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Parshat Vaetchanan - Zohar Page 260b “O Lord G-d, You have begun to show Your servant Your greatness, and Your mighty hand; for what G-d is there in heaven or earth, that can do according to your works and according to Your might?”[1] Rabbi Yehuda asked why this poem that Moses wrote says: “You have begun to show Your … greatness”. He answered that Moses was certainly the first person in the world to be completely unified. Now if you say that Yaakov was also unified and through him the tree of life was made complete in the physical world as reflecting the spiritual world, that is certainly true – for his generation. However what Moses achieved in his generation was not possible in any other generation. Moses was adorned with an even greater completeness than Yaakov, the father of the twelve tribes and symbol of “tiferet” symbolizing unity and Torah. Tiferet branches out in the six directions – North, South, East, West, up and down, accordingly Moses was surrounded by six hundred thousand Israelite men of military age. He was adorned with the written Torah associated with the sphira of tiferet, and the Mishkan, the Tabernacle in the desert, that was the focal point of the union of the sephirot in Malchut. He was adorned with Cohanim (priests from the side of Chesed) and with Leviim (Levites from the side of Gevurah), and with the Twelve Tribes and their princes, and with the 70 men of the Sanhedrin.  Moses was physically a complete symbol of Tiferet, as he was aided on his right by Aharon, the High Priest, the symbol of Chesed, and on his left by the prince of the tribe of Judah, Nachshon ben Aminadav, symbolizing Gevurah. Moses stood between them. That is why Moses opened his poem by saying You have begun to show “Your greatness” – this refers to Aharon representing the sphira of Chesed – “and Your mighty hand” – this is Nachshon as we have explained. Now we can understand the reason that Moses used the words “You have begun …to show Your greatness….” for Moses was the first person to reach such a level of completeness in the history of mankind. If you ask who will represent the final completion of mankind, the answer is the King Mashiach. At that time there will be unification in the whole world, something that hasn’t been throughout the generations of mankind. At that time the spiritual and the physical will be united and all the spiritual worlds will be united. Of this time it is written – “And the Lord shall be king over all the earth; on that day the Lord shall be one, and His name one.”[2] [1]Devarim 3,24 [2] Zechariah 14,9

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