Meta-Siddur מטא־סדור

Four WorldsDiagramp. 60.8

Journey of the Soul: Crossing the Worlds through Birth and Death

Elohai Neshama as the soul's descent through the worlds at birth (pargod, rivers of light) and its return at death.

Page 60.8 of the Meta-Siddur — p. 60.8

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Crossing the Worlds hrough Birth and Death ~"tl 'il"'Ji'ilt;i 'iltJ\ti~ "ti~~ Elohain1shamashenatatabi t'horahi My Go~, th e soul t~at you m me--She 1s pure. You did create her and 'ii~~, v•atam'sham'ra b1kirbi. World of Soul Journey "" Line T'hora Hi She is pure energy, untainted by separateness and its concomitant anxiety. then you shaped h~r; you breathed her into me. Each day you preserve her in a place deep in me. Atzilut Pargud: The Great Curtain Individuated souls are birthed through the Pargud, into B'riah World of Ata Barata: You pass her through the world of Creation she takes on the aspects of a created, separate entity. B 'riah Nahar Dinur: River of Light Ata Y atzarta You pass her through the world of Formation - she takes on the aspects of a formed, shaped entity with its polarities and preferences. World of Yetzirah Nahar Dinur: Ata N'fakhta Bi You breathed her into the world of Action-she takes on mass and weight, and embodies. The Soul takes ona body This transition can be sometimes experienced as Gehenom: The Valley of Distance. At other times it can be experienced as a tunnel of light escorted by loving beings. River of Light World of The Soul leaves the body , Assiyah Soul Return Journey Line V'Ata M'shamra B'kirbi You preserve her within me.

Reb David’s note

Representing the journey of the soul as a bell curve was fun. Although I am aware that not every soul finds its home in B'riah, still, as The Alter Rebbe says in the second chapter of "Tanya", who knows how great any soul is? We cannot judge the level of another person's (or our own soul's) level by how refined or primitive the person may seem. A person's affect may represent only the effects of his or her parents' residual energy masking a truly high soul. So I set B'riah as the possible root level home for everyone. Although some souls find their home in Atzilut, these are beings somewhere between archetypal energies and souls. Souls as individual souls as we know them are born out of Malkhut of Atzilut into the world of B'riah. At first I called the barrier between Yetzirah and Assiyah Gehenom - Hell. I knew that is what it is called in the classical literature on the journey out of the body, but what it is called on the way in, isn't so clear. I translated it Valley of Distance- that is my own neologism. Gay means valley- Hinom is a name, and also is the plural of hinay - behold, thus Gehennom - Valley of behold them- as it beholds "them"- plurality, I called it distance, distanced from the one. Reb Zalman tipped me off that naming the transition between this world and the next "Gehennom" (hell) is just a remnant of the old pedagogy's trying to frighten people about death and its aftermath, to keep everyone toeing the straight line. He suggested that the transition between worlds is the feeling of being flooding with experience called Nahar Dinur, the river of light (or fire), called a tunnel of light by those who have been there.
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