{"id":1303,"date":"2012-07-24T11:43:03","date_gmt":"2012-07-24T15:43:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ramchal.wordpress.com\/?p=1303"},"modified":"2012-07-24T11:43:03","modified_gmt":"2012-07-24T15:43:03","slug":"ramchal-on-the-breaking-of-the-vessels-part-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rabbiyaakovfeldman.aishdas.org\/ramchal\/2012\/07\/24\/ramchal-on-the-breaking-of-the-vessels-part-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Ramchal on the Breaking of the Vessels (Part 4)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ramchal repeats some of the details depicted above in Klallim<\/em> Rishonim<\/em> about the World of Nikkudim<\/em> but he adds a number of other details that we\u2019ll come upon later in this section.<\/p>\n

He speaks of this realm as being the one in which \u201cGod hid His presence\u201d, which is the underlying theme of \u201cthe death of the (seven) primordial kings (of Edom), when their light was removed and all that was left were their vessels\u201d, and he adds that that proved to be \u201cthe root of all defects\u201d and wrong in the world (11), which we\u2019ll spend a considerable amount of time on later in this section. He adds that wrong \u201cwas (deemed by God to be) necessary \u2026 for what was to be\u201d (12) which we\u2019ll also explore.<\/p>\n

Ramchal alludes to the idea of God hiding His presence once again there when he points out that it was in the World of Nikkudim<\/em> that God \u201cfirst hid away the truth that He was to reveal in the end\u201d (10), which refers to the revelation of His Yichud<\/em> which we cited earlier on and will refer to again in this section. And along those lines he adds that the World of Nikkudim<\/em> contains all of the elements involved in \u201cthe complete perfection that will come about in the World to Come, when all of the defects that came about in the Breaking\u201d of the Vessels (11) will be undone; and he states that it contains the \u201csource of the other side\u201d (11), as we indicated.<\/p>\n

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

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