Rabbi Alon Atiya • Parashat Bereishit

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The opening of this shiur, in Musayof Synagogue’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

In the beginning, God created the heaven and the earth. And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. Our Sages said that many great secrets are hidden in this verse. In the first verse. There is one word: Bereshit (In the beginning), upon which Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai wrote 70 interpretations, which Rabbeinu Yosef Chaim, author of the Ben Ish Chai, defined well: with them he rectified the upper realms; there are rectifications in the lower ones, but there are rectifications in the upper ones. So that is just the first word, Bereshit. After the first verse comes the second, where it is written: "And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters"—this is the spirit of the Messiah. So we have Divinity here, and we have the Messiah here. It remains only to try to return the world to the rectification that the Holy One, Blessed be He, requested, as the Ramchal writes in Adir Bamarom, that the state of the animals before the sin of Adam was at the level of humans, now —after the sin of Adam. What does that mean? We are today at our own level, where is Yitro? Does Yitro understand what I just said? Where is he? Did you understand what the Ramchal says? I noticed you aren't here; you rectified the upper realms, but please return to us. The Ramchal says that the level of humans today after the sin is like the level of the animals before the sin during the time of Adam. By the way, this explains a little why Eve,

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