{"id":1377,"date":"2012-09-13T11:19:48","date_gmt":"2012-09-13T15:19:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ramchal.wordpress.com\/?p=1377"},"modified":"2012-09-13T11:19:48","modified_gmt":"2012-09-13T15:19:48","slug":"mankinds-role-in-it-all-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rabbiyaakovfeldman.aishdas.org\/ramchal\/2012\/09\/13\/mankinds-role-in-it-all-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Mankind\u2019s role in it all (4)"},"content":{"rendered":"

And a lot is said indeed about mankind\u2019s exalted status in the Zohar. We\u2019re told, for example, that \u201cWhen the Holy One, blessed be He, created the world, He \u2026 created man over everything\u2026 for man sustains the world\u201d (1, p. 205b); that \u201cThe Holy One, blessed be He, wanted to make man superior to all creatures so that he might be as unique in this world as He is in the realms above (Zohar<\/em> Chadash<\/em>, p. 10a, Midrash<\/em> Ne\u2019alam<\/em>)\u201d; and that \u201cEverything in the world came into being for man\u2019s sake alone, and everything continues to exist for his sake alone\u2026. When man was created, everything was set right, above and below, and everything was incorporated in him\u201d (3, p. 48a).<\/p>\n

Ar\u201di and the other Kabbalists spoke at great length about just how primal mankind is to it all, and filled in the details about just where in man this occurs (both literally and as representative of where it occurs in the Sephira<\/em> and Partzuf<\/em> system) and how exactly man affects the heavens and the earth. But let\u2019s see next just what Ramchal said elsewhere about this before we record his remarks in Klach<\/em>.<\/p>\n

We\u2019ll take this opportunity to wish you all a k\u2019sivva v\u2019chassima tovah and to take a break till the end of the Yom Tov season. <\/em><\/p>\n

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

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And a lot is said indeed about mankind\u2019s exalted status in the Zohar. We\u2019re told, for example, that \u201cWhen the Holy One, blessed be He, created the world, He \u2026 created man over everything\u2026 for man sustains the world\u201d (1, … 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-1377","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\/1377","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=1377"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rabbiyaakovfeldman.aishdas.org\/ramchal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1377\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rabbiyaakovfeldman.aishdas.org\/ramchal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rabbiyaakovfeldman.aishdas.org\/ramchal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rabbiyaakovfeldman.aishdas.org\/ramchal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}