Aug. 6, 2023

Unveiling the Spiritual Symbolism of the Neck in Kabbalah

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Season 5

Ever wondered why our neck, the vital link between our head and body, holds such spiritual significance in Kabbalah? Imagine a journey that explores this fascinating concept and helps you comprehend how our physical body mirrors profound spiritual truths. This episode takes you along this captivating voyage, revealing the spiritual symbolism of the human neck through the lens of Kabbalah, guided by the wisdom of the Zohar and biblical verses. 

We also journey into the scriptures to decode the deeper meaning behind Moshe Rabbeinu's declaration of the Israelites as a 'stiff-necked nation.' Unravel the concept of the neck as the conduit between intellectual understanding and active living and how stubbornness can act as a spiritual blockage in this pathway. Be prepared for a profound exploration of Kabbalah teachings and biblical narratives that might forever change your perspective on the humble human neck and its spiritual symbolism.

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Why not push the gullet, the jugulars and the windpipe down into the rest of the torso?

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Why leave them in the neck region?

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Why not have the top seven vertebrae be with the rest of the other total of the thirty-three vertebrae to be down inside of the torso?

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Why do we have this neck thing that lets our head, this most vital organ, become so perched up precariously like a golf ball on a tee?

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And Hashem, who has made the perfect human body and with all of the never-ending Chahma wisdom, has created the body with the neck.

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What is this neck for?

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What lesson can we learn from the holy human body?

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And in Kabbalah I hope you're ready, I hope you went to the mikvah for this Sunday morning.

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Kabbalah filled lunch and learn that.

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Our result tells us that the neck represents the touch point between the holy and the mundane.

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It comes from a verse in Shira Shirem, and Shlomo Ha-Melech actually calls the holy of holies, the kaiteshakadashim, and the base Hamigdash, truthfully at large, to be the neck of the world.

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The base Hamigdash is the touch point in which Hashem interplays with the world.

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The shah Hashemayim, the portal, the neck of the world, as we're going to talk about later on in Sefer Devarim, is that which connects Kedushah, the head, to the rest of the body, for if it was too close, perhaps the Kedushah and the mundane parts are too attached, but too far away, not enough.

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The neck is what is supposed to be the perfect connector conduit for the Roche to communicate with the body and therefore, maybe, just maybe, we can suggest that when Moshe Rabbeinu was sitting up on high and learning in this pristine Chavruusah Shav with the holy one sitting on Ha-Sinai, and then he got word, hashem said run down that mountain, for the Jewish people down below are defiling themselves and dancing ho-ra like Simchast Hora, around the golden calf, chiches, amcha, sauru, mahirman, aderich Leib, straight from the bath, run down, spiked the luchus, destroyed them, smashed them to smithereens.

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And Moshe Rabbeinu, he raises his voice.

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I don't know if he raises his voice, but he tells them you are a stiff neck.

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Nation.

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Neck is where Moshe Rabbeinu saw the stubbornness, that's where he declared that we were in trouble.

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The neck is what represents, perhaps we may suggest, the funnel and the connector between what we know in our heads and that which we are trying to change in our actions, what's down in the heart.

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The neck is what is the connector and what is in the way and you're so stubborn.

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Your stubbornness is in the neck for Yodatah hayoyin, vah sheyvo, vah vechah.

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You may know what you're doing, you may know what to do and you can reiterate the Ten Commandments and you can say Kriyesha Mahatwaeis today, but your actions speak otherwise and that blockage and that clog is inside of the neck.

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Perhaps we will suggest the arpahem loisakshu ayy.

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Stop with your stubbornness and these scary words.

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On a holy Sunday, rabiruchem tells us there may be many spiritual maladies.

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Now somebody could be stymied and stuck inside of the three cardinal sins.

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But as long as he has thoughts of chuva and he loves to hear musr taykhaha, he still has hope.

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But if we become so entrenched, so stiff-necked and so stubborn, well then we've fallen off the cliff and there's no coming back.

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Stubbornness is the ultimate catastrophe.

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Amkashay ayyraf is what was deemed the sin of the agilazov.

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This and obstinous.

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There's no coming back from it.

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And perhaps that is all found, the meeda inside of this neck that is supposed to be connecting what we know in our heads down into our hearts.