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Kabbalah/chasiduss explanation of theodicy
According to Kabbalah the root of all evil is the שבירת הכלים. This the source of the "Husks/Shells" which are called cruel oppressors.
You will see this referenced at the beginning of most ...
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What is the explanation of And don’t let the evil inclination assure your that the grave will be a place of refuge for you mean
Refer to the Maharal from Prague in his commentary "Derech Chaim":
Meaning to say, since we have already said, "and the living are to be judged"; so since he is in the netherworld ...
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The Sh’ma in kabbalah and chasiduss
See Nefesh Hachaim Shaar 3 chapter 11 and also see Tanya in Shaar Hayichud Vemuna chapters 6&7 where they say a similar idea. The Tetragrammaton which refers to G-D’s essence (in which from his ...
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What does it mean you are where you think you are
The spiritual worlds aren’t physical, you can’t travel there. Sounds obvious but if so then what does it mean to be a world? Short way of describing it is paradigm of thinking, or your base ...
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Does the Kotzk dynasty exist today? Is there still a Kotzker rebbe?
The last person to have gone by the title "the Kotzker Rebbe" was Rabbi Yitzchak Zelig Morgenstern. He died in 1939 shortly after the Nazis invaded Poland. As a technicality his son Rabbi ...
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What are klipos that rest on your body when you're asleep?
I heard in a shiur a while ago that what we are discussing is insensitivity to others. Just like the nails are parts of our body that have no feeling and are "dead", so to we can be like ...
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What do colors represent in Chassidus and Kabbalah
In the Hakdama of דעת ותבונה (R Yosef Hayyim of Baghdad) it is said that there are colours in the השתלשלות however the colours are not literal but rather serve as a symbol of divine reality.
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What does "shoresh neshama" mean
Refer to the Nefesh HaChaim who explains the "root of the soul" as follows:
וכ''ה הענין בג' הבחי' נר''ן של האדם. כי כל בחי' מדבר שבקדושה כלול מעשר בחי' פרטים. שהם הי''ס שלו. והבחי' העליונה ...
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What does "shoresh neshama" mean
It translates as "root of a soul".
The soul is divided into 3 parts, nefesh, ruach and neshama, and within each of these are 613 spiritual "limbs" and "tendons". There ...
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Kippot in kabbalah and chasiduss
Men wearing a head covering (though not necessarily a kippa) is mentioned a few times in the gemara:
Kiddushin 31b:
רב הונא בריה דרב יהושע לא מסגי ארבע אמות בגילוי הראש, אמר: שכינה למעלה מראשי
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Is it still galut even though a lot of Jews are in Israel
The Gemara in Shabbos 21a says:
The only difference between this world and the messianic era is subjugation of the exiles to other kingdoms, from which the Jewish people will be released.
The Satmar ...
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