{"id":1145,"date":"2012-03-12T10:12:57","date_gmt":"2012-03-12T14:12:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ramchal.wordpress.com\/?p=1145"},"modified":"2012-03-12T10:12:57","modified_gmt":"2012-03-12T14:12:57","slug":"light-and-vessels-as-bodies-and-souls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rabbiyaakovfeldman.aishdas.org\/ramchal\/2012\/03\/12\/light-and-vessels-as-bodies-and-souls\/","title":{"rendered":"Light and Vessels as Bodies and Souls"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here\u2019s how he lays out the combination of light and vessel through the emissions depicted in Adam<\/em> Kadmon<\/em>. In the uppermost reaches — in AV<\/em> — the \u201cvessels\u201d there are utterly subsumed to the light, and thus cannot rightly be termed \u201cvessels\u201d so much as potential<\/em> vessels. But the vessels that emit from the \u201cear\u201d, \u201cnose\u201d, etc., become more and more \u201cconcrete\u201d, relatively speaking, the farther along they move. It\u2019s at the point when the lights emit from the \u201cmouth\u201d that the \u201cvessels\u201d there are as \u201cconcrete\u201d as they can be in this lofty realm [1].<\/p>\n

\u201cAll of these (phenomena) are the origin of the state of the human body and soul\u201d, Ramchal says, as well as being the root of the various ways they interact with and contradict each other, as we\u2019ll see.<\/p>\n

Notes:<\/p>\n

[1]\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Klallim<\/em> Rishonim<\/em> 9; also see Klallei<\/em> Ma\u2019amar<\/em> HaChochma<\/em> 13.<\/p>\n

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

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