Letter
146
Gnomen 181 – For sure
culminating points are
here. This time Ben Loulou made a big Booboo and he will not be
forgiven for
his written words. The letter is in angry response to what is written
here in
chapter 2.
He writes:
“I
hadn’t had time to
respond until now. I wonder if you will post my reply on your site or
not. It will indicate
whether or not
you have any integrity or you are completely enmeshed in faksehood. Whomever you had
reply to me, did
so in a tiring convoluded manner without any rational proof for any of
his
arguments.
- - ‘You tell of a
‘secret
society’ of saints who possess the truth regarding the Zohar and
further claim
they are the 36 righteous. Maybe they are. Maybe they are not. I
contend that
myself and my co-workers are indeed the 36 righteous. Neither of us
have a
shred of proof. You cannot even prove that they had the slightest
knowledge of
Torah. It is
wholly silly in that there is no evidence from the Talmud that the 36
righteous
even know that they were one of the 36. Those who wish to lie make up
things
that are far away.” - -
gnomen 182 – Igea Marina –
Hotel Tirsus –
with Giuseppe – Sept. 23, 2005; Elul 19, 5765; Refuge of Armadillo 6,
3958;
To mister Loulou,
What right have you to say
that I am lying!
Do you know me? I studied Torah with the Tzadik Haim, Head of the
Thirty-Six
Hidden Tzadikim of his generation. This is the truth, a truth that I
speak
clearly before God Almighty and before people. What law of the Torah or
halacha
gives you the permission to accuse me of being a liar? And where is your slowness
in judgment,
especially in that which you know nothing about!
I have, thank God, written
texts for 23
years now on the truth of the true identity of the Hidden Tzadik, Haim
ben
Moshe, born in Saana Yemen in 1914, with whom I studied in Milan,
Italy, for 13
full years.
What kind of foolish judgment
are you
making basing yourself on a few words? What do know about the proofs
that I
have or don’t have? You know nothing of my life nor of what I have
studied or
not studied or what I know or don’t know or what I have done or have
not done.
And yet you adamantly decide that “You have not one shred of proof”.
I, Paul (Peretz) Green, born
in Newark New
Jersey in 1945, am the one saying what I
am saying and I am responsible for what
I say, no one else. Being responsible for what I say is the holy law of
the
Torah. And I am a hundredfold more bound to such a responsibility in
declaring
the fact that the Tzadik Haim was the Head of the Thirty-Six Hidden
Tzadikim of
his generation, until his demise in June 1982. One must have great fear
before
God in speaking of the chosen servants of God.
I did not express an opinion.
I speak
humbly but clearly in expressing the great love that God Almighty has
shown me
in having given me the enormous privilege in having studied the Holy
Torah for
13 years with the Head of the Thirty-Six Hidden and Suffering Tzadikim.
In
those years the Tzadik Haim taught me and showed me that which pertains to the
‘institution’
(for lack of better word) of the 36 Hidden Tzadikim from the time of
Mordechai
ha-Tzadik.
It is not a question of
opinion or of
believing. Belief is needed to arrive even to the beginning of truth
but when
the truth is known it is a matter of knowledge not of simply believing.
I fear the God of Israel, the
Almighty
Creator of the heavens and the earth. I would not make up or invent
such a
thing. I am, thank God, mentally sane and well-balanced and I know,
thank God,
the weights and measures of what I say. I do not speak and give over
teachings
of the Tzadik Haim to convince people he was the Head of the Thirty-Six
Hidden
Tzadikim of his generation. I reveal it. I have permission from him to
reveal
his true identity after his demise in written texts for the sake of the
generations that are coming. All will desire to know the truth of this
matter
as history proceeds.
The words that you express
here are
foolish, arrogant and facetious. They are indeed indicative of the
entire level
of all your other statements in your letters. In what gendre of
mythological
stupidity have you dared to speak about the 36 Hidden Righteous. You
have
placed them as innocent bystanders who know nothing of the Design into
which
they have been thrust nor do they know that they themselves are part of
the 36
Hidden Tzadikim.
This idea is mythological or
popolar
legendary hog-wash, epitomized in the hands of a cleaver novelist in
his book
called The Last of the Just.
This is insipid foolishness.
The true 36
Hidden Tzadikim are those of whom it says ‘bnei
‘aliya muatim hem’ – (few are the men of the ascent).
And in Succah 45b it states
‘la fahhot alma mei-taltin ve-shita
tzadikei de-mekablei apei
Shechina be-chol yom’ – (The world never has less than
thirty-six
Tzadikim who receive the Divine Presence every day).
As Men of the Ascent, they
know the ascent
in which they ascend and know each level of their ascent. They
therefore know
perfectly well who they are and each ones knows the level to which he
reaches. The Hidden Tzadikim have the
secrets of what is above. How then could the fact of their being
Tzadikim be
unknown to them? Such an idea is totally silly and has no sense
whatsoever.
As for your statement that you
contend that
you and your co-workers are the 36 Hidden Righteous, if you are
purposely being
facetious, you will pay for your desecrating words that speak
indiscreetly
concerning those loved by God. And if you really think such you will
pay for
the terrible inner arrogance which lies behind such a statement.
Look how your arrogance comes
out, “Do not invoke the Gaon, the Ari and
the Baal shem. No one
needs your stamp of approval”.
Excuse me, mister Loulou, I
don’t
understand. You may invoke the Gaon, the Ari and the Baal Shem but I
must not
speak about them. Is this a new halacha or where does it derive from?
Why am I
not allowed to speak about the great Gaon of Vilna or about Rav Yitzhak
Luria
or about Rav Yisrael Baal Shem Tov. Is it for you to decide about whom
I can
speak or not?
I have respect for them and
for many other
Hachamim and Rabbis. They were great in their knowledge of Torah and
they
walked be-kodesh. That they themselves became entrapped in an
historical
idolatrous sin, prophesied in parashat ha’azinu, that befalls the sages
of
Israel be-ahhrit ha-yomim, does not diminish from their walking
be-kodesh or of
their being yirei shamaim. They did not know, as today it is still not
understood by most religious Jews, that the very doctrine of Atzilut
(Emanation) is a false and idolatrous doctrine. If they would have
known, they
would have continued in all their other Torah matters and would not
have taken
into account the Zohar or anything deriving from it. Had they known
they would
have placed the Zohar in Hherem, point blank, so that it never enter
the
confines of Judaism. So I maintain and so have I explained in texts. So
why
have I no right to speak about the Gaon or R. Yitzhak Luria or the Baal
Shem?
And whoever said that they need my stamp of approval!
You go on:
“In truth you
continue in your
hypocrisy in that you either believe that all the wonders, miracles,
visions
etc. of these sages that were related to kabbalah and the lurianic
system were
either fabricated or the products of delusion at best”.
First of all, I do not know about the
wonders, miracles
and visions etc. to which you refer. There are thousands of stories
told for
each hassidic Rebbe, for example. And there are many books of stories,
miracles
and wonders of Yisrael Baal Shem Tov. So too are there many such
stories about
R. Yitzhak Luria. I do most certainly believe that a great many of
these
stories have been fabricated or are totally exaggerated. Some of them
may well
be true but I cannot judge them except on a specific basis. In any
case, you
are totally confused. Some of these sages, such as Yisrael Baal Shem
Tov, the Maharal
of Prague and Abbuhhatzeira knew some secrets of the Kabbalah Maassit.
Such secrets of Kabbalah
Maassit have
absolutely nothing to do with the Zohar and the Lurianic System or all
that
which has been propagated by the doctrine of Atzilut. These are two
different
worlds separated one from the other. The Zohar was written in Spain
some 750
years ago. The Kabbalah Maassit is part of the heredity of Jacob, our
father.
You and many others as you are confused in mainstream superficiality:
you speak
of Zohar as Kabbalah and you hear speak of Kabbalah Maassit and the two
terms
become confused.
you go on:
“You have no right
to discuss
them at all because in truth by default you must view them in one of
those
aspects. The maggiddim that appeared to the Beit Yosef, the Ramchal
etc. were
of course figments of their imaginations. Thus the leaders of Israel,
those on
who we rely today for every action we take were delusional. (the Rama
also
studied and espoused Lurianic Kabbalah”.
If the Beit Yosef had his
maggid, it was a
maggid of the halacha, nor do the Beit Yosef or the Rama make piskei
halacha
based on the Zohar or Lurianic Kabbalah. That the Beit Yosef have a
maggid from
above who helped him in difficult halachic decisions has absolutely
nothing to
do with the Zohar or Lurianic Kabbalah. You have again fused things
together
that must be separated.
you go on:
“No, the only true
saints are
your Rabbi and his hidden society who besides attacking the Zohar have
contributed nothing to Judaism or Torah nor possessed any credentials
that
would impress an objective reviewer. And all the great luminaries from
whose
“mouth we drink” were either falsifiers or delusional. right.”
I am sorry that you have
spoken such but
obviously your arrogance is there in place of any true yirat shamaim.
It states
‘al tibez le-chol adam’ – ‘do
not show
disrespect to any person’ . I was taught by the Tzadik Haim that aside
from the
pshat it alludes to the 36 Hidden Tzadikim since they do not reveal
themselves
and walk among people as everyone. If for some reason someone shows
disrespect
for one of the true Tzadikim, he will be punished even though he didn’t
know
anything of his true identity. Therefore must one be careful with all
people so
as to never fall into such an error.
You say that according to me
the hidden
society of the Thirty-Six Hidden Tzadikim attack the Zohar. Maybe they
have, I
do not know, but that that is not what I said. I said the Tzadik Haim,
Head of
the Thirty-Six Hidden Tzadikim of this past generation explained to me
that the
true kabbalah of the true hidden Tzadikim has absolutely nothing to do
with the
Zohar and all that followed. On the other hand, the Tzadik Haim ordered
me, for
the sake of all Israel, to prepare the Introduction and Supplements to
Sefer
Milhhamot Ha-Shem against the false doctrine of the Zohar. I am the
talmid of
the Tzadik Haim. I am not one of the Thirty-Six Hidden Tzadikim. I am,
however,
the only talmid of a Hidden Tzadik who has had permission to speak
about them.
This is another story. The Yemenite Hacham Yihhye ibn Shlomoh ElGafeh
was not
one of the Thirty Six Hidden Tzadikim. He was a profound Sage in the
entire
Jewish Tradition.
Since you have not heard of
him, your
egocentricity diminishes him, but this is pure foolishness. There are
many,
many talmidei hhachhamim whom you have never heard about. Such is
absolutely
irrelevant. Whatever talmid Hacham
maintaining a certain thesis within the realm of Torah
Tradition,
showing and citing each argument in accordance with what is written in
the
Torah, in Prophets, in the Mishnah, in the Talmud and Poskim, must be
studied,
understood and answered to. You, instead, keep foolishly trying to make
comparisons with the Vilna Gaon, with the Maharal etc. Such comparisons
have no
sense whatsoever. Whoever speaks of Torah in the framework of Jewish
Tradition
must be heard. It is the Torah which is spoken and explained that
counts, not
the name, famous or otherwise, of the author. Kiblu daati (you must
accept my
opinion) does not exist among hachamei ha-Torah. Each one may express
his
opinion and then the majority decides.
It is absolutely egocentric
and very stupid
for you to say that the Hidden Tzadikim (of whom I am speaking)
contributed
nothing to Judaism or Torah nor possessed any credentials that would
impress an
objective reviewer. It would be better for you to dig a hole in the
ground and
keep your head in it for at least 3 days. What do you think yourself?
It is you
then who knows what the Hidden Tzadikim have contributed to Judaism or
Torah. Have
you placed yourself at the Gate of the Torah into which one may not
pass unless
he has shown you his credentials and so would you review them to decide
whether
or not they might impress an objective reviewer. In truth you do not
realize
minimally the terrible and subtle arrogance that work together with
your
defense of the Zohar.
The true 36 Hidden Tzadikim
have been the
Pillars of the world from the time of Mordechai ha-Tzadik and the world
itself
could not have remained without those Pillars of Sanctity and
Suffering. They
need not give you account of what they do or do not do, nor must they
show
their credentials to anyone. Their true identity is totally hidden and
never do
they tempt to impress objective reviewers. It is better that you put
your head
in the ground and pretend that no one can see you for you have no idea
upon
whom you have spoken.
Arrogance covers over
stupidity in oneself
but others can recognize it. You do not see that in your zealousness to
defend
the Zohar you believe that all means are legitimate, even that which is
against
derech eretz and against Torah, as long as you defend those whom you
retain
great kabbalists. Such is pure hypocrisy but you cannot see it because
in truth
you are defending that which is not true Torah but false Torah;
therefore its
roots lead you into arrogance and into making foolish statements that
have
nothing at all to do with the true question of what Emanation is and
why it is
totally forbidden to believe in Five Emanated Partzufim and Ten
Emanated Spheroth.
These are the New gods come
recently
prophesied in Haazino and the Rabbis and Sages who fell into this error
were in
the category of ‘lo searum avoteichem’. They didn’t have the parameters
to deal
with the doctrine of emanation. Am naval is Germany and the prophecy
goes up to
the shoa. We thus know that the idolatrous sin spoken about had
certainly been
going on for some centuries. It is therefore totally useless to rely on
those
who fell into the trap and who did not know the idolatrous parameters
into
which the doctrine of Atzilut is woven, even if they were rabbis and
talmidei
Hachamim etc. The prophecy itself is explaining that it could not be
evaluated
and therefore the Jewish nation fell into believing in these new gods
of recent
stamp. It was obviously not something obvious but something quite
hidden,
otherwise it would have been easily recognized by talmidei Hachamim. So
is it
obvious that the pasuk is not speaking about amei aratzot or of the
Jewish
masses on their own right but of those who know the Torah and are
responsible
for the others. It is they who served other gods unknown previously
come
recently that your fathers were unable to evaluate.
You go on:
“All the world
class talmidei
Chachamim whose genious and saintliness are well known and documented
(not to
mention their Torah accomplishments) were also “wrong” in their anaysis
as to
the author of the Zohar, and your “saintly society” who for all intents
and
purposes we lack any objective gauge of their scholarship are right.
Sure.”
What world championship are
you playing,
the World Series of Talmidei Hhachamim? This an ugly un-Torah
expression. In
any case, all those Hhachamim who believe that the holy Tana, Rabbi
Shimon bar
Yohhai, is the author of the Zohar are wrong, dead wrong. Rav Moshe de
Leon is
the author in 13th century Spain.
Those Hhachamim did not analyze the authorship of the Zohar.
They
received it on faith and they fell into its error. There is, however,
no need
for such a hhakira. What has to be analyzed is the Doctrine of
Emanation itself
which is a purely idolatrous theology. When this will be understood,
then the
prophecy in haazino will be understood and no one will have any doubt
that the
author was Moshe de Leon and not, God forbid, Rabbi Shimon ben Yohhai.
Never will you or anyone else
ever have any
‘objective gauge of the scholarship’ of the Hidden Tzadikim. They are
hidden
and their study is hidden and the secrets of the Men of the Ascent can
never be
written in texts and it is absolutely forbidden to write them or to
speak about
them. They alone know the secret in which they live but great is their
suffering for the benefit of Israel and for the world.
As explained, however, it is
not the Hidden
Tzadikim that are involved in the question of the Zohar. The author of
Milhhamot ha-Shem is not one of the Hidden Tzadikim. He is a true talmid Hacham, and he
totally
destroys every basic tenet of the Zohar and the chain of all the false
kabbalah
that derived from it, in the pure language of the Torah, Mishnah,
Talmud and
Poskim. It represents an enormous light destined to awaken all Israel
once it
be understood by the rabbis. It is an immense and potent light that
totally
burns away all the emanated partzufim and emanated Spheroth of the
Zohar. We
know the potency of this light and we know the fallaciousness of the
doctrine
of Emanation (as we know, for example, the fallaciousness of John’s
doctrine of
the Logos). There are, of course, still thick walls of darkness that
continue
to impede the light from shining through but it represents a true light
that
will never again go away and it will steadily make its way to the
younger
generation of true Torah thinkers and it will be taken out in the open
in order
to purify Judaism from this idolatrous error.
Again you have spoken with
foolish disdain
of the ‘secret society’ but you are unaware of the sin into which you
have
fallen. In the end your great love for the Zohar has brought you into a
level
of iniquity for which you must pay the consequences. It would have been
a thousand
times better for you if you had never written at all. Obviously your
love for
the false kabbalah is outstanding and therefore the hatred of Heaven
has not
spared you from opening your mouth wide against the Thirty-Six Hidden
and
Suffering Tzadikim of every generation greatly loved by God.
You go on:
“Comparing your
rav to say the
Gaon from Vilna, would be the equivalent of the comparison of an
elementary
school Physics teacher to Einstein. (if we were indeed to give the
author of
Milhhamot so much credit). If you had a question on a scientific issue,
and
Einstein was backed by all the great physicists of his day, who would
you side
with?”
This piece of Yeshiva Bucher
wisdom is so
foolish, insipid and downright stupid that it hurts. Nevertheless I
bring your
words here in our text of Ester 11 since it has been promised us that
eventually these texts will become known to all. You are trying to
throw around
weights of which you haven’t the slightest capacity to weigh or to
measure. If
the Gaon of Vilna, peace be upon him, would have had a copy of Sefer
Milhhamot
Ha-Shem of R. ElKafeh and he would have studied it on his level of
Torah study,
he would have recognized its truth and the terrible idolatrous doctrine
of
Emanation. There was no such a Sefer at his time. There were some who
contested
the Zohar and a few writings but nothing so exhaustive and clarified as
the
Sefer of the Hhacham ElKafeh.
The only one that might be
compared to
Einstein for ingenuity is Moshe de Leon himself, yimahh shmo ve-zichro,
having
invented a theory of ‘Divine Relativity’ among the emanated godheads of
the
world of Atzilut, camouflaging his Divine Drama with the names of previous sages etc. and using the most
suave language-charm to beguile his victims. He was for sure not of
normal
intelligence but as explained by the author of Milhhamot, once again
the yitzra
d’avoda zara had been liberated from the eifo into which it had been
thrown and
covered over with a lead covering after the destruction, be-avonot
ha-rabim, of the First Temple. The Yitzra d’avoda zara is
an angel, as
is the Satan, and he used Moshe de Leon for the Last Great Stand
against the
people of Israel, this time with the most sophisticated metaphysical
system of
Emanated Divine Aspects and Emanted Spheroth ever to exist. Therefore
the
destruction of this false doctrine and the very clear understanding of
why
Emanation-Theology represents idolatry will be an overriding Tikkun
which will
never again permit Israel to fall into the subtle idolatrous sin of the
fathers
in all future generations.
Your comparison,
nevertheless, betrays the level of the falsification of the faith that
resides
in you. Higher conceptual physics is on the opposite plain of the
Torah’s
injunction Tamim tehiye
im HaShem Elohecha.
The faith in which we are commanded in the Torah is not for the elite,
it is
for all Jews and even for all the people of the world: God is One. But since your faith has become so enmeshed
with
kabbalah metaphysics and the Lurianic
system, you
think that one must almost be a Gaon in order to know the true faith.
But even
if the greatest of physicists or meta-physicists proposes a highly
complicated
and sophisticated cosmogony of Emanated godheads before Creation and a
young
child or simple Jew says in faith Shema Yisrael HaShem
Eloheinu, HaShem
Ehhad, it is this child or simple Jew who
has expressed the
truth and complied to the mitzvah, not the physicist or meta-physicist
or Lurianic kabbalist.
This is the plague of the
Zohar and all the false kabbalah. It is a totally undesired ‘addition’
to the
faith, an addition which in the end ‘complicates’ and falsifies the
very
essence of the simplicity of the faith in which we are commanded. One
must
remember that the root of roots of idolatry is found in Eve’s
unfortunate
‘addition’ to God’s command. So too the Trinity is an addition to the
faith
which falsifies the simplicity of one’s belief in God’s Oneness, even
though
that they too claim that He is One. So too the very sophisticated
Pantheon of
Emanation theology is an undesired addition to the faith in which the
Lord, our
God, has commanded us, even though that they too say that He is One. It
is an
addition that falsifies the true faith itself and consequently
falsifies the
heart of simplicity and the temimut in which we must try to walk. All
your
words, mister Loulou, are a manifestation
of just
such a falsification of the heart. And as for those rabbis and Torah
sages who
have been spared from such a falsification, this does answer to the
vast
majority of Jews who enter those studies and who have not the means to
overcome
the evil undercurrents that uproot them from the true sanctification of
Tamim tehiye im
HaShem Elohecha.
Einstein’s relativity,
nevertheless, was
concretely useful to Science. Moshe de Leon’s emanation-relativity has
thrown
all Israel into its terrible last historic shame before its Final
Redemption.
You go on:
“Being that there
is not
irrefutable proof against the Rashbi authorship of the Zohar, that all
the
“smart money” with a tiny minority of exceptions have supported this
view,
given the eyewitness accounts by such saintly people as Rabbi Chaim
Vital etc.
Rabbi ad infinitum as to the realities of both practical kabbalah,
Maggidim,
the Ari’s use of Divine names in, dozens of instances, his near
prophetic abilities,
his mastering the language of the birds etc., his taking of Rabbi Chaim
Vital
to Miriam’s well etc. Wouldn’t you be better off trying to be rational
then
vilifying the greatest saints of our religion and casting them as
delusional or
liars? Have you
even read Rabbi Chaim Vital’s account of his time with the Ari? (not to
mention
that many accounts were corroborated by the Ari’s other students).
This is not to
mention all the
accounts of so many Kabbalists from his time on, dozens of which we
have first
hand testimony from Chaim Vital, to Rabbi Israel Abouchatsira in the
last
generation. (see Rabbi Yehuda Tzadka’s account account of his meeting
with the
“wonderchild” etc)
Couple this with
the fact that
you have violated the dictum of our sages, achrei rabim lehatot, and
“ha=poresh
megidrei chachamim nachash yenachshenu etc.” You have no emunat
chachamim nor
emunah in the Hashgacha of clal Yisrael.
Your supposition
that believing
in the Zohar is akin to the golden calf is ludicrous, in that it was a
mistake
that was corrected almost immediately and was done Knowingly by Aron
HaKohen in
order that the nation not kill him. Nowhere do we find EVER in the
Torah or
chazal, that the majority of gedolim or sages in a generation were
mislead in
regards to the “soul” of Judaism and were all ensconced in avodah zara
save a
“select few” (your “circle of saints”) *as you accuse the gedolim of
klal
Yisrael to be)”.
Shivim Panim le-Torah. I have
explained at
length the prophetic value of the Holy Torah in the recounting of the
Golden
Calf. A detailed explanation of ‘feraoh’, the same letters as Pharaoh,
relates
the idolatrous root in that episode to the theological doctrine of
Hhartumei
Mitzraim. That doctrine maintained a higher god, similar to the ‘ein
sof’ of Zohar
Kabbalah, uncounted among the Nine gods emanated from him. The Tenth
emanated
god was Pharaoh himself. The mixed-multitude, in the absence of Moses,
fell
back on its previous beliefs envisioning Moses as the Tenth Emanated
Man-God.
It is a profound and methodic study of the root-idolatry of the Golden
Calf. It
is pure Torah.
That Aron did what he did in
order not to
be killed is only one mode of interpretation. If so one must assume
that Aron
knew of the pure idolatry that was in course but nevertheless showed
them that
he was with them and so he had them bring gold, and then to build an
altar for
it and then to declare ‘A feast unto God tomorrow’. Our opinion is that
Aron
would not have done such had he truly known that idolatry was involved.
He
believed, instead, until almost the very end that in some way that
golden calf
might be acceptable before God, as a sort of Temple (explained in the
Kusari of
R. Yehuda HaLevy) and with that thought he was able to pronounce the
words “Hhag
l’Adonai mahhar”. Indeed Aaron calls Moses here ‘ADONI’ even though
Moses was
younger than he. Remez. In the question of the idolatrous thoughts of
the
mixed-multitude, you are my ADON. You studied in Egypt among the
Hhartumei
Mitzraim while I was always here with the Tribe of Levi and I know not
of their
subtleties and sophisticated theologies.
Aaron’s position in simply not
understanding the idolatrous thoughts of the mixed-multitude is
prophetic to
the rabbis from 400 years before the Shoa who believed that the new
kabbalah could
be sanctified to the service of God. Only in the end does Moses descend
from
the mountain and the idolatrous golden calf is revealed for what it is
and is
totally burnt down etc.
Such is the historic-prophetic
level of the
Holy Torah as it played out in history in ahhrit ha-yomim. WE are thus
not
diminishing the great Torah scholars of the past 400 years. On the
contrary, as
Aaron, High Cohen, was not, hhass ve-shalom, culpable in the actual
service to
the golden calf, but did what he did in good faith while NOT
UNDERSTANDING THE
IDOLATRY INVOLVED, so too the rabbis of the past centuries believed in
good
faith in the Zohar without having any understanding of the idolatry
involved.
Until the time comes and the idolatrous doctrine of Emanation is
revealed for
the charming prostitute that it is.
He goes on:
“Regarding your
understanding of
kabbalah, it is well known that had the author of Milhhamot HaShem not
been
exposed to watered down versions of kabbalistic doctrines, he would not
have
lead astray as much as he was. It is obvious to all those in the know
his
complete misunderstanding and consequent misrepresentation of those
doctrines.”
I have seen in the Admin Site
that this
theory has been totally disproved. The versions used by R. ElKafeh are
the same
used by the ‘kabbalists’. In any case it is the doctrine of Atzilut
which is
shown to be idolatrous and the Zohar and all that derived from it were
based on
this doctrine and ‘watered down versions of kabbalistic doctrines’
would change
nothing of the substance of Milhhamot HaShem. Ask yourself instead why
such
watered down versions of kabbalistic doctrines might have existed? And
you
think that you are really dealing with secrets of the Torah, God forbid.
He goes on:
“All of your
suppositions are totally
emotional, without reason and unempirical. You have bought into a
doctrine for
whatever strange psychological motivation, and by doing so are subject
to all
the punishments of those who violate decrees of the sages. (Nachash
Yinashechenu). I do not know what deeds have lead you to such a sorry
situation, where you can’t even admit the possibility of error, despite
having
no shred of proof and despite much evidence to the contrary. I can only
hope
that one day, you repent and Hashem heals you.”
Don’t worry about it. If what
I’m saying is
totally emotional, without reason and unempirical, what should you
worry about?
Who might ever listen to such a one. And if a snake bites me, don’t
worry about
it, it my problem, no? And as far as my not being able to admit the
possibility
of error, this concerns the purely idolatrous doctrine of emanated
divinities
in a concocted world of Atzilut. That this doctrine has been firmly
established
as idolatrous is secure and proven from every angle of the Torah and
Tradition.
Why don’t you try studying Milhhamot HaShem. Then you might learn
something!
After this letter, I will not answer you again or post your words on
our site,
unless there is a truly valid reason.
Peretz Green
responsible for Sefer Mishnat
Haim of the Third
and Final Redemption