Parshat Matot Masei- Part 2
Wednesday, July 3, 2013
In the second part of our Parsha - massei
there are 42 journeys of Israel in the
desert which are described. These forty-two journeys in the desert – from Egypt
to Israel – are like 42 phases each person experiences in their own way
throughout life. For this it is written : “These
are the journeys of the Israelites, who had left Egypt” on the way to the
Promised Land: All the 42 journeys are
about freeing ourselves, transcending the constraints (Mitzrayim) which conceals the Light and His Divine powers from us,
subduing and sublimating the forces of egoism that are holding us back from our
spiritual potential. By these journeys and phases in life we learn to make our
life one of harmony between body and soul, with open revelation of the Light.
The name of each of these 42 places where the Hebrews
encamped in the desert is recorded in the Torah. All creation will be elevated
in the Messianic era through the 42 journeys the Hebrews made in the desert.
The desert is symbolic of spiritual desolation, the complete concealment of Light,
the dwelling place of impurity and evil. By these 42 powers the spirit of
impurity will be removed from the land in the future so to end the concealment
of the Light in this lowest physical realm (Assiyah).
The 42 places were separated from each other by the prefixes
of ב (Beit) and from מ (Mem)
and also by the word journey (VYSAV). The prefixes M and B, together have the
value 42 alluding to the 42-Letter Name, while the word journey (VYSAV) is
repeated 42 times in this section of the journeys.
HERE IS THE NAME OF 42 LETTERS RABBI NACHUNYAH BEN HAKANAH
REVEALED :
This is the most powerful meditation to push off the klippot, to work it requires one’s mind and
one’s heart. In it are hidden 7 Divine names made of a total of 42 letters
hidden in the words of the work of creation in the beginning of the Bible. Many
miracles have been worked with this. It is a revelation thousands of years old.
Here it is in English in the Ana Bekoach Prayer :
1. Please, with the
might of your right, untie the bound:
2. Accept your people’s prayer song, heighten, purify us,
awesome one:
3. Please mighty One, guard as the apple of your eye those
who seek your oneness
4. Bless them purify them, your rightfulness mercies, always
give:
5. Powerful, Holy, with your good will, guide your people:
6. Single, High Exalted One, turn to your people, who
remember your holiness:
7. Accept our plea, and hear our cry, he who knows secret
thoughts:
Blessed is the Glory of his kingdom forever, and ever:
The journeys in the desert were an elevation from below-up,
to the sublime level of Binah at
which Malchut is not a separate
factor, leaving 42 levels in all. The “emotional” Sefirot (Ruach) are contained
in potential within Binah (Ruach ibor in Neshama), they collectively contain 42 components: the six
attributes of Zeir Anpin, each
comprised of seven aspects.
The 42 encampments in the desert lift the forces of holiness
out of the reach, of the forces of evil, by elevating them back up to their
origins within the 42 components in the “womb” of Binah (Sefirot of the
soul level called Neshama), where
evil has no hold. All worlds will be raised to a higher level in the Messianic
era. This was made possible through the 42 journeys the Hebrews made in the
desert.
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