Torah Ohr · Sefer Bereishis · 安息日 10月30日
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帕拉沙 Bereishis
11篇阿爾特雷貝的帕拉沙瑪瑪爾，採用 Kehot 版希伯來文，每一處出處引文皆可在其出現處直接開啟。每個短篇均附有忠實的中文譯文和簡短解說。
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- השמים כסאי והארץ הדום רגלי אי זה בית וגו׳ 「諸天是我的寶座，地是我的腳凳」 沒有形體、也不受空間局限的 ה׳「安坐」於妥拉（תורה，Torah）之上；祂的「腳」——猶太民族——被抬升於實踐性的誡命（מצוות，mitzvos）這「腳凳」之上，而祂則「安居」於祈禱之中。每一項都藉著人的自身事奉而被引下，從沉思與愛，到行動與自我消融（ביטול，bittul）。
- כי כאשר השמים החדשים והארץ החדשה וגו׳ 「因為新天與新地」 世界的天與地，由靈性的「地」與「天」維繫——靈魂向上的渴望奔馳（רצוא，ratzo），以及藉著妥拉與誡命（מצוות，mitzvos）將ה׳的אלקות引下（שוב，shov）。在將來，奔馳與回歸的脈動將從ה׳自身的本質流出，天先於地；以色列的事奉也將被提升，與此一同立於祂面前。
- ביאור על הנ״ל An Explanation of the Above Torah and mitzvos, though clothed in physical matters, are G‑d’s own wisdom and will, one with Him as no created soul can be; they draw the unity of Atzilus into the lower worlds, and in the Time to Come they will rise even higher, into the World of Akudim revealed in the “new heavens and new earth.”
- להבין הטעם שנשתנה יצירת גוף האדם משאר כל… To understand the reason why the formation of man’s body differs… Plants and animals came forth whole, body and soul at once, because the vegetative and the animal are adjacent levels; man’s body was first made as lifeless dust because the speaking soul, rooted in supernal Chochmah, can join only the lowest, inanimate level (“their beginning is wedged in their end”), and from there it raises all of creation.
- ולהבין בתוס׳ ביאור ענין וייצר ה׳ אלקים את… To understand with further explanation the matter of “And Havayah Elokim formed…” Levels adjacent in the chain of cause and effect come into being together, as the emotive attributes from the intellect and an animal’s or angel’s body with its soul. The inanimate, Malchus and the “letters,” stands outside that chain and is founded directly by Chochmah; so only the highest soul, Adam’s, rooted in supernal Chochmah, could be vested in a body of lifeless dust and transform it.
- לא טוב היות האדם לבדו אעשה לו עזר כנגדו It is not good that the man be alone; I will make him a helper opposite him The concealment of the Name Elokim, which seems to oppose G‑d’s revealed light, is itself the “helper”: like the silver backing of a mirror, it turns the light back upward as reflected light that rises even higher than its source.
- ויאמר ה׳ אלקים הן האדם היה כאחד ממנו… “And Havayah Elokim said: Behold, man has become like one of us” Knowing evil is harmless ‘above,’ where knowledge is encompassing and keeps evil apart, but for man, whose knowing is inner, it means becoming mixed with evil; therefore G‑d forbade the Tree of Knowledge, kept man from eternal life once he was mixed with evil, and sent him to refine the world through struggle instead of through sheer light.
- להבין ענין הברכות כי הנה אנשי כנה״ג תקנו… “To understand the matter of the blessings” A blessing’s opening ‘Baruch’ draws G‑d’s hidden Infinite Light into revelation, and its closing ‘Baruch,’ the ‘seal,’ guards that revelation so that it stays in holiness and does not feed the forces of evil; the same structure shapes the wedding blessings, Torah study and the love of G‑d in prayer.
- יבל הוא היה אבי יושב אהל ומקנה “Yaval — he was the father of those who dwell in tents” Every ascent to a higher level comes through “song,” the nullification of one’s existing self, as a seed must rot before it sprouts. Yuval with his harp is that song; Yaval, “father of tent-dwellers and cattle,” is its source, an encompassing light beyond division that can be drawn down even into the lowest things.
- צאינה וראינה וגו׳ Go Forth and Gaze Prayer, the “service of the heart,” is G‑d’s “joy of heart,” gathering the soul’s powers upward as blood returns to the heart; but the Torah, clothed in physical mitzvos, is His “wedding,” for like a seed it draws a truly new light from the Infinite essence, above the whole order of creation.
- בעטרה שעטרה לו אמו כי מצות התורה הן… “With the crown with which his mother crowned him” The mitzvos, done with lowly physical things, become a crown that draws down G‑d’s will and delight; for now that delight is hidden and brings joy, but in the Time to Come it will be seen and bring true delight.
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雷貝要求在該週內學完當週帕拉沙的所有瑪瑪爾，分七天進行。以下將帕拉沙分成七個篇幅大致相等的部分。