Part 1 · Chapter 25

Overview of the Sefirot Hierarchy 0:00

I'm looking forward, I see that we did do it. Okay. והנה, so כ"ה basically goes along with 1, 2, and 3. Right. והנה מעט יש להבין בפרטי ענין עשר ספירות דאצילות, דהיינו בירידת הארת חיצוניות נה"י דאריך אנפין באו"א. ולפעמים אמר דאו"א מלבישים לזרועות דאריך אנפין, so which is seems to be higher than נה"י, which means חסד וגבורה, ומה שאמר רישא דמלכא בחוורתא אתתקן, this thing what it says that the רישא דמלכא is enclothed in חסד וגבורה, that's not what about this, היינו בחינת רישא דאריך אנפין what it was talking in the last chapter, דאתתקן בחוורא דעתיק יומין, בחסד דעתיק יומין בגולגלתא וכולו.

And now, ולפעמים אמר דאבא יניק ממזלא ח' ונוצר, ואימא ממזלא י"ג ונקה, which means in it receives from חב"ד of אריך. So if in some place it says that חב"ד receives from נה"י of אריך, and some place it says from חג"ת of אריך, and some place it says in from חב"ד of אריך. Right, so what's the story? אך הנה ידוע בענין כח מ"ה, דהחכמה מאין תמצא מבחינת אין, והבינה נקראת יש.

Nature of Wisdom and Understanding 1:30

והאור והשפע דאין דחכמה מאיר ונמשך בבחינת השגת הבינה, שזהו מאין ליש. And this is all a very short recap of what it says in chapter 1 and 2. ונקראין תרין רעין דלא מתפרשין וכולו, that they always work together.

כחדא שריין, they are there like one. וכולו. והוא בחינת נקודה דחכמה שמבריק כברק מלמעלה מן השכל. בלשון העולם הבנה, means חכמה.

In other words, what is usually called understanding, that's wisdom, that's חכמה. Right. In other words, understanding means to actually understand the thing. Like when somebody understands, he says, "Oh, I see that. I see what it means now." Right. "I see what you're trying to get at."

So to see it, that's חכמה. Right. Whereas בינה doesn't mean to understand, it means to analyze and to grasp in a way of a something, not to actually just see it in a in a way of an אין. Whereas understanding means you finally understand it, and you don't need an explanation anymore. It's not an explanation. Right, it's higher than an explanation.

והיינו מכח המשכיל שנקרא חכמה סתימאה דאריך, דאריך אנפין. So this נקודה דחכמה שמבריק כברק מלמעלה מן השכל, that's actually יסוד of, that's יסוד of of חכמה actually. The הברקה, the ברק, that's already the the יש of the חכמה. Right. Means it's already a מבריק כברק, it's there. It's not really grasped, it's just a הברקה. If you don't grasp it with a בינה right then, it'll disappear, cuz like a ברק, disappears.

Flash of Insight as Chochma 3:10

Right. But that's really יסוד אבא that he's talking about, but it comes from מכח המשכיל. And this כח המשכיל is called חכמה סתימאה דאריך, and this is all covered in chapters 1 and 2.

ונקרא חכמה נעלמה, like, you know, the aquifer. Right. שהוא מקור ומוצא כל שכל מאין. That's the actual מקור where each שכל comes from the אין.

ונקרא משכיל כידוע. It's called the actual the actual משכיל, what gives the השכלות. והיינו שאמר דאבא יניק ממזלא ח' ונוצר, עשוי כצינור, כצינור דק, כשאר בחינת שערות דמזלא ח'. It's like a narrow tube that a little bit of water from the aquifer comes, and that's the same the same type of משל like the ארעא מחלחלא, what is it? חלחלא ומחלחלא, you know? Yeah, ארעא חלחולא מחלחלא. חלחולא מחלחלא, right, that in other words that the revealed חכמה, which is the מעין, is where deep and deep and come out of the ground, that's what's called a מעין.

That's the חכמה גלוי', and that is connected by a narrow vein, in other words, it's same thing like a tube, right, to the aquifer, and a little tiny bit comes out through it from the vast reserves that are in the משכיל.

כך בחינת שערות המזלות, and these the שערות, the reason it's called שערות, because it is בחינת הוא בחינת צומח שבמשכיל. And now in this משכיל, the ענין of צמיחה, להצמיח מעין כל מיני אשכולות, the same like a tree grows pears and peaches and stuff, these אשכולות is like the צומח in the משכיל.

והיניקה בחינת הגדלת מוחין דאבא, and it's the same like a hair is like a is like a plant in a way, it's called צומח שבחי.

It ממש has a root and everything, and the root has to get nourishment. Right. You know, the root gets the יניקה. There's a little well down there that it gets the יניקה from. Right. And this יניקה is the הגדלת מוחין דאבא, and it gets the יניקה from the end of the thing and then it grows a new idea. והגדלת מוחין דאימא היינו מזל י"ג דונקה.

Nourishment of the Father's Mind 6:17

So the אימא also has a root in the כח המשכיל. It's called כח המשכיל, but really it's be called two כחות: כח המשכיל and כח המבין.

Right. וב' מזלות, and that this is that what it is basically is is חכמה ובינה of אריך.

וב' מזלות הללו, מזלא עילאה ומזלא תתאה, הן שורש המוחין דאבא. והוא, and this means that בכח המשכיל עצמו יש שורש הגדלת מוח ההבנה, I mean חכמה, ושורש הגדלת מוח התפיסה והשגה, that's בינה. שהן נקראין מוח אבא ומוח אימא, כידוע. וכמו שבחינת מוח בינה שהוא מוח התפיסה והשגה מקבל מבחינת העין דמוח החכמה, כך בשורשן ביחוד ב' מזלות דאריך אנפין דנוצר ונקה כו', it's also like that.

That בינה of אריך receives from חכמה of אריך. In the שורש, it's also like that. Right. כידוע, דגם שהמזלות נקרא שערות שנבקעו ויצאו רק מבחינת מותרי מוחא סתימאה דאריך אנפין, אבל שורשן מעצמות הגולגולת שלמעלה מגוף פנימיות המוחא סתימאה, like hair, that even to the hair are יונק from the that there's there's a well with שומן in it, with like oily stuff in it, that the hair grows from, right, a nutrient, that nutrient comes actually from the brain, not from the bone, right, so even though they're יונק from the the משכיל of the brain,

but nonetheless they're rooted in the skull. Right. So what he's saying that even though the the these מזלות that the חכמה and בינה get from are receiving from מוחא סתימאה דאריך, but really they have a שורש which is higher than the גוף of the פנימיות המוחא סתימאה, the actual גוף of the of the משכיל. Right. שלכן נבקעו ויצאו בבחינת מותרות, and that's why they broke through and they come out in a way of מותרות, like that's why they're called hair.

Right. It's like leftovers. Right. It's not even like part of the body anymore. And you can cut them and you don't feel nothing. It's like junk.

כמשל בקיעת הגיד סתם בייתר. And these are various משלים, like a What about כמשל of what? הגיד. It says here הנוד. Oh, הנוד. Okay, it can be הנוד also. הנוד, what what a נוד is, is that if you have a a bottle under pressure, right,

the And, yeah, it's also a משל of a of a גיד of a of a מעיין, you know, when you when you, I saw it before in חסידות it's a, you know, that it says אריך has גידין, you know, like veins? Yeah. If you plug up a מעיין, it'll it'll the pressure will build up, and if once it breaks through it'll it'll push it extra. Right. Like if you go and and if you have a like a pressure cooker?

Huh? Like a pressure cooker. Yeah, like like if you have your tap on, your water tap, you stick your finger in it. Right. It makes the pressure stronger even. It makes it come out like a spritz. Right.

So the the the סתימה makes it stronger. So in other words the fact that it has to go through the bone,

it makes it a bigger thing than the original stuff. כוח חכמה שגובר עליו כוח השכל ביותר, ממילא מזה נובלות. And now is the thing of נובלות, that when there's a very strong power in the חכמה, that's when the נובלות go down. ששרש הנובלות יתר גבוה מגוף אור השכל, that the שורש of the נובלות is higher than the actual body of the אור השכל. וכך אמר נובלות חכמה שלמעלה תורה, לשבח דווקא.

Nobalah – Overflow of Wisdom 11:40

It says that the תורה is just נובלות. נובלות is like, you know, the leaves that fall off the tree. In other words, just rotten leaves. Right. And it says that the חכמה is just the stuff that fell off. Right. So that the stuff that falls off, same thing. This is also the ענין when you overfill your cup. Right. The stuff that means that some of it spills over shows that the cup is overfull.

Right, כוסי רוויה. Yeah, the the stuff that falls over shows shows the stuff is is overfull. Right. And a a good משל on that is a a פארברענגען.

You know, if you come to a פארברענגען after the פארברענגען, right, and you see, you know, there's a few bottles of soda on the table and you know, there's some leftovers on the table and stuff like that, so you say, "Eh, I didn't miss much."

But if you come to a פארברענגען and there's spaghetti on the walls,

you know, and there's all kinds of stuff, the more worse it is on the floor, the better the פארברענגען was. Like if you see throw up on the floor, you know, right, and if you see people on the floor, you know you say, "Wow, I really missed it, man. That was that was some פארברענגען they had here." Right. So the more worse stuff there is on the floor,

the more it means was the strength of the פארברענגען. Right. You say, "Wow, that was some party." And and it's דווקא the stuff that falls off and the leftovers and the rotten stuff that shows you what a great party it was. If there's If it's just a little bit, if everything is still on the table and nothing fell down, it shows that it was not a big powerful party.

Right. And it's דווקא the stuff if it's on the floor, then it was some party. If it's even on the walls, then you really know it was some party. Right. And the more mush-ed up it is and the more rotten it is, the better it shows you what the party was.

Right. And that shows you what a great party it was. So that what that means is that not only is the מזלות

the מזלות can be all the way up to גולגלתא.

In other words that the חכמה can come not just from the חכמה סתימאה of אריך, where is already divisions of the lines to the right and left, but it can come ממש from גולגלתא itself.

And really it can come from even higher. Right. That it can show that it shows the fact that the stuff fell over shows on not just the עצם הרצון, but on on on the great תענוג.

So basically, that's what's involved in, like we said before, that in the גולגלתא is מלובש חסד of עתיק. So חסד of עתיק shows like on a party.

And the more נובלות it shows on the עצם התענוג, means even higher than the חכמה, even higher than חסד of עתיק. Right. Because חסד of עתיק, the the spreading out comes from the עצם התענוג. So really the מזלות can go even higher than אריך, even higher than the גולגלתא. It really could be bringing down,

and that's why it says in some places, it says פנימיות אבא פנימיות עתיק. And it can go all the way, so where you see actually בחורים passed out under the table, it means that it went all the way up to רדל''א.

Right. You know. So this level is talking about

not normal שכל, but where new things are coming into the שכל. A new light is coming into the שכל. Right. It says this new light that's coming into the שכל is not really just חכמה, and it's not really coming even from the חכמה סתימאה, it's not even really coming just from the כח המשכיל.

It's really coming, there's a התגברות on the כח המשכיל. Right. And that's why you have the excess that is the נובלות. There's the נובלות, and these נובלות are the new ideas that are coming into into חכמה and בינה. Right. The נובלות.

And and this is not a very common thing, by the way. Even like the stuff that you get by inventors, you know? Right. It's really not this level. If you look back in chapters one and two, you'll see that even what comes by most by most inventors is not really a new light into the חכמה, but it's חכמה of בינה.

Right. And even if you say like, "Oh, but what about a whole new invention, like the airplane?" The airplane was not really a whole new invention. Right. Was really חכמה of בינה, was a very big חכמה of בינה, because

they made like a whole new mode of transportation, but it's still a mode of transportation. That's why you saw the guys who did it were like the Wright brothers, they were already into Transportation.

Not just transportation, and they used mechanics, and machinery, and stuff like that. Right. Whereas this is talking about a totally brand new idea, that that is is not just brand new in terms of So not only an innovation of what already was, but it's brand new. like brand new Yeah, but it's not just that. It's It means it's not even just an innovation at all. That's what I'm saying.

Yeah, but it's not even an innovation like a fantastic

invention, because all inventions is still like a physical invention is still something to do with where you are. Right. And this level here, really you only get by learning חסידות, where it's a total innovation. It says that really there's nothing new under the sun. Right.

This is talking about something actually new. Under the sun, even from you go from the caveman to us, it's really nothing really new. It's just putting it together in a new way.

Not a real new thing. This is talking about a real ממש a חידוש.

Means it's the stuff that's real like he says, it's coming from above the sun, not from under the sun. Right. Like you remember with the טוהר דקרדינותא and stuff like that?

Purity of the Seed 19:15

Right. So this is talking about really this type of stuff that comes only from this kind of התבוננות like we're doing now, that's The טוהר דקרדינותא. טוהר דקרדינותא.

So this stuff is coming really it's not just Most inventions and stuff like that, it's not just inventive stuff like algebra and all that business, you know?

It sort of like this, but it's not really like this. It's not It wasn't really from the actual like this, you know? Although it has it has a element It does have an element of coming from the from the מזלות. But the real thing of of the thing of the מזלות that reaches higher than higher than עתיק, higher than אריך altogether, especially one that reaches all the way up to עתיק.

Remember that עתיק is not really part of the world. Right. You know, עתיק is not really part of the world, and even even גולגלתא, even though it's like you call it it's already the שורש and it's תלוי, but it's just a שורש. It's not ממש There's no divisions yet over there. Right. You know, so really this this this level here is not not really exactly what you call a common level, and this is a level of a real human being.

And like it says in many places, if there's no התבוננות, he's not a human being. Right. מה שנאמר במקום אחר, וכך הוא טעם מעלות ענין שורש י״ג מדות הרחמים שנקראים בשם י״ג תיקוני דיקנא, שיוצאים ממוחא סתימאה.

All the י״ג מדות הרחמים, תיקוני דיקנא comes from the מוחא סתימאה, which goes through the גולגלתא.

מה שנאמר: ״ויעבר הוי׳ על פניו״, that He went past His פנימיות, ״ויקרא הוי׳ הוי׳״. In other words, it's you're talking הוי׳ הוי׳. If it's not הוי׳ הוי׳, it's not really this kind of שכל at all. Right. If it's something to do with a physical world, it's הוי׳ הוי׳ קל רחום וחנון, it's all is is י״ג מדות הרחמים. It has to do with a It has to be It has to be something with אלוקות, with פנימיות אלוקות.

שהוא למעלה ממוחא סתימאה, שנקרא טמיר וחכמה כמוסה דרצון הנעלם, ונקרא גם כן שכל הנעלם מכל רעיון, דפלא חכמה, this מוחא סתימאה. ולפי זה, כשאמר דאבא יניק ממזל וכולו, הרי זה למעלה מחכמה סתימאה עצמה. It's really, even though it's coming through חכמה סתימאה, it's from the it's the כח המשכיל, but really it means he's getting through the כח המשכיל, but from higher than כח המשכיל.

Right. וזה אמר הכל תלוי במזל, everything depends on מזל, אפילו ספר תורה בהיכל. Even a ספר תורה The היכל means חכמה ובינה שהוא בחינת יחוד יחוד או״א, that all the יחודים depend on יחוד או״א, the real יחוד או״א has to have this thing happen. Otherwise, no there's no real יחוד או״א, even though they're together, but that's not an actual יחוד to actually give birth to a new thing.

ולמטה, נקודה נקודה דחכמה בהיכלא דבינה, מאין ליש כנ״ל, שזהו ספר וסיפור. The חכמה is called a ספר, and בינה is called a סיפור. In other words, a ספר is a whole book,

like the name of the book, you know, like The Lord of the Rings. It's the whole idea, the whole thing, you know? A סיפור is the details. Right. And a ספר וסיפור The actual narrative of it. Huh? The narrative, which means the details. The book and the narrative, right.

And it says that it's there's three things really, it says ספר וסיפור וסופר. There's Right. a story writer. Right. So, this ספר וסיפור comes from the סופר, which is really much higher than than both of them put together. שנקרא ספר תורה בהיכל, כידוע. וזהו למעלה הרבה, and now he's coming to the second level, this level is much much higher than מה שאמר דאבא ואימא מלבישין לזרועות דאריך אנפין, ומכל שכן מבחינת נה״י דאריך אנפין.

Right. It's much higher than these next two levels. This is much much higher. The other two levels are sort of, even though the זרועות is much higher than נה״י, but in a way they're still both in the same in some kind of an ערך to each other. Right. It's just the פנימיות המדות and חיצוניות המדות. This one is totally שלא בערך. שמלובשים באבא, נה״י שמלובשים באבא. להיות, דידוע שבחינת ז׳ תחתונות דאריך אנפין, היינו רק בחינת המדות, חג״ת וכולו, שנקרא יד הגדולה ויד החזקה וכולו, ונקרא גם כן בזוהר בשם תרין חשוכי.

Oh-oh, we didn't do תרין חשוכי. Now we're doing תרין חשוכי. חשוכא. I thought we did it before. This is called the Mountains of Darkness.

First Level Above Dark Mountains 25:11

Right. Okay, and the thing is that the first level is really even higher than that. Right. Is even higher than טורי דחשוכא. The second level is טורי דחשוכא, which is פנימיות המדות, means חסד and גבורה of אריך.

כידוע במאמר דהא יעלתא אזלא לטורי דחשוכא, this gazelle, מלכות, goes up to the dark mountains. ומשם אחיז מזונא, that's where she gets her food. שזהו בחינת עליית המלכות בחג"ת דאריך אנפין. That's on ראש השנה. וכמו שנאמר ותנח התיבה וכו' בחודש השביעי שהוא ראש השנה שעולה המלכות בהרי אררט טורי קר טורי קרדוניתא, the dark mountains. Right. Here it sounds really like something out of Lord of the Rings, huh?

Yeah, the dark mountains. כמו הרים גבוהים, why are they called dark mountains, is like high mountains that they're so high שאין אור השמש מאיר עליהם, they're higher than the sun. Right.

והוא בחינת המדות שברצון שלמעלה מן השכל וטעם וגלויי, that they're higher than the חכמה altogether.

מה שאין כן המדות שמצד השכל, נקראים טורי דנהורא.

And remember this all ties in to Hold on for a minute. Hello. Remember what it says in chapter one? Yeah. That the this will be like in like like in the days of the מבול, when משיח comes will be like in the days of the מבול, all the mountains will be, but all the mountains will be covered up, not only the light mountains, but even the dark mountains.

Right, even the טורי דחשוכא. Even the טורי דחשוכא, why? Because the the thing will come from the level of the מזלות. Right. And also the מזלות is called the the גידים. Right. You know that the the the נבקעו whatever it's called, what it says over there, you know that the that that the ארובות השמים is the tubes, and the גידים of the earth is the tubes of the מזלות, where it comes into the חכמה גלויה from the חכמה נסתרה.

Right. Those will open up, and it'll come not just like a little flow, but a big flow. And it'll be from that level, so it shows you that that level is talking about

it'll cover up all the mountains. Right. And it's not talking about normal wisdom at all. It's talking about the kind of wisdom

at the time of משיח, in those days there'll be nothing but דעת הוי'ה. It's talking about a thing of דעת הוי'ה דוקא. Right. That that level is talking about דוקא חסידות, it's not for, דוקא this type of חסידות like we're learning over here. So the טורי דחשוכא and the the the מדות שברצון the מדות שברצון is called טורי דחשוכא, and the מדות שמצד השכל וטעם, נקראים טורי

דנהורא. Okay, one second.