51 ("Once we learned the four degrees in the will to receive one below the other well,")
Reading Vol. 1. Part 2. Inner Observation. Chapter Five. #51 (00:05)“The Difference Between the Restriction and the Screen...”
1.R. (01:17) I have nothing to add here, it's the introduction.
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Excerpt:
Item
52.
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“The
Four
Phases
Received....”
2. S. (04:32) Why are the four phases remaining empty after all the restriction was only in Malchut?
R. The Malchut is the will to receive, when it receives light from all the phases and thus the light illuminates in all these phases. It reaches the fourth phase and the fourth phase is actually in all the phases, but in this state it restricts itself that it doesn’t want to receive, then we say there is no light in all the phases because who reveals the light if there is no desire for it.
3. S. (05:19) Is it after the restriction is cleared that these are not one with the light of Ein Sof. Is it opposite of what is happening? After the Restriction it was revealed that these phases are not one with the light of Ein Sof, then I exist in Ein Sof, why did it happen after the restriction like that?
R. Because before the restriction the light filled all of reality, doesn’t matter what desire, it would fill it equally. After the restriction you can say in each and every desire, in each and every degree and each and every discernment there is a different desire. Thus a different restriction and thus a different light.
S. Is it the same desire? How did a different desire come to each of them?
R. No, the desire was different to begin with otherwise we wouldn’t have phases. What are phases? It is phases of desire, phase of Keter, Hochma, Bina, Zeir Anpin, Malchut our root 1 2 3 4, they are different desires. These different desires were not operated on their own because their desire wouldn't bestow anything. Now that the desire is bestowing to the light because it's revealed its own desire and each and every phase of its own, and so the departure of the light, and when the light comes, it's all according to the desire.
S. What does it mean the light departed? What is that action of the departed light?
R.That I don't want to feel and we're not talking about the light itself, we are talking about the desire, that this is how it operates, that's how it feels. You are now in the world of infinity of Ein Sof, do you know this? Okay so you know but you don't feel. You have friends next to you who do know and they know less and they know more, each one according to their degree, but all of us are in the light of infinity.
S. How is that disclosed to you eventually?
R. We will reveal it all the way without end.
S. That is called the end of correction, right?
R. Right, right.
Item 54. (08:10) “There Seems to be a Question Here...”
R. (08:57) Before the restriction there was no difference between phases root,1 2 3 4. After the revelation of the restriction we see that the fourth phase is against the restriction and that it wants to receive the light and all the rest of the phases don't have a will to receive. Rather only a will, a desire but not that it wants to receive, and so there's a difference between all the phases and the fourth phase.
4. S. (09:29) You said that in every discernment there is the fourth phase?
R. Yes we're talking about the private Malchut of each and every phase otherwise it would not exist. Each and every phase has the entirety of the ten Sefirot in it, its own.
S. The fourth phase is restricted so it’s all those private kingships are also Malchut and are also restricted?
R. Of course, of course, there's a connection between them and the final fourth phase determines all the preceding ones, all the previous ones. We will learn more about this until the light doesn't reach all the previous ones. It will come to be.
5. S. (10:21) When the light emerges then the phases remain with the same intention?
R. We cannot yet speak about this but we will learn soon and you will understand on your own. The light does everything and that it enters and exits from each and every phase and in this it builds in each and every phase a desire. That is how we build secondary Sefirot and additions.
Item #55 (11:04) “The Restriction was not because of the Inferiority....”
6. R. (12:21) The fourth phase is the most important. It doesn't matter if it’s in restriction, under it, over it, its importance remains as the main phase. This actually is the created being.
7. S. (12:39) What is the connection between the ten Sefirot and the four phases of expansion of light?
R. The four phases of direct light, these are the phases that come from above from the Creator. That's how it develops the will to receive until the fourth phase. The fourth phase that begins to feel that it receives the light and the light enters it and builds in it all sorts of discernments.Then from this already, is made instead of four phases and the fourth one, has been made ten Sefirot and then we are already talking about Sefirot. That is the difference. Until the will to receive is not revealed in the created being it’s called a phase. When the will to receive is revealed then it is called a Sefira. Because according to the will to receive the light that illuminates in the will to receive, the will to receive then illuminates and thus it is called a Sefira.
S. When we are in the ten cooperating, working on connection, what assists us to develop to a desire from below upwards? How do we stabilize the ten in such a way so that our desire will develop?
R. We want in our actions towards one another to be similar to the light. Then it turns out that in this we are similar to the light, it gives the light more possibility to Illuminate in us and then we influence one another and the extent of light that each one attains from us. Even to the smallest extent and thus we become closer and connect.
8. S. (15:04) Is the restriction for the adornment or the adornment for the restriction?
R. The adornment is the fourth phase that wants to resemble the Creator, that's called an adornment. That she wants to receive but that she makes a restriction on herself, the screen or the reflected light, all these actions are called an adornment. Clothing of the fourth phase of the will to receive in all sorts actions of bestowal, that’s called an adornment.
S. The desire to resemble the Creator is the adornment?
R. Yes of course because it is the will to receive and when that will to receive covers itself and presents itself as if it wants to bestow that is called an adornment. The adornment of the bride and so on. says he wants to be so that's called and a dormant.
S. But why is it called an adornment? Adornment is like a decoration and is not necessarily resembling the upper as a must, it is unnecessary we have to do that?
R. It is not according to its nature. According to her nature she’s a will to receive and only according to how much she wants to resemble the groom. That is called that she's manipulating the husband, the male. Then she can get closer to Him and get married with Him and receive from Him illumination and so on. According to our nature she has only a will to receive and according to the desire to marry with the groom, and she receives the ability to resemble Him and in that extent she resembles Him and she gets closer to Him and there's a coupling between them and so on.
9. S. (17:17) He writes cause and consequence in the four phases we are not in Ein Sof. Meaning that the whole cascading that we learn in the four phases of direct light was discerned only after the restriction?
R. Yes, if we will not make a restriction then we cannot reach any action of bestowal. Because restriction is on the will to receive on the intention to receive, and after the restriction we can do actions with our will to receive there will be in something to bestow, at least bestow on the intention to bestow.
S. The entire scrutiny of the first and second phase, all that cascading is actually clarified only when the light emerges?
R. There are scrutinies that the light is in the kli, inside the vessel, the desire and there are scrutinies we cannot see rather only after the light leaves the vessel. Only then the true Aviut, the coarseness is revealed.
Item # 56 (18:38) “The Extension of the Line began in Phase Four.…”
10. R. (20:21) Meaning the light expands in the desire and it influences the desire and enlarges the desire more and more until this desire begins to feel that the light that develops it and fills it is opposite from it. Meaning the desire develops in an internal fundamental manner, that it begins to feel that even though the light is pleasant to it, but it is opposite from it. Until it reaches a state that he reveals that he is entirely opposite the emanator and he cannot stand this, and thus he makes the restriction afterwards. Thus in order that we shall reach the correct vessel that pushes the light, and we need in this the expansion of the light from the emanator in a sufficient manner. Meaning that we will go through all the phases that the vessel will feel in it that it receives and it wants to receive and that it is opposite the emanator and is not capable of standing the oppositeness from the emanator, and then it makes a restriction upon itself.
11. S. (21:54) Why does he describe here that the Malchut of the upper becomes the initial substance of each degree, how is that?
R. That is, Malchut of a certain phase becomes a Keter of the next phase.
S. Why does he mention it specifically here?
R. It is interesting that the same will to receive that is in the upper degree, it turns to be the will to bestow, to the Keter in the lower degree.
S. But here we're talking about the restriction, the restriction is the previous state with the extension of light. How does the Malchut of the restriction now become?
R. It is not Malchut of the restriction. Malchut of the upper becomes Keter of the lower one.
S. That we learned in the four phases, in the development of the four phases. But here there is a restriction now and after the restriction is the extension of the light. How does the restriction become a Keter of the extension of light, for the line?
R. The restriction cannot be a Keter, rather the decision to restrict itself is called, not to receive on the intention to receive. After this decision it can incorporate in the upper light but not in an intention that she wants to receive. Then with her decision from the restriction not to receive, she receives from the upper one the force to be the bestower. Then it turns her to be the Keter for the lower one. In the upper light you have a force, power and the Malchut always receives from this force what she needs in order to continue onwards, according to the program. Now that she received all the light to enter herself, and now it repulses her and pushes her to get rid of all the light and then to do an opposite action in bestowing and it all comes to her from the light.
S. Meaning, that yearning in the fourth phase to receive, after becomes yearning to bestow?
R. Yes of course. It is the same force of the will to receive by the reception of the light, it turns to be the force of restriction and the force of restriction later turns to be the force of bestowal.
Item # 57 (25:08) “The Detaining Force that was Placed on Phase Four is....”
12. S. (26:42) The desire to resemble the upper is the Keter of every degree or not a Sefira whatsoever?
R. No, that is already at the result of the influence of the light inside the will to receive, that the will to receive develops by the influence of the light and then it wants to be like the bestower. It’s not immediate.
S. The whole desire fully yearns for this or is it just a part?
R. Only in the fourth phase, beforehand it is not felt. I feel that there is light and developing and it feels and so on, but in this you also want to be like Him. That’s only the fourth phase.
13. S. (27:50) According to what is written the light of the line extends to the three phases with the force of the screen and through the screen we extend the light only to the first three phases?
R. We draw the light by the fourth phase but we don't let the light enter the fourth phase but the fourth phase is the will to receive that draws the light.
S. Meaning, we always receive in the three phases will be bestowal?
R. Yes.
14. S. (28:41) What is this concept of restriction? What is this concept of deficient restriction? She got herself rid of this fourth phase but what is the essence of this restriction?
R. I don't want to enjoy from what the host gives me.
S. Can we say that the restriction is the force to overcome?
R. Of course it’s a force of overcoming on the will to receive. Everything is spoken about on the will to receive.
S. Okay so that is called a restriction. Thank You.
15. R. (29:26) Friends, I feel that this material that we are learning, many people are rather apathetic that they don't want to get into it so much, but the principles of the light and the desires the restriction, you need to somehow make an effort to understand it, to feel it. Thus do not entirely reject the study on its own. Soon this part will be finished and then will continue in a direction that it is a bit different. In the meantime we finished our lesson, until tomorrow.
16. R. (33:30) I don't want to say, if there are questions, so turn to ask. I am happy to answer and to participate. The main thing is you have a good day of connection.