The Ramchal's Essay on Fundamentals - Part 14 - Rabbi Yirmiyahu Ullman

but for now let's let's do the next part of the essay which is Gilles that's page 183 this is on the topic of ghulam Redemption so this kind of fits in because we have been speaking about the the progression of ideas from the create hero from the creator to the creation to the purpose of creation for the nature of good and evil and free will the nature of the body and soul reward and Punishment things having to do with spirit the spiritual realm souls angels demons forces then going into discussion we saw most recently tapping into the light side of the force with prophecy and this would be Gila which would be the the resolution of the different types of conflicts that we different types of conflicts and contradictions that we're discussing in Google at the redemption things are going to be reconciled and then the next topic is going to be related to missiles Hebrew names sake which is regarding me seen miracles and then just some other ideas about Torah and shots and whatnot that will conclude the essay so let's do gilda cool on page 23 he named me harmony no she who is well the elevated member of the human race is Israel who are muhammad o demon Ludovico's boys bar this is a people who is in future relegated towards devious cleaving to God were in the hem she he'll meet Orion be to make adieu Sybilla and it is befitting therefore that they being crowned with great crowns of holiness the th can also use brock Charolais him and that god's presence should dwell upon them who mr. Beck his bomb and cleaved to them shish Talib is a and in this way they will become perfected our cheese coup d'etat vomitus until they will fully receive the good and proper reward so the truth is that many of the Jewish sources indicate that it was God's intention that Adam and all of his descendants meaning Adam and Eve mankind and all of Adam and Eve's descendants should be deserving of this status this very elevated status of a perfect and complete cleaving to God being enveloped in the light and the holiness of the presence of God and this was the idea that was that was intended if Adam and Eve had just refrained from transgressing that first fatal Friday but since they fell world history the spiritual history of mankind changed greatly but it's important to know that that God's initial intention was that all of humanity should be one nation under God indivisible with liberty and spirituality for all yea and that Adam and Eve if they had refrained from transgressing that first fatal Friday they would have perfected themselves realized the purpose for which they were created and then brought their progeny into the world into a state of perfection and that would have been the and that would have been you know that would have been the bringing to fruition of the whole purpose for creation and there would be no distinction between nations the distinction between nations only took place much later at the generation of the disposal when humanity built this tower of Babylon and as a result of this God punished them bye babbling their language confusing them and causing them to disperse across the globe but until then they were still one nation you know one one nation of humanity and they still had the opportunity to rectify what Adam and Eve caused to go to go wrong only after you know this tower of Babylon which represents the human inclination to create on edifice which they can delude themselves into thinking elevates them into heaven and enables them to usurp the power of God utilizing their god-given quality of being god-like because we were created that's Ellen and Lou Keane but this inclination of which was imbued within us having been created but Salem Enochian which you've explained a bit in the past means being created specifically not in the tell'em of you'd hey vafan hey which is the creator but rather B'Tselem elohim which denotes god's power of mastership and rule kingship over creation and therefore mankind has given this kind of power having been created but Salem Enochian had the power of Elohim and that causes that can cause mankind to have an inclination to want to gain control instead of God and that's what this tower of Babylon was its tower about a bubble was built quote/unquote by human beings to wage war against God to bring themselves up into heaven with spears and knives and kill God and pull God out of heaven right physically maybe there was such a building maybe there wasn't but in a bit but certainly metaphorically the message then is is no less true today which is that human beings have all types of constructs which we make and we fabricate in order to elevate our own importance bring ourselves up into the realm of the divine the all-powerful we make all types of tools which are used to deconstruct a God to remove God's existence as it were to kill God and take God out of heaven and place ourselves there and this tower of belem is what causes a person to go as far away from God as as possible it deflects a person from the true purpose of being created which was to cleave to God and it brings about divisiveness and distinction and the separateness and separation and distance right and and and the the irony of it all is that it all comes from the very power which should actually put us in a trajectory in the opposite direction towards God the fact that we were created with selim elohim is simultaneously what would enable us to actually cleave to God if we recognize that power and harness it with humility towards discovering and connecting to God so that we're walking on this tightrope this type of double-edged sword you this type of other the edge of a sword where you can go one way or the other way towards cleaving and connection to God or towards separation and distinction from God but initially all of humanity was given this opportunity give this opportunity to cleave to God and that's what God wanted them to choose God wanted them to choose to cleave to God and that was the whole trial there because Adam and Eve knew why they were created they knew that they were created for the purpose of connecting to God making themselves godlike in order to make themselves godlike they had to kids had to be able to connect to God in all ways possible all venues should be at their exploits to the further access it was intended to access all venues in order to cleave to God Allah purpose and then when they plate when they found themselves placed in a reality a plane of existence which offered them access in all ways metaphoric referred to as being able to eat the fruit taste the fruit of all of the trees of the Garden of Eden which represents the ability to taste God through all of the different various and variegated experiences in life the fact that they were barred from doing so in one way was antithetical to their understanding for the reason for which they were created which was to cleave to God and Adam and Eve were straw over this and they were sitting there like Mordecai is sitting yeah who sculpted that famous sculpture the thinker you know the statue yeah was a Michelangelo yeah anyway yeah and so Adam and Eve found themselves bewildered in this garden of tantalizing experiences and venues through which they could connect to God yet being prevented from doing so in all ways one of the experiences was blocked for them they could not gain knowledge and connected to connectedness to God through the knowledge of good and evil and not an evil egg really beside them so like this is intolerable God created us for the purpose of being able to connect him in ball possible ways and he did so by giving us this multitude of experiences through which we can cleave to God but this one right there that's central in the midst of the garden that's central this experience it doesn't make sense comes along the seductive serpent and says what's bothering you guys what are you so down in the face about God's created you you should be very happy so Adam in his naive state revealed to the sly and slick tongue servant the problem is we were created here for the purpose of connecting and God is not allowing us to connect oh that's unthinkable how unfortunate I understand why you must be so upset what's the matter so well there's this tree this experience understanding God I'm good and evil which is so essential in realizing one's purpose in life and God is not allowing us to connect him in this way so the servant says to them god you're really naive don't you get it what would happen if you put took of this experience well God said we're gonna die she's like yeah you really think you're gonna die what God have created you for the purpose of cleaving to him in all ways including every possibility like for taking of the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil and if you were take of that with an intention of connected to him he would kill you for that you got it wrong he wants you to have the fruit that's the purpose for which you were created only he wants to test you and see whether you want him so bad you want to cleave to God so thoroughly that you're willing to do it even under the threat of death it's not that he doesn't want you to protec he wants you to partake and when you partake you'll taste life he just wants to know that you're really willing to sacrifice your life for that purpose so Adam and Eve like Wow that makes sense yeah and then they start saying right you know what look we got two options we can either continue without it but what is life worth without connecting to God on all levels it's tantamount to death on the other hand maybe the Serpent's right and God really does want us to take of this experience and it's a test in which case we'll have life so is that either way we go it's going to work yeah cuz if we take it we'll get life and if we take it and have death so life without it is tantamount to death anyway so either way you slice it it comes up right taste it so in this way they were intellectually seduced into for taking of this experience and we all know what happened yeah that was that fatal mistake that they made the final few minutes before shop came in and rather than perfecting themselves they were demoted if until that time the meter said they were on earth but reaching to heaven they could be at one side of the earth and see what's going on the other side of the earth they had great spiritual stature so much so that the Angels mistook them for God and the meter says the Angels wanted to say kadosh kadosh kadosh pronounced the kedusha before Adam this being of light that's how elevated Adam and Eve Souls were after this point the gomorrah says god placed his hand on them and pressed them down pressed them down down down down down down into the material world and these beings of light became beings of darkness or opaque beings of a picnic and and and this is what was all lost but the sources say that the serpent was actually telling them the truth if they had not eaten if they had not have / taken of that experience at that time but rather would have waited until the appointed time then things of course would have been much different that was the point that the the Kabbalistic teachings tell us that God that the serpent was telling the truth this this line of reasoning actually was was based in truth and God did intend for them to pro take of this experience for exactly the purpose that the serpent argued in order to enable mankind to cleave to God entirely in all ways only it had to have to do with the intention was that it be after Adam and Eve passed the test of refraining from for taking of the experience even though intellectually there was every rational reason for them to go ahead and put out their hands and take this fruit right and there was truth in that because that's ultimately what God wanted but he wanted them first to perfect themselves by refraining humbly except upon themselves the the the the kingship of Hashem and had they affected their own perfection that Friday you know what God would have given them for their Shabbos meal was that yes not couscous yes not couscous that fruit you're right that fruit and their Shabbos meal would have consisted of the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil and after having perfected themselves in that perfected state of that first prime moral Shabbos they would have assured in a period of perfection and you know what they would have been given for dessert the compote no that goes goes but the fruit of the tree of life of life well first first they had to breathe first they had to bring the first I had to bring themselves to the level where they could incorporate the knowledge of good and evil as is fused with in God and when they would attain that level of perfection they would be granted eternal life so that would that was the sequence no they were created with the potential for perfection which they had to actualize that force was the tsaatan it was the yet Sahara it was the not Hajj different forms was that yeah yeah she and him with the boat they were they were in many ways one even though at that point they had already been separated but this was the argument that the serpent used to seduce her and she conveyed that to him sexually to the central hub bahir says that yes that's that's brought down in the severability that many of the sources say that the the the not hush hate till buzz in Houma was a muscle that he injected within her his impurity and more you know more directly that's referring to persuading her with this impure line of reasoning injecting his impurity into her soul or into her thoughts but on another level there's an implication that there was some type of a sexual interaction there as well what's that it wasn't a snake iiiiii intended to call it a serpent I hope I did but but I mean it's not not a stay we called it an AHA SH we call them now hush but it doesn't but it wasn't a snake it was it was some slice lick creature which was very insidiously seducing I don't know I just saying serpent is above what avoid as much as possible conveying the idea that it was a snake some some type of being some type of yeah some type of a being or a force it was embodied it could have been that it was evil incarnate I was very interesting the tour says that God cut its legs and caused it to crawl on its belly and any dust what's that - weight speech very interesting maybe that's the idea of its eating dust like its throat becomes choked and they were aware they were not aware of a that we say they were they were very much aware of a sham why do you say that they were not aware of a sham what serpents said was to know Hashem yes with with us with with this commentary is saying is that the serpent came to say to them that in fact God wanted them to pro take of this fruit and and that was God's plan that they do so in order to be able to cleave to God entirely in all possible ways that there should be no barrier whatsoever between they and God and when the serpent said that the serpent was telling the truth that was God's plan but not at that time until they heard from God otherwise can I take of this experience they had to go on what God clearly communicated to them which was do not protect of this experience and you cannot rationalize or justify doing something which God told you not to even if it seems like it's the right thing to do it's kind of like a metaphor that's given about two kings and each boasted about the dedication of his of their servants so the one King said the other well let's see how dedicated and loyal your servant actually is and they made a bet between them some type of a wager how does it go I don't remember exactly the details of it but it was basic like this the the the servant should be sent from one king to the other entrusted with a thousand gold coins and he was to liver these coins for some reason right now I'm kind of blinking on the details of the story but ultimately what happened was that the king said listen I'll give you ten thousand of these coins in their stead you give me a thousand I'll give you ten thousand instead and so they're the servants ahead well I came to get a thousand coins from my master but I can orchestrate things in a way where I could actually come back with with ten thousand coins so in this way he was duped into into taking those ten thousand coins he brought back to his king and his own king was furious he said I made her wager with him that you wouldn't do that at the expense of a hundred thousand so you might have earned me a ten thousand but you actually cause actually you've actually caused me to lose my ninety thousand which means that you know we have limited perspective and we don't really know what's going on right we have to do what we're told and we do not have the liberty to justify and rationalize the God God's commandments and what he wants us to do it when he doesn't want to listen or other well unless we hear otherwise and that's basically what was happening here the servant was saying the truth and he caused them to justify and rationalize doing something in the name of that truth which God actually prohibited from doing had they refrained from doing so they really would have gotten the gold yeah but the hands are popping up I think you had yours up a while ago that they particular food everything is pre-planned they have free will they have free will which doesn't mean which doesn't preclude there may having made that decision but God God really wanted God's intention was that they refrain from exercising their free will in that way but he also made a contingent plan right sure and there was a condition here what if they didn't which he knew as it were from the outset that they wouldn't created a continuing plan and and that's where we are we're in contingent plan and the result of as a result of all this like God pressed them down human beings became much more physical and much less spiritual and that led to an even further distancing of humanity from God which ultimately resulted in people's using this residual power of Salomon Hakeem to try and replace God and then the dispersal and the different nations I'm just trying to point out here what he's saying is that the Israel is the distinguished of nations but the truth is Israel is a spiritual concept which was initially intended for all of humanity and only became later concentrated among the people yeah why why do we know like hate hugging like hey come on well I mean he made a made a tragic mistake but certainly certainly according to this way of explaining things he was actually well-intentioned and he messed up big time but that's no way to hate him but we certainly are enjoined to learn from his mistake he was a spiritual giant in this Kabbalistic explanation of the way things happened in my mind kind of addresses this point which was if they were such spiritual Giants how could they have made such a simple obvious mistake that like none of us would make if God told you don't do it how could you possibly do it particularly when you're on that level so I was trying to portray the spiritual agony and anguish that they felt as a result of not fulfilling their spiritual mandate of cleaving to God and on their level the rationalization that they came to accept in order to do what God told them not to do in the name of thinking that that was what God actually wanted them to do in order to fulfill their purpose were being created it's quite subtle the biggest mistake in history big-time not hate him but but it's interesting that you mentioned when mushiya comes over the zone that that's why I'm kind of introducing our whole discussion here on Redemption with with with with with with this with this topic because this is really at the beginning of redemption is really you know the beginning of redemption is exile and exile is the banishing of Adam and Eve from Eden we are at wheelman so so so the answer is Adam will be resurrected I didn't go into the video whether there'll be one body or whether Adam will be the body of resurrected humanity let's leave that aside from it yeah so the serpent told him the truth and also there's this concept that evil or bad was external before they ate from the tree so if good was all they had was really this this serpent coming to tell them the truth it was as though they had no other option that they would go with the serpent if he's telling the truth and evil is something that's external their ability to maybe think oh maybe this isn't how we're supposed to think we're gonna try to understand your logic cuz you're saying that they were essentially good and the serpent was presenting to them essentially the truth so as good beings presented with the truth they really had no option otherwise the idea interesting idea but it seemed to me that even though they were essentially good they still did have the potential for evil they were created with that potential the yet Zahara had not been fully realized within them and that's part of what we mean when we say the impurity of the serpent was injected into them that the potential for evil was realized in them through their interaction with the serpent well that's one and the second thing is that while the serpent told them the truth he didn't tell them the whole truth he told the truth he just did another told you you know it's the right thing by anybody to tell them it was the wrong time yeah it was like sometimes I kind of try don't want to LaBrie too much in the analogy but times sometimes to to kind of make this dynamic live or palpable I think about the analogy of two people who meet let's say two people are convinced that that they are there are the right ones for each other but it turns out that that they're both married to others so what do they do with that with that dissonance do they act upon their intuitive impulse that they are one or do they remain separate because they have joined with others it's so right how do you have this it feels so right to be how do you feel so right to be wrong feeling anyway the point is it could very well be that they are mr. and mrs. right but the time is not the time does not right right so the mr. MS right it's just not the right time at some future time if they're both available for one another then they could realize what is the what is the the potential goodness between them but until then there's a prohibition of adultery just because they're soul mates doesn't permit adultery once the prohibition of adultery is removed then the the the the purpose of bringing these two souls together can be can be realized yet that being external how you supposed to understand that at that time evil was a force which was primarily outside of themselves and this evil force was trying to end to induce them seduced them to doing something which denied God which was a rebellion against God and they were swayed by that yeah they were swayed by the cuz they could have said listen even though that makes perfect sense we're essentially good beings and we recognize the kernel of truth and what this what's being presented us but on the other hand God told us don't do that so so really rather than saying accepting the argument that God wanted them to demonstrate their faith and their love for God by sacrificing their lives for God they should have done the other way around right they they should have sacrificed I don't know they should have said they'd rather than well what did he kind of argue God wants to see whether they're willing to sacrifice your lives to cleave to him so they should have sacrificed cleaving to him in order to do what he says that was the other side and that and that's what they didn't choose so the test was can you follow instructions kind of kind of like that yes you can follow instructions he'll be perfect but if you can't follow these instructions for you yeah which is even though there's very compelling strong spiritual reasons to transgress ultimately we cannot second-guess internationalize God or the commandments and therefore we have to do it we're told because we don't have the full picture and there's another lesson that God intended to convey them which is you are poised to choose perfection and live accordingly for the rest of history but there's important lesson to learn before you get to that perfected state which is God is no less with you in your anguish and in your doubt and in your suffering I see you in a quandary I see you perturbed and disturbed over the fact that you're now able to cleave to me in what you understand to be always and therefore you don't feel that you are entirely with me and that I'm entirely with you but I want you to know that even in the dark times even in the periods of doubt and uncertainty I'm no less there with you then in the times when you think I'm very close you know there's a well-known analogy I'm not sure that the source is actually Jewish but it's nevertheless a significant words of wisdom the analogy of a person who after 120 is brought up before the heavenly court and they show him a vision of his life and this takes the form of footprints in the sand by the seashore and he sees there are certain tracks of sand where there are two sets of footprints and then there are certain parts where there's only one and then there are two again and God says to the person this is a this is a review of your life how do you make sense of the fact that sometime there are two sets of tracks and sometimes only one the person says it's clear the times when there are two that's when you're going with me God and the times when there are one that's what I was going it alone they're difficult hard right dark times in life God says no you got it wrong the two sets is when we were going together the one set is when I was carrying you so this is the message that God intended to convey them like I said you are poised to cleave to me like this for the rest of eternity but I want you to know that as God I'm no less with you when you think we're not together as when we are together and that was one of the important lessons that he wanted to teach them yeah essentially and if I didn't would have passed the test and not eaten the food I'm not sure this God would have killed the serpent and God might not necessarily have killed the serpent but God might have that decision might have elevated the serpent as well so the serpent actually might have been brought under servitude of Adam and Eve in their service of God and this is related to this point about the major saying that after they they transgressed God placed his hand on them and pressed them down so that they were congealed into more physical beings than the original spiritual beings that they had been they were called beings of light and afterwards they became enclosed with skin the Torah says the the resolve the Cabal explains it doesn't mean to say that God covered them with animal skin but rather their beings were transposed from beings of light and and and and with bodies of energy to bodies that were enclosed with skin so that it represents the bodies materializing from a spiritual body into a physical body and God pressed them down and the question is what happened to the right what happened to the serpent we find that the serpent was also cut down why was this because when Adam and Eve were spiritually upright supernal beings so the serpent was also commensurately powerful to them and also an upright stay the creature but when they transgressed and they were pressed down so God had to press the power of evil down as well what's that did the serpent regret that having having caused them to transgress the sermon was doing its job I did why was it punished right why was it punished so the answer is well the fact that the serpent was cut down is exactly what I'm getting at is not that the serpent was punished per se for just for for persuading them on the contrary the serpent was just doing its job and it did a great job yeah the point is once it succeeded in deflecting humanity from realizing that potential of course God didn't want that to happen but the serpent was still doing his job to enable them to exercise their free will to choose either to or not to but taking this experience but once he had done his job of dissuading them then just as they were spiritually demoted the serpent also had to be spiritually demoted so that he shouldn't be overwhelmingly powerful over humanity and therefore this is the idea the serpent was cut down what it means is it was like Adam and Eve were pressed down in this world the serpent was also pressed down and lowered so that its power and force of swain persuasion over humanity should be diminished commensurate to the level in which Adam and Eve's spiritual potential was also diminished so according to this it wasn't so much a punishment but it was a necessary result of their transgressing why am I getting to all of this because what in point is as follows is that just like their spiritual decline or demise resulted in a diminishing of the power of the serpent if they had actually realized their potential for perfection then they would have elevated the serpent within right just that the serpent was demoted with that if they had elevated themselves the sword would have been elevated with them as well to the point where it would have actually become a servant of Adam and Eve and not a a seducer of Adam and Eve but actually actually a servant of them and totally subservient to them and this fits in with the idea that that one who says and more tells us Barassi yet Sahara well Brasi Torah Pavlin I created the yet Sahara and I created the Torah as a toppling for the yet Sahara like an antidote to the answer but the question is this why doesn't it say something like this I created the yet Sahara and I created the Torah as a machete to cut it down or I created the Torah as a fire to devour it what kind of business I created the Torah as a table in what is the table in Italian is a spice yeah the Torah spices it up what's that all about the Torah spices up the yet so our the point is it's a spice in the sense that spices were used in olden times where the spice actually cured the meat like salt cures meat I created the yet Sahara and it created the Torah as a way to cure me out like a curing spice the course quality of the yet Sahara in order to elevate it so you see the purpose is not to demolish distinguish and to eradicate the yet surah the purpose is to elevate it and improve it and make it palatable yeah in order to consume it bring out the bad blood so that it can be palatable and and been and and beneficial and I think this fits in with an idea that it once had which is that if the serpent in Hebrew is referred to by the term Nakash the gamma Chi of Nahash actually equals Messiah so that you see that latent within the power of the nirvash is the power to bring about Messiah and that fits in very nicely with what we're saying here about the connection between the downfall and the redemption because they're really two sides of the same coin within the Nahash we actually have the potential for mushiya not by eradicating that potential for evil but by harnessing its forces for good and that's what the Google is going to be all about if Adam and Eve subjected themselves to the now hush initially the redemption is going to have to come about through reasserting their control having been created with selim elohim over all forces of existence including evil and when mankind is able to subjugate evil that actually be able to harness the power which is linked in the Nakash in order to actually use that very same power for the purpose of bringing about messiah well either would no longer become evil or it would be evil but rather than its being raw it would be transformed into what's called rhea which is a friend a companion after LaRocca kamoko love your friend like yourself and the commentaries say after raha konoka love the evil within you as yourself because that evil within you is part of yourself and that evil is not intrinsically evil it only becomes evil as a result of expressing that power in a negative way but if you harness that power in a positive way that Robert haw actually becomes really your friend that's also referring to here is transmuting that Nakash to Messiah the world is gonna go to the perfection yes yes post mushiya which eventually is going to play out until class it may seem so that post resurrection will bring the world to the state that God had intended initially for Adam and Eve and all their offspring to obtain initially yes yeah yeah and will no longer be interacting with each other as bodies but it's also because most 7,000 well it's it's all supposed to take place by the end of the year 6,000 and then yeah and then that that that millennia from 6 to 7 is going to be these the world to come alright let me just end here then you can ask a question yeah but I want to let people have a chance to take a break for the next class as they need to and so if you have to go and go and we'll continue this audition tomorrow