The Adoration of the Golden Calf - Nicolas Poussin |
Realizing the fault of the golden calf, the Israelites carried undermine two key laws that bound them to God: 1. I am the LORD thy God 2. Thou shalt have no other God The Lord then taught to Moshe that the gift of a half-shekel to build the Mishkan (tabernacle) erase ; this fault. Moshe questioned how the gift of a half-century can also erase a fault serious? The SHEQEL SIGN has a financial value of twenty Geras. However, the Torah enjoins us do not directly give ten geras (half of twenty). It teaches us that a full SHEQEL SIGN worth twenty Geras, and must give half. Why does the Torah employs Does this "detour arithmetic," to let us know how much to give? By itself, a Jew is not complete. Even if it gift to God for everything he owns, he will not be accomplished. It can be realized when it one with the Lord. Indeed, God has endowed with intellectual and sentimental. Their breakdowns lead them to ten. It is through them that our soul is expressed. God also reveals himself to us through a sequence of ten celestial spheres. When we rely on God, the union brings to twenty the total capacities at stake is the equivalent a SHEQEL SIGN (twenty geras) which was constituted. A complete device was made, the full effect is reached. Realizing the fault of the golden calf, the children of Israel plunged into sin. However, only ten capabilities their souls were tainted by this error, not gasoline their souls. Giving the half-shekel for the tabernacle, the children of Israel to God signified their willingness to come together again to Him, through the ten skills of their souls. This donation was therefore a fair expression of their repentance . Therefore the gift of a half-century bought their faults. What did not express the gift of a SHEQEL SIGN whole. He who has a value of twenty geras, not ten.I ssu a Speech from the Lubavitcher Rebbe - |
L e half-century should remind us each year that if the men danced before the golden calf, their wives instead refused any participation in this sin! So only half of the couple who need the money for redemption.
Now, says the Talmud Yerushalmi , is half of a day they worshiped the golden calf that is why the Holy One Blessed be He asked them as the ransom that half of the century.
For Moses, explain how the treaty Tossaphistes Houlin, did not understand why he was ordered to donate " for the redemption of souls . A man does he not-all he has to save his life?
The Gemara defines a coin as a payment method commonly accepté.Sa value is objective, undisputed. As
fire, it rises to the point that by nature, to keep it here, we must resort to various technical processes.
Finally, the heavenly throne proclaims Gd's Honor. Kiss, however, the throne, is the same etymology as Kissou the veil. These two ideas seem contradictory course! The Maggid of Mezeritch resolve the contradiction: if the size and clarity were fully visible sky, the creatures could supporter.Un veil, which is not opaque, so tempers His clarity, so that is unveiled that light can be absorbed. Kiss can be decomposed into Kess Alef. Thus, the Essence of Gd, Master of the world alluded to this Alef, is covered with a veil, Kess: it may then prove to creatures and will awaken two conflicting feelings, ecstasy and desire to reinstate the matter.
Both feelings are comparable to the room and fire.
The ecstasy is the feeling experienced by those who marvel at being in the presence of the Divine. It evokes the heat rising. It is however different forms depending on the intellectual and / or emotional each.
Then we will reinstate the material, because it is the will of God who wants him to be a house built here bas.Cette process which is accomplished by submitting to His will is the same for everyone.
Thus, the Rebbe teaches, should understand that the vision of a piece of fire responded to the question posed by Moses.
transgressions, even when it is the fault of the golden calf, that way mar the part of the soul revealed here on earth. But its essence remains unchanged: it is this piece of fire that makes the link between ecstasy and back, which acts on the soul revealed here on earth and ensures its takeover .
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