{"id":1244,"date":"2012-06-05T11:43:11","date_gmt":"2012-06-05T15:43:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ramchal.wordpress.com\/?p=1244"},"modified":"2012-06-05T11:43:11","modified_gmt":"2012-06-05T15:43:11","slug":"why-there-are-neither-out-and-out-vessels-nor-broken-vessels-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rabbiyaakovfeldman.aishdas.org\/ramchal\/2012\/06\/05\/why-there-are-neither-out-and-out-vessels-nor-broken-vessels-here\/","title":{"rendered":"Why there are neither out-and-out vessels nor broken vessels here"},"content":{"rendered":"

It becomes clear early on in the work that Klach<\/em> Pitchei<\/em> Chochma<\/em> isn\u2019t a Kabbalistic text per<\/em> se<\/em>. Unlike those works, it doesn\u2019t present the major Kabbalistic themes that the Zohar and most especially Ar\u201di dwell on (like Tzimtzum<\/em>, Sh\u2019virat<\/em> HaKeilim<\/em>, etc.) in chronological and thematic order, and it doesn\u2019t offer very many of the insights of their major explicators. Instead, Klach<\/em> Pitchei<\/em> Chochma <\/em>offers Ramchal\u2019s insights into the significance<\/em> of those ideas, while citing enough of their details to help us understand his points.<\/p>\n

In fact, Ramchal never claimed that Klach<\/em> would be a work of Kabbalah per se<\/em>: it\u2019s just that it has long been published as an independent work and treated as an out-and-out Kabbalistic text because it discusses so many Kabbalistic notions. But that\u2019s a fault of the scholars who published as an independent work and commented on it as such, not Ramchal\u2019s. As we\u2019d said, he originally presented it as a large chunk of a long work known as Ma\u2019amar<\/em> HaVichuach<\/em> (\u2018A Discourse [that serves as] An Argument\u2019)\u201d.<\/p>\n

The latter is an extended argument for the study of Kabbalah\u00a0in which he \u201cdetermined to lay out what\u2019s important about the study of Kabbalah for those already well-grounded in other areas of Torah-study\u201d. And he offered two full and independent works within Ma\u2019amar <\/em>HaVichuach<\/em> to explain the Kabbalistic system: the terse and succinct laying-out of the key Kabbalistic principles in ten short chapters termed Klallot<\/em> HaIlan<\/em> HaKodesh<\/em> (\u201cPrinciples of The Holy Tree\u201d), and Klach<\/em> itself which is comprised of two parts: 138 essential principles of Kabbalah set out straight, and a full explanation of those principles which Ramchal himself provided.<\/p>\n

We\u2019ll explore the essence of Ma\u2019amar<\/em> HaVichuach<\/em> next.<\/p>\n

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

Feel free to contact me at feldman@torah.org<\/a><\/p>\n

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Rabbi Feldman also offers two free e-mail classes on www.torah.org entitled “Spiritual Excellence<\/a>\u201d and \u201cRamchal<\/a>\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It becomes clear early on in the work that Klach Pitchei Chochma isn\u2019t a Kabbalistic text per se. Unlike those works, it doesn\u2019t present the major Kabbalistic themes that the Zohar and most especially Ar\u201di dwell on (like Tzimtzum, Sh\u2019virat … 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-1244","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\/1244","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=1244"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rabbiyaakovfeldman.aishdas.org\/ramchal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1244\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rabbiyaakovfeldman.aishdas.org\/ramchal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rabbiyaakovfeldman.aishdas.org\/ramchal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rabbiyaakovfeldman.aishdas.org\/ramchal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}