ACHAREI

Shalom, Shalom. We commence this DEVAR TORAH by focusing our ATTENTION on the title of the PARASHAT. The title of the PARASHAT is ACHAREI. The IVRI transliteration ACHAREI may be interpreted into the term “AFTER.” The PARASHAT begins its unfoldment with the revelation of the TIME that the instructions were given to MOSHE REBEYNU concerning the effecting of YOM KIPPUR. YOM KIPPUR is the Day of ATONEMENT.

The root language discloses the ATONEMENT to be the process that is employed in the ACTUALIZATION of our CONSCIOUS UNION with ECHAD. The human conscious experience, which is a combination of FINITE and INFINITE components, was effected by the descension into the lower grades of the SOUL. In other words, the scenario of ADAM and EVE partaking of the TREE of the KNOWLEDGE of GOOD and EVIL is illustrative of descending into a perspective of being separated from ECHAD. The separation is one of CONSCIOUSNESS. The consciousness is the sensation of being ISOLATED, that is, separated from ECHAD. The ATONEMENT is a conscious ascension experienced in the SOUL. When the ATONEMENT is effected, the sensation is described as ONE with G-d.

The sensation of ONE with G-d is one of STILLNESS, PEACE, QUIETNESS and CONFIDENCE. READ ISAIAH 30:15. The sensation is ATTAINED through the AID of a SPIRITUAL TEACHER. The instructions given to MOSHE REBEYNU are a revelation of the MECHANICS to be employed by the SPIRITUAL TEACHER. It commences with the idea that the SPIRITUAL TEACHER who is to aid others in the ATTAINMENT of the ATONEMENT must first make the ATTAINMENT for him/her self., yea, one cannot lead someone where one has not been. The ATONEMENT is ASCENSION into LIFE without END. The ATTAINMENT of the ATONEMENT is a process in which one goes in and out CONSCIOUSLY until it is complete. For this reason, the SPIRITUAL TEACHER is one that is to be followed until the process is complete giving rise to the experience of DUPLICATION whereas the protege becomes the TEACHER.