Part 2:

Rabash. Explanation of the Article, “Preface to the Wisdom of Kabbalah” (The Clash between Internal and Surrounding in the Partzuf)

Reading (00:24 - 07:09) “The Clash between Internal and Surrounding in the Partzuf”

1. S. (07:17) It says “the truth is that the surrounding light is right and that's why the screen agrees with it”?

R. Yes?

S. Why?

R. Because the surrounding lights surrounds the vessels from all its sides, it knows it, it has an exalted purpose to raise the vessel to his degree; that's why eventually that is what bestows upon the vessel and the vessel can hear it.

S. What does it mean “to raise the vessel to his degree”?

R. Just like the light feels all the reality and doesn't leave any vessel empty, but in it's plan it will bring everyone to the complete measure of fulfillment. That's why he is the one conducting creation right now, the surrounding light.

S. Is this the degree is not the degree of the Bestower?

R. Yes, it is exactly implements the desire to bestow, and the action to bestow, and goal, it brings everyone closer to the goal.

S. Isn’t the goal for everyone to be like that surrounding like in bestowal?

R. That's not revealed yet, the purpose is that everyone will be filled with all lights, the surrounding light.

S. Excuse me?

R. That everyone will be filled with the surrounding light.

S. The screen is an expression of the desire awakened in the created being after the light completely filled them so it can resemble the light.

R. Right.

S. So why isn't the truth with it?

R. With who, with the screen?

S. Yes?

R. No, the screen is an action, it's an action, I’d say not a random action but the surrounding light is light that fills all of creation, it surrounds all of creation, that's why everything is in its hands, it is the force that activates and motivates all of creation.

S. Where does it get the motivation to?

R. It wants to fill everyone, the surrounding light wants to get inside and fill all of creation with no limit.

S. We already have it in Malchut of Ein Sof?

R. When?

S. In the world of Ein Sof?

R. And what happened afterward?

S. That the created being, I understood that it wants to developed to be like the light.

R. Good, right?

S. Then it makes the screen.

R. No, the restriction.

S. The reatiction, the screen, and reflected light.

R. Those are separate things.

S. Okay, so he does that, as much as he can he does.

R. And in the restriction, which is as we say the biggest thing, it dries out the filling that came from the Creator and builds a partition between him and the Creator.

S. A partition that it’s essence is to resemble from the recognition of the greatness of the Creator, it's not a partition.

R. No, no, no, he doesn't want to receive what came from the Creator.

S. Why?

R. That's what happens because there’s a disparity of form between them.

S. And he wants equivalence of form.

R. So wait, now throughout many actions from the beginning of creation until the end, he's going to start attaining those action, that with them he can enter identification with the upper light.

S. But the first action, the first restriction, the first screen with the first reflected light, Galgalta, that's advancement towards equivalence, it’s towards equivalence.

R. I wouldn't say so, the fact that they move farther away from each other to two different ends.

S. By what are they growing farther away?

R. That He wants to bestow and he wants to receive here.

S. That was the nature of creation for the Creator to give and He creates the will receive?

R. Yes?

S. Then the created being starts developing, correction?

R. Yes?

S. Why the restrictionaction because he wants to be equal; ‘why the screen, why reflected light’, because he wants to be equal?

R. Wait, we’re not there yet.

S. Why we’re already talking about the striking, here. Here it says the surrounding light strikes the screen then he says, “why, what happens, the truth is the surrounding light is right and the screen agrees with that” and that's what I'm asking: Why is the truth is that the surrounding light is right, not the screen?

R. This surrounding light wants to fill the entire vessel, no matter what intentions the vessel’s in, that's why there's a collision with the vessels when the vessels doesn't want in these conditions he was created in to feel the necessity from the upper light.

S. So why does Rabash say,” the truth is the surrounding light is right and that’s why the screen agrees with it”?

R. Yes?

S. I thought that the truth is that the screen is closer to the development which is real, the resembling the light, not the surrounding light that wants to bang and enter like it used to in a direct way?

R. The surrounding light wants to enter the vessel, he, according to the plan of the creation, needs to fill the entire vessel, that nothing will remain except for him. That the vessel and the light will be equal, that the light will fill the vessel all the way. Why can’t he do that, because of the desire in the vessel because the vessel doesn't want; so what are you asking?

S. Why doesn't the vessel want?

R. The vessel doesn't want because he needs to invert himself for it, to be in order to bestow, beacuse the entrance of the light into the vessel it could be only through identification between them, the equivalence.

S. So Galgata begins this identification?

R. Right.

S. Then stops in the Tabur then starts the striking?

R. The striking happens at the Peh of the Rosh.

S. The striking of the surrounding light and the screen, where is that made?

R. Yes?

S. So in this striking in the Tabur that Rabash describes here, so he describes the light and the screen as if it’s two views. Rabash says, “the truth is that the surrounding light is right, that's why the screen surrounded”.

R. Yes?

S. That's what I'm asking, why is the truth with the surrounding light not with the screen which is seemingly towards the equivalence?

R. What does the surrounding light want to do?

S. To fill.

R. To fill, and what does the screen want?

S. To resemble.

R. So why is there a collision between them, a resistance?

S. Because stops the surrounding light from entering, he doesn’t have enough force to resemble so he stops where his limit is, in the Tabur.

R. Well compromise?

S. I’m not sure?

R. So that's what is supposed to come now, right?

S. But what do you mean ‘compromise’?

R. That there will be something for the direction of the surrounding light and there will be something for the inner light.

S. What?

R. That's something will be towards the light of Ein Sof and something will be towards the vessel.

S. What do you mean ‘towards the light of Ein Sof’?

R. That it’ll be able to fill a part of the vessel.

S. But it can already be filled until the Tabur according to the ability of the vessel to receive in order to bestow?

R. Yes, and the rest?

S. Surrounding light?

R. Surrounding light, and what will be the end, to continue receiving little parts, little portions?

S. According to the ability of bestow, to develop?

R. Yes?

S. So this what is going to happen?

R. Yes.

2. S. (17:45) This action of the restriction, Malchut of Ein Sof before the restriction, was more in equivalence with the Creator or less in equivalence of form from before or after the restriction?

R. Certainly less.

S. So before the restriction the equivalence was smaller?

R. Yes!

S. So the restriction raised the Malchut?

R. Yes, there wasn’t any equivalence, before the restriction there was no equivalence.

S. So, if so, this process that we're doing now, or that Malchut is doing now, that every time she receives a bit more, so she's getting closer to the equivalence?

R. Yes.

S. So now the question of the previous friend, again, so why is the surrounding light, right; he took a little part, great, it's more an equivalent now?

R. Yes but where is the final correction, the surrounding light brings you the feeling of the end of Correction, this is what you have to come to. What does it mean that you took from the table only one olive?

 

S. The surrounding light that strikes the screen, is that with the agreement of the created being, this process, or was it forces on us by the Creator?

R. There is no created being yet.

S. So does Malchut agree with it because she did an action of her own, she said, “I’m restricting”, then a screen and she received as much as she could.

R. Yes.

S. So this bitush, this striking, it’s an action that?

R. When they’re opposite, there’s a strike.

S. I understand the words, and supposedly the mechanical action, but I need to understand why Malchut agrees to this?

R. What action?

S. The action of the striking.

R. But it receives as much as it can, he can’t receive more than that.

 

S. Good, so why is it called a bitush, let’s call it the continuation of the process.

R. No, no, no, what do you mean, yes, of course it's the continuation but everything is a continuation but here there's a true contradiction. When you give food to your baby, suddenly it stops, he stops and you continue but what do you see? That he won't receive, he wouldn't take it, that's a clash, a strike.

Reading (21:06 - 24:20) “The Clash between Internal and Surrounding in the Partzuf..” 

3. S. (24:33) If the screen stopped the light and now they're surrounding light that wants to enter?

R. Yes?

S. In order to continue the process, obviously you have to do what happened, striking, refining. So why don't they agree, why isn’t there an agreement between them, why is it called bitush, a  striking, why is it not, ‘let's together continue this process of adhesion’?

R. The surrounding and the inner light, they are in opposition.

S. In what, in what are they opposing?

R. In the surrounding light is around the vessel and the inner light is in the vessel, the inner vessel has to fill the vessel, the surrounding light shouldn't; they are both connected to the screen, the screen is what they connected the two, without the screen they wouldn’t be any connection between the two.

S. Maybe I don't understand what the inner light is: Why should the inner light that, a second ago, was surrounding, why does it now it become opposite?

R. Because it’s inside, accorrding to the qualities of the vessel, filling the vessel, connected to it. And the surrounding light stays outside, it’s the opposite of the vessel, the vessel repels it.

S. The vessel process now seems like a struggle between two forces?

R. Yes, the screen between them separates them and places more one against the other.

S. Why is there a struggle and not they were together in order to bring the created being to rhe end of Correction, I don't understand why there's a struggle?

R. That is according to the nature of the vessel, there's an inner vessel wanting to receive and willing to receive twenty percent, all the rest it doesn't want, for him it’s the enemy, the opposite.  What you don't understand, you are given what you love, what you want, gladly, with the appetite you’ll receive it. Later you are given something you don't love, you don't want, and you can't. So, what happens, you oppose it.

4. S. (27:22) It's written that “in the thought of creation we learned that the vessel received everything because this vessel is called receiving in order to receive was created by the Creator. Afterwards in the lower vessel, it is calling in order to bestow”. So who is the lower vessel?

R. I don't know, where is that?

S. The third line about the striking?

R. “Twenty percent”?

S. No.

R. In what word does the line starts, what you are reading?

S. “What happens in the lower vessel in order to bestow because the Creator created it in order to receive”. And then he continues.

 R. No, don't continue, I don't even see that, I hear you reading the whole sentence, where does the line start?

S. “Called receiving in order to bestow”.

R. Don't, don't, don't continue, I didn't ask you to continue.

S. Please.

R. I can’t find it, how does it begin?

S. In the first paragraph.

R. First paragraph, “in the first Partzuf called Galgalta”, that's where you are starting?

S. Yes but it’s in the third line according to the book, Kabbalah for All. 

R. “The vessel that received everything is because this vessel called, receiving in order to receive, was created by the Creator; whereas the lower vessel which is called, in order to bestow, there is a limit to the extent that it can receive”, well?

S. What is the lower vessel, we’re speaking about Galgata, what lower vessel?

R. Well, we can say, the Rosh in the Guf.

S. So the Guf decides it wants to bestow?

R. The Guf doesn’t decide anything, the Rosh decides.

S. The Rosh decides? 

R. And what’s in the Rosh later happens in the Guf.

S. Another question, in the second paragraph in the answer to both questions is written, “when they come out of Peh, refinement means revelation, thatwhat was in potential is revealed”; why does it happen outside the Peh, why is there is a special place outside the Peh where things are revealed, what is that place?

R. Because the Peh is the Peh of Rosh and below Peh of Rosh you already reveal what was decided in the Rosh.

S. So what is special about this place?

R. Revelation!

S. So it’s revelation?

R. Yes, what the Rosh of the degree decided in the Rosh is carried out later in the Toch.

S. And what is the Peh, what is that state?

R. The Peh is Malhut de Rosh.

5. S. (31:23) He writes “every phase is included of four and that's why the screen is refined gradually”, why gradually because the feeling of the striking is from disparity of form.

R. Yes?

S. So why do we need it to be gradually?

R. Root, one, two, three, four, as it receives so it is refined.

S. But because here we're not speaking about time, we’re speaking about qualities, right?

R. Yes?

S. So what's the work in a gradual or refinement because?

R. Who is, from the quality that distinguishes and separates everyone until everything disappears. Four, three, two, one root.

S. And it happens in that way because there’s the thought, ‘if I go the phase three, that’s enough’?

R. Even if he doesn't think that this is so, but this is the way to work, the form of work, the gradual way it has to be revealed.

S. I’ll just say that a bit below he’s asking, “what does the screen gain by being willing to lose everything”, what our friends were asking earlier?

R. Where is that?

Reader re-reads passage (33:07 - 39:27)

Question: What is the benefit of the surrounding light, which wants to shine because of the purpose of Creation, and therefore wants the screen to receive more? After all, things are unfolding in contrast to its will, meaning the screen loses even what it had!

Answer: All the degrees that appeared during the departure are not residue of what it had in the beginning, since there is a rule: “There is no innovation of new light that is not extended from Ein Sof.” This means that each phase that appears is a new phase. Thus, in the beginning, it could not receive anything more. But now that phase four has departed, it can receive more, namely from phase three.

This is the meaning of the vessels being made through the clash. That is, prior to the clash, it did not have any more vessels for reception, since it received all it could with the aim to bestow. But after the clash, when the screen of phase four was refined, there was room to receive on phase three, since it departed from phase four and had nothing. And when it departed from phase three, it could receive on phase two.

But this still leaves the question: What is the benefit if it receives less each time?

Answer: There is no absence in spirituality. This means that anything that appears remains, except he does not see it and cannot currently enjoy it, but only from the present. When the work is done, all the lights will appear at once. Thus, in the end, he will have gained. Baal HaSulam once said an allegory about this: Two people who were childhood friends separated as adults. One of them became a king, and the other, indigent. After many years, the poor one heard that his friend had become a king and decided to go to his friend’s country and ask him for help. He packed his few belongings and went.

When they met, he told the king about his dire state, and this touched the king’s heart. The king said to his friend: “I will give you a letter to my treasurer to allow you into the treasury for two hours. In those two hours, whatever you manage to collect is yours.” The indigent went to the treasurer, armed with his letter, and received the longed for permit. He walked into the treasury with the box he was used to using for his beggary, and within five minutes, he filled his box to the brim and merrily stepped out of the treasury.

But the treasurer took his box from him and spilled its entire contents. The indigent started sobbing but the treasurer told him, “Take your box and fill it up again.” The poor man walked into the treasury once more and filled his box. But when he stepped outside, the treasurer spilled its contents as before.

This cycle repeated itself until the two hours were through. The last time the beggar came out, he told the treasurer: “I beg you, leave me what I have collected, for my time is through and I can no longer enter the treasury.” Then the treasurer told him: “The contents of this box is yours, and so is everything that I had spilled out of your box for the past two hours. I have been spilling your money every time because I wanted to do you good, since each time, you were coming with your tiny box full and you had no room to put anything more into it.”

Lesson: Each reception of light in order to bestow remains. But if the light remained, we would not want to receive anymore, since we would not be able to receive in order to bestow on more than we had received. Hence, each degree must depart, and each time we correct a vessel of will to receive with the aim to bestow until all is corrected. Then, all the lights will shine at once.

R. (39:39) Why couldn't it be done immediately? How did that help him?

6. S. (39:56) I think that on behalf of the Creator it did happen instantaneously but in the created being it’s divided into a process because from this it gets more pleasure, understands the thought of creation more, more of the love of the Creator.

R. Okay.

7. S. (40:23) The fact that it's a gradual process we can try to understand it but why doesn’t the gradual process get wider, broader because the purpose of creation is to receive more and the light wants to give? So according to the allegory he should enter with a bigger vessel every time but he has the same box every time. That was the friend’s question, the light presses on him to receive but what happens that he receives less every time?

R. He can’t receive the same light because he has experience, he has a new vessel, the whole situation is different.

S. So that's it exactly, it’s a gradual process until it completely departs. 

R. Yes.

S. The question is why isn’t it opposite, that every time it will able to receive more and then a bit more in order to bestow until it..?

R. He appreciates it more, he values it more. The truth is it feels it receives more.

8. S. (41:41) There's something here that’s not clear, in the part of the refinement from 4 to 3 and so on the vessel gains something. In the beginning we said because of equivalence of form it only got 20%, now when it's refining the Kli gains something extra even though there was equivalence of form. So the screen checked, said there's an ability to receive in order to bestow, okay so there's equivalence of form. But suddenly now in the refining he gains something extra from the refinement after he decided that he’s relinquishing everything. So what does he gain from this?

R. From the refinement?

S. From the gradual refinement?

R. A deficiency. A deficiency more and more and more.

9. S. (42:50) When the surrounding light is entirely on the outside 100% it has one opinion, it has to go in.

R. Yes.

S. Now part of it goes in. Suddenly it change its opinion, it agrees with the screen not to go in. So what happened with this light? It’s the same light but now it's inside so why did it change its opinion?

R. What do you mean it changed its opinion, it doesn't want to fill the vessel anymore?

S. It’s written that now it agrees with the screen and doesn't keep going. That the surrounding light that wants to stay outside wants to keep going and the inner light agrees not to continue.

R. Yes.

S. But it was the same light a second ago so what..?

R. It wasn't the same light. This is a light that went through a striking, a coupling while striking and enterd inside. How can it be the same light?

S. There’s a change in the light.

R. In the created being, it connected with the internality of the created being. It's a big difference.

10. S. (44:15) According to this story we can say that every time I enter the treasury, fill the cup and it spills the deficiency grows.

R. Of course.

S. The last time is the biggest deficiency compared with the first time.

R. Yes. The last time its deficiency is like the sum of all the deficiencies from the beginning of creation, yes.

11. S. (44:50) After the first refinement let's say from 4 to 3 an additional light, that vessel that’s revealed: is that light in that coupling an additionally light from the surrounding light that came in or the same inner light that goes through a different filter of a different coarnesses?

R. The light that comes back to the vessel?

S. Yes, during the refinement of the screen from courseness 4 to 3 there's a coupling. So the light in this coupling, is it inner light that goes through a new courseness or is it the surrounding light able to go in a bit more?

R. Certainly both, they need to clothe on one another.

S. And then you said that gradually there's a refinement until it reaches the Peh and then the light stops coming in.

R. Yes.

S. So Galgata finished her role there?

R. It doesn't finish, it continues with AB, SAG, etcetera but in itself, yes.

S. Let’s say AB is filled, so Galgalta remains empty?

R. No, it has to be filled in order to fill AB.

S. So it will be filled again and refine again?

R. Yes, so it is with each and every Partzuf until the end of all the Partzufim in the end of correction.

S. Every time there's an action below..so the process of filling an empty place in Galgalta?

R. Yes, not only Galgata, in all of them.

S. So is that that line that the light remains constant ever in the vessels?

R. You can’t say that a light exists if there is rest, it’s always in changes.

S. So there must be motion below?

R. There has to be motion in the light and it has to constantly change and this is basically, how should I say it, that’s the life, that's its correction. 

12. S. (47:41) When there’s no motion below that's the Shechina in exile?

R. Below is..

S. There's nothing on behalf of the lower ones, no request, no light and then the whole system empties of light.

R. I don't see there's such a thing but okay, suppose so.

S. So I'm asking is that what we call the Shechina in exile?

R. No, Shechina is exile is already Malchut of Ein Sof that cannot receive the light.

13. S. (48:26) The inner light that was already inside, now there's a refinement.

R. Yes.

S. It came back out, became surrounding again, it’s already different now.

R. Different.

S. So its two types of light on the outside?

R. Yes, one clothes on the other but it doesn't matter to us. There are a lot of such lights. In each coupling there are 25 couplings of striking, personal etcetera.

S. But they don't mix, it’s not back to the same..

R. No, no way back, never. In spirituality there is no going back.

S. When the light now start entering up..

R. Yes?

S. I don't know if you can ask this but it’s the same light that was inside?

R. It can never be the same light, never.

S. So what was inside goes back to Galgalta?

R. You can say it goes back even though it's not the same light. The light that moved a little bit from one place for some reason never goes back to that same place and it’s not the same light.  

S. When it enters it changed him and when it came out it changed him again?

R. Of course and many times.

14. S. (50:06) When we read the introduction to TES, even though we don't understand the surrounding lights build the vessels. So what we just read, that's exactly the detailed explanation for it?

R. Suppose.

S. When Malchut of Ein Sof restricts itself did it go into exile?

R. I don’t know what exile means, it’s not written here.

S. Divinity in exile. Malchut of Ein Sof, it doesn’t receive light and that’s called divinity in exile?

R. Yes.

S. But it’s Malchut of Ein Sof after it was restricted?

R. Yes.

S. That’s bestowing in order to bestow?

R. Yes, in order to bestow.

15. S. (50:59) Rejection of the light happens gradually. Let's say Glagalta says I'm rejecting this and that, so it's a greater equivalence than just receiving the light. It can reject all the fulfillment, it’s something additional, important.

R. It opens the understanding, explanation between the Creator and the created being.