Showing posts with label contemplation. Show all posts
Showing posts with label contemplation. Show all posts

Thursday, March 7, 2013

לשון הרע SLANDER: book 1: 9- 18


9. From slander one is saved through truth.

10. When one guards himself from slander, he will also not contemplate bad on his fellow.

11. One who does not accept slander about a Tzaddik, through this he will merit to be counted among the tzaddikim.

12. Coarseness brings a person to speak disparagingly about others.

13. Slander, one doesn't say until one comes to denying the core of faith and sinning in the Heavens and earth.

14. It is permissible to say slander about one who causes strife.

15. One who says false slander on his fellow (lit. lets out a bad reputation – based on a lie), he doesn't ever get forgiveness.

16. Through slander, one cannot receive the countenance of the Divine Presence.

17. One who says slander, and one who listens to it, it is fitting to thrown him to the dogs.

18. A rectification for slander is the recitation of the (passages describing the) incense-offering.

Monday, October 29, 2012

חקירה philosophy:

חקירה philosophy:


ספר המידות - ערך חקירה
א. על ידי החקירות בעולם התהו, הינו מה למעלה מה למטה וכו', על ידי זה גורם קללה, והשומר את עצמו מחקירות האלו גורם ברכה:

1. Contemplation of the world of chaos—that is, what is above and what is below… (concepts beyond our grasp) — causes curse. Conversely, one who guards himself from these investigations causes blessing.
ב. על ידי החקירה במה למעלה ומה למטה וכו', על ידי זה מזונותיו ביגיעה רבה:
2. Due to speculating about what is above and below… one's sustenance comes with great effort.
ג. המעמיק בעיונו במעשי מרכבה, נסתלק קדם זמנו:

3. One who delves deeply into the subject of the Chariot (“merkava” a mystical Kabbalistic concept of the Divine Presence) passes away before his time.