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What exactly does Tzimtzum Aleph (First Restriction) change about the relationship between Malchut and the Upper Light after shame makes direct reception impossible?
This question probes the mechanics of the cosmic shift, how does this “law for all reality” create the empty void, and what new rules govern fulfillment from that point forward?
Shame doesn’t make direct reception impossible. Seemingly I could keep receiving through the shame. The restriction is the decision never to receive again unless it’s to bestow, which is why now in our world one never receives though we think we would like to and our whole life is chasing reception. We never get to the reception but only have near-encounters. And the near-encounters are our actual definition of pleasure. Light itself has never been experienced by anyone. There couldn’t be a more sweeping fallout from the Restriction than having all generations of humans living only to chase the mirage of the Upper Light. This we will do until we learn to exit our Will to Receive entirely. That is, to do the Restriction upon ourselves. That is, we need to match the Upper Law that we are under in any case.
Hi Gianni, After the thought of creation and through phase 1, it appears that the creature starts developing through it’s own actions down to Malchut. Is it fair to say the creature starts making or is responsible for it’s final form/development?
Also, at what point during the phases does the creature make the split into still, vegetative, animate, and speaking? Does this happen during the phases? Do different proportions of light and bestowal create what is here in this world?
Hi Donna,
Yes, it appears that way – but the creature develops by the Light through those stages. That’s why they are called 4 Phases of Direct Light: it’s actions of the Light. The Light is so in the desire, like a hand in a glove, that we have to clarify who it is that’s even there besides the Light. The Light creates the Shame in the creature too; and then the Desire is restricted, in response. Later, much later, there’s a space created in which there is room for the creature to develop in what can be called free choice.
While these phases do not relate to our world, they are the root for the Still, Vegetative, Animate, and Speaking, in our world. Keter is the root; Hochma is Still, Bina is Vegetative, Tifferet is Animate; Malchut is Speaking.
Of course, upper forces are the reason for all that’s in our world. “You have not a blade of grass without a force and an angel above that strikes it and tells it, ‘Grow!'”
is there a giant diagram outlines the entire creation by it’s order? also in that diagram describes what is sefirah, partzuf, worlds, Soul levels, first/second restriction, screen, light, created being……and why and what happened at each step. I will be great to have that big picture, then dive into details of each step.
If the shame cancel the pleasure why is there a need for a restriction, isn’t the shame already the restriction in itself?
Yes but still – sequentially, after the shame cancels the pleasure, there needs to be a decision: “From now on, I don’t receive, unless I can be certain it’s to bestow to the Creator.”
The first video in point 4. Restriction. At 5:54 as I understand he says tzimtzum aleph when speaking about the kli. From 5:38 he is speaking of the four phases and the creature, then the decision of the upper that is a law in the lawer, and the complete restriction of the creature, tzimtzum aleph.
In Isaiah 14 we read:
How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations!
13 For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north:
14 I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High.
15 Yet thou shalt be brought down to hell, to the sides of the pit.
16 They that see thee shall narrowly look upon thee, and consider thee, saying, Is this the man that made the earth to tremble, that did shake kingdoms;
17 That made the world as a wilderness, and destroyed the cities thereof; that opened not the house of his prisoners?
Is this a picture of Malchut? Is this our essence? It seems when we say Malchut wanted to control the Creator, it became the being that Isaiah called Lucifer.
My understanding of Lucifer is that it represents Pride (and Satan represents Wrath). I believe those are just two desires we are working to correct here.
Hi Haze,
Lucifer, I don’t have in the wisdom of Kabbalah. It’s a modern term that was used to translate to the Latin lux ferre from the Hebrew word helel (הֵילֵל) and then further interpretations were added by more non-Kabbalists.
The term Satan (שָּׂטָן, satan) is present in Job, the Zohar, and elsewhere in authentic Kabbalistic texts, where it means accuser. It’s just one of the forces in a person that pull him away from the correct Kabbalistic study.
When we see people in our world who seem to have no shame, but seem to rule and control everything, are these forces like “the accuser” or “angels” that are like Nature applying pressure to us? Or are they just depictions of part of ourselves? Is seeing someone else not having shame part of growing our ability to perceive spiritual shame?
I can’t answer because the original text was written by Kabbalists and the text you provided is a translation in which words have been changed and entire words and concepts that don’t exist in the original have been added. But also, the original is very high and I wouldn’t get confused with it because it’s not directly in front of us, but, believe it or not, what is discussed in this course, is. It’s a paradox – I get that – that here it seems as if high-flying in some distant upper worlds, while in a text like that one it seems that we can pretty much understand what’s going on.
Hi, I just realised I might have asked too many questions along that course, sorry for that, I feel just really intruiged by all of this, please feel free to just answer whichever seems to fit with the content of the course. Thank you.
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