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Torah Studies — Studies-Vayakhel-imp — Vayak'hel 5784

Выпуск: Torah Studies — Studies-Vayakhel-imp — Vayak'hel 5784. Темы: health_mind, parsha_commentary. Поисковые термины: здоровье, психология, стресс, health, mental, בריאות, נפש, недельная глава, парша, parsha, פרשה, פרשת השבוע.  ‫לעילוי נשמת‬ ‫מרת מאלא מינדל‬ ‫בת ר׳ מאיר ע״ה‬ ‫װייסבארד‬ ‫נפטרה ב‘ דראש חדש אדר שני ה׳תש״ס‬ .‫ה‬.‫ב‬.‫צ‬.‫נ‬.‫ת‬ * ‫נדפס ע״י‬ ‫בנה ובנותיה ומשפחותיהם‬  Reprinted and Redistributed by:   VAAD LAHAFOTZAS HAMAYONOS Melbourne, Australia VaadMelbourne@gmail.com Schneerson Adapted from Chassidic Dimensions PARSHAS VAYAKHEL 5784 Parshas Vayakhel VAYA K H E L SANCTIFYING ASHES The Rambam states:1 "He who incinerates [on Shabbos] even the most minute quantity is guilty [of transgressing the prohibited labor of "Mavir," "causing a fire to burn"], provided that he desires the ash." In spiritual terms, this law will be better understood by prefacing the following: The "thirty-nine prohibited Shabbos labors" are labors that were performed in the Mishkan, the Tabernacle. 3 Torah Studies for "the ash to be needed," as shall presently be explained: The soul is likened to a candle -- "A man's soul is the candle of G-d,"2 and in terms of man's spiritual service the labor of Mavir is that of the soul burning with a fiery love towards G-d. naturally desires and yearns to separate itself and depart from the body, and to unite with its origin and source in G-d." Thus, the "fire" of the soul is its fiery love of G-d, a love so great that it causes the soul to rise upwards in a manner of supreme fiery love, to the point of its readiness to experience its own complete expiration and nullification. 4 Parshas Vayakhel one transgresses even if one burns the least possible amount: Spiritually, the labor of Mavir involves the soul's desire to completely sacrifice itself for G-d, a desire that causes it to yearn to "separate itself and depart from the body, and to unite with its origin and source in G-d ... though thereby it would become null and naught and its identity would there be completely nullified with nothing at all remaining of its original essence and self."4 This degree of exquisite self-sacrifice derives from the soul's very essence, that of being "truly a part of G-d above."5 On this rarefied level quantity has absolutely no value, since the soul exists there in a perfectly simple and elemental state, a state that transcends

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Torah Studies

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8 марта 2024 г.

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16

Темы: health_mind, parsha_commentary