{"id":305,"date":"2011-01-05T12:13:17","date_gmt":"2011-01-05T16:13:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ramchal.wordpress.com\/?p=305"},"modified":"2011-01-05T12:13:17","modified_gmt":"2011-01-05T16:13:17","slug":"ramchal-on-the-sephirot-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rabbiyaakovfeldman.aishdas.org\/ramchal\/2011\/01\/05\/ramchal-on-the-sephirot-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Ramchal on the Sephirot (1)"},"content":{"rendered":"

We\u2019re going to have to do this in stages, since Ramchal says a lot about the Sephirot<\/em>. What we\u2019ll do first, though, is present a remarkable metaphor he offers that isn\u2019t well known but should be. Then we\u2019ll quote some other things he says about the Sephirot <\/em>from various works and either go back to interweave them within this metaphor, or we\u2019ll cite additional unrelated insights of his, depending.<\/p>\n

The metaphor is found in Klallei Ma\u2019amar HaChochma<\/em> 4 [1] and it sets out to explain the relationship between God Himself and the Sephirot<\/em>; it goes as follows.<\/p>\n

He asks us to imagine \u201ca sage who came to a particular community and who, for some reason, didn\u2019t want to be known to be as wise as he truly was but to be taken as just like the others instead. So he\u2019d speak and interact with them in ways that would guarantee that he wasn\u2019t recognized (as a sage) or lauded for wanting to live among them. And he adapted whatever he said or did toward that end accordingly\u201d. We\u2019ll soon see how this goes to explain how God interacts with the world through the Sephirot<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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Notes:<\/p>\n

[1] \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Found in R\u2019 Friedlander\u2019s edition of Da\u2019at Tevunot<\/em> – Sefer HaKlallim<\/em> pp. 309-310.<\/p>\n

(c) 2011 Rabbi Yaakov Feldman<\/p>\n

Feel free to contact me at feldman@torah.org<\/a><\/p>\n

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