מה שכח התשובה מתעורר על ידי הניצוצין שנפלו בשבירה כו' מבואר לעיל בפ' בראשית בהגה ל"ד, ושם בפ' בראשית אות קס"ז, ובפ' נח בעמוד התפלה בהגה ע"ו, ועוד מבואר באורך לקמן פ' ואתחנן אות י"ד:
Speak unto the children of Israel: When a man or woman shall commit any sin that men commit, to commit a trespass against the L-rd, and that soul is guilty. Then they shall confess their sin which they have done; and he shall make restitution for his guilt in full. . . . (Numbers 5:6) Bereishis 40 I heard from my Master that the pleasure of sin comes from the sparks of the Primordial Kings that fell in the Shattering [of the Vessels] into the Bright Shell (Kelipas Nogah).1The Zohar and Lurianic writings speak of a cataclysmic even at the early stages of the creation called the “Breaking of the Vessels,” or the “Death of the Eight Kings,” based upon the verse from Genesis 36:31: “These are the kings that reigned in the land of Edom, before there reigned any king over the children of Israel.” According to this teaching, the light that emanated from the G-dhead to fill the vessels of creation was too strong, and the eight lower Sefiros, from Da’at to Malchus, shattered and fell into the Kelipas Nogah, a realm of creation that stands between the pure and the impure. (See Sefer HaTanya for a full discussion of this level of creation and our relationship to it.) These are the sparks of holiness that are enclothed in and enliven all elements of creation. They are the spiritual root of all physical pleasure, including the pleasure derived from sin. It is the role of human beings to uplift these sparks to their supernal root. This is done through the path of Torah and mitzvos, and in the case of sin, through the act of repentance, as this teaching of the Baal Shem Tov explains.
מה שכח התשובה מתעורר על ידי הניצוצין שנפלו בשבירה כו' מבואר לעיל בפ' בראשית בהגה ל"ד, ושם בפ' בראשית אות קס"ז, ובפ' נח בעמוד התפלה בהגה ע"ו, ועוד מבואר באורך לקמן פ' ואתחנן אות י"ד:
Speak unto the children of Israel: When a man or woman shall commit any sin that men commit, to commit a trespass against the L-rd, and that soul is guilty. Then they shall confess their sin which they have done; and he shall make restitution for his guilt in full. . . . (Numbers 5:6) Bereishis 40
I heard from my Master that the pleasure of sin comes from the sparks of the Primordial Kings that fell in the Shattering [of the Vessels] into the Bright Shell (Kelipas Nogah).1The Zohar and Lurianic writings speak of a cataclysmic even at the early stages of the creation called the “Breaking of the Vessels,” or the “Death of the Eight Kings,” based upon the verse from Genesis 36:31: “These are the kings that reigned in the land of Edom, before there reigned any king over the children of Israel.” According to this teaching, the light that emanated from the G-dhead to fill the vessels of creation was too strong, and the eight lower Sefiros, from Da’at to Malchus, shattered and fell into the Kelipas Nogah, a realm of creation that stands between the pure and the impure. (See Sefer HaTanya for a full discussion of this level of creation and our relationship to it.) These are the sparks of holiness that are enclothed in and enliven all elements of creation. They are the spiritual root of all physical pleasure, including the pleasure derived from sin. It is the role of human beings to uplift these sparks to their supernal root. This is done through the path of Torah and mitzvos, and in the case of sin, through the act of repentance, as this teaching of the Baal Shem Tov explains.