Part 3 · Chapter 32 Part 2 to end

The tape is on. Okay, chapter 33 to 32 the second half. והנה ודאי כאשר צריך להיות התהוות התפעלות המדה בלב מהעלם התפעלות המדה ביסודה בשכל והשגת הבינה, מוכרח להיות תחלה בחינת צמצום והעלם וקיבוץ שנקרא הסתלקות, כמו משל ריקון הגרון בשביל להשתנות ממאכל למאכל, וכידוע. והוא בחינת מצר הגרון דבינה, שיתעלם שם התפעלות השכל, וימשך להיות בשינוי המהות התפעלות הלב.

The Essential צמצום Between Brain and Heart 0:14

וכמו בחינת תרומה וכו', which is between the the the משכיל and the שכל. This is the צמצום between the brain and the heart, which is the throat, called the the the narrowness of the throat, שהוא המעלים ומפסיק מכח עליון שמעל מעלה מן השכל לבא לשינוי המהות וגילוי הארת כלה וכולי. וכמו חצר הכבד, and then on a lower level is another place where the next צמצום, שמפסיק A diaphragm?

The diaphragm, it's a sieve. What's a diaphragm? A diaphragm is That separates from the lower digestive The the diaphragm No, the diaphragm is what makes the lungs the lungs breathe, right? No, I think the diaphragm is what separates the digestive and organs from the That's not what he's talking about here. The diaphragm is the thing that makes your lungs breathe, pushes your lungs in and out. You're talking the physical, actual point of separation.

He's talking the actual where the צמצום comes comes from the from from the in the blood, from the the אברי העיכול to the אברי הנשימה.

It's in the liver. חצר הכבד is the the sieve. In the The liver is a sieve. He's talking about the liver itself? It's a filter, yeah, the filter. Okay. There's a filter in the liver. Yeah, the liver is basically a filter. Right, which which that's the intermediary שמפסיק ומבדיל בין אברי הנשימה לאברי המזון. Okay. In other words, the the diaphragm does not pass anything through. It's just a it's just your physical border.

Right. Nothing goes through the diaphragm. The diaphragm basically is just the the end of the lungs, and it's the thing that pushes the lungs in and out. But but the differentiation between the two where it goes over from one to the other Well, there's a transformation. The transformation, right, is in the liver. Right, okay. להיות שינוי המהות כמו שמבואר במקום אחר באריכות. אבל עם כל זה, המדות שבלב הן בדמיון ממש למדות שבשכל, ממש כעין התפעלותם במוח, בלי נטיה כקוצו של יו"ד.

Heart מדות Mirror the Intellect’s Qualities 3:04

Means exactly how you think in the brain, even though in the brain it's a it's it's a it's a שכל and in the heart is actual מדה, it's a whole שינוי המהות, it's not the same thing. Right. But it's exactly according to the מדות of בינה, that's how we'll come out the actual מדות. Right. If you understand that the guy is doing a good thing for you, the מדה of love in the brain, the according to how big that מדה of love is, that's how big the מדה of love will be in the heart, exactly, without a נטיה even כקוצו של יו"ד, כידוע, רק שבלב באים בשינוי המהות באגבלה וצמצום.

זה בחינת נצח והוד דבינה, שהוא שליחות שפע אור ההשגה בעצם בשביל התפעלות המדה לבד. Which that's what's what's called the ובכן. So, therefore, I like the guy. Right. What does בעצם mean over here? The the שפע אור ההשגה בעצם, the שליחות of the of the actual שפע of the השגה בעצם. The actual עצם of the השגה in בינה. Ah, okay. The נצח והוד is only the שליחות of the השגה בעצם, which is in in the actual עצם of the השגה.

Right, okay. And this is only the נצח והוד, which is only the שליחות of that, it's not the עצם. Right. It's the שליחות of the שפע אור ההשגה בעצם. I get it. בשביל התפעלות המדה לבד. It's not the עצם, it's only the שליחות for the התפעלות המדה לבד. It's only the ובכן. Right. So, therefore, I like the guy. It's only the therefore of the שכל. Right. כידוע.

ובמדה שבלב כולל מג' מדרגות חב"ד חג"ת נהי

דהיינו בחינת המושכל ומורגש ומוטבע הנה, same like we said before, וג' כלים לכל אחד, and each one of them has ג' כלים, פנימיים ואמצעיים וחיצוניים כנזכר לעיל באריכות, this was all discussed earlier. אך הנה גם בחינת החיצוניות דכלים דנהי שבלב שהוא בחינת התפעלות החסד והאהבה שבלב כשבא לידי השפעה לחוץ שנקרא נהי דחזה the the the the lungs. The lungs are the external of the heart, right, במחשבה דיבור ומעשה היינו על ידי חיצוניות הכלי דלב שהוא בחינת המוטבע שבהבל החזה דז"א דאצילות, the מוטבע in the חזה, meaning that according to the טבע, when you get upset, you start breathing hard.

External vs Internal Tools of the Heart 5:24

Right. That's not a that's not a מושכל, and it's not even a מורגש. Right. It's just התפעלות of that. It's not the actual feeling of love or hate, and it's not the actual feeling that I like this guy. The מושכל is where it still is is still a ובכן. Even though in in relationship to the brains, it's only a נהי, it's only the final ובכן of the whole thing, which is which but over there it's like a מוטבע.

The נהי. Over here, this is the מושכל. Okay. So, that's the the the breathing of the heart, you know, like the bull starts breathing fire? Right. That's the מוטבע. And that's the נהי, which is in the the the the the הבל החזה, that's why he starts breathing out that's why it's called חרון אף. Right. Because he's breathing hard. Right. When he gets mad, he's breathing hard.

הרי גם שם הרצון מאיר, but nonetheless, over there also, the רצון is still lights up over there כי אנו רואים שבהבל הלב גם כן מורגש הרצון. You see that. I mean the the רצון as he's getting mad, that's coming from the רצון. Why is he getting mad? Because it's going against his רצון.

ונקרא רעותא דלבא, and this is called, the inner רצון is called the רצון of the heart, מה שלבו חפץ ומורגש לדבר טוב, what his heart actually— You skipped a few lines, you know. Oh, oh, sorry. After the word מוטבע, you skipped a few lines. Oh, sorry. Where where is this? The line that starts עם כל זה. Oh, right, right. שהוא בחינת המוטבע שבהבל החזה דז"א דאצילות שלזה אמר איהו וגרמוהי חד, even down to there, הכל עדיין בבחינת אין סוף, meaning that even the fact that your lungs are are are breathing hard, it's still you.

Right. Completely connected to you. כמו על דרך משל באדם התחתון, כאשר הרצון העצמי שבבחינת מקיף דיחידה הנ"ל מאיר ובא בגילוי במוחין דחב"ד עד שיורד ומשתלשל בקטנות המוחין דכלי דנצח והוד דחסד מורגש שבלב שהוא בהבל החזה, הרי גם שם הרצון מאיר, that even even there, the רצון is still there, it's the same רצון, even though it had to go through through various צמצומים through the brain and through the inner heart all the way till he's breathing hard, and it shows that there's a רצון.

Right. Especially like the thing you you you know you see with a dog when he wants some food, you see he's going Right. You know, you see, what is that? You see that he wants the food, or he wants something, he starts breathing hard.

Right. כי אנו רואים שבהבל הלב גם כן מורגש הרצון, so we see that even in the הבל הלב the רצון is מורגש, ונקרא רעותא דלבא, it's called the רצון of the heart, מה שלבו חפץ ומורגש לדבר טוב, what his heart wants with actual feeling, not with intellect, and not even with the with with with the emotion, but the actual הרגש of it. He feels that he wants this.

Right. לדבר טוב, ולמאוס בהיפך הרצון בלב או דבר רע שונאו, like like for instance in fear, that he has a היפך הרצון for this thing, he's trying to run away from it. Or else if they tell him to to work or something like that. אם כן, so we see that מיוחד ומתקשר ממקור הרצון העצמי עד הבל הלב ברגע אחד. parent. Right. כאילו היא מהות אחת ממש. It's as if it's ממש one thing.

As if the the רצון is ממש in the heart. והיינו דמיון להבין באדם העליון, and this is a דמיון to understand in the upper person, שהוא בחינת ז״א שפנימיות לב דז״א נאמר ויאמר אל לבו.

He told his heart להטות לחסד, to be נוטה towards חסד, וכן ויתעצב אל לבו בבחינת דין by the מבול. Right. כהאי גוונא,

הרי בבחינת חיצוניות הכלי דנצח והוד דלב, meaning the the actual feeling of the breathing of it,

שלב זה, מאיר שם מבחינת הרצון הפשוט העצמי שבעצמות אור אין סוף שלפני הצמצום הראשון. It's ממש all the way to the

חיצוניות כלים of ז״א, is still lighting over there even though there's a שינוי המהות it makes no difference. It's ממש the רצון.

the רצון הפשוט העצמי שבעצמות אור אין סוף שלפני הצמצום הראשון. It's the it's the רצון עצמי. Right. הנזכר בפסוק בבחינת יחיד ואחד, like what this this is the רצון which is is talked about in in in chapter 10, כמשל כובד כעס העצמי שבעצמות הנפש כולה. ואם כן, עד חיצוניות הלב דז״א, נחשב עדיין הכל מסוף עולם האין סוף. So now he's bringing the עולם האין סוף farther and farther down.

Remember before he said only the the the, even the מחשבה קדומה is already past it. Then he said, yeah, but really the מחשבה קדומה is also part of it, and and א״ק is is nothing but just a בריאה חדשה. Right. Then he said, yeah, but really א״ק is also from it. And really, עתיק and אריך is is is like a nothing that comes out of it. And then he said, yo, but really the פנימיות עתיק is also part of it.

Right. And he said, yeah, but חיצוניות עתיק is also part of it, and and then finally he said that really

even even חכמה and בינה are part of it. Right. Then he said really the פנימיות הלב is also part of it. Now he's talking all the way to the חיצוניות כלים, the נצח and הוד of the חיצוניות כלים, and not only the חיצוניות כלים, but the חיצוניות of the כלים. Right. Of ז״א is still considered מסוף עולם האין סוף because it's completely connected. Right. Just like in a person's lungs, when you see that he's when he's scared, you see his breathing changes automatically, like with no, with nothing in between.

משום דאיהו וגרמוהי חד, he is like one, one with his organs. כמו באדם, like like a person, he's ממש literally one with his organs.

שלבו ורצונו העצמי אחד הוא כו׳ ודי למבין, that his heart, meaning also his lungs, and his עצם הרצון is one thing, ממש one thing.

Right. ודי למבין. And that's what's called the גופא דמלכא. Right. So so again, it's it's it keeps going like chapter 10, you know, where he says it is and it isn't, it is and it isn't.

Like first he tells us it's not it's not the אין סוף, and anyways after the צמצום, and there's another צמצום, and it's not even חכמה and בינה, and then there's a מיצר הגרון.

Right. So so what is it? Is it or isn't it? He says, well, it depends what you're talking about. If you're talking is it the real עצמות, it's it's no, no more than in a person the חיצוניות כלים is just flesh. Right. It's not really him.

From the other side, of course it's really him. Right. Depends how you look at it. What do you mean?

So basically it is and it isn't. Right. Okay, so we're going to stop here. Okay. Are you are you I'm starting. Okay, go ahead. I was learning with מרדכי for about an hour on on פרק ב׳, the second page. Okay? Of of שער היחוד?

Studying פרק ב׳ with מרדכי: Letters and Meanings 14:28

Yeah, פרק ב׳, the second page. Okay. You see right around slightly below the middle of the page there's a parenthesis, והיינו. והיינו ד׳ רברבתי דאחד? No, והיינו בחינת אב ואם תתאין. You're on the... Where is this? About halfway down the page, almost in the middle of the page. פרק ב'. פרק ב', the second page. Okay. You have פרק... והיינו בחינת אבות תתאין, ישראל סבא ותבונה, ישראל סבא מידות דחכמה ותבונה מידות דבינה.

Right. אך באים בבחינת הגילוי לחוץ. Means it's not the מידות how they are for themselves. I learned this with מרדכי finally, I mean I I understood something that I didn't understand for a long, long time. When you learn with מרדכי, it's a special thing. בחינת מלכות דתבונה- Where is this? פרק ב'. פרק, number two, והיינו- I know. Second page of פרק ב'. The first word on the line- The first בינה?

The middle of the line is בינה. In the middle of the line is a parenthesis. Okay, all right, fine. That's והיינו בחינת אבות תתאין. מרדכי made me go through this with a fine-tooth comb and I finally understood the whole thing. אבות תתאין, ישראל סבא ותבונה, ישראל סבא מידות דחכמה ותבונה מידות דבינה.

אך באים בבחינת הגילוי לחוץ means not how it is itself, like before it said that בינה also has its own מידות. Not how they come out. תבונה and and ישראל סבא is דווקא how they're coming out. ובחינת מלכות דתבונה הוא השכל הבא במחשבה הנקרא אותיות מחשבת שכל, שהשכל מתלבש בו והוא בחינת כלי חיצוני למחשבה עיונית. This the whole thing. For a long time, we were we were having a problem: which what is מחשבת שכל, what's מחשבה עיונית?

Distinguishing מחשבת שכל from לאה and Letters 16:58

Right. And that's what it is. מחשבת שכל means the מחשבה of the שכל. And that is the כלי חיצוני to the to מחשבה עיונית, means to the actual thinking about what, you know, the the the the the עיון. Right. Of בינה שבבינה, שהוא כאילו השגת דבינה עצמה מצד עצם השכל והסברה, actual thinking of the what does it mean? ומבחינת מלכות דתבונה נמשך שורש אותיות המחשבה עצמה שנקרא לאה.

And that's the whole thing now. This is This is, you know, I mean I I've gone over this so many times, I never really got it in terms of what it talks about later in the book: the מחשבת שכל, the מחשבה עיונית, and the מחשבה.

Now is, what it is is like this: the מחשבה, which is called לאה, that's ממש the letters, אותיות המחשבה. That's the לבושים. Right. מלכות דתבונה is still part of the שכל. And it's called the מחשבת שכל, that's where the אותיות come up in the שכל.

מחשבת שכל, when it says מחשבת שכל, is מלכות דתבונה. That's what מחשבת שכל is. And what's that different, what are the what are the אותיות the these You mean, so that's the אותיות of the actual שכל. That's the meaning of the אותיות. מלכות דתבונה is the אותיות- Huh? מלכות of תבונה is the אותיות of the שכל itself. Of the שכל itself, not the אותיות. It's the פנימיות of this, not לאה is the ממש אותיות.

is the אותיות of the מחשבה of the person. is לאה. Okay, the the לאה and the מחשבת שכל are exactly the same אותיות. Huh. But they're not the same thing. They're not the same thing, but it's exactly the same אותיות. What does it mean? Like It follows the same pattern, but it's not Like, for instance, in the word 'cat',

there's two levels. There's C-A-T, the actual letter C-A-T, which those letters are just the letters themselves. When you put them together, they make 'cat'.

That's the מחשבה of לאה. The מחשבה of מחשבת שכל means 'cat', C-A-T, but it can only be together.

It's not the three separate letters C and A and T. It's the It's actually the meaning when you think the word 'cat', It's the meaning. the meaning. So, those letters cannot be separated. Right.

The letters of מחשבה can be separated. And and this is

when you think the meaning in words, the inner actual meaning where you're thinking the whole word, cat,

is the source of the letters coming in the outer letters coming into your mind and and from your mind the letters can transfer over to your speech and even to writing. So like there's the same levels in writing for instance, like in in the book in front of us. So let me just clarify this, is that לאה is the כלים, meaning the אותיות? No, לאה is the לבושים.

Is it's the לבושים. מחשבת שכל is the כלים. The מחשבת שכל is the כלים. It says it's a כלי חיצוני. Okay, then there's okay, because I was looking in the צמח צדק today, where he explains the ענין of a name, Yeah. of שמות. Okay, now like like like he calls it two things here. He says אותיות מחשבת שכל שהשכל מתלבש בה והוא בחינת כלי חיצוני. So he calls it a לבוש and a כלי.

Right. So that's basically exactly the same לשון that the that the that the צמח צדק uses to explain the ענין of a שם. He basically says a name, the letters of a name is totally external to the actual thing.

Right. But what it is is that the thing, the עצם of the thing, is מתלבש in it. And what the name itself is Meaning, the meaning. Right, the meaning is מתלבש in it. The עצם, meaning the meaning of it, is מתלבש in the name, meaning a תואר. Right. Okay, and then what what happens is is the שם is the ממוצע between the עצם between the אור and the כלי.

Right. That the שם is like a is a it's a ממוצע really between the אור and the כלי. Okay, but no, here he's saying is a different thing, that the כלי is the ממוצע between the אור and the לבוש. And remember, what is what is a כלי on one level is an אור on another level. Right, right. So in terms of מחשבה, מלכות of תבונה is the אור.

And מחשבה is the the כלי for מלכות of תבונה. Right. Actual letters, if you don't have the actual letters in your mind, you you won't think the word dog. Right.

You have to have to actually have those letters in your mind. Right. Same like when you say the word dog, if you don't come out with the actual physical letters, it won't you won't have the מחשבת שכל either, because מחשבת שכל means the meaning of it. Right. The מחשבת שכל means you The the the meaning, the inner meaning of the word. Like in in dog or cat, when you say cat, not just that you say cat like a like a guy who doesn't know English will say: what does that mean?

Right. That's just letters. It's like like like the inner thing of it that when you think, you think cat, and it means a cat. Right. Whereas somebody who doesn't know English, when he when he hears the word cat, it's just letters. It won't mean nothing to him. He doesn't have the מחשבת שכל, he only has the לאה.

The לאה, right. There's a לאה, which the לאה is the actual letters that that are the לבוש of the מחשבת שכל. Now the מחשבת שכל is the כלי חיצוני to the מחשבה עיונית. What does that mean? So that you have to take something a little bit more complicated than cat. So let's take something really complicated. Like, you know, row, row, row your boat gently down the stream, merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily, life is but a dream.

So there's the obviously the אותיות that it's made up from, and there's a מחשבת שכל. The meaning. The meaning, then what does it mean? Row your boat, you have a boat and you row it, right?

Down the stream, merrily means happy, and life is but a dream. That's the מחשבת שכל. That is the כלי חיצוני to the מחשבה עיונית. What's מחשבה עיונית? מחשבה עיונית means: wait a minute, what does this mean?

Is this just a ditty? Or does it have a deeper meaning?

Now, remember, in this מחשבה עיונית, there's more letters than just row, row, row your boat. I just made up a whole bunch of extra words. Right. So, first is those words have their meaning, which is מחשבת שכל, and they're לאה, which is actual letters.

But I'm doing an analysis. Well, first is the the לאה is of meaning the just the מחשבה, the letters of the מחשבה, which that's just somebody doesn't speak English hearing the the ditty. Yeah, that's like like to sing that this this song could be sung by a Chinese guy. Right. You know, like some Chinese guy sings an English song, an English rock and roll song. Right. And then the and then the second part And he has no idea what he's talking about.

Right. And then the second thing is a like somebody who does understand English, you know, singing Well, he's just thinking the meaning of the words. Right, he just Row, row, row your boat, gently down the stream. Merrily, merrily, merrily, life is but a dream. Yeah, but then comes the עיון. Then there's an עיון. Wait a minute, what is the inner meaning of this song? Right. And that's already additional letters.

The עיון itself also has letters in מחשבת שכל. Right, that's already additional letters. Minute means a minute, wait means to wait. Right. And it has the letters w-a-i-t, which is the מחשבה of לאה.

But it's now In other words, a מחשבת שכל does not necessarily have to hold an עיון. You can have a מחשבת שכל when a guy just walks around singing, "Row your boat gently down the stream," Right, where there's a meaning, but there's no עיון. He understands what it means. There is a meaning. Right, there's a meaning, but there's no עיון. There's a לאה, and there's a מלכות דתבונה, but there's no actual עיון here.

Right. He's not trying to figure out what it means, but he knows what it means the the thing means. Right. You know, he's not just saying saying letters. There's no analysis into it. There's no analysis, but he's he's not just saying letters. He is thinking the מחשבת שכל. He's he's really not just he's not thinking the letters at all. Right. Okay, so then the The letters is his חיצוניות לבושים.

He is thinking the מחשבת שכל. Right. Now, the מחשבת שכל Notice that right now we're doing an עיון, we are not really thinking the עיון. We're really thinking מלכות דתבונה. מחשבת שכל is what we're really thinking at all times. Even when we're doing a deep עיון and our mind is is doing an עיון, but the actual מחשבה is a מחשבת שכל. is a מחשבת שכל, which is holding the עיון.

Holding the עיון: Understanding Meaning via מחשבת שכל 27:48

Right, meaning we're understanding a meaning. We're understanding a meaning of the explanation through the מחשבת שכל, and that is holding the עיון that that once we understand the meaning, the inner mind will click.

Right. And I say, "Oh, so what does it mean? It must have a deeper meaning." So, really it means that the first part of the song and the second part of the song must have something to do with each other. It's not just a matter of rowing your boat down a stream meaning just the feeling of how wonderful you row your boat down the stream, but it has something to do with the second part, "life is but a dream."

Linking First and Second Parts of the Song 28:09

They're connected somehow. So now it's coming in not only התבוננות, because from התבוננות, it awakens the בינה, the the חכמה. And then there's a flash. The חכמה puts the whole thing together as an overview. Right. That the first part of the song has something to do with the second part of the song. That's a that's a חכמה already. Right? To see the overview of the whole song, so you say, "Oh, so what does it have to mean?

The Flash of חכמה: Seeing the Overview 28:40

So it means that really this is not just a simple little ditty. It's a philosophical statement that row your boat down the stream of life and don't worry,

be happy, and enjoy the view, because really it's all a dream that will be over." So you say, "Wait, now we see that it has a really What seemed to be just a stupid little kiddy song really has a very deep philosophical meaning."

Through עיון We Realize Depth in a Simple Song 29:34

Through the עיון, we saw this, right? Right. And that's a מחשבה עיונית, the analysis. So we took the מחשבת שכל of just understanding the meaning of the letters and then the words, then the sentences, then the paragraphs, etc., like, for instance, in this book also, there's In front of us is

like this parenthesis that we're studying. The parenthesis is made of letters. You could actually sit down and count the letters. One second, let me put another tape.

Yeah.