Glossary of Terms Used in the Devarim Weekly Torah Portion

Speech

Man is his own psychologist.

What does it mean that nations must be destroyed, such as Amon, Moab, and Edom, which are desires within us?

Destroying them means that we temporarily avoid using them. We cannot, and should not, destroy these desires. On the contrary, we must freeze them within us until we can correct them and use them properly.

What is a speech or a dialog? It seems as though one desire is “talking” to another.

It is an internal scrutiny.

Does he analyze himself?

Yes, we analyze which desire to use and which not to use, and whether a desire should be used one way or another.

But once we have made a scrutiny, where will we find the strength to carry it out?

This requires two lights—one for scrutiny and one for correction. This is why it is written, “I have created the evil inclination, I have created for it the Torah as a spice,” for “The light in it reforms them.” That is, only through the light does one go through all those stages. During the study, the wisdom of Kabbalah brings us inner light with which we see how things are. We begin to see our own internal system and how we partake in the overall system of the world.

Leader

A “leader” is one’s highest quality, whereby after scrutinizing it, we advance.

Equality

Everyone is distinctively equal. Put differently, we need to take into account that we are not born equal in our qualities or desires. Therefore, each of us should receive differently.

Does that apply to both this world and to spirituality?

Yes, but for spirituality, we need to know people’s internal state. Otherwise, we will not distribute justly. Today’s society cannot resolve these problems until we learn the laws of Nature. Society must come to know the internality of the world, so eventually we will have no choice but to study the wisdom of Kabbalah.

Unfounded Hatred

These are forces of rejection that we discover within, when we want to draw closer to people. However, this is appropriate only if one truly wishes to unite with others. We discover that these forces exist without expecting to find them—they are things that we received at birth, deliberately, from above.

New World

We have now entered a new, circular, global system of Nature that is closing us together in a sphere. We are interdependent and cannot break apart or manage ourselves independently, either within the factions of the nation or throughout the world.

The formulas for this are found in the wisdom of Kabbalah. If we study them, we will be able to manage the world beautifully.