Page 187. True idea of שטח is in כלים but particularly in מלכות as opposed to מוחין and even מדות which are איהו וגרמוהי חד.

Page 187 Malchus. This is an introductory class (we read no text) The class involved a Mashal and a Nimshal. The Mashal: The idea that Yiddishkiet is (called) a religion of ritual. What bothers people about that and why is it right? The Nimshal: Although creation is based on divine concealment, but there is an…

Page 187. Question: When the one Kav becomes three Kavim is it Hiyuli or Shetach? Two ways: 1) Hiyuli (Ohr) 2) SHetach (Keli). ‘נמשל לענין השטח שנמשך אורך ורוחב מן הקו וכו.

Page 186-7. נמשל לענין הקו מהמשל דנקודה קו שטח. The Kav emerges from the Nekuda although normally a Nekuda’s idea is Tzimtzum here it is a Nekuda Hiyulis due to the כונה and therefore is the beginning of Hishtalshelus. However even the Nekuda is (still) Hiyuli as it is still Nekudos and not at all…

Page 186. נמשל מענין נקודה קו שטח למעלה This class discusses 1) אור אין סוף לפני הצמצום 2) מקום 3) רצון הפשוט 4) השערה 5) צמצום הראשון 6) נקודת הרושם שכולל מקור הכלים וגם האור על פי משל דרב ותלמיד שנת”ל.

Page 186. שטח. The various נקודות along the line of the קו are developed to create actual מציאות rather than remain היולי as they’ve been until this point. Now (and here) another [much lower] function of the קו emerges, that it measures each world and מציאות which is שטח. The מאמר describes this as being…

Page 185-6. קו The קו is not the developing of the נקודה towards being a שטח, rather it is the one נקודה developing the many נקודות included within the original נקודה but they are all still היולי. In other words: This קו has no רוחב but it has no אורך either.

Page 185. 1) The Nekuda the Rav gives the Talmid has all of the [Sechel of the] Rav in it. 2) There are two types of Nekuda, one that conceals and another that is the potential for later revelation and expansion. It depends on intent.

Page 185. The involved Mashal of Rav and Talmid that illustrates the distance between before to after the Tzimtzum. The distance between teacher and student like seeing and hearing. The point of this class is that in the point the teacher gives the student all the teachers knowledge is found as a hidden point! היינו…

Page 184-5. נקודה קו שטח A philosophical expose. what the three mean; the great distance between each one and how (at the same time) they are a gradual evolution from one to the next etc. All this is Hishtalshelus, Kav. But there’s above Hishtalshelus, where Malchus comes from and returns to.