Tanya lecture/video: The Holy Epistle

Tanya / Iggeres Ha’Kodesh - The Holy Epistle, Epistle 17, Class 5 tanyaonline.com/?p=2050 ________ The Gemara describes a legal debate between G‑d and the Heavenly Academy regarding ritual purity in a situation where it is doubtful whether “the baheret preceded the appearance of a white hair or whether the white hair preceded the baheret .” It was agreed that Rabbah bar Nachmani would render the decisive opinion because of his singular knowledge in the field of Nega’im and Ohalot . In Likkutei Torah , Parashat Tazria , 20 the Alter Rebbe explains this specific dispute as well as the concept of the Heavenly Academy in general. At any rate, the revelation attainable in Gan Eden is that of memalei kol almin , in which only a limited degree of light filters through. The manifestation of the radiance at the time of the Resurrection, however, will be from the level of sovev kol almi n, אֲבָל גִּילּוּי הַהֶאָרָה שֶׁבִּתְחִיַּית הַמֵּתִים, יִהְיֶה מִבְּחִינַת "סוֹבֵב כָּל עָלְמִין", which is not in a state of contraction, measure, and limit but is limitless and endless. שֶׁאֵינָהּ בִּבְחִינַת צִמְצוּם וְשִׁיעוּר וּגְבוּל, אֶלָא בְּלִי גְבוּל וְתַכְלִית, The concept of sovev kol almin , as has been explained in Likkutei Amarim , ch. 48, כְּמוֹ שֶׁנִּתְבָּאֵר בְּ"לִקּוּטֵי אֲמָרִים" פֶּרֶק מ"ח בֵּיאוּר עִנְיַן "סוֹבֵב כָּל עָלְמִין", is not to be understood literally, as resembling a sphere, heaven forfend; i.e., this superior order of light does not “encompass all worlds” spatially so that it surrounds creation and remains exterior to it. שֶׁאֵינוֹ כְּמַשְׁמָעוֹ כְּמוֹ עִיגּוּל, חַס וְשָׁלוֹם, Rather, [it means that] it is not invested (implying adaptation) [within it]; instead of contracting itself to match the receptive capacity of the particular created being that it animates, it affects it—even from within—while remaining on its own level. אֶלָּא שֶׁאֵינוֹ בִּבְחִינַת הִתְלַבְּשׁוּת וְכוּ', Note there carefully. .וְעַיֵּין שָׁם הֵיטֵב _____ FOOTNOTES 20. See the maamar that begins Ka Mifligei Bimetivta Derakia .

Tanya lecture/video: The Holy Epistle

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