AyinBase with R' Paltiel p: 53 8/25/11 Wednesday 25 MenachemAv 5771
Page 53 – below the middle of the paragraph (line starts: nimshach...)
We have been looking at the matter of a 'blessing'/bracha. It's role is not to change something from the way it is destined to be, but rather to draw down something from the source. It can overcome obstacles in revealing the situation as it is mean to be.
The boys were taken by their father Yosef/Joseph for a blessing from Yaakov/Jacob. Yaakov put his hands on Menashe and Ephraim's heads – right on Ephraim and left on Menashe, though Menashe was older and you may think Yaakov would 'set things straight' making Menashe greater, and from Him all is possible. Even things set in nature can be changed. Vinegar can be made to burn. According to nature, oil burns and vinegar cannot. But from the perspective of 'ohr ein sof' there can be changes in the letters till the vinegar burns.
And this is how it is in prayer. There is a change in the way things come down – moving away from the set order, thus healing the sick and blessing the years. Prayer creates a new Will.
So thus why did Yaakov make Menashe the greater one?
Because this is not the function of a blessing, to bring an effect from above the source of that thing. The blessing is to allow what is in the source to come down – it breaks through any obstacles.
A blessing can also bring additional light. Revealing how something is in it's source, into actual fact of how it is in the world.
Light is the life element in everything – the G-dliness – this is what gives things their, 'broad expanse'.
Usually as things come down into this world (as seen in the transition from thought into speech) there is a reduction in the light.
Yehudah's baby naming
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