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Chabad Research Unit — rse Summary Re'eh 5748 THE BLESSING OF SIGHT

Выпуск: Chabad Research Unit — rse Summary Re'eh 5748 THE BLESSING OF SIGHT. 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 ‫פרשת ראה תשמ''ח ד''ה ראה אנכי בלתי מוגה‬ Published for Shabbat Sedra Re’eh 25 Av 5783, 12 August 20231 THE BLESSING OF SIGHT HE SEDRA BEGINS ‘SEE I AM GIVING BEFORE YOU TODAY A T BLESSING AND A CURSE’2. Rabbi Shneur Zalman explains that this means that the highest essence of the Divine, hinted at in the word ‘I’, Anochi in Hebrew, is giving us, the entire Jewish people, a special blessing, the blessing of sight, meaning spiritually to perceive G-dliness in a direct way. Sight implies certainty, as in the English phrase ‘seeing is believing’.] The Rebbe asks a question about this, because in Sedra Va-etchanan, two weeks earlier, Rabbi Shneur Zalman explains Moses’ plea to enter the Land of Israel and see it (Deut.3:25) as meaning that he was asking G-d to allow him to impart the quality of spiritual ‘sight’ to the Jewish people, but this was denied. Reish Lakish states ‘great is repentance, because it can transform a deliberate transgression into an accidental transgression.’ But he also states: ‘great is repentance, because it can transform a deliberate transgression into a positive merit.’ The Talmud explains that this higher level of transformation of the transgression into a merit comes from a higher level of repentance. Thus the Rebbe goes on to explain:] When the repentance comes from the level of Anochi, beyond the limited realm of the downchaining of worlds, it has an unlimited power, and can change the spiritual quality of a deliberate transgression into that of a positive meritorious deed. 2 This verse suggests that we, the Jewish people (or the Jewish individual) makes the first step towards the Divine, expressed in the words ‘I am to my Beloved’, and then the Divine responds, as in the second part of the verse: ‘and my Beloved is to me’. So too the blessing in our Sedra, emerging from the exalted level of Anochi, grants the power not only to ‘see’ G-dliness but also to transform a curse, the harsh punitive effect of negative behaviour, into a blessing 3. The Rebbe explains that this blessing is so powerful that it gives the Jewish people the power to change a curse into a blessing, comparable to the way that

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11 августа 2023 г.

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