Part 1 · Chapter 13

Okay, go ahead. Yeah. So this thing of the revelation of light later is really from the original אור העצמות before the צמצום. זהו אתה הוא. אתה is נגלה and הוא is נסתר.

Light Revelation Before and After צמצום 0:05

אתה means the light after the צמצום is הוא, the light before the צמצום. Hello? Hello? Yeah. Yeah, okay. וכידוע. ואמנם לא נקרא אור העצמות שמקיף את חלל ומקום פנוי כולו כמו בחינת מקיף לפנימי כמקיף הכללי דקו, like and that's what you said before, it's a, like you said, why did you say מקיף למקיף, not a מקיף. Right. But really it's not even a מקיף למקיף, it's really not even called a מקיף at all to a פנימי, כמקיף הכללי דקו.

Means the מחשבה קדומה is a מקיף כללי to the פנימי שמקיף לאבי"א בשווה. And that that all that thing of the מחשבה קדומה is really מקיף בשווה like what we said a few minutes ago that it's מקיף in each place, but really this is not really even a מקיף.

Right. כי עדיין אינו בגדר וסוג בחינת אור ההשפעה כלל, it really has nothing to do with it. It's not really a מקיף, a מקיף means it's מקיף on it.

This really has nothing to do with it. גם לא להיות בחינת מקיף, it's not really in a way of a פנימי and it's not really in a way of a מקיף מקיף, רק אור העצמי שהוא בחינת התגלות כמו שהוא בעצמות, and it's still the same, it really didn't change really.

ולזה אנו אומרים הוא קיים ושמו קיים וכן ברוך הוא וברוך שמו כהאי גוונא. It's exactly the same like before. רק מבחינת אותיות דגליף בטהירו עילאה, and this is now it's a hint towards going on in ע"ב,

The Role of the מיטעלער רבי and רש"ב 2:26

that from the original עצמות האור nothing went through. Right. The מיטעלער רבי says that it doesn't go through and the רבי רש"ב said it does go through.

Because he's talking about a different ענין. As far as the אור העצמות, it has absolutely nothing to do with the world and none of it goes through. Right. It's only from the גליף גליפו, and even that, it's not from the actual פנימיות of the גליף גליפו, but only from the אותיות of the גליף גליפו.

Right. Which is the ענין of the, and not even that, it's really from the התפשטות of those אותיות, which is called the אור המתפשט, and even from that what really went through doesn't ממש mean it actually went through. Right. It means like it went through like over here, through these letters the שכל of the רבי is going through to us.

But really the שכל of the רבי, as far as the עצם שכל of the רבי, it has nothing to do with us at all, it's on a totally different level that's ממש totally incomprehensible to us. And even this little bit that the רבי made a גליף גליפו in order to give to us this book, he גליף גליפו-ed this book inside of himself before before it came out, that's that's understood.

That there had to be a גליף גליפו on the inside, otherwise where did this book come from? Right. Even that, it doesn't mean that actual something from that went into this book. In this book there's nothing there. This book is a piece of paper with ink, that's all it is.

Understanding the ספר as a Mere Piece of Paper 3:56

There's nothing but that, that's all it is. It's ממש, there's nothing, there's not one iota from the מיטעלער רבי in it.

And yet, is a רשימו there because the order of the letters is the same like the order of the letters in the first גליף גליפו.

And that's why we can reconstitute a הארה from הארה, then that's what goes through, so so actually it does go through. It went through what the רבי thought for us to get, that's what came to us. Like what we're learning now, you say, what do you mean there's no light coming through, there's a light coming to us.

But it's not that the actual light that the רבי saw is actually coming to us. Right. You know, and that's the whole ענין of the משפיע and the מקבל, that even in terms of התפשטות, what he was מתפשט the light, even that it didn't really come through over here. It's just hidden inside of this as a רשימו, and then it's reconstituted as a new הארה.

So it's only from דגליף גליפו בטהירו עילאה, זה שהוא מה ששיער בעצמו בכח, like the רבי first of all had to be משער himself what can these idiots understand.

Creating a שיעור for the Students 5:20

What am I gonna I have to write a book, so I have to he had to make a שיעור what can these idiots understand, you know what I'm saying? Yeah. There had to be a שיעור. He says, I'm not gonna be able to teach them like I know it, so what so they had to make a שיעור.

In order to make the שיעור, he had to look at them he had to measure the מקבל. Right. You know, which is that's the ענין of the קו המדה that's already before the צמצום. There's a ענין of a מדה before the צמצום. Right. You know, they say that the קו המדה after the צמצום is really a ענין of the קו המדה before the צמצום.

And that in the שיעור of the גליף גליפו, he had to be משער what kind of a צמצום he's gonna make. Right. Who who is who is it gonna come to that even though that really that's really only by the קו המדה after the צמצום, here it's really above having anything to do with it, but still the whole ענין of the קו המדה after the צמצום came from here.

And this is the thing, גליף גליפו בטהירו עילאה. וגם זה הוא הנשאר בבחינת העלם והסתלקות קצת. Even by this

הארות משוערים is also pretty much in a way of העלם והסתלקות, דהיינו רק לפי אופן הנצרך להשתלשלות אחר צמצום זה, means it is only according to what he had to give over to us. Right. ודי למבין. It's only according to the מקבל. So that's according to the teacher and the student. וגם על פי אופן משל ב' הנ"ל דחיות הנפש בגוף שמשתנה ממהות רוחני למהות גשמי כנ"ל, גם כן אין זה שינוי כלל.

שהרי כמו שיש קישור וחיבור לחיות הגשמי עם חיות הרוחני, ממש שרואים התפעלות הנפש ממקרה חיות הגוף, ועם כל זה לא ישתנה בעצם הרוחני מחסרון התפשטות חיות אבר גשמי כנ"ל, even though you see that he's affected, yet really is not affected at all. כך אין שינוי בבחינת אור העצמות.

Ruling on the נצחיות of Light in צמצום 7:37

So you say, what do you mean? So why if he's totally not affected, so why should we do all the מצות? It says that the אויבערשטער gets a pleasure out of it. Right. He says, yeah, but it doesn't mean that it actually makes any kind of שינוי, same like the soul, even though it gets a pleasure, but it doesn't change at all, like you see that if a אבר גשמי is gone, it's not gone in the in the in the רוחני כנ"ל.

And by the way, this משל here is where these people are making a very big mistake, that they think it's רוחניות. Right. But it's not, it's a משל.

The whole thing is a משל, including the רוחניות. The רוחניות is also a משל. The רוחניות and the גשמיות is a משל, including the רוחניות כנ"ל, כך אין שינוי בבחינת אור העצמות, וליהיותו מאיר גם אחר הצמצום, גם שאינו רק לפי ערך השתלשלות, even though it's only it's not really like the original soul's power of the soul that's lighting up later, so in the נמשל also that it's not really the same original light, but only according to the השתלשלות, but nonetheless, הרי יש בהן קשר וחיבור.

ועם כ- ועל פי זה בצמצום האור בבחינת הקו, אין זה שינוי כלל באור העצמות. Wait, wait, ועם כל זה. Ah, okay. ועם כל זה בבחינת הקו, אין זה שינוי כלל באור העצמות, על פי משל זה. וכן, so that was the second משל, וכן על פי משל ג' מכח התנועה בגשם, או כמשל התחכמות מכח המשער הנ"ל, הכל עולה לסגנון אחד, it's all one thing

כנ"ל באריכות, like we explained in chapter 12, ודי למבין. ואמנם בבחינת רשימו, so that's the ענין of the צמצום, but however, as far as the רשימו,

שהוא למעלה שזהו כמו הקיצור שכלול בו כל האריכות הנה למעלה יובן מזה שזהו בחינת כח הגבלה שיש בו אין סוף הבלתי מוגבל בעצם.

So upstairs, what is this thing of this צמצום and רשימו? And especially the רשימו, that the רשימו holds the whole אריכות, that's to say there is a כח הגבלה in the in the אור אין סוף שיש בו אור אין סוף הבלתי מוגבל בעצם, there's this power דהיינו להביא כל הארת אור העצמות הבלתי גבול בבחינת הגבול.

The Concept of רשימו and Its Power 10:21

He has the power to take this whole infinite light and squeeze it into nothing. שזהו ענין הרושם, that's the whole ענין of the רושם, שכולל בבחינת הגבול כולל כל עצמות אור אין סוף, it includes the whole עצמות אור אין סוף in it. כמשל הקיצור שכולל הכל וכולי כי הוא יתברך כל יכול. He can do anything He wants. וכולל בו גם כן מכח המגביל להגביל ולכלול ברושם אחד מכל אור העצמות וכולי.

Ok, thank you. Hold on for a minute.

Ok, so where are we? וכמו שכתוב במקום אחר באריכות. The line that starts with an א. Starts with an א? The final line starts with a ב.

What do you mean with an א? What's the What What's the word it starts with? רשימא אחת. It's not a word, it's just the א for the word אחת. Oh, ok, I was on the wrong page. Yeah, אחת. מכל אור העצמות.

יכול, וכולל בו גם כן מכח המגביל להגביל לכלול ברשימו אחת מכל אור העצמות וכולי. וכמו שנתבאר במקום אחר באריכות. אך הנה באמת אין זה דמיון אמיתי לבחינת הרשימו הנשאר בחלל ריקן ומקום פנוי הנ״ל כי הוא מורה שנסתלק משם הכל. Nothing is left.

לא שנשאר איזה אור, not that there was any light left, רק שהוא בקיצור וגבול, except it's a tiny little light, אלא רק בחינת רשימו בעלמא. Nothing is really left, just sort of like an impression, you know, sort of a sort of like an impression, but not the actual thing is gone.

אם כן הדמיון אמיתי הוא מרושם וציון כו' בקיצור שציור האומן שכולל כל האריכות מעשה הבנין, like the blueprint. ויותר מזה כמו אותיות זכרון כנ״ל, even more is like the acrostics. So what exactly does this mean over here? What does it mean? What we talked about it before, what it means, that it really, it's not like What does it mean כי הוא מורה שנסתלק משם הכל? That the whole thing is gone.

It's not like It's not like It's not like the soul and the body, because in the body it's still the ענין of life. There is some life in the body from the soul.

Same thing in the משנה, this the שכל from the גמרא it's it's still there. It's just It's just a little bit. It's the same original ענין.

Ok, well, but this word הוא, הוא מורה שנסתלק, is מוסב on what? On the רשימו. And as a example for the רשימו he gave the matter of a קיצור. Right, so he says, right, he says He says the קיצור is not a good is not a good example in רשימו, because the meaning of רשימו is מורה, הוא, the meaning of רשימו is really מורה that the whole thing is gone.

Because I thought it's מוסב on the on the קיצור. No, it says not the קיצור. It's just opposite. No, the קיצור shows that something is left. Right, that's why it didn't make sense to me. No, the רשימו, the ענין of רשימו means that nothing is left.

Right. הוא is on the רשימו. Oh, ok, good. Now it makes sense. Yeah, כי הוא, the רשימו, the ענין of the רשימו, the ענין רשימו means that it's all gone. That's why that משל, it's a good משל to show us that it's all there. Right. It's not a good משל to show that it's all gone, but the משל wants to show that it's all there, that it's all there.

That it's ממש all there. And the משל of the, the משלים that he gives you now, each one it's more and more gone. Right. They get progressively, progressively less. So, in in in the in the the blueprint, a blueprint, a building is gone, and you just have a bunch of lines. But then you say, but wait a minute, but you still have the actual shape of the building.

The משל of the the teacher, the קיצור of the teacher and the student, is to is to show how in a צמצום, how the צמצום is not a real צמצום, how it's all there. Not just on the צמצום, how in the final רשימו, or even in the רשימו, but how it's all there. משנה represents the רשימו that is ממש the whole גמרא is still there.

That the צמצום is not a real צמצום, and the whole גמרא is really there. Right. Over here, the first משל is an intermediary. Right. What's the intermediary? That the blueprint. A blueprint means that the whole building is gone and you just have a bunch of lines, but it's it's still the whole building is there. And you can see how it's all there, because it's ממש the shape of the whole building.

Blueprint Analogy for צמצום and רשימו 16:12

Right. So you say, yeah, but this is still an intermediary thing, and we have to now go even more to the other side. In other words, first he gives you a משל from one side that shows that it's all there.

Then he gives you a משל that shows that it's all gone. Right. Right. And he gets more and more that this is the intermediary. And that's what he said in in the the רבי הרש״ב said that this really represents in terms of השתלשלות העולמות, which are משלים. It's first is אצילות, then there's בריאה, all the way down to יצירה.

Right. You know, so in in the first משל, it's not really gone. It's really ממש the the משנה is the same thing like the גמרא. It's just a קיצור. Right. It's not really all gone. Right. And the second one, it's already all gone, that a a a blueprint is not a house. A blueprint is not a house. But nonetheless it's it's the whole shape of the house.

Not only that, even even a person who doesn't know, not only the the משפיע, but even like let's say, let's say I'm not an architect or something like that, but if I would take a look at a blueprint, I could, you know, if I would sit with it for an hour, I could figure out what it what it's supposed to be.

Right. So it's not gone even by the מקבל really.

Right. Okay, so here's a, and the text over, וביתר מזה, and even more so in terms of that's all gone, כמו אות לזכרון, and there is already you can't even, you don't even know what it is.

Like Every Good Boy, we can't figure out what it is just from knowing the letters.

כנ״ל, but nonetheless there's still something left. It's that's the that's those are the first letters.

וכך יובן למעלה דכתיב זכר רב טובך העצמי, it's only a remembrance of the רב טובך העצמי. It's not the actual רב טובך, it's only a remembrance of it, like the אות לזכרון, כהאי גוונא. ויתר בהעלם והסתלקות הוא כמשל הזורק אבן, כולו כנ״ל. וכך אמר בספר הבהיר וכמו זרק כו׳, like he threw a stone, שאין בחינת הרשימו נשאר נבדל בריחוק מקום מעצמיות האור, ולפיכך כח הנעלם ברשימו זו בחינת העלם אור נבדל מהעלם עצמות אור דאין סוף, כמו כח נבדל הנעלם בזריקת אבן.

The Throwing Stone Metaphor for Cosmic Motion 19:10

It's like an actual thing that the actual original person is gone. That's what this משל shows. That the stone is still going with a with the original power, but the power that threw it is gone. Right. It's like going by itself. And that's how the world is, that it looks like the world is going by itself. Right. And you don't see, like it it's like it's like a thrown a thrown stone that you don't even see who threw it anymore.

Right. שבא מכח היד שכבר נעלם בעצמו. Not only that, the the power of the hand is not just that that you can't see it anymore, it's not continuing anymore. The actual hand is not throwing anymore. Right. The the power movement went back into the hand. Right. וכדמיון כל גלגל מהלך וסובב מכח תנועת הזורק הנעלם שבא מבחינת זריקה מהט' כלים החיצונים דמלכות דעשיה, like the whole physical universe with all the stars and planets that are still moving around and around from the original throwing, you know, like the Big Bang thing.

Right. But it wasn't like the Big Bang thing. Right. That, you know, like when you throw something,

if if you trace it back, then you trace it all the way to the ground, you say, "Wow, it blew it blew up from the ground." It didn't. It really started somewhere in the middle, from where you threw it. Right. So the same thing. In other words, this throw happened 57, what is it? 63. Yeah. 63. Not 64? Well, not yet. 64, yeah. Well, actually no, actually 63 because that's we're just beginning the 64.

years ago. That's when it really started, in the middle.

Right. And this came from the nine outside כלים of מלכות of עשיה. ונקרא זה כח הנבדל, בחינת מלכות שבמלכות. הבא בערך ריחוק נבדל, לא כמו אחיזה בעצם או כח יד הפועל עצמו בנפעל, שזהו גילוי עצם הכח בקירוב, שנקרא בחינת מלכות. Right. So what he's saying to you here is if you look

up and you'll go outside and you'll see the moon,

you're actually seeing the power of מלכות of מלכות of עשיה. Right. Not only that, you're actually seeing the power of מלכות of מלכות of עשיה when you're moving. Right. Because you got that from the sunlight and stuff like that. That's all from the גלגלים. Right.

Not only that, you're feeling it pulling you down,

you know, the gravity and all that business. Right. That's all from the מלכות of מלכות of עשיה. You're ממש feeling the external power of the external כלים of מלכות of מלכות of עשיה. That's what actually this the זריקה is, even though it seems to be going on by itself.

Right. Just like the stone, but really it's the external כלים of מלכות of מלכות of עשיה. שזה כח הנבדל שבא בערך ריחוק נבדל in a faraway way and not like the actual hand that's moving it. And there you can see the hand.

שזהו גילוי עצם הכח בקירוב שנקרא בחינת מלכות, כמו שנתבאר במקום אחר באריכות. And I'm going to have to stop over here cuz the production has started up already.

Okay, the tape is on. Right. We just finished that parenthesis.

כמו שנתבאר במקום אחר באריכות. ומשל היותר קרוב לזה הוא כמו הרמז, שהשכל בהעלם בתנועה גשמית, שזה נקרא בחינת הלבשה ותפיסה בדבר נבדל.

That the שכל is caught in a movement, which a totally different ענין than a שכל. וכן כשכותב שכל וחכמה בתנועת האצבע. And that goes even farther, that when he actually writes it with תנועת האצבע, that's connected to the אצבע, then the letter that comes out of it is basically a shape that was made by the It's just a bunch of shapes on a paper. And that's already can be in a way of a זריקה, like this book is a זריקה.

כולו כנ"ל. כך למעלה, בחינת הרשימו בחינת דבר נבדל בערך שבו מלובש בהעלם כללות אור העצמות, וד"ל והבן. So he basically over here went over the משלים of chapter 12. ואמנם, מכל אלה יובן על כל פנים כללות ענין הרשימו.

So from all these משלים, even though each one one is a little bit more this way, and one is a little bit more that way, but that when you put them all together, then you can understand at least the general ענין what the רשימו was all about. וגם שהוא בבחינת תכלית הכל, and everything is really there is nothing left there. ולא נשאר בה רק בהעלם גדול בבחינת תכלית הקיצוניות is what what does it say there?

קיצור. קיצור. הקיצור. תכלית הקיצור והרמז וכולי. וכן אחר כך נבדל וכולי. אבל מכל מקום מזה עצמו בא ומשם נמשך כל פרטי השתלשלות דהקו, שנמשך מרשימו זו.

Final Connection: קו from רשימו and Reconstitution 25:36

So over here, he says very clearly that the קו comes from the רשימו. And later on, he says the קו that comes from the אור and like in various places it says that the אור is בוקע through the רשימו, it doesn't mean that the actual אור is בוקע, it means that really the אור is included in the רשימו and it's reconstituted. Like the משנה, like the משנה and the גמרא.

The גמרא that we have today was בוקע through the רשימו of the משנה. And it doesn't mean that actually that like a guy read the משנה and had a vision of one of the people from before before the משנה who told him the whole גמרא,

but it means that it was included in there. Right. And it was reconstituted means the original light of stuff that you couldn't see in the קיצור of the גמרא

was actually reconstituted out of the רשימו. וברשימו זו להיות שכלול זה הכל בהעלם על כל פנים.

Since it includes everything, even though it's בהעלם, but nonetheless, it's everything, you understand שיוכל לבוא הכל בהתגלות על ידי בחינת הקו עד סוף עשיה.

וכמאמר: כל היצור לא נכחד ממך דווקא, that all the יצור is not missing from you. This is a part of the ראש השנה prayer.

Right. And the usual טייטש of it is that the knowledge of all things is

you're not missing any knowledge of anything, but really he טייטשes it כפשוטו. Right. And really this is really what it means, right, that there's nothing missing in the רשימו, and certainly before the רשימו. Meaning, and he says here the יצור, the actual manufacturing of the thing, not the actual manufacturing, the actual thing itself. The יצור doesn't mean the צורה, the יצור means the actual thing that was fashioned.

Right. Like what we were saying before that The product. The product, right. Yeah, that's the יצור is the product. The actual product is actually not missing there.

Hold on a second, let me flip the

tape.