Part 5 · Chapter 13

The Blueprint of the Rishimo: Hidden Light Source 0:02

וכך בחינת הרשימו הזאת כוללת ברמז ובקיצור מכל אור העצמות הנעלם בה. So just like the blueprint, so too this רשימו includes in it in a hinted, in a קיצור way, the whole light of the עצמות which is hidden in it. הוא עצמו המקור לכל המשכות דהקו וכו׳. This רשימו itself is the source for everything that comes out in the קו וכו׳, meaning, what do you mean that it's like the source?

It means that now everything that comes out in the rest of השתלשלות is coming out through this type of a צמצום. And so now it looks like that's what makes the rest of the השתלשלות is all defined by the רשימו.

In other words, that because of this step, that's what makes everything else the way it is. And this is a thing that it looks that it looks thrown, that it looks like God set it up a certain way, He set up a certain השתלשלות, and now, you know, that's like this is why in in like when a lot of when people look at קבלה, it tends to look to them like it's this machine or something.

It's like this system, because God made it like it's a set thing. And now, when we're understanding God, it's through from that level and down, it's all through this system that He set up, בבחינת מקיף ופנימי מראש ועד סוף, both the way the מקיפים of the השתלשלות, the פנימי of the השתלשלות from its beginning all the way to its end, שיהיה הכל כמו שעלה ברצונו וחכמתו הפשוטה בעצמות אור אין סוף ממש כולי, that everything now comes out according to this רשימו, in other words, that it should all be according to the way that He that He originally wanted in His with His His will and His wisdom, simple will and wisdom in עצמות אור אין סוף ממש.

So now we see it, it looks like the השתלשלות is following a plan that God decided, a one-time plan, that He wants it to come out a certain way, now it's just following that plan.

וזהו מה שמבואר במקום אחר, this is what is explained elsewhere, שהנקודה יש בה העלם וגילוי, that a point, which the רשימו is compared to a point, has two aspects to it. It has concealment and revelation. ב׳ הפכים, two opposites, two opposite things.

The Point’s Dual Nature: Concealment and Revelation 2:22

העלם מכל מה שעליון הימנה בערך, that the point, the רשימו, is a concealment of everything that's higher than it relative to it. So when you look, the רשימו is an העלם of the whole עצמות אור אין סוף.

It's now being put into the רשימו in a very short and hinted way, and you don't see it all there. וגילוי הכל למקבלין, and it's the source of the revelation of everything to the recipients.

נמצא הימנה דווקא, it all comes out from it. The whole גילוי that the מקבלים get comes from the רשימו. It's kind of like a funnel that it takes everything from above, before it, and it channels it all down, and then it all comes out, like we see with the משנה, that the משנה is like this little, short, like kind of just like CliffNotes or something for the the way that רבי יהודה הנשיא knew the גמרא, but then, for us, that's the source of our whole גמרא.

The Line (Kav) Emerging from the Rishimo 3:39

והוא בחינת הקו שנמשך מן הרשימו, and the revelation that comes to the recipients is like that is the קו that comes from the רשימו, שהוא כצורת ו׳, which the relationship of the קו to the רשימו is like the letter ו, שראשה י׳, the head of it is a י, which is the like represents the רשימו, it's a point, והולך ונמשך למטה, and then from that point it's drawn down, כמו שמבואר במקום אחר באריכות, as explained elsewhere at length, how the קו is drawn out from the רשימו.

And you you see if you look at the ו that the line of the ו is smaller than the י. It's it's thinner, that the י has a little bit, even though it's like a point, but it has a little bit of like a width to it, and the ו is very narrow. The line of the ו is very narrow, and that's because the קו is is less than the רשימו.

That really, even though the רשימו is like a point, but it's it's like a point from the אין סוף, so it's like a zero, but but the the nothing of the רשימו is bigger than everything in our השתלשלות, and the whole קו is smaller really than the רשימו.

Everything that comes on the קו is never really every it doesn't never brings out everything that's really hidden in the רשימו. You see See this like, like with the משנה, that even though there's the whole גמרא explaining the משנה, but really there's more in the משנה. And you can pull out more and more forever. So the same way that this world, it's true that it follows the רשימו and it comes out from the רשימו, but really, with the same רושם could come out totally different worlds also.

כמו שמבואר במקום אחר באריכות. ובכל זה מובן כללות ענין הצמצום דמקום פנוי ובחינת הרשימו והקו. From all of this, we understand the general ענין of the צמצום of the מקום פנוי, the empty place צמצום, meaning the צמצום that allowed for there to appear that there's something separate from השם. That's the idea of the מקום פנוי, that there's like a a place that's empty from, meaning some that you can put something there.

Understanding the Empty Space (Mekom Pnui) Concept 5:31

In order to put some things there, you have to you have to empty the space. So the this צמצום made it possible for there to appear that there's something separate from השם, because He hid Himself.

ובחינת הרשימו, and the impression that was left, והקו, and also the line which comes out from the from the רשימו, which we're going to explain more about the next two chapters. שהוא רק בחינת הגבלה בעצמות כדי שיומשך הכל בגילוי. That the general idea of the צמצום, רשימו, and the קו is that God limits Himself, so to speak, in order that everything should be brought out in a revealed way.

Divine Limitation (Tzimtzum) as a Path to Revelation 6:42

In other words, in order to reveal the world in a particular way the way it is now, He hid everything else that He could do. He could have made different worlds, and He could have made different ספירות. He could have done everything in a completely different way, and in order to make it this way, He He hid everything else. But it's not that He lost His potential, and it's not that it's not a complete revelation of Him.

In a way it is a greater revelation, because you see that He's choosing how it should be. And so choosing that it should be דווקא this way, that itself is a גילוי of Him. That's one of the things of how the צמצום itself is a גילוי. וזה שכתוב כי עמך מקור חיים.

This is what it says: With You is the source of life, באורך העצמי נראה אור.

That it says: With You is the source of life, and from Your light is seen light, באורך נראה אור. What does it mean באורך נראה אור? That from Your Your light, meaning the אור be the אין סוף before the צמצום, the revelation of God Himself, נראה אור, is seen a different light, אור של תולדה, a born light, שהוא בחינת הקו, which that's the idea of the קו.

And the general idea of a born light, it means that it's just induced, it's an induced light. Like, for example, if you would have a very strong light that would shine on like a curtain, so you wouldn't see the original light, you would just see now it coming through the curtain. You would see like a new light. Or, an even better משל in a way, is if you would have a very strong light shining on an iron curtain, on like a sheet of metal, where there's no way for the original light to come through, and then it heat- but it heats up the the metal and then it like glows, and like a new light comes off.

So you can see from that that light that there that there must be a light behind it. The fact it's glowing shows you that there's a light behind it, and you see where the light is concentrated on, because it's glowing brighter.

But you don't see the original thing at all. So that's the way it is, that when we, because of the צמצום, when we look at the world, we see a גילוי of, you know, חכמה and מדות and all these different things, but we don't see the גילוי of God Himself. Through עבודה, we go past the צמצום and we reveal God Himself also. But the the purpose of the צמצום is to make it that we have to work to uncover that level.

That initially we look at the world, we don't see the original light. That's why we have to make a דירה בתחתונים. וכמו שיתבאר בעזרת השם,

like will be explained with the help of God, how the קו works. וזה כל האדם, and this is the whole purpose of man. להעמיק דעתו בכל זה,

Man’s Purpose: Deepening Awareness of the First Tzimtzum 9:26

to really become very sensitive for this whole idea, that it should really hit you, that that we should really feel the idea of the צמצום to really appreciate how everything that's in השתלשלות is nothing, it's just God like holding Himself back and revealing just a little bit of what He can do, but really, we should feel how what's behind it, how it's really coming from God Himself, and we should be able to like see past first צמצום.

That's the main purpose of our עבודה is to see past the first צמצום. And that's that a person should, even if they don't ממש like see past it, but we should live our life with this recognition, we should have this דעת for it, we should really we should feel it, and so that what we connect to, what we feel is important, is השם Himself. And everything else, we shouldn't be so impressed by, we shouldn't consider it important, we should see it only as a means to an end, but not something that really has intrinsic importance.

And therefore, when a person has that attitude, they go ביד רמה, they're not מתפעל, and they from the world or from anything, you know, even from גן עדן, עולם הבא, all these things, they're not מתפעל, they just do do their שליחות and do what God tells them to do. כיוצא בו and similar things, meaning like the rest of the השתלשלות that we're going to explain the rest of the book, that a person should also it's important to see through all the צמצומים.

But this is in a way the main one. מפני שמזה דוקא יבא לכלל יחוד אמיתי והתקשרות נפשו בחיי כל החיים העליונים שהוא עצסואינ״ס ממש מטעם הנ״ל ודי.

Because only when a person is able to develop a sensitivity for for this, these things, to to be able to appreciate, see past the different concealments that God set up in the world, that that that that the העלם והסתר that God set up that makes it look like, well, things are, you know, set, and there's a certain טבע, and you got to work within that framework, and you know, there's הגבלות, and and then automatically it's נשתלשל from that that you can't always do תורה ומצות, you know, you have to worry about this, you have to worry about that, and we want to see past that.

And so this is the main thing, to be able to see past these הגבלות is what allows us to to connect to God, both because we realize that that nothing can stop us, and also because we realize what's really important. Our goal both We have to fix both our goal, that we should realize that our our רצון should only be for השם, and we also have to fix up the way that we accomplish the goal, that we should realize that we don't have to worry about being מתפעל from all of the the the limitations of the השתלשלות, that the whole reason that everything is there is to help us connect to השם, and so it's impossible for them to stop us.

Aligning Will to God Beyond All Limitations 12:04

And like we said in the beginning of chapter 12, the reason why through understanding this then you're able to be מכוון your רצון to השם Himself, and ודי.