Part 1 · Chapter 16

Primordial Desire and Hidden Nature 0:00

והיינו דהיינו כמו שעלה ברצונו הפשוט ההיולי לבוא לידי גילוי דווקא, היה כולל כל פרטי הרצונות. והוא הרצון הכולל כולם, ונקרא רצון קדום לכל מה שבאחריו.

ואחר כך בא רצון זה דרך פרט, כמו הרצון להאציל וכולי, כלול עשר ספירות It's not וכולי, it's ובו כלול. It's a ב, not a כ. Okay, here's the ח. ובו כלול עשר ספירות בכל פרטיהם, ועדיין הכל בהעלם עד שבא לידי גילוי.

So who means is this רצון כלל רצון קדום that's coming into the פרטים, this פרט the רצון להאציל is still בהעלם. It only comes in גילוי when the actual אצילות of the thing, שנמצאו ד' בחינות דאצילות וכולי. ואחר כך, and then comes הרצון לברא יש מאין וכולי, ובו שכל ומדות וכולי, עד הרצון לעשיה אחרונה, שהוא כל אשר חפץ עשה, כולל סוף הכל the end of everything to actually, which includes all the particular רצונות of the עשיה.

Returning to the House Desire 1:27

So now to take it back to the רצון of the house, so it's not the same thing what he's talking about here

in terms of the house and the kitchen.

But what it's talking about is like this, and that's also why the if you say the house and kitchen and a sink, so the main thing is not just a sink. Over here we're saying the main thing is the עשיה and everything else is just a דרך מעבר. Right. The אצילות, right? But the real thing he wants is just the end the end thing. Right. So so what what does it mean?

So it means like this: first comes the רצון להאציל. So when he

has the רצון for the house, which really was part of רצון המוחלט, which is very simply because it says that a person who doesn't have a house is not a person.

Right. You know? Right. And not only that, what he really wants is not a house, it's a home. Right. Like it says ביתו, ביתו זו אשתו. Right. His house, that means his wife. Right. He needs a place to live in with his wife. That's what he really wants. That's the real thing that he wants. The real thing he wants is a wife. Right. And like we just learned, you know, with לבן that it's called the house of of יעקב was the tent of לאה, of of רחל, I mean.

And it said then it said the other it it called them by their by their names, this one called the house of יעקב. So his wife, that is house.

That's what he really wants. So then comes the רצון להאציל. What's the רצון להאציל? The רצון להאציל means inside of himself, because אצילות is still not outside of himself.

Understanding רצון להאציל and Personal Desires 3:36

So he has to look inside of himself and know himself in in relation to the house, means what he wants from the house. Right.

So in the רצון להאציל, the swimming pool is not really a swimming pool. It's the תענוג and רצון to swim. Right. And the kitchen is not really a kitchen, it's the רצון to eat.

Right. He knows that he likes to eat in a certain way, so he'll need a certain kitchen. But in order to come up with the house, the first thing he has to do is to be מאציל, which means to be מפריש from his own personality what the מדות of the house will be. Right. Which the מדות of the house is really his מדות. Right. If he's a person that's a שכל person, then he'll have a שכל type of house.

Right. If he's a person that's a physical person, then he'll want like a tennis court or something like that. Right. But really, it's not a tennis court, it's his own desire to be a certain way. And he has to clarify what his רצונות are

to himself. Right. And that's the אצילות of the house.

From אצילות to בריאה: The Architect’s Role 5:26

Then the next thing, he has to go to level of בריאה. Level of בריאה means when you go to the architect. The architect has to take from מלכות of אצילות

becomes כתר of בריאה. What does it mean? That the guy tells him, so the architect says to the guy, "So what do you want from a house?" Right. He has to He has to get The only way that he can make a perfect house for this guy is he has to get from the מלכות of אצילות that the guy should tell him what it was that he was משער inside of himself, what he saw for himself for a house.

Right. What is his רצון and תענוג for a house? Right. What would you like? I mean, you want to make big parties, you know. Right. You want Do you want to entertain a lot, or you just want to sit by yourself and read books?

Right. So then if you If he wants to sit by himself and read books, so you have a library, a den and a library. Right. You know, if the guy likes to entertain a lot, you're going to need a big kitchen

and a large banquet room, banquet room for entertainment. Right. Right. So the the מלכות of אצילות becomes כתר of בריאה. That's the רצון that gives the the architect the whole thing of what he will want to design when he designs a house for this person.

Right. And it's coming out in דיבור to the architect. What? The מלכות of אצילות is the דיבור. The דיבור, yeah. The guy The guy goes to the architect, and the architect has to get out of him to tell him what it is that he wants for a house. Right, tells him what to make. Which Which, basically, when he's telling him what he wants for the house, he's really telling him about himself, the גופא דמלכא.

Right. He's telling him about his own body, really. Who he is and Who who and what he is. what his desires are, and so on and so forth. I mean, if he's a guy that likes to have strong muscles, so he'll want a weightlifting room.

Right. But in אצילות, it's not a weightlifting room yet. Right. It's the גופא דמלכא, it's the muscles of the king.

That's the weightlifting room, the fact that he wants to have muscles. And the kitchen is his stomach. Right. It's the גופא דמלכא. And each part of the house, you know, comes from a certain

perception of himself. perception of himself, or even from a part of the body, like Right. the kitchen comes from the digestive tract, as does the bathroom. Well, the perception, the self-perception as a whole is is an א"ק.

We didn't get to the self-perception yet. We're talking about אצילות already, no? No, this is all in the מחשבה קדומה. Oh, right, okay. He didn't go to the He didn't go to the architect yet. Right. So the מחשבה קדומה is א"ק. No, the מחשבה קדומה is כתר of whatever, is before א"ק. Over here there's not even a רצון a רצון for אצילות yet. Right. The אצילות is just automatically included that when he has the מחשבה קדומה for the house, it includes the אצילות of a house within itself.

Right. Within himself. And it includes So we're not talking about the actual אצילות yet. Right, right. This this אצילות is in We're talking about מחשבה קדומה, whatever that is. It's as it as it is included in the מחשבה קדומה, כתר of א"ק. Right. Right. And what is What is יצירה? יצירה is when the architect came out with a concept of the house.

That it was now it's no longer It's not the concept of the person anymore. It's a בריאה. It's a בריאה חדשה, something from nothing.

Before it wasn't a house, it was a person. Now, it's the concept of a house, a בריאה חדשה, something from nothing. Now takes it to the contractor that the architect created according to the shape of a person. Right. Or, for instance, a chair, in a in the first the actual עצם of the chair is a תחת. Right. That's himself. Right. If you can if you can if you want to if you want to create the perfect chair, you have to know what a תחת is like.

And also what a back is. The whole thing, right. What You have to know the person, the measurements, the the And the arms. Yeah, like the שיעור קומה. Right. The שיעור קומה, that's that's what we talking about in א״ק.

But this is before still. It's just a מחשבה קדומה. Right. And that's the יצירה. היצירה is when the concept was in בריאה, and then the architect gave over the concept to the draftsman.

Creation Phase and Blueprint Development 11:01

Right. The guy who draws the צורה, before it was just a concept. In in בריאה, it's still just a concept. Right. And now it's becoming an actual It's still not ממש a house, but it's already and יצירה means you make the צורה. Right. You're יוצר, you make the צורה of the thing, and that's the drafting of the entire plan that was created in בריאה, something from nothing, now it's turned into an actual צורה.

Right. And then עשיה is when you went to the contractor, and you gave him So, the thing is that that כתר of יצירה comes from מלכות of בריאה, that the architect tells the

draftsman what he came up with, then the draftsman comes up with a actual blueprint, the final blueprint is like מלכות of יצירה, which basically tells the final צורה that he came up with to the contractor, and that becomes the כתר of עשיה, that now he wants to make a house according to the blueprint.

Right. This goes all the way down to the to the last nail in the house is included in the מחשבה קדומה. Right. Okay, now when the contractor finishes the house, then there's the house itself. Right. And then when the guy moves into the house and furnishes it and moves in with his wife, that's the מחשבה קדומה itself. That was really the מחשבה קדומה. Right. That was really it.

Final House Completion and Home Realization 12:56

At the real desire, that was the real original design. That was the real original design. You see, this is not really even עשיה. Right. It's really the product of עשיה. It's not the contractor. The contractor now now we don't need a contractor no more.

The contractor stays over there and says, What are you doing here? You finished building the house, here's your money, get out of here. Right. Right? Exactly. What are you doing here? What do I need you for? Get out of my house. Get get get out of here.

My wife is coming any minute, I don't want her to see these guys. Right. So, the the actual final product is, in a way, not really a part of the השתלשלות. Right.

And yet, it is the real מחשבה קדומה. Right. Real מחשבה קדומה, as a matter of fact, was not even for the house, was on שבת when he sits there with his guests and his wife lit the candles, and they have a nice bottle of wine on the table, and they bring out the שמאלץ herring and the vodka.

That's what was in the מחשבה קדומה. Right. But it included, you know, you see that in the מחשבה קדומה is included the whole process of getting to it, but really even in the מחשבה קדומה itself, he really didn't think of the process. Right. He really did not think at all of אצילות all the way down to עשיה.

He just thought directly to the last thing, I want a home. My wife. Well, that is the the home is the wife. The home is the fact that he sits there with his wife, not the fact that there's walls. Right. That's why by a squirrel, a home doesn't mean walls, it just means where he sits with his wife.

It's a hole in a tree. Right. You know, or by a bird, it's a nest.

Right. So, the main thing is the wife. Right. The home is the place where the family is. The main The main thing is him with his family is going to be there. Right. A place for him to live, a דירה.

כל אלה זה סוף המעשה, סוף הכל. וכל פרטים הללו נכללו ברצון הקדום, they're already included in the רצון הקדום, שבא בבחינת ההשפעה על כל פנים אחר הצמצום. That already that by רצון הקדום, it's you could sort of say that it's already in the way of השפעה, but really it's not השפעה. The רצון הקדום is is really still for himself. Right. It's not for it's not even for the house, it's for the home.

Right. It's It's for that תענוג that he is going to get, it's really for his own תענוג. Right. והוא בחינת ראשית הקו, and that is the beginning of the line. דהיינו עיגול הראשון שאחר המשכת ראשית הקו. So what is he saying here? He said he said two opposite things here. Right. Says that's the ראשית הקו, that is the עיגול הראשון which is after the ראשית הקו, כמו שנתבאר לעיל.

Circular Nature of Desires and ראשית הקו 16:31

So again, it depends which קו you're talking about. There's a קו ההיולי, the first קו היולי, then there's the next קו which will include all the way to the end of א\"ק. And that's the beginning of א\"ק. Right. שנקרא מקיף כללי לכללות כל הד' עולמות דאבי\"ע שמקיף עליהם בשוה

שנקרא מחשבה כללית שצופה ומביט בסקירה אחת מראש לסוף הכל כולו. וזהו ביאור ענין כללי לכללות ענין הקו הזה. You notice he says this is the ביאור כללי to the קו, and yet he didn't talk about the קו at all in this whole chapter. Right. He talked about the מחשבה קדומה, and he's calling it the קו. Right.

And then he also said, דהיינו עיגול הראשון שאחר ראשית הקו. Right. And before that, he says, נכללו ברצון הקדום שבא בבחינת השפעה על כל פנים אחר הצמצום, והוא בחינת ראשית הקו. Right. So, he's calling the רצון הקדום ראשית הקו, then he calls it it's after ראשית הקו. In the same sentence! In the same sentence. So basically, the explanation of it is that the רצון הקדום is after ראשית הקו, but the the the the כתר of the רצון הקדום comes from מלכות of ראשית הקו, so it's it's the the end the end point from the ten points is the point of מלכות of the ראשית הקו.

And really it's not really considered the actual ראשית הקו, it's really מלכות of מלכות of ראשית הקו, which comes really not even really מלכות of מלכות, but how מלכות of מלכות comes to become the כתר of the next rung, the next thing down. Right.

So, and this ראשית הקו that that the מחשבה קדומה is, that's the קו from that comes down from the מחשבה קדומה, includes all the worlds, it's a מקיף כללי. Right. וזה הביאור ענין כללי לכללות ענין הקו הזה, ובפרט איך שנעשה, מה שמתעגל וחוזר ומתעגל, which he told us really מה שמתעגל. That's what he described, yeah. But חוזר ומתעגל he never said anywhere. Right.

יובן לפי איזה משל הנ\"ל, וכמו שיתבאר בסמוך בעזרת השם והבן, but really he did when he said the four worlds. And really it's חוזר ומתעגל, he's going to explain the ענין of the עיגולים. The basic thing is that the ראשית הקו comes to the first circle, and he explains to you how that happened. happens, from the צמצום to the, from the רשימו to the, to the ראשית, to to to the מחשבה קדומה, then from the מחשבה קדומה, which is the עיגול quality comes a line to the next פרט, which is again the circle.

Right. Which is the רצון כללי again for what's inside of it. Like he told you, he actually did tell us, like אופן inside of אופן. Right.

And in general he explained it, and it works in the same way, that from the this one comes, and when that when the lower circle comes it again is in a way of a מחשבה קדומה

to what's inside of it. Right. And as a matter of fact, each רצון is like that, all the way down to even a רצון for a pizza.

Right. When a guy has a רצון for pizza, oh, hey, I'd like a piece of pizza. So that already includes all the רצונות in it, like to go look for his wallet, to to get his car key, to go drive in the car, to go to the pizza place, Right. to joke with the guy at the pizza place, you know, Right.

everything. But what he really wanted is the end of the whole thing he's going to get the pizza. Right. That's what he actually wanted. In the רצון הקדום it was a a רצון for a pizza.

Right. And so even when it comes from a רצון כללי to a רצון פרטי, that רצון פרטי again becomes like a רצון הקדום to everything that is inside of it. Right. And it comes בסקירה אחת of everything.

Right. So, really he did, that's מתעגל וחוזר ומתעגל, והוא יובן לפי אופן משל ונמשל כמו שיתבאר בסמוך בעזרת השם ודי למבין. So that's that.