סימן קל"ו

📋 Translator's Summary — Siman 136 "Do not judge your companion until you reach his place" — and so on. [Avos 2] But if both were of the same level — certainly there would be no dispute. For in one matter dispute does not apply — and so on. See there. This does not contradict what is elaborated above in Siman 25 — in the discourse Achavi Lan Mana, Section 3 — "know that no two people are equal to one another — for all the souls are each above the other" — and so on. See there. For one can say: that also in this discourse the intention is not that both should be literally at the same level — for this is impossible — as elaborated there in the above discourse Achavi Lan Mana. Rather: here too the meaning is: that at minimum they should be in the aspect of garment one to another [malbush zeh l'zeh] — that the inner dimension of the lower one should be transposed and rise to the level of the higher one — and become a garment and the outer dimension for the outer dimension of the higher one — as elaborated there. This too is considered as both being in one place and one level. Since the inner dimension of the lower one is a garment for the outer dimension of the higher one. And this is also the aspect of: "until you reach his place." For since the outer dimension of the higher one still stands there — it is the aspect of his place. Which is the aspect of the place of our Sanctuary [Makom Mikdasheinu] — as elaborated in the above discourse Achavi Lan Mana.