{"id":203,"date":"2012-03-06T16:27:57","date_gmt":"2012-03-06T16:27:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ravashlag.wordpress.com\/?p=203"},"modified":"2012-03-06T16:27:57","modified_gmt":"2012-03-06T16:27:57","slug":"r-ashlags-introduction-to-the-zohar-ch-50","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rabbiyaakovfeldman.aishdas.org\/ravashlag\/2012\/03\/06\/r-ashlags-introduction-to-the-zohar-ch-50\/","title":{"rendered":"R\u2019 Ashlag\u2019s \u201cIntroduction To The Zohar\u201d: Ch. 50"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Nonetheless know that the five lights of Nephesh<\/em>, Ruach<\/em>, Neshama<\/em>, Chaya<\/em>, and Yechidah<\/em> from the world of Assiyah<\/em> is only a Nephesh<\/em>, Ruach<\/em>, Neshama<\/em>, Chaya<\/em>, and Yechidah<\/em> of Nephesh<\/em>-Light, and hasn\u2019t anything of Ruach<\/em>-Light or beyond.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>That\u2019s to say, we\u2019re merely addressing the lowest level of Nephesh-<\/em>, Ruach-<\/em>, Neshama-<\/em>, Chaya-<\/em>, and Yechidah-<\/em>lights, no matter how high and exalted they are from our perspective.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 For Ruach<\/em>-Light \u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u2026<\/strong>the next highest one\u2026<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u2026 only exists in the world of Yetzirah<\/em>, while Neshama<\/em>-Light only exists in the world of Briah<\/em>, Chaya<\/em>-Light only exists in the world of Atzilut<\/em>, and Yechidah<\/em>-Light only exists in the world of Adam Kadmon<\/em>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 Still and all, as we\u2019d indicated before, everything that exists on a comprehensive level exists on a particular level as well, and even in its remotest detail. <\/strong><\/p>\n

Ashlag alluded to a core aspect of this principle (enunciated in the expression, \u201cthe beginning is lodged in the end, and the end is lodged in the beginning\u201d, Sefer<\/em> Yetzirah<\/em> 1:7) in Ch\u2019s 9 and 15. He spoke directly of the idea above in broad terms in Ch. 42, in terms of all the worlds being \u201cinter-woven\u201d, and said outright in Ch. 43 that \u201ceverything found in existence in general can also be found in each and every world, as well as in each and every one of each world\u2019s tiniest fragments\u201d.<\/p>\n

His point is that we needn\u2019t be overly concerned for the fact that the five lights spoken of above are an aspect of Nephesh<\/em>-Light alone, for all the worlds are interwoven; hence what\u2019s true of one is likewise true of them all. It\u2019s nonetheless ironically true as well that\u2026<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 All five levels of Nephesh<\/em>, Ruach<\/em>, Neshama<\/em>, Chaya<\/em>, and Yechidah<\/em> exist in the world of Assiyah<\/em> as well, as we explained. It\u2019s just that they\u2019re only a Nephesh-<\/em>level of (the whole cluster of) Nephesh<\/em>, Ruach<\/em>, Neshama<\/em>, Chaya<\/em>, and Yechidah<\/em> (for all practical purposes). <\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 Along the very same lines there\u2019s also a Ruach<\/em>-level Nephesh<\/em>, Ruach<\/em>, Neshama<\/em>, Chaya<\/em>, and Yechidah<\/em> (cluster) in the world of Yetzirah<\/em>; a Neshama<\/em>-level Nephesh<\/em>, Ruach<\/em>, Neshama<\/em>, Chaya<\/em>, and Yechidah<\/em> of Neshama<\/em> in Briah<\/em>; a Chaya<\/em>-level Nephesh<\/em>, Ruach<\/em>, Neshama<\/em>, Chaya<\/em>, and Yechidah<\/em> of Chaya<\/em> in Atzilut<\/em>; and a Yechidah-<\/em>level Nephesh<\/em>, Ruach<\/em>, Neshama<\/em>, Chaya<\/em>, and Yechidah<\/em> in Adam Kadmon<\/em>. The discrepancies between them is the same as the ones we’d indicated between the Nephesh<\/em>-, Ruach<\/em>-, Neshama<\/em>-, Chaya<\/em>-, and Yechidah<\/em>-levels of Assiyah<\/em>. <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n

(c) 2012 Rabbi Yaakov Feldman<\/p>\n

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\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Nonetheless know that the five lights of Nephesh, Ruach, Neshama, Chaya, and Yechidah from the world of Assiyah is only a Nephesh, Ruach, Neshama, Chaya, and Yechidah of Nephesh-Light, and hasn\u2019t anything of Ruach-Light … 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-203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7iqlA-3h","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rabbiyaakovfeldman.aishdas.org\/ravashlag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rabbiyaakovfeldman.aishdas.org\/ravashlag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rabbiyaakovfeldman.aishdas.org\/ravashlag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rabbiyaakovfeldman.aishdas.org\/ravashlag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rabbiyaakovfeldman.aishdas.org\/ravashlag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=203"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rabbiyaakovfeldman.aishdas.org\/ravashlag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rabbiyaakovfeldman.aishdas.org\/ravashlag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rabbiyaakovfeldman.aishdas.org\/ravashlag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rabbiyaakovfeldman.aishdas.org\/ravashlag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}