Part 1 · Chapter 10

Review of earlier chapters and purpose 0:00

Chapter 10, פרק י'. ומעתה, and now, now that we explained in the first part of the book, chapters one through nine, about התבוננות, and we told you how to do התבוננות, that it should be done on the details of the השתלשלות, or really using the knowledge of the details of the השתלשלות, to look at the world and look at particular things in the world, and see how they are connected all the way up and all the way down, until all the stages in the middle become transparent, and you realize that you're looking at God.

That's what we That's the method that was explained in the first nine chapters. With, you know, some more details there, but that's the basic idea.

That you should take something in the world, and trace it all the way up, each stage of השתלשלות to its source, all the way up to God Himself, see how it came from God, and then trace it back down, so that you are able to recognize that realization that you came to, back in like the physical world.

Need for systematic explanation of the השתלשלות 1:26

But as the מיטעלער רבי pointed out in chapter 5, at the beginning of chapter 5, that not everybody knows the השתלשלות well enough to do this.

And it's difficult to get to piece together a working picture of the השתלשלות from learning scattered מאמרים, because it doesn't discuss the השתלשלות in order.

And so, the מיטעלער רבי decided that he would make a book that explains the whole השתלשלות in order. And that is this book, from chapters 10 to the end. So now that we explained that you need to know the השתלשלות in depth, we're going to explain it to you.

הנה יש להבין דרך פרט בכל ד' עולמות דאבי\"ע. Now we have to, at least for the benefit of those that do not know this yet, we have to understand the details of all of the four worlds of אצילות, בריאה, יצירה and עשיה.

What does it mean their details? דהיינו בכל פרטי ענין י' ספירות דאבי\"ע. That means that we have to understand the details, all the details of the ten ספירות of the worlds אצילות, בריאה, יצירה and עשיה.

Lights versus vessels and their interrelation 2:55

אורות וכלים, we have to understand their lights and their vessels. So that means we have to understand the difference between the lights and the vessels, and we also have to understand והתלבשותן זה בזה, how the lights go into the vessels, how the lights are enclothed in the vessels.

בכל פרטיהן, with all of their details. What does it mean with all of their details? גם בכל ספירה שמתחלקת לפרטי פרטיות, that means even how each ספירה divides, subdivides into minute details, details after details, subdivision after subdivision.

כמו גם בבחינת חסד דמלכות שבחכמה שבמלכות דחסד וכאי גוונא. Even to the fifth degree, and really even more than the fifth degree, this is just an example.

Even, for example, if I was going to tell you that we are now going to talk about חסד of מלכות of חכמה of מלכות of חסד, that you would know what I'm saying. That you would be able to explain to me what what that is. Right, and when I don't mean just to know on the map, but to really understand what what that means. So like a person, the idea of חסד, so say, \"Oh, that means kindness.\" And then once it already goes to the second degree, like חסד of גבורה, so then people already most people get confused.

What's the difference between חסד of גבורה and גבורה of חסד? So a lot of people already don't know. So we're going to explain later all these subdivisions, and how they work, and the different things we could mean when we say חסד of גבורה or חסד of מלכות. וכאי גוונא, and the like.

וענין יחודם והתכללותם בבחינת הכתר שבכל עולם. We also need to understand how the ten ספירות of each world are united and included in the כתר of each world. That means that in כתר of אצילות, the ten ספירות of of אצילות all become one.

Crown unites the ten sephirot of each world 4:42

And not only that, that the ענין of כתר of אצילות is really something greater than the ten ספירות that includes them all. That's the idea of יחודם והתכללותם, that the כתר of אצילות unites them, and also when the כתר is revealed, it makes a unity among the ספירות, and also when you have the כתר, you have everything. All the ten ספירות are really included in the כתר of that world.

And the same thing with בריאה, that the ספירות of בריאה are included in the כתר of בריאה. So the ספירות that come out in that world are nothing new really to the כתר. They're just like being מפרט, they're just the details of the כתר, the כתר coming out in detailed ways and in כלים, right?

And that's what we're going to explain in chapters 23 and 24, that it's like one thing with ten garments, or it's like ten pools of water that you pour into the first one and it spills over to the next one, the next one, as we're going to explain there.

שהוא בחינת הממוצע בין עולם העליון לתחתון הימנו. The כתר of each world is the intermediary between an upper and a lower world. So the כתר of בריאה is an intermediary between אצילות and בריאה.

Crown as intermediary and the chain concept 6:10

And the כתר of אצילות is an intermediary between the מאציל and the נאצלים, between אצילות and what's higher than אצילות, as we're going to explain later. כידוע הכלל דרך קצר, as is known the general rule, the general principle, which in short summarizes the the way that the השתלשלות goes, שמבחינת מלכות שבעליון נעשה כתר לתחתון, that from מלכות of a higher level is made the כתר of a lower level.

And we're going to explain what that means and how that works, that from מלכות of an upper level becomes the כתר of the lower level, עד רום המעלות, and that that is true all the way up to the highest levels, which is why it's called a chain.

השתלשלות means a chain, because the lowest level, like the links of a chain, the lowest part of the upper link connects and goes under the highest part of the lower link.

So the same way, the מלכות of a higher level goes all the way down and actually goes a little bit lower than the כתר of the lower world. That's the way it goes all the way up and all the way down.