Loading the player… אלא מפני שכוונתו לשם שמים)   (5But since his intention is addressed to G‑d,   He is, after all, in a state of prayer, except that alien thoughts interpose.   לכך יש לה תיקון בקל, לחזור ולעלות   it is therefore easily corrected, so that [his prayer] may once again rise to […]

Loading the player… In the beginning, as the Midrash teaches,1 G‑d “created worlds and destroyed them.” The Kabbalah explains that this refers to spiritual worlds, Supernal Sefirot (“emanations”), that first existed in one state of being and then in another. The Sefirot in the former state of being — called the World of Tohu (lit., […]

Loading the player… והעלאת מין נוקבין במוחו ולבו של אדם, היא בחינת רשפי אש בלי גבול   The “elevation of mayin nukvin” in the mind and heart of man is [the love of G‑d] in a state of boundless flames of fire, and being boundless it relates to the infinite light;   ונקרא מאדך   […]

Loading the player… והנה במקום אחר כתב שרמ״ח מצות עשה הן בה׳ חסדים   Now, in one source13 it is written14 that the 248 positive commandments are [rooted] in the Five Attributes of Kindness of Za of Atzilut, for every positive command serves as a vessel to receive an expression of the kindly attributes and […]

Loading the player… ומקור המוחין הוא לבנונית כו׳   The source of the [Divine] Intellect is the Lavnunit [of Keter],   הוא הענג וחפץ העליון להמשיך אור למטה, לרמ״ח אברין דז״א   which is the supreme delight and desire to draw the light below into the 248 organs of Za, for relative to Keter, Za […]