Monthly Archives: August 2013

מ”ה היה מחבר עמו כל המדרגות שהיה מתברר [נ”א, מתחבר] מב”ן, ומהם היה עושה כל האילן של הקדושה, דהיינו אבי”ע. אך נשארו עוד מדרגות מב”ן שלא נתחברו עם מ”ה. ועל כן לא נשלמה עדיין הבריאה, שיש בה כמה חסרונות, וזה הולך ונתקן מעט מעט, עד שיהיה נתקן הכל, ויהיה הכל בשלמות:

 MaH, which is to say, the lights of the “forehead”, which represent eventual perfection, had all the levels that were selected from BaN, which came about as a result of the Shevira process and represents imperfection, connected to it, and out of it were produced the “Tree of Holiness”, which is to say, the various of Partzufim of Atzilut, and the worlds of Briah, Yetzirah, and Assiyah.

But other levels of BaN that weren’t attached to MaH remained behind in Atzilut, Briah, Yetzirah, and Assiyah, so creation wasn’t complete given there were still a number of deficiencies. Nonetheless this connection of MaH and Ban will eventually be rectified step by step to the point where everything will be repaired and in a state of perfection.

(c) 2013 Rabbi Yaakov Feldman

Feel free to contact me at feldman@torah.org

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AT LONG LAST! Rabbi Feldman’s translation of Maimonides’ “Eight Chapters” is available here at a discount.

You can still purchase a copy of Rabbi Feldman’s translation of “The Gates of Repentance” here at a discount as well.

Rabbi Yaakov Feldman has also translated and commented upon “The Path of the Just” and “The Duties of the Heart” (Jason Aronson Publishers).

Rabbi Feldman also offers two free e-mail classes on www.torah.org entitled “Spiritual Excellence” and “Ramchal”.

אחר שיצאו האורות של העינים דא”ק, שהם ב”ן, נקשרו תחת הנהגת מלכותו של א”ק. וכשיצאה הארת המצח, שהיא מ”ה נקשרה תחת הנהגת היסוד דא”ק. ואז נזדווגו יסוד ומלכות דא”ק, ולכן נתבסמו הדינים, והלכה ההנהגה בתיקון ובאהבה:

After the lights of Adam Kadmon’s “eyes”, which are BaN, emerged, they were tied to the governance of Malchut of Adam Kadmon, whereas when the radiation of the “forehead”, which is MaH, emerged, it was tied to the governance of Yesod of Adam Kadmon. Yesod and Malchut of Adam Kadmon then conjoined, and as a consequence all judgments were mitigated, and governance functioned along the lines of Tikkun and love instead.

(c) 2013 Rabbi Yaakov Feldman

Feel free to contact me at feldman@torah.org

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AT LONG LAST! Rabbi Feldman’s translation of Maimonides’ “Eight Chapters” is available here at a discount.

You can still purchase a copy of Rabbi Feldman’s translation of “The Gates of Repentance” here at a discount as well.

Rabbi Yaakov Feldman has also translated and commented upon “The Path of the Just” and “The Duties of the Heart” (Jason Aronson Publishers).

Rabbi Feldman also offers two free e-mail classes on www.torah.org entitled “Spiritual Excellence” and “Ramchal”.

התיקון הוא שנקשרו שתי ההארות – של המצח והעינים דא”ק ביחד, והם מ”ה וב”ן.

ומיד נתעוררה האהבה בין האורות, ואינם עוד בעוצב כמו בתחלה, אלא כל אחד מראה פנים לחבירו. ונקשרים אלה באלה, בסוד אב ואם בן ובת. שכל אחד מראה קורבה לחבירו כפי הענין הראוי לו:

The Tikkun process consisted of the binding together of two emanations — that of Adam Kadmon’s “forehead” and “eyes”, which are MaH and BaN.

There came to be an immediate awakening of love between the lights, which were then no longer in the state of “sadness” they had been in, in the course of the Shevira, when the lights stood in perpendicular relationship to each other. Instead, each one turned to face the other, and they became bound to one another in the mystical sense of, i.e., like a, “Father”, “Mother”, “Son” and “Daughter”, where each light manifests kinship to the other in an appropriate manner.      

(c) 2013 Rabbi Yaakov Feldman

Feel free to contact me at feldman@torah.org

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AT LONG LAST! Rabbi Feldman’s translation of Maimonides’ “Eight Chapters” is available here at a discount.

You can still purchase a copy of Rabbi Feldman’s translation of “The Gates of Repentance” here at a discount as well.

Rabbi Yaakov Feldman has also translated and commented upon “The Path of the Just” and “The Duties of the Heart” (Jason Aronson Publishers).

Rabbi Feldman also offers two free e-mail classes on www.torah.org entitled “Spiritual Excellence” and “Ramchal”.

Section Eleven, termed “The World of Tikkun“, is comprised of Petachim 59-69. As is our way, we’ll translate each of these Petachim and offer some explanation, then we’ll go on from there to explicate the entire section.

Petach 58, the last one of this section, concludes it by expanding upon the detail in Petach 57 about the role of the Shechina [1]; by addressing a point made in Petach 54 about the configuration of things after the Shevira process [2]; and by harkening back to the statement in Petach 52 about the relationship between Zeir Anpin and Nukveh [3].

It makes the point that the Tikkun process itself — which is the subject of the very next section — will right what had gone wrong in the relationship between the supernal Male and Female phenomena (and more).

Ramchal remarks here that the Shechina, which is analogous to Malchut in the Sephira configuration and Nukveh in the Partzuf configuration, only becomes beautiful and delightful, i.e., fulfilled, fully balanced, and successful at its raison d’être [4], when Yesod or Zeir Anpin is with her [5], for she’s only made complete by means of Yesod or Zeir Anpin.

But when Shechina, Malchut or Nukveh is without Yesod or Zeir Anpin, she’s the source of all sorts of deficiency and “sadness” and is thus neither beautiful nor delightful, yet when Shechina, Malchut or Nukveh is with Yesod or Zeir Anpin, she’s the source of all sorts of  joy for the male, or for Yesod or Zeir Anpin, himself.

Accordingly, at first, i.e., in the course of the breaking of the vessels, everything was in the mystical configuration of BaN, which is Shechina, Nukveh or Malchut without the male, i.e., without Yesod or Zeir Anpin, which resulted in “sadness”. And the “six directions” contained in Zeir Anpin: Chessed, Gevurah, Tipheret, Netzach, Hod, and Yesod, didn’t face Shechina, Malchut or Nukveh, because they weren’t yet delightful.

But when Yesod or Zeir Anpin assumes the mystical configuration of MaH in the course of the Tikkun, she, i.e., Shechina, Malchut or Nukveh, will be perfected and will herself inspire delight in the male, i.e., in Yesod or Zeir Anpin, which is the Tikkun process itself.

This completes Section Ten.

Notes:

[1]       As a result of those 288 sparks, the reality of this world came to be such that a single power, i.e., the Shechina, would remain so that the world wouldn’t be destroyed ….

[2]       That the ability to govern was taken away from the vessels when they were broken. They also didn’t function as the mystical configuration of a perfect form then. Instead, they functioned as various imperfect phenomena that were unfit to do things fully.

[3]       That what was lacking in the primordial kings was the fact that the six Sephirot of Chessed, Gevurah, Tipheret, Netzach, Hod, and Yesod didn’t face towards the Malchut and they thus weren’t spared “sorrow” and “severity” or isolation.

[4]       As Ramchal depicts it in his comments, “’beauty’ manifests itself when the repairs are properly ordered without an admixture of darkness, (and) when everything is arranged to foster perfect … governance”.

[5]       “This represents the mystical notion of the moon (i.e., Malchut), which … shines and is seen to be beautiful through the power of the sun (i.e., Yesod)”, Ramchal points out in his comments as well.

(c) 2013 Rabbi Yaakov Feldman

Feel free to contact me at feldman@torah.org

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AT LONG LAST! Rabbi Feldman’s translation of Maimonides’ “Eight Chapters” is available here at a discount.

You can still purchase a copy of Rabbi Feldman’s translation of “The Gates of Repentance” here at a discount as well.

Rabbi Yaakov Feldman has also translated and commented upon “The Path of the Just” and “The Duties of the Heart” (Jason Aronson Publishers).

Rabbi Feldman also offers two free e-mail classes on www.torah.org entitled “Spiritual Excellence” and “Ramchal”.

I won’t be posting for a couple of weeks. Happy summer!