Kaparah And Achdut

Since I filled up the tub in a dream, I might as well fill up the "reverse vision" yiddish word for tub (toyb -> bit) that is a dove too. Here goes:

Bit spelled ביט equals:

בית יוד טית = 851

851 = באמתחת = "in the sack of" (Bereshit 44:12) where Yosef's brother's bags were searched and the wine goblet was found "in the sack of" Benjamin.

That is (not) so surprising, given the fact that I had a dream about a ~3/4 empty bottle of Manischewitz wine "in the tote of" me yesterday morning, and it made me feel like Benjamin too. I blogged it in my personal journal, naming the second post "Benjamin's Tote".

יבא ידיד בן ידיד ויבנה ידיד לידיד בחלקו של ידיד ויתכפרו בו ידידים

Menachot 53a

The companion son of the companion shall come and build the companion for the companion in the portion of the companion in order to atone (kaparah) for the companions.

Rabbi Yitzchak Ginsburgh writes¹:

This riddle of the sages is interpreted to mean: "Solomon, the descendant of Avraham, shall come and build the Temple, for G-d, in the portion of Benjamin, in order to atone for Israel." The sages cite a verse for each of the above six in which it is referred to as ידיד, "companion". From this we learn that the concept "companion" unifies the souls of Israel and G-d through the means of the specific archetypal souls and the Temple service.

Rabbi Pinchas Winston writes:

As basic to the Torah Jew as eating and sleeping are the concepts of teshuvah and kaparah -- repentance and atonement (though the latter are harder to do, but, far more meaningful, if only in the long run). Simply put, teshuvah is what we human beings do by, 1.) regretting the sin, 2.) verbalizing the admission (viduy), and 3.) avoiding the sin the next time it becomes a possibility to commit it. Kaparah, on the other hand, is what G-d gives to us if we MERIT to have the previous "slate" wiped clean.

Actually and more precisely, the bottle of wine in the dream was not quite 3/4 empty - it was more like 7/8 empty - just like the real bottle of shabbat Manischewitz wine I've had sitting in my room for months. Just sitting there by my shabbat candlesticks that have also remained unlit over the past several months. I've spent my shabbatot completely in the dark essence (תא) of night.

Footnote:

¹ The Hebrew Letters, Channels Of Creative Consciousness, R. Yitzchak Ginsburgh