Morning Lesson May 15, 2021 Transcription
Baal HaSulam. "Study of the Ten Sefirot" (TES). Vol. 1. Part 1. Chapter 1, Or Pnimi (Inner Light) #4 (“It means that before the worlds were created...")
Rav: The most important is to constantly think about the intention. We want this learning to bring us reforming light. This light, the inner force that is in the study will correct us and we will be rewarded with correcting our desires and our qualities so that they will all be inverted in order to bestow. We will invert our nature from reception to bestowal and within it we will discover what the book writes about. We will not understand intellectually but feel, see what is written.
TES
Part
1
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2:52)
Part
One
Chapter
1
Twice
Inner
Light
(03:01
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05:35)
We
must
remember
that
the
entire
wisdom
of
Kabbalah
is
founded
on
spiritual
matters
that
do
not
take
up
time
or
space.
We cannot utter even a single word regarding His self, for the rule is that anything we do not attain, we do not know its name. Remember that and you will not fail.
45. R. For now, no questions, we will continue.
Inner
Light
1
(04:34
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05:31)
46. S. (05:37) The words of the Ari sound like music. Does Baal HaSulam’s interpretation help us to appreciate this music in a stronger way?
R. Baal HaSulam brings the words of the Ari closer to us and by him we become gradually ape to discover what the Ari is writing?
47. S. (06:12) So the first form doesn't change?
R. It says that there is no absence in the spiritual meaning in spirituality each and every state is in and of itself so that means that the inner data remains and if there is a change it becomes as an addition of something new with all these details to the previous picture does not move away and the new picture comes and is established by the new Reshimo?
48. S. (07:03) My question is about the way we're meant to study TES. Here it speaks about the time before creations were created. Are we meant to feel this state?
R. Each and every state we need to feel, we need to try and feel, it doesn't matter if it is in time or to what degree, it doesn't matter. I want to feel these states as if they are right now happening within me.
S. Also, before the emanated were emanated.
R. In any way that I depict it to myself I have to try to find it. What can I say this is about something spiritual, I don't feel it, I don't sense it, I don't have spiritual forces so I am just going to hear it and I'm just going to delve into it? No that is incorrect, I want to delve into each and every word that is here.
49. S. (08:34) How to understand that everything was filled with the upper light? There was no difference between us?
R. Before creation, in the world of Ein Sof infinity, there were no differences. Everything was just one desire, light without any differences, with everything filled with one light, in a complete quality, that's what is trying to say.
50. S. (09:07) We started studying about the relation between light and vessel, who is the one observing this process and depicted it? Where is he? Is he outside the process, is he looking at it from the outside?
R. Kabbalists feel what they go through meaning they are in these processes and they can identify them where exactly they are in the actions of the light and the Kli vessel and they are included in both the actions of the light and the Kli. The fact that the Ari writes about such high states simply indicates his level of attainment. How much that he was in an unbounded and that's and these writings indicate about the level how high it is that he has unlimited attainment.
Inner
Light
3
(10:13
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12:15)
51. S. (12;19) What does it mean that the simple light filled all of reality?
R. There were no differences within the Kli, there was just one Kli vessel undivided according to different desires, degrees, discernments. There was simply a single desire probably before
all of those differences or discernments made in it, therefore it was filled with one light. This is called the light of Ein Sof, that it has no Sof, no boundaries, no discernments.
Item 4 (13:33- 14:29)
52. R. If the Creator creates creation, then the creation that comes from Him and so the creation cannot be lacking something. There is room for the corrections, there is no room for the created beings and the lower ones. No. That's the big problem, the Creator has to make room for the created beings to exist to feel how opposite or at least different from the Creator and to the extent that they are different from the Creator they will be able to achieve their correction. This is how the problem seems in the meantime. This means that they had no vacant place for the corrections and perfections could be added. This is what is needed.
53. S. (15:51) Why does he divide reality into two before and after and not have more divisions?
R. This is the first division, everything was under the rule of the Creator and now the Creator is making room from the places He has created and now I can create something that is inside of Him and now the created being can figure from where they have been created from the created, the creative against them, opposite Him and that's how we can grow it independently, which is his goal.
Item 5 (16:57 -18:46)
54. R. Meaning there are many disturbances in that there are lights within the space within the desire and when there are no lights in the desire and that there are different lights but basically the desire in all its styles and the light in all lead’s styles are the only two things that exist, Kli a vessel and light. The space and what fulfils the space, that's how it works. In the light there are two discernments with respect to the Kli vessel: it's called the light of Hassadim (mercy) and the light of Hochma (wisdom light of mercy). The light of Hassadim is the light of creation and the light of Hochma is the light of purpose of creation.
55. S. (19:50) The efforts to draw the light without bringing your study intellect in there?
R. The intellect not at all. Don't take care of your intellect at all, we just need one thing to attract the upper force that will correct our desire. Our desire and not our mind, that means our heart and not our mind. It will correct our heart to the extent that it will correct our heart or heart will be filled with the presence of the creator and then we will attain Him. We have nothing to attain besides the Creator. There is nothing more to attain and the levels of attainment of the creator are called degrees or Partzufim worlds, etc. This is what we need and it all depends on the level of equivalence of form between our desire to receive and the Creator's desire to bestow. The more I desire to receive will be similar in its intention of the will to bestow of the Creator. In our case it will manifest in receiving in order to bestow then according to the laws of the connected vessels the Creator will fulfill our hearts and we will feel the Creator this way, understand the Creator and research, explore who and what is fulfilling us, that is our whole work.
S. In order to draw the light that reforms, we need to feel that we are incorporated in the friends in the 10 in order to feel what is the depicted what is the efforts of connections and the Creator will fill it with his light.
R. Yes, only to the extent that we are connecting we can absorb received the upper light according to the equivalence of our vessels that we are in bestowal to each other and the upper light isn't completely bestowal and that portion of the upper light that fits our bestowal will appear to us which is called the revelation of the Creator to the created beings.
56. S. (22:57) He writes that before the worlds were created what was an empty air so when were they created if there was the light Hochma?
R. I don't know about the light of wisdom, yet let's stay away from these philosophies, let's focus on what we are studying now.
57. S. (23:30) Does this mean that to begin with there wasn't the light of Hassadim, there was no light of Hassadim?
R. Yes, at the beginning there was only the light of Hochma, the creator relates to the desire to receive created by a force called the light of Hochma and the light of Hassadim appears as the light of correction to become externally or on the face of it needs to be in order to bestow and so that force that will to receive is clothed with is called the light of Hassadim.
S. Is it possible to fill anything without Hassadim in it?
R. It's not a correct question. Maybe what you want to say is what we feel only through the light of Hassadim. That’s correct or in other words to say according to our level of equivalence of form we can feel the Creator ultimately, other than the Creator there is nothing else to feel.
58. S. (24:56) The light of Hassadim is the intention that we build?
R. Both lights come to us from the Creator and it all depends on the created being. If the created being wants equivalence of form, the light of Hassadim comes to it and if the created being wants to make an action similar to the Creator wants to bestow to the Creator, then he receives the light of Hochma but that is more ahead of us.
Inner light 6 (25:47- 29:06) …. explains the word space.
59.
R.
I
see
that
you
are
tired,
what
are
we
going
to
do?
What
do
you
think?
S. Maybe there are no questions because they need to know what to ask, how to ask correctly. Should I even ask anything?
R. In the TES we need to ask how and by the means called the TES, we need to fill the process of the creation and this is the whole problem of question we need to see how this study is the means for this revelation of the Creator all the articles all the things we discuss about are all in order to reach the TES and the TES tells us about the revelation of the Creator to the created being in this world this is the whole problem and we want to receive this revelation in the correct way otherwise we were going into further darkness, so where is this key how do we correctly see the spiritual world through TES the spiritual world appears to us in the right perception of the right study.
60. S. (31:31) The question is, what to ask you in the TES?
R. That's what we need to find out, it's not about the knowledge of wisdom, it's more about attainment.
61. S. (31:22) In the text it says that there is no coercion in spirituality but my desire is generated from the Creator, how can I address it as a created being to reach this work?
R. To advance with them and through them with questions and to please the Creator, request to the Creator that's how it is. That's the whole thing there's nothing else here. Before you there is either you the group or the Creator and each time you need to build the right plea here.
Item 7 - Item 10 (35:35- 36:37)
62. R. This is called the light of the Ein Sof which is actually whole. We don't belong to it actually we're not there still it will be explained below.
Item 7 - Item 10 (35:42) Continue reading
63. R. Because that is still a circle next.
64. S. (36:28) I have a problem, yesterday I read alone, very slowly trying to feel, and in the lesson the pace of reading and clarification seems very fast for me, it throws me off. What should I do?
R. I don't think that you will succeed by studying more meticulously. You need to concentrate on studying your attitude. The more you attain today, even in your mind you understand more, that will not help you. You just have to be with extra intention, that the upper light will shine on you during the study and change you and correct you, will bring you to a new state. That is what you need to happen. Then you will be able to be born in that same spiritual world.
Item 20 (36:56 -39:04) Clarifies the light of Ein Sof.
65.
R.
It'll
all
be
clarified
he's
just
mentioned
these
along
the
way
so
we
don't
need
to
speak
about
these
discernments.
R.
Meaning
what
the
Creator
created
is
the
will
to
receive
in
the
will
to
receive
now
there
is
no
difference
if
there
are
no
divisions
nothing
and
so
the
light
that
enters
these
vessels
is
as
one
it
has
no
divisions
and
one
light,
one
vessel
and
then
the
light
fills
the
vessel.
66. S (39:41). How to receive the light of Hassadim in the 10?
R. It is possible under the conditions that you are a bestowing on to one another and then you are the Creator and according to that from above, he light of Hassadim is drawn towards you, that's it. Try and be in mutual bestowal, don't activate yourself from your ego but from above your ego and you will feel that the light of Hassadim is filling you and acting towards you.
67. S. (40:37) Baal HaSulam describes (in item 6) the vessel receiving the light of life from the Creator and he explains that it is separate from creation. What is this fulfillment of life on the creation that we are asking to receive?
R. Baal HaSulam describes the vessel receiving the light of life from the Creator and he explains that it is a separate creation that is this fulfillment of life on the created that we are asking to receive, we are the created beings that exist only in the desire that the Creator created. There can be nothing else besides that inside us, only the will to receive but when we use it, but in all kinds of corrected forms, which are similar, resemble the Creator so the will receive doesn't want to receive only on the condition that it can bestow, opposite in its nature and according to that it fills the Creator. That's what happens. Our work is to make ourselves, the created beings that resemble the Creator as much as possible when we connect, between us, in such work then you come to bestowal, then we reach the same image of the Creator that created us and is filling us and we in what we receive from Him want to fill Him back that is actually how we reach the complete resemblance of Him.
68. S. (42:48) The question is we have prepared so much for studying. There was this fear and now I am just in such confusion and fear and moving uneasy from side to side. Do we need to look for all this in the 10, in your words, Baal HaSulam’s words.? Do we need to stay in that kind of state?
R. We have to remain in that search of how to reveal what is in this book, not in my brain, not in all sorts of forms that I give you. but how do I reveal this in my desires, my vessels that what I'm reading now I can start to feel it, not understand but feel it. What is it there? It has nothing else to do with some anxiety that I need to have or anything. The study explains to us how we need to aim our desire in order for it to be filled with the Creator in each and every moment, that's it.
69. S. (44:20) Question from both 10s. We are leading the gathering of friends tomorrow and we have a question, we are learning TES and tomorrow we have a Shavuot. What are the differences?
R. I cannot explain these in a couple of sentences, you will feel it and what we need to do in order to calibrate our desires that there will be more connected and more aim towards the Creator and receiving the upper light that will be on the same wave. That first we should take our desires and try to bring him to the complete form of connection mutual bestowal towards the Creator which is that actually called the intention and by that we can feel how the Creator is clothing in our desires and the inner light is actually clothing in our desires.
70. S. (45:40) Specifically, where we read about the whole state that sounds so emotional in close where there is a profession, no luck, it feels like there is a great longing to reach that state is that the correct feeling.
R. Yeah, I remember that I was inspired by that, you can see that part one of the study that I wrote in Russian, I wrote the words of the Ari as rhymes, there in such a way that it was like a song.
71. S. (46:43) How can we study together with the 10?
R. Yes, you need and you can the best thing is that you turn on the lesson and go over it because you can take the texts that could be in front of everybody and in this way everybody connects, one person can read some excerpts and then you can discuss it a bit, you can ask and answer, it doesn't matter whether it's right or not, the main thing is that you are yearning to feel what is going on there to feel it, that's it and in this way you going through the materials that's it even if you make mistakes it doesn't matter the fact that you are investing forces and efforts that brings you closer to the feeling the main thing is the feeling and not the understanding the feeling.
Ari
Words
Item
2
(48:18
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49:12)
Twice
Inner Light Item 30 (49:18 - 50:22) Clarifies rose in desire.
72. R. Meaning the light and the vessel are completely similar in that they are bestowing in their own way but they are similar to each other and they have to invert its nature. The Kli vessel that is the will to receive needs to invert itself and reach bestowing against its nature but all in all, the light and the vessel, even though they are completely different from one another in this action and mutual bestowing they resemble each other.
73. S. (50:56) What is the action called effort in the work? What is it?
R. Above the desire. I want this way but I'm going the other way. But I can't, if I want to do it one way but I go against my desire that means that I have a different desire, I have two of them it could be one more than the other because then I make efforts to convince myself to go the other way, let's just say I want to be skinny so I need to lose weight so I want to eat but I also have a desire to lose weight so I need to increase the desire to lose weight and the way it controls my appetite but I still work with the desires, that's it.
74. S. (52:09) What is the difference between matter and abundance and how is it possible that there is a moment where there's a difference that you attain the differences?
R. What is the difference of the matter is the world to receive in the abundance is the fulfillment.
S. How is there a connection between them?
R. The connection is that they want to bestow upon one another they want to complement one another.
Inner Light Continue (53:04 -58:08)
75. R. Change of a desire, the change of a desire is a disparity of form, something is different between them and they can't be together anymore.
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76. R. It all depends on this disparity of form.
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77. R. These are things that will still have to yet be scrutinized, it doesn't go in the mind so easily but gradually we will have to get used to it and let the light work on us, we do, it will change a bit, annoying more in our minds and we will advance and it will all work out.
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78. S. (58:19) I had a problem yesterday. I read alone, really slowly, trying to feel and in the lesson the pace of reading seems very fast to me. It throws me out of the way, what can I do?
R. I don't think that you will succeed by studying more meticulously, you have to concentrate on the attitude towards the study, your attitude. The more you attain today, even in your mind, you understand more that would not help you. You just have to be with extra intention that the upper light will shine on you during the study and change you and correct you will bring you to the new state that is what you need to happen then you will be able to reborn in that same spiritual world we will not be able to study in a pace that is less than now and waiting for you and there's probably people that are slower than you that all what is studying the way that the expense each and every word we can't do that we are aiming you to know what to the man from the study which is the light that reform and the connection between this they are the conditions and then the Creator is revealed that's what is the study for and the text is actually for Kabbalists they are already on the spiritual degree and they feel and understand what they're starting it is revealed to them as they study all the external light the internal light everything is revealed to them as they read we are studying it as a remedy.
79. S (01.01). It appears that we don't even understand what is the will to receive as we said we only feel our reaction by studying TES then we discover the will to receive and its foundations?
R. We study, where can I find the will to receive, also from the fact that it comes from the Creator, I don't know what it means, I don't know what Baal HaSulam writes about it, we will gradually come to it, but not now.
S. Baal HaSulam calls this his interpretation of the inner light and inner observation. What is the meaning of inner light and inner observations? What do I understand from it?
R. For now it doesn't matter for us, we will learn about it later in a light is how the light is included in the vessel we will learn about it.
S. Now that we started this, how to work without during the day, do you think we should include that dinner zoom meetings, should we read it together?
R. We just started, I can't speak about that, we will advance and from this will have something to talk about a mutual feeling, it will come, it will come. The main thing is to go into the study with the right intention because without the intention we will just study to understand and not to feel.