{"id":735,"date":"2011-07-04T11:39:14","date_gmt":"2011-07-04T15:39:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ramchal.wordpress.com\/?p=735"},"modified":"2011-07-04T11:39:14","modified_gmt":"2011-07-04T15:39:14","slug":"the-tetragrammatons-role","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rabbiyaakovfeldman.aishdas.org\/ramchal\/2011\/07\/04\/the-tetragrammatons-role\/","title":{"rendered":"The Tetragrammaton’s role"},"content":{"rendered":"

Let\u2019s return now to his statement in Petach<\/em> 22 that the entire range of functions of the\u00a0Sephirot<\/em>\u00a0is governed by the order of the ten\u00a0Sephirot<\/em>, which is <\/strong>itself contained within the order of the four letters of God\u2019s Name<\/strong>, and which is\u00a0also\u00a0the order that governs the trope, vowels, \u201ccrowns\u201d and letters<\/strong>\u00a0through the mystical import of those four letters as well as the four names contained in each individual name.<\/strong><\/p>\n

As he explains in his comments there, \u201cthe four letters of God\u2019s name (\u05d9-\u05d4-\u05d5-\u05d4) incorporate all ten Sephirot<\/em>, according to the mystical import of their essential division (which is) into the five Partzufim <\/em>(Erech<\/em> Anpin<\/em>, Abba<\/em>, Imma<\/em>, Zeir<\/em> Anpin<\/em>, and Nukva<\/em>).\u201d<\/p>\n

The first question is, how could the four<\/em> lettered name of God represent five Partzufim<\/em>? As he explains it, \u201cthe pointed (upper) end of the Yud<\/em> (where the quill first touches the parchment in the process of setting down the letter) is (equivalent to Partzuf<\/em>) Erech<\/em> Anpin;<\/em> (the body of) the Yud<\/em> (i.e., which is fleshed out) is (equivalent to Partzuf<\/em>) Abba<\/em>; the (first) Heh<\/em> (in its entirety) is (equivalent to Partzuf<\/em>) Imma<\/em>; the Vav<\/em> (in its entirety) is (equivalent to Partzuf<\/em>) Zeir<\/em> Anpin<\/em>; and the (second) Heh<\/em> (also in its entirety) is (equivalent to Partzuf<\/em>) Nukva<\/em>\u201d [1].<\/p>\n

He then offers that the trope, vowels, <\/strong>and \u201ccrowns\u201d <\/strong>likewise fall under the mystical import of those four letters<\/strong> in their own way. And the same is true of what he here terms \u201cthe four names\u201d<\/strong>. These aren\u2019t Divine names discussed just above, nor are they the attributes we also discussed; Ramchal explains them to refer to the \u201cnames\u201d AV<\/em>, SaG<\/em>, MaH<\/em>, and BaN<\/em>. These are more like nick-names than actual appellations, if you will: acronyms formed from the various numerical equivalents of the Tetragrammaton, as we\u2019ll see.<\/p>\n

Note:<\/p>\n

[1]\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 See 4:1,5 above.<\/p>\n

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

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Let\u2019s return now to his statement in Petach 22 that the entire range of functions of the\u00a0Sephirot\u00a0is governed by the order of the ten\u00a0Sephirot, which is itself contained within the order of the four letters of God\u2019s Name, and which … Continue reading →<\/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-735","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\/735","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=735"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rabbiyaakovfeldman.aishdas.org\/ramchal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/735\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rabbiyaakovfeldman.aishdas.org\/ramchal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rabbiyaakovfeldman.aishdas.org\/ramchal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rabbiyaakovfeldman.aishdas.org\/ramchal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}