Ruach Elokim

In the Perush of the beginning of the Torah one part of a Pasuk is notably absent: V'Ruach Elokim Merachefet Al Pnei HaMayim. Why is this?

The Perush explains the beginning of the Torah in terms of the Galut. What is Ruach Elokim doing during the Galut? Ruach Elokim is busy, as it were, ruminating about

13! + 288^2 = (288*274)^2

and its sister equations. What is the background of the rumination? Sof Ma'aseh b'Machashava Techila. Ruach Elokim is constantly thinking, as it were, about the Sof. The Sof is in a sense the beginning. This answer gives a hint about the nature of evolution, about Ohr HaGanuz.

HaShem Hu HaElokim

It is almost Chanukah. The light that will be revealed breaking the darkness of the Galut, is Ohr HaGanuz. What is Ohr HaGanuz? We have said that the knowledge about the anciency of the Universe, and the anciency of mankind, is from Ohr HaGanuz. However, it is not equal to Ohr HaGanuz, because there is another side to this.

The other side is the Geula, the moment of spiritual perfection of mankind, the great day of HaShem. The scientific knowledge is only a small part of a great and true light. The full light is that Elokim, the G-d of Nature, the G-d behind evolution, is equal to HaShem, the G-d who wants spiritual perfection, and has the power to bring it to Israel, and from Israel to the nations of the world. HaShem Hu HaElokim. HaShem and Elokim are the same. Ein Od Milvado. This profound and extremely wondrous truth, yet to be revealed to all, is Ohr HaGanuz. Chanukah Sameach.

Perush Bereishit

And Avraham, the Elder, the Chassid, arose, opened and said: "In the beginning Elohim created HaShamayim and HaAretz. And HaAretz was Tohu VaVohu" (Bereishit 1,1-2), in the Galut. [About this: "He has placed me in darkness like the eternally dead" (Eichah 3:6) - the Babylonian Talmud (Sanhedrin 24a).] "And darkness was upon the face of the deep" (Bereishit 1:3) - this is darkness from the side of the Shechina, from which all the powers of Tum'ah draw their strength. That is why it is written: "upon the face of the deep". "And Elohim said, Let there be light: and there was light" (Bereishit 1:3) - from the side of the Zachar. "And Elohim saw that the light was good" (Bereishit 1:4), that is the light that is set aside (Ohr HaGanuz) and will be revealed in the world. That will be the time of the Geula.

Tikkunim Chadashim, Tikkun 30 [First Hakdama].

Kallat Moshe

How does the old Shechina get repaired? In other words, how does the old Shechina become the new Shechina? This is the Sod of the count of Moshe, and the anciency of it. The old Shechina becomes Kallat Moshe in the final step of the Geula.

The Power To Build

And what about the Talmud, the Mishna? They maintain a third level of the Shechina, the old Shechina, upon which the first and second Zohar build. The Talmud only maintains, conserves, the old Shechina, which is the remnant of Churban. This is the Shechina that went with Israel into the Galut. Its students have no power to build anything, unlike the power granted to students of the first and second Zohar, that is, to those working in the line of Moshiach ben David and Moshiach ben Yosef. This is the background of the perplexing statement of the Ramchal.

The First and the Second

The first two branches of Ayil Meshulash have a message that we did not explicate yet, and which may be hard to understand. Until Ramchal and the GR"A there is the building of Klal Yisrael, the first Shechina, until halfway the millenium. This is the task of the Zohar, the first Zohar, the task of Moshiach ben David. Afterwards there is the building of the Shechina proper, the second Shechina. This is the task of the second Zohar, the work of Ramchal, the GR"A, and others after them, the task of Moshiach ben Yosef.

Unity

See how the unity will arise. The heretics of the Geula are more open than the heretics of the Truth. When the Geula will have started, that is, after the first Zivug, they will start to understand and to accept. But the heretics of the truth have such a history of denying the obvious, that they will also deny the start of the Geula. It is not the Geula they expect. But as the Geula progresses they will start to understand that their opposition to science has become totally in vain, and they will join the former heretics of the Geula.

Ohr HaGanuz

The knowledge that the world is ancient, is from Ohr HaGanuz, light that was revealed only to the true Tsadik.

Today, the knowledge about the history of the world, is coming from science, and proves hard to handle. It has made the world into a place of heretics. But it is possible to be the exception, to accept the truth from science, to see that it is Ohr HaGanuz, and therefore to expect the redemption. Consider:

When Rashbi was going to leave the world, a great light appeared, from the Ohr HaGanuz, and he knew.

When the Arizal was going to leave the world, he similarly received from the Ohr HaGanuz, and he knew.

Chaim Vital did not know, but he also merited to receive from the Ohr HaGanuz, and he knew, and saw the coming of Moshiach.

And Ramchal merited to receive from the Ohr HaGanuz, and he knew, and saw the Yichud of HaShem.

And the GR"A merited to receive from the Ohr HaGanuz, and he knew, and saw the Yichud of Moshiach.

Only very few realize that this light, this knowledge, is from Ohr HaGanuz. The "Tsadikim" will reject it, fight it, in the name of Torah. They are called "Tsadikim," but they are not.

We Stand Alone

We stand alone. Heretics abound. Many are caught in the apparent contradiction between truth and redemption.

Many believe that the world is ancient, and therefore, they do not believe in "Jewish" redemption. Among the heretics of redemption are the Conservative Jew, the Reform Jew, and the Israeli Chiloni, and the non-Jew.

Rav Ovadia Yosef, and anyone similar, is a heretic of the truth, the truth being that the world is old, and that mankind is old. In fact, truth, general truth, has long disappeared from religious Psika, a deep reason for the failure of the "Land for Peace" psak. One sees no Cheshbon Nefesh after this failure, because really, in their heart, also the followers do not believe in the truth anymore. This includes many of the Talmidim of Rav Kook, who also do not believe that the world is ancient. It is strange but true. They believe in Judaism, and therefore they do not believe in the truth.

We stand alone.

Ramchal on Psakim

Regarding the many psakim of Rav Ovadia, or anyone similar, Ramchal had to say the following:

מה נמצא נחת רוח ליוצרנו ב"ה בכל הפלפולים הגדולים והפסקים הרבים? ואין אחד מתחזק לעמוד בסוד ה' לגלות אור כבודו אל השכינה שנאמר בה "וראיתיה לזכור ברית עולם" - ברזין דאוריתא

Some Posts on Rav Ovadia

Here are some of my posts that I wrote regarding Rav Ovadia and his "halachic activism".

Rav Ovadia's basic mistake.
Lo Adoni, on Urim v'Tumim, and Rav Ovadia's mistake.
On the superficiality of Rav Ovadia's thinking, Marc Shapiro.
On Rav Ovadia's activism, Aryeh Deri.

About Rav Ovadia, without mentioning his name:

On Oslo, Rav Ya'akov Yosef.
On the Gadol HaDor.

Truth and Legalities

Who judges from a legal point of view finds it hard to see how Ya'akov is so much better than Esav or Lavan. In truth, Esav and Lavan are crooks, and Ya'akov is a man of holiness. This is what we are learning now. The legalities of the world will bring total isolation to Israel, while the Truth is with Israel.

Forget and Forgive

The Americans threaten Israel with total isolation if they do not make place for a Palestinean state. A totally rational decision will see a totally irrational world-wide response. The world will surely try, once Israel brings the "peace process" to a halt. However, the "problem" is that without Israel the world has no right to existence. Therefore, they will try but succeed only because the world economy will crash.

The Israeli left will be blamed for causing this state of affairs. However, the Israeli left is merely a means. They acted as a shield, until the proper time. Sensitive to the world opinion, they are not the reason for this world opinion. Forget and forgive.

The Challenge

The first and second Zivug are the tough ones. The surrounding Din makes them into acts of faith. After the first Zivug, it will be initially not be clear where is HaKadosh Baruch Hu in this matter, how He is Mashpia L'Tovah. The Shechina does not rise yet. It is a test, a test of faith. At the second Zivug, the Shechina has risen, but yet there is a huge act of faith. Both Zivugim are in the time of Moshiach ben Yosef, that is, the time of the awakening from below. That is the challenge.

About The Name

The name מדר"ל is the Rashei Tevot of my name, which I received at my encounter with the Divine. The gematria of מדר"ל is 274, while the gematria of the full name, משה דויד רפאל לרמן, is a thousand.