{"id":2171,"date":"2015-11-16T09:49:35","date_gmt":"2015-11-16T14:49:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ramchal.wordpress.com\/?p=2171"},"modified":"2015-11-16T09:49:35","modified_gmt":"2015-11-16T14:49:35","slug":"section-17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rabbiyaakovfeldman.aishdas.org\/ramchal\/2015\/11\/16\/section-17\/","title":{"rendered":"Section 17"},"content":{"rendered":"

Section 17 is entitled “The Connection between (the world of) Atzilut<\/em> and (the world of) Adam<\/em> Kadmon<\/em> through (the Partzufim<\/em> of) Attik<\/em> and Erich Anpin<\/em>“, and it encompasses Petachim<\/em> 96-100.<\/p>\n

Let’s get our bearings again. As Ramchal points out in Sefer<\/em> HaIlan<\/em> (7), the Partzuf<\/em> of Attik <\/em>is above the other Partzufim<\/em>. It’s actually the Malchut<\/em> — i.e., it’s the lowest rung — of the high world of Adam<\/em> Kadmon<\/em>. Attik<\/em>‘s own upper division is a separate entity, Radlah<\/em> (“the Unfathomable Beginning”) which we discussed above, and it’s lower is engarbed in and thus permeates and thus influences the Partzuf<\/em> below Adam<\/em> Kadmon<\/em>, Atzilut<\/em>.<\/p>\n

The first Petach<\/em> of the section, Petach<\/em> 96, is concerned with the connection between the exalted world of Adam<\/em> Kadmon<\/em> and the one just beneath it, Atzilut<\/em>, and how that connection affects Divine governance.<\/p>\n

We’ll be discussing that, Ramchal says in his comments here, since we’d already discussed in Section 16 above the two ways that the Partzuf<\/em> of Erich<\/em> Anpin <\/em>functions — as itself, and as it relates to the Partzuf<\/em> of Zeir<\/em> Anpin<\/em> below it — which is analogous to what we’ll be discussing here. But we’d first need to discuss the Partzuf<\/em> of Attik<\/em> Yomin<\/em> that governs the Partzuf<\/em> of Erich<\/em> Anpin<\/em>.<\/p>\n

In truth, Petach<\/em> 96 is a rather technical one that might distract us, but it serves to clear up an apparent contradiction in two statements in Eitz<\/em> Chaim<\/em>. We’ll proceed from it, of course, to the Petachim<\/em> that follow which speak to the greater theme of the interactions of the various worlds, Partzufim<\/em> and intentions for the universe under discussion.<\/p>\n

(c) 2015 Rabbi Yaakov Feldman<\/p>\n

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