Terms the sefer uses, with the sense it gives them.
- Binahבינה
- Take that which seems impossibly transcendent and allow Chochmah, Binah and Daas to become vessels for it.
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- Bris Milahברית מילה
- Bris on the eighth day is commanded before the child reaches day one.
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- Chayahחיה
- The soul is often described through five levels: Nefesh, Ruach, Neshamah, Chayah, Yechidah.
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- Chiddushחידוש
- The answer proposed here is a chiddush, not an institutional claim and not a replacement for anything received in Chabad tradition.
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- Chochmahחכמה
- Take that which seems impossibly transcendent and allow Chochmah, Binah and Daas to become vessels for it.
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- Dirah Betachtonimדירה בתחתונים
- There is nowhere beneath the tachton in the logic of dirah betachtonim.
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- Ishapchaאתהפכא
- The Eighth is the cosmic version of iskafya ripening toward ishapcha.
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- Iskafyaאתכפיא
- The Eighth is the cosmic version of iskafya ripening toward ishapcha.
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- Menorahמנורה
- Seven is so deeply written into creation that one can almost mistake it for existence itself. Six days unfold and the seventh gathers them into Shabbos. Seven years complete the Shemittah cycle. Seven Shemittos lead towards Yovel. Seven lower middos form the emotional order of the sefirot. Seven branches rise from the Menorah. Seven weeks are counted between Pesach and Shavuos. Sukkos moves through seven days. The world lives in seven because seven describes the completed order of a creation capable of receiving holiness without ceasing to be creation.
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- Menuchahמנוחה
- Everything done during the six days is drawn into menuchah.
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- Middosמדות
- Seven is so deeply written into creation that one can almost mistake it for existence itself. Six days unfold and the seventh gathers them into Shabbos. Seven years complete the Shemittah cycle. Seven Shemittos lead towards Yovel. Seven lower middos form the emotional order of the sefirot. Seven branches rise from the Menorah. Seven weeks are counted between Pesach and Shavuos. Sukkos moves through seven days. The world lives in seven because seven describes the completed order of a creation capable of receiving holiness without ceasing to be creation.
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- Mishkanמשכן
- The Mishkan reaches its revelatory beginning on the eighth day.
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- Moshiachמשיח
- And that is why the deepest name of the Eighth is Moshiach.
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- Shabbosשבת
- Seven is so deeply written into creation that one can almost mistake it for existence itself. Six days unfold and the seventh gathers them into Shabbos. Seven years complete the Shemittah cycle. Seven Shemittos lead towards Yovel. Seven lower middos form the emotional order of the sefirot. Seven branches rise from the Menorah. Seven weeks are counted between Pesach and Shavuos. Sukkos moves through seven days. The world lives in seven because seven describes the completed order of a creation capable of receiving holiness without ceasing to be creation.
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- Shemini Atzeresשמיני עצרת
- After seven days of Sukkos comes Shemini Atzeres.
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- Shemittahשמיטה
- Seven is so deeply written into creation that one can almost mistake it for existence itself. Six days unfold and the seventh gathers them into Shabbos. Seven years complete the Shemittah cycle. Seven Shemittos lead towards Yovel. Seven lower middos form the emotional order of the sefirot. Seven branches rise from the Menorah. Seven weeks are counted between Pesach and Shavuos. Sukkos moves through seven days. The world lives in seven because seven describes the completed order of a creation capable of receiving holiness without ceasing to be creation.
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- Torah Chadashahתורה חדשה
- The prophetic language of “Torah chadashah” is understood within the eternity of Torah, not as abolition of Sinai.
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- Yovelיובל
- Seven is so deeply written into creation that one can almost mistake it for existence itself. Six days unfold and the seventh gathers them into Shabbos. Seven years complete the Shemittah cycle. Seven Shemittos lead towards Yovel. Seven lower middos form the emotional order of the sefirot. Seven branches rise from the Menorah. Seven weeks are counted between Pesach and Shavuos. Sukkos moves through seven days. The world lives in seven because seven describes the completed order of a creation capable of receiving holiness without ceasing to be creation.
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Set in Hebrew
Words the manuscript deliberately leaves in Hebrew. They name a concept rather than quote a source, so they belong here and not among the citations.
אז.
השמיני.
השמיני.
אחד רוכב על ז.
א + ז.
שכינה.
היה הוה ויהיה.
גולה.
גאולה.
אחד.
אָז.
דור השמיני.
משיח.