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In the text for the morning lesson this morning “What Does It Mean that the Right Must Be Greater then the Left, in the Work?” it says a couple times that the left line is how new souls are created.
How is that so? Is it that unique new lacks are discovered? What is a soul in this context?
So would a “vessel” of reception not really be a vessel at all, but more like a sieve that can only sense something passing through it?
Also, I am listening to the morning lesson and Rav mentions that Pharaoh and the Creator can only be together if they are connected by a screen. Which makes it sound more like a complex adapter type structure creating the relation between the two. Not a simple barrier? Is this why a screen is sometimes described as having. coarseness, thickness or hardness? It’s not a simple threshold?
I am not sure what page because it’s an audio file (but I think somewhere around page 100) in The Science of Kabbalah he mentions that a kli can only have one desire. So the kli is divided in two, to accommodate the version of that desire that’s in bestowal and also the one for reception. This way it can have two in the same partzuf. This seems to imply that those diagrams of the partzuf are showing that the rosh has a desire (to bestow) and the guf has the same desire but with the intent to receive. I have never seen it described this way.
Also, does this mean that the vessels of bestowal are the roshes (roshim?) and the vessels of reception are the gufs? It’s not that they are completely other kelim? Just opposing parts of the same kelim?
where is it in The Study of the Ten Sefirot that we can read about the different relations above and below the Parsa, please? thanks.
Why is it our custom here to draw everything but that? There must be some benefit inherent to those diagrams that could not be extracted from one of the sefirot?
I try not to imagine spiritual things in corporeal ways, and it’s easier the longer I study. It’s clear the spiritual things are concepts and feelings, not objects in the corporeal sense. The one thing I still have not run across a useful description for is the sefirot themselves. I see other places outside of BB are very fixated on them, like some kind of weird magic objects of power. That is off-putting. But I have had literally nothing else to substitute for this gross clunky metaphor because no materials I have seen here describe what they are, other than connected to each other.
But today in the morning lesson “There Is No Blessing In That Which Is Counted” Rav gives a description in a certain context. He says in this context imagine that the 10 sefirot are your skeleton. And it is completely unique to you, like a chassis that you build the partzuf upon anew in each degree. They are not interchangeable, and their qualities in you, compared to another, differentiate what you appreciate and apprehend about the degree.
In another lesson a few weeks ago he mentioned in passing that every “prayer” every desire, even the tiniest, has its own ten sefirot and that absolutely none are like another. All are unique. And I have heard other times that every discrete part of the world is composed of a set of sefirot.
So, based on the little information I have:
– there are specific number of them, which means they’re discrete from each other.
– their names suggests they are themselves characteristics.
– you enter the spiritual world when you first make (a mental model of?) a full set of them.If all these things are true I would imagine them to be similar to a combination lock … or an RPG trait character sheet… or maybe even a piston engine… that all are in certain strength in relation to each other. And that this unique set of relations to each other is what makes the unit unique.
Is this in any way a better placeholder for them in my mental model of reality than a magic fire gem?
