{"id":1039,"date":"2012-01-09T11:39:24","date_gmt":"2012-01-09T16:39:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ramchal.wordpress.com\/?p=1039"},"modified":"2012-01-09T11:39:24","modified_gmt":"2012-01-09T16:39:24","slug":"adam-kadmon-as-hester-panim-and-haaret-panim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rabbiyaakovfeldman.aishdas.org\/ramchal\/2012\/01\/09\/adam-kadmon-as-hester-panim-and-haaret-panim\/","title":{"rendered":"Adam Kadmon as Hester Panim and Ha\u2019aret Panim"},"content":{"rendered":"

In explanation of all this Ramchal cites the two sorts of ways that God interacts with us: either openly, termed Ha\u2019aret Panim<\/em>, \u201c(with) face aglow\u201d; or covertly, termed Hester Panim<\/em>, \u201c(with a) hidden face\u201d [1]. When God interacts via Ha\u2019aret Panim <\/em>His interactions are full and unabated, via Hester Panim <\/em>they\u2019re unfinished and incomplete. (Needless to say there\u2019s a world to be said about this, but here is not the place.) These paradigms play themselves out in the human sphere in terms of the body (which is an example of imperfection and thus of Hester Panim<\/em>) and the soul (an example of fullness and of Hester Panim<\/em>) [2].<\/p>\n

Now, these two modes also touch upon the Trace and the Line, where the former is an example of Hester Panim<\/em> and the latter of Ha\u2019aret Panim<\/em>. Ramchal\u2019s point here is that Adam Kadmon<\/em> with its \u201cface\u201d and its \u201csenses\u201d is a representation of the Trace and the Line — Ha\u2019aret Panim<\/em> and Hester Panim <\/em>— at work. It\u2019s just that sometimes one mode dominates, and another time the other one does. The implication is that the prophet or exalted soul can not only envision the fact of Adam<\/em> Kadmon<\/em>, he can likewise know which is predominant.<\/p>\n

Notes:<\/p>\n

[1] \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 This is derived from Klallim<\/em> Rishonim<\/em> 8. See Da\u2019at<\/em> Tevunot<\/em> 76- 81, 84 where Ramchal expounds upon God\u2019s two interactions and related phenomenon.<\/p>\n

[2]\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Though this isn\u2019t cited it here, Hester Panim<\/em> is also analogous to receptacles while Ha\u2019aret Panim<\/em> is analogous to Lights.<\/p>\n

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In explanation of all this Ramchal cites the two sorts of ways that God interacts with us: either openly, termed Ha\u2019aret Panim, \u201c(with) face aglow\u201d; or covertly, termed Hester Panim, \u201c(with a) hidden face\u201d [1]. When God interacts via Ha\u2019aret … 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-1039","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\/1039","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=1039"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rabbiyaakovfeldman.aishdas.org\/ramchal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1039\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rabbiyaakovfeldman.aishdas.org\/ramchal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rabbiyaakovfeldman.aishdas.org\/ramchal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rabbiyaakovfeldman.aishdas.org\/ramchal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}