Part 3 · Chapter 16

From Thought to Action: Building the House Metaphor 0:00

אבל אחר זמן בא מחשבה זו לבוא לידי מעשה, but the when later he actually thinks, "Oh, I want to make build a house," not just that he had already in him the way that he'd want to do it, but he actually thought about it, ניכר בו התחלקות אופן ואופנים שונים ממש שכבר הוחלט אצלו בכל פרטיהם. Now then you see everything that was already decided there with all the details.

רק שמתחילה בא הרצון, and this is, by the way, which this is maybe on a little bit lower level, but it's the same general idea, is is the ענין of advertising. Is that that you're not trying necessarily trying to find somebody that's right now interested like in buying a car, but what you want is that when that the person to subconsciously set up a liking or associate a positive association with this name.

And so when he'll one day go to want to buy whatever it is you're trying to sell, they'll think of your name right away. Or if they'll be faced with two names, they'll pick yours.

Cause even though they were never at that time they weren't thinking of buying it, but they set up a positive association that they see that they think that they that fits with their personality. That they try like make people associate with like things like of being free and being or put together, whatever type of different personality thing they try to get people to associate with their, yeah, the image a certain image, that's the ענין.

They want to give a certain image to their product, so that people that want to express themselves through that image will choose that product.

שכולל הכל בסקירה אחת, I mean the real רצון מוחלט we're talking about here is that image that the person wants to express himself as, which they're not really setting, they're just trying to tap into that. But it's it's the same idea, it's just on a lower level. Wait, אופן ואופנים שונים ממש שכבר הוחלט אצלו בכל פרטיהם, and all the things that he already had in this רצון מוחלט, his taste now come out לפועל the way that he would actually he's actually wants to build a house in this type of a world.

רק שמתחילה בא הרצון הזה בדרך כלל, first comes as a general thought, שיהיה לו בנין בציור כך וכך, he wants this general type of a house, ואחר כך מתחלק ברצון פרטי, and then he plans out how he's gonna where he wants the house to be, how he's gonna pay for it, exactly how he's gonna decorate it, all the details he thinks of later.

רצון פרטי, ולכל ענין פרטי, for each detail, like the kitchen, and the sink, and whatever. ויורד ובא בסדר ומדריגה מכלל הראשון, from the first general כלל, like the רצון for a house, שכולל הכל בסקירה אחת, לפרט רצון שהוא נקרא כלל לגבי רצונות שמסתעפים ממנו. Then he goes from the general רצון of a house to a detail of that, like the kitchen, but that's then a general thing for everything that branches off from it, עד שבא אל רצון ושכל פרטי היותר אחרון, until it comes to the last screw, שבסוף מעשה בכללות הכל כו' ודי למבין, putting up the מזוזה on his front door when he's finished everything.

Ten Sefirot Circles: Mapping the Global Desire 2:57

So that's the the general this is the general ענין for the ten ספירות of עיגולים. The first the first עיגול is the general רצון for the whole דירה בתחתונים thing, the whole general. Then that splits up, we're gonna say now the the נמשל actually, then that splits up into the רצון for אצילות and then for בריאה, and each one of those splits up to details for each of the ten ספירות of of each world, and until it comes to each פרט, until even like for each person and each little creature that

ה' made. והנמשל מכל זה יובן למעלה בהפרש שבין בחינת ציור עילאה לבחינת ציור תתאה שלאחר הצמצום. The ציור עילאה is like the עצם רצון פשוט and what comes out from that which is, well יחיד הוא and קדמון, but the part of it that relates to ציור תתאה

is קדמון. ובחינת ציור תתאה שלאחר הצמצום, which is the actual revealed רצון for that ה'. In other words, before the צמצום is like עצם, God's essential revelation. Included in that is God's knowledge and ability to reveal Himself in any way He wants, including the knowledge and ability to reveal Himself in our world. But it was included like a היולי, that that like if He would ever choose to, in theory He would know how to do it, and He could do it.

Then after the צמצום and the רשימו that ה' actually the ענין of the צמצום was to actually pick which way as He was going to reveal Himself.

Primordial Divine Will and the Choice After Reduction 4:28

Then the first רצון קדמון is the result of the צמצום, רשימו, and קו is the actual choice, and that choice starts off as the general thought of our world. That's the product, that ה' thought of our world with the way it is the whole totality of that He's going to reveal Himself as Creator of man with this whole thing of גלות and גאולה and דירה בתחתונים and revealing the עצם, whatever, the whole general.

Well revealing the עצם is not really in the this רצון קדמון I don't think, because that's higher than that. But the general thing of this whole משיח thing, all the way to משיח, is the first רצון קדום. That's one particular way that השם could reveal Himself, is through making this whole השתלשלות.

That's טהירו תתאה. דמה ששיער בעצמו בכח בטהירו עילאה וכולי, that in טהירו עילאה it's just that השם has in His ability the knowledge of how to do it and the ability to do it. הוא כמו ההכרח ברצון הפשוט בעצמות כנ"ל, and now like a taste, or like a שעדיין לא בא כלל בבחינת התפשטות חוץ מעצמותו עדיין. It's not at all an actual רצון for something separate from Himself.

וגם שיתחבר מרצון המוחלט הזה אל התפשטות הרצון, even though this connects to the התפשטות of the רצון שיהיה אחר כך, מכל מקום, נשאר כולו בהעלם עצמות דאין סוף. The רצון מוחלט stays really hidden. Like we said before, that it's not a מקיף and פנימי, and so it doesn't ever become revealed.

Even the השערה of קדמון doesn't become revealed, because before צמצום the קדמון includes God's knowledge of how to make this השתלשלות and any השתלשלות.

It's just like that He knows how to do particular things to reveal Himself. ועל כן, למעלה הוא מבחינת כלל להיות נקרא צופה ומביט בסקירה אחת וכולי. Therefore, at that stage you can't even call it like a general thing, a general thought of our world that's in a סקירה אחת.

You cannot say that, right? Because it's not yet a thought of something outside, it's ידיעת עצמו.

It's not that the רצון קדום is how with ידיעת עצמו He knows something else. This is only ידיעת עצמו. That's the ענין that טהירו עילאה means that it's completely pure. טהירו תתאה means that it's the way that השם looks at the world as an expression of Himself. So it's still called like ידיעת עצמו, but it's the way that with ידיעת עצמו there's call a נברא.

Pure vs Impure: Understanding טהירו עילאה and תתאה 6:46

So it's not completely pure, so it's a lower purity, because it's still like a self-revelation, but it's like what you're going to get out of something separate, how something separate relates to you. So you're still thinking of yourself, like we're going to say, the real thing of the רצון קדום is still not really a רצון for a house, it's a רצון for a home.

You really want the feeling you're going to get from it still at the רצון קדום, and the actual thought of when you actually start to picture a physical house according to your society, we're going to explain later, that's really happens in א"ק.

This is just that you choose a particular, like there's a certain age that a person gets a desire to be independent and have, settle down, and when that comes out, that's always included in the nature of a person, since a person without a house is not a person. It's like an essential thing in their desires. In the רצון מוחלט you know that one day, even a little baby, you say, "One day, right now you don't want to, you don't want to," like he's a clingy baby doesn't even want to let go of his mother for a second, say, "But I'm telling you one day he's going to want to get out of here and have his own house and only come back and visit every now and then."

Human Yearning for a Home and Independence 7:51

And you say, "How do you know?" Because you say, "Well, I know the nature of people." Even though now the kid doesn't even know it, and he wouldn't believe you if you told him.

But when it first comes out, it doesn't first come out as a רצון to go buy an apartment or a house, whatever. It first comes out as this uneasiness, like that it's just person feels unsettled and they start to feel like they need to look for something, and then they start looking to find what it is that will fit that.

And then they find there's, you know, they go visit somebody that has their own place and they feel that gives them a certain feeling of independence, and they realize that was what they were looking for. That was that uneasy feeling that they

had was really a רצון for that. But the ענין is that the רצון קדום is already a רצון for particular תענוג to be fulfilled in the outside world, that you want to express yourself outside in the world in a certain way. You're just looking for what it is that will do that.

That's why it says the עיגולים are like the soul, because it's not yet enclothed in the actual tangible thing of the world. אך, that's why, yeah, אך הרצון הב' הוא אחר הצמצום הנ"ל, שעלה רצון הפשוט המוחלט שבעצמות לבוא לידי בחינת התפשטות,

that something from this רצון פשוט came to actually do it, that השם decided, picked what He's going to actually do. הוא בחינת הקו וחוט ההיולי שכולל כל המשכות פרטיות שבאים מרישא לסיפא כנ"ל.

Forming the Ultimate Goal: רשימו and קו 9:47

This is the general ענין of the קו, which is the general which includes the with the רשימו and the ראש of the קו includes the רשימו is the general like goal, and the קו is a general way that that the ability to figure out how you're going to accomplish the goal, that you create a general system of priorities that, when you put the two together, you'll know how to react in any situation.

But then the first the first result of this is that you create your your ultimate goal for yourself, which is the רצון קדום. That's the first creation that comes out from your רשימו and your קו, is they make this first רצון for yourself.

And that's the the the מקיף הראשון שבו הוא נקרא תורת ה׳, that's תורת ה׳, שזהו כמו שרצון הכללי לבנין הגדול כולל כל מה שבפרטיו וראש לכל שיעור ועסק.

So like in a person's whole life, this is like the general desire for fulfillment or self-expression or something like that. ואחר כך מתחלק בו בסדר ובהדרגה מכלל לפרט. Then this gets split up, then this is your this is your top priority, your original goal.

Then this gets split up into particular, this is like the the עצם of יחידה, this is like the משיח within each person. A person finds this, this is they're redeemed, they found the גאולה, they're fulfilled, they've arrived, whatever you want to call it. And then this splits up into the lesser priorities and then you make a whole hierarchy according to your קו, and you find more and more details until you figure out what you want in day-to-day life.

על דרך משל הנ״ל, like in the משל we said about the house. והיינו כמו כשעלה ברצונו הפשוט דיהיה לו בית לו לגלוי דוקא, היה כולל כל פרטי רצונות. And this is the ענין that when that when he had a particular רצון, it came out, he already had all the the things that he wants to do included in that. והוא הרצון הכולל כולם, and this first רצון that comes out בגלוי includes them all, is the רצון that includes them all, ונקרא רצון קדום לכל מה שבא אחריו.

This is called the original רצון for all everything that comes after. And it's original meaning that everything else are only פרטים of it. In other words, they're just a means of accomplishing this goal.

קדום vs ראשון: Priorities in Desires 12:03

It could also be called, that's the difference between קדום and ראשון. We said, we spoke once, that ראשון means that it's just could be in any order, and קדום means that that that the only meaning to these things is in order to fulfill this. Like for example, the רצון for money is not is not an essential רצון. It's a רצון to fulfill a deeper רצון of being able to buy what you need or having, and, you know, the general ענין of like having possessions can relate to just being able to do what you want without worrying, or it can relate to stature from, you know, people considering you successful, or, I mean, all different things.

But if you go back and trace all the רצונות back, you come to one essential desire, which is the inner goal.