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Memutza
ממוצע
Intermediary (memutza)
A connecting level between two that cannot meet directly, which joins them and carries the flow from one to the other, as Keser stands between the Emanator and the emanated.
Where it’s explained
- Likkutei Torah, Rosh Hashanah 3, ¶18The rule for every intermediary: it has something of each side, and so it can join them and bring the flow down from one to the other. Keser has the lowest level of the Emanator and is also the root of the emanated; the first is far higher than the second.
וכל ממוצע יש בו בחי׳ מזה ומזה שלכך הוא יכול לחברם ולהוריד שפע מזה לזה
- Likkutei Torah, Shir HaShirim 8, ¶3The Essence of the Emanator is beyond all worlds, and even its Or comes into revelation, in Atzilus too, only through an intermediary, Keser. Because Keser holds the last level of the Emanator it is sometimes called Or Ein Sof and not counted among the ten Sefiros; because it holds the root of the emanated it is counted.
צריך להיות מקודם בחינת ממוצע בין המאציל לנאצלים ואז יוכל האור א״ס להוות ולהחיות הספירות והממוצע זהו כתר
- Likkutei Torah, Shir HaShirim 8, ¶10The same holds between worlds: the flow from the Sefiros of Atzilus to those of Beriah, Yetzirah and Asiyah passes through Malchus of Atzilus, which becomes Atik of Beriah. So Malchus has two aspects, within Atzilus and as the source of time in Beriah.
ולכן זהו בחי׳ ממוצע בין אצילות לבריאה וכנ״ל בענין הכתר דאצי׳
- Likkutei Torah, Shemini Atzeres 2, ¶1Finite created worlds could come from the Infinite only after a chain of intermediaries without number. The lower Gan Eden, between the spiritual worlds and the physical world, is an example: it includes both above and below.
וענין הממוצעים הם כמו ג״ע התחתון שהוא הממוצע בין עולמות הרוחנים ובין עוה״ז הגשמי
- Torah Ohr, Vaeira 5, ¶6In the soul: the throat is the intermediary that joins the mind to the heart and causes intellect to be turned into an emotion. In it the flow is no longer intellect and not yet emotion.
ממוצע המחבר המוח עם הלב והוא הגרון
Stated differently
Whether an intermediary has something of both sides, is neither of them, or joins them by something above both
שהממוצע כלול מב׳ הבחינות שהוא ממוצע ביניהםCiting Etz Chaim: the intermediary includes both of the levels it mediates between; so Keser has the lowest level of the Emanator and the root of all the emanated.
והנה ענין בחי׳ ממוצע הזה בין השכל למדה הרי אינו לא מהות שכל ולא מהות מדהThe throat, the intermediary between intellect and emotion, is neither the essence of intellect nor the essence of emotion: the flow there has left the mind and has not yet become an emotion.
וצריך שיהי׳ בחי׳ ממוצע שיחבר ב׳ ההפכיים הללו והיינו ע״י בחי׳ שלמעלה משניהםTzimtzum and expansion are two opposites; the intermediary that joins them is a level above both, a drawing from the Or Ein Sof before whom darkness and light are alike (so also Torah Ohr, Miketz 15:18, of Yaakov as the intermediary between the Avos).
Which part of Keser is the lowest level of the Emanator and which is the root of the emanated
עתיק בחינה אחרונה שבמאציל וא״א בחינת שרש הנאצליםAtik is the last level of the Emanator, and Arich Anpin is the root of the emanated (so also Bechukotai 2:16, in the name of the Arizal).
שיש בו מבחי׳ תחתונה שבמאציל והוא בחי׳ ג״ר דא״א. ויש בו בחי׳ שרש הנאצלים והוא מז״תThe lowest level of the Emanator in Keser is the first three Sefiros of Arich Anpin, and the root of the emanated is its seven lower Sefiros.
בחי׳ תחתונה שבמאציל והיינו בחי׳ חו״ב דא״א שלמעלה מערך הז״ת דא״אThe lowest level of the Emanator is Chochmah and Binah of Arich Anpin; the root of the emanated is the seven lower Sefiros of Arich Anpin, which clothe themselves in Atzilus.
Main sources
Likkutei Torah, Shir HaShirim 8, ¶3Likkutei Torah, Shir HaShirim 8, ¶10Likkutei Torah, Rosh Hashanah 3, ¶18Likkutei Torah, Bechukosai 2, ¶16Likkutei Torah, Bamidbar 14, ¶4Likkutei Torah, Shemini Atzeres 2, ¶1Torah Ohr, Vaeira 5, ¶6
Where it appears
In 106 paragraphs of 72 maamarim.
- Likkutei Torah, Nitzavim 3 ¶2
- Likkutei Torah, Re’eh 3 ¶4
- Likkutei Torah, Re’eh 7 ¶21 ¶37
- Likkutei Torah, Re’eh 11 ¶6
- Likkutei Torah, Shir HaShirim 16 ¶13 ¶14
- Likkutei Torah, Shir HaShirim 20 ¶8 ¶14
- Likkutei Torah, Tzav 5 ¶4 ¶6 ¶25
- Likkutei Torah, V’Zos HaBerachah 6 ¶4 ¶7
- Likkutei Torah, Va’eschanan 8 ¶10
- Torah Ohr, Toldos 3 ¶26
- Likkutei Torah, Balak 5 ¶33
- Likkutei Torah, Bamidbar 13 ¶18
- Likkutei Torah, Bamidbar 14 ¶3 ¶4 ¶6 ¶10 ¶12
- Likkutei Torah, Devarim 1 ¶4
- Likkutei Torah, Ki Seitzei 3 ¶3
- Likkutei Torah, Nasso 7 ¶18
- Torah Ohr, Vayishlach 2 ¶3
- Likkutei Torah, Shir HaShirim 8 ¶2 ¶3 ¶7 ¶10 ¶22 ¶36 ¶44
- Likkutei Torah, Shir HaShirim 17 ¶10 ¶15 ¶17
- Torah Ohr, Vayeitzei 2 ¶22
- Torah Ohr, Vayechi 2 ¶3
- Likkutei Torah, Chukas 9 ¶2 ¶3
- Likkutei Torah, Nitzavim 7 ¶10 ¶25
- Likkutei Torah, Shir HaShirim 7 ¶3
- Likkutei Torah, Behaaloscha 3 ¶21 ¶22
- Likkutei Torah, Ki Seitzei 4 ¶1
- Likkutei Torah, Matos 7 ¶3
- Torah Ohr, Lech Lecha 4 ¶5
- Torah Ohr, Vayechi 3 ¶29
- Likkutei Torah, Balak 2 ¶29
- Likkutei Torah, Matos 6 ¶6
- Likkutei Torah, Nasso 6 ¶23
- Likkutei Torah, Pekudei 2 ¶22
- Likkutei Torah, Shelach 7 ¶9
- Likkutei Torah, Masei 5 ¶3 ¶4
- Likkutei Torah, Tazria 6 ¶20
- Likkutei Torah, Va’eschanan 12 ¶7
- Torah Ohr, Bo 1 ¶5
- Torah Ohr, Mishpatim 4 ¶11
- Likkutei Torah, Bechukosai 2 ¶16 ¶20
- Likkutei Torah, Eikev 2 ¶14
- Likkutei Torah, Rosh Hashanah 3 ¶18
- Likkutei Torah, Shemini Atzeres 3 ¶5 ¶10 ¶12
- Likkutei Torah, Va’eschanan 11 ¶2
- Torah Ohr, Megillas Esther 5 ¶1 ¶2
- Torah Ohr, Va’eira 5 ¶4 ¶6 ¶9
- Torah Ohr, Vayeira 1 ¶11 ¶17 ¶26
- Torah Ohr, Vayishlach 6 ¶14
- Likkutei Torah, Behaaloscha 1 ¶1
- Likkutei Torah, Haazinu 4 ¶4
- Likkutei Torah, Vayikra 5 ¶26 ¶60
- Torah Ohr, Megillas Esther 8 ¶14
- Torah Ohr, Mikeitz 9 ¶11
- Torah Ohr, Noach 3 ¶21
- Torah Ohr, Shemos 8 ¶21
- Torah Ohr, Yisro 7 ¶23
- Likkutei Torah, Beshalach 1 ¶35
- Likkutei Torah, Chukas 11 ¶9
- Likkutei Torah, Shir HaShirim 39 ¶3
- Likkutei Torah, Shemini Atzeres 2 ¶1 ¶3
- Likkutei Torah, Tzav 1 ¶3
- Likkutei Torah, Emor 6 ¶24
- Likkutei Torah, Tzav 4 ¶10
- Likkutei Torah, Bamidbar 12 ¶2
- Torah Ohr, Vayakhel 1 ¶34
- Likkutei Torah, Tzav 8 ¶7
- Likkutei Torah, Shir HaShirim 12 ¶9
- Torah Ohr, Vayishlach 3 ¶2
- Torah Ohr, Yisro 9 ¶12
- Torah Ohr, Mikeitz 16 ¶18 ¶19 ¶20
- Torah Ohr, Shemos 7 ¶23
- Torah Ohr, Mikeitz 13 ¶24
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