Part 2 · Chapters 15 and 16

Inner and Outer שם מ״ה and the קו המדה 0:02

קו is the inner שם מ״ה, which refers to the line basically, which is the, means the קו המדה, which means the the line that measures. Right.

So in other words, that's the inner שם מ״ה. The outer שם מ״ה is the מדות of אצילות. And this is that who, that this is the way of the whole אצילות, means that the whole measurement that later on will be in אצילות, of the שם מ״ה of אצילות, שם מ״ה מלבר, comes from the שם מ״ה מלגאו, it's already included

in the inner שם מ״ה of the קו. Now you take this in terms of the משל of the the the היולי for measurement in the in the teacher, it means basically that all the characteristics that he will display in the actual day-to-day teaching, the seven the seven days of the week, Right. the ימי עולם, is already included in this קו המדה. Right. In other words, the whole way that he's going to act is already there.

Teacher Adapts מדות to Different Classes 1:27

Right. You know. Right. It's all already there, and he'll act a different way for different classes, and not only that, it's like he measures like for instance for the if you if you give him a boys' class or a girls' class, let's say. Right. You know, in a boys' class, you have to have a little bit more discipline. Right. You know, like, what is it, what is it, דבר אל בני ישראל and אמר?

Right. That to to the ladies, משה, the אייבערשטער told him that that to to the men you have to talk tough. Right. To the ladies, you have to talk in a nice way. Right. You know, and also like he if you'll go, for instance if you tell the guy we're going to put you in a class with the top students in the country, these are the special geniuses, people who are totally motivated, Right.

or else you tell them we're going to put you in the worst the worst ghetto school there is. And he's going to relate to them just differently. They they come there with guns. You know, all the little their little five-year-old kids are already carrying guns, you know.

Right. So obviously, he'll have to manifest different מדות. Right. But it's all included in the שם מ״ה מלגאו. Right. It's already included in there. It's not that it's not already there. It's all in the קו המדה, and this is what's going to measure it. Right. It's the קו המדה what will which will measure according to the to different מקבלים what מדות will be manifested, what kind of a character he's going to put forth.

And the reason that it's capable of doing that is דווקא מצד the כח העצמות.

That it's capable of relating to the each specific

מקבל specifically. Well, it's it's from two things. One is from the כח העצמות, the other one is actually really the ענין of the מדה is דווקא from the power of the צמצום רשימו,

that it can separate out a different thing for different people,

which is opposite of its כוללות. Right. You know. But it includes both of them, and that's also the ענין of שם מ״ה, that

the שם מ״ה in general is the ענין of

זעיר אנפין or תפארת that includes the the two sides. So up there it is also like that. There's הגדול הגבור והנורא, והנורא means that the line that the line the קו is an equal force.

Three Aspects: הגדול, הגיבור, והנורא Explained 4:35

In other words, it it it seems that it's like

not the same like first that the אור אין סוף is that's the real big force, then after the צמצום there's nothing left but a רשימו, which is like a lesser thing somehow, and then the קו is only what comes out, and the רשימו is its היולי.

So the קו is ממש a nothing because it comes out in a limited way, and so the קו is like nothing compared to the original

infinite light. So what he's basically saying here, it's not like that. הגדול הגיבור והנורא is is three It's right, left, and middle. Right, left, and middle and there's three people from the same level. Not only that, יעקב is the מובחר שבאבות because he includes,

he includes both of them. Right. It's דוקא יעקב that includes, so in other words, that the קו has both powers in it. Right. And it's the בריח התיכון. In other words, the קו can can can be מצמצם all the way down to

the level of the רשימו if he needs to, where he won't teach the class anything at all,

and he'll make them all write lines or sit in the corner,

or even like he can put a kid outside of the class, that means he's not teaching him at all. It's a total צמצום. Right. Where he's not teaching him.

And if he wants to, like, in other words, if he has an equivalent person to him, he can really teach him the whole entire thing.

Right. Not just a קו מצומצם. The קו can actually expand to the whole original thing. The קו can be the whole infinite light. Right.

So that's the thing of והנורא, meaning that really the קו is תפארת of the אור אין סוף. Right, it would that's what balances the other two. Not only that, it's really not just תפארת of the אור אין סוף, it's תפארת of the מאור.

In other words, that the what do you call it? That the infinite light, it's not תפארת of the אור אין סוף. אור אין סוף is חסד of whatever, Right. of a higher thing. אור אין סוף in this system over here is he's calling הגדול. Right.

And the צמצום והרשימו he's calling הגיבור. Right. And the קו he's calling והנורא. Right. And who is this? האל, the אייבערשטער himself. הגדול הגיבור והנורא means the line is ממש it's not the it's not really the line, the קו המידה, it's not the קו המידה, it's the teacher himself.

Right. It's not a thing is there's the actual קו המידה and you'll take this קו המידה and it's not the קו המידה, it's the teacher. Right.

The thing of the original thing is the teacher that knows the original thing. And that that he's מצמצם the whole thing, he's מצמצם it.

This thing that we say that the צמצום והרשימו that just means a power, that's that's that's just a description of something that the teacher himself did.

Right. There's no such thing like, you know, that the like the power of movement.

In other words, the thing that a cat can run is because he has the body of a cat.

If if you destroy the body of the cat, he can't run. There is no power of movement other than than his body.

It's not like a separate like a power of movement. Well, we we killed the cat, but here's his power of movement. Right. There ain't no power of movement.

Power of movement really means that he can move. Right. Without the cat, there's no power of movement. Right. Wait, hold on for a minute, they they just put on another dough, hold on for a minute. And, by the way, this is also what we were talking about before. It's a very big mistake that people make in terms of separating these things into things, like to think that the רשימו is a thing, and the קו is a thing, there's this thing and there's that thing.

Right. It doesn't work like that, that's not what it means. And that's what the whole thing what we what he was talking about in chapter 4, that when you learn it properly, the פרטים do not take away from the כלל. Right. In other words, we're not really talking about the קו over here. at all. Right. We're not talking about אצילות, we're not talking about the אור אין סוף, we're not talking about the יוד דסג, We're talking about the אייבערשטער.

We're talking about the אייבערשטער. Right. That's what we're talking about. על דעת התינוק הזה, that's what we're talking about. We are talking about the אייבערשטער.

In other words, when we're talking about the קו, we're talking that the אייבערשטער can measure the מקבל. Right. That's what we're really talking about. That's a thing that the אייבערשטער can do.

And we're talking about the אור אין סוף, it's that the אייבערשטער can be in infinite mode. Right. When we're talking about the צמצום and the רשימו, we're talking that the אייבערשטער can be in zero mode. Right.

You know, we're talking about the קו, means that the אייבערשטער can be in any mode he wants in between those two. Right. He can do anything he wants. If he wants, he can be infinite. And if he wants, he can be totally finite. Hold on for a minute.

If he wants, he can be anywhere in the middle. Right.

Okay, we're on the bottom line. שם, מ״מ וגו׳, והוא ערך כל האצילות כולו כהאי גוונא, הכל הוא מצד הארת האצילות, הארת העצמות דאין סוף שבקו זה, שהולך ונמשך עד למטה במלכות סוף כל דרגין, he's talking about מלכות דאצילות, and also it could be talking about

מלכות דעשיה. והיא הנותנת דוקא, this thing that he can spread downwards all the way to סוף כל דרגין, this is the same thing that gives

it, שיש בכחו למדוד מדה וגבול לכל אור וכלי ולכל יחוד משפיע ומקבל כמה יהיה מ״ד ומ״ן. In other words, in terms of different classes, the influence from above and influence from below, he measures it

all, כולו מצד בחינת הרשימו המגביל לכל הארות האצילות באופן משונים, from the, that's the power of the הגבלה. And both of these powers are included in the קו, כמו שהיה בעצמות אור אין סוף לפני הצמצום, and these אופנים משונים of the צמצומים already משוער before the actual צמצום.

Like we say by by the reaching for the the reaching for the vodka bottle, or the cat jumping. Right. ונמצא, מצד עצמות האור שבקו, נקרא בחינת היולי לכלול ולחבר את הכל, it's the היולי for all the unifications, מצד כח הרשימו המגביל שבו יגביל שיעור ומדה לכל, it can make all the הגבלות and give a שיעור ומדה to everything, על דרך אותה בחינת השיעור הראשון שנכלל ברשימו זו, and it can make the הגבלות according to the original שיעור in the גליף גליפו which was included in the

רשימו. על דרך משל אומן העושה רושם שמגביל האופן של עשיה, שלא למעשה. שלא למעשה, sorry, שיהיה הכל מדוקדק כמו שהוכרח השיעור בעצמי, that he makes a

blueprint, שלא ינטה ימין ושמאל, that he'll not go right or left from the original plan, and yet he doesn't have to rethink the whole plan anymore, it's all written down.

ואף על פי שלפעמים יהיה תוספת אור בהזמנת סלוק יתר מכפי מאמר קו המדה, different from the קו המדה, היינו מכח הארת העצמות דוקא, שלפעמים יאיר כך ולפעמים יאיר כך. What does that mean?

What does it mean? That sometimes it doesn't go according to the קו המדה. So what's the קו המדה? The קו המדה, according to the קו המדה, he made up a class plan: on Monday we're going to learn chapter 1, and on Tuesday we'll learn chapter 2, and on Wednesday we'll learn chapter 3, like that. Right. Right? But he can decide on Tuesday that instead of learning, let's say it's a science class, and we're supposed to learn chapter 3 today, he says to the class, "Today instead of learning chapter 3, I'm going to take you to NASA."

Right. And in NASA they're going to see something that's way beyond the קו המדה plan of what they were supposed to learn. Right. In other words, what they're going to see has no שייכות at all to their level.

Right. Has no שייכות to their level. Because they don't understand what's going on over there.

Or he's going to take them to the the museum of science or something like that, you know. Right. Okay, so this is not according to the plan.

So what happened to the קו המדה? Says, "Well, the teacher can do anything he wants." Says, "But wait a minute, but there was a plan to do something here, well, so why did he break the קו המדה over here?" Says, "Well, because when the kids go and see NASA and they'll see something that's way beyond the plan, means they'll see something not according to their ערך that they can understand, but they'll see according to something which they can't understand."

Right. Which is like, in other words, way beyond their capacity. This will give them a taste for this, that they'll want to become scientists.

Right. And really that's part of the plan.

So it seems to be part of the קו המדה if it's part of the plan. No, it's not part of the קו המדה. The קו המדה was that today we were supposed to And not only that, it's not according to their ערך. Right, the קו המדה is according to their ערך. Not according to their ערך at all. And this isn't according to their ערך at all. Not according to their ערך.

And then okay, then let's let's show, let's go the other way. And that's like something like a נס. Let's go the other way, let's go to the to the side of גבורה. And that's something like a What you just said, that's something like a נס that's like, let's say, a נס over here. Yeah, a נס breaks it break A נס doesn't go according to the Like קריעת ים סוף or something like that.

It's not according to the מקום and the the מידה of the place. It's not according to the מקום and the מידה of the place, and it's not according to what's supposed to happen. It's not according to the plan of creation. It goes outside of nature.

Right. Okay, well that's with the positive side. What about the negative? The negative side is that today they were bad, and we were supposed to do chapter four, and instead of doing chapter four, everybody's just going to sit there and do nothing.

You just have to sit there and shut up.

So, what's going on? You're not teaching them nothing.

Right. So this wasn't the plan. It's a breaking of the plan. Right. Because the plan Not only that, he gave out the the the curriculum at the beginning of the thing, "Today on Wednesday we were supposed to study chapter four." It says right there. That was his plan. He made a plan. Right, it's in the blueprint. On Tuesday we were supposed to study chapter three, and instead we went and we went to NASA, and on on Wednesday we were supposed to study chapter four, instead we're doing nothing, Right.

or writing lines or something like that, which is really not not productive according to according to the plan of learning. We're not learning what we're supposed to be learning. So what's going on here? So, "What? Because that's their punishment." Right. And the punishment is part of getting them to behave properly so that they'll study good. Right.

So, who is doing this? The teacher. The teacher's doing it. Means the teacher made the plan, and the teacher can break the plan. He doesn't have to go according to the plan. He can he can put a light into the into the plan that's not that's way too big for what was supposed to be there, a תוספת אור בנתעלם יתר מכפי מאמר קו המדה, היינו מכח אור העצמות דוקא, ולפעמים יאיר כך ולפעמים יאיר כך.

Right. וזה הטעם כל בחינת התחדשות אור באבי״ע הכל מעצמות אור אין סוף שלמעלה מן הצמצום דוקא, 'cause the אייבערשטער Himself is doing it! דהיינו נמשך באור העצמי נראה באופנים אלו, לפעמים בתוספת, לפעמים בגרעון. Sometimes it's less than what you're supposed to get. Right. והגם בשינויי היחודים שבכל פרצוף מא״ק עד עקבי דא״ק בסוף עשיה, מה השינויים בין זמן בית המקדש לזמן הגלות וכהאי גוונא,

really how things are now, it's not really according to plan. Right. According to plan, a person is supposed To be able to get a Jewish education. People are actually not able to get a Jewish education even if they wanted to. Right. And it's not available to them. What's going on? I mean, you want people to be religious, so why are you making a גלות like this? Right.

And this is the same kind of thing. I mean, if you want to teach these kids, why are you making them sit there for the whole day with doing nothing?

Right. And just suffering. That's what I want them. I want them to suffer.

Because they were bad boys. So I want them to suffer, so that next time, they won't do it no more.

But it's not really according to קו המדה. According to קו המדה, there's there if everybody would have been a certain would have cooperated properly,

it didn't have to be like this. It could have gone according to a plan. But because they didn't, so so you have to make an extreme thing to one side. Hold on for a minute.

extreme thing to one side. Sometimes you can make an extreme thing to one side in order to give them extra. Like for instance, במתן תורה, you didn't have to have all that hullabaloo in מתן תורה. Right.

You just could have had a quiet thing. משה could have gone off somewhere, you know,

like it didn't have to be in front of two million people. It could have been it could have been like what most of the religions claim, that some guy went to the desert and he got this thing. As a matter of fact, why didn't he just give it to him by the סנה?

And משה would have gone to Egypt, he could have had the written he could have come there with a חומש and a תלמוד and the whole bit, Right. in his hand, and say, "Yeah, you know, I talked to the אייבערשטער in the desert."

He talked to the אייבערשטער, by the way, on Mount Sinai. Right. He told him, "You're going to come back here." Right. That's That's he asked, "Why, what's going on?" He said, "You're going to come back here with with all the other people, and then I'm going to give you the תורה." Right. You know, so and even when he gave him the תורה, why it didn't have to be done with all that all that noise, Fireworks.

all the fireworks, right? Why did you make it with all the fireworks? Because he wanted to impress them, like when you take the kids to NASA. Right, and the whole יציאת מצרים and everything up till then. Yeah, okay, but it's not just that. The the מתן תורה was not it was not from the קו המדה.

Right. Neither was קריעת ים סוף. The whole world was shaking.

You know what I mean? The whole world was shaking. Also by קריעת ים סוף, it didn't have to be like that. Yeah, he could have just killed the Egyptians, they could have just dropped dead of a heart attack. Right, or just a natural like a fire just burned down all the pyramids or something.

Okay, I mean one of the things it says that it's דווקא because he wanted to do it with water. It was water, so their אייבערשטער was being... But he could have done it in a nice another way, where he didn't have to make it in this. But especially by מתן תורה, I mean, the whole world was shaking. I mean, everything was shaking, with angels flying around. It was, what's going on here?

It's not the natural order of things. Right. קו המדה means that it goes naturally according to the measurements, this is what was supposed to happen over here, and that's what's happening. Right.

But why do you do you have all of that? Like he said, he said to משה, "In order that they should believe in you." Right. It's being done to impress them.

And then, when you impress them like that, so then they'll keep the תורה properly. ובזמן הגלות כהאי גוונא. וזהו כלל הרי אנו אומרים יהי רצון מלפניך, מלפני עצמותך ממש, ולמעלה מי' ספירות דאצילות גם כן, לשנות הרצון הפשוט שכבר נמשך בעצמות האור אין סוף, ובאותו בשיעור ששיער בעצמו, עד שיהיה נמשך באופן אחר. It tells you,

we're telling him, "We want you to change the actual" The רצון. רצון that made the גליף גליפו. We want you to change the whole plan. ומדין לחסד כהאי גוונא כנ"ל בסוף אות ה', בענין אני ה' לא שניתי, בין רצון של חסד לדין, והראיה שלפני הצמצום יתעלה נעלם עוד יותר, that it's really only the צמצום that changes. בענין חפץ חסד

שבעצמות ההיולי שנכלל בעצמות כלו שיש בו ג' מדרגות עד שבא בדבר פרטי, ובא באריכות באות א', means that we want him to change all the way to the beginning of יחיד, so that when it goes through יחיד, אחד, and קדמון, and finally to the גליף גליפו and מלכות of קדמון and the שיעור, so the שיעור should be different, and therefore what will go into the רשימו will be different, and therefore what goes into the קו will be different.

Right. That's what I'm asking: איז דאס צום וניחם, וניחם ממש, to change the whole original רצון. By the way, I think that's supposed to be בסוף אות הח'. Doesn't say that over here, but it doesn't talk about in אות ה' the ענין of אני ה' לא

שניתי. Could be. It could be. Yeah, the ענין of אני ה' לא שניתי is really

ח' and ט'. Yeah, could be. Yeah, okay.

וכשאמרו אליו ולא למידותיו, מדבר גם ממידות העצמיות, means even higher than מידות העצמיות של אור אין סוף, מפני שבעצמות אור אין סוף לא מכלל אלו המידות כלל, means he can change all the מדות. כולו, ודי למבין. וזהו, this is what it means: אנת הוא דמייחד לון כולו, אנת דוקא, that means דוקא You.

Not these, they're not really different things. And the only reason you see it as different things is because you're forgetting about the You. Right. ובחוש when it's fierce, really it's the אייבערשטער is there. You're dealing, you're really not dealing with the מידת הדין, you're really dealing with the אייבערשטער. Right. וכן מעצמות אור אין סוף דוקא בא כח הגבול והמידה שבבחינת הרשימו שבקו, שמחמת זה נקרא קו המידה.

It's really coming from the עצמות אור אין סוף really. והא בהא תליא דוקא, means it's the אייבערשטער Himself is doing it. כמו שמבואר במקום אחר, והנה כללות החק שבעצמות אור אין סוף שהוא בחינת כח הגבול להגביל ולהעלים בעצמותו בעילוי אחר עילוי עד אין קץ ושיעור, היינו אור אין

Infinite Light Limits and Boundaries 27:06

סוף למעלה עד אין קץ. So now he's calling it backwards.

Now he says גבורה is the light going up and up. That's the ענין of the אור אין סוף. And חסד is בחינת התפשטות האור למטה מטה.

He's calling the אור אין סוף the ענין of גבורה, and the צמצום and רשימו in the קו is דוקא the חסד. Right.

Which is backwards from what we said before.

Which the thing is that's the thing in general of that the משפיע and the מקבל, when they face each other, the right of the משפיע becomes the left of the מקבל, and vice versa. Right.

So the thing of in terms of the משפיע, the צמצום is the גבורה, that's the צמצום. In terms of the מקבל now, the למעלה למעלה עד אין קץ means we don't get it, the ענין of the אור אין סוף is by us a גבורה. Right, and the צמצום and the רשימו, that's the חסד. And the צמצום and the רשימו, that's the חסד.

Mirror Image of Seal in Wax Analogy 28:49

Right. Because what's by Him the left side, the צמצום, is by us the right side. Right. And that's what it means like a גילוי of a גילוי, what he says later on is that's like the impression of the seal in the wax. So if you take a seal and you flip it, put it in the wax, that's it's flipped around. Right. And that's the

אור של תולדה. עד אין קץ על ידי הקו שנמשך מן הרשימו כולו, וב' כחות שקולים המה, these are two exact

powers, בבחינת אין סוף, and they're both infinite. על כן גם בירידת הארת אין סוף בהקו הזה, so in the way that the power of the light and the power of the רשימו are equal, means that the רשימו has the power to limit the entire light.

And the light has the power to blot out the whole רשימו, to fill out the whole חלל. I need to put in a new tape.

Conclusion and Technical Interruption 29:54

Yeah. I need to put in a new tape. Yeah.