Rabbi Yirmiyahu Ullman - Tomer Devorah: Chapter 2 - Keter Reigns

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

doing Tomer Devorah and we're up to page Lamed Vav. So before we get started just get the get Scott in loop. Um the Tomer Devorah was written by somebody named uh Rabbi Rabbi Moshe Cordovero. And he's usually referred to by the acronym Ramak. Rabbi Moshe Cordovero. You might have heard of Ramak. Yeah, in synagogue there's an ancestor of his. Actually. Very good. Yeah. How did you know that? Uh know the person? Is that right? Yeah, yeah. Yeah, the Ramak. So um the Rabbi Moshe Cordovero lived in So um the Rabbi Moshe Cordovero lived in the land of Israel. He lived in Safed in the the golden age of Safed around the time of the uh Rabbi Yosef Caro, the author of the Shulchan Aruch and all of the mystics for which uh Safed is very well known. And um the Rabbi Moshe Cordovero was one of them. He wrote, you know, many many works on uh both the the the revealed and the hidden, more esoteric topics in Torah as being a Kabbalist. And um one of the major ones was called Pardes Rimmonim. It's a real Rimmonim. It's a real classic on Jewish Kabbalah. But uh this as you see from the size is a a small work, although it's very dense. And the um basically intention of the Ramak here is to introduce us to some Kabbalistic principles regarding two general areas and then translate uh those ideas uh into kind of a guide for improving our practical daily living. The book is therefore divided into these two areas. The first one is what we refer to as the 13 attributes of divine

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1. 0:17doing Tomer Devorah and we're up to page Lamed Vav. So before we get started just…
2. 4:24physical finite physical existence is finite and therefore um on the one hand at least seemingly…
3. 8:32we are. We'll talk about more as we go. But this brings us up to line…
4. 12:39associated with the purpose of earning creation through his free will he chooses some impurity some…
5. 17:17support a family? Yeah. Why should he do that? But you see that's not the way…
6. 21:21tzimtzum which takes place, this type of reduction which has to take place. I will yesh…
7. 25:25wish want to float into godliness leave ourselves to to absolve into the greatness of God,…
8. 30:01Step after step after step after step, God has been hidden behind the world. God is…
9. 34:05this kind of matrix that of the dam that's been created. And now you can harness…
10. 38:15yiftach makor keter? How do you be able to open up this source of blessing? Hare…

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