Chassidic Glossary: Adam Kadmon - אדם קדמון , Part 1, Rabbi Yossi Paltiel, 5781

[Music] this is another entry into our glossary of hasidic terms that we're hoping to develop over time we miss hashem and in san casillas and by the way thank you for listening and for learning and for sharing [Music] learning how this is a big thing that said that the mashiach told them that uh depends on so learning hasidis and spreading hasidis which has its own reward people would learn if they didn't find meaning in it and joy in it is a medium to to uh to to bring machiavelli so thank you for learning and for sharing the term that we're now going to do is adam kadman ak and i'm going to probably do it in more than one installment one more than one entry in says that the word adam kadman is at the academy adam means creation kadmen means it's not a creation it always was so joining together of them and kathmandu is like joining together god and world ancient and new something that always was but something once was not like caught my head didn't cut my head and casitas actually answers resolves this dilemma this dichotomy this contradiction by arguing that that's exactly why it's called adam kadman because since it's the first part so since it's the so-called first world after the tsimsu half of it is cadmium half of it is godliness which always was and half of it is of them half of it is a brand new creation the worlds after adam kadman in as much as they go through the chain and adam kadman is their source so they're they're not kathmandu they're creations that before they were created did not exist in in both of their aspects so actually the term adam kadmen articulates how unique how distinctive this world that we called adam kashman is in as much as it's adam and kathman and basically khadman goes on the oil the air of akh is cadmium it comes from ain't safe even though it goes through the chimtum and it causes it but it comes from the ain't safe and way which is called kadmos meaning to say it's its definition is such that you could say honestly truthfully it always was it's not something which exists because worlds were meant to be existent right one of the biggest struggles that we have in hasidis is understanding godliness all together are you being safe and trying to figure out what kind of relationship ordained safe has with god and what kind of relationship ain't safe has with world the difference of course is god is always god is kadme and the world is bakudash yes if any safe is kathman that gives us all kinds of difficulties and understanding the absoluteness of god the prietas of eloquence and these are big discussions in hasidis but even though we're not going into these discussions now the fact is [Music] godliness is kadmi however it's cadmium there's a karmic atmosphere there's comoy called mecha headed and there's even a madriga volcano which is called kodma ahede but as it relates to creation even the 18th safe after the symptom which goes into the kingdom of act which goes into the form to the created world of adam qadmin the audit is considered kadme the idea of this aid is that it's godliness that's expressing the truth of god that's not at all associated with the process of creation it's an expression of what creator is above the process of creation and the caleb the form the vessels of akh are muhadish are new are called other and that's what's unique about adam kadman it's the first world and in as much as it's the first world it's kodum and it's a the form of kabbalah is built around the idea of oyeden kaili light and vessel the shaman goof soul and body but there's another thing the form of kabbalah which revolves around ayden kelly nisham and goof and so on and so forth is only a form if the oyd and kelly of the nisham mengguf are separate and then join if the oyed and kali exists as a oneness if the light and the vessel the so-called body and the soul exist as a oneness as they emerge from the creator then they're one and if they're one their contradictions are not manifest the conflicts between ireland and cayley which account for mathias don't exist yet and therefore they're not immature they're not a world in order for light and vessel for soul and body to constitute and world there must be a notion where the light is separate and the vessel is separate and they join an interface and the meeting between the ayden cayley between the nisham and guf light and vessel soul and body is such that the interface creates a unique form a unique level a unique definition and this is the meaning of ack of adam kadman being the first palazzo it's after tsimsu and one of the effects of simpson one of the important effects of himself is the separation of the wolf [Music] meaning the separation between light and vessel and when they rejoin now they're rejoining is the joining of two things that are meeting and in that meaning there's a unique interface it's a unique effect of that meeting and that's what makes them into a mathias doesn't make them into a form that's what makes them into an entity that can be identified and that can be analyzed and can be studied um at least on some level of comprehension and adam kathman is the first such form adam kadum is the first place where light and vessel meet as two separate things and even after they meet because they're two separate things co-joining and getting together the nature of their coming together is that they remain enough to for the effect of their union to be the emergence of the mathias the emergence of a form the emergence of something that is in some way expressed revealed or to say it even more extremely limited and all of these ideas apply first to akh to adam khadman [Music] now i will say two things about the nature of the form of the world that is akh meaning if we are understanding that adam kadman is the first place where the light of ain't safe and a vessel have been categorically separated and their meeting is a meeting between two and the effect of their meeting is the creation of an entity which is unique and is a byproduct of this combination of this meeting and therefore the metis there are two critical ideas that need to be stated as far as ak is concerned i think [Music] the first is the expression that when oid meets kelly in act the effect is quote shairish nisham is the gophers which means literally the root of the soul of the vessel what they said in other words the root of the spirituality of the material that's how you would say it in coarse words the meaning of these words sheild as the goofus is that when oil meets kaylee in ack kaylee was a mathias and kaley has its rules and amit hashem will get to discussing the word kaylee when we get to it in this series but uh caleb are designed to be you know heleman abdullah and agbal and eschalkus they're about hiddenness about separation about distinction about body [Music] so the kingdom of conform to those rules in a basic way when the oil meets the cayley of act the degree of influence the uh it has under caylee that the caylee becomes entirely theoretical not almost entirely theoretically absolutely entirely theoretical meaning the oil goes into the cli and reverses the condition of klee to such an extent that all you have is quote aryadov kali the spirit of the material but the material is altogether and utterly gone so in ack there's a mathias there's a form that's defined by the form that means the caylee of aq being so affected by the oyer that it no longer exists at all except that it's the the spirit of the material that will exist later and the way i understand it is first the kelly of aksamathias then the oid of enters into the cliovac and the effect of this decay is altogether bitter now this is a discussion that requires a lot of time but for those of you who are familiar there's four levels there's your list the muscle of each one of these four levels are shame the way a person has a name before their name had ever been used [Music] fire in a flint with zamasu firing a coal is a fighter and flame is a mushroom for kayak going akh is the madrega of euchaeles is the madrega of noise is the madrega of sherich and sham is the government the the oil of akh goes into the caylee of ak and the kelly is so decay lead that there isn't even occur there's nothing there's only or i should say there's only the idea that it is in a state of gili but the zoulas aspect of the kli is completely removed adam kadman is the world of hailes but it's after it was kayak first the kelly was separate and then the influence of the aydah and the kelly was complete this is the first idea and the second idea that akka called an islam claudia a general world the idea that akas dedham calling means the whole of istanbul's comes from this one world and the whole of establishes is included in this one world other words this world is designed not just to be a world and from it's going to come a second world and from the second world cup the third world this world is designed to encompass the whole creation till the very very lowest levels um that the a world that's considered a cloud a general rule for the world who are going to come after it and the marshal for it would be the idea that the whole 6 000 years of creation exists as one single point that concept of the whole six thousand years being a single point this is zach in act there's no time and act there's no space and in fact there's no levels but is tricky because when you say that akka is an islam clone you're saying as opposed to two things it's an illuminati not an island parachute it's an alum color it's not an illuminati it's lower than the level which is called plain and it's above the level which is called specific and when you learn the idea in hasedis particularly in samar a contradiction is presented a dichotomy is presented on the one hand all of the worlds exist and act in a way that they're the same within the parameters of on the other hand within act all of the worlds exist with their specificity that they're going to take on later so they're not the same these two opposites are the way we understand the cloud of act of the lower worlds and i'll say it in other words if aqua was an island parashat then all the worlds would not only be equally an act uh they wouldn't really exist if aqua is an iolan prati then it wouldn't be a source for any world except perhaps the world after itself because akka's neil quality all of the worlds that are going to be exist within act and in one way in a way of bitter they're all equal but in another way in terms of their tea in terms of the potential that's going to come out of them later each one exists and act differently because akh has lowered them the negative system [Music] the difference between the word paschot which means plain and the word clow which means all inclusive is illustrated with an example imagine an idea enters into your consciousness a fantasy enters in into your awareness you've never considered this fantasy before you've never premeditated in this fantasy it came entirely from your subconscious there's no way the hour just emerged [Music] so sometimes you'll say uh nonsense throw away never revisit it sometimes you say hey interesting idea and you'll consider revisiting that fantasy in order to affect or analyze whether this is actionable or not so you'll think about it again after you think about it a second time you may decide never to think about it again or to think about it a third time and a fourth time and a fifth time and of course over time you think about it enough times you actually talk about it you actually write it down and then you do it so hasidis observes the very first time that thought entered into your mind you can't really call it a thought it's a fantasy there's no premeditation there's no planning there's no control it's the soul just giving you something [Music] argues even though that fantasy has a form and it's specific and of course the classic illustration of form would be the fantasy to build the house that's the marshal hasidis always uses because the purpose of creation is dirab when that fantasy enters your consciousness the first time that fantasy is not at all about a house it's about your subconscious but if you choose to think about a second time now you're thinking about the house because the house already exists in your imagination and you're choosing to re-examine the home that your fantasy presented you and to consider whether you want to do something with it or not that's the difference between the words of shutter and martial clauses the meaning of the term a will that's plain means that even though the will may have a form the the form is an expression of plain it's it's it's an expression of the affinity infinity and the the form is [Music] not the primary energy the primary energy is the infinity but when you think about it the second time that's called the rats and chloe and that's how adam kadman is understood is considered the first world but it's considered the first world that's in the realm of worldliness meaning everything in act is worldly related connected to creation even though enoch itself it's such a state of petus that we call it shaitish the government that we call it yuchilis [Music] but its definition is that it's a cloud its purpose is to be the beginning of the planning or the process of the creation where the focus is on the creation and that's the meaning that adam katman is an alien clearly all of the worlds are included in act in a way that they exist entirely theoretically and as far as that is concerned they're all equal but since ox purpose is to serve the process of the development of the creation on the other hand each one exists in as much as it is destined to exist in terms of actualizing its place in the hierarchy of worlds and its place in the realization the purpose of which god almighty is creating all of the worlds this entry is far too long already but i want to say one more thing in conclusion because it ties in to our entry and that is that for whatever reason the discussion of zaman in hasidis whenever they talk about ziman it's always in the context of ak but specifically the part of akh which we're calling cloud as opposed to petus that i mentioned earlier i don't know why the the simple explanation is because trilla sasman is an act but it's almost like there's a built presumption that when casitas talks about akh and the idea that akh is a cloud for the lower elements they will mention the diaz man and the source of zman and the ideas etc etc etc [Music]