{"id":629,"date":"2011-05-11T10:11:50","date_gmt":"2011-05-11T14:11:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ramchal.wordpress.com\/?p=629"},"modified":"2011-05-11T10:11:50","modified_gmt":"2011-05-11T14:11:50","slug":"petach-20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rabbiyaakovfeldman.aishdas.org\/ramchal\/2011\/05\/11\/petach-20\/","title":{"rendered":"Petach 20"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"right\">\u05db\u05dc \u05e2\u05e0\u05d9\u05df \u05e1\u05d5\u05d3 \u05e1\u05d3\u05e8\u05d9\u05d4\u05dd \u05ea\u05dc\u05d5\u05d9 \u05d5\u05e0\u05de\u05e9\u05da \u05de\u05e1\u05d5\u05d3 \u05d7\u05d3&#8221;\u05e8 &#8211; \u05d9\u05de\u05d9\u05df \u05d5\u05e9\u05de\u05d0\u05dc \u05d5\u05d0\u05de\u05e6\u05e2. \u05de\u05ea\u05d7\u05d1\u05e8\u05d9\u05dd \u05d1\u05d4\u05e8\u05db\u05d1\u05d5\u05ea \u05e9\u05d5\u05e0\u05d5\u05ea, \u05d1\u05d1\u05d7\u05d9\u05e0\u05ea \u05e1\u05d9\u05ea\u05d5\u05dd \u05d5\u05e7\u05de\u05d9\u05e6\u05d4, \u05d0\u05d5 \u05e4\u05ea\u05d9\u05d7\u05d4 \u05d5\u05d4\u05ea\u05e4\u05e9\u05d8\u05d5\u05ea, \u05d5\u05d4\u05d9\u05d9\u05e0\u05d5 \u05e7\u05d5 \u05d5\u05e0\u05e7\u05d5\u05d3\u05d4<\/p>\n<p><strong>The mystical import of these<\/strong> <strong>categories<\/strong> (of twenty-two letters) <strong>lies in and derives from the mystical concepts of <em>Chessed<\/em> <\/strong>(\u201ckindness\u201d)<strong>, <em>Din<\/em> <\/strong>(\u201cjudgment\u201d)<strong>, and <em>Rachamim<\/em><\/strong> (\u201ccompassion\u201d)<strong>,<\/strong> (which represent the) <strong>\u201cright\u201d, \u201cleft\u201d and \u201ccenter\u201d<\/strong> (columns)<strong>. They join in different combinations, <\/strong>(and appear in formations represented as being) <strong>\u201cclosed\u201d and \u201ccompressed\u201d, or \u201copen\u201d and \u201cexpanded\u201d which is to say as a \u201cline\u201d or a \u201cpoint\u201d.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>(c) 2011 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;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;-<\/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>\u05db\u05dc \u05e2\u05e0\u05d9\u05df \u05e1\u05d5\u05d3 \u05e1\u05d3\u05e8\u05d9\u05d4\u05dd \u05ea\u05dc\u05d5\u05d9 \u05d5\u05e0\u05de\u05e9\u05da \u05de\u05e1\u05d5\u05d3 \u05d7\u05d3&#8221;\u05e8 &#8211; \u05d9\u05de\u05d9\u05df \u05d5\u05e9\u05de\u05d0\u05dc \u05d5\u05d0\u05de\u05e6\u05e2. \u05de\u05ea\u05d7\u05d1\u05e8\u05d9\u05dd \u05d1\u05d4\u05e8\u05db\u05d1\u05d5\u05ea \u05e9\u05d5\u05e0\u05d5\u05ea, \u05d1\u05d1\u05d7\u05d9\u05e0\u05ea \u05e1\u05d9\u05ea\u05d5\u05dd \u05d5\u05e7\u05de\u05d9\u05e6\u05d4, \u05d0\u05d5 \u05e4\u05ea\u05d9\u05d7\u05d4 \u05d5\u05d4\u05ea\u05e4\u05e9\u05d8\u05d5\u05ea, \u05d5\u05d4\u05d9\u05d9\u05e0\u05d5 \u05e7\u05d5 \u05d5\u05e0\u05e7\u05d5\u05d3\u05d4 The mystical import of these categories (of twenty-two letters) lies in and derives from the mystical &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/rabbiyaakovfeldman.aishdas.org\/ramchal\/2011\/05\/11\/petach-20\/\">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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"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\/629","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=629"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rabbiyaakovfeldman.aishdas.org\/ramchal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rabbiyaakovfeldman.aishdas.org\/ramchal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rabbiyaakovfeldman.aishdas.org\/ramchal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rabbiyaakovfeldman.aishdas.org\/ramchal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}