Morning Lesson January 30, 2024

Transcription is made from simultaneous translation, which leaves a possibility for differences in the audio.

Part 3

Baal HaSulam. "Study of the Ten Sefirot" (TES). Vol. 2. Part 7. #8

Reading Item 8. (00:21) “The Sigim, dross, and the Klipot, shells cannot appear except…”

Reading Item 8. (01:49) Inner Light the Commentary. “Phases of Nekudot, being…”

1. R. (03:31) So what is he trying to say here? Can someone repeat it in his own words? No one? 

2. S. (4:22) That the term point or dot speaks about the control of the Malchut, and the judgment specifically in the place where Mercy wanted to come in, so that’s where the judgment is revealed. 

R. Nice. That’s it? That's what he has so far.

3. S. (04:49) And that is the reason this part of Malchut is what broke in the shattering and that is what is raised for corrections later on for reflected light and MAN.

R. Because of Malchut.

4. S. (05:14) What shattered was the screen, that's what he emphasized.

R. Nice.

5. S. (05:26) Can we say the Sigim, the dross, is the new opportunity to connect and scrutinize in order to receive and in order to bestow from below upward?

R. Yes. Sigim, dross comes from the word Sag.

Reading Item 9. (05:50) “The thing is that these seven Melachim, Kings…” Twice.

6. S. (12:34) What is the connection between Gevurot and Dinim? 

R. Gevurot are qualities that are in the ten Sefirot and Dinim, judgments are a result of them, which are in practice in activating the Partzuf.

S. Judgment is not to receive. There is a prohibition to receive?

R. Yes, so.

S. What's the addition of the judgment if there is a prohibition to receive?

R. Well there are Gevurot that are clear and there are limitations, and limits which for the time being are not clear.

S. I don't understand.

R. The Din, the judgment is general, the first restriction, the second restriction, and other such judgments. It operates on a certain area and Gevurot operates on something more specific.

S. The purpose of the Gevurot is to work with the judgment?

R. The purpose of Gevurot is to raise the created being, to influence the created being so it receives Gevurot and through it begins to rise. Gevurot also means strength.

S. So the Gevurot is part of the process of correction?

R. Yes.

7. S. (15:01) Can we say that what the Creator gives the Ten is Gevurot that we need to correct?

R. Yes. 

S. That we'll invite Him to correct it?

R. Could be, yes.

8. S. (15:22) I don't understand what's the contribution of the king’s dying that when these vessels are not used anymore that's what lets the process develop, the cascading of the worlds and then the ascending above?

R. Parts of the vessels broke, its parts broke, right? Although in each part everything was present in the mixture, so by correcting, without correction it's impossible, by correcting the broken Melachim, kings, by this we revive the dead kings, well?

S. Correction is a coupling over lower phases or is it over desires that descended downward?

R. Everything we have is forms of incorporation and couplings; it is over everything. 

S. So it turns out that, at least for the first time I feel that there is a part of the desire that once it shattered and went downward that was the correction and not that the light goes lower down in the cascading of the world but the desire goes down.

R. There is a certain quota, a certain dosage, to the desires through the breaking. Before the breaking, there could not be a sorting, a dosage, or a quota in the desires. Now through the breaking, you have a ladder of degrees that are arranged according to how they can enter Holiness, of course, it's after corrections. But to the extent that are more or less mixed and mingled you can turn them into a new ladder where from below, from the bottom to the top, all the degrees stand to the extent that they are broken. The broken ones are lower, and the less broken ones are higher. All the vessels can stand to the extent that vessels of bestowal are Incorporated in them from the bottom to the top, to the extent of the vessels are mixed with the shattering, they can stand like that from the bottom to the top, from below upward, and there are all kinds of changes in them, differences between them, so the shattering lets you feel the essence of each and every vessel and what it lacks, that vessel, in order to rise and become revealed and be as a complete vessel. Therefore, this is why the shattering is such an important operation.

9. S. (21:13) I didn't understand why it's written that first, the Creator created the sky, why the sky, because it's Gevurot and it came from a desire. He writes that from the kings, which is Elohim, the sky and Earth were created.

R. Yes.

S. Why through the Melachim, Gevurot, the sky was created because the land was still Gevurot when He created the land, so how could it be that the sky was created?

R. It's a sign that it's premature, it's still premature. 

10. S. (21:09) He says at the end of the paragraph that “then they were clarified and returned to dust,” so everything you talked about sorting it out that's what was sorted when they were clarified, that's actually the work, not to correct but to separate and reach a state that in man there’s that separation between what he can and to Holiness and what he can't add to the Holiness, and that's the whole matter of the shattering that he doesn't know what he could or could not?

R. Yes, now in the shattering, as the result of the shattering through the reforming light he sees which vessel is fit and which is unfit and to what extent, right, at what level it is. Meaning now we need to see a new ladder where in vessels that see the greatest lights and down, down, down, as they cascade and come into the vessels that there is nothing to do with them, and afterward we will see how we sort them.

S. That is what he's describing every time there is a correction and there's a part that you can't correct, and it joins the stony heart and it's accumulated below like a pile, and in the end, the Creator will come and correct it?

R. Read item 9. 

Reading Item 9. (22:59) “The thing is that these seven Kings that are the Gevurot…”

11. R. (26:14) In other words there was a breaking and after the breaking everyone seemingly descended to the degree of dust and now from the dust they have to be sorted out? 

12. S. (26:59) How to use all the states that are awakening after the congress, how to use them correctly?

R. What are the new states?

S. Usually, well I speak at least about myself and my surroundings that the days after the congress there is like scatteredness, vagueness?

R. Well, someone who learned technology knows that there is an ascent, like a leap, and a descent and then they return gradually through these harmonics; it is the same in every system including our system. 

S. So in this part when we're below before it rises what happens there?

R. There too it takes a lot of patience and learning that is suitable for the person who is going through such states. That's it, I don't know. I don't remember what article that could be suitable for this.

13. S. (28:36) I just wanted to share about the congress that we talked to our students and it is a very, very deep impression and a lot of gratitude and a lot of states that create happiness from the whole process we went through in the congress and they're all very grateful for all the work of all the friends here and you as well, Rav and great, great inspiration.

R. Thank you. Actually, for me, this is the hardest day, not during the congress, not after the congress but the second day, even the third day a little bit.