{"id":237,"date":"2017-12-03T14:17:47","date_gmt":"2017-12-03T14:17:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rabbiyaakovfeldman.aishdas.org\/daattevunot\/?p=237"},"modified":"2017-12-03T14:17:47","modified_gmt":"2017-12-03T14:17:47","slug":"daat-tevunot-28-82-84","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rabbiyaakovfeldman.aishdas.org\/daattevunot\/2017\/12\/03\/daat-tevunot-28-82-84\/","title":{"rendered":"Da\u2019at Tevunot\u00a02:8 (# 82 \u2013 84)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Da\u2019at Tevunot<\/em>\u00a02:8 (# 82 \u2013 84)<\/p>\n

1.<\/p>\n

We\u2019ll soon touch on the epochs of time that the body and soul will experience together that we\u2019d just alluded to 1<\/sup>. But we\u2019d have to focus on something else beforehand.<\/p>\n

Ramchal makes the point that the world is so stunningly awash in systems and processes that it\u2019s hard for us mortal souls to capture it all. Didn\u2019t the psalmist say, \u201cYou have done great things — You, O L-rd my G-d! Your wonders and Your thoughts are \u2026 too numerous to tell of\u201d (Psalms 40:6); \u201cHow great are Your works, O L-rd! Your thoughts (alone) are very deep\u201d (Ibid. 92:6), and, \u201cHow great are Your works, O L-rd! You have fashioned them all with wisdom; the (whole) world is full of Your possessions!\u201d (Ibid. 104:24).<\/p>\n

So he says that it would be best for us to speak of things in broad rather than in narrow and specific terms in order to be able to grasp this topic — or just about anything. After all, there are only so many broad categories, and while we can\u2019t contend with a lot of specifics we can easily grasp the broad generalizations they fall under.<\/p>\n

Indeed, our sages said that we\u2019re to \u201calways lay Torah concepts out in broad terms rather than in specific ones\u201d (Sifrei<\/em>, Ha\u2019azinu<\/em> 32:2) 2<\/sup>.<\/p>\n

2.<\/p>\n

In any event, let\u2019s recall that G-d\u2019s hiding or revealing His presence are the very root causes of the body and soul respectively. So we\u2019d need to dwell upon those two phenomena if we\u2019re ever going to truly understand the makeup of the body and soul.<\/p>\n

For in fact these two phenomena play themselves out everywhere, with G-d\u2019s presence being alternatively hidden and manifest, manifest and hidden, at one at the same time, as we\u2019d already indicated 3<\/sup>. We\u2019d also need to discuss the consequences of the combination of the two, and the predominance of one over the other.<\/p>\n

We\u2019d thus need to concentrate on three ultimate realities and events: G-d\u2019s hiddeness versus His revelation of Himself, the reality of their functioning simultaneously, and the consequences of that combination as well as of the predominance of one over the other.<\/p>\n

Footnotes:<\/p>\n

1\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/sup>As we\u2019ll see, they include the sixth millennium (which we\u2019re in the course of now, and only 200 some odd years away from completing at this point) and the more esoteric seventh, eighth, ninth and tenth millennia to come. The body and soul will interact in different ways in the course of each.<\/p>\n

2\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/sup>Ramchal always favored short, over-arching statements to close depictions of details. See his introduction to Derech Hashem <\/em>and his letter 39 in the Yarim Moshe<\/em> edition.<\/p>\n

3\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/sup>See 1:17 above<\/p>\n

(c) 2017 Rabbi Yaakov Feldman<\/p>\n

Feel free to contact me at\u00a0feldman@torah.org<\/a><\/p>\n

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Rabbi Feldman’s new annotated translation of Rabbi Yehuda Ashlag\u2019s \u201cIntroduction to the Zohar\u201d is available as \u201cThe Kabbalah of Self\u201d on Kindle\u00a0here<\/a>. His annotated translation of Maimonides’ “Eight Chapters” is available\u00a0here<\/a>\u00a0and his annotated translation of Rabbeinu Yonah\u2019s “The Gates of Repentance” is available\u00a0here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

He has also translated and commented upon “The Path of the Just” and “The Duties of the Heart” (Jason Aronson Publishers).<\/p>\n

Rabbi Feldman also offers two free e-mail classes\u00a0torah.org<\/a>\u00a0entitled \u201cSpiritual Excellence<\/a>\u201d and \u201cRamchal<\/a>\u201d that can be subscribed to.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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