The 10 Sefirot | Introduction to Kabbalah

hey what's up seekers welcome back in today's class we have an epic discussion of the ten surrounding kabbalah and how they come into existence what path they play in the divine process of creation and in our own creative processes and i hope that within the next hour you'll have a bit of a better picture of what the spherot mean the video which i took was from a live class i was outdoors at night and the lighting is not the best but the audio is pretty good i hope you forgive me and i think the content is also pretty good and engaging and i hope that you enjoy it and i hope that you can get past the poor visual quality and learn something from the class and i hope that you have some questions that you come back with that you follow up down in the comments so we can continue this discussion and continue to learn together if you're into kabbalah jewish mysticism universal mysticism comparative mysticism philosophical mysticism you're in the right place check out the rest of our content here at the channel and make sure to subscribe like and share it with a friend much love with no further ado here's the class a heart of the kabbalistic system is the sphere out the tent spheroid now what are this rod i hear people asking silently they are the crux of the kabbalistic system now the spherot are more than one thing the spherot simply said are a map and maps map simultaneously multiple things if they're very good maps a very simple map only covers one terrain but a very good map can teach us about different systems and can map us different realities so the spheroid error is schema a map of reality firstly this throughout according to the cabalist is the basic map of the basic fundamental building blocks of reality the world we inhabit the world we live in is made up of this herod literally according to the capitalists like in modern physics we use a language we use metaphors we use maps we use words like quarks and atoms and electrons and neutrons there there if you go down to that level nowhere on the electron does it say electron made in china we these are maps that we use the map of modern physics the capitals have their own map of reality and the map was the map of this furaj and they use it to explain everything in the ontological in the physical realm and we'll explain how that happens and what that means i just want to give you a overview of where we're going number two the kabbalist said that the surat not only tell us about the physical world they tell us about our internal world because according to the kabbalist the human being is a macroc is a microcosm of the world which is the macrocosm which means anything that happens in the olam gadol in the big world out there the world that we know is reflected and is mirrored in the human psyche in the internal world of the person and therefore this just as they map the external they also map the internal world the psyche the soul of the person that's number two number three is the surat are a map of the divine of god now what this means is to try and to try and give us a sense of what that means because this is a very bizarre statement the capitalists perceived god like all good jewish theologians as something which was infinite all-powerful all-loving almighty all-knowing there were no words which one could use to describe god even words like almighty according to many jewish thinkers was not appropriate to say about god one could only speak about god in the negatives god was not lacking god there was nothing which god did not know even to say that god knew everything was it was to try and put some sort of limitation and and label on god which we cannot do that is god but that god of that of that magnitude of that stature is too transcendent is too abstract it's too infinite it's too beyond to have any relation to the world to us seemingly and in order to schematize not to understand the relationship between god and reality the kabbalists gave us the map of this fault that god manifests god's infinite essence through the channels of the ten spirats which we will say what they are in a second and those spherots are the way that we turn back and see god the example that's used is if one is inside a house and there are different colored windows with stained glass different colors and different lights are shining into the house you have an orange light shining through the window kitchen because the the window's yellow you have a blue light shining through these different lights these different apertures these different frames are like the prisms that are refracting the infinite light of god the infinite light of god is the sun as a metaphor you cannot stare into it you blind yourself you cannot even be outside for too long you'll burn to a crisp so god so to speak filters god's light through these apertures through these prisms and when white light goes through prism it shatters into a rainbow of lights and that's what this are so throughout initially the a map of reality a map of the human psyche in a map of god three things so far we good very good now how do these threats come into being how did this rot come into existence i i took the liberty of doing some arts and crafts today because we have corona and everyone's stuck home i'm going to show you my arts and crafts project to explain just how god created the world very simple in philosophy we call this the the earliest cosmogeny or theogony because we're talking about the creation of the divine sphere as well so what do we see on this white paper we see we see nothing nothing in everything full potential emptiness the tablets tell us that before god this is slide number one don't worry there's more exciting arts and crafts coming in a second god this the the catalyst tell us before god created the world there was nothing but god all that existed was god that is represented by a blank white page there's no there's no delineation there's no limits there's no lines there's no there's no there's nothing just god now i'm going to talk about two levels here simultaneously we're going to keep flipping back and forth there is the what happens in the divine realm in the process of creation in god's world in god's in the life of god so to speak and what happens in the human realm because the catalysts tell us that this whole story is not just a nice story for us to understand god it's a story for us to understand ourselves and us to understand our relationships and us to understand our own creative processes because god in the act of creation is doing something creative and god in the act of making the world is doing something to build a relationship with us with humans with the other that doesn't exist before creation and it's an act of self-expression so we're going to be flipping back and forth between the divine realm of creation relation self-expression manifestation and the human inner world of creation manifestation relation self-expression so having said that what is the stage for the human for the human this stage depends if we're talking on a relational stage there is a relational place where one is a total bachelor there is no one on the page there's no consideration there's no children there's no wife there's no girlfriend there's no boyfriend there's no lover one is a free bird no limits no constraints nothing that's in a relational sense in a creative sense if anyone here has done any creative projects any writing any any any anything creative at all when one first sits down at at a page it's the it's the sheer possibility that actually makes the creative process impossible when you can if you if you're gonna write a poem if you're gonna sing a song and you can say anything you can use you can make anything out of the alphabet what are you going to do you're lost in the space of complete potential complete potential which is crippling sometimes sometimes we need a creative constraint and god so to speak is in this space of complete unbridled potential of complete unbridled unlimitedness okay what happens is god needs to make an act of self self-restraint of self of imposing a self-creative limit now this is very tricky because god by definition is the unlimited but god is so unlimited that god can choose to limit god's self and metaphorically we have the power to limit ourselves as well we have the power to take away the power for us to do anything so that we could do something because if you do anything you can't you if you could do anything you're not going to do anything and what god does according to the catalyst and here we have it represented in this nice pictograph is god makes a symptom a word which some of you may be familiar with famously taught by the 16th century capitalist isaac luria not far from me actually here just four hours north in spot what god does is god contracts god's own presence because while god is fully filling the stage there is no room for other nothing else can exist in the presence of god if anything else even was thought into existence it would be obliterated in the infinite presence of god so what god does is god either contracts into a point or creates a vacuum often described in two different forms where there is now a place which is void of god which is empty god so to speak does not exist the consciousness the awareness of god is void from this place from the simpson and this is what happens when we make an act of creation an act of relation we must create a space for the other if we want to if we want to have love in our lives if we want to make room for a child for a for a teacher for student any kind of relationship that we're building we have to take a step back and not fill the entire space if we don't know how to keep our mouth shut and we don't know how to create a space for silence then we're never going to hear the other person but that's the point of this god is creating a space for conversation and that is what we do in relationships we create a space for conversation we close our mouths we take ourselves out of the center of reality and we make space for someone else and in our creative processes we have to take away what we know and avoid a place where there is now a small area which we're going to act we now know i want to create something using these particular tools using these particular whatever it is and what happens in this creative space am i moving too fast or is this is this good pace because we could we could slow down good okay i have a note fantastic um and we're getting by we're getting to the sphere this is all just preliminary and trust me each one of these stages has immense immense depth and mental men's genius and we can spend definitely a whole class if not many classes on each of these stages which we just skipped over so quickly but we're getting somewhere we're getting this throughout so we have that in mind what happens is how's this beautiful picture what happens is god re-enters god symbolizes it by the white void the light as the cable is called or or in soft the infinite light re-enters this hollow place often referred to by the cables using the symbolism of a womb because one of the relative and creative processes which are basic to any life and in existence is the sexual metaphor and for the catalyst this was a key metaphor so the tablets referred to with the empty space the mokkom khalal as a womb as the empty space and it begins to take on a feminine depiction we see here now a polarity being created masculine and feminine left and right we're going to see how that comes into play more strongly but this is still at a very early amorphous stage where so far there's still nothing but god so there still isn't another there still isn't as the cabal is called still isn't a shrine there still isn't even a feminine aspect of the divine they haven't even had that split yet but going back to this this point here what happens is god re-enters the re-enters the place that was made void that empty place in a relationship once you've made space and you've allowed room for the other for the partner now you can re-enter that space carefully and in a measured way if god re-flooded this space with his full infinite presence his full infinite light it would cease to exist and it would it would make void the void which god created right god creates a void and god wants to hold on and maintain the illusion of the absence of god from that place so what god does is god re-enters that void just with a very small metaphorical beam of light and we can see here if we think about the human aspect there is a metaphor of the masculine which is linear and the female which is circular but we're going to hold it off until we get more into that what happens when this when this happens both on the divine realm and in the inter-human and on the personal realm what happens in the creative process one one brings a bit of thought a bit of inspiration a bit of light back into the emptiness according to the kabbalist what happens is can you guys see this what happens is there is an emanation the light hits the center of the void and the light begins to concentrically expand outwards now according to the cap this is a very interesting idea according to the kabbalists creation happens in a few stages and surprise surprise not all of the stages are successful they don't all work out which seems very odd it's god who's doing this and there's no one to interfere why wouldn't work out but perhaps the reason why there are failures here which we will talk about at this stage is because god wants to teach us a process in our own creative processes that there are failures in in our own creative process in our own self-expression and our own relationships and by analyzing the failures of the creative process we can understand how to do them better next time around but this was a very fascinating idea that captured many capitalists the the failed stage of creation and what is this this is the stage of circles called the kabbalist the igualim igual is circling hebrew in plural circles in hebrew and what happens is we have the very very first manifestation of this throughout what we've all been waiting for in the very very center we have malhot the lowest sphere and we'll explain what each one means and when we get to a later slide followed by yes what happens is at this stage of creation at this iteration of this rot at this take this rod are built as in a way that you may not recognize them if you recognize you know popular sphere on artwork if you've ever been seen the graffiti in spot this rod are built here in circles they built concentrically expanding from the center god so to speak hits the center point and ripples outwards what this means is that this are all in a harmony they all have equal balance and they can all equally see one another and seemingly that's a great idea when we're doing a creative expression all of our potentialities and all of our powers should be expressed with equality and with fair distribution but what happens is this creation does not work and what we get is and here we're going to see some impressionistic artwork we have the we have a big mess because everything just shatters it just falls to pieces it just explodes metaphorically what what happens god is creating existence he makes his first stages throughout the first act of self-expression of relation and it totally totally shatters the catalysts tell us a very very important psychological and spiritual lesson which is that because this rot were all created equally with equal space on the page with equal expansion they were not able to see and communicate with one another they weren't able to be structured in a way where there could be communication and conversation in a way that was orderly in a way that went from top to bottom from bottom to top it was all everyone was just talking to everyone can you imagine if right now all of these mics were off mute and everyone was just talking at once that's what the first realm of this throughout word there was no there was no order there was no there was no there was no one moderating there was no beginning there was no end there was no sequence there was no structure and that does not work and that is a lesson for us in our own spiritual and creative and relational lives that when we try and bring all of our being right away into our projects when we're trying to create something and we just throw all of our energy all of our passion all of our all of our emotion into it or into relationship we overwhelm the process we overwhelm the project we overwhelm the partner the child the love of the spouse the student we overwhelm them because there is it has to be done slowly methodically and structurally so that is the lesson which so to speak god learns and which we learn from god's process and what happens is um that we after the shattering oh can we see this next piece of artwork i had so much fun drawing this today i hope you guys all enjoy them um we have a crystalline structure where from the chaos from these scattered elements to use a scientific term emerges sets a crystallized form and the catalyst tells us that there are infinite points of light in this new crystalline structure now this language that we're using is highly metaphorical and if anyone actually believes for a second that in the divine process there's an actual space with with points of light and crystalline processes the catalyst tells us you have committed an act of heresy because these are metaphors and if we don't want to be heretics we have to try and unpack these metaphors and see what their spiritual and psychological import is and not be caught up on the metaphors but because the kabbalists speak in metaphorical language and that is the motorcycle of the catalyst we're going to use that language but not to get scored of that language going back to the story going back to the metaphor there is a state of crystallization where there still is is no action and what happens tells the cabbage is that god re-enters this place god jose says the zohar god re-enters like in a to talk about the human because we're going to keep switching back and forth in the human relationship if one pulls all of their energy if one pulls all of their being into the relationship and it's overwhelming and the partner the student the child the teacher the friend the neighbor says i can't take it it's too much or the creative process there is no there's no compat there's no capacity to have anything concrete one is to take a step back see where one went wrong see the mistake which one did and take there's a moment of pause in creation where god pauses to see why didn't that work why didn't the circular formation work why didn't me just giving everything as i had at work and god takes a step back and only after taking a step back is gonna return with again a small quantum of light and light again being a metaphor let's not let's not forget that what happens is and here we're going to start to see this throughout as we know them is from these infinite points on this crystalline structure god chooses ten to manifest god's self in because too many is no good two littles no good ten is the right number ten say the couple's ten and not nine ten on eleven ten is the perfect number and we're gonna see that ten is a very strict number and it cannot be less can be more in a second and what we have here briefly i'm actually going to go to the next slide so we can see it a bit clearer and bigger and this may be more recognizable how's that who recognizes this by the way but who recognizes this this little picture good what we have here is we have the tenths fraud as we know them tense for round two in the order as they're known as yosher in now they're in lines they're in order as you can see there's a there's a left line a right line a center line there's order the structure and it's not just chaos it's not just all of the energy put it now that we've come to the throat as we know them we're going to talk about this for uh and what i want to do with you is i'm going to teach you this throughout the way that i was taught them in yeshiva but my kabbalah teacher michael said teacher so this is this is one way of understanding this threat and there will be other teachers teaching other ways so see if you like it and this is a map it's a map to work with it's a map to utilize it's a map to mold and to understand our own experience and our own creative process and our own related process to see what we can get out of it if the map doesn't work for you then find a new way of reading it but here we have this root and we're going to explain briefly what the actual strut are so firstly keter the very top sphere literally translated there's something very bizarre by the way which is that the literal translation to all these throughout are the least helpful translations it's almost not even worth mentioning them but we'll say them anyways because that's the name they were given perhaps they were given these names just to make them more difficult to be understood keter literally means crown crown metaphorically these are all metaphors that have to be teased apart they're like puzzles little games the crown sits on top of the head that's where crowns sit right what is on top of the head in in the human i mean hair a hat a scarf a beanie the cow will say no no on top of the head is the super conscious we know from modern psychology we have the idea of subconscious it's something that's beneath something that's unknown the unconscious but the cow they say that besides for just the consciousness and the subconscious is super conscious and the catalysts say that in the super conscious is generally a space of drive will desire all the aspects which we ourselves are not clear and aware of and we're not aware of our own motives but they are the real things that push us forward in life they are the real things which leak down into our brain and drop down and and say we get an idea all of a sudden we want to do something we're not going to break down the each one of these throughout we can i promise you we could do we could spend uh just an hour explaining qatar qatar is divided into two parts upper and lower category divided into three sections there's not gonna talk about any of that we're just going to give the basic structure because i think the basic structure is the first and most important thing after we have the super conscious after we have this place this unknown place of desire of will of this primordial drive we have my point to the right side we have translated as wisdom is a the drop in inside of wisdom we're going to quickly translate them all and then i'm going to give you a fantastic schema to understand this bina translated as understanding dot now if you could see dart here is actually not fully drawn in it's just in circles does anybody know why dud is not drawn in did i get lazy and not finished drawing down why isn't john why isn't that join in dad is not drawn in because if you count all this rut one two three four five six seven eight nine ten eleven how many sprouted there there is ten and not nine ten not eleven so that is problematic and the reason why dot is is not fully lined in is because the cables teach us whenever we count ketter we do not count that and whenever we count that we do not count counter there's a very simple reason for this it sounds very arcane and verb truth it's very simple because that's the next sphere is real knowledge when knowledge sits in and it becomes something which we have control of which we internalize we make part of us now dots having the a bit of knowledge which is you're fully aware and conscious of is the exact opposite of keter which is the knowledge which you cannot tap into which you cannot touch and therefore you cannot have both simultaneously you can either be in a place of inspiration of detachment of of just sheer unbridled energy and inspiration or you can have doubt you can actually manifest and that's why we don't count the two of them we're going to run through all this right and then i'm going to give you the fantastic schema and then we're going to dive way deeper into each one loving kindness paralleled by vura for strength justice judgment to ferret literally beauty harmony and we're going to explain what is going on don't worry neta literally victory heard literally splendor harbor translation you sowed literally foundation again a bad translation and then malcolm literally kingship now if kingship and splendor and glory didn't help you understand this rat don't worry we're about to understand them and what we're going to do is i'm going to take a red pen and i'm going to show you that by drawing some simple lines on this already very beautiful structure we're going to make a lot more sense of it is this dark enough can we can we see what's on the page here yes fantastic okay what we're gonna do is we're going to draw one two three four left right center okay now now we're gonna we're gonna see something very very cool here that there are three channels of expression three modalities of being which are epitomized by the left right and center and what happens in the left happens for all of the left throat what happens in the right happens for all of the right spread what happens in the center happens for all of the centers throughout and once we understand the texture and the flavor of left right and center we'll begin to understand this whole system this is going to be one this is one way we're going to mock up the page i'm going to show you soon when we get to the second stage that we're going to draw horizontal lines and i'm going to explain you the next level here we're going to take this one level at a time so level one we have the basic overview level two is the channels the columns the kavim as they're called by the catalyst now what happens in the left right and center is like this the right is always according to the capitalist is always giving is always sharing is always saying yes love is expression expansion left is the opposite is contraction is minimizing is holding back is saying no is making boundaries and rules and regulations that is the nature of left the nature of center is to find a balance to find a harmony between the two okay now it's it's actually quite fascinating that the strata split into left right and center because in the world as we know it in biology and in chemistry we have as well a similar process of left right and center those who are familiar with the the left right and center of the of the helix of the dna the very structure of reality is structured into these alternating left right and center in the brain we have right brain left brain and we have the center we have the corpus callosum which holds the two together and connects them and when i say very interestingly the kabbalist system in a way reflects these neurological chemical basic structures and when i said that the surat are the basic building blocks of reality you'll now understand why this map may be more accurate and more true than anyone would have believed a map coming from who knows how many hundreds and thousands of years ago okay so what is left right and center all about on the right side we begin with we translate before as wisdom but is better translated as insight is a burst of inspiration when we have a the initial inspiration in qatar which we're not really going to talk about because it's right now because it's it's a whole nother conversation for itself but when we have that bit of inspiration a bit of light a bit of energy that bit of passion coming from qatar down into we have just a burst of wisdom if one for example a metaphor that's used is that one is standing over a forest and the first is pitch black they can't see anything and that is the state of their brain state of their creative process state of their relationship whatever it is and then all of a sudden there is a lightning bolt is a metaphor that's used and the lightning bolt for a brief second lights up the whole terrain and the whole forest is for a split second as visible as day in our own creative processes in our own relationships and our own modalities of self-expression we we see sometimes darkness we see a farce we don't know how we're going to go about building this relationship how we're going to go about building a process how we're going to go about sharing idea and then all of a sudden there's a burst of light this burst of inspiration and everything is clear we see exactly how it's going to get done we see it all but it's transitory it's a it's a burst and then it's gone and what has to happen is for the creative process to make it down to malhot which is the final expression the final manifestation the final articulation every single one of these steps has to be done in order and correctly and that is the process which we are doing now spiritually from pesach until from egypt until signing and we're gonna and we're going to explain how this process happens watch this very carefully and if any of these processes if any of these steps get messed up we have a shattering like we spoke about we have a burst of inspiration but because it's on the right side remember the right is giving the right is sharing the right is expansive the right is unbridled the right is not contained we have to do something and take that take that vision of that point of inspiration and move it across to bina move it across to the left what happens in bina is bina is a place of detail a place of logic a place of analysis being a by the way the left side is feminine and the right side is masculine and it may it may seem counterintuitive to some people but but we're going to see perhaps why this is this is more true than we would assume the left side is logical is analytical takes the inspiration of takes the burst and begins to give it detail begins to say how is this going to work how am i going to take inspiration how am i going to take the burst of insight and make it real and bina says binna has to hold back binna cannot just be the same passion as khachama bino cannot say i'm gonna throw in the whole lightning or else you burn down the fire as bina says no we need to find where it ends and where it begins that's why bina is according to the capital letter hey the letter hey has a top a left the bottom it has a shape it's like a square it's bin is quite square it wants to know where things end and when things want things to be defined it's just a point just a flash what happens when khacham and bina interact well together when there is both a shared reciprocity between the inspiration and the delimitation and the definement what happens we have dot in the middle the middle beam the middle center pole is whenever the right and left work in harmony they're able to channel that energy channel that expression down to the center to work its way down to the bottom dot according to the catalyst is situated where we have right brain left brain we have dot is is situated in the throat according to the catalyst why is it in the throat because that is where we take things from the brain from the conceptual and we begin to move it down into the emotions and what i'm going to do here is i'm going to draw our next set of lines horizontal lines and we're going to understand what this is all about can we see boom boom boom uh and there we go now we have our map building up quite nicely so where does kasir khachmabina take place where does it all take place it all takes place cognitively it's all cerebral it's all in the brain it's all up here in thought dart is beginning to move down into the body into the torso of the sphere this rod besides mirroring god the world the psyche they also mirror the human body the top being the head the torso and the legs of the body this is a very very old callus teaching we'll see why this is the case what what happens in the torso what happens is our emotion our heart is in the torso and that's what happens once something is fully balanced between bina between a flash of inspiration and a detailed analysis we can then internalize that material and turn it into knowledge knowledge is when you've internalized the information and you've now been able to move it down into the emotion and you're able to now to make an information a part of you which as we said is why dot and ketter cannot be simultaneous because once we have that being moved down into the person that information is now real it's no longer conceptual it's no longer abstract like bina it's no longer just a flash of inspiration which can come and go like it's now real it's now internalized it's now deepened and what happens is we cross this threshold to the next stage which is the emotive stage according to the calves as well without throwing too much into this the there are four realms of being attila's breath sia and these are reflected by these four by these four columns which we've the sideways comes so what happens is we move from the intellectual into the emotional into the emotionally internal and the first step is on the right again we begin with the right we always begin with the right we begin with casa loving is expansion is giving is just total saying yes to anything that comes it is abraham is called khasid why because abraham stood at the tent of his gate at the at the gate of his tent sorry and just gave and gave and gave and gave it didn't matter if he was sick if he was old if he was tired if he just circumcised himself abraham was giving that was his very essence the capitalists say beautifully enough that while abraham was alive the sphere which we see represented here was on vacation it was on paid leave it was able to go to the bahamas because abraham was taking care of custody for the whole world cassette is give yes shower its expansion remember the right the right channel is all about giving is that openness letting things flow that is the right side if that's what has it is it's partner guru what's grog versus not guru says guru says no versus you cannot just give and give and give what happens if you give and give and give in a relationship there's nothing left there's no respect there's no boundaries what happens if your child says hey dad hey mom i want candy crus it says yes it says it always says yes he says give give candy give candy candy verse says the child is going to have no teeth left if all there is verse says no is restraint there is restriction guru is boundaries rules vira is the parent who grabs the hand of the child and yanks them away from the street and says you cannot go in the street whether cause guru isn't mean very isn't vindictive burra is boundaries and boundaries are very important boundaries in self-expression if we just all want to fully self-express and show the world who we are run down the street naked then we're gonna very quickly get locked away but that's what wants to be a nudist versus no no put a shirt on get dressed their boundaries their rules the society guru says you cannot just share everything right away verse says give it bit by bit or else if we go back to just being right channeled we're going to have the same shrub the same shattering that we had in the first iteration of reality right and left we're beginning to understand the modalities the texture the flavor in right and left to understand what they mean good now what happens so just like mabino on the intellectual level is emotional giving emotional insulin sorry intellectual inspiration intellectual analysis emotional precedent is an internal feeling of giving of love of of just endless giving versus hold back what happens when the two of them have a good balance they meet in the middle they meet in to ferris tiffer's beauty harmony compassion to ferris is when you found the balance between between saying yes and they say when you found a balance between free fun endless party and knowing when to call quits to ferris i heard a great story actually by my teacher who taught me this fraud he told me what deference means i want to share the story with you during the the great depression there was a woman in new york who was a single mother of many small children and there was no food around she had no income and she went to the she went past the local bakery and she when no one was looking she grabbed a loaf of bread to take home to her starving children rightfully so but as she was leaving the baker caught her by the hand and said excuse me uh you're stealing you're gonna have to come with me to court and he drags her to the local local sheriff's local police station and they sit down they very quickly sat down in front of a magistrate in front of the judge and the judge here's the case there's this woman with starving children at home she can't feed them everyone is starving and uh and how how can you punish her and then the the the baker says excuse me i have i have a business to run i have children at home as well if everyone just comes and say free fall if everyone just steals my bread i'll i'll go starving then there needs to be a way that i can make money how you can't just allow this to be a jungle says what do you mean love kindness giving share of course you can't punish that woman versus no the even at a time of chaos can you imagine right now we're living in a we're living right now in an epidemic if if if there was no rules if there was no regulations i don't know what's happening south africa but thank god in israel there's no looting there's no pillaging there's no rioting but then that's because of drug versus even at tough times there has to be rules and if you're breaking the rules you're going to get arrested you're going to you're going to you're going to be put in jail cassette says that's crazy that's madness you should you should open you should unlock you should just let open your cash register let poor people take vira cannot see to ferris is what the judge did the judge and this is just fantastic and this is this to ferris is not negating either chrysler it's not not listening to them it's finding a place where they can both have their voices equally heard and equally shed in harmony and to first the middle the middle path is very difficult mastering the middle path is really mastering the the map of cobalance really mastering this whole system the judge hears both cases and he he neither penalizes the woman and he nor does he let the baker go unpaid what he does is everyone who was sitting in the courtroom who was watching the proceedings it was open to the public he fined everyone in the room a small fine five pence for what was the find for why are they fine they were fined for living in a city where a single widow woman would need to come to steel bread to feed our children how can you how can you live in such a city how can you let that happen you should have you should have known about this you should have done something together there should have been a a a space for it for for her to have food without having to steal everyone in the courtroom was fined and rightfully so they all paid a very small fine and the collection of all of those little five senses five pence paid up the full price of the loaf the woman didn't have to pay the baker got paid that is to ferret that is true justice that is compassion that is the middle part that's the balance and fighting to ferris sometimes takes a stroke of genius for the judge to find a way that both of them could be found right that both khasir and guru could be treated correctly it was a moment of genius and that's what te faris calls for once te ferrous is fulfilled we can then move down to the next level the next level here as we can see is the expressive it is the behavioral whereas the first level was cognitive the second level was emotional the second the third level is now expressive and it's where we're going to begin to see these emotions that have been working inside of us the whole conflict between the reconciliation of all happens inside our chest inside our torso that's where the cable is situated according to patagonia as you mentioned however now we have the legs the legs are where we begin to walk forward and we begin to express how we've been feeling inside and in many ways these three of nets are a reflection of casa vertifares as these reflected the early stages of that just on the next level now what is this next stage does everyone is everyone clear with casa guerta versus are you ready for netsukhojisor fantastic netsach literally is victory but netsuk is not victory nets the translations are horrendous nets is drive ambition the desire to win the competitive spirit the desire to conquer and it's from the right side the right remember is going out is conquering is aggressive it's out there is doesn't sorry neta does not take no for an answer netsuck is out there and is pushing forth breaking down boundaries natsuk is domination net is and in our own expression netapp is when we are able to stand up to what we are passionate about what we're interested in we have a vision you come to a project you come to a creative project and you have all other people that you're working with and your netac is i am going to get this done the way that i see it because i know that my vision is right as it's been channeled effectively from kesar khan but all the way through that is in the creative sense in the relational sense in every relationship that needs to be a place and these can alternate these are and these can be simultaneously both ways but there needs to be someone who is in charge and someone who is receiving orders that needs to be a balance there needs to be a parent and a child if if they're only if if parents act like children short-term parents one another you're not gonna have healthy families even in a teacher-student relationship the teacher takes position of netac the teacher is sharing what they have to give and the recipient is hode and we're going to understand these now in relation to one another hode literally splendor but hode means submission it means being content it means a passivity whereas net is driving forward hold being on the left side is about holding in and holding back hold tells us the cables when we map this rod according to the millennia is giving millennia netac is during the time of david and solomon where the jews were conquering and they were they were taking up lands and they were they were beating their enemies hoda is when the temple was destroyed where the jews were out powered by the romans they had to take they had to go down on one knee that's the left leg that's the knee that we pardon me is that we kneel down on when we realize we're in over our heads it's too much for us when we submit and the reason why this is so important is because in the relationship there needs to be a submission a child needs to know that that the parent knows more than them a spouse needs to have a dynamic and a balance and these can flip back and forth at one point one can be but if one is always it's my way of the highway if one is always driving their vision through then they'll never get anything done if one is making a creative process and one won't allow any others voices to be heard if they don't have a capacity to step back just to to kneel down and hear someone else then that's not gonna work if a student is if the student knows everything and they're netsock and they're unbridled right-sided passion and vibration they're never going to have the capacity to sit down and listen and learn something netac is always coupled with hold and hold is not a negative thing how being having a place to be humble to be to be to be to listen to be passive is just as important as being active and being aggressive and being ambitious and being passionate and i think what happens is you see people that manifest these personalities more or less there are some people who are more netsk personalities who need to be doing something you need to be achieving who need to be you know making news need to be getting out there they're the fire and ho to someone who is content who knows how to be happy with what they have now both of these taken without one another can lead to very bad places and the point is there needs to be a balance simply simply net you're going to burn out and have a god forbid you're going to end up in the gutter because you've been riding at a thousand miles an hour and never knew when to stop you you you're just gonna simply it's just it's unfeasible it's unattainable you're gonna you're gonna burn out your partner you're gonna burn out your your collaborators you're gonna burn out your yourself if one only has hoard one is always happy submissive passive no it's fine let things be the way they are you're going to be sitting down on your couch the place is going to be overgrown the bills won't be paid nothing will happen because you're you're hard you're you're in a place of humility of submission of stepping down hoda and netac need to find a relationship and find the balance and when they come together they come to the middle path and what happens in the middle path between nets and hud we have you sod literally is the foundation because this is the foundation of relationship it's the foundation of an of the self-expression foundation of any creative act you saw it is better translated as bonding or intimacy connection union you sowed is where once we have found the perfect balance between nets and hood between knowing when to take charge and knowing when to let someone else take charge in our interpersonal dynamics and in our inner personal damage amongst us inside ourselves then we can have a connection and we can both connect with ourselves we can connect with the other person because we know when we can step up and we can step down we know and we feel comfortable being humble we feel comfortable taking control then you have a capacity for yourself for connection for intimacy for union and without that there is no relationship without the capacity to have a balance there is no connection you sowed on the middle path is that point of connection as we said the catalyst mapped this throughout also onto the human body and the nets being the right leg hoe being the left leg the yasoda is the reproductive organs because that physically and biologically is where connection happens and connection takes place and in this metaphor taking it further what happens after you sewed after your sword comes and malhot is in a very precarious position because it's actually not mirrored by any other threat as we've had earlier it is just sort of hanging there on its own and mahot is a very bizarre sphere um and it's kind of bizarre like qatar and there's good reason for that and i'll explain to you in a second so the way we're going to understand malhot is firstly by identifying its position is in the center in the center beam which we now now that we have a taste for what the center column means we know mach is a place of compromise a place of hearing both sides a place of balance a place of shared of of openness to to to the two extremes of right and left but markham is also underneath the final red line which means it's now asean it's now an act of creation of expression is given different metaphors by the catalyst and we're gonna rotate through those metaphors to try to explain what this final sphere is and then we're going to reflect back on the full picture and explain this process the flow process spiritually and internally malcot is called the queen marco is called the moon market is called the kingdom is called speech market is called action and these are just one of the many metaphors the capitalist they have this way of throwing metaphors an idea and they hope that the person can see what connects all these metaphors what connects all these ideas the idea that connects them all is they are essentially on their own they're empty there's nothing in them the moon on its own has no light the moon reflects the sun's light the king on its own the king without a nation is is is a guy in a costume is a joke is empty without the the the king the the the metaphor of the of the queen or the female the feminine the womb without a male partner to inseminate to bring life into it is also empty is is is not functioning malhot is a place of emptiness it's a place of emptiness but because it's a place of emptiness emptiness by the catalyst is not a pejorative it's not a negative it's a beautiful thing because emptiness means there's now potential there's now capability there's nowhere for kundalini there's not a space for life and what happens that's precisely what happens sits at the bottom because receives all of the energy and all the passion and all the drive and all the inspiration and all of the relation flows down to malcolm is where that can manifest maher is the child which is born max is the word which is spoken after all of the process goes through the mind and goes through the emotions we can then say i love you we can then say this needs to be done this way we can then is then the speech because it is the final product marks also the action sometimes when we express ourselves it's not with words but it's with action marker is the final finished product if one has a full creative process and it comes out in a poem in a painting in a song in a lecture in a dance that act of creationism is the realm of reality that we live in because this world is the final point is the final manifestation of all of god's creative process and creative potencies we live in malcolm and the reason why malcolm and ketar are so similar and this is like this is going to like open the lid on the matrix here the reason why malhot and ketchup are so similar is because this pattern repeats itself and what happens is that let me see if we can do this with the paper becomes keter of the next iteration because this process this cycle doesn't happen once it repeats itself it repeats itself primarily four times which the tablets describe reflecting the full worlds but in an infinite amount of times amount of iterations and each sphere is reflected one within the other so what happens is in the next stage of reality malhot becomes qatar which is why the kabbalah is called sometimes keter malhot and funnily enough keter is the crown market is kingship it's the king's crown and what happens is the recipient becomes the giver the recipient the action the final deed the final manifestation becomes the new ketter to inspire the next thing so if one has a finished project to finish artwork and finish relationship where it's manifest beautifully they themselves can see that or someone else can see that and that becomes their inspiration to give birth to their reprocessing to it's a new ketter which is born from the malhot which then flows back into khaki so if i can make a request i it's teaching teaching to a camera it's something which i'm becoming used to now because i'm teaching online but it's it's uh there's something which is really lacking which is interaction so if i can beg whoever is interested to to think about what what we went through and to write down any questions any points which they want clarified any things which which was not clear anything needs to be repeated anything which they felt that i that i said that was wrong they're welcome to challenge and give alternative explanations uh but questions are so important in teaching um so i would really it would be really very very precious to me if people would uh and and i would i would even dedicate the next session just to clarifying and just to because i mean i there are things which i'm interested and passionate about and i can talk about for a long time but i want to know what what you guys want to hear i want to know what you guys found interesting here and what we what we can pick apart more uh and there's a tremendous amount to pick apart um and just thank you to everyone that came and listened and that and that gave the time to to learn and to to explore so thank you for your interest and for your curiosity and for your passion and may we continue to be passionate and we may we keep seeking after after god and after the unity that's that's ultimately the the hope for this time pleasure thank you you

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Length: 52min 43sec (3163 seconds)

Published: Thu Mar 04 2021