On Sunday January 25, 2009, 12:35, Max Kirk wrote on the Azamra website:
"The numerical value of “prophecy” (נְבוּאָה ) is also equal to the value of the three holy Names that refer to the essence of the Almighty:
,י-הוה, א-היה, א-הוה whose numerical values are: 26, 21, 17, respectively. These three Names are composed solely of the Hebrew vowel letters, אהוי , and correspond, respectively to the three sefirot: wisdom (chochmah), understanding (binah), and knowledge (da’at). Altogether, these three holy Names have 12 letters, alluding again to the prophecy of Moshe. Also, each of these holy Names' letters can be permuted in exactly 12 different ways (though each has four letters, the letter hei repeats twice in each, producing a total of 4!/2 unique permutations). Thus, one should meditate on how a permutation of each of these three holy Names enlightens each of the 12 months of the year, in context with the special sense and tribal qualities that correspond to each month.
In the coming year, we should seek to fasten our consciousness on prophecy as it is revealed at its highest level and specifically with the unique hue of prophecy that will shine in each particular month."
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As the twelve months form a circle - and we know that every circle orbits itself - and understand from this the mystery of pi and of the dimensions of Solomon's brass sea of Israel's purification - so also from this we may contemplate the glory and joy of the unity of the twelve tribes of Israel, through which is revealed the unity of the name of the Blessed Holy One.
Sunday, January 25, 2009
Thursday, January 22, 2009
Perfect Torah Righteousness Is Only The Starting Place
Luke 17
5 And the apostles said unto the Lord, Increase our faith.
6 And the Master said, If you had faith as a grain of mustard seed, you might say unto this sycamore tree, Be plucked up by the root, and be planted in the sea; and it would obey you.
7 But think! Which of you, if you had a slave plowing or feeding cattle, would say unto him after this work, when he had come in from the field, Go and sit down to eat?
8 And would not rather say unto him, Prepare now my meal that I may dine. Dress yourself and serve me, till I have eaten and my thirst is satisfied; afterward you shall eat and drink?
9 Does the master thank that slave because he did the things that were commanded him? I think not.
10 So likewise you, when you shall have done all those things which are commanded you, say, We are unprofitable servants: we have done that which was our duty to do.
What is that which the students of the Master Yehoshua were commanded to do? The commandments they received were the 613 commandments of the Torah. What did the Master teach them about this that would increase their faith, as they asked of him? That if they were to attain the perfect righteousness of Torah observance they would only be living as Adam and cHavah were living on the day they were created - the righteousness in which they would have continued, had they not fallen from the grace of the Torah which was written in their members. For what purpose, then, was the perfectly Torah righteous Adam created, the man and the woman? For what purpose were they created with their every limb perfect in the righteousness of the 613 commandments? They were created to till the soil of the Garden of Eden with their Torah perfect limbs and thereby to prepare a banquet wherein they might serve their Creator. And until they had done so, although they were Torah perfect they were unprofitable servants.
From this we learn that anyone who has need of their faith being increased should not think that they will be rewarded for a desire of only obeying the commandments of the Torah. Rather, they should look for the reward of a faith that can command the trees of the Garden of God with a word only when their heart is set on correcting the unprofitability of Adam, not only the unprofitability of Adam as an unrighteous sinner but also the unprofitability of Adam as a tzaddik and tzaddikah who never completed in their righteousness their service to their Creator.
5 And the apostles said unto the Lord, Increase our faith.
6 And the Master said, If you had faith as a grain of mustard seed, you might say unto this sycamore tree, Be plucked up by the root, and be planted in the sea; and it would obey you.
7 But think! Which of you, if you had a slave plowing or feeding cattle, would say unto him after this work, when he had come in from the field, Go and sit down to eat?
8 And would not rather say unto him, Prepare now my meal that I may dine. Dress yourself and serve me, till I have eaten and my thirst is satisfied; afterward you shall eat and drink?
9 Does the master thank that slave because he did the things that were commanded him? I think not.
10 So likewise you, when you shall have done all those things which are commanded you, say, We are unprofitable servants: we have done that which was our duty to do.
What is that which the students of the Master Yehoshua were commanded to do? The commandments they received were the 613 commandments of the Torah. What did the Master teach them about this that would increase their faith, as they asked of him? That if they were to attain the perfect righteousness of Torah observance they would only be living as Adam and cHavah were living on the day they were created - the righteousness in which they would have continued, had they not fallen from the grace of the Torah which was written in their members. For what purpose, then, was the perfectly Torah righteous Adam created, the man and the woman? For what purpose were they created with their every limb perfect in the righteousness of the 613 commandments? They were created to till the soil of the Garden of Eden with their Torah perfect limbs and thereby to prepare a banquet wherein they might serve their Creator. And until they had done so, although they were Torah perfect they were unprofitable servants.
From this we learn that anyone who has need of their faith being increased should not think that they will be rewarded for a desire of only obeying the commandments of the Torah. Rather, they should look for the reward of a faith that can command the trees of the Garden of God with a word only when their heart is set on correcting the unprofitability of Adam, not only the unprofitability of Adam as an unrighteous sinner but also the unprofitability of Adam as a tzaddik and tzaddikah who never completed in their righteousness their service to their Creator.
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