TUESDAY PRAYER: KETER-TIKKUN CHATZOT תקון חצות – LESSON WITH RAV MICHAEL LAITMAN
READING: between after midnight and sunrise of Tuesday.
Baal HaSulam. Preface to the Wisdom of Kabbalah
Morning Lesson May 21, 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. #54
Reading Item #54 (0:20) “Hence, the screen of the Partzuf..”
1. S. (03:39) The connection between the lower Partzuf to the upper Partzuf is of the Chazeh of the Upper?
R. Who are you asking about?
S. Here in the cascading of the Partzufim? From the Chazeh of the upper Partzuf.
R. [no translation]
S. I’m talking about the Chazeh of the Upper. There the lower is connected through the point of the Chazeh of the Upper?
R. Yes.
S. What is that point essentially?
R. It’s the connection it has with the Upper One, it’s one of the connections, however from there he receives nourishment. There ends the GAR of the upper Partzuf and from there on, the lower one continues. We have Chazeh of Galgalta from there and below the Partzuf AB extends from Chazeh until Peh de Rosh AB and from Chazeh below is the Guf of AB.
S. The connection through the Chazeh, what does that come to teach?
R. That there are forces there in the Partzuf of Galgalta that AB receives them and develops from Chazeh above and from Chazeh below.
2. S. (05:47) Why is the Rosh of AB from Chazeh to the Peh?
R. Because that is his place, there it adheres to the qualities of Galgalta.
S. But the Masach, the screen that was refined from Galgalta was until Peh of Galgalta. Why wasn’t the next coupling there, why did it go down to Chazeh?
R. No. The Zivug, the coupling, certainly was made on Peh de Galgalta as well, then it came down to the place where it comes from, where its origin is and that it comes out of Peh it loses one’s coarseness instead of four in Galgalta it becomes three in AB and it develops from Chazeh of Galgalta, there it is Peh de AB.
S. Meaning the transition from the fourth coarseness to the third? That AB is above the Chazeh?
R. AB is below the Chazeh. The Rosh of AB is from the Chazeh to the Peh and the Guf of AB is from the Chazeh downward.
S. The fourth coarseness is from the Rosh of AB is from Chazeh to Peh and it doesn’t go below Tabur? Meaning there are two results from this?
R. There are many discernments here, so ask exactly what you want to know.
S. I’m trying to understand what is influenced by the refinement of this Aviut.
R. It affects a thousand and one different things, so ask exactly what you want.
S. Why is Rosh of AB from the Peh to Chazeh?
R. Because there’s the place where it was made through its Reshimot [records].
S. And what is the reason that AB cannot expand below the Tabur?
R. Because AB is the Partzuf of Hochma, and there cannot be Hochma below Tabur.
3. S. (08:42) The Partzuf of Galgalta, in what vessels does it give contentment to its Upper? In its own vessels or in the vessels of AB? Because Partzuf AB comes down from the Chazeh from its lower, so in what does it give contentment to, in the vessels of AB or in its own vessels?
R. Can you talk in a more clear way?
S. What is the meaning that from Chazeh extends another Partzuf?
R. Because there ends the screen of Galgalta and from it onward the next screen is born over the next Reshimot.
S. The single Partzuf there already exists a second Partzuf, how can this be depicted?
R. I don’t understand the question. Galgalta was refined, its Masach, its screen rose from Tabur to Peh and then it came down to the Chazeh and in the Chazeh it builds the next Partzuf. What are you asking about this?
S. I’m asking when is Partzuf AB trying to only when Galgalta went through the process of refinement or when it bestows into its Guf there it gives birth to AB?
R. Galgalta is refined, a screen rises from Tabur to Peh. These are the Partzufim called Nekudot and then when it comes to the Peh it’s incorporated again with the Upper Light which is there in a Zivug de Hakaa, coupling while striking, with its remaining Reshimot, their records left in her and then she comes down to the new place with the Zivug called Chazeh, not to the Peh rather to Chazeh.
S. Meaning that the Partzuf of Galgalta completely ends and then the Partzuf AB is born? Is there any preparation, Galgalta is doing well keeping itself and preparing for a place for the creation AB, or only when it completes its action?
R. Only after that.
4. S. (11:48) The question is as follows: AB connects to Chazeh of Galgalta because there’s a mutual Aviut there, coarseness?
R. Yes.
S. And it comes that the Upper with the lower can only attain up to the Chazeh and everything that is above from the Peh upwards is already unattainable, correct?
R. Correct.
5. S. (12:43) How to depict the Partzuf AB inside of Galgalta because every time when we draw it and..?
R. You can say it’s inside Galgalta, all the different Partzufim stand one within the other.
6. S. (13:07) Malchut of Chazeh has a mutual point between Malchut of Rosh and Malchut of Guf it’s a mutual point because I explain why the refinement of it’s Masach de Rosh, from above downwards, it’s gradual and the refinement of the Masach of the Guf is Shoresh is from above downwards, sorry from below upwards.
R. Malchut is always one, from the beginning of the creation till its end.
S. What do we speak of the three Malchut, Malchut of Sium, Malchut of Tabur?
R. That’s how it’s divided in order to execute its actions.
S. Where is its central point?
R. Of Malchut? In Peh de Rosh.
7. S. (14:28) I want to understand the principle he says that the lower one doesn’t clothe on the Rosh of the Upper and on its Sium because it was refined. I need to understand, this is happening of AB towards Galgalta, and in the rest of the Partzufim it will also happen, so they are not able to grasp on their Rosh, so why are they sitting on the Tabur of the Galgalta and not on the Tabur of AB for example in the next Partzuf?
R. All the rest of the Partzufim are measured with respect to Tabur of Galgalta.
S. And refined for and the Partzuf of cannot grab the, So, sad will not be able to ride. Why is it sitting in Galgalta and not in the Tabur?
R. Because Tabur of Galgalta is a very special point where the Upper Light cannot come below it.
8. S. (15:57) What he’s asking is not about Tabur of Galgalta, he’s asking about the Tabur of AB. SAG will come out, how can SAG can go below Tabur of AB? Where is Tabur of AB?
R. SAG can go anywhere it wants below anywhere he wants because it is the Partzuf of Hassadim.
S. But it’s not said that it goes below Tabur of AB. They said it goes down Tabur of Galgalta.
R. It is even worse than Tabur of AB.
S. Where is Tabur of AB?
R. Tabur of AB is somewhere within the Partzuf of AB.
S. That’s clear but where is it in relation to Tabur of Galgalta?
R. Above Tabur of Galgalta but it doesn’t interfere for us. He doesn’t even explain it, he doesn’t even mention it.
9. S. (17:12) Galgalta is the complete Partzuf, gets all the light, refined from end to end. We see that when the light departs it makes the vessel more refined. If we think about the general Kli, what’s the benefit of a smaller Partzuf being born with that with AB, with the smaller light only the light of Hochma? What is the profit from the vessel from smaller vessels being born?
R. Explain to me about your children?
S. I cannot connect the two.
R. It explains to us what is the content of the Partzuf, that something is being birthed from it.
S. Something smaller is being birthed from Him. No more sophisticated, not bigger than Galgalta, something partial. As if you take care of a small part.
R. Yes and no. How does that improve Galgalta? It improves Galgalta that he shows what was within Galgalta and what is now being born within it and what is birthed continues to get closer to the final correction, and without being birthed from the previous Partzuf of the previous fathers we would not be able to grow, rather come only through having hearts of the father.
S. Can we learn from this process about how the wisdom comes through the generations in the past, people wearing attainment so great that we will never come to it. In our new generation smaller things with less coarseness is born but it somehow improves this process feeling like the Kabbalists have been passing this wisdom from one generation to another. Is it similar to this process?
R. It has within it so many consequences that I cannot even say. Leave your hand alone.
10. S. (20:12) What can we learn from the refinement he describes here, the refinement that we have to make in ourselves?
R. We will learn what it is for us.
S. Is it correct when it seems that the opposite of the refinement here brings the Creator further away from the Creator and our finding brings us closer to the Creator?
R. Yes, yes.
Reading 55 (20:59) “As has already been explained regarding the order of the emergence of Partzuf AB from the first Partzuf of AK…”
Reading 56 (22:37) “The Second Restriction [Tzimtzum Bet], Called the Restriction of NHY of AK…”
11. S. (24:34) He writes Tanta,Taamim, Nekudot, Tagin, Otiot of the Guf doesn’t it happen in the Rosh Tanta?
R. It’s in the Guf of the Chazeh.
12. S. (24:53) The previous Partzuf, if we talk about Partzuf AB, doesn’t know at all that is going to be in the later in the second restriction or is not?
R. Until the Reshimot awakens no one knows what’s going on.
S. Meaning thanks to these smaller Partzufim, so the bigger Partzuf discovers things about himself, can we set this about it?
R. Yes, you can say.
13. S. (25:32) There’s a question, why don’t we sketch, why don’t we draw things in the study material it will help us?
R. We’ll begin to draw, although neither Rabash nor Baal HaSulam really liked drawing because it pulls a person from the inner thoughts of what’s going on with the Partzuf, the Reshimot, the of the screens to something more physical, something more engineering. We’ll do it, now it’s a little late.
14. S. (26:28) About the point of connection between the upper Partzuf and the lower Partzuf through the Chazeh into the Peh of the lower one. What does the Upper One feel in the lower one, in the point of connection?
R. The Upper One feels that the lower one is born according to how he births it, the upper births, the lower and how the lower functions grows and fills the Upper.
S. It really feels in the lower one if it’s an additional organ that’s born it’s another sense opens up to him?
R. Of course, the Upper that births the lower feels that the lower fulfills it. Look at the mother and a child, and see how a child fulfills her, not that she fulfills him, although she cares for him with her entire heart with devotion, but in essence what she feels is that he fulfills her.
S. What does the lower one, the lesser Partzuf, what does it feel from the Upper One?
R. The lower Partzuf feels that the Upper gives birth to him, provides everything to him, fulfills him, cares for him, does everything, that it is the Upper in nature.
S. Has this notion, there’s the Upper One that gives birth to him but in action?
R. No, it doesn’t have to be like that, instinctively he feels that he belongs to the Upper and the Upper has to provide for him.
S. Throughout the life of the lower Partzuf it feels a connection with the Upper One that it gives him something?
R. Certainly, the Upper gives otherwise where does he receive from.
S. The coupling that the lower one gives isn’t it with respect towards or against the Upper Light, that direct light of AB? Does this direct light come from Galgalta or does it come through Galgalta?
R. Of course, Galgalta does striking by coupling through the light of a Ein Sof and passes Ein Sof though its own light that passes through her to AB.
S. The direct light of AB goes through Chazeh of Galgalta?
R. Through Chazeh of Galgalta, yes. Galgalta makes special Partzufim to pass the lights of Ein Sof to AB.
S. Maybe it’s related but at the same point more or less of Peh of AB, you’re saying that it spreads from below upward. Why does it go from below upward?
R. Each Rosh, this way from below upwards.
S. Is there the reflected light that reveals it?
R. Yes.
S. This reflected light later comes into Galgalta?
R. No, there’s no such thing, it clothes in Galgalta, from Chazeh to Peh.
S. Why doesn’t it cross the Peh or stop before the Peh?
R. This is where its root is, it cannot be higher than its root.
S. Why doesn’t it stop before the Peh, what does it do in the Peh of Galgalta?
R. The Peh of Galgalta is the roof of AB which is why AB spreads to Galgalta and downwards but the Rosh of AB spreads from the Chazeh of Galgalta to Peh.
15. S. (30:52) This now opens all these relations between each and every Partzuf, gradually the entire vessel although the different parts of the desires. We learn first step how to receive and second step is how to bestow to the next Partzuf that’s born later, so it’s a process of qualifying all the different parts first to learn, what is the light, how to cope with it, then once you cope with it the light you can become a bestower?
R. Yes.
S. In itself this is amazing but about the Galgalta the screens there remain throughout the whole process?
R. Until the final correction everything remains and at the final connection everything unites.
S. Once the Partzuf of Galgalta passes the light onto an AB we said it goes through the Chazeh?
R. Yes.
S. Meaning we can say the screen is at the Chazeh?
R. In the Chazeh of Galgalta is Peh of AB.
S. There’s a screen there that passes through it the light to AB?
R. Yes.
S. All the different Partzufim that used to be in Galgalta are not required anymore?
R. What do you mean they’re not needed? They’re needed but they don’t function like Peh of Galgalta. Peh of Galgalta is the greatest Masach, the most important in the Partzuf.
S. These are not stations in my head it’s always chronological, we go from here to there, to there?
R. This is also like that.
S. There’re stops here as well?
R. Yes.
S. Here it seems like a big salad where nothing disappears only because of higher quality.
R. By the salad I don’t quite understand.
S. It’s like it’s all one dough, it’s not that the Galgalta ended its roll, now we move up to AB.
R. When you focus on AB it influences Galgalta as well, it needs to make within it all sorts of coupling with the light of Ein Sof and through it past this light of Ein Sof that is meant for the Partzuf AB and so on. Meaning every lower Partzuf awakens the entire chain until Ein Sof.
16. S. (33:55) The lower Partzuf receives the light through the Upper One, but it feels it’s connected to the Upper One or does it feel Ein Sof?
R. No, the Upper Force feels Ein Sof.
S. The discernment in the Partzuf depends on its quality and the quality of its Upper?
R. Yes.
17. S. (34:25) Would it be correct to say that the direct light of AB is basically the Tanta of Galgalta? From the Tanta of Galgalta it’s as if it scrutinizes more the lights that used to be in the Partzuf of Galgalta, that’s the role of AB?
R. Yes, you can say that.
18. S. (34:55) Can we say that we’ve learned that we can only get pleasure with what exists in our root, so can we say that AB, the Rosh of AB clings to its roots which is Guf of Galgalta and from there it receives a pleasure, from the Taamim, the flavors of Galgalta?
R. You see, you confuse me. Ask.
S. The pleasures that exist in our root is that like what we’re learning about Partzuf AB which is in the Guf of Galgalta where it receives there the fulfillment in order to bestow?
R. Yes.
19. S. (36:22) Can I ask about the previous item we skipped over? it’s written about the world of Assiya there, where is that?
R. The world of Assiya?
S. Yes, it says that it has been clarified in order of the emergence of the Partzuf of AB from Partzuf Aleph of an in all the different Partzufim until the end of the world of Assiya.
R. It’s important for you where the world of Assiya is located in the lower third of the world of BYA.
20. S. (37:10) If AB receives its direct light, it gets it from Galgalta, what light passes between AB, from AB to Galgalta, through what channel of communication does it move on to the Upper One?
R. Through AB and Galgalta we have a direct contact because one is born from the other, so from Galgalta the light passes to AB and from AB and AB rises its Reshimot and Masachim to Galgalta.
21. S. I didn’t understand what goes up to Galgalta.
R. The screen with a Reshimot.
S. A screen itself?
R. How does the screen rise from the lower Partzufim to Ein Sof? This is how they rise from Partzuf to Partzuf and Partzuf to Partzuf until they come to Ein Sof and then there in Zivug of AK and Ein Sof and in Ein Sof it already shows up as MAD.
S. From above downwards light comes and from below upwards the screen?
R. Through Reshimot.
22. S. (38:40) The light that comes down from the upper Partzuf to the lower one. Is this the same light clean from Ein Sof or does the Upper One do something to the light?
R. Again.
S. When SAG receives light from AB, is this pure light from Ein Sof or did Galgalta..?
R. Of course, how else can this be? It goes through all the Partzufim and all of the Partzufim receive it and do a Zivug de Hakaa, a coupling by striking on it by cycling on it and passing it to the lower. It cannot be that you receive the light of Ein Sof that you are in a certain degree there in the middle of the road.
S. What does it give all these actions that the Upper give to this light. What does the lower can get from it?
R. It gets enriched by it. Everyone passes these lights and receives them or to bestow each in its place.
S. But does it change the lights itself that the lower one gets?
R. Certainly it manifests in the new Kelim.
S. Is it not a clothed light?
R. It is always clothed.
23. S. (40:02) All the revelation of the Creator all that happens in SAG?
R. Not just in SAG and all the Partzufim but SAG is the main.
S. And what comes later is an addition, we relate to it as an addition?
R. You can say so and something, yes. We will learn, we will learn from it.
S. Like a daughter of a King because of her glory?
R. Yes.
S. It is amazing. How can we use that?
R. Because SAG is a Partzuf through which all of creation is turning around. There is Hochma and Hassadim and from the side of the lower Reshimo, the desires, and then in SAG there’s an ability to gather all the influences from above and all the preparations from below.
S. This sounds like home.
R. Yes.
24. S. (41:45) Yes, I wanted to ask about it but it slipped away until I got the mic. I’m sorry.
25. S. (41:58) The emergence of the Partzufim in all these births, it’s basically the same desire that only changes its relationship to the Host. Why do we call it the Upper One, the lower one, sometimes we say like a father and son, the Partzuf of Galgalta takes care of AK?
R. [No translation]
S. But it is the same guest?
R. No, no.
S. Even in cause and consequence, how is the relation of taking care of?
R. There is an order where the Reshimot arise from, where does the light come down from and this is why the order is important for us.
S. I still can’t understand but I’ll think about it, thank you.
26. S. (43:14) Basically in Galgalta there was a Zivug over the entire Partzufim including NHY de AK, Netzah, Hod, Yesod the entire Zivug Galgalta?
R. I don’t understand what you are saying.
S. In Galgalta there was a Zivug over the entire Partzuf, so why do we need again that SAG will come down to NHY of AK. What is the purpose of the second restriction basically? That going down again is in order to scrutinize Parsa but it already had a Zivug over the entire Partzuf, so I don’t understand why wasn’t the scrutiny done in the first coupling?
R. The Zivug [coupling] that was in Galgalta was in the Reshimot four, in AV, was Dalet-Gimmel four-three, in SAG was three-two. All of these couplings were couplings belonging to the Partzuf, a single Partzuf called Adam Kadmon.
S. It already had the highest screen possible, coarseness level 4, the highest one. It had a coupling there, so what else is there beyond it?
R. What else is beyond it is the purpose of creation and to reveal all of the actions in relationships between the Creator and the creature, the created being. You’re making one big Zivug in everything being clarified. Precisely the lower Partzuf that is making the last drop in order to bestow, it is important that he completes the entire process.
S. Even though with respect to the cascading the greatest coarseness is in Galgalta?
R. You can say that it is in Galgalta or you can say that the last Partzuf that awakens MAN, he awakens and influences the largest Aviut.
S. This is the matter of the inverse value between the lights and the vessel? We learned this with the cubes that it brings NHY down?
R. I didn’t learn about the boxes.
S. You once gave us an example.
27. S. (46:09) The connection between AB and Galgalta, is that contentment?
R. The connection AB and Galgalta is that AB wants to bring contentment to Galgalta, of course.
28. S. (46:39) In this whole system that spreads down and it’s in receiving in order to bestow, where is the state of bestowing in order to bestow?
R. Bestowing in order to bestow exists starts from the Partzuf from the middle of Partzuf SAG and downward.
29. S. (47:04) Are the limitations on Galgalta until the end of correction?
R. What limitations are in Galgalta? I don’t know. Until the end of correction, certainly there are limitations, because all of the actions are gradual actions discrete. What happens after are general actions of Gmar Tikkun.
30. S. (47:51) What is the heart in the Partzuf?
R. The heart of the Partzuf, we are not studying this. It is from ‘The Zohar’ maybe a little bit, but not from the wisdom of Kabbalah.
31. S. (48:20) Can we say that all the Partzufim from AB onwards are there to correct the records of coarseness that are left in the screen of AB de AK?
R. Yes.
32. S. (48:36) There’s a feeling of envy when we study Pticha. Should this be the intention if we can?
R. There’s the desire to understand and gradually we will approach it to the point where we feel and understand and we will be able to align ourselves properly, I promise you. You are a smart woman and you will feel and you will explain it to us.
33. S. (49:38) The term refinement or weakening of the screen is done in order to bestow to the Upper One?
R. I don’t understand when they’re speaking two languages together. Repeat please.
S. Does the upper Partzuf feel the pleasure from the refinement of the lower one?
R. Certainly so.
34. S. (50:46) We read in the different items that when a Partzuf is born its shape is different from the Partzuf that gave it breath, it’s a new shape. What is this new shape and how can we relate to it correctly?
R. I didn’t understand the question.
S. How is the new Partzuf that emerges, how is it new and has a different shape if we compare it to the previous Partzuf?
R. He has a new Reshimot. From above he receives new forces as he is born, he is born with new Reshimot.
35. S. (52:05) We, in this group, are going to physically come to the Congress in Shavuot and we feel it is going to be an amazing event and we don’t want to miss it. Our question is: how can we help all the groups of Israel to be with our enthusiasm?
R. Try, you have means of communication, you have time, you have devices, people; go ahead. We are also expecting you to shake us up and this way we will rise up to the reception of the Torah.