KabbalaOnline.org The Good of the Land "Divine Revelation"
KabbalaOnline.org The Good of the Land "Divine Revelation"
Divine Revelation
Chapter Two, Part 4
By Rabbi
Nathan Schapira; translation & commentary by David Slavin
Sanctification
of the Mind (2:3)
Since Israel was
not able to conquer the land of the three nations, the children of Israel are
not fulfilled nor is the Shechina complete [in its revelation]
until that future time. At the time that all of the Jews shall enter the land,
the land will be fulfilled in its true ultimate completion.
Then
the Shechina will
be rectified, for the Shechina stands upon the twelve oxen.
[The
twelve oxen are part of King Solomon's symbolic "Sea", which
stood upon twelve oxen (as in Kings
I 7:25). The Zohar (Volume 1, 241a) says that the Shechina rests
upon the twelve "oxen". Those oxen really symbolize much loftier
things such as the Chayot HaKodesh etc.]
Those
twelve symbolize the rectification of the Chayot HaKodesh [a
specific type of angels] which comprise twelve different facets corresponding
to the twelve oxen. Then the Divine Throne shall be rectified, being that
the Shechina is above it and the Chayot are
below it. It itself is not complete, yet when it is completed, then Eretz
Yisrael will be completely rectified.
By
the Shechina dwelling in its midst, Eretz Yisrael is
rectified. By the presence of the Shechina they [the 12 oxen]
are bent down. The Shechina has not yet fully resided in Eretz
Yisrael. Even in the times of Joshua it wasn't complete, for two and
a half tribes were not in the land. That's why Eretz Yisrael is not complete.
The reason is that the Shechina couldn't be complete, is based
upon the complaint (cf. Chullin 60b) of the moon about sharing the
crown with the sun. As long as the light of the moon hasn't again reverted to
the exact luminance of the sun, sharing one crown as it was at the time of
creation, the Shechina will not reach its completion. This is
similar to that which the Arizal writes in his commentary about the
seven aspects of the malchut of Atzilut. Look
there and you shall find the depth of this concept at its very roots. This is
the essence of the verse, "Behold, this [zeh] is G‑d, we
hoped for him" (Isaiah
25:9); in other words, at the time when all twelve tribes will have reached
their completion in Eretz Yisrael, then G‑d's
name will be complete. For the words zeh [this, in the
masculine] and zot [this, in the feminine] go together. Zot is
the malchut that
is taking grasp of the yesod, which is called zeh. As
is known from the Zohar on Parashat Chukat, zot in
its small numerical value [Mispar Katan] equals zeh. Also
the hidden letters [ne'elam] of zeh [spelled zayin hei]
with their milui is equal to the numerical value of the
name Ado-nai [the milui of zayin is yud =
10 and nun = 50, the milui of hei is hei =
5; like the total of the latter, the numerical value of the name Ado-nai equals
65].
End
of Chapter Two.
Sanctification
of the Mind (2:3)
By
Rabbi Nathan Schapira; translation & commentary by David Slavin
Rabbi
Nathan Schapira, an honored member of an eminent Polish rabbinical family, came
to Eretz Israel from Cracow during the 17th century, where he became part of a
consortium of kabbala scholars. It is reported that he wrote the volume Tuv
Haaretz during a trip to Italy, where he was encouraged to print it by
R. Moshe Zaccuto, as an effort to ease the emotional and financial hardships of
the people at that time of great pogroms.
Rabbi
David Slavin is an American long-time student of Torah who now lives in Israel
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