Morning Lesson February 01, 2023, Transcription 

Transcription is made from simultaneous translation which leaves a possibility for differences in the audio 

Part 1:

Zohar for All. "Introduction of The Book of Zohar". Heaven and Earth. #151

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1. Rav’s Introduction. (00:35) Yes, until now it was relatively an easy introduction to the Book of Zohar. Now from this article, Heaven and Earth it  already starts being more to the point. We will read it and you will see that this requires greater effort to delve, to get into it, and to connect to the book. This certainly is also through the connection between us, and this is how we will advance. Even though it may sometimes seem as hard and difficult to understand but we are not going to rush through it, we will advance in a pace so that everyone will be able to reach a connection with what is written. So, Heaven and Earth please. 

Reading #151 (01:47) “Rabbi Shimon started and said...”

2. R. (03:30) It means that there is a desire here to clarify how all the forces of nature connect from above down in order to build Malchut, the general will to receive, so it will be suitable for the Keter, for the Creator’s desire, and we are parts of Malchut so of course, we are also interested in rising and becoming incorporated in the Keter. 

Continues Reading #151 (04:09) “With it he explained that the Creator...” 

3. S. (06:00) What does it mean that he says that the light of Hochma  is clothed in garments of glory? What does that mean?

R. The light of Hochma is clothed in the light of Bina, and the two of them reach the desire which is Malchut and they begin to correct Malchut, to arrange it, to establish it; this is for the time being what we can say. And all of these corrections they have to pass from the Keter all the way to the Malchut throughout the 6000 years. We can understand that from this verse.

S. The next sentence where it says that the light of Hassidim shines and by this the world exists. What does this mean?

R. Because only thanks to the light of Hassidim the light of Hochma can shine in all of the Sefirot, in all of the desires because without the light of Hassidim, the light of Hochma cannot descend to the lower ones because it is the opposite of the will to receive. And to the extent that there is a correction of Hassidim in the will to receive, the light of Hochma can shine to them, and then by them receiving the influence of the light of Hochma they can develop.

4. S. (08:04) It talks about the point in the heart here and the work of the point in the heart?

R. What is the question?

S. Well it talks about how to strengthen the point in the heart and the work in two lines.

R. Here it didn't speak directly about it, so you should only talk about what is written here and ask about that.

5. S. (08:55) What does it mean to sit and continue the corrections of the bride, because in item 150 it also talks about sitting, what does that mean?

R. Sit means a lower degree that we have to come down to descend from the GAR to the VAK and then we continue to correct Malchut .

6. S. (09:27) If we speak simply, how do we in our work connect MI and ELEH?

R. Try to connect between us so much so, that everyone will be interested in correcting our desires in general because we cannot each and every one of us draw the upper light and receive it in the right way, through equivalence of form, through bestowal, but only on the condition that we prepare ourselves for connection and then from that preparation of connection when we have the illumination of Hassidim between us, we turn to the light of Hochma and we are ready to receive it in order to bestow.

7. S. (10:43) What does it talk about? What does it mean that they will disappear if they do not create the Heaven and Earth? Who is it talking about: who will disappear, who will perish?

R. Where are you reading?

S. If they don't create Heaven and Earth they will have to perish?

R. If they do not connect together with the light of Hassidim and the light of Hochma, then both of them disappear, they perish and an empty place is left. But nevertheless, I'm not sure where you are, we are in number 151. 

8. S. (11:47) What type of presence does it talk about here if they are still not connected? What state are they in?

R. I don't know, I'm reading what it says here.

S. Ok I will keep the text in front of me, sorry. 

 

9. S. (12:33) In this excerpt he talks about other gods. What are other gods and how can they have power that you have to cancel?

R. Yes they’re forces that are not balanced by the side of Kedusha, and they are called other gods. Our work is to balance them, to cancel them and to advance in this way. On each and every degree they awaken, and they continue along with us.

S. Other gods are forces of separation between us?

R. Usually, yes.

Reading #152 (13:20) “This verse is a translation except for...” 

10. R. (25:31) Now we will go back to the beginning of 152 and let us start to read it so we can understand it better. After that we will answer a few questions.

11. S. (22:57) If I understand correctly, the AHP in the language of translation turns to holiness according to the request of the lower ones?

R. We will scrutinize that.

12. S. (26:24) Concerning MAN, he writes that they raise MAN, is there a connection between MAN and prayer?

R. A prayer is broader than MAN, the prayer includes within it also gratitude and many other things. MAN is actually just a deficiency.

S. Is every man rewarded with MAD, a response?

R. No, but if it is a true MAN, a proper MAN, then it is rewarded.

S. He mentioned that MAN causes correction, so which MAN? What should we understand from this to cause correction?

R. There has to be a deficiency, a lack for the correction of the Kelim that now awakens. In a minute, we will scrutinize these things, we are just beginning. This article, Heaven and Earth, speaks precisely about the MAN into MAD.

13. S. (27:44) It is written in the text that other gods who separate ELEH from MI. Can you explain what is ELEH and the other gods?

R. ELEH is the AHP, and MI is GE, and the forces that do not let them connect are called other gods.

S. Can you explain who is the Elohim that is written in the text as Elohim that did not make the heavens and the earth?

R. It’s that they did not connect between them in order to build the heaven and the earth. Elohim, gods are forces of Bina and forces of Malchut that can connect between them and begin to build a network of forces. MI and ELEH, Elohim;  ELEH is the AHP, and MI is the GE. So if they connect then they build ten Sefirot in which we begin to discover the complete forces.

14. S. (29:21) How can it be that angels which are forces that have no free choice, how can they envy a person? What is the envy of angels?

R. Because they feel that a man is the ability to correct, the ability to yearn, the ability to turn to the Creator and obligate Him, and they don't have it; they are just relatively passive forces of the nature of the ten Sefirot.

15. S. (30:05) What is the tongue?

R. The tongue is the part that is between the parts of the Partzuf that links everyone and so it brings the correct order of operations from the state that it exists and all the way to correction.

16. S. (30:38)  What should be our intention when we read this excerpt today and how can we help friends who are struggling to join the lessons in the morning?

R. Our intention should be first of all with the understanding of the verse in its literal form as it is written, even for us to know the words. I remember when I started learning I wrote above each and every word, how was it possible to pronounce it, and translate it, what does it mean etc. and what is its relation to the words next to it. And so we simply need to know the text first of all, it is very simple, it is very much connected to our work and what we have to do. And so what is written here, it is worthwhile for us to scrutinize it, precisely what we have here, not to leave anything on the side. How to be connected with those friends that are not with us in the lesson- they probably want to be with us, but they cannot. I cannot tell you. I think that it would be good to give them the materials and also a recording of the lesson and if anybody has time to go together with them over the lesson again.

17. S. (32:52) Are heaven and earth Malchut and Bina?

R. Yes.

S. Is there a difference between an angel and a holy Angel?

R. An angel is a force, and a  force in spirituality is called an angel, and if this force performs an act of bestowal then it is called a holy Angel.

18. S. (33:50) The force of the angel: do they have any thought?

R. I don't know what that means but the angels are forces, Malachim, angels, from the word Malchut. 

19. S. (34:23) The text talks about the scales, the scales that come down, what is the force that's called scales? 

R. Scales, it is not a force but maybe it is a force of judgment that they always measure between what we are supposed to do and what we actually do. And the results of these considerations, the measurements, the work of the scales, there's already an actual result in the ten Sefirot that we are talking about.

20. S. (35:35) Can we create angels through our actions, if they are positive or negative? In this way do we create angels?

R. Yes, certainly.

21. S. (36:05) Earlier we talked about raising MAN and how important it is in receiving MAD but what does it mean to still raise MAN in purity?

R. Raising a deficiency, a request to a prayer to the Creator, without that we will not be able to carry out any action even the smallest one in spirituality.

S. What is to raise MAN in purity?

R. That it will be pure; in order to bestow.

22. S. (36:58)  How can we arrange our desire of bestowal in order to associate MI, ELEH as revealing Elohim?

R. It is to arrange all the vessels, the vessels of bestowal and the vessels of reception in such a way that they will all want to bestow and then we raise all the deficiencies in these vessels to bestowal and this is called raising complete MAN for now, raising it to the upper one.

23. S. (37:52) Following up slightly on what is in the sixth paragraph, of number 152. It talks about, Elohim does not appear in heaven and earth that were created but by extending the letters ELEH from upper Ima through MAN and good deeds as it is written. I mention the ELEH, letters with my mouth and thy shed tears. Does the mentioning of the ELEH letters with the mouth and shedding tears refer to the connection or lack of connection because of it still being in a state of reception rather than bestowal?

R. When she has a short question let her ask but in the meantime I'll continue.

24. S. (39:44) The question is about the text that is written here that if the MA and the MI do not connect this means that creation was not created?

R. Correct, there’s no ten Sefirot, so we in fact are those who build Zeir Anpin and without us creation does not exist. 

S. Without us creation does not exist?

R. Yes.

25. S. (40:20) It says in the text Elohim with Hey and then Elokim with Kof. What is the difference between them?

R. Do not pay attention to them, it is not important for the time being it is not important. The complete form, the correct form of Elohim is with the Hey and Elokim with the K is like an abbreviation. So it is with a Kof. 

26. S. (41:10) He speaks here, he says that all of the correction depends on the connection of the letters ELEH with MI through MA, and he speaks about the holy tongue that it scales, it comes from the word Awzen. What does Awzen have to do with the scales?

R. Correct, Awzen is hearing, it is balance on the level of Bina and on the level of Bina we begin to correct the vessels.

27. S. (41:48) If you can maybe explain this envy, this envy of the angel towards men what does this point to?

R. For the time being it doesn't talk about anything here they envy a person because a person can perform all of the actions even make mistakes and rise and do everything whereas angels are nothing, angels are like you have a machine and the parts of the machine work because this is how they are operated. This is called Angels. Angels cannot make mistakes, they have no desire of their own, they perform operations just like still vegetative and animate except for man.

S. So the angel works when he has the right conditions for his action?

R. Under the right conditions the angel is operated from above, it doesn't make its own decisions.

28. S. (43:25) As we face these scales of judgment and we are in fear of corrupting the work to find a balance between annulling and climbing, can you advise?

R. We need to always choose connection between us, connection between us only. That is it.

29. S. (44:18) In the sixth paragraph of 152 it says I mentioned these ELEH letters with my mouth and I shed tears. Does the shedding of the tears have to do with not being able to bestow?

R. Yes. Yes. 

30. S. (44:57) In the middle of the excerpt it says that the entire correction depends on the  connection between ELEH and ME through raising MAN and therefore it is in the Holy tongue, it is like the scales that are in the middle. Can we say that the raising of MAN is the dialogue, our dialogue with the Creator? There is a middle point here in which we equalize in our form, and we learn how to speak in his language, his tongue?

R. Yes.

31. S. (45:56) There is this term of tongue here. You said that this is the connection between the parts of the Partzuf and there is a language, the tongue of translation, the holy tongue, the tongue of the scales. How is this expressed and manifested this connection between the parts of the Partzuf in the tongue? 

R. We need to come to a state where everything that we take into account will be balanced within our vessels between our desires so we will examine their desires and with these we use, with those we don't, with these some with those more, until we can organize our vessel in such a way that this is the ideal way with which we can arise and be incorporated in bestowal and more than that we can't and less than that we do not want to and this is called the tongue, it’s the tongue of the scales, this is what it's called in Hebrew; meaning, that we in our current state could not bestow more.

32. S. (47:33) It is written in the text that there are other gods who will separate ELEH from ME. Are these gods referred to as the gods of religion in that?

R. God forbid, we have no connection with religions, faiths, all kinds of forms, nothing. Gods are forces of nature that disrupt us from examining our forces correctly so we can raise them as much as possible for correction. Do not ever connect any religion to or any faiths or anything like that to it. There's no such thing, it is completely not beneficial, not instrumental, it is not helpful in short.  

Excerpt 152 again (49:06): “This verse is a translation except for...”  

33. R. (01:01:05) In other words only through the right correction from the upper light where the AHP can connect to the GE can they rise to the degree of GE and participate in the full name of Elokim.

34. S. (01:01:33) There is a sentence here that says thus the heavens and the earth that were created in MA the name Elokim is not revealed in them except by extending these letters from upper Ima through MAN and good deeds. This topic of heavens and earth is still? I mean without heaven and earth nothing can be done?

R.  Heaven and Earth are two degrees. There are Bina and Malchut, heaven and earth. We need to make corrections to raise the earth to the heaven.

S. What does it mean extending the letters ELEH from upper Ima from MA and good deeds, what is the essence of these actions?

R. Through the request, through the prayer we want to draw upon us the upper light which will help us and sanctify our desires so that all of us will be at the level of Bina.

S.  What is the extension of the letters? What role do the letters play?

R. Extension of the letters means that all of our qualities and desires are on the level of Bina.

35. S. (01:02:41) When do the lower ones raise MAN become GE?

R. They rise to the level of GE, the lower ones rise to the degree of GE when they want to be on the level of GE. It is not the end of correction or something like that. They go into the smallness and they're willing to be in the GE.

S. When does it become possible for the lower ones to complete the Partzuf with the ten Sefirot?

R. When they have GE and AHP and they receive some level of adhesion with their upper one and then become as ten complete Sefirot. Or it can be that they raise themselves and partially connect to the upper one and make GE and AHP with Him, the ten Sefirot, the upper one. 

S. What is the AHP of the lower ones?

R. It is the vessels of reception of the lower one which the lower one cancels, revokes in order for the upper one adhere to it. When the upper one who revokes or cancels its own AHP and then the lower one can be as the upper one.

36. S. (01:05:03) There is a difference here between the Aramaic language and the Hebrew language, are there also prayers that are in Aramaic?

R. They are also prayers in Aramaic, but we do not use them. 

S. There is no need for it?

R. No.

37. S. (01:05:25) In our prayers are we raising from Malchut of Malchut to Bina of Malchut?

R. Malchut of Malchut to Bina of Malchut, correct yes.

38. S. (01:05:53) He writes when the lower ones do not raise MAN in purity it is considered that they only want to agree with the letters Eley, not to connect them with MI? 

R. Yes they want to remain in the vessels of reception.

S. What does it mean that they return from the state of Heaven and Earth to the ZON of VAK?

R. Afterwards they continue in nevertheless to the corrections by the upper one arranging such states for them that they become willing to get rid of the vessels of reception.

39. S. (01:06:43) Who are these referred to as Eley?

R. Eley is AHP.

40. S. (01:06:59) What is the Bina we need to rise to?

R. What did you say?

S. What is the essence of Bina, you said that we have to rise to Bina, what is the essence, I want to understand it and what do we rise to?

R. Bina is Mother, it is a giving force that sustains and nurtures, tends to the vessels of reception to the lower ones, to ZON and therefore we always need to be drawn to Bina.

41. S. (01:07:46) In the previous article here he also mentions that Malchut is the governess of the people, he also writes that the lower ones in their deeds they corrupt. We know that everything that happens is all corrections and if there is any influence on the spiritual worlds it is only by those engaging in Holiness, so this is about us. What is our corruption seemingly in our deeds and what is our corruption? 

R. We first of all are not using the opportunity to correct ourselves, to correct ourselves means to ask. We cannot perform any act of correction by ourselves, all of our corrections are that we ask for the upper one to shine on us with His upper light and then we too will want more and do more of an act of bestowal, an act of connection. This is what we need, that is our whole work. We have nothing else in the world except to do that and in the end at the end of our life, at the end of everything all we need is to ask the upper one to perform corrections on us.

42. S. (01:10:17) What does it mean to use the language of translation in the ten?

R. We will learn it in connection with translation and the holy tongue, we will learn it. He only started saying a few words here, it is all still ahead of us. We have not received enough information.

43. S. (01:10:57) There is this feeling that there are two main forces, the purpose of creation and the resembling or equivalence of form and they are in a constant struggle between them, and a person should somehow decide between these two sides of the scales?

R. Yes. What do you want me to answer, there is no question. There is the purpose of creation and there is the correction of creation. How do we by correcting creation reach the purpose of creation that is what it is all about. We need to scrutinize what exactly is the purpose of creation, adhesion connection Etc. and by what do we approach it.

S. When the purpose of creation grows stronger on the scales, it shifts the scales in order to balance it and I have to balance it by resembling the Creator and vice versa? It turns out it's that man who bounces the two sides of the scales, these two forces?

R. You are speaking correctly but for the time being it is difficult for us to explain. If I shift everything I have to the side of the Creator then where will I remain? If I do not shift it to the side of the Creator but remain in me then what will I have that is similar to the Creator, and in what will I be Adam, similar to The Creator? There is always a question here to what extent I can equalize myself to the Creator to such an extent that I leave for myself, or I do not leave anything for myself or I leave for myself something that remains for me some sort of existence of myself, so I can say that this is me. We will talk about these points.

44. S. (01:13:49) What is the connection between thought and speech and how does that strengthen the connections between us?

R. The connection, it is because the thought reinforces the connection.

S. What does the speech add?

R. We will talk about it, it is an entire system. The thought is the inner part and speech is...well we will talk about it.

45. S. (01:14:45) Is MA a  corrected light from above and MI an awakening from below?

R. You can say that, but I don't like that we are building and putting up certain conditions, let’s wait for the Zohar to tell us this.

46. S. (01:15:51) You said that the Heaven and Earth are the Bina and Malchut. Baal HaSulam says a few times that it belongs to MI and the Heaven and Earth are called ZON?

R. Correct, so what is your question?

S. You said that Shamayim, sky is Bina, so here the Sky and the Earth are called ZON to what?

R. That is what it says. Heaven and Earth are Bina and Malchut. Sometimes Heaven refers to Zeir Anpin when we realize ZON, but in truth it is Bina and Malchut. 

S. Regarding the angels, are there angels that belong to me and angels that belong to MA like the angels of sanctity, do they belong to me?

R. Correct.

S. And others are belonging to Ma?

R. Correct.

47. S. (01:17:13) We read here that in the state that the forces are not balanced there are problems between MI and MA, and when we are drawn to bestowal to Bina then all of the forces fall into place and there is connection. The question is are there angels that cause separation, when we do our action do we correct the same forces and are we arranging them correctly or are we negating the forces of separation?

R. It is all included in the corrections. 

S. In the beginning of the work it is when we have another god and that we feel confused, we  do not know what to add in comparison to what. This action that we need to be drawn to Bina to lead to correction. Why is the action that we try to make the connection between us, and why is that considered that we are attracted to Bina?

R. Because when we form the connections between us we do it with the forces of bestowal and bestowal is Bina.

S. I feel that it needs to be clarified because the connection between us needs to be bestowal between us?

R. Between us, yes and then we use the force of the power of Bina, the power of bestowal.

S. This balances out the vessels? 

R. First of all it connects them although the vessels themselves do not change, but the purpose, their aim, their actions they begin to be connected.

S. Are we stabilizing these forces or are we canceling them?

R. We can’t cancel, we cannot do anything but to aim them at that goal.

48. S. (01:19:31) In our correction in the connection between us in bestowal and rising above, do we also need the light of Hochma?

R. Of course the light of Hochma has to be there, without Hochma there's no light of Hassadim.  We think Hassadim can simply dwell in an empty place, no.

S. Then other gods can also be a danger?

R. It’s not a]that danger but without these forces you cannot scrutinize the vessels of Holiness if you do not have the vessels of impurity. Without other gods you cannot scrutinize Elokim.

S. What is the light of Hochma in the connection between us?

R. The light of Hochma that fills the vessels of reception in order to bestow.

Reading Item #153 (01:20:59) “It is written, and the land, since the land is one of seven lands below...”