Video is also available – click to open והנה כל איש ישראל צריך להיות כלול מב׳ בחינות אלו Now, every Jew needs to comprise both these traits: a Jew whose soul derives from Chesed must also incorporate the thrust of Gevurah, and vice versa, ואין לך דבר שאין לו מקום for11 “There is no thing […]
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Epistle 13 – Part 3
Video is also available – click to open ומה שאמר הכתוב: אברהם אוהבי, ופחד יצחק As for Scripture characterizing him as18 “Abraham who loved Me,” and [in another verse characterizing Isaac as]19 “the Dread of Isaac,” thereby indicating that Abraham’s service was an expression of Chesed and Isaac’s service an expression of Gevurah, which would […]
Epistle 14 – Part 1
Video is also available – click to open Many of the letters that together constitute Iggeret HaKodesh were written in order to rouse Jewry to contribute generously to tzedakah in general and in particular for the Holy Land. More specifically, the Alter Rebbe strongly encouraged the support of Rabbi Mendele Horodoker and Rabbi Avraham Kalisker […]
Epistle 14 – Part 2
Video is also available – click to open ואחר כך, על ידי תקיעת שופר והתפלות, נמשך אור חדש עליון Afterwards, by means of the sounding of the Shofar and by means of the prayers, a new and superior light is elicited, מבחינה עליונה יותר שבמדריגת חכמה עילאה [a light] of a yet higher rank in […]
Epistle 15 – Part 1
Video is also available – click to open The subject of this letter, the Ten Sefirot of the World of Atzilut and of the other worlds, is a fundament of both Kabbalah and Chassidut. All the worlds are both created and conducted by means of the Sefirot, the emanations by which the various attributes of […]
Epistle 15 – Part 3
Video is also available – click to open The Alter Rebbe now goes on to make it perfectly clear that the Sefirot are, however, infinitely higher than the corresponding faculties within the soul. Indeed, even Abraham’s attribute of Chesed could in no way compare to the Chesed of the Sefirot, notwithstanding the fact that Abraham […]
Epistle 15 – Part 4
Video is also available – click to open והנה כללות היו״ד ספירות שבנשמת האדם Now, as regards the totality of the Ten Sefirot [as they appear] in the soul of man, נודע לכל שהמדות נחלקות בדרך כלל לז׳ מדות It is known to all25 that the emotive attributes divide into seven general categories,26 וכל פרטי […]
Epistle 15 – Part 5
Video is also available – click to open והנה מדות אלו, הן בחינות חיצוניות שבנפש Now, these emotive attributes — those involved in imparting enlightenment, and the like — are the external aspects of the soul. ובתוכן מלובשות מדות פנימיות Within them are vested the inner attributes, which bring about the external attributes involved in […]
Epistle 15 – Part 6
Video is also available – click to open והנה כל זה הוא רק על דרך משל לבד Now all this — the above-mentioned effect of the emotive traits upon the resultant teaching or influence — is only by way of allegory, and does not provide a completely true picture of the Sefirot as they exist […]
Epistle 15 – Part 7
Video is also available – click to open וכן לפאר את ה׳ ותורתו בכל מיני פאר Likewise, by exercising the attribute of Tiferet (lit., “beauty”), [a man seeks] to glorify G‑d and His Torah in all ways possible, such as by possessing a beautiful sefer Torah, beautiful tefillin and the like, ולדבקה בשבחיו בכל בחינות […]
