[Avodah] Angel Hierarchy

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In Yesodei Hattorah Rambam demarcates a very specific angelic hierrarchy

Touger notes that the Zohar has a similar albeit slightly different
hierarchy.

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When I started with computer databases nearly all the designs were
hierarchical. It was the most natural way to design and to comprehend
databases

As things evolved hierarchical DB's became passe and relational DB's
driven by SQL have become the rage.

As such we don't think as hierarchically as we used to. This marks a
paradigm shift in our way of thinking.

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So too the 10 orders of mala'achim and the 10 sephiros etc. Can be
"re-thunk". IOW instead of a rigid heirarchy with contradicting models;
perhaps these can be viewed NOW as Ten spirtual interfaces

Let me use a simplistic but inaccurate mashal. Inaccurate because as
per Rambam we address HKBH directly. But let's pretend that we were
allowed to g through gates or interfaces.

Lemashal if the people of Israel needed 4 requests they could channel
them via 4 different interfaces - none higher then the other.

So we might need:
Protection (hagganah)
Avenging our enemies
Healing
Learning or Enlightenment

So hagganah we get the Michael interface
Vengence - Gavriel
Healing - Rephael
Learning - Uriel

We can play the same game with the Sephiros

We may need Hashem's Hessed or His Gevurah. Instead of a hierarchy it
could simply be a ring of interfaces.

(As to why we need interfaces at all ein kan mekomo leha'arich)

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Of course we do not address these interfaces as per the Ikkarei hadas,
but it seems that HKBH does work via them to Manifest HIS will.
And now there is a possible re-structuring of our visual model moving away
from a hierarchical, layered model to parallel, functional interfaces.

KT
RRW
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