Part 4 · Chapter 16

Desire for אצילות and the Architect Analogy 0:00

ואחר כך בא רצון זה בדרך פרט. And then it becomes the details are revealed, כמו רצון להאציל, like the desire for אצילות, which is like we said in the משל of the house we spoke about before, when the guy wanted to build a house after he got married and went to the architect and everybody. So, this is the רצון for אצילות is to figure out what you want.

That's like we sit down with the architect and he asks you, "What are you looking for?" And you're not talking about a house, you're talking about yourself, what you like. That's just to figure out what you're looking for. ובו נכללו עשר ספירות, and this includes ten ספירות בכל פרטיהם.

ועדיין הכל בהעלם, but you didn't actually do אצילות yet. It's just that it's בהעלם. So, this is like like people say, "Well, what are you going to do tonight?"

Say, "Oh, let's go out for dinner." So, then you say, "Okay." You drive over there, then you get to the door and you say, "Oh, where are we going to get the רצון to open the door?"

Say, "Well, that was included in the רצון to go to the restaurant." In other words that all the late רצונות that are that you know are are going to have to happen are included in the original desire. Like a guy wants a house, he knows he didn't actually think of it yet, but if you ask him when it comes up, like you ask the guy, "Do you want a kitchen?"

He says, "Yeah, of course I want a kitchen." Or if you ask the guy, "Well, so are we going to drive to the real estate agent?" He says, "Oh yeah, sure we'll drive to the real estate agent." Like he didn't think about the details, but it's all it's like understood that whatever will have to be done to do this he wants to do.

ציור דתתא as the Initial General Plan 1:33

So, the way they're included in the ציור דתתא is just is is not בפועל, that it's just a general thought and it includes the first general רצון that includes all the later ones is the ציור דתתא. When they come up בפועל, those are the later עיגולים, like the עיגולים of אצילות and of בריאה, that's when you split it up to each thing. להאציל ובו נכללו עשר ספירות בכל פרטיהם ועדיין הכל בהעלם עד שבא לידי גילוי.

And so they can't relate to a specific example or manifestation that would be in a limited like in a physical limited world, you need to be able to pick a form that's like a כלי really, you have to pick a כלי.

Right, and that's more like a ציור דתתא. In other words, יחידה is well, first of all, the יחידה, there's a יחידה with a name and a יחידה without a name. The יחידה with a name is the רצון קדום of א״ק. The יושר the עיגולים and יושר of א״ק are the יחידה with a name. That's when you actually make a picture of your essence.

The real essence, though, is יחידה without a name is like before the צמצום. That יחיד is the real essence, but included in your essence is the fact that you can that you can like have a thing of like the חסד and מלכות. חסד is like אחד and מלכות is like קדמון. That's why he picks those highlights those two רצונות. There's the ענין of that you can pick like a general abstract desire, which is like that you can transcend the form and make like a general thing that includes everything, and then there's that you can pick a particular כלי to express that abstract thing, that transcendent thing, which is like קדמון or מלכות.

And those two abilities, like the חסד and גבורה in עצם, are are just a יכולת, it's not like the פועל really three levels. It's like just like understood that in עצם there's there's the ענין that the עצם is just the עצם, and therefore, it can do both like חסד and גבורה, but they're not actually divided out yet.

And then the צמצום is when you choose which אחד and קדמון you want. And that the result of the צמצום is ציור דתתא.

Well, but you don't yet know that it's a house like a building, you just know that you want to express a certain ענין of yourself.

You know what how you want to express yourself. Then you have to look for what will express that. So, like if you want to like like if you want to have a thing that of of independence or that certain you want to express a certain תענוג of of feeling of independence or whatever it is, so, then you'll go looking for that will come out and and and you'll find the desire for a house to match that.

But that we're going to talk about later, that's the ענין of יושר of א״ק, when you make your world view and self-image and all these things, that's the ענין of יושר of א״ק. Right. And

that's when you normally call עצם or person, you mean like the way it's already limited to being a person, and it's already only has ten ספירות and it's already like all those limitations really start now in the רצון קדום of א״ק type of thing. א״ק is the first time it's like a person. That's the ענין.

And that was because of the צמצום, I mean and and it happens really the same time, this this השתלשלות in the person happens the same time as the השתלשלות in the worlds, because God had this רצון קדום that made the soul of a certain form, and then He made the יושר of א"ק that made the ענין of the body, the way the soul will go into the body, in other words, and the general mission of the soul, and whatever.

Like יושר of א"ק, we talk about that's it's it's it's like it's משיח, it's the form of of משיח as a person,

as opposed to the עיגולים of א"ק which are like the ענין of a דירה בתחתונים and the like the the פנימיות of it, as opposed to like the way that it is now, like in הלכה and מדרשים of how that described the way it's actually going to happen like physically.

So the נקודה, which is the רצון קדום, is like the דירה בתחתונים, and then the way that that is expressed in our world is like all these things that it says about the way it's going to be משיח. ואחר כך right then it

then it comes בגילוי שהוא כשנאצלו ארבע בחינות דאצילות, that's when he actually was נאצל. אצילות is the גילוי of the עשר ספירות of עיגולים that were of אצילות that were כלול in the original thing. ואחר כך הרצון לברוא, then it comes out בגילוי, the next רצון is the רצון to to create, which is like when you pick you figure out what will will fulfill your desires.

Like, if a desire to swim, we'll make a swimming pool, and if a desire to, for פארברענגענס, we'll make a nice dining room and whatever with room, and the floor that's not carpet, so like you can clean up messes, and whatever it is.

That's like a בריאה, all those, the desire, this is not the actual בריאה, we're talking about the desire to do that. The desire to do that are the עיגולים and the general abstract רצונות for how you want it to be done are the the עיגולים דבריאה. רצון

לברוא יש מאין וכולי בו יש שכל ומידות וכולי, and then it also has ten ספירות. עד הרצון בעשיה אחרון שהוא כל אשר חפץ עשה וכולי, so the final most רצון, like in the רצון of a house, to like put on the מזוזה or whatever, move in all the furniture, and help the last fine touches that a person does, and or like in the world the way that the the all the little details of everyday life in the physical world, that like the weather today.

That's like עשיה מעשית. סוף הכל וכל פרטים, with all the details, ההללו, all these details, פרטים הללו נכללו ברצון הקדום, they were all included in the original desire שבא בבחינת השפעה על כל פנים אחר הצמצום, which is already an actual השפעה, an actual thing that relates to in the outside world, and after the צמצום. והוא בחינת ראשית הקו וכולי, and this first circle is is is considered the the beginning of the קו, it's the first גילוי of the קו.

It's not the ראשית הקו either can mean the היולי קו, or can mean this first circle which is the first גילוי of the קו.

So like in other words, along the קו it's the top priority. And, but this what this means practically is like what it says in היום יום, that every single detail of creation, even the way that a blade of grass swings in the wind, is not only according to השגחה פרטית, but it is necessary for the entire כוונה of the בריאה.

That means that that every detail was in that when God said, "I want a דירה בתחתונים," and you ask Hashem, "Well, do you want the blade the the the leaves on the tree in this and this corner to blow back and forth 300,267,371 times?" Hashem says, "Of course. That, how else could I have a דירה בתחתונים if it wasn't just like that?" That every single פרט is in some some way reason that we don't right now appreciate, but we will in the time throughout the אלף השביעי, well all these things we'll appreciate, all the פרטים of creation are all they're the whole reason that they exist is as a tool to fulfill this רצון, and they're all fulfilling a certain פרט of that רצון, or else they wouldn't exist.

That's what makes them, that's why the the inner thing that make that that the motivation that creates them. והוא בחינת ראשית הקו וכולי והיינו עיגול הראשון שלאחר המשכת ראשית הקו ההיולי הנ"ל, this is the first circle after the היולי קו, שנקרא מקיף כללי לכל הד' עולמות דאבי"ע, which this first circle, this first רצון is called the general מקיף for all the four worlds of אבי"ע, שמקיף אותם בשוה, that it it surrounds them all equally, meaning that they're all equally just a means to accomplish this goal.

And the order that they come out in is according to the קו that sets, but it doesn't really essentially have to be that way, and that's why the without the קו there's no השתלשלות in the עיגולים. And that's why the מצד the there's no real השתלשלות In רצונות, each one really comes, but, direct from the רצון מוחלט. The קו just decides what the priority should be.

And that's why a person's רצונות can jump out of place. Like, sometimes a person, there's like stories of somebody that was from very poor, poor family, and then he decides he's going to go to work to, and his dream was that one day he'll be able to support his poor mother and give her a better life, and he goes out and works, makes a lot of money, and then he gets caught up in the desire for money, and then when his mother, he, then he forgets about his mother, and he won't give her money, he becomes, or he won't even necessarily give to himself, he might become a miser, you know, people can get like, lose their רצון like that, and, or like people that that get all into business, forget about their families, so the whole reason that they were working was so they'll have the means, they'll be able to do the things they really enjoy, which are whatever like the things of תורה ומצוות and their family, people that are important to them, these kind of things.

And if a if a person, but so how does it happen that a person forgets? It's the thing of תהו. That since each רצון has the עצם in it, so you can get totally into, locked into it, and you feel that תענוג in it, and whatever, that self-expression in it, and you can forget the need for anything else.

That you can just like get totally absorbed in any רצון

without connecting it to anything. And it doesn't have to be a means to an end. The ענין of a means to an end is תיקון. But that's also part of the בחירה. And that's why תהו is so powerful, because initially a person doesn't, it takes a certain maturity to appreciate this, and and how there'd be a deeper תענוג in having it in this way, with the priorities and everything, but we'll talk about תהו and תיקון later.

This this עיגול, the ענין of עיגולים ויושר is the שורש of תהו ותיקון, we'll talk about it later.

Right? שמרומז ומלובש כמו מחשבה כוללת שצופה ומבטת בסקירה אחת מראש לסוף הכל וכולי, it's called a general thought that it sees everything in one glance. וזהו ביאור ענין כללי וכולל ענין הקו, this is the general idea of the קו הזה, of how it that it starts off as a general thing, and then it measures out the details, and makes sets everything up like that.

ופרטי אופן במה שמתעגל וחוזר ומתעגל וכולי, and the details of how it circles and circles again, יובן לפי אופן משל, now we can understand this the general idea of what we mean by concentric circles by this משל.

וכמו שיתבאר בסמוך בעזרת השם, and now we'll explain more about it in the next chapter about the meaning of how it goes from, you know, circle inside of circle, and how in יושר it's the opposite, that that well, we'll see in the next chapter.