Part 4 · Chapter 30

External Heart Vessel and Its Function 0:04

וחיצוניות הלב, the external part of the heart, הוא הבל החזה וכולי, that's the lungs, ששם כלי הטבעת המידות וכולי, that's the vessel for the sinking in of the emotions, the effect it has on your body.

שהוא כנגד בחינת נפש, that corresponds to נפש, בחינת נה"י שבמידות, which is to the practical ability of the emotions. This is mainly connected to the to the oxygen that your lungs put into your blood, because that is it's very important to have a lot of oxygen for your כח המעשה, for your for your muscles to be able to work. So like if a person's scared or something, and their body says that they're going to need to like run or fight, it puts a lot of oxygen into the blood.

That's one of the reasons why a person starts to breathe faster, and the lung, and the heart beats faster to get more blood and oxygen to the body to to get them it ready for action.

ומשם מאיר בהנפש שבדם, and from there it shines into the נפש, which is in the blood, שהוא מרכבה לגבי רוח שבלב, which the blood is like the power of the blood, which here is like the כח המעשה, the energy in the blood, is a vehicle for the רוח of the heart, בכלל, in general. And this carries, so carries oxygen from the lungs, and then also the כח המעשה in the blood is then acts upon the emotions to do something about it.

וגם בחינת נפש שבכבד כלול מג' מדרגות, פנימי ואמצעי וחיצון וכולי. And also, now, so that's the end of the explanation of the heart, and now now he's going to start explaining the liver. The liver also has three parts: the inner, the middle, and the external.

Transition: From Heart to Liver Overview 1:46

פנימי, הוא הנקרא בזוהר כיסתא דחיותא, the inner aspect of the liver is what is called by the זוהר the כיסתא דחיותא, the impression of life.

דהיינו בחינת רשימו שנשאר מבחינת רוח שבשעת השינה וכולי, this is the impression that's left over from the רוח, from the emotions, in the time of sleep.

והוא בחינת מוחין חב"ד דקטנות שבנפש וכולי, this is the the very little and immature חב"ד of the level of נפש. And this is like from the left over things that are in the blood, all the leftover chemicals, messages, and hormones, the things that were put in the blood in the middle vessel, like we said before, the level of מורגש of the מידות. So that all those chemical traces are left in the blood, and that tells the liver what to do.

It tells it how to react and like how it should, you know, if a person is scared, for example, it will tell the liver to to stop the digestion for a while, and like that's why a person like a stomach person's stomach drops, if they're nervous or scared, because if you're going to like fight or anything like that, it's better to have all the energy for your muscles and not to be digesting.

And if you're calm and happy, then you digest more, because you feel like it's safe to spend the energy digesting the food and stuff like that. So there's like that's like the מוחין of the חב"ד for it.

This is also like the the source of dreams, like we're going to say, because the left over all these leftover letters, chemical letters in the blood, when they go to the brain, they trigger different associations that cause like imaginations.

And that goes into the liver, and there it gets mixed up with the blood, and it gets mixed up with the food you ate, and the liver switches around the order of everything, and then it goes back up to the brain.

And so it it creates like this it's kind of like this chemical static in your blood that when like at night, when you're sleeping and your brain's not so active, then it picks up these little signals, and then it causes you your dreams.

Middle Liver Vessel: The Soul in the Blood 4:32

והאמצעי, in the middle vessel, היינו התפעלות חיות גשמי של כח התנועה וההרגש שבדם, הוא הנפש. This the middle vessel is the feeling of physical life, of the power of movement and the power of sensation, which is in the blood of the level of נפש,

כמו בדופק שביד. For example, in the pulse that you feel in your hand, וכו׳, so like the feeling of like the pulse is like the middle vessel of the liver. That's connected to feeling. And there's a certain the there's a certain thing of like the rhythm of the pulse and stuff that affects the whole body, also, and tells it like what emotion it's feeling and stuff like that.

It tells like the muscles, you know, what based on the pulse it it effects the way that whether muscles should be tense or relaxed and everything.

External Liver Vessel: The Neshama of the Liver 5:33

והחיצון, and the external vessel, הוא בחינת נהי שבכבד, that's just the נהי of the כבד, which the in general, the thing of the כבד is נהי. So the נהי of the נהי is the main job of the כבד, and that is the digestion, ששולח חיצוניות החיות בכל איברים. It sends the external life force to all of the limbs, והפנימיות מבדל וכו׳, and it separates the the פנימיות, separates the the the the better and the worst parts of the food, and it sends the better parts to like the brain, and the not such good parts to the, you know, each organ gets what it needs.

כמו שנתבאר במקום אחר באריכות, as explained elsewhere at length, שבזמן הגלות שנקרע שינה, that during the time of גלות, which is called a time of sleep, אין ההארה דמלכות דאצילות בחינת נפש בעולמות בי״ע רק בחינת רשימו דחיותא. That in it says that when a person sleeps, the only thing that's left in their body, their in their intellect and emotion leaves, and the only thing that's left is the impression of life in their liver.

And that is the the source of dreams and everything while they're sleeping. So, so too, it says that in time of גלות, which is like a spiritual sleep, that מלכות of אצילות only shines into the worlds of בריאה, יצירה, עשיה. We only see God's involvement in the world in a way of like an impression of life, just like a leftover of the לבחינת רוח שבלב אדם העליון וכו׳.

And so like the the emotions of the heart of the upper man, that would be if we would see God running the world in a way of מידה כנגד מידה and השגחה פרטית and everything like that, where it's like God's hand is openly revealed.

But in a time of גלות, it's hidden and we just see every now and then like these little these little things of God doing like miracles or השגחה פרטית, but usually we don't see it.

Jewish Nation Compared to a Fetus in Exile 7:55

And that's that's a state of גלות. וכנסת ישראל שנמשלו לבחינת עיבור בגלות, and then the Jews are compared to a fetus during גלות, היינו כמו הולד שמקופל ראשו בין ברכיו וכו׳. It's like a fetus whose is folded over his head between his knees, תלת גו תלת, three inside of three, וכו׳, שהמוחין חב״ד בהעלם בחג״ת, וחג״ת בנה״י וכו׳, כמו שנתבאר במקום אחר. That his intellect is hidden within his emotions, the חב״ד is hidden within the חג״ת and then the חג״ת is hidden within the נה״י.

So the only thing that's revealed is the most external thing, is the נה״י.

So that's like an explanation of how we have the within each of the vessels there's פנימיות, אמצעיות, חיצוניות.

Then, I mean with the brain also there's פנימיות, אמצעיות, חיצוניות. The פנימיות is like the power of thought of the brain, the אמצעיות is the part of the brain that relates like feelings and senses, and which is like in the middle of the brain. And then the back of the brain and the base of the brain is connected to just like motor actions and moving and stuff like that.

That's the external part of the brain. And then like the idea of the נמשל for all these things is that the way that God reveals reveals himself through there Well, there's like the thing of the way he reveals himself through the תורה, and there's also the way he reveals himself through like different types of מעשים. So, like, there's a whole thing of creating the world which reveals חסד, and then miracles are like תפארת, and each כלי is like a certain way that Hashem reveals himself, a certain מידה of himself, in the world.

Divine Revelation Through Different Spiritual Tools 9:16

And through that there's a certain thing in the in the world which is a כלי for that.

והנה בענין המצות, now we're going to explain the inner thing of the כלים, which are the מצות. And the ענין of the מצות שנקראים רמ״ח אברי דמלכא כדוע, which the מצות are called also like the 248 limbs of the king, הרי ג׳ פעמים ט׳ פעמים ט׳ that we said before that the חשבון is three times nine times nine, that for each of the nine ספירות of ז״א, each one has nine, and then there's three times that for the ג׳ כלים ראש תוך סוף.

בג׳ מיני מדרגות ראש תוך סוף, because there's three levels of ראש תוך סוף, the beginning, the middle, and the end, שבכלים כנ״ל, within the vessels like we said before, עולה רמ״ג, so that comes up to

243, וה׳ חסדים, and the five חסדים המגדילים, which cause the all the vessels to grow, they cause the body to grow, הן רמ״ח, that equals רמ״ח, וכולי.

Chavod of Mitzvah: Light of Intention 11:01

ובבחינת חב״ד, so what is the חב״ד of the מצות? היינו אור הכוונה שבמצוה, that is the light of the כוונה of the

מצוה, שיש לזה כלי פנימי מיוחד, special for the כוונה, ובהגבלה, and it's limited, וכולי. If you learn the תורה, it'll tell you what כוונה you should have for each מצוה, and each one is different, so that's a כלי.

תפילין, you're supposed to have כוונה that it's for the ד׳ מוחין, or that's the כוונה in קבלה, but even if you like read in the סידור, in the פשט, it tells you what כוונה to have when you put on your תפילין, that you're being משעבד מוח ולב, and it's a sign to remind you השם took you out of מצרים, and different things like that.

ובבחינת חג״ת, and the חג״ת of the מצוה is אהבה ויראה וביטול וכולי, that's the love and fear and the ביטול that you have in the מצוה, and you're supposed to have a certain על פי תורה there's a מצוה to have certain feelings for the מצות. יש לזה כלי אמצעי וכולי, that has a middle vessel.

Nehiy of Mitzvah: Power of Action 12:02

ובבחינת נה״י, בחינת כח המעשה, and then the נה״י, the power of action, לעשות רצון המלך בלבד וכולי, to do the will of the king, whether you understand, whether you feel it, but to just to do it, יש לזה כלי החיצון, that is the external vessel, which is the actual מעשה מצוה, actually doing the מצוה, and it tells you how to do it.