{"id":1140,"date":"2012-03-11T11:10:22","date_gmt":"2012-03-11T15:10:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ramchal.wordpress.com\/?p=1140"},"modified":"2012-03-11T11:10:22","modified_gmt":"2012-03-11T15:10:22","slug":"but-what-does-all-this-mean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rabbiyaakovfeldman.aishdas.org\/ramchal\/2012\/03\/11\/but-what-does-all-this-mean\/","title":{"rendered":"But What Does All This Mean?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Very well, but what does all this mean<\/em>, as Ramchal understands it? We\u2019ll need to turn to his Klallim<\/em> Rishonim<\/em> for that.<\/p>\n

The relations between the lights and vessels that emit through the \u201corifices\u201d of Adam Kadmon<\/em>\u2019s \u201cface\u201d and Adam Kadmon<\/em> itself speak to the \u201csystem of governance that was set into place after the conjunction of the inner (components) and the external (ones)\u201d [1]. That\u2019s to say that the lights and vessels represent the way God arranged for the human soul (i.e., light) and body (i.e., vessel) to interact in the course of time.<\/p>\n

His point is that there are always instances of a combination of a soul and a body; it\u2019s just that sometimes the body is so very subtle and fine that it\u2019s subsumed within the light and invisible and ineffective for all intents and purposes, while at other times it\u2019s more or less visible and effective. This will not only explain all we\u2019d offered above in more accessible terms, it will also speak to the various stages of human spiritual development, as we\u2019ll see.<\/p>\n

Notes:<\/p>\n

[1]\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Klallim<\/em> Rishonim<\/em> 9; also see Da\u2019at Tevunot<\/em> 54, 76-84.<\/p>\n

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

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Very well, but what does all this mean, as Ramchal understands it? We\u2019ll need to turn to his Klallim Rishonim for that. The relations between the lights and vessels that emit through the \u201corifices\u201d of Adam Kadmon\u2019s \u201cface\u201d and 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-1140","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\/1140","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=1140"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rabbiyaakovfeldman.aishdas.org\/ramchal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1140\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rabbiyaakovfeldman.aishdas.org\/ramchal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rabbiyaakovfeldman.aishdas.org\/ramchal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rabbiyaakovfeldman.aishdas.org\/ramchal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}