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Chabad Research Unit — Eikev 5784

Выпуск: Chabad Research Unit — Eikev 5784. Темы: не определены автоматически. CHABAD ‫ב"ה‬ RESEARCH UNIT he Rebbe's Discourses T Summaries of points from the Rebbe’s Chassidic Discourses ‫בלי אחריות כלל וכלל‬ ‫ש"פ עקב כ"ף מנחם אב תשל''ג ד''ה ואכלת ושבעת בלתי מוגה‬ Published for Shabbat Sedra Ekev 20 Av 5784, 24 August 20241 THE POWER OF BLESSINGS HE SEDRA STATES ‘YOU SHALL EAT AND BE SATISFIED, T AND YOU SHALL BLESS G-D YOUR G-D, FOR THE good Land which He has given you’2. Although the Talmud states that this verse commands one to make a blessing only after eating, namely Grace after Meals, and other blessings are of Rabbinic authority, the view of the Zohar is that the Torah requires one to make a blessing for every form of enjoyment of the world5. The Zohar continues with an explanation of the opening text of most blessings: ‘Blessed are You o G-d, our G-d…’ It states: “ ‘Blessed’- that is the secret of 1 Maamar VeAchalta VeSavata, Shabbat Ekev, 20 Menachem Av 5733 (1973), Yahrzeit of the Rebbe’s father Rabbi Levi Yitzhak Schneerson z”l. This means that when a person makes a blessing on a pleasurable activity – eating, drinking, smelling a beautiful fragrance, and so on – there is a flow of Divine radiance from an upper supernal level, Wisdom, and even Keter (Crown) beyond, down through lower and lower levels. By contrast, the blessings made in Prayer, such as the eighteen (actually nineteen12) blessings of the weekday Amidah, and its seven blessings on Shabbat and Festivals, and nine on Rosh Hashanah - move from below upwards, as expressed in Jacob’s dream of the ladder, on which angels are ascending13. The verse in the Sedra emphasizes that not only do we interact with the world, we are satisfied from that interaction, and that satisfaction (and also, as the Zohar puts it, not only from food, but from everything we might enjoy) is the occasion for our blessing to G-d, drawing the highest levels of G-dliness into the world, which is the purpose of Creation. When we enjoy something physical in the world, such as food or drink, or a fragrance, or carry out a Mitzva with a physical thing, we are really interacting with this exalted domain of the hidden ‘sparks’ of the World of Chaos. The Kabbalah explains that the source of the physical world is from a very exalted level called the ‘World of Chaos’ (Tohu), much higher than the spiritual realms which are term

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