#mitzvot — Public Fediverse posts
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"Introduction to the #Zohar: The Wisdom of Truth by #Rabbi #YehudaLeibHaLeviAshlag addresses with extraordinary precision the questions serious learners carry but rarely find answered: what #Torah and #mitzvot are actually for, why we suffer, how the soul relates to G-d, what the Zohar is and why it matters now. The #BaalHaSulam wrote this from inside the catastrophe. In his final section he writes that all the glory of #Israel in #Poland and #Lithuania has been reduced to a handful of refugees in the #HolyLand, and that it falls to those who remain – #sharithapletah – the surviving remnant, to repair what has been broken. That weight runs through every word.
He opens with six questions, none of them rhetorical..."
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"Introduction to the #Zohar: The Wisdom of Truth by #Rabbi #YehudaLeibHaLeviAshlag addresses with extraordinary precision the questions serious learners carry but rarely find answered: what #Torah and #mitzvot are actually for, why we suffer, how the soul relates to G-d, what the Zohar is and why it matters now. The #BaalHaSulam wrote this from inside the catastrophe. In his final section he writes that all the glory of #Israel in #Poland and #Lithuania has been reduced to a handful of refugees in the #HolyLand, and that it falls to those who remain – #sharithapletah – the surviving remnant, to repair what has been broken. That weight runs through every word.
He opens with six questions, none of them rhetorical..."
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@bnjd1837 @bestoneTX @ajackson
"What is broken about the world in this view?" - Great question! See the attached quote. Short version - In #Kabbalah, our entire universe is considered broken, and God wishes us to take an active part in the repair of our universe through observance of #mitzvot. The full article is here -
https://merrimackvalleyhavurah.wordpress.com/2019/08/22/misunderstanding-tikkun-olam/