Part 3 · Chapter 10

The Eye’s Power to See All Shapes 0:00

has a היולי, for instance, to see the sofa,

and to see the table, so you can say, "Well, that's made of היולי to see round shapes and square shapes, and various, it can see all these different things." Right.

So they say, "What about a sofa that some guy in China has, that you never saw and you're never going to see?" So yeah, the eye has the power to see that too. Right. Okay, but this is only If it would be exposed to it. Huh? If it would be exposed to it. Yeah, yeah, but the thing is that the power to see that particular shape exists in the eye.

Right. Already. And therefore, it exists in the soul. Right. That means that that shape, all the shapes exist in the soul. Right? Right. Right.

Okay, but that's really the power to see the shapes, not the actual sofa itself. Right. Right? Right. And the same thing like when we say the רצון of חסד, so we said the רצון for a חסד of a sandwich, and the רצון for a חסד of a shoe, but that's not the actual shoe. Right. It's just a a a רצון for a חסד to give shoes. Right.

Desire (Ratzon) Behind Acts of Kindness 1:14

That's in the משל, but in the נמשל the actual shoe is coming out from it. And the actual sofa. And the actual sofa. And the actual, all the emotions Right. that a person has. In other words, both the the going from the mental and the emotional, in other words, the whole thing, like the whole אבי״ע all the way, including the actual final physicality is actually coming out from there.

Right. So, in other words, when it says לי הכסף ולי הזהב, it doesn't mean just the ability to earn money. Right. It means that the actual thing is coming out of there, and you have to say the same thing. Right. You have to say this thing, שאם לא כן מאין נמצאו פרטים הללו בגלוי. Right.

Where did like my car, where did my car come from? Exactly. If you're going to say, "Well, you can't say that in the אייבערשטער there's an actual car."

Say that's right. From one side, that's what we said here. You can't say that in the actual חסד there is a חסד to help somebody fix his car. Right. You can't say that. On the other on the other hand, if you don't say that there's a חסד to help somebody fix his car, it means you broke the whole חסד, it's not a חסד anymore. Right. So, if from one side if you say that my car actually existed inside the אייבערשטער, it sounds kind of silly.

Right. The אייבערשטער is not made up of cars. On the other hand, if you say that my car did not exist in the אייבערשטער, so it's not the אייבערשטער. So, where did the car come from? Right. What, the car came from another אייבערשטער?

It came from somewhere. If it's a car, you say, "Well, yeah, but it's physical." Say, "Yeah, right, and where did this physical come from?" You want to tell me there's an אייבערשטער, and then there's the physical world?

Greek Mistake: God vs. Physical World 3:35

Which that's the mistake that the the רמב״ם in מורה נבוכים says that's the mistake that the Greek philosophers made. Right. They felt that there's an אייבערשטער, and there's also a physical world. Right. Well, but where did physical world come from? So, you have to say that it it was also there. Right. And how to say So how can you say if there's nothing but the אייבערשטער, so you say the same thing like you say that in the חסד העצמי there was all the all the פרטים.

So, all the פרטים are there. Right. But that's the פרט of just a חסד for a פרט, not for not the actual sandwich. Right. In the נמשל the actual sandwich came out from there, Right. not just a רצון to give a sandwich which was really something separate from Him. Right.

So, you have to say, אם לא כן מאין נמצאו פרטים הללו בגלוי התפשטות? כמו האור והזיו שכלול בעצם השמש שיש בו בהעלם כל פרטי איך נזיווים מתפשט. When the light was inside the sun, it already had all the particular things that what you see like in other words, when you go outside, you see in the sunlight, you see the green, and blue, and yellow, and whatever, it must have been already inside the sun.

Right. וכאי גוונא, וד"ל ומבין. So that's the end of this little section here. Okay. ונמצא, so that was the general explanation of the whole thing. Now he's going to explain how this comes in three levels.

Introducing the Three Levels of Soul Power 5:14

נמצא ג' מדריגות זו אחר זו, זו אחר זו נמשך מעצמיות הנפש ממש, הנקרא בחינת יחידה. האחד, י' כוחות עצמיים בהיולי, כמו חפץ This is the ענין of יחיד. כמו בחינת חפץ חסד העצמי בהיולי כהאי גוונא, כלולים בה בתכלית. Means they ממש don't exist. It's called כח התנועה בעצם החי, and it's not just it doesn't exist, יחידה is not even in a גדר and and and סייג of them at all.

It's not in the סוג of being like that. Right. ככח התנועה בעצם החי, כהתכללות התפשטות החי בעצם כנ"ל, like we talked about before, ולא יתכן בהם לומר לשון התאחדות דברים הנדבקים ביחד, as you can't even say it's an unification.

אחר שכלולים לגמרי בעצם והיה כלא היה במציאות כלל, it's like they ממש don't exist totally. Right. כלל וכלל, totally. כנ"ל, like we explained before, so that's יחיד. וב', אחד, בחינת התפשטות י' כוחות שמוכנים לבוא בבחינת גילוי, already that it's a thing of התפשטות, that it's מוכן to come out in various ways like חסד or whatever of the 10 ספירות.

Level Two: Powers Ready to Manifest 6:15

כמו חפץ חסד העצמי ההיולי שבא לעשות דבר חסד בדרך פרט, but this is גם קודם שנמשך בפועל ממש, רק שעדיין מוכן לעשות לזה דבר פרט, like when when אברהם אבינו is sitting by the tent. Right. In other words, that he's already מוכן to have a חסד come out, but there's nothing coming out, because nobody came yet. Right. So there's a point where where it's מוכן to come out to a פרט, but you don't have a פרט yet.

Right. So it's just a a a thing, and that's אחד. ושם יתכן ענין התאחדות כמה פרטים שבו. There you can say that it's made of various things, כמו שכל ומידות שבחפץ חסד זה, and even there it's not ממש really a unification. In a way it's really hide in the unification.

הנמשך מהעלם ההיולי הכללי וכולי, in other words you have to say that at one at some point, in other words if these powers came out of the עצם where they totally didn't exist, you have to say there's a point where they started having a יכולת of existence. This is not an actual existence by the way. Right. It's just a a it's an ability that it could exist.

Right. So that's the אחד, and there you can say that this ability for the things that exist it's made up of a bunch of abilities. Right. And they're all unified together as a general ענין of התפשטות of the soul.

וג', שנמשך ובא לעשות דבר פרט, רק שעדיין לא בא מצד העדר ומניעה. What does it mean? It means it it's not it's not only when it doesn't come, it means really even when it does come.

When there's no העדר ומניעה and it actually does come, when you're actually doing something, really this ג' is connected to it, but it's דווקא when it doesn't come from העדר ומניעה that's when you can see it. Like for instance, if you're sitting in a פארברענגען and there's a bottle of vodka on the table, and your glass is empty, and you're just getting ready to reach for this bottle of vodka, and the whole תנועה was already all there.

Right. That the תנועה is already all there in the כח התנועה before you actually made it. That's why you don't have to grope around, you know? Right. He already has it all figured out exactly where his hand is going to go to and where it's going to end up, and it's going to grab the bottle.

And just before he moved it, somebody else grabbed the bottle. Right. So there's two things you can learn from there, that really the the you you see nothing happened. It didn't come out into into the outside, it stayed a היולי. Right. It never came out, and yet it was completely prepared to do it. Right. It was about to do it. Huh? It's like he was about to do it.

Yeah, it was all prepared in there Right. to actually grab that bottle.

And so you have to say that, let's say somebody else would not have grabbed it and he grabbed it, that means that that that preparation is connected to the outside, to the actual Grabbing.

It's not that something else happened, it's this preparation which is connected to it. Right? Right. Even In other words, what he's saying, a העדר, it's not לאו דווקא a העדר. That's how you see it from the העדר and the מניעה.

אבל ההכנה בעצמה כבר יש בשלימותה, but the preparation is all completely, לא חסר רק לבוא בהתגלות בפועל ממש. דהיינו שכבר שיער בעצמו בדרך פרט לאיזה דבר שבא לפועל ממש, like to grab the bottle, והיינו שיער בעצמו בכח מה שצריך להביא בפועל, כמו על דרך דוגמא הנ״ל בכח התנועה איך שעתידה לצאת בגילוי בדבר פרט, like to grab a bottle, for instance.

Right? Right. Okay, but that means even if he did make this תנועה, it's connected to this third level.

Okay, now what happens when the other guy grabbed the bottle, and therefore the כח התנועה did not come into פועל? So, what does he do? He says to the guy, when you're finished, pass the bottle over.

Right. See, notice that that same כח התנועה, which was really just the actual in the essence of the soul was just a desire to grab the bottle, which was really the desire for himself to get a drink of vodka, turned into the כח הדיבור.

Right. And it's not a separate thing, it's ממש the same thing. Even in even in קדמון is ממש But there you can already say that it's a unification of powers that are unified like one.

And you see that the כח התנועה turned into כח הדיבור. Right. And the exact same motivation that motivated him and he was all prepared to grab the bottle turned into the motivation to tell the guy to pass the bottle when he's finished with it. Right. Right? Right. So, you learn both of these things from this. When when it doesn't happen, you see one of the things is really it's all prepared, but it's לאו דווקא that it has to happen.

Even when it actually does happen, the the the the thing of the היולי is still just a היולי. And the second thing, that you see that one power can turn into another power. Right.

וכן מה ששיער שיתגלה בהתפשטות רוח החיים, like when he is משער how much revelation of the רוח החיים is going to be, והיכן והוכן בו מה שעתיד להחיות בפועל ממש, and it's already included what he is עתיד להחיות in פועל ממש, like for instance, when he's psyching himself up to run or something like that, that he's going to have to have an extra influx of a רוח החיים.

You know what I'm talking about? Yes. When In other words, when you're just going to do a real heavy action, so you have to like sort of get some extra life, like like like they tell you, wake up, liven up, we got like they tell the soldiers, liven up, we got a big job ahead of us, you know? Right. וכמו כן דמיון כח הצומח שמוכן להצמיח בפועל ממש, the same thing, like the כח הצומח in the ground, when it's ממש already connected to a to a tree and it's it's ready to actually

give this tree the the power to grow, שיש בזה גם כן ענין ג׳ מדרגות הללו, and each one of these כחות has these three מדרגות, and they're all connected even to the פועל ממש. In other words, the פועל ממש is connected not just to קדמון, because קדמון is connected to אחד, and אחד is connected to יחיד.

That means when he's actually grabbing for the bottle, really he's grabbing it with יחיד, with עצם היחידה. And it goes through the two conduits of אחד and אחד and קדמון, which means that there has to be a point where the powers come out and it's not just עצם היחידה, since they're coming out in particular.

And then it has to be a point where they're coming out not just in general, but in particular for this particular action where the action is משוער.

והכל הוא טרם שבא הדבר עדיין בפועל ממש. What talking this is not the actual thing of when it's coming out to the פועל ממש, and even when it is coming out to the פועל ממש, this is the inner power which does not come into the פועל ממש. כמו התנועה קודם שבאה בגשם הנפש, או החיות הרוחני קודם שבאה בגשם הגוף, ששם נשתנה ממהות רוחנית למהות גשמית. In other words, where it actually comes into into an actual תנועה, a תנועה is not anymore the thing of the soul.

It's a physical movement. והוא בחינת תנועה גשמית. That's a physical תנועה. והחיות גשמית also. וכהאי גוונא בגשם הצמיחה, the actual plant. It's not the power of growth at all. It's a different thing, it's a plant. Right. It's like a piece of wood.

כולו שצריך לזה בחינת צמצום וקיבוץ בגילוי זה הרוחני בתחילה. That you have to make a קיבוץ in the רוחני בתחילה, כדי שיבוא מכלל רוחניות לגשמיות. And the example on that is, you know, did you ever see Abbott and Costello and the Wolf Man?

Yeah. You know, the Not that I remember it. The the fat guy is standing there, and I can't Who's Abbott and who's Costello? Abbott is the fat guy? I think Abbott is the tall guy and Costello is the short guy. Okay, right. Abbott is the straight man. Okay, so Costello is standing there, and Abbott is standing there, and the Wolf Man is standing behind Abbott. Right. And and Costello is going .

Right. Why is he doing that? Because he is so panicked out by seeing the Wolf Man

that he cannot מצמצם his speech into the into the particular אותיות, but he wants to say the whole speech the way it is inside of him at one shot. Right. So therefore, since he can't make a צמצום, he can't make the particular thing.

Right. And the same thing, this happens also like, you know, if you're walking down the street and all of a sudden a Tyrannosaurus Rex comes looms up over you, people freeze. Right. Why do they freeze?

You should be running. Right. The reason they freeze is because it's such a big shock that the whole כח התנועה is coming out at one shot.

Right. And he cannot make a צמצום which way to go, Right. of a particular movement, but he's trying to make all the movements, he's trying to run all different ways at once. Right. And therefore, since he can't make the צמצום, he can't run any any way at all. Right. You know, and this is this is in many, many things. That if you can't make the צמצום, why?

Because the כח הרוחני is is infinite, it's not for a particular movement. Right. And the כח הדיבור is not for a particular thing, so that if you can't make the צמצום, which you have to make the צמצום all the way down to the letters. Right. That's also why people stutter. They're trying to put the whole מחשבה into the דיבור at one shot. Right.

And what you have to teach them is how to slow down and make a צמצום. So, in order to come from the spiritual to the physical, you have to make a צמצום, כמו שיתבאר, this will be explained בעז"ה in chapter 12.

Okay? Very good. Yeah, did you turn off the tape yet? That where it is? Yeah, that's where it is. Okay, go ahead. All right. וכן, yeah. כן וכן בענין ספירות הללו בגילוי. So in other words, main thing up to now what we learned is that in the in the אור אין סוף it says in in various places, in some places it says there's nothing there. It's not נחושבן of ten ספירות at all, and לית מכל אינון מדות כלל, and stuff like that.

And in other place it says things like גליף גליפו בטהירו עילאה, which means letters, and רעותא דפשיטא, and stuff like that, דריש רושמין דמלכא. And it says חכים ולא בחכמה ידיעא, means there is a חכמה there.

So, what's the story? So, he explains it it it it says there are ספירות there, and it says there's no ספירות there. So, what he explains is that that when we're saying that there's no ספירות there, it means not in a way that they're lacking over there, but in a way that is totally higher from the ענין of ספירות altogether, to the point where you can't say that there's an actual חכמה over there, in any more than you can say that there's a רצון for shoes in a חסד, but on the other hand, you can't take them out of there.

If you say that there is no חכמה, that means that you're actually Insulting the אייבערשטער. You say, what do you mean? He has no חכמה at all, so the אייבערשטער is stupid.

Right. That's what it means, no חכמה. So it's an it's an ins- it's an insult. It means that you're making if if you're מפריש any one of the ספירות out of there, you're you're כופר בעיקר, you're ממש כופר on the אייבערשטער.

Even though they're not there, so we have to say they're not there in the same way, but like like in the חסד that we said that if if the guy will help you out with certain things, but with with other things he says, well, I don't I don't do shoes.

So, if you don't do shoes and this this poor guy is is walking around with bleeding feet and you won't do shoes, it means you don't have חסד, period. Right. Say, yeah, but I do all these other things, you know, I have a fund for coats, and I have a fund for feeding people, I just won't do shoes.

So, well, but here's a guy standing right in front of you and his feet are bleeding, and you won't do shoes, that means you don't have חסד. Right. ממש You ממש don't have חסד. You're not an איש חסד. I don't care what else you do. You don't do shoes, if the חסד doesn't include a חסד for shoes, and you say, what do you mean? A חסד is not made up of a חסד for shoes.

You say, yeah, it's not, but on the other hand, if you take out this one piece of it, then you took out the whole thing. So the same thing, even though there's no ten ספירות up there, if you take out one ספירה, or even if you take out a ספירה of a ספירה, right, like you say, נצח of נצח of of תפארת.

You say, well, I believe there's all these things up there except for נצח of תפארת, so then you're you're you're totally כופר in the עיקר.

Right. So, that's the ענין, and the basic point of the whole ענין, שאם לא כן מאין נמצאו פרטים הללו? Where did it come from? That's the whole that's basically the whole ענין there.

And that's what we learned till now. ונמצא, ג' מדרגות זה אחר זו. So that that was the general explanation, now he's going to explain the three levels how it comes out. שנמשך מעצמות הנפש ממש, הנקרא בבחינת יחידה, ואחר יוד כחות עצמיים והיוליים, כמו חפץ חסד העצמי והיולי, כהאי גוונא, כלולים בה בתכלית ההתכללות, כח התנועה בעצם החי.

Wait a minute, maybe we did do this. No, we did, we finished chapter 10. Not maybe, for sure, that's what I said. Yeah, you're right.

We did We did finish chapter 10. Okay, so now on chapter 11. Okay, so let me flip the tape. Hold on one second.