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Chabad Research Unit — Va'etchanan 5784

Выпуск: Chabad Research Unit — Va'etchanan 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 ‫ט''ו אב תשד''מ ד''ה לא היו ימים טובים בלתי מוגה‬ Published for Shabbat Sedra Va-etchanan 13 Av 5784, 17 August 20241 DESCENT IN ORDER TO RISE HE TALMUD2 TELLS US THAT ONE OF THE GREATEST T FESTIVALS IN THE JEWISH YEAR was the Fifteenth of Av. Chabad Research Unit – www.chabadresearch.net – cru@lubavitchuk.com One might ask, surely the descent into Egypt was a terrible descent, which means that the Pesach festival would be a correspondingly great ascent, and therefore might rival the Fifteenth of Av as the greatest festival? The Rebbe now applies the concept of ‘descent in order to rise’ to two aspects of Monday: the Psalm which was sung by the Levites in the Temple on a Monday, and the fact that during the days of Creation, on the second day, Monday, the firmament was created, dividing the Upper Waters from the Lower. An elaboration of this idea is that the ‘greatness’ of G-d is the Divine Name, the Tetragrammaton, which links to the Sefirot from Wisdom (Yud) to Understanding (first Heh) and then the other six Sefirot (the letter Vav signifying six) to Malchut (the second Heh). Chabad Research Unit – www.chabadresearch.net – cru@lubavitchuk.com Thus our long Exile is itself the deepest ‘descent’, from which we will come to the greatest ascent, the coming of Moshiach, when the Jewish people will be collected together, one by one, and then we will all go to the Holy Land, to Jerusalem, and the Temple Mount. Thus too, after the serious quality of the month of Elul, when we try to make a spiritual accounting, and to identify and rectify our errors during the year, which is a kind of descent, we come to the great ascent of Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur. Then came the division of the waters into higher and lower, which is often depicted as something negative, leading to the ‘descent’ of the lower waters, which are described as ‘weeping’, because they wish to be closer to the Infinite Divine. Through this it can also come to a level of weeping, not weeping from sorrow, but tears of joy, as it is said of Rabbi Akiva that when he studied the mystical dimension of Torah revealed in the Song of Songs, he wept tears of joy9. Rashi explains that there is a para

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