Video is also available – click to open וקרוב לומר שגם האלפים ורבבות עלמין דיתבא בגולגלתא דאריך אנפין וזעיר אנפין It is reasonable to assume that also35 the thousands and myriads of worlds that are in the Gulgalta of Arich Anpin and Z’eir Anpin (abbreviated in the original Hebrew text as א״א and ז״א, respectively), […]
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Epistle 20 – Part 07
Video is also available – click to open As we have seen, the objective creation of the yesh takes place through the investment of the [infinite] Ein Sof-light in the kelim of all Ten Sefirot of Atzilut. However, as the Alter Rebbe now goes on to explain, the subjective yeshut of created beings — their […]
Epistle 20 – Part 08
Video is also available – click to open וזה שכתוב: נעוץ תחילתן בסופן And this is the meaning of the statement in Sefer Yetzirah41 regarding the Ten Sefirot, “Their beginning is wedged in their end.” In the scheme of the Sefirot, the very beginning (signifying a level that transcends even the “head”) is to be […]
Epistle 20 – Part 09
Video is also available – click to open ובזה יובן היות המצוות במלכות, ה׳ של שם הוי׳ It will now be understood — in terms of the Sefirot and the corresponding letters of the Divine Name — why the mitzvot are in Malchut, the [latter] hei of the Four-Letter Name of G‑d, והתורה בזעיר אנפין, […]
Epistle 20 – Part 10
Video is also available – click to open Audio only version. Same content, but in a smaller file size. והנה כמו כן מזיווג זו״ן דבי״ע, נבראו מאין ליש כל הנבראים והנוצרים והנעשים Similarly, by the union of Za and Nukva of Beriah, Yetzirah, and Asiyah, there were created — as yesh from ayin — […]
Epistle 20 – Part 11
Video is also available – click to open Audio only version. Same content, but in a smaller file size. וכן גם הקו בעצמו, המלובש בסיום וסוף נצח הוד יסוד דאדם קדמון The same is the case (not only with the ray of the Kav that is vested within the kelim of Atzilut, but) also […]
Epistle 20 – Part 12
Video is also available – click to open Audio only version. Same content, but in a smaller file size. ולא התפשטות והתלבשות החיות, להחיותם ולהוותם מאין ליש As to the presence in the worlds of the very essence and nature of the [infinite] Ein Sof-light, this is not by way of an extension and […]
Epistle 20 – Part 13
Video is also available – click to open Audio only version. Same content, but in a smaller file size. ואין זאת אלא משום דרגלי דאדם קדמון מסתיימים בתחתית עשיה This is so only because the “feet” of Adam Kadmon culminate at the lowest level of Asiyah, The “feet” (i.e., the last and lowliest […]