The concept of the two חיטין - "stalks of wheat" in the back of the throat. Just as there are (13 parts to the "beard" of Arich - יג׳ תיקוני דיקנא דאריך) and 7 spiritual components of the "head" of Chochma - ז׳ תיקונין דרישא דחכמה, so too there are 7 parts of the "throat" of Binah - ז׳ אברים בגרון דבינה. From the throat comes out 7 "breaths" - ז׳ הבלים mentioned in Koheles - קהלת. From these 7 "breaths" come out 7 "voices" - ז׳ קולות. This is the concept of קנה חכמה קנה בינה - "kaneh" being the windpipe and drawing down the Chochma and Binah to that level. At this juncture of concepts lies the 22 letters of the alphabet - א׳ב׳ "wheat" is gimatria 22 - חטה. The five parts of the mouth - ה׳ מוצאות הפה - correspond to the five types of grain - ה׳ מיני דגן and the two "stalks" in the throat correspond to the big letters and small letters in the Torah- אתוון רברבן ואתוון זעירן. ...
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The upper firmament and the waters below will unite in the time to come. The verse כמים לים מכסים - "like waters cover the sea" refers to the waters above that will be able to truly cover the waters of the sea below. Not like now when it states, כל הנחלים הולכים אל הים והים איננו מלא -"all the rivers flow into the sea, but the sea is never filled." The land, however, is on even higher level than this sea, since it states ארץ לא שבעה מים - "the earth is not sated by water." (לרוקע הארץ על המים - the earth was placed atop the waters...) This is the meaning of לא בשמים היא ... ולא מעבר חים - the Torah "is not in the heavens... and not across the sea." Rather, to do in the land (לעשות בארץ). Mittler Rebbe, Mamarim Kuntresim, להבין ענין שעתיד משיח לאתבא צדיקיא בתיובתא
An interesting thought from the Mittler Rebbe, whose Hillula was today and whose holiday of redemption is tonight. Here is the first time I recall seening an explanation in Chabad Chassidus of the two "loves" that are in between the two "fears" (דחילו ורחימו ורחימו ודחילו), as they correspond to the letters of Hashem's name. According to the rule that נעוץ תחילתן בסופן -the beginning is tied to the end, it's known that the lower fear of the last letter ה׳ is the same as/attached to the higher fear of the first letter יוד׳. If so we must also say that the lower love of the third letter ו׳ is attached to the higher love of the second letter ה׳ and the higher love is, visa-versa, attached to the lower love. Essentially, these two loves are a concept of רצוא ושוב - going upwards and returning. The lower love reaches upwards with a tangible desire, like Teshuva from the heart and nullification of ones will. This causes a higher love to descend from a...
Rock creatures of the wild There is a parallel between the verse in Shir Hashirim, "I've made you swear by the deer and rams of the field" with the verse in Iyov, "for you have made a covenant with the 'stones' of the field and and made peace with the beasts of the field." As is known that the אבני השדה - the 'stones' of the field are the animal known as the ידעוני - Yidoni. The concept is that there is the feminine aspect in holiness מלכות is compared to a precious precious gemstone אבן טובה while the feminine of klipa is a 'tripping' stone (or stone plague or punishment) אבן נגף or a stone of darkness אבן אפל. Now just as underneath the feminine concept מלכות in holiness, the one 'precious gemstone', there are twelve 'stones' underneath it, the 12 gemstones of the breastplate (corresponding with the 12 cattle under the ים של שלמה - sea of Shlomo), so too there are the "stones of the field...
Sitting like the Japanese while studying Torah. Why is the foot of the letter "tov" - ת broken? Because anyone who wants to learn Torah should bend their knees when they study. Note נז. on the bottom says that it used to be the custom to study sitting this way, as they is still the custom to sit this way in the far east. -Medrash Otiot d'Rabi Akiva second nusach
The fingers on the legs are spread out from and are expressions of yesod bris and yesod denukva while thr fingers are expressions of yesod halashon. The legs are part of the congigal union while the fingers express what the tongue speaks. See שג״ע 157 ע״ב בינה נקראת מי וחסד נקרא מים ות״ת נק׳ שמים ונוקבא נקרא עפר הארץ. -אולי אפשר להבין מפה ״והמים אשר מעל השמים״
The positive side of the letter 'ק By Rabbi Mendy Greenstein The letter 'ק is usually expressed as a letter that connotes negativity, like the Zohar Hakadosh states that it's מאתוון דאתחזיאו על סיטרא בישא (as mentioned in the mamer באתי לגני), and that the leg if the 'ק is compared to a promiscuous woman רגליה יורדות מות - whose "legs point downwards towards death". However, in מדרש אותיות דרבי עקיבה - Medrash of Rabi Akiva on the letters we find a positive view of the ק׳, that it is from the language of הקפה, to surround. Moshe and Aharon surrounded Paroh and his scribes with wisdom, understanding, cleverness and knowledge. This subjugated their evil when they saw their impressive, holy countenances. (Here is also some wonderful imagery. Their "beards that were like palm branches," and that Parohs scribes "threw down their quills from their hands and the parchments that were draped over their shoulders.) In terms of Chas...