Part 2 · Chapter 46 Part 2 to End

Candle Light vs Darkness Perception 0:04

שאי אפשר לומר באור הנר מצד עצמו שמבריק אורו בעצם החושך לילה יותר מביום, ואף על פי שהוא מאיר את החושך ואפילה דווקא, שאי אפשר לומר באור הנר מצד עצמו שמבריק אורו בעצם החושך לילה יותר מביום.

You can't say that, well, look at this candle. In the daytime it was hardly giving off light, and look how much light is giving off now. Ah, no, it's giving off exactly the same light.

It's just מצד החושך מצד because of the חושך שהוא הפוכו, על כן ניכר בו יותר אור, therefore you can see the light more. ואין זו הבהקה מצד עצמו, it's not that itself is really any brighter. רק שנראה לעין כהבהקה יותר. הבהקה יותר מפני החושך,

דווקא שבו יתרון האור לעין הרואה לבד. There there is a יתרון אור for the people who see it דווקא. וזהו כמו הבהקת והארת אור האבן הטובה, ביותר מצויה בגסות החומר, שהוא בהיר יותר משהוא מצוי בחומר זך ובהיר. And that's why also the the shining of a diamond is more shiny than than shininess in the air. Even though the air is more זך, but the shininess, the sparkle, you see דווקא in a diamond because a diamond is a more גס thing.

It it shines, it sparkles. Right. Okay, go ahead. The tape is rolling. And it was the thing, you know, שרגא בטיהרא, you know? And שרגא בטיהרא מאי מהני ליה. And and the the diamond, that the diamond shines more because it's the חומר. That we didn't do yet. Yeah, we did. That was the last thing we did. That was the last piece that that that. Yeah, we did.

Diamond Sparkle Compared to Air 2:02

Okay. That the the shining in a diamond is more than in the in the air, even though the air the air is a purer thing than a diamond. Right. But the the air doesn't sparkle, דווקא a diamond, when the when the sunshine light shines through the air, since it's totally refined, so it just goes right through it. Right. And it's דווקא it's דווקא by a diamond that it it sparkles because it's it's מגושם.

Right. And that now we are about a about a quarter down the page, and there's a parenthesis. וכבר הבנו והשגנו תכלית עומק אור השכל במשל זר, שהוא עניין גס ביותר דווקא מטעם זה כולו.

That you that you get the feeling and see the the brightness of the תכלית עומק השכל דווקא in a in a very גס משל. And of of a totally different thing. Right. And and that's why you see that it's דווקא the the more you מגשם the משל like like especially like on the משלים like when we turn it into a cat, Right. not just כוח התנועה.

I mean even כוח התנועה is already a משל זר and מגושם. But when you מגשם it totally all the way and say like a cat, Right. that's much more than just when you say like a מחשבה קדומה, which מחשבה קדומה is also really a משל. Right. וזהו בחינת נוגה שיש בה ב' פירושים כידוע. האחד, מעניין נוגה

Understanding the Term נוגה 4:01

אור, means a shining of of light. יגיה חשכי, he'll light up my darkness, וכהאי

גוונא. But נוגה doesn't mean like a bright light, it means like a shining, it's a a mild shining. A glow. A glow, right. וכהאי גוונא. והב', לשון בליטה לחוץ, כמו כמו שנאמר כאשר הוגה מן המסילה, somebody veers off the path. Right. וכן ההוגה את השם,

somebody who says the name. Right. כמו היגיון שבמחשבה. What's the thing of היגיון? היגיון means when the מחשבה is in a way that it sticks out in a way that you can feel it, מחשבה הגיסה בו. וכן והגיון לבי when the thought is boiled out in the heart. ושניהם

עולים לכוונה אחת, כמו שנאמר במקום אחר. And they're

both really the glow and the בליטה is the same thing, really.

Light Through Clouds and Rainbows 5:31

Right. Like a glow is also it's a בליטה of light, basically. Right. על דרך דוגמה, מאור השמש המאיר בענן שאורו מוכפל שם, וניכר הוא שם ביותר ממה שניכר בגוף השמש עצמו.

That, you know, when the when the light shines through a

the cloud, then you can actually see the ray of light. You can actually see that it's a ray of light. Right. Whereas if there's no cloud, you can't see that ray that there's actually rays of light. Right. You can't see like the direction that are that it actually like, for instance, like traveling in a straight line. It just looks like there's light everywhere.

And certainly in the גוף השמש itself, you can't see that there's a light separate from the

sun. כי מפני הזדככות גשם הענן שבהרכבת חלקי המים שבו יוכר שם האור בכל פרטי חלוקה ביותר. And this is especially what he's saying now, not so much besides the fact of when it shines through and you can see that there's a ray, but when it turns it into a

rainbow. When it turns into the rainbow, you can actually see the parts, Right. what you can't see without the without that. ובהרכבת חלקי המים שבו יוכר שם האור בכל פרטי חלוקה ביותר, כמו ג' גווני הקשת, שנקרא מראה הנוגה. That that's called the מראה הנוגה. Because it's a נוגה, because it has to go through a thing, so therefore כמראה הקשת, the מראה הנוגה is like the מראה הקשת, that it breaks it up.

Because of the נוגה, it breaks it up into where you can see its parts. כמראה הקשת וכולי, כן מראה הנוגה וכולי. וכמו פרטי חלקי גוונים שבאבן טוב, לא ניכר יפי חלקיו כי אם בהיותו מורכב באיזה חומר. אך לא בחומר גס, אלא בחומר זך וצלול שיבהיק אורו ביותר.

Material Purity: זך vs גס 7:54

But not in a totally גס, so that's the thing of קליפת נוגה means it is not totally גס like the קליפות הטומאה, but דווקא when it's it's a חומר, but it's a חומר זך.

Like a diamond, a diamond is a חומר, but it's not like In other words, if you have a piece of lead, then it then it won't sparkle.

It's דווקא when it's a חומר זך. It has to be a חומר, because like when it's air, then it won't sparkle either. It'll just go right through it. Right. So it has to be a חומר, but it has to be a חומר זך. וכך הוא ענין הב' שבפירוש נוגה, שהוא בחינת הבליטה בגשם

זך. That that is the sticking out דווקא in a גשם זך, like the like the light sticks out in the diamond. שנזדכך קצת That it's a little bit purified. שם בבת אחת יגיה חושכי דווקא. וכן הגיון במחשבה עיונית, שבא אור השכל בבחינת בליטה לחוץ בגשם האותיות, דווקא in the גשם האותיות שיר המחשבה, שאז דווקא ניכר מושג והארת עומק השכל

ביותר. And this is also with people. The thing of the חומר, you know, if you need חומר, so you could have animals, and if you need זך, you can have angels.

Human Purification and Divine Light 9:18

So so what do you need? You don't need you don't need It doesn't work, not with angels and not with animals. What you need is people, but the people have to purify themselves. Right. And דווקא then the divine light shines the most. When it's

a It has to be דווקא a חומר, people in a physical body, not angels. Right. And And and by the people with a physical animal body, and then they מזכך the animal nature, and דווקא there is the big בליטה of the of the אלקות.

And and in the מחשבה עיונית, it's דווקא when it's the עיון puts it into the length of the עיון, bringing it down into letters and משלים, it's דווקא there is the it the the the עומק השכל sticks out more. וזה שמערב והגיס בה וכו׳.

In other words, to to do the התבוננות in a way of bringing it down into the משלים and and etcetera. והיינו גם כן כמו ענין המשלים שבולט ומושג שם אור השכל יותר כנ״ל. והיא בחינת נגה דעשר ספירות וכו׳ בכלל, שזהו בחינת הישות המרגיש ובולט,

the actual physical somethingness that is felt and sticks out. על דרך המבואר במקום אחר בענין ראית איש חכם בעיניו,

like a person who is wise in his own eyes, you know, what do you call that, not arrogant, how do you call that? Conceited. A conceited person, right. A

יש, you know. Right. וכן או בילקוט שמעוני: ראו מה, what is ראו מה? ראו שאני בטל, look what a מה I am, look at me how holy I am. Right. או כהתלהבות אלקית מורגשת, or like a felt התלהבות אלקות, like what it explains in קונטרס ההתפעלות that to stay away from that kind of stuff.

And that's the ענין of a יש, and it's דווקא when you מזכך that יש that you get the real

בליטה of the of the of the divine

The Root of חשמל in בינה 12:31

light. דכל זה שורש בחינת החשמל שנעשה מחיצוניות דבינה. And this whole thing is the is the שורש of the חשמל ש the חשמל comes out from חיצוניות בינה. In other words, the letters that stick out, and you have the חשמל, which the חשמל then has its own life.

And then the חשמל gets transferred over, you know, so that the חשמל becomes the רצון by the next person and he doesn't even think about it. With no the the חשמל can go without to to to to make up a whole רצון without התבוננות in the first place, which is what happens, and that's and that's how תהו continues basically.

Right. As a matter of fact, what could happen, and that's what it explains in various like רש״יs and stuff like that, that in the early generations

that because it was a חשמל, so it tends to deteriorate. And what like like a a first generation makes up משלים so that they can כאפ the light better, and then the חשמל goes over, and by the third or fourth generation is like a broken telephone effect where they grasp the חיצוניות of the משל and don't know what it relates

to. Right. You know. That's how the רמב״ם explains how the עבודה זרה started out in the first place. Yeah, that's what I said. רש״י also basically says, I mean, the the מפרשים, they explain that's how it worked, right. And it's not just עבודה זרה, a lot of things. I mean, you see you see even in like things that start off, like even in in in the bad stuff, like even like real bad stuff like communism, in a way, if it started off from a good intention.

How Good Intentions Degenerate 14:25

And you see there's a lot of these things, like abortion, start it start it's starting off with a good intention. Right. And it ends up as killing your own children, which is the worst possible thing that could happen. You know,

that's you know you know what it says about, you know, that they ate they ate the kids? Right. You know the story? Yeah, yeah. With עץ הדעת?

Yeah. That the שטן gave him a kid and they ate him? Right. And that's basically it. Like right now, what do these people do?

They they don't want to have the kids, why? Because the the the the פרנסה

will get less. Right. So basically, what they're doing is they're eating the kids.

Right. You know. And the same thing with like the way the whole thing is worked in terms of the like national credit and stuff like that, that they're basically building up this credit that's going to the next generation.

Right. So they're like eating their kids in a way. Right. You know.

Where are we here? וכל זה שורש בחינת החשמל שנעשה בחינת הבינה... שנעשה מבחינת חיצוניות הבינה, שמזה נעשה בחינת הכנפיים. And

that's called the כנפיים of בינה, כמו שנאמר, על גוזליו ירחף, אימא פריסא גדפהא, that the mother spreads her wings over the the chickies, in other words, over the מדות, like we said that the חשמל of בינה is what protects the מדה.

And what's the חשמל of בינה is like the basic a basic משל on that is like the McCoys and the what's-her-names, Hatfields. Hatfields and the McCoys, right, that the the חשמל of בינה is what holds the hatred in place, that it's not anymore that actually that they know even what the original incident even was.

Right. It's just the בכן, from the חיצוניות בינה keeps the

The Wings of the Divine Presence 17:30

מדה in place. ונקרא כנפי שכינה. ונקרא כנפי שכינה, שמשם שורש נשמת

נשמת הגרים. That's the where the נשמות of the גרים come from. וזהו גם כן עניין מאמר זהר, על פי בוקר דאברהם איהו חפא ואצטפי. דוד אתקין האי חופה לחפאה בוקר דיוסף.

This דוד made this חופה to cover up on the בוקר of יוסף, of יסוד, in other words, מלכות is covering up the light of יסוד. ועביד נהורא לאתלבשא וכולי,

and makes a light to become clothed in, עד אינון דאיקרון כנפין עילאין וכולי כמו שמבואר כמו שנאמר כמו שמבואר במקום אחר, which I don't I don't know this is something in he's basically bringing up a thing in זוהר that basically is talking about this עניין here. עד שמזה נשתלשל וירד עוד להיות בבחינת המסך ממש,

so the חשמל of בינה, which is starts off as a light, a כתנות אור turns into a a כתנות עור with an ע, or becomes a מסך which covers up the light. Where where the where where the original thing, the עניין זך was actually clarified the thought, and it made it boiled it out more.

But then it it it it gets the גראבקייט gets more and more, so that it turns from a a a חומר זך to a חומר עכור.

So, he's telling you here basically how the תהו came into being. This relates, by the way, to the beginning of the chapter with the the king of תהו.

Right. He's telling you how the תהו came into being and covered up more and more of it till the מדות became מדות of תהו, until finally it got to the point that even the בינה is בינה of תהו.

Because now it's even worse than in past generations, actually,

so that even the מידות are worse, so that like they are already going to, you know, things that were lewd and stuff like that even back then, like מעשה מצרים, and it's not even considered מעשה מצרים anymore, it's considered actually goodness. Right. I mean, like like a person who's against it, it's like, what do you mean? Right. You know, I mean, what do you mean, you hate people?

I mean, it's like it's like it's like bad. If you're against it, it means you're bad, you're one of these bad people. You're a bigot. A bigot, right.

And and he's basically describing here how the how the the the generation. And before, he said that that the eighth king will turn into יוסף פותר החלומות and will straighten it out. He'll put, once he puts the letters in back in place, the letters of חשמל, because the letters of חשמל actually really clarify the light.

Right. That's how they originated. They came out in a way of the from the from the from from the from the מחשבה עליונה in order to clarify the light.

But then they got mixed up, and they got separated with a פירוד after פירוד

until it became a total מסך ממש. הנקרא פרסא המפסיק ומבדיל בין אצילות לבריאה, and then it it stopped it. והמלכות בוקע המסך כמו שיתבאר, and then the מלכות goes through the can go through the מסך. אך ענין כתנות אור

בא', that the ענין of a כתנות אור בע'.