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A Collection of Essays — Acharei Mos - Kedoshim 5783

Выпуск: A Collection of Essays — Acharei Mos - Kedoshim 5783. Темы: family_education, health_mind, parsha_commentary. Поисковые термины: воспитание, дети, семья, chinuch, family, חינוך, ילדים, משפחה, здоровье, психология, стресс, health, mental, בריאות, נפש, недельная глава, парша, parsha, פרשה, פרשת השבוע. ‫ קדושים‬- ‫ אחרי‬- ‫בס"ד‬ Living For Hashem Living For Our Families By Rabbi Yitzi Hurwitz In this week's parsha, Acharei, we read "And you should guard My statutes and My laws, that the person will do them, 'vachai bahem,' 'and live by them,' I Am Hashem." The Maggid of Mezrich explains, that the words, vachai bahem, can be translated, and put life into them. From that perspective, an ideal spiritual existence excludes family life and commitment, as well as the need to wear specific spiritual garments (a mystical reference to thoughts, words, and actions, considered garments of the soul), and the requirement to wash our hands and feet in service— metaphors for engaging in “lowly” Deed. 10 ‫ קדושים‬- ‫ אחרי‬- ‫בס"ד‬ The Sin of Spirituality By Rabbi Mendel Kalmenson This morning, in the small basement synagogue, amidst several Chasidic students lost in prayer, I looked up from my prayer book to see a man in worker’s clothes climb a ladder and enter through an open ceiling panel. Kennedy declared, "Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country,” Rabbi Shneur Zalman of Liadi, the founder of Chabad Chassidism, said something similar to a self- 14 ‫ קדושים‬- ‫ אחרי‬- ‫בס"ד‬ absorbed disciple seeking blessing: “Until now you have focused on what you need from G-d; it’s about time you asked, ‘What is needed of me?’”17 It is this fundamental question that cuts to the heart of the difference between two words and worlds that are often linked together—namely, Spirituality and Religion—ideologies that in reality could not be more different. As the Or Hachaim puts it: “Although they sensed their own demise, this did not prevent them from drawing near to G-d in attachment, delight, delectability, fellowship, love, kisses and sweetness, to the point that their souls left them.” In sum: The religionist and the spiritualist might both engage in the same rite or ritual, pray and meditate on the same psalm, sing, dance, or sway to the same celestial tune, and yet one is serving while the other is being 16 ‫ קדושים‬- ‫ אחרי‬- ‫בס"ד‬ served;

Издание

A Collection of Essays

Дата

28 апреля 2023 г.

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45

Темы: family_education, health_mind, parsha_commentary