Daily Tanya Tuesday 9th Elul Igeres Hakodesh 12: Making Peace in the Heavenly and Earthly Realms

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  • The great revelation and flow from the Infinite Light (Ein Sof) is drawn down through human initiative from below.
  • This is achieved through acts of charity, giving life, grace, kindness, and compassion to those who have nothing, and uplifting the spirit of the lowly.

🤝 Making Peace in the Heavenly and Earthly Realms

  • One who studies Torah for its own sake “makes peace in the heavenly entourage and in the earthly entourage.”
  • Heavenly entourage – the spiritual ministers and attributes, the supernal palaces in the World of Creation (as described in the Zohar).
  • Earthly entourage – the lower palaces, especially this physical world, which since Adam’s sin is a mixture of good and evil.

⚖️ The World’s State – Struggle Between Good and Evil

  • In this world, sometimes good prevails, and sometimes—Heaven forbid—the opposite.
  • True peace will only come at the “End of Days,” when good is separated from evil, cleaves to its divine source, and evil is removed from the earth.

🔮 The Future Clarification and Divine Revelation

  • This purification will happen through a great revelation of God’s presence, as it is written: “The earth shall be filled with the knowledge of the Lord” and “The glory of the Lord shall be revealed.”

🙏 Personal Spiritual Refinement in the Present

  • In the individual, at special times—such as prayer or moments of secluded reflection—one can experience a taste of this refinement.
  • This comes through Torah study for its own sake and through charity, as in the teaching: Rabbi Elazar would give a coin to the poor and then pray, based on the verse “Through righteousness I shall behold Your face.”

💎 Refining the Good and Separating the Evil

  • Such acts bring about a revelation of divine understanding, leading to contemplation of God’s greatness and the birth of awe and love for Him.
  • This process refines the good for God and separates it from the evil, like purifying silver and gold in a crucible.

About The Author

Rabbi Yaakov Goldstein is a 6th generation descendent of the famous Chief Rabbi of Izhmir, Rav Yehoshua Avraham Krispin, who authored a number of Sefarim, and was a colleague of Rav Chaim Falagi, and father in-law of the Pesach Hadvir. He currently lives with his wife Shayna, and twelve children K”H, in Tzfas, Israel. Rabbi Goldstein received Semicha from Rabbi Schneur Zalman Labkowski of the Tomchei Temimim headquarters in 2005 and served as a chaplain in the Lotar/Kalatz and K9 unit of the IDF from years 2005-2008. He is also a certified Shochet, and has performed Hashgacha work in slaughterhouses. Rabbi Goldstein is the director of Shulchanaruchharav.com, the world’s leading web-based Halacha database, and is the director of the Home Study Semicha Program, a self-study web-based Semicha program. He is a prolific author of over 50 Sefarim studied by a wide range of readers throughout the world, which is used regularly in Semicha programs around the globe. He is a world renowned Posek, answering questions to a web-based market, and serves as a local Posek, Rav, and Lecturer, in the Tzemach Tzedek community Shul in Tzefas, Israel. His many classes can be heard both from his website, Vimeo and YouTube channel. Students can join live to classes given in the Tzemach Tzedek Shul, through the “בית חבד צפת Chabad Tsfat” YouTube channel.

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