{"id":1859,"date":"2014-05-21T09:37:43","date_gmt":"2014-05-21T13:37:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ramchal.wordpress.com\/?p=1859"},"modified":"2014-05-21T09:37:43","modified_gmt":"2014-05-21T13:37:43","slug":"a-quick-backtrack-in-order-to-affirm-the-point-of-it-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rabbiyaakovfeldman.aishdas.org\/ramchal\/2014\/05\/21\/a-quick-backtrack-in-order-to-affirm-the-point-of-it-all\/","title":{"rendered":"A Quick Backtrack in order to Affirm the Point of it All"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ramchal said in Petach<\/em> 16 above that everything<\/strong>\u00a0(manifestly)emanates from Him, and that He is the end-point of everything, as it\u2019s written: \u201cI am first, and I am last\u201d (Isaiah 44:6).\u00a0<\/strong>And it likewise illustrates that\u00a0He is<\/strong>\u00a0revealed at the beginning as well as at the end.<\/strong><\/p>\n

We spoke about that here<\/a>.\u00a0 But we\u2019d like to add some other sources to this revolutionary (literally, as in \u201cto revolve\u201d) idea of everything returning to its Source<\/em> here.<\/p>\n

We found these sources in the esteemed R\u2019 Y.M. Morgenstern\u2019s work, Yam HaChochma<\/em> (5777) pp. 639-641. Very much could and should be said about R\u2019 Morgenstern\u2019s expertise, scholarship, genius, and Divine inspiration, but that is far from our intentions here. Suffice it to say that one could hardly do better to become a student of Kabbalah than to study his many and truly holy works.<\/p>\n

In any event, for other references to this notion see Eitz Chaim<\/em> 1:1, R\u2019 Sharabi\u2019s Nahar Shalom<\/em> p. 13a, The Petach<\/em> and Mavoh<\/em> HaSha\u2019arim to R\u2019 Aaron of Strashelye\u2019s Sefer Sha\u2019arei HaYichud v\u2019HeEmunah<\/em>. and R\u2019 Ashlag\u2019s Pri Chacham<\/em> — Ma\u2019amarim<\/em> pp. 149-150.<\/p>\n

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(c) 2014 Rabbi Yaakov Feldman
\nFeel free to contact me at feldman@torah.org<\/a><\/p>\n

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Ramchal said in Petach 16 above that everything\u00a0(manifestly)emanates from Him, and that He is the end-point of everything, as it\u2019s written: \u201cI am first, and I am last\u201d (Isaiah 44:6).\u00a0And it likewise illustrates that\u00a0He is\u00a0revealed at the beginning as well … 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-1859","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\/1859","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=1859"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rabbiyaakovfeldman.aishdas.org\/ramchal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1859\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rabbiyaakovfeldman.aishdas.org\/ramchal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rabbiyaakovfeldman.aishdas.org\/ramchal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rabbiyaakovfeldman.aishdas.org\/ramchal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}