“B’SEDER” RELATING TO SPACE

Developing a Divine Consciousness in our Own Outer Space…
to Parallel Our Inner Space

Based on a 39 Melachos shiur by
RABBA YAAKOV ZALMAN LABINSKY
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Shiur @the Bas Medrash, Tzfat July 17, 2022

How to bring down the consciousness of
our soul through time… and into space.

Physical order.

What does order and cleanliness mean in our own lives and our marriages?
How do we come to a bigger understanding of orderliness and cleanliness?.
Where do we relate to it?

Time… today 19 shvat / 18th of July into space, the holy city of tzfat, the bas Medras,h in this room. That is how we make a soul correction, to go from separateness to togetherness and then unified.

To make it experientially real, lets take our physical space, our indoors. Let’s say people are in a dorm and have four roommates, from a young age they become mindful of physical space in relation to others. Lets take a moment to be mindful of our space. My space versus your space.

People are protective and territorial about their space. For one person it is called organized, for another it is disarray.  People like their space a certain way. Is it conditioning? Is it who we are? Or does their space not work for them and maybe they don’t know how to use space.

When it comes to marriage and shared space, there are many things that come up. Is space just about space? or is it a manifestation of one’s soul through time that comes into space.

What are my orientations, patterns, and what does space mean to me?

Some come from hyperclean homes and others from chaotic homes, both physically and emotionally. As we orient to this, where is the soul component and how does it relate to space.

The basis today and the practical application can be shown by our greeting, how are you, ma shelomeich מה שלמך?

Beseder …. means in order.
That asks the question does being in order mean fine?
What does the word seder really mean and how does that mean fine?

Things are going according to plan. Lined up in a good place. 

But We go deeper…  to the real meaning of order, and by whose standard?  So lets  look at the word seder, samech daled reish. 

ס ד ר

Samech corresponds to sod,
daled to drash
and reish to remez,.
This is like pardes פ ר ד ס , the four dimensions of torah.

How does it help to show a hint to pardes in the word seder.

The 4 elements fire wind water and earth are in order of shem havaya, yud k vav and k,

the upper three letters of shem havaya are the male emanations and the earth is the female, it has nothing of its own MALCHUT. This is an order of shem havaya. All is built from His Name. the name corresponds to the 4 elements.

Now lets look at pardes, pardes פ ר ד ס the four levels of torah
YUD is the sod/ ס
HEY reish is the hei, remez ר
VAV water, drash ד
HEY FINAL is pshat.

Pardes corresponds to shem havaya  and the elements.

Seder is the order and structure and creation,
sod remes, and drash, just as earth is the receiving /mekabel, the upper three give to it. Mashpia. Pshat corresponds to earth, the physicality/ the mekabel

Seder means the higher realms of fire wind and water …coming to earth… that comes to a physical structure, and a spiritual structure from fire wind water… from the sod remez drash comes into pshat.  The pshat is the fundamental base way of understanding. The pshat reflects from above and has nothing of its own.

That is what space means. That is why there is no pshat in seder.  Once space takes on an order, a structure and that corresponds to something divine in itself reflecting something higher, then the phshat level is reconfigured to something with order. Seder means sod remes and drash create order. There is an external part of physicality, and an internal penimi part. It sounds logical but when you develop the soul part, there is a physical order.

Each vessel Hashem created, how it is defined…, who interacted with it, and for what purpose ? The structure of the Bais HaMikdosh is the ultimate structure for the world.

All of this order in the physical world reflects an order in the upper world. We say seder meaning there is a higher order that is coming into the spatial realm. The spatial is not just about physical objects. It is a sensitivity to physical things that have a spiritual purpose… that we have them in order to use them to serve Hashem. So the question is… how do we relate spatially? Is our space bseder or chaotic? 

The higher order of soul coming through the middle order of time to the lower order of space. The seder is a hint to pardes, sod remes drash, and in the physicality of itself it does not have to be mentioned.  When you give order to physicality, it is an expression of the home or bait hamikdosh

The nature of that which is physical in actuality is not. Physicality is nekeva/ feminine / malchut, it comes from time and divinity.  The details and spatial relationships are all the divine part of space itself.

When we say things are bseder, we are saying that when someone says how are you, and I say bseder, we say my life into space is in aligned with a divine order, through time, into physicality and the physicality is itself a spiritual object with a spiritual function to serve Hashem and in so doing we activate the spiritual realm in the physical by how we relate to it. 

ohr ein sof, we are reworking the order of this world. It is a higher order …

a divine world in every way. When we say bseder, we are thinking how it parallels pardes, and shem havaya. I am fine when I am in order, from soul through time into space and then I can truly say I am fine because my being is brought into alignment.

And then we can assess… What objects do we own that we really need spatially.  How do we use them?

The spatial realm then takes on a divine quality. We relate to  physicality and order differently.  What do we have, what do we do with them, how do we position them, how do we engage in them.

We have the object, we position them, we manage them. Pshat and physical space have nothing of their own.  It is spirituality enclothed in physical form.

Understand when we talk about the order of physical things, it is pshat in relation to the other three. From top down there is no true reality to physicality.  We can have a divine consciousness for our own space. And that parallels the clarity of mind.  Do we have a cluttered mind? Am I preoccupied?  Is my mind chaotic? Am I select about what I bring into my mind?

 If we say bseder, we mean my internal world is revealed in my outer world.

The outside or lack thereof manifests as a lack of integration inside. Sometimes people feel safe in chaos because that is their inner world. If the outer world looks chaotic and we have so much floating in the mind and it is not organized, and we can’t associate things together, then physical space will be chaotic.

Outside order can play out in a person’s life and home and how it relates to their internal order. When we reference pardes, , shem havaya, we see that the lower order is meant to reflect higher order. What we are trying to create is a healthy sense of clarity and focus of how things are mapped, and also in our heart, our emotions, then when we declutter we are trying to bring outer order to be orderly.  If we want a clean home, do we want a clean heart?

It is the opportunity to relate to things. When we say beseder, good.

But if we are beseder, our inner world and outer world are aligned, then what needs to be discarded…push out what is disorderly and bring you back to that mind state where we ultimately physically be a makom for klal Yisrael.

The alignment of shem havaya all the way to pshat, it is not really physical. As we relate to it more, we feel the divinity in space and how the Torah asks us to run our homes. What we bring into the home and what we don’t allow.  The divine consciousness and inner sanctity of the home is tightening up your own inner world.  We want to say bseder. Our life is bseder, true divine spiritual alignment

MEDITATION

Sits up straight in their chair and uncrosses your arms and legs.

Take a moment right now to choose and believe we're all connected as one group in a collective ahavah, אהבה, collective love, the connected simchah, שמחה, the connected joy, the connected joy, the connected kedushah, קדושה. Give and share that with the whole of the group and receive it from the whole of the group

I want you to radiate now to the whole of this group tremendous love, tremendous joy, tremendous holiness. I want you to choose and believe this group as a whole, as a collective, is a pillar of love, of joy and of holiness in the world.

See it as creating a collective circle together, bound together and shining it out to the whole of our world; to our families, to our homes, to our neighborhood, to our community, to our city to the whole of the world. Don't force this, don't imagine it just choose and let Hashem's light pass through you and go. The time has come, in this generation, the time has come for us all.

envision the word bseder in your mind. focus on each of the otiot letters

Spend exactly 60 seconds right now asking Hashem for his help and guidance in this process, being open to any growth or change necessary,, that we should have the right words for each other. That He should bless us with this deep alignment, abundance and success.