T87 (Tinyana) PNC - Kavanois Elul — Tikkun for Pegam ha-Bris and Finding the Zivug

Beginner: **"Da, she-kavanos Elul heim tikkun le-pegam ha-bris."** Know that the kavonois of Choidesh Elul are the tikkun for **pegam ha-bris** — and the soid of the Elul kavonois (as is explained in the kavonois of the Arizal) is the pasuk **"ha-noisein ba-yam derech"** (Yeshayahu 43:16) — *He Who places a road in the sea*. The avoidah of Elul is **le-ha'ir bechinas derech ba-yam** — to make a *road* shine *into the sea*. And this *derech* is *opened in choidesh Elul*. **And the ikar pegam ha-bris is precisely in this bechinas-derech.** A man was meant to make the **רכ"ד (224) ohrois** shine into bechinas yam — bechinas emunah. Instead, *natah mi-zeh u-fagam bi-bechinas derech*: **"כִּי הִשְׁחִית כָּל בָּשָׂר אֶת דַּרְכּוֹ"** (Bereishis 6:12). For *isha nikres derech* — woman is called *derech* (Kiddushin 2b) — and there is **"דֶּרֶךְ אִשָּׁה מְנָאָפֶת"** (Mishlei 30:20). The pegam: *the road did not shine into the sea*; the 224 ohrois did not reach emunah; the *derech* turned to a foreign one. Intermediate: **Petichah**: kavanos Elul = tikkun le-pegam ha-bris; soid kavanos Elul = **"הַנּוֹתֵן בַּיָּם דֶּרֶךְ"** (יש' מג:טז) — le-ha'ir bechinas derech ba-yam, derech ha-niftach be-Elul. **Ikar pegam ha-bris** = bi-bechinas derech: tzarich le-ha'ir **רכ"ד אורות** (=224) ba-yam = emunah; nasah u-fagam: **"כִּי הִשְׁחִית כָּל בָּשָׂר אֶת דַּרְכּוֹ"** (בר' ו:יב). אשה = derech (קידושין ב:); **"דֶּרֶךְ אִשָּׁה מְנָאָפֶת"** (מש' ל:כ).

Beginner: **The lost zivug — and how Elul restores it.** *U-l'fa'mim machmas zeh ha-pegam yuchal le'abeid es zivugo* (see Tikkun 14). Once a person has *turned away* from his zivug, *kasheh lo limtzo es zivugo*; and even if he finds her, *tih'yeh lo me-naggedes — ve-loi tih'yeh notah achar retzono*. Why? — *because he turned away from her and did not shine into her*; therefore *misa-meiavoir she-yeish lah ratzoin acheir kenegdo*. This is the bechinah of **"loi zachah — kenegdo"** (Yevamos 63a). **Choidesh Elul is the chodesh in which this very pegam can be repaired** — *to shine the derech into the yam* — and once that is done, *moitzei zivugo, ve-hi einah kenegdo, rak ki-rtzoinoi.* The 224 ohrois of Elul re-orient him toward the woman who was *meant for him me-rosh*; the road that opens in Elul is the same road that goes from his bris-place straight to her ratzoin. *Tikkun ha-bris ve-tikkun ha-zivug — chad inyana hu.* Intermediate: **Pegam ha-bris → ibud ha-zivug** (ע' תיקון יד): nasah → kasheh limtzoi; gam k'she-moitzeih, **me-naggedes** ve-eino notah achar retzonoi — ki nasah u-loi he'ir bah → **yeish lah ratzoin acheir kenegdo**. Bechinas **יבמות סג. "לא זכה — כנגדו."** **Choidesh Elul** = niftach ha-derech la-yam → moitzei zivugo, ve-hi einah kenegdo, rak ki-rtzoinoi.

Beginner: **Avraham handed this very soid to Eliezer.** *Ki da, she-zeh ha-soid masar Avraham le-Eliezer avdo, k'she-shilcho le-vakeish ha-zivug shel Yitzchok beno* — the very soid of kavanos Elul, which prepare the tikkun ha-bris through which the zivug is found. And see the wonders of our Torah: when Avraham said to Eliezer **"וְאִם לֹא תֹאבֶה הָאִשָּׁה לָלֶכֶת אַחֲרֶיךָ"** (Bereishis 24:8) — the very pasuk where he raises the *worry* about the future kallah refusing to come — the **roshei teivos** of those words spell **א"ל"ו"ל**, and *be-emtza* the words **"תֹאבֶה הָאִשָּׁה."** *Be-osain ha-tayvois atzman* in which Avraham raised the *fear*, *galah lo es soid ha-tikkun*: through *bechinas Elul* (the soid of the Elul kavanois) — *toi'aveh ha-isha*, she will *desire* him; the alienation collapses, the road reaches the sea, the zivug consents. **Cross-reference**: see also LM I:6 ("Va-yomer Hashem el Moshe kra es Yehoshua"), which speaks of the very same kavanos Elul as tikkun le-pegam ha-bris. *La'a-soik bo eizo avoidah — al-yedei zeh yis-takein pegam ha-bris.* Intermediate: **Avraham → Eliezer** (Bereishis 24): masar lo soid kavanos Elul. **בר' כד:ח "וְאִם לֹא תֹאבֶה הָאִשָּׁה לָלֶכֶת אַחֲרֶיךָ"** — ר"ת = **אלול**, u-be-emtza tayvois **"תֹאבֶה הָאִשָּׁה."** Be-osain ha-tayvois she-bahem hir'ah es ha-chashash, **be-hen atzman gilah es soid ha-tikkun**: al-yedei bechinas Elul → toi'aveh ha-isha. **Cross-ref**: לק"מ א:ו ("ויאמר ה' אל משה קרא את יהושע") — kavanos Elul, tikkun le-pegam ha-bris.