{"id":1076,"date":"2012-01-30T15:38:20","date_gmt":"2012-01-30T20:38:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ramchal.wordpress.com\/?p=1076"},"modified":"2012-01-30T15:38:20","modified_gmt":"2012-01-30T20:38:20","slug":"the-forehead-and-beyond","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rabbiyaakovfeldman.aishdas.org\/ramchal\/2012\/01\/30\/the-forehead-and-beyond\/","title":{"rendered":"The Forehead and Beyond"},"content":{"rendered":"

We\u2019ll finish off this part with mention of Adam Kadmon<\/em>\u2019s \u201cforehead\u201d as we said we would and with a general statement about Adam Kadmon <\/em>[1].<\/p>\n

As Ramchal goes on to say in his comments to Petach <\/em>32, \u201cThe \u2018forehead\u2019 emits a radiance of its own. This is something that\u2019s also not seen now,\u201d much the way the radiance of our own faces can\u2019t be. \u201cBut if the radiance of the forehead were visible like the radiance of the other (of Adam Kadmon<\/em>\u2019s) senses, it would indeed be visible; for there\u2019s (in fact) a very subtle fissure\u201d on the surface of Adam Kadmon<\/em>\u2019s \u201cforehead\u201d which would allow for this radiance to shine through. The point is that despite this subtle fissure, the \u201cforehead\u2019s\u201d radiance doesn\u2019t appear at this time, but it will eventually irradiate outward.<\/p>\n

He concludes that \u201cAdam<\/em> Kadmon<\/em> itself is more elevated than the \u2018senses\u2019 and cannot be apprehended, which explains why we don\u2019t occupy ourselves with Adam Kadmon<\/em> itself\u201d though we discuss its component elements. For at bottom, \u201cAdam Kadmon<\/em> itself is the recondite source of (Divine) governance, while its radiance (and its \u2018senses\u2019 which it passes through) is what\u2019s revealed of Adam Kadmon<\/em>\u201d which is why we\u2019re capable of discussing them.<\/p>\n

Note:<\/p>\n

[1] \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The \u201cforehead\u201d will be discussed in more detail later on, in Petachim<\/em> 59, 94, and 103 specifically. And note that we\u2019ll also be discussing the \u201chair\u201d of Adam Kadmon<\/em>\u2019s \u201chead\u201d as well as its \u201cbrain\u201d in the very next Petach<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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

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We\u2019ll finish off this part with mention of Adam Kadmon\u2019s \u201cforehead\u201d as we said we would and with a general statement about Adam Kadmon [1]. As Ramchal goes on to say in his comments to Petach 32, \u201cThe \u2018forehead\u2019 emits … 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-1076","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\/1076","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=1076"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rabbiyaakovfeldman.aishdas.org\/ramchal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1076\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rabbiyaakovfeldman.aishdas.org\/ramchal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rabbiyaakovfeldman.aishdas.org\/ramchal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rabbiyaakovfeldman.aishdas.org\/ramchal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}