{"id":1121,"date":"2012-02-27T10:56:13","date_gmt":"2012-02-27T15:56:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ramchal.wordpress.com\/?p=1121"},"modified":"2012-02-27T10:56:13","modified_gmt":"2012-02-27T15:56:13","slug":"the-declension-process-continues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rabbiyaakovfeldman.aishdas.org\/ramchal\/2012\/02\/27\/the-declension-process-continues\/","title":{"rendered":"The Declension Process Continues"},"content":{"rendered":"

Along with the aforementioned lights of AV<\/em> and SaG<\/em> come the lights of MaH<\/em> and BaN<\/em> from Adam<\/em> Kadmon<\/em>\u2019s \u201cnavel\u201d and below. They comprise the essence of the world right after and below Adam Kadmon<\/em>, the world of Atzilut<\/em>, which is vitally important for the fulfilling of God\u2019s plans. As Ramchal states in his comments to Petach 33, \u201cThe intention from the very outset was to bring into being the root of the likeness of man\u201d. This root is Atzilut<\/em>, which is comprised of MaH<\/em> and BaN<\/em>. BaN<\/em> emits from Adam Kadmon<\/em>\u2019s \u201ceyes” while MaH<\/em> emits from its \u201cforehead\u201d [1].<\/p>\n

All of these together comprise what\u2019s referred to as The Lights of Nikkudim<\/em>, which Ramchal refers to as \u201cthe gist of the makeup of Adam Kadmon<\/em>\u201d [2].<\/p>\n

Notes:<\/p>\n

[1]\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 This is all explained at great length in Eitz<\/em> HaChaim\u2019s <\/em>discussions of the Sh\u2019virat HaKeilim<\/em> (\u201cThe Breaking of the Vessels\u201d) and the Tikkun <\/em>(\u201cThe[ir] Repairing\u201d) as well as in Ramchal\u2019s discussions in Pitchei Chochma<\/em> v\u2019Da\u2019at<\/em> 30-34, and in Klallot HaIlan<\/em>1-2. Also see Ramchal\u2019s comments to Petach<\/em> 34.<\/p>\n

[2]\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Iggerot<\/em> Pitchei<\/em> v\u2019Da\u2019at<\/em> 8.<\/p>\n

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

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Along with the aforementioned lights of AV and SaG come the lights of MaH and BaN from Adam Kadmon\u2019s \u201cnavel\u201d and below. They comprise the essence of the world right after and below Adam Kadmon, the world of Atzilut, which … 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-1121","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\/1121","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=1121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rabbiyaakovfeldman.aishdas.org\/ramchal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1121\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rabbiyaakovfeldman.aishdas.org\/ramchal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rabbiyaakovfeldman.aishdas.org\/ramchal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rabbiyaakovfeldman.aishdas.org\/ramchal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}