R' Ashlag Ch. 49 (Part 1)

Chapter Forty-Nine:

Rabbi Yehudah Ashlag's "Introduction to the Zohar"

-- as translated and commented on by Rabbi Yaakov Feldman

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49.

1.

-- We’re approaching our end-point now -- final insights into just how we grow from harboring souls to bestowing ones.

"Then, once you earn this great light which is termed “Neshama-Light”, ... "
-- That is, once a “point from the light of holy-Chayah” referred to at the end of the last chapter, “extends outwards” and precipitates the appearance of a “partzuf of Neshama” ...

" ... (which is) the partzuf in which each of the 613 organs radiates fully and separately like an independent partzuf, ... "
-- You then earn a human-like partzuf that has command over each of its elements, unlike a mineral one, which has no command over its elements, ostensibly; a vegetable one, which has only some; and an animal one, which has a decidely larger amount of command over its elements but hardly as much as this human-like one.

" ... then the means to observe each mitzvah with its true intention is provided you. For each organ of the partzuf of Neshama uncovers the path of each mitzvah relevant to that organ."
-- For once you achieve that state and your self is opened-up as never before, organ by organ, you’d have advanced to the point where you can fulfill mitzvot selflessly and for their own ends alone rather than for selfish designs.

(c) 2006 Rabbi Yaakov Feldman

(Feel free to contact me at feldman@torah.org )

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