HOD: TIKKUN CHATZOT תקון חצות – LESSON WITH RAV MICHAEL LAITMAN
Morning Lesson August 31, 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 4. Chapter 6. #1
Reading Chap 6, part #1 (00:18) “In the first expansion of Akudim…”
Reading Inner LIght, Item #1 (01:36) “As we have read above..”
1. R. (02:33) This is what exists in the first development.
Reading Inner LIght #2 (02:40) “the surrounding lights …”
Reading Chap 6, part #2 (03:05)
2. R. (05:01) Where do we have the manner of the vessel from the coarseness being added from the expansion and departure of the light in the vessel.
Reading item 3 of the Ari (05:14)
3. R. (06:41) Already the lights that are not in their vessels.
Reading item 4 (06:49)
4. R. (07:45) Meaning compared to the Ein Sof all the worlds are in the light of Nefesh only, relative to the endless although in them there’s a division of NRNHY.
Reading item 5 (08:08)
Reading item 6 (08:50)
Reading item 7 (09:50) “The reason for it is that Ruach comes from VAK..”
Reading item 8 (10:54) “It is already known that Yesod is not a part of VAK..”
Reading item 9 (12:05) “All this concerns the phase of Malchut..”
Reading item 10 (13:04) “There is yet one more difference between Yesod and …”
Reading item 11 (14:25) “Afterwards Bina emerged merely in the phase of Nefesh..”
5. S. (15:40) All this time they are talking about the quality of Nefesh, what is the quality of Nefesh?
R. The quality of Nefesh is the main force upon which the rest of the discernments are built on. We have Nefesh of Nefesh, Nefesh of Ruach, Nefesh of Neshama, but Nefesh is the main thing. Let’s put it this way, it is the feeling that a person is filled with the upper force, he does not know who, what but has a feeling that he’s receiving. Let’s say like a baby who is receiving from his mother, he does not know the essence of the mother or the attitude of the mother or his attitude towards the mother rather than there is a connection that is called Nefesh.
S. Appointed there is none else besides the starting point does that belongs to Nefesh?
R. Yes, correctly from this point onwards where he feels the point of Nefesh, he already has the feeling of none else besides Him.
6. S. (17:09) He discusses here, describes how the different Sefirot come out and then the lights, how do Sefirot come out?
R. Sefira comes from the word Sapphire that illuminates that shines, it is the will to receive that reaches equivalence of form with the light and therefore the light can enter into the will to receive and shine and illuminate through the desire to receive. But desire is already in order to bestow and therefore it is called Sefira. Meaning the Sefira itself is already the will to receive that shines like the light.
S. The different lights that come out, are they like the addition to the light of Nefesh?
R. Yes, of course.
7. S. (18:25) What is the six edges?
R. Those are the six Sefirot of Zeir Anpin.
S. Why, why is it called edges and not light?
R. Because this is how Zeir Anpin is built, it has sent six Sefirot, no more, it is missing the Rosh and that’s why it’s called small and only has six.
8. S. (19:13) What unites them?
R. That is not something that we are going to learn now, there’s no time for that.
9. S. (19:22) There is Neshama, Hayah, Yechidah, how do you feel those states?
R. Try to rise above your will to receive and you will begin to feel, there’s nothing more that I can say. It’s nice that you want but the desire is not enough but you also need to have some effort here.
10. S. (19:52) In item 10 it says that Zeir Anpin is completion, is there a stage where Zeir Anpin is not complete?
R. Zeir Anpin is small, later in the world of Atzilut it becomes Arich Anpin.
S. What does he receive in?
R. Completion, both in Sefirot and in lights.
11. S. (20:30) How is it we do not see the relation between the lights and vessels? How come the light of Yechida is revealed in Malchut and not the other way around?
R. If we talk in individuality there is an inverse relation between the lights and vessels.
S. What do you mean individually?
R. We talk about the lights and the vessels, the extent, the higher the lights, they are revealed by the lower vessels.
12. S. (21:13) From these excerpts can we say that the Kabbalists fills….
R. No, they too become their vessels.
13. R. (21:37) I want to ask you now about the lesson that we had yesterday about the introduction to Zohar, let’s do a little survey.
14. S. (23:35) The study’s excellent, there are many new friends who participated in the lesson yesterday. They consider the Zohar to be from this world, maybe need to clarify that…
R. Understood.
15. S. (24:05) How can we prepare in the tens to study the Zohar together with the world Kli?
S. If you have time, simply read it again, read what we are reading in the lesson or what we are about to read, also between you.
16. S. (24:42) The study of the ten Sefirot is amazing but our morning and afternoon you said that studying the Zohar is more permanent. It’s closer to the spiritual, it gives me great joy, also in the ten. I hope that we attain it and enjoy the study.
R. Very well. Thank you.
17. S. (25:30) We know that the Book of Zohar has a very interesting story and fate is the fact that there’s a big demand to learn the Zohar and it’s being studying and such wide scale and you broadcast it on line, does it mean that the external world is also really to receive the illumination of the book of Zohar because the the amazing things that are concealed there that can change a lot.
R. Yes, the Zohar is truly meant to change the world and to bring us to the right path. Therefore it is worthwhile for us to spread the knowledge and the book itself. There are many things written about it. The dissemination of the book of Zohar will bring the world to correction.