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We’d addressed the Tikkun phenomenon a number of times before. We cited the ultimate Tikkun in the course of which there will be an “attaching of the lower and higher (realms, worlds, beings, phenomena) to each other, after which everything will be attached to God” (see 1:4). And we’ll return to it now in more depth.

It’s just that this section — eleven — which focuses on the “intermediate” Tikkun, one might call it, actually follows on the heels of Section Nine.

It’s just that Section Ten, which immediately preceded this one, stepped aside to explicate the 288 sparks that allowed for the Tikkun process. With this section we return to the Shevira–Tikkun process itself [1]. We’ll analyze it Petach by Petach, as is our way.

Note:

[1]       Section Nine ended with the statement that everything that was degraded at the time of the breaking of the vessels is to be repaired little by little ….  For everything that was lacking then began to be fulfilled at the time of the Tikkun (Petach 53). And it likewise hearkened to the ultimate Tikkun, announcing that in the end everything will be fulfilled in the perfect Tikkun that will come about in the ultimate future. 

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מציאות התיקון הוא משקל מה שצריכים כל האורות לתקן איש בעד חבירו, בכל כך מיני פתיחות, ובכל כך מיני סתימות, שבין כולם נמצאת ההנהגה מתוקנת בכל הסדרים הגדולים שיש לה לסבב כל הבריאה בסיבוב אחד, שבו כל דבר יסתיים בטוב ושלמות גמור:

The Tikkun is structured like a balance-scale in which all the lights are repaired in correspondence with the others, with just enough “openness” when it comes to the Tikkun of MaH, and just enough “closure” when it comes to the Tikkun of BaN, so that all produces a rectified form of Divine governance with all the great orders in place that will enable it all to bring about one cycle of creation in the course of which everything will achieve a state of goodness and utter perfection.

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

החלקים העולים, והדרגותיהם, ודרכי חיבוריהם – זהו דוקא מה שצריך להעשות העולם הזה בדרך אשר הוא צריך להעשות, בכל כך תיקונים, בכל כך חסרונות, בכל כך חוקים, כמו שצריך לתשלום סיבוב ההנהגה:

The parts of the vessels that ascend upward from Beria, Yetzirah, and Assiyah, their orders of ascent, and their ways of interconnecting within each and every Partzuf are exactly what’s needed to make this world the way it needs to be made in the course of the Tikkun process — with just the right number of reparations, of deficiencies, and of processes necessary to complete the cycle of Divine governance and to lead to the revelation of God’s Yichud.

(c) 2013 Rabbi Yaakov Feldman

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

קיפול רגלי א”א היה הכח הראשון שניתן לכלים הנשברים להתעלות. ומשם והלאה יכלו להיות כל העליות שבהם.

והאמת, שהכלים היו תלוים באלה הרגלים, ובתחלה היו מתקיימים על ידם למטה. ובהקפלם – ניתן גם בכלים כח החזרה למעלה.

וזה מה שא”א הוא שורש לכל, וזה היה החלק של א”א, שבו היו נשרשים הכלים בזמן רדתם. ואחר כך נשרשו גם בחג”ת, כשנתוסף בהם התיקון:

It was the “folding” of Erich Anpin’s “legs”, i.e., of its Netzach, Hod, and Yesod, that was the first impetus for the broken vessels to ascend from Briah, Yetzirah, and Assiyah to Atzilut, and thanks to which all their subsequent ascents could come about.

 In truth, these vessels depended on those “legs” and they were initially sustained by them below, i.e., in Briah, Yetzirah, and Assiyah. But when the “legs” were then “folded” the vessels then had the ability to return upward.

 It’s in this sense that Erich Anpin is the source of everything, and they, i.e., the “legs”, that were the part of Erich Anpin could serve as the source of the vessels when they descended. But afterwards, as a result of the “folding of the legs”, Chessed, Gevurah, and Tipheret of Erich Anpin also served as their source when the rectification got greater.

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

 תיקון כל דבר על ידי דו”ן הוא בסוד זיווג, עיבור ולידה.

בזיווג נמשכים החלקים דמ”ה וב”ן, עד שניתן הכל בנוק’. ושם נמצא בכלל אחד כל מה שצריך לימצא באור ההוא, שלא יהיה צריך להוסיף או לגרוע.

אחר כך צריך לפרט זה הכלל לחלקיו, ואינו מתגלה בפני עצמו, עד שיעמיד כל חלקיו בגילוי שלם. ועל כן עד הזמן ההוא נעלם באור שהוא נתלה בו, לקבל ממנו שלמותו, וזה מצד השתלם האורות אלה על ידי אלה.

כשהגיע למדרגה שנראו כל פרטיו, אך שלא יהיה בכל אחד מהם אלא שיעור הארה היותר קטנה שאפשר להיות, אז הוא מתגלה כפני עצמו, כיון שכבר אין יש פרטיות אור ליפרט עוד, אלא להוסיף כח והארה.

והתגלותו מן המאור העליון לחוץ – זהו שיקרא לידה:

Rectification comes about through the interactions of male and female under the rubric of the mystical notions of “coupling”, “pregnancy” and “birth”.

“Coupling” comes about when the subdivisions of MaH and BaN are drawn downward so as to set everything in the female. Everything that needs to exist in the light in question in total is contained there, and there’d be no need to add or subtract anything.

This totality must then to be subdivided into its various parts, but it, i.e., the “offspring”, isn’t made manifest until all of its parts are fully manifested. So, until that time, it, i.e., the Partzuf as “offspring”, is concealed within the light it depends on in order to be completed by it. This is because the lights of the one¸ i.e., of the “offspring” can only be completed through the lights of the other, i.e., of the female from which it was formed.

Once it, i.e., the Partzuf, reaches the stage where all its details are manifest, even though each contains only the barest amount of illumination, the “offspring” is then made manifest, since there’s no longer a need to differentiate the light any further, and it can only gain further ability and illumination during the “suckling” process.

And “birth” occurs when it, i.e., the Partzuf, is made manifest from the higher light outward.

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

ענין הדו”ן נמצא גם למעלה מזה, כיון שכבר הושמה ההנהגה בסוד חסד ודין.

אלא בנקודים היה השינוי, שבתחלה לא היה בהם תיקון דו”ן, יען יצא הב”ן לבדו, ואחר כך ניתן בהם מ”ה על ידי התיקון. ולכן כל שורש של דו”ן שמהאצילות ולמטה תלוי במתקלא, שהוא סוד חיבור מ”ה וב”ן:

The themes of male and female, i.e., the theme of the conjunction of male and female, are also found in higher realms than this, namely in the world of Adam Kadmon, since the system of governance had already been set in the mystical sphere of Chessed and Din which are themselves male and female respectively.

It’s just that there was a difference when it came to Nikkudim, in that male and female weren’t rectified at first in that instance, since BaN which is female emerged on its own. Only afterwards when MaH which is male came to play a part in them, i.e., in the Sephirot of Nikkudim, through the rectification process did the sources of male and female from Atzilut and downwards depend upon a “balance” of male and female, which is the mystical conjunction of MaH with BaN.

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

מכלל הספירות שנשברו וירדו מתבררים חלקים מה שמתבררים, ועולים לקבל אורותיהם באצילות, וזה על ידי הנוק’ שמעלה אותם כך. וכנגדם יורדים מדרגות מן המ”ה, כלי ואור, ומתחברים עמהם, וזה על ידי הזכר שממשיך אותם כך, ונותן אותם בנוק’.

אף על פי כן בתיקון הכלים העולים על ידי הנוק’ נכנס גם הזכר, והוא מתקן הימין שבהם, והנקבה מתקנת השמאל שבהם. ואחר כך מתחברים החלקים ביחד. וכן מתחבר מ”ה עם כל אחד מהם, ונשלמת התולדה:

Out of all of the Sephirot in BaN that were broken and that descended down to Briah in the Shevira process, those parts that were to be clarified were indeed clarified, and they, i.e., their vessels,  ascended to receive their lights that remained in Atzilut by means of Nukveh, which elevated them that way. Alternatively, all the levels of MaH, both the vessels and lights that joined with them descended by means of the male, i.e., the Yesod of Adam Kadmon, that drew them downward this way and placed them in Nukveh.

 Nevertheless, the male also took part in the repair of the vessels that ascended through the female: the male repaired the right side, while the female repaired their left side. The parts then joined together in Nukveh, and MaH joined with every one of them, as a result of which the resulting offspring wassa complete.

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

כיון שההנהגה הולכת כך – בסוד חסד ודין, שורש הטוב ושרש הרע, לכן לכל פעולה צריך שני מולידים.

ועל כן לא יצא אור אחד אלא על ידי שני אורות שימשיכו אותו. ושני האורות יהיו – אחד זכר מצד מ”ה, ואחת נוק’ מצד ב”ן. ואז יולידו האור הצריך להיולד – בנוי ממ”ה וב”ן גם כן:

Since Divine governance is based on the mystical principle of a combination of Chessed and Din, which serve as a source of right and of wrong, it follows then that two progenitors are needed for every action.

Thus, a light that’s to govern will only emerge through the agency of two lights that draw it forth, i.e., that will produce it. Of these two producing lights, one will be male and from the side of MaH, and one will be female and from the side of BaN. They will then produce the light that needs to be produced by their conjunction, which will thus be constructed out of both MaH and BaN.

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

בספירות ב”ן נשרשים כל דברי הקלקולים, דהיינו כל מה שנותן מקום לפגמים להימצא, ואחריהם לעונשים. בספירות מ”ה – כל דברי התיקון, לתקן קלקולים אלה. ולפי ההנהגה הצריכה, צריך שכל מדרגה תהיה בנויה משניהם. ואז מצד ב”ן שבה – ימצאו כל עניני הרע, ומצד מ”ה – כל עניני הטוב:

All things concerning damage, i.e. everything that allows for defects and their ensuing punishments, are rooted in the Sephirot of BaN, whereas all things concerning repair, that come to repair these defects, are rooted in the Sephirot of MaH.

But each level needs to be comprised of both MaH and Ban for the sake of the sort of governance needed. As a consequence, all aspects of rah exist there under the auspices of BaN within it, while all aspects of good exist there under the auspices of MaH.

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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”.

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.

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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”.