Author: Budikka666Budikka666 Date: Jan 27, 2008 06:29
>> The following quotes are from Heavenly Torah, by Abraham Joshua
>> Heschel, on p. 523 and p. 320, respectively:
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>> R. Hayyim Vital wrote, "Know that when Enoch died [sic!], he was at a
>> higher level than Moses, for he was Moses' teacher; he is the angel
>> Zagzagel. He attained the level of hayyah [chaya], but Moses only
>> attained neshamah. But the Messiah will achieve yehidah [yechidah].
>> Likkutei Torah (Vilna, 5640/1880), 19a.
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>> This agrees totally with the following:
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>> Bahya ben Asher, thirteenth century Spain, commentator and popularizer
>> of Kabbalah:
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>> There is a glory above the glory. When Moses received the Torah he ...
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