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Torah Studies — Balak 5782

Выпуск: Torah Studies — Balak 5782. Темы: parsha_commentary. Поисковые термины: недельная глава, парша, parsha, פרשה, פרשת השבוע. Schneerson BALAK 5782 Balak BALAK ROCKS AND HILLS In Bilam's prophesizing about the Jewish people, he says:1 "I gaze and see the [Jewish] people from the top of rocks, I behold them from the hills." Our Sages comment:2 "I gaze and see the [Jewish] people from the top of rocks -- this refers to the Patriarchs; I behold them from the hills -- this refers to the Matriarchs." There is a distinct difference between the roles played by a father and mother in the creation and formation of their child: The obvious connection between a father and his child is merely a general one -- the father is responsible for the overall aspect of the child's creation, without being responsible for the specific division into individual and particular limbs and organs. As the seminal point, chochmah is termed the "father" of the emotions, while binah with its power to amplify and develop the nucleus of chochmah is termed the "mother" of the emotions.6 These soul powers of intellect and emotion also possess a spiritual source -- the Ten Sefiros found above, from which these soul powers derive.7 There too, this same order exists: The emotive Sefiros -- those that serve as the vehicle for Creation -- are the progeny of the divine Sefiros of Chochmah and Binah. Consequently, the view of the degree of the worlds' nullification to G-dliness varies from Chochmah to Binah: Since Binah is closer to creation, Binah's perspective only brings about within Creation a lower degree of nullification; only within Chochmah, completely removed as it is from the world, is there felt the extreme degree of nullification wherein "He alone exists -- there is nothing else aside from Him."8 Since the Patriarchs and Matriarchs are the parents of all Jews,9 it follows that each of us possesses both levels of nullification -- the complete nullification of Chochmah emanating from our fathers, the Patriarchs, as well as the partial nullification to G-dliness of Binah, emanating from our mothers, the Matriarchs. So, too, regarding the relationship of the Jewish people as a whole with their collective "parents," the Patriarchs and the Matriarchs: the connection with the Matriarchs is mainly one of love, the association with the Patriarchs is based more on awe. from the top of rocks", as

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Torah Studies

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13 июля 2022 г.

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Темы: parsha_commentary