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Hi Joy,
Peh is a “location”. We can’t say it’s the Masach itself. The Masach could be positioned at the Peh, which is generally the place of Malchut of the Rosh. The Masach could also rise to Nikvey Enaiim (pupils of the eyes) for example, the place of Bina, where the resulting Partzuf would have the quality of Bina. Where in the Rosh the Zivug (coupling) with the Upper Light occurs, determines with which quality we are working, and thus what kind of Partzuf will come out.
The principle is the same for Tabur, however now we are in the general Guf (body) of the system. You think it’s a Screen because indeed Malchut of Tzimzum Aleph stands always in this place, guarding the Tzimzum, so that no Light of Hochma gets through.
In that sense we can also regard Parsa as a kind of limit, however we don’t say “Masach” usually because Masach means not a limitation placed on me from Above – like we have now, where all the Light is hidden, as in “guard yourself a little from below, and I will guard you a lot from Above.” But rather a Masach is when Machsom (barrier) becomes a limitation I myself hold onto, and above this limitation I have a Masach.
This is why Light doesn’t come down to us in our place. Rather we have to rise above Parsa, through equivalence of form with that place.
That would be good, but no, there is not a subtitles option. However, there is a transcript for each lesson that you could follow along with.
Of course. We don’t perceive Four Phases anywhere. We don’t feel where we are with respect to the spiritual reality yet. We’re under that reality, not in touch with it.
It isn’t opposite the Light of the Creator, it is the Light (pleasure) in being similar to the Creator, which is of a higher quality that the pleasure in reception. In receiving what? It doesn’t matter what? The pleasure in similarity with the Creator is a sublime, exalted thing.
Yes, my goal is to explain it in the manner that Baal HaSulam did, but in an even easier way. This preface after all Baal HaSulam considered one of four necessary introductions to the study of Kabbalah. The goal is to draw the Reforming Light, which is the only means to develop even a millimeter spiritually. The Light is drawn specifically when one isn’t able to put the concept into a form he understands – after all, he needs to reach forms that he has no pattern in his understanding for, and he should be left with a longing for that, and not to have the (foolish) satisfaction that he does understand with the mind he already has. You see, then he stays as he is. But now he’s worse than before Kabbalah because now he’s still in this world but is calm, thinks he’s already connected to spirituality. So he has no deficiency for the Light to change him.
