A philosophical reflection on the significance of Joseph's Tomb in Jewish thought.
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Yes. Take a sit for yourself. >> I got I got something. >> So, I want to introduce you to the most elementary terminology from uh cababalistic sources. Page 77, the top of the page or 76. We're going to look at the Hebrew. You've probably heard there are 10 spheres and the bottom seven describe our world and the top three are something else. Now here in the is a verse from the Tanakh which almost completely describes the 10 spheros in order. The very top of 76 to you Hashem belong attributed apply. So let's match them up. The first of the SPM seven is loving kindness. Here it says gdulo. But if you and take a look at the way gdulla is explained by the commentaries even in the Torah gdoula and are pretty close to synonyms. So let's take this as an occurrence of so you have to in order that's the first five in order. If you skip to the next line you have which is kingship that's the bottom one. The only one that really isn't there at all is your so number six. Instead of your soul, you have key coal. The commentators point out that the numerical value of key coal and the miracle value are the same. key is is 30 and call is 50 just 80 and you sowed Sonic is 60 the units 70 and the V and the dollar make another 10 is 80. So really this verse puts in you sowed what we would call Hebrew Reis by hinting at it but also by describing its function. The function of your soul is to bind together the upper spheros which send down some kind of energy and the bottom sphere which receives it. It's the kind of link between the givers and the receiver. There are many givers and one receiver.
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