{"id":2181,"date":"2016-01-13T11:59:05","date_gmt":"2016-01-13T16:59:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ramchal.wordpress.com\/?p=2181"},"modified":"2016-01-13T11:59:05","modified_gmt":"2016-01-13T16:59:05","slug":"so-in-short-this-petach-is-making-the-point-that","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rabbiyaakovfeldman.aishdas.org\/ramchal\/2016\/01\/13\/so-in-short-this-petach-is-making-the-point-that\/","title":{"rendered":"So in short this Petach is making the point that &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Petach ends as follows:<strong> For this is the way that <\/strong>the names <strong><em>MaH<\/em> and <em>BaN<\/em> were established under them<\/strong>, i.e., under <em>Adam<\/em> <em>Kadmon<\/em>&#8216;s <em>Yesod<\/em> and <em>Malchut <\/em>[1]<strong>. <\/strong>That is done by means of the balance-scale [2], Ramchal adds in his comments, which is how all of the <em>Partzufim<\/em> experience <em>Tikkun<\/em>. In fact, <strong>this <\/strong>particular combination of <em>MaH<\/em> and <em>BaN<\/em> <strong>is the essential order of governance <\/strong>needed <strong>to <\/strong>ultimately <strong>bring about complete perfection.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>So in short this <em>Petach<\/em> is making the point that the <em>Partzuf<\/em> of <em>Attik<\/em> supports the \u00a0<em>Partzuf<\/em> of <em>Erich<\/em> by means of the balance-scale which is rooted in it (and is the mystical notion of the conjunction of <em>MaH<\/em> and <em>BaN<\/em>). This phenomenon is the gist of the <em>Tikkunim<\/em> of all of the <em>Partzufim<\/em> since is governs all of the world of <em>Atzilut<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s just that when this occurs, <em>Atzilut<\/em> stands under <em>Adam<\/em> <em>Kadmon<\/em>&#8216;s <em>Sephirot<\/em> of <em>Yesod<\/em> and <em>Malchut<\/em>, since that&#8217;s where this <em>Tikkun<\/em> takes place. But since the conjunction of <em>MaH<\/em> and <em>BaN<\/em> is the playing out of the <em>Tikkun<\/em> of all damages, it follows that the balance-scale&#8217;s governance is the main form of governance, so <em>Erich<\/em> <em>Anpin<\/em> must stand under it.<\/p>\n<p>Footnotes:<\/p>\n<p>[1]\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 See 5:5 above for an explanation of the names <em>MaH<\/em> and <em>BaN<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>[2]\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 See Section 11.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>(c) 2016 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>The Petach ends as follows: For this is the way that the names MaH and BaN were established under them, i.e., under Adam Kadmon&#8216;s Yesod and Malchut [1]. That is done by means of the balance-scale [2], Ramchal adds in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/rabbiyaakovfeldman.aishdas.org\/ramchal\/2016\/01\/13\/so-in-short-this-petach-is-making-the-point-that\/\">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-2181","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\/2181","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=2181"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rabbiyaakovfeldman.aishdas.org\/ramchal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2181\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rabbiyaakovfeldman.aishdas.org\/ramchal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rabbiyaakovfeldman.aishdas.org\/ramchal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rabbiyaakovfeldman.aishdas.org\/ramchal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}