{"id":959,"date":"2011-11-20T08:13:26","date_gmt":"2011-11-20T13:13:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ramchal.wordpress.com\/?p=959"},"modified":"2011-11-20T08:13:26","modified_gmt":"2011-11-20T13:13:26","slug":"petach-35","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rabbiyaakovfeldman.aishdas.org\/ramchal\/2011\/11\/20\/petach-35\/","title":{"rendered":"Petach 35"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>This is the section\u2019s last Petach. We\u2019ll be in Israel for a couple of weeks (Yay!), and we\u2019ll also need to research this material afterwards, so we\u2019ll be gone for a while.<\/em><\/p>\n<p align=\"right\">\u05d1\u05d0&#8221;\u05e7 \u05e0\u05e2\u05e9\u05d4 \u05d4\u05d7\u05d1\u05d5\u05e8 \u05e9\u05dc \u05d4\u05e7\u05d5 \u05e2\u05dd \u05d4\u05e8\u05e9\u05d9\u05de\u05d5 &#8211; \u05e9\u05dc\u05e7\u05d7\u05d5 \u05dc\u05d5 \u05dc\u05db\u05dc\u05d9. \u05d5\u05d4\u05d0\u05d5\u05e8 \u05d4\u05d9\u05d5\u05e6\u05d0 \u05d3\u05e8\u05da \u05d4\u05d7\u05d5\u05e9\u05d9\u05dd \u05d4\u05d5\u05d0 \u05d0\u05d5\u05e8 \u05e9\u05db\u05d1\u05e8 \u05e0\u05ea\u05d7\u05d1\u05e8 \u05d1\u05db\u05dc\u05d9, \u05e9\u05dc\u05db\u05df \u05d0\u05d7\u05e8 \u05db\u05da \u05d4\u05d5\u05d0 \u05de\u05d5\u05e6\u05d9\u05d0 \u05db\u05dc\u05d9 \u05d1\u05d0\u05d5\u05e8\u05d5\u05ea \u05d4\u05e4\u05d4. \u05d5\u05e8\u05e7 \u05d6\u05d4 \u05d4\u05d5\u05d0 \u05d4\u05d0\u05d5\u05e8 \u05d4\u05e8\u05d0\u05d5\u05d9 \u05dc\u05d1\u05e0\u05d5\u05ea \u05de\u05de\u05e0\u05d5 \u05db\u05dc \u05d4\u05d1\u05e0\u05d9\u05e0\u05d9\u05dd. \u05d5\u05d9\u05e6\u05d0 \u05de\u05d4 \u05e9\u05e6\u05e8\u05d9\u05da \u05dc\u05d1\u05e0\u05d5\u05ea \u05de\u05de\u05e0\u05d5 \u05db\u05dc \u05d4\u05d1\u05e0\u05d9\u05e0\u05d9\u05dd \u05d4\u05e0\u05e8\u05e6\u05d9\u05dd, \u05d5\u05e0\u05ea\u05e4\u05e9\u05d8 \u05d1\u05d4\u05d3\u05e8\u05d2\u05d4 \u05dc\u05e4\u05d9 \u05e6\u05d5\u05e8\u05da \u05d4\u05e0\u05e8\u05e6\u05d4 \u05d1\u05d1\u05e0\u05d9\u05e0\u05d9\u05dd \u05d4\u05d0\u05dc\u05d4:<\/p>\n<p><strong>It was in <em>Adam<\/em> <em>Kadmon<\/em> where the conjunction of the line with the trace &#8212; which the line took as its receptacle &#8212; came about. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Thus the light that emerged by way of the \u201csenses\u201d was light that was already conjoined with a receptacle<\/strong> (within <em>Adam<\/em> <em>Kadmon<\/em>)<strong>, and that\u2019s why it was able to produce a receptacle through the lights of the \u201cmouth\u201d <\/strong>(afterwards, when the lights passed through the \u201csenses\u201d)<strong>. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>This <\/strong>(i.e., the light that passed through <em>Adam<\/em> <em>Kadmon\u2019s<\/em> \u201csenses\u201d)<strong> is the only light that\u2019s fit to erect the various phenomena <\/strong>\u00a0(according to the mystical notion of a human stature) <strong>and to bring about whatever was needed to build all the intended phenomena <\/strong>\u00a0(i.e., the worlds of <em>Atzilut<\/em>, <em>Briah<\/em>, <em>Yetzirah<\/em>, and <em>Assiyah<\/em> as well as mortal man)<strong>. And it progressively developed <\/strong>(by going from the \u201cears\u201d to the \u201cnose\u201d, and from the \u201cnose\u201d to the \u201cmouth\u201d)<strong> whatever was necessary to actualize what was intended for these phenomena.<\/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>This is the section\u2019s last Petach. We\u2019ll be in Israel for a couple of weeks (Yay!), and we\u2019ll also need to research this material afterwards, so we\u2019ll be gone for a while. \u05d1\u05d0&#8221;\u05e7 \u05e0\u05e2\u05e9\u05d4 \u05d4\u05d7\u05d1\u05d5\u05e8 \u05e9\u05dc \u05d4\u05e7\u05d5 \u05e2\u05dd \u05d4\u05e8\u05e9\u05d9\u05de\u05d5 &#8211; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/rabbiyaakovfeldman.aishdas.org\/ramchal\/2011\/11\/20\/petach-35\/\">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-959","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\/959","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=959"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rabbiyaakovfeldman.aishdas.org\/ramchal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/959\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rabbiyaakovfeldman.aishdas.org\/ramchal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rabbiyaakovfeldman.aishdas.org\/ramchal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rabbiyaakovfeldman.aishdas.org\/ramchal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}