Monday, June 13, 2016

קַדְּשֵׁנוּ בְּמִשְׁפָּטֶיךָ

The third fragment of Yechezkel, 36:26-28, raises a question. Let us translate it:
I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you. I will remove the heart of stone from your flesh and give you a heart of flesh. I will put My spirit within you, and I will make it to that you will follow My decrees and guard My judgements and will do them. You will dwell in the land that I gave to your forefathers, and you will be a people to me, and I will be a God to you.
The paragraph ends, surprisingly, with Yechezkel 36:31,32, in a negative mood:
Then you will remember your evil ways, and your deeds being not good, and you will be disgusted with yourselves in your own sight because of your iniquities and because of your abominations. Not for your sake do I act - the word of the lord Hashem - let this be known to you! Be embarrassed and ashamed of your ways, O house of Israel!
How can the negative terms be explained?

His spirit will be in us, and we go according to His decrees and His judgements, of the Torah d'Atzilut. His spirit will make us understand that the emphasis on Mitzvot is part of the Torah of Asiyah. In Torah d'Atzilut, as in the Torah of the world of Beriah, and probably even in the world of Yetsirah, there are only judgements. The Mitzvot are non-existing in Atzilut, because we know His thoughts, as His spirit is within us.

And we will remember that we did it ourselves, as in the story of the sin of the "golden calf," which led to loosing the first Luchot, those with the Torah of Atzilut, and left us with the second Luchot, those with the Torah of Asiyah.

We will be thoroughly ashamed of attempts to edit the Mitzvot into Torah of Beriah, the highest level that has existed. We will be utterly disgusted by the acts of self-aggrandizement that lowered the Torah, to Asiyah. We will be disgusted by ourselves, and wonder about our leaders, while learning to see the Hand behind it all.

We will be embarrassed for believing in, and promoting, the Torah of Asiyah, when all the editing will be clearly displayed before our eyes, O house of Israel.

Then we will understand, then we will remember, and we will have but to say "it is not in our merit but קַדְּשֵׁנוּ בְּמִשְׁפָּטֶיךָ, make us holy according to Your judgements."