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Derech Hashem / The Way of God #69 | The Different Types of Spiritual Entities

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Rabbi Mendel Kessin

Rabbi Mendel Kessin discusses different types of spiritual entities and their subdivisions.

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Okay, we are in this section uh perek and we're beginning beginning of perek. And what the Ramchal is doing is going in really into the components of the briah. What is this creation really made up of? And obviously whatever it's made up of has to obviously part of the plan or else what's the point? You see? So clearly uh the components of the briah have to assist in whatever way the entire tochnit, plan of the briah, the entire tochnit, plan of the briah, which of course basically is to bring the back, that's called tikkun. Right? So obviously everything has its proper place. It's like a well-oiled machine so to speak, you know? And I mentioned last week I went very much into uh, some of the ideas of the physical world and also the spiritual world. You see? Uh, so uh, like I said the Ramchal last week uh, like I said the Ramchal last week uh, last week that basically the world is divided into physical and spirits physical and spiritual entities. And I had mentioned also that the essential concept of a spiritual entity is that it cannot in any way be detected at all. That's a spiritual entity. A physical entity can and no matter doesn't matter what the nature like I mentioned. You know, you have radio waves. So you don't know if that or I mean it's physical but it can be detected, you

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  1. 0:03Okay, we are in this section uh perek and we're beginning beginning of perek. And what
  2. 6:13to the configuration of the tzeirah of the ruchniyus. I think I mentioned that last week.
  3. 12:32everybody has to die, period. Why? Because like I say, because the neshama cannot mezakeh zoy'ama.
  4. 18:40Gan Eden, the Garden of Eden. Yes? And he's there while his body is decomposing, getting
  5. 24:48uh which we will see la- later on and so on, you know? But um Uh
  6. 30:57right? That is called Asiyah. That's the world Asiyah means action. And that's where all the
  7. 37:09Oh, so so therefore now so Atzilut is where God resides. And it's the level of
  8. 43:17So, therefore, and and they're interchangeable, and so on. And that's what you see in an
  9. 49:30And that's called the Big Crunch. Crunch. But they now figured out, and that will take
  10. 55:47If the sefirot are part of God in that sense, right? And the sefirot um created

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