Part 4 · Chapter 11

Power of Creation Explained 0:03

גם שלא, and, well, it's not really the creations yet. This is knowing the power of creation. In order to appreciate what it means to be a creator, you have to appreciate the power, what it means the power of creation, and then you have to appreciate the creations, which is the next level that we're going to explain.

גם שלא יצא עדיין בגילוי לגמרי, even though it wasn't revealed yet, גם בעצמו, even to himself. In other words, that that השם didn't yet make the השערה and the צמצום to make it come out in a certain way.

And it's not a thing of time. We're saying that at this level, we're speaking about the power itself of חסד, and at this level, there it could come out in any way. It can make any השתלשלות.

And it could make infinite ספירות, ספירות אין קץ. We don't mean here the ספירה of חסד like it is in our השתלשלות. We mean the ענין of חסד, which is כולל in the עצם, which is like the idea of למטה מטה עד אין תכלית, to be to be מתפשט, מאיר ומתפשט.

על כל פנים שם יתכן בחינת אחדות והתכללות. Nevertheless, at least, even though it's not yet in a way of a מה, doesn't yet have a מציאות and a מעלות that's that's defined yet, but there you can already say that there are separate things that are united and included.

Because you're already speaking about something separate, רק שנקרא אחדות הפשוטה, but this is called a simple unity still, בהיותו עדיין באור עצמותו הפשוט בתכלית, because we're speaking about the way that all of these things are in the light, the revelation of God's essence, which is completely simple.

So even though we're now speaking about the way that God is revealed in the idea of like ספירות,

that's already a אור, it's מאיר ומתפשט, but since we're speaking about God, so in like in a person, there's only ten ספירות, but by God, it's really ספירות אין קץ, and it's totally simple that you can't really define the parts.

It's just the idea that there could be parts, but you could really divide them however, in in infinite ways, and there's no real like inherent divisions there yet.

וכמו בבחינת התחלקות שכל ומדות וכולי שבחפץ חסד זה, and this is like the divisions of intellect and emotions and everything else, מחשבה, דיבור, ומעשה, in the desire for kindness.

We're speaking about the נמשל now, God's desire to make the world, the השתלשלות,

שמחמתו הוא שעלה ברצונו ובחכמתו להיטיב וכולי, that because of this desire, it arose in his רצון and in his wisdom to do good. גם טרם בואו לגילוי כלל וכלל וכולי, even before it's revealed at all, in any way of the details of it. So in other words, once there came an actual עלית הרצון, that he wants to make actually make a חסד, right away, there's the recognition that he's going to reveal it outside of himself, and it's going to come into parts, and it's going to come into a certain צורה.

Initial Desire to Perform Chesed 2:59

He didn't yet make any type of estimation of how it's going to be, so you can't yet say any details. It's still simple, but it's recognizing that it's going to be made up of parts. וכנ״ל במדריגה ב בנפש האדם, like we discussed previously in the last chapter about the second stage in the soul of man.

So that's the level of אחד. והג', the third level, which is what's called קדמון, that is the level כאשר מבחינת חפץ חסד זה, when from this desire for kindness, הוא שעלה כבר ברצון ושכל וכולי, and we're speaking about when it already arose in his רצון ושכל, it already came up as an actual desire to do the חסד, והוכן בכל השיעור באותיות שמשער בעצמו, and not only that, which those were the first two levels, but it also came now to the third level, that it was prepared with the entire estimation in letters that he estimates to himself, and the idea of letters means any sort of like limited that it's expressed in a certain limited way, that's the of letters, and later we'll explain more about letters also, איך יהיה איכות אופן ההשפעה ממש לחוץ מעצמותו, exactly how the השפעה is going to come out from him, in which way it will come out, על דרך דוגמא מכח התנועה המוכן איך להניע, like this is like the power movement, when he's prepared, he knows exactly how he's going to move.

So like he's playing basketball and he's going to shoot the ball to the hoop, and he knows exactly how to do it, and he's really good and he he knows exactly how to throw it to get it in. He's definitely going to get it in if you let him throw it. And then, but he didn't throw it yet.

Third Level: Detailed Letter Estimation 5:16

Then somebody grabs the ball from him. וכח החיות המוכן איך להחיות, or like the power of consciousness which is ready now to enliven the body,

and now it's ממש ready, so like it's already in your eye, and it already went into the physical eye and it's ready now to see דוקא red and blue and green and yellow and stuff like that.

But you didn't actually see yet. כשמוכנים כבר בשיעור ואופן מוגבל כנ״ל, and they're prepared already with an estimation and in a limited way. כנ״ל בענין מדרגה הג׳ בנפש, like we explained before about the third level in the soul of man, that now, this is the level where it's completely ready and you estimated exactly what you're going to do, you know every detail, the way it's going to be בפועל, just you didn't do it yet.

ולמעלה, and above in Godliness, היינו מה ששיער בעצמות אין סוף שנקרא טהירו עילאה, this is the estimation that God made in the עצמות אין סוף which is called the upper purity, we're still we're still speaking about the level of טהירו עילאה, באופן ושיעור מה שרוצה בהשתלשלות בפועל והתגלות דהקו עד סוף עולם העשיה, that God estimated exactly what he wants to happen in the השתלשלות when he actually makes it come revealed in from the קו all the way to the end of the world of עשיה, all the way down to every physical thing, the last hair on your head.

Upper Purity and World Planning 6:59

He estimated exactly how many hairs would be on your head and exactly which way they would curve and everything. שזהו מה שכתוב גליף גליפו בטהירו עילאה כנ״ל, this is what it says that he engraved an engraving in the upper purity, like we said before, meaning that he engraved the letters, that he estimated it exactly, everything of the way that it's going to come out in our השתלשלות.

And this is like the idea that not only does he know the power of kindness, not only does he know that he can create and and and make a השתלשלות, not only does he know what the power that of making a השתלשלות is like and how it could include all the ספירות and everything, the ספירות דאין קץ, he also knows every single world and every single creature he could make with all its details, and then he also chooses which one he's going to do.

והוא הנקרא בבחינת קדמון, this is what's called קדמון, דהיינו מה שקדם אופן הרצון להשפיע טרם שמשפיע עדיין בגילוי ממש. This is, why is it called קדמון? קדמון means to precede, meaning that he already preceded within himself exactly the way that he's going to want to be משפיע before he actually did it.

But every detail he already was was already pre-planned. וזהו עדיין לפני הצמצום הראשון, אינדעם מקום פנוי וחלל וכו׳ כנ״ל וזהו. And this is still before the first צמצום.

Kedmon: Pre‑Planning Before First Tzimtzum 8:31

And I saw once, of the point of what we said until now, and I saw once this explained in a, I think of a שיחה, that to really appreciate the אויבערשטער, to really appreciate God, you have to appreciate it from like three angles. You have to appreciate like, we would three things: that He is higher than everything, which is the idea of יחיד, that He's higher than everything and that He is this, you know, that that His essence is really something that's beyond all type of limitations and ספירות and creations and everything; and that He includes all things, and not only that, but there's a, but every single last thing that we have, even in our physical world, has a unique מעלה and a unique גילוי of the עצם, and it's all ממש, in order to really appreciate God, you have to appreciate every single thing also here.

So, everything is really that's how everything is part of the עצמות אין סוף, part of the גילוי of God Himself, that to really appreciate what He is, you have to appreciate how He's higher than all forms and all limitations, and how He includes all powers and all abilities, and also every single particular being. That His, God's being includes ממש every particular being. These are all three levels in the אור אין סוף, which is, you know, once there's an actual אור, there has to be a צמצום to make the אור.

Or Ein Sof, Tzimtzum and Manifestation 9:59

Before that, in the מאור, there it's only a יכולת, it's not doesn't, it's not like בפועל. But in the, once it comes to the אור, in the אור אין סוף, the level of קדמיין of the אור אין סוף ממש has every single thing that's coming in, that's in our world. So anything that you see in the world, like an apple, is ממש, was ממש there in the אור אין סוף before the צמצום, just that you didn't see it as an apple because you saw it the way it's included in the אור אין סוף, you see it as a גילוי of God.

But after the צמצום, the צמצומים are just hiding, it hides everything except for the apple, and the same thing with everything.