A Secret Material Girl

A hotel מלון is typically associated with leisure and luxury. People who go to fancy hotels (like the one in my dream in this post) tend to overwhelmingly be people who are accustomed to a certain level of material comfort. This is in contrast to those who, when they travel, go to budget motels, for example. Consequently, the first idea connected to the symbol of the hotel in my dream pertains to sheltering those accustomed to a certain level of material comfort and ease.

Given this first association with material comfort and ease, coupled with the fact that the first two letters מל of מלון are the same as those of malchut מלכות, it is reasonable to suggest that the hotel is likewise symbolic for malchut. Extrapolating from this correlation further, we can see that the hotel symbolizes an incomplete and unrectified malchut in some manner.

In the word malchut, the letter lamed ל is followed by the letter kaf כ which is able to "actualize potential" and/or suppress the forces of nature according to the Divine Will. In contrast, the lamed ל of hotel (a reshut harabim) is followed by the letter vav ו symbolizing a tzimtzum, judgment and harsh strictness. From the two letters which follow the letters lamed ל, we can see that the word malchut is beyond the dinim associated with an unrectified configuration of malchut (through the letter ל which symbolizes malchut) while a hotel מלון is not. Importantly, the ו of the word malchut follows the letter כ (of keter), where the ו here signifies the strength and power to suppress nature according to the Divine Will through keter. Consequently, we can see that the hotel specifically symbolizes the situation where the dinim of malchut have not been rectified, transformed and elevated to kedushah.

Taking this all together, it is clear that the hotel represents an area lacking kedushah. On the contrary, the protected seats represent an area where kedushah is present. Additionally, the configuration of the seats is a sefirotic configuration.

In conclusion, the hotel (in the dream, made into a bomb shelter for the coming event) represents a place for those primarily inclined toward material comfort and lacks kedushah. The seats represent an area for those who are dis-inclined to seek material comfort over kedushah.

Importantly, the hotel-bomb shelter is incomplete in that, while it offers some protection in the midst of war, it does not remove the proximity of the war itself.

And perhaps even more importantly, we should note that מלון ends with a nun-sofit ן. This implies a perpetuation of the judgment implicit in the letter ו until some action is taken to rectify the situation which establishes and gives birth to it (the judgment).

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