030.4 Meishra d'sakina
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The episode explores the relationship between finite beings and the Infinite, focusing on the concept of Malchus and its dual role in revelation and concealment.
para 7-8 Some of the ideas discussed: How can a finite person work toward a meainful relationship with The Infinite? Malchus as the kli has two jobs at once. It limits to create definition, and it creates a mechanism from revelation/giluy. The same kli that “contains” becomes the very channel that reveals. Malchus d’kedusha is pure hisbatlus. Like the moon to the sun, it adds nothing of its own, it only reflects the source. Introducing anything from itself creates a distortion and detracts from its mission, to be megaleh and bring Hashem into the world, kvyachol. When resources become ends in themselves, the kli breaks. Taavas mamon (money being representative of a resource) turns “means” into “ends,” and what should be an engine of giluy becomes distortion and galus. By treating wisdoms and other avenues for connection Hashem gives us as independent, the greatest opportunity for revelation becomes the greatest concealment and pirud. Galus of malchus is framed as falling into the arba malchiyos . The same “pieces” exist, but now they serve a foreign center of gravity instead of reflecting upward to Ratzon Hashem. The path back is chesed as tochacha . Not harshness, but clarifying…
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