THURSDAY: MALCHUT-TIKKUN CHATZOT תקון חצות – LESSON WITH RAV MICHAEL LAITMAN
READING: between after midnight and sunrise of Thursday.
Baal HaSulam. Preface to the Wisdom of Kabbalah
Morning Lesson May 30, 2023
Transcription is made from simultaneous translation, which leaves a possibility for differences in the audio.
Part 2:
Baal HaSulam. Preface to the Wisdom of Kabbalah. #61
Reading Item #61 (0:37) “Yet we should understand..”
1. R. (01:30) Meaning there are a few things here that happened and we need to understand why the Nekudot of SAG went below Tabur because by that all of the continuation of the corrections of the upper world depend on.
2. S. (01:50) When he says below Tabur, does he mean the Raglin or the womb?
R. He means the Tabur de AK, Tabur de Galgalta.
S. Yes, but when he says something below Tabur, the Raglin or the womb?
R. Not the womb or Raglin, we don’t know what that is, we are going only after what he depicts to us below the Tabur of AK there is a Partzuf of Galgalta, there is Keter, Hochma, Bina, Hesed, Gevura, Tifferet, Netzach, Hod, Yesod, Malchut, so in the middle of this Partzuf, you have a place called Tabur, so from Tabur above and from Tabur below and we are talking about these parts now.
S. Exactly about that? When he speaks about something that takes place below the Tabur, so where is he aiming towards when he says it? To that Raglin or what’s below the Tabur?
R. No, no, no, no, what’s below Tabur of Galgalta. That is what he means.
S. Okay, I have to work more.
R. I don’t know what to say. There are many such illustrations like this, endless. I gave years of lessons on this.
Reading Item #62, twice (03:56) “The thing is that during..”
3. S. (09:09) He says that Nekudot de SAG came out on phase one and two, that is why there is the equivalence of form and they can go below, that’s what I understand. Usually what we learn is that the Nekudot of SAG emerge above two and that’s why they can descend because Bina has no limitations. So how do both of those work?
R. What does he say here?
S. He says Aleph, phase one and phase two.
R. Nekudot de SAG, how to explain this, they begin from Bet-Bet, that you understand, and they come to Bet-Aleph, that the Bet of Aviut comes to the Aleph of Aviut and then the next Partzuf emerges after the Nekudot, so what is different here from any other place?
S. We used to learn that it is two on two, Nekudot of SAG?
R. The point of SAG is Bet-Bet, 2×2, that’s why they can go below the Tabur without any problem; they have the light of Hassadim that guards them.
S. Okay, here he says, Bet-Aleph, two on one, in the past we said two on two, so what is it?
R. Bet-Aleph, two by one, are the points of SAG that reveal their Aviut, but after the Partzuf has already been purified, Taamim of SAG and the Nekudot of SAG come out and then the Nekudot come out on Bet-Bet, on two by two, and then they are purified until Bet-Aleph, two by one.
S. So in the end of the process it’s two on one, in the beginning it’s two on two?
R. Yes, yes.
4. S. (11:46) Why is the degree Bina of Taamim not expanding to ZON de AK but only Bina of Nekudot?
R. Because in Taamin you have the Reshimot, the light of Hochma that you cannot expand below Tabur.
5. S. (12:19) Can I define what the second restriction is?
R. No.
S. So I will give the order?
R. No need.
6. S. (12:42) So you can say that the equalization between Nekudot of SAG and Malchut below Tabur AK is that there’s no light of Hochma there?
R. There is none, right.
S. That’s why it can go below and have equivalence in that?
R. Yes.
7. S. (13:10) But NHY of AK is filled with mercy anyway?
R. Not the same Hassadim.
S. What’s the difference between both types?
R. The Hassadim of the Nekudot of SAG are actual Hassadim, true Hassidim in comparison to the Hassadim of NHY of AK, in NHY of AK there is nothing lacking and here there is a deficiency.
S. So Hassadim with a deficiency, mercy with a deficiency?
R. Right, they have stronger Hassadim.
S. That’s why they incorporate with the Reshimot of phase four that is the light of Hochma?
R. Yes, we will learn that soon.
8. S. (14:24) So according to that explanation, Hassadim that goes down to phase four is different than Hassadim that goes to …?
R. Of course they’re different, in every place the light isn’t the same light, it goes according to the Kli.
S. But the mercy is like the clothing? I don’t know their clothes in this, there are different degrees of bestowal here too?
R. Of course, of course.
9. S. (15:12) A few items ago, he wrote that the world was created in the quality of judgment, Din, and now he’s saying that in AB, SAG there is no phase four, can you explain that?
R. They are purified, that’s why these Partzufim are not the fourth Behina, Gimmel, Bet, third and second, it already starts being the purification of the Partzuf.
S. So it is not clear, first they were created in phase four and then they refined until SAG?
R. Of course, the whole process is the purification of the Masach. Atzilut is the next Partzufim.
S. So what is the inner phase four of AK, is there a difference?
R. Behina Dalet, which is the coarseness, Behina Dalet which is the Masach, there’s Behina Dalet of AK, it depends what you’re speaking of.
S. What is phase four in the inner AK?
R. That is the true Behina Dalet, the true will to receive.
S. So when the Partzufim refine now, what causes that equivalence of form that can go into phase four of the inner AK, why is it possible now?
R. Because they don’t have the fourth phase and they don’t have the desire for the light of Hochma, even if it’s below the Tabur it won’t have any problem for them to expand to these Partzufim.
Reading Item #63 (17:33) “We might wonder at the fact..”
10. R. (19:06) Well he’s saying here in one sentence, so many things, that we will get through it.
Continuing Reading (19:19)
11. R. (20:17) Here he gives us an explanation, such an explanation from above it is called because below Tabur there are different conditions, that is why the Nekudot of SAG and everything that happens onwards, expands and is only revealed below Tabur of AK. Okay, there are many questions here. We will scrutinize this in the next few items.
12. S. (21:15) We learned that in the first restriction there is Sium and below it the light cannot expand, not even the light of mercy and here the Sium rises to the Parsa?
R. Okay, we haven’t learned that yet but let’s say.
S. So below the Parsa there is the light of Hassadim, nothing?
R. We will read about it soon.
S. What does it mean that the second phase and the fourth phase became one?
R. They work together, in the end of the second Behina is the Sium of all of the Partzufim.
S. What does it mean that they’re working together in one action?
R. The fourth Behina and the second Behina, they force the Partzuf to end in the second Behina because there isn’t a Masach on the third and fourth Behina and they can’t receive in order to bestow.
S. So what is the action of phase four and phase two? Because it seems like something really small? Phase four has a great intensity and here it’s really small, Bina, it’s clear she wants to give but in Malchut it’s not clear what is happening that suddenly she’s also acting like Bina. What is Malchut giving something here?
R. I don’t understand.
S. Malchut’s quality is to receive, what does it mean that now it is working with Bina, what is Malchut doing now?
R. Malchut, the will to receive, rises to Bina and then we are not allowed to work with the light that comes from above, in order to bestow because there is no force of the Masach from Bina and below. Is that clear? So what are you asking beyond that?
S. Malchut’s quality is to receive, so what does it mean that it’s receiving only until Bina? Shouldn’t she bestow because Bina’s action is to bestow?
R. That is something completely different, the quality of Bina is to bestow, Malchut is to receive, how is that related one to the other?
S. Because he says it’s working together?
R. Because when they work together Malchut connects to Bina and then they work together.
S. Bina in bestowal and Malchut in reception to a certain point?
R. Malchut limits Bina and then Bina can use her vessel of bestowal.
13. S. (24:52) The first restriction speaks about that you can receive only in order to bestow? And below the Tabur we discover that you can receive in order to bestow. So what does this second restriction mean because it also says you can receive in order to bestow, what is the innovation here?
R. The first restriction is the restriction on the will to receive, that it can’t receive in order to bestow.
S. Can but it will start receiving in order to bestow after the restriction until the Tabur, that’s what I understand?
R. Until the Tabur it will always receive in order to bestow.
S. Because he understands he can’t below the Tabur?
R. You can’t, you can’t receive in order to bestow.
S. What is the second restriction? What is it restricting?
R. The second restriction says there is no strength to receive in order to bestow from Peh to AB until the Tabur of AB, below that you cannot receive in order to bestow, you cannot.
S. The second restriction will give an ability below the Tabur?
R. It doesn’t give any opportunity for that, it is a Tzimtzum.
S. Until the Parsa, so there is the area below the Tabur that you can perform an action?
R. In the meantime, we don’t know.
S. I just don’t understand because you can’t receive in order to bestow below Tabur before the second restriction, so what is the innovation, I don’t get it? What does it say when Malchut restricts herself again?
R. Below Tabur we must not receive in order to bestow, we must not, means we’re not allowed to.
S. But also before it was not possible?
R. No, who said that it’s prohibited?
S. She did not receive below Tabur?
R. She did not continue there. That there wasn’t something there that could continue the light.
S. So she didn’t receive but it wasn’t not allowed?
R. Right, soon we will delve deeper into it.
14. S. (29:48) Usually Baal HaSulam says that below the Tabur is Phase four, is Malchut but sometimes he says that below the Tabur is ZON which is phase three and phase four. What is the difference?
R. Gimmel-Dalet.
S. So why is it sometimes called phase four?
R. It depends what we want to scrutinize, if by talking about the fact that he mustn’t receive in order to bestow in the fourth Behina, the fourth phase and of course below Tabur you can’t receive, there is no force of the Masach there that can supply us with the force of rejection to receive in order to bestow below Tabur. That’s it.
15. S. (30:44) Why is there a mixture between Malchut and Bina, it is written that resembling those qualities connects spiritual objects, so what equality is there?
R. That the fourth and the third phase don’t want to receive and that’s what brings them closer together and connects them. That from this point and onwards they will be together.
16. S. (31:33) We learn in item 64, that the incorporation of Malchut and Bina called the second restriction is only below Tabur of AK, so it’s very technical. Can we feel what is written here, can we explain it, maybe simply, what we’re speaking about?
R. Not today.
S. But is it possible?
R. Yes, we will scrutinize it.
17. S. (32:28) The general question, how can I come closer to the Creator when I feel that sometimes I can’t even come closer to my friends or the group, since they are the key to coming closer to the Creator?
R. All right but that’s also the means to advance, to come closer, that you get rejected, and then again pulled, and again rejected, and again pulled, and through such ascents and descents, changing of states, by that you begin to feel the changes in you, and what you’re included of and how you can choose nevertheless, and from the different qualities that you have, with which quality to continue working.
18. S. (33:48) He says that everything takes place below the Tabur of AK?
R. Yes, after Galgalta, AB, SAG, all the rest of the Partzufim that we learn, the world of Atzilut, Beriya, Yetzira and everything that happens there, it all takes place below the Tabur.
S. So in phase four of AK?
R. In phase four of AK, yes.