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so the question is what is the Shina and
what does it mean that God's presence
rests uh on anyone or anything uh since
Hashem is ever present no matter what
and of course this is very very relevant
uh to the par of the week uh this is the
par of building a mishkan building a
Dwelling Place a tabernacle for God and
what does the P
say make for me a holy
place
so I will
dwell comes from that
word in their mys and everyone knows the
famous interpretation it doesn't say
Hashem dwells in the mishan but the
mishan is a conduit
forem to dwell in our heart and in our
soul the real Mish Hashem is in you
right the B Mikes is a tangible symbol
of that
so the question becomes what does that
mean and now this creates a certain
Paradox in Judaism because on one hand
we say God is everywhere what does the
say we say it every
day the world is filled not just the
world the universe is filled with his
glory so that actually means Hashem
exists in timbuk 2
or monter California as much as he
exists in the B Mikes hasem is
everywhere and yet Judaism certainly has
a a concept of
Kad right erel is holier than the rest
of the world Yim is holier than the B
than ER Israel then you have the harabas
then you have the the Azar then you have
the he then you have the
KES we say God is more there that's
where the is what do you mean the is
here right the is
everywhere so the short answer would be
that the reality of God's presence
transcends time and pl space God is not
limited to time and God has not limited
to space but the capacity of my soul to
receive his
illumination is very much affected by
the situation that I'm in an example
would be a cell phone right there are Z
there are zones that you can receive
calls and then there are dead zones so
Hashem is equally present in California
and the Temple Mount but my capacity to
receive hashem's light is much greater
in certain places and therefore the
notion of
sh is the resting of God's presence in a
manner that the humans soul is able to
receive that
light and that means that the person can
be liberated from blockages and
impediments and the like and when there
is a basa mikash especially there is
navua meaning to say the hash the
influence the Divine shefa can be
received so I become more of a mael
meaning the only thing that changes is
not the Mah Mah is essence it's not the
essence of God but the shoi isim the
shoi is on from the perspective of the
receiver not the not the giver now in
cabala as you know Shina is also called
malus and uh in a
sense malus unifies with the upper
levels of the god and that is the source
of blessing into the world so but that
kind of goes back to what I said it's
not that God is here and not there but
rather from here is the source of
blessing that flows into the entire
world
