Part 2:
Baal HaSulam. Preface to the Wisdom of Kabbalah. (#130)
Reading item #127
Reading item #128
Reading item #129 twice
Reading item #130 twice
1. S. (08:20) He describes here how the Partzuf of Atzilut take vessels from Nekudim which become the quality of the Nukva to them. From the vessels of Nekudim what's required in this kind of connection? What's the condition for a broken Partzuf in Nekudim to become a Nukva of a correcting Partzuf from Atzilut?
R. That against it there is a Partzuf and Atzilut wish it can scrutinize and connect to it and receive from it lights, that will make the correct scrutinies in it and then it will be able to resurrect itself correctly, and connect to that Partzuf of Nekudim and correct itself in this way, correct the shattering.
S. To be a Partzuf of Nukva worthy or qualified to receive a male Partzuf of Atzilut, what does it mean to be the Nukva type of Partzuf?
R. That it has deficiencies that the male Partzuf can take and raise it to that same degree, whichever it is able to ascend to and whatever it wants to ascend to, then it can receive lights from there, and those lights will correct it and connect it to the source.
S. But it's broken isn't it?
R. But by the upper one taking care of it, it will be corrected.
S. Inside the shattering are there already preparations for the desire to be corrected?
R. If it feels the shattering, so from that it already wants to be corrected.
2. S. (10:39) Partzuf of Atik takes vessels from Nekudim of GE of Nekudim and they become like the AHP of Atik. How can the vessels of GE who did not break but were canceled function as AHP?
R. The vessels of Atik, what did you say about them?
S. That they add to themselves vessels of Nekudim, the GE of Nekudim that did not break that were canceled, and now they have the role of AHP, it's like a totally different type of vessel.
R. No.
S. How can the vessels of GE become vessels of AHP, it’s a totally different role?
R. I don't get it exactly. I can't answer that, it's not working out, I feel that I'm not exactly all right.
3. S. (12:28) How can it be that Atik takes different parts from the world of Nekudim and suddenly it becomes one Partzuf that works as in Nukva? It's not necessarily 10 Sefirot here what he's taking from Nekudim here, right?
R. Yes.
S. So what is this Partzuf which sounds like a hodgepodge?
R. I takes different parts of the world of Nekkudim and connects it to one Partzuf.
S. Who does this action, the connection into one Partzuf?
R. In truth the Rosh of SAG.
S. And what does it mean that they're in Panim and Achor, face and back?
R. That's already the type of connection between them that in this way gradually they come to correct the shattering, in order to make the Partzufim connect to one another.
S. And what does it mean that the male is in the interior? How come not both of them are in the posterior? What is the meaning of anterior here?
R. Face means bestowal and back means receiving, usually.
4. S. (14:22) It says that he took the top part of Keter, the top part of HB, and also seven roots of ZAT. Here when he speaks of roots, which parts of he referring to?
R. Seven Keterim that he takes for its own scrutiny.
S. But it's also the top part of the Partzuf?
R. Yes.
S. Why does it divide it here? He says from the top he takes only half, and from the bottom he takes all of them?
R. He takes whatever he can take for correction, that's why he takes Keter or GE or all of the ten Sefirot, it all depends on what we're discussing, the size of the Partzuf.
5. S. (15:50) At the end of 129 it says that there are face to back, Atik of MA and MA in the front part and Atik in the back part. What is the meaning of face and back?
R. Face is usually GE and the back is usually the AHP.
6. S. (16:38) Typically we learned that the mutual relationship between the lower and the upper is that the Malchut of the upper one becomes the Keter of the lower one, but here it says that AHP of the upper becomes the Nukva of Atik of Atzilut. How can the upper Partzuf become the Nukva of the lower Parzuf?
R. It's corrections, that's why it all depends on the raising of the man of the lower one, as much as the lower one demands that the upper one must make a corrected Partzuf from itself and then carry the lower one too.
7. S. (17:24) How do we identify a male Partzuf and a Nukva?
R. Who is bestowing and who is receiving.
Reading item number 130. (17:47)
8. R. (19:51) And in this way they correct themselves.
Reading item number 131. (19:58)
9. R. (21:48) In this way they share and they divide the corrections between them, all the parts of Atzilut.
Reading item number 132. (22:02)
10. R. (22:43) And in this way it's organized, all the shattered vessels against all the vessels of ABYA, these have to connect those and fill them.
Reading item number 133. (23:02)
11. R. (24:14) And this is how we see that all the levels that were shattered start organizing, and then the Parzufim of Atzilut, they come and take them as a part of them, each one of them each and every one, and they start correcting them.
12. S. (24:38) Partzuf Keter of Nekkudim, is it Rosh of clothing it love shoot
R. Keter of Nekudim, this Rosh of clothing, yes you could say that.
S. So how can a Guf come out of it? There shouldn't be a Guf coming out of the Rosh of clothing.
R. It depends what it's connecting.
13. S. (25:18) In each letter, each item, it starts like this: that it’s sorted and connected. Then it says sorted and connected in male female, and then plural. There's a change in who's doing these actions? Of sorting and connecting to itself or sorting and connecting to others?
R. Either he talks about a degree or a Partzuf or connecting between the Parzufim up to ZON.
S. So who's doing the action?
R. Who's activating the Parzufim? The upper light.
S. When he writes that she took it and connected.
R. The degree of AVI.
S. We are learning about this, ultimately it's the role of the kabbalist to perform such actions? he's sorting and connecting?
R. He doesn’t give it to the kabbalists to do, no. He says that these are the Partzufim, that in this way they are in the starting part of Atzilut, afterwards they correct the shattered vessels.
S. But when he writes that they connect, it's a result of the entire item, he says they connected one with the other?
R. Yes this is right and left.
S. How can vessels connect, through what?
R. Through their common screen. Let's say AVI, when they connect, so Ima gets impregnated from Aba and then gives birth to ZON.
S. So the connection of the vessels, when he takes all different types of vessels into one action, this is the meaning of connected together?
R. Not exactly like you want to say it simply, but yes.
S. Here he writes that he needs to take the vessels, sort the vessels, and connect the vessels. That's the order?
R. Yes.
14. S. (28:07) The matter of corrections where an upper Partzuf clothes in the lower Partzuf, everything the correction of the vessels is done through the incorporation of both of them and building a common screen or is the additional parameter at work here?
R. Yes, there's a lot of other things but that’s the main way it works: one Partzuf clothes on another or the records clothe in a Partzuf.
S. The Zivug always has to be with the upper Partzuf and the Peh of Rosh in order to rise?
R. The Zivug, the coupling is always in the Peh of Rosh even when we say it happens in the Nikvey Eynaim and the Chazeh, we can say, but it's still only to show where it is compared to where it was, but the coupling is always in the Peh, that's where the screen is anyway, in any case, whether it's a big Partzuf or a small Partzuf, impregnation and Yenika/suckling, it doesn't matter the Zivug it's always in the Peh just we state it that it supposedly stands in different places in order to show that it goes through changes.
15. S. (29:47) On one hand we learned that Atzilut corrects the AHP of Nekudim, on the other hand it says that BON of Atik was created and was corrected from the upper part of GAR of Nekudim meaning that Nekudim corrects BON of Atik. How is it on the one hand that it's this and the other hand it's that?
R. Because Atik supposedly doesn't belong to Atzilut at all. It's called Atik from the word ….. meaning separate, that its root comes from above from the world of Nekudim and it’s placed between AK to Atzilut in order to be in the connector between the two worlds.
S. What does it mean that Atzilut corrects something especially when it corrects the AHP of Nekudim, what does it do?
R. It connects the shattered vessels to its Partzuf and from its Partzuf if it could be that it passes it to other Partzufim that are in its authority and then those Reshibot, those parts, connect together and get corrected.
S. The principal of the correction, what we can learn from it, how does the correction happen, how can we correct anything?
R. We need to connect between us and to connect to the Creator and to ask of Him for correction and then we'll see as much whether we are able to or not take parts and correct them of the shattered vessels or not correct them and as much as the upper light corrects them or explains what we need to do with these vessels and gives us forces, gives us directions in what to do, and in this way more and more we become partners with the Creator. It will come, this is actually, there's more things to learn here but the main thing is that when we're studying we're incorporating in one another and with the spiritual actions and then gradually it starts clarifying in us.
S. The indication for how now a broken state was revealed, how do we know that we corrected it?
R. Indication that we have corrected a state? It’s when parts of the state can join what was already corrected, incorporate in our vessels and participate in the correction.
S. We have to be an answer from the Creator to this understanding that He's working that we connected to Him?
R. Yes, that's the common work between us and the Creator.
16. S. (34:02) No Translation
R. When we in the ten want to raise our deficiency for correction, the common correction between us that we want to be connected, and from that connection we want that all the vessels that need corrections will incorporate in us and we'll rise with them into the upper correction so through that we gradually correct the vessels from easy to difficult from light to heavy.
17. S. (35:06) The Partzufim of the world of Atzilut, if they don't receive Nukva from Nekudim they don't reach their wholeness?
R. Yes, one who does not feel his broken vessels has nothing to correct he doesn't feel he has anything to correct.
S. So it turns out that Atzilut is a more corrected system of Nekudim?
R. Yes.
18. S. (35:46) What you just answered the friend, you said we need to connect between us and also ask for correction for connection between us. I understood other three things you said, one is to work with the friends, two is to after you work with the friends we have to bring the Creator into this work, and three, we from all this type of work we have to reach a prayer of many, that He will do it and not us and now not later. Did I understand that correctly or not?
R. You will scrutinize it and figure out if you understood it or not. Why are you taking our time so we will scrutinize for you your state. We don’t do that, you need to scrutinize your own personal state a correct it.