{"id":558,"date":"2011-04-03T17:32:15","date_gmt":"2011-04-03T21:32:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ramchal.wordpress.com\/?p=558"},"modified":"2011-04-03T17:32:15","modified_gmt":"2011-04-03T21:32:15","slug":"what-happens-there-happens-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rabbiyaakovfeldman.aishdas.org\/ramchal\/2011\/04\/03\/what-happens-there-happens-here\/","title":{"rendered":"What happens there, happens here"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ramchal expands on the correspondence between the physical universe and the Sephira<\/em> system that we referred to above in his Klallim Rishonim<\/em> 1. He indicates there that \u201ccreation \u2026 itself in its entirety is a replica of all the lights (i.e., of the Sephira <\/em>system) that produced it. As the various parts of the universe each corresponds to the lights in every way \u2026 each to each\u201d. \u00a0That explains the idea of there being \u201c613 lights which parallel the (248) limbs (and 365 organs) of the human form\u201d, and the idea that they function in ways that \u201cparallel the natural laws that govern humanity\u201d and the natural world.<\/p>\n

He also makes the point that \u201cwhatever is said of the Sephirot<\/em> is (likewise) said of the universe\u201d, it\u2019s just that what\u2019s said about the former \u201cis said about them in their context\u201d while what\u2019s said about of the latter \u201cis said about them in their<\/em> context\u201d. So, for example, it\u2019s said that \u201cSephirot<\/em> \u2018speak\u2019 to each other\u201d or \u201cthat they \u2018hug\u2019\u201d one another, and the like. \u201cThat\u2019s not to say that the Sephirot<\/em> are two specific entities that (actually) speak to each other\u201d or hug of course, Ramchal underscores. The point is that at times \u201cone of them leaves its own border and enters the border of the other\u201d much the way people communicate by one person emitting words which enter another\u2019s ears, and the like. And that illustrates the idea that they interact by assuming different relative positions, as when they\u2019re \u201cencased\u201d within each other for example.<\/p>\n

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

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