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Hi
Book suggestion for a “friend”?
to my surprise he is willing to read a book,….here is what he said re:… “I don’t need an elevated level of thinking or knowledge, I need how the entirety of the whole can justify the jews evil decisions. Indeed. I don’t do these things out of malicious intent or pleasure. (Debating me) I just demand the world that was promised to me by man or God, make sense. I don’t need all the answers, just the ones to the pertinent problems like childhood disease, war, famine, slavery based on ideals and not battle, etc”. End quote******
although he may have been surprised when i said The Torah is not about this world, he still challenged that .
I’m thinking the Ravs book “chaos causes order” or, since he hates the government of Israel, and thinks judaism is evil with the Talmud ect. maybe that book Rav wrote about Anti Semitism or maybe someone has a better suggestion.?
He goes by logic. But also believes in divine forces. I understand that logic will not gain spirituality, rather one needs a point in the heart, maybe some of the Rav’s words can plant a seed.
thanks in advance
I like this baby talk, so, are you saying that desire to get rid of pleasure is kind of like someone who became a vegetarian restricting the pleasure of meat, its rejecting but still getting a more genuine pleasure? or like a child’s realizes his toy Airplane is not a real fighter jet? (A rejection) So this is the realization of receiving 20%? (More genuine) Is this also, where Bina (the baby) becomes hofetz hesed? Maybe im mixing things up.
So Rav say’s there are no miracles in this world, only the upper world. another place he says, you have to look at it two ways. Either everything that happens in this world is a miracle, or there is no miracles, but only in the upper world
and then we have Hanukah which happened in this world, and we talk about miracles, we look forward to miracles, so did the oil last eight days literally in this world? or is it only speaking of the upper world? how do I reconcile the Hanukah miracle with these two perspectives that either everything is a miracle or nothing is a miracle?.
Thank you Gianni and Jon. I asked cuz my wife gets emotional when she hears some christian songs from our past. (I like some of them too depending on the words) But she studies judaism now and encourages my study of kabbalah. i like that, re: “the music is not giving me feelings, rather it’s something that was already in me”.
