Morning Lesson December 3, 2020 Transcription is made from simultaneous translation which leaves possibility for errors 

Baal HaSulam. "Study of the Ten Sefirot" (TES). Part 2. Chapter Four. Histaklut Pnimit #75 ("In the beginning, the Masach becomes strong ..")

Reader Item 75 “First the Masach becomes strong....”(00:28 - 00:51)

45. R. In the beginning the light expands into the vessel, enters the vessel it wants to enter the vessel, the screen repels it pushes it back and then the screen performs a calculation with all of the light that comes to it. It is the will to bestow of the Creator to the created being and the will to bestow of the created being to the Creator. These two desires are opposite, the host wants for the guest and the guest wants for the host, so they have to make a calculation when each one only does for the other and after this calculation the created being will receive something, because this reception will double. In the beginning the screen becomes strong and pushes it backwards, afterwards the light increases and purifies the screen. This means that the light wants to cancel the screen, however it only cancels the level of coarseness over which there was a Zivug de Hakaa, meaning that coarseness upon which there was a Zivug where the action of the Creator and the action of the created being connected then this light cancels it. If the Zivug de Hakaa was on the fourth phase it nullifies the coarseness of the fourth phase that stops it from clothing in the Partzuf leaving the Aviut of Behina Gimel, the third phase which it had no dealing with, meaning it doesn't start any action with it, wherever the created being feels pressure this is where he does. Like the guest with the host where the host implores the guests to take this, I respect you, please eat it, then the guests will do this action. Correspondingly, if the Zivug de Hakaa was in the coarseness of the third phase it cancels only the coarseness of the Behina Gimel, the third phase and leaves coarseness of Behina Bet, the second phase. Meaning always wherever the upper light, which is the Creator acts on the will to receive in the screen that is set up on it which is the created being, this is where they are communicating and the creature responds to the action of the Creator. Behina Dalet, the fourth phase does not become absent although it has been purified into Behina Gimel, the third phase.

Reader Item 76 “You already know that any Hidush Tzura....”(03:46 - 04:49)

46. R. The Creator doesn't change. The Creator doesn't change, but in the created being because the Creator implored him more, then he cancels this imploration and doesn't want to receive in order to receive and then the connection between him and the Creator rises to higher degrees, meaning more pure. From Behina Dalet to Behina Gimel from Behina Gimel to Behina Bet. Meaning how is it possible to explain this, suppose we are sitting at the host and he is saying take this and the creature doesn't want and the host says if you're not taking this at least try this, try it, it is tasty. And he doesn't want, so if not that, you have to taste this as this is how the host implores the guest with the smaller and smaller things so that at least he can have some contact with him. The guest always pushes away and rejects this connection because it is going to be in order to receive until he completely comes out, purifies. Meaning he is with no connection with the host.

 Reader Item 77 “Immediately at the Hizdakchut of Behina Gimel....”(06:25 - 08:05)

47. S. (08:07) There is an emanated being and an Emanator. The emanated being decides he wants to receive less Zeir Anpin to Bina, Bina to Hochma and to Keter, is this what he is describing here?

R. Yes.

48. S. (08:34) Baal HaSulam explains that the light cancels the Aviut so what is the basis to the connection if the Aviut is canceled?

R. This is the coarseness of the screen, it is not coarseness. The coarseness doesn't disappear, doesn’t cancel.

49. S. (09:00) The emanated being only depends on preparing his vessel. What does it mean to prepare my vessel for the light to come in?

R. You have to prepare your intention in order to bestow then you will be according to the light that comes to you in order to bestow then you will both resemble each other. If you will be equal you can meet and clothe on each other.

S. How do I prepare the vessel?

R. A preparation of the Kli has to be before that. That’s when you are connected to your ten and you're asking for the resisting force, the force of the screen, without which you cannot discover. We are talking about the revelation of the host here the revelation of the Creator to the created being and the way the creature being receives this revelation of the Creator where he has to be an equivalence of form with the Creator.

S. So what does it mean there's no absence in spirituality?

R. There's no absence in spirituality, it has nothing to do with this.

S. He was speaking about it before.

R. Yes because what was before was before but now there's a new form, clothing on the previous form.

50. S. (10:45) He says the Behina Dalet that was not absent so there's always the feeling of the Bitush in the Kli, the striking?

R. No, there are no constant feelings, everything changes when these ..... don't disappear, that is one thing, but not being in the feeling of the vessel itself, that is something else altogether. A vessel cannot feel beyond the contact that he has with the light because this light awakens such an emotion in the vessel.

S. The fact that there is a Zivug, coupling on the third phase, the fourth was refined to the third, that’s in the refinement of the Masach when it ascends?

R. Yes, the screen purifies it uses less coarseness, less coarseness according to his nature he becomes closer to the Creator, because it is less Aviut, less coarseness, whereas if he has more coarseness and more of the screen then he is connecting with a better intention to the Creator. When the screen purifies, is refined, then the coarseness disappears meaning he's closer to the Creator by his coarseness, not by the Masach.

S. If the Bitush and the restriction was on the fourth phase, why after the coupling now on the third phase, why does the Masach keep refining?

R. Because he got the decision to begin with, when the screen was in Tabur and now it's purified so it's being purified until it reaches Peh de Rosh. Because the guest, standing before the host, the moment the host starts putting pressure on him he doesn't want to receive anything for himself. Later he tries to receive in order to bestow, for if he will not receive in order to bestow this is real disrespect to the host. 

S. So first there is the refinement….

R. No, no it happens together but if we're talking about the guest and the host this is how we explain it. The guest sitting before the host saying this I don't want, no, no, no. On all five dishes he says, no I won't receive them in order to receive. Just as the host is pushing it, later the host says, okay do something but do it for me, do me a favor and then the guest seemingly says to the host, okay if it is for you in order to bestow to you I will do it. I will take as much as I can in order to bestow to you. Meaning it is not by my will to receive but it is by my ability to bestow on to you. Then he starts tasting from each and every dish of the five dishes.

S. Then we say he can't receive the biggest meal.

R. But he is able to receive a little bit of every dish as much as he can by the screen.

S. So why did he refine himself from all of the dishes, after he decided he could receive in order to bestow again he purifies so he rose to Peh de Rosh?

R. Because the surrounding light, Ohr Makif came it refines the screen without this light it would stay this way but the surrounding light comes and says look what you did, you received 1% of what the host prepared for you what about the 99%? It is the same Surrounding Light standing outside of the Partzuf and then the guest sees that he didn't do anything basically for the host, it is a real small thing he did but then he purifies, he refines, he can't do anything else. He purifies because if he will take it it will be in order to receive in that he will not do in any way. So he goes for it in order to bestow.

S. So that would be in order to receive in Behina Gimel of Dalet, too? Meaning in all Behinot it will be in order to receive after the Bitush? 

R. When will it be in order to receive, I'm not certain I understand what you are saying?

S. When the Ohr Makif works and says that he can, he'll receive in order to receive?

R. Yes.

S. So he purifies all of the Masach.

R. Then he removes himself from all of the reception so to be in order to bestow. This means that the screen rises for Tabur to Peh because if the will receive it will be in order to receive and he will not agree to it in any way this is why he purifies. Rises to Peh de Rosh meaning repels all of the light in him and reaches complete emptiness again. Again, he is before the host receiving nothing and the host can give him nothing.

51. S. (16:31) If in the ten like in the created being we are lacking the correct perception so the decision of the refinement in the Masach it won’t happen in the four phases?

R. I don't know what you are doing over here in your ten but we have to look at what it says here there is no slightly in spirituality, if you remove yourself from reception you removed yourself from all of reception and all you stay in is the restriction, the Tzimtzum.

52. S. (17:11) Can you define the Aviut of the Masach?

R. Aviut of the Masach, the coarseness of the screen depends on the will to receive upon which a screen is and he wants to use this coarseness in order to bestow, to receive in order to bestow. The screen is the force to reject, to push away the pleasures but when he wants to receive in order to bestow the screen connects to the coarseness, working with it together. Actually the screen is the opposite of coarseness, but in order to receive in order to bestow it connects to the coarseness and it turns out that the screen pushes away the pleasure for itself and letting the will to receive receives in order to bestow.

53. S. (18:27) About that refinement, refinement in Hebrew is if you take material from a negative state and purify it and the state that the Kli is in where it is only filled with part of the light it's like a negative state for the created being?

R. I don't know where you're taking your definitions and pulling them into the wisdom of Kabbalah.

S. That is the word refine when you take something from negative to positive.

R. I don't care about your definitions, you should listen to what he is saying and accordingly understand it. You shouldn't take these definitions from different places.

S. As it is written that they wanted to purify Israel so about the word Hizdakchut, so when the Masach refines there was a state that was negative now it's turning into positive?

R. No, it wasn't in a negative state this screen, the screen used to work with a very big will to receive and now it is purified, it is refined, it doesn't have the strength to work with such a big will to receive this is why it is weakened, it's purified it’s working with a smaller will to receive.

S. Thank you.

R. You should be cautious about the way you use words if you take the words from the wisdom of Kabbalah and the definitions from other places.

54. S. (20:32) The Hizdakchut of the Masach in the Behina Dalet, is there still a Zivug on Behina Gimel?

R. Yes, of course, it comes to the Behina Gimel now Zivug is revealed on Behina Gimel.

S. Does it mean that, let’s say the dish of the fourth phase is departed but the guests still take the first three dishes?

R. No, he hasn't performed a Zivug over it.

55. S. (21:17) There are precise actions here after the calculation, how do we learn how to use our desire like that?

R. Only in this work while you try to work with the screen, without the screen with less coarseness or with more coarseness you can feel what it is about. That is where it has to be revealed.

Reader Item 78 “The reason why Behina Gimel is absent of Keter....” (21:55 - 22:18)

56.R. He's talking about Partzuf AB compared to Galgalta.

Reader continues....” (22:22 - 23:56)

57. R. If there is no Ohr Hozer at what height, at what intensity, so no direct light can clothe on it, it is as if it's not there. So, suppose I have 10 grams of reflected light then I can discover only 10 grams of direct light in front of me. Just like now I have not at all, no restriction, no screen and so I see nothing before me, not the direct light, meaning the Creator and anyway. I don't see anything. I must have Tzimtzum, restriction, Masach, a screen, Ohr Hozer, reflected light at least to a certain small degree then I can feel myself connected to the upper force, the upper light.

58. S. (24:56) What are the conditions for Ohr Hozer in the work?

R. The conditions are to have restriction, screen and reflected light, the condition is that you are connecting to your friends above your ego, you are willing to be with them together and by that you are ready to be with the Creator in the form of connection, a certain form of connection. Then you have a ready-made vessel to be connected to the Creator if you are connecting to your friends.

59. S. (25:46) You said that we are connecting with the friends with one Kli above the ego and then the Creator starts convincing us to receive.

R. Yes.

S. When we start working in such a style with the Creator we start working from the screen from Shoresh?

R. It depends on what state you are talking about. If it is like we are learning here it is from below upwards meaning from the greatest coarseness. When we start learning about Hitpashtut, expansion from above, from Ein Sof to this world then we start learning from Behina Dalet, the fourth phase when the vessel is completely incapable of being connected to the Creator with all of its coarseness and it said this is how it works as it has the Partzuf of Galgalta.

S. But our Masach has to be on the five dishes as you said before, right?

R. Yes, of course, you can't play with it, first of all, all of these conditions, it is the Creator who placed them before us. Second, we have to understand that here we learn how the vessels and the lights are going from above downwards and there are no humans here yet. He's talking about mechanics, the vessels and each and every degree and accordingly the lights that fill these vessels. This is what we are learning now. Now from below upwards that is something else, we don't start with a big will to receive as we do from above downwards. We start from scratch having nothing, where do we have a desire that we can overcome with the friends. Start scrutinizing this desire, wanting to restrict yourself and wanting to give them and to organize all of your tendencies towards them, that way you're going to show that you really want to be in bestowal, accordingly. The upper light which is everywhere will start bestowing upon you, when you work this way with your friends, you are drawing and inviting the upper light to act upon you, then you will start feeling that you are not only connected to your friends, but your connection to the friends is only the preparation, you're starting to work with the upper light. This is called the Creator stands behind every friend. Then when you organize your relationship with a friend, you are actually connected to the Creator who is standing behind the friend and He is filling you accordingly.

S. Can we say that if I bring myself to resemble in such a way the closest Masach to us has to be connected with the Creator and the friends without any conditions?

R. How, without conditions you want to be like a baby? You just want it? Without any conditions is also a condition. It is a condition without conditions, that is your condition. 

S. To that, if I can't receive in order to bestow anything, no light inside, so I am just connected, I devote myself in the maximum way?

R. In the meantime we can't go beyond that to your friends in the group I try, in this trial will give you new states.

Reader Item 79 “Any Hamshacha is done by Behina Dalet.... (30:17 - 32:21)

60. R. We have a few things here, we will still work on them, obviously every desire in the fourth phase 1 2 3 4 that are in Behina Dalet, in the fourth phase, they are all more than the third phase. Even the fourth phase in the third phase is less than the Shoresh, the root which is in Dalet. This is what is written that it is better to be the tail to the lions than the head to the foxes. That even if you are a tail to the lions but you are part of the degree of the lions, but if you are the head to the foxes, it is a lesser degree. That is why we will try to be connected to the group as much as strong and as big as we can, even if I am the least of it all I am still part of them, I attribute myself to them I serve them more than being a great one in a lesser group. That is according to our ego, so wherever I can annul and be part of the bigger people it is better to be there.

61. S. (33:51) He writes that the screen awakens, sometimes the screen doesn't awaken?

R. The state awakens according to the upper light that works on it.

62. S. (34:08) When Behina Dalet pushes everything away, is there reception in order to bestow or does reception only start on Behina Gimel?

R. Good question. Actually, here we don't learn it like that, but reception in order to bestow starts from the third phase. Afterwards we will learn all of these things. 

63. S. (34:39) The purification of the screen, its reason is for adhesion, not deficiency?

R. The purification, the refinement is to extend it in bestowal, there is no other way but to continue bestowing, but in order to do that it has to be fine itself from receiving.

S. When they talk about the Partzufim there is the degree of Keter Hochma Bina. What is the difference in the meaning between these Partzufim, as if the quality of Bina controls the quality of Hochma?

R. In spirituality it is different than for us, for us it is eyes, ears, nose, mouth. It is things that supposedly belong to different parts of the body in spirituality it is the intensity of the connection with the Creator.

Item 80 “With respect to the Hamshacha of Ohr, Behina Dalet..... (36:04 - 37:25)

64. R. Because the coarseness doesn't refine, the desire doesn't refine. It will disappear towards that same screen the same vessel the same emanated being or from itself. When the created being decides that it doesn't want to use it or from above the desire is limited by the light which shines or a light that shines less, awakens the desire, but not that the desire itself completely disappears or anything The desire like the Creator created, He created it according to His desire to bestow so that they will both be equal and then He plays with the desire with the help of the light shining more and less and by that the desire awakens more or less in the created being. It is a game from the Creator towards the created being.

65. S. (38:30) In the language of Kabbalah it is called it is better to be in the Malchut of the upper than in Keter of the lower?

R. The Malchut of the upper one becomes the Keter for the lower one, yes.

S. Malchut of the upper means to be the last in a group like they say is the tail of the lion it's better than the Keter of the lower one?

R. Yes, this time you're right.

66. S. (39:11) And one of the previous items we learned that the yearning is what extends the light into Behina Dalet, so what happens now?

R. By what else can you reveal the light, by yearning. Yearning to bestow on behalf of the created being on the behalf of Malchut, the Kli, a yearning to bestow as much as I bestow as I want to bestow, by that I awaken the upper light from concealment to revelation and then it can reveal itself.

S. So what is happening now that Behina Dalet is purifying that the screen rises, so where does this yearning that extends from Zivug over Behina Gimel?

R. The Masach that purifies completely from all degrees of Aviut and reaches Peh deRosh that does not want to receive anything and has given up on all of its receiving, it now it encounters the bestowal of the Creator which is in the Rosh because the Masach comes from the Tabur to the Peh and the Creator is in the Rosh and the Peh and there the guest meets the host again, the Creator, the light and again fills the upper one trying to push to him and then the story starts over.

S. It means that you're yearning, but not in Behina Dalet?

R. Of course in Behina Dalet he can’t because he was purified from Behina Dalet but now when it meets the Creator, the host he has the ability to go into the first three phases of bestowal from the emanated being. 

S. Yearning is to use the maximum desire to bestow?

R. Of course any more than that I cannot, I just rid myself of all of the coarseness in the screen of the fourth phase and all I'm left with is Behina Gimel. Let's say I had $100 to pay for a meal and now I have $80 to pay for the meal.

S. So I want to use all of the $80 that means that I am extending the upper light?

R. You can't use less than what you have otherwise it is not called bestowal. You understand, bestowal is like love, in love you don't have a percentage either 100% or nothing. That you understand.

S. Yes, that is clear.

R. Great, I don't think it's clear to everybody.

67. S. (42:30) About the expansion, I didn't understand what it means that the fourth phase and the screen...?

R. The Masach, the screen that was in the fourth phase works as the screen of the fourth phase, the screen that is in the third phase works as a screen for the third phase, what isn't clear? The screen, the Masach is a force which is in order to bestow. Imagine in your pocket you have $100 or 80 or 60 or 40 or 20 or 0, 5 degrees so here you take out the money in your pocket, that is the Masach. So, you can't decide I'm only going to pay $100 or only $50 or $40 only 80. You can't. Because bestowal means from the bottom of your heart all the way and that is why the Kli behaves in such a way.

68. S. (44:09) About the matter of one hundred percent of love if even of the highest degree of creation there is a systematic flaw that the creature cannot receive 100% what changes later?

R. The Creator completes it, like with babies, they can’t do anything, we do it instead. In every way the Creator takes care of us for now it completes it even though we can't, we are lazy a bit, that is called the Creator will do it for me.

S. That is on the way but I'm asking about the final correction, what can be different compared to where creation started from, the four phases where there's no perfection there?

R. I don't understand you.

S. After the restriction the created being cannot receive in all four phases but we say the first restriction doesn't cancel, so how come in the final correction we do reach this perfection of wholeness and absolute love?

R. After the shattering what did we have before the shattering from Ein Sof? A very thin line comes and a very small desire which is only the beginning of Creation in the still vegetative and animate and there is no speaking degree, not at all. It is like telling you in the Torah that all of the animals that they were all created before man and man, Adam and Eve like two animals, there is nothing but that.  After they have reached between them to a big will to receive which is a serpent, that is the invention of the Creator, the egoistic invention that is clothed in them. They have felt that there is a great will to receive, then by the force of the serpent the Kli called a soul developed where what came out of Adam HaRishon. Adam HaRishon itself is an angel. He doesn’t have the fourth phase, he doesn’t have the real will to receive. Only after he received an addition from the serpent with Eve together and they began to develop on behalf of the poison in the serpent, they can start becoming Adam, people, humans. Before that they are called an angel before the sin. An angel means that there is no real Behina Dalet in there, you can see it on any person that he might be pure, he doesn't want anything, he's like an angel.

S. So in the correction from below upwards we build a new vessel that wasn't there in creation?

R. In our correction we reveal the new vessel called the evil inclination, the will to receive, our ego, we discover it and we attributed it to the previous forms that don't belong to the degree of Adam, the true degree of Adam. From the root, Shoresh Aleph Bet Gimel Dalet we reach the real Behina Dalet and we build the degree of the Adam. We can only do that after all of the shatterings after we were in the shattering in Olam ha Nekudim and then there are many shatterings Coming out of the forces of the Sitra Achra and the Klipot so thanks to those Klipot we can get a bigger will to receive and start correcting it in order to bestow. Without that there, what are all the worlds that have developed from above down that we learn about until this world, afterwards there is also only the coming out of man, all of these worlds are only just a system. It is a system that we exist in like in a computer and some system and there is software and all of these things in there, but it is still not the created being, it is not the real will to receive it is the Creator that created such a reality, such a system. What we need to correct is only the fourth phase within the fourth phase that is revealed in the Adam HaRishon when mixing with the serpent. That is it. Without that we were animals, because in our world you see the degree of Adam, still, vegetative an animate and we are part of the animate degree the degree of Adam that resembles the Creator we don't have that we have to build that on our own.

69. S. (50:21) This principle of love that exists only if it is one hundred percent, is it only possible if the restriction is 100%?

R. You are asking a very complex question. We need to try to come to the degree of love in all kinds of small levels as well. Let's say that I have the will to receive in 10%, then in those 10% I have to restrict myself, Masach, reflected light and bestowal in all of my forces, in all of my forces that the Creator gave me. If I do it in order to bestow it is a sign that I am in love 100%, according to my state. According to my state, I don't know what more than that is, I can't imagine it, a child that hugs his mother and feels that he just glues himself to her, thinking that he loves her with all of his forces and it is true. However, is it really like that, when he grows and his awareness will grow, that he will understand that it isn't everything? Meaning it all depends on the degree that man is in.

70. S. (52:09) All the people in the world are the Behinat Chai, Behinat Gimel so there is no active Adam part in the world so in reality it is just the Kabbalists and the Creator is the only active part here happening in the system here?

R. Yes, that is why it is written in the world that they were all as beasts. It is not slandering or anything, it is just that the still vegetative and animate degree is what we have in the world. Whoever is in the speaking level is whoever is in connection with the Creator that determines the degree of Adam in him, he could be big, small, Ibur, Yenika, Mochin and so on.

71. S. (53:17) To elevate Ohr Hozer does this mean to give up our own desire and fill up the ones from the friends?

R. Yes, it is according to the rule of make your desire as His desire. This is how we have to do it, meaning that all of our desires are awakening in us in order for us to annul them and to prefer the others’ desire instead of ours. That is the expression of love, that is an expression of love.

72. S. (54:58) About the Kabbalists  who are the only one who really act in reality, but we are saying that the real will to receive, Behina Dalet, is in the nations of the world actually, so how does that work?

R. No, that is Aviut and not really in the nations of the world. The fact that they awakened and they could come and connect in Gmar Tikkun, that is what we will see. It is written, do not be afraid of the poor children because the Torah comes out of them. That specifically in those vessels, vessels of circles for now, that it is the nations of the world, the people that are not connected. The will to receive which is directed to the Creator didn't awaken in them, they are huge big desires, we just draw a thin line from above downward but they are actually the ones, they don't know about it, but they are holding the whole big circle, the ten circles, that is where the biggest will to receive is. Those are the degrees of Gimel and Dalet with the Klipot and everything that will be revealed to us. Truthfully we need to only correct what we need, which is vessels of GE and degrees of AHP when they join and it's not too bad, it's not difficult, not to imagine that there is something that we can reach the first contact with the Creator, here we are speaking about vessels of Aviut of Gimel and Dalet but it is revealed and its corrected on its own. The main thing is that we will be as that pipeline, call that the Creator will finish it for me, that we have to build a pipeline and hold on to it and through the pipeline the upper light will bestow through all of the Olamot, from the worlds surrounding everything,from the surrounding Ein Sof, into the circle, the center of the circle and then we will fill the entire space. That will happen soon.

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