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The Second Restriction is simply the continuation of the First Restriction on the Kelim (vessels) below the Tabur. Because before the Light of SAG spreads down below the Tabur there is no Light below the Tabur that needs to be restricted, because the First Restriction made sure there was no Light there. But after a bit of a certain Light called Hassidim spreads down there, now we have a need for Restriction. So, instead of a blanket prohibition forced by the First Restriction, we now have the possibility to spread the Light down to certain Kelim below Tabur (the Kelim from Keter down to the middle third of Tifferet of the Guf), on condition that the First Restriction will be kept in regards to the Kelim that are related to Malchut. We call this the Second Restriction.
If you wish, you can think of it this way. It’s a system that is ready to correct the desires. The desires need to rise to it for correction. To rise to it is to reach equivalence with the Creator.
The coarseness of the desire. Desire is everything, all that exists in reality. How we perceive things is something else, but there’s only desire. And the differences are only in the coarseness, Aviut. To the extent of the coarseness in the desire that the Light is filling, there is greater pleasure/intensity.
Hi Francisco,
One is very far from feeling these matters. The 4 Phases do animate reality, and a person as part of it, but he does not feel himself operated by this program, like a small child doesn’t feel himself as a link in a chain of a million generations. Even when we learn about all those generations, as adults, we don’t feel that (and thus we don’t really understand that either). In short, we perceive ourselves as independent operators, free, and we’re wrong about that – thus, to perceive ourselves under such governance is opposite to our ego, undesirable, something we don’t want to know. And so it’s concealed from us, utterly. We would suddenly have to behave altogether differently, in every realm of life were we to feel it. We actually need to assemble ourselves in a Kabbalistic group to as if awaken ourselves to the stages that are precursors to entering the bottom of the bottom step of this spiritual system.
As for the Tzimzum, we can’t say that it is more important than anything else in the system, as the system is perfect, and so all its actions are indispensable. Metaphorically, the transition from Hochma to Bina, though, is like an older child that leaves his parents’ mansion and goes out on a trip in the great outdoors, but, you know, just in case, his servants wait a few hundred yards away. But it’s as if he’s on a spartan, rugged coming-of-age adventure. Of course, some such safari is not the same as one who is outside because they have no home and no nothing. The Tzimzum isn’t leaving the King’s Palace but I can return at will, and I have it standing behind me; the Tzimzum is that I as if burn my bridge back to the palace, renounce my name and birthright. The decision of Malchut to restrict is forever. It doesn’t matter that later the Plan of Creation will have to be realized, because for Malchut, in that state, it’s a decision that is as-if forever, final. And there are many more details to why Tzimzum is different from the transition from Phase 1 to 2.
Almost everything in the Blueprint of Creation course refers to what precedes our existence in this world, the steps we have to climb back up, now that we have been through the Shattering of the Soul of Adam HaRishon and feel ourselves now as individual people, instead of feeling our self as a single desire facing the Creator.
Hi George,
I gave it as an example, without any implications, except that we can somehow relate to that approach, and to the fact that there is a certain kind of satisfaction in this self-abnegation. It’s one approach to the Creator, although on this line one does not actually reach the Creator because by shutting down my desire to receive and settling for little, I’m shutting down the desire that needs to be turned into a Desire that has the intention of in order to bestow. Therefore, I will have to, at the end of the day, start over, with my full will to receive, and put it under the influence of a force in nature called Reforming Light, which is capable of changing the intention of the desire, which brings me to equivalence with the Creator, which is the goal of our living in this world.
