Part 1 · Chapter 32

Introduction to the Heart and Supernal Man 0:04

Chapter 32. Now we are going to talk about the heart. Yeah. מעתה, now,

now that we finished the introduction about the lights and the vessels, now we're going to tell you a little start to discuss why we wanted to tell you about the lights and the vessels. מעתה, now, יש להבין בבחינת אדם העליון דאצילות שעל הכסא וכולי, we have to understand about all this stuff with about the man, the supernal man of אצילות that sits on the chair, the throne, שהוא בחינת ז"א דאצילות, which that is זעיר אנפין of אצילות, שמקבל מבחינת נה"י דאבא וכולי, which receives from the נה"י of אבא.

וידוע שהוא היינו בחינת המדות דאצילות, which it's known that ז"א, that's now we're explaining, we finished explaining אבא, now we want to start explaining ז"א.

Understanding Zeir Anpin (ז"א) and Its Influence 1:04

And so now we understand based on what we explained until now, the idea of ז"א,

which ז"א is idea of the מדות of אצילות, שהוא עיקר ושרש ההשפעה ממקור למקור לחיי העולמות, which is the the trunk and the root for the transfer of or the of the source of the source for the life of the worlds. It all comes through ז"א of אצילות.

That's like the משל of the body, that the body is is where your soul is able to start affecting the world once it comes into the body. ועדיין הוא סוף עולם האין סוף, nevertheless, the body is still called the end of the world of the infinite, it's still called an unlimited thing, still called a godly thing, משום דאיהו וחיותיה וגרמוהי חד, because God is one with the light and with lights and with the vessels, כנ"ל, like we said before.

על כן גם עד בחינת כלים דז"א בבחינת חיצוניות דנה"י שבו וכולי נחשב עדיין סוף עולם האין סוף. Therefore, it's still called the world of the infinite all the way to the external vessels of ז"א of אצילות. In other words, just like in a person's body, that even the most external vessels of their body can be controlled by them,

and so it's only a potential limitation, and not only that, their consciousness is revealed immediately in a feeling in their body, so as soon as they have a desire it's right away translated into a feeling in their like lungs or something like that, an impulse to do something, so it's all ממש, as far as the פנימיות it's one with him, his consciousness, and as far as the חיצוניות, he can control it to do whatever he wants, so on both sides it's called infinite, still infinite.

Even though it's the intermediary between there being, you know, infinite and being limited, because it's infinite ability to limit things into however he wants. וביאור הדברים, to explain this, הנה מבשרי אחזה וכולי, from my flesh I see God.

So that means that we have to understand, from looking at the way our body works we'll understand the way that the vessels of אצילות work. דבצלם אלקים עשה את האדם וכולי, that man was made in the image of God.

Man as Image of God and Cosmic Microcosm 3:21

כמו שכתוב, like it says, when God made man, it says let us make him בצלמנו כדמותנו, in our form like our image, וכולי. דהנה אנו רואים, for we see, and why does it say say it like that in the plural? Because God was saying, speaking to everything in creation, all the ספירות and everything in the השתלשלות, that every single level is put into into man, that man is a microcosm of everything.

That's why it's in plural. That's what it says. רש"י says cuz he said also to the מלאכים. The מלאכים are all the particular forms of the whole השתלשלות.

And that the reason why is because man is a microcosm of everything. He has the whole world in him.

Well, it's true that it doesn't have to be that the way it is in you is the way it is upstairs, but that's what it says in the תורה, that that's the way it is. So the way it is in you is the way it is upstairs, that's first of all. And second of all, that's, you know, if you were to speak ultimately, God didn't have to do it that way, but the way that our השתלשלות is set up, according to the way that our minds work and stuff, the way we look at the way we understand things, it has to be that if that's the way it is in you that's the way it is upstairs.

Because really, you are a חלק אלוקה that was given a צורה, through צמצומים. So it must be that if you dig into yourself, you will uncover that Godly essence, and you will see everything the way it is in God, and the way it is in everywhere. You know, cuz there's the depth. If you reach into the depth, all of the wellsprings connect in the depth.

But with a person, it's ממש in a revealed way he has is a microcosm of every form in the world. So like every different type of animal, and every every different angel, it's all in a person, in a revealed way.

Free Choice: Human Nature Versus Animal Instincts 5:41

Unlike animals that that have only a certain nature. This is one of the reasons, there's two reasons why a person has free choice. In order to have free choice, you need two things.

One thing that that a person has over like animals is that he has all the different natures at his disposal. Every other animal, every animal has a certain nature. Some are naturally nice, and some are naturally mean. Like the empire penguins are naturally very respectful and and and caring of their babies, their eggs, and they'll go do a lot for them. That's just their nature. You know, they can't help it.

It's not like they decided to have this self-sacrifice, that's the way they are. Other animals are very mean to their babies and they'll eat their eggs. Some fish will right away after they lay eggs start to eat them. And it's only from the ones that survive that are born. And there are some that like the like the father will eat their children if he's still there. Like with like hamster, like Russian dwarf hamsters, I don't know, some of these kind of things or mice, I think, I don't know, some some of these kind of little animals, you have to if there's a father, you have to take it away from the kids, and can't keep in the same cage cuz they'll like eat them and stuff.

And sometimes the mother will be mean like that. And like with spiders, like the black widow is famous for eating her husband after after they have kids, yeah. So like with them, that's the way, you know, they have that nature. With other animals, it's not like that. You know, some animals have fidelity to their spouse and some don't. And some will even kill their spouse. So there's all kinds of different natures.

In people, they have all those at their disposal. Person has within him the thing of being nice, the thing of being mean, all these different things and and that's So in order to have free choice, you need to have that. You have all of them at your disposal and you can choose whichever one you want.

But as far as free choice, right now I'm saying, the main thing is that that you we have all nature. But then, it's not good enough just to have the nature of everything.

Then we also have the connection to God, which is higher than all the forms, which is the other reason that we have free choice.

And therefore, we're able to choose whichever one we want. You really need both. So there, you see that a person has in him everything in creation, and also connection to God which is higher than creation. So he has like everything in him.

From my flesh, I see God. The man is made in like an image of God. דהנה אנו רואים, for we see, בנפש האדם, in the soul of man, שבבחינת חיה יחידה שבו הוא בבחינת מקיפים דנר"ן שהוא למעלה מהגבלת האורות בכלים, that we see that in a person, the soul of man, that his חיה and יחידה, his inner volition and his and his self, they encompass his intellect, emotions, and actions, you know, the the the the consciousness on those levels, which are נפש, רוח, נשמה, and that these levels of the soul are higher than being in any particular vessel, any particular organ, center.

Inner Desire (חיה) and Unity (יחידה) Beyond Vessels 8:54

והוא בבחינת הרצון והתענוג העצמי הפשוט שבבחינת יחידה. And these the חיה and יחידה are like the level of desire, and then the desire of the essential pleasure the the simple essential pleasure of the יחידה, and those are not in any particular vessel.

So the inner desire and pleasure of the יחידה, that's one thing. וגם בחינת פנימיות ומקור השכל, also the inner source of the intellect, שנקרא משכיל, which is called

משכיל, שזהו בחינת מקיף דחיה, that's the מקיף of חיה. So we see that both of these things בלתי מוגבלים בכלי כלל, they do not have, they're not limited to a specific vessel at all.

That we see both a person's inner self, which is like their inner, which is expressed in the desire and pleasure, which is basically like their inner self and their inner consciousness, and also their ability to have creative intellect, that those do not come from a vessel. They're just from the the soul.

That those levels are just like spiritual things of the soul that Do not. The way that they're expressed afterwards comes through the vessel of the body and like a biological, psychological thing that could be explained, but those levels are not at all in a vessel and it's not something that can be like determined predetermined, that's not something that can be manipulated on a physical level. Yeah, חיה, חיה is like the thing of רצון, but here it's he's talking a little different, that חיה is like the פנימיות of the שכל, and יחידה is the person's רצון ותענוג פשוט.

There's a deeper level of יחידה that's just the person himself. That's the יחידה without a name. The יחידה with a name is the person's simple desire and pleasure, the רצון ותענוג העצמי הפשוט, the pleasure of himself, yeah, being himself. And the desire to just express himself, be himself.

So, those are not limited in a vessel at all. רק מהחכמה ולמטה נמשך בכלי, only from חכמה and down is it drawn into a vessel.

והוא הנשמה שבמוחא ורוחא בליבא וכו׳. This is the soul which is in the brain, the נשמה soul, in other words the the intellectual part of the soul which is in the brain, and the emotional part of the soul, feeling, which is in the heart, וכולי, and then just action level of the soul which is in the liver. והנה עם כל זה מאיר אור המקיף דרצון ותענוג מבחינת פנימיות אור החכמה בנר״ן שבג׳ כלים מוחא וליבא וכו׳ מן ההעלם.

Nevertheless, even though the חיה and יחידה are higher than the body, and don't come into like a physical vessel that they're limited to, nevertheless they shine there. We see that the person's soul, his consciousness, his inner consciousness and his inner creative ability and his inner desire and will are expressed in the body. They connect to the body in the way of consciousness. That's the the main way they connect.

Which that is the inner light of חכמה, is the inner consciousness, which is the power of, you know, intellect, the inner power of intellect, and that shines into the נפש, רוח, נשמה the way that they're enclothed already in the brain, the heart, and the liver.

והוא גילוי הרצון, and this is a revelation of the רצון, which is the יחידה, שבא בשכל וטעם גלוי, which that which is the inner desire of the יחידה is expressed through and as an intellect, a revealed intellect, ובבחינת מוח החכמה, in the brain of חכמה, שנקרא אור אבא, and this is called the light of חכמה. That once it comes to be revealed intellect in the brain, that's called the light of חכמה, the light of אבא.

From Intellectual Light to Understanding and Emotion 12:44

ומשם נמשך ומתפשט בבינה, from there it spreads to בינה, שהוא השגה, which is understanding. ובינה שבמוח נמשך התפעלות המדות שבלב, and when it goes from the בינה, once it's understood, then it goes into the emotions of the heart, because then you figure out the implications of that. So, we see, in other words, that it goes from your יחידה is revealed through your consciousness as a חכמה in your brain, and from there to בינה, from there to the emotions, from there to the action.

So, it's all connected.