{"id":2111,"date":"2015-08-16T12:34:51","date_gmt":"2015-08-16T16:34:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ramchal.wordpress.com\/?p=2111"},"modified":"2015-08-16T12:34:51","modified_gmt":"2015-08-16T16:34:51","slug":"the-ultimate-goal-is-to-bestow-utter-and-perfect-beneficence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rabbiyaakovfeldman.aishdas.org\/ramchal\/2015\/08\/16\/the-ultimate-goal-is-to-bestow-utter-and-perfect-beneficence\/","title":{"rendered":"The ultimate goal is to bestow utter and perfect beneficence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Petach <\/em>92 returns to a vitally important theme enunciated early on. <strong>The ultimate goal of the entire order of the <em>Sephirot<\/em> and their governance <\/strong>&#8212; which is to say, of all of creation and reality &#8212;<strong> is to bestow utter and perfect beneficence<\/strong> with the undoing of wrong and injustice, and the revelation of God&#8217;s <em>Yichud <\/em>[1].<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ll explore that and the role of <em>Erich<\/em> <em>Anpin<\/em> as opposed to its counterpart <em>Zeir<\/em> <em>Anpin<\/em> in it all.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Footnote:<\/p>\n<p>[1] See <a href=\"https:\/\/ramchal.wordpress.com\/2010\/12\/05\/a-quick-aside-god-and-the-meaning-of-life-1\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In his comments here Ramchal makes the point that the ultimate beneficence also has to manifest itself in the &#8220;Trace&#8221; realm referred to earlier on, in which right and wrong play themselves out. See section 6 for a discussion of the Trace and the Line and their interactions.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>(c) 2015 Rabbi Yaakov Feldman<\/p>\n<p>Feel 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;&#8211;<\/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>Petach 92 returns to a vitally important theme enunciated early on. The ultimate goal of the entire order of the Sephirot and their governance &#8212; which is to say, of all of creation and reality &#8212; is to bestow utter &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/rabbiyaakovfeldman.aishdas.org\/ramchal\/2015\/08\/16\/the-ultimate-goal-is-to-bestow-utter-and-perfect-beneficence\/\">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":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2111","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\/2111","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=2111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rabbiyaakovfeldman.aishdas.org\/ramchal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2111\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rabbiyaakovfeldman.aishdas.org\/ramchal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rabbiyaakovfeldman.aishdas.org\/ramchal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rabbiyaakovfeldman.aishdas.org\/ramchal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}