Torah tzeevah lanu Moshe morasha khilas Yaakov
Torah was commanded to us by Moses and inherited by the people of Israel
When one accustoms themselves to doing one thing, making the same decisions over and over you set yourself in motion. After the motion has been set, it’s very hard to change it and it is as if your freewill has been taken away. – In reference to Pharaoh’s refusal to free the Jews during the ten plagues.
Learning Torah is an exposure to a reality that’s at the core of existence and when you get to the core of existence you can start being happy and when you’re happy you might just get somewhere.
Mitzvahs that only men have to do means we have an additional hump to get over to reach the same place. Women’s natural tendency is to be needy, emotional giving. While men are more likely to think they’re god. A man is more likely to perform a mitzvah for the right reason of loving god rather then material benefit because our natural tendency is to think we’re master of the universe with no need for god.
When doing techuva(repentance) we can take the things we had in our previous lives and channel them positively, we’re changing our perspective on life, not everything in our lives.
The goal of Torah is to bring a person to real meaning therefore anything that distracts us from real meaning i.e. Torah is ‘idol worship’, it all stems from our search for meaning. So you can do almost anything and its not idol worship so long as the reason and meaning behind it comes from the infinite, god.
Hebrew phrase for the week: effo ata haetz?: where is the tree?
Sunday, January 20, 2008
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