Chapter 38 · Part 8 Chapters 34 to End

Understanding detailed path of thought, speech, action 0:00

Yeah. והנה ל"ח. והנה מעתה יש להבין דרך פרט יותר בענין לבושים מחשבה דיבור ומעשה וכולו, כמו שנאמר לבושין דתקינת לון וכולו. ולזה יש להקדים תחלה שורש ומקור לבחינת האותיות, ומה שלפעמים נקראים בשם כלים ולפעמים בשם לבושים. ואחר כך יתבאר דרך פרט בענין רוחב ועליה למעלה מתבונה ובינה עד רום המעלות וכולו. דהנה שורש האותיות הוא בעצם הנפש ממש, שהנפש מלאה אותיות כידוע. In other words, the the letters are higher than anything.

והיינו מתחלת עצם התהוותה, ובב' אופנים, באותיות המחשבה ובאותיות הדיבור. There is already in the soul אותיות המחשבה and אותיות הדיבור. דהיינו מיד שתתהוה עצם הנפש מיוחדים בה אותיות המחשבה וכולם בה בעצם, כמו שכלול תנועת החי בחי וכולו. ויוצאים ובוקעים לגילוי מחשבה בג' מדרגות.

דמיון וציור בלא אותיות כלל. One kind of אותיות is actually imagination of a picture without actual letters of speech,

and this an animal also has. ואותיות פשוטים מבולבלים בלי צירוף וחיבור ענין דבר מה, and just letters of blabbering

that are all mixed up. ואותיות מצורפים על פי מחשבה עיונית, and אותיות are made up into thought through the מחשבה עיונית, through through an analysis of a subject. וכך יש בעצם הנפש בחינת אותיות הדיבור, and the same thing, there's in עצם הנפש also אותיות הדיבור, שהרי נקרא נפש המדברת, ורוח ממללא.

Not talk In other words, we're called talking man, not Homo sapiens. Homo sapiens means thinking man. According to חסידות and קבלה, we're called talking man. וכולם בא בעצם, ויוצאים לגילוי כתנועת החי כהאי גוונא, כדיבור של מלאכים, כדכתיב וקרא זה אל זה וכולו.

והוא גם כן בג' מדרגות, and there's also אותיות הדיבור is also in three levels: חומר הפשוט שכל אות ואות, הנקרא הבל רוח הדיבור. In other words, the the חומר הפשוט is the actual sound, even before it has letters in it.

Simple material: raw sound of letters 3:00

Same like the דמיון is before the דמיון before it has letters in it. In other words, in the sound, like we said in the sound there's already a מדה over there.

And this also, this דיבור also an animal also has. This חומר הפשוט and the imagination, both of the first level animal also have. So like in a dog, you can hear from his voice if he's happy like or sad like he goes a dog goes,

so he does have this הבל רוח הדיבור. ואותיות א' ב' ג' ד' מיוחדים בלי צירוף וחיבור, means the actual חיתוך or the letter itself,

but not the combination of the letters. וחיבור

אותיות, then the אותיות in order in the speech, שנקרא צורה שבדיבור ברוח ממללא וכולו, כמו ב' שפות נספרות כדכתיב על המלאכים וכולו. So these letters are already in the soul.

Questioning dual kinds of soul letters 4:20

And you say, what do you mean, how come the letters in the soul are two different kinds of letters? Isn't it really the same kind of letter, and it's just that the letters of speech is this really the letters of thought that is being revealed? And it's not really true.

The the letters of speech is a whole different thing, they come from the fact that he wants to talk. And when he wants to think and when he wants to talk, it's two different things, even though that the letter of speech do have to come through the letters of thought, you can't talk without without thinking, but actually, if you look even closer, you see that really it's the other way around.

You can't think without talking, because letters of speech are really higher, that's why we're called talking man. Not only that, that's that's one of the whole reasons that you have to

תלמוד תורה is דוקא with talking and not with thinking, because talking activate activates thinking. Even though that talking has to come through the thinking, but really the talking is higher than the thinking.

And that's the thing that you see that when somebody can't talk in letters, he can't think in letters either.

Pre‑desire letters in the soul 5:45

והנה גם קודם שהתהוה מקור לרצון פשוט ותענוג פשוט, means even before כתר of אין סוף. פה יש אותיות הכלולות בעצם הנפש, which are higher than the ספירות themselves. רק אחר התהוות הרצון, except that after the התהוות הרצון, ישנן להיות בחינת גילוי הרצון.

And really, actually, even the רצון itself has to be made up of letters in the first place, that say that this is רצון and not something else. Right. ונקראין אותיות הרצון. And then, and then they're called, but he's talking after the התהוות הרצון. But really, before the התהוות הרצון, there's also אותיות, and the רצון is מתהוה דוקא from the אותיות.

And the אותיות are basically the כחות in the נפש itself to

define things. And this is the כח in the עצם in the עצם of the אין סוף, and it comes even before the light. The The The כלים, meaning the אותיות, have a higher שורש than the light itself.

And even the light of the infinite light in the אין סוף, meaning the אור אין סוף, has to come from a מאמר יהי אור that preceded it, which is made out of letters.

So, the same way there's a מאמר יהי אור farther down, which is in which is from מלכות מלכות of אצילות for becoming כתר of בריאה, which is, you know, the עשרה מאמרות from מלכות of מלכות of of אצילות.

Really, even the original infinite light had to come into being from the fact that the אויבערשטער said that he wanted it to He wanted it.

First desire composed of letters 8:00

Right. And even the first רצון, the רצון הפשוט, had to come from the fact that the אויבערשטער decided that there should be a רצון.

Otherwise, there would be no רצון. It doesn't have to be a רצון. Doesn't have to be a רצון, and it doesn't have to be a תענוג. As far as the אויבערשטער himself is concerned, it's just the אויבערשטער, and there's not even a רצון הפשוט. And you say, "So, what is there? What What do you mean? How does he think? How does he..." And the thing is he doesn't have to think.

He's not like us. He What What is really the the the עצמות ומהות, we don't really know, but but he does have letters. And the letters preceded What does it mean he has letters? But that he has letters that can define anything that he wants to define. That's what it means letters.

And really, even the רצון הפשוט is already a definition. Even though it's פשוט and it really doesn't exist and all that all that kind of stuff, that's in relation to what's lower than it, but it's in relation to the אויבערשטער, it's already in a way of letters.

Are letters the limiting power? 9:11

"So, these letters are the כח הגבול?" Not necessarily. Even the כח הגבול "Defining powers to define." Even the כח הגבול comes from the letters, and even the כח הבלי גבול, which, like we said, the אור אין סוף is a כח הבלי גבול, to decide that he has that he wants a כח הבלי גבול is also from letters.

And really, even the כח הגבול and כח הבלי גבול are not definitions of the אויבערשטער, but they're definitions by the אויבערשטער through the letters.

Yes, that's why it's a כח. That's It's not It's not like some people think that the that the כח הבלתי גבול, that's the אויבערשטער, it's not. No, I didn't say that. Okay, but in other words, that that the כח הבלתי גבול is also a definition. Right, but a definition of בלתי גבול. It's a definition of בלתי גבול, so you say what do you mean? A בלתי גבול means בלתי גבול.

Right. Means without a גבול. A definition. So how is it a גבול of a בלתי גבול? So you say, well, if it's not a גבול of a בלתי גבול, so how do you say בלתי גבול?

Not only that, בלתי גבול means it's it's בלתי גבול and not a גבול. Right. It's דווקא בלתי גבול.

Means like if you're rich or poor. If you're rich, means you're not poor. Right. I mean, in a way you can say, well, rich also includes poor, because if you're rich, so you also have $10. He says, yeah, you have $10, but you don't have a limitation of $10.

So you're not poor. If you want, you can go past $10. Which the whole thing by a poor person is he can't go past $10, which you don't have. Right. You know, so so it also And and that's like we're talking like rich and poor is like big and small, but like if you go infinitely big and infinitely small, so infinitely big, same like rich means he's not poor, so infinite means he's not finite.

And even if you say that finite is included inside of infinite, because if he's not finite, so that means he's not infinite, because he's missing something. Right. Well, it's not the same thing like I'm finite. Right. I'm finite and I'm stuck with it. Right. Infinite means if he wants to be, he can be finite. Right. Like if he wants, he can spend only $10. But if he wants But I can't do that.

I say, well, if I want, I can fly. No, I can't fly.

So Okay, so you really can't say that the letters are כח הגבול because that's only the in reference to the finite, whereas this is something that can define as finite and infinite. It's the כח, it's not just to define, it's what makes it what it is. Right. It's what It's how he says that this is He has the power to say or do anything that he wants.

Letters as source of reality 12:23

Right. So we're saying the מחשבה דיבור מעשה. How does He has the power to say and do anything he wants, how does he do it? It's all the letters. What does it mean letters? Letters means the various תנועות of what he can do, he can do anything. Right. And if he wants, he also has a תנועה of no תנועה. He doesn't have to do anything at all.

Right. And what these letters are, it doesn't mean they're actually letters. It means it's a whole thing is a total היולי. Right. Even like the letters in us, that in us it already sort of is like a letter, and it's not really totally infinite and stuff like that.

But the thing is that when you're sleeping, really, all the letters are there. Right. And everything that comes out, like what you see, and what you hear, and what you say, and what you think, and what you do, all comes in letters. Right. Which the letters were already there.

Emotions expressed through letters 13:42

Not only that, even the emotions come in letters. That says that it's this emotion. And even the היולי emotions Right. has to come You have to say that it comes in letters. And that's the חומר הפשוט. It means that that's Right. almost like if like you would say that that's what the אויבערשטער is, is letters.

And that's why, in a way, that's the highest thing is דווקא what the little babies do, they say אלף בית גימל דלת. תינוקות של בית רבן, when they just first start, that's in a way, it's called the highest thing. And the reason why The first thing a baby does is what it says over here that it's all jumbled up. What? The first thing a baby does is what it says over here about that letters are being all jumbled up, you know, baby talk?

Okay, but no, there's even before that. Even before that where it's just a voice. And that's the whole thing of the שופר, that a שופר is just a voice. Right. That's the first level that really even an animal has.

There's just a voice. Right. And and like upstairs, it says upstairs is backwards. So, what's the lowest down here is the highest upstairs. So, in other words, the the the plain voice before the before even the חיתוך האותיות, right, that's the highest level up there. Means there's nothing there, there's not really even letters there.

It's just the חומר of the letters, the חומר הפשוט that that all the letters can come out of.

So, why does it say here חומר פשוט של כל אות ואות? Where? That's what he said, how he says it there. הוא גם כן בג' מדרגות: חומר פשוט של אות ואות. Right. Right, it's not the letters. It's not just a simple voice, but that there's In the simple voice, but that's the חומר הפשוט of every single letter. That is the חומר הפשוט. In in any letter that you say, there's a חומר הפשוט, the voice in it.

But the voice is really the the vowels, which is not the letter itself. No, no, not the vowels. The voice is the vowel, isn't it? No, not the vowels. Not the vowels. The vowels are also made up of a voice.

There's a simple voice, the הבל. It's it's the basic it's the basic voice of the letter, but not just a sound that somebody's making a sound, but somebody's making a voice of a letter that he wants to say something. Like the שופר is not just a plain sound, it's a sound of supplication, but it's a plain sound. Right. So, that's that's your basic your basic thing is not the actual חיתוך of the letters.

The חיתוך of the letter, that's the second level. The חיתוך is אלף, בית, גימל, דלת. Right. That's actual חיתוך of the actual where it's already a letter. The first one is the הבל רוח הדיבור, the הבל, the wind. The wind.

But not a wind of just when you're breathing, but the wind when you want to talk, that you're pushing out a letter.

Right. והנה גם טרם שנתהווה מקור לרצון פשוט ותענוג פשוט, כבר יש אותיות קבועים בעצם הנפש, רק אחר התהוות הרצון יוצאים, then these letters go out and become lower letters, להיות בבחינת גילוי לרצון, then they become the כלים of the רצון, and they reveal the רצון, ונקראין, and then they're not the אותיות of the עצמות anymore, they're the אותיות the רצון, שהוא בבחינת גילוי הרצון ליש ודבר מה במציאות רצון.

שזהו עיקר ענין האותיות בעצם הנפש, שאינם רק בבחינת גילוי אור עצם הנפש

בכל איזה בחינת יש ומציאות דבר מה. That's what that's what the אותיות is, any kind of revelation or something

in a way of a יש or an existence of something,

על ידי האותיות, that will come later through the אותיות, יצא בגילוי מבחינת היולי הנעלם כולו of the היולי הנעלם of the אותיות in עצם הנפש.

Any kind of a a a somethingness, and this is the actual this the the letters are the somethingness of a thing.

So, in the soul, the fact that the soul has letters is also its somethingness. And the same thing, the the the letters, what it says that that that in the אייבערשטער is also letters, why? Because He's the יש האמיתי.

Right. And therefore He can make any kind of something that He wants, and that's what a letter actually is. That's what you make somethings with.

Like, for instance, if you're going to make a little toy by you take a knife and you make wood out of it, wood with a knife and you make a little toy, Right. that's done with letters.

There's various תנועות and there's the letters of the צורה, which is the דמיון, like we said before, that the that the picture of the thing.

Right. And anything has to be with letters, כמו שמבואר בלקוטי אמרים בכ\"ב אותיות שקבועים בנפש שהם כ\"ב כחות, כ\"ב תנו תנועות הנפש וכולו. It's 22 movements of the soul. ועל ידי זה יוכל הרצון לבוא בגילוי בעולם השכל. And through the letters if the רצון didn't have letters coming after the רצון, it has to have letters coming before to make it into רצון.

But then it has to have its own letters also, otherwise it wouldn't be able to come into revelation into the into the שכל. ולולי התגלות הרצון בבחינת אותיות, דהיינו מה שנראה למהות ומציאות רצון, so that you know what this רצון is, what this רצון is and what its מציאות is, היה בא הרצון העצמי לא היה לא היה בא רצון העצמי הנעלם בלבוש אחר ממהות למהות. It would not be able to come into a different לבוש and go from one מהות to another מהות.

From the מהות of a רצון to a מהות of a שכל. שהוא בחינת הרצון הנראה ונגלה בשכל וטעם לרצון כידוע. In other words the חכמה סתימאה of אריך. Right, the rational. The rational of the רצון. Right. It's not even talking about actual שכל yet. It's talking about the שכל of the רצון. Right. ודי למבין. וכך בשכל וטעם לרצון, שנקרא חכמה שברצון מה שנראה למציאות טעם לרצון, שהוא בחינת אותיות.

That's also אותיות. שבו, על ידי זה יורד ממהות למהות המדות שברצון. It goes from this מהות of the שכל of the רצון to this מהות of the מדות שברצון. כמו אהבה שברצון, שגם הוא אינו רק מציאות רצון, it's also a רצון, אלא שמלובש במהות אהבה, it's enclosed in a מהות of love.

שמצד הרצון הוא אוהב, that because he wants this thing, he loves it. That's why אהבה is לשון אבה, וה״א ה״א חסדים ה׳ חסדים. Oh, here it

says ה׳, א׳. ה׳ חסדים המתפשטים מחכמה ובינה וכולו.

So, the love means that the the the that there's original רצון and because the חכמה ובינה spread it out to be an emotion of love.

ואותו הרצון עצמו הוא בשכל וטעם לרצון. And this same רצון itself, which is higher than שכל וטעם לרצון, it is also still in the שכל וטעם לרצון, והוא עצם הרצון להיות עדיין למעלה מהשכל והטעם וכולו. It's enclosed inside the שכל והטעם, like we said before, that the רצון is enclosed in everything, even in the אהבה and the מדות also is like that.

ואמנם, על פי האותיות נשתנה ונראה בלמעלה מן השכל ובשכל ובמדות וכולו. Through the different through the אותיות it can change over from higher than שכל to שכל and to lower than שכל into מדות.

וכן יש אותיות למדות, the same thing, the מדות also have letters, מה שנראה שהוא מה שנראה אהבה שברצון במציאות יש וכולו. And that's how the אהבה of the רצון, and now we're still talking in רצון yet. We didn't even get to actual שכל or מדות yet. We're not even in אצילות yet. He's still talking the whole thing is in אריך.

עד הרצון שבמחשבה דיבור ומעשה, in other words מלכות of the רצון, לכולם יש בחינת אותיות. עד אותיות הרצון שבמעשה, not the actual מעשה, the רצון for the מעשה, which is the end of מלכות of אריך. שהמעשה עולה ברצונו, when the מעשה comes up in his רצון that he wants to do such and such a thing, שיש לזה אותיות מיוחדים. It has special kind of letters.

וכן, but these are all letters of רצון, but within the letters of רצון it's also different kind of letters of רצון. וכן על דרך זה בשכל שלאחר הרצון, and then later on in the same way, from the רצון, if there was no אותיות, it couldn't go to the שכל at all. And in the שכל שאחר הרצון שאם לא היה שכל במציאות אותיות השכל שהוא בחינת גילוי השכל במציאות, איך היה השכל בא בשינוי המדות בהתפעלות אהבה הנולד מצד השכל?

If the letter if the שכל would not come into letters of of its מציאות מה, what it is, then how could there be התפעלות to actual מדות to come from the שכל?

שגם שם הוא אותיות השכל שהיה טרם שהוליד האהבה, רק שנתלבש במהות אהבה. In other words, חסד of חסד of the שכל. וכולי, ואין זה רק על ידי האותיות שבו. That's only through the אותיות.

וכן על דרך זה אותיות דמדות במחשבה, the letters of מדות that come in מחשבה like we were talking in the last chapter. אם לא היה המדה במציאות יש באותיות, איך מתלבשת במהות מחשבה? How could it become enclothed in a thought about it?

Right. Like a guy who is sitting there, you know, waiting for a a job interview and, "Oh man, I'm really nervous." So nervousness is a מדה. Right. But if the מדה couldn't come into אותיות, how could he think, "I'm really nervous"? Right. So the letters or a מדה itself has to have letters that came into מחשבה.

And really without the letters there wouldn't have been a מדה in the first place. The whole מדה that he's nervous is because he's thinking about the job interview. Okay, but that came from the שכל. But the מדה of the שכל the the שכל had to have The מדה came out of the שכל. the שכל had to have letters that that are telling him according to his analysis.

In other words, he knows certain analysis. He knows what kind of an employer this is and what kind of job this is and what it pays and how much he wants it and how he can get his wife the swimming pool if he gets this job, Right, and because of those letters that and he knows his he knows his training, and he knows that there's other guys looking for this job also who also have good training, and all of this with the חכמה and בינה, the חכמה that looks over the whole thing and the בינה that analyzes all the different things goes into מלכות of תבונה.

And from מלכות of תבונה comes a מחשבה that from that מחשבה comes out the original מדה. And then the מדה goes up while he's sitting there of nervousness,

goes up in the הרהור, like we were talking before. That from the heart it goes up to הרהורי to to the הרהורי ליבא in the in the in the מחשבה.

So that ממש while he's sitting there, he already knows all this and he's nervous. And now he's talking that out of this מדה comes a מחשבה, the הרהורים.

That, okay, so you're nervous, so fine. So okay, good, forget about it. No, but while he's sitting there, he's thinking, "Oh man, I wonder what they're going to ask me," and stuff like that, you know?

All of these letters are coming out of the מדה. If the מדה didn't have letters, so how could he be מהרהר whatever he's thinking while he's sitting there?

אם המדה לא היה במציאות יש באותיות, איך מתלבשת במהות מחשבה וכולי? וכן אותיות המחשבה בדיבור וכולי, the letters of thought when they get enclothed into letters of speech. נמצא על ידי האותיות יש בחינת השתלשלות עילה ועלול מעצם הנפש עד סוף מעשה. So you see that the whole השתלשלות from the עצם הנפש to the סוף מעשה, and therefore in the נמשל the whole השתלשלות of the world into into actual being in this final world here comes from the אותיות that are in the עצמות, that are משתלשל level after level into the רצון הפשוט, and from the רצון הפשוט to the אנא אמלוך, and the letters of the גליף גליפו are משתלשל into the letters of the רשימו, and the letters of the רשימו are משתלשל into the letters of the קו וחוט, and that is משתלשל into the מחשבה קדומה, and that's משתלשל into א"ק, and that goes into אצילות, etc., etc., etc., all the way down to the speech of מלכות of עשיה, which is מלכות of מלכות of עשיה, and that is משתלשל even further down through the שרים and the מזלות, and all of that business, all the way down to here.

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