Part 7 · Chapter 28

Vessels Lower Light to the Physical Realm 0:04

Right, so the vessel lets you bring it down all the way to somewhere lower. וכן על ידי מציאות כלי הלב אור האהבה והחסד הרוחני או הרוחני יבוא לכלל השפעה למקבל כידוע, the same way that when the light of love and kindness goes into your physical heart, then it relates to giving it out to a מקבל.

In other words, the way that that you express the feelings of love and kindness in the physical world are, you know, because you're you're once it goes into your heart, then it it becomes like a motivation to do certain things and act in a certain way.

But those are really like physical symptoms of your body, the way your body reacts to love and kindness, to feel want to be close and to want to give and stuff like that.

Brain as the Primary Channel for Emotions 1:08

Yeah, and it's not really in the heart, it's not in the brain, but it comes through there. Now, everything really goes through the brain first, that's why it's called like ראש, like ראש השנה, ראש חודש, and it's כולל everything, and then from there it divides out, and that's why scientists laugh at the old-fashioned people that they used to say that love is in the heart, they say, "Oh, it's in the brain, because we see that if you take out this part of the brain then they don't have emotions," and, you know.

But they're they're just haughty idiots. Cuz they're just trying to pump up themselves up and be like, "Oh, we know better," instead of trying to understand what, you know, what's what what's being said.

So they're trying to, "Oh, you know, it's obvious. Oh, you know, everybody knows that it's coming from the brain."

We say it's it says here it's coming from the brain. Everything goes through the brain. Just that then it's revealed in the heart, and every any any idiot knows that, that you feel the feeling of love in your heart. So, you know, that's where you feel it.

It's true that your consciousness only works through the brain and whatever, but then afterwards you feel it in the changing in your breathing and the speed of your heart rate and these different kinds of things which you feel in your heart.

Vessels as Fixers (תיקונים) Explained 2:17

ולכך נקראים תיקונים. Therefore, the vessels are called fixers, כדי שיבוא על ידי בחינה על ידם בחינת המשכה מאצילות לבריאה, cuz through them there's המשכה from אצילות to בריאה.

והיינו רק לאחזאה, and this revelation from אצילות to בריאה is just to make himself to reveal himself to man and to conduct the worlds. אבל מצד עצמות אור המאציל נקראים עשר ספירות בלי מה כנ"ל, but the way that they are in the essential light of the מאציל, they're called the ten spheres without and without any מהות, like I said before that you can't really say what they are, they're not like that, you know, they're not they're not that limited.

כמו שנתבאר במקום אחר באריכות. So basically what he's explaining here is there's two things for the vessels. First, there's the the inner thing of the vessels, which is that they just are a place where the soul is is שוכן there. So, for example, your consciousness just rests in your body. Your intellect rests in your brain, and your emotions rest in your heart, and, you know, just your biological life rests in your liver.

And that's like the inner thing of the vessels, that's when they're called a vessel, that like those powers just revealed and rest there. But then there's when you use these things, like when you use your brain to think an idea, or where you use your heart to feel an actual emotion, or when you, you know, use your liver to digest food and things like that.

תיקונים: Garments that Shape Spiritual Light 3:48

So then the the vessels are called תיקונים, which means like garments or fixers, which is just they take the light and they transform it into something that can relate to the physical world, so that you can have an effect.

So now you can you can have just like so so your eye fixes your power of sight so it can see physical things, and your brain fixes your consciousness so that it can affect your body and it can, you know, and and it can come up with physical ideas, and and it can can, you know, these kind of things. And then like your your power of movement can now actually move physical things.

So that's the idea of like just like your eye is is fixing is fixed by like glasses to be able to see something, so too here the soul is fixed, so now it's it's revealed in a limited way that we can see appreciate, that we can perceive, so now we can perceive Godliness.

So in other words, now that God reveals himself through these vessels, it becomes a limited thing that we can actually understand and perceive. The difference, because a כלי the כלי is just the way that the light of the soul rests in the that thing, in other words that like your consciousness rests in your brain. That's just a vessel, that's just called a כלי. When it shines through the brain to become like physical thoughts, that's then it's called like a תיקון.

Distinguishing כלי (Vessel) from תיקון (Fixer) 4:51

Then that not only does it hold, it doesn't just hold your soul, but it actually helps it come across to a lower level. So the vessels do two things: they help, they just the the the the the the light just rests in them, and then they also transform the light into something that can come down to the next level. So the way that the so first there's a thing that your body is made is a fitting vessel that allows you to be alive, and you just you're just alive, that you your your soul rests in your body.

But then your bo- your your body also allows you your soul to interact with the physical world. In other words, like like for example you can move things.

The fact that you can move things is already a thing of like a תיקון. That's already that your soul is now using your body to relate to the world that's outside of the body, that's lower than it, even to things that are not, in other words, through your body, your soul can now relate to things that are not a vessel for the bo- for the soul.

Well yeah, but there's a, you know, cuz there's a big difference between the way that that when it rests, the way that it's a vessel for it, you ממש have the עצם there.

Not only is it a good vessel, but your consciousness actually rests in your body. In other words, that there's two things that are that are accomplished. When you're have an emotion in your heart, it does two things: first of all, it limits it so that you are now aware of the feeling that you're having, so it just makes you have like a consciousness of a certain feeling, which is just the vessel, but then it also is makes it something that's that that you can now reveal, exp- to express to like someone else.

Emotion in the Heart: Dual Role of Vessel 6:38

It does both. In other words, it just give it both it it both does something for you, that it like gives you a like a defined character, and that's what we said before, that's just like names. That's just like giving yourself a name that like defines you so that you can like, you know, be like have a this this distinct thing, and then it also acts something that for other people that you can that you now you can relate to them.

Sure, because first it's just for you, and then afterwards that comes out to to be able to relate to someone else. In other words, first like when you understand an idea, it's just if the in your physical brain, so now you're just conscious of that idea because it came to your physical brain. So and it helps you just to recognize In other words, when you understand something, you don't understand it fully until it goes into your brain and it you put it into words and now you are totally understand the idea to, you know, and you're totally conscious of it.

From Understanding to Expression: The Brain Process 7:58

Then once you have it that way, you can also now explain it. But before you you're not necessarily thinking about explaining it, it's just when first it's just for you, or it could be just for you.