The Palace of Return (Heichal HaTeshuva) is Music Itself (Heichal HaNegina) JCC Manhattan, September 11, 2014
16 Elul 5774
Rebbe Naftali Tzvi of Ropshitz proclaimed that the Heichal HaNegina (the heavenly Mansion of Melody) was next to the Heichal HaTeshuva (the heavenly Mansion of Return or “Repentance”), and the person who did not jump from the former into the latter was an absolute fool because the doors were interconnected. Regarding this statement, the Divrei Yisrael [of Modzitz] added: “Everybody says that the Heichal HaNegina is next to the Heichal HaTeshuva. But I say that the Heichal HaNegina itself is the Heichal HaTeshuva.”
Sefer Imrei Shaul, p. 309 insert above
ל־ס ְפ ְר ָ֮ך ֻכ ָל֪ם יִ ָ֫כ ֵ ֥תבּו ִ גָ ְל ִ ֤מי׀ ָ ֘ר ֤אּו ֵע ֶ֗יניָך וְ ַ ֽע יָמים יֻ ָ ֑צרּו ולא [וְ ֖לֹו] ֶא ָ ֣חד ָב ֶ ֽהם׃ ִ֥
Galmi ra’u ein’echa ve’al sifrecha kulam yikateivu Yamim u’tzaru v’lo... v’lo echad ba’hem. Your Eyes saw my unformed substance, in Your Book it was entirely written You formed [my] days before each one came to be. Psalm 139:16
וְ ָרזָ א ָדא ְד ָהא ַההּוא נָ ָהר נָ ָהר ְדנָ גִ יד וְ נָ ִפיק ָלא ָפ ְס ָקן ֵמימֹוי ְל ָע ְל ִמין וְ ַעל ָדא ִמ ָב ֵעי ֵליּה ְל ַבר נָ ׁש ְד ָלא יַ ְפ ִסיק קֹורא ִד ֵיליּה ְב ַהאי ָע ְל ָמא ָ ּומ ְ נַ ֲה ָרא
Ve’raza da, d’ha ha’hu nahar, nahar d’nagid v’nafik la paskan maymoi l’almin V’al da mi’ba’ey lay le’var nash d’lo yaf ’sik nahara um’kora (nahara um’kora) di’lay b’hai alma This mystery is that the flowing, gushing river never ceases; so a human should never cease their river and source in this world, so that they grasp it in the world that is coming. Zohar 1:186b shiryaakov.com
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