GEVURAH: TIKKUN CHATZOT תקון חצות – LESSON WITH RAV MICHAEL LAITMAN
Baal HaSulam. Study of the Ten Sefirot. Vol. 1. Part 2, chapter 1, item 3
Morning Lesson May 10, 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 2. Chapter One. Inner light #20 (“The light that expands from Ein Sof..”)
Reading Item Three above. The words of the Ari. Title: The Circle is not Adhesive with Ein Sof but is Connected to it Through the Line. (00:44) “This circle is not adhesive with …”
Inner Light Item #20 Below (01:48) “The connection and adhesion of…”
1. R. (02:47) It’s the same in our world, we don’t feel the Upper light because we don’t have a Kli, a screen that rejects the light back it does not imprint it, it and therefore we don’t feel that we are in the light of Ein Sof or at least in some part of it.
Reader Continues: (03:12) “Because it cannot attain it without …”
2. R. (03:46) It all depends on the screen, to the extent in which we have one we will be able to connect to reflected light with the direct light and see part of the direct light that clothes within the reflected light, this will be for us the revelation of spirituality.
3. S. (04:15) I wanted to know where to direct light clothes in reflected light? How does one light clothe in another?
R. Ohr Yashar, direct light is the relation of the Creator to the created being, and reflected light is the attitude of the created being to the Creator, when they can connect with one another it is revealed towards the created being, we only talk relative to the created being when we talked about this.
4. S. (04:45) No translation.
R. Against our ego which is revealed. Our ego which is revealed in us awakens because it has influence, bestowal from above and if we awaken from this bestowal upwards towards the Creator then we start to discover his bestowal upon us.
S. Maybe I didn’t understand exactly but maybe could you say the ego that’s revealed in us is also part of the Upper light?
R. It’s the result of the impact the Upper light has on our desire and of course it’s revealed and it’s to our benefit, yes.
S. So if we go back to the question about reflected light, what are we directing towards?
R. I want to relate to the Creator in bestowal and love just as he relates to me and how do I know how he relates to me to the extent that he evokes in me all kinds of qualities I want all of those qualities to ascribe to him.
5. S. (06:26) How could it be that on one hand that the emanated being feels the influence of the circle on him and on the other hand he doesn’t reveal the circle with the reflected light on him?
R. Without Ohr Hozer, without reflected light we can’t reveal anything. Without the reflected light you can’t reveal a thing therefore before the restriction there’s no point of talking about the created being there is no creature, the creature begins from the restriction.
S. What’s the difference between the direct light influenced on the emanated being compared to the circle he reveals?
R. The direct light which bestows upon the created being is working through a screen and reflected light that he reveals it through that, where the directed light it clothes in the reflected light.
S. And the circle afterwards that he reveals the circle. What’s the difference between the direct light and the circle that he reveals?
R. The circles we reveal, we discover later.
Reading item # 30 Below (07:15) “The reason for it is that there is no …”
6. R. (08:50) Yes, well we’re continuing, this is clear. These things are, whoever doesn’t understand it you should read it again and you’ll understand it. There’s no innovation here.
Reading Item # 40 (09:18) “Ein Sof encircles and surrounds it from all sides …” Twice.
7. S. (12:05) What does it mean that the light enters the Sefira?
R. It’s the form of the light in the desire. There’s the surrounding light, there’s an internal light, surrounding, direct, reflected, there are many lights which we will also study in part four of the study of the ten Sefirot. We have tens of kinds of Lights which come to the Kli from outside, from within, directly, inadvertently, reflected, etc. there are many. It’s the connection, eventually it’s the connection between the Creator and the created being. In order for the created being to be able to build the form of reality, the Creator as the root of reality, the attitude of the created being towards reality itself, his connection between him and the Creator, all these things have to be many means of this mutual connection between them, these forms of connections are called lights. That’s how it is.
Reading item 50 Below (13:37) “He tells us that the surrounding light that…”
8. R. (14:14) And therefore the desire to receive in Behina Dalet in the fourth phase feels that he doesn’t have that there’s something he doesn’t have and that’s what stimulates it to awaken.
Continue reading Item # 50 Below (14:30) “The reason for it is because Ein Sof…”
The words of the Ari Item # 52 (15:05) “The first circle is the closest to Ein Sof…” Twice
9. R. (17:30) Certainly we can draw these things here but nevertheless I am not really wanting to draw because we need to give spiritual definitions and not through geometry and diagrams of what’s above, what’s below, what’s expanding, what’s becoming circular, and to give it spiritual definitions. And, if we start drawing this it’ll simply be in a diagram and not inside our feelings. So, as we read this, let’s read it in such a way that in our feelings it will spread out, get rounder, descends, ascends, connects, separates, all of that in our feelings. That’s how we will be able to bring ourselves closer to the reception of spirituality.
Item 80 (18:33) “We must understand …”
10. R. (21:26) This is how we learn that before it was Him and His name is one and all of reality is filled with the light of Ein Sof , the Creator filled all of reality and from this we have the records, the Reshimot. Because these records push us until we reach the end of correction and before that we won’t be able to stop, there is no question it’s for sure that each of us has these records and we have no way to elude them we will have to get to the fact that the light will clothe all our vessels, meaning all the souls.
Continues reading: (22:02) “Know that the contents of the names of the …”
11. R. (22:40) We too are actually as a result of these vessels of circles with all the records that we have from Ein Sof, and we too exist even corporeally according to that. Meaning the whole process is the process of all of that creation until it comes eventually to connection and unification with the Creator; those records are in us, we have to observe them and if we don’t observe them then from the nature of creation the upper light that wants to clothe in the vessel will push us and we will have to do it even coercively.
Continues reading: (23:30) “along with this…”
12. R. (26:06) If we think that our desire is first and the filling is secondary, it is the opposite of that: The filling stands and pressures us and obligates us to want that filling, then from that we get a drive for spirituality, a drive for the Creator, for all the records, that’s how they are awakening. Meaning there is nothing new under the sun, this all appears to start with; as the Creator created and filled up the desire with His presence, with His light and we are just repeating this and want to implement this on our own, as if it comes from us. Meaning a restriction takes place and from the restriction onwards we bring all of the creation back to its previous state.
13. S. (27:07) There is an emphasis here on the names on the side of the vessels and the names from the side of the light. What does it mean from the side of the lights?
R. We will see this all on the way. I cannot explain this in such a way. We will see it along the way. The question is… it will come to an answer.
14. S. (27:44) Maybe you can explain what is a Reshimo and what is in the ten?
R. The Reshimo, the record is that part of the light that remains in the vessel after it departed from the vessel and when there’s no connection between the light and the vessel but something remains and according to what remains that is enough for the vessel to wake up and yearn to bring this light like she had back to the authority of that vessel. where the vessel wants to draw the light that she had, only that now she wants to pull it according to her own awakening. Which is called by MAN and good deeds, Mitzvot, where she overcomes her will to receive and wants to give the light back but according to equivalence of form with the light; In order to bestow.
S. You said that the Reshimo is the root of the desire that awakens in us?
R. Certainly yes certainly. If there was no light, if he wouldn’t depart from the will to receive we would have no records remaining and then the will to receive would not have the feeling that it needs to yearn for something. So, everything would be like now.
S. At what resolution does this record work? Does it move all the desire?
R. According to the will to receive in the created being and then according to the light that was in the will to receive, and therefore all the records that are revealed are revealed in order, from the light to the heavy.
S. And this record actually manages all the behavior in our ten in each moment?
R. Not just in the ten but all together in everything; everything is managed by the emergence of the reshimot and the general light that operates on them.
15. S. (30:18) The light of Ein Sof exists and pressures us to receive everything, so why do we have the will to receive, to receive everything?
R. The light awakens us to receive what we can according to our forces, according to our state. It is a mechanism of conditions from above down that help us arrange ourselves between us to bestow and influence one another to build a process, to build conditions for the revelation of the Creator and if we do it in this way we will come closer to the revelation of the Creator to the created being.
16. S. (31:13) It’s written here: a desire in the upper becomes a force of necessity in the lower. It is not clear?
R. No but the desire in the upper as it wants to correct the lower one and bring it to adhesion, awakens the will to receive and the will to receive discovers what a disconnected state it is from the upper, how much he needs to come closer to the upper one and brings it to a correction and begins to raise MAN and demand.
17. S. (32:03) Is this space filled in phase four can you say that the desire feels discomfort from lack of equivalence of form to the Emanator?
R. Yes, you can say that way.
18. S. (32:23) This part here is very unique: Baal HaSulam takes us by the hand and shows us all the forms that the light draws in this. How not to leave Baal HaSulam’s hand?
R. Through the group, you have no possibility of holding the group or the Creator without the group; that’s where he’s revealed, that’s where He is. Try to yearn to come to the center of the group and that is where you will reveal the Creator. It is good that you have such a desire.
Reading (33:22) “Now you can thoroughly understand…”
19. R. (35:23) It is all revealed between us we come to a world where the world is ready for our work; for us to complete it.
Reading (35:40) “And all the vessels in the substance…”
20. R. (39:14) I can draw these things for you but then it will remain truly in the drawings, and there are many drawings and I drew this things as well as Kabbalists in order to explain it in such a manner, they also didn’t have contact with the students like we have today but rather through books or also gap of time, so they drew it. But again we need to describe as much as possible in a manner that is more emotional and not descriptive, like an image. So, if we say, one circle inside the other and the line that passes from one circle into another or a line that equalizes with three Sefirot, or circles equalizing with the three Sefirot of the Kav, line; all these things try to find some form of sensation inside yourselves, otherwise it will remain truly a dead science.
21. S. (40:35) Continuing that, in the ten there are two qualities: one is circle and one is straightness. How does this help us connect and where do we feel all of that in the ten?
R. Try to locate it, to depict it. Try. Also circles, also straightness, what is called circles? Open the meaning of the words: straightness, what is straightness, what is the connection between circles and straightness, what connection could there be and what are the three Sefirot of circles related to the Sefirot of straightness, how much they are, how much they’re not? And so on. Try to implement it, although it’s not so fundamental for our approach for the attainment but nonetheless try if you have time it is good if we’ll engage in it.
22. S. (41:58) If you can clarify what is a coarser circle?
R. A circle that is bigger: bigger that it encompasses the smallest circle, that it has a greater desire, a greater influence and then it is around the smaller circle which includes it inside itself.
S. Maybe I will sharpen the question: A line has a certain relation to the Creator the circle simply is received directly. What is the difference between them?
R. Circles and straighteners are all desires that the Creator expresses towards the created beings in order to manage the created beings. That’s how the Creator relates to them. There are circles, that the Creator relates to everyone equally and there is straightness, that He directs His bestowal to each and everyone. That is how it occurs in reality. So, circles let’s say that is around humanity, that’s how He relates to everyone, that each and everyone has a pipeline. We feel this also in our world, there’s the general providence and there’s the private providence; circles and straightness.
S. So it turns out that this is the altitude of the created being towards the Creator? Who is relating to who here?
R. That is the relation of the Creator to the created beings and we in turn need to build ourselves in our straightness, after restriction, screen and reflected light we need to enter inside the circles and inside the straightness in such a manner that we complete it. We added to the infinite system. We will learn this. It is still rather far from us.
23. S. (45:03) It is written here…no translation
R. Let’s say yes. Let’s say yes.
S. Turns out that it cancels some reception for yourself and then a certain common desire with everyone and then there is an equivalent of form and that is called a line already?
R. Yes.
24. S. (45:48) Can we understand that TES gives us the movement of the vessel from above and down and can we say that in our way in return the discernments of line and circle are relative to the relations between us?
R. From below upwards it depends on their relations between us, as much as we build relations between us and in such a way we relate to the Creator, from below upwards.
25. S. (46:44) It’s written in the text that: all the empty desires were filled with the Ein Sof prior to that, does the record not remain in the vessel or is it part of this filling?
R. There are many types of records. In the fourth part of TES we will learn all the types of records, of Reshimot, there are many types; tens of types of records.
S. All the records part of the filling?
R. The record is the results of the fulfillment.
26. S. (47:47) The true filling of the vessel, is it spirituality?
R. Yes.
27. S. (48:03) All the records from Ein Sof after restriction are in circles, through circles come to us?
R. Everything comes to us through circles, yes.
28. S. (48:27) Emotionally what is that the line is called AK and how not to get confused with the world of AK?
R. Also the world of AK is a line, a line is the line of measure, the line of scale that imprints all the light according to the ability of the created being, of the lower one, to equalize with the upper one, that is why it’s called the scale of measure.
Reading little letter 80 (49:33) “You can understand the reason….”
29. R. (53:52) Meaning we need to depict these things that the Sefirot, the line Keter, Hochma, Bina, they can be in connection with the Sefirot of circles but only Keter, Hochma, Bina in the line can be in connection with the circles but rather the seven lower Sefirot, ZAT, from each and every Sefira cannot be in connection with the Sefirot of circles below them. We will see this also later on, try, it’s worthwhile to try to somehow describe it inside yourself in some manner there. In equivalence of form, or not. Try to search. This search is already a prayer, it is already an appeal, a plea to the Creator to help us.
30. S. (54:58) What do we need connection with circles, if we have the straight line?
R. Nice question. I myself asked this. It is simple, there is general providence and private providence. Private providence on each person and general providence on all of us together, on big groups of people so we need to find the connection between one and the other. That is it and we see this from our life just how much these things are very complex, not simple there are groups, countries, continents, nations, yes, and there is a general providence on them and then there is also a private providence on each and every individual and the connection between the systems is very complex. So we need to receive from this our feelings, our sensations, that we will have inside the ability to feel these things and we will understand how it occurs. We need to imprint, like to copy it, from this upper system upon ourselves, upon our desires and then we will feel, by us inside, all of humanity as the Creator. In such a manner we will advance to the understanding of the providence of the Creator to the created beings.
31. S. (56:55) What is the world of restriction?
R. The world of restriction is the world of Ein Sof that was restricted as a result of this the created being doesn’t want to receive the upper light and bestowal from the Creator, prefers to disconnect just not to be in shame and lack of equivalence of form with the Creator.
32. S. (57:25) What is the difference between ten Sefirot of straightness and circles? What does Baal HaSulam mean here?
R. Ten Sefirot of the circles is the relation of the Creator to the created beings and the ten Sefirot of straightness is already the mutual relations between the Creator and the created beings, to the created being and the Creator. This mutual relation, that is straightness.
33. S. (57:56) Are circles felt opposite in our connection?
R. The circles, we feel the circles in a manner that is not according to the law of equivalence of form, yes.
34. S. (58:27) Is the connection with the ten and connection with humanity taking place in the line or circle?
R. In a line.
35. S. (58:43) Why is the inclusive Sefira, of the six Sefirot, sometimes called Tiferet and sometimes Zeir Anpin? Why do we use different names here?
R. Zeir Anpin usually we use when we refer to the line and the attitude from below upwards and Tiferet we use in the attitudes from upward below, from the Creator to the created beings.
36. S. (59:18) Why did the light have to depart from the vessel if again it needs to be drawn back into the vessel?
R. The light needs to depart in order to give the created being the opportunity to be independent.
37. S. (59:40) A question from the beginning of the lesson, if possible, how do we know that we’re coming closer to the Creator in the ten?
R. As much as we get closer between us in the ten, such as we get closer to the Creator.
38. S. (01:00:24) Why do we need to do a copy of humanity upon ourselves?
R. We need also to see the general providence, how the Creator relates to all of the humanity, not even just humanity but also still, vegetative and animate as well, in order to advance all these things to the end of correction because the end of correction it’s not just on human beings it is on still, vegetative and animate as well that we also have in our will to receive.
39. S. (01:01:07) In item 83 it was written about the records that were etched well inside, all kinds of desires that were filled from them being in Ein Sof and then they’re lost from them and therefore remained craving for the perfection they had. The question is whether we feel an opening of new records as a deficiency and uncomfortable feeling?
R. Usually yes. Records, when they’re revealed, reveal to us what we lack but along with this they reveal to us all sorts of conditions by which we can reveal the true lacks. It is all on the records. The will to receive, the general will to receive on our part and the records that are revealed from the breaking, from the shattering, there are actually all those same main elements that awaken in us, in all of humanity.
Look now how humanity is making great strides towards its new states. We are yet to reveal soon such changes and we will begin to see in all these changes a direction, a correct aim to connection, to correction, to necessity to coming nearer, otherwise we will not survive. All of the humanity will begin to feel it by rather simple things like it’s say like today they revealed we need energy, oil, something else. Soon there will be famine, all sorts of things, drought, big ones. Let’s say there will be another big wave of all those viruses like we had. Yes the doctor is saying the viruses.
We’re going to reveal how much we’re in one system and dependant on one another and there is no way to escape, rather to discover where it results from and the main thing only in connection between us it generates that force that operates, that same force that operates all the negative phenomena and turns them into the positive once. Let’s say the same viruses today obligated all of us to find medicine and ultimately the medicine must reach a state that connects us more will tie us more and then from this we also come closer to connection, to the purpose of creation, meaning there is nothing that is revealed in us that is negative. Each thing, in each moment and each and every day brings us closer to correction and we need to truly be happy in our life because we need truly to improve, to incorporate out of the same process.
40. S. (01:05:03) How can we help one another in the ten in order to hasten the revelation of these records?
R. Simple, the main thing is the example each one gives the other. As much as you give an example and talk about how the correction of the world is dependent on the good connection between us, that is it.
41. S. (01:05:30) What does it mean that the light illuminates as a collective and as an individual?
R. The light illuminates in the general and private manner, that is how it illuminates, on everyone it illuminates in the general manner that it pulls to the general end of correction but each and everyone goes through his own private lane to the end of correction and for this each and everyone has a small illumination. That is how it is in our life.
S. Is the ascent in the degrees possible only in the line and only in that place where the circle equalizes with the line?
R. The ascent is truly where there is a correct connection between circles and straightness, yes.
42. S. (01:06:38) How does Bnei Baruch influence the map of humanity?
R. Bnei Baruch is what is found in each and every moment, it is directing all of humanity to go after ot, either to good or maybe not so good sometimes, depends on how much we understand our responsibility and want to draw all of humanity afterwards for the good. It is dependant on us, truly us, it is a shame that we’re not responsible enough
43. S. (01:07:22) We make efforts in the ten to come closer to one another. What response does the Creator give to you? How to enter an intensive dialogue with the Creator?
R. How to enter with him in an intensive dialogue? It all depends on our desire, as much as our desire will grow and the connection with the friends, as much as it won’t be my own private one but rather I will join myself to the group and with the group together I want to push it to the end of correction, even if it’s 1 mm from where we are. This is actually my participation in the correction of the world, or the correction of my soul because my soul ultimately needs to include the entire world.
44. S. (01:08:25) In the next few days there’s going to be a women’s course for the role and strength of women in making reality. It will be in Hebrew and they are hoping to translate it in all the languages. What is the importance of such a course for women?
R. Very important because in our times the force of the women is beginning to be the determining force that, like in the family everyone knows the woman determines everything, why? Because she organizes, she does everything, she acts as if she’s serving everyone but from this that she serves everyone she’s actually managing the family and the man is depends on the woman and he internally entirely feels himself that he’s a little bit like a child to the mother. There is such a thing and it remains in every man and it all depends on this that the woman manages the order. We need to reach a state that also our society, the woman will manage the world, the order of the world.
That is called the Nukva, the female, that she manipulates the male, that is how its meant to be. That the lack, the woman, will determine the correction of the world and the male will only perform the lack, that is what it needs to be. That the male today determines, that’s because our ego has overcome everything and had women managed the correction of the world, the world then truly the world would be more stable, more organized, more calm and more serious and thus I vote for women. If there ever will be two paths before us, who to go after, the men or women? Truly we need to teach the women the wisdom of Kabbalah and go after them and the men support that. So I’m very happy that we have a course that has opened up and the society like this that is strengthening. Try to manage ourselves, the world already in the past few years, in the past hundred years, it’s going towards this, that the force of the women begins to emerge and be more and more determining, so all the best to you.