Part 2 · Chapter 25

The the dark mountains and the light mountains. And remember, by the way, you know, like the dark mountains sounds like evil, the dark mountains... Huh? Actually, it's that's that's good. No, it's actually that's what that is evil. The dark mountains is evil. It is evil. We don't see the good of it now, like the all the קללות in the תורה are actually good. Yeah, but the dark mountains is עולם התוהו.

Dark vs Light Mountains – Evil and Good 0:05

Right. It's the מידות of the רצון. It's the מידות of the רצון. If they don't go through and become lit up by the שכל, they're evil. That's what That's what the whole thing what evil is. Where where he lets this Where he lets the מידות of his רצון take over without without the שכל being able to do anything about it. Right, well that's the טוב מאד. That's the טוב מאד, yeah, but but when when it's That's when it gets lit up actually from this even higher level, really, you know.

But but really, the way it is now, these dark mountains, if it if it's just the dark mountains take over, that's the whole ענין of evil. That's the whole ענין of of תוהו. Right. טורי דנהורא דחכמה נהיר עלייהו, in other words, the שכל lights up on them. אבל המדות שברצון נקראין טורי דחשוכא, מדות שבהעלם הרצון ששרשם מבחינת חכמה סתימאה הנ״ל שהוא ענין תעלומות חכמה, ענין טעם כמוס לרצון שנחלקו מינה ב׳ קוין דחסד וגבורה שברצון וכולי.

וזה ע״ד אבא מלבישן לזרועות חסד וגבורה דאריך אנפין, ממש אנו רואים שמחמת מדות החסד ואהבה רבה שברצון נמצא שורש לשכל וטעם לזכות ולחסד כמו השוחד יעוור וכולי, שמחמת השוחד שיש לו אהבה ברצון ממציא טענה ומטה כח שכלו מחיוב לזכות.

Second Level Higher Than Normal – Potential Danger 2:18

So, you notice that he's saying here that this second level, which is higher than the normal level, can actually be a bad thing. That's exactly what he's saying here, that it's it's it's מעוור, it's it blinds him.

And what this is is when somebody is really into something, right? When somebody is really, really into something, you know? Like people are really into whatever, you know, like fanatical.

Whatever, I mean, the whales or these crazy communists, for communists or the crazy terrorists, like you saw these crazy terrorists, they came up with a real a real smart thing, you know?

So, there's there's a good thing about it, but there's also a problem with it. The good thing about it is that the שכל that comes from the פנימיות המדות, means from חסד and גבורה of אריך, will be bigger שכליים.

And that's why also in somebody who's really into like geology

or any science will will come up with these big, you know, these big inventions. You know what I'm talking about? So so it could be a good thing, also. Like, in other words, somebody who's totally totally into the thing, or it's the actual חסד and גבורה, like he's totally in love with something or totally hates something.

Like, for instance, in in war, the real big conquerors, you know, that could come that came up with all of these like Hannibal or whatever, that came up with these fantastic נו תכסיסי מלחמה and stuff like that, you know?

Fanatic Passion: Blessings and Blindness 4:28

And and also you know, like when somebody is super

you know, like the Maccabees or something like that, when they're really pushed to the wall, and they really really it's the essence of their מידות, it's the עצם of the מידות of their רצון, the אהבה רבה and the the the שנאה רבה.

So when somebody really, really hates, he comes up with bigger שכליים. Right. or really really loved, so he comes up with bigger שכליים. However, the problem is that it can totally blind you,

like you see by the these terrorists, for instance. Right. And also you see by the scientists, that from one side they're coming up with big שכליים, but from other side it sort of seems to blind their sight also. Right. That they they they're like They have a blind spot. They have a blind spot because they so much want it to be like that that they can't let go of some of these things like, you know, evolution or whatever, you know.

Right. So it has a good side and it has a bad side, and that's because it's really it's it's the תורא דקרדינותא. I mean it can be very dark, for the שכל is not shining on it, even though it can bring bigger, much bigger שכליים than נה״י. Right.

When the Righteousness Blinds – The Rabbi Yossi Story 6:07

Right? Right. It's more, I don't know if this is רבי יוסי I think, שלקח ככלא דפירי, he took a little thing of fruit from somebody, and from his his neighbor tenant farmer. Yeah. And and and what happened later, he he he came up with a wrong judgment or something, I kind of remember what the whole story was. He says, אי כעי טעין הכי, from for a little piece of fruit, I made No, no, no, no.

He told him what to טעון or something, I don't know what it is, but it's it's אי בעי טעין הכי. I think he disqualified himself, but he was there at the trial, and he said, oi oi, he should have said like this. Right. Right. He should have said like this, right. Why did he why did this come? Because there was a שוחד.

And that's just from a little piece of fruit. And from from the פנימיות המידות of אריך is like a total שוחד, so from one side it can bring fantastic שכליים up,

but from the other side it can really blind a person. נמצא המידות חסד וגבורה מלבישין מלובשים בפנימיות אבא, ובחינת אבא מלבישין עליהם מבחוץ.

So the problem here is that it really goes according to what he wants.

And unless it's a person with a very very strong שכל, the the the the what what's going to happen here is that the that the רצון will overpower the שכל.

Ratzon Wearing the Mind – Caution Required 8:02

You notice he's saying it's almost for sure, according to what he's saying, it's almost for sure that the רצון will overpower the שכל, even though big שכליים are coming out of this, because what it is, it's really the רצון is is is inside, and the אבא is just a לבוש for the רצון. It's almost like it's not a thing by itself, it's just a לבוש.

That's why it says מלבישין. The other one is ירידת האור, it's ירידת האור. Here it's not just ירידת האור, it's ממש מלבישין. The the the the רצון is right inside of it. Right. And this is in politics, you notice in politics if some the people are really into things, they come up with big שכליים.

They'll be able to come up with brilliant debates,

right, and brilliant books, and ideas like that will look fantastically convincing. So, right, so the question is, if the מידות of the רצון can do that, so what about the higher level, what we talked about before? Right. That's the עצם ה, that's the that's the גולגלתא. Right. That's the עצם הרצון.

So why why doesn't why aren't we making a warning over there? Right. This is no, because that's the פנימיות השכל. Right. That's the חכמה סתימאה, and also even higher going all the way into the פנימיות השכל.

That's higher than the רצון itself. And from the י״ג מידות הרחמים they can actually change the רצון even.

And there it's a matter of a connection to אלוקות. It can only be good. Not like the עולם התוהו. The thing in עולם התוהו, in עולם התוהו, this fanatical רצון can become disconnected from אלוקות. So this, but like you said, really it can be very good, it can be טוב מאוד when it's connected to אלוקות. Right. But the level above it can't be disconnected from אלוקות because it is אלוקות.

Right. So there is no, there is no חשש that it's going to go wrong. Just over here, דווקא, it can go wrong. And this is the ענין of עולם

התוהו. אבל ישנם תלמידי חכמים, וכמו שנאמר אני בינה לי גבורה, דאריך אנפין. Inside of me is גבורה of אריך אנפין. וכמו שמבואר בעץ חיים, the level, this is the second level. ובירידת המדריגה עוד, אין מוחין דחב״ד דאצילות מקבלים רק מבחינת נצח והוד דאריך אנפין. You notice here it's not, it doesn't say הלבשה, it says קיבול.

They receive some light, and then then they're able to still be themselves and process it. Not התלבשות.

And this is the normal, this is the normal intellectual process. שהוא העברת השפע דחסד וגבורה למטה, כמו נצח והוד. In other words, it's not the actual חסד and גבורה coming through with absolutely no צמצום, but rather that it's coming through נצח והוד, שנקראים מאזני צדק מכל מקום. Now he's telling you נצח and הוד in every place, not just in this place, in any place where it says נצח and הוד, it's called מאזני צדק.

Netsach and Hod – Weights of Giving 12:08

What means מאזני צדק? מאזני צדק means a weight of how much to give. נצח means to give out, and ניצוח means to go into the other guy's property, and הוד means to hold back. Means to only give הודאה, not to tell him the actual thing, but he should only be מודה.

So נצח and הוד is a שיקול of

how much to put through. It's not the actual רצון, but then from the רצון there it goes through נצח and הוד, and then there comes a little bit of light into the שכל of what he wants to think about. Right. And according to that, then he'll think.

Which as the normal, the normal thing is that the רצון does not overpower the שכל. He knows what he wants,

and he knows like how much he wants to get into it. Like does he really want to get into it? Does he want to get a little bit into it? Means נצח and הוד, you know? Right. But not that the רצון totally overpowers the שכל. In other words, the guy is a total fanatic and he can't think of nothing else.

Although, like we said before, that when he's a total fanatic and he can't think of nothing else, that means he's going to be thinking really, really hard.

The only problem there is that the שכל the שכל is overpowered by the

רצון. וגם למטה ממידות שמצד השכל, רק ממידות שברצון שנקרא אריכות אנפין הם בלתי מוגבלים, כמו הרצון עצמו שהוא בלתי מוגבל. על כן גם בחינת נצח והוד הם מבחינת בלתי מוגבל כידוע.

Means in the רצון, even a little bit of רצון is coming through to the שכל,

he doesn't want to just open up a little fruit stand. Right. He wants to have a worldwide chain of supermarkets.

Right. It's just that when it comes through נצח and הוד, it's already coming in a way that the שכל can think of it and say, "Well, but I got to start with a little fruit stand."

Right. But the, if if the ambition wasn't there at all. In other words, you know, what does the what does רצון have to do with שכל? Two different things.

If the ambition wasn't there at all, he wouldn't think about it. You

see this from business, you see it in everything else. If he didn't want it, he wouldn't think about it. Right. But in the actual רצון, even in the נצח and הוד, that you'd say that's really הגבלה of חסד and גבורה already. Because, yeah, compared to the חסד and גבורה of of אריך, it's a הגבלה, but really even נצח and הוד is הגבלה is בלתי מוגבל, כידוע. It's still אריך.

כידוע the פירוש זכר רב טובך, הוא בחינת יסוד דאריך אנפין. רב טובך. It's only a זכר, but it's a רב טובך. וכן בטובך הגדול, you know, טוב, it says טוב is צדיק כי טוב, and צדיק is יסוד, right? Right. וכאי גוונא, וכן, ומגודל הטוב ורב טוב לבית ישראל, כאי גוונא. מה שאין כן, בחינת יסוד דז״א, שהוא בחינת מדות שנולדו מבינה, הוא בחינת הקטנות ביותר, because after the חכמה and בינה, when he thinks about it and analyzes the situation, so then it comes very little already.

It's just a fruit stand, he says that's what I that's that's the most I can put together. Or like a house, the ambition for the house, even in נהי of אריך, is still a fantastically

infinite house, it's like a palace. Right. It's all it's, but the difference

is that in you know, in general, the ענין of the difference between חג״ת and נהי is that in the עצם המדות, he cannot go outside of the מדה yet. You know, like when somebody is real angry, right, he can't he ממש can't do nothing.

He's like shaking with anger, and he can't even talk, he can't even shout at the guy. Right. He can't even say you פוץ, you know? Right. He's so angry, he can't even talk, he can't even say nothing.

He has to he has to calm down a little bit just to shoot the guy.

'Cause when he's in the עצם of the anger, he can't do nothing,

because he's inside the מדה itself. Whereas in נהי is already the התפעלות of the, the התפעלות of the מדה, which the התפעלות of the מדה means now he can punch the guy in the nose.

Right. So like anger, like like חג״ת is like the anger where he just feels the anger so much he can't even do nothing. And נהי is the feeling to punch the guy in the nose, not the feeling that he's angry inside.

That is the התפעלות, what he wants to come out of it. Right. But in אריך, even that is infinite.

Whereas in in ז״א, יסוד דז״א, after בינה, that's already קטנות ביותר. That's already like the house that he can afford, or the car that he can afford. כמו שמבואר במקום אחר בענין צדיק כתמר, צדיק כתמר יפרח כארז בלבנון ישגה, שזהו בחינת יסוד דז״א, כארז בלבנון ישגה בחינת אין סוף, שהוא ביסוד עתיק יומין ואריך אנפין. לבנון is לבן, you know, לבן means the כתר.

וכן מה שנאמר בשלמה, וידבר מן הארז אשר בלבנון,

in אריך, till the עד האזוב, till the the weed, בחינת קטנות יסוד דז״א במלכות שנקרא קיר, till עד האזוב שבקיר. וכידוע בכוונת אמן יהא שמיה רבא מברך, ושמיה בגימטריא רצון, ושמיה הגדול בחינת יסוד ומלכות דאריך. You know that before he said אמן יהא שמיה רבא מברך is talking about the

מחשבה קדומה. Right. I don't know if you remember that. Now he's saying it's יסוד of אריך. שיהא מבורך באבא. In other words, the נצח and הוד is to come from נצח and הוד into אבא. and and זו״ן.

ולגברי ימינא ושמאלא, and this will bring from יסוד דאריך to come down into the מוחין and מידות with to to overpower the right and the left, וכמו בתוקפא דגולגלתא דרישא וכו׳, ודי למבין.

Chapter Link – Why Melacha Is Called a Wall 20:22

And this is basically, this chapter ties in together with the next chapter. Why is מלכות called a קיר? Why is מלכות called a קיר? I have no idea. Okay. It's called all kinds, it's called an אבן. Well, the other ones are, you know, like ארץ and stuff like that, that's, you know. Because that's where it stops. Well, that's where it stops, that's where it grows, that's where the אזוב grows from.

Also another thing of a קיר is that Yeah, why is it called a קיר? Because it's that's what that's where it stops. There's other reasons. Like one of the reasons with a קיר, a קיר is made of stones in a way of a building, like we're going to learn later that the letters Right. But why there's there's all kinds of things. I I'm not into Kabbalistic things.

Three Levels of Sechel – Chabad, Chagat, Nahi 21:16

The other Okay, yeah, I'll believe you on that. But the basic thing is that, in other words, what he's saying is, is there's three levels of שכל: the חב״ד, חג״ת, and נה״י of אריך. And the real level that we're talking about is the מזלות. Where our type of our type of שכל of התבוננות gets the things from the מזלות.

And really it goes not only from from גולגלתא, but it goes even higher than that. The מזלות really reach even higher than that. That really the ענין of מזלות goes really from the פנימיות התענוג too. That that's what makes the the מזלות is really the פנימיות התענוג that overpowers on the רצון.

And then there's the the זרועות דאריך, that's and that's called התלבשות. Because when it's an ענין of זרועות of אריך, it means that the רצון is מלובש inside the שכל and is driving it. And you're not dealing with a שכל, you're dealing with a רצון.

Right. And you have to be careful when you're dealing with a person like that because you should know that you're not dealing with a שכל, you're dealing with a רצון.

And then the normal thing is where the light comes down through

נה״י. And in the next chapter it'll explain about the three different kinds of brains that come out of that. The three different type of things in in in חכמה and בינה itself which come out of these three levels

of where it comes down of where it comes down from the from whether it comes directly from the כח המשכיל itself, whether it comes from the זרועות of אריך, and remember he's remember he said that the זרועות of אריך are receiving also from חכמה סתימאה, so it really comes all it always comes from the כח המשכיל, but whether it comes from כח המשכיל itself, and it's not really just from כח המשכיל itself, it's really from higher than כח המשכיל, or whether it's coming from the פנימיות המדות of אריך, or whether it's coming from the חיצוניות.

The חיצוניות המדות of אריך, which that's the normal thing and it and over there it it doesn't overpower the שכל. But the שכל basically receives light from there and then can process it. But the the higher the higher type where it comes from חכמה סתימאה, it means is he's it's a whole different type of thinking. That's why he says it's much, much higher from the other ones.

And there it's not only that it doesn't overpower the שכל, but it's a whole different שכל. Right. It's not just a שכל. It means that this guy is actually thinking with the כח המשכיל itself and higher.

And the rest of the stuff is just conduits. Right. Over here you're also not dealing with a שכל, you're dealing with פנימיות השכל directly.

Right. That's why like you see that in in the in the חכמים, in the big חכמים and גאונים, you know, from the Jewish the the Jewish חכמים and גאונים it's it's like שלא בערך with the with the חכמים of the גוים. Right. They're totally like a different level. It's not just like a big philosopher, they're like totally like you see it's a Godly חכמה. Right.

You know, they know things that a person shouldn't be able to know, and their their wisdom seems to be infinite. You're dealing here with an infinite wisdom. It's not just with a big wisdom, it's an infinite wisdom. Right. And and you see that this type of thing you don't get by the גוים at all. You can't have that.

Because this level is only when it's connected to the it's connected to the הויה הויה קל רחום וחנון, it's Godliness.

Right.