Ten Sefirot Class 5
עברית

People who have desire connect to the endless, but people who have no desire complain that there is not enough. If there is something that you are not happy about in your life, check how much you really want it. Nothing can happen until you have a desire. You don’t need to activate the light or G-d because those things are constantly activated, but you need the desire to receive it. Once you have a lack then you can have a true desire. The only reason you have a really tough experience it’s so you will have a new desire, but if you stay with new desire then you will never leave the tough place. The bottom is very comfortable because you barely have a desire and you get more you feel accomplished. A beggar is most likely more comfortable than you because they barely put an effort and expect from life $1 and in the end, they get $60, so it’s good for them. You expect $600 and you get $300, so for you, it’s not so good. Miracles can only happen in a place where you feel like you have nothing, because if your happy feeling fulfilled then you don’t desire anything else. A vacuum is when there is a lack that helps you create something, but this doesn’t exist in the endless. What do you do when your lack is fulfilled? You desire more by appreciating what filled that void by feeling like you will lose it in the next second. You drive to your job and be amazed that you still have your job. If you have a void and have a desire then all your fulfillment will come from the creator, but if you don't have any issues and you don’t have a desire for anything then all your fulfillment comes from yourself because you don’t really want anything. People when they talk or pray to G-d never ask for more issues so that they will have a bigger desire, people only ask for what they don’t have, and G-d says I already gave you this but you don’t have a desire or a lack to receive it. Void only exists in this world as a gift and doesn’t exist in the endless, that’s why on Shabbat, which is supposed to be one day where it feels like the upper world, is when you should not feel a void. Rav Ashlag goes on, If we have no idea or concept what the endless is, how do we give it a name? Once you give it a name that means you reached to that level, so you should call it unreachable, but the word endless helps us understand that there are different levels above and below, the contraction that took place after the endless that is when the light stopped, so what does the contraction do? It puts an end to that light, without making the light be less. The contraction creates a void. Without the contraction, there would be no void and without the void, there would be no desire, so truly the contraction was a gift. Everything besides the endless has an end, this is how our universe works, we all rely on the end. An auto body shop waits for a car to stop working, a doctor waits for you to get sick, a plumber waits for the sink to stop working. On your birthday do you celebrate that it’s the 30th time you’re being born or do you celebrate how far you are from the beginning and how close you are to the end? Our brain only revolves around the fact that everything has an end. What time will this meeting end? How long is this movie going to take? What time am I leaving school or work today? In the endless, there isn't any consciousness like this. Because of the contraction, the limiting of light, it gives places for us to recognize different kinds of vessels. How do you cancel the end? By fulfilling everything. How? With love, but not the kind of love that we experience, because that love involves an end. Love is to feel one with another human being, that there is no difference between you and the other, so if you hurt them it’s like you hurt yourself. You can only really reach spirituality when you truly love the creator, but in order to truly love the creator there are 3 stages: first fear, then respect and finally love. Everyone asks why fear? Because it’s almost like when you go on a first date, you’re scared, you feel insecure. On the second date, you don’t love the other person yet, but you feel some respect for the other person, and eventually, you love the other person. Those 3 stages establish your love for the creator, but without them, it’s just a fun thing to do.

When the contraction it allowed for ends to appear, before that there was no end. Continuing with Rav Ashlag, Tzimtzum does not exist in the endless, so there is no end in the endless, no you know why we call it “END-less” because this is the only thing we actually know about the endless since we have not reached this level. We have to live in the void so we can form a greater desire but we also have to understand that there is no end, so this contradicts itself. In order to invent new things, you need to think towards a no end concept. When Albert Einstein started to think about things faster than the speed of light, like our thought process, he was thinking outside the end. A fan spinning really fast doesn't allow you to see the individual blades, you see something that looks like a plate without any space between the blades. So without any end or space, everything is everywhere. There are 2 worlds, this physical world, and the true endless world. Don't feel like you are totally part of either one. When a person dies they separate 2 entities, their body goes into the soil, the physicality, and his soul goes to the endless, but if he has not practiced understanding these concepts his soul will be very confused. So when you train with your mind to think endlessly you are already there. This ending universe is just training for the endless. The only crime a human can do is wasting time.

(א) מבאר ענין הצמצום הא' שנצטמצם אור אין סוף ב"ה בכדי להאציל הנאצלים ולברוא הנבראים. ובו ה' ענינים:

לפני הצמצום היה אין סוף ממלא כל המציאות
דע כי טרם שנאצלו הנאצלים ונבראו הנבראים, היה אור עליון פשוט ממלא כל המציאות. ולא היה שום מקום פנוי בבחינת אויר ריקני וחלל, אלא היה הכל ממולא מן אור א"ס פשוט ההוא, ולא היה לו לא בחינת ראש ולא בחינת סוף, אלא הכל היה אור א' פשוט שוה בהשואה א', והוא הנקרא אור א"ס.

(יא) ויש להקשות, כיון שאין לנו שום השגה בא"ס, א"כ איך נדעהו בשם, שהרי כל שם מורה על השגה, אשר אנו משיגים בו על פי הוראתו ומשמעותו של אותו השם, כנודע. ואין לתרץ כי השם א"ס מורה רק על שלילת השגה, דא"כ היה לנו לכנותו בשם "בלתי מושג", והענין הוא, כי השם הזה מורה לנו את כל ההבחן שיש בין א"ס אל כל העולמות שמתחתיו, והוא כי בחינת הצמצום שנעשה אחר הא"ס, הנה בכל מקום שהכח הזה מתעורר הוא מצמצם שם את האור, שעל ידי זה מסתיימת ההארה ההיא ומגעת לסופה. ולפיכך כל סוף וסיום, שישנו בכל הארה, ובכל פרצוף, אינו נמשך רק מכח הצמצום. ולא עוד אלא, שמסיבת הסוף וסיום ההוא יוצאים ומתחדשים כל ההויות ומילואיהן וכל מיני השינויים, שאך נמצאים בעולמות. ומתוך שענין הצמצום הזה אינו שם בא"ס, ע"כ, אין ענין סוף וסיום נוהג שם, וע"כ נקרא בשם "אין סוף", להורות, שאין שם בחינת סוף וסיום כל עיקר, ומובן עם זה, שהאור הזה, הוא פשוט ושוה בהשואה א', כי זה תלוי בזה, כמ"ש.