Question: As a result of the second restriction (Tzimtzum Bet), four worlds appear: Atzilut, Beria, Yetzira, and Assiya. Worlds are concealments. Why exactly after the second restriction do these filter worlds appear?

Answer: In order to begin to interact with the Creator, we need some degrees along which we can gradually approach Him. Therefore, the whole desire created by the Creator is divided into four parts, four degrees.

They are called the degrees of HaVaYaH (the name of the Creator). As we climb these degrees, we attain the name of the Creator and thus come to His revelation.

In principle, HaVaYaH creates these concealments, the four worlds: Atzilut, Beria, Yetzira, and Assiya. What is meant here is not the corporeal worlds, but the spiritual ones, which are measures of the Creator’s concealment.

By revealing the connection with the Creator at a certain level, a person rises first to the world of Assiya, then to Beria, and so on, up to the world of Atzilut.
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From KabTV’s “Preface to the Wisdom of Kabbalah” 9/26/23

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Question: What does the first restriction mean?

Answer: The first restriction is an action when the desire to receive created by the Creator decides that it will receive pleasure not for its own sake, but only for the sake of the Creator.

Meaning, all the pleasure received from the Creator the creation will receive not in order to enjoy, although it was created in this way, but in order to feel how it gives to the Creator.

In other words, the light cannot enter the egoistic Kli. In the spiritual world we cannot enjoy for our own sake. And the fact that in our world we do it for ourselves, it is only in order to prepare us for a real spiritual sensation.

Therefore, it is impossible to use the connection with the Creator for your own sake. This is called the law of the first restriction.
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From KabTV’s “Preface to the Wisdom of Kabbalah” 9/26/23

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Question: What is the screen (Masach)?

Answer: The screen is what creates the Partzuf that wants to reflect all the light of pleasure that comes to it from the Creator in order to become like Him and receive only for His pleasure.

In other words, the screen is an anti–egoistic property, a force, that does not let you receive for yourself.

Comment: There is also such a thing as coupling with striking.

My Response: Coupling with striking is a state when both the Creator and the creation (Partzuf) do not want to receive for themselves, but are ready to connect in order to please each other. That is, I am for you and you are for me, not for the sake of enjoying yourself, but to please another.

Baal HaSulam gives an example of this in the interaction of a guest and a host.

That is, the screen is a force of resistance. On one hand pleasure is forcing him, and on the other hand, he has the power of resistance. This is called coupling with striking.
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From KabTV’s “Preface to the Wisdom of Kabbalah” 9/26/23

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In the article “The Donkey Driver,” a sage named Elazar talks about the six days of the creation of the world: each day is a revelation of the special power of the Creator.

The power of the Creator comes from the first three higher Sefirot—Keter, Hochma, and Binah, and then develops inside a person in the six lower Sefirot—Hesed, Gevurah, Tifferet, Netzach, Hod, Yesod, and in the final Sefira Malchut, which collects all the properties of the previous six Sefirot, and thus reveals the Creator within himself.

There are five levels of desires, which symbolize the five days of the creation of the world. The sixth day is Yesod, a collective action that mixes all the previous properties. The seventh day is already the filling of the corrected Kli with light; therefore, it is not customary to do work on Saturday, i.e., correction.
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From KabTV’s “Preface to the Book of Zohar” 9/3/23

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Our world is the desire to be filled, to enjoy. Essentially, this is its entire substance, its essence.

Therefore, what we see around us: the inanimate, vegetative, and animate nature, and humans, wherever we cast our gaze, before us appears nothing but matter, the property of which is to absorb, take in fulfillment, and become saturated.

The desire to enjoy is all that exists in our world. From molecules and atoms to gigantic stars and nebulae, everything represents only this desire.

Everything that fills our matter that makes it move and react represents not the desire to enjoy, but the enjoyment itself, which, by filling the matter, triggers its reactions, movements, and so on.

Thus, the desire that absorbs enjoyment is the only thing we have in the universe, which we have been continuously exploring and revealing for many, many years now.
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From KabTV’s “Preface to the Wisdom of Kabbalah” 8/27/23

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Baal HaSulam calls the pleasure from connection with the Creator, which is included in desire, TANTA (Taamim, Nekudot, Tagin, and Otiot). These are the four types of light, manifested in the four stages of the Kli (vessel). The light gradually descends through these four stages and fills the Kli to the point where it is completely absorbed into the Kli.

There are such examples in our world. For example, when I start to eat something, I first feel pleasure from eating. This is called Taamim (taste). Then the pleasure begins to slowly disappear, but the tastes remain. Memories of tastes are called Tagin. And the memories of how these pleasures entered are called Otiot.

In the material world, if we eat something, this process arises within us naturally. The same thing happens in the spiritual world; when the light enters me and fills my Kli, it leaves its impressions in it— TANTA.
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From KabTV’s “Preface to the Wisdom of Kabbalah” 8/27/23

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Question: The Creator constantly influences us either with pleasures or with some kind of deficiency because my desire perceives everything as bitterness or sweetness. Why did He choose this way of influencing a person—through sweetness and bitterness?

Answer: Because these two tastes are opposite and clearly define where we are and what we want. This is the language of the Creator who communicates with us through pleasure and suffering.

Nature develops us in such a way so that we fully appreciate the upper light, feel the need to come closer to it, appreciate all its tastes, all its metamorphoses, and fill ourselves with it.

Today, in our world, we automatically feel only suffering and pleasure. We do not feel the one who awakens all this in us. In the end, we must come to the revelation of the Giver.
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From KabTV’s “Preface to the Wisdom of Kabbalah” 8/27/23

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Question: We feel ourselves in some kind of physical attire. But Kabbalists, looking at this world, probably do not see individuals. Do they perceive it differently, perhaps like an aquarium in which small fish are scurrying around?

Answer: No, you do not see people as protein bodies, but as desires. You watch them shimmer, merge, come closer, and move away. And you need to somehow make sure that they eventually come into the right contact.

Question: Are our everyday worries, say that we need to hammer a nail or do something else, perceived by Kabbalists simply as desires?

Answer: These are animalistic mechanical desires. They are awakened in us automatically by that common motor that moves everyone forward. We need to work through them as well, they are our part.

Like in our world there is a vast universe and there is a clear causality that every molecule and every atom at every moment of time is in some state of its own and in a specific interaction with all the others.

Can we imagine this system? After all, this is infinity! What keeps the atoms of countless stars, nebulae, and galaxies in a certain system, in a certain relationship with each other? This is incredible for our conceptual apparatus.

How is it possible to think about all this at the same time, to program, maintain, and lead the entire system to a state of, say, vegetative nature? And it is even more complicated; all the movements in each molecule, in each combination, occur at a qualitatively new level. Then it all moves to the animate level: to amoebas, to all the simplest vertebrates, and so on. It becomes an enormous system!

But when it is triggered by one force—the force of maximum pleasure because the system itself consists of the desire to receive pleasure, it turns out that all this is averaged out, calms down, and adds up together.

It is very simple, nothing else is needed; into each atom, its desire enters, pleasure is given from above, and they all line up in a certain state. Absolutely everything in the world forms such a common “plate.”
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. The World Through the Eyes of the Creator” 10/11/11

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Question: If Partzufim are desires, then what are Sefirot?

Answer: Sefirot is from the word “glow” (sapir). When light enters the desires and shines in them, then these desires are called Sefirot. And the worlds, from the word “olama,” which means concealment, on the contrary, conceal the light in themselves.

Man, ascending the steps of the spiritual worlds, reveals this illumination, and the concealment disappears.
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From KabTV’s “Preface to the Wisdom of Kabbalah” 8/27/23

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Question: How do Partzufim differ from each other? We know that desires in our world differ both in quantity and quality. For example, there is a difference whether I get pleasure from drinking tea or I enjoy power when I control several million people. And what about the spiritual?

Answer: There is practically no difference. Egoistic power is egoistic, altruistic is altruistic, and therefore, there are no special differences.

If we perform spiritual actions, that is, giving, uniting, and fulfilling others, then we feel that we are giving, getting closer, and rising to higher spiritual levels.

At the same time, at each stage there is increasing connection with the Creator. This is the difference between the Partzufim.
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From KabTV’s “Preface to the Wisdom of Kabbalah” 8/27/23

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