{"id":210,"date":"2012-05-08T13:39:34","date_gmt":"2012-05-08T13:39:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ravashlag.wordpress.com\/?p=210"},"modified":"2012-05-08T13:39:34","modified_gmt":"2012-05-08T13:39:34","slug":"r-ashlags-introduction-to-the-zohar-ch-52","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rabbiyaakovfeldman.aishdas.org\/ravashlag\/2012\/05\/08\/r-ashlags-introduction-to-the-zohar-ch-52\/","title":{"rendered":"R\u2019 Ashlag\u2019s \u201cIntroduction To The Zohar\u201d: Ch. 52"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 But after you permanently<\/em> purify the vegetative<\/em> part of your ratzon l\u2019kabel<\/em> you\u2019ll ascend to the world of Yetzirah<\/em> on a permanent basis…<\/strong><\/p>\n

.. since you will have transcended the world of Assiyah<\/em> altogether.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 You\u2019ll then attain a permanent degree of Ruach<\/em>. <\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2026 since you will have transcended the Nephesh<\/em> realm altogether.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 And from there you can also attain Neshama<\/em>-light and Chaya<\/em>-light from the sephirot<\/em> of Binah<\/em> and Chochma<\/em> there, which are the Neshama<\/em> (level) of Ruach<\/em> and the Chaya<\/em> (level) of Ruach<\/em>, even before you will have merited permanently purifying your animal-ness and verbal-ness. But (you will) not (have attained it) permanently.<\/strong><\/p>\n

That is, you\u2019ll be able to attain some<\/em> degree of Neshama<\/em>– and Chaya<\/em>-light before permanently by purifying your animal-ness and verbal-ness, but only for a while. And you merit that \u2026<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 By virtue of the fact that you\u2019d have purified the vegetative aspect of your ratzon l\u2019kabel<\/em> on a permanent level you\u2019d thus already share the highest degree of affinity of form with the world of Yetzirah<\/em>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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

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Rabbi Feldman also offers two free e-mail classes on www.torah.org entitled “Spiritual Excellence<\/a>\u201d and \u201cRamchal<\/a>\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 But after you permanently purify the vegetative part of your ratzon l\u2019kabel you\u2019ll ascend to the world of Yetzirah on a permanent basis… .. since you will have transcended the world of Assiyah altogether. … 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-210","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-3o","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rabbiyaakovfeldman.aishdas.org\/ravashlag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210","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=210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rabbiyaakovfeldman.aishdas.org\/ravashlag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rabbiyaakovfeldman.aishdas.org\/ravashlag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rabbiyaakovfeldman.aishdas.org\/ravashlag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rabbiyaakovfeldman.aishdas.org\/ravashlag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}