Kabbalah & Mysticism: The Book of Exodus (Shemot)

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

that they'll want to know when they want when they say what's his name, they'll want to know which mida which characteristic which attribute is Hashem revealing himself through the Geulah? What is the mida that Hashem reveals through the Geulah? And of course it has to be understood that a a mida, what a mida is, Kodesh Baruch Hu b'atzmo so in himself is beyond any kind of understanding that is beyond any kind of understanding that a human being can have, but we do understand to a certain extent in the way that he interfaces with his creation. We see sometimes Hashem is merciful, sometimes there's a mida of din of strict justice. So what is the mida, what is the mida by which Hashem will be conduct the Geulah? That's when they said to him, "What is his name?" Not "What is the mida "What is the mida through which Hashem will reveal himself through the Geulah of from Mitzrayim?" And Hashem answered to him with the next pasuk in the next pasuk. And he says Vayomer Elohim el Moshe, God says to Moshe Moshe said to Moshe Eheyeh asher Eheyeh. This is the name, I will be that which I will be. Now Eheyeh is a name of Hashem. The Rambam the Rashbam says The Rambam the Rashbam says that it's actually the names Yud-Keh-Vav-Keh and Aleph-Keh-Vav-Keh, Yud-Keh, sorry, Aleph-Keh-Yud-Keh are the same. One is so to speak from Hashem's point of view, how Hashem refers him to himself Eheyeh and Yud-Keh-Vav-Keh Hashem is the name which is of course the Yud denotes the masculine singular. Um so that's the way we speak about Hashem, so to speak. But this is the name Ehyeh Asher Ehyeh.

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2. 3:35Now the Arizal says that the name Ehyeh, if you the gematria of Ehyeh is 21,…
3. 7:47So, the reason I'm saying this is because to understand this idea of something double by…
4. 11:56And the result was that tale Hashem says, tale emes min aretz, let eretz let sorry,…
5. 16:04Tehillim, emet me'aretz titzmach. The truth will sprout from the earth. So, let's understand this. Let's…
6. 20:14Emes in its completed state. The emes which cannot surveil sheker, as we said before, is…
7. 24:17In other words, the the process of emet eretz tismach that this emet sprouting from the…
8. 28:21going to sprout an emes which is so much bigger. That is the concept of geirim,…
9. 32:26It was this that Daniel was prophesying. Daniel was prophesying about the four exiles and as…
10. 37:12It's important to understand that golus is not um a period which is characterized by a…

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