Ayin Beis: Existence Unplugged

Measures of Energy Ayin Beis Volume 1, Discourse 10, Chapter 37, p. 62-64 Short Summary: The vertical structure of the spheres is defined by the measure of emanating energy/light. Long Summary: The "vertical" hierarchy of the sefirot is defined by the measure of revealed energy: The more the energy, the higher the level; the less the energy, the lower the level. And the amount of energy is determi...

Who Shapes the Hierarchy? Ayin Beis Volume 1, Discourse 9, Chapter 36, p. 60-62 Short Summary: The hierarchical structure of the cosmic order is shaped primarily through the energy -- the kav. Long Summary: In truth, the hierarchical structure of the cosmic order, the worlds and the spheres, is shaped not just by the containers, but primarily through the energy -- the kav. And even the shape of th...

Structure of the Worlds Ayin Beis Volume 1, Discourse 9, Chapter 35, p. 59-60 Short Summary: The structure of the cosmic order -- like the body -- is defined by three levels, which are distinguished by the proportion between energy and container. Long Summary: Just like the ten spheres the "worlds" (dimensions) of the cosmic order (seder histalshilus) consist of a graded structure, a hierarchy of...

Spatial Structure of the Spheres (2) Ayin Beis Volume 1, Discourse 9, Chapter 34, p. 57-59 Short Summary: The manifestation and internalization of the energies within the containers are also the cause of the parameters -- higher and lower -- which define the ten spheres.

Spatial Structure of the Spheres Ayin Beis Volume 1, Discourse 9, Chapter 33 (2), p. 56-57 Short Summary: The manifestation and internalization of the energies within the containers are also the cause of the parameters -- higher and lower -- which define the ten spheres. Long Summary: In divine service, when one is contemplating G-dliness, his focus on the concept does not allow for the emergence...

Spatial Structure of the Spheres Ayin Beis Volume 1, Discourse 9, Chapter 33 (1), p. 54-56 Short Summary: The manifestation and internalization of the energies within the containers are also the cause of the parameters -- higher and lower -- which define the ten spheres. Long Summary: The manifestation and internalization of the energies within the containers (which are rooted in the ten hidden sp...

Energy: From Source to Destination Ayin Beis Volume 1, Discourse 8, Chapter 32, p. 52-53 Short Summary: Energies manifests in containers due to the "ten sefirot" that exist in the root of the energy. Long Summary: [This chapter summarizes the last 20 chapters (12--31), which explain the process how energies, rooted in the ten hidden spheres, manifest in containers]. Though the energies take on sha...

Point Line Plane Ayin Beis Volume 1, Discourse 8, Chapter 31, p. 50-51 Short Summary: The three levels of energy are like the point, line and plane. Long Summary: The three levels of energy are like the point, line and plane (nekudah, kav, shetach): 1. The root of the energies (in the ten hidden spheres) is like the point -- completely shapeless and amorphous, utterly unified and part of the essen...

hree Levels in Energy (2) Ayin Beis Volume 1, Discourse 8, Chapter 30, p. 49-50 Short Summary: The three levels of energy, with the third level requiring the higher level to achieve unity. Long Summary: The first two levels in the the energies are the two expressions: 1) Ha'melech ha'meromom levado mi'oz (King, who alone is elevated from aforetime) - referring to the ten hidden spheres, the root o...

Three Levels in Energy Ayin Beis Volume 1, Discourse 8, Chapter 29 (2), p. 48-49 Short Summary: The first two of three levels of energy: 1) In the source, and 2) revealed outside of the source. Long Summary: There are in general three levels in the energies (ohros): 1) The root of the energies as they are encompassed and one in their source pre-tzimtzum. The level of Ant Hu chad v'lo b'chushban (Y...

Energy Meets Container Ayin Beis Volume 1, Discourse 8, Chapter 29 (1), p. 47-48 Short Summary: How the energies manifest in containers. Long Summary: According to the above we can understand how the energies manifest in containers: On one hand, energy and container are proportionately distant from one another, like the distance of a soul and a body. Unlike the container which is not consciously a...

Reaching the Infinite Ayin Beis Volume 1, Discourse 7, Chapter 28 (2), p. 46-47 Short Summary: The bridge between existence and transcendence Long Summary: The above explains the opening verse of Parshat Chukas about the red heifer, which purifies from the impurity of death: The divine is concealed in existence (Elokim). In the Garden of Eden there was divine revelation (Havaya, chochma). Through...

Dual Nature of Light (Kav)  Ayin Beis Volume 1, Discourse 7, Chapter 28, p. 44-45 Short Summary: The dual properties of the kav -- finite and infnite, structure and transcendence. Long Summary: [This chapter concludes the discussion that began in chapter 18, that the kav, (according to the opinion that it is) rooted in the finite energy, is only revealing what was concealed in the ten hidden...

Two Tzimtzums Ayin Beis Volume 1, Discourse 7, Chapter 27, p. 43-44 Short Summary: The two concealments allowing the emergence of the spheratic structure. Long Summary: The ten hidden sefirot, besides containing the energy of the entire image of existence (the sefirot), also contain the infinite energy that is beyond the ten sefirot (the level which allows for infinite sefirot), like the transcend...

What's in a Word? The Wisdom of the Wordsmith Ayin Beis Volume 1, Discourse 7, Chapter 26, p. 41-43 Short Summary: The higher intelligence in composing words. Long Summary: The Tanya (Shaar Hayichud V'Hemunah ch. 12) writes: "for every letter is a flow from an individual, particular life-force and power, and when many letters are combined to form a word, then in addition to the numerous kinds of p...

The Map of Existence -- Internal Energy (chapters 1-48) Ten Hidden Sefirot (chapters 18-28) Division and Interconnectivity Ayin Beis Volume 1, Discourse 6, Chapter 25 (2), p. 39-41 Short Summary: Two types of diversity: 1) Leading to interconnectivity, 2) Leading to divisiveness. Long Summary: There are two types of diversity (hischalkus): 1) One leads to and is the cause of interconnectivity (his...

The Map of Existence -- Internal Energy (chapters 1-48) Ten Hidden Sefirot (chapters 18-28) Ideas and Details: Sefirot in their Root Ayin Beis Volume 1, Discourse 6, Chapter 25, p. 38-40 Short Summary: A second example for the emanation of the ten revealed sefirot from their root in the ten hidden sefirot Long Summary: Details of an intellectual concept is a second example (similar to the example...

The Map of Existence -- Internal Energy (chapters 1-48) Ten Hidden Sefirot (chapters 18-28) Wordless Letters Ayin Beis Volume 1, Discourse 6, Chapter 24, p. 37-38 Short Summary: What remains after the word and idea is concealed Long Summary: How can we apply the example of letters in a word to the to the "ten hidden sefirot" when they are the root of the energies? The example works well according...

The Map of Existence -- Internal Energy (chapters 1-48) Ten Hidden Sefirot (chapters 18-28) One Letter Ayin Beis Volume 1, Discourse 6, Chapter 23, p. 36-37 Short Summary: Revealed and hidden sefirot like separate letters of a word Long Summary: We can understand the concealment of the "ten hidden sefirot" in order to allow for the emergence of the energy of "revealed sefirot" with the example of...

The Map of Existence -- Internal Energy (chapters 1-48) Ten Hidden Sefirot (chapters 18-28) Evolution of Energy Ayin Beis Volume 1, Discourse 6, Chapter 22, p. 35-36 The ten hidden sefirot as they stand within the Divine essence (without any tzimtzum concealment) could not be contained by existence (even the loftiest levels). If they were revealed as is they would all transmit as one, without any...

Shapeless Energy Ayin Beis Volume 1, Discourse 6, Chapter 21, p. 33-34 How can we say that the ten hidden sefirot are completely seamless and shapeless? The very fact that they are ten suggest definition and parameters, which is antithetical to indivisibility. Answer: Based on the discussion earlier that the energy of the sefirot is not like the power of the finite (which manifests in containers),...

The Map of Existence -- Internal Energy (chapters 1-48) Ten Hidden Sefirot (chapters 18-28) The Mistake of the Scouts Ayin Beis Volume 1, Discourse 5, Chapter 20, p. 32-33 Torah (structured like "man,' ohr pnimi) has in it three levels: desert, city, field. The "desert" within Torah is (chochma of) the hidden sefirot, which are higher than structure, reason, and pleasure -- the secrets of Torah. "...

The Map of Existence -- Internal Energy (chapters 1-48) Ten Hidden Sefirot (chapters 18-28) Sinai Synesthesia Ayin Beis Volume 1, Discourse 5, Chapter 19, p. 30-32 Human faculties in the soul are in an ethereal and subtle state, with no tangible form, and can therefore reside side by side with other even contradictory faculties. For this reason, at Mattan Torah, when there was a revelation from be...

The Map of Existence -- Internal Energy (chapters 1-48) Ten Hidden Sefirot (chapters 18-28) Ten Hidden Sefirot (1) Ayin Beis Volume 1, Discourse 5, Chapter 19, p. 29-30 The ten hidden sefirot (before the tzimtzum) are not in any way a defined independent state, rather they are completely submerged and encompassed in the source, and as such do not have any distinction and do not add any multiplicit...

The Map of Existence -- Internal Energy (chapters 1-48) Ten Hidden Sefirot (chapters 18-28)  The Tzimtzum's Impact on the Kav Ayin Beis Volume 1, Discourse 5, Chapter 18, p. 28-29 The Etz Chaim asks the question: Why was was it necessary for the great tzimtzum to conceal the entire energy; why could it not have just concealed most of the energy, and just leave the think ray of the kav? Inferr...