Ayin Beis: Existence Unplugged

Sefirah: Narrative CONTAINERS REVEAL ENERGIES Ayin Beis Volume 1, Discourse 24, V'hu Omed 5673, Chapter 92 p. 176-178 Short Summary:  Long Summary:

Sefirah: Narrative THE STORY Containers Revealing Energies Ayin Beis Volume 1, Discourse 24, V'hu Omed 5673, Chapter 91 p. 175-176 Short Summary:  Long Summary: [Following the first interpretation of sefirah from the word mispar, number, now begins a 13-chapter discussion of the second interpretation in sefirah, from the word sippur, narrative, which will conclude with chapter 103].

Sefirah: Number TRANSFORMING QUANTITY INTO QUALITY  Ayin Beis Volume 1, Discourse 23, Tzohar Taaseh 5673, Chapter 90 p. 172-174

Sefirah: Number RAW NUMBERS: Is Counting Positive? Ayin Beis Volume 1, Discourse 23, Tzohar Taaseh 5673, Chapter 89 p. 171-172 Short Summary:  Long Summary: The Shaloh asks: Doesn't counting signify the opposite of value, as the Talmud says (Baba Metziah 42a) that there is no blessing to be found in something that is counted and measured? And he answers, that there are two types of numbers/co...

Sefirah: Number THE VALUE OF SOULS Are Souls Rooted in Energies or Containers? Ayin Beis Volume 1, Discourse 23, Tzohar Taaseh 5673, Chapter 88 (1) p. 169-170 Short Summary:  Long Summary: Souls too are individually perpetually eternal, compared to the celestial bodies. Even more so -- because the celestial bodies are part of physical existence, and their eternal power is due to the divine th...

Sefirah: Number ETERNAL SOUL Ayin Beis Volume 1, Discourse 23, Tzohar Taaseh 5673, Chapter 88 (1) p. 169-170 Short Summary:  Long Summary: Souls too are individually perpetually eternal, compared to the celestial bodies. Even more so -- because the celestial bodies are part of physical existence, and their eternal power is due to the divine that is outside of them and not internalized. By con...

Sefirah: Number NUMBER = VALUE Ayin Beis Volume 1, Discourse 23, Tzohar Taaseh 5673, Chapter 87 p. 166-169 Short Summary:  Long Summary: The difference between number of energies and number of containers explains the difference between "es she'darko limnos" (items which are always sold by count), and "kol she'darko limnos" (items which are generally sold by count but sometimes are sold by wei...

Sefirah: Number NUMBER: CONTAINER OR ENERGY? Where Quantity Meets Quality and Number Meets Beyond Number Ayin Beis Volume 1, Discourse 22, B'Yom Ha'Shemini Atzeret 5673, Chapter 86 (1) p. 164-166 Short Summary:  Long Summary: In avodah this is the difference between the mesirat nefesh of the divine soul (the elevation of the energies), bittul b'metziyus, in which the quality of energy is abun...

Sefirah: Number NUMBER: QUANTITY OR QUALITY? Container or Energy? Ayin Beis Volume 1, Discourse 22, B'Yom Ha'Shemini Atzeret 5673, Chapter 86 (1) p. 163-164 Short Summary:  Long Summary: As it is known, that sometimes the highest numbers are above and the lowest ones below (ten thousands in keser and units in malchus), and sometimes it says the opposite that the lowest numbers are above and t...

Sefirah: Number Zecher Rav Tuvcho (2) ANATOMY OF A NUMBER Ayin Beis Volume 1, Discourse 22, B'Yom Ha'Shemini Atzeret 5673, Chapter 84 (2) p. 160-161 Short Summary:  Long Summary: We will understand "zecher" -- a reflection of all the levels (rav tuvcho) -- with the example of a person counting an enormous number, say the number 10,000 (10 times revovah): As he counts one by one, first reachin...

Sefirah: Number Zecher Rav Tuvcho (1) ABOUNDING GOODNESS: The Process of Transmission Ayin Beis Volume 1, Discourse 22, B'Yom Ha'Shemini Atzeret 5673, Chapter 84 (2) p. 160-161 Short Summary:  Long Summary: We will understand this based on the explanation in the Siddur on zecher rav tuvcho. Tov (goodness) is the level of yesod, which is the channel that transmits from source to recipient. Rav...

Sefirah: Number MALCHUT: REVEALING THE NUMBER Ayin Beis Volume 1, Discourse 22, B'Yom Ha'Shemini Atzeret 5673, Chapter 84 (1) p. 160 Short Summary:  Long Summary: The Pardes in Shaar Ha'Kinuiim (entry on mispar hayamim) writes that "number of days" refers to malchut, which reveals the number of the supernal days -- the six emotions, which on their own have a number, but it is concealed and un...

Sefirah: Number WHAT'S IN A NUMBER? Ayin Beis Volume 1, Discourse 22, B'Yom Ha'Shemini Atzeret 5673, Chapter 83 (3) p. 159-160 Short Summary:  Long Summary: But we still need to understand how can we say that that there are sefirot in iggulim, when sefirot are a defined structure (with qualitative differences between one level and another)?  We will understand this by first prefacing wha...

Sefirah: Number WHAT'S IN A NUMBER? Ayin Beis Volume 1, Discourse 22, B'Yom Ha'Shemini Atzeret 5673, Chapter 83 (2) p. 159-160 Short Summary:  Long Summary: But we still need to understand how can we say that that there are sefirot in iggulim, when sefirot are a defined structure (with qualitative differences between one level and another)?  We will understand this by first prefacing wha...

The Paradox of Transcendence SEFIROT IN IGGULIM (TRANSCENDENCE)? Ayin Beis Volume 1, Discourse 22, B'Yom Ha'Shemini Atzeret 5673, Chapter 83 (1) p. 158-159 Short Summary:  Long Summary: But we still need to understand how there are sefirot in iggulim that have no structure, when sefirot are a defined structure (with qualitative differences between one level and another)?  We will underst...

The Paradox of Transcendence TEMIMUS: UNWAVERING SINCERITY Ayin Beis Volume 1, Discourse 21, B'Sukkot Teishvu 5673, Chapter 82 p. 155-158 Short Summary:  Long Summary: We can understand the qualitative equality of all levels of transcedence (regardless of their quantitative measure) from temimus -- integrity, sincerity, wholesomeness, which is rooted in the pure supra-rational desire of the s...

The Paradox of Transcendence WHAT DEFINES STRUCTURE: QUANTITY OR QUALITY? Ayin Beis Volume 1, Discourse 21, B'Sukkot Teishvu 5673, Chapter 81 (2) p. 152-155 Short Summary:  Long Summary: This is the meaning of the Etz Chaim that the energy in Atzilus radiates in different measures (in keser and chochma from up close, in z"a like through a window, in malchus through a hole), reflecting the qua...

The Paradox of Transcendence WHAT DEFINES STRUCTURE: QUANTITY OR QUALITY? Ayin Beis Volume 1, Discourse 21, B'Sukkot Teishvu 5673, Chapter 81 (1) p. 152-155 Short Summary:  Long Summary: This is the meaning of the Etz Chaim that the energy in Atzilus radiates in different measures (in keser and chochma from up close, in z"a like through a window, in malchus through a hole), reflecting the qua...

The Paradox of Transcendence ARE THERE LEVELS IN TRANSCENDENCE? Ayin Beis Volume 1, Discourse 21, B'Sukkot Teishvu 5673, Chapter 80 (1) p. 150-152 Short Summary:  Long Summary: Question: Aren't there ten sefirot also on the level of iggulim, as well as a hierarchy of higher and lower makifim, and even each makif has a higher and lower level (as we see in regard to repairing spiritual infectio...

The Paradox of Transcendence TRANSCENDENT UNANIMITY: ALL CROWNS EVOLVE FROM ONE ANOTHER Ayin Beis Volume 1, Discourse 20, Shuva Yisroel 5673, Chapter 79 p. 148-150 Short Summary:  Long Summary: With all that was discussed (in chapters 59-78) about the relationship of transcendence and its impact on immanence, nevertheless transcendent energy -- the desire in each world -- is beyond the struct...

Yotzer Prayer: 7 Steps Within Malchus (4) 3 Types of Teshuvah  Ayin Beis Volume 1, Discourse 20, Shuva Yisroel 5673, Chapter 78 p. 146-148 Short Summary:  Long Summary: Just as these three, nefesh ruach neshomo, reflect dufferent type of service, they are also sitinguished in their type of teshuvah: 1) The teshivah of nefesh is on action related transgressions, and on the general inclina...

Yotzer Prayer: 7 Steps Within Malchus (4) 3 Types of Souls  Ayin Beis Volume 1, Discourse 20, Shuva Yisroel 5673, Chapter 77 (2) p. 145-146 Short Summary:  Long Summary: Tzur misgoveinu, mogen yisheinu, misgav b'adeinu correspond to the makifim of nefesh, ruach neshomo, in which different souls are rooted: nefesh is the root of the souls whose primary service is in action. Ruach are the...

Yotzer Prayer: 7 Steps Within Malchus (4) Adon Uzeinu (3): Mother Adorns Daughter: Malchus Matures  Ayin Beis Volume 1, Discourse 20, Shuva Yisroel 5673, Chapter 77 (1) p. 143-145 Short Summary:  Long Summary: At times binah emanates energy into malchus endowing her with masculine (adon) status, as the Zohar (I 2a) says: Mother lends daughter her garments and adorns her with her ornament...

Yotzer Prayer: 7 Steps Within Malchus (3) Adon Uzeinu (2): The Mother: Provider Ayin Beis Volume 1, Discourse 20, Shuva Yisroel 5673, Chapter 76 p. 142-143 Short Summary:  Long Summary: In contrast to the level of "daughter" (the state of the exiled soul, which does not have its own power to ascend, and is dependent on Torah for its elevation) the level of "mother" (binah) is an elevated spir...

Yotzer Prayer: 7 Steps Within Malchus (3) Adon Uzeinu (1): The Daughter: Vulnerability Ayin Beis Volume 1, Discourse 19, Ani L'Dodi 5673, Chapter 75 p. 140-142 Short Summary:  Long Summary: Adon (uzeinu): mature malchus. malchus achieving masculine status, as it connects with binah. malchus on its own is the level of "daughter," the recipient who need to protection. In avodah: weak and vulner...