Part 6 · Chapter 19

Comparing One’s Will to a General Will (א"ק) 0:01

אך כמו שמובן ממילא עכשיו, שזהו נקרא השוואת רצון לרצון, והוא בבחינת ככלל, והוליד כמה מיני רצון. So, but an א"ק is like the general רצון for everything that you're ever going to do. That's like the general that's so it's like a כלל, וכמה עניינים ואופנים שונים כו'. And includes many particular things, whatever each circumstance, that that inner עצם רצון to be kind will come out in different ways.

ככה דבחינת רצון רצון לחסד בא"ק נולד כמה מיני גילוי רצון של חסד באצילות. So too, the עצם רצון for חסד becomes out in many different particular inyanim in אצילות.

והעניין הוא דמבחינת מלכות של מידה דא"ק נעשה בבחינת כתר דמידה דאצילות, that from the מלכות of א"ק becomes the כתר of אצילות. In other words, the מלכות of א"ק is the external form that that is like a definable thing, that once a person, let's say, creates a self-image and they know clearly what they want and they can actually like so then they like whisper into their ear that this thing like they that they want to be whatever it is, they want to be let's say they want to be a תלמיד חכם.

External Form (מלכות) Shapes Our Self‑Image and Choices 1:20

So that's always telling them that they want to be that. And the external thing of מלכות of it means they have this whole picture, this thing of like הנהגה, they have a whole picture of what it means to be a guy like that. So whenever they come to a situation, that external form that they picture themselves, they look at this and they measure it. They say, "Well, does this fit with this form?"

If it fits with the form, then they have a רצון for it. If it doesn't fit, they have a רצון against it. That's what creates the חסד, the the כתר for their particular things, which is like the כתר דאצילות. והוא רק מבחינת אותיות וגילוי עצם ההעלם הרצון, נעשה אור העצם של גילוי רצון כו', שהוא כמו שמבואר באות הי"ח, שרק מבחינת סוף מעשה דעצם הרצון נעשה רצון רצון של עשר ספירות דא"ק.

Just like only from מלכות of the עיגולים becomes כתר of א"ק, so too only from מלכות of א"ק comes כתר of אצילות. Now he's going to give us a משל for this עניין. על דרך דוגמה, מבחינת גילוי רצון שבדיבור המשפיע נעשה עצם הרצון למקבל. So like with a servant he said. The servant tells the king, "Your wish is my command."

In other words, that whatever the king says he wants, the רצון of the servant is really to the בעל הרצון. He really wants to do what the king says. So how does he know what to want?

Whatever the king tells him, which is the גילוי, the external גילוי of the king's רצון, that becomes then his רצון. That's the עניין of when you have מסירת נפש, when you give over your the נקודה of your רצון, you dedicate yourself, then automatically, anything he tells you to do becomes your full inner רצון. You have מסירת נפש for that.

Even though this is is not the עצם רצון, this particular thing he told you to do, but since it's connected, since he said to do it, now it gets the full the full force of your מסירת נפש.

And so if a person will try to stop you, you would you would die or kill him or whatever to to not let him stop you. אור שכל המקבל. וכך רק מאותיות וגילוי חסד The same thing also with the same like a teacher. The the inner knowledge of the student comes from the words of the שכל, right? כמו שבאותיות גילוי השכל שבדיבור של משפיע נעשה עצם אור שכל המקבל.

Teacher‑Student Dynamic: Receiving Wisdom Through the Teacher’s Letters 3:11

How the students get their שכל from the letters of the teacher. In other words, the students have an עצם thing that they that they want to learn whatever this guy knows. They, in other words, have this general dedication that they believe that this guy is an expert and that he has something they don't know, and therefore, whatever he says, they accept as true.

'Cause in order to really learn properly, you have to you have to be בטל and accept, even if you don't understand it, you have to accept that he knows better than you and just you have to just try to understand what he's saying. If you're going to try to find a way to if you're going to accept that may that maybe what he said was not true, then what's going to happen is that you might not understand it properly, and since you don't understand it properly, it doesn't make sense, and therefore, you say it's not true.

But if you know that this guy knows it, then you're just going to try to understand what he's saying.

And that's that's what's going to guarantee that you're going to understand it properly. וכך רק מאותיות וגילוי חסד שבדיבור דמשפיע נעשה אור רצון לחסד למקבל כידוע.

The same way when משפיע that from like if a if a person, there's different things like this. So one thing is if a person loves somebody, so then if if this person says good things about somebody else, then the person will also love that guy, 'cause he trusts this guy is like a this the guy's thing. Or also can also be other way that that that like a person will even for themselves it'll be מעורר that saying things about somebody or good things about him will wake up in him.

How Speaking Positively About Others Generates Love in Listeners 4:45

But here he's saying more when you say to somebody else good things about somebody it makes them feel love for them. כידוע בכל עילה ועלול, this is the way it works in every עילה ועלול, שבבחינה אחרונה שבעילה נעשה ראש ושורש לעלול. That

his חיצוניות becomes the your פנימיות. וכך מבחינת מלכות דא״ק בכלל נעשה בחינת כתר דעקודים וכולי. The same way that the whole thing of עתיק and אריך is only from is is defined based on the external אותיות of א״ק. דהיינו מבחינת גילוי רצון ברצון שבדיבור בלבד,

Divine Selection of Desires Determines Which Generation’s Will Is Revealed 5:55

in other words, that that השם chooses particular which part of the רצון ברצון is it going to come out now, which is the ענין of the קורא הדורות מראש, He picks which דור is going to come out now, and based on which one He picks to to reveal now, that makes the way that all the רצונות come out. נעשה בחינת מקור כל גילוי רצון שמצד התענוג שנקרא כתר דעקודים וכולי כמו שיתבאר.

So the whole inner תענוג, the fact that a person enjoys, like in a person, fact that they enjoy something is dependent on the fact that they see this as fulfilling their self-image and therefore they'll enjoy it. If they see it as being against their self-image, then they're going to hate it. They're going to not enjoy it. The same way, we're going to learn later the ענין of what the ענין of רצון and תענוג is, but the same way with God, like we'll explain.

והיינו כל זה ענין עשר ספירות דאצילות שיצאו מהעלם עשר ספירות דא״ק כמו שכתוב קורא הדורות מראש וכולי. That's the ענין of the ספירות of אצילות, that they are only a גילוי of the עצם thing of א״ק.

Right. In other words, that א״ק is like that השם chose the the essential form that He wants how He wants to reveal Himself in this world, which is the ענין of the ten ספירות in general, like a certain form of those things. And it's also the ענין of like the the form of משיח and דירה בתחתונים that השם chose. And based on that, that defines the way that that השם chooses to conduct the world all the time, depending on which aspect of א״ק He's revealing now.

And it's to define the way the world's going to go in the whole history and everything really is defined on that. And that's why like there's the ענין of נבואה is possible is because if you know what's the story in א״ק, then you know how it's going to come out down the line. Yeah.