[Avodah] Leshon haKodesh

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From: Zev Sero _zev at sero.name_ (mailto:zev at sero.name) 


>>  In Aleinu, the most straightforward  translation,
indeed ISTM the only translation that doesn't require any  stretching, is
"to establish the world under Hashem's sovereignty".  I  don't even know
what "to repair the world under Hashem's sovereignty" is  supposed to mean;
to my ear it's gibberish, word  salad.....<<


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Zev  Sero                         



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Didn't you grow up Lubavitch?  Didn't you grow up hearing about the  
kabbalistic concept of the shattered vessels that have to be fixed/repaired  
before Moshiach can come?  Did that all sound like gibberish and word salad  to 
you growing up?
 
_http://www.newkabbalah.com/shev.html_ 
(http://www.newkabbalah.com/shev.html) 
 
--quote--
 
Shevirat ha-Kelim (Breaking of the Vessels) 
 
According to Luria, the ten vessels that were originally meant to contain 
the  emanation of God's light were unable to contain that light and were 
hence either  displaced or shattered. As a result of this cosmic catastrophe, 
the  Sefirot, the archetypal values through which the cosmos was created,  are 
shattered and out of place, and the world within which we reside, is  
composed of the shards of the these broken values.  
It is significant that for the Kabbalists, only 6 of the 10 Sefirot  (from 
Chesed to Yesod) were fully shattered (Malchut,  the final vessel was broken 
partially). Had all of the vessels, including  Keter, Chochmah, and Binah, 
been shattered, the universe would  have been thrown back into the state of 
complete and utter chaos, the  toho and bohu prior to creation.  
As it is, the three highest Sefirot, which represent Will, Wisdom,  and 
Understanding, remained intact; only the six Sefirot representing  the 
spiritual, moral, aesthetic and material values were broken, and are, hence,  in 
need of restoration or repair (Tikkun).
 
 
--end quote--
 
There are a number of Litvaks aboard who would readily call this  
"gibberish" I'm sure, but I would be surprised to hear that coming from  /you/.
 
 
--Toby Katz
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