Morning Lesson August 11, 2022l Transcription
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Baal HaSulam. "Study of the Ten Sefirot" (TES). Vol. 1. Part 4. Chapter Two. Inner Light. #2 ("The record is like a seal.")
Reading Chapter #2 Item 1 (00:33) “When the lights descend and depart…”
Reading #1 “Inner Light” (01:41) “Relating to the word..”
1. S. (02:58) Meaning the screen is in Peh of Rosh, performs a coupling by striking with the upper light, decides as much as it can receive in order to bestow, descends from Peh to Tabur, in the Tabur it gets pressure from the Bitush de Ohr Makif, the beating of the two lights on it, and he will not be willing to remain in the middle and decides that and is going to go back to Peh of Rosh. And by ascending back to Peh of Rosh, the lights that are in it, in the Partzuf depart, and then those lights are called reflected light. That is the process.
2. S. (03:48) It's interesting what you explain now that the lights come from the Tabur back to the Peh of Rosh and you said it is reflected light. We first learned that reflected light also exists in the Rosh when there is a decision it to receive.
R. Because in the Rosh it’s in potential, the reflected light is in the Peh of Rosh, it rises from Peh upward by its beating on the upper light, that is where they beat each other, and there is a decision as much as they can receive in order to bestow. Depict to yourself a stage that you really want to receive the light and now you decide that you will not receive it even though you really want it, you rejected it completely.
After you reject it, you decide can I receive, after this rejecting that I know that I can withstand it, can I receive it in order to bestow, then you decide and calculate in the Rosh and from the light in the Rosh of the Partzuf you can receive a part of it to the Toch of the Partzuf, you receive it, as much as you decided in the Rosh and then you decide that I cannot receive any more only to here, and then with the pressure of the lights on you, the host that is pressing on you, you decide that I cannot stand this anymore, but what I did, I did, and then you refine, meaning you diminish the screen that that receives and the light departs back to the Rosh, from the Toch to the Rosh.
S. And the other matter is also considered reflected light?
R. Yes direct light, reflected light, inner light, surrounding light, that is all in the Partzuf, we will reach it soon and we will get to more precise definitions.
3. S. (06:32) What does he say here that every couple of striking extends the reflected light from the upper light, isn't that a result of the Bitush, the beating?
R. Every coupling by striking extends the light into itself.
S. But why the upper light, what is the Bitush?
R. Everything comes from above, the Partzuf does not have any light of its own, it only all comes from above.
S. And then and it says the light that is rejected from Malchut is called the reflected light, what does it mean that it is rejected from Malchut?
R. What is there to explain we talked a lot about it.
S. We talked, but it’s not so clear.
R. What?
S. It says, the part of light that is rejected from Malchut is called reflected light, how does the reflected light come back from the Malchut?
R. Malchut does not want to receive it because it will be in order to receive, that is why she had no choice and she rejects it and then the light that returns from Malchut is called reflected light or returning light.
S. And man is a part of this reflected light, or is man’s work needed here to make the reflected light?
R. Of course it is man's work here.
S. How does he activate this reflected light from the Malchut?
R. By not wanting to receive, like you sitting before the host and he wants you to get all the refreshments from him, but you decide that you are rejecting a part of it, that part you can take and that part you cannot.
S. And then what is created as a result of that?
R. Reflected light that you do not want to receive and you do not want to receive because you want not to be the receiver but you want to be like the host, like the host. That maybe it seems like you are rejecting the refreshments but you are not, because for you to be connected to the host, it is much more important than receiving the refreshments from him.
Even though there is a problem because you are rejecting the refreshments while you're doing it, and he wants you to receive them, and you are really in an inner struggle here, how can I reject these refreshments. If we were speaking about me, so obviously I am just rejecting and not receiving, restricting myself but if I decide that I'm only going to do it for the benefit of the host. So I took this decision only for him, but the hosts want to be to receive everything, no, for me to resemble him, to be connected to him, to be adhered to him, to be like him, it is more important than me receiving from him. There are calculations here that are much more exalted than just simply receiving, but for us it is enough right now.
S. How do you use coupling of striking in this whole thing?
R. Coupling by striking is performed by the guest, when he is in front of the host he feels all these calculations that the host has towards him and from him towards the host, he calculates. That is why all of his calculation happens by the beating, that I do not accept to receive everything that comes from the host because I must receive these things only in order to bestow. I want to resemble the host. Otherwise I am not in contact with him, I am not in equivalence of form with him, otherwise we are separated. If the guest gets everything the host gives him, so he descends to the degree of the animate, still, vegetative and animate. If the guest will not receive anything, so he disregards the host and all the possibilities that he has to reach equivalence of form with the host, and then he remains in this calculation, how much can I receive in order to be like the host, that I am giving him pleasure by the extent that I can be in adhesion with him.
S. That is basically what our main work needs to be.
R. Yes and here it is clarified, the rest is only according to the forces and the screen, that every time the guest has to calculate where he can receive in order to bestow.
S. It should be the same movement towards the friends in the ten?
R. Why not?
S. You see that's why it is still not clear, it is not just towards the Creator, it is towards the friends, that you have to relate in that way, towards each and every friend.
R. Yes.
S. That is still what is not clear.
R. It will be clarified, do not worry about that, we do not feel all the calculations between us yet, it will be revealed soon.
4. S. (12:45) [translation missing]
R. Of course, the structure of the Partzuf depends on the thickness of the screen and the screen which is in the Peh of Rosh, that same screen that performed the beating on the upper light and did not want to receive Then it decides as much as I can receive in order to identify with the host that above this rejection that I will give him contentment, that I will resemble him, and then he decides and receives a part of the light in order to bestow, as much as he can receive above his own will to receive, that it will be in order to bestow. The example is very, supposedly simple, but to perform it, it’s very difficult. To receive in order to bestow, we reach that at the end of the path.
5. S. (14:18) We say that in the Guf there is in our light which is direct light and reflected light so why is there this separation now that there is only reflected light that is drawn?
R. I do not understand. In the Guf you have from the Rosh inner light descends which is direct light closed in reflected light that's called inner light.
S. Right, so now in the purification or refinement explains that he draws the reflected light so why doesn't he say for instance that he draws the inner Light, where is that?
R. The inner light departs from the Guf of the Partuzuf because of the beating of the inner and surrounding light, the inner light ascends from Tabur to the Peh and depart from the Toch of the Partzuf.
S. Then there's only reflected light left?
R. What remains in the Toch of the Partzuf is also reflected light. We will talk about everything that remains. It is not simple, there are records there, there is a certain illumination that sustains the Partzuf .
6. S. (15:52) There is something confusing here, is a reflected light only in the Rosh because or does it matter if the Kli is in calculation over the light or expelling the light or reflected light is just an intention now it is in the Rosh?
R. Reflected light is not just the intention, it is the force of the created being that wants to bestow back to the host.
S. But he does not have what to bestow.
R. He calculates and he bestows and practices to the host, because he can receive from the host and by this he bestows.
S. When we say that pleasure of the vessel that is filled with a light is basically filled with his own reflected light? What is it that fulfills the vessel?
R. From all the lights that pass through it because it connects them all to the Creator.
7. S. (17:11) This fulfillment that the Kil decides to receive for the Creator, what does it mean that it received for the benefits of the Creator?
R. Imagine yourself that you are instead of the guest and you are standing behind in front of the host, like he tells you don't forget this example, it is a true example, and you must receive from the host the refreshments but how can you do it in order to bestow? You reject the refreshments you do not want until you discover that you have rejected it enough times and now you can receive it and this reception will already be in order to bestow. Just like you usually do. I do not want it, I do not need it, no thank you, until you agree. When you agree it is called you are already a state that you don't receive a donation that supposedly you are receiving for Him.That is the calculation the vessel performs, so what is the question>
S. Yes, but I refuse, I reject and I want to receive it for the benefit of the Creator so how do I decide that I want you to receive now for you? How can I decide that is actually for the better that pleasure comes and thene is a connection
R. You have to calculate in the Rosh, You think you calculate how much can I accept in order to remain in connection with the host.
8. S. (19:47) Is the language of the Bible more descriptive of states without gIVING the understanding of why they happen and how to come out of them?
R. Again.
S. Is the language of the Bible more descriptive of states and it does not describe why they happened and how to get out of them?
R. Right it is not the actual language of work. It is a general language on all of our connections with the Creator.
9. S. ( 20:21) About the first part, 9th of Av and the 15th of Av are spiritual states. Why do we connect them to dates?
R. Because there is an upper light that shines on the world and that is why we feel these specific days that they are influenced from the upper root. If you really have work ,where you need to do some kind of work, do not do it on the 9th of Av and the 15th is a day of love. You specifically have a lot of festive events and so on.
10. S. (21:06) It says in item 4, that the matter of the spiritual connection between Israel and the father in heaven, I heard you say that there is no shame in love so does it turn out that what we correct is actually the shame?
R. We correct the shame, very nice. The gap between us and the Creator that He is bestowing and we are receiving. We want to turn our reception into giving and then our shame turns into glory.
11. S. (21:58) What kind of work in connection should we do, especially now.
R. Love. Do you understand? We are at a time good for love.
12. S. (22:07) What does it mean to open the heart to friends?
R. Open the heart to your friends? I do not know how to explain, it just open your heart that I am available receive love from everyone and to give my love back to everyone
13. S. (22:37) Why when we receive the opening in the heart, the friends are erased so it is not just more coarseness but we lose memory as a higher state of connection we have?
R. Listen ladies love covers all crimes. That is why we are already speaking about love, you should not calculate here. Everyone bestows to everyone. Look on as much as by this we relieve ourselves from all of these calculations, all problems, all sufferings and everything ascends with the love straight to the Creator. All these questions. This way, that way that we need it for? It's written that love covers all crimes. So let us cover. then we will not see anything but love. It is very simple, less intellect, more persistence and feelings. Good luck.