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When you study TLE you need to have 2 skills, memory and understanding. It's not enough just memory you also need to understand it. This is the study of Kabbalah that they've studied for 1000 years. Starting with Rabbi Isaac Luria, you need to know because before the emanated were emanate. The word Neatzilim (emanator) from the word Atzilut (the world of emanation) is used because that’s the order of how things need to be not just because it’s a coincidence. Now going back to the Ari, and the creatures were created. Briah (creation) is used here. Put an explanation of how these words relate to each other Yetzira is formation and Asiyah is action. Continuing with the Ari, there was a simple (pashut) upper light that fulfilled the entire existence. Pashut can mean many things in Hebrew: simple, mitpashet can mean undress or spread out. The rai is giving us a secret we need to find what he means by that. “It fulfilled the entire existence”. What existence there was nothing there it was the beginning? Returning to the text, nothing was empty, what we call empty air, everything was fulfilled with endless light that was simple it didn't have an end or a tail. Everything was one simple light equal everywhere and that's what we call endless light. Now going to Rav Ashlag, we need to remember that all the wisdom of Kabbalah is based on spiritual words and knowledge, the words we're using in this study, have no space or time, there is nothing missing or extra. Every change we talk about that we talk in this wisdom it doesn't mean the last form disappeared and a new form appeared the change or transformation we talk about it’s only an additional form by itself. It is difficult for our brains to understand it because what Rav Ashlag writes has only to do with spiritual works. Rav ashlag is telling us something difficult for the brain to grasp, he is saying that time, space, and movement are not connected to the spiritual universe. It's difficult for our brain because those are the 3 things we relate to. It takes us a certain amount of TIME to MOVE a certain amount of SPACE. Rav Ashlag says that if a cup moves from point A to point B, the cup is still in point A and doesn't disappear it has just been added to point B. Rav Ashlag writes the first form never disappears, there is only an additional form so in order to be spiritual you need to understand that nothing ever leaves you. If you have ever lost someone they are still with you even if you can't see them physically, or if you were in a relationship you are still in that relationship and your current relationship. Once you convince yourself that it is possible you are going into the level of real Kabbalah, according to the Ari. It says, whoever is looking for physical change is attached to the physical universe. Rav Ashlag continues, the reason it is so hard for people to study TLE, is because they try to relate it to the physical, and they take everything with a concept of physicality. The kabbalists only use physical words to help us understand what is happening in the spiritual universe. Rav Ashlag says I will make an effort word by word to explain it in the meaning of spirituality, and I will be able to help you remove time, space, motion, and change. For you, the one who wants to study, put in your memory the meaning of your words, because we can't repeat those words repeatedly. Rav Ashlag took Rabbi Chaim Vital’s books and put them together, and then went word by word translating the text into the real meaning. Rav ashlag explains the verse “ You need to know before the emanated were emanated”. He writes you need to understand what "before" means, because if there is no time, then how is the word before used? In order to understand "before," we need to understand what time means in spirituality. You need to understand that it is a feeling of motions. The brain imagines and puts together a certain amount of motions that we feel, one after another in the brain's imagination, this is what we call time. The way we know time is in relation to the motion. Going back to our subject if the person will be totally in rest with this environment; he will never know what time he is. Time, in spirituality, means a certain amount of changing of forms, which is what we call spiritual motion. Spiritual motion is cause and effect to one another. When we say the words before and after we mean either the cause or effect. So before only meant the cause. If you can be at your house and at your job, then what limits you? Only one thing, your body, without the body you are a perfect person. You might have some issues but they are never connected to your soul because your soul is perfect. Any problems you have are only connected to your body. We need the wrong people in our lives to remind our body what it is doing wrong. The body is the part in us that does not want to be spiritual, and the wrong people come to beat up our body. Once you no longer relate to your body, and this study can help you, you look at life very differently. You don’t see the point of what your body usually enjoys. In the physical universe, there are things that seem important to us but they are really not important at all if we can relate more things to the spiritual universe we can understand it, but we can’t relate all our spiritual studies to physical things.Let's move to the next verse, Rav Ashlag explains “the upper simple light”. First is the creator, then the essence of the creator, then the light of the essence of the creator or endless light. Now back to Rav Ashlag, every name of G-d you find in Kabbalah or in the Torah only have to do with the endless light that spreads out. We don't know what the creator, the essence of the creator, or what the endless light is. We only know that the creator creates, and the endless light is a force of giving and sharing. When we name G-d in Hebrew there are many different names because there are different angles of the light of the creator coming down to us. We do not experience the creator or the essence of the creator only the light that comes from the essence of the creator. We need to know this to understand how far we are from G-d, but not to depress us rather to understand what we are dealing with. Continuing with the book, the rules say whatever you didn't achieve or reach you can’t give it a name you can only give a name to things you achieve remember this and you will never fall in this study.
English
(א)מבאר ענין הצמצום הא' שנצטמצם אור אין סוף ב"ה בכדי להאציל הנאצלים ולברוא הנבראים. ובו יהוה ענינים:לפני הצמצום היה אין סוף ממלא כל המציאות
דע כי טרם שנאצלו הנאצלים ונבראו הנבראים, היה אור עליון פשוט ממלא כל המציאות. ולא היה שום מקום פנוי בבחינת אויר ריקני וחלל, אלא היה הכל ממולא מן אור א"ס פשוט ההוא, ולא היה לו לא בחינת ראש ולא בחינת סוף, אלא הכל היה אור א' פשוט שוה בהשואה א', והוא הנקרא אור א"ס.
(א)צריכים לזכור, שכל חכמת הקבלה מיוסדת על ענינים רוחניים, שאינם תופסים לא מקום ולא זמן, ואין העדר ותמורה נוהג בהם כל עיקר, וכל השינויים הנאמרים בחכמה הזאת, אין זאת אומרת שהבחינה הראשונה נעדרת, ומקבלת צורה אחרת, אלא השינוי האמור, הוא ענין תוספת הצורה לבד, וצורה הראשונה אינה זזה ממקומה. כי ההעדר וההשתנות המה מדרכי הגשמיים. וזהו כל הקושי למתחילים, כי תופסים הדברים בביטויים הגשמי בגבולים של זמן ומקום חילוף ותמורה, אשר המחברים השתמשו בהם רק לסימנים בעלמא על שרשיהם העליונים. ולפיכך, אתאמץ לפרש כל מלה ומלה בצביונה הרוחני, המופשט ממקום ומזמן ומתמורה. ועל המעיינים מוטל, לחקוק היטב בזכרונם את פירוש המלות ההן, כי אי אפשר לחזור עליהן בכל פעם.

(א) צורת הזמן הרוחני נתבאר היטב לקמן בהסתכלות פנימית בסופו בד"ה עוד.
(ב) היינו האור המתפשט מעצמות הבורא יתברך. ודע, שכל השמות והתוארים הבאים בחכמת הקבלה, אינם ח"ו בעצמות הבורא ית', אלא רק באור המתפשט מעצמותו ית', אמנם בעצמותו ית', אין לנו שום מלה והגה כלל. כי זה הכלל, כל מה שלא נשיג לא נדעהו בשם. וזכור זאת ואל תכשל.
(ב)זמן הרוחני פירושו, מספר מסוים של חידושי שינוי צורות, המסובבים זה מזה. קודם ואח"כ, פירושם, סבה ומסובב.
ודבר הזמן בהגדרתו הרוחני, תבין, כי כל עיקר מושג הזמן אצלנו, אינו אלא הרגש של התנועות. כי מוח המדמה שבאדם, מצייר ומרקם מספר מסויים של תנועות, שהרגיש בהן בזו אחר זו, ומעתיקם בדמיון "זמן" מסוים. באופן, שאם היה האדם עם סביבתו במצב של מנוחה מוחלטת, לא היה יודע אז ממושג הזמן ולא כלום. והנה כן הדבר גם ברוחנים, שסכום מסוים של חידושי הצורות, הנבחנות לתנועות רוחניות כנ"ל, המסובכות זו בזו בדרך סבה ומסובב, מכנים אותן בשם "זמן" ברוחניות. וענין "קודם ואח"כ" פירושו תמיד כמו סבה ומסובב.