Part 2 · Chapter 16

Understanding the Line and Circular Forms 0:00

ולהבין לפרט ענין הקו ממש ובחינת העגולים וכולו. והנה תחילה יש להקדים בחינת ראשית הקו הזה, שבא לבחינת אור הפנימי, ולאחר כך מסתעגל נמ... מבחינת אור פנימי וחוזר ומסתעגל. אולם מבואר בעץ חיים שבחינת עשר ספי... עשר ספירות דעגולים העליון מכולם משובח, והפנימי מכולם גרוע. ובחינת עשר ספירות דיושר להיפך: העליון גבוה והפנימי משובח וכולו. Right. ביאור הדברים, הנה ידוע שבחינת רצון קדום זה הגם שנתגלה בחינת רצון הפשוט המיוחד בעצמות, נקרא פשוט רצון.

אבל עדיין הוא בהעלם ולא בגילוי כלל. כי אין הראיה כשבאה עצם שוחס רצון הפשוט שהוא חפץ חסד שכולל בעצמות מכבר, כך יהיה בפועל ממש.

ומיד שעלה במחשבה זו, שיהיה הכל, הוא הנקרא מחשבה דרצון קדום. שכולל כל מה שבתוכו רצוניות פרטים. So, in other words, it is just simply the same רצון פשוט

that was already decided that that's the way it should be, and when it came up in an actual מחשבה,

that's what's called a רצון קדום. In other words, a מחשבה means that the מחשבה is a separate thing that's in letters. Right. It's the same thing like writing, that the writing is a separate thing from the original actual שכל, but the only difference is that מחשבה is like it comes up like inside of himself.

Right. And you say, "Wait a minute, but isn't that what the גליפו דגליפו was also like that?" But the גליפו דגליפו is not really a separate מחשבה.

It's really like the same way like a thing is like still part of the שכל, rather than an actual מחשבה. Right. And the thing is, and that's what it means, the צמצום went out, the מחשבה was there in the גליפו דגליפו, and you say, "Well, wait a minute. What about the רשימו?"

The Role of צמצום and גליפו 2:32

Right. The רשימו is also the גליפו דגליפו without, but like the light of the עצמות went out of it. Right. But it says, "Yeah, but that is still how it was really still inside of himself like that." So it's really considered really it's still the the רשימו is still

the עצמות. Right. And it went out like in a line of התפשטות from the רשימו over to the רצון קדום, to מחשבה קדומה. Right. So, whereas like really it's really again it's the same letters like the רשימו,

but the letters of the רשימו was ממש the letters of the of the גליפו דגליפו, Right. just that the light went out of them.

Letters of the Ancient Thought 3:54

Right. Whereas the letters of the מחשבה קדומה

is different letters. That's why it's called עתיק. It's It's a copy of those letters. It's not ממש those letters. Like another It's not the letters of the עצמות exactly anymore.

However, it's still the מחשבה of the עצמות, except it's like already the מחשבה of the עצמות how it's going to go to the outside, Right. going to the outside like, if that makes any sense.

It's already coming out. Yeah, but what he's saying here, that even though compared, so like we said, compared to עצמות it's like already like ממש a different thing,

but really it's really still the מחשבה of the עצמות. Right. So that even the the עצמות is gone, and the light of עצמות is gone, like in the רשימו, and even the letters, it's not even the same original letters anymore, but as far as the תוכן of it, it's exactly the same thing.

Loss of עצמות and Its Light 5:02

Nothing really changed. Right. Even though it's like just a copy.

So יען שהיא מחשבה זאת שהיא הכל, which means מחשבה רצון קדום, it means it's ממש the same thing, שכולל כל מה שבתוכה רצון של פרטים כנ״ל.

So this thing, compared to the עצמות, it's called התפשטות רצון. But as far as really it's really still just for himself, really. It's not really, it's not really for the thing yet.

It's really for his own, for his own enjoyment, actually.

Like like to say that for the chair, it's not really the chair, it's really his own sitting.

Right. כמשל הבניין, אם כן, עדיין רצון קדום זה, הכל בעצמו בלתי התגלה לחוץ. It's really still all inside of himself without coming to the outside, without being really revealed to the outside.

Self‑Knowledge Leads to Universal Knowledge 6:49

אבל ממנו נעשה הכל אחר כך. And this is basically the עניין that by knowing himself, he knows everything. Right. What do I mean by knowing himself, he knows everything? So how could he know everything?

Even even the fact that we said that you know, all the פרטים were really there, you say, "Wait a minute, but the פרטים were really there, but they were not really there in a way that they were really already how they were made out."

But really, the פרטים are really there, because like for instance, if you know the guy, you know what size pants he needs. Right. You know, how do you know? How did you know that these are the pants he would need? He said, "Well, I know him. I mean just, in other words, you measure him, you know what size pants he needs."

So the same thing, this is the thing basically that over here, it's still not considered that he knows anything outside of himself yet.

Right. And this is like the משל דבניין. Like the משל דבניין, actually, over here, there is still no רצון for a swimming pool.

There's a רצון for swimming. Right. And there's no רצון for a kitchen. There's a רצון for eating. Right. And there's no רצון for a bedroom. This over here is a רצון for sleeping. Right. So,

how does he know? So the thing is, for instance, if you know him, you'll know what kind of bedroom he wants. So like if he's a bird man, or let's say if he's a bird, so his bedroom is going to be a thing that there's going to be a a stick on it.

It won't look like our bedroom. Right. And his house will be without stairs. You come in from the top floor. Right. It'll be just different, because he's he's different, so the house is different. If you know him, you know what the house is going to be like.

So, the the thing that he knows really is not the house yet, it's him. Right. אבל אבל ממנו נעשה הכל אחר כך, from the way he is, that's how you make everything afterwards. Right. That's not what it says. It says from this רצון הקדום, but in this רצון הקדום, it's really himself.

Right. וזהו כי הוא אמר במחשבה קדומה, ויהי. He said in מחשבה קדומה, and then it it was. So, what did he say in מחשבה קדומה? That was the whole thing that that as far as אייבערשטער'ס concerned, he said it in מחשבה קדומה and finished.

Then it came out by itself already. ונקרא חי כל העולמים מראש דא"ק עד עקב דא"ק בסוף עשיה, והיינו כל היצור לא נכחד, that nothing is missing.

שאין פרט היוצא אחרון שלא קדם להיות ברור במחשבה זו.

Right. So, and the way of preparing the final thing,

every פרט of the final thing has to come with a פרט of the עצמות that's being prepared for.

You know. So, remember like we're talking about a king. Right.

King’s Custom Wishes for Every Detail 11:02

So in a king, as it's going to be prepared, everything is going to be custom. Right. You know what I'm saying? Right, it's going to be exactly how he wants it. Yeah, he's not buying a suit off the rack. Right. So like when we go and buy a suit, it's not made exactly, and then the tailor, even then the tailor then will go and stretch it here and do it there.

But even then, I mean you don't get ממש exactly like the color exactly what you want. Right. Same thing with the house. But here we're talking the original thing that's exactly what he wants.

So like what we're going to talk about later is that really in us there's also exactly what you want. Right. Except that you can't don't necessarily afford it. Right.

But in a king, he gets exactly what he wants. Like when he wants some wine, he'll get exactly what he wants, even if it costs a thousand dollars a bottle. Right. You know, and like when he gets his clothes, it'll be exactly. Right. Exactly what he wants. So that every little פרט will go according to a פרט that's in the מחשבה קדומה, which goes according to himself.

Right. There's not one little thing. So what he's what is he saying, the יצור

is a very important thing here. That even if you see a bug,

that bug is like somehow an enclothment of some detail upstairs. Right. Anything. It's an enclothment. It's says כל היצור לא נכחד ממך, it's nothing missing. There cannot be any creature

that's not fitting some detail upstairs. Now you can say, well what about like there's some yucky things?

Even “Yucky” Things Fit Divine Plan 13:15

So the thing is that like even the yucky things, I mean they still

they they're still yucky according to something upstairs. Right. So so like even even to the point like you say, but look at look at עמלק that the thing is how can you say it fits him, the whole thing is to kill him.

Right. So this is the thing, I mean how do you get it, you see look at the look at the guy's house. In the guy's house he has this like computer arcade, you know Atari game.

And that Atari game is fighting against him.

And this thing that is fighting against him fits something in his character.

In other words, it דווקא it דווקא has to fight against him, otherwise you don't you don't want an Atari game that just says, "Hi, how you doing?"

You want דווקא that it's fighting against him, right? Right. That that fits the that fits the מדה of נצח, in other words.

So, the basic thing is that every little thing you see, you cannot have any little thing in the world that is not really actually It's not just an enclothment of it. It really is it. It's ממש the מחשבה קדומה which is ממש the אייבערשטער, like it's like the stamp of the אייבערשטער. Right. Which the stamp of the אייבערשטער, it means it's ממש the אייבערשטער's name. Right. You know.

So, in terms of like respect, you have to respect everything.

Like if you see a squirrel, you're seeing God. Right. You say, "How can you, what do you mean?" So, you have to think about it. It means anything that's in what He wanted

Respecting All Creation as Divine 15:35

is part of Him. It fits some part of Him. Right. Like like as far as clothing, there there's not any part of the clothing

that does not fit some part of the king. And like if you spit on a part of the clothing, you know, Right. like it can be on the shoe, on the on anything, you're spit If you're spitting on it, you're spitting on the king. Right. So, you have to have a lot of respect. This this tells you basically כל היצור לא נכחד ממך. It's ממש comes from It's ממש literally you're looking at the אייבערשטער when you're looking at anything.

Right. So, אין פרט ויוצא אחרון שלא קדם להיות ברצון ומחשבה זו. There's nothing that wasn't originally over there. Right. So, it doesn't matter. I mean, you can see you can see some stupid dirty bum walking down the street half drunk and you say, "What What about him?" Yeah, it's Even the פרט ויוצא אחרון could not be there that wasn't first over there.

ואדרבה, סוף מעשה, not only that, it's not just like דווקא עולמות אצילות were really really over there and we're not so really really over there. Just the just the opposite. The סוף מעשה, כמו בסוף אלף השביעי עלה במחשבה קדומה זו תחילה.

It came up in this מחשבה קדומה תחילה, and this is also you see in terms of clothings, it's also like that. That it's דווקא the most external clothings that represent the king more.

Like like by you, for instance, if you go out in the street, you can't go with your internal clothings, with your underwear, cuz your internal clothings is not ממש the real כבוד. Right. It's the most external clothings that you wore over them, the ones on the total outside, that's the real כבוד.

And the same thing with with a house,

even though in terms of holding the house up and stuff like that, and the actual structure of the house, the cement and the studs, you know, you saw a house when it's being built, the skeleton, you know, with wires running all over the place and plumbing pipes, Right.

Final Appearance Over Structural Skeleton 18:19

but the real thing that you wanted is דווקא the finished product, the thing that you really wanted is the wallpaper. Right. You know, when when he thought of a house, he thought of a room surrounded with wallpaper.

Right. And the fact that really behind the wallpaper there has to be a dry wall and behind the dry wall there has to be studs

and whatever all these other things are, he thought of the room with wallpaper on the walls. Like when he went with his wife to plan it, they didn't talk about the studs, they talked about wallpaper.

Right. And a a carpet on the floor or parquet or whatever, you know. Right. And the the the ceiling was mainly the paint, not so much the dry wall.

Right. And basically, like we said that the real thing is is that he wanted to please his wife, so the main thing that she was thinking about is like the fixtures on the ceiling, you know, the beautiful chandelier, Right. which is really the most external final level that is done at the end. Even even in terms of the עשיה, it's the end of the עשיה. It means first you put up the studs, then then the dry wall, then after you have the whole building, and as far as as far as the construction crew, that by them, it's like really a finished building.

Right. And when you walk in with a wife, she says, "Look at this place. You know, it is dust all over the floor, and it's not even a floor yet, it's just a piece of plywood, you know? Right. Now now it comes to the final touches. You know. Where you bring in the decorator. The decorators, yeah. And the thing is in the במחשבה תחילה, that's the way you saw it, not the stuff that's behind it.

So over here also, the the real thing is דווקא when the whole thing is finished. So,

כמו בסוף אלף השביעי. So not only in terms of the סוף מעשה of the actual world being there, but even in terms of the physical world, really the whole thing was how it's going to be at the end of the seventh the seventh millennium.

Right. When we are already have sat down and studied שער היחוד for a thousand years. Right. And not only like שער היחוד, but with all its commentaries. Right. Like ע״ב and stuff like that.

Right. You know, in other words, it's when we we we'll have had the thousand years of משיח, then it's already the thing that he wanted, and then we can start on the

50,000 יובלות. Right. Okay. And this came out מחשבה קדומה זו תחילה, כמו שמבואר במקום אחר באריכות. Okay. ולשון הזוהר נקרא, this מחשבה קדומה is called עתיקא דעתיקין or עתיקא סתימאה. It's it's it's the תענוג of all the תענוגים, or the the the the the the the תענוג הסתום,

Ancient Concealed Thought (עתיקא דעתיקין) Defined 21:56

meaning that it's not really a תענוג for it's for the outside yet. It's not a revealed תענוג, meaning it's not a תענוג for the chair, it's a תענוג for himself to sit.

Right. והוא בחינת רעוא דכל רעוין עילאין. That is the ענין of the also, besides being called the the the תענוג of all תענוגים, it's also called the רצון of all the רצונות, דאתגליא במצחא דעתיקא קדישא.

That these things are revealed in the מצח of עתיקא קדישא. כי ברצון מלובש התענוג, והיו לאחדים ממש, that's why it's called the the the עתיקא דעתיקין or רעוא דכל רעוין, the the the תענוג of all the תענוגים and the רצון of all the רצונות, because it's ממש one thing.

וברצון הפשוט ההיולי שבחפץ חסד ההיולי הנ״ל באות י״ד י״א, היה כלול בו התענוג הפשוט שבעצמותו, שנקרא שעשוע המלך בעצמותו. And that's ממש even more than this one, that this is even though it's עתיקא דעתיקין, this is already the actual תענוג compared to the תענוג how it was there, because over there was ממש prior to עצמות still. And it's it's not just that it's בלתי מורכב, over there it's היה כלא היה.

וגם בג׳ מדרגות: יחיד, אחד וקדמון, עד שבא בדבר פרט אנא אמלוך, שזהו בחינת מלכות דאין סוף שלפני הצמצום, כמו שמבואר שם, הכל בבחינת שעשוע המלך בעצמו בתהו ובהו עילאה.

אך עתיקא דעתיקין, מקור כל התענוגים, רעוא דכל רעוין כו׳, היינו בבחינת הקו שאחר הצמצום, שכולל כמה רצונות ותענוגים שעתידים לבוא בגילוי. That's the actual

רצון for himself, but it's a רצון for himself like in relation to the עצמות, it's like the for himself for a house. It's a רצון קודם for a house.

So you say, what do you mean a רצון for a house? I thought you said it's not really a רצון for a house. So, you say, yeah, it's not really a רצון for a house, it's really a רצון for a home. Which a home means it's really a רצון for himself. But it's already in relationship to a house, really.

So, it's not totally like the the רצון הפשוט is not like the רצון for himself, it it is himself. Right. The the תענוג הפשוט is ממש himself, it's not really the the רצון or תענוג for himself, it's ממש

himself. שעתידים לבוא בגילוי Oh, okay, here we go. ועתיקא סתימאה Right. Yeah, ועתיקא סתימאה ובחינת כתר דא"ק שהוא בהעלם, הרצון והתענוג לעצמו עדיין. It's really still for himself, רק שחושב להיות הדבר כך לפועל הגילוי. So it's it's it's not just ממש himself, it's ממש himself thinking in terms of sitting.

So that they'll have they'll have to be a chair, even though he's not really thinking of a chair, actually.

כמו להיות גילוי הרצון והתענוג להאציל עשר ספירות

כולו. But it's not really the the רצון for אצילות yet. ולכן נקרא עתיקא סתימאה בחינת העלם לגילוי על כל פנים, מה שאין כן ראשית הקו נקרא סתימא דכל סתימין.

והמחשבה דא"ק לא תפיס בה כולא. And this is we're talking about the רצון הקדום is called עתיקא עתיקא סתימאה, it's already a עתיק, but it's סתום. But the the ממש ראשית הקו is called סתימא דכל סתימין, that even עתיקא סתימאה cannot grasp it. And then it goes like this, like you go before the parentheses, להיות גילוי הרצון והתענוג להאציל עשר ספירות, then you skip to the end of it, ולהיות הרצון והתענוג לברוא כולו.

Oh, and here's what he says: ועתיקא קדישא הוא התענוג שבחכמה, והוא בחינת עתיק יומין ואריך אנפין דאצילות. So oh that's what it is, yeah. Okay, עתיקא קדישא is עתיק and אריך. Of אצילות? Of אצילות, means the the what what is usually called עתיק and אריך. Okay, but what he said before about רעוא דכל רעוין עילאין דמתגליא במצחא דעתיקא קדישא Yeah. that seems to be a higher level.

No, it's מתגלה in the it's it's עתיק and אריך is the is the תענוג and רצון הגלוי, that's where the גילוי is. Oh, I see, I get it. The גילוי is in עתיק and אריך, and the מצחא is like the Yeah, the רעוא דכל רעוין עילאין is is מתגלה, and רעוא דכל רעוין is the מחשבה קדומה, but the מחשבה קדומה is סתום. Right. And even the even א"ק is called the רצון הנעלם.

There's not there's no actual גילוי in א"ק of what it actually is, it's only in the Right. It's only in in in in עתיק, which that's the thing I was wondering before, cuz I I read in some places that that is called עתיקא קדישא as אריך. I read in some places said that עתיקא קדישא is אריך, but what here he explains better, that עתיקא קדישא means the whole כתר.

I need to flip the tape. Yeah.