Part 1 · Chapter 18

Yosher of A-K: Intro in Chapter 18 0:02

So here in פרק י"ח, the מחבר is now going to explain יושר of א"ק. Then in י"ט he's going to explain the relationship of א"ק to the אורות that come out from in אצילות and stuff.

והנה בבחינת רצון הקדום לעצמו כל מה שיהיה בהשתלשלות כלול ביו"ד, היה בבחינת סוף מעשה שעלה ברצון קדום זה, שהוא בבחינת האחרונים שבו. So this רצון, the original רצון קדום, which is like the רצון for home, it's really that's what you want to get out of the השתלשלות that you're doing, this whole process of your רצון. So it's not yet a רצון for something outside of you, it's רצון for you to get something, but now you want it to come from something outside of you, but you're still it's really you're thinking about what you're going to get from it, not that thing itself that's going to give it to you.

So this, like we said, has the ten ספירות of עיגולים until the סוף מעשה, which is the רצון for the final finished thing. הרי מבחינת מלכות שבו נעשה כתר לתחתון. Like always, I mean, this is the general way that it works, is that from מלכות of a higher level becomes the כתר of a lower level. So from the מלכות of the עיגולים comes כתר of א"ק. That's the general way it works.

How Higher Malchut Becomes Crown Below 1:06

More particularly, there's התלבשות at different levels, but that's the general. And this becomes כתר of the יושר of א"ק. ולהיות ידוע דבחינת א"ק נקרא אדם דבריאה דהכללות, that when you're speaking of the general worlds, א"ק is called the אדם דבריאה, והוא בבחינת מחשבה, and that's מחשבה. In general בריאה corresponds to מחשבה and יצירה to דיבור and עשיה to מעשה. And so so too here in the כללות, which the כללות basically means the השתלשלות like in a משל is the השתלשלות in a person's רצון within himself to figure out what he wants, and then the השתלשלות of the פרטים is to figure out how to get what he wants, how to to to do it.

Right. Yeah, in general the השתלשלות repeats itself over and over again, and so the same things just become more and more broken up into detail, more and more details. So when you once you start to get a big picture, you start to see how really like everything kind of corresponds to each other, and yet there's a unique aspect in each thing that you have to kind of highlight and then see how that exists in each stage.

So this like מחשבה. ועתיק יומין ואריך אנפין דאצילות, the כתר of אצילות, נקרא אדם דיצירה, it's called the the אדם דיצירה, וז"א ונוקבא is called, of of of אצילות, is called אדם דעשיה וכולי.

Right, is, right, that's it, ז"א ונוקבא of of of אצילות. Because

within like within your רצון the final thing is when your רצון becomes a particular thing and then it's able to affect your body to actually have a like you'll have a sort of emotional reaction or something like that, like we'll explain when we get down to that.

Creation ex Nihilo: Ein Sof to Yesh 3:12

וכמו שהבריאה היא התהוות יש מאין ממש, and just like a creation is something new, something יש מאין means that it wasn't there, something from nothing, כידוע, כך גם בבחינת כתר דא"ק זה נקרא בריאה יש מאין. So too א"ק is now something new.

It's taking the original רצון and making it into something new. יש מאין האמיתי, it's something it's a יש from coming from the true אין, דאור אין סוף עצמו שבקו. The אור אין סוף in the קו is the true אין, is a true nothing, in other words that it's totally פשוט.

The true אין is the the אור אין סוף, that השם's like the גילוי of השם is totally פשוט and transcends any form. And now it's coming to be revealed in a form, so this is a יש, a יש that is expressing אין. That's the general idea like of of יש מאין. הנקרא רצון קדום לעצמו וכולי, which the אור אין סוף that's in the קו is called the רצון קדום for Himself.

Ancient Desire as Source of All Desires 4:20

וביאור הדברים ידוע, so now we're going to explain, להיות מבורר למעלה דמעלת רצון קדום הנ"ל הוא הנקרא מקור כל הרצונות. This רצון קדום that we spoke about in the last two chapters is the source for all the רצונות that come out in in this השתלשלות. שהוא בבחינת רצון ההיולי, this is like an essential רצון, להיות ממנו נמצא מקור לכל רצון ורצון, which it's the source for every רצון ורצון.

The רצון ורצון is in is in א"ק. In other words, the basic idea, like he's going to explain now, of of א"ק is that א"ק is like when a person creates a self-image for themselves, or and also a world view of they create an image for themselves and of how everything in the world relates to them.

So, now they take their essential רצון, like their רצון for a home, to feel a certain way, and it becomes now a רצון for a house.

And included in that is that they're going to have to have a רצון to work, to make the money to pay for the house, and they're going to have a רצון for all the details, all the actual פרטים of how it's going to come out, that depends on the the their circumstances and the world they're in, their society, and the nature of reality in the world that they find themselves in.

That's the way that they associate their עצם רצון with the world around them is done in א״ק. So, in other words, there's really two things: there's their goal, which is like the guy that's sitting in 770 planning out his dream, right?

Which is inside himself, that's what he wants, but it's an abstract thing. Then you have to look in the world around you and find how to create an image, you have to create, that's the thing that's like בריאה, you have to create now an image of what would fit this רצון. Like we said before about like the guy that he wants that he sits down with the architect, and he says, "Well what, tell me what you like," and he tells him, "Well, I like to swim," so he says, "Okay, that means you want a swimming pool."

You have to create a a new רצון. Now we're talking within the רצון, though. You have to create a a that his רצון has to now take on a tangible form, and and the basic idea here is of א״ק is that it's association. It's the general idea of of מחשבה and בריאה is that when you take a רצון or you take an idea and you associate it with a certain, like when you create a language, what do you do?

You take a certain sound, a certain shape, or whatever it is, and you associate that with an idea.

So, now you express this idea through this word. That's the idea of like in מחשבה where you create a language. So, this is within the רצון that you have to create a language within yourself so that you know what you want. So, you have to say, "Well, when I..." So, it starts off, a baby starts off with that it gets this pain in its stomach when it's hungry, and then it has to learn to associate that with the desire to eat, and then it knows.

So, this is this this process that goes on initially just to figure out what it is that you want is the שרשים in the רצונות.

Connecting Desires: Ratzon to Ratzon Chain 7:25

And when you connect one, an essential רצון with other רצונות, that's the idea of a רצון לרצון, that it's the desire for that now this desire becomes a desire for something else.

So, now if you want to be if you're hungry, that means you want now it's going to mean that you want food. And then if you want food, that's going to mean that you, let's say, that means you're going to have to put on your shoes and go walk down to the store and buy something, whatever, and before you can do that, you're going to have to have a רצון to work to make the money to get it.

Whatever it is. So, all these רצונות, the way that they get put together, in other words, really you just create this understanding of how things work in the world around you.

Then, based on that, you you know how whenever you have a רצון, it plugs it in and it creates a tangible רצון out of it.

The same thing, this is like a person with that he has an inner רצון, let's say, to be connected to God, or to be חסידיש, or whatever it is, he has to create he creates a self-image of what his goal is, that, "I want to be a person like this." So, he sees himself then as being like a an עובד or a משכיל or whatever. He creates some type of an image,

and then that's his becomes his life goal. And this is the idea that it says א״ק is like the 70 years of a person's life, that this is like they create their an image of the perfect them and everything around them, which is like their life goal.

So, their inner desire for fulfillment, and tranquility, and all these inner desires from the רצון קדום, then they they turn that into a view of a utopian, what, experience or whatever it is, in the world that they're in.

A-K as Messiah: Inner vs Outer Picture 9:12

And this is the idea that, like we said, the רצון קדום is like the the original רצון for the סוף מעשה, is like for the דירה בתחתונים. And א״ק, in the נמשל, is like the that it create the the form of משיח. Says it, that's what it says, is that א״ק is משיח, is the picture of the perfect world.

But that's for the חיצוניות of א״ק, and the פנימיות of א״ק is the picture of the perfect person, which is like the person, משיח himself.

And he represents like the ושכנתי בתוכם, the real דירה is within a person, is that the way a person would be when they're like totally fixed up.

And this is also, now we're coming to י״ט כסלו, this is the idea of that that says the אלטער רבי was a נשמה חדשה, It says and all the נשמות really were included first in in אדם הראשון.

Almost all נשמות are included in his נשמה, they are just like פרטים coming out from him. And therefore they're already somewhat stuck in the world. And the idea of the אלטער רבי is that like the whole משל with a pit, like the guys that were stuck in a pit, you know, and then they threw down a new guy, you know what I mean?

So that the whole point of that משל was that most souls are brought up already believing in the world somewhat. Even צדיקים, they are stuck somewhat within the reality of the השתלשלות and the world and everything.

The idea of of a משיח soul, which there is a few of them, like חנוך and אליהו and then like the אלטער רבי, means one that's that was higher than אדם הראשון.

And this is means that somebody that comes into the world and never and with is never trapped by associating השם's רצון already with a certain form, but is feels the inner thing and sees the godliness in everything right away and the inner goal and how everything is just a means to accomplish that. And so is never trapped or fooled by by like the way that a particular form that it's being associated with or something, so never gets stuck and is always never really lose loses sight of the real מציאות of things.