The Loss of Individual Identity in Divine Unity
Lessons in Likutay Torah | January 19, 2024
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The Loss of Individual Identity in Divine Unity

Lessons in Likutay Torah | December 31, 2025

And when these sparks are elevated from BY”A back to their source in Elokus, then, they have no name of their own at all, for they are completely reunited in their source in Elokus, in Hashem’s Name הֲוָּיָּ''ה, i.e., Atzilus, and there, they have no separate name of their own.

By way of illustration: When one understands the greatness of Hashem, through meditation and comprehension, then his understanding is felt on its own, i.e., the person feels his own wisdom at play, that he is the one knowledgeable in the understanding of Hashem etc., However, when one reaches a deeper level in Davening that he experiences Elokus itself, then he stops feeling himself and his own understanding, since he is completely absorbed in experiencing Elokus that is essentially beyond himself, and he stops experiencing himself.

So too, by way of analogy, the sparks of holiness of Tohu that fell after the shattering of the Keilim took on their own “names,” as it were, indicating that they had an identity of their own. This can be compared to the name of person – its function to give him an identity to be used by other people,

And when these sparks are elevated from BY”A back to their source in Elokus, then, they have no name of their own at all, for they are completely reunited in their source in Elokus, in Hashem’s Name הֲוָּיָּ''ה, i.e., Atzilus, and there, they have no separate name of their own.

By way of illustration: When one understands the greatness of Hashem, through meditation and comprehension, then his understanding is felt on its own, i.e., the person feels his own wisdom at play, that he is the one knowledgeable in the understanding of Hashem etc., However, when one reaches a deeper level in Davening that he experiences Elokus itself, then he stops feeling himself and his own understanding, since he is completely absorbed in experiencing Elokus that is essentially beyond himself, and he stops experiencing himself.

So too, by way of analogy, the sparks of holiness of Tohu that fell after the shattering of the Keilim took on their own “names,” as it were, indicating that they had an identity of their own. This can be compared to the name of person – its function to give him an identity to be used by other people,

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