Part 8 · Chapter 17

Hierarchy of Thought to Action 0:03

So finally, the final thing which is the היוצא ממנו מעשה בפועל ממש includes everything. הרי בו מלובש המחשבה, inside of the פועל ממש was מחשבה, ובמחשבה מלובש המדות, and inside that is the מדות, ובמדות מלובש החכמה בינה, ובחכמה מלובש הרצון והתענוג.

ונמצא פנימי שבכולם הוא הרצון והתענוג, והחיצון שבכולם הוא המעשה וכולי. So now, the most inner, hidden thing is the תענוג and the רצון, and the most external thing is the lowest thing is the מעשה. The מעשה now became like the top thing that's on top of everything, the yeah, the most outside thing. That's the thing that you see. In יושר, the thing that you see the most on the outside is the מעשה.

And whereas in in עיגולים, the main thing you see is the רצון and the תענוג, and you you see the מעשה just being like a representation of it, you know? This is also like a difference. Like let's say you say, well, is the main thing the thought or is the main thing the מעשה? The thought that counts is the motto of עיגולים. You know, the main thing is what you wanted, you had good intentions.

Yeah, in יושר they say, yeah, well the the path to hell is paved with good intentions, my friend. The main thing is bottom line.

Show me the bottom line. What did you Do it or not? מעשה הוא העיקר. Main thing is whether you do it. I don't care all of your good intentions and everything, you know. Show me the buckaroos, or whatever it is.

The פריערדיקער says, you know, you need cold, hard cash. You have to make, you know, קובע עתים לתורה and you have to, you know, actually do stuff. Cold, hard cash.

So that's in that's in יושר. In יושר the main thing is which is this week's פרשה, actually. That's the whole point of this week's פרשה. That God wants you to do יושר, that's what He said. You don't have to worry about the עיגולים. הנסתרות לה' אלקינו והנגלות לנו ולבנינו, yeah?

The hidden things are the עיגולים, that's for that's God's business. He told you, though, why He wants you to do it and what He's going to get out of it, that's all His business. Your business that He told you: do this, and if you do this, this will happen.

So that's why you say, it's כי קרוב אליך הדבר מאד בפיך ובלבבך לעשותו. God has just has tell told you clearly, black on white, in the תורה what He wants you to do, and the main thing is the מצוות, that you should actually do it.

And don't worry about whether, you know, all the spiritual levels and whatever and all these things. The bottom line is you got to do it, that's it. That's what He wants you to do. And it's very easy to know whether you did it and everything like that.

Torah Provides Bottom‑Line Command 2:57

All the that's that's the thing. If you look in דאורייתא, the תורה only tells you the bottom line, what it wants. The תורה שבעל פה and the רבנן tell you like what you need to do to get yourself to do that. So like they're, you know, they're therefore, if you want to stay away from bad things, like let's say, you know, it says you're not supposed to have all these different bad relations in the תורה, so the so the רבנן tell you therefore you should dress, you have to, you know, act in a צניעות way.

The תורה doesn't tell you all the details of of that because that's not the main רצון, that's just how to get yourself to to do it.

The bottom line is that whatever you got to do to get yourself to do that, that's your business. I'm paying you to finish the job. I don't You're the expert, you figure out how to do the job, but I want you to do to make it look like this. Whatever you got to do to make it look like that, do it.

The רבנן are helping you, telling you like תורה שבעל פה is telling you what you got to do to do it, which is like the behind-the-scenes stuff, but the bottom line is whether you do it. So that's like יושר, and that's why it says that God made man straight, yeah, where are where do you say that, אלקים עשה את האדם יושר, that God made man a way of יושר, straight, והמה בקשו תחבולות, and they start making schemes in עיגולים.

God Made Man Straight vs Schemes 4:06

In other words, they started saying, well, it's true that God told us to do this, but since that I look into עיגולים and I see that what He really wants is this, and that really it doesn't have to be this way, He could want it that way, so maybe I'll do it this way and it'll be even better, and He'll like it even better. So they're sort of like thinking into what He really wants and trying to make a scheme to make it better than what He told them to do.

And that's the which in a way we are going to do, by the way. That's the ענין of תשובה. תשובה is like we're do doing something better that God didn't even ask us to do, but that's also a source of sin, because we're not listening to Him. והוא בבחינת יושר,

this is יושר, כשבא בבחינת התלבשות עליון בתחתון וכולי, when the upper one goes into the lower one. אבל בבחינת רצון הקדום, now, but in the רצון הקדום, שעדיין הוא בעצמו, it's still within yourself, על כן נמשך בבחינת עיגולים, therefore it goes by way of circles. שהעליון מהכל הוא העלם הרצון הכולל הזה,

that that top thing that that encompasses everything and defines everything is this רצון that you this this hidden רצון, yeah, this all-encompassing desire, which is for yourself and that's the main thing you see is yourself. והעיגול הראשון שבו הוא רצון ותענוג לכללות כל ההשתלשלות, and the first circle of it is the general רצון and תענוג for the whole השתלשלות, שבתוכו, which is inside of it, ועיגול זה מקיף כללי לאבי״ע כנ״ל.

First Circle: General Desire and Pleasure 5:45

And this first עיגול is the general מקיף for the entire אבי״ע, for the whole השתלשלות. וראשית הקו, and the ראשית הקו before this first circle, that little line thing, הוא בבחינת המשכה היולית, is a היולי המשכה, כמו קו קצר המצמצם מעילה לעלול,

which is similar to the little line that connects the עילה to the עלול. Before we said about how there's like the the lower circle doesn't really reach the upper circle, they just

it's just like is represented by it, so that's the idea of a of a of a קו, of a line, or like a hair, when it talks about צמצום of hairs and lines and all these kind of things. That that that always means that that it represents the עצם, that they that in like in one small point the עצם is carried over, but it's totally מצומצם and it's just like in a way like a representation.

You know, like that's the idea of like the hair. The hair does come from the actual stuff of your brain, but it's now totally like detached and you just, you know, you don't see the connection, but there is, or like in a משל, there is like one little thing where it's like an actual case, but it's, you know, or like if you give a דוגמא to represent everything, so you're taking one thing and using it to represent the whole thing.

That's the main thing of a of a line, that you take everything and you just pick one little point, and you that which is which is something of the essence, but you use that to represent as if that's everything. So that's what happens: you take your רצון, and your רצון could come out in any way, you pick one חכמה, one picture of what you want, that one one, you know, but really you could pick infinite pictures, you pick one, and the connection between the two is just like a little line.

So the same way, this whole רצון קדום is just like a little line from the עצמות אין סוף before the צמצום. That the whole השתלשלות that's going and the whole the whole desire for a דירה בתחתונים is just one little example of how the רצון מוחלט could come out.

Cuz like we said, that in the רצון מוחלט there is no up and down, there is no it's just like the taste. So the fact it was set up in this thing with the ten ספירות and that this is the main priority and that's the main רצון and whatever, it could come out in infinite ways.

So that's that's also like a little line. So the קו is is just like is is also like that kind of little line where it's just bringing out a little thing. כמו מן הרצון לחכמה כהאי גוונא, like from רצון to חכמה, that's just like a little line. כך מבחינת הרשימו עתה נמשך קו בצמצום גדול מאוד, so, too, from the רשימו, which has hidden in it like all of the the the the God's taste of how He would want anything He would ever want and how He would do anything, yeah, like the whole עצמות אין סוף is hidden there, comes out one little רצון קדום.

דגם שרשימו הוא בהגבלה כנ״ל, even though we said that the רשימו was very limited, it's already like a מצומצם thing, אבל הוא מבחינת עולם האין סוף עכ״פ, it's still the world of the אין סוף.

So a zero in the world of the אין סוף is more infinite than an infinity in the world of a עיגול, you know? עצמות

אין סוף is like a guy that, you know, and he has in in he has a רצון מוחלט, he has like a certain taste, which is already like the last level, that's already קדמון. He already chose like to, you know, reveal Himself through a certain way, which is like a taste. But that even like the particular way that He's going to reveal Himself, which is like קדמון, is still like in the way of a taste, still totally infinite compared to coming out to the to to the world.

Yeah, and even when He is is מצמצם His taste and comes out just like to a רשימו, where it totally hides Himself, in other words, that the thing of His of In the in the level of קדמון where he picks a certain taste, he has a certain רצון מוחלט, is because he feels that that style reveals himself, and he feels himself in it. When he hides himself and all is left are those choices of how the his which of of of his style and his taste, without seeing him in it, how it's him, you just see like the choices, that's the רשימו.

So you just like have all those things. But even all of that is still way more infinite than of any particular השתלשלות, of like how you're going to like making a house. Because at that thing like the it's all, there's no up and down yet. So so the the the bathroom drapes could be the main thing, and the house doesn't have to be the main thing. You could you could want the whole house for the bathroom drapes.

But you know, but but in in the רשימו, it's already he already knows though, if you ask him, "How would you want your house?" he'll be able to tell you, cuz it's all there.

But but to actually want that he should have a house, you have to have now the קו, the צמצום of the קו. The קו has to pull out and measure which thing he's going to bring out, and what order it's going to be in, you know.

And that's the thing that the קו does, is that it measures out how it should come out. So the קו measured out that it should come out, you know, and that he's going to want a house, and that's the main thing. And then the other things are going to be secondary things, like the

the the details of the house and what you have to do to get the house. So then he comes to the רצון for the first The קו measures out and says, "Okay, so I want a home. That's my goal, is a home."

And then from that, he gets this whole thing of, you know, "I want a home," which automatically includes that he's going to have want to do whatever he's going to need to do to get the home.

And then it goes to יושר, where when he actually decides he's going to actually do it, then he goes and and actually starts getting a job, and working, and doing, you know, whatever he has to do to get a home.