Part 2
Morning Lesson February 9, 2022, Transcription
Transcription is made from simultaneous translation which leaves a possibility for differences in the audio
Baal HaSulam, Preface to the Wisdom of Kabbalah, #134
1.R. (00:26) We learned that the Creator created the will to receive this will to receive the above all the way to the Malchut of Ein Sof and then discovered that it was in oppositeness to the light, to the Creator. It performed a restriction and began to resemble the Creator, the light in order to bestow. Those actions in order to bestow, the desire to receive that cascades, that comes from the Malchut of the Ein Sof through the worlds of Adam Kadmon, Atzilut, Beria, Yetzira, Assiya, builds 125 degrees and comes to a state in which it is fully, as much as it could be, in order to bestow, it built itself in such a way. So what happens next? Nevertheless, we see that all together a system of the cascading of the worlds, Partzufim and Sefirot to our world takes place, all the way to our world, and nothing else happens. So what happens beyond that, so he wants to talk about that now.
Item #134 (01:55) “It has already been explained that the emergence of…”
2. R. (04:08) Rav reads again: It has already been explained that the emergence of the GAR and ZAT of Nekudim came in three sequences, the three dots, Holam, Shuruk, Hirik. This is what he calls the stages of Gadlut from 0 to 100%. From this you will understand that there are two kinds of completion of the ten Sefirot to receive the Mochin of Gadlut. Meaning how are the ten Sefirot from the state in which they are in the minimal state, how can we see that they can grow and take on all the light into them. So the first stage is through its ascent and incorporation in the upper one, meaning that the lower one is incorporated by the upper one, it is as if the upper one is impregnated by the lower one, yes, just like in pregnancy. That is when ZON of AK shone the new light through the Tabur of the Keter of Nekudim and lowered the lower Hey from Nikvey Eynaim of Keter to its Peh, meaning the Keter received Gadlut by which the fallen AHP of Keter that was in Abba ve Ima of Nekudim and returned to be connected to the GE of Keter and completed the ten Sefirot of Keter. It is then discerned that in this state that GE of AVI and also ascended along with them which was attached to the AHP of Keter. Hence AVI, also incorporated in the complete ten Sefirot of Keter. Since the lower one that ascends to the upper one becomes like it, it is therefore considered that AVI too obtained the AHP they were lacking to complete their ten Sefirot by their integration in the Keter. This is the first kind of Mochin of Gadlut.
What is happening here? Let's say, I really do not want to draw because I wanted to enter this through a way, we can live it in our feelings not in the pictures instead of some block that rises to connect to it like a stick figure, it's not the wisdom of Kabbalah. The wisdom of Kabbalah that is revealed in us in our desires, so what is written here once more. The first state, the first kind of completion here which is the ascent and incorporation in the upper one. Meaning, when the ZON of AK illuminated the new light through the Tabur to the Keter of the Nekudim and lowered the bottom of Hey from NE from the Keter to its Peh. The fallen AHP of Keter that were in AVI ascended and returned to the degree of Keter completing its ten Sefirot. Then discerned that GE and AVI in that state ascended along with them. If we have two degrees (Rav drawing) let's say one is below the other and the upper light operates on the lower degree, it ascends and now it is let's say in the more superior state then it too draws the lower degree above with her.
Therefore we have Keter which has GE and AHP, then from AHP of the Keter there is the GE of the AVI so when the upper light operates on the Keter in a sense together with the GE for Keter, the AHP of Keter which is already adhered to AVI. Then they too ascend and connect to the degree of Keter, this is how there's a possibility for the lower one to rise to the upper one by nullifying to the upper one. Or you can say it differently, just like we the moment we can annul before the upper one, then from above the upper force, the force of the Creator operates on the upper one and then the Upper one raises us even to a higher degree. This is how we ascend. That it is enough for us to nullify ourselves before the upper one in order to cause the upper to want to raise the upper and to cause our ascent as well. This is how we even though we're not in connection with the Creator but we nullify before something which is above us, by that we cause the Creator to bestow upon the upper one and the upper one will begin to collect its AHP and we will rise with the upper together. Read it again, once again 134.
Item #134 (11:15) “It has already been explained that the emergence of…” again
3. R. (13:00) We had Keter of Nekudim and the upper light illuminated up on the Keter and then the Keter raises its AHP then it turns out that these AHP they rise and join the GE, this is the GE and this is the AHP. So GE of AVI are adhered to the AHP of Keter then it turns out that the GE that are adhered to the AHP of Keter also rise to the degree of Keter, then GE of AVI rose with them adhere to the AHP of Keter and then they are in the complete ten Sefirot because the lower one rises to the upper one and becomes like it and so it turns out that AVI attains the AHP they were lacking in order to complete their ten Sefirot. Meaning here there was AVI, and their GE and this is the AHP, and this is AHP of Keter. So when the upper light influences the bestowal from above upon the Keter it causes the AHP of the Keter to rise and connect with GE and then those GE of AVI which were adhered to the AHP of Keter, also ascended upwards and connected. Then it turns out the GE of AVI are now working with the AHP of Keter together. Not with their own AHP but with the AHP of Keter.
Meaning they receive a completion to their vessels from a higher degree. It turns out that they can rise to a higher degree than that in which they are in, with the vessels of the upper one. This is what he is writing. It is discerned here that AVI also attains their AHP in order to complete their ten Sefirot with a force of the incorporation in the Keter and this is the first kind of Mochin of Gadlut. Meaning they receive now from above the upper light through AHP of the Keter through to GE of AVI. Look how beautiful this works.
4. S. (16:53) What is the relation to GE of AVI and AHP of Keter who bestows to whom?
R. GE of AVI are vessels of bestowal and AHP of Keter is the vessels of the reception but Keter is now receiving the upper light and can use its vessels of reception in order to bestow and therefore it can connect through it’s of the GE of AVI in order to be together in ten Sefirot, ten Sefirot can be in such a way in which there are ten Sefirot of GE and AHP, and there can be the 10 Sefirot in such a way that it is GE and AHP.
S. So GE of AVI and AHP of Keter are also GE and AHP of the new Partzuf?
R. Yes, what's the problem, in every action there can be all kinds of connections, as long as they complete each other if they can come through an action of bestowal from all kinds of forms of connections we come to the end of correction.
S. Any relationship between GE and AHP of AVI, it disconnected, remains what happens there?
R. No, it remains, everything else goes to do an additional action and it also remains in its place, in spirituality it is like, that there's no lack in spirituality.
5. S. (19:02) You said that you didn't want to draw because you want us to get into it emotionally, so what is better if he gets some internal debate?
R. I cannot tell you, each one of you should have your own approach to it. It would be best if we would do it in the form of feeling. Imagine for yourself within, what AHP of Keter is, what GE of AVI is, how they are connected to one another, how they can operate themselves in such a way that they can connect together to one action. Connect to operate in order to bestow which is GE of AVI and this is AHP of Keter but they work together for the upper one. This is more important than you starting to draw and it will be in some clear picture but in this clear picture you will have blocks and not feelings. You will not use it in your inner feelings.
S. We are talking about where we ourselves don’t even exist there.
R. It is simply not important we are not there, but I'm playing with this like a small one who is playing with something big. I'm imagining something for myself, I need to depict in myself all these things through myself otherwise I will not grow. Just like a child plays with toys that are just toys but we were playing with them but slowly, slowly he grows until he receives not toys but true devices, true machines.
S. So if we talk about relations with AVI and Keter, this is like relations between the Creator and the created beings or the Creator some lower degree of connection?
R. The upper degree with a lower degree both connect in order to bestow upon the upper one which is the Creator. What is happening here? The Keter is restricted only GE are operating, only the GE in Keter is working and also in AVI there is only GE, vessels of bestowal. The Keter receives Gadlut as it operates it's AHP. When it operates its AHP it awakens the GE of AVI to connects its AHP and then GE of AVI of Keter becomes ten Sefirot in a horizontal way. This is called Gadlut. Then the upper light can influence upon them, connect them and perform a Zivug on them just like in the whole 10 Sefirot.
6. S. (23:01) Who causes this ascent is it the GE of AVI?
R. The upper light that shines on them causes them to connect and ascend. That is it. That's why he says that during the ZON of AK shone the new light through Tabur of AK to the Keter of Nekudim and lowered the bottom Hey from the NE of Keter to the Peh thus the fallen AHP of Keter that were in AVI ascended they fell and ascended and returned to their degree of Keter completing their 10 Sefirot. Then, the Keter there's ten Sefirot, GE and AHP, and then it is discerned that in that state that GE of AVI also ascended with them, they were adhered to the AHP of Keter. Also AVI incorporated in 10 complete Sefirot of Keter because the lower one that ascends to the upper one becomes like it. It is therefore considered AVI attained the AHP, not their AHP but the AHP of the Keter which were missing in them in order to complete the 10 Sefirot by their incorporation in the 10 Sefirot of Keter. This is the first kind of Mochin of Gadlut and they can already receive the light of Hochma because they have 10 complete Sefirot. So now we have ten complete Sefirot in Keter and AHP in its GE and then we have 10 Sefirot. Ten Sefirot of the AHP of Keter with the GE of AVI which also receive filling. Then we have also in Keter and AVI Gadlut, but this Gadlut is called the Gadlut of the first time meaning in connecting to the upper one.
S. AVI attained Gadlut because they use the AHP of Keter?
R. No, their own AHP they can’t use, I'm erasing the AHP here, you can only use the AHP of the Keter only that. It connects it's GE with the AHP of Keter and from that 10 Sefirot emerge. That is it, this is a complete Partzuf. Only it was made this way from two parts in which one completes the other. Later we will see more in Ibur the embryo that is included in his mother, it receives all of its nourishment from the mother, everything, how could it be that what is not in him his mother supplies for him. This comes from here, this stems from here, where they can complete themselves through the upper Partzuf.
7. S. (27:16) So the upper one just needs to receive the demand of the lower one so the light will do the work?
R. Correct.
8. S. (25:50) Many times he completes ten Sefirot but what will be this horizontal, what will be the other way, what will be the 5 degrees of GE of AVI or from the AHP of Keter?
R. We spoke on the only of the first completion. Wait, we will get to the second, the third one and everything will work out. But of course now, it's not complete. What does it mean that it's not complete? It's like an embryo in a mother that is annulled and the mother supplies everything to it. Can you say that it is in wholeness, completion, no. But with respect to its state, it is in wholeness and completion because the mother supplies everything to it. Then it is sure and confident and receives everything and has no problem. But in sum total if we speak towards what needs to be in the end then we are only in the first stage. So we divide these stages into three, Ibur, Yenicka and Mochin, three states. That he needs to be within the Ima, mother, then needs to grow to be Katan, small, Yenicka suckling and then adulthood where he will be big himself, adult. Now we're learning how it begins and we can learn what is occurring within us, how we are incorporated in the upper one, how the upper one operates on us and how we invite the operations from him. From here we can learn a lot.
9. S. (30:04) The principle that the lower one rising to the upper one becomes similar to the upper one as what is being expressed here, what is this resemblance, can it receive the same lights?
R. Yes, the lower one rises to the upper one and becomes like the upper, has the same Masach, same qualities like the upper. But the question is right in what is he similar with the upper one and then what is he different from the upper one, in any case he ascended to him. We will learn this later.
10. S. (30:47) This new Partzuf that is expanding horizontally just like you described right now where the AHP of Keter becomes the GE of the new Partzuf?
R. No, it cannot change its quality, cannot invert its Sefirot, it completes the GE of AVI and that it is the AHP.
S. Meaning everything remains in its place that the AHP remains AHP and GE remains GE?
R. of course, only their role changes, that now they can complete one another. It's a very important principle and everything develops from the souls from the lowest degree to the upper degree.
11. S. (31:55) I understand ascent and descent, it's the first time I heard about you speaking horizontal, can you explain a little bit more to me?
R. Here I'm talking about the completion of one Partzuf by another one. That the lower Partzuf can request to ascend to the upper one, to incorporate in the upper one and to use the vessels of the upper one like an embryo that has a drop of seed. It only has an informative part, some measure of what he needs to be, just a drop of seed. But it is incorporated in the Ima, in the upper one and the Ima begins to supply to him everything that he demands, everything that he demands. Then he begins to grow. This is what we see that is occurring here. GE of AVI they are incorporated in the AHP of the Keter and they demand from the AHP of the Keter supply to us please the forces. AHP of Keter gives them forces in order to complete them into 10 Sefirot. This is called 10 Sefirot in completion of the first kind and they receive from this Mochin of Gadlut, adulthood. He says, from its ascent and then incorporation in the upper one. We need to read this little part a few times and translate it to yourself really good and then you will be able to understand what it is talking about.
12. S. (34:34) Keter of Nekudim that received the illumination from above moves from the Katnut to Gadlut, it also moves from the second restriction to the first restriction?
R. No, we will talk about that later. The second restriction is still not annulled even that it made Gadlut in that too, the second restriction does not turn into the first restriction.
13. S. (35:15) When we try to depict this picture, when does the Kli have the opportunity to feel the Creator to be like him, to start doing practical actions to bestow?
R. When it is capable of when he makes such actions with a group and friends, this, as a result he will do what is needed. You need to make an effort to realize yourself into ten. I have nothing else to recommend.
S. In simple words when the person rises to the next degree what does it mean?
R. it means that he receives a desire to bestow that is bigger and he can work with it.
14. S. (36:33) He writes here with the ZON of AK illuminates the new light through the Tabur to the Keter of Nekudim and you said that the most important thing is to come to the state of feeling in the form of study. So I want to ask him what is more here, why do we need to think when we are learning what we learn, what conditions do we need in order to feel this or what to think?
R. We need to think of how we will go over it even 20 times over the small part and make an effort to understand what is happening here. Something very unique is happening here. That we have in sum total a system that is not complex. We have Keter, AVI and ZON then from above the light appears, bestows and gives forces to Sefirot and Partzufim to be in Gadlut, in adulthood, from Katnut (smallness) he raises them to the degree of adulthood, Gadlut, that is what is happening here. We will not continue, but to try to read a few times and tomorrow we'll get into it actively.
We need to think of how we will go over it even 20 times over the small part and make an effort to understand what is happening here. Something very unique is happening here. That we have in sum total a system that is not complex. We have Keter, AVI and ZON then from above the light appears, bestows and gives forces to Sefirot and Partzufim to be in Gadlut, in adulthood, from Katnut (smallness) he raises them to the degree of adulthood, Gadlut, that is what is happening here. We will not continue, but to try to read a few times and tomorrow we'll get into it actively.