SUNDAY: NETZACH-TIKKUN CHATZOT תקון חצות – LESSON WITH RAV MICHAEL LAITMAN

READING: FROM MIDNIGHT TO DAWN SUNDAY

Baal HaSulam. Preface to the Wisdom of Kabbalah, item 178

Morning Lesson August 18, 2023

Transcription is made from simultaneous translation, which leaves a possibility for differences in the audio

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Baal HaSulam. Preface to the Wisdom of Kabbalah. #178

Reading Item #178 (00:10) “So you should have seen behind…” – Twice

1. R. (08:09) That’s the main thing the ladder of degrees does not change, but instead if there is an ascent, it exists in all the pieces, in everyone and everything.

2. S. (08:26) In 178 he gives this, he says that the constant Mochin rises and then he says that the reason for all these ascents is because the NRN of the righteous is positioned in BYA and cannot receive anything before all of the upper Partzufim awaken in them in the Ten Sefirot, what does he want to say there?

R. I don’t know what else to say, the lights that come from above give Gadlut to all the lights of the Partzufim from above down, therefore if there is an ascent this ascent comes from the source of the light all the way up until it’s very end down below.

S. How do you explain what it says that to that extent through Ein Sof they must rise and then they rise from the ZON from the upper ZON, how do you explain that? As you said earlier it’s okay and then he suddenly says that to the extent all the upper ones grow and ascend each to their upper one, how do they each grow?

R. No, not by themselves, where does this whole thing come from, this ascent? From the light that comes from above; from Ein Sof.

S. He says that the upper ones themselves, through Ein Sof they grow and ascend, he says themselves, it does not say that it comes from a light?

R. Where does it come from, it comes from the light.

3. S. (10:10) If the light needs to expand to the NRN of the righteous and only then rise, so what does it mean that each one of these upper Partzufim, how does it happen? First the light needs to go to the NRN of the righteous and then it starts rising from there or each upper Partzuf gets filled with the light, it feels the whole structure?

R. The lights that expand from above down, the instant they expand and reach each Partzuf, this Partzuf rises to a higher place.

S. And then if he rises and it still didn’t expand below, if the Partzuf rises and it doesn’t expand below, so there is this gap because he says that that same structure remains?

R. Yes, the light that expands pull up all the degrees below the source of that light.

S. That does not put some kind of change in the order of the degrees?

R. I understand you, that’s as if the lights need to reach each and every degree and pull it up and then where does it start, where does it end, right? I think that the light gets all the way down, all the way down and then from there begins the ascent.

4. S. (12:00) When the level one rises to the upper one and the upper one also rises because the order of the degrees does not change?

R. But who rises first, who ascends first? Well, give me an answer.

S. I think the lower one first rises to the upper one?

R. The lower one rises first, by what?

S. The lower one raises the request to the upper one and the upper one pulls it upward? 

R. In what?

S. In light, in equivalence of form?

R. How can that be, how can it be that the upper one is pulling the lower one up without adding vessels and lights to it? You need to think about it. There is someone that wants to help you here.

5. S. (13:16) It says that to the extent that the degree rises, that all the degrees need to rise to it, what is that commitment?

R. Because the ladder of degrees does not change, that is law, everything is one system, it is all one system.

6. S. (13:41) If all the world’s ascend from the ascent of the lowest one, all the worlds ascend. What does this mean, that there is permanence or constancy?

R. There is a constant state and states of ascents.

S. But once there is an ascent everything ascends, all the worlds.

R. Yes but in relation to the previous state they also rise.

S. What remains of the previous state?

R. I understand you, that if you want to count between them so it is as if nothing changed, right.

S. Right.

R. But in relation to the place that they were all, so they rose another degree, so that ascent exists. Meaning in each one now there is a degree of light which is bigger than the previous.

S. What happens with the Galgalta when all the worlds ascend?

R. It also enters more into Ein Sof with its Rosh, Toch and Sof.

7. S. (15:00) [No Translation.]

R. MAN comes from Reshimot, the Reshimot comes from the breaking, they demand correction of the breaking and to fill the corrected vessels with lights that relate to them.

S. What shattering, we are talking about the sin of Adam HaRishon of the Tree of Knowledge?

R. Yes.

S. It’s a shattering of the souls but this entire action is on the level of vegetative, all the worlds are vegetative, right?

R. Yes.

S. The worlds ascend but the ones you demand are the souls, it is a different nature if I understand it correctly?

R. The worlds rise where in each and every world there are Partzufim and these Partzufim include the souls, otherwise where are the souls.

S. Shattered?

R. Shattered and where are they?

S. In BYA?

R. From BYA and what happens with the worlds of BYA?

S. How come when the souls act they activate the worlds, that is the question?

R. Where is the place of the souls?

S. BYA.

R. BYA, right. When do the worlds of BYA start raising MAN and correcting themselves?

S. According to the MAN?

R. Yes and then they all rise.

S. I don’t understand the connection between the discernment of the worlds. How can souls influence worlds? Maybe I’m confusing everyone?

R. It doesn’t matter, let them be confused.

S. What is the connection between worlds and souls?

R. Worlds, all in all, we have from above downward, five worlds and each and every world there are five Partzufim, in the Partzufim of the world’s there are souls.

S. The souls were created to perform the correction, the correction that the worlds that are unable to make, do I understand correctly?

R. Yes.

S. There is a mechanism that I am?

R. We heard, so what mechanism?

S. I don’t understand?

R. What is the connection between souls and worlds?

S. Yes.

R. Souls are in worlds and they ask for correction and the worlds, all in all, are a system. How can I put it? It is like still, inanimate, the worlds do not feel anything but what these souls elevate to them in their deficiency, accordingly they activate the worlds. It doesn’t work that way. Just understand that worlds are structures and in that structure souls exist.

S. That I understand, I thought that the places of the worlds are the structure, then we have the worlds which are the next nature and then the next nature is the souls and there is a cessation here, and I don’t know what it relates to and that is the difficulty here?

R. Didn’t we read something here about it?

S. Baal HaSulam does not explain, yesterday a friend asked about it, that we lack the explanation about the creation of Adam HaRishon, that’s what he asked to explain, that’s what I remember?

R. The creation of Adam HaRishon is the creation of the soul which is the inner part of the entire system, he does not explain any more than that. I will repeat what we read earlier if it helps or not.

8. S. (20:55) When we have the worlds and the souls what is the stimulation that activates the souls from which then the request comes and activates the entire system, where is that connection?

R. From the shattering where all the souls are broken from the sin of the The Tree of Knowledge and then these shattered vessels rise above and demand correction.

S. Where do we get that demand that activates?

R. From the shattered vessels.

S. But what activates them again? The demand is inside the vessels or the world activates it?

R. No, worlds activate them because they rise to them lights and the lights shake the vessels and move the vessels of the souls and the souls rise and demand correction.

S. Meaning the deficiency already exists in the soul and the world simply activates that using the lights that activate the deficiency?

R. Let’s say. It is great that we have these questions. Let us read and go through it again.

9. S. (22:26) The ascent of the worlds: Why if the souls make an action and they rise, why do we say that the worlds rise?

R. Because the worlds are the inclusive.

S. We have a problem here, if we say that the worlds are a structure where the souls exist, what is the connection between the souls who are in the structure and are supposed to go up? Why is the entire structure moving up with them?

R. The structure is not constant, certainly it needs to move. If it needs to supply more strength and more power to the souls, so certainly there are ascents in it, the ascents of the worlds we first talked about and as a result of that you have the ascent of the souls, the change of the souls in the worlds.

S. There is a relationship here that is not very clear when or why the worlds move before the souls activate that move in the system. They have to rise and they have to be there in order to give strength to the souls and they work before the souls but on the other hand we see that only the souls activate the system from below.

R. There is awakening from above and awakening from below.

S. On the souls when there is an awakening from below why does that move the world as well, is it so we can give special powers to the soul and do their needed action for correction?

R. Again.

S. Who awakens the souls?

R. The worlds. The worlds awaken the souls and then the souls, what do they do?

S. They awaken to correction, to raising MAN?

R. Yes.

S. Is there another movement of the world as a result of this action?

R. Right, but from above.

S. From below the awakening of the soul provides additional movement for the worlds, they need to provide the powers for the souls to rise?

R. Yes.

10. S. (25:16) If for example the world of Beria rises to the world of Atzilut then I think that the world of Atzilut includes everything that is in the world of Beria, and the world of Beria does it receive some sort of innovation from the world of Atzilut when it comes up because after that it’s going to come down? When the world of Beria descends it comes down with a new innovation from the ascent he had before?

R. If it descends, so then it returns to its place.

S. And from the previous ascent remains nothing?

R. From the previous ascent it remains for him but not from the world of Beria where it was born.

S. And the world of Atzilut where does it stay?

R. The world of Beria rises to the world of Atzilut and remains there and as such it also descends downward, one does not disturb the other.

S. Does the new influence of the world of Beria to the Reshimot?

R. Yes, certainly. We will get through this, slowly.

11. S. (26:53) I have a question about the Preface in general, on the one hand I thought that this is some sort of introduction to the study of TES but there is an introduction to TES. It talks about religion and commandments and here specifically it talks about the worlds. I am asking because a friend asked two days ago suddenly there is this new player called a Tzedekim and they asked today, it’s a feeling that we read certain excerpts from Rabash and started to read articles, let’s go according to Baal HaSulam who gives you the Preface that there are some spaces. It feels like a lack of grouping points, do you see that it is going to lead us to somewhere to enter into this material? It is as if he is preparing us in the Preface.

R. That is what you feel.

S. Yes, you made the Preface in order to prepare us for a study he already did?

R. What does it mean that he already did?

S. Just like in their writings of The Last Generation he said that this is TES and the Zohar letter?

R. Yes.

S. That the generation will come and open the books and ascend. I want to open up this question, first of all, are we preparing ourselves to open up to the study?

R. Certainly. Don’t you feel according to both the study and also the style of the study?

S. Yes, but I also feel that the preface is the seemingly and intellectual arrangement of things that we will have to jump emotionally into something?

R. It invites us to emotion, it invites us to emotion. You cannot understand any letter from the Preface if you do not connect that to emotion. Baal HaSulam, that is how he writes.

Reading #179 (29:34) “We should also know that even after the ascent…”

12. S. (31:58) It’s absolutely not clear, what does it mean that there’s no absence in spirituality?

R. That where there was a Partzuf, it remains there and it can also detach from its state and grows to all kinds of other places or go downward to make a copy of itself.

S. And it is in two places at once?

R. Yes. It doesn’t matter in every place, why does it disturb you?

S. Why is it like that?

R. Let us say I am your friend. I’m adhered to you and together with that I’m also in all kinds of other places and do all kinds of other actions, what is it that disturbs you if I’m adhered to you?

S. Because in one place you work in a very limited way, a small way and then in another place we work you receive Gadlut.

R. According to the place. We have it that way in our lives, too. Let’s say with him, he is a father to a few children and to each child he has a different approach than to himself and towards each child.

S. Yes, but that is in different times here he says at the same time?

R. At once it can be.

S. What does it give us the fact that it shines all at once in all places?

R. It gives a very special connection between all of the Partzufim.

13. S. (34:10) If there is no absence then a Partzuf can duplicate itself into several places, what is the feeling of exile? Or Shechina in the dust?

R. I don’t know and I do not want to get into your thoughts now.

14. S. (34:30) We are now done finishing the part of the ascent of the worlds and I have a bit of a fundamental question: We have MAN that rises up and then corresponding to it you have light that comes from above and it causes correction. In the previous parts we learned that this causes fulfillment, Gadlut, and here the result is the ascent of the worlds. Why previously there’s a request and then you get correction and fulfillment and here you have an ascent and then that is it.

R. According to the request.

S. Meaning the source doesn’t want fulfillment? Doesn’t want to rise, ascend?

R. Yes.

S. What is it to receive fulfillment? That I can probably understand, but what does it mean to want to ascend?

R. They want to ascend to a higher degree in order to be more adhered to the Creator.

S. But the correction is to receive the pleasure?

R. The correction is to adhere, to adhere to a higher degree, to the Creator.

S. So where does the matter of receiving the light in the vessels enter here?

R. Certainly in order to rise it needs more light to receive in order to bestow.

15. S. (36:16) There’s a description here from Baal HaSulam that brought us an entire system. Once it’s activated it works in a certain order.

R. Yes.

S. Does the raising of MAN depend on us at Bnei Baruch all the tens, al the friends?

R. In each one and in everyone.

S. In the moment we raise MAN correctly as we also learned according to Rabash and the Torah, we will then activate the entire system if we will then begin to operate?

R. Yes.

16. S. (37:02) There is the matter of the souls requesting fulfillment to receive light and we can’t receive light because we have worlds that conceal the light?

R. In the same place that is impossible to receive an addition of light therefore it becomes an ascent.

S. So every request is for an ascent?

R. Yes.

S. So what does it mean that before that there was a request for the light. The light would not be expanded there, the demand would force it to rise up, it’s always an ascent.

R. Yes.

17. S. (37:36) Why does it say that the lower one clothes the upper one and does not clothe on top of the upper one?

R. How can I dress on the upper one? In order to dress on the upper one the upper one needs to be greater and as such he becomes greater and then dresses on the upper one and then gives the upper one, it is like a mother who leaves her clothes for, let’s look at it this way, the lower one raises an addition of the vessels to the upper one.

S. What does the lower one receive from the upper one that he clothes up to Chazeh of the upper one and what does it receive when it clothes up to the Peh of the upper one?

R. It depends on what clothes it receives.

S. I understand that the Chazeh is the place of reception where he suckles from the upper one power and everything he needs from the Chazeh. What does it mean that he clothes up to the Peh? Is there such a thing, to clothe up to the Peh? It says, “Although all of the Partzufim of Atzilut ascend at that time, that’s where you will find the ZON still clothing from Peh of YESHSUT down.” It is an example. What does it mean that it clothes from the Peh?

R. Like how AB dresses from the Galgalta, it’s received from the Chazeh.

S. But it receives from the Chazeh?

R. Yes, it needs to be.

18. S. (39:44) I want to continue from your example to our friend, we receive now from the upper one from you, let’s say and he rose from that state because he had the vessels that were prepared for it. He ascended from his state and he is now both in his place with his children and is ready to pass to his children his education, but he has to wait for his children to prepare the vessels he also participates in them and then children can also ascend, then he has something to give them?

R. Yes. Good so whatever happens we will need to stop it there and move on to the next stage.

19. S. (40:42) What is the need to study the preface of the wisdom? I come here, I want to connect to the friend I want to love, hate but what does it give me? Everything is complicated. It sounds like nuclear physics?

R. Everyone understands where they are, what is before them and how to progress other than one person. What should we do with this person?

S. I’ll tell you what he writes in the Preface, he writes: it is the order of the cascading down in order to bring the desire to receive to its final form in this world.

R. Yes.

S. What is he showing me here the order of the cascading of the souls in the Pticha?

R. Tough question. It is not a hard question, on the contrary you’re basically asking why should I turn on the light switch?

S. Why do I need to study the Preface of Kabbalah?

R. So don’t study.

S. Why do I need it?

R. You don’t need it.

S. What does it give me?

R. Nothing.

S. But what does it give me?

R. Will you activate something there at the end of the lesson? Let us say a L’Chaim, drink, feel ourselves, that we deserve it, let’s say and we will calm down a bit.