SHOFTIM

Shalom, Shalom. We commence this DEVAR TORAH by placing our ATTENTION on the title of the PARASHAT. The title of the PARASHAT is SHOFTIM. The IVRI transliteration SHOFTIM is interpreted into the ENGLISH term Judges. The portion discloses that Judges were to be appointed in the LOWER WORLD in order to unfold RIGHTEOUSNESS. The term RIGHTEOUSNESS is indicative of the CONCEPT of MAKING ECHAD TRUE. The concept of making ECHAD TRUE is the product of exercising DIVINE JUDGMENT. DIVINE JUDGMENT may be described as ECHAD’S determinate counsel that ensures that what has been decreed by the SUPERNAL will come to pass.

The SHOFTIM that are to be appointed in the LOWER WORLDS are to REFLECT that which is in the HIGHER WORLDS, i.e. the higher levels of CONSCIOUSNESS. In the higher LEVELS of CONSCIOUSNESS, JUDGMENT is exercised in the HEART of what is termed the HOST SOUL. A HOST SOUL is a GRADE within the COLLECTIVE SOUL that aids the INDIVIDUAL SOUL as well as ITSELF in entering into a CONSCIOUS UNION with ECHAD. The assistance with the transformation of the INDIVIDUAL SOUL’S DESIRES of the world into the DESIRE to be ONE WITH G-d occurs as the HOST SOUL engages in the WORK OF CORRECTION. Yea, as the HOST SOUL CORRECTS, the qualities within ITSELF, CORRECTION OCCURS in the same QUALITIES within the COLLECTIVE SOUL at an UNCONSCIOUS LEVEL. Thus the more that the HOST SOUL transforms the QUALITIES WITHIN, the MORE the INDIVIDUAL SOULS PROFIT. It is in this way that JUDGMENT EXECUTED in the HIGHER WORLDS that the DECREE of ECHAD that the MANY become ONE is EFFECTED. Likewise to execute JUDGMENT in the LOWER WORLDS GIVES RISE to the MANIFESTATION of RIGHT ACTION in the RIGHT ENVIRONMENT.