Part 1 · Chapter 21

Three Koyen Explained: From Chaos to Form 0:03

Fine. So, now he's going to he's continue, he's going to explain about the ענין of the ג׳ קוין. How it splits up into the ג׳ קוין, we started, we explained the difference between תהו and תיקון. In תהו, it's the way of the נקודות, and then in תיקון it's becomes a פרצוף. The ענין of a פרצוף is that there's ג׳ קוין.

So we're going to explain now what this is. ובזה יובן כללות ענין התכללות דג׳ קוין, דנאצלים מחח״ן מימין, ובג״ה משמאל, ודת״י באמצע וכו׳, that when the ספירות go out, חכמה, חסד, נצח is on the right, בינה, גבורה, הוד is on the left, and then דעת, תפארת, יסוד stays in the middle. כמו שכתוב בפרדס, דפנימיות הכתר, הנקרא כתר שבכתר, לא נחלק לג׳ קוין, that the פנימיות of כתר, the פנימיות of כתר is the actual the inner רצון, that's like the נקודה, that what you that you want it, that's the עצם thing.

That doesn't split up into three קוין. ובבחינת חיצוניות שבו, but from the חיצוניות of the רצון already, ממנו נתחלק לג׳ קוין, that's already becomes associated like a פרצוף in יושר, and then, like we said about with א״א כו׳, it's דוקא in like a חב״ד ווא״ק, it becomes יושר. והוא מבחינת חכמה שבכתר וכו׳, וכנודע בכוונות דהגדול הגבור והנורא וכו׳, that those are the three קוין in the כתר.

הגדול is חסד, והגבור, and the ה׳ means like it's it's a the, the one, it's a in a way התפשטות, so that's that's the way it's in כתר. וביאור הדברים, הנה בבחינת התכללות הקוין, ימין ושמאל, הוא על ידי קו הממוצע דוקא. The right and the left lines are connected through the middle line. והענין הוא, דקו הימין מחח״ן, הרי חסד ענף החכמה, ומובדל הימנו. On the right line, חסד is a branch of חכמה, but it's separate from it.

והוא מה שנסתעף החסד מצד השכל והטעם, שנוטה כלפי חסד בדבר מורכב, כנ״ל. This is when מצד a reason, you lean towards חסד. Not not an עצם חסד, but your שכל causes the חסד. So this is like the way that the right arm is on the same side, the right side of the brain, or so it like that the right our hand is what like usually what you use to give to to Usually you hold something with your left hand, and you take and give things with your right hand.

Why חכמה Leans Toward חסד (Right Hand Analogy) 2:08

So that's one of the reasons why the right hand is like a משל for חסד, and that's on the same side, it's of חכמה. And in general, חכמה leans towards חסד. The reason why חכמה leans towards חסד is because when a person looks at things in a way of חכמה, they like see The ענין of חכמה is to look behind, past the חיצוניות, past the form. בינה looks at the external form, and חכמה looks at like what is representing, the abstract thing behind it.

So this So, therefore, חכמה tends to lean towards חסד, and and בינה tends to lean towards גבורה. In other words, that let's say, like we spoke about before, if somebody gives a gift to somebody, so if you look into it, so like say it's the the thought that counts, that's what חכמה looks, it's the thought that counts. You look deeper what was what this represents, and you appreciate it very much.

Or the same thing with a person. If you look at a person, you look past even if they're they're not so good בחיצוניות, they're not doing everything they're doing isn't so good, but you look past it and you look at their inner motivation and their like what's how inner inside they're a person like you, and you can relate to them, and really they're just misguided, and that's like a חכמה.

בינה focuses on the external thing. If you focus on the external, you're you're always, like we said, you're if the gift is never You're never going to be able to find a gift that is proper representation of like the love that you're trying to express. So if you're going to be מדקדק on the חיצוניות, it's never going to be perfect. You're always going to find the flaw.

You're always going to find that it's going to fall short. And the same thing with a person. If you're going to be מדקדק on אין צדיק בארץ, if you're מדקדק on a person's actions, you're going to always be able to find something wrong with the way they're externally, especially if the way they're externally living up

to to what you could expect from them. That's true. So you could look at it either way. You could look at, well, even though it's so you should say, well, well, the חכמה looks, says, well, since it's impossible to properly represent it is the the the feeling in the external thing, so we should just look past it. We should look at it's the thought that counts, where this עצם connection, and it doesn't really matter how we express it, the main thing is what's that it's there.

So חכמה therefore tends to lean towards חסד, בינה looks at the external thing and says, "But I want it to come out, and I want you to make an effort to make something that's a meaningful expression of it, of whatever it is you're trying to convey, or I want you to act in a way that's befitting who you really are, and and if I want you to do things that will express the relationship that we have, or whatever it is, and so therefore, it's very nitpicky."

So that's so yeah, so the חכמה tends to lean towards חסד. So like a person looks at, let's say, a poor person. If they look at him מצד חכמה, they feel like they should really be nice to them, they realize they find a common ground, how they really they relate to the person, and they can sympathize, and therefore they want to give the person, let's say, צדקה or something, or they intellectually they understand that it's good that they should be nice to them.

וכן הנצח ענף החסד, and likewise, נצח is an ענף of חסד, but it's also מובדל הימנו, it's also separate from the חסד. דהא מצד החסד יחויב בחינת הנצח ולהיות חסד למעשה בפועל ממש וכולי, that when a person has a חסד, that a person wants to The ענין of חסד means that they want to have the thing of התפשטות, they want to get something out. So if you're if you want to get something to like express something to somebody, or give something to somebody, you're going to have The ענין of נצח means that you're that there's going to be there's definitely going to be opposition to when you want to bring it out בפועל, to figure out how to do it.

It's not There's always going to be like you're going to have to fight kind of with the with the כלי, like the משל gives in תניא, when a father's trying to teach his the the his kids. So מצד the חסד, he wants to to teach his son what he knows, his חכמה, but it's hard for him to to he has to bring it down to the son's level.

So the ענין of נצח is that if you want to give it to bring it across, you're going to have to work to overcome the language barrier and the and the different backgrounds and the different whatever to to bring it out in the way the person will appreciate it, or what in a way that it will And like the פשוט thing is also like if a guy This is like the ענין of the right leg, it's like if a person wants to go give חסד to a guy, so then the חסד will be מחויב that he should really If the guy's he should run after the guy even to help him.

חסד, נצח, and Overcoming Obstacles in Practice 7:29

That's like an really a נצח thing. In other words, if there's some type of an obstacle, the חסד will say, "Well, really you should even have נצח, you should even be willing to fight for it, for what's right and what" But like we're going to say, in the right and and the left line, they're detached, and so you see בפועל that a person, in theory, can be very high-minded מצד their חכמה.

When it comes to the emotion, they don't really feel so enthusiastic anymore, and by the time it comes to נצח, to actually have to run after somebody, it's a it's it's a lot less, but it will still it will be מחייב it though, that a person should do these things. ולהיות חסד למעשה בפועל ממש וכולי, or like like like like מבצעים, that a person knows that it's right, מצד חכמה they see that it's right to go and help other אידן, and so then they feel like a חסד that they they want that they should be helped, but when it comes to actually going and doing it, if they don't if it's, you know, difficult, so that's a נצח thing.

They have to overcome obstacles to go raise money, and get the thing, and go out, and time, and it's cold, and to find the people, and it's they have to go it's uncomfortable for a lot of people to go around knocking on doors or something, giving out מנורות or whatever it is. It's So that's the נצח. But the חסד is מחייב מחויב, it it really says that you should do it, but it's detached, so that that loses some of the כח, like he's going to say.

וקו השמאל היפוכו, the קו השמאל is the opposite of everything of in the right line, כמו ששכל המטה כלפי דין, that's שכל מטה כלפי דין שנסתעף הימנו מדת הדין הוא, כך בינה גבורה. So too is בינה גבורה, that בינה tends leans towards גבורה, כמו שכתוב אני בינה לי גבורה, I am בינה and גבורה is mine, וכולי דחכמה נטה לחסדים ובינה מינה דינין מתערין, or something, that from בינה comes out דינין.

וכמו שכתוב בעץ חיים דאבא מקור החסדים, that אבא's the source of the חסדים. In other words, the ענין of the חסדים is also the ענין the ענין of חכמה is that you're you look into like the what the abstract thing, that you have like it's the ענין of השגת המהות, it's all it's always an ענין of what's abstract, and that always causes the ענין of חסדים, that like when you understand something in a way of of חכמה, then you see how it really applies to everything, and you see the connection between things, and the טבע of חכמה is always to to break barriers, and to find to go deeper and deeper.

essence, which transcends boundaries and limitations. And בינה is the opposite, is to define it and make it very compartmentalized and make, draw sharp distinctions until you can and and so therefore, like if you want to talk, you have to use בינה to figure out words to name exactly what you want to say, so people can get what you're talking about. But then, in order to really understand what a person is saying, you also have to have חכמה to be, like, read between the lines and pull out what they're really saying.

Balancing בינה and חכמה in Understanding Texts 10:23

So you need a a combination of both. This is like, so like a person that's, let's say, reading, when they're just the literal understanding, later on we'll talk about חכמה, בינה, and how it deals with, like, language, and thought, and speech, and all these things, but but it's like if a person just reads, they know the literal definition of the words, that's like a בינה thing. But when a person reads and they are, like, they don't even realize they're reading anymore, they're just like it's like they're living the story.

That's like a חכמה thing, means that it becomes totally transparent. And that's the ענין of the פנימיות מוחין, that it's it it's ממש one with their with their their

thing.