{"id":1334,"date":"2012-08-09T16:20:03","date_gmt":"2012-08-09T20:20:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ramchal.wordpress.com\/?p=1334"},"modified":"2012-08-09T16:20:03","modified_gmt":"2012-08-09T20:20:03","slug":"ramchal-on-all-not-being-right-with-the-world-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rabbiyaakovfeldman.aishdas.org\/ramchal\/2012\/08\/09\/ramchal-on-all-not-being-right-with-the-world-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Ramchal on all not being right with the world (2)"},"content":{"rendered":"

He then offers this fascinating, fully-packed, and very Ramchal-like statement in Adir<\/em> Bamarom<\/em> (pp. 195-197) that illustrates among other things the process of the formation of rah<\/em>, defines the \u201cotherness\u201d of the Other Side (sitra<\/em> achra<\/em>), and more — and all without mention of the Ari\u2019s symbols or system per se. Let\u2019s see.<\/p>\n

The Other Side, he says, \u201cderives from a holy source\u201d indeed which nonetheless went through the following process. \u201cOne level after the other (of light) descended downward, each one then became more and more thick (i.e., became less and less light-like) and it continued to descend down to the lowest level that lights could reach\u2026. Ultimately (it reached a stage where) the Tzimtzum<\/em> (effect) became so strong \u2026 that an exceedingly hard (i.e., un-light-like) subdivision was produced which is the sitra<\/em> achra<\/em>\u201d.<\/p>\n

That is, the sitra<\/em> achra<\/em> is the final product of the downward and more and more attenuating movement of the light away from its highest source. Notice that there\u2019s no mention of the first three lights, or Sephirot<\/em>, versus the remaining seven, of kings or worlds being destroyed in the process, etc. There\u2019s simply a broad laying out of a process of attenuation and descent to its end.<\/p>\n

What is the \u201cside\u201d that the sitra<\/em> achra<\/em> is \u201cother\u201d than? As he goes on to say, this subdivision does something completely different from what the holiness it derives from does: \u201cwhile holiness wants to be beneficent, this subdivision was specifically created to withhold\u201d. So if holiness is on one side of the scale of generosity and selflessness, the sitra<\/em> achra<\/em> is the other side of that scale and expresses meanness and selfishness.<\/p>\n

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

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He then offers this fascinating, fully-packed, and very Ramchal-like statement in Adir Bamarom (pp. 195-197) that illustrates among other things the process of the formation of rah, defines the \u201cotherness\u201d of the Other Side (sitra achra), and more — and … 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-1334","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\/1334","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=1334"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rabbiyaakovfeldman.aishdas.org\/ramchal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1334\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rabbiyaakovfeldman.aishdas.org\/ramchal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rabbiyaakovfeldman.aishdas.org\/ramchal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rabbiyaakovfeldman.aishdas.org\/ramchal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}