Sefer Yetzirah Class No 28

Mishna 5.2

(ב) י"ב גבולי אלכסון מפוצלין לששה סדרים מפסיקין בין רוח לרוח, גבול מזרחית דרומית, גבול מזרחית רומית, גבול מזרחית תחתית. גבול מערבית צפונית, גבול מערבית רומית, גבול מערבית תחתית. גבול צפונית מזרחית, גבול צפונית רומית, גבול צפונית תחתית. גבול דרומית מערבית, גבול דרומית רומית, גבול דרומית תחתית:

Transliteration

Yood Bet Gevuli Elcason MePutzlin LeShesah Sedarim Mepasukin Ben Ruach LeRuach, Gevul Mizrachtit Daromim, Gevul Mizrachit Romit, Givul Mizrachit Techatit, Givul Mearvit Tzphonit,Givul Marvit Romit, Givul Marvit Tachtit, Givul Tzphnit Mazarchit, Givul Tzphonit Rumit, Bevul Tzphonit Tachtit, Givul Doromit Maervit, Givul Doromit Rumit, Givul Doromit Tachtit.

Translation

12 Elementals: Hey, Vav, Zain, Cheit, Tet, Yud, Lamed, Nun, Samekh, ‘Ain, Tzadde, Quf. Their foundation is the twelve diagonal boundaries: The east upper boundary The east northern boundary The east lower boundary The south upper boundary The south eastern boundary The south lower boundary The west upper boundary The west southern boundary, west lower boundary The north upper boundary The north western boundary The north lower boundary They extend continually until eternity of eternities and it is they that are the boundaries of the Universe.

Sefirot and Direction Relationships

Chesed = South

Gevurah = North

Tiferet = East

Netzach = Up

Hod = Down

Yesod = West

Boundaries

SouthEast = East/South = Tiferet/Chesed

UpEast = East/Up = Tiferet/Netzach

DownEast = East/Down = Tiferet/Hod

NorthWest = West/North = Yesod/Gevurah

UpWest = West/Up = Yesod/Netzach

DownWest = West/Down = Yesod/Hod

NorthEast = Gevurah/Tiferet

NorthUP = Gevurah/Netzach

NorthDown = Gevurah/Hod

SouthWest = Chesed/Yesod

SouthUp = Chesed/Netzach

SouthDown =Chesed/Hod

Please note there are no connections between:

Chesed and Gevurah

Netzach and Hod

Tiferet and Yesod

Tetragramaton Permutations

יהוה

יההו

יוהה

ההיו

ההוי

הויה

ויהה

והיה

וההי

היוה

היהו

הוהי

South = Yood

North = Hay

East = Vav

West = Hay

Netzach = No correlations

Hod = No correlations

Tonights class continues the teaching of the 12 Elemental Letters which are Hay, Vav, Zion, Chet, Tet, Yoo

Tonights class continues the teaching of the 12 Elemental Letters which are Hay, Vav, Zion, Chet, Tet, Yood, Lamed, Nun, Sameck, Ayin, Tzadi, Koof. These energies are the building blocks of the physical world even as we use them to go out of the physical world.

Remember the structure of our universe. There are two aspects that always relate to our creative process. They are force and form or body and soul or potential and actual. All of these metaphors are relating to the same thing. The letters are no different. What is the essence of the letters? the essence exists in the world of Yetzirah and we call them energies. the form of these letters is their sound but we do not see sound normally so we use as a metaphor the shape of the letter so that we can recognize it visually, but that shape can mislead us. It is also the reason that the handwriting and different printing fonts of the letters all relate to the same sound.

the 12 elelmentals deal with the world of Asiya, the 7 doubles deal with the world of Yetzirah, and the mother letters deal with the world of Beria. To understand this on a deeper level lets discuss relativity.

It is time to remind you about relativity. I strongly urge you to listen to the basic class on relativity as it is going to help you deal with the boundaries which is the subject of Mishna 5.2. You should know how to find the recordings of the classes on Relativity, so i will not go into it unless someone needs to experience this.

Last week or actually two weeks ago we spoke about human attributes which come out of the 12 elementals. Remember this is metaphorical language. We call them senses. We only spoke about the good attributes. Lets review them. speech, thought, movement, sight, hearing, action, coitus, smell, sleep, anger, taste, laughter.

The good attributes are speech, movement, sight, hearing, action, coitus,taste, and smell. The “bad” attributes are sleep, anger, mockery or laughter, thought or contemplation or “follow your heart”.

What is bad? Bad is only from our frame of reference. Yet even in Zeir Anpin there is still bad as it is the Tree of Knowledge good and evil. So we wanted to make you aware of the evil that still lurks in the yetziratic plane. It is less than the evil in our world and more than the evil in Beria. And ultimately it is all good. You will never be able to grow spiritually until you can understand what I just said.

How can things actually be bad? Lets tell a story that appears in the Sefer Reshit Chochma. There once was a very negative man who was walking by the bathhouse as the princess of the land was exiting with her entourage. He whispered too loudly using our nomemclature. Oh I want to tap that. She repsonded in the graveyard buddy. Obviously she meant when your dead. He thought oh she is interested and is going to come to me tonight in the graveyard. So he went and was so involved with his lustful day dream that he sat in the graveyard for days which turned into weeks which turned into months which turned into years which turned into decades. He became so obsessed to passion that he forgot what the passion was connected to. It is said he connected to the holness of passion and seperated from the physical passion. He actually turned into a Holy man that people came to for Blessings because he was so connected to the inner concept of passion devoid of all negativity. This is the gas to put into your engine of meditation.

Now lets turn to the boundaries. What is a boundary? It is a mixture of sephirot. Chesed with Gevurah; Chesed with Tiferet; chesed with Netzach; Chesed with Hod etc. What do mixed sephirot look like? Go back to the meditation from chapter 1 and ask them talk to them touch them to find out. What does up and down mean when you are sitting in the middle of space? It is relative to you. What does north south mean when you are not on the physical earth? Find out by meditation on the sephirot.

In the tree of life there are 12 boundaries and there is a correlation between these sephirotic combinations and the 12 permutations from last week. Which one is which ? YOU DECIDE. You meditate you speak to it and you may have to go back to the same meditations that we taught you in chapter one. If you did not do those you will need to start over or get lost. Listen to the previous recordings. They will be up on the website shortly.certainly by the end of the Omer. This is where you learn to power your creations. Or metaphorically learn how to put gas in your car. You need to do these meditations. You need to practice the sounds and the Mantras. Etc.