QUESTION:
1) The Rav said that nowadays, it’s not enough to have only the 49 gates of kedushah as in the past, in order to survive today, for today there is the 50th level of tumah in the world and therefore we need the 50th level of kedushah to be saved from it. The question is: If only a person could get the first 49 levels of kedushah! If it’s so hard to get the first 49 levels then how will we get the 50th level of kedushah?
ANSWER:
One needs to “jump” to there, because it is the greatest test and we are found within it.
QUESTION
2) In Kaballah, the highest point is known as Adam Kadmon, or tzuras adam, the ideal design of man. How can that be the highest point if the purpose is to come to the ohr EinSof, the infinite light of Hashem which is above our own design? The purpose isn’t to come to Adam Kadmon, that’s just the tool to get to the purpose which is the complete Havayah, which is the ohr EinSof pashut, the undifferentiated level of infinite light. So why is Adam Kadmon the ultimate?
ANSWER
Kaballah does not mainly deal with ohr EinSof, the kav and the tzimtzum. Rather, Kaballah mainly deals with the level of Adam Kadmon and its parts. Kaballah means to receive, it deals with the receiving level, which begins with Adam Kadmon. But to connect to the ohr EinSof is beyond the level of Kaballah – it is ratzin d’razin (secret of secrets), which is above the level of sod (secret), for it is the pnimiyus of the sod, it is the innermost level within the secrets of Kaballah – it is the inner level of Adam Kadmon, the kav.
QUESTION
3) What did the Rav mean that we are currently in the illumination of the kav ohrEinSof, whereas last year (5780) we entered into the Radl”a, and after this the world will go to the level of Peh of Adam Kadmon? Can the Rav elaborate on what the “map” is?
ANSWER
There is an external layer and an inner layer to reality. The external layer is that we are found in the illumination of the Radl”a. In the 7th century we will rise to the mouth of Adam Kadmon, in the 8th century we will rise to the Chotam of Adam Kadmon, in the 9th century the Ozen of Adam Kadmon, and in the 10th century, the Saaros (hairs) of Adam Kadmon. But in the inner layer of Adam Kadmon shines the kav, and that is the inner light which is shining now: “For Your Salvation we await each day.”
QUESTION
4) What did the Rav mean that now we are in the process of “For My Sake, for my Sake, I will do it”? That term refers to middas harachamim, but there’s still a possibility of the Geulah coming through middas hadin (chas v’shalom) so how can it be we are in a process of the Geulah coming with rachamim? What are the roots of this matter?
ANSWER
“For My sake” means that it [the Geulah] will not be according to the worth of the created beings, for the created beings are currently in the 50th gate, with mainly the 50th level of tumah revealed now. In contrast, the 50th level of kedushah is above the level of created beings.
QUESTION
2) In Kaballah, the highest point is known as Adam Kadmon, or tzuras adam, the ideal design of man. How can that be the highest point if the purpose is to come to the ohr EinSof, the infinite light of Hashem which is above our own design? The purpose isn’t to come to Adam Kadmon, that’s just the tool to get to the purpose which is the complete Havayah, which is the ohr EinSof pashut, the undifferentiated level of infinite light. So why is Adam Kadmon the ultimate?
ANSWER
Kaballah does not mainly deal with ohr EinSof, the kav and the tzimtzum. Rather, Kaballah mainly deals with the level of Adam Kadmon and its parts. Kaballah means to receive, it deals with the receiving level, which begins with Adam Kadmon. But to connect to the ohr EinSof is beyond the level of Kaballah – it is ratzin d’razin (secret of secrets), which is above the level of sod (secret), for it is the pnimiyus of the sod, it is the innermost level within the secrets of Kaballah – it is the inner level of Adam Kadmon, the kav.
QUESTION
3) What did the Rav mean that we are currently in the illumination of the kav ohrEinSof, whereas last year (5780) we entered into the Radl”a, and after this the world will go to the level of Peh of Adam Kadmon? Can the Rav elaborate on what the “map” is?
ANSWER
There is an external layer and an inner layer to reality. The external layer is that we are found in the illumination of the Radl”a. In the 7th century we will rise to the mouth of Adam Kadmon, in the 8th century we will rise to the Chotam of Adam Kadmon, in the 9th century the Ozen of Adam Kadmon, and in the 10th century, the Saaros (hairs) of Adam Kadmon. But in the inner layer of Adam Kadmon shines the kav, and that is the inner light which is shining now: “For Your Salvation we await each day.”
QUESTION
4) What did the Rav mean that now we are in the process of “For My Sake, for my Sake, I will do it”? That term refers to middas harachamim, but there’s still a possibility of the Geulah coming through middas hadin (chas v’shalom) so how can it be we are in a process of the Geulah coming with rachamim? What are the roots of this matter?
ANSWER
“For My sake” means that it [the Geulah] will not be according to the worth of the created beings, for the created beings are currently in the 50th gate, with mainly the 50th level of tumah revealed now. In contrast, the 50th level of kedushah is above the level of created beings.
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