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1. Yes, externality is vessels of reception, internality is vessels of bestowal.
2. The whole process from Above down is done from Above, and it is the preparation of the Kli to receive in order to bestow.
3. No, we can’t say that it’s the movement from Phase 2 to 3, we’re not in the 4 Phases of Direct Light, but after the 4 phases. After all, the Nekudot de SAG is going on inside SAG, and SAG is a Partzuf of AK: Galgalta, AB, SAG, MA, BON.
4. Clothing (Levush) is ZA that was separated from the Ohr Pnimi and became Ohr Makif. Also, each inferior Partzuf is considered “clothing” with respect to its Superior.
5. No, don’t think of it that something is just an expression of something else. Except that all you have in Creation is the negotiation between the Light and Kli. The Light according to its laws, the Kli according to its laws of development.
6. We can say that everything below Tabur is taking place in SAG. We can’t say “takes the place of…” We’ll have to later see how everything is connected to everything; nothing is taking the place of anything. You can look at Baal HaSulam’s article HaIlan (The Tree) to see how everything rolls up behind us like a carpet as we correct all the Kelim.
7. No, the correction doesn’t begin in SAG. We’re talking here about a process from Above down. That means that it’s done from Above. There’s a Desire, but it’s being brought through all these stages. The system is being built. Then it’s ready for correction. Correction begins from our world when we climb up through this system.
8. No, Nikudim is not just another term for something else. It isn’t the Worlds of ABYA. Before Nikudim there is formed the Place (Makom) for the Worlds of ABYA. Nikudim spreads in this Place, but there’s no Worlds of ABYA. Nikudim is shattered. From the broken pieces forms Atzilut. From Atizult, in the Place of the Worlds of ABYA, spreads downwards the Worlds of ABYA themselves.
I’m happy to answer all your questions. If you persist there will be more and more, so you will eventually answer these, but other questions will multiply. That’s because behind these words is a whole ocean, worlds. Baal HaSulam just gives a few details of the architecture in which opens the spiritual reality. It’s good you’re getting a foothold though, only for the purpose that that allows you to dig in more, and be influenced by the Light. Everything – sensations, perceptions, knowledge – will come only from the Light’s influence.
Imagine there are no humans on Earth yet, but there are monkeys, and they only think about swinging from the trees and so on. And now there needs to be a new monkey that will plant crops, read and write, go to symphonies. But you have no such desire to do those things. So, you need there to be someone who can tell you about the world of humans and fan your desire for it. So, in our current situations we have Kabbalists. They tell us that we are like those monkeys, except instead of thinking about swinging from the trees, we think from morning until night about ourselves – all sorts of various things that concern me, my body, and those important to me. And I need to become something opposite, who thinks from morning until night about others and the Creator. You’ll depict what it is that we become when you start seeing how from every thought you need to move to an opposite thought – from yourself to others, from reception to bestowal. This way you start depicting what it is that we become.
1. There’s already a desire to receive if it’s in order to bestow, Above – in AK.
2. From the Tabur down – yes – those vessels are more intensely egoistic.
3. Externality is defined as the Kelim below the Chazeh in the Partzuf.
4. The ARI. Although all Kabbalists attained this language (one of 4 languages suitable for describing the Upper World).
5. As you study, the Light works, especially if it is somehow aimed at connection with others and the Upper Force. To that extent, a feeling will develop, and from the feeling you awaken these things that are actually inside you, the parts of your soul; and then we really start understanding.
Thanks to you too. It’s great work for all of humanity’s inner desire that we’re able to work with because we’re working together.
That’s correct. And there’s no contradiction. Nevertheless there’s a difference between MA and BON of AK, and Nekudot de SAG, the World of Nikudim, and “new MA.” Sit with it some more and things will gradually come together.
The world of Nikudim is the world that is born after Nekudot de SAG descend down to the vessels below the Tabur. The Nekudot are Lights that only want to bestow and that’s why they can be anywhere. That’s because the Lights are expelled down to the level of 2/2. In that, there’s no Light of Hochma.
Think of the World of Nikudim as its own thing. It’s enough to understand what’s happening there without mixing it with other things.
I can’t clothe into your examples, but if they help you put things in order…
MA and BON are not in this. They’re not detailed here. They’re Partzufim of AK. Everything comes from SAG. All the worlds are born from SAG.
