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answered Is the bracha of Retzei (avodah) a Bakasha?
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comment What Jewish References Exist of the Rise of Islam and Muhammad?
Really? Are there other examples? I always thought that it mostly consisted of a blend of midrashic traditions that you could find elsewhere in Midrash/Talmud.
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comment Why does God care about our service?
I want to add: it can mean 'working' / 'avodah' on yourself. We are not perfect by nature, far from it, and through great effort we can slowly refine ourselves. And when we do so, the aspect of 'malkhut', in which God chooses to relate to us a king who takes honor in his subjects, can 'receive' this honor from the souls who live their lives in this way.
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comment Why does God care about our service?
R Sebag, I mostly just meant if you were finding the path of the Rambam to not be speaking to you, you could look into this other path for a while and maybe find meaning in it. I'm not too knowledgeable about the specifics but I think 'benefiting worlds and partzufim' means that there are great processes happening and you can choose to involve yourself in them, that would be choosing 'avodah'.
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yes, divine worlds and the whole universe--I don't know if this is an attractive idea or not but it's out there in different forms in the teachings of those figures who base their thinking on kabbalistic sources.
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