Video Audio Text ויעש דוד שם “And David made a name.”1 The simple meaning of the verse is either (as Rashi explains) that David gave the Jewish people a good name by burying the dead of their enemies, or (as other commentators explain) that David made a name for himself through his heroism. ופירש בזוהר […]
Rev Tanya part 4 chapter 05
289 Holy: Epistle 05 p. 2
Video Audio Text ולכן נקרא בשם נקודה בהיכלא, בזוהר הקדוש In the holy Zohar,10 therefore, [Chochmah] is referred to as “the dot in the palace.”11 Chochmah is the “dot” or “point” of intellect that illumines the “palace” of Binah. Nevertheless, even when already housed in Binah, it still remains a seminal point of intellect that […]
290 Holy: Epistle 05 p. 3
Video Audio Text פירוש: כי הנה התהוות אותיות הדבור היוצאות מה׳ מוצאות הפה אינה דבר מושכל This means: The formation of the letters of speech which proceed from the five organs of articulation15 is not an intellectual process. The letters do not emanate from the soul as a result of any intellectual imperative. ולא מוטבע […]
291 Holy: Epistle 05 p. 4
Video Audio Text Until this point the Alter Rebbe has explained the Talmudic teaching that the World to Come was created by the letter yud: the Sefirah of Chochmah, which this letter represents, is the spiritual source of Gan Eden which is in the World to Come. However, according to the above, since the letters […]
292 Holy: Epistle 05 p. 5
Video Audio Text ומשם יוצא ההבל מקור גילוי גוף האותיות הדבור From there issues the breath, the original manifestation of the “body” of the letters of speech המתגלות בה׳ מוצאות מהעלם היו״ד which become revealed from the concealment of the yud through the five organs of speech. ותמונת ה׳ תתאה בכתיבתה גם כן בהתפשטות אורך […]
293 Holy: Epistle 05 p. 6
Video Audio Text אך העולם הזה השפל, עם החיות שבתוכו This lowly world, however, with the life-force that is found within it, קטן מהכיל ולסבול אור וחיות מבחינת צורת האותיות ופנימיותן is too small to contain and endure the light and life-force that proceed from the “form” and “inwardness” of the letters; להאיר ולהשפיע בו […]
294 Holy: Epistle 05 p. 7
Video Audio Text אך אחר בריאת האדם לעבדה כו׳ But after the creation of man “to work it,”53 his life-long task being to draw down to this world a flow of Divine energy by means of an “arousal from below,” i.e., by means of his own spiritual labors, אזי כל אתערותא דלעילא, לעורר מדת חסד […]
295 Holy: Epistle 05 p. 8
Video Audio Text וזה שכתוב: אל יתהלל חכם בחכמתו גו׳, כי אם בזאת יתהלל גו׳, כי אני ה׳ עושה חסד גו׳ And this is the meaning of the verse,62 “Let not the wise man glory in his wisdom, but in this let him glory — [in understanding and knowing Me,”63 but in such a manner […]
