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נח 90

Ba'al Shem Tov · Noach, Chapter 90

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    יחשוב אדם בדיבור שעולם הדיבור מדבר בו עולם גדול כזה שבו נבראו כל העולמות כדאיתא בהבראם שהוא בה' מוצאות הפה, ועל ידי זה יחשוב בתפארתו יתברך שמו, שכל חיות העולמות הוא בדיבור, והוא הוא עולם היראה, וכביכול שכינה מצמצמת את עצמה ושורה בדיבורו ופיו כדאיתא בספר יצירה (פרק ב' משנה ג') קבען בפה ואם הדיבור הוא כך מה הוא עולם המחשבה, ועוד אורות מצוחצחות אשר אין סוף וחקר וכשיתחיל לחשוב ואומר בלבו כי זהו צמצום עולם המחשבה במוח מדת חכמה ובינה עולם גדול כזה ראוי לבייש מפניו:
    (כתר שם טוב ח"ב דכ"א ע"א לקוטי אמרים די"ח ע"א)

    When you speak, imagine that the World of Speech is speaking through you – a world so immense that all of the worlds were created through it. Thus it says: “These are the generations of the heaven and the earth in their creation” (Genesis 2:4)89The word “in their creation” – behiboram – is written in the sefer Torah with a small letter hey: בְּהִבָּרְאָם, as if to suggest the reading: “These are the generations of the heaven and the earth – with [the letter] hey they were created.” – that is, with the five parts of the mouth.89The Sefer Yetzirah (2:3) divides the letters of the Hebrew alphabet into five groups, depending upon the different parts of the mouth used in their pronunciation: the throat (אחהע, the gutturals), the tongue (דטלנת, linguals), the palette (גיכק, palatals), the teeth (זסשרצ, dentals), and the lips (בומפ, labials). According to Kabbalah, these correspond to the five Gevuros: forces of constriction that limit and make accessible the infinite light of G‑d. See Likutey Moharan I:38. This should lead you to think about the splendor of G‑d, and how the vitality of the words is from speech. This itself is the World of Fear. For the Shechinah constricts herself to rest in your words and mouth, as it says in the Sefer Yetzirah – “He established them in the mouth.”89Sefer Yetzirah 2:3
    Furthermore, if speech is so great, imagine what the World of Thought must be like, not to mention the luminous worlds that are without limit. When you begin to realize that the immense World of Thought has been contracted into the mind, the attributes of Chochmah and Binah, it is only right that you become ashamed before G‑d.
    Kesser Shem Tov II, p. 21a89See also Likutim Amarim, p. 18a

Hebrew: Sefer Baal Shem Tov. Lodz, 1938 · Public Domain

English: Baal Shem Tov; mystical teachings on the weekly Torah portion; by Rabbi Eliezer Shore. 2012 · CC-BY-NC

Texts from Sefaria.