Part 10 · Chapter 10

וכל מה שמוכן ועתיד לבוא לידי גילוי בפועל החיות, אז דא יתכן היחוד והתכללות ראיה ושמיעה כגון. So when as long as you're talking about what's that it's going to come out, you're saying, well, how is it going to come out? When the soul comes in the body, can it see? Yeah, it can see. Can it hear? Yeah, it can hear. So there you can say that there's different powers, there's seeing and hearing, because once revealed they're different.

Soul's Potential to See and Hear 0:10

And you say the soul has all of them. So you say the soul must have the ability to see and the soul must have the ability to hear. And you say that there's different things, and the soul has them both.

So it sounds like you're talking about a bunch of different things, and you're saying that the soul puts them all together, because that's when you're you're you're retracing it back. You're saying that when it's revealed, they are different, and so all of these things that we see as being different were included there before it came out.

אבל כאשר כלול לגמרי בעצם הנפש, but when we're speaking about the way it was included completely in the self, the essence of the soul, והיה כלא יש במציאות התפשטות החיות כלל וכלל, and then when if you're not speaking about the way it's going to come into the body, you're speaking the way it is right now, if you look at the essence of the soul, the whole idea of consciousness doesn't it's as if it doesn't exist.

There is no idea of perceiving things, right? מצד עצם הנפש, שלמעלה higher מבחינת התפשטות, when you're looking at it from the the point of view of the essence of the soul which is much higher than spreading out to be conscious of things in a body. So there you don't see anything. You say there's no seeing, there's no hearing, there's just the soul. You don't see any of the any any type of consciousness there of like these things, רק שכלול בעצמות גם כן בבחינת התפשטות.

And this is the main thing, גם כן, that's the main word, that just that the essence also includes this ability to to perceive things, כעצם החי שכלול בעצמו כח התנועה כנ״ל, just like the essence of of a living thing that that includes the power of movement. There is no movements now at all, it's not moving. If it's not moving, then you don't see any movements right now.

But it has the ability, if it if it wants to come, the soul is going to come into the body, it could move. Or even once it's in the body, that energy that it ate could come out as movements, but it's not There is no existence of a movement right now.

And the same way, in the essence of the soul there is no colors or sounds, it's just the essence of the soul. But when it's going to come out, so then you can say that there's like all the different things.

אם כן, איך יתכן בבחינת היחוד והתכללות דפרטי אור והחיות? If so, when is it fitting to speak about the unity and the inclusion of the all the particular lights and feel like consciousness, feelings? רק מצד שעתיד ומוכן לצאת בהתפשטות החיות בהתחלקות פרטי החיות, only because you're saying that it's going when it comes into the body, then it's going to have it's going to be divided into seeing and hearing and all these and red and green and, you know, all these different sounds and colors and things, and tastes and smells, whatever.

So when you're speaking about the way it's going to come out, then you can say that all of those separate things were included and united there. מזה מוכרח לומר, from this we're forced to say, שיש כל פרטי מאלו בהתפשטות הכלולים בעצם לגמרי, you must say that every single detail that we're going that's going to come out was already included in the essence, in the soul.

שאם לא כן, מאין נמצאו פרטי מאלו? Because if not, where do they come from? הלוא בגילוי התפשטות. Where do they come from when in the when they're revealed? So since they came from the essence, we must say that they are there. But we're not saying that they're there that they exist as like separate things there, but everything that comes out from it, we must say it came from there.

So we say that it had seeing and it has hearing. But the way that they're there, they're not they're they're they're not there is no existence yet of seeing and hearing, they're not separate things, and really at that point the seeing and hearing are really the same thing. Just that when it's revealed in the body, within the physical world, it's revealed as different things, and so we say that all of those different things came from there.

Sun Analogy for Soul's Potential 4:27

כמו האור וזיו שכלול בעצם השמש, like the light and the ray that was included in the essence of the sun, שיש בו בהעלם כל פרטי פעולות הזיו והתפשטות וכדומה וד״ל, that in the sun, in the actual body of the sun, the sun is just this big ball of hydrogen gas that's, you know, undergoing nuclear fusion, at that point when you're speaking of the actual like body of the sun, there is no light there.

What there is is just this stuff, and because it's very hot and whatever, it's undergoing all these different, you know, we don't really need to get into all the physics of it, because of it, the way its nature, the way it works, it causes light. It, you know, its electron, the electrons get excited, and they make whatever, they give off photons. That's a whole, doesn't really matter right now how it happens.

But the point is that if you look at the actual body of the sun, it's like, you know, like a light bulb, you know, where they have like those filaments, the like wire inside that gets hot. The wire doesn't have any light in it. It's just a wire, just that its nature is that when you run electricity through it, it gets hot, and then it glows, and then it gives off light.

But even while it's on, and it's glowing hot, and giving off light, the wire is still not light. If you look inside the wire, you still don't see light. It's just the light comes out from it. It just caused light to come out.

So, the same way, if you even if you look in the sun, the sun already has in it the ability to make light, and to make not only just general white light, but that includes the the sun has to have the ability to make each each ray, each color. So, like if the sun were a little different, it would make different colors. It wouldn't make the exact mix of red, and blue, and yellow that it makes, and so it wouldn't look white.

It would look a little different. It would look red, or, you know, blue, or different stars have different colors depending on what they're made out of. So, because of what the sun is made out of, it makes this kind of light, with these exact, particular combinations of, you know, the spectrum. So, all the details of the rays that come out from it, not just the colors, also like the ultraviolet rays, and the infrared rays, and, you know, the the things of heat, and the growth of plants, all those different parts of the the sun rays all come from the sun, and there's a certain But nevertheless, the way that they're there, there is no light yet, at all.

So, even though you must say they all come from the sun, because exactly what comes through our window, the exact light that comes through our window, if you trace it all the way back, it went through outer space, it comes from the sun.

And there's a certain, you know, level where it's even in the sun, exactly that we see it, like in between the pieces of the sun, where there's a little bit of space, there's light there, too. But if you look in the actual stuff of the sun, there's no light yet. So, the same way, so even though we say, "Oh, the sun has red, and it has blue, and it has all these things," but we but if you look in the actual body of the sun, there none of these things are there yet.

It's just that it can bring them all out. So, the same way with in the essence of the soul, even though when it comes out, it has all these things, but when you look in the soul itself, you don't see there's the not only do you not see these details, the whole idea of these things doesn't exist yet, because it's a higher essence. And it's the it's just that it's the source of these things.

So, like if you have the sun, automatically you have the light, because it can it it one of the things it can do is bring on light. But the sun is much higher than light. It doesn't have it's not all it is is light. It's not like a big ball of light, and it's just leaking it out slowly.

It's not like that. It is something that makes light. But it's also exists it also does other things, doesn't just make light. So, that's the analogies.

Understanding Chassidic Analogies 8:32

Whenever analogies are used in חסידות, they're very exact, and they they whenever they use more than one analogy, there's a reason, and the analogies that they use are they're chosen because they actually come from the spiritual thing they're talking about. So, they're very exact. So, it's very important to stick to the analogies of the book, but once you understand this general idea, you can also see how this general idea is in like everything.

So, like you can see this relationship like with a talent, like a talent of music. Like let's say Mozart when he was a little kid. He didn't have all of the particular songs, you know, why couldn't he just write them all out? Because in his talent the particular songs aren't there yet. But yet, only he's going to come up with these songs, that comes out from his style and his talent.

And it's just a matter of bringing it out. And you know, same thing with all different kinds of things like that. But these are the main analogies of the ones that that we give here.

ודי למבין. And like we said before, whenever it says ודי למבין, it means that you'll understand the idea if you know you have to know how to understand the analogies, and know that part of it applies, and the rest of it doesn't apply.

And you have to know how to throw out the the parts of the metaphor that don't apply. And I mean that's the way it is with with any metaphor. You have to have a certain common sense to know what the person talking about. If they say, you know, if you know, like talking about a plane, like you know, a warplane flying, and they say it was it was an eagle in the sky.

So what do you mean it was an eagle? It was a plane. You know, you have to that's the way metaphors work. You have to understand that they're obviously the whole idea of a metaphor is you're saying it's something that it's not. The same way here with all these analogies, these things are not at all what we're talking about, and most of the the limitations that apply to these things do not apply.

None of these limitations apply to to what we're talking about. We're just trying there's a certain point, you know, maybe two or three points, there's a few points that we're trying to bring out, and everything else you have to forget about. That's That's the idea that you shouldn't be מגשם the idea. When you're giving a משל, the משל is supposed to be very a very physical, simple משל, specifically.

And you're not supposed to try You're You're supposed to understand the analogies literally. Some people think that since you're not supposed to be מגשם חסידות, you shouldn't understand the משלים as simple physical משלים, but the רבי says that you're supposed to understand the משלים as simple physical משלים, that's the משל. And the better you the more simply and physically that you understand the משל, you you need to want to like see it in your daily life as like a real thing.

That's the משל. You're supposed to see the משל as like a real thing that you know in the world. The נמשל, though, you have to understand, is not like the משל. That's with the idea of not being מגשם it. You shouldn't think that it's ממש like this at all. So, when we get to the next chapter, we're going to have to take away a lot of the, you know, limitations that apply to to the to the analogies, but that's the analogy.

Transition to Next Chapter 11:36

Yeah, eat the fruit and throw out the peel. It's what it says, רב מאיר came and he found a pomegranate, and he ate the fruit and threw out the peel. ונמצא, so it comes out, ג׳ מדרגות זו אחר זו נמשך מעצמיות הנפש ממש הנקרא בבחינת יחידה.

So, it comes out that there are three levels, one after the other, that come from the essence of the soul, which is called יחידה.

So, in the משל in the analogy of which this original thing that we brought as an analogy for to explain these three steps of יחד אחרי קדמאין, we said, is like the the way that the powers of the soul were revealed from the יחידה. So, we see that in the revelation from the יחידה, there's also a corresponding three steps.

First Step: Essential and Yuli Powers 12:40

הא׳, the first step, יו״ד כחות עצמיים והיוליים, are the 10 essential and היולי powers, the self and essential powers, כמו חפץ וחסד העצמי והיולי,

like the essential desire and kindness in the self for this thing, וכהאי גוונא, and the like with any other thing with the with desire for גבורה, or desire for נצח, or anything else, כלולים בה בתכלית כהתכללות כח התנועה בעצם החי, וכהתכללות התפשטות החיות בעצם כנ״ל. So,

the the essence of in in the person's self, part of who he is is included in who he is that he that he has this thing of kindness. And included in who he is that he has this thing of גבורה, of severity and judgment, and the thing of נצח, to win. Those are all like part of, like we said before, that's like part of him, who he is.

And this is just like the way the power of movement is in the essence of the living thing, like the cat, that there, it's not a movement at all, just that part of what it is, because of by nature of what it is, it also has the power of movement, but there's no actual movement there at all yet. In the same way, with the inclusion of consciousness in the self, that also there, there's no actual perception of sights or sounds yet.

There's just the soul, and but by way of what it is, it's automatically has the power of consciousness, but it totally doesn't exist now as as a separate entity.