He then begins there, in his comments, to equate the broken-then-fixed state of the universe to the broken-then-fixed relationship between the Jewish Nation and God, citing these verses: whereas at first “The virgin of Israel is fallen; (and) she shall (seemingly) never rise”\u00a0(Amos 5:2), nonetheless, \u201cI will (eventually) raise up David’s fallen tabernacle”\u00a0(ibid. 9:11).<\/p>\n
In other words,\u201d as Ramchal offers, \u201cWhen the Assembly of Israel fell, it was because the Supreme King hadn’t yet revealed His Glory \u2026 completely. For, was happened (at that point) only occurred because (the world) awaited revelation\u201d.<\/p>\n
But in fact, God \u201cdidn\u2019t want to merely return them to the state they\u2019d already been in\u201d without allowing them to better themselves even more so. Instead, \u201cHe wanted to bring them to a new state of being in which they\u2019d be (fully) rectified\u201d in the end. The point is that while He started the Tikkun<\/i> process, He expected and enabled us to finish it ourselves.<\/p>\n
\u201cThus the Supreme Mind set about making what it made through this (initial) repair process, until all of the different levels and Partzufim<\/i> were produced, and they were all comprised of parts that had been damaged in the earlier Shevira<\/i> together with the Tikkun<\/i> that came to fix them\u201d i.e., until they were granted the parts of MaH<\/i> and BaN<\/i> out of which the Partzufim<\/i> were made.<\/p>\n
And so while \u201cthe world is governed thus\u201d for the meanwhile, \u201cthe work is now in the hands of humanity to complete\u201d.<\/p>\n
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(c) 2013 Rabbi Yaakov Feldman<\/p>\n
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