{"id":595,"date":"2011-05-01T11:11:40","date_gmt":"2011-05-01T15:11:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ramchal.wordpress.com\/?p=595"},"modified":"2011-05-01T11:11:40","modified_gmt":"2011-05-01T15:11:40","slug":"ramak-on-all-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rabbiyaakovfeldman.aishdas.org\/ramchal\/2011\/05\/01\/ramak-on-all-this\/","title":{"rendered":"Ramak on all this"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ramak agrees with us in Pardes<\/em> 15:4 that the term Shechina<\/em> in the idea that \u201cjust as the Shechina<\/em> is below, it\u2019s likewise above\u201d isn\u2019t to be taken in its usual sense. He offers that it\u2019s either a \u201cborrowed\u201d or analogous term meant to allude to the mysteriousness of the subject at hand, or it stands for the whole of God\u2019s emanation and revelations, or to the display of Chochma<\/em> by means of Binah<\/em> which is itself termed Shechina<\/em>. While his first definition is interesting (though nebulous), the others would have the Shechina<\/em> in this context laying within<\/em> the circle, rather than above and below it as we set it out, thus offering another view of the fact that truly \u201cThe whole world\u201d inside and out \u201cis full of His Glory\u201d.<\/p>\n

Ramak also offers that the notion that what\u2019s above comes to be what\u2019s below and vice versa isn\u2019t only so in the \u201cbig picture\u201d but in every instance and in each Sephira<\/em> as well, indicating that everything is a complex of interconnected parts [1].<\/p>\n

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Notes:<\/p>\n

[1]\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 See Zohar 1, 20a and 3, 291b; Sefer Yetzirah<\/em> 1:7; and Nephesh<\/em> HaChaim<\/em> 1:5.<\/p>\n

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

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