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Since all acts of Tikkun, righteousness, and justice are in fact rooted in the conjunction of MaH and BaN as we’d said, it follows then that everything that was and will be and will occur in the world is rooted there too from the first. That’s because it was always God’s intention that though the world would experience blemishes and the like, it would ultimately be rectified. And that back and forth is all rooted in the conjunction of the ironically “mutually exclusive” forces of MaH and BaN.

Ramchal then adds the following, which opens up a world of implications as we’ll see. He remarks that this phenomenon is tied into the mystical notion of God’s foreknowledge versus human free will. This theme will recur soon enough in Klach so we’ll spend some time explaining it.

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Petach 80 starts off by reiterating a point made earlier on [1] to the effect that all the various sorts of defects, acts of wrongdoing and injustice, and the like that could possibly exist are rooted in BaN. And all the various sorts of Tikkun, acts of righteousness and justice, and the like for those defects are rooted in the conjunction of MaH and BaN.

Footnote:

[1]       See Petach 62 and 11:3 above as well as Klallim Rishonim 34.

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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”.

Here’s how Ramchal explains the need for the following. “After having discussed how the Great (Day of) Judgment will entail a full reckoning of the defects and repairs” brought on by our deeds, “we’d now do well to offer more of an explanation of the source” of those defects and repairs. Because not only are the laudatory repairs rooted in the Divine Forces — the blameworthy defects are, too.

(c) 2014 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”.

Ramchal doesn’t discuss Elijah at any length in his works but we will at this juncture since he’s cited at the end of the verses of Malachi we quoted above, and since he’ll play an important role in the onset of the Messianic Era.

The clearest exposition of Elijah’s role in the end of days is presented at the end of Tractate Eduyot (8:7). We’re told there that “Elijah will come to (the world in the Messianic Era in order to) solve disputations (among the sages’ redactions) … to bring peace to the world, … and to turn the hearts of the fathers to the children and the hearts of the children to their fathers”, which is to say that he will establish peace and harmony in the world so that God can establish the same throughout the universe by manifesting His Yichud.

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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”.