Morning Lesson May 31, 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 Place for the Four Worlds ABYA, and the Parsa between Atzilut and BYA. #65)
Reading Item #65 “The Place for the Four Worlds ABYA, and the Parsa between Atzilut and BYA”
1. S. (02:13) What is he trying to emphasize here when he says that AK in itself there is no change?
R. That now that we're talking about the second restriction and everything that takes place in the second restriction in Tabur and below the Tabur of AK and he wants to say that all of this doesn't relate to AK itself but only to the same Partzufim that comes out in the second Tzimtzum.
S. Why is it important for him to emphasize that what happens in the Nekudot of SAG the decision over the second restriction doesn't affect the NHY of AK itself, rather it's like MAN a later response in the elucidation of the Nekudim?
R. Yes, the upper one doesn't change from what the lower one changes and if he receives the deficiency of the lower one and responds to it, but these deficiencies that come to him, they for him are considered MAN as little additional things, that it doesn't influence him and only what he needs to treat the lower one.
S. Can we learn something from that to our work with the upper and the lower?
R. Yes, also for the Creator we need to say that it doesn't seem that there are changes in the Creator and everything that is happening happens only with respect to the created beings, and in the Creator there is no change but he is clothed in these changes in order to take care of the lower ones, and he says here that once he shows a joyful face and once a serious face, and all of this is so that the lower one will be more inspired and coming closer to correction.
S. All the scrutinies the lower ones do is only to connect to make MAN for the upper one?
R. Yes.
2. S. (04:50) What's the difference between Malchut getting the impression from the direct light in the Rosh of the Galgalta then receiving the impression from the light of Bina when it goes down to below the Tabur?
R. There's a difference where they get light from and how they bestow below, we will learn about it soon.
S. What's the expression of the reflected light below the Tabur?
R. I don't understand the question, for example?
S. I know that there is Malchut Behinot Dalet, that's the will to receive and we're learning how to respond to the light, so we're basically until now, we said that Malchut raises reflected light
R. Yes
S. That's the vessel to receive the light. Now what's the expression of that action below Tabur?
R. Wherever there is Malchut it acts through Tzimtzum, Masach, and Ohr Hozer, returning light, reflected light, and it raises the reflected light until the source of the light and that is how it influences.
S. How does this process happen when the light of Bina goes below the Tabur, basically meeting Behinot Dalet, itself?
R. What's the problem with the light of Bina? Bina doesn’t want to receive anything, it’s light is a light of Hassadim that can spread anywhere.
3. S. (06:45) If no change was made below Tabur of AK?
R. Why? Where do you get it?
S. You just said it we just read it, that no change took place below Tabur of AK so how can we bring the system to correction?
R. That's what I'm asking, where are you getting it from? You took half a sentence.
S. Yes, maybe I didn't understand.
R. Where?
S. I’ll read, “ the main part of the second restriction was made in the Partzuf Nekudot of SAG…above the point of this world and know that all the changes that followed that second restriction came only in that Partzuf Nekudot of SAG, and not above it. When we said that above, through Malchut’s ascent to half of Tifferet of AK she ended the Partzuf, and the lower half of Tifferet and NHYM of AK came out in the form of empty space, this did not occur in TNHY of AK itself, but only in TNHY of Partzuf Nekudot of SAG of AK”. Meaning it’s only in SAG but not in TNHY of AK.
R. Not in SAG but in the Nekudot of SAG
S. If no change was made below Tabur of AK how can we bring the system to correction? The whole idea was to fill…
R. You finished all the scrutinies other than this only in the final correction?
S. No, because we have to fill from Tabur until this world with AK and if no change is made there…
R. Wait, why do you think that's everything? In the meantime he says that there's no change done there, right, but it's not everything, that's ahead of us ahead of us we have the inclusion with NHY of AK the shattering of the vessel and the different contemplations. There are many things here, why are you jumping ahead? Wait.
4. S. (09:24) To continue his question it's written that all the changes were done for the ascent of the MAN.
R. Yes, because the vessels of Galgalta AB SAG they stay as they are and what’s added are the clothings on them that's it.
Reading item number #66 (09:54)
5. R. (10:50) He divides the place from Tabur and below.
6. S. (11:03 Everything he writes in this last item is done only in SAG or is it in NHY of AK as well?
R. In the Nekudot of SAG.
S. What happened to NHY of AK? There was a mingling between SAG and NHY of AK and no impression was left?
R. We’ll wait, for the time being he didn't write about it. Why do you grabbing on to something there in the Raglaim of AK?
7. S. We are learning that the raising of MAN is the matter of the created being it's a prayer.
R. A deficiency, yes.
S. What's a deficiency? It's an action raising of a prayer isn't it?
R. A deficiency.
S. Is there MAN not in a person? What does it mean that a Partzuf raises MAN comparing to a person raising MAN?
R. Who is the person, I don't know.
S. Later now…
R. That’s also not our Adam.
S. Yes, but still there is work from above downward, what’s going on here? Everything should be here cause and consequence, why is it considered MAN, considered on the account of the lower one?
R. When the lower one raises a deficiency to the Upper One and the Upper One is willing to receive this deficiency from the lower one and to realize it, there is already connection between the Upper and the lower one.
S. But what's the connection between here, the raising of the MAN in the Partzufim in AK and what we define in the work from below upwards, we also talk about MAN?
R. MAN is Mayin Nukvin, it’s a deficiency that comes to us from the Malchut, from the will to receive. That's it. Explain what you want to ask.
S. I don't understand how there's a state that’s seemingly like the created being from below upwards is working in concealment and building a prayer on its own without feeling the Upper One, so this is the whole different story here, there's an Upper One already, the cause and consequence, a chain it's not himself, there's no lower one here yet?
R. Not yet.
S. So why is it called MAN?
R. Because it's raising a deficiency, it's based on the future if you want to relate it to a person. So it's the person that he needs to receive it from NHY of AK.
8. S (14:11) What MAN can there be if there's no recognition of myself or the shattering? What is this deficiency over what?
R. It's still right, it still, there isn't, that's why I'm against questions that are premature.
Reading Item number 67 (14:45) “The reason for it is that..”
9. R. (18:28) Try to go over this in the groups, to explain the four worlds Atzilut, Beriya, Yetzira, Assiya, why they are divided like this, and that's it. Where is their place, what's special about them, what's the special Behina in each and every world, what is the same distance or space that the world takes actually. Let's see and tomorrow we’ll continue.
10. S. (19:28) Can I ask about the meaning of two-thirds of Tifferet being the roots of ZON?
R. Yes, there's two upper, two-thirds of the Tifferet that still belongs to Bina and the two-thirds, the lower two-thirds of Tifferet belong to ZON.
S. But why is it called the roots of ZON?
R. Because from then the lower grows and receives everything from it.
S. But he says here that the flaw, the two-thirds of Tifferet, is not great because they are the roots of ZON, but if they are the roots, so it's as if the flaw in them should have been greater than the ZON themselves?
R. There is something that you're saying here but it's still, so what? Let's say that they have a flaw, that if there is a flaw it is the sign that they have a flaw, in this flaw that awakens they must correct themselves and through them, the ZON will also be corrected, that's how it will be. Without feeling the deficiency of the Upper One, the lower one will have no correction. Okay.
11. S. (21:18) We read about that ending of Malchut of AK, that the Emanator saw the world cannot exist this way, meaning Malchut cannot be corrected this way and below it is the vacant space and now the new Sium where Malchut rises to Bina, and the vacant space is below the Parsa and now it can be corrected?
R. Yes, and now there is connection between a few parts of the Malchut that was in corrections, not in corrections, there's a form of connection to a few types of desires and how they each relate to the Upper Light in a special way.
S. Types of desires: meaning Malchut and Bina?
R. Yes.
12. S. (22:30) Since we're done, a general question about the study. In the first part of the lesson we had a very emotional connecting lesson with Rabash, a lot of thoughts, we filled a lot of notes and we have what to do during the day with it and suddenly we have these twenty minutes of TES?
R. What, it cools down?
S. I'm afraid to even hear what we learn so that the first part won't be erased. I don't know how to relate to it. If I go into it I know I'll come out of the lesson with nothing, so how to make these transitions without harming?
R. I don't know, you have a small head, that you're afraid to lose something from the first lesson and I understand you, I get you, but we need to relate differently to what we're learning. I don't care what I learned five minutes ago, even if I was in revelation of who knows what, everything's gone and dead, continues. So start anew, so calm down and you can participate with us in the lesson; you already profited.