{"id":1479,"date":"2013-01-08T10:20:54","date_gmt":"2013-01-08T15:20:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ramchal.wordpress.com\/?p=1479"},"modified":"2013-01-08T10:20:54","modified_gmt":"2013-01-08T15:20:54","slug":"where-we-go-from-here-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rabbiyaakovfeldman.aishdas.org\/ramchal\/2013\/01\/08\/where-we-go-from-here-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Where we go from here"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nearly all of <i>Klach Pitchei Chochma<\/i>\u2019s major points have thus been presented; the great drama of creation and the subsequent descent of all parts earthward, along with all the elements of <i>rah<\/i> and its eventual undoing culminating in the ultimate revelation of God\u2019s <i>Yichud<\/i>, have been accounted for.<\/p>\n<p>What follows, then, will be an effort on Ramchal\u2019s part to tweak along the edges of the Kabbalistic system, and to fill in some of the missing secondary and tertiary elements. We\u2019ll consequently take fewer philosophical excursions from here on, and call upon more arcane Kabbalistic terms and conditions.<\/p>\n<p>This section is actually an extension of the previous one in that it continues to explain the World of <i>Nikkudim<\/i> and <i>Sh\u2019virat<\/i> <i>HaKeilim<\/i> (\u201cThe Breaking of the Vessels\u201d). The next section will continue addressing that with a discussion of \u201cThe 288 Sparks\u201d (<i>Petachim<\/i> 54-58), while the following section will delve back into and expand upon \u201cThe World of <i>Tikkun<\/i>\u201d (<i>Petachim<\/i> 59-69) first discussed in the section before this one.<\/p>\n<p>(c) 2013 Rabbi Yaakov Feldman<br \/>\nFeel free to contact me at <a href=\"mailto:feldman@torah.org\">feldman@torah.org<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;-<\/p>\n<p>AT LONG LAST! Rabbi Feldman&#8217;s translation of Maimonides&#8217; &#8220;Eight Chapters&#8221; is available <a href=\"http:\/\/www.targum.com\/product.php\/378\/the-8-chapters-of-the-rambam--shemonah-perakim\">here<\/a> at a discount.<\/p>\n<p>You can still purchase a copy of Rabbi Feldman&#8217;s translation of &#8220;The Gates of Repentance&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tinyurl.com\/49s8t\">here<\/a> at a discount as well.<\/p>\n<p>Rabbi Yaakov Feldman has also translated and commented upon &#8220;The Path of the Just&#8221; and &#8220;The Duties of the Heart&#8221; (Jason Aronson Publishers).<\/p>\n<p>Rabbi Feldman also offers two free e-mail classes on www.torah.org entitled &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/torah.org\/learning\/spiritual-excellence\/archives.html\">Spiritual Excellence<\/a>\u201d and \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/torah.org\/learning\/ramchal\/archives.html\">Ramchal<\/a>\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nearly all of Klach Pitchei Chochma\u2019s major points have thus been presented; the great drama of creation and the subsequent descent of all parts earthward, along with all the elements of rah and its eventual undoing culminating in the ultimate &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/rabbiyaakovfeldman.aishdas.org\/ramchal\/2013\/01\/08\/where-we-go-from-here-2\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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-1479","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\/1479","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=1479"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rabbiyaakovfeldman.aishdas.org\/ramchal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1479\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rabbiyaakovfeldman.aishdas.org\/ramchal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rabbiyaakovfeldman.aishdas.org\/ramchal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rabbiyaakovfeldman.aishdas.org\/ramchal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}