Meta-Siddur מטא־סדור

Diagramp. 150.92

Gateways for the Infinite Light: A Sukkah is a Filter, a Huppah is a Lens

The sukkah filters, collects and contains; the huppah magnifies and focuses: gateways for the Infinite Light down the chain of the worlds.

Page 150.92 of the Meta-Siddur — p. 150.92

Machine-read text of this page

GATEWAYS FOR THE INFINITE LIGHT: A SUKKAH IS A FILTER A HUPPAH IS A LENS Sukkah Gateway FILTER: A DEVICEOR MATERIALFOR SUPPRESSINGOR MINIMIZING WAVESOR OSCILLATIONSOF CERTAINFREQUENCIES(AS OF ELECTRICITY,LIGHT, OR SOUND). LENS: A DEVICEFOR DIRECTINGOR FOCUSINGRADIATION(SUCH AS LIGHT, SOUND WAVES, RADIO MICROWAVES, ELECTRONS,ETC) Huppah: A structure with open walls and an opaque roof. Sukkah: A structure with opaque walls and a permeable roof. A Huppa magnifies, focuses, and intensifies. A Sukkah filters, collects, and contains. Sukkah Gateway The Divine Womb will raise up for us the currently collapsed Gateways of Sacred Light n,!l1Jn from the Grace after meals, insert for Sukkot, based on: n?D~il On that day I will raise up the fallen Sukkah of David. i! ◊ !Gateway Huppah ii, Space : /l \ Trme Light\ (in particular, Ma!khut of Atzi/ut)

Reb David’s note

This Sukkot my Sukkah was blessed with the presence of a groom preparing for his wedding. He asked about the meaning of the Huppah. Well, like a Sukkah, only different. This fanciful description of the transition barriers between early energy states parallels the transitions between worlds noted on pages 60.8 and 60.9. Can you imagine these gateways as Huppahs and Sukkahs?
On p. 150.92 · his notes, p. 194

I had hopes of sending this as part of a Purim package which didn't materialize. In any case, La-y'hudim belongs in the Siddur, found in the Havdallah prayer. I placed it here in the Yetzirah section because of the listing of positive qualities found in this part of this section. The Meta Siddur style is to take the translation which seems the most evolved, and to push it yet further, using the commentaries of Medrash and Kabbalah as bases and jumping boards to dive into the vastnesses out of which the words originally emerged. Occasionally a good hunch will also serve as a diving board. This results in a translation which is really a translation/commentary, which every translation, even the most literal, is, anyway. For example, the Habad Siddur and the Artscroll Siddur each reverse the translations of Sason and Simkha -is it joy and gladness or gladness and joy? So, all translators are in the field of translation-which-isalso-a-commentary. Meta-Siddur just goes further out than most. Many thanks to my Shabbat preparation class (Peter Kreps, Moshe Shafrir, David Shaw, R. Dan Goldblatt) for some of the ideas presented here.
On p. 150.92-4 · his notes, p. 196

Machine-read from his typed notes; the original page is linked.

Sources

Texts open from Sefaria, to read beside Reb David’s version.

Also drawn from

Birkat HaMazon

Threads

20.10–20.18A Brief Tour of Lurianic Creation Kabbalah 189–194Notes on the Meta-Siddur 60Four Worlds: Evolution towards Mass and Weight✦13Hassidic Devekut Contemplations (Long)80–81Beliefs: Mine and Yours

Subjects

Four Worlds Kabbalah & Creation Science & the New Story Wedding Blessings Sukkot Weddings & Partnership