WEDNESDAY: BINAH-TIKKUN CHATZOT תקון חצות – LESSON WITH RAV MICHAEL LAITMAN
READING: FROM MIDNIGHT TO DAWN WEDNESDAY
Baal HaSulam. Preface to the Wisdom of
Part 2:
Baal HaSulam. Preface to the Wisdom of Kabbalah. #166
Reading item 165 (00:23)
1. S. (02:16) What is that state VAK without a head. What does that mean, VAK without a Rosh?
R. Without GAR.
S. How can that be?
R. Because they are below Tabur and both above Tabur, below Tabur and above the Parsa and they’re lacking vessels in order to be in lights that belong to the GAR.
S. We simply talked about the fact that the Rosh is the place where you make the calculation.
R. That’s also true but here we’re not talking about whether they are calculating or not. here we’re talking about vessels so if you have a lack of vessels there are no lights in the Guf and according to that.
S. VAK is a state where there are lights?
R. Where there are lights of VAK. There aren’t the lights that are revealed in the Rosh but only in the Guf.
Rav reading (03:34): “Thus the four worlds, Atzilut, Beria, Yetzira, and Assiya begin from the place below Tabur of AK and end above the point of this world. This is because the five Partzufim of the world of Atzilut begin from the place below Tabur of AK and end above the Parsa, and from the Parsa down to this world stand the three worlds BYA. This is the permanent state of the worlds AK and ABYA, that AK is until the Tabur and below the Tabur Atzilut begins from Tabur to Parsa and below the Parsa the worlds Beria, Yetzira, and Assiya, and there will never be any diminution in them.” Until there is that clear?
2. S. (04:39) What is it that we will not see any diminution in them, what is he trying to say?
R. It cannot be less than that, they cannot go below their place.
3. S. (04:53) I remember, there are ten Sefirot that are divided, GAR and ZAT, the upper three and the lower seven. GAR is Keter, Hochma, Bina and ZAT is the rest of the Sefirot. When the GAR are connected, I remember you once said it’s like those circles and until the point of this world where the GAR. the first three lines, are connected to those circles and then all of a sudden it doesn’t happen and then it’s called VAK without a Rosh when there is no connection between the circles and there is no connection within the Kli?
R. I don’t understand what he’s saying, can somebody explain to me?
S. The first three Sefirot that are GAR are connected to the circles and ZAT are not connected to the surrounding lights?
R. Yes.
S. Together it’s like VAK without a Rosh and there’s no connection between GAR and ZAT. The lights that enter through GAR of the Rosh don’t enter the vessels. Is that what it means, VAK without the Rosh? Maybe I am describing it incorrectly?
R. I don’t know what to tell you, I’m not Incorporated in your drawing. We have Keter, Hochma Bina, that’s called the GAR of a degree and the seven lower Sefirot are the ZAT of the degree and what do you want to tell us about that?
S. I don’t understand what is VAK without a Rosh?
R. VAK means VAK Savot, six edges, that from Zeir Anpin and below, Hesed, Gevura, Tifferet, Hod, Yesod and Malchut, right, those are the seven bottom Sefirot they are called VAK
S. Why don’t they have a Rosh?
R. They don’t have a Rosh because they are lacking lights of the GAR.
S. Meaning they don’t make correct calculations towards the lights or they have no calculation at all?
R. They cannot receive those lights Keter, Hochma, Bina, in order to bestow, they don’t have vessels for this.
Reading Item #166 (07:41) “Hence, overall, there are…”
4. S. (09:05) What does it mean to raise MAN from the coarseness of phase two?
R. Simply raise MAN from that coarseness and then according to that you draw the lights from above that expands in those vessels and cleanses them and corrects them and fills them.
S. Why Shoresh and Alef are not considered here as a raising of the MAN that raises the worlds?
R. What is he writing?
S. It says that there are three ascents to complete the worlds in three levels, when the lower ones raise MAN from the coarseness of phase two.
R. We have two, three, and four degrees that we need to complete.
S. Correct, so what’s happening with Shoresh and Alef, zero (root) and one?
R. It’s already there.
S. It’s already there?
R. They already exist. Nefesh, Ruach is already in them.
S. In the worlds, but in the …….. they are not there, we have Shoresh even///?
R. Don’t connect us to this, it doesn’t belong to us.
S. What’s not clear is, what’s the difference between when a soul begins to rise, a Kabbalist begins to rise, a world begins to rise?
R. I’m not speaking in such a way, I’m sorry it’s not written anywhere, we don’t learn like that.
S. It says that the lower ones raise MAN.
R. Yes, a deficiency that the lower ones raise, the lower ones meaning the souls that are already in those worlds that they cause those worlds to start rising.
5. S. (11:41) MAN is a deficiency right?
R. Yes.
S. Where do those deficiency come from that we raise? Where from?
R. It awakens in them from the records.
S. Yes, but it looks like the deficiency comes from a place that does not belong to thePartzuf, a place lower than it, below it?
R. That’s rom the shattering.
S. From the shattering we have deficiencies and then we raise them?
R. Yes.
6. S. (12:26) What does he want to say that the Mochin shine through the ZAT in the Gufim as well as like in the Partzufim of AK when the full Partzifum exists in the ten Sefirot in the Partzufim of AK and traverses and spreads to the Gufim. What does that mean?
R. That everything that’s in the Rosh expands to the Guf, the same thing here. If they perform a coupling by striking and draw the lights so from the Rosh it comes down to the Guf.
S. Meaning the rising of MAN causes a Zivug and then the light expands?
R. Yes.
S. What does it mean expands only from coarseness of phase two if it expands to the whole body, the whole Guf?
R. So.
S. What about coarseness three and four?
R. Of course it expands, let him explain onward.
S. If phase two expands throughout the entire body is there room for phase three and four to bestow here?
R. Yes.
S. How come?
R. What do you mean how come? Because it’s vessels that weren’t corrected yet.
S. Nefesh and Ruach?
R. The vessels of root one.
S. Phase two seemingly covers the rest of the body he says.
R. Yes.
S. Where are three and four? Three and four have room to do anything here.
R. We’re talking, we’ll read it. There’s actually no place for the lights of Haya and Yechida only NRN. We will read it soon.
7. S. (14:28) If I remember we were introduced to GAR and ZAT after the mixing of Bina and malhoot under the Tabur that was after the second restriction so now he’s talking about gar that was in AK so why is he telling us about that now and we didn’t learn about that split in AK?
R. Why is he not telling about it here? Let’s see.
8. S. (15:23) What does it mean that the world’s rise, arising, happens within the framework of one world or more how to imagine it correctly the rising of the worlds?
R. Part of the world’s are above on a higher degree and part are below on a lower degree when they connect it turns out that they raise their part.
9. S. (15:58) He says here the first descent is when the lower ones raise man coarseness of phase 2 and then the AHP of Bina is there MAN here? Who raises MAN?
R. The souls.
S. What do you mean souls?
R. The souls that are below and they want to rise upward from their prayer from their deficiency they raise the worlds to a higher degree.
S. Raising MAN?
R. Yes, they raise MAN.
Reading #167 (16:52) “Turns out that when these…” Twice.
10. S. (18:20) What’s the connection between the Partzufim of AK and the Partzufim of Atzilut are they connected somehow?
R. The parts of the Partzufim of AK are the upper ones compared to the Partzufim of Atzilut.
S. Are they connected somehow?
R. The Partzufim of AK and are all above the Partzufim of Tabur.
S.The first Partzuf of AK and the first Partzuf of the worlds of two parts of ABYA?
R. Above the Tabur there are five Partzufim of AK from Tabur to the Parsa there are five Partzufim of Atzilut, from the Parsa and below there are five Partzufim of the worlds of ABYA.
What do you want to ask?
S. That they rose to the Partzufim of AK, these worlds of ABYA rose to Partzufim of AK that we learned in the very beginning right?
R. I want to hear what?
S. I am trying to understand that there is a connection here, like fathers and sons and continuity here.
R. Why do you need to confuse yourself? Learn what’s written here.
S. What happened here in this paragraph?
R. He’s explaining what I just told you. We have AK and ABYA and where they stand AK is above the Tabur and from the Tabur to the Parsa Atzilut and from the Parsa and below the world’s of BYA.
S. Now that the GAR of the worlds of BYA was completed they rose to Partzufim of AK?
R. I don’t know, let’s see.
Reading # 168 (20:18) “Thus, when Partzuf…”
11. R. (23:34) Meaning this is only one phase that raises MAN the first ascent, the second ascent…. number 169
Reading # 169: (23:47) The second ascent occurs when the lower one…
12. R. (24:38) Do you have a general understanding here? We will go over it again soon. Let’s keep reading.
Reading # 170: (25:04 ) Thus, when the ….
13. R. (28:30 ) This is a general explanation of the matter of the rising of the ascent of the worlds, the third ascent.
Reading # 171 (28:44) The third ascent is ….
14. R. Yes, that is the way it is.
15. S. (29:44)There are two kinds of ways to complete 10 Sefirot, the first kind starts in the Partzufim of Atzilut and there we learned that the lower one by annulling to the upper one and incorporating in it so in the place of the upper one he learns from him and gets an example of what it means to complete10 Sefirot and that is the first type. The upper one shows him how to compete himself in 10 Sefirot. Afterwards will come the second type completion of the 10 Sefirot where the lower one goes back to his place and teaches and does what the upper one teaches him is that right?
R. Yes.
S. Why is the second type that can’t take place in Atzilut but can only take place after the Partzufim of Atzilut came out in smallness and the first Adam will be born and will be broken and then the Man will come for lower ones and only then the lower one will be able to do with the upper one taught him in the Partzufim of Atzilut. What’s added in this whole process that lets that completion happen what the upper one taught him?
R. Raising of MAN from the souls. That’s what’s added. Partzufim Olimot that’s something different, the souls are something different.
S. What’s different?
R. The souls are the created beings who feel what’s happening to them, who’s causing them all of that, who’s expecting anything from them. Meaning they have an internal connection with the Creator and the worlds are just vessels. It’s like still, vegetative, and animate.
14. S. (31:48) We see that the NRYN of the righteous race MAN according to a certain order.
R. Yes.
S.Why is it like that?
R. What do you mean like that? It’s always from the lightest to the heaviest. All the corrections.
15. S. (32:13) Somewhere in the process I missed the birth of the soul . Can you explain how in general?
R. We’ll have to read about it again. It’s not only you, it went over everyone’s heads.