Morning Lesson May 22, Transcription
TES:
Baal HaSulam. "Study of the Ten Sefirot" (TES). Vol. 1. Part 1. Histaklut Pnimit [Inward Scrutiny]. Chapter One, #3 (“Now we can come to understand what the Kabbalists wrote ...")
Histaklut
Pnimit
1. R. These are relatively simple things the Creator fills up everything the upper light and it all depends of the vessels of the lower ones to the extent that they can be similar to that light the quality of bestowal the Creator that's how they perceive it and the partial quality of bestowal acquired by the broken vessels as they become corrected and they advance they resemble the absolute infinite force of bestowal and they feel a certain state opposite that so it's like we are in an ocean water, the ocean and we come with certain vessel it's a cup or a bucket and we can put it in the water and that certain portion of water that we can capture from the ocean that is the individual soul. Of course, it's a very limited example but for now it works. What we perceive is called a part of the Creator but still in that part we can discover all the qualities of the Creator, everything that exists. It is always in our vessel and there is no difference in the Kli. How the Kli reveals the light.
2. S. (05:08) We learn that the vessel is completely suited to contain all the light so what does it mean that the soul is only a part?
R. I don't understand what it means that the vessel is fit for the light, the Kli wants to be fit for the light to the extent it is capable, accordingly receives from the light in some limited fashion NRNHY.
S. So I understand that the light the Creator created needs to be absorbed in the vessel.
R. Eventually, the vessel needs to receive such qualities that it reveals the light completely.
S. So what does it mean that the soul resembles the part?
R. In the meantime the vessel can only reveal a portion of the light that is called NRNHY of Nefesh or Ruach, depending what degree it is on.
Reading continues “before we come to clarify the matter ....”
3. R. (08:31) Meaning the spiritual is divided by the disparity of form as the corporeal is something that cuts it into two, so the disparity of quality in the spiritual, when there is some new quality that is formed, that's a spiritual form, that previous form divides into two or more dependent on how much qualities emerge, understood yes.
4. S. (09:09) Every ten corrects some part of the general soul, is there a difference, let's say should every organ have an equality and qualities we connect?
R. You will start to examine this later and discovering that, it doesn't matter right now, you just need to focus on connecting as much as possible now.
5. S. (09:39) He says they're not similar as their faces are not similar so the opinions are not similar and the body cannot increase the souls, so my question is, here the quality of bestowal is equal for everybody but here it says that everyone has a different soul, how does he explain that?
R. I don't understand what you're saying. Let's say that we have ten brothers, from a single mother and she wants to benefit each one of them, so she gives the quantity and quality something different depending on which one's desire.
S. How can their opinions be the same if they're different? How can it be the same?
R. Of course everyone is different from the other, otherwise if they weren’t different, it would all be one. If my desire were like your desire, we wouldn't be two, we would be one. Now we need to be connected as one, so the desires that are different will keep being different, but they are working for the same goal but they're more and more different.
S. If two Kabbalists are together but they feel the same in the desire to bestow and feel different from each other, how do they connect?
R. When they connect through their connection, they discover a single Creator, they feel the Creator, they each discover the Creator in an individual way, a personal individual way.
S. In addition they fill their own personal feelings?
R. In order to attain the Creator we need to make ourselves as one, where each one nullifies himself and connects with the others and on the other hand when we receive from the Creator revelations and attainments each one's receives according to his own vessel.
6. S. (12:48) it says that because of the disparity of form from part to part, what is the form that the Baal HaSulam speaks about?
R. The will to receive of each and every one is different in its individual shape and form front he other souls.
S. Because everyone has a different desire.
R. That's what I'm saying they have different desire and we each try to connect from that different desire into one.
7. (13:41) Sometimes this takes you into the mind of the writer. We are still studying TES here.
R. TES is a revelation of the Creator to the created being, an explanation an accurate explanation how the created being should calibrate his qualities in order to attain the Creator. It's a device for a wonderful connection with the Creator, what are the 10 Sefirot it's connection with the created being, which is Malchut with the Creator, which is Keter, all the individual Sefirot in between them are the study of TES.
S. I'm speak about the intentions.
R. Yes that is in there as well.
Item 5 “How can there be a disparity of form in creation....”
8. R. (18:23) Meaning that the influence of the Creator himself on the created beings we don't attain that, we only want to attain the vessel and that attainment is what we can discuss. That attainment this stems from making the qualities of the vessel as close as possible to bestowal, according to our understanding to our feeling, to our ability and we receive the influence of the Creator within us and according to our preparation as much as we prepare ourselves, we receive the upper light and that's the only way we can discuss the upper light. We always describe our connection with the upper light. How can we perceive him decipher him give him names it is all according to our feeling, so when we say the Creator means come and see, when we say upper it means that is upper to us but it's not outside or vessels, we cannot say anything that is outside of our vessels. It's only the quality of our vessels and that's why we say from your actions we know, you according to your actions of bestowal we can discover the bestowing upper force not otherwise which is also called according to the laws of similarity of form.
9. S. In that case what does it mean that you can't define by name what does it mean
R. Because we perceive the upper light in our vessels to the extent that the vessels resemble the upper light, we can receive a certain portion of the Opera light to measure it and we have a certain the time and 2 according to it.
S. Is the name a spiritual attainment?
R. Of course, it is spiritual information. Everything we feel by way of bestowal on our part when we receive through the reflected light that is called spiritual.
10. S. If the divine is the upper part, what does it mean that?
R. Creator is come and see meaning you need to discover and then you will see and not the other way around you cannot discover or understand or retain something that you can't feel I can't see anything without glasses if I tell you that I can see everything without glasses that is true but if I put glasses on and I can see you already but if I take binoculars or I telescope it all depends on the lower one how he requires vessels of connections with the light and that is according to the desire in the in the lower in the lower one meaning the law needs to have means of connection with the upper light otherwise it's you can't attend it and this is how we build a vessel
11.S. You said that the study is connection with the upper light when a person studies the study shooter TV connected with
R. Of course, when you read a horror novel you feel the emotions that the writer is trying to pass on and that's what you feel when you read it.
S. Kabbalist are on a different spiritual level. How can I feel that?
R. Yes, we all have to discover this later you are right. There's a difference in the level of a 10 minutes between the kabbalists and the beginner and we just started entering this spiritual round but for that a person needs to maintain the restriction and that's according to the will to receive.
S. How now during the reading of the study should we hold the restriction?
R. We want to be a bother desire and the best way to discover that is that when I am know myself in front of the group, I discover what it means.
S. What does it mean to feel the group while the study like to study speaks about
R. You want to connect so much that you will be like one man with one heart.
S. You are reading from that state from what is the picked it in the study how in that connection can I describe the pictures correct.
R. We have to make efforts only through your experience and effort you will come to it I don't have words the more I will talk to you tomorrow will just confuse you.
12. S. The vessel of fulfilment exists together or there's a vessel and there's fulfilment.
R. Yes, you're right first of all we have to discover the vessel and established it and according to how your stuff the s*** you get the fulfillment.
13.S. The light of Hochma wisdom is the action of the Creator we just need to understand it.
R. First of all, we need to acquire the light of Mercy and after that will receive a vessel and we can work with light of Hassadim in order to be soul in practice and then we can understand.
S. But you say that the light of wisdom is revealed without asking the created been that it comes blows.
R. No that's not spiritual that is something that is not in spirituality in spirituality first of all we have many levels and degrees of the light of Hassadim and then when you receive it when you work with it you begin to discover the ability to also work with the light of Hochma wisdom received in order to be still and these are very high degrees. This is what we learned that you have 613 desires, 248 organs and 368 tendons which are willing to receive in order to bestow and bestow in order to bestow.
ITEM 6
14. S. It turns out that are world our actions here I just to bring us to the sense of shame.
R. Correct all the reality was made that way that you will feel the 10 Sefirot wrote. That each of us feels the shame the Creator created and the shame so that we can fill the gap between him and us every degree and in every revelation of the Creator. We will feel the gap between us a greater feeling of Shame for now I don't feel any shame and we only the man for the Creator if we even demand anything from him but afterwards we will start relating to him and start revealing that he does exist and we are depending on him and he doesn't know us but we'll him all kinds of states until we reach estate that we want to cover that shame not to get rid of it but the cover it that specifically thanks to that shame and it is a good thing that the Creator created it then we can feel as much as we are different from him and correct ourselves to be not different but similar and this shame would work in two directions to get rid of the shame and then I awaken it more and more in order to resemble The Creator that it is not enough for me not to receive from him but I want to be still to him that's why the shame is the creation on itself the fact that the Creator actually created that he could have not created the shame and then we would have been like animals but the shame is destined only for the speaking degree the Adam man and the Moray is man the more he feels that shame and that came at the end is the shame of how different is from the Creator on all degrees until the feeling of Shame is felt only in the most exalted souls and it obligates them to make all efforts to reach the state that they can give back something to the Creator that is the purpose of our life that's all I can say
15.S. We studied that there is light and vessel and now we understand that there is light and shame and vessel and there's three things.
R. Yes, I've asked for a bus there is definitely a shame meaning the Creator could have created everything without shame, but he created a chain in order that through the shame you can help the animate degree race to the speaking degree and that is the difference between speaking and inanimate because animals have no shame, they eat whatever is before them. They do whatever is before them there's no feeling of shame. As much as a person grows more and more from being all where is best until they reach higher in higher degrees and then they felt more and more shame also the more we but on the corporeal way they can bring some covers I'm justifications we see it especially on holidays that people want to cancel all kinds of Shame everything Is allowed everything is and that's why we're not speaking of that about that kind of shame we talking about the shame towards the Creator means that he wants to bestow and I am the receiver and he's the fire of shame that burns, that gives me a feeling of the gap between me and the Creator and what he bestows and I received and that feeling of shame helps me rise from the feeling of the receiver to becoming the bestower
16.S. The reason for the first restriction was the yearning to equalize with the Creator but now we learned that this is shame so is these two stages or is this action of love too?
R. Correct that first there is a feeling of shame that the feeling of shame in order to get rid of that feeling and even to awake the shame we start the restriction without shame we couldn't reach the form of this world.
17.S. Is there a connection between the sense of shame that we feel between friends or to the ones that we talk about here?
R. Every stage has a different shame to do the painting of the degree or
18. S. What is the difference between the restriction that the Creator had to perform and the restrictions that we have to perform?
R. We will learn about this. It's something very broad. Let's keep going where are having to read number 7 today to and think about this.
Item 6 continue.
19. R. If it speaks about Shame, there has to be some sort of a payment that I have to pay in order to overcome the shame and the 70 years of my life in this world and then I'm told I'm going to get eternal pleasure, Infinite how can I compare the two so where is the shame how can we cover the shame.
Item 7 Twice
20. R. meaning let's do some work in this world and then we'll get a reward in the next world and that's what all the people in the religion in this world thing and
Item 7 continue.
21.R. The excuse in general is simple that if we don't attain The Creator in our state here, we have nothing to even think about that we will attain anything in the next World after we die there is no such thing as our body the Beastly body that separates between us and spirituality. it doesn't matter for us it's just a beast it's like a man riding a horse that's why everything depends on as much as a person now yearns to attain spirituality to reveal the Creator to connect to him to connect to adhere to him that's why it doesn't matter the 70 years that we live here and after you words we received gifts but as much as you prepared your vessels according to that you will receive you have no shame and you really work correctly
22. S. The shame works as a screen does it always works there?
R. Shame develops in the same people really wants to reach the truth and they discover not instantly but after a while that they connect then they start feeling as much as their will to receive is bad and as much as they need to correct it in order to bestow so it will remember the Creator and be good to that extent they get rid of the shame and their demands of give me give me and that's how they resemble The Creator so everything was prepared for a person who is working and attaining and then his shame becomes honor.
23. S. He writes that it was for the greater souls does that mean the more person advanced the more he feels this sense of shame.
R. He feels shame more as a quality obviously shame separates between man and the Creator and so shame mitigates that.
S. From each and every degree becomes more shame.
R. From every state that a person advances he feels the same as the same amount to the degrees in
24. R. You've asked already, you need to give other people the opportunity to ask. I can't have this, you need to let other people ask and be considerate.
25.S. What is the connection between shame and concealment how can I connect a sense of shame to the sense of concealment?
R. Concealment is because of the difference between the creator of the created being's shame is the difference in quality is between the Creator and created beings.
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R. Because of the shame we discovered the gap between us and the Creator and when we start overcoming this feeling and then the connection between us and the Creator, we start feeling shame we start to advance and as a result we built a restriction, and we start to do it gradually.
26.S. The feeling of shame is this a feeling in spiritual vessels after that there is a transition from evil to correction.
R. Correct
27.S. The shame we feel do we need to fill the shame first and then corrected or we correct estates, and we immediately will feel the state that called shame with the revelation of the create.
R. Yes
S.
R. You really have to fill the gap between us and fill it as burning sensation the feeling that you get something for free and you are not paying for it that helps us restricts yourself and resemble more the light.
S. You said 20 minutes ago that we first met the restriction and only then the spirit to actual begins.
R. That How we learn about ourselves from what is written but the true restriction that we can put between us and the Creator is upon shame. The shame helps us to feel as much as we need to be immune and or kept from that upper light.
28.R. We have to and Alyssa now you have to repeat all these excerpts and we will meet again later on today.
Because women are a very important part of our community and they're only have an hour a week I think that I have to add half an hour to the lesson with the women tonight so that's how it's going to be from today on we going to try it thank you