NS Vol 2 - On RH Kuf Lamed Daled L'David Mizmor (27)



We say this on the night of Rosh haShanah which teaches of the designation and purpose of the world and all that fills it - all for G-d, to bring a Jew closer to G-d.  Relates to this world being ike an antechamber before a hall, the point of this world is to go through it on your path to The Hal/Parlor/Place To Bel. This world is a pathway. 


Yet it can seem that this world of desire does the reverse of bringing you to Heaven.  Also we need to understand the concept of Dirah BeTachtonim, the the Lower will be a place where the higher resides. How can that be? 


Answer: Maggid of Mezirich - The world is filled with kinyanechah - not things G-d owns, but things through which we gain ownership of/connection to G-d. All the loves and lusts - arousals -  in the world are manufactured in a way, in essence, to bring us to acquire connection with G-d.  Fits w Baal Shem Tov’s statement that no bad descends from Heaven.When seemingly bad lust or love rises in a person it is really rooted in good - G-d, Torah, israel, these loves are acquired this way, through what we need to do - to get to these roots of love. Without other love and desire in life we wouldn’t get to this LOVE.  


Every single midah in this world leads to G-d, though this can be hidden, as the holy books explain, thus the word Olam relates to He’elem, G-d’s hiddenness under the surface of everything in this world.


This is the opening of this Mizmor - that everything filling the world is for G-d, leads toward G-d - even those embedded in what looks least attractive.  Overcoming, getting through the yetzer - one gets to Hashem… We get to G-d via everything in this world, as we do via Torah and mitzvot… this is how this world is the hallway to the hall.


Spread on the waters and the seas - hints to the head and heart. Be’er Avraham. Yamm hints to Binah, Neharot hints to Teshukat HaLev.  Via the head and heart we elevate and/or rise above everything and connect to G-d. 

Moshol - a prince sent by the king to be amidst enemies, given the weapons he needs,. G-d sends our soul into our body, a pace od physicality and desire, and G-d gives us the midot / powers of the mind and heart.  This is the pshat of the pasuk, that we have the head and heart through which to get close to G-d.


Mi yaaleh… - clean of hands and heart, that’s the start, through practice, action, and then comes - lift up your heads and open the gates, openings of heaven, and the king of glory will approach. Lift up your head = intellect and the gateways of heaven = heart.  Tus we elevate the world for The King to dwell here.  Fits with Veshachanti betocham - that we need to be Temples for G-d to dwell in. This is the point of all creation, and of our heads and hearts, to make a place for G-d to dwell.


Relates to - Lift up your eyes up high and see who created all of this - if a person is lowered to just the desires of this world then he/she won’t see who created all of this.  After we raise our eyes up high, and have a perspective above this world, then we see who created all this. 


The beis Avraham notes that she’arim is the same letters as reshaim, reshaim are asked to raise their heads and see the creator of all, because when bogged downtown in this world you don’t see Him, because ou don’t see in general. Lift up and see the good.  No bad comes from above. All that’s created is from good and we have the power to elevate everything up/down to its roots, so that everything will lead us to lifting our eyes up high and seeing Who created This. 


(Bracha Lieberman - lifting the gates, means elevating our hearts, minds, this world, because when you life a gate you open the pathway, the gate is still there as your protection, but it is no longer there as an obstacle.)

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