{"id":1356,"date":"2012-09-03T12:30:04","date_gmt":"2012-09-03T16:30:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ramchal.wordpress.com\/?p=1356"},"modified":"2012-09-03T12:30:04","modified_gmt":"2012-09-03T16:30:04","slug":"an-addendum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rabbiyaakovfeldman.aishdas.org\/ramchal\/2012\/09\/03\/an-addendum\/","title":{"rendered":"An Addendum"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 We\u2019ll offer a couple more paragraphs to the middle of this<\/a> post below.<\/em><\/p>\n

For now, though, he makes a number of other points about the nature, meaning, and purpose of rah. Referring once again to the source of wrong and injustice lying in the upper realms, Ramchal notes here that it couldn\u2019t have derived from a higher point than the world of Nikkudim. Since \u201chigher up than that there\u2019s nothing that can be relevant to any feature of the other side whatsoever. In Nikkudim, though, something\u2019s revealed that does bear some relation to the function of the other side\u201d (comments to Petach 44).<\/p>\n

He also addresses its roots in a couple of Petachim<\/em> in our section, offering that rah<\/em> started to come about when the light\u00a0<\/strong>of\u00a0Atzilut<\/em>\u00a0and its offshoots, which is from\u00a0Ein<\/em>\u00a0Sof<\/em>, had to <\/strong>\u2026 wait for its vessel to be complete, since that\u2019s where the root of evil lies<\/em>. Only afterwards will the light shine within it<\/strong>, i.e. join with it, after which everything will be completed. And <\/strong>it\u2019s also explained here that the light wasn\u2019t originally joined with the vessels\u00a0<\/strong>in the world of Nikkudim<\/em>,\u00a0but remained hidden above\u00a0<\/strong>in\u00a0Adam<\/em>\u00a0Kadmon<\/em>\u00a0until the vessels completed their task in order to provide a place for wrong to rule and to complete its rule<\/em> <\/strong>(Petach<\/em> 41).<\/p>\n

He informs us that wrong was <\/strong>in fact rooted in nothing other than in the mystical notion of the \u201cgarments\u201d of Atzilut<\/em>, i.e., Briah<\/em>, Yetzirah<\/em> and Assiyah<\/em> <\/strong>\u2026 which had to be separated into all their component elements \u2026 <\/strong>to first provide an environment for wrong<\/strong><\/em>(Petach<\/em> 43).<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>And continuing to make the point about how tenuous the connection between God Himself and wrong is (which necessitated the Breaking of the Vessels) Ramchal then says that the aforementioned slender trace of a root for the \u201cother side\u201d only manifested itself in the very lowest aspects of the vessels<\/em><\/strong>, i.e., in the lower seven Sephirot<\/em> of Nikkudim<\/em>(Petach<\/em> 45).<\/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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