Sefer Yetzirah Class No 24

Last class we did not finish all of the subject. We are continuing where we left off. As a review, There are 28 times mentioned in Chapter 3 of Kohellet. Why are there 28? What is the relationship between these 28 times and the 7 double letters? That is what we are discussing. Let us continue.

Bet Chesed;

Gimmel is Gevurah

Dalet is Tiferet

Caf is Netzach

Pey is Hod

Resh is Yesod

Taf is Malchut

A letter is a lighthouse. The form of letter is to shine out. there is not a limit to the energy of the letters. These are theoretical not practical. these letters relate to the emotions. The emotional aspects relate to these 7 double letters which allows us to truly find power within these letters more than with the mother letters. Use the same meditative techniques. Yet without the correlations it represents practice and sandbox play.

Wisdom is Tiferet,

Wealth is Netzach,

Seed is Yesod,

Life is Chesed,

Dominance or government is Malchut,

Peace is Gevurah

and Grace is Hod

Look at these correspondences. How can Peace be Gevurah? Peace means completion. Until every light is in the proper vessel ther must be restriction and severity and limits. Spend some time to understand these correspondences.

In this physical world, the seven becomes 14 as spoken about in Kohellet chapter 3. These are the 14 good times or the male times.

There is a famous story. Two brothers did well in their partnership. then the times change. One brother cashed out and retired and waited. The other found himself deeper and deeper in debt. The retired brother saw the times were changing back. He went back into buisness and ending up hiring his brother as an employee not a partner. What is the moral? do not fight the times go with the flow bend like a reed in the wind. Many other metaphors. Life lessons are being taught in the Torah and the sefer Yetzirah. Have you learned? People make money in bad times don't they? Remember the famous story from the Chinese. First generation is a peasant. Second generation is a merchant. Third generation is a power broker. the fouth generation is a peasant again. This has been going on in the US for 200 years. But our modern people do not percieve the world through these lenses. Things will go up forever so we should all have the dream of home ownership? or should we. There will be another drop in home values. No i am not a prophet. just seeing history as a cycle.

There are 28 times; 7 sepherot times 2 times 2. Light flows down in a Mah and Ben fashion. Direct light and returning light. in addition to the male and female. Male and female going down and male and female going up.

Here are the 28 Times.

Life

Death

Planting

Uproot

Kill

Heal

Wreak

Build

Weep

Laugh

Wail

Dance

Scatter Stones

Gather Stones

Embrace

Shun Embraces

Seek

Lose

Keep

Discard

Rend

Mend

Silent

Speak

Love

Hate

War

Peace

learn the relationship between a time and its relationship to the Sephirot. Each human has a cycle. Each day has a cycle. Each place has a cycle. Learn to know your own cycle. Ask a dream question. Do not fight the natural order of things. The proper sequence of letters have to work within the proper cycles.

The secret of the 14 is the hand. The Hebrew word for hand is Yad which has a gematria of 14. Coincidentally there are 14 bones in the 5 fingers of the hand. The secret of the hand is manifestation. Learn the secret of the times.

Adonai Elohenu Adonai יהוה אלהינו יהוה has 14 letters. Now move the letters toward the left of the order of the Aleph Bet. כוזו במוכסז כוזו Cuzu Bemoksaz Cuzu is the Name on the Left. 28 Letters representing the 28 times from Kohellet.

The Blessing of the Cohenim, a Mitzvah to be performed daily, is to Bless the Congregation of the Children of Israel. As part of that ritual the Cohenim put their two hands with fingers separated opposite each other near their heads. This is the balancing of the Good and Difficult times from Kohellet. This is the balancing of good and evil in the universe.

I did not have time to put the times into the chart from the end of Chapter One. Please do so combine these correspondenace.and then i will do it when i have time. It will be good exercise for you all.

the two sounds from each letter represents opposites as expressed in the second Mishna. Which one dominates depends on our choice and consciousness.

Fire and Water represents opposites. Sometimes fire overcomes water; sometimes water overcomes fire. Lets look at the opposites in the Mishna.

Opposites from the above Mishayot.

Opposite of Wisdom is folly or foolishness

Opposite of Wealth is Poverty

Opposite of Seed is Desolation

Opposite of Life is Death

Opposite of Dominance is subjugation or slavery

Opposite of Peace is War

Opposite of Grace is ugliness

When building a Golem which level will you use. Which sound will you make? When creating the body of the Golem versus the soul of the Golem which sound will you make.

Special effect. The US prides itself on the "Melting Pot" idea. Everyone is equal and everyone strives to be unified. Or maybe you will see it with some other sentences

the melting pot is not a Jewish idea. The idea of Scut - A hierarchy of responsibility and worthiness is the Jewish idea.

Live among yourself in your own culture?

Each of the Letters relate to 4 of the Times. Can you match them to the times? How do the Sephirot relate to the Times?

when one review the Mishnayot of Chapter 4, Mishna 1 and 2 list some attributes. See the correlation between what is described there and the 28 times and the letters. I have listed them below. This is intellectual. It is strongly recommended that you make the relationships experiential for yourself. How do you do that? By now, you should know how to answer that question intellectually.

Bet Chesed Life Death Heal Build Kill Wreck

Gimmel Gevurah Shalom War Love Peace Hate War

How does Gevurah bring Love ? Chesed

Dalet Tiferet Wisdom Foolishness Silence Speaking TearingTearing

Caf Netzach Wealth Poverty Gathering Stones Seeking Cast away Stones Loose

Pey Hod Grace Ugliness Embrace Observe Cast Away Shun Embraces

Resh Yesod Seed Barreness Born Plant Die Uproot

Taf Malchut Government Slavery Dance Laugh Mouring Crying

When we do meditations, we need to correlate the letters with the "gas" the Tetragramaton, with the times that are appropriate for what we are doing. Give someone a Blessing for Peace. what day should it be? and many other questions. These need to be answered as well. Can you give a Blessing on a day that is other than what is connected to the Blessing? The answer is yes. We will discuss how to do that.

The meditations for these 7 Letters is similar to the Meditations we gave you for the Mother Letters.

Now it is time for Mishna Gimmel and Dalet.

שבע כפולות בג"ד כפר"ת, שבע ולא שש, שבע ולא שמונה. שש צלעות לששה סדרים כנגד שבע קצוות, מהן שש קצוות מעלה ומטה מזרח מערב צפון ודרום, והיכל הקדש מכוון באמצע, והוא נושא את כולן. ברוך כבוד ה' ממקומו:

Transliteration

Shevah Kefolot Begad Kafrat, Shevah Vlo Shesh, Sheva Velo Shemona. Shesh Tzalaot LaShesha Sedarim Keneged Sheva Katzvat, Mahen Shesh Katzvot Mayala h Vematey Mezrach Mayerev Tzaphon Vedarom, Vehayacal Hakadosh Maykaven BaemtzaA , Vehu Nusha Et Kolen. Baruch Kavod Hashem Memkomo.

Translation

7 double letters: Bet, Gimmel, Dalet, Caf, Pay Resh Taf, 7 and not 6, 7 and not 8, 6 sides; 6 sides against 6 ends, What are the 6 ends up and down; east, west, north, and south, and Holy palace of intent in the middle. and she is a topic to measure. Bless and Honor Hashem in his place.

שבע כפולות בג"ד כפר"ת, חקק"ן חצב"ן צרפ"ן שקל"ן והמיר"ן וצבהן ככבים בעול"ם וימים בשנ"ה ושערים בנפ"ש, ומהן חקק שבעה רקיעים ושבע ארצות ושבע שבתות, ולפיכך חיבב השביעי תחת השמים:

Transliteration

Sheva kepholot Beged Cafrat Chakaken Chatziven Tzarphen Shekalin Vehamarin Vetzar Bahen Cocavim BaOlam Veyamim Bashana Veshearim Benephesh Vemahen Chakak Sheva RakyAham Vesheva Artzot Vesheva Shvatot Velophakcha Cheyavav Hashevie Tachat Hashamayim.

Translation

7 Double Letters Bet Gimmel Dalet Caf Pey Resh Taf, Carve and Engrave, permutate, weigh, combine, convert, and expand. Light up with stars in the Universe, Years and Souls with Gates, from them engrave 7 heavens and 7 earths and 7 Sabbaths, Therefore love the 7th under the Heavens.

Up to now, we have learned about meditation using letters, we have learned how to open gates. These two Mishnayot are teaching us something else. They teach us where we are to go, when we meditate.

Remember we have told you that you will have a personal experience of the Creator. These Mishnayot are showing you where to go to truly experience the Creator in All of his wonders that we can experience.

We have learned techniques but not where we are going. Now is the time to learn the road map to the dimensions. Up to now we have been studying the idea of the Sephirot and the Letters as forms. The letters are used as tools to open the gates but where do these gates lead to?

Mishna 3 speaks of 7 not 6. It is teaching us that the difference between the Talmud which is 6 books is not the Torah scroll which is 7 books. We all think the Torah is 5 Books of Moshe. The Gemara of the Talmud teaches us that it is 7 books. We do not have time to discuss this in detail. I do that in my emails from the Parasha of Behalotcha over the last 3 years and i direct you there. It is on the website.

The Mishna was written for the 6 not the seven. We will learn what that means. In the Talmud we are taught a meditative technique to draw a Magid. I teach this in other classes. The teaching of the Talmud as it relates to meditation is a straight line (using a metaphor). The teaching relating to Pschic material is not a straight line, it is the intuitibve process. This process is a more expansive technique. It connects you to "more".

The techniques taught by the Baal Shem Tov and handed down to the Chasidic Path is "Where you think is where you are!". Lets learn more of this below.

During the Holiday of Sukkoth we use the 4 species to draw psychic energy to the physical world. We do this by waving the 4 species in 6 directions following the order of South, North, East, Up, Down, West. Or Chesed, Gevurah, Tiferet, Netzach, Hod, and Yesod. What happened to Malchut? Come and See?

Yesod the male member has two parts. The stem and the Crown. The crown never separates from the Malchut. The stem can be separated by our actions. therefore we say Yesod we may be speaking of Malchut or we may be speaking of Yesod separated from Malchut. Lets find out which it is.

Heavens and Earth are connected and separated. The first Verse in the Torah teaches us the term Heavens (plural) and the Earth (singular). We learn there is only 1 Earth but many Heavens. Is this true? We will learn that there are many Earths but only 1 path between the Heavens and the Earths. Remember i have spoken about the Glyff as being misleading and if you see a Glyff with lines from Netzach and Hod to Malchut it is corrupt. Actually it represents the system of the Klipot, the negative system does have multiple paths between the Heavens and the Earth but the Kadusha has only 1 path.

The 6 Sephirot are together the world of Yetzirah which are the Heavens which is Zeir Anpin. The physical world is the path to the Other Earths. Energy flows from the Heavens to the Earth and then spreads out to other Earths. Yet Malchut has no light of its own. It can not receive directly the flow from the heavens. Yet the flow still goes through the one central point. Read Mishna 3 above and you may begin to see what is being referred to. This is a good place to stop. We will continue next week.

There is a famous story from the Talmud is the section known as Chagigah. It is the story of the 4 who went into the Garden. We will discuss this story in great detail to explain Mishna 3 also next week.

I am now continuing with the teachings from my teacher. The heavens above and the earth below is the adage. It is the metaphor. There is a metaphorical description to imagine a 3 dimensional pyramid with its base at the bottom and its point directing our eyes upward. Then immediately above that point is another point of a nother pyramid witch is upside down. The point is touching the lower pyramid and its base is above. In essence this is a litlle bit like the hour glass image. The upper pyramid has 4 sides and 2 other directions called up and down.These 6 directions of the upper pyramid refer to the Heavens. The flow of energy comes down to the point of this pyramid which is called the Center Point. This is the phsyical world. It is the entry point for the lower pyramid which is a mirror image of the upper pyramid. This means that there are many phases of the physical worlds. There are 7 continents which are 6 and one with no light of its own. That is Antarctica. This is just one of the metaphorical images of the earths (plural). Just as there are 7 Heavens; there are 7 earths; there are 7 inner earths; there are 7 upper earths; there are 7; middle earths; all of this is referred to in modern parlance as dimensions. What is a dimension? You are meant to find out by going there; by visiting that location. Both the Heavens and the Earths. We can change dimensions just by thinking that we are there. Just as we can go from Los Angeles to New York by remembering a trip to New York. Just as we can go to Moscow by visualizing our journey, we can even go to a different dimension. All of the fantasy stories that you read; All of the science fiction stories that you read; All of the Historical Novels that your read are tools to take you where you are supposed to go. Just remember a few things. WE ARE NOT ALONE! The Heavens are half selfish and half sharing while the earths are a quarter sharing and three quarters selfish. Selfish is the definition of evil.

Angels and Demons are unalble to transition from one dimension to another. Human Beings are created to transition from one dimension to another. We create Angels and We create Demons and we do not realize it. The Angels and the Demons do know that we are their Creators. Just as some people are Angry at God some of these entities are Angry with their Creators.

We are supposed to travel everywhere in order to learn everything. Our physical world is the locations where all of the energy from the Heavens flows into all of the Earths.

The World of Yetazirah is the Soul; The World of Assiya is the Body. We live in both Worlds simulteneously. We do not yet travel to the Worlds of Berea or the World of Atzilut.

Now lets go into details about the four who go into the Pardes. The word Pardes in Hebrew means Garden. The letters of this word is Pey which stands for Peshut or Simple; Resh which stands for Remez which means Hints; Drush which stands for allegorical; and Samech which means Sod or Secrets or the Kabbalah level.

This story is more than it seems. It is teaching us the laws of these various dimensions i have described above. Lets go into the details of the Story.

the 4 Sages who traveled into the Garden are Ben Azza, Ben Zoma, Elisha Ben Abuya, Rabbi Akiva. They saw things in this Garden, in this world, in this dimension.

Ben Azza saw things, said to himself; i am not married ; i have nothing holding me in the physical world, i like it here, i am not going back and he died in the physical world. This is considered a failure. Why? That is not the purpose of the Ascent or this kind of travel. The purpose is to bring the Light back down to the physical world. The purpose of the travel in the earths is to spread the light to these worlds because they lack this light.

Ben Zoma looks around sees everything and can not reconcile what he sees with what he knows and goes crazy. He becomes insane according to the standards of the physical society he left. Remember Psychic energy is intuitive and not logical. When you dream. You see a picture and the next instant you are somewhere completely different. How did you get to the New Picture? i just did. Ben Zoma could not accept that Psychic level and kept trying to understand what is not understandable on this level.

Elisha Ben Abuya sees everything, understands what he understands, integrates it into his world view and becomes an apostate. He teaches things that contradict the Torah. This is the issue of Truth versus unity. He still lives in our world. He still is quoted in the Talmud not by his name by the name "the other". No one gave up on him. They tried to change his mind to bring him back within the fold of Torah. It appears that hey did not succeed. Yet maybe they did. This world is a world of illusion. Some Sages say he saw Matot (Mem Tet) sitting on a throne next to Hashem. He saw the truth of the Yichud Elyon (Upper unification). he saw that the Mitrzvot are tools to acheive an end. He decided that he was at that level of consciousness already and did not need to do Mitzvoth any more. He was saying i do not need to get closer to Hashem or to learn more. I am satisfied with what i have learned. This is a no no. Can you tell me why?

Elisha Ben Abuya learned the Torah of Mashiach and asked why can i not have this here in the physical world now. The other Sages said you cannot because others are not ready for this and you become a stumbling block to the blind. Ultimately, this is the path of many in the current New Age Movement. I can get to the earth spirit levels and i do not want to go higher. Elisha Ben Abuya was significantly higher than this but the result is the same. Ultimately, they will letarn that the universe will say you can not stay here and must leave level of consciousness. Woe be unto them. I have a student who is in the process of learning this. You must grow with respect to consciousnes and you must also grow with respect to Kedusha. You cannot continue to stay in

Rabbi Akiva entered in Peace and Left in Peace. What does this mean? He saw the same thing that Elisha Ben Abuya saw. Yet he also knew that there are times for everything under the Heavens. A time to live and a time to die. His time to die came from the Romans. Until then it was his time to teach. The ultimate lesson from Rabbi Akiva Live with the Times; Learn to know your cycles. On one level that is the Hebrew Calendar. On other levels there are other cycles for you to know. Learn to know the ups and downs of your life as the opportunity to cleanse and balance the universe of your life. The purpose of cleansing is to reach higher levels of Kedusha.

Understand the meaning of the cycles and bend with the wind like the willow and stand upright to receive the beneficence of Hashem. It is what he wants for you. For you to grow your vessel and receive more.

what does this story have to teach us about the Sefer Yetzirah and these Mishnayot from Chapter 4?

Lets return to the 4 sided pyramid metaphor. Our physical universe is the body. Science teaches that its form starts with strings and builds from there to subatomic particles to atomic particles to molecules to compounds to single cell plants and animals and then to multicell plants and animals etc. One way to relate to this metaphor is to see that all matter and energy in this universe vibrates at various accelerations and velocities up to a maximum limit. Our mirror pyramid universe follows the mirror except it starts with a lower limit to its vibrations. That lower limit is our upper limit. That limit is the speed of light.There is no mass in the mirror universe but there is mind. We are able to interact with this universe when we use our minds and consciousness. This is what is being described to us in Mishna 4.3.

These races interact with us and with other races in our universe and some of these races and some of these individuals have their own agenda for these interactions. These agendas do not have the best interest of a human being. Yet these agendas are part of the Plan of Creation. They are part of the tests that a human being experiences from the Plan of Creation. Yet we are given halacha to understand these tests or to put a test within a structure of metaphors so that we can understand its purpose. Just as we need instruction to prepare for an academic test, we need instruction to prepare for one of these interaction tests. That is why i strongly suggest you practice for the tests and that is what i am doing in this series of classes especially these classes on these two Mishnayot.

As we practice we may come into contact with some of these other entities in these other dimensions. We may meet entities that look like scary reptilian humanoids. these are called "the Watchers" in the book of Daniel. We may meet entities that appear as Super Models as described in some of the revelations from the New Age Teachings. We may meet entities that appear to us as everything and anything. You need to know that all of these entities are described in the Zohar and other teachings of the Sages and the Torah. There is nothing new under the Sun, as the teaching of the wisest man in the world teaches. Nothing new under the sun yet what is over the sun? "See the Metaphor of the 2 4 sided pyramids. Where is the sun? What is over and what is under?.

Mishna 3 teaches 7 and not 6. Meaning the lower pyramid has The Physical World plus the 6 higher planes of the higher pyramid. 7 and not 8 because there is a level higher than these 6.