TOLDOT

Shalom Shalom. We commence this DEVAR TORAH by focusing our attention upon OHR MAKIF. The IVRI transliteration OHR MAKIF is defined as the surrounding LIGHT. The surrounding LIGHT is also referenced to as the RESHIMO. The RESHIMO may be viewed as the pressures that exist all around us for the purpose of unfolding HAMACHSHAVAH HAELYONAH which is the SUPREME THOUGHT. The Supreme Thought is that the INVISIBLE will be made mindset as the VISIBLE.

The INVISIBLE is termed OHR AYIN, that is, THE ENDLESS LIGHT. OHR AYIN may be comprehended as an Infinite Field of Unlimited Potential. In order for this Infinite Field of Unlimited Potential to become visible, It commences with a constriction producing a CHALAL (hollow) within Itself. The CHALAL is opposite of the Infinite Field of Unlimited Potential therefore becoming visible. Once visible the Light begins the process of pouring Itself into the CHALAL to cause the vessel to become a VISIBLE MANIFESTATION of the INVISIBLE. To ensure that the exterior will be in the Image and Likeness of the Light, it employs the RESHIMO (pressure) to create the form.

Understanding these IKARIM (principles) is what gives rise to establishing the proper perspective of the CHAI (life) of YAACOV. The observing of his journey from the compartmentalizing of each movement is to err in perception. The err in perception will lead to being judgmental and blinded to the SUPERNAL INTENTION. Concerning this EMET (truth), the NAVI JEREMIAH wrote, “Arise and go down to the potter’s shop, and there I will let you hear My words. So I went down to a potter’s shop and behold he was working on the potter’s wheel. The vessel that he was making of the clay became ruined in the potter’s hand, so he began again and made it into a different vessel to do as was fitting in the eyes of the potter.” Jeremiah 18:1-4. The CHAI of YAACOV is an ensample of the events we are destined to undergo in the UNFOLDMENT of HAMACHSHAVAH HAELYONAH. There are minute details that disclose the secrets in the unfoldment of the UNLIMITED POTENTIAL that is LATENT within.

The pressures experienced from OHR MAKIF are carefully calculated in order to aid in the making of an effective response that will disclose the MIDDOT (qualities) of ECHAD, Blessed Be His Name, that are hidden within. Those pressures that are being experienced by both the HOST SOULS and the INDIVIDUAL SOULS are destined to transform one into a warrior (LOCHEM male, LOCHEMET female) for the goal of Creation is first demonstrated by military might destined to establish the Standards of ECHAD on the earth which is OLAM HA BA (the world to come).