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FUNDAMENTAL CONCEPTS

Who Is Really Meant to Be Nullified?

Who Is Really Meant to Be Nullified?

Part of Fundamental Concepts · 3:40

A short chassidus class on atzilus and the lower worlds, and the role of kelim as the vessels that limit divine light.

Audio Transcript
Introduction: The Kitzur on כלי and אור

holding here, let's learn the kitzur and then that'll be the way we'll get into the next piece. The kitzur says like this: ולכן הכלים פועלים בהאורות להיות התהוות מציאות היש. Says the מציאות היש could only come from the אורות, that's what we learned before. כלים cannot be מהווה. אורות מהווה. But the אורות themselves couldn't be מהווה either, because it'd be too strong. So, you have to have the כלים to be מגביל the אור. So, that's what he says. The peshat is that the כלים פועל on the אורות that they should be able to be התהוות מציאות היש. And the והאורות שליטתם מנהגת את הכלים להיות ביטול היש, and the אורות make that the כלים should have the ביטול to the יש. It's all one נקודה that he's been saying from the beginning on, that the אורות and the כלים are in a form of פנימיות. The אורות is מתלבש in the כלים בפנימיות. They become united, and therefore, the only way that could be is if the כלים are batel to the אורות. But at the same time, the כלים because of that have השפעה on the אורות. Through their ביטול. Right, because yeah, because if they wouldn't be batel, they would remain a separate entity, so they have no connection. So, the אורות couldn't be נפעל from the כלים. Who are you, anyway? I mean, you're not... But now that we're saying that כלים are batel, mimeila they become they become real כלים to the אור. So, now the אור and the כלים become like connected. So, now the כלים could have השפעה on the אור. So, I

Personal anecdote: Who is supposed to be batal?

told my wife the word after the last time we learned that, during something we're doing she says, \"But you're not being batal!\" That's good. Who's supposed to be batal? I'm supposed to be batal, right? No, she's the כלי. Yeah, but we learned something about... Okay, supposed to... Yeah, yeah, we learned we give up, that's what the husband is. Yeah, okay. Yeah. So, they could do it. It says, החכמה תעז לחכם, he quoted the pasuk, that החכמה makes it stronger for the חכם. והוא, why can this happen? מפני שהם כלים אליו. Why are they batal, and why can they cause the אורות to be able to do the יש מאין, the the the מציאות היש התהוות? Because they are כלים to That means they're they're fit כלים. שהוא בהם בבחינת התלבשות פנימי והתגלות, because it's מתלבש in a פנימיות and it's נתגלה that way. וזהו, and that is the פשט, על ידי אצילות בבחינת הגילוי דאלוקות גם בבי״ע.

אצילות, בי״ע and the role of כלים as מגביל

Through אצילות, that even בי״ע gets גילוי אלוקות. Why? Because in אצילות the כלים are מגביל or מעלים on the אור, so mimela it's able to come into בי״ע. Had that not happened, the אור of אצילות would be too strong, and בי״ע couldn't get it. Is this also speaking בכללות as בי״ע being a כלי and and אצילות being אור? In this sense, no? No, he's talking אצילות גופא the כלים cause that there should be the גילוי further. Should be גילוי. ראשית הגילוי בבחינת חכמה, that's what he says in the in the סעיף, that where the גילוי starts is חכמה, ששם ראשית גילוי הקו. Mimela there's the beginning of the קו, the ראשית גילוי הקו, so חכמה is the place where it could become נתגלה, but it's all one נקודה, because they are united. Okay. So, the כלים and אורות, this is two two parts of one thing that are constantly interrelating in order to to manifest, to to to to show to show things that can be revealed and things

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