<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"><html><head><title>[Aspaqlaria] Gra, Peirush al Kamah Agados #14 (part 2) - Relationship ep. 7</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="https://aspaqlaria.aishdas.org/wp-content/themes/hueman/style.css" type="text/css" media="screen" /><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body>Aspaqlaria has posted a new item, '<a href="https://aspaqlaria.aishdas.org/2022/05/03/gra-paka-14-part2/">Gra, Peirush al Kamah Agados #14 (part 2) - Relationship ep. 7</a>'
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<p>Thursday night (Apr 28th, 2021) 7<sup><span style="text-decoration: underline;">pm</span></sup> EDT we continued our study of the Vilna Gaon’s Peirush al Kama Agados, <em>agadah </em>#14. In it, the Vilna Gaon unpacks the metaphor of an aggadita on Bekhoros 8b, where the Elders of Athens challenge Rabbi Yehoshua ben Channania to build them a “house in the air of the world”.</p>
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<p>Our first weeks at <em>Zelmele’s Kloiz </em>had lots of wonderful give and take, and many of us stayed on afterward for exciting discussions. (Which personally, I found quite informative.)</p>
<p>In this meeting we detoured to look at one chapter of Rav Dessler’s Qunterus haBechirah, as it relates to how ego and thought (such as Torah study) are associated with conflict, the dialectic in the middle of Heaven and Earth. And then returned to the Gra’s Peirush al Kamah Agaddos, <em>aggadita</em> #14.</p>
<p>The story so far:</p>
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<td class="has-text-align-left" style="height: 45px; width: 32.0833%;" data-align="left"><strong>Tov</strong></td>
<td style="height: 45px; width: 22.3958%;">Inherent /<br /><strong>Relationship to Soul</strong></td>
<td style="height: 45px; width: 18.8542%;"><strong>Relationship to Hashem</strong></td>
<td style="height: 45px; width: 25.4167%;"><strong>Relationship to Others</strong></td>
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<td class="has-text-align-left" style="text-align: center; height: 24px; width: 98.75%;" colspan="4" data-align="left"><strong>Micha’s <em>Miqdash</em> Speculation</strong></td>
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<td class="has-text-align-left" style="height: 24px; width: 32.0833%;" data-align="left"><strong>Crowns</strong></td>
<td style="height: 24px; width: 22.3958%;">Torah</td>
<td style="height: 24px; width: 18.8542%;"><em>Kehunah</em></td>
<td style="height: 24px; width: 25.4167%;">Kingship</td>
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<td class="has-text-align-left" style="height: 24px; width: 32.0833%;" data-align="left"><strong>Crowned Kelim</strong></td>
<td style="height: 24px; width: 22.3958%;"><em>Aron</em></td>
<td style="height: 24px; width: 18.8542%;"><em>Mizbeiach haZahav</em></td>
<td style="height: 24px; width: 25.4167%;"><em>Shulchan</em></td>
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<td class="has-text-align-left" style="height: 24px; width: 32.0833%;" data-align="left"><strong>Uncrowned Keilim</strong></td>
<td style="height: 24px; width: 22.3958%;"><em>Menorah</em></td>
<td style="height: 24px; width: 18.8542%;"><em>Mizbeiach Nekhoshes</em></td>
<td style="height: 24px; width: 25.4167%;"><em>Kiyor</em></td>
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<td class="has-text-align-left" style="text-align: center; height: 24px; width: 98.75%;" colspan="4" data-align="left"><strong>Maharal (cont.)</strong></td>
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<td class="has-text-align-left" style="height: 24px; width: 32.0833%;" data-align="left"><strong>Pillars</strong></td>
<td style="height: 24px; width: 22.3958%;"><strong>Torah</strong></td>
<td style="height: 24px; width: 18.8542%;"><strong>Avodah</strong></td>
<td style="height: 24px; width: 25.4167%;"><strong>Gemilus Chasadim</strong></td>
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<td class="has-text-align-left" style="height: 24px; width: 32.0833%;" data-align="left"><strong>Uprooting Sin</strong></td>
<td style="height: 24px; width: 22.3958%;"><em>Gilui Arayos</em></td>
<td style="height: 24px; width: 18.8542%;"><em>Avodah Zara</em></td>
<td style="height: 24px; width: 25.4167%;"><em>Shefichas Damim</em></td>
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<td class="has-text-align-left" style="height: 45px; width: 32.0833%;" data-align="left"><strong>Sustains the world</strong></td>
<td style="height: 45px; width: 22.3958%;">… gives the world value.</td>
<td style="height: 45px; width: 18.8542%;">… for it was created <em>liKhvodi</em></td>
<td style="height: 45px; width: 25.4167%;">… causes Hashem’s <em>Chessed</em> to the world</td>
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<td class="has-text-align-left" style="height: 24px; width: 32.0833%;" data-align="left"><strong>Avos</strong></td>
<td style="height: 24px; width: 22.3958%;">Yaaqov</td>
<td style="height: 24px; width: 18.8542%;">Yitzchaq</td>
<td style="height: 24px; width: 25.4167%;">Avraham</td>
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<td class="has-text-align-left" style="height: 66px; width: 32.0833%;" data-align="left"><strong>Yaaqov/Yisrael as Synthesis</strong></td>
<td style="height: 66px; width: 22.3958%;">Yaaqov<br />Rivqa’s two bracelets of 5 gold each</td>
<td style="height: 66px; width: 18.8542%;">Yitchaq<br />Rivqa’s nose-ring</td>
<td style="height: 66px; width: 25.4167%;">Rivqa</td>
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<td class="has-text-align-left" style="height: 24px; width: 32.0833%;" data-align="left"><strong>Sefer haYetzirah “Mother Letters”</strong></td>
<td style="text-align: center; height: 24px; width: 22.3958%;">א</td>
<td style="text-align: center; height: 24px; width: 18.8542%;">ש</td>
<td style="text-align: center; height: 24px; width: 25.4167%;">מ</td>
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<td class="has-text-align-left" style="height: 24px; width: 32.0833%;" data-align="left"><strong>Non-Intert Elements</strong></td>
<td style="height: 24px; width: 22.3958%;">Air/Wind (<strong>א</strong>וויר)</td>
<td style="height: 24px; width: 18.8542%;">Fire (א<strong>ש</strong>)</td>
<td style="height: 24px; width: 25.4167%;">Water (מים)</td>
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<td class="has-text-align-left" style="height: 45px; width: 32.0833%;" data-align="left"><strong>Element as Middah</strong></td>
<td style="height: 45px; width: 22.3958%;">Thought<br />in Torah</td>
<td style="height: 45px; width: 18.8542%;">Passion / “<em>Hislahavus</em>“<br />in <em>Avodah</em></td>
<td style="height: 45px; width: 25.4167%;">Calm / Unity<br />in relating to other people</td>
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<td class="has-text-align-left" style="height: 66px; width: 32.0833%;" data-align="left"><strong>Protecting Torah / Anshei Keneses haGdolah</strong></td>
<td style="height: 66px; width: 22.3958%;">Establishing many students</td>
<td style="height: 66px; width: 18.8542%;">Diligence in Law</td>
<td style="height: 66px; width: 25.4167%;">Making a <em>siyag laTorah</em><br />(i.e. morality rather than precise Law)</td>
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<td class="has-text-align-left" style="height: 45px; width: 32.0833%;" data-align="left"><strong>Dynamic</strong></td>
<td style="height: 45px; width: 22.3958%;">Middle<br />(Synthesis <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>or</strong></span> Dialectic)</td>
<td style="height: 45px; width: 18.8542%;">Truth / Law</td>
<td style="height: 45px; width: 25.4167%;">Peace / Lovingkindness</td>
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<td class="has-text-align-left" style="text-align: center; height: 24px; width: 98.75%;" colspan="4" data-align="left"><strong>Gra</strong></td>
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<td class="has-text-align-left" style="height: 24px; width: 32.0833%;" data-align="left"><strong>Aspect of Soul</strong></td>
<td style="height: 24px; width: 22.3958%;"><em>Ruach</em></td>
<td style="height: 24px; width: 18.8542%;"><em>Neshamah</em></td>
<td style="height: 24px; width: 25.4167%;"><em>Nefesh</em></td>
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<td style="height: 24px; width: 32.0833%;"><strong>Desires</strong></td>
<td style="height: 24px; width: 22.3958%;">Ego</td>
<td style="height: 24px; width: 18.8542%;">Spiritual</td>
<td style="height: 24px; width: 25.4167%;">Physical</td>
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<td style="width: 32.0833%; height: 24px;"><strong>Time of Life (paired with desires)</strong></td>
<td style="width: 22.3958%; height: 24px;">Adulthood</td>
<td style="width: 18.8542%; height: 24px;">Old Age</td>
<td style="width: 25.4167%; height: 24px;">Youth</td>
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<td style="width: 32.0833%; height: 87px;"><strong>Time of Night</strong></td>
<td style="width: 22.3958%; height: 87px;">Middle – the dog barks (demanding “<em>hav hav</em>!”)</td>
<td style="width: 18.8542%; height: 87px;">Near Dawn –<br />The baby nurses, the wife talks with her husband</td>
<td style="width: 25.4167%; height: 87px;">Near Sunset –<br />The Donkey Brays</td>
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<td style="height: 24px; width: 32.0833%;"><strong>Children of Adam & Chavah</strong></td>
<td style="height: 24px; width: 22.3958%;">Hevel</td>
<td style="height: 24px; width: 18.8542%;">Qayin</td>
<td style="height: 24px; width: 25.4167%;">Sheis (<em>bidmuso betzalmo</em>)</td>
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<td style="height: 45px; width: 32.0833%;"><strong>World</strong></td>
<td style="height: 45px; width: 22.3958%;">“In the Air” /<br />the world between our ears*</td>
<td style="height: 45px; width: 18.8542%;"><em>Shamayim</em></td>
<td style="height: 45px; width: 25.4167%;"><em>Aretz</em></td>
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<td style="width: 32.0833%; height: 24px;"><strong>Organ</strong></td>
<td style="width: 22.3958%; height: 24px;">Heart</td>
<td style="width: 18.8542%; height: 24px;">Head</td>
<td style="width: 25.4167%; height: 24px;">Liver / Groin</td>
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<ul><li>We detoured into Rav Dessler’s Qunterus haBechira ch. 2 to show that free will and consciousness are born of conflict — it exists in “the Middle”. Notice the middle world is where we learn Torah, paralleling the Maharal’s take on the Shimon haTzaddiq’s first pillar.</li></ul>
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