KETER: TIKKUN CHATZOT תקון חצות – LESSON WITH RAV MICHAEL LAITMAN

Baal HaSulam. Study of the Ten Sefirot. Vol. 1. Part 2. Chapter 2, item 5

Morning Lesson May 15, 2022 Transcription

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

Baal HaSulam. “Study of the Ten Sefirot” (TES). Vol. 1. Part 2. Chapter Two. #5 (“Even when the ten Sefirot are regarded as circles”)

Reading Item # 5 “Even when the ten Sefirot are regarded …” Twice.

1. S. (05:10) What are those windows inside the circles?

R. Let’s see, I don’t know. Probably there’s a place inside the circle that is missing and through that light can emerge outside of the circle and the place where it can go is called a window.

S. Does the light do this each time, these opportunities for bestowal, or how can we see it?

R. I don’t know, I don’t know. We will learn together.

Continues reading item # 40: (06:05) Meaning that’s a 5 degrees …do not extend in straightness …”

2. R. (07:49) So it’s still only cause and effect, what comes first, what comes after. It’s not that there’s some higher, lower determining anything here, it’s just cause and effect. Of course this is not satisfactory for us it doesn’t say exactly what it is. Is the first cause more important than what comes after? There’s more to add here, we’ll see.

Continues reading Item # 50: (08:22) “Because that is their impression of the light from the vessel…”

Continues reading Item # 60: (11:00) “After the first worlds up be aware formed .. .”

3. R. (12:00) Yes, these are things we use in the wisdom of Kabbalah instead of Keter, Hochma, Bina, ZA, Malchut we use Atik, Arik Anpin, Aba Ve Ima,Yeshut and ZON.

Continues reading item # 70: (12:13) “You already know that because of the light of the ten…”

4. R. (14:19) Because this is what happens through the screen, we merit an additional illumination from the Kli outwards through a window or a foramen.

5. S. (14:45) It is starting to be felt, what we are reading is starting to be felt. How to do it in the ten, how to feel the circles, how to feel the restriction, how do feel all these things that we are going through between us?

R. I do not know. You have who to turn to and that is the Creator. I only exist to remind you who to turn to.

6. S. (15:30) We have the cause and effect of everything from Keter to Malchut. What is the effect of Malchut?

R. The consequence of Malchut is all the Sefirot, all the Partzufim that stand below the Malchut and she herself is caused by the first nine Sefirot.

S. There is another ten Sefirot caused from Malchut? That is what you are saying?

R. There’s ten Sefirot of direct light and ten Sefirot of reflected light. To the extent that Malchut develops ten Sefirot of reflected light she imprints these lights through her, through a window or a foreman.

7. S. (16:49) It was said that in the circle there is no differentiation between above and below. With that the line moves from one circle to the next like from an upper Sefira to a lower Sefira. This calculation is done by the line in order to be able to calculate whether it can move from an upper circle to lower circle?

R. Let us say so. Soon we will see it more accurately but that is basically the connection, yes.

8. S. (17:28) After the correction, straightness and circle are they in a new way or a new form?

R. The circles are the vessels that as if exist before the restriction. It is similar to Ein Sof, no end, no boundary, no limitation. But here we begin to see what’s the connection between circles and straightness, how these support those and each fulfill the other.

S. Is that after the correction what we are reading now?

R. These are there actual corrections. That’s how we learned their elements and how they happen.

S. What is it that a Sefirot becomes a Partzuf?

R. It can develop like a drop of sperm from which an entire human develops. Similarly a Sefirot can develop because in each one all the ten are included, and that is how she evolves. Just like the drop of sperm that evolves into a human. What is important is the information, the information that you have. So it turns out that at that central point that was formed in Ein Sof there’s already Reshimot for the whole of reality that will later appear.

9. S. (19:03) The window and the foramen are these two different things or the same thing?

R. Read the interpretation of the words. Read it, you should all read and do some work. There is a window, there is a foramen, there are circles, straightness, triangles and many other things.

Reading item 80 (19:44)

10. R. (19:51) Meaning there are circles that have windows both on the right and on the left. So what is the window on the right?

Reading item 80 continued “This means that it was imprinted in both…”

Reading item 90 (20:13)

11. R. (21:14) Meaning there is already a difference here between Keter, Hochma and Bina, how they receive light and how they bestow light.

Reading item 100 (21:25)

Reading 200 (22:05) I cannot understand

Reading item 300 (22:15)

12. S. (23:13) Are the circles the vessels or the light that expands this way?

R. Both straightness and circles are vessels, desires, but it depends on what level is the desire. Is there a strong desire, is there a force of restriction and screen? Can it turn to the light, connect to the Creator, bestow to the Creator or not? Through a window or maybe only it can shine in a local way to himself. If he connects with others, if he has a stronger desire to receive or a stronger screen, then it can already bestow. So it’s a form of connection of the desires in the vessels. So there is a window, there is the foramen, there are doors, there are many more things. What we are seeing in this world in terms of the connection between different elements of nature, these are all results of what we are studying right now about the structure of the spiritual world. You will begin to notice these things, discern these things and see how much it influences us, how we are influenced by it and how we bestow in return.

13. S. (24:50) These windows are simply another way that the light moves from circle to circle not through straightness? What is their purpose?

R. These windows are designed to shine light into the circles.

S. But we learned that the straightness there are three Sefirot there.

R. Straightness is a different influence. That is a scrutinized influence within screens and connections and coarseness. Windows are like something that is missing.

S. What are they needed for?

R. Because there are passive deficiencies and that is their only way to participate in corrections like the light of the female. We will learn that. Where are we?

14. R. (25:58) Adam Kadmon extends from Ein Sof until the end of Atzilut, and all the worlds are included in it and we are not permitted to engage in it. Item 6.

Rav reads Item 6: And this the world of Adam Kadmon goes from one end to the other, from the upper end to the lower end, throughout the above space of Atzilut. All the worlds are contained in that Adam but we have no permission whatsoever to delve and speak of this Adam’s internality and self. We do not delve into the world of Adam Kadmon. As much as we’ve learned it in the study of the ten Sefirot and the preface that there are desires and screens and restrictions there, many details, all of that is only based on the rules that we have in the whole system of ABYA. But to engage in Partzufim and the things that are happening in the world of Adam Kadmon we have no ability to do that because we do not attain it. It is the world of Keter. All right soon he will explain this more. Item one below.

Reading item for 400 (27:37)

15. R. (28:17) Nothing for us to do here. We’ll wait for him to explain it to us in a different place, maybe there we will understand. Item 1.

Reading item 1 (28:25)

16. R. (29:02) Yes, this is the world of Adam Kadmon and goes from one end to the other.

Reader continues “Internality meaning the lights of Ein Sof”

17. R. (29:50) Let us continue for now. These are things that are basically informative.

Reading item 7 “He circles came out first…”

18. R. (30:47) Because vessels of circles are not in our control. We just learned them from the relationship with the straightness and through the straightness we can somewhat clarify and understand them, but the circles are vessels that are above the restriction. And therefore when we, who are born as a result of the straightness, we can’t research them. We just receive from them, we feel them as though we are in contact with them but it is not that we can influence them, rather they influence us and therefore we cannot research them. The circles are higher than us. The vessel itself of the circle is more whole, more complete than the vessels of Adam.

Reading Item 3 (31:53)

Reading Item 4 (32:28)

19. R. (35:19) As we say one who is greater than his friend his inclination is greater than himself. Meaning the greater is his inclination the deeper, lower his desire is, if he has a screen then he reaches a higher level, a higher revelation. Where are you?

Reading item 5 “This is because the circles around …” (35:45)

20. R. (36:24) We simply don’t attain that, we don’t perceive them. They are everywhere but even if I have screens and attainment in straightness I can only describe the circles, through the straightness I can describe where I am in regards to the circles. But we can’t research these things except a little bit based on what Kabbalists tell us, and we when we come to their degree yes, but still there is a big limitation there. What happens above that we do not know, we do not know. We can just imagine that there are such vessels that are vessels of circles which are truly without our clear attainment. That is what we have. All in all there are many questions about the circles but not many answers.

21. S. (37:36) Can we say that Baal HaSulam is giving us certain guidance here like the example of describing the expansion to the straightness and circles in an opposite fashion?

R. We can’t work with the circles in any way. Our whole work is to be in the straightness and not leave the straightness. Meaning only to the extent that we have a screen, that we can work with the coarseness, the restriction, screen, reflected light and then build a Partzuf, and in that Partzuf we can research what is in the vessels. And what is outside the vessel of straightness of the person we cannot research because you certainly have no evidence, no proof of it, no actual vessels, so it is not something real.

S. In faith above reason there are no scrutinies or calculations?

R. What you are saying is incorrect. It is incorrect because faith above reason talks about spirituality that we attain and you are talking about things that that we cannot attend. What we cannot attain is not faith above reason, it’s just things that we cannot attain. It is a different definition all together.

R. (39:25) All right fellas. I do not see…the moment they heard they do not attain it they stopped asking about it. Okay. What else do I say about this chapter two that we just finished from TES? First of all it is good. We went through it, we somehow got an impression from it. It is registered in our vessels, in our souls, in our desires, in the connection between us. Meaning that we have printed it on our soul and bit by bit in our connection we will awaken the surrounding lights and even the inner lights so these vessels would awaken and we will feel that something is growing within and stabilizing, becoming formed. Okay?

22. S. (40:38) The screen and straightness gives the coarseness, it gives the coarseness to the circles?

R. The circles have no coarseness. The circles only have cause and effect.

S. Yes but I think that it was written before that that the straightness differentiates inside?

R. The discernments do not mean that there is coarseness. Discernments are something else. There are discernments like this is right, and this is blurred. But it’s not that the discernment is based on level of coarseness and screens and restrictions, there is no such thing in circles. There is only cause and consequence.

S. From there being restrictions and screens in the straightness this causes the discernments in the circles?

R. Correct yes. This means that we print, we transport the discernments from the straightness to the circles. We organize the circles in different forms and relationships by how the straightness organizes the connections between them, like pipelines. But the circles are actually, I don’t know how to say it. It’s like balloons in the air and you can make some connections between them.

23. S. (42:22) He describes the light being so impressed by the vessel and the light which is clothing in the vessel there is so impressed that it operates differently. How do we look at it?

R. The lights that we are talking about are already in limitation meaning that they go through the desires. And these desires they are impressed by the desires, they stabilize the desires, there is a mutual influence. Like we see here that there are windows, there are different arrangements between the circles too, right and left and based on the ten Sefirot and circles that are filled by the straightness. That is what we are talking about.

24. S. (43:43) They’re asking in item 300 it is written that without a screen there is no light of male, only the female meaning the light of Nefesh. Is there always a screen in every world above Assiya?

R. In all of the upper worlds until the world of Ein Sof. What we discuss is from the attainment by the coarseness and the screen that is on it.

25. S. (44:18) Does the Creator do the window or do we do it with our deficiency in the ten?

R. Of course everything is done by our deficiency and by the force that we receive from the Creator.

26. S. (44:36) What is the difference between the screen with the male light from the lines and the circles?

R. Circles usually are called light of female and line refers to light of male. Because in the line the lights are spread only by the coarseness and the screen, and the circle is filled by the line. Therefore the lights inside the circles are passive and the lights of the line are active and our work is to organize ourselves for the working in the line.

27. S. (45:30) How do you use the circles in the transition to the line?

R. Well for now we need to understand circles as a storage. That is where the lights that we draw go in, by the straightness, by our overcoming in connecting between us. Where I nullify my ego and I am ready and willing to connect with the friends. And by that I resemble myself to the upper light and then I am able to receive it, in through the relationship between us. And then these lights from each and every one, they are established and they build lines. And then we later discover what we’ve actually done. That it’s actually lines of, how to say it, lines that connect the circles that connect between us.

28. S. (46:51) We said that circles are vessels. So if it’s impossible to attain them then whose vessels are they?

R. To attain means for the hand shall attain. Meaning that we can use them, we can work with them as you use a work tool, so we can’t do that. We work with the circles in order to cause their certain fulfillment in a very specific way and we receive from them. The circles are like storage where the upper light is but our active work is through the line. So we learned here in this short chapter two about circles and that’s it. More than that we do not learn and we barely discuss it. That is how it is. Because we have no control over the circles only the line, and through the line we fill the circles until they are fulfilled in an infinite way.

S. If we are talking only about vessels that have a screen it is not clear what it means that the circles have no screen.

R. The circles are our desires before the restriction. Let us say that we are all now circles. Why? We have no up and down, importance in spirituality, inside and out in terms of spirituality, we’re just circles. Meaning we have no discernments. It’s not like circles in spirituality where everything is already organized based on the importance and proximity to the Creator but it’s also a kind of circles.

29. S. (49:18) What should I do when the attempt shows that I can’t give something to the others except for asking for them, what they’re asking from the Creator?

R. Very good. Use all of the desires that the Creator awakens in you.

30. S. (49:39) How do we invert my will to receive in practice meaning through eating or drinking?

R. In each and every moment where you receive through eating or drinking something, putting it into your mouth say gratitude to the Creator for giving you that; for you to revive yourself to keep yourself alive. And then you’ll be able to be alert in your spiritual work.

31. S. (50:25) If I sense envy and hatred towards a friend does that mean that she is transferring the light in the ten and I am not?

R. I do not know what to say about her but you certainly are not passing any light into the ten if you are envious in that way. Because with that kind of attitude you should certainly understand that you do not want her to succeed, so clearly you are not willing to give to her.

R. Okay. Let us let them discuss among themselves okay? Let us conclude the lesson here. Good luck to the women. You are smart, you are ready for spirituality, good luck, keep going.