MATTOT

Shalom, Shalom. We commence this DEVAR TORAH by focusing our ATTENTION upon the title of the PARASHAT. The title of the PARASHAT is MATTOT. The IVRI transliteration MATTOT is interpreted into the word TRIBE. The portion commences with the SCENARIO of the NAVI Moshe addressing the leadership of the MATTOT (tribes) of BENEI YISRAEL concerning HaShem’s instructions on how to effect a NEDER (vow). Without a doubt, the instructions concerning a NEDER were given to aid in the attainment of MASTERY over the world of ATZULUT.

The Goal of Creation, which is the realization and actualization of our CONSCIOUS UNION with ECHAD, is ATTAINED by the MASTERING of the five worlds. To master the five worlds, we must successfully undergo the CORRECTION. The CORRECTION is the transformation of the 613 points in the heart into qualities that reflect being ONE with ECHAD.

The majority of those who are undergoing the human conscious experience occupy the world of ATZULUT. The world of ATZULUT is the speaking world. When the MASTERY of the SPEAKING WORLD is obtained, the result is saying what ECHAD says, yea, it is through the WORDS that ECHAD spoke that CREATION came into being. Thus to say what ECHAD says is to tap into CREATIVE POWER. CREATIVE POWER is OMNIPOTENCE, with it, we are empowered to enter into the PATH of REGENERATION. The path of REGENERATION is the actualization of the GOAL of CREATION because it gives rise to the experience of CONSTANT IMPROVEMENT. The CONSTANT IMPROVEMENT that is experienced is LIFE without the possibility of DEATH, yea, it is no small wonder that SUPERNAL WISDOM reveals that “DEATH and LIFE are in the power of the tongue…” (Proverbs 18:21a) Therefore the MASTERY of the SPEAKING WORLD, that is, ATZULUT will engender the ATTAINMENT of IMMORTALITY.

To aid in the MASTERY of the SPEAKING WORLD, we were given instructions on how to handle a NEDER. The necessity in handling a vow rests upon the EMET (truth) that when a vow is spoken, it becomes a LAW to the SPEAKER. Thus the CREATION of a NEDER is as binding as a COMMANDMENT, giving rise to the possibility of CREATING stumbling blocks that oppose the fulfillment of the GOAL of CREATION. It is far better not to create a NEDER and be INTEGRAL in that which we SPEAK than to allow VERBAL DIARRHEA to undermine ATTAINMENTS in the MASTERY of the WORLD of ATZULUT.