MONDAY PRAYER: MALCHUT-TIKKUN CHATZOT תקון חצות – LESSON WITH RAV MICHAEL LAITMAN
READING: BETWEEN AFTER MIDNIGHT AND DAWN MONDAY
Zohar for All. Introduction of The Book of Zohar. On the Night of the Bride, item 139
Morning Lesson January 28, 2023 Transcription
Transcription is made from simultaneous translation which leaves a possibility for differences in the audio
Part 1:
Zohar for All. “Introduction of The Book of Zohar”. On the Night of the Bride. #139
Reading 139 (00:34)
1. R. (07:56) We have come to a state where we discover the corrected Malchut gradually, and everything that we should receive in her corrected vessels come to her from ZA and this is how the book becomes revealed, meaning the Yesod of ZA is becoming revealed in Malchut. When does it happen? When the Creator is arranging it so that death will be swallowed forever. When does it happen? When the Lord will be one and his name is one. Meaning there will be such a connection between ZA and Malchut that all the lights of correction and all the lights of fulfillment will begin to enter Malchut and settle in her. And then ZA, which is referred to as the sun, will shine inside the Malchut and all that she has not received during the 6000 years can now be received.
2. S. (09:41) Private providence; what is the difference between private providence and divine providence?
R. The private providence, the higher providence is basically the same providence. It is the same.
3. S. (10:37) In item 139 they are mentioning the firmament, the sun and the moon and signs, what do they symbolize and how do we come to see them?
R. These concepts refer to the connection between ZA and the Malchut. To the extent that Malchut is ready to attach herself to ZA and receive all the lights that are willing to shine in her. That is what these concepts of sun and moon are. There are different forms of connection between them too, that there is the matter of months and days and nights and the seasons of the year, meaning that the connection between ZA and Malchut is not one kind of connection but it includes a lot of variations. We are going to learn that.
4. S. (12:00) Death will be swallowed forever; how can we interpret this from relative to the relationship between us?
R. That the separation between us will no longer happen, meaning we will become so corrected that we will become only concerned about increasing the connection all the time.
5. S. (12:44) These allegories, the book and it is written that the books of all the actions of the person is written in the book of remembrance, which is the Reshimot, so how can these Reshimot help the spiritual development on the path and are they written from scratch or based on what was written in the previous book?
R. We are going to learn all of that. You have just heard a certain term and you are twisting it into different directions. We are going to learn them as it is said in the book of Zohar just, let’s wait a little.
6. S. (13:42) What is the difference between Malchut and Nukva?
R. The Malchut and Nukva are general names or terms referring to the desire to receive. The Malchut is the name of one of the Sefirot which determines the connection between them, the relation to them and this is why it is called Malchut in the sense that it is governing or it is controlling and all the rest of the names are in relation to the state of the Malchut. How much she is in treatment of the other Sefirot connected to ZA becoming a vessel to receive the light from ZA and so on. So there are many different names for the first nine Sefirot and accordingly there are many different names for the Malchut and we are going to learn how they are connected and how these determine those.
7. S. (15:13) It says in item 139 that this what the sun has is for eliminating the moon and not for itself and before it happens or after, is it explaining the end of correction that the Nukva will be in constant coupling with ZA and then we receive everything directly from the Creator, what is the meaning here?
R. The perpetual coupling between ZA and Malchut means that all that the Malchut does is received in ZA and determines ZA relation to Malchut.
8. S. (16:13) When Yesod is passing the light does it pass the light from all the above Sefirot or from a certain specific Sefira?
R. Yesod is passing light only that light that is summoned from him.
9. S. (16:51) When we are connecting in the ten and raise a prayer to the Creator we work to Malchut relative to ZA?
R. Yes.
10. S. (17:12) The expression he and his name is one means that the upper force is described in different names here, what happens with all the names and what is the suspicion of all of these names of this force?
R. Him and his name as one is ZA is referred to as him and the Malchut as his name, and when there is a connection between ZA and Malchut meaning when Malchut can receive through equivalence of form from ZA then it turns out that the upper light shines in all the ten Sefirot until the Malchut by that is correcting some part of the Malchut.
S. What is the changing of the name of the upper force?
R. The changing of the name means that the connection between the Sefirot are different and accordingly the lights that come and arrive and change and the correction also changes and the multitude of names and states and corrections indicate getting closer to the final correction.
S. What is the return to the upper force? Is it him or in the form of his name?
R. Him and his name, meaning light and Kli, and both have to become as one complementing each other and become similar to each other and then the light is revealed. This is him and his name is one because to begin with, from the beginning of creation they are opposite and at the end of creation at the end of correction they are similar even though they do not change their actual nature but according to their intention they are draw closer to each other.
Reading 140 (19:36)
11. R. (20:14) The night of Shavuot we can say that all the times and all the states that happened to the created beings until the final correction they are all called the night of Shavuot
Reading on (20:33)
12. S. (26:12) Him and his name is one will be in the whole world except the existence of the Creator or it happens when we manage to connect, how does it happen to reach that state of the 6000 years?
R. It happens when we connect between us and we begin to feel that the Creator both increases the gap between us and also helps us to connect above that gap and this is until we come to such a power of connection on top of the power of separation that all sorts of data of the final correction can appear inside this, this is basically our work and the conclusion of all of our efforts.
13. S. (27:30) Based on what do they remove the righteous from his righteousness? The text is saying that they removed the righteous from his state of righteousness based on what does this happen?
R. We only have two forces working on us, the force of connection and the force of separation and so this is how we work in between these two forces. Those who long for connection even though they are not yet there they are called those who wish to justify the Creator. If their intention is to justify the Creator than they are called righteous and those who are opposite then they are the opposite.
14. S. (28:45) It is written that the Malchut is called the tree of knowledge of good and evil or the actions of people. It is also written that we should receive from the Malchut the providence of good and evil, how does it happen in our work?
R. Malchut controls us through good and evil. We have to learn to accept his governance as the complete good, this is it.
15. S. (29:35) What does it mean that the Creator punishes us for our thoughts as for our actions?
R. In spirituality there is no difference between the intentions, thoughts, words and actions because everything is actually the expression of man’s desire. So with respect to the Creator it doesn’t matter if man speaks or does, it’s all the same for Him.
S. What should be the thoughts, the words so the Creator will not punish us?
R. They need to be aimed at connection, only aimed at connection.
S. And for all the rest He punishes?
R. This is a question how we look at the responses of the Creator. Either we expect responses and we don’t care what kind of responses as long as it corrects us but it depends on how man takes it. It’s all corrections, this is what we need to recognise, everything is corrections there is no punishment. But what are all those actions of the Creator upon us that we are feel as punishments as even corruptions? It’s all because we don’t know the essence of these actions but in truth everything is corrections, everything is a reward, everything Is love.
16. S. (32:06) When the person feels great joy from his liberation why does the Creator throw him back? Why is it so difficult to start from the beginning?
R. The Creator make actions only towards the final correction. So the moment some additional burden can be given to the person, that he can do some more work towards the final correction, the Creator does it in that very moment.
17. S. (32:55) In this chapter, the Zohar keeps using the terms doubt and thoughts. How to use them in order to advance in the spiritual work?
R. Doubts in spiritual work must be used in such a way that you rise above doubts in full confidence. And this can only be in relation to the group.
18. S. (33:49) Our thoughts are actions and when we connect with the intention we unite with the groom. Does it mean that we move between two opposite forces in order to create the third path or we are talking about attainment here?
R. We are typically between several conditions and these conditions always change and we always need to be like a boat in the ocean, we always have to see how it moves towards the goal, this is our work. So to see in each and every moment where do we achieve maximum connection that is truer, stronger each and every moment and in such a way we will find the right direction, only by this. We don’t have a map or a compass or anything else that we can certainly use to advance besides maximum connection in every moment that every ten is choosing to be drawn to.
S. There are moments when we feel joy, these are strange moments. Are those moments of attainment or just part of the work?
R. It’s both. We have to understand we need both to exist in order to really clarify what is truth and false and then establish ourselves in between. And as we advance towards the final correction the falsehoods, the lies also become more and more revealed.
19. S. (36:23) It says each day he will pour forth speech and each night he will express his opinion. What does it mean?
R. That each and every day we can clarify the path and each and every night we need to examine ourselves in the darkness.
S. What does it mean day to day and night to night? It means the state of the day converses with the day and the state of the night is converses with the night, what does it mean?
R. Yes, states of day and night where we understand, justify, feel the connection between us and in it connection with the Creator or that we don’t feel and we are actually in separation from each other and from the Creator.
S. Day converses only the with the day and the night only with the night? There is no connection between the states night and day?
R. Both, there is both. The night also is built upon the previous day and the day is built upon the previous night. There is a connection between them and there is a connection also between the days and the nights, we’ll see.
20. S. (38:07) It says the righteousness of the righteous will not save him on the day of his judgement but repentance will help him. It’s considered someone who starts to work anew and his judgement from the previous days is gone. Meaning there’s a calculation with the person, a blank page, no difficulties?
R. Not so much as you think, we will have to refine this. It’s not exactly how you think about it but indeed one should see himself every day as if he starts anew.
21. S. (39:01) About desires, thoughts and intentions as I understand it the Creator gives me my desires and the thoughts serve them. There are also the desires of the group and when I begin to think how to grow such desires to get closer to them this is called intention, only to what can I make this effort when I grow the desire of the group?
R. You want the desires of the group to be higher than your own, that they will govern yours, that’s the work. That is your inner work to the extent that you position yourself as closer to the rest of the friends.
22. S. (40:29) It says that the governance of the Malchut appears as good and bad and that produces reward and punishment but I don’t see the governance of the Malchut in this reality I see total chaos and injustice. I see that everybody does whatever they want and they justify it morally. How will we come out of ourselves when things look this way?
R. You’re right in terms of how you see the situation but if you aim yourself exactly as much as possible towards the goal, Israel, the light and the Creator are one meaning you within the group and the together with the Creator you’re about the discover inside the group those three things. When you, the group and the Creator connect together and you hold all of them together you’ll see how you are moving forward all the time whether it’s by positive attraction or that you’re being repelled from that state and you still have to scrutinize yourself according to this negative attraction.
23. S. (42:16) In the last paragraph it says that thoughts along the way on the path and the Creator brings one to fall and repentance helps if the person repents. But we learned that only a fool is sitting idly by and eating his own flesh so what is the state of repentance after thinking?
R. I do not know if I can explain it in a way that is comprehensible. The repentance after the contemplations are not these critical states as we think because repentance in spirituality has the same place of importance as all the other states. Man has to fall from the state of repentance, he has to cry and yell but without it he won’t be able to advance forward. So it doesn’t mean that he made some mistake or was able to avoid it, no he wasn’t able to avoid it. Therefore the repentance stands on the same line of actions and mistakes that a person has to make because through these actions and mistakes he comes to feel the true state of correction.
S. And repentance from shame?
R. Repentance from Shame has several degrees. Ultimately one discovers that he has no reason to repent because the Creator is doing everything like it’s written to begin with, everything is done by the Creator. So the repentance is only in that man did not aim himself in the maximum way with his sensitivity to feel the repentance, to feel the regret.
S. So I have to dig into the reasons that brought me to the descent?
R. I can’t say, I can’t give you one generic answer that fits all.
24. S. (45:26) He says that he loses all the good deeds through the bad contemplation. What is the difference here between a regular contemplation and a bad or wicked contemplation?
R. I cannot say. It’s hard to differentiate what is a bad contemplation and an ordinary contemplation. We’ll talk about it, if we get closer to it I’ll talk about it.
S. It also says that they lose all the good deeds during the bad contemplation but we learn that on the path we lose nothing, everything stays. So why does he write that we lose everything?
R. In truth we don’t lose anything but at that moment one feels he doesn’t have it, he doesn’t.
25. S. (46:44) It says that the bad feeling causes separation from the feeling of the Creator and if a person exerts during the bad feeling not to harm and to do Torah and Mitzvot completely then he receives a reward. What does it mean to feel bad and to still keep the Torah and Mitzvot intact, whole?
R. To keep the Torah and Mitzvot means that he holds all desires, thoughts and actions that are in his hand and he wants to only increase his connection through the group to the Creator until he begins to feel the whole group is 10 Sefirot where he is in adhesion with the Creator.
S. With a bad feeling how can you hold onto the group and the Creator? There is a certain flaw in me and I still need to keep this feeling and still adhere. How does this process happen?
R. I don’t know what state you’re talking about but you have to understand that if the evil disappears you will have no discernment of where you are. The evil has to remain in the posterior of the state by which you feel what good is and you aim yourself towards that.
26. S. (49:02) You said that when the truth comes out the lies multiply. How does this relate to our work, how can we relate this within the ten?
R. When the truth is revealed then in order to guard our free choice the falsehood is revealed as well and then we are in more and more extreme states. This is how we advance, this is how we advance.
27. S. (49:59) What characterizes a bad contemplation?
R. A bad contemplation is characteristic of forgetting about the good side.
28. S. (50:25) If the Creator is showing me through the friends that I cannot justify their actions or part of their actions is this a sign that I’m not connected with them, I can’t reach the end of correction and the flaw is still in me, I have to work on it?
R. Yes, it’s possible but you can demand scrutiny from above, you can demand a scrutiny from above.
S. Today it’s Saturday, Shabbat the day the Creator should do what we are not able to complete during the week.
R. Who told you that?
S. So we are working during the week and on Shabbat..?
R. What’s the connection between what what we have here in this world as one of the days of the week that we call Shabbat and the work of the Creator which has it’s time which is not our time. It’s not our day or our night or our weekday or Shabbat day. Why do you join this to that?
S. When can we connect these actions?
R. You can’t connect anything until you discover the truth and before that you have nothing to tie together. You’re linking the spiritual time to the corporeal sense of time? It’s completely incorrect.
S. We depend on the good and bad in our actions and we can bring it to our work with the Creator or not?
R. I don’t know what you’re saying but we need to further and further think about what is spiritual time and what is corporeal time. You have that in the beginning of TES in part 1 and in other articles of Baal HaSulam. We have to make sure we have the right discernments otherwise you’re confused.
Reading on (53:30)
29. R. (56:10) You hear the direct causes for all of the good and pleasure, happiness in the final correction, direct causes.
Reading (56:22) “This is so because.. we would never come to this delight and pleasure..”
30. R. (58:17) We have to go through the most horrible states. We have to slander and curse and fail in everything. But ultimately all those things become transformed to good and thanks to having a bad feeling and now having a good feeling, thanks to that we can achieve the whole depth of creation.
Reading (59:01) “it is said day to day pours force that speech and praises it..”
31. R. (01:03:47) The text is so smooth flowing that there’s not that much really to ask, only to do.
32. S. (01:04:04) What does it mean to praise his friend?
R. To praise his friend meaning what does it mean that each one sees his friend as the greatest of the generation? This means to praise, that’s what I understand.
33. S. (01:04:33) What is that which stopped between each day, two days and then became great abundance? What is that word?
R. That those darknesses and breaks, cessations that we have throughout our progress, we didn’t respect them enough and didn’t take them into account because these are incidents of darkness. So they now become a greater light than the light itself because they shine to us through the darkness. Through the darkness they highlight the light, they uncover the light and that’s why we respect them.
34. S. (01:05:40) We have to bless over the good and the bad equally?
R. What is he saying?
S. I need to bless the good and the bad equally?
R. Right, correct.
35. S. (01:06:03) It says here but I can’t read I’m blind, one part before the end.
Reader: “In each night which becomes a receptacle for the knowledge of the Lord, they praise one another…”
S. Can we understand the meaning of this beautiful excerpt?
R. The explanation is simple, there are deeper explanations but this is simple. That the more we see differences between us in these differences we discover all kinds of manners and aspects and changes that are between us and that we grasp, perceive the message that the Zohar wants to communicate to us. One person sees it like this the other one sees it a little bit like that and the third one like that. These changes even though they come from our separation they actually give us clarity more about everything in the book.
S. Thank you for letting me ask and I’m asking again. How can one be a better man, a better person?
R. Only by annulment to the friends, nothing more than that is important.
S. I will do as you say.
36. S. (01:08:52) At the beginning of item 140 it says if I understand correctly this entire process of days and nights the friends who engage in Torah go through it. Who are the friends who engage in Torah?
R. That by the connection between them they want to reveal the Creator, this is the meaning of engaging in the Torah.
S. They said to one another we work for the Creator in vain, what do we get for working for Him?
R. They discover all the good things and the bad things one opposite the other and between them they discover the Creator.
S. But what does it mean that they seemingly slander the Creator to one another?
R. Because in the connection between them they discover all of the discernments between darkness and light and this is how they reveal the Creator.
37. S. (01:09:58) In what way during the descent the punishment can purify us and correct us? What happens to us during those times?
R. We at first think that we’re suffering blows but after some time by suffering blows we actually begin to feel that it’s not us suffering these blows but it’s the ego within us. And that leads us to the correct and good calculation and from there we can already bless the Creator and bless the group and ourselves for going through such states where we discover the truth.
38. S. (01:11:10) When thoughts come to a person that he could have done things differently and he would have gotten different results, is this thought incorrect?
R. It’s an incorrect thought because he needs to understand that what he went through so far all happened by the Creator.
S. So the thought that he could have done things differently is also a sin?
R. Right.
S. Is it better to separate myself from the pain, let’s say the pain was given to animals so they would develop, then it will be easier to see this state more correctly?
R. That still needs to be scrutinized. Listen.
39. S. (01:12:27) It is written that day to day pours forth speech, what speech?
R. Day after day we discover more of the speech of the Creator, that He comes closer to us and awakens us. And even though we see these things in a clear way, good, bad, light and darkness it nevertheless clarifies our present state.
40. S. (01:13:30) This makes me feel like if there was anything to regret at all it is not being connected enough, nothing else.
R. Yes, exactly, nothing more.
41. S. (01:14:05) I heard you say that we have to go through the worst possible states. If those states come, how do work with them? Resist them?
R. First of all every state we feel if we feel it we have to relate it to the Creator, that it’s coming to us directly from the Creator, to each and everyone in a personal, individual manner. And only after I feel, not just say, not just understand but also feel that I am receiving this thing from the Creator, then once I feel that I am allowed to respond to it. So how do I answer Him?
S. If God forbid I hear or feel from the friend this thing should I justify the friend, should I help him?
R. No, help a person understand that even what he feels he gets it directly from the Creator.
42. S. (01:15:39) An action is a remedy that works on people without any relation to their intention?
R. Why without any connection to their intention?
S. I mean there are groups of people who are doing everything for themselves and still their path is success?
R. That’s how it seems to you. Don’t look at others, look at yourself and not your group and you will see how much, how much you’re advancing.
S. We see so much phenomena in this world that is opposite from what we learn, that there are people getting together to do all kinds of actions and they have success in their actions. That’s my question.
R. That is advantage of light from darkness. That is how they have to discover the darkness in order to discover later the light.
43. S. (01:17:09) Every day we have to see as anew. How do we detach ourselves from negative experience and how do we not fear the nights that will come?
R. There is a verse, love covers all crimes. We have to make an effort to cover all these crimes in the past by love, happiness, coming closer to the goal etc.
44. S. (01:18:04) In the states that of night when I don’t feel connection with the Creator, I don’t feel connection with the friends and most of all I don’t have this strength to justify the friends what should be my action? How can I turn around this state?
R. Only through connection with your friends. Shut your eyes and connect to them and what’s in them, this you will receive.
S. What if I feel no strength whatsoever, it’s complete rejection?
R. But connect. Even though you feel this rejection connect to them, shut your eyes and connect. And by this you will see how much you start seeing through their vessels.
S. And why do I feel I am becoming more evil? Everything that surrounds me or touches me, even the friends, everything upsets me suddenly and I feel like a bomb ready to explode?
R. Why? What do you have with the world? What do you have with this world? Let them behave the way they behave, why does that have to affect you? I do not understand this approach. I was also probably this way but why must I respond to the world? Let them do what they want, the world behaves as it behaves. Be a bit more smart, it doesn’t suit you to flow after to the world.
S. Yes thank you but it’s not just the world outside. I’m talking about the world that surrounds me in the wisdom of Kabbalah with the friends, this world not what’s outside.
R. Here you have to build a society that really will be connected and elevating itself more and more and more. As the verse goes ‘Return O Israel to your Lord’ and you will feel that you are really rising to the degree of the Creator.
S. Thank you.
R. Good luck.
45. S. (01:21:37) What is the difference between the shame that we feel during the time of prayer and wanting to repent to the shame that we feel when we are acting or not acting?
R. I don’t know, you have to determine that on your own. You have to determine in short. Try it and then we’ll talk.
46. S. (01:22:18) Why did Kabbalists pray to forget their attainments?
R. They wanted to start anew, they didn’t want to be with the same understandings the same degrees they attained already, they wanted to start every time anew. Because there is no one who gives such a good feeling to his parents as a baby, even when he’s so small. When he starts smiling or just drawing his hands to them by that they feel by the biggest contentment from him.
S. In states that we experience the Creator gives us all kinds of special things, vessels that will help us along the way. So we don’t need to hold on to it we can just let it be forgotten?
R. No, don’t let it be forgotten, always continue. The main thing is to continue but don’t start from the middle of the work start from the beginning of the work. The beginning of the work is that every day should be as new for you so every day you see yourselves as if you were born today and today you have to establish a new society. It wasn’t there previously, now you want to establish it.
47. S. (01:24:11) I wanted to ask you about the exercise you gave us in the ten, to pray to the Creator and then to check what we receive from Him. I felt that it’s really an in-depth exercise, it needs to be our ongoing work in the ten. Is that correct or can we leave it and do other exercises? How can we engage with this correctly?
R. Do whatever exercise you want, whatever you choose.
S. What is the importance of practical exercises in the ten?
R. I can’t repeat all the articles that talk about that.
48. S. (01:24:58) Based on the article it’s guaranteed for a person on the path that he will go through ascents and descents and experience them successfully?
R. Repeat, speak loudly and clearly.
S. Are there such souls that will experience the ascents and the descents successfully and others who won’t experience them successfully?
R. There is no such thing, for each and everyone the path is open.
S. There are those that can keep doing it for 20-30 years and others that fall off the path.
R. That depends on the person.
49. S. (01:26:26) He writes in the article that every night he receives knowledge but only with connection to the rest of the nights. Hence each night is regarded as revealing knowledge to the other for it to be fit to know only in combination with another. What does it mean, revealing knowledge to the other?
R. When he receives discernments to the extent that it’s along with the other discernments he collects every day.
S. And what does it mean only while it’s integrated at night? What does it mean to collect knowledge at night?
R. Because the reason is it’s revealed at night specifically, out of darkness, out of unawareness but he wants to attain, he wants to connect. Out of that he attains his true state.
S. Does he need to collect [..]
R. True work is always in the nights.
S. Daat is a Sefira?
R. Daat is also a Sefira.
S. What, it’s the 11th Sefira?
R. It doesn’t matter, they talk about it, it is explained, yes.
50. S. (01:28:23) What does it mean that a person is permitted to respond to the Creator? When does it become permitted for him?
R. When he feels that he has the strength and the foundation the basis to respond to the Creator.
S. What is the correct response, is it a prayer?
R. The correct response is also prayer and he decides, it’s according to the way a person decides what he has, what he can come to the Creator with.
S. When does he become permitted? You said that there’s the time that he’s permitted to respond?
R. It is all a person’s decision, I told you. There are states inside a person when he decides yes, he has what to tell the Creator, this is the right time and place, he has a charge he can respond with.
51. S. (01:29:34) It is written here that night will shine as day and darkness as light and between them there is no separation. Then these 6,000 years connect to single day but further below it says that one day is separate from the other and it becomes a great reward. Do I understand correctly that there’s some place where all our connections are kept, all of our annulments determining one to a scale of merit? All that is accumulated there at the end of the 6,000 years it all becomes a single day?
R. Yes.
S. Wow.
R. Why wow?
S. It gives a lot of upliftment, it’s very joyful. So everyday I’m like new, every drop of connection, of annulment, maybe day, maybe night but it doesn’t get lost.
R. Right, where are you from?
S. I am from Ukraine, usually I am in MAK20.
R. Well, good luck
S. Once we accidentally met next to the elevator, I don’t know if you remember.
R. Sadly I can’t remember it.
S. I remember it very well.
R. Well, we’ll meet again.
52. S. (01:31:33) It says that in spirituality that there is no difference between thought and action, for the Creator it’s the same. How to work with this correctly, everything that comes from the Creator? Yesterday we spoke that the most important is not to turn it into an action, if you can explain that please.
R. There are thoughts and there are actions. Many times the thought is already at the level that it replaces the action and many times there is no action so the thought is on hold without it. We have to learn that, when the thought becomes an action and when the action is equal, is identical to the thought.
53. S. (01:32:31) Together we build the relationship to the Creator, we become the container for the knowledge, for the Dat of the Creator. What is this work that we do between us and the work that we read in the books, that Malchut is the one that receives from ZA all the Sefirot of ZA? So what’s the difference?
R. I don’t understand, repeat.
S. All of the efforts to connect is to be like a container for the knowledge of the Creator
R. Correct.
S. And as we read Malchut is the one that needs to receive from ZA. What is the difference between these two manners of work?
R. Malchut and ZA?
S. Yes.
R. Malchut receives from ZA. ZA gathers all the efforts, all the lights, all the vessels, everything it has from these upper discernments, collects it and brings it down to Malchut.
S. When do we make this transition that we receive from ZA?
R. When we are ready to connect to ZA, to accept it as the upper one.
S. And what, it’s in the ten or in the world Kli?
R. Then it bestows to Malchut.