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Chabad Research Unit — rse Summary Va-era 5725 MOSES AT EIGHTY — Va'eira 5784

Выпуск: Chabad Research Unit — rse Summary Va-era 5725 MOSES AT EIGHTY — Va'eira 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 ‫פרשת וארא תשכ''ה ד''ה וארא אל אברהם בלתי מוגה‬ Published for Shabbat Sedra Vaera 3 Shevat 5784, 13 January 20241 MOSES AT EIGHTY… EDRA VA-ERA PRESENTS THE BEGINNING OF THE PROCESS S IN WHICH MOSES takes the Israelites out of their slavery in Egypt. There then follows an intriguing passage which seemingly interrupts the narrative: a detailed genealogy of Moses and Aaron, providing exact details about how they were descendants of Jacob through his son Levi, and then his son Kehat, and finally his son Amram3. The Rebbe now refers us to a discourse by the Tzemach Tzedek in Or HaTorah5 which quotes the Torah commentary of the Panim Yafot by Rabbi Pinchas Halevi6 which states that the reason for presenting the genealogy of Moses and Aaron is to emphasize that they are the seventh generation from Abraham. In fact, the Talmud12 tells us the Redemption from Egypt is connected with the birth of the Patriarchs: each of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob were born in the month of Nisan, and that is the month when the Israelites went free from Egypt. Kabbalistically, Binah, Understanding is associated with Might, as the verse states ‘I am Binah, Understanding, and I have Might’11 and also that the Exodus from Egypt took place through the expression of a supernal form of Might. This links with the idea that the Patriarchs link with the six days of Creation, in which G-d said ‘Enough!’, the Name E-l Sha-dai, while Moses expresses the Tetragrammaton beyond, the sacred Shabbat, the seventh day. The reason why this should be significant is that ‘all sevenths are precious’7, and hence they have a special level of spiritual empowerment to aid them in their task to take the Israelites out of Egypt. The Tzemach Tzedek explains that ‘seventy years’ relate to the seven attributes of the Divine Sefirot9 while ‘eighty’ reaches the realm beyond them, the eighth Attribute Binah, Understanding10. For the Talmud tells us that in the act of Creation the world was, so to speak, unfurling endlessly, and in order to crystallize it in a finite form, G-d had to say ‘Enough!’, in Hebrew Dai. As the Talmud13 goes on to tell us, in Nisan the Patriarchs were

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