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Morning Lesson September 09, 2021, Transcription
Baal HaSulam, Preface to the Wisdom of Kabbalah, #39
Item 39 “It follows that by the Bitush of Ohr Makif and ….”
1. R. (03:22) Rav reads, it follows that by the beating of the surrounding light and inner light the screen of the ending Malchut becomes the screen and Malchut of the mating Malchut once more. The mating Malchut stands in the Peh and the ending Malchut stands in the Tabur as we learn with you, we have a Partzuf and here we have Rosh, Toch, Sof. We have the direct light and the reflected light that is pushed back and later he receives the light inside, so this is number one and this is two, that is the reflected light and 3 is the inner light. Correspondingly there is also the light that comes that puts pressure on the screen that is here in the Tabur to receive more because the inner light that it received has a small portion of the light from number one, the direct light, this is why Malchut standing in the Tabur besides that it cannot receive any more because it will be in order to receive and that is why it is purified. It expels all of the light back because the small part that it did receive only gave her problems, the host kept putting pressure and she says I won't receive anything. Raising the screen that stands Tabur back to Peh de Rosh, this is considered the coupling of striking that was made Peh de Rosh brought the Inner Light to Tabur and the Bitush that exists between the surrounding and inner light in the Tabur puts pressure on the vessel and the vessel decides that it will purify back. It will not receive anything anymore and the screen. that was placed here where I can receive in order to bestow goes back and does not receive anything.
What he says is that it follows by the Bitush of the surrounding and inner light that the screen of the ending Malchut becomes the screen of the mating Malchut. Meaning that the mating Malchut goes back to mating Malchut this is because the Bitush of those surrounding lights put pressure and keeps on putting pressure to purify the ending screen from all of its coarseness to the Guf. Meaning he received it once in order to bestow now he sees that he cannot keep it because by that he is calling for great pressure from the upper force, the Creator, the host and it has no more choice. It cannot receive, if it will receive any more it will be in order to receive so it purifies going back to the state of not receiving anything. This is considered this happened because the Bitush of the surrounding light purified the ending screen from all of its coarseness of the body leaving only refined Reshimot of the coarseness and there are only small records left but basically, he stands back in the Peh of the Rosh of Partzuf leaving only fine records of the coarseness equal to the coarseness of the screen of the Rosh.
Also, it is known that equivalence of form attaches and unites the spirituals to one another and once the screen of the Guf equalize the form of its coarseness to the screen of the Rosh meaning that it came back up to the Rosh, it was immediately included in it and they became seemingly one screen. In that state it received the coupling of striking like the screen of the Rosh meaning that screen that was in the Tabur when it came back to the Peh it was incorporated in the light that is here, incorporated in the coupling of striking with the upper light that comes to it. The 10 Sefirot of the new level emerge meaning it has reached the Peh of the Rosh already it has the Reshimot of what it used to have and then it was incorporated in the upper light in the Rosh and it went into the striking, the new relations with the light in the Rosh.
Along with this coupling with the upper light when the screen returned to Peh de Rosh it is now in connection with the upper light and the records with the coarseness of the Guf that were in it in the beginning were renewed in the screen of the Guf. Meaning that this screen that was incorporated in the light of the Rosh of Partzuf, is Ein Sof, the screen when it rose back up is awakened to the new records that remained in the coarseness of the Guf, that were in it in the beginning. In that state the disparity of form in the screen of the Rosh included and appeared once more to some extent. Meaning that it feels it's no longer the same screen in the Peh de Rosh it is the screen that used to be in Tabur purified that did not want to receive anything and here it is willing to be this screen in the Peh de Rosh but when it starts to feel the lights in the Rosh, he sees that he's not like the screen of the Peh de Rosh, that it is different. That it was in reception in order to bestow, it was purified and he left that and came back. This whole process is felt in it, acknowledgement of the difference separates and removes it from the Peh de Rosh of the upper one, meaning not being like this screen of Peh de Elyon, but being on the screen of Tabur that it renounce the reception in order to bestow as if it is in the Peh de Rosh but it is still “as if” because it is still different it is a screen that receives in order to bestow. Since after the return by that he feels the difference between it in the screen of the Peh de Rosh and he comes back to be something new and then it turns out that this screen that used to be in Tabur was raised by Peh de Rosh and incorporated here in the light that is in Rosh, decided this is not his place and then he goes out of there to outside, to a new degree.
Since it returned and its origin has become known he is from Tabur from Peh of the upper down and could not continue to stand above Peh of the upper as disparity of form separates the spirituals from one another. It follows that it was compelled to come from Peh of the upper one down just as we have drawn here. It is necessarily considered a second entity with respect to the upper one as even though Rosh of the new level is considered, meaning what I drew here, the green part, is part of this screen that used to receive in order to bestow and Peh is part of the screen that does not receive it all. This is considered two different entities, it is necessarily considered the second entity with respect to the upper one because even the Rosh of the new level is considered merely the Guf of the new level because it came out of the Guf of the upper one. Therefore, this is why it cannot be above Rosh of the upper or in its height, it has to come down. Since it extends from its screen of Guf this disparity of form distinguishes them into two separate entities and since the new level is entirely a result of the screen of Guf of the previous Partzuf it is considered the offspring, like a branch extending from it. Meaning here a Partzuf emerges and we will learn this, it is Partzuf AB, it also has a Rosh, Toch and Sof but it is short from Peh of the Partzuf of the upper which is Galgata to the Tabur.
2. S. (15:55) In this process of knowing is this a result of the intention showing the new degree of AB?
R. We have a desire to receive on which there was a restriction and making over it a screen that doesn't want to receive for itself but only receives in order to bestow back to the host because the feeling of the host this relation is more important than the pleasure that he may receive within his desire to receive. By this he gives pleasure to the host and this is what is important for him. This is how the system works that we call Galgata, the first Partzuf, when Galgata purifies that cannot withstand and instead comes the Partzuf called AB and this also wants to receive in order to bestow making a calculation according to the records. Galgata used to have the Reshimot from the world of Infinity before it, this is why it received as much as it can receive more than all of the rest in order to bestow. But when the screen purified it had records from the Partzuf of Galgata and these are less than they were before because the screen decided that what it had before, what is left is less and then this Partzuf emerges is called Partzuf AB with the light being much weaker than in Galgata and also in its desire it is shorter and weaker. This is why this is how we picture it, when AB clothes Peh to Tabur of Galgata.
3. S. (18:53) Galgata is the biggest Partzuf wanted to draw the light to bestow and it was not successful because of the Tabur. There was a refinement and AB came out, how does Galgata fill what was not felt in the Sof?
R. All of the Partzufim that emerge after the first Partzuf they merely want to fill Galgata only the small parts a little more and a little more the Creator, the host, the upper light puts pressure activating the desire to receive to receive differently, so it is not all of the portion but half or a quarter or a third. This is how the upper light works with the screen and that is how we reach all kinds of phenomena and the end of correction we will learn in what way. This is how we should learn how the upper light works with the desire to receive, how it organizes it to reach a state where all the desire to receive receives in order to bestow.
4. S. (21:02) According to the drawing, why is AB smaller than Galgata? Is this the Bitush that weakens it?
R. It is the result of the previous Partzuf existing out of what is left of the previous Partzuf so it is less and also it emerges as a result of the purification of the screen. When the screen has become weaker the screen Galgata was on the 4th degree, Dalet, wanting to receive all of the light of Ein Sof to bestow but the main desire can only be filled partially. All of these parts that are above Tabur from Peh to Tabur its Partzuf AB which emerges from the remnants of Galgata is less than Galgata. This is a descent of the Partzufim from Malchut of Infiniti to this world through the five worlds and only after that as they all come and conclude their descent in this world, then starts the ascent of the souls and the worlds from this world back to the world of Ein Sof and we are in an ascent now with you.
S. Why is the Bitush always stronger as we advance?
R. Of course, I imagine that you as a guest getting some meal or some dish before you and you ate a part of it and some of it remains and then the host says come and take more. So, it turns out that what you already have received, it tasted really good exactly the way you like it, exactly what you wanted and then the host pressing on you and you received a part of it so it weakens you and that part you received weakens you. This is why just as you were before and you thought that I could receive the food just for the hosts, once you tasted it and it was so good you are not strong enough to keep receiving only for the sake of the host. You already feel that you have such flavors in it that you want to receive even if not for the host, this is why as much as you receive even in order to bestow it weakens the screen. think about it and you will see that this is the way it is.
5. S. (25:24) AB’s Guf is smaller than Galgata’s, why is Sof of AB smaller than Galgata?
R. Sof of the Partzuf is the result of the Toch and Rosh. Each and every Partzuf goes according to the Rosh as it is built according to the extent that has the screen in order to bestow and these Partzufim are still receiving in order to bestow and here it can calculate Rosh, part of what it can perform to receive in order to bestow in practice is clarified, scrutinized in Toch and whatever I cannot receive in order to bestow but still standing before the host that is the Sof of Partzuf and then the host can press, the Creator, presses to receive in the Sof and he sees he can't stand it in the Tabur that is why I must purify and refine. There is no chance and no other way and he does it.
S. Galgata is not making any calculation to receive an order to bestow what is below Tabur, it is just restricted, so why?
R. No, wait, Galgata in Peh of the Rosh Galgata calculates on the entire desire to receive that it has and it calculates as much as it can receive and as much as it can and then it divides its Guf to Toch to receive inside of it and the Sof that it does not.
6. S. (28:15) The incorporation of the screen of the Guf and the screen up ahead what new thing does it bring two things Masach of Rosh?
R. After the reception of the light ends on the screen up the Guf of Tabur the Rosh feels that it finished its action and the lights that are outside of the Partzuf called surrounding light, these lights are called surrounding lights, they start to actually press on that border in the Tabur because now the border is clear where it is and that the light can't keep coming in and the surrounding light that was supposed to go in is not accepted there. This is why it presses, on the Tabur on the border and by this it breaks the border and what does this mean it presses in the way that the Partzuf understand that either I keep receiving onward the Sof of the Partzuf, but I receive it in order to receive and that can't happen with me or I purify or refine but I can't withstand the pressure. I still retain something of the maximum that I receive in order to bestow and this was written, Malchut of Ein Sof that the Partzuf is corrected to that extent.
7. S. (30:30) In that transition, Galgata to AB is there a disconnect?
R. I don't know what that is, also now we are in the light as compared to the created being so we don't feel it, if we are speaking from Galgata and up there is no disconnection from the light because we constantly have a restriction which constantly remains. Galgata which stops receiving in the form of Galgata and goes to AB keeps the restriction this is why the light does not depart, it is there when she decides that she can receive in AB with a different screen and style, receiving the light Hochma in order to bestow and not light of Keter because the restrictions remain so there's no break but Galgata and AB just a transition from one portion to the next.
8. S. (32:06) Is Partzuf AB an addition to AK?
R. Yes.
9. S. (32:35) When the lower screen, Tabur, raises to the upper screen, Peh, what action is happening in the body?
R. The lights exit from Toch of Guf and also according to that in the Rosh of the Partzuf there are also changes that the screen that used to receive is now refined and it turns out that this screen Tabur ascends and departs the light driving them out of the Toch and according to that the screen of the Rosh that also received in order to bestow, meaning that it decides to receive in order to bestow, it also refines until it disappears.
10. S. (34:02) Where does the ten get the force from the Tabur….?
R. No don't get confused, we are studying Kabbalah right now without connecting it to the 10 otherwise you'll get confused, all the forces that the screens get come from the upper light that appears in the Rosh.
11. S. (34:39) I can't understand why is it, if in Galgata there is a screen over all of the desire there is still a Sof?
R. It can't receive any more than what is before it, the screen as much as it has depended on the desire to receive in Galgata the desire, as much as the upper light works on it to give it the desire to bestow in according to that, it puts the screen. There is no more, usually we say 20% that it receives in order to bestow and it's not 20% it is written a very thin line as it is like maybe 1% of what comes or what is in the Rosh, here there is Ein Sof and here what it receives is 1%.
S. Why is that considered having a screen over all the degrees of the desire?
R. Of course it doesn't limit it wants to receive in order to bestow and all of its coarseness but as much as it can, let's say that before you there are five dishes and you take from each dish you take a bit of what you can do for the benefit of the host, you received from all the dishes because you have desires for all of them it is organized in a way that you must receive from everybody because this is how the host is relating to you and you need from all of your structure to get back to him.
12. S. (37:12) Can we say that when the screen of the Rosh is equal to the screen of the body this is the beginning of the degree, to be darkness for the created being?
R. We don't need to talk about this yet, wait a few more lessons and we will have something to talk about, you can write that question on the side and we will answer it.
S. It is written that the coupling of striking on the screen of the Rosh is the beginning of the fulfillment of the Guf by the reflected light, on the other hand, in the second part it says that when the records renew in the Guf it starts to differentiate between the two screens in the body?
R. There's a difference between when Partzuf fills itself and then decided that it refines and then when it reaches the Peh of Rosh there is already an experience of what it went through that's why it can't deal with the upper light anymore like it did before it receives, after it receives it had to refine itself, he already understands that he has no forces, and then he decides in a different way. These records that remain already work in a different way and then what they had before in the decision in the Rosh of Galgata that it did not receive and then after it did receive until the Tabur and refined from there to Peh and then he decides how to receive again, this is a completely different decision. It comes with the records of the Guf that it received and this is why I can't receive like it did before but much less than before. The second decision gives birth instead Galgata, after there is a new Partzuf of AB.
13. S. (40:08) The surrounding light, putting pressure on the screen, how is this felt for the created being?
R. The surrounding light presses on the created being as the host says look what you took, you hardly took any from all of the five dishes that I put before you, the five lights, you only receive from every place you took 1%. What about the rest? This is called the surrounding light that presses on the created being and pushes him to receive more.
S. It says if he receives, he will receive in order to receive so the pressure that is placed is to purify?
R. That is why it's refined and comes out of the reception, can add to Galgata but when he descends to the next degree, instead of me eating in an expensive restaurant now I'm eating in a simple restaurant and there I can take 5 dishes and bestow through them and this is called Partzuf AB so obviously this is not according to the records they had before but I still keep going with the same action.
S. The bestowing in these portions is in greater percentage than previous?
R. You can't compare a percentage, it must be less than before. AB is much less than Galgata and SAG even less, there is a big difference between the Partzufim but it is still bestowing to the Emanator this is why we can't appreciate that, we can't value it. A baby smiling to his mother, what is he doing? But what pleasure does he bring her?
14. S. (43:07) The records that go into AB are they from the Rosh and the Toch together or by themselves?
R. No, how the AB comes out, we will learn that the screen that ascends from Tabur to Peh he can afterwards descend Chazeh of Galgata and in the place of Chazeh de Galgata can put the Peh of AB to Galgata this is called Chazeh. If this was the fourth degree of the records this would be the 3rd degree. Then the coarseness would be 2 and 1 and this is how all of Partzufim come out.
15. S. (44:39) This state of Galgata is previous to the first restriction?
R. Galgata comes out after the first restriction, it can't be that there are any spiritual actions happening but only through the restriction screen and reflected light.
S. e screen of Tabur, what makes it so mobile?
R. No, it is just Partzuf and structure only Peh of Rosh is a decision that much as I receive in order to bestow that I decide to receive a portion and this portion ends in a desire called Tabur and when we decided to stop this is where it stopped and when I decided to come out because I was under the pressure of the surrounding light so we come out of there. From Tabur back to Peh and when in Peh the host presses on me and says here look and see what I have for you. I see that really, I am able to receive just not the same portion that was there before because it was really tasty, now I might take a different portion so I will also be able to take something for the host.
Then I take a weaker light with my weaker desire and this portion is called Partzuf AB and in this way we advance. I want to turn to the friends responsible for teaching the new students, they should search the archive and find materials that we can advise our friends to read and then in addition to PTICHA, they should know about it. I did a lot of good and nice drawings, I was also younger. There are very good materials there and it is worth it to go through the archive to offer it to the friends. I remember that I gave and not only me but also others who gave lectures in the Preface. BB has 200 teachers, obviously we will get confused between all of them as I'm certain each one can recommend what to read in addition to Preface, I remember how I started it and the first time you go through it you don't understand anything, second third and fourth you will start connecting the things a bit more and a bit less. Still the material is very compressed. We went through 39 and we will find more materials for everyone even in your original language, we are not lacking any of that.