Beginning And The End

PARSHA AIDES ‫נעוץ סופן בתחילתן ותחילתן בסופן‬ A depth of beginning, connected to a depth of end

This principal applies to each book of Torah and also within each Parsha Both the beginning & the conclusion of Sefer VaYikra (same with Parshas Bechukosai) emphasize the avodah of ‫( אתערותא דלעילא‬inspiration from above) preceded by ‫( אתערותא דלתתא‬inspiration from below)

Last Two Mitzvos in Sefer VaYikra & in Parshas Bechukosai Beginning of Sefer Vayikra Beginning of Bechukosai

Effects of Each Level

Levels Within a Person

Inspiration from Above ‫אתעדל"ע‬

Inspiration from Below

Bechor ‫בכור‬

Maaser ‫מעשר‬

Holy on its own

‫קדוש מעצמו‬

‫אתעדל"ת‬

A Person Makes Holy ‫האדם מקדשו‬

‫אדם כי יקריב‬

‫תקריבו את קרבנכם‬

(‫)אדם העליון‬

(‫)אדם תחתון‬

‫בחקתי תלכו‬

‫מצותי תשמרו‬

(‫ חקיקה‬- ‫)שרש הנשמה‬

(‫)עבודת האדם בגשמיות‬

‫קיימה אף בזמן הגלות‬

‫יש שינוים בין הזמן הבית לזמן‬ ‫הגלות‬

Same Effects

Different Effects

‫חכמה שבנפש‬

‫עשר כחות הנפש‬

(‫)מסירת נפש‬

(‫)מחשבה דבור ומעשה‬

All follows the conclusion (the final Mitzvah ‫ – מעשר‬inspiration from below) Only through a person’s own avodah does one touch the Essence and is able to draw it down to below ‫לקוטי שיחות חלק יז‬ The Big Bang did not occur at a single point in space as an "explosion." It is better thought of as the simultaneous appearance of space everywhere in the universe. That region of space that is within our present horizon was indeed no bigger than a point in the past. Nevertheless, if all of space both inside and outside our horizon is infinite now, it was born infinite. If it is closed and finite, then it was born with zero volume and grew from that. In neither case is there a "center of expansion" - a point from which the universe is expanding away from. In the ball analogy, the radius of the ball grows as the universe expands, but all points on the surface of the ball (the universe) recede from each other in an identical fashion. The interior of the ball should not be regarded as part of the universe in this analogy. (NASA, WMAP website)

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