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Texts on Shevarim /Broken-ness
I. SEPARATION/SEGMENTATION IN CREATION
The first creation story in the Torah (Genesis 1:1 - 1:10) includes various 'distinctions' or separations. This line is one example of that pattern.





(ד) וַיַּ֧רְא אֱלֹהִ֛ים אֶת־הָא֖וֹר כִּי־ט֑וֹב וַיַּבְדֵּ֣ל אֱלֹהִ֔ים בֵּ֥ין הָא֖וֹר וּבֵ֥ין הַחֹֽשֶׁךְ׃





(4) God saw that the light was good, and God separated the light from the darkness.





II. A BROKEN HEART IS AN OPEN HEART
(ו) וְהָי֞וּ הַדְּבָרִ֣ים הָאֵ֗לֶּה אֲשֶׁ֨ר אָנֹכִ֧י מְצַוְּךָ֛ הַיּ֖וֹם עַל־לְבָבֶֽךָ׃
(6) Take to heart these instructions with which I charge you this day.





This is the second line of the V'ahavta prayer. The words are phrased 'Al Levavecha' (upon your heart) because the Torah is resting upon ('al') our hearts, ready to be received when the heart opens. The broken heart is an open heart. When the heart breaks, the heart opens and then we are able to receive Torah.






III. SHOFAR SOUNDS - BROKEN AND WHOLE
To understand the matter of shofar blowing according to the meditative intention of the Ba’al Shem Tov of blessed memory we have to offer an introduction regarding the matter of voice (kol) and speech (dibbur). Namely […], the true essence of…voice is just a simple sound composed of fire, water, and wind, and it is called just wind (ruach) or air (hevel), and it is not circumscribed by the letters of speech at all. And the aspect of speech pertains specifically to the quality of articulating individualized letters that are drawn forth in different ways and combined together, etc. Thus we find that the essential quality of speech is far from the essential quality of a simple voice, which emerges from the air at the heart center. Nevertheless, we see that voice and speech have a connection and are intertwined with each other, for the simple voice emerges from the five gateways of the mouth and splits into letters of speech. And this is as the Zohar wrote (I:246b), that voice and speech are like kelal uferat (the all-inclusive general and the subsumed detail)—for perat needs kelal, and the kelal needs the perat, etc. - Baal Shem Tov





(ז) וּבְהַקְהִ֖יל אֶת־הַקָּהָ֑ל תִּתְקְע֖וּ וְלֹ֥א תָרִֽיעוּ׃





(7) while to convoke the congregation you shall blow long blasts, not short ones.





IV. NON-DUALISTIC (WHOLE) / DUALISTIC (BROKEN) CHART
Table Created by Rabbi Sam Feinsmith, Accompaniment to Commentary by Degel Machaneh Efrayim, on B'halotecha, Numbers 10:7







Nondual Primal Ground - Ocean
Dualistic Manifestation - Wave
Kol (Voice)
Dibbur (Speech)
Whole
Broken
Ayin (Nothing)
Yesh (Something)
Mitzido (From God’s Perspective) - Divine View
Mitzideinu (From Our Perspective) - Ego View
Pure Awareness
Objects of Awareness
Ani Rishon (Prime Self)
Ani Acharon (Individual self)
Unconditioned
Conditioned