Part 3 · Chapter 28

Names Before the Ten Sefirot of Atzilut 0:00

וכולי והן ע״ב ס״ג וכולי שלפני עשר ספירות דאצילות, so these names 72, 63, 45, and 52, those names represent or the names of א״ק which are before the ten ספירות of אצילות, ונקראים שמות המאציל וכולי, those are called the names of the Emanator. That God, in other words, just the way that God chose to reveal Himself. כמו בבחינה האחרונה שבצורה הרוחנית, this is like the low, the most external level of the spiritual form, שנקשר על תחילת התהוות האור והצורה בכלי החומר וכולי, which is connected to the whole the beginning of the creation of the light and the form in the vessel when it comes into actual matter וכולי, כנ״ל, like we said before about how like the soul

goes into the body, and as the soul develops and grows, so the body develops and grows, and that the body has to be made in a way that will fit the soul. So, the eye is made especially to be a vessel for seeing and the brain for understanding, right? So, since there's already a certain form to the concept of seeing, therefore when it comes into the physical world, it has to come in a certain ways.

It already, you know, because it already has a certain definition to it. So, the same thing, since there's a certain definition to wisdom, so even so now when you want to express that in the circumstances of our world, even though the circumstances of our world are totally separate from wisdom, nevertheless, when you put the two together it's like a function, and it's going to have to come out with certain types of products.

You know what I mean? Like once you have the input and the function, the product is is is automatic. So, like א״ק is like making like a function. It's like setting up a certain system of how you want to interface yourself with the world and how you want to So, now when you have a certain stimulus from the world, certain stimuli from the world, you just plug that into your א״ק and the the result is is a is essential.

Function of Divine Names in World Interaction 1:58

It has to come out with a certain result. Once you make a certain definition of how you want to reveal yourself as being kind and being, you know, whatever, a certain kind of person, so now if you come to a certain situation, you have to act in a certain way that will reflect that, or else you're not being who you want to be.

So, the same thing, once God chose to reveal Himself through a certain thing, so now the world has to conform to a certain has to work a certain way in order to reveal God, and certain things will reveal Him, certain things won't, and therefore the world runs in a certain order because God chose to reveal Himself through a certain order.

Now, of course, since He has choice, He can always change things. As long as you're working within the השתלשלות, like there's there's a certain level where it's like a system, and that's like this is the basis for why things seem natural or even on like a higher level why there's like the idea of like like being able to

Astrology and Knowing God’s Intentions 3:11

like know what God you know like like the astrology. Astrology is really like a Jewish wisdom that when you know the names of God, you understand what God wants and what If you see certain things, certain things going on in the world, you know how to plug that into the names and figure out what God wants to would want to do.

When you see the stars set up in a certain way, so in other words, like if you if you see it's seeing the stars set up in a certain way means like, you know, it's like let's say you see me taking out a hammer, like the גויישה astrologers say, "Well, if I see a hammer, probably he's going to bang in a nail."

Or, if they want to be more correct because maybe I'm pulling a nail, so you say, "Oh, so I see something with a nail," right?

But, they're probably they're going to be like right most of the time because that's a very general statement and that's usually true, but it could be that I'm using the hammer for something totally different that has nothing to do with a nail, and so that's why they're only going to be right in general, and sometimes they'll be totally wrong.

Predicting Events: Rabbi and Weather Example 4:20

Now, that those are the tools through which He does things. So, when you see So, in other words, before it actually comes out, the final product, God sets up, you know, things in a way that, you know, that that will He gets out the tools to do different things, and so when you see things in the world turning in a certain way and things happening in a certain way, you know what I mean, like all of a sudden like, you know, the weather is a certain way or all of a sudden like a certain guy goes in power, or all of a sudden the stock market takes a turn, and you see different events happening and you're not sure how they're going to unfold, so some you could kind of guess the general way that things usually go, like the weathermen try to predict the weather and there's usually generally right.

Sometimes they're totally wrong, and they can only give you general predictions, but they're usually right generally, right? But if you understand what God wants to accomplish, which is the thing of knowing the names behind the vessels, then you'll be able to know exact- you'll be able to see exactly what He wants to do, because you understand you when you know In other words, if you knew what I wanted to do and then you saw me go take out the tool, you would know what I was going to do with it.

Well, no, it's not it's not like a deter- not in like a a mecha- mechanistic, deterministic way, no. No, even the weather, it's not like mechanistic and deter- deterministic like that. It's not. But and and it doesn't even mean when like they would look in the stars, doesn't just mean they would look at the stars. It means they would look at the way that things are turning, all kinds of things.

It's not just the stars. It's like everything. It's when the way that they would interpret events. So like, for example, the weather people, when they see a hurricane coming towards Florida, they say it's probably going to hit Florida full force, so evacuate.

And they tell people to evacuate. Like, you know what I mean? The רבי understands, though, that for, you know, for whatever reason, God would not, at that situation, want the hurricane to hit that place.

And so the רבי said, "You don't even have to bother evacuating, it's not going to happen." Because the רבי understood what the purpose of it was, and he saw the purpose of this hurricane could not be for that to be happen.

Now the truth is, by the רבי it's even higher than that, so it's not even like the רבי figured out in that kind of a way. By the רבי, like he's ממש in on the plan of what's going to happen, you know what I mean? Like the רבי can decide what's going to happen. But even like a regular like kabbalist or something like that, or צדיק, or, you know, it's not like, you know what I mean, you don't have to be even that level to be able to know those kind of things sometimes.

You know what I mean? And there's like a certain thing like that like you know that like it's impossible for something to happen because that's not in God's plan. God wouldn't do that. That's that, you know what I mean, it couldn't be that God would want that to happen.

So even if it looks like, based on like the vessel, it looks like that's what's going to happen, you you know that if it doesn't match with the name, then it's not going to happen. You know what I mean? Like that's a thing, like like when a person that you know is a nice guy that like cares for you, you know what I mean, they're doing something that looks like it's against your benefit, you're able to know that no, there's no way that they're going to would do something like that, you know what I mean?

So you can trust that they're not doing that that's not what they're going to do, even though it could look like that's what they're doing, like they're going to do. Meaning, you know, the name means like the expression of this of yourself.

If you understand what God wants to express, then you know, you know what I mean, you see what's going to happen. We are holding וכולי, לפני השפעת דאצילות, לפני כרום שמש המאציל וכולי. וכמו בבחינת אחרונה שבצורה הרוחנית שמתלבשת תחילה וראשית אור וצורה בכלי החומר וכולי. גענוי. Like we said before, בדם הוא הנפש, about like how the way the blood goes into the the soul goes into the blood, ובצמיחה רוחנית, and like the spiritual growth going into the physical growth, ובעין ובמוח, in the the eye and the mind, that according to the spiritual form of these powers, the physical form has to work in a certain way in order to be able to be a vessel for that power, which is only because the spiritual power already has a certain form.

Before the spiritual power got that form, in theory, you know what I mean, it could it could work without having to be in that form.

So like really, our brain is set up like this really complicated computer that's like a vessel for thinking. But, you know, if God wanted to make things a little different, He could make it that like like a mushy

like blob of clay would be a good vessel for thinking, you know? But He didn't. Although, yeah, He kind of did, our brain kind of is this mushy blob.

But, you know, or He could have made it that it would be like, yeah, it is a joke. It is really a joke that the brain thinks.

Yeah, the brain really is stupid. It's just this wet slop, this wet, mushy slop.