Transcription of first half
With regards to the answering of "Amen, may His great name be blessed" - אמן יהא שמיה רבה
I have spoken about this - אמן יהא שמיה רבה - it is an individual redemption and a general redemption.
This is saying that if a person wishes to act before Hashem any sort of salvation, for what he needs from HaKodesh Baruch Hu, then he performs a salvation before HaKodesh Baruch Hu - individual and general.
This is written in Zohar Noach 62b, in the Zohar Terumah 120b. In the Beit Yosef 56 he cites this. We mentioned yesterday Shabbat 119 in the name of Tosafot that this helps for the salvation of the Jewish nation. In Massechet Sotah 49a and in Massechet Brachot 39a according to Tosafot we see that there is significance that a person says "Amen may His great Name be blessed", that his decree is torn up.
The Sefer Chareidim mentions that there is atonement... there are a few types of atonement for a person. One of the atonements that he mentions first is to say "Amen may his great Name be blessed". This is among the atonement that can atone for a person's soul.
When a person says אמן יהא שמיה רבה with kavana [concentration and meaning] this is atonement for him. When a person has atonement, HaKodesh Baruch Hu acts towards him with all good, from all good, in whatever he desires.
[He then goes on to explain what "kavanah" means.]
1 comment:
I want to emphasize more the meaning of Amen (from the sefer Till Eternity by Rabbi Kassin z'tl).
Our Sages, of blessed memory, have said (Berachot, page 53b), "Greater is the merit of the person who answers 'Amen' than that of the person who actually pronounces the blessing." As we will see, the teaching is hinted at in the letters of the word Amen. When you pronounce a blessing, you mention Hashem's Name, by uttering the name Adon-y (א-ד-ן-י) while having in mind (י-ה-ו-ה). When you answer "Amen" , however , you are actually uttering both Names, for the numerical value of the word Amen is 91, equal to that of the combined value of both Names. Therefore, by answering "Amen" , you are enunciating the total value of the two Holy Names mentioned, and consequently, the degree of spiritual value of your response is higher than the uttering of the actual Name in the blessing, As result, when responding Amen to a blessing, have in mind the Divine Name caused by the intertwining of letters of both Names -- י-א-ה-ד-ו-ן-ה-י -- as mentioned in the work Reshit Hochmah (Shaar HaKedushach, ch. 14).
**For what Yanuka mentioned the Kavana (intensions) for אמן יהא שמיה רבה , (Amen, may His great name be blessed), we sweeten the judgement in different order when saying אמן (Amen) have in mind to sweeten the judgement with two Names of Hashem Adon-y (א-ד-ן-י) and (י-ה-ו-ה) and visualize א-י-ד-ה-ן-ו-י-ה (as you see this Kavana is in different order from the Blessings). the simple Kavana when answering Amen you should think of "it is True and you agree to that".**
--Moshe
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