{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Short Daf Summaries - Project Likkutei Torah","title":"Short Sumary of Torah Ohr Daf 37 2-רני ושמחי בת ציון","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":596,"description":"With Rabbi Dovid Leib Shmerling from Melbourne, AUQ1- What is the inner meaning of Rani V’Simchi?Q2- What is its relationship to Chanukah?“Ivdu es Hashem b’simcha, bayu lifanav b’raninah”. The Zohar says “simcha” corresponds Tzafrah (day), and “ranenah” to Rimsah (night). We need to understand both of these ideas. “Raninah” The avodah of the Malachim (and all of creation) is that of Raninah, song and praise. These express the yearnings of the Malachim to lose themselves in Hashem (Ratzu). Now, the desire to come close to Hashem implies that one is distant. When one is in the presence of that which he desires, one no longer strives towards anything. This is even more so when  the object of one’s desire (here, Or Ein Sof) causes the obliteration of the self (Bittul).The Malachim are always trying to get closer to OE”S, are always “singing”, because they only relate to Malchus, or more generally, Seder Hishtalshelus, which provides them with there existence but which is not Hashem Himself. (This is the meaning of “v’tzikascha yrianenu”: Tzedek=Malchus, which is the way OE”S sustains all of creation. And yet this is only an external expression of Hashem, “zecher rav tuvcha…”.)This is the meaning of Rimsa, and its relation to Ranena: Malchus=Olam=Helem=Night. The Malachim sing because they wish to escape the “night”, the expression of Hashem which hides His true being.In our avodah, this means the Ahavah to Hashem which leads to the desire to escape the body and the NH”B. This is expressed in “Boruch shem…”. The Malachim only serve Hashem in this way. However, for us, this is only the first stage in avodah. “Simcha”The second stage is that we draw Elokus into this world (Shuv). The simcha that we have is the result of the revelation of Elokus in the world through Torah and Mitzvos. Even though on our own, we can only reach Tzedek/Malchus, Hashem, who is equally above all, invested His Essence into Torah and Mitzvos. “ivdu es Hashem b’simcha”: Hashem= Ein Sof B”H with...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/sXcMaTI8NX0sf3CRANJgraW3vRTGF4Cd7BFP1XnWsRQ/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9zaG93/LzMyNjA3LzE2Njc5/NTA4MzYtYXJ0d29y/ay5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}