Chasidut sobre Números 9:24
Mevo HaShearim
According to the aforementioned development, from the Oral Torah and on, the lights were revealed within the vessels and, through the Talmud, within man’s apprehension, albeit an apprehension which seems ‘human.’325That is, according to the standards and content of human thinking. They were further revealed in Kabbalah through an apprehension which seems supernal. Thus, these revelations were all founded on intellectual apprehension. This is not the case with hasidism. Its drawing is not limited by the intellect, and extends to all things, even to the vessels themselves. If this be the case, with hasidism predicated on the revelation of even the lights within the lowly things, why should the body be ‘left out’326A reference to Numbers 9:7 and 27:4. of that of the intellect? True, the body is lower than the intellect, but this after all is the essence of hasidism, to reveal even the light in the lowly place, and that it too is holy. This why even the body and emotive faculty (middot) of a person can affect [the higher levels of reality] Above.
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Kedushat Levi
Numbers 27,5. “Moses submitted their judicial claim before the Lord (for judging).”
When a father prepares to allocate his inheritance to his son he derives pleasure from it. At this point, with G’d being our Father, and we being His sons, Moses wished to give our “Father” the pleasure and satisfaction to make a ruling concerning who is to inherit what. The משפט, “judgmental ruling” that he referred to was the law of inheritance.
[I believe our author found the reference to the word משפט as somewhat puzzling, as on similar occasions when Moses submitted a legal question to G’d the term had not been used. (Compare Leviticus, 24,12, or Numbers 9,8. Ed.]
When a father prepares to allocate his inheritance to his son he derives pleasure from it. At this point, with G’d being our Father, and we being His sons, Moses wished to give our “Father” the pleasure and satisfaction to make a ruling concerning who is to inherit what. The משפט, “judgmental ruling” that he referred to was the law of inheritance.
[I believe our author found the reference to the word משפט as somewhat puzzling, as on similar occasions when Moses submitted a legal question to G’d the term had not been used. (Compare Leviticus, 24,12, or Numbers 9,8. Ed.]
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