Torah Ohr Daf 104 - The Crux of Sefer Bereishis w/ Rabbi Dovid Leib Shmerling

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Daf 104.-105. Tora Ohr 

By the Exodus from Egypt we received:

1. From the level of Pnimiyus (Hashem wants to give energy and givs in direct way)
2. Hashems energy goes down to Chochmah (wisdom) although more contracted then before when was in a place higher then chochmah but now Pnimiyus Arich is revealed. 

Whatever is higher goes lowertherefore reveal Arich through Mitzvos like your intellect although contracts the will it reveals what you want.

Ois Daled

The Shvotim (Tribes) need someone higher (Yosef) to refine them. The tribes were on the level of Arich of Briya. 

Yosef was rooted in Atzmoos and was able to only allow energy to go to holiness thus avoiding the issue of trying to get rid of the impurity’s holiness through holiness when the whole energy of impurity in the 1st place is through feeding off holiness.

Like Yosef Torah and Mitzvos come from Pnimyus Arich the refinement comes from Atzmoos where only holiness can receive energy.

Yosef was sold as a slave to Egypt to refine it through interpreting the dream of baker it caused him to be hung the butler to be promoted thus elevating all sparks of holiness which was a preparation to giving the Torah.

There were 3 offices of the Paroh:

The Butler-Symbolizes kindness-in the body the windpipe bringing down from brain to heart intellect and voice.

Potifur – Slaughterer symbolizes Gevurah in the body symbolizes veins the most refined best blood goes from heart to head.

Baker- Combines Chesed and Gevoorah in body is the food pipe bread is from Chesed but turns into blood-Gvoorah these 3 levels are in the service of hashem:

Windpipe-Understand Torah and bring down and in Davening think how nothing to hashem and bring love to hashem in davening in your heart.

In general, these 3 offices correspond to

1. Positive Commandments
2. Negative Commandments
3. Chesed of Atzilus

Each of us like Yosef we can do good and stay away from bad and refine the world.

Yakov said I took from the Emori with my arrow and bow. The idea is when enemy is close and easy to see you use a sword=Get rid of the bad.

But when enemy is hard to see and far away you use big light to see the enemy. In spiritual terms you need  to reveal the 13 Attributes of mercy to reveal even a bit of bad. You also need to use a bow which the idea is just like a bow the more push towards self the further it goes so to the more you humble yourself the more you will be able to subdue the bad which is at a distance.

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