Morning Lesson June 8, 2021 Transcription
Part 2 Chapter 1 Circles and Straightness, Containing Two Chapters
Inner light
Item 2. The vessels of the ten Sefirot of straightness are called ….”
1. S. (04:22) What is a line and what is the circle in our work in the 10?
R. In our work I can't tell you, we learn what it is and spirituality, in your work you want to come to the same definitions that we have in the study TES so it will be this way in our relationships.
S. My attitude toward the friends, what is a line and a circle?
R. It is too soon to talk about it, but let's say in a circle I am not limited, I relate to everyone equally in every direction, in a way that I relate to each one to the extent that I am for him and he is for me and we can be in contact. A line means limitation, like a measurement, a yardstick, and a circle means no criticism, no limitations.
S. He wants to give an example about children that we relate to them in a line and to the friends can I relate with such restrictions?
R. A line means limitation, a circle means no limitations, children and friends I don't know, you think about that
2. S. (06:06) It turns out that the line is receiving by the screen?
R. Without boundaries and without a screen.
3. S. (06:27) It is known that the Creator gives the righteous?
R. I don't know. I don't know about the Creator or the righteous. We didn't read about that here.
4. S. (06:42) What you answered the friend according to the line, the line attitude in the 10 is to love the friends and the circle is to love the others and to determine everybody to the scale of merit?
R. Seemingly for the time being let's learn a little bit. You haven't learned one page yet and you're jumping already. Who taught you to learn this way? I am ashamed and embarrassed that you are getting into the study in this way, you have a thousand questions and you haven't gotten through the first page of material. Read, check, look at the definitions of the word that we have at the end of this part, and then start scrutinizing. As you first have to put in your mind and your heart as deep as possible through the wisdom of Kabbalah the definitions and after you have incorporated how the wisdom talks about it, then you can start scrutinizing what is happening to us and to the group and come up to me with the friends. What you're doing now is not serious. How can you study when you don't know what it is about and you already think that you can understand everything? First understand the basics, and when these are clear, you will learn how to use them. Otherwise it won't work out and you will remain confused with the wrong definitions. This would end your whole development, why am I getting so angry? Because you are failing yourselves.
5. S. (08:53) What he writes about justice, what does he mean?
R. Justly in the straightness, talks about the line and the measuring line, according to the records.
6. S. (09:12) We dived right into TES, maybe you can help us organize our intention before we continue?
R. To relate correctly to the text, first I have to study a few pages and see the definitions of these words then I have to see how I understand it in my life in the group.
Reader continues: “This is the meaning of the words in the Tikkunim, Zohar …..” (10:00)
7. S. (14:30) To ask about what we're right now about the screen and the pipeline, how do we acquire this form of restriction?
R. The restriction means that I am not taking anything, after the restriction I start sorting my desires as much as I can work with them in a selective way with these more, with those less and how can I organize my desires then in according to that I build a pipeline, this pipeline I feel it with the fulfillment in coupling by striking and the pipeline becomes a line, called the line of value, of measure, that according to its forces gradually it can receive the light and pass them from 1 degree° to the next this is how it works. We will learn about it this whole part what it is about it, the circles and the straightness is the whole spiritual structure. It is either vessels of circles or vessels of straightness, the vessels of circles are before the shattering, that is what came on behalf of the Creator and the vessels of straightening this is what the created being is participating in and wanting to correct and still the vessels of straightness. By the circles, so he builds the straightness.
8. S. (16:37) If I understand correctly, the next part is trying to explain the basics of building a screen when the desire formats and builds itself in this way, transferring the light through it.
R. He still doesn't explain how to build the degrees in the screen or the difference in the vessels of circles are straightness, the vessels of the circles came before the screens and the vessels of straightness are after the screens came. The circle still belongs to the Creator and the vessels of straighten this belong to the created beings.
S. Why does he also talk about the screen and the vessel together being a pipeline?
R. I don't understand.
S. It says when we get the vessels of the circles in the screens together they become a pipeline?
R. You have a desire, if the desire is limited according to these special forms it is called a pipeline, it could not be a pipeline, maybe a ball, maybe a square, Maybe a cube, it can be all kinds of shapes in your desire, a triangle. We will learn about where so many shapes and figures come from in our world, it is all from the desire to receive that receives all kinds of limitations on one hand and on the other hand because of these limitations he can't bring itself closer to the form of the sphere which is the true unlimited vessel of form.
Item 3 (18:52) “The ARI’s precision with regards to the word….”
9. R. (21:39) That is something we will reach after a few months of study.
Reader continues ….
Item 4 There is a specific value that discriminates ….”
10. R. We don't use these things for now.
Item 5 “When the light of Ein Sof extended into ….”
11. R. (23:19) Coarse or pure is that according to the vessels or the screen according to what can the light enter the vessel and go from one vessel to the other according to refinement of the vessel of the screen because it's two opposites, so it is something that we will learn about I just wanted you to see that there is a question here.
Inner Light Item 6 (23:51) “Do not be mistaken and interpret the terms ….”
12. S. (24:51) Concerning the approach to the study say we're not learning at the university the way that we learn it, the meaning of the words and everything we learn all of these sublime things, we are now in a transition generation will the next generation have to go through these things and every detail or will we receive these things from the first line and quicker?
R. We are learning in order to build vessels inside of us that will be able to receive the restriction, the screen and the reflected light, the direct light, to feel surrounding light, the surrounding lights, that is why we are learning about all of these things. The approach in our study is that we are getting some kind of influence from above, surrounding light and even if we are studying without the real intention in order to bestow that we are reaching adhesion to the Creator, that we already want to study and know what it is talking about. Still through these surrounding lights because it is a light that isn't in connection with the vessels in the restriction, the Masach, screen and reflected light, but the reflected light works and shines on everybody, even though we don't have the restriction, screen and reflected light the surrounding light shines upon us helping us to advance. This is why it is good for us to read about it even if we don't really understand it. It helps us to advance and gradually we will start feeling the results of this study even though obviously it is very important as much as we are in connection between us, in a tendency to connect in the 10 it is very important as it is what determines each and every word that we learn reaches correction.
13. S. (27:39) What about what we just read, does it describe what we learned before about the inverse relationship between lights and vessels?
R. No, and I recommend not to connect everything to each other, not that you heard something somewhere and apply it here, you'll learn what we are studying here and after all of these things you will begin to understand how it's all connected.
14. S. (29:04) You were once asked if it was better to listen to TES in Hebrew can this help?
R. No, we still need to study in a way that it will be understood in our brain because it is the study of TES and it has to be a study in a language that you understand.
15. S. (29:49) In item five it says the line comes down and stops at phase four, this is called a straight line, why is it called a straight line rather than just a line?
R. Yes, because there is a line that becomes a circle and there is a line that builds degrees, there is a line that makes a triangle, there are all kinds, this line doesn't mean anything as it is a limited light so a vessel that limits and restricts the light is called a line. The vessel and light in it together is called a pipeline in that they have all kinds of relationships between them and from that we get different shapes on behalf of the vessel and according to that there are changes in the light that feels the vessel. It will all work out and you will see that it is not these huge complex things, you will understand them and it repeats itself. Baal HaSulam doesn't save any words as he knows that we should come back and explain it again and again, this is how we will advance.
16. S. (31:30) The light comes gradually in four phases …
R. I don't know what you're asking about, think what you're asking and then ask right now it's not clear. First you have to scrutinize. We will end the lesson here and we will continue tomorrow.