{"id":1033,"date":"2012-01-08T09:58:05","date_gmt":"2012-01-08T14:58:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ramchal.wordpress.com\/?p=1033"},"modified":"2012-01-08T09:58:05","modified_gmt":"2012-01-08T14:58:05","slug":"adam-kadmon-illustrated-adam-kadmon-illustrated-adam-kadmon-illustrated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rabbiyaakovfeldman.aishdas.org\/ramchal\/2012\/01\/08\/adam-kadmon-illustrated-adam-kadmon-illustrated-adam-kadmon-illustrated\/","title":{"rendered":"Adam Kadmon illustrated"},"content":{"rendered":"

Let\u2019s return to Ramchal\u2019s explanation of Adam Kadmon<\/em>. We introduced it here<\/a>, with remarks about its \u201cinside\u201d and \u201coutside\u201d. Then we went on to this<\/a>, with insights into its inner radiance. Let\u2019s now tie this inner radiance in with Adam Kadmon<\/em>\u2019s outer makeup as Ramchal explains it in Pitchei Chochma v\u2019Da\u2019at<\/em>.<\/p>\n

As Ramchal explains it [1], the Sephirot<\/em> connected with Adam Kadmon <\/em>\u201chave an inner aspect — and an outer one which conceals it\u201d. It\u2019s just that, \u201csome of the inner aspect pierce through the outer ones and come into view<\/em> (to the prophets and great souls) in order to perform some visible function\u201d [2]. \u201cThis represents the esoteric idea of the piercing through of (Adam Kadmon<\/em>\u2019s inner radiance through it\u2019s) \u2018ear\u2019, \u2019nose\u2019, and \u2018mouth\u2019\u201d, as he\u2019ll go on to explain.<\/p>\n

Put simply, some of Adam<\/em> Kadmon<\/em>\u2019s inner radiance pierced through the apertures of its \u201cface\u201d — its \u201ceyes\u201d, \u201cears\u201d, \u201cnose\u201d, \u201cmouth\u201d, and even its \u201cforehead\u201d. And it did that in order to bring about whatever was needed to build all the intended phenomena <\/strong>, i.e., the worlds of Atzilut<\/em>, Briah<\/em>, Yetzirah<\/em>, and Assiyah<\/em> as well as mortal man, as well as bring about whatever was necessary to actualize what was intended for these phenomena <\/strong>(Petach<\/em> 35).<\/strong><\/p>\n

<\/strong>But what\u2019s the \u201csolution\u201d to all that as Ramchal understands it; i.e., what\u2019s being indicated by this visual phenomenon? For that we\u2019ll need to turn to his Klallim<\/em> Rishonim<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Notes:<\/p>\n

[1] Pitchei Chochma v\u2019Da\u2019at <\/em>29.<\/p>\n

[2] Parenthetically, why would there even need to be outer aspects? Because as Ramchal explains, \u201cif there weren\u2019t outer aspects, the inner aspects would function openly\u201d and at full strength, which would be too overpowering; so \u201conly a part of the inner aspect functions that way\u201d, i.e., at full strength, thanks to that safeguard mechanism.<\/p>\n

(c) 2012 Rabbi Yaakov Feldman<\/p>\n

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Let\u2019s return to Ramchal\u2019s explanation of Adam Kadmon. We introduced it here, with remarks about its \u201cinside\u201d and \u201coutside\u201d. Then we went on to this, with insights into its inner radiance. Let\u2019s now tie this inner radiance in with Adam … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rabbiyaakovfeldman.aishdas.org\/ramchal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1033","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rabbiyaakovfeldman.aishdas.org\/ramchal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rabbiyaakovfeldman.aishdas.org\/ramchal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rabbiyaakovfeldman.aishdas.org\/ramchal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rabbiyaakovfeldman.aishdas.org\/ramchal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1033"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rabbiyaakovfeldman.aishdas.org\/ramchal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1033\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rabbiyaakovfeldman.aishdas.org\/ramchal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rabbiyaakovfeldman.aishdas.org\/ramchal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rabbiyaakovfeldman.aishdas.org\/ramchal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}