HOCHMA: TIKKUN CHATZOT תקון חצות – LESSON WITH RAV MICHAEL LAITMAN
Baal HaSulam. The Meaning of Conception and Birth
Morning Lesson July 15, 2022, Transcription
Transcription is made from simultaneous translation which leaves a possibility for differences in the audio
Part 2:
Baal HaSulam. The Meaning of Conception and Birth (That Soul Is the Possession of Adam HaRishon)
Reading (00:30) Item “That Soul Is the Possession of Adam HaRishon..”
1.R. (02:06) It is very difficult to understand here. It is confusing what he’s telling us here but bit by bit we will picture it correctly before us and perceive it, but it takes time, again.
Reading (02:23) Item “That Soul Is the Possession of Adam HaRishon..”
2. R. (04:16) Well it is difficult; it is hard to explain to us in the meantime.
3. S. (04:22) What does it mean that first they attain from above downwards?
R. That as much as we can rise, I’m explaining more or less. The more you can rise from a certain degree you attain what is going on.
4. S. (04:51) I never understood what the drop of the father means?
R. These are the words that are being used that the light of Hochma comes from the general degree of Hochma called Abba and this light bestows through all the Sefirot over Malchut and Malchut starts awakening, recuperating and to be impregnated from that small light that comes to her and then she starts developing.
5. S. (05:32) It is written here that the first path from above downward is called conception I never heard that why?
R. Ibur?
S. Yes, Ibur.
R. Ibur is impregnation.
S. So what does it mean that it’s through developing entertainment from the world from above downward it is called impregnation because there is from below upward so why is it from above downward?
R. Because from above light comes down and it obligates all the Sefirot to connect by the form of an embryo of the lower in Malchut. That’s how it happens. Where else does it come from?
S. How do we reach the state from above downward?
R. When light comes to you from above downward and works on you, you awaken and you recuperate from below upwards, what do you think, that you start the work? They work starts from above.
6. S. (07:22) It seems to me that even during our life when we bump into the darkness there are such sensations or moments that we don’t have our ego and only afterwards it repeats itself like a routine comes in but there are moments where we are released from the ego and come back from that previous state that he was already presented to us.
R. Let it be so, later you will think differently.
7. S. (08:05) In the process the soul goes through in certain worlds, so all states from above downward come out of wholeness and only then the soul goes through them or does every step in the development of the soul have a process of above downward and then from below upward?
R. Yes, what you said in the end was right.
8. S. (08:35) What does it mean that the soul is part of Adam HaRishon, who is that he is speaking about?
R. Adam HaRishon is all the spiritual system that resembles the Creator that’s called Adam HaRishon.
S. Why does he say that the soul is a spiritual possession?
R. Because his development is the size of the Adam, resembling the Creator.
S. The soul develops?
R. Of course, of course.
S. Can you explain what it means that a soul develops?
R. That there is only a point, a drop of semen, as we say, a small Reshimot and we by the connection between us and the work between us we have to reach a state that we cause the development of that Reshimot that will grow more and more by the lights of Hochma and Hassadim that awaken this Reshimot and increase bigger desires in her and that it called she is rising like a drop of semen that is rising, rising, rising and starting to be impregnated in the degree of Bina, starting to grow until it is born in the enlightened world, etcetera, soon we will see that.
S. You said that there were 125 degrees, that’s not the perfect soul already?
R. Yes.
9. S. (10:35) I wanted to ask about birth. I see it is written afterwards.
Reading (10:51) “Conception and Growth of a Body as a Soul” Twice
10. S. (12:42) Attainment comes from the night?
R. Yes, attainment comes from the night.
11. S. (13:13)This process happens before we came to the ten or only after?
R. Of course not, this is still before us.
Reading 4 (13:39) “From Above Downward and From Below Upward”
12. S. (15:29) There is an interesting depiction here about the taste.
R. No, no, that is not, feeling these things less flavors Taamim it is like TANTA when he starts discerning these lights fill him.
S. So it is a feeling?
R. Yes of course this is the beginning of the attainment through the senses.
Reading (16:11) twice
13. S. (20:45) I hope I am going to ask correctly if I understand so in the process where I try to scrutinize the desire to bestow so that Abba ve Ima bestow upon me, what is their influence on me?
R. You connect through your work, when you want to connect to the friends and the Creator you connect to two systems of Abba ve Ima that exist in the upper degree and then they take care of you according to your raising of MAN, what do you demand, and if you don’t demand and you have no friends and you don’t awaken the upper one and the upper one according to the general plan, will awaken you. Maybe you don’t feel, maybe you’ll live as all creatures in this world, but that is how the upper one takes care of everyone. The still, vegetative animative, speaking and everything. As there is a verse, every grass below has an angel above, striking it and telling him to grow, but that is how we develop but if you already start awakening to a connection with the upper one, raising all kinds of requests, demands, when you awaken to life, that’s how it is called, so by that you how should I say it, you promote the upper one, you come before the other one taking care of you, and the upper one takes care of you according to your MAN, don’t think that what you awaken in the upper one comes from you, but still there is your participation in it. That is what we said today and the first half of the lesson, that a person gets a feeling of darkness, night etcetera, and then he needs to wake up, recuperate and to raise the deficiency to the upper one.
S. On behalf of the mother, more deficiency awakens, and from the Abba more fulfillment, it is like day and night?
R. That is something we should scrutinize, leave it as a question aside.
14. S. (23:53) So he said something very strange here, he says from below upward is the law of development that makes him grow from below upward until he attains his cause, first of all what is the law of development?
R. The law of development is a process that is in all of the vessels that came from above downward and now the lower one has to realize them in his ascent from below upwards.
S. So until you attain the cause, is there a state that I do not feel any taste in attaining it?
R. No. All in all we are in a system that is organized from beginning to end, there is nothing new as it is written there is nothing new under the sun, and all we need is to show our participation, our agreement to the whole process.
S. You said that the whole world needs to attain it, so not everybody is doing our work.
R. Everyone will take part in what he should. Yes, each one.
S. Also people that don’t even study?
R. They will have a different kind of participation, yes, every Partzuf of the soul has Rosh, Toch Sof, and each and every part has its own degree, don’t worry each one is on his own degree advancing according to his own degree. Whenever it is needed he is being awakened just like you were awakened and then you discovered that we are here, and you joined us a few days ago.
S. Yes but the impression is that you teach us, we are Bnei Baruch, we take it all upon us, this whole case, and we have to open the path to the whole world.
R. That is how each and every one has to feel to accept it and to function this way. Yes, why each and every one of us is the uppermost. It is like a sphere, a ball whatever you take on the surface, whatever point you will take is the upper most of all the rest. That is how we are each one. No one that resembles the other and no one is less than the other.
S. So each one has a role?
R. Right yes that is why there is no one who is too far from him, and everything will return to its root. That is called wholeness in the work of the Creator. Okay?