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Chabad Research Unit — rse Summary Bamidbar 5727 THE POWER OF RASHBY

Выпуск: Chabad Research Unit — rse Summary Bamidbar 5727 THE POWER OF RASHBY. Темы: не определены автоматически. CHABAD ‫ב"ה‬ RESEARCH UNIT Summaries of points of the Rebbe’s Chassidic Discourses ‫בלי אחריות כלל וכלל‬ ‫פרשת במדבר תשכ''ז בלתי מוגה‬ Published for Shabbat Sedra Bamidbar 29 Iyar 5783, 20 May 20231 THE POWER OF RASHBY (RABBI SHIMON BAR YOCHAI) T HE ZOHAR TELLS US THAT ONCE THERE WAS A DROUGHT. Because Rashby was able to teach the Inner dimension of Torah, also connecting it with the Revealed dimension4, he was able to cause the rain to flow by teaching Torah teachings from above to below, to a world which was not yet purified. Instead of praying for rain, which is what they might have expected, he said a Torah teaching on the verse ‘behold how good and pleasant it is when brothers sit together in unity’ (Ps.133:1) and the rain began to fall (Zohar III 59b). Chabad Research Unit – www.chabadresearch.net – cru@lubavitchuk.com The Rebbe explains that this came from his power to reveal the Inner dimension of Torah, and also to connect the Inner dimension of Torah with the Revealed dimension. The aim of Moshe Rabbenu was to grant this power to the Jewish people as a whole: that they should all be able to transmit the teachings of the Inner dimension of Torah, from above to below, even to those who were not yet purified. As Moshiach said in reply to the Baal Shem Tov’s question ‘when will you come?’ – when your wellsprings, the fountains of the Inner dimension of Torah, will be spread to the outside, to those who are not yet purified. Rashby for his part also sought to transmit this power to others: for those who dedicatedly study Torah, and do nothing else, like him (Torato umanuto ‘his Torah was his profession’) the power is in an inward way. This is particularly relevant in the case of rain, which is described in the Torah as G-d’s response to the righteousness of the Jewish people, and conversely, when they are not righteous, rain is withheld. The word ‘and I pleaded’, ‫ ואתחנן‬is explained as ‘matnat chinam’, a free gift, he was asking that all should have the power to give the Inner dimension of Torah as a free gift to others. Rashby told one of his disciples, Rabbi Abba, that he should write down the teachings, and the other disciples absorbed them in their hearts, but did not write them down (or even say them aloud)3.

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Chabad Research Unit

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19 мая 2023 г.

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