Glossary of Terms Used in the Nasso Weekly Torah Portion

Mount Sinai

“Mount Sinai” is a mountain of Sina’a (hate). If we discover all the evil within, it is considered being at the foot of Mount Sinai. However, it is possible to discover it only if the point within, called Moses, climbs up that mountain. There, in the chasm between the bottom of the mountain and its peak, under that condition we acquire the Torah. This happens because we feel that we simply must correct, but do not know what to do. Such people are worthy of receiving the light that reforms, called “Torah.”

Family

A “family” is a whole person consisting of a man, woman, children, a house, and the entire world. It is a complete Kli.

Impure

One who is “impure” is fraught with self-interest. Such a person defiles everything he or she touches because anything that person wants is only for self-gratification, instead of giving to others. Conversely, giving, or bestowal upon others, is called Kedusha (holiness), purity.

Camp, or Being Outside the Camp

A “camp” is the part of the will to receive that we can define and say, “in this part, we are advancing only with the intention to bestow.” That is, a “camp” is our corrected desires.

Tabernacle and the Inauguration of the Tabernacle

“Inauguration” is when we establish the tabernacle. It is when we have reached the point of establishing that state.

Gift

To the extent that we can relinquish the will to receive for ourselves, it is as though we are giving a gift to the priest, to our own form of bestowal, to the quality of bestowal. When we relate to the degree of a priest, to that desire to bestow, it is considered that we have received a blessing for this in return, and that we have sanctified that desire.

Blessing

A “blessing” means that the light that reforms pours down into the will to receive and corrects it into having the aim to bestow. This is the correction.

Blessing of the Priests

The “blessing of the priests” is the light that comes from the degree of Bina to the degree of Malchut and corrects it, when Malchut begins to relate itself to the degree of Bina. A “priest” is the degree of Bina.

This is not only the correction of the will to receive; it relates to bestowal and comes closer to the degree of the Creator. A “priest” is the degree of Elokim, Bina, desiring mercy and bestowal. Priests have no lot; they are at the degree of desiring mercy, entirely in bestowal. Hence, if Malchut can join it, she receives a blessing, a correction, the blessing of the priests.

False Oath

A “false oath” occurs when we connect to the degree of Bina and receive its strength, then deliberately use that blessing with the intent to receive, meaning to bestow in order to receive. That is, we are willing to give, but we intend to receive a benefit for ourselves as a result.