{"id":1275,"date":"2012-07-05T11:20:07","date_gmt":"2012-07-05T15:20:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ramchal.wordpress.com\/?p=1275"},"modified":"2012-07-05T11:20:07","modified_gmt":"2012-07-05T15:20:07","slug":"the-breaking-of-the-vessels-part-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rabbiyaakovfeldman.aishdas.org\/ramchal\/2012\/07\/05\/the-breaking-of-the-vessels-part-4\/","title":{"rendered":"The Breaking of the Vessels (Part 4)"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Zohar offers us some astoundingly picturesque and evocative portrayals of this event which is rooted in Din<\/em> and is the source of all wrong and evil. It speaks of the formation of \u201ca head lying astride a camel, a head of opaque darkness spreading\u201d and of the fact that \u201csmoke started to emit from the terrible rage \u2026 (which) curled outward like a cunning snake to practice evil\u201d which then formulated seven dreadful levels of evil, corresponding to the seven Sephirot<\/em> that shattered (2, pp. 242b-244b). And it speaks elsewhere of seven (evil) breaths (1, pp. 146b-147a); of the Tohu<\/em> and Bohu<\/em> (\u201castonishing desolation\u201d) spoken of in Genesis 1:2 (1, p. 16a); of the \u201cfour husks\u201d that came about by the breakage (1, pp. 19b-20a; 2, pp. 108b, 140b-141a, 203a-b; 3, pp. 227a-b); of the roles played by the snake (1, p. 243b), various monsters (1, pp. 34a-35b, 52a), the ox, donkey, and dog (2, pp. 64a-65a), and more.<\/p>\n

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

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