<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: -webkit-monospace; ">"I took special note in Neila that we beseech midas harachamim-- and <span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: -1; ">decided from its wording <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span></span></span><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="-webkit-monospace"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: -1;">that here midas harachamim was a seperate being from HKBH."</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="-webkit-monospace"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: -1;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="-webkit-monospace"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: -1;">I've always used the analogy of a prism. A prism refracts light into various colors (like the rainbow). It still is one beam that </span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="-webkit-monospace"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: -1;">either breaks light into its constituent spectral colors or splits light into components with different polarizations. This is similar</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="-webkit-monospace"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: -1;">to the analogy that R' Toby gave regarding different personality traits. It's still the same person. Any mida from HaShem is</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="-webkit-monospace"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: -1;">still from the One. (Reminds me of Yom Rishon, the day of the One). </span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="-webkit-monospace"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: -1;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="-webkit-monospace"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: -1;">ri</span></font></div></body></html>