Part 8 · Chapter 26

Upper vs Lower Unity of Love Explained 0:03

זהו ענין יחוד אהבה עילאה ויחוד אהבה תתאה, and this is the idea of the upper יחוד אהבה, lower יחוד אהבה. The upper יחוד אהבה is אבא ואמא, and the lower יחוד אהבה is זה שהוא ישראל סבא ותבונה, כמו שנתבאר למעלה בענין בינה ותבונה באריכות, שבחינת ישראל סבא הוא ו' קצוות דאבא, ותבונה ו' קצוות דאימא, שכל אהבה תתאה. Right? So there this is the idea that there's a that there's a upper אהבה and there's a lower אהבה.

So the upper אהבה is the, wait, what is he going to say? And so, yeah, ויש עוד ישראל סבא דלעילא גבי אהבה עילאה, שהוא ו' קצוות דחכמה סתימאה דאריך אנפין, ותבונה ו' קצוות דבינה דאריך אנפין, שמשם נמשך שורש יחוד אהבה עילאה בבחינת ג' רישין שבאריך וכולי. And then there's also a higher so so so in a יחוד אהבה, you can have the יחוד אהבה of the חכמה בינה in their pure state, which is like when it's a יחוד for the גילוי for themself, and just it's not for like the children.

Husband‑Wife vs Father‑Mother Love Dynamics 1:10

Right? There's like the father and mother the way they're husband and wife, and there's the way they're father and mother. So the way they're husband and wife is the upper אהבה, and the way that they're father and mother is the lower, is ישראל סבא ותבונה, because that's what actually that's like like the משל the difference between between אבא and אימא is like the is like their the personality of the father and mother, and like their more like they're like like their spiritual self, like their their מוחין and their מדות, and the and ישראל סבא ותבונה is like the reproductive organs, which is like the physical father and mother part of them.

It's the מדות of the the חיצוניות, yeah, the the מדות of the חכמה the way they're revealed outside. But then really there's a ישראל סבא and תבונה that's higher than the than in in in in אריך, which is higher than the אבא ואמא עילאין, and that is the שורש of their יחוד comes from there. In other words, that that like even though like in a I guess like the real like the thing, it says, talks about like how like a real smart person that really has עצם שכל is able to like explain it to a little kid.

So like in a way, we're going to start that's what we're going to talk about now. Yeah? Soon we're going to talk about that. In פרק ב' we explained בינה and תבונה, no? And the difference between ישראל סבא and and חכמה is the same thing: one is pure intellect, one's applied intellect.

Distinguishing Bina and Tevunah in Torah Study 2:39

The so explains there that the idea of like תבונה is the מדות of בינה, the way they get revealed to the outside. So like like it's the מדות of the שכל, which is like based on the שכל how what, you know, what what the שכל dictates about whether it's good or bad and how it should be, you know, done and whatever. But the way that it's revealed, so it's like תבונה it would be like learning שולחן ערוך, you know, as opposed to like learning גמרא.

Because in גמרא, even the הלכה is hidden in like the pure abstract thing. It's not like just to the מעשה. So, you know what I mean? The way that we learn גמרא, at least.

And the same thing with חכמה. The difference between the מדות of חכמה and the מדות of בינה the difference between תבונה and ישראל סבא is just whether you can explain it or not. Like like a פסק רב, where like he knew the הלכה was a certain way, but he couldn't explain why, he just felt it. That's like ישראל סבא, when you just feel that that's the way that you shouldn't do it, but you don't know why.

Normally the pure שכל is higher than the application. But then when you go there's a there's a higher רצון there's like a higher ענין of the application of it, which is in a way higher than the pure intellect.

Application of Intellect: Higher Desire Over Pure Thought 4:01

And that's the idea that like the real thing of the תורה and stuff like that is for doing the מצוות. And so in a way, like the real עצם of it comes out when you're able to apply it. That's the real עצם of the תורה, when you when you actually do the תורה ומצוות, and you experience it and that stuff like that. That's that's really what the תורה is.

So even though in a way that's really what caused you to want to understand even the pure thing of it, is first of all, that itself is a מצוה, but also is, you know, at like even the highest things should be able to come out in some way, to like be a, you know, a applied thing. Even if like the the, even even if like it's not like in a פרטית way, but just the fact that your attitude is like that you are want to be connected to God, לשמה, that that is like the spirit of the law, which lets you get like the letter of the law right, you know what I mean?

So in that way, and like the or like with the the משל of parents, even though they have like a essential relationship which like is precedes and in a way is like higher than the thing of having kids, but the whole idea of coming together and getting married is mainly to make a family. And that רצון is really what brought them together in the first place, you know what I mean?

So in a way, their whole relationship, the, you know, is based on that idea of having kids, which is, you know, it's not like it's high, it's not just like they're friends, you know what I mean?

The thing that makes them have that deep relationship is because they have this, you know, inner רצון to bring it out

למעשה. And because there's like such an essential רצון for them that's very strong to have children and family and everything, that's what makes the the love between a husband and wife so strong, cuz it's not like an essential thing. It's not like a father and a son where it's like essential, you know what I mean? It starts off, the love between a husband and wife starts off being תלוי בדבר, and then it reveals that like it becomes like an essential thing.

But it starts off being תלוי בדבר. טוב, קצוות דאבא are the intuitive like halachic thing, when you like, you know, you can't explain it, but you you know, you have like a a דעת תורה, you know what I mean? Like of a חוש, a הרגשה, you know what I mean? והנה כאשר נמשך מאבא מוחין לזון בשביל תולדות נשמות, when אבא is giving brains to זון in order to give birth to souls, צריך להיות הייחוד באבא בפנימיות המוחין בשרשם בב' מזלות דאריך אנפין.

Ketzot d'Aba: Intuitive Halachic Insight 6:20

When you want to have kids, when when when there there wants to be souls, then there has to go to the פנימיות אבא, all the way up to the two מזלות.

Why? כמו שנתבאר במקום אחר, right? והיינו בני, this is what it says, בני חיי ומזוני במזלא תליא וכולי. To have children and also חיי ומזוני depends on the מזל. You have to connect to the מזל.

In other words, the idea is that if you want to have it be like a like a soul, which means that it's a living thing and it's like can change, you have to get the עצם of the שכל.

So for example, if you want to be able to פסקנען הלכה, it's not good enough to learn הלכה, and the הגר״א says this, you have to know פנימיות התורה, which is like the אבא בעצם. Because why? Because you have to know the real goal, and you have to know like God and what He likes, and like you have to you have to have know like what the real like spirit of the law, what you what's the real, so you can't just say, well, just tell me what to do and I'll do it.

It's not going to be good enough because there's always going to be there's always going to be gray areas, unless you just appreciate, you know, what like the thing itself, of what you're trying to accomplish and what the תורה is and like in a deeper level that's not like directly connected to מעשה, but, you know, you still have to have that. And that's like the otherwise it won't be a soul, otherwise it would just be like a angel can just do what it's told like a machine, you know what I mean?

But it won't be able to like make a choice. So that's like the idea that like in order to give birth to souls as opposed to that that have like free choice and are able to like just, you know, be create make creative, do things creatively, you know, what I mean?

So there has to be a גילוי of the פנימיות המוחין, that God has to like reveal like put like a חלק of His עצם into it, like this idea of a נשמה has like a you know, has to come from פנימיות אבא, which is not, which at the level of the מזל, which is not yet limited in a צורה.

Because if it's limited in a צורה, then it would just be set in one way. But like this, it's like a it's like a revelation of the souls have a revelation of the way that God transcends the limitations of every, you know, and therefore they're able to have free choice. They're like at the level of the עצם. Yeah, so the same way with the physical making of a baby, that you have to bring down some of this liquid that's over the brain, and that which that is like the the מוחין סתימאה, which is like the essence of the life before it gets connected to any a particular form.

And that's able to then that's like, you know, like like kind of like things like stem cells and those kind of things, that they're like not defined so they can turn into anything. In order to have a child, you have to bring out the parts of you that are like just like the essence of life that are not Defined yet, and that could be made into anything, or so that it can make it into something new.