8/20/2019 04 Preface Wisdom 15

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1 Bnei Baruch Kabbalah Learning Center

" P r e f a ce t o t h e W i s d o m o f K a b b a l a h " , i t e m 1 5R a v Ye h u d a A s h l a g

( Kabbalah For The Student, p.572)

15) Thus, new Kelim were made in the Partzufim of Kedusha instead of Behina Dalet after Tzimtzum

Aleph (first restriction). They were made of the Ohr Hozer of the Zivug de Hakaa in the Masach .

Indeed, we should understand this Ohr Hozer and how it became a vessel of reception, since initially it

was but a rejected Light. Thus, it is now serving in an opposite role from its own essence.

I shall explain that with an allegory from life. Man’s nature is to cherish and favor the quality of

bestowal, and to despise and loathe reception from one’s friend. Hence, when one comes to one’s friend

and he (the host) invites him for a meal, he (the guest) will decline, even if he is very hungry, since in his

eyes it is humiliating to receive a gift from his friend.

Yet, when his friend sufficiently implores him until it is clear that by eating he would do a big favor to

his friend, he consents to eat, as he no longer feels that he is receiving a gift and that his friend is the

giver. On the contrary, he (the guest) is the giver, who is doing his friend a favor by receiving this good

from him.

Thus, you find that although hunger and appetite are vessels of reception designated to eating, and

that that person had sufficient hunger and appetite to receive his friend’s meal, he still could not taste a

thing, due to the shame. Yet, as his friend implored him and he rejected him, new vessels for eating

began to form within him, since the power of his friend’s pleading and the power of his own rejections, as

they accumulate, finally accumulate into a sufficient amount that turns the measure of reception into a

measure of bestowal.

In the end, he can see that by eating, he will be doing a big favor and bring great contentment to his

friend by eating. In that state, new vessels of reception to receive his friend’s meal were made within him.

Now it is considered that the power of his rejection has become the essential vessel in which to receive

the meal, and not the hunger and appetite, although they are actually the usual vessels of reception.