Part 2 · Chapter 10

חפץ חסד turned into bureaucracy 0:02

Okay, go ahead. It's not, it's not that you can't call it a חפץ חסד anymore. Right. Because it will not take care of anything. It's not it's not a goodness, it's not a goodness. And it doesn't take care of shoes. Yeah, but not because of goodness.

And even though it originated with goodness, now it is just Bureaucracy,

it's a bureaucracy. Like what happens in a lot of, you see that a lot of these things, some of the some of the worst, terriblest things in the world came out of goodness, actually, like communism. Right. Communism came out, I mean you might say that Marx and Engels were

slightly misguided, but their original idea was that, you know, people, you know, everybody need has certain needs that should be fulfilled. Right. But then it got separated. That's the whole ענין of עולם התהו. Right. That the original

thing got separated from the עצמות. So it's not a חסד anymore. It's a חסד of תהו. They will give shoes to somebody and yet somebody can ממש starve to death and they won't help them. Right. You know? So the thing, in a real חסד, if you say he's a real kind person,

Real חסד requires personal specifics 1:41

in other words, to this foundation, you can't say, well, these are kind these are kind people and you'll go to them and they'll help you. Right. You say, but I don't need shoes, I got shoes.

I need a coat. They say, well, sorry, we don't give coats.

So that means that it's not a חסד anymore, it's just a bureaucracy. Right.

So you see that not only you have to say that the פרט is there, but if the פרט was not there, then the whole חסד is not there.

If this guy won't give sandwiches, or if he won't give shoes, Right. then if you say, well, he has all kind of kindnesses, but he won't give you a sandwich, Right. so you say, so he's not a kind guy. Whatever the reason that he's doing it is not for kindness, it's some other reason. Right. So you have to say that this דבר פרטי was כולל the עצמות חפץ חסד היולי, והעצם מן ההיולי לגלות בדבר פרטי זה.

Divine provision beyond simple sandwiches 2:58

Right. And the same thing you have to say like by the אייבערשטער. From one side, you say the אייבערשטער is above anything.

From the other side, you have to say that the אייבערשטער has sandwiches. Right. If he doesn't have sandwiches, so how can you say he's the אייבערשטער?

If he's missing one sandwich, he's not the אייבערשטער. And not only kosher sandwiches, he's got טרייף sandwiches.

Right. You know? And like what it says, you know, לי הכסף ולי הזהב. You know, it's it's translated to mean חסד and גבורה. But really it means literally. Right. That the אייבערשטער can actually, like we ask him, when we ask him, you know, in the in the שמונה עשרה, we say, "Give me money."

They say, "What are you what are you going what are you going to him for money for? He ain't got He ain't got no money." Right. So he says, "Doesn't mean that he ain't got no money.

It means that what he's got is way past money." Right. "Doesn't mean that he's poor. If he wants, he can give you money. Means ממש money." Right.

Definition of חפץ חסד העצמי ההיולי 4:22

Okay, so we were talking basically how in the חפץ חסד העצמי ההיולי, it includes it includes all the different particular things that people will ask from him.

And I'm going to start from the third line here. מוכרח לומר. מוכרח לומר דבוודאי שחפץ חסד זה בעצם נפשו הוא בבחינת כח היולי בעצמיות ליכלול באופן היולי כל מה שעתיד לחפוץ בחסד וטוב בכל פרטי פרטי הענינים שיבקשו ממנו. Like we said, shoes, sandwiches, whatever. Not only that, if you say that a particular פרט is missing, then it's then it's not חסד. So you see that really, even though it's it's it's not really actually made up of the פרטים, it's not made up of the פרטים, you can't say that the חפץ חסד העצמי of a person is made up of רצונות to give sandwiches, and to give shoes, and to give a clothing.

You can't say that, that it's made up from that, that this is what defines it, because what it is, is חסד, is a is a thing of kindness.

However, if you take out one פרט, it means it's not חסד anymore. And that's what it means, what it says in in

Removing a ספירה eliminates חסד 5:46

פתח אליהו, כל מאן דאפריש חד מחבריה מאלין עשר ספירן, if you take out one ספירה out, even though the the עצמות is not made from the ספירות, but if you take out one ספירה, like you say, "Well, you I'm going to take out חסד," כאילו אפריש בך. It means is he made a separation, and and it's not the אייבערשטער anymore.

He's a כופר in the whole אייבערשטער. Like, for instance, if you say, "God is love," that means he's not not not דין.

Like, some people say it's unconditional love. God is unconditional love. You say no, because if you say that, you're taking out the מידה of דין. The מידה of דין says there are conditions.

You know, so if you take out, the same like if you'll take out, they say, "This guy does everything, he'll do anything for you, but he won't give you a shoe, shoes." I mean, if you're walking around without shoes, too bad. So that's not kindness anymore. So, even though it's not made out from the פרטים of the ten ספירות, if you take out one ספירה,

it's no longer the אייבערשטער, כאילו אפריש בך. וכל פרטי פרטי עניינים שיבקשו ממנו. ואם כן, בהכרח שקודם שעלה ברצונו ובחפצו זה שבגילוי להיטיב ולחסד בדבר זה הפרטי, היה כלול בעצמיות חפץ חסד ההיולי. You have to say that the חסד for shoes was included in the חפץ חסד ההיולי.

ויצא מן ההיולי להתגלות בדבר בדבר פרטי זה, and it came out from the היולי to be מתגלה in this particular kindness.

Okay, I think that's where we stopped. ואנו רואים שיש בחפץ חסד זה שכל, וחכמה, ומידות, ומחשבה, דיבור, ומעשה. We see that when the the the the חפץ חסד of the עצמיות comes into actuality, so we see that there's a a a שכל. In other words, like when the person comes, you have to figure out like exactly how to do this חסד. There's a שכל involved. Like, for instance, you think, "Wait a minute, this guy is coming and telling me that

his family is starving, but I know that this guy's a drunk. And if I'll give him money,

he'll go and spend it on liquor, and he'll go come home and beat up his family, so I'm actually going to be making it worse for them to give him money. So, what am I going to do? I'm going to send a bunch of food over to his wife,

not to him. I'm going to actually bring the food over there." So, that it shows that it has to be a שכל. And then there has to be, in order to do the חסד, the guy has to feel There's a מידות. He has to feel a a חסד and a pity in his heart. And there's a and then there's a מחשבה. He has to think the מחשבה, "Okay, so let's do this," and a דיבור.

Like when the guy's asking him, he says, "Okay, I'll help you." So there has to be a דיבור. And a מעשה. So it means there's ten ספירות. שכל means חכמה, and then the all the מידות, מחשבה, דיבור, מעשה is מלכות.

אם כן, בוודאי במקור חפץ חסד זה בהעלמו, כשהיה כלול בעצמיות החפץ חסד ההיולי, גם כן בהתחלקות שכל, מידות, מחשבה, דיבור, ומעשה שבו. There also had to be a division of these things.

Otherwise, how could it come out like that? The the the the revealed חסד is has ten ספירות, so so the hidden חסד also had to have ten ספירות.

אבל בבחינת עצמיות חפץ חסד ההיולי, כמו שהוא קודם שבא עדיין בדבר פרטי, how it is in actual היולי חפץ חסד, הגם שבוודאי גם שם יש התחלקות שכל ומידות כולו, מכל מקום כלולים ומתאחדים בתכלית. The same like the shoes and

the sandwiches, over there there was not really two different חסדים, and it doesn't mean that they were מתאחדים means they were connected together to build up a bigger חסד. It doesn't mean like that. It means there really wasn't two separate things, it was only one thing. Right. And the same thing with the ten ספירות of the ספירה העצמית

of the חפץ חסד העצמי. And later on he'll say, and the same thing, the חפץ חסד העצמי in the actual עצמות אין סוף. Right. In other words, the kindness within the יחידה of a person is not really separate anymore than the shoes and the sandwiches are separate, or anymore than the ten ספירות of the חפץ חסד is separate. And the same way, the actual חפץ חסד itself is not separate than other ספירות, and not really separate from the עצמות.

Right. וכמו כן, so that thing of חפץ חסד is a particular ספירה that he gave the example on, but he says, but really that's just the example on this ספירה, but really it's במידה ופרט אחרת שבעצמות is also like that, כמו מידת הגבורה והתפארת והנצח כהאי גוונא. Like for instance, a guy who likes to win, it's because he has the מידת הנצח in his soul.

Strategy in חסד and נצח 11:50

And also the same thing, like you can see that he likes to win all kinds of things, and you see that all the different פרטים, and you see that when he to win, he has to have a שכל and a מידות, like you see by a football game, that even though it's a stupid football game, but there's a strategy to it. Right. You know. Yeah. That's the thing, you know, when I talk to people, you know, everybody here is into football, so they talk, I have no idea what they're talking about, and after they talk for a while, they look at me for my comment.

You know, everybody makes their comment. I say, yeah, you know it's all strategy. Right. And they say, yeah, right, that's right, you know? Right. It's all strategy. So, it means, what does it mean strategy? That in the מידת הנצח there has to be a שכל.

And then there has to be מידות. You know how they have the pep talk before the game? Right. He's trying to build up their מידה. Right. And there's מחשבה, דיבור, מעשה

in the נצח. Right. And any of these מידות you can show

a משל on it, but the basic thing, he gave a משל on חסד. Right. And by the way, I think he picked up חסד in particular because the world comes from חפץ חסד. Right. That's what he says. Where is it? וכמו כן במידה ופרט שבעצמות, כמו מידת הגבורה והתפארת והנצח כהאי גוונא, עד בחינת המלכות, all the way to מלכות, which is also the מידה that the world came out from, שהוא מידת ההתנשאות שכלול בוודאי מ-י', that certainly there is also, same like all the other ספירות, it's made up from ten ספירות, like רצון וחפץ למלוך, the כתר, וחכמה ומידות, מחשבה, I mean מלכות of מלכות, מחשבה, דיבור, מעשה, כולו.

אך קודם שבא לבחינת התגלות בדבר פרט, now he's talking about he's going back to what he said before, the אנא אמלוך. Right. How it was, which that's the גליף גליפו, that's why he came back דווקא to מלכות, not the other ספירות,

that the חפץ חסד was the ענין of this אתערותא דלעילא that brought the whole thing to have a world in the first place. Right. But the actual thing of the world was אנא אמלוך, מלכות. The גליף גליפו. The גליף גליפו, which that's what the גליף גליפו is. Right.

מלכות, גליף גליפו and world creation 14:46

Which the גליף גליפו was אותיות, which is מלכות. And also it's the ענין of this התנשאות over

another person, you know, which that means התנשאות over another person that brings about the whole ענין of the existence of another person. Right. אין מלך בלא עם. So, but before it became התגלות for a particular thing, כמו ימלוך על מדינה זו, כהאי גוונא, now, when there was the original מידת מלוכה, which really existed even before the כלי פעולה, the היולי for it existed before it actually happened.

Right. וכהאי גוונא, כלולים בעצם בתכלית בחינת מידת מלוכה היולית בעצמו, כמו the same thing, like we said before, בכח בעצמו כח השרטטה ההיולי הנ״ל.