Video is also available – click to open והנה על המשכת כל התרי״ג מיני כוחות וחיות מהעלם הנשמה אל הגוף להחיותו Now, concerning the flow of all the 613 kinds of functional powers and vital forces which are drawn from the concealment of the soul, where they are previously hidden, and from where they are […]
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Chapter 51 – Part 5
Video is also available – click to open וככה ממש, על דרך משל, אין סוף ברוך הוא ממלא כל עלמין להחיותם In a truly similar manner, figuratively speaking, does the blessed Ein Sof fill all worlds so as to animate them. There is a marked similarity between the soul pervading the body and Ein Sof […]
Chapter 51 – Part 6
Video is also available – click to open Were there merely to be a vast quantity of ethereal garments, the Divine life-force would only be capable of creating spiritual beings and not physical ones; in order for this physical world with its corporeal creatures to be created, much denser garments were necessary. It is this […]
Chapter 52 – Part 1
Video is also available – click to open In the previous chapter the Alter Rebbe began to expound upon the theme of the indwelling of the Shechinah, which resided in the Holy of Holies and likewise in other places. He asked: “Is not the whole world filled with His glory?” Since there is no place […]
Chapter 52 – Part 2
Video is also available – click to open וכולן אינן רק מהתפשטות החיות והאור מהמקור הזה, הנקרא שכינה all of them — all the Worlds, creatures and souls — being derived only from the extension of the vitality and light which extends and streams forth from this source which is called Shechinah, כהתפשטות האור מהשמש […]
Chapter 52 – Part 3
Video is also available – click to open ובירידתה בהשתלשלות מעולם לעולם, גם השכינה ירדה ונתלבשה בה בכל עולם ועולם As [this wisdom] came down by progressive descents from World to World, the Shechinah, too, came down and clothed itself in it in each World. Thus, within the Supernal Wisdom which descends into each World […]
Chapter 52 – Part 4
Video is also available – click to open ובהתלבשות מלכות דאצילות במלכות דבריאה, מתלבשת בהיכל קדשי קדשים דיצירה, שהוא חב״ד דיצירה By virtue of the clothing of Malchut of Atzilut in Malchut of Beriah9 it then clothes itself in the shrine of the Holy of Holies of Yetzirah, this being the ChaBaD of Yetzirah — […]
Chapter 52 – Part 5
Video is also available – click to open Note by the Rebbe (footnote #9) The Rebbe addresses the question of why the Alter Rebbe repeats, “By virtue of the clothing of Malchut of Atzilut in Malchut of Beriah,” when it had already been stated: “Through the fact that [the latter Sefirot] clothe themselves in the […]
Chapter 53 – Part 1
Video is also available – click to open The Alter Rebbe explained in the previous chapter that the light of the Shechinah, an illumination utterly transcending the realm of the world, must have a “garment” which enables it to radiate there. The “garment” of the Shechinah is Torah. In every World there is found the […]
Chapter 53 – Part 2
Video is also available – click to open The Alter Rebbe now answers the following question: Inasmuch as the Temple was located in this physical world, how was it possible for the Shechinah to be found there to a higher degree than in the upper Worlds? He answers: כי עשרת הדברות הן כללות התורה כולה […]
