{"id":1838,"date":"2014-04-30T11:42:14","date_gmt":"2014-04-30T15:42:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ramchal.wordpress.com\/?p=1838"},"modified":"2014-04-30T11:42:14","modified_gmt":"2014-04-30T15:42:14","slug":"partzufim-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rabbiyaakovfeldman.aishdas.org\/ramchal\/2014\/04\/30\/partzufim-6\/","title":{"rendered":"Partzufim (6)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Petach<\/em> 72 indicates that some of the Partzufim<\/em> are<\/strong>, i.e., function as, \u201cmale\u201d and others <\/strong>as \u201cfemale\u201d. That is, some of them<\/strong>, the \u201cmale\u201d ones, function as a conduit for Chessed<\/em>, and others<\/strong> i.e., the \u201cfemale\u201d ones, function as a conduit for Gevurah<\/em>. But when they conjoin, both forms of conduction combine and \u201cgive birth\u201d to a desired action, as there\u2019s nothing that isn\u2019t a combination of the two qualities of Chessed<\/em> and Gevurah<\/em>. <\/strong>This harkens back to what was said above in 11:3; see there for an explanation.<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/strong>Ramchal offers in his comments here that there are three reasons why everything is a combination of Chessed<\/em> (allowance and consent) and Gevurah<\/em> (prohibition and refusal): to allocate reward and punishment (as an allowance for one\u2019s freely-made decisions to do right, or a refusal to allow for it for decisions to do wrong), to allow for counterbalance (which only the existence of patent opposites like Chessed<\/em> and Gevurah<\/em> allows for), and because the very essence of things are rooted in these concepts (so their offspring must be comprised of them, too).<\/p>\n

(c) 2014 Rabbi Yaakov Feldman<\/p>\n

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Petach 72 indicates that some of the Partzufim are, i.e., function as, \u201cmale\u201d and others as \u201cfemale\u201d. That is, some of them, the \u201cmale\u201d ones, function as a conduit for Chessed, and others i.e., the \u201cfemale\u201d ones, function as a … 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":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kabbalah-jewish-thought-ramchal-torah-hashkafa"],"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\/1838","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=1838"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rabbiyaakovfeldman.aishdas.org\/ramchal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1838\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rabbiyaakovfeldman.aishdas.org\/ramchal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rabbiyaakovfeldman.aishdas.org\/ramchal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rabbiyaakovfeldman.aishdas.org\/ramchal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}