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Shleimusa dechola
שלימותא דכולא
The perfection of all (shleimusa dechola)
G‑d’s essence as “the perfection of all”: the Or Ein Sof above the Sefiros, lacking nothing, which rests only in a “complete place” where the attributes are inter-included, and which fills every deficiency.
The word The same words are also said of man: “Adam is shleimu dechola” because he comprises all the attributes, Chesed, Gevurah and Rachamim (Likkutei Torah, Tazria 5:1; and from the Zohar in Likkutei Torah, Emor 6:9). There the phrase describes the one who comprises everything, not the Or Ein Sof above the attributes.
Where it’s explained
- Likkutei Torah, Emor 6, ¶7On the Zohar’s “the Holy One rests only in a complete place”: the essence of the Emanator, the perfection of all, which is above the ten Sefiros and is none of the attributes, rests only where the Sefiros are inter-included and joined. So Tikkun, in the form of the supernal Adam, surpasses Tohu, where each attribute stood alone.
קוב״ה הוא עצמות המאציל אנת הוא שלימותא דכולא ואינו שורה אלא באתר שלים
- Likkutei Torah, Matos 6, ¶20Baseless hatred and separation (Midian) oppose the Name Havayah, whose essence is peace and inter-inclusion. Through inter-inclusion below, light is drawn from the perfection of all, which includes everything, “for all is from You.”
נמשך אור עליון מבחי׳ שלימותא דכולא הכולל הכל כי ממך הכל כתיב
- Likkutei Torah, Shir HaShirim 20, ¶16A person wants something because he lacks it; G‑d’s will is not like that, since He is the perfection of all: nothing is outside Him and nothing is lacking.
משא״כ למעלה שהוא ית׳ שלימותא דכולא ואין לך דבר שחוץ ממנו וכלום חסר
- Likkutei Torah, Shabbos Shuvah 3, ¶13When a person cries out from distress, Or Ein Sof itself, sovev kol almin, is drawn from the supernal depth; since He “fills all names” and is “the perfection of all,” He completes and fills every deficiency and blemish.
ממשיך מעומק העליון בחי׳ אור א״ס ב״ה עצמו הסוכ״ע כי הוא הממלא כל שמהן ואיהו שלימו דכולהו
- Torah Ohr, Beshalach 8, ¶22In Akudim, “bound in one vessel,” the attributes unite even in their full strength, not by being weakened, because the Or Ein Sof revealed in them is the perfection of all, where opposites and division have no place.
מצד גלוי אוא״ס שהוא שלימותא דכולא ולכן נק׳ עקוד בכלי א׳
Stated differently
Whether the inter-inclusion that comes through the Name Mah in Chochmah is the indwelling of the perfection of all
השראת אור א״ס ששורה בשם מ״ה דחכמה מבחי׳ שלימותא דכולא אשר כל אורות ומדות בטלים במציאות נגד התגלות אור א״סThe Or Ein Sof from the perfection of all rests in the Name Mah of Chochmah; all lights and attributes are nullified before it, so it joins all the Sefiros of Atzilus in true inter-inclusion, a bittul above that of “soft as a reed,” like that of Akudim.
שאופן התכללותם הוא ע״י בחי׳ בטול מהארת שם מ״ה שבחכמה שהיא הארת המוחין במדותThe inter-inclusion of Tikkun comes through bittul from the light of the Name Mah in Chochmah, which weakens the attributes; the inter-inclusion of Akudim, where they unite in full strength, comes instead from the revealed Or Ein Sof, the perfection of all.
The level from which the perfection of all fills deficiencies
ממשיך מעומק העליון בחי׳ אור א״ס ב״ה עצמו הסוכ״ע כי הוא הממלא כל שמהן ואיהו שלימו דכולהוThe filling of deficiencies comes from Or Ein Sof itself, sovev kol almin.
ומילוי זה נמשך מבחי׳ שלימותא דכולהו והוא מבחי׳ אור שבעת הימים, אלא דאינו ממש כמו בחי׳ גילוי אור שבעת הימים דלע״ל שהוא בחי׳ עתיק אבל כאן בשבעת ימי המילואים נ׳ בזהר שהוא מבחי׳ בינהIn the seven days of investiture the filling is drawn from the perfection of all, the light of the seven days; not as it will be revealed in the future, from Atik, but, per the Zohar, from Binah, which to Z’eir Anpin is like Atik and Keser.
Main sources
Likkutei Torah, Emor 6, ¶7Likkutei Torah, Emor 6, ¶9Likkutei Torah, Matos 6, ¶20Likkutei Torah, Shabbos Shuvah 3, ¶13Likkutei Torah, Shir HaShirim 20, ¶16Likkutei Torah, Shir HaShirim 27, ¶8Torah Ohr, Beshalach 8, ¶22
Where it appears
In 16 paragraphs of 10 maamarim.
- Likkutei Torah, Shabbos Shuvah 3 ¶13
- Likkutei Torah, Shir HaShirim 20 ¶16
- Torah Ohr, Beshalach 8 ¶22 ¶35
- Likkutei Torah, Emor 6 ¶7 ¶8 ¶9 ¶10 ¶12
- Likkutei Torah, Eikev 4 ¶9
- Likkutei Torah, Matos 7 ¶3
- Likkutei Torah, Matos 6 ¶20 ¶23
- Likkutei Torah, Shir HaShirim 27 ¶8
- Likkutei Torah, Tzav 5 ¶20
- Likkutei Torah, Tazria 5 ¶1
Written with AI from the paragraphs of Torah Ohr and Likkutei Torah, each entry checked by a second AI reader and every Hebrew quote checked by code; not yet reviewed by a person. Our English: CC BY-NC 4.0.