{"id":1873,"date":"2014-06-25T10:53:59","date_gmt":"2014-06-25T14:53:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ramchal.wordpress.com\/?p=1873"},"modified":"2014-06-25T10:53:59","modified_gmt":"2014-06-25T14:53:59","slug":"attik-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rabbiyaakovfeldman.aishdas.org\/ramchal\/2014\/06\/25\/attik-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Attik (4)"},"content":{"rendered":"

In order to understand Ramchal\u2019s statements we\u2019d need to begin with this. The Kabbalists speak of two sorts of movements in the universe: from Heaven down to earth, known as Ohr<\/em> Yashar<\/em> (\u201cLight [that emits] straight [and heads downward]\u201d), and from earth back up to Heaven, known as Ohr<\/em> Chozer<\/em> (\u201cLight [that emits] backward [or, heads back up]\u201d}. The point is that while we have been presenting the Ohr<\/em> Yashar <\/em>dynamicin our discussions of how the universe derived from the Divine, the Ohr<\/em> Chozer <\/em>dynamic also comes into play.<\/p>\n

For, put plainly, the world wasn\u2019t only created to remain in the present state forever; it will someday return to the pristine oneness with the Divine Presence it enjoyed before the world was created [1]. And it — as well as we ourselves — will experience certain specific stages along the way.<\/p>\n

The point is that all of that will come about through a sort of \u201cimplosion\u201d of the Ohr<\/em> Yashar<\/em> process that Ari has been laying out for us (and which Ramchal has been explaining in Klach<\/em>) that is the great Ohr<\/em> Chozer<\/em> phenomenon. Let\u2019s see how the Partzuf<\/em> of Attik<\/em> and others illustrate all this.<\/p>\n

Note:<\/p>\n

[1]\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 See 4:6 above and note 16 there.<\/p>\n

(c) 2014 Rabbi Yaakov Feldman
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