WEDNESDAY: TIFERET-TIKKUN CHATZOT תקון חצות – LESSON WITH RAV MICHAEL LAITMAN
READING: between after midnight and sunrise of Wednesday
Baal HaSulam. Preface to the Wisdom of Kabbalah, item 120
Part 2:
Baal HaSulam. Preface to the Wisdom of Kabbalah. (#122)
Item 120 (00:40) It has been explained that the level of the new MA expanded into a whole world
Item 121 (2:00)Hence, in the new MA that emerged from the Metzach.. “ twice.
1. S. (07:41) It’s not clear what that part of the lower Hey, that is in concealment that enters that’s the stage that’s not clear to me now it impacts. What’s happening here?
R. Later.
2. S. (08:07) In this item he puts many new definitions he’s talking about three lines all of a sudden he’s talking about the lower hay concealed all kinds of things that we have no explanation before this where in the three lines get born here?
R. The three lines are in order of the connection between right, left and middle. That in the second restriction that’s how the degrees were set up. it’s not because there was something additional but because they were lacking something. so they’re adding a form of connection between them left right and middle. and in this way they can exist in spirituality.
S. Does this have something to do with the shattering because he’s talking about the birth of the world of Atzilut. Are these three lines related to the breaking to the correction, where does it come?
R. The shattered vessels that fell below and now they need to reconnect in order to build 10 Sefirot of themselves. and relatively 10 whole Sefirot, that with them they can receive lights in order to be bestow in their vessels. These shattered vessels are below, they are shattered, the upper light shines on them, starts sorting them out, and from this sorting they start organizing between them and this order is according to three lines, right left middle. Where does this come from? It comes from the shattering.
S. Here instead of saying he’s talking I got in the rest?
R. Yes of course we say the coarseness of the root is NHY, the coarseness of phase one is about HGT.
3. S. (11:00) He writes that after the coupling and Aviut, Shoresh, Aleph, in Metzach, the embryo gets the Mochin of Yenika from the upper one and the level of Nikvey Eynaim it means that it’s like in the force coupling in the world of Nekudim?
R. Right, Katnut.
S. This is the measure of Katnut?
R. Right.
4. S. (11:33) What’s the relationship between Katnut and Gadlut in the world of Nekudim and Katnut and Gadlut in the world of Atzilut?
R. It’s the same thing. the way the vessels of conduit are used in bestowing in order to bestow and using the vessels in Gadlut, greatness in receiving in order to bestow that’s also in the world Olam of Nekudim and in the world of Atzilut, it’s the same way of usage.
Nekudim wrote but only in part of them, so what was added in the world?
R. Same records of the shattering that are now working in the world of Atzilut.
S. What was worked out there?
R. The three lines.
S. I understood that the three lines were already in the second restriction and it was supposed to be already? What changed when the three lines the second restriction before the shattering?
R. The incorporation between the vessels of bestowal reception and their combination.
S. This is as a result of the shattering?
R, Yes, soon, soon.
5. S. (13:37) Seems to me if I understand correctly, that it’s like a new mold of connection between the Creator and the creature that is connected here , if the Creator first created the creature with vessels each time it receives and then the vessels become diminished until it comes to a state where these vessels cannot do anything and here a certain involvement of the creator of the upper one is being requested for these vessels to be able to receive something meaning otherwise if not this there is no connection there is no passage of light. The whole thing is born that’s not capable to do anything and the upper one kind of involves himself there it raises it and then it can somehow move with its own forces?
R. Okay let it be that way.
S. Now the upper one is that Rosh of SAG is that what rules everything?
R.Rosh of SAG determines everything.
6. S. (14:52) I’m trying to depict this state, it sounds like the desire to receive the Malchut connects with Zeir Anpin which is the Creator and receives there some connection with him it’s for the first time it appears that way and receive this which is called the light of Nefesh, is it a connection like that?
R. Yes, starting from the embryo.
7. S. (15:33) The three lines and there’s HGT NHY, there’s left right and middle up and down. So let’s say I want to scrutinize Netzach, who’s on the right so who’s in control of it, the headset that’s above it it’s also right or Tiferet, who gives birth and who conducts it?
R. The upper one on the upper line but the….
S. As a result there’s control that there won’t be more of a shattering?
R. We’ll say it’s not enough but the time being, yes.
8. S. (16:43) Why is the beginning of the world of Atzilut an embryo?
R. Because it starts from a state that there was no such small one like Him that’s why it’s called Ubar, embryo it’s a coarseness that cannot on its own do anything but rather it’s under the control of the upper one.
S. That’s a condition to start corrections?
R. Yes, because the beginning of the correction needs to be from zero and that’s called the degree of Ubar, an embryo in which it cannot do anything on its own but the upper one
operates it. On one hand he is born and exists in a certain way, on the other hand he’s already starting to develop.
S. It says if he wants to be good but he doesn’t have forces for it?
R. Yes, that’s an embryo.
S. Then he gets Mochin from the upper one?
R. That’s a lot more time. There’s many more actions that have to take place here, he needs to grow and be born after the months of gestation and be born and to rise to the Hozer of the upper one where he receives the suckling,
S. How here in one item you wrote all of this?.
R. That’s Pticha, that the meaning here.
9. S. (18:38) We know that the first Patzuf of Atzilut is Atik, so the embryo is a Partzuf?
What is it?
R. Of course it’s a Partzuf.
S. Will it be Atik later? Because that’s the first Partzuf of Atzilut.
R. The embryo, the Ubar, is not the first part of the Partzuf is the first Partzuf. It’s born from all the rest of these Partzufim that exist in the world of Atzilut and he’s born from them and sustains them just like the upper abundance comes to Him.
S. Why did he write that it’s the first one that came out, the embryo ?Why did you say it’s the last?
R. That which emerges comes out in the form of an embryo of Ubar but it’s not the first Partzuf. Where are all of those Partzufim from Ein Sof to this place?
S. I asked about the first of Atzilut?
R. The first one in Atzilut is Atik.
S. The embryo, why does it come before Atik?
R. Before Atik emerges the embryo comes out. This is where the Partzuf of Atik develops from.
10. S. (20:07) What’s the main thing we learned from Nekudim that there was Katnut and then a shattering? What do we learn?
R. That it is impossible to update a Partzuf to correct all the shattering and the world of Nekudim, unless there is another system called the world of Atzilut.
S. Now in Nekudim there is Katnut, Gadlut and then we get this teaching, this lesson, so why in the new MA do we again have to go for Katnut, Gadlut ?
R. You don’t have the vessels that are ready for Gadlut, you don’t. You need here to go through the incorporation of the Reshimot, and then the months of gestation meaning in the development, the womb of the upper one, birth from the womb of the upper one, growing development from the small to big and then the big one enters into action that it can be himself in Ibur de Mochin.
S. Every new degree has to go through all these new stages on her own?
R. Yes, of course.
S. Then there’s that previous blessing. teaching as she has to relearn it every time?
R. Each time we have to learn this anew.
11. S. (22:03) Is the descent from Bina to Malchut the world of SAG that’s what moved the first restriction?
R. Yes.
S. Did it bring a new force into the system?
R. Yes.
12. S. ( 22:43) Atzilut came out on Aleph, Shoresh?
R. Yes.
S. The upper BON also comes out of root of one?
R. Yes.
S. What’s the difference between them?
R. What is the upper BON?
S. The last Partzuf to smallest coarseness that comes out on the world of Adam Kadmon above the Tabur.
R. Above the Tabur, right. We’re talking about Partzufim that are being revitalized after the shattering. That’s completely different. These Partzufim are specifically what caused the correction of the world.
S. But it’s supposed to be their activated by the same information one and root.
R. Where does one and zero come from? One and zero that’s above the Tabur is the regular one, zero Aleph and Shoresh that did not go through shattering. The one zero that did not come below through shattering collects all the vessels from the shattering, collects it within and raises them to corrections. This is a different action.
S. They both want to bestow, right?
R. Let’s say.
S. They’re both root and one?
R. Yes.
S. Why isn’t their bestow equal?
R. You have one zero from everything just like you have a baby from an elephant and you have a baby from a mouse why are you laughing.
S. The fact that they have a lower concealed Hey that’s what separates them?
R. That just discloses his level. The lower Hey in concealment and from that Malchut give birth to an elephant.
S. When it comes after the shattering so what priority does it give him?
R. The fact that it comes after the shattering?
S. That it can correct the shattering?
R. These are the Reshimo, the records from the shattering. It has all the records from before the shattering, and during the shattering and after the shattering it’s all included in these records.
S. Supposedly he knows that he’s unsuccessful so why does it give him forces to correct?
R. Well there were different conditions now there are new conditions and he wants to succeed.
S. What renewed?
R. Now he has the lower Hey that’s smallest he’s not demanding anything just the sustenance of the embryo and from here he starts his history. Slowly slowly.
13. S. (26:32) Aleph of clothing of one is HGT and of Malchut it’s NHY so what does it mean that in the Partzuf the vessels of bestowal are impregnated with the vessels of reception, what is that state?
R. Let’s say zero, one. One,zero. So we need light of HGT to clothe in vessels of NHY.
S. How does the Partzuf bring a deficiency from himself? Because we learned that until now the deficiency is when the upper light strikes the Masach of the Rosh and here the Partzuf brings a deficiency from himself.
R. The deficiencies are always inside the Partzufim where else would they be? Where they come from above? From above the light comes but it invites new deficiencies in the Partzufim.
S. The answer is confusing, thank you.
R. It will come back.There’s nothing we can go through here and miss something along the way, it will come back to us several times.
14. S. (28:03) We’re parts of the system, and the shattered will to receive that wants to connect to discover the Creator and receive the light.
R. Not yet but let’s say.
S. This is what I am depicting, where I hear the friends asking questions that I’m trying to understand what they’re asking I don’t understand anything. Why is the system so important? Why is the embryo so important for that? Why isn’t the connection important, why isn’t that what we’re asking about? I mean it seems like a general question but…
R. I didn’t understand.
S. I also don’t understand the friends, I don’t understand their questions, that’s what I’m saying like you don’t understand me and I’m asking because I’m reading about our correction here.
R. We have here, I don’t understand what you’re saying.
S. You don’t understand? I don’t know how to ask it. If we were connected, would we understand each other when we discover the Creator will there be a connection between us, a mutual language?
R. Yes, we would go through all those things too.
S. So that’s my question, if we’re reading the same story about us why don’t we understand each other?
R. Because we’re not in those discernments yet. We are not in those discernments. It’ll come. You’re feeling it like during birth, you want but you don’t know what.
15. S. (29:52) About the embryo, that deficiency of the embryo, the lower Hey that’s concealed or something, there’s like a record pushing it to a tendency to ask from the upper one. So this record, where did it come from? It’s the first time there’s a cascading from the coarseness of zero,one, to this place so where did the record come from?
R. There’s none, the record comes from above from the refinement of the Partzuf.
S. But the refinement came from a bigger coarseness?
R. Yes, it was refined, it left behind a record and that record now awakens itself to rise to the upper one to the light of the upper one for the upper one to correct him.
S. So the record doesn’t depend on the coarseness, it depends on the place?
R. The record depends on the place where it comes from, who it belongs to.
S. That Reshimot can it be in several different degrees of coarseness?
R. No.
S. So for the first time there was this expansion of zero, one, two, of coarseness, where does the record come from?
R. But after the expansion took place and there was the shattering and the shattering left these records, those records fill that place.
S. The shattering was not on zero, one?
R. The shattering was on the entire Partzuf of the world of Nekudim and also upon the Partzuf of its Malchut.
S. So one of the kings there was zero, one?
R. Yes of course.
16. S. (32:22) Also to continue that question, what is the coupling at the Metzach?
R. Upon the coarseness of Shoresh it’s called a Zivug, a coupling, on Metzach.
S. It’s like a piece that’s missing here between the shattering, he writes that there’s a refinement of this Partzuf of Katnut rises to the coupling at the Metzach and then it comes down again.
R. Yes, because less than that is already the Metzach, the Katnut is Nikvey Enayim and then Metzach.
S. It’s not clear what happens between the shattering, where there is a shattering, meaning what happens between shattering and the creation of a new Partzuf of the new MA. It’s not clear with the order is there?
R. Scrutiny, the records are being scrutizined on which we can do a coupling and the light illuminates and below are the shattered different records and the light sorts them out and begins to sort with which records it can go into common work, and seeks for the smallest possible record, it’s called the records of the future embryo, and the smallest level of coarseness, records, and he works with them.
S. The light shines where?
R. The light shines to the shattered vessels and by that the shattered vessels start to get sorted out between them in a chain, where is it better and where is it worse, and the light begins in such a way as it’s sorting them it also raises them to corrections, to couplings.
S. The light that shines, shines from Ein Sof right, and then it goes through all the previous Partzufim.
R. Yes.
S. It goes through the world of Nekudim and into the new MA?
R. It goes through everything that was before and illuminates now upon the shattered vessels.
S. Then it chooses the smallest Partzuf? That’s where the Zivug happens on the Metzach?
R. Yes. What can you do, that’s how it happens.
17. S. (35:24) You called it the future embryo why?
R. After everything is scrutinized then the coupling is done upon it will become an Ubar, an embryo.
S. So what he’s saying embryo it’s not the real embryo, it’s about the future embryo?
R. Yes.
S. So what Partzuf is that?
R. It will be the Partzuf Atik.
S. So Atik is the future embryo?
R. Yes, it’s the first one in the world of Atzilut.
S. Why? What’s the connection between Atik and the future embryo?
R. Do you know who Atik is?
S. No.
R. It’s the first Partzuf for the world of Atzilut. Where did it rise from? It rose from the records they were in the shattering. The upper light bestows upon the vessels that are in the records that are in the shattering and erects the first Partzuf called Atik. Atik is called that it’s copied to, a reflection of it was made, and this is how we begin to see how this develops, how we raise it for the first time the second time.
S. The connection between Atik and the future embryo?
R. No, the future embryo is the form of a Partzuf that is growing, as its way to grow is called an embryo, an Ubar, it’s not some special name for someone.
Reading 121 again (37:21) “Hence in the new MA that emerged…”
18. R. (39:53) Here we hear how the Partzuf grows where although to begin with it has the level of Malchut but eventually it comes to the level of Zeir Anpin and it’s all through nullification through the upper one.
19. S. (40:17) Root of one comes from the shattering?
R. All the records come from the shattering.
S. What’s the process? How does root one go to the Metzach and perform the coupling that gives the first coupling of parts of Partzuf of Atzilut?
R. After the world of Nekudim shattered, all the records fell below upon them the general light shines, begins to sort them, and takes the records, Reshimot that are closest to the shattering which he just did. The upper light and after that sorting it raises them above these remaining records and performs upon them a coupling and then the level of Atik emerges the first level of the world of Atzilut.
S. What’s the general light that shines on them?
R. The general light of the world of Atzilut. they are within it. It’s the light that vitalizes everyone and raises the degree of Ibur of embryo to its level where it begins to get ready to emerge or to be burnt born, that’s it gradually slowly slowly don’t worry we’re all .
20. S. (42:33 ) He writes that HGT is impregnated in NHY and rises to the upper one, so where is the shattered Partzuf, from the vessels of NHY or in his upper one?
R. We will learn.
S. Who is the upper one of the Numah when he depicts this new Partzuf?
R. The truth is that the upper one of what’s happening here is SAG.
21. S. (43:11 ) The vessels shattered and died right? Is that the first time there’s death in the spiritual world? Then Atik started the resurrection or something?
R. Yes, let’s say, the resurrection of BYA to Atzilut is called the resurrection of the Dead.
22. S. (43:40) The embryos of Atzilut comes from the coupling of the Metzach right? So it turns out that the embryo is to adhere to the brain of the upper one and can’t work. So all it needs to do is adhere to the mind of the upper one and it turns out that the embryo of the future Atzilut is like checking the future system. How will it adhere to the upper one? And afterwards the Gadlut is revealed.
R. Okay, let it be that way for now.
23. S.(44:41) Every entrance of a new element Baal HaSulam has let’s say the three lines and an embryo and things that are new that’s actually to mark a beginning that we have to start using these new elementary vessels of correction in the ascent of the created being?
R. Well actually yes.
S. Then until now was from above downward and now in the lower one the Created being starts awakening and working from its own so in the text more terms have to be inserted?
R. Yes. In parallel to the actions from above to below.